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StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs
Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, along with...
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Reddit users wonder if the next big meme stock is Reddit itself
Jeremiah Johnson says he has “an embarrassing amount” of Reddit karma. So, as a longtime moderator...
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YouTube is not building a Vision Pro app, so Apollo for Reddit dev made one
Apple’s Vision Pro headset is set to release for consumers today, but YouTube is not currently...
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Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing
As Reddit finally files to go public, the company wrote in its S-1 filing that “meme...
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Techstars Is Struggling
Earlier this week, accelerator group Techstars announced changes to its operations. But what was planned internally...
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Quick thinking and a stroke of luck averted a Moon lander disaster
Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft touched down yesterday on the lunar surface . . . sideways. CEO Steve...
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US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack
U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. In a brief...
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Apple reverses decision to not take 30% of donations to Insight Timer's teachers
The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers...
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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users data to advertisers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday said it will ban the antivirus giant Avast from...
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X is withholding accounts and tweets in India to obey orders
X, formerly known as Twitter, said Wednesday it is withholding specific accounts and posts in India,...
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YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report
Nielsen today released its January report on viewing usage across linear TV and streaming, which revealed...
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Discord took no action against server coordinating costly Mastodon spam attacks
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks...
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Rivian lays off 10% of workforce as EV pricing pressure mounts
Rivian is laying off 10% of its salaried workforce in a bid to cut costs in...
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Spam attack on Twitter/X rival Mastodon highlights 'Fediverse' vulnerabilities
A spam attack that impacted the open source X rival Mastodon, Misskey, and other apps highlights...
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Andrej Karpathy is leaving OpenAI again – but he says there was no drama
Andrej Karpathy, a widely respected research scientist, announced today that he has left OpenAI. This is...
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Nootti's new app lets you post to Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr
Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It’s even tougher for those who are...
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Dutch startup Monumental is using robots to lay bricks
Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around...
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Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney
After Apple confirmed yesterday it’s breaking web apps for customers in the EU due to its...
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Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law
Amazon alleged in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...
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Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose
Well, it turns out it’s not a bug that broke iPhone web apps, also known as...
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Amazon's new text-to-speech model shows "emergent abilities"
Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent”...
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US Military notifies 20k of data breach after cloud email leak
The U.S. Department of Defense is notifying tens of thousands of individuals that their personal information...
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Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser,...
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Spotify's layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed
On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off...