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TechnologyA Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
TechnologyHacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites
The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."
TechnologyReed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash.
How to sequence your own DNA at home
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TechnologyMercor is in talks for a $20B valuation
A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.
TechnologyWIRED World Fair
WIRED World Fair
TechnologyMeta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses.
TechnologyAmazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
Amazon Web Services is shutting down its crowdsourcing service Mechanical Turk to new customers starting July 30, 2026.
TechnologyThe Science Behind Why Soccer Players at the 2026 World Cup Are Cutting Their Socks
The Science Behind Why Soccer Players at the 2026 World Cup Are Cutting Their Socks
TechnologyHow Amsterdam invented the fire department
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Anthropic developer shares prompting tips for Fable 5 that focus on finding your own blind spots first
Anthropic developer Thariq Shihipar argues that with Claude's new model, Fable 5, the bottleneck is no longer the model itself but the user's blind spots.
TechnologyBest Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa
Best Bone Conduction Headphones (2026): Shokz, Suunto, Mojawa
TechnologyAn American Privacy Emergency
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TechnologyAnthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"
Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examples.
TechnologyUS government says it got hacked — again
A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.
TechnologyMark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
TechnologyShow HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3
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TechnologyMeituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia
Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.
TechnologyI Tried Rips, the Card-Pack App Where Users Spend Thousands Chasing Pricey Pokémon
I Tried Rips, the Card-Pack App Where Users Spend Thousands Chasing Pricey Pokémon
TechnologyThe Fall of the Theorem Economy
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