- A deep look at “The Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree (Evan Ratliff/Wired)
- Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023 (Financial Times)
- The iPhone 16e gives Apple a chance to get more competitive in China, where rivals like Huawei are becoming more sophisticated with the government's help (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
- Nvidia confirms a “rare” manufacturing issue affecting less than 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- Some journalists are taking freelance jobs with AI training data companies like Scale AI, which recruit them for tasks such as fact-checking and prompt drafting (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
- SpaceX launches 22 Starlink internet satellites from California
- A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources (Enock Nyariki/Poynter)
- Propellant leak blamed for Falcon 9 upper stage uncontrolled reentry
- Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?
- Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
- The asteroid hits and near-misses you never hear about
- US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
- DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
- How I Podcast: Summer Album / Winter Album’s Jody Avirgan
- The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online
- X is rolling out Grok-powered AI tools for advertisers to generate ready-to-use ad copy and imagery and provide campaign performance analysis (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
- China launches ChinaSat-10R communications satellite from Xichang
- An investigation details how Chinese cybercrime groups are turning phished payment card data into new Apple or Google wallets for online and in-store use (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition
- Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide
- Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
- Despite 2024 Layoffs, Tech Jobs Expected to Take Off
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 149 — SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids?
- Light-triggered process breaks down polymers into monomers for easier recycling
- Explore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’
- Astronomers discover 'Quipu,' the single largest structure in the known universe
- A look at the debate about whether AI models can truly reason, as some researchers describe the current pattern of reasoning as “jagged intelligence” (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
- Discovering the Strange and Unusual Creatures of the Deep Ocean | BBC Earth
- Mozambique Retools Weather Tech for Impactful Forecasting
- 20 years of satellite data reveal 'staggering' levels of glaciers melting, sea levels rising
- The seemingly indestructible fists of the mantis shrimp can take a punch
- Racing for a mate ❤️💨 #BirdsOfTheWorld #WildlifeOnEarth #Shorts #AnimalBehaviour
- Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling “tiny team” success stories (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
- This EV could reboot medium-duty trucking by not reinventing the wheel
- 30 years after warp drives were proposed, we still can't make the math work
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