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Ask an LLM to write a PRD and it will often produce a beautiful lie. The headings are right. The tone sounds professional. User stories appear in a tidy list. Edge cases have names. The document feels complete because language models are exceptionally good at completing document-shaped patterns. Then engineering
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At the San Diego City Council’s most recent budget meeting, Sith Lord Darth Vader had some points to make. Between gasping breaths, Vader praised the council’s recent votes to renew its contract with the surveillance company Flock Safety, which has been making headlines recently as more and more
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In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers — which, according
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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* IBM connects two box-shaped cryogenic modules into a single environment and cooled them below 15 millikelvin, linked by a thermally shielded tunnel carrying quantum cables between cells * The cooling technology is established dilution refrigeration; what is new is an enclosure that offers up to twelve times more wiring area and
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I got a look at Micro Center’s redesigned flagship store, but I was distracted. I kept staring at a 3D printer the size of a phone booth as it churned out a scale model of downtown Columbus, Ohio — and pointing out where on the unfinished replica I used to
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Apple gave Tim Cook a leaving party on Sunday, a week before he stops being its chief executive. About 200 people attended, almost all of them Apple employees, at the Caffè Macs cafeteria on the company’s Cupertino campus. OneRepublic played. Aaron Tilley reported the evening for The Information, citing
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WhatsApp is replacing the six-digit PIN used for two-step verification with a full alphanumeric password, and says more than a billion users have already created a passkey. Android users will also see extra context about calls from people not in their contacts. WhatsApp has quietly become the largest passwordless deployment
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Anything you tell Claude in a chat window is now available to Claude Cowork. Anything Cowork learns comes back the other way. Anthropic merged the two memory systems on Tuesday. Wherever you work with Claude, it starts from what it already knows about you, the company said in its announcement.
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Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this week. Mike Swift reported the testimony from the
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OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomberg on Monday. Anissa Gardizy broke
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* The Future Games Show will return with three digital showcases at Gamescom 2026 * It will air on August 26, offering a look at over 40 games * FGS Live From Gamescom will immediately follow, and the FGS Best Of Gamescom will return on August 30 Opening Night Live has officially wrapped,
