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Hacker NewsJun 13, 12:20 PM

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 12:11 PM

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 12:10 PM

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 11:55 AM

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 11:13 AM

Labor Is a Market Distortion, we need VAT and UBI

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TechCrunchJun 13, 11:00 AM

The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks

Hidden inside a building in Alabama, the FBI has created its own small town as a dedicated cyber training ground for simulating cyberattacks.

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 09:44 AM

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 09:38 AM

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 07:45 AM

Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 05:57 AM

Leaving Mozilla

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 05:44 AM

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 05:16 AM

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 04:37 AM

On CPU Physics and CPU Cycles

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TechCrunchJun 13, 04:14 AM

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.

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TechCrunchJun 13, 02:26 AM

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," the company wrote in a blog post.

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 02:14 AM

Open source AI must win

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Hacker NewsJun 13, 12:51 AM

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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TechCrunchJun 12, 11:15 PM

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 11:00 PM

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 10:56 PM

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 10:13 PM

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 10:08 PM

Electric motors with no rare earths

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TechCrunchJun 12, 08:38 PM

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 08:20 PM

SpaceX IPO closes up 19% and delivers the world’s first trillionaire

The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 07:54 PM

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

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TechCrunchJun 12, 07:28 PM

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 05:38 PM

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 05:34 PM

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 05:07 PM

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

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TechCrunchJun 12, 05:05 PM

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but those issues have resolved.

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 04:58 PM

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

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TechCrunchJun 12, 04:23 PM

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

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TechCrunchJun 12, 03:55 PM

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and powerful -- than ever.

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 03:15 PM

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

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Hacker NewsJun 12, 02:48 PM

Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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TechCrunchJun 12, 11:43 AM

US surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies

The spy law known as Section 702, which authorizes the NSA and FBI's warrantless surveillance, will all but certainly expire on Friday for the first time.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 04:30 AM

Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale

Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 04:30 AM

Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to

Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 01:48 AM

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.

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TechCrunchJun 12, 01:04 AM

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

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TechCrunchJun 11, 08:33 PM

SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever

Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.

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TechCrunchJun 11, 08:27 PM

Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies

The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.

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Hacker NewsJun 11, 08:24 PM