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Google fixes Chrome zero-day security flaw used in hacking campaign targeting journalists

Kaspersky attributed the hacks to an espionage campaign targeting journalists and employees at educational institutions.

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Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse

Before RJ Scaringe founded Rivian in 2009, he had micromobility on his mind. More than a decade later, his musings took root in a small skunkworks program inside Rivian that set out to answer one question: Could the company’s technology be … Continue reading

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Who Knew $450 Could Get You a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar?

With 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, this MacBook Pro is ready to handle whatever your workday throws at it.

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AI’s coming to the classroom: Brisk raises $15M after a quick start in school

It’s virtually impossible today to determine when a student’s writing has been composed using ChatGPT or another GenAI tool, and it can be a nightmare to disprove incorrect accusations. An AI edtech startup called Brisk has built a tool that … Continue reading

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I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me

I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World

Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

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U.S. blacklists over 50 Chinese companies in bid to curb Beijing’s AI, chip capabilities

The export restrictions come at a time when tensions between Washington and Beijing have been rising with the Trump administration ratcheting up tariffs against China.

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Amazon is testing shopping, health assistants as it pushes deeper into generative AI

With CEO Andy Jassy pushing employees to build AI apps across the company, Amazon is testing new shopping and health assistants.

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Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot

Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. Powering them are so-called … Continue reading

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