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How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

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Hey, Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

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Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases

Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.

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Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed

A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well.

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Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city

Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.

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Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor

Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.

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Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger

Netflix's response: "Absurd."

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Show HN: Nucleus – A security-hardened, Nix-native container runtime

Article URL: https://github.com/sig-id/nucleus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469039 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice

Article URL: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/ai-misidentification-results-wrongful-arrest-man-seeks-justice/I7UQJWV33FBN3LMKHCSXI6FIVA/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468789 Points: 31 # Comments: 8

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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766 Points: 20 # Comments: 3

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GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

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Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

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Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.

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If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

Article URL: https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competitor.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467896 Points: 107 # Comments: 36

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Exif Smuggling

Article URL: https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467759 Points: 22 # Comments: 8