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Installing Linux on a MacBook Air "turned out to be a very underwhelming experience," according to the tech news site MakeUseOf:
The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it's not as simple as downloading an AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and installing it. Yes, the M-series chips are ARM-based, but that doesn't automatically make the whole system compatible in the same way most traditional x86 PCs are. Pretty much everything in modern MacBooks is custom. The boot process isn't standard UEFI like on
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Peter Navarro says the White House may force Big Tech to cover electricity and grid costs tied to AI data centers. Read more ›
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What we can learn from the flood of "why I quit" letters from researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI. Read more ›
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The shares of EV major Ola Electric plunged 7.02% to touch an all-time low at ₹28.73 during the intraday trading… Read more ›
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We are pleased to announce that Paulo Andrez, angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author of Zero Risk Startup, will join the speaker line-up at the EU-Startups Summit 2026 on May 7-8 in sunny Malta. Paulo Andrez is widely recognised as one of Europe’s most experienced experts in early-stage investment, entrepreneurship, and risk mitigation. As ... Read more ›
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A new Galaxy S26 teaser suggests Samsung's Privacy Display may automatically darken the screen when someone tries to peek, possibly using camera detection and directional OLED pixels. Read more ›
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A Gen Zer's startup drained her savings to $200, so she joined Meta. She shared why she left Big Tech three years later. Read more ›
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MrBeast is looking for a "head of TikTok." This new hire will be tasked with "setting the TikTok strategy" and scaling his presence on the app. Read more ›
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claims that AI models will become powerful enough in the next 12 to 18 months that they would start replacing humans in white-collar jobs like lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketers. Read more ›
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Samsung's latest teaser shows how the Galaxy S26 series will fight screen peekers on public transport. Read more ›
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Sunday Ars Technica apologized for making Scott Shambaugh's week a little weirder. Last week Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a "hit piece" about him after he'd rejected the AI agent's pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica.) But then Shambaugh realized their article attributed quotes to him he hadn't said — that were presumably AI-generated. Sunday Ars Technica's founder/editor-in-chief admitted their article had indeed contained "fabricated... Read more ›
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Sam Altman said OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive development of personal AI agents. Read more ›
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The search bar is now the Google widget in disguise, and it has new hidden search provider settings. Read more ›
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Xyall, an Eindhoven-based MedTech startup offering an automated tissue dissection solution designed to support molecular pathology workflows, has secured an investment of €7.6 million to globally roll out its molecular pathology laboratory solutions. The investment was secured from a consortium led by Capricorn Partners via their Capricorn Healthtech Fund II, alongside existing investors Sioux Technologies, ... Read more ›
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Western Digital says its all sold out of hard drives for 2026, less than two months into the year. Read more ›
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"The big model makers want to create a world in which all of the data for all of the enterprises is easily available to them," Sridhar Ramaswamy said. Read more ›
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Elon Musk questioned Amanda Askell's role in shaping AI Claude's morals, citing her lack of children. Askell had thoughts. Read more ›
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Has Magic Eraser lost its magic for you as well? Here's what Google Photos users are saying. Read more ›
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It's not just the government and private companies. Some wealthy individuals are pledging to give money to American children's' Trump Accounts. Read more ›
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Autonomous drone swarms and mass surveillance are apparently big sticking points for the AI colossus. Read more ›
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"I've had an extremely weird few days..." writes commercial space entrepreneur/engineer Scott Shambaugh on LinkedIn. (He's the volunteer maintainer for the Python visualization library Matplotlib, which he describes as "some of the most widely used software in the world" with 130 million downloads each month.) "Two days ago an OpenClaw AI agent autonomously wrote a hit piece disparaging my character after I rejected its code change." "Since then my blog... Read more ›
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Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn't that AI will take your job. It's that AI will save you from it. That's the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it. Yes, some white-collar jobs will disappear. But for most other roles, the argument goes, AI is... Read more ›
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The AI boom has revived a workplace philosophy that China's own regulators cracked down on years ago: the 72-hour work week, known as 996 for its 9am-to-9pm, six-days-a-week cadence. US startups flush with venture capital are now openly advertising it as a feature, not a bug. Rilla, a New York-based AI company that monitors sales reps in the field, warns applicants on its careers page to expect roughly 70-hour weeks.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The hundreds of prize payouts were mostly just a few bucks each, part of a promotional campaign by a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. The total reward pot: 620,000 Korean won, or about $425. Then came a colossal mistake. A staffer for Bithumb, South Korea's No. 2 crypto exchange, didn't distribute 620,000 Korean won. Rather, the prizes, due to an input error, emerged in a... Read more ›
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The large language models that millions of people rely on for advice -- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini -- will change their answers nearly 60% of the time when a user simply pushes back by asking "are you sure?," according to a study by Fanous et al. that tested GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro across math and medical domains. The behavior, known in the research community as sycophancy, stems from... Read more ›
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The world is closer than thought to a "point of no return" after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. From a report: Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish "hothouse Earth" climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: It turns out that when fewer cars spew exhaust as they drive along, air quality improves. That's the conclusion of a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health that looked at the effect of increased numbers of both EVs and plug-in hybrids on air pollution in California. The Golden State has by far the largest number of plug-in vehicles in the United States,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to extract results from leading US AI models to train the next generation of its breakthrough R1 chatbot, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News. In the memo, sent Thursday to the House Select Committee on China, OpenAI said that DeepSeek had used so-called distillation techniques... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: In 1966, a beach-ball-size robot bounced across the moon. Once it rolled to a stop, its four petal-like covers opened, exposing a camera that sent back the first picture taken on the surface of another world. This was Luna 9, the Soviet lander that was the earliest spacecraft to safely touchdown on the moon. While it paved the way toward interplanetary exploration, Luna 9's... Read more ›
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