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The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of Mississippi, asked a court to dismiss the case th
Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn, a bet that the way to take on Stripe is to own every step of a payment, not just one. The Canadian firm will pay $7.40 a share in cash for Payoneer, the cross-border specialist listed on Nasdaq, in a deal both boards have approved. It ends Payoneer’s roughly […]
Commodore, the computer brand that defined the 1980s, is back with a flip phone, and its main selling point is everything it will not let you do. The Callback 8020, announced on Tuesday, is a clamshell that runs modern apps but blocks web browsers and social media outright. Pre-orders open on 30 Jun
Hydra Host has raised $100m to build the plumbing of the AI boom, and one of its new backers is the company whose chips it is trying to turn into a commodity: Nvidia. The Series A was led by Kindred Ventures, with Nvidia joining alongside ARK Invest, Comcast Ventures, Magnetar, PEAK6 and others. The
The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will eliminate most tariffs on US industrial goods. In re
Most of the AI industry is trying to fix hallucinations by building bigger, smarter models. A startup called Probably is betting on the opposite. The company has raised $9m in a seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with Tokyo Black and Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, to catch AI’s factual
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Only three existing iPhone models get access to all of the new on-device Siri AI features: the iPhone 17 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Air. While the base model iPhone 17 is excluded, it’s very likely that the non-Pro version of the iPhone 18 will get access to all of the new features …
Verizon is today introducing some big changes to its cellular plans, including a “Simplicity” offer that strips away the clutter, while also introducing some new loyalty rewards for existing customers.
According to a new rumor from Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the OnePlus 16's screen will have a 185Hz refresh rate. The company was previously rumored to be testing going up to 240Hz, but it allegedly cancelled those plans as such a high refresh rate "could affect the display" and "may not be feasi
Nimble, the maker of many interesting iPhone accessories, is launching a new product called Sharepower, which it bills as the world’s first sharable battery. Nimble says Sharepower will be available in Apple retail stores.
Ahead of a new trailer for Sony & Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving tomorrow, Samsung has confirmed that its Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold devices will feature in the film, alongside a new “Spidey Tracker” that Samsung is helping Sony build.
Yesterday, I took the time to go through 31 pages of my own notes on NLP, notes I had carefully created during an AI engineering course. However, I found that I understood very little of it. It felt odd and disheartening to have written something down yet not grasp it. I initially thought the issue
Most frontend pull requests are reviewed using a combination of code diffs, screenshots, and preview deployments. The problem is that none of these show the actual user experience. A reviewer might verify that a page loads correctly, but they rarely have time to click through every flow, test every
The usual way this goes: you want something in CI, so you set it up locally first. Install the plugin, get it working, tweak the config, make sure it doesn't break anyone else's environment, commit it, and then it shows up in CI as a side effect of all that. I didn't want to do any of that. I wanted
Por trás de dois anúncios quase simultâneos — a aquisição do Cursor pela SpaceX e o lançamento do Factory 2.0 — está uma mudança estrutural: a IA para desenvolvimento de software deixou de ser apenas uma ferramenta de produtividade individual e passou a disputar o controle do ciclo inteiro de engenh
How I Cut My Translation Bill 60% With This API Trick ok so let me tell you about the rabbit hole I went down last month. I run this little SaaS thing on the side — nothing crazy, maybe a few hundred paying users — and one of the features lets people translate their content into like 12 languages. I
Recently, I spend most of my time to code World First Most Proper Calculator App For Tab, then I am excited to launch it now. Ambient Calculator is the only open-source calculator that supports tablet UI professionally and well. Hence, it also beats OpenCalc and yetCalc on tablet UI (See my repo for
Every few years someone declares Fortran dead. Meanwhile, the world's weather forecasts, aircraft simulations, and a large share of supercomputer cycles are still running Fortran. A language designed in 1957 is not just surviving in scientific computing, it is often the right tool. Here is why. Fort
Chemistry is full of calculations that are tedious by hand and clarifying in code. Writing the computation forces you to be precise about what is actually happening, and Python turns abstract formulas into things you can run, test, and tweak. Here is a tour of what coding chemistry looks like. The a
