remember when we actually invented stuff instead of just apps?
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nostalgic retrospective on bell labs, where they invented the transistor instead of another food delivery app. turns out giving smart people money and time produces actual innovation. wild concept, probably won't catch on.
memento: the server farm edition
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italian researchers fill a basement with servers that forget everything.
jeff's secret dungeon where chips are born
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wsj discovers amazon has a super-secret lab making ai chips.
secure messaging app pinky promises not to read your messages
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israeli company selling 'secure' messaging to trump officials can totally read everything.
governments discover shopping for zero-days is like prime day but for spying
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google reports governments are using zero-days more than ever.
ai discovers it's really good at helping people type more code to do less
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anthropic measures how much ai is changing software development.
wikipedia vs. government
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free speech warriors discover the one weird trick: hypocrisy