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A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline

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Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

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Show HN: Race to the Bottom

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A spyware investigator exposed Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts

A group of likely Russian government hackers tried to hack a security researcher who investigates spyware attacks. He was then able to turn the tables on the hackers and reveal details of their espion

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Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

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Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs

The company pivoted to being a data provider in 2023 and now supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.

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Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27

Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline to apply is May 27. Apply now.

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Uber to open 2 campuses in India to support product development, operations

The expansion comes as Uber seeks new growth areas beyond ride-hailing and invests more heavily in AI, automation, and autonomous vehicle technologies.

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The Control Plane Problem in VMware Alternatives

Most VMware migration plans inventory VMs, clusters, storage, and licensing. Very few inventory the operational assumptions attached to vCenter itself. The result is predictable: the hypervisor migrat

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The Third Hard Problem

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Two False-Positive Fixes, Same Root Cause

Two separate monitoring failures on the same day, same root cause. Both fixed by answering a single question: "Am I testing for health, or am I testing for perfect conditions?" The distinction matters

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Streamlining Deployment: How GitHub Releases Elevate Your Engineering KPIs and Development OKRs

In the fast-paced world of software development, efficient and well-documented deployment processes are not just a nice-to-have; they are crucial for team productivity, successful rollbacks, and ultim

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The GitHub Org Owner Dilemma: How to Prevent and Recover from Losing Admin Access

GitHub organizations are the backbone for countless collaborative development, academic, and research projects. They provide the essential structure for managing repositories, teams, and access permis

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Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex: Two Official Agents, One Choice You Don't Have to Make

For a long time my AI coding workflow was a junk drawer. Aider, Continue, OpenClaw, three different VS Code plugins, an .envrc with API keys for providers I'd forgotten I had. Then on April 4, 2026, A

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We've Been Falling for Chatbots Since 1966

In 1966, a queue began forming at a particular door inside the MIT Project MAC complex. The queue was composed mostly, though not entirely, of young women — students, lab assistants, secretaries from

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Dell and RAMageddon are watering down the Alienware brand

I remember a time when Alienware refused to make a thinner laptop - the company didn't want to compromise on its builds. But today, Dell is slapping the Alienware name on a piece of hardware that soun

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The Razr Fold is stuck in the middle

For a phone that gets a lot right, the Motorola Razr Fold is frustratingly hard to recommend. The Razr Fold is the company's first book-style foldable, and it enters the US market with something not c

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Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Why Open Source CRMs are Winning in 2026 (And the Best Ones to Self-Host)

Stop paying "per-user" taxes to Salesforce and HubSpot. It’s time to own your data. The Problem with Modern SaaS CRMs In 2026, the "SaaS Tax" is real. Small teams often find themselves tra

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How I built a Virtual Currency Wallet with NestJS & Next.js (Beta out!) The "500 Million" Surprise

A few days ago, I looked at my account and saw 500 million. No, I didn't hack a bank. It’s Vitch, my latest Fintech project, and the beta is officially live! What is Vitch? Vitch is a virtual curren

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