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Rebuilding the data stack for AI
Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering…
MIT Technology Review
Sponsor The Talk Show
Weekly “sponsor the whole week at DF” spots are sold out until August 24. That’s a great sign that sponsorships here work. But it’s not so great if you have a product or service that you’d like to promote now, or soon, to the DF audience — savvy listeners and readers obsessed wit…
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Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two companies together for years and replacing them with a looser, time-limited arrang…
venturebeat.com
What Makes eVTOL Motors Different Than EV Motors?
Electric vehicles, whether they’re cars on the road or electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, are built around similar electric motors. But there are vital differences including component costs, mass, and redundancy. Jon Wagner spent five years as the senior dir…
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A Comic Crossover Sequel to Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ Is Becoming a Movie
It's called 'Django/Zorro,' and yes, we're talking about that Zorro.
gizmodo.com
OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal
OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft gets more cash in a revenue-share agreement.
techcrunch.com
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Oracle lays off over 20,000 employees worldwide as cloud and AI spending rises
Oracle has started laying off over 20,000 employees worldwide, with reports suggesting… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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OpenAI reportedly working with Qualcomm and MediaTek to build custom chips for AI-first smartphones
OpenAI is reportedly moving beyond software into the highly competitive smartphone hardware… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
I’m 66 and last week I told my son I was proud of him. The way he went quiet taught me that grown children still need to hear the words we assume they already know
Despite decades of assuming his successful 40-year-old son knew how he felt, a father's casual "I'm proud of you" during a phone call revealed a devastating truth about the words grown children still desperately need to hear.
siliconcanals.com
DeepSeek mystery: who is speaking for start-up as CEO Liang Wenfeng remains out of sight?
The potential emergence of a new DeepSeek spokesman has sparked intrigue as speculation over the whereabouts of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng continues, more than a year after his last public appearance. While the Hangzhou start-up’s latest V4 model did not make the same waves as…
scmp.com
Last month a friend asked me what I do for fun and I gave him a list of things I used to do, and the silence after I finished was the first honest conversation I’d had with myself in a decade
A friend asked me what I do for fun, and every answer I gave was in the past tense. The silence that followed broke a decade of quiet self-deception about who I'd actually become.
siliconcanals.com
Dreame Technology unveils rocket-assisted EV concept with 0.9-second acceleration
Dreame Technology on Monday unveiled an experimental high-performance vehicle equipped with rocket boosters at its DREAME NEXT global launch event in the US, as the company signaled ambitions beyond its core smart home business. The concept model, named Nebula Next 01 JET Edition…
technode.com

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Why Solid State Batteries Short
Solid state batteries, we are told, are the new hot battery technology that will replace lithium-ion batteries. Soon. Not that we haven’t heard that before. One reason it isn’t dominating …read more
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A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design
If you mention the word bus, you might think of public transportation or, more likely for us, a way to connect things together. But in the satellite world, the bus …read more
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New Slicer Enables Horizontal Overhangs Without Support
There’s a rule of thumb when it comes to FDM printing that overhangs are really only possible to an angle of around 45 degrees or so. If you try to …read more
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Sega Master System Controllers, Now With USB C
USB wasn’t even a gleam in an engineer’s eye when the Sega Master System hit the market in 1985. Today, we’re up to USB 4 or something, and the USB …read more
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EP212: Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Mesh
Storing data is the easy part. Deciding where and how to organize it is the real challenge.
bytebytego.com
GTFOBins
Article URL: https://gtfobins.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931035 Points: 236 # Comments: 64
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To my students
Article URL: http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928828 Points: 300 # Comments: 184
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Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Article URL: https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903 Points: 396 # Comments: 144
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United Wizards of the Coast
Article URL: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925425 Points: 226 # Comments: 207
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