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US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal

Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100

GPT-4.1 produces decidedly non-random distributions when asked to pick a number between 1 and 100, exhibiting distinctly…

Ozak AI’s Expanding Capital Base Above $7 Million Fuels Growing Speculation That Its First Exchange Listing May Arrive Sooner Than the Market Expects

Ozak AI’s capital base has now pushed decisively beyond the $7 million mark, intensifying speculation that its first…

I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake

Consensus and genre labels aren't reliable predictors of what you'll enjoy.

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

IBM has established Anderon, America's first pure-play quantum chip foundry, backed by $1 billion each from the U.S.

Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

All commands have the format `output = \func inputs` or just `\function inputs`. Points and scalars are built on the fly.

If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

# Summary The author criticizes the pervasive use of AI-generated content in everyday communication, particularly…

Bitmine Immersion Makes Russell 1000 Preliminary List

FTSE Russell has released its preliminary inclusion and deletion lists ahead of its annual index reconstitution and…

Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms

# Summary As AI advances, companies will increasingly be viewed as "graphs of algorithms"—interconnected workflows that…

Jira Is Turing-Complete

Nicolas Seriot demonstrates that Atlassian's Jira project-tracking tool is Turing-complete by implementing a Minsky…

The Eternal Sloptember

The author argues that AI agents cannot actually program effectively, despite appearances, and are fundamentally…

AI is becoming increasingly unpopular

Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google

We're in the transition period -- all of us.

Xreal, Google’s smartglasses partner, thinks it has finally mastered this notoriously tricky industry

Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity

A study of 15 Australian companies that implemented a four-day work week (with full pay and maintained productivity…

Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu

Jujutsu is a version control system that makes it easier to maintain clean commit histories without the tedious…

Understanding WebAuthn credential protection policy

The CTAP 2.1 specification introduces a credential protection extension that allows relying parties to control how…

Migrating from Go to Rust

Go developers considering migration to Rust should understand that the decision isn't about performance or type…

Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend

AI systems like Claude are being inappropriately used as system architects, despite their fundamental inability to make…

$100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F

Tom's Hardware compared three budget CPUs around the $100 mark: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500 ($80), Intel's Core i3-12100F ($90),…

Building Pi with Pi

Using Pi (an AI agent tool) to build Pi itself has revealed significant challenges with AI-generated issue reports that…

Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates

Researchers developed a Bayesian approach using Gaussian process models to handle spatial data where the exact location…

Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking

Flick, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by an Instagram Stories engineer and award-winning filmmaker, is hiring a…

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel…

AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to Masturbate—Yes, Really

Joi AI is hiring 10 “masturbation consultants” to test its AI-guided masturbation feature and report how it affects…

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Deb Goodkin recently tested daily driving FreeBSD on a Framework Laptop at the…

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs

High-bandwidth memory (HBM) has increased from 52% to 63% of total AI chip component costs between Q1 2024 and Q4 2025,…

TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Ruby for Good

Ruby for Good is an annual event taking place August 27-30, 2026, in the Washington DC area where programmers and…