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Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

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Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization

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Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted

Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. WordPress Executive Director M

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Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

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We unfolded the iPhone Duo

You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple's CEO. On The Vergecast today, we're talking

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The White House says Truth Social is the ‘most powerful and popular social media platform in the world’

The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesper

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Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a str

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Microsoft’s head of comms is leaving after almost 20 years

Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer. In an internal note to his team, Shaw says he's "decided it is time for me to move on and try new things," after support

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Meta may have leaked the first look at its slim ‘Project Phoenix’ headset

Just a couple of weeks before Meta Connect starts on September 23rd, UploadVR posted images seemingly revealing the design for Meta's "Project Phoenix" headset. The images, which UploadVR says were "f

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Rune is now open source

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Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he’s back in control after CEO ouster

In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparen

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Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row

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I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere's Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren't Sold

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Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider

This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.

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DDoSing the Human in an AI Agentic System

By Eno Thereska, Co-Founder & CEO @ Trent AI At Trent (Agentic AI Security), one question keeps coming up as AI agents multiply inside security workflows: The ratio of AI agents to humans will c

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Resilient HTTP Retry Strategies: 3 Real Bug Patterns Found Auditing Retry Logic Across 18 Scrapers

TL;DR: Three real retry-logic bug patterns across an 18-actor fleet — 429 excluded from retry entirely (critical, fixed on one actor), permanent errors retried pointlessly (fixed on two, still presen

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AZ-104 vs AZ-305: admin vs architect (responsibilities, mindset, deliverables)

People compare AZ-104 and AZ-305 like they’re “level 1” and “level 2.” They represent two different jobs. AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) is about operating Azure: keeping services healthy, secure, and

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Your browser tab as a backend

I was testing a signup flow on my phone. The API it needed did not exist yet, so I had json-server running on my laptop, which meant the phone got ECONNREFUSED and I got to spend twenty minutes on my

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"[260911] 이관 방지 플래그가 다른 계좌 매물을 잘못 건드린 사고"

한쪽 계좌 재매수를 막으려고 걸어둔 플래그가 전역으로 적용되면서, 방금 이관받은 다른 계좌 종목을 도로 강제매도시키고 있었습니다. 같은 날 성능 최적화 자동화 도구도 하나 새로 완성했습니다. 이관 방지 플래그가 엉뚱한 계좌를 건드렸다 어제와 오늘 이틀에 걸쳐 기존 계좌에서 새 계좌로 종목 실물 이관을 진행했습니다. 이관할 때 기존 계

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"[Sep 11] A Do-Not-Rebuy Flag That Force-Sold the Wrong Account's Holdings"

A flag meant to stop one account from rebuying transferred-out stock turned out to be global, and it force-sold the same stock right after another account received it. Also finished building a new aut

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