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IREN’s $3.65B Financing: The Customer Is the Collateral

$IREN secured 96% of the $5.81bn GPU capex for its Microsoft contract at a low single-digit all-in financing cost.

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small…

Openrouter Fusion API

Dalus (YC W25) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Germany

Dalus, a YC W25-funded startup building AI-powered software for hardware systems design (rockets, satellites, EVs), is…

Eric Trump says 'rigged' UFC fight messages were AI fakes

Eric Trump says screenshots showing an alleged conversation with UFC commentator Daniel Cormier, which appeared to show…

How an Amazon Report Led to the Blocking of Fable 5 and Mythos 5

An internal Amazon security report was enough to trigger a chain reaction all the way to Washington.

Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026

The curl project will pause vulnerability report submissions on its Hackerone form throughout July 2026 (dubbed "summer…

The One Interview Question Steve Jobs Used to Spot Real Talent

Onstage at the D8 conference in 2010, Steve Jobs explained his go-to interview opener: “Why are you here?” He prized…

Apple Foundation Models

Apple has released a Swift package that integrates Anthropic's Claude AI model into Apple's Foundation Models framework,…

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers

Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.

How Reddit Campaigns Are Quietly Shaping AI-Generated Answers

A growing problem is quietly changing what millions of people see when they ask AI tools questions online.

Even More Batteries Included with Emacs

Emacs includes numerous lesser-known built-in features that improve productivity, and this article is the third in a…

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

The article examines the "eight fallacies of distributed computing," a set of long-held incorrect assumptions about…

Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

An author discovered that their ebook, which passed all standard EPUB validation checks and worked on multiple…

Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

Stanford graduates walked out during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech in June 2026.

The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

A long-time open-source developer added logging code to Jqwik (a property-based testing tool) as a form of protest…

Did Anthropic Ask for This?

# Summary The author argues that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's published policy calling for government power to block AI…

Frank founder Charlie Javice is reportedly asking Trump for a pardon

Javice isn't the only convicted former tech executive looking for Trump's help.

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

The author criticizes recent versions of Claude (particularly Fable) for becoming argumentative and defensive,…

Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

Windows 11 users are frustrated that Microsoft removed the option to create a local account during setup, forcing a…

Semafor: China-Linked Group Suspected of Accessing Anthropic’s Top-Secret AI

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict its most advanced cybersecurity artificial intelligence (AI)…

Zinnia: A modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel written in Rust

Zinnia is a 64-bit Unix-like kernel written almost entirely in Rust that implements POSIX APIs and Linux/BSD extensions…

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

Johannes Link, the author of the Java testing tool jqwik, embedded a hidden message instructing AI agents to delete…

UK may ban social media for children under 16

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

Vibe Coder vs. Software Engineer

The article distinguishes between "vibe coders" who use AI to quickly generate prototypes and "software engineers" who…

Bring Siri AI to EU iPhone Users Safely

Chaosnet

Chaosnet is a decentralized local network system developed by MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1975 to…