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When a rocket launches a payload into orbit, the overwhelming majority of its weight at launch is just fuel. After decades of space travel, a company called Longshot Space hopes to unlock a more efficient way to launch satellites into orbit. The plan: Shoot satellites into space with the world’
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Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Sony isn’t backing away from its decision to kill the video game disc. But Sony isn’t shutting down
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The GL.iNet Beryl 7 is a great travel router when it comes to portability, weight, features, and price. It’s not the best of the best, not even the best that GL.iNet offers, but it is a great setup for the class that it is in. Pros * +VPN
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that many organizations already are struggling
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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The game, 'Build the Wall,' filtered classic block-stacking mechanics through the Trump administration's immigration policies. The White House The White House has removed Build the Wall, a browser-based game where you would stack bricks to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, from its online arcade.
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The NFL season starts Wednesday night, so today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is all about football. The purple group requires you to unscramble some words, which is a real challenge. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and
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Is it time to start planning for Halloween? Today’s NYT Connections puzzle features a spooky blue category, so grab a pumpkin spice latte and get to solving. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked
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Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most unusual scientific studies. The organization Improbable Research has been hosting the event since 1991 with
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Robinhood has won its first IPO underwriting role, ranking last among 18 banks on Oura’s offering. The bigger shift is in retail distribution: SpaceX reserved about 20% of its deal for individuals and Fidelity cut its minimum order from $500,000 to $2,000. That channel is being completed
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Cognition raised over $2bn at a $48bn valuation, up from $26bn in May. Run-rate revenue rose from $492m to almost $900m over the same period. Both rounds price the company at roughly 53 times run-rate revenue, so the multiple did not expand. Cognition has raised more than $2bn at a
