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Spotify Will Keep Remote Working

Spotify Will Keep Remote Working – EDMTunes

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs

Kagi Snaps

Physicists generated sound waves that travel in one direction only

Terraform Provider for Dominos Pizza

Working from home is powering productivity

Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better

Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'

In SSRI withdrawal, brain zaps go from overlooked symptom to center stage (2023)

Valve says Steam users don't own a thing, GOG says its games can't be taken away

INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model

LLMs don't do formal reasoning

The sad state of font rendering on Linux

Gleam: A Basic Introduction

Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python

Regular expression search with suffix arrays (2015)

AI Winter Is Coming

Hamming AI (YC S24) Is Hiring a Product Engineer

The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter

Why do systems fail? Tandem NonStop system and fault tolerance

How long til we're all on Ozempic?

Pizza Hut Will Deliver Your Resume Printed on a Pizza Box to Potential Employers

Lm.rs: Minimal CPU LLM inference in Rust with no dependency

The Illusion of Information Adequacy

Grokking at the edge of linear separability

'Nearly unusable': Calif. police majorly push back on Tesla cop cars

Show HN: I made an Ollama summarizer for Firefox

macOS defaults: a list of macOS defaults commands with demos

The Role of Anchor Tokens in Self-Attention Networks

Apple's naming conventions are a mess

Show HN: Dead man's switch without reliance on your infra

The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs (2012) [pdf]

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

Elle's Homepage

Show HN: Pocache, preemptive optimistic caching for Go

'That's a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests

Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why

A Lisp compiler to RISC-V written in Lisp

Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs

Regrad Is Micrograd in Rust

Join-Accumulate Machine: A Semi-Coherent Scalable Trustless VM

A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

AMD Instinct MI325X to Feature 256GB HBM3E Memory, CDNA4-Based MI355X with 288GB

Startup Success: How Founder Personalities Shape Venture Outcomes

Fundamental physics is dying? [video]

Initial CUDA Performance Lessons

Show HN: I made a simple web app to help kids learn a new language

Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

Show HN: I made a football/soccer formation and squad app

Tesla's Robotaxi day was a total Snoozefest

Georgia county official dies after testifying about BioLab chemical plant fire

Nurdle Patrol

Tesla Robotaxi

AP5 - Declarative Programming Library For Common Lisp (1995)

Tesla's Robotaxi event still not started after 40 minutes [video]

$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst

WordPress Alternatives

An Update on Gccrs Development

Realizing the dream of good workplace software

BigSearch Browser Extension

ARIA: An Open Multimodal Native Mixture-of-Experts Model

‘Elon Musk Makes Bold Claims About Tesla Robotaxi in Hollywood Backlot’

Donald Trump, Yesterday, on Autonomous Cars

Why Are News Organizations Giving Any Credence to Elon Musk’s Claims About Tesla’s Previewed Self-Driving Taxi and Bus?

INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good

US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants

Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

Ukraine cyber cops collar man who hooked citizens up to Russian internet

Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge

Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script?

Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...

Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly

RAC duo busted for stealing and selling crash victims' data

Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig

Is the first European on the Moon in ESA's astronaut corps?

Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks

Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps

FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused

Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models

Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health

Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse

Leak: AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D chips aren’t looking like a leap forward

Boeing is cutting 10 percent of its workforce

Google pulled its Wear OS update for old Pixel Watches to fix a big problem

Casio made a furry robot designed to cuddle and calm you down

The Internet Archive is still down but will return in ‘days, not weeks’

Steam now says the ‘game’ you’re buying is really just a license

Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you stream your own games in November

You must watch this amazing presentation about a bespoke McDonald’s mural

Here’s where you can still preorder the PS5 Pro ahead of its November launch

Imgur is going to be less strict about memes with adult humor

Adam Mosseri acknowledges ‘mistakes’ in Threads’ broken moderation

Thrustmaster brings direct drive steering wheels to console racing sims

Marques Brownlee says ‘we failed on the price’ with Panels

X drops Unilever from its ‘advertiser boycott’ lawsuit

Apple’s USB SuperDrive might be gone for good

The Tesla Cybercab is a cool-looking prototype that needed to be much more than that

The Beats Pill speaker is even cheaper than it was during Prime Day

How to lock any app with Face ID on an iPhone using iOS 18

Stellantis’ CEO promises to leave in 2026 after mostly making a mess of things

Crucial North Carolina quartz mine is up and running following Hurricane Helene

The Google breakup is looming

Lynk & Co’s first EV is meant to be shared to lower its price

How SpaceX became the MyPillow of government contractors

Bluesky pitches new features at disgruntled Threads users

What to expect from Apple’s next Mac and iPad announcements

Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene at the robotaxi event

Tesla’s Robovan is the surprise of the night

Tesla Cybercab announced: Elon Musk’s robotaxi is finally here

Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi event: the biggest news and announcements

Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia

Google appeals judge’s decision forcing app store competition on Android

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay (Bloomberg)

Filing: in OpenAI's $6.6B round, Khosla Ventures invested $405M; the majority, or possibly all, was pooled from other investors via a special purpose vehicle (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Sources: Microsoft plans to test the ability to stream games that users own but aren't in the Xbox Game Pass library, starting with Xbox Insiders in November (Tom Warren/The Verge)

The US NLRB accuses Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their social media and Slack use, its second Apple complaint in a month (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters)

X drops Unilever from its "advertiser boycott" lawsuit, after making a deal with Unilever "to continue our partnership" as part of an "ecosystem-wide solution" (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Adam Mosseri attributes Instagram and Threads' moderation issues, causing users to lose access to their accounts, to human moderator "mistakes", not AI systems (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: in negotiations with California lawmakers, Google insisted that the state use taxpayer funds as a precondition to spending $110M to support journalism (Bloomberg)

A look at Elon Musk's unparalleled involvement in the US election; sources: Trump's campaign contacted X to stop the circulation of the hacked JD Vance dossier (New York Times)

Steam now tells its users that they're buying a license, not a game, ahead of a California law that forces companies to do so when customers "buy" digital media (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Analysts question the feasibility of Tesla's robotaxi plan, citing a lack of rideshare partnerships and Musk's history of missing FSD targets; TSLA drops 8.8% (Business Insider)

Apple opens an applied research laboratory in Shenzhen; Chinese state media says it will employ 1,000+ and become Apple's "most extensive" lab outside the US (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)

Faulty court filing redactions: TikTok executives were unconcerned with the harms the app poses for US teenagers, despite internal research validating concerns (NPR)

Sources: Salt Typhoon hackers still had access to some parts of US broadband networks within the past week, and investigators don't know what they were seeking (Wall Street Journal)

Filing: TikTok's European revenue grew to $4.57B in 2023, up from $2.6B in 2022; losses almost tripled from $512M to $1.3B; ByteDance set aside $1B for EU fines (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Nvidia-backed cloud GPU provider CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Some developers say OpenAI's GPT Store is a mixed bag, with revenue sharing reserved for a tiny number of GPT creators in an invite-only pilot program in the US (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Report: 47% of traditional hedge funds have crypto investments, up from 29% in 2023; amongst the funds that invested in crypto, 33% plan to invest more in 2024 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 in trust and safety; sources: 700+ were laid off (Norman Goh/Nikkei Asia)

A profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has crafted a strategy to stop China from unseating the US as the world's tech superpower (Issie Lapowsky/Wired)

A review of Submerged, Apple's first scripted short film shot in Immersive Video for the Vision Pro: technologically impressive, but an isolating experience (Victoria Song/The Verge)

A look at the promise of AI agents as a way for companies to monetize models; PitchBook: AI agent startups raised $8.2B over the last 12 months, up 81.4% YoY (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Relyance AI, which helps companies comply with data privacy regulations, raised a $32.1M Series B led by Thomvest, bringing its total funding to ~$59M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Sources: Pittsburgh-based Abridge, which uses AI to transcribe doctors' conversations with their patients, raised $250M at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (The Information)

Elon Musk claims some Teslas will get "unsupervised" FSD in Texas and California in 2025 and shows an autonomous Tesla Robovan that can carry up to 20 people (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims "you will be able to buy one" for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production "before 2027" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

A look at the possible outcomes of the Google Search antitrust trial, including the very likely scenario that Google's default search engine deals won't survive (Casey Newton/Platformer)

LinkedIn says ~10M people have created pages on its Services Marketplace for freelancers, up 48% in the past year; it launched the marketplace in October 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Glooko, whose diabetes management app is used by more than 4.4M patients and 10K clinics globally, raised a $100M Series F led by Georgian (Conor Hale/Fierce Biotech)

Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Researchers question AI’s ‘reasoning’ ability as models stumble on math problems with trivial changes

Here’s the full list of 39 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

Khosla Ventures just backed OpenAI with $405M more, but not necessarily with its own capital

Hit by hurricanes? FCC says you qualify for internet and mobile service subsidies

Fearless Fund has made a big deal since settling its controversial lawsuit

New rounds will help startups challenge well-funded rivals

Instagram blames some moderation issues on human reviewers, not AI

Announcing more judges for Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill

HubSpot acquires Cacheflow, a platform that helps close software sales

Temu gets more questions from the EU about illegal product risks

Anthony Levandowski buys Elon Musk’s vision for the future

Sequoia Capital, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Tidelift take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Aktiia trained AI on 11 billion data points of blood pressure, and now a clinically certified app is coming

Xbox will soon let players buy games directly in its Android app following Google antitrust ruling

ByteDance lays off hundreds of TikTok employees in shift to AI content moderation

How AI-generated content is upping the workload for Wikipedia editors

Apple Intelligence features can also summarize breakup texts for you

UK neobank Monzo hits $5.9B valuation with secondary market sale

Elon Musk unveils the Robovan: the biggest surprise from Tesla’s We, Robot event

Tesla reveals 20 Cybercabs at We, Robot event, says you’ll be able to buy one for less than $30,000

Tesla Robotaxi event: How to watch the reveal live

Babbel co-founder Markus Witte will once again run the company, replacing CEO Arne Schepker

Babbel co-founder Markus Witte will once again run the company, replacing CEO Arne Schepker

Realtime Data Connectivity for AI: Tanmai Gopal

Architecting and Testing Controllable Agents: Lance Martin

lm.rs: run inference on Language Models locally on the CPU with Rust

$2 H100s: How the GPU Bubble Burst

Quoting Mike Caulfield

HTML for People

Quoting Ed Yong

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

HEY Email Review: Is it worth $99 per year? (2024)

BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg: optimized storage for the open lakehouse

Gain control of your Google Cloud costs: Introducing the Cost Attribution Solution

Building a real-time analytics platform using BigQuery and Bigtable

How Google Cloud supports telecom security and compliance

GKE and the dreaded IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED error: Understanding the culprit

Beginner Life Hack

Why Ladybird browser likes Swift over Rust

Bun vs Go Perf | Prime Reacts

Filtered for time and false memory

Is your company making this mistake? ⚠️

What is the real value of AI? 💸

Eoghan McCabe, CEO @Intercom: Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Government Control | E1213

Gitfyel - Craft stunning GitHub profiles effortlessly | Product Hunt

Google Illuminate - Transform research papers into AI-generated audio summaries | Product Hunt

Sparrow - The Open Source API Testing Sidekick You Needed | Product Hunt

featureNest - Easily capture, organize, and prioritize feature requests | Product Hunt

Fast-Music-Remover - A lightweight audio enhancer for internet media | Product Hunt

GoodWay Sprite Generator - Magically transform Figma icons into sprite sheets with JSON | Product Hunt

Fillout 2.0 - All-in-one forms, scheduling, payments & workflows | Product Hunt

The WordPress ecosystem has lost its mind…

VCs Can't Get Enough of AI for Lawyers

trustcall: Reliable and efficient structure data extraction using JSON patch operations

Ransomware losses soar by two-thirds, prompting insurance cost hike warning

Dynatrace focuses on “observability” to avert the catastrophes of complexity

AMD takes the fight to NVIDIA - stays quiet on MI325X prices

"Patch! Patch! Patch!": NCSC issues Russia red alert

How can businesses prepare for a looming copper landline retirement deadline?

Microsoft Announces AI Agents for Healthcare in Copilot Studio to Ease Clinical Workloads

NVIDIA's Blackwell Chips Backordered for 12 Months

Ex-Darktrace boss Poppy Gustafsson named UK investment minister

EU backs Dutch scaleup Lumicks to fast-track discovery of cancer treatments

How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?

The Download: direct-air-capture plants, and measuring body fat

Job title of the future: Digital forest ranger

These are the best ways to measure your body fat

Can Open Source Collaboration Train AI?

SmartHR、「所得減少に備える保険」提供開始——就業不能時の所得補償をオンラインで簡単加入

インバウンド＋映え写真の「Cheiz（チーズ）」、韓国旅行客向けに本格展開開始——シード資金も獲得

「宇宙宅配便」実現を目指すスペースワン、累計資金調達額が200億円を突破

The likeliest outcomes from the Google antitrust trial