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Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
From the Zed Blog: We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing.
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2025 Hiring Pause
Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our endowment income, has now been added to existing concerns related to rapid growth and cost escalations. It…
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Agents built from alloys
Learn how Alloy Agents improve autonomous vulnerability detection, boosting success rates and scaling offensive security testing with AI.
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The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
The Trump administration appears to be moving in a “reciprocal” policy direction despite the significant negative economic consequences for American consumers of across-the-board tariffs on goods coming into the US. However, the EU’s VAT system should not be used as a justification for retaliatory tariffs.
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Apple reports fourth quarter results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2025.
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Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs
A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes u
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead.
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Advertising without signal: The rise of the grifter equilibrium
Economists credit ads with two welfare‑enhancing roles: 1. Informative – trimming search costs (Stigler 1961 (pdf)). 2. Signaling – In classic models, high-quality sellers are more willing to incur large, sunk ad costs because they expect to recoup them through future sales, especially in experience-good markets where…
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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
Mapping Every Dollar of America's $5 Trillion Healthcare System
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2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems
Tariffs have been affecting numerous industries—including ours. This post explains the tariff impact on Puget Systems' pricing and our strategic approach.
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Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer
Coding Tools Are Just One Front in AI’s Supply Chain Wars
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A very Chicago gamble
Chicago and Bally's have teamed up in an investment offering.
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Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software.
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Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Organizing and generating variety in politics
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Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
There was a recent incident where Microsoft somehow allegedly blocked a mailbox of a sanctioned individual . Any organization highly depending on MS products that might come into the crosshair should ask - can this happen to me? What would be the cost? How much I invest into prevention of this scenario? In this…
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Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express
What Dollywood says about the state of America's Transit
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New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
Announcing the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 for use cases that need more capacity, available now at $120. Plus new Raspberry Pi Carbon Removal Credits.
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Make product worse, get money
It’s so easy
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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
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What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
This report highlights a rarely-discussed but crucially important attack surface: security vendors themselves.
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and…
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TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds
💡Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial
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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.