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AWS's new project spend limits stop resources at the cap and initially preserve your data. Its guide says project data is permanently deleted after 90 days paused without action. We unpack the limited
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Apple plans extra macOS Full Disk Access controls because autonomous AI agents increase the risks of broad data access. We examine the current permission, Meta's disputed Muse messages case and histor
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Git's proposed SHA-256 default creates a compatibility boundary for new repositories. We check the official plan, Scott Chacon's objection and a working GitHub preview exception, then cover Pi 1.0 and
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Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, and only trusted cyber defenders can use it. Here is what Google's own 19-row benchmark table shows, what the independent leaderboard measured,
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People say Claude gets dumber a few weeks after every launch. One developer put Claude Opus 5.5 on a 30-day clock from launch week, with frozen questions, a pinned Claude Code and public rules, and it
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OpenAI's DevDay 2026 keynote, explained: dots (always-on agents with their own cloud computer), ChatGPT Space and Pages, GPT-6.1 Sol at $2 / $10 per million tokens, Ultrafast and the Pro 500 plan, the
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The Dutch government is developing DAWO, a NixOS-based workplace intended to reduce dependence on foreign technology providers. The project brings together the operating system, office software and ad
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In 1993 Jensen Huang invited Eric Gullichsen onto NVIDIA's technical advisory board and granted him 25,000 options that, per the grant, vested in one year. In 1996 NVIDIA's CFO counted them on a four-
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Unsealed filings quote an OpenAI researcher in 2019: his worry about training on a pirated-books site was "optics" on Hacker News. What did OpenAI know, who told Bill Gates, why were the files deleted
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