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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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The Cloud Computer
Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.
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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi. We had tremendous support from our customers, and we want to start this by taking a moment to say thank you. We really appreciate it. Since we launched Kagi,...
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Google to reduce workforce by 12k
As an almost 25-year-old company, we’re bound to go through difficult economic cycles.
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Factorio: Space Age
Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age.
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Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat
The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF,...
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New models and developer products
GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.
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Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
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Datomic is Free
Nubank is making all editions of Datomic free of licensing fees, released under Apache 2.0 and available directly from Maven Central, no signup required.
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Beeper Mini is back
Bug fixes and other improvements We’ve created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. You can get the update directly from beep…
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(next Rich)
It is with a mixture of heartache and optimism that I announce today my (long planned) retirement from commercial software development, and my employment at Nubank. It’s been thrilling to see Clojure and Datomic successfully applied at scale.
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Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
Digitec Galaxus is blazing a trail. The Swiss online retailer now displays how often customers return products, how often products break during the warranty period and how long it takes for a warranty claim to be settled. With that, Galaxus and Digitec now serve as a reference work for the product and service quality…
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Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.
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100K Context Windows
Claude's context window expands from 9K to 100K tokens, roughly 75,000 words, letting it process hundreds of pages in under a minute.
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Cisco Acquires Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.
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Mistral 7B
The best 7B model to date, Apache 2.0
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Big data is dead
Big data is dead. Long live easy data. | Reading time: 18 min read
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ChatGPT Enterprise
Get enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet.
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Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award
The A.M. Turing Award, ACM's most prestigious technical award, is given for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.
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TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe
Hsinchu, Stuttgart, Munich, Eindhoven, Aug 8, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM), Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY), and NXP Semiconductors
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Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised
On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant. They intended to seize computers with customer data.
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GPT-4 API General Availability
GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.
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Substack Notes Launched
A way to share posts and short-form content on Substack
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Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
An award-winning Twitter Client for iOS.
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.
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Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
Mira Murati as CTO, Greg Brockman returns as President. Read messages from CEO Sam Altman and board chair Bret Taylor.
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Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We've removed all search API calls to Bing.