The string theory hype machine will never die
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Venice AI is a privacy-focused, uncensored AI platform that uses tokens to replace pay-per-prompt pricing....
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Steve Marcus/REUTERS Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted a key difference between tasks and your job's broader purpose. AI automates tasks but preserves the purpose of many jobs in k...
Voltera, a charging infrastructure company, is picking up real estate property to prepare for the robotaxi boom. Voltera Voltera acquires urban real estate to build charging depots for robotaxi operat...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Amazon plans to lay off thousands of corporate employees in coming days. This second major round of Amazon layoffs since October would bring the ...
A US Army solider trains with a counter-UAS weapon known as a "Drone Buster," at Fort Irwin, California., Oct. 31, 2024. Sgt. Quincy Adams/US Army A new watchdog report says unclear counter-dr...
Yuval Noah Harari was a speaker at the 2026 World Economic Forum Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images The author of "Sapiens" Yuval Noah Harari said AI is going to cause two crises for every c...
Anthropic's Claude is the subject of a parade of X memes. illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images Anthropic is on a hot streak of launches, and it's got X in stitches. The platform is full of Claude me...
Xbox Game Pass is set for a big hitter at the end of January: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. This marks the debut of Saber Interactiveās hugely popular third-person action game in a subscription li...
Yesim Saydan built a custom GPT inspired by Steve Jobs to act as a mentor. Courtesy of Yesim Saydan Yesim Saydan uses over 17 custom GPTs to run her solo-consultancy business. She created her ideal te...
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is pressing OpenAI about its move to bring ads to ChatGPT, and is asking several other companies whether they have similar plans. In letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Goo...
Setapp Mobile seemed like one of the many alternative app markets with promise that launched in the wake of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) . While the law may have forced Apple to allow third-part...
Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to ...
Hey folks, Iām Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io ). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change before they merge their c...
The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID ...
Even with the ability to take excellent photos with our phones and instantly share them across the world, thereās something magical about the old-school instant camera. With just a click of a button, ...
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/01/notes-on-intel-8086-processors.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735133 Points: 10 # Comments: 1...
AI engineers ranked No. 1 in LinkedIn's list of fastest-growing jobs in New York City. Bim/Getty Images LinkedIn published rankings of the fastest-growing jobs, including for New York City. AI enginee...
Today, I am sitting in the courtroom that may decide the fate of Android. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is here. Google Android boss Sameer Samat is here. Together, they'll try to convince Judge James Donato t...