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What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-09-04 20:26:42

When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. It’s very hard to discern truth from satire in 2025, in part because of social media sites owned by Bosworth’s company. But it indeed was true. According to an official press release, they’re in the Army now, specifically Detachment 201: the Executive Innovation Corps. Boz is now lieutenant

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Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 10:02:22

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration We, people and civil society organisations from Europe and around the world, call on the European Commission to act now to break up the powerful Big Tech monopolies that have a stranglehold over our digital world. Big Tech isn’t just dominating markets – it’s dominating European democracy. Europe needs a thriving and diverse digital economy that serves the needs of European citizens, not billionaire tech CEOs. President von der Leyen has affirmed th

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These 7 Essential Vitamins Could Help You With Hair Growth

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 15:41:00

Everyone experiences a light shedding of hair each day, but there comes a point where it may be concerning and affect your overall hair thickness. However, you may be able to figure out what's causing it to help you come back from it. Some people experience hair loss because of hormones or genetics, while others may need to up their intake of certain vitamins. A balanced diet full of vitamins and minerals can help you achieve healthy locks while boosting your overall health at the same time. It

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Why do we need DNSSEC?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 16:03:33

Resolvers? Authoritative name servers? What are all these things? Check out HowDNS.works for a refresher and come back here.

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Elon Musk responds to report that xAI is burning through $1 billion a month

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-07 04:29:00

In brief: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is burning through cash at an astounding rate. According to a new report, the company expects to spend at least $13 billion throughout all of 2025, equivalent to just over $1 billion every month. Musk, of course, has called the report "nonsense." Citing the usual anonymous people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg writes that the $500 million that xAI will earn this year looks positively tiny next to the $13 billion it plans to spend.

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The New Titan Submersible Doc Hits Netflix's Top 10, but There's Another Titan Doc You Should See

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 03:00:05

Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. This week, Netflix's Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster was the no. 2 film on Netflix's Top 10, but the documentary about the deadly 2023 Titan submersible implosion isn't the only film about the catastrophic undersea tragedy. Another, Max's Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, came out in May. Both reveal the lengths that explorer and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush went to in order

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Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-08 15:54:45

"He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this." President Donald Trump spent $45 million in taxpayer dollars to throw himself a huge birthday parade — and now, he's apparently mad at everyone involved for not making it more fabulous. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Trump biographer Michael Wolff revealed that the president was none too pleased with the underwhelming pomp that marked the 250th anniversary of the Army — and, perhaps just as importantly in his mind, his birthday. Known as much f

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Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-09 20:30:38

The U.S. military recently announced that four executives from some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers. The move is part of a push to speed up the adoption of technology in the military, but as the news outlet Task & Purpose points out, it’s pretty unusual. The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

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Move over Open Canvas, this could be the best way to multitask on a foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 05:15:10

TL;DR vivo’s upcoming X Fold 5 features a new multitasking system called “Atomic Workbench” capable of running up to five active apps simultaneously. “Atomic Workbench” enables one dominant app view while keeping others minimized but live, improving upon OnePlus’ Open Canvas approach with a better layout for engaging more apps. The vivo X Fold 5 launches on June 25 in China. OnePlus pioneered the Open Canvas feature with the OnePlus Open foldable, allowing users to open three apps simultaneou

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Strangers in the Middle of a City: The John and Jane Does of L.A. Medical Center

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-09-08 02:45:53

He had a buzz cut and brown eyes, a stubbly beard and a wrestler’s build. He did not have a wallet or phone; he could not state his name. He arrived at Los Angeles General Medical Center one cloudy day this winter just as thousands of people do every year: alone and unknown. Some 130,000 people are brought each year to L.A. General’s emergency room. Many are unconscious, incapacitated or too unwell to tell staff who they are. Nearly all these Jane and John Does are identified within 48 hours

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In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B, up from $13B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-11 03:10:57

In Brief Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund, at a post-money valuation of $16 billion. This is a jaw-dropping $3 billion increase over the $13 billion valuation Ramp announced just a few months ago in March, after a $150 million secondary share sale. Its current valuation is also more than double the $7.65 billion post-money valuation Ramp hit a little over a year ago when it raised $150 million.

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In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B from $13B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-11 08:10:57

In Brief Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund, at a post money $16 billion valuation. This is a jaw-dropping $3 billion increase over the $13 billion valuation Ramp announced just a few months ago in March from a $150 million secondary share sale. It’s current valuation is also more than double the $7.65 billion Ramp hit a little over a year ago when it raised $150 million at a $7.65 billion post mo

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Scientists achieve 1,000-fold increase in solar electricity using ultra-thin layers

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-11 12:03:00

Forward-looking: A team of German researchers from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg has unveiled a significant advancement in solar energy technology, revealing a method to dramatically increase the amount of electricity certain materials can generate when exposed to light. Their approach involves stacking ultra-thin layers of different crystals in a precise sequence, resulting in a solar absorber that far outperforms traditional materials. At the core of this discovery, published in S

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Former NASA Agent Suggests Government Used UFO Theories To Cover "Stealth Technology"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-11 19:06:14

A former NASA official says he thinks the government uses rumors of alien conspiracies to hide its secrets — a suggestion corroborated by a recent bombshell report about military officials spreading UFO disinformation. In an interview with Fox News, Joseph Gutheinz, a former special agent at NASA's inspector general, said that the US military's clandestine operations are likely behind many UFO conspiracy theories. "I believe early on in the 1940s when all these UFO stories started coming up, i

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Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-12 00:58:33

Sword Health, an AI-powered digital health startup, has raised $40 million at a $4 billion valuation, a 33% jump from the $3 billion price tag it earned just a year ago. The funding was led by returning investor, General Catalyst. Even though 10-year-old Sword Health is cash-flow positive, its CEO and founder, Virgílio Bento, told TechCrunch that he opted to raise additional capital for two key reasons: to update the company’s valuation, and have funds readily available for strategic acquisitio

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Pitaka unveils their aramid fiber MagSafe power bank, a slim magnetic charger with Qi2

9to5mac.com Fernando Silva 2025-09-13 04:29:40

We are now in 2025, and there are so many MagSafe battery packs out there. Some are multifunctional, others have software touches, some can charge your phone fast, and they all have differentiators to help you decide. But sometimes you just want a beautiful-looking MagSafe battery pack that does all the main things great, while also looking slim, sleek, and stylish. That is precisely what Pitaka was able to do with their new aramid fiber magnetic power bank. Here is what you should know. Be sur

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Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-13 20:35:49

A balloon-borne experiment over Antarctica, designed to detect cosmic radio waves, has instead picked up bizarre signals that appear to be coming from deep within the ice. These signals challenge our current understanding of particle physics, scientists say. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment consists of radio antennas flown on NASA balloons 19 to 24 miles (30 to 39 kilometers) over the surface of Antarctica. In recent years, the detector has recorded radio pulses that

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Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-14 16:15:42

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctic ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why. Using a cosmic particle detector, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania detected peculiar signals that, according to a press release, "defy the current understanding of particle physics." The particle detector that found those strange signals — which is, charmingly, suspended from a bunch of balloons — belongs to a range of instruments known as the Antarctic Impulsive Tr

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Over 46,000 Grafana instances exposed to account takeover bug

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-14 15:07:56

More than 46,000 internet-facing Grafana instances remain unpatched and exposed to a client-side open redirect vulnerability that allows executing a malicious plugin and account takeover. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-4123 and impacts multiple versions of the open-source platform used for monitoring and visualizing infrastructure and application metrics. The vulnerability was discovered by bug bounty hunter Alvaro Balada and was addressed in security updates that Grafana Labs released on May

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2025-09-11 23:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2025-09-12 04:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

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Tanks, guns and face-painting

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-09-14 12:36:29

Of all the jarring things I’ve witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim it, as his red-hatted parents took a photo with the Washington Monument in the background. The primary stated reason for the Grand Military Parade is to celebrate the US Army’s 250th birthday. The second stated reason is to use the even

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We found a germ that 'feeds' on hospital plastic – new study

news.ycombinator.com Ronan Mccarthy 2025-09-15 00:01:00

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time – and some of nature’s tiniest organisms may offer a surprising way out. In recent years, microbiologists have discovered bacteria capable of breaking down various types of plastic, hinting at a more sustainable path forward. These “plastic-eating” microbes could one day help shrink the mountains of waste clogging landfills and oceans. But they are not always a perfect fix. In the wrong environment, they could cause

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Clay secures a new round at a $3B valuation, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-09-15 00:37:09

Clay, a sales automation startup, has raised a Series C round at an approximate $3 billion valuation, led by Capital G, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. Clay and Capital G didn’t respond to a request for comment. The new round comes just a month after the New York startup announced that it will allow most of its employees to sell some of their shares at a $1.5 billion valuation. That secondary deal, known as a tender offer, was led by Sequoia, which agreed to purchase up

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You Can Tell When War Is Breaking Out Because the Pentagon's Pizza Orders Spike Drastically

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-15 03:10:53

You Can Tell When War Is Breaking Out Because the Pentagon's Pizza Orders Spike Drastically "Who says pie charts aren't useful?" Pizza Premonition A flurry of activity at pizza delivery outlets near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, is a surprisingly accurate predictor of war, as hungry military leadership hunkers down to monitor unfolding military activities. As painstakingly documented by X account Pentagon Pizza Report, a "busier than usual" indicator on the Google Maps profile of the

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Startups Weekly: No sign of pause

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-09-15 11:05:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. You’d think WWDC would cause a lull in startup news. But not in June, when everyone is eager to announce their latest deals — or even to go public. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Nasdaq This week brought us many reminders that no startup journey is linear — but the next billion-dollar idea may only be one click

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CBP's Predator Drone Flights Over LA Are a Dangerous Escalation

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-16 00:48:50

On Wednesday, United States Customs and Border Protection confirmed to 404 Media that it has been flying Predator drones over Los Angeles amid the LA protests. The military drones, a CBP statement said, “are supporting our federal law enforcement partners in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with aerial support of their operations.” State-level law enforcement agencies across the US use various types of drones and other vehicles, like helicopters, to c

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Trump’s Cuts Threaten Nobel-Winning Observatory That Detected Colliding Black Holes

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-16 12:55:43

Nearly 10 years ago, scientists observed ripples in spacetime created by the collision of two black holes that took place 1.3 billion years ago. The first direct detection of gravitational waves opened up an entirely new way of seeing the universe, allowing us to observe a once invisible side of the cosmos. Today, the ability to track the frequencies produced by the most notable events that shape our surrounding cosmos is at risk due to drastic budget cuts targeting a breakthrough observatory.

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The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 19:44:13

A childproof version of the Internet — free of content not suitable for children. Make any device or network safe to use for children in just a few seconds. By filtering out content from the Internet that is not suitable for children, you can provide a safe online environment for kids at home, at school and on the go.

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Disney Pinnacle unveils Genesis Keys quest with Web3 support from Dapper Labs

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 00:50:00

Disney Pinnacle by Dapper Labs, the digital pin collecting and trading platform, has now announced its Genesis Keys quest. That means Disney fans worldwide can claim free Genesis Keys every four hours as part of the global quest for one-of-one Genesis Editions — the first digital pins ever minted on the platform. The Genesis Keys campaign marks the first phase of Disney Pinnacle by Dapper Labs’ rollout gearing up for more action throughout the summer. As the community collectively claims Keys

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What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army

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Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade

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In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B, up from $13B

In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B from $13B

Scientists achieve 1,000-fold increase in solar electricity using ultra-thin layers

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Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028

Pitaka unveils their aramid fiber MagSafe power bank, a slim magnetic charger with Qi2

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Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

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