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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said startups are reaching $1-10 million annual revenue with fewer than 10 employees due to "vibe coding," a term coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February.
"You can just talk to the large language models and they will code entire apps," Tan told CNBC (video). "You don't have to hire someone to do it, you just talk directly to the large language model that wrote it and it'll fix it for you." What would've once taken "50 or 100" engineers to build, he believes can no
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Tesla and SpaceX have had a rough couple of months, but the highly anticipated return flight of two NASA astronauts is a boost for Elon Musk. Read more ›
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The Trump administration has deported 238 people from the US to El Salvador. The deportations proceeded despite a judge's temporary block. Read more ›
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A month of anti-Tesla dissent escalated this week with two reports of Teslas catching fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City. The first incident happened early Tuesday morning at a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, where police say a suspect in all-black gear hit several vehicles with Molotov cocktails and three bullets and painted […] Read more ›
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As stock slumps and Americans turn against the automaker, its owners are paying higher insurance premiums. Read more ›
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Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website. Read more ›
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Louisiana v. Callais, a case about whether Louisiana’s congressional maps are an illegal racial gerrymander, should be one of the easiest cases the justices have heard in many years. That’s because less than two years ago, the Supreme Court decided another gerrymandering case, known as Allen v. Milligan (2023), which by Louisiana’s lawyers’ own admission […] Read more ›
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Wall Street is sounding the alarm over Tesla's stock slump. The sentiment among employees? Shrug. Read more ›
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Apple today stopped signing iOS 18.3.1, so iPhone users who have upgraded to iOS 18.3.2 are no longer able to downgrade to the prior version of iOS 18. Apple released iOS 18.3.2 on March 10. It is not unusual for Apple to stop signing older versions of iOS after releasing an update. Software that is not signed cannot be installed on an ‌iPhone‌ due to a server-side verification check, and... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump's efforts to remake the US government continued today with the firing of the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission. This agency has historically had five members: three from the same party as the president and two from the opposing party. The New York Times reported that the president terminated the roles for FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. Both Slaughter and Bedoya said... Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Today we’re focusing on a new development in Ukraine that gives us more insight into Donald Trump’s approach to Russian President Vladimir Putin. What’s the latest? Putin […] Read more ›
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If you're in the market for an EV pickup truck but don't want a Tesla Cybertruck, there are a ton of great options on the market with more space in the back. Read more ›
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Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming into view. The most authoritative election analyses draw on a variety of different data sources, including large sample polling, precinct-level returns, and voter file data that shows definitively […] Read more ›
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Pebble's founder is back with a company called Core Devices and two familiar smartwatches—Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2—but this time he's only making 10,000 units of each. Read more ›
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Thanks to Linux RT emulation, ray tracing is playable on pre-RDNA2-based AMD graphics cards. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has been recorded running at well over 30 FPS on multiple older AMD graphics cards that don't natively support ray tracing. Read more ›
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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are returning to Earth after their week-long test flight turned into nine months on the International Space Station. Read more ›
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The UK group Led By Donkeys used a Tesla to etch the slogan in sand on a beach in Wales, urging drivers not to buy a car from Elon Musk's EV maker. Read more ›
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Do you want to remove an unwanted app from your phone? Make sure to cancel any subscriptions tied to it first or you'll wind up paying for it. Read more ›
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The NATO allies pulling out of a treaty banning the use of landmines said it sends the message they'll use whatever they need to defend themselves. Read more ›
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Along with a foldable iPhone, Apple is working on a larger foldable device that's somewhere around 19 inches, but rumors have been split on whether it's an iPad or a Mac. Some reports refer to the device as an ‌iPad‌, while some call it a Mac, and the split seems to come down to the operating system on the device. Is it a Mac? Some rumors have suggested that Apple... Read more ›
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"SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year," writes the BBC, "as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests." Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though "2031 was more likely", he added in a post on his social media platform X... The billionaire said in 2020 that he remained confident... Read more ›
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Roku is testing autoplaying video ads that play before users can access the home screen. While Roku claims this is just an experiment, users are threatening to abandon the platform if the change becomes permanent. Ars Technica reports: Reports of Roku customers seeing video ads automatically play before they could view the OS' home screen started appearing online this week. A Reddit user, for example, posted yesterday: "I just turned... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and... Read more ›
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Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. From a report: "Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and personal growth," Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement. "By bringing... Read more ›
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After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company, the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that "The arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan... We will absolutely continue to support and promote it." (They added that they were "appalled by Meta's tactics to silence our author through the use... Read more ›
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Microsoft says that some USB printers will start printing random text after installing Windows updates released since late January 2025. From a report: The known issue affects Windows 10 (version 22H2) and Windows 11 (versions 22H2 and 23H2), but according to an update to the Windows release health dashboard, the latest Windows 11 24H2 is not impacted. "After installing the January 2025 Windows preview update (KB5050092), released January 29, 2025,... Read more ›
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Across high-income countries, humans' ability to reason and solve problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and declined since. Despite no changes in fundamental brain biology, test scores for both teenagers and adults show deteriorating performance in reading, mathematics and science. In an eye-opening statistic, 25% of adults in high-income countries now struggle to "use mathematical reasoning when reviewing statements" -- rising to 35% in the US. This... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon's cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to... Read more ›
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Microsoft is preparing to launch an AI-powered Copilot for Gaming soon that will guide Xbox players through games and act as an assistant to download and launch games. From a report: Copilot for Gaming, as Microsoft is branding it, will be available through the Xbox mobile app initially and is designed to work on a second screen as a companion or assistant. Microsoft is positioning Copilot for Gaming as a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks they might find unpleasant. Amodei made the provocative remarks during an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, acknowledging that the idea "sounds crazy." "So this is -- this is another... Read more ›
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