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Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce

On Monday, Microsoft said it will offer voluntary buyouts to eligible employees in select parts of the company. CNBC reports that the buyouts will...

Worms mate in man’s eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out

The worms’ life cycle depends on flies that feed from the animals’ eyes, slurping up tears and secretions. When they feed from an infested...

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5C7zqm7t3v4&start=0&wmode=transparent “My life is torture, please kill me” While there are no playable “Half-Life 3 confirmed” depots included...

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

As is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held a post-launch news conference on Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center...

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

One of the first errors came from Crunchbase, known for its database about tech startups. I emailed my access request to its privacy address...

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren’t “swaps,” just gambling with a different name

The CFTC has been suing states that try to regulate or ban prediction markets, saying it alone has jurisdiction over them. The CEA gives...

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Last Friday, Flock’s top lawyer wrote in another blog post that its newly modified terms of use “expressly prohibit customers and their users from...

“RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate”: Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

In the meantime, CHD and other anti-vaccine activists pounced on the tragedy, claiming that the MMR vaccine was to blame. CHD spent months highlighting...

Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Anthropic gave the example of a model like Claude adjusting a laser, checking the results via a separate camera, then repeating the process to...

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