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TL;DR An AWS billing bug sent users estimated bills in the billions and trillions. Amazon confirmed it was a unit pricing error and is recomputing all estimates. AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A
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Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in talks to raise a new round of capital, according to three sources familiar with the company. The three-year-old company is seeking a
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If you want a projector for presentations, business, and streaming movies without paying 4K prices, this is the deal I recommend grabbing right now. Super-bright compared to similarly priced models, the Xgimi Horizon is now $529 (was $899) at Wellbots — a $370 saving on a 1080p Android TV projector with
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Universal screen time standards A new bill asks the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop new voluntary standards that would act as guidance for parents in managing screen time for children. The Tracking Online Time And Limits Screen Time Act, unveiled on July 15 by Reps. Pat Harrigan,
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When I wrote my Ninja Creami Swirl review, I decided that the main reason that anyone should consider buying a Ninja Creami machine is so that they could make frozen treats that match their health goals. Whether you are trying to avoid processed foods, cut calories, reduce sugar, avoid dairy,
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The tech industry is cautiously optimistic about the U.S. government's announcement this week to create a centralized clearinghouse for AI-discovered vulnerabilities. The key, executives and analysts said, will be how well the new initiative executes on its mission to collect and sort information on security flaws. If
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It's not often that a mainstream outlet unrelated to gaming or PC hardware highlights the cultural significance of Doom, but The Washington Post has done exactly that by making Doom the only video game in its list of "The 25 most influential works of American culture."
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We have a fair bit of information on Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, including that the chips will top out at 52 cores and some 474W power draw, as well as what seems to be a fairly complete list of SKUs for the desktop family. However, we didn&
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The average sales rep spends only 40% of their time actually selling. The rest is eaten up by necessary, but lower-value work: customer relationship management (CRM) updates, prospect research, email drafting, and endless context-switching between tools. Before you know it, the day has passed and you’ve spent only a
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There’s no shortage of bonkers details about Polymarket. The government alleges that both a special forces soldier and a longtime Google employee used the prediction market to amass small fortunes by insider trading; CEO Shayne Coplan had his apartment raided by FBI agents, who entered via battering ram; and
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
