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Two weak spots in Big Tech economics

pluralistic.net

Today's links Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (permalink) Big Tech's astonishing scale is matched...
Today's links Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (permalink) Big Tech's astonishing scale is matched only by its farcical valuations – price-to-earnings ratios that consistently dwarf the capitalization of traditional hard-goods businesses. For example, Amazon's profit-to-earnings ratio is 37.65; Target's is only ...
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Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle

theregister.com

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least,...
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least, after the company announced a big majority of its top 10,000 customers have decided to acquire its Cloud Foundation stack and posted strong growth. The chips-and-code company today announced its results for the quarter ended...
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Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London

londoncentric.media

There was a lot of coverage of this week’s London Centric story on Lime bike safety,...
There was a lot of coverage of this week’s London Centric story on Lime bike safety, with ITV London running the reporting on its evening bulletins and national news outlets following it up. London Centric’s own documentary about the subject is now available to view on YouTube.London Centric’s growth was profiled in...
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No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard

arstechnica.com

Most Android phones ship with Google's Gboard as the default input option. It's a reliable, feature-rich...
Most Android phones ship with Google's Gboard as the default input option. It's a reliable, feature-rich on-screen keyboard, so most folks just keep using it instead of installing a third-party option. Depending on how you feel about circles, it might be time to check out some of those alternatives. Google has quiet...
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Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk

wired.com

“18F was the people’s tech shop,” one fired 18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole...
“18F was the people’s tech shop,” one fired 18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole left by the closure of 18F. Requests from across the country for help far outpaced 18F’s capacity before the closure.”Like 18F, the United States Digital Service, which the Trump administration rebranded into DOGE, has seen wav...
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Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

newsguardrealitycheck.com

By McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis BlachezA Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for...
By McKenzie Sadeghi and Isis BlachezA Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for "truth" — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of affecting the resp...
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The features of Python's help() function

pythonmorsels.com

Python has a built-in help function for getting help... but what can do with help? The...
Python has a built-in help function for getting help... but what can do with help? The help function can be used to lookup documentation for: Functions Modules Any Object Symbols Keywords Topics Let's take a look at all 6 uses of help. We'll start with the most common 3 uses: functions, modules, and all other object...
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The Take It Down Act isn't a law, it's a weapon

theverge.com

It’s internet safety law season again. After a narrow failure to pass the Kids Online Safety...
It’s internet safety law season again. After a narrow failure to pass the Kids Online Safety Act in 2024, Congress is now advancing the Take It Down Act, which criminalizes nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII, once dubbed “revenge porn,” including AI-generated content) and sets requirements for web platforms to rem...
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Great software design looks underwhelming

seangoedecke.com
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Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder – and that of my colleague

theins.press

Investigations
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The CRPG Renaissance, Part 4: Long Live Dungeons and Dragons

filfre.net

In December of 1997, Interplay Entertainment released Descent to Undermountain, the latest licensed Dungeons & Dragons...
In December of 1997, Interplay Entertainment released Descent to Undermountain, the latest licensed Dungeons & Dragons computer game. It’s remembered today, to whatever extent it’s remembered at all, as one of the more infamous turkeys of an era with more than its share of over-hyped and half-baked creations, a fias...
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CDC to study vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection

theguardian.com

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning a large study into potential connections...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproved or failed to find evidence of such links.It is unclear whether the health ...
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What if America turned off Britain's weapons?

reaction.life

British Royal Navy Vanguard Class Submarine (via A3NAE4/ Alamy)Amid growing jumpiness over Donald Trump’s re-alignment with...
British Royal Navy Vanguard Class Submarine (via A3NAE4/ Alamy)Amid growing jumpiness over Donald Trump’s re-alignment with Russia, a vulnerability that has long troubled many in UK military circles is taking centre stage: Britain’s ultimate wartime deterrent - the Trident nuclear programme - is built on the assumpt...
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WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely

arstechnica.com

Although digital media has surpassed physical media in popularity, there are still plenty of reasons for...
Although digital media has surpassed physical media in popularity, there are still plenty of reasons for movie buffs and TV fans to hold onto, and even continue buying, DVDs. With physical media, owners are assured that they'll always be able to play their favorite titles, so long as they take care of their discs. W...
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First Porn, Now Skin Cream? 'Age Verification' Bills Are Out of Control

eff.org

Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | March 5, 2025 We've opposed the Take It Down Act...
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | March 5, 2025 We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to...
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Show HN: A big tech dev experience for an open source CMS

contentfoundry.com

Hey HN! We're building an open-source CMS designed to help creators with every part of the...
Hey HN! We're building an open-source CMS designed to help creators with every part of the content production pipeline. We're showing our tiny first step: A tool designed to take in a Twitter username and produce an "identity card" based on it. We expect to use an approach similar to Constitutional AI with an explic...
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Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

theguardian.com

A robotic private spacecraft designed to provide crucial data for returning humans to the moon toppled...
A robotic private spacecraft designed to provide crucial data for returning humans to the moon toppled over as it landed on the lunar surface, bringing an immediate and premature end to the mission, its operators said on Friday.Athena, a probe launched by the Texas-based company Intuitive Machines (IM) last month, t...
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AMD YOLO

geohot.github.io
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Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation

nytimes.com

anthropic ai llc artificial intelligence openai labs start-ups venture capital
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Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI

techstartups.com

Microsoft’s AI head is plotting a future without OpenAI. According to a report from The Information,...
Microsoft’s AI head is plotting a future without OpenAI. According to a report from The Information, Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft’s AI division, has set his sights on a bold objective: reducing the company’s dependence on OpenAI. “After setbacks, Microsoft’s AI guru Mustafa Suleyman appears to be making s...
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62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year

abacusdata.ca
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Google change is breaking some digital photo frames

theverge.com

Google is changing the way apps can access Google Photos libraries, which is creating problems for...
Google is changing the way apps can access Google Photos libraries, which is creating problems for owners of some digital photo frames. While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slid...
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Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

ycombinator.com
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Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents

reflection.ai
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