2025-07-02
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Verification update: In April we announced a new form of verification to help you know which voices are authentic and noteworthy. We continue the verification process through Bluesky and our...
'Instantly lost all desire to even start': Mecha Break's Steam rating lands at an early 'Mixed' as players realize the beta's customization options have been turned into MTX fodder
The free-to-play mecha battler is forcing players to ask the eternal question: How much is a cool robot worth?
Large Object From Interstellar Space Detected Heading Toward Center of Solar System
A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If its interstellar origins were to be confirmed, it'd only be the...
Agency vs Ambition
I want to believe that all product people are both ambitious and have high agency. But recently I’ve come to realize that this is not always the case. It pains...
Race and Gender Bias As An Example of Unfaithful Chain of Thought in the Wild
Published on July 2, 2025 4:35 PM GMTSummary: We found that LLMs exhibit significant race and gender bias in realistic hiring scenarios, but their chain-of-thought reasoning shows zero evidence of...
Rare's Everwild has been cancelled amidst Microsoft's enormous cuts to staff and studios
The game had apparently been in production for a decade.
The Kindly Brontosaurus
I read this piece by Jessica Winter a few months ago and it’s come in handy a few times so I thought I’d share. If you want something from someone,...
Amazon will soon deploy more bots than it employs people now that it has a million robots
Wait, Amazon has over one million employees?
AT&T says 'um actually' to President Trump after he blames the internet provider for conference call woes
Maybe this one could have stayed in the drafts.
From Coinbase Ventures to the $28M Blockchain Builders Fund, Steven Willinger Unpacks Web3's Future
Discover Steven Willinger's journey from Google and Coinbase Ventures to leading the new Blockchain Builders Fund, focusing on Web3 innovation and the Stanford ecosystem.
'It's not like we applied for the award ourselves': Dave the Diver director reminds people that 'there's nothing indie' about his game and the controversial indie nomination was out of his control
Dave the Diver was nominated for best indie at the 2023 Game Awards despite being under mega publisher Nexon.
Cops Post AI Slop Image Of "Drug Bust," Then Lie and Say It's Real When They're Called Out
AI slop has come for everything, including those cringey drug bust spreads that clueless cops love to post. As Portland, Maine's WMTW reports, police in the suburban city of Westbrook...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: What If Your Messy Data Is Actually Perfect? (7/2/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 2, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Netscape produces Navio...
There are two fundamentally different constraints on schemers
Published on July 2, 2025 3:51 PM GMT People (including me) often say that scheming models “have to act as if they were aligned”. This is an alright summary; it’s...
I've finally found a budget Gen 5 SSD I can recommend, a cool, calm, and collected drive available for a very reasonable sum
Budget PCIe 5.0 drives? Yep, we're finally here.
AI's Black Box Problem: Can Web3 Provide the Key?
AI is evolving faster than trust can keep up. Discover how Web3 can bring transparency, auditability, and governance to decentralized AI systems.
References for Web-Scale Information Retrieval Challenges
A list of scholarly references at the intersection of deep learning in information retrieval, large-scale approximate nearest neighbor search, and the integration of large language models in search systems.
Jason Snell: ‘About That A18 Pro MacBook Rumor’
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: Well, would you look at that? The A18 Pro is 46% faster than the M1 in single-core tasks, and almost identical to the M1...
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