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Zohran and the Short Link

Score: 237 | Comments: 97

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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

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Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

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Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

Score: 228 | Comments: 153

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Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

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Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

Score: 66 | Comments: 18

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Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet h

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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

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OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and ha

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Stripe acquires Clerky

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Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

Score: 164 | Comments: 21

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All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instag

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Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

Score: 159 | Comments: 92

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Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

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How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

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Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

Score: 169 | Comments: 82

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Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL w

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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

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OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

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Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem.

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