techcrunch
4h ago
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The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business
Kepler Communications is flying 40 GPUs in Earth orbit. And its latest customer is Sophia Space.
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arenaev
43m ago
16°
Tesla says goodbye to its original icons with the exclusive Signature Edition
Tesla is finally closing the book on the two vehicles that made the company famous. After 14 years of production, the Tesla Model S and the Tesla Model X are reaching the end of the line. To celebrate this long journey, the company is releasing a very special version of these electric cars.
endpoints
10h ago
15°
Seaport and Hemab file for IPOs, with Kailera expected to price soon
The spring IPO cohort is starting to take shape.
popularmechanics
19h ago
15°
They Thought This Priest Was Poisoned. When the CT Scan Came Back, the Truth Was So Much Weirder.
Uh, how did that get in there?
vox
45m ago
14°
OpenAI is pivoting to…socialism?
OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers decide how their employers use artificial intelligence, and give everyone a cut of the tech industry’s profits. Or so the company claims in a new vision statement.
petapixel
24h ago
14°
Why Understanding Design is Essential for Photographers
When we decide whether a photo is good or not, we apply subconsciously a set of principles that make the image appealing. Understanding those helps us better grasp why some photos work better than others.
omgubuntu
10h ago
14°
Quick Lofi – a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to
Quick Lofi is a GNOME Shell extension that puts a lofi radio player in your top bar. If you’ve ever opened a new browser tab to load a “lofi beats to study to” stream on YouTube — lofi girl, perhaps – to act as an ambient backdrop to work to, the appeal will be evident. If not, all you need to know is that mellow, lyric-free, low-tempo sounds are reputedly ideal for focus.
arstechnica
24h ago
12°
Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing
Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes.
aestheticamagazine
27h ago
12°
The Presence of Ice:Sebastião Salgado’s Glaciers
A new collection of Sebastião Salgado's photographs is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places, drawing attention to decline and melt.
spacenews
43h ago
11°
Falcon 9 launches Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS
A Falcon 9 launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft April 11 as Northrop Grumman continues its dependence on a competitor to fly resupply missions to the International Space Station.
aeon
1h ago
10°
The sterilisation-seekers
In the story of eugenics, disabled people are often depicted as passive victims.
seths
2h ago
8°
Avoiding the purity loop
Some vegans don’t eat avocados. They’re concerned that the bees that are trucked in to pollinate the trees are mistreated, and so they choose to not support this practice. But we live in community, and someone running a vegan restaurant or serving a meal to vegan friends, concerned that they might offend, doesn’t serve avocado.
sixthtone
35h ago
8°
China’s First DINK Generation Is Growing Old
For decades, a small number of couples built lives without children. As more Chinese choose the same path, their experiences offer an early glimpse of what a child-free future may demand.
sciencenews
7h ago
7°
For gray whales, San Francisco Bay is becoming a deadly pit stop
Climate change could be forcing gray whales to seek food in San Francisco Bay, where vessel strikes may be driving rising deaths.
infoq
5h ago
6°
Anthropic Releases Claude Mythos Preview with Cybersecurity Capabilities but Withholds Public Access
Anthropic has introduced Claude Mythos Preview, its most advanced AI model, improving significantly in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity. Unlike previous releases, it will not be publicly available. Access is limited to a consortium of tech companies through Project Glasswing. Internal tests revealed the model's ability to discover critical security flaws effectively.
thehackernews
2h ago
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North Korea's APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware
The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery channel for a remote access trojan called RokRAT.