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Cipher Mining, which builds and runs data centers for bitcoin mining and has recently expanded its focus to AI, revealed in its third-quarter earnings report that it has inked a 15-year lease agreement with Amazon Web Services worth around $5.5 billion. In the deal, Cipher will provide 300 ...
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With NASA's Mars Sample Return mission delayed into the 2030s, engineers are certifying the Perseverance rover to keep operating for many more years while it continues collecting and safeguarding Martian rock samples. Ars Technica reports: The good news is that the robot, about the size of a small SUV, is in excellent health, according to Steve Lee, Perseverance's deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "Perseverance is approaching... Read more ›
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The winning numbers were white balls 4, 25, 31, 52, 59 and red Powerball 19. The Power Play multiplier was 2. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of the company's $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and aims to expand opportunities for people of color in the country's poorest big city. But... Read more ›
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Such sudden price changes are often due to thin liquidity and can be exacerbated by fewer active traders during quieter hours. Read more ›
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I thought I would enjoy attending a private university in Milan. I quickly learned I had made the wrong choice. Read more ›
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CBS News, Bari Weiss, and "60 Minutes" are at the center of a debate after a segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison was pulled. Read more ›
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Ahead of the 17 Ultra's official announcement taking place on December 25, Xiaomi has revealed that the phone comes with a physical zoom ring around its circular camera island. This will let you control zooming in a very tactile way. Interestingly, the official name of the phone seems to be Xiaomi 17 Ultra by Leica, and as rumored countless times before, it will feature the iconic red dot Leica logo... Read more ›
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Whether you’re switching from springs to memory foam or just want to sleep cooler this summer, these Sealy mattress deals will have you waking up refreshed—and with cash left in your wallet. Read more ›
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The Red Magic 11 Pro redraws the lines of hardware allowances on a phone. It's a value heavy-hitter, but digging deeper, you will find a true mobile gamer's paradise at the cost of a few normal expectation. Read more ›
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Ana Fedina made the art for Critical Role's "The Armory of Heroes," a guide to artifacts and weapons from the crew's "Dungeons & Dragons" stream. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1649 on December 25 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: A Texas power developer is proposing to repurpose nuclear reactors from Navy warships to power the United States grid as the Trump administration pushes to secure massive amounts of energy for the artificial intelligence boom. HGP Intelligent Energy LLC filed an application to the Energy Department to redirect two retired reactors to a data center project proposed at Oak Ridge,... Read more ›
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A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›
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As one of the most beloved traditions of contemporary 'Doctor Who' turns 20, we look back on why the special that started it all is still the gold standard. Read more ›
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The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›
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Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›
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The Justice Department justified its delayed release of sensitive files by citing the need to carefully redact information that could identify victims, but at least some of those redactions have proven to be technically ineffective and can be bypassed by simply copying and pasting the blacked-out text into a new document. A 2022 complaint filed by the US Virgin Islands seeking damages from Jeffrey Epstein's estate appeared on the DOJ's... Read more ›
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Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
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The Trump administration targeted EU figures over platform regulation, triggering backlash from Macron and digital regulators. Read more ›
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Ukraine uses ground robots to fire at Russian targets and attack positions while its own soldiers stay at a safer distance. Read more ›
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Recently, Nick Noone, co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, was introduced to Candace Parker, sports broadcaster and retired WNBA star, by mutual friends. They hit it off. The two share a passion for athletics. (Noone was a Stanford gymnast.) And both have an interest in startups. (Parker is an active angel investor.) After Noone described how his startup sells Palantir-esque data analytics software to local police and public safety departments, Parker... Read more ›
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As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run the servers that power ChatGPT’s subscription business and selling access to models to corporate customers. The company’s compute... Read more ›
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Over the past this year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ways to get useful responses out of it, one employee said. But even as ChatGPT attracted more users this year,... Read more ›
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TikTok employees working for the company’s U.S. Data Security division will be moved under a U.S. joint venture ownership company in January and will no longer be able to receive Restricted Stock Units from TikTik’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, staff were told on Friday. The U.S. Data ... Read more ›
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Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket have gained popularity in the U.S. by letting people bet on everything from elections to Oscar winners to weather trends. But over the past year, a substantial portion of their wagers—and in Kalshi’s case the vast majority—have come from sports betting. And now traditional sportsbooks and crypto exchanges are crashing the prediction market party. DraftKings, one of the two largest online sportsbooks in the... Read more ›
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A few weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent an email to engineering leaders at the company who were working on a consumer version of Copilot, the AI-powered assistant inside several Microsoft products. A Microsoft manager on the email thread noted that Google’s Gemini chatbot had recently gotten better at connecting with Google Drive for tasks like summarizing the contents of photos stored in folders. Nadella, meanwhile, wasn’t pleased with... Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to understand how their applications are performing and allows them to spot disruptions and outages. The deal would bring Snowflake into closer competition with... Read more ›
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Over the past year, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and many of Silicon Valley’s other top venture capital firms have funneled at least $1.2 billion in funding to startups selling technology to city police departments and local public safety agencies. Those companies illustrate the ... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI lab co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is planning to release its own in-house models next year, co-founder and Chief Scientist John Schulman said on a podcast. So far, Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an application programming ... Read more ›
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Brett Adcock, the CEO of robotics startup Figure AI, has started a new AI lab called Hark, which will be funded by $100 million of his personal capital, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to Figure employees and investors on Thursday seen by The Information. The AI lab will be focused on ... Read more ›
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