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British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply

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SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading

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The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

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Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

Score: 27 | Comments: 6

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Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you

Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.

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Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot

The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.

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COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police

I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the future of policing in the digital age." As press, I

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Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the US and Europe

OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027.

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OnePlus officially gives up on the US and Europe

OnePlus has confirmed what industry observers have long expected: it's quitting the US and European markets, and will no longer launch new products in either region. Parent company Oppo promises that

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Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

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The lost joy of music piracy

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Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later

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Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

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Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

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If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

Score: 180 | Comments: 84

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Making 768 servers look like 1

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Can LLMs Perform Deep Technical Comprehension of Computer Architecture Papers

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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

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