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The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations

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Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely

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GenCAD

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Prolog Coding Horror

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Microsoft is retiring Teams’ Together Mode

Microsoft launched Teams' Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on.

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Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats

Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.

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Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial

A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.

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VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)

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Growing Neural Cellular Automata

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Revamped Siri will reportedly offer auto-deleting chats

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front, and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg's Mark

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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is alread

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The occasional ECONNRESET

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If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI

It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident

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Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory

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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

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Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain

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For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis

Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.

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Oddity is masterfully tense horror from the director of Hokum

Hokum recently hit theaters, and it's already outperforming box office expectations. If this Kubrick-referencing haunted hotel flick starring Adam Scott was your introduction to director Damian McCart

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