The string theory hype machine will never die
Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15407 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621518 Points: 6 # Comments: 0...
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Article URL: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15407 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621518 Points: 6 # Comments: 0...
Venice AI is a privacy-focused, uncensored AI platform that uses tokens to replace pay-per-prompt pricing....
Jeffrey Ding is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. He is the author of Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, an award-winning book exploring the impact of ...
Bethesdaâs former Elder Scrolls loremaster has revealed his idea for The Elder Scrolls 6 story, and how it would have set up The Elder Scrolls 7. In an interview with PC Gamer discussing his dissatisf...
An xAI cofounder is shifting into an advisory role after a Lyme disease diagnosis to "go founder mode on my health." Illustration by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images An xAI cofounder sa...
Article URL: https://github.com/cosinusalpha/webctl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616481 Points: 10 # Comments: 1...
Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first...
Multibillion-dollar deal to secure Gemini models reflects cautious approach to infrastructure spending...
Former Activision boss Bobby Kotick has made a number of claims about the state of his former company, Call of Duty, and the console market as part of a response to a lawsuit. Kotick, who left Activis...
Article URL: https://www.kentik.com/blog/from-stealth-blackout-to-whitelisting-inside-the-iranian-shutdown/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713444 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
If you're an anime fan, Crunchyroll is the best streaming platform out there. With just one subscription, you can instantly gain access to over 1,000 different anime series. In a time when anime has n...
Article URL: https://www.morphllm.com/playground/na/warpgrep?repo=xai-org%2Fx-algorithm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698684 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649489 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Larry Hryb, better known to legions of fans as Xbox's former communications director Major Nelson, has reported being laid off from his new role at Unity. In a post on Twitter/X, Hryb shared an image ...
How BTQâs Bitcoin-like quantum testnet highlights where post-quantum risks may emerge and why mitigation is an engineering challenge....
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage m...
Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" fro...
Naya has already shipped one successful Kickstarter for a weird keyboard. The Naya Create was an ergonomic split deck with four swappable controller addons: a touchpad, a trackball, a rotary encoder, ...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped plans to make digital ID mandatory for workers after a backlash over âOrwellianâ surveillance fears....
The short-term outlook doesn't bode well for the GPU market. Hardware Unboxed recently announced that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card may have just hit end-of-life status, since major board part...