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Collaboration aims to advance new technologies that expand infrastructure choice while preserving mission-critical environments ARMONK, N.Y., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today...
In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that. H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S....
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.
Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 723 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
If xAI defaults on its debt, Apollo Global Management ends up in the GPU rental business.
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Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I would like to
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
We compared old and new agent swarms building SQLite from scratch and found that better coordination delivers similar quality at a fraction of the cost.
In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
Learn how AI was used to rewrite JSONata into a faster Go library, reducing costs and improving data processing performance.
Official news about Playdate, the yellow handheld video game system with a crank.
The Great Return: From Digital Abundance to Analog Meaning
We’re building new Portals for audio, network, VPNs, and more!
Encora Therapeutics, which developed a wrist-based device that reduces essential tremor, started as a project in MIT’s famous product-design class, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes).
TL:DR; Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Pebble Software Updates PT2 Issues You’ve Reported Pebble Round 2 Production Update Index 01 Production Update Pebble Ti...
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data.
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.
A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks.
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administration and the European far right.
Our landmark agreements with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo will expand the operation of three nuclear power plants, boost the development of nuclear technology, and foster job growth in American communities.
Broadcom pulled public VMware VDDK downloads, creating new challenges for customers migrating to Azure, Nutanix, OpenShift, KVM, and other platforms.
A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …
