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Wherever two fluids slide past each other at different speeds, the boundary between them buckles,…Trump is losing his war on wind power
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Elon Musk's X is trying to revive a lawsuit against advertisers it's accusing of illegally…Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
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The Internet is awash in AI content, and it's not always easy to tell it apart from genuine human…Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
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Despite significant drama from Trump officials this year, the Food and Drug Administration has for…Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders
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Cloudflare has open-sourced its Cloudflare OS platform, which it first developed as an internal…Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350
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Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely…Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing
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Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security…
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