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Funk became the oldest person to fly in space in 2021. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Wally Funk, an accomplished pilot who became the oldest person to fly to space in 2021, has died at the age of 87. Funk died on July 8 at her home in Grapevine, Texas, The
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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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Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multi-step reasoning and handle
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Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW July 9, 2026 03:26 PM ET He is the third federal tech lead confirmed to depart federal service this week. * Leadership * Transportation The chief digital and information officer of the Department of Transportation is resigning from his position effective
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* The Mac mini has emerged as an affordable system for agentic workloads * Apple has seen "incredible demand" for the Mac mini and Mac Studio * Apple silicon can handle an agentic AI while other architectures use a GPU and CPU If you’re looking for the best way to
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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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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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Charles Hudson has spent more than a decade investing in early-stage startups. As the founder and managing partner at Precursor Ventures, he’s invested in hundreds of companies and has seen massive shifts in the markets that require founders to get creative and do away with the old fundraising playbooks.
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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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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 9, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Donkey Kong Releases in Japan in 1981, Tron Premieres in 1982, First Ever Wimbledon Tournament Began in 1877, and we present you with
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Remember early chatbots? Clunky, scripted, and quick to hit a wall the moment you asked something off-script. In 2026, that's not what "AI" means anymore. Bots used to respond. Now they act, and that shift is rewriting what tech marketing teams can actually do. What is
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A few years ago, I would have measured the success of a test automation suite by one thing: the bugs it found. The logic seemed straightforward. If automation identified defects before they reached production, it was delivering value. If it wasn't finding bugs, I would start questioning whether
