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Stoke Space, a startup building reusable rockets that are smaller than SpaceX’s, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a funding round that would value it at nearly $2 billion, roughly double its last private round, two people familiar with the matter said. The new lead investor is Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, one of the people said.
Investors consider Stoke—run by Andy Lapsa, an alum of Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin—a top contender among a new crop of space startups try
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Tariffs. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. National Guard deployments. Epstein files. Strikes on Iran. Gaza and Ukraine. Sticky inflation. The first year of President Donald Trump’s time in office has been a firehose of unpopular policies, confrontational tactics, and frequent clashes with his perceived enemies. Each of these developments has tended to trigger […] Read more ›
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"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms." Read more ›
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Major airports like Nashville, Chicago O'Hare, and Dallas-Fort Worth are all facing significant delays. Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: OpenAI said on Tuesday it has banned several ChatGPT accounts with suspected links to the Chinese government entities after the users asked for proposals to monitor social media conversations. In its latest public threat report (PDF), OpenAI said some individuals had asked its chatbot to outline social media 'listening' tools and other monitoring concepts, violating the startup's national security policy. The... Read more ›
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The White House says furloughed federal workers aren't automatically entitled to back pay, and Congress may have to pass a law to grant it to them. Read more ›
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Jimmy Fallon is helping make Wordle into a television series, Deadline reports. NBC is piloting the Wordle game show with the help of Fallon’s production company, and the show is currently filming in the UK. Savannah Guthrie will host. Around when Wordle really started to blow up, Jimmy Fallon once spent a whole segment of […] Read more ›
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On Thursday, three physicists received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics in the 1980s. Researchers John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis created a circuit with no electrical resistance to demonstrate a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, or how atoms and subatomic particles can move through a barrier material […] Read more ›
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The electric vehicle tax credit is gone, and Tesla's new, more affordable models don't quite close the gap. Read more ›
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ICE ordered a bunch of vehicles that track cell phones, because of course it did. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift's music includes references to famous novelists, playwrights, and poets, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, and Pablo Neruda. Read more ›
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 850 for Wednesday, Oct. 8. Read more ›
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A single mom with Stage 5 cancer was told by doctors that she had a few months to live. Hosting a 'living funeral' helped her face her own death. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its announcement, Qualcomm said that Arduino would "[retain] its brand and mission," including its "open source ethos" and "support for multiple silicon vendors." Qualcomm didn't disclose what it would pay to acquire... Read more ›
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Google is previewing a new Gemini AI model designed to navigate and interact with the web via a browser, letting AI agents do things inside interfaces designed for use by people and not robots. The model, called Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, uses “visual understanding and reasoning capabilities” to analyze a user’s request and carry out […] Read more ›
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Detroit Diesel was one of GM's most successful divisions for a while, but unfortunately, it had to be sold. Who owns Detroit Diesel today? Read more ›
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The Economist's "Carrie Bradshaw index" ranks cities by how affordable they are for single renters. Here's where you can get a deal. Read more ›
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court broke from its increasingly common practice of deciding important cases without holding an oral argument or even explaining the reasoning of its decision, to hear a case about whether states may ban a practice known as “conversion therapy” — therapy sessions which seek to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender […] Read more ›
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Apple today provided public beta testers with the second releases of upcoming iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1 and watchOS 26.1 updates for testing purposes. Apple seeded the betas to developers yesterday. After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the Settings app on each device. iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS... Read more ›
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A group of Tesla shareholders is urging investors to vote against CEO Elon Musk’s proposed pay package, which could be worth up to $1 trillion, at the electric automaker’s annual meeting next month, according to a letter included in a regulatory filing. The shareholders, which include officials ... Read more ›
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For years, Chinese billionaire He Xiaopeng has been pegged as an Elon Musk wannabe, and his electric vehicle company, XPeng, as a mere Tesla copycat. And until recently the company seemed laggardly, raising questions about whether it would survive. All of that is changing quickly. In other words, XPeng has moved up a stair from the realm of mere novelty to unignorable player with intimidating products and shrewd commercial instincts.... Read more ›
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 53 on Monday, a law that will require the largest AI companies to abide by their own safety and cybersecurity policies. One company that should take heed of the new law is Elon Musk's xAI.The ink had barely dried on xAI’s safety policy, which it published in August, when the company released its model Grok Code Fast 1 and violated the policy’s terms, according... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that a joint venture will oversee TikTok’s U.S. business left unanswered the important question of who will run the new company. Inside TikTok, executives say there’s a very obvious candidate: Adam Presser, the longtime No. 2 to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, and one of the top Americans at the company. In August, Presser became the new head of TikTok’s U.S. Data Security unit, which... Read more ›
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets, embracing a concentrated strategy as rivals spread their bets across a wide swath of startups. Among them are OpenAI, data center builder Crusoe and General Matter, a nuclear fuel startup the firm has incubated, Founders Fund said at its recent annual general meeting for investors. In contrast, other venture firms have poured money across the AI landscape,... Read more ›
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Snyk, a startup that sells security tools for developers, seemed like a shoe-in for a lucrative initial public offering a few years ago. Sales were doubling or tripling every year, reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, as exploding corporate use of open-source software code created vulnerabilities that businesses needed to patch. Snyk’s valuation soared to more than $8 billion. Now, the decade-old company seems stuck. The tech... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Can Reed Jobs be more than the son of Steve?• Electric Vehicles: The Chinese flying car that should worry Detroit—and Silicon Valley • Plus, our Recommendations: “The Romesh Ranganathan Show,” “When It All Burns” and “The Eastern Gate”The ultimate winner from the artificial intelligence wars remains hard to distinguish, but none of the contenders has displayed a more consistent ability to win... Read more ›
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Anyone of a certain age will remember Uri Geller, the magician who became a big star in the 1970s for bending spoons with his mind, a trick that was later discredited. Given that sorry history, you might wonder why an internet conglomerate based in Italy chose Bending Spoons as its name. Is the management trying to prove it can perform acts of corporate magic? Perhaps (its logo is “Impossible.Maybe”). That... Read more ›
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It seems Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants to spend more time hanging out with engineers and less with customers and government officials. That’s the upshot of Microsoft’s announcement early Wednesday that Nadella would hand off some of his business responsibilities to Microsoft’s chief commercial officer, Judson Althoff. Nadella, an engineer by training, oversaw the company’s cloud and enterprise group before taking the top job in 2014. He gets to dip... Read more ›
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When AI coding tools came into vogue in 2023 and 2024, chief information officers salivated at the idea of using them to develop their own versions of Salesforce and Slack and stop paying a fortune for enterprise apps. But the AI wasn’t accurate or consistent enough to do that.Now Anthropic is reawakening these app-replacement dreams. In a recent test, Anthropic used its Claude AI model to create a workplace chat... Read more ›
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