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Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

Score: 27 | Comments: 2

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AMD’s best CPU tech for gamers is coming to workstations too

For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache tech in its commercial workstation processors with a refreshed line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Up until now, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips have mainly

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Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions

Score: 25 | Comments: 13

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Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

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Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.

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3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

Score: 50 | Comments: 6

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Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

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The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online seri

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Fighting Trump will make or break Disney’s new CEO

A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company's "digital centerpiece." By last Friday, though, his attention had presu

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Making the news available at no cost is a victory

Score: 110 | Comments: 112

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A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)

Score: 19 | Comments: 2

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Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing

For the second year in a row, Netflix's ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more th

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Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now

If you’ve been meaning to grow your physical movie collection, now’s a good time to do it. Through May 25th, The Criterion Collection is taking 30 percent off every disc on its site, including standar

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MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

Score: 260 | Comments: 309

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A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

Score: 48 | Comments: 16

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This is what some of the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives

What would some of the world's largest repositories of malware look like if they were stacked as hard drives, one on top of the other?

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Instagram hits the copy button again with new disappearing Instants photos

Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls "Instants," which are ephemeral photos that you can't edit and that you can only sha

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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy pops 33% in IPO debut fueled by AI data center demand

Fervo Energy's IPO was upsized several times after potential investors asked why the enhanced geothermal startup wasn't raising more money.

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X launches a History tab for bookmarks, likes, videos, and articles

X’s new History tab combines bookmarks, likes, watched videos, and read articles into a single place, expanding the app’s role as a save-it-for-later tool.

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Instagram’s new ‘Instants’ feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal

The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their close friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours.

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