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How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024)

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FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement

A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.

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Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game developm

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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

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Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition

Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.

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Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands

Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including us

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Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world

An alleged Russian-speaking group of cybercriminals is reportedly compromising and targeting several major companies that use Fortinet Firewalls and VPNs through previously known passwords.

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Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

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World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

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Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly

According to the latest Pew Research poll, 49 percent of Americans report using chatbots at least occasionally, but 63 percent think the tech is advancing too quickly. Overall, use of AI chatbots has

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Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

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Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking

Clair Health will track inflammation and bloating markers, energy levels, and cycle phase classification to give insights into cycle irregularities and perimenopause, as well as hormonal fluctuations,

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Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversation

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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

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Day 3: Building My Side Hustle One Small Improvement at a Time

Three days into building Dev Suit, I've realized that creating a side project isn't about huge breakthroughs every day—it's about showing up consistently. I'm building a free collection of developer

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Building a Biomedical Data Lake with FastAPI, MinIO, and PostgreSQL

How to implement a dataset catalog with 4 immutable layers, full provenance tracking, and automated backup for bioinformatics environments The Problem Biomedical computational research dea

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CEE IT Salaries in 2026: What Developers in Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Region Actually Earn

A senior developer working locally in CEE earns €2,800–€5,000/month in 2026. The same developer, remote for a US or UK company, earns €5,000–€10,000. Here's what engineers across the region actually t

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AIchain Tools: Search, Conversion, Embeddings

An LLM knows everything up to its training cutoff and nothing after. Ask it about yesterday's stock price, hand it a PDF, or expect it to tell you which of your 10,000 support tickets are duplicates —

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