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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: first with 12 years of support

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China's Temu Takes over 17% of US Market Share

yahoo.com

China's Temu Takes Over 17% Of US Market Share, Cutting Jobs From American Amazon And Decimating...
China's Temu Takes Over 17% Of US Market Share, Cutting Jobs From American Amazon And Decimating Small BusinessesWith rising inflation, American consumers are increasingly turning to the Chinese e-commerce platform Temu for their shopping needs. With its enticing tagline “Shop like a billionaire,” Temu has captured ...

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Stripe de-couples payments from the rest of its stack

techcrunch.com

Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private...
Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65 billion and a whopping $1 trillion in total processed payment volume last year alone. But fintech is fragmented and a fast-moving target, and with competitors chipping a...
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Remove the AI bloatware from Logitech's mouse driver

robservatory.com
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TypeScript 5.5 Beta

microsoft.com
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I've developed a fully functioning automated snapchat message marketing bot

ycombinator.com
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Ford just reported a loss on every electric vehicle it sold

cnn.com

Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or...
Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the company overall. Ford, like most automakers, has announced plans to shift from traditional ga...
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The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL: an extension for the MySQL wire protocol

hachyderm.io
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In Response to Google

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Alphabet hails 'once-in-a-generation' AI opportunity as revenue rises

theguardian.com

Shares in Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTube, surged after it issued its first ever...
Shares in Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTube, surged after it issued its first ever dividend and revealed that profits had surged in the last quarter.Sundar Pichai, CEO, hailed the transition to artificial intelligence as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” as his company races to integrate the technology ac...
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US White-Collar Job Growth Stalls, Even in Pandemic Boomtowns

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In order to better compete at GenAI, Google has fired the Python language team

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Show HN: From SERP to LLM-Ready Data Markdown in Seconds with Firesearch

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WikiIran

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"WikiIran" aims to expose the Islamic Republic of Iran's violatons of international laws and regulations. As...
"WikiIran" aims to expose the Islamic Republic of Iran's violatons of international laws and regulations. As the second generation of Iranians in exile, we believe that by increasing the pressure on the regime, we will be able to urge it to respect the rights of the Iranian people. As experienced professionals from ...
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BlizzCon 2024 has been cancelled

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Blizzard EntertainmentApril 25, 2024After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the...
Blizzard EntertainmentApril 25, 2024After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this y...
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The Surprising Number of Steam Games That Use GenAI

totallyhuman.io

I haven't yet used this fancy new tech in any of our catalog, but I enjoy...
I haven't yet used this fancy new tech in any of our catalog, but I enjoy playing around with it. My pièce de résistance, I call "Five Fingers on My Right Hand": Yes, this is high art. Please try to hold your applause, if you have hands! To be fair, AI generators mostly get fingers right these days. But even with th...
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Survey reveals translators and illustrators losing work to AI

societyofauthors.org
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Banned in the U.S.: Healthy Light Bulbs

psychologytoday.com

Driven by climate policy, the U.S. Department of Energy favors only blue-pump LED light bulbs after...
Driven by climate policy, the U.S. Department of Energy favors only blue-pump LED light bulbs after July 2028. DOE ignores the health benefits of the light spectrum and focuses only on cheap, bright, blue-rich light. Circadian-friendly lighting, which adds blue at day and removes blue at night, has lower lumens per ...
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The Rise of GQL: A New ISO Standard in Graph Query Language

tigergraph.com

by Mingxi WuWe’re thrilled to celebrate a significant milestone in the world of database technology: the...
by Mingxi WuWe’re thrilled to celebrate a significant milestone in the world of database technology: the publication of the first version of the ISO GQL standard on April 12, 2024. You can access the standard here. As an active contributor to the development of GQL standard version 1, I’ve witnessed the entire journ...
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A Heavy Sad Heart

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Xiaomi EV Factory [video]

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CATL unveils LFP battery with 4C ultra-fast charging, 370 miles in 10 min

electrek.co

A new EV battery that can add 370 miles (600 km) range in 10 minutes? China’s...
A new EV battery that can add 370 miles (600 km) range in 10 minutes? China’s CATL introduced its new Shenxing Plus EV battery, capable of just that. CATL claims the new EV battery is the world’s first with 4C ultra-fast charging and +620 miles (1,000 km) CLTC range. CATL continues advancing EV battery tech as it ai...
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Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

arstechnica.com

In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in...
In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have been growing in popularity recently because they can be run on a local device instead of requiring data center-grade computers in the cloud. On Wednesday, Apple introduced a set of tiny source-available AI language models called OpenELM that are s...
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Snowflake Launches Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases

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