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SourceHut, an open-source-friendly git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data. From a report: "SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers," the biz reported Monday on its status page. "We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact end-users."
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Elon Musk said the Tesla vandalism shocked him, adding that neither he nor his company have done "anything harmful." Read more ›
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A military effort to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon requires heavy bombs to strike its bunkers. That's where the US B-2 Spirit comes in. Read more ›
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Elon Musk scared away many advertisers after he bought Twitter in 2022, and the company's value plummeted. Now it has reportedly recovered. Read more ›
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Elon Musk told Fox News "they basically want to kill me" when discussing opposition to Tesla. Read more ›
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It looks like Meta’s campaign to bury a dishy, tell-all memoir from a former employee isn’t exactly working. In fact, it seems that the company’s legal maneuvers to block the book have had the exact opposite intended effect. Careless People has debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s also spent much of the week in the number three position on Amazon’s bestseller list. That’s despite... Read more ›
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The value gap between Elon Musk's stakes in Tesla and SpaceX has widened following the slide in the EV maker's stock this year. Read more ›
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Research announced today is the first of its kind to suggest that anti-amyloid drugs can delay or even stop the progression of symptoms in people with early-onset Alzheimer's. Read more ›
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said several suspects had been charged over attacks on Tesla property. Elon Musk said the violence was "insane and deeply wrong." Read more ›
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BI spoke to eight Tesla owners who had their personal data exposed on a public site aimed at doxxing Tesla owners and DOGE employees. Read more ›
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Jackie Robinson's page was removed and then restored to the Department of Defense website amid purge of content deemed DEI. Read more ›
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski also said her GOP colleagues are remaining silent because they're afraid that they're "going to be taken down" or "primaried." Read more ›
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Social media group is valued at $44bn, matching the price the billionaire paid in 2022 Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that "a good part" of inflation will likely come from President Donald Trump's trade policies. Read more ›
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Ted Sarandos disagrees with Max's rebranding, doesn't see Amazon Prime competing with Netflix, and doesn't get Apple TV. Read more ›
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The biggest backer of OpenAI, Microsoft is now building its own AI models and teaming up with Sam Altman's mortal enemy. Read more ›
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Disney's latest live-action adaptation isn't perfect, but it's enchanting enough–thanks to a remarkable turn by Rachel Zegler. Read more ›
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Lawyers for Charlie Javice say federal prosecutors are hiding the most important witness in the case from jurors. The witness's full name? Frank. Read more ›
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Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, and Elijah Wood star in the horror comedy out this August. 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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fahrbot-bot shares a report from Reuters: BYD on Monday unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles (EVs) that it said could charge EVs as quickly as it takes to pump gas and announced for the first time that it would build a charging network across China. The so-called "super e-platform" will be capable of peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts (kW), enabling cars that use it to travel 400 km... 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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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... 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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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance text for hampering American innovation in a speech to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on Tuesday, arguing that offshoring has eroded U.S. technological leadership. "Our workers have been failed by the government of the last 40 years," Vance told the American Dynamism Summit, criticizing two "conceits" of globalization: that nations manufacturing products wouldn't eventually design them too, and that cheap foreign labor benefits innovation. "As they... 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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