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**What Youāll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for Incident with multiple GitHub services via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever GitHub creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda…
⨠Read this trending post from TechCrunch š š **Category**: Apps,Social,Instagram,Meta š **What Youāll Learn**: Instagram is testing a new photo-sharing app called āInstants,ā the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The app, available in Spain and Italy, allows users to share disappearing photos with their friends that can only be viewed once and remain available for 24 hours. With the Instants feature, you can take a photo with one click, without allowing editing. The app does not allow uploads from your camera roll and only lets you capture and share content using the in-app camera. While you can add…
š„ Read this insightful post from Hacker News š š **Category**: š **What Youāll Learn**: For months, I spent my Wednesday evenings in a tin tunnel just outside Edinburgh, wearing a ridiculously looking (and equally uncomfortable) jacket. I'd lie on the floor and count breaths, then walk down the range, ducking under ceiling beams. The floor says DUCK in white paint every five metres, the beams have posters saying "DUCK" as well, but occasionally I still hit my head, too busy checking the scoring cards. If you're unlucky, a shot lands near a ring line and you need help. You…
⨠Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch š š **Category**: Venture,Bob Iger,Disney,Thrive Capital š” **What Youāll Learn**: Bob Iger returns to Thrive Capital as an advisor, just one month after stepping down as CEO of Disney, a role he held for nearly two decades. Iger previously served a two-month stint as a venture partner at the company in late 2022, but left when Disney's board asked him to reclaim leadership of the media group, after first leaving the company in 2020. "Bob leads boldly and convincingly because he knows what he's building and why. He rejoins Thrive at a time…
š„ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News š š **Category**: š **What Youāll Learn**: The challenges of building for modern AI infrastructure have fundamentally shifted. The modern frontier of machine learning now requires leveraging distributed systems, spanning thousands of accelerators. As models scale to run on clusters of O(100,000) chips, the software that powers these models must meet new demands for performance, hardware portability, and reliability.At Google, our Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are foundational to our supercomputing infrastructure. These custom ASICs power training and serving for both Googleās own AI platforms, like Gemini and Veo, and the massive…
š„ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch š š **Category**: Government & Policy,crime,Nicolas Maduro,Polymarket,prediction sites š” **What Youāll Learn**: The US Department of Justice has indicted a Special Forces soldier who participated in the operation that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. His alleged crime? Making several bets on the Polymarket prediction market that Maduro would be removed from power, he reportedly received over $400,000 for it. Authorities allege that Gannon's Ken Van Dyke, who was involved in the "planning and execution" of Operation Absolute Dissolution (the ruse that ousted the Venezuelan leader and his family),…
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**What Youāll Learn**: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (āFBIā), Kash Patel, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging GANNON KEN VAN DYKE, a U.S. Army Soldier, with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and…
š„ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch š š **Category**: Startups,Exclusive,JB Straubel,Redwood Materials š **What Youāll Learn**: Chris Lester, chief operating officer of Redwood Materials, is leaving the battery recycling company to retire, TechCrunch has learned ā and he's not the only CEO to depart recently. Lester, a former vice president who led operations at Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory, has been with Redwood since late 2023. He started as the company's chief supply chain officer and was quickly promoted to chief operating officer in 2024. The promotion moved him closer in the org chart to Redwood founder and CEO JB Straubel,…
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**What Youāll Learn**: Tolaria is a desktop app for Mac for managing markdown knowledge bases. People use it for a variety of use cases: Operate second brains and personal knowledge Organize company docs as context for AI Store OpenClaw/assistants memory and procedures Personally, I use it to run my life (hey š Luca here). I have a massive workspace of 10,000+ notes, which are the result of my Refactoring work + a ton of personal journaling and second braining. You can find some Loom walkthroughs below ā they…
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**What Youāll Learn**: Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict children and teens' access to social media. Australia became the first country to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely monitoring. The Australian regulations, along with proposals from other countries, aim to reduce the pressures and risks young users may face on social media, which include cyberbullying, addiction, mental health issues and exposure to predators. Of course, there…
