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The Productivity Mirage

A prolific Facebook engineer named Bob achieved greater success using vanilla Sublime Text and basic debugging methods than the author, who had invested heavily in an elaborate custom development…

2026-07-29 · 23:18 UTC
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Crypto

CoinMortgage Launches Bitcoin Purchase Financing Services

2026-07-29 · 23:00

New service launched July 4, 2026, giving qualified borrowers a structured way to finance Bitcoin purchases and build…

Tech

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

2026-07-29 · 23:00

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff…

Tech

Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)

2026-07-29 · 22:53

"Man and the Computer" is a 1972 book by John G.

Tech

LLM Honeypot

2026-07-29 · 22:51

This is a satirical "GeoCities-style" webpage mocking the idea of converting AI language models into humans, complete…

Tech

India's CJP protests: Why tech alone won't stop exam paper leaks

2026-07-29 · 22:50

Can computer-based testing stop NEET paper leaks? Experts say governance matters as much as tech.

Sports

Boxer Abdul - grandson of dictator - disqualified for headbutt

2026-07-29 · 22:49

Ugandan boxer Aziz Abdul - the grandson of dictator Idi Amin - was disqualified from his fight at the Commonwealth Games…

Sports

'Nothing to prove' at Commonwealths for Finucane

2026-07-29 · 22:47

Olympic team sprint champion Emma Finucane insists she has nothing to prove in Glasgow as she chases a Commonwealth gold…

Tech

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

2026-07-29 · 22:46

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an…

Sports

Evans battles nerves to become Scotland's breakout star

2026-07-29 · 22:32

Angharad Evans added another breaststroke gold to become Scotland's breakout star in the pool at the 2026 Commonwealth…

Tech

Microsoft Quietly Adds New Windows App That Wants to Scan Your Face

2026-07-29 · 22:31

A new OneDrive Photos app is appearing on some Windows 11 PCs through OneDrive and Windows updates, adding AI-powered…

Tech

Tether Data Pushes AI Off the Cloud With New 460M Parameter Vision Model

2026-07-29 · 22:30

Tether Data has open-sourced a 460-million-parameter vision-language model built to run directly on smartphones instead…

Tech

GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world

2026-07-29 · 22:27

GitHub's traditional paradigm is inadequate for modern software development, where AI agents and non-engineering teams…

Tech

Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

2026-07-29 · 22:23

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise…

Other

Worth $5m? Visitors react to renovated Washington horse statues

2026-07-29 · 22:23

The Trump Administration has regilded the Arts of War statues near the Lincoln Memorial with 23.75-karat gold.

World

Salman Rushdie attacker convicted of terror offenses

2026-07-29 · 22:15

Hadi Matar, 28, was convicted of attempting to help Hezbollah by attacking the British-Indian author.

Sports

Milestone moment for O'Connor with Glasgow gold

2026-07-29 · 22:14

Team Northern Ireland heptathlete Kate O'Connor tells BBC Sport NI of her joy at winning the event at the Commonwealth…

Tech

The Chinese robot army transforming the UK's retail industry

2026-07-29 · 22:08

Britain's weak productivity growth and labour shortages are creating an opportunity for China's robotics firms.

Tech

Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

2026-07-29 · 22:07

HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.

Crypto

Robinhood Posts Best Quarter Ever as Prediction Market and Robinhood Chain Take Off

2026-07-29 · 22:01

Robinhood posted a record $1.31 billion in revenue in Q2.

Crypto

Robinhood posts record quarter as crypto revenue slides 38%

2026-07-29 · 21:53

The online brokerage continued expanding its digital asset business with Robinhood Chain, tokenized stocks and…

Crypto

Robinhood posts record quarter, but crypto revenue slides 38%

2026-07-29 · 21:53

The online brokerage continued expanding its digital asset business with Robinhood Chain, tokenized stocks and…

Crypto

Binance.US to attempt prediction markets entry as CFTC-licensed entity, says CEO

2026-07-29 · 21:52

The CEO of the US crypto exchange said that the company would apply for a license with the CFTC in August allowing it to…

Crypto

$2 Trillion Opportunity For XRP: Ripple Signs Landmark Deal

2026-07-29 · 21:40

The two companies aim to make compliant transactions easier for financial institutions to adopt at scale.