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Crystal Nights — Greg Egan

✨ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Publication historyInterzone #215, April 2008. Free podcast at Transmissions From Beyond. [Site no longer active] Oceanic (collection, Orion) Crystal Nights and Other Stories (collection, Subterranean Press) [Out of print.] The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan; Night Shade Books, San Francisco, 2009. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois; St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2009. Hayakawa’s SF Magazine, January 2010. (Japanese translation) The Planck Dive and Other Stories (collection, Hayakawa) Translated by…
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Grand Theft Auto V’s cheat service has been hacked, exposing thousands of players

Grand Theft Auto V’s cheat service has been hacked, exposing thousands of players

🚀 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Gaming,Security,anti-cheat,Cheating,Games hacking,grand theft auto V,gta,gta v,In Brief,video games 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Atlas Menu, a cheat service for the popular online video game Grand Theft Auto V, has been hacked, according to data breach notification website Have I Been Pwned. The stolen data included users' email addresses, usernames, encrypted passwords, IP addresses, and support tickets, according to Have I Been Pwned, which said nearly 64,000 accounts were part of the breach. Ironically, Atlas Menu claimed to offer “secure authentication and enhanced privacy with our advanced encryption technologies,” according to its…
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The 2026 U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, But it’s Not at the Ballot Box

The 2026 U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, But it’s Not at the Ballot Box

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As the U.S. approaches the 2026 elections in November, the greatest threat to voting integrity will likely not be from hackers targeting voting machines or altering ballots, but from a growing war over reality itself.   Voter influence operations are increasingly focused on manipulating the information environment surrounding voters, flooding social media and search results with misleading narratives and fake content, and impersonated news sources designed to erode trust in what people see and hear online. Sophisticated operators have already cloned major media brands like Reuters, The Washington Post, and Fox News using look-alike domains that…
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Florida sues OpenAI company, Sam Altman, in first-ever lawsuit over violent incidents

Florida sues OpenAI company, Sam Altman, in first-ever lawsuit over violent incidents

🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,ChatGPT,lawsuits,OpenAI,sam altman 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were sued by Florida's attorney general on Monday, in the first statewide lawsuit of its kind over ChatGPT's alleged links to a number of violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of looking the other way on safety concerns as it sought to prioritize winning "the AI ​​arms race and amassing great fortunes." “Today we announced the first state lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” Florida Attorney General James Othmeier said. “OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and…
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macOS Needs Its Grid Back

macOS Needs Its Grid Back

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together. TLDR; I built an app to return macOS spaces to its Pre-Lion Grid-enabled Glory. Read on for the increasingly rare experience of an actual human dropping a bit of nostalgia, the thinking behind why make this…
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From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield alumni now?

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield alumni now?

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Build Mode,Startup Battlefield 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Some of the most important companies in the history of technology didn't launch with a slick fundraising ad. They started with a playground. Dropbox was shown to a room of skeptics. Cloudflare took the stage before most people understood what edge networking meant. Discord was a volatile game developer named Hammer & Chisel. Mint, Trello, Forethought, N26 – they all went through the same crucible: TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. This is not a coincidence. Battlefield is not just a competition. It's a launching pad,…
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What’s gonna happen to software engineers?

What’s gonna happen to software engineers?

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Thoughts are mine and mine only. I don't ever use LLMs for writing.In the back of my mind, I've been thinking a lot about what's going to happen to software developers. In a metaphoric way it feels like an existential question, given that, well, I'm a software developer. The real answer is that nobody really knows. But we can guess and speculate, and sometimes that speculation is what helps build reality. There's of course the doomsday scenario that we just all go away, but…
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Nvidia chases $200 billion CPU market with AI-powered PCs from Microsoft, Dell and HP

Nvidia chases $200 billion CPU market with AI-powered PCs from Microsoft, Dell and HP

✨ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,TC,AI PC,cpus,Microsoft,nvidia 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Nvidia opened the massive Computex trade show in Taipei on Sunday with a spark, literally. The chip maker has unveiled a new PC CPU called the RTX Spark, which it has dubbed a "super chip," and named a list of PC makers that will soon introduce AI-powered PCs powered by it. The ultra-fast 1 petaflop chip is designed to securely run AI agents like OpenClaw or the Hermes Agent, according to Nvidia. RTX Spark Windows PCs will be available this fall from ASUS, Dell,…
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The Frame Problem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The frame problem originated as a narrowly defined technical problem in logic-based artificial intelligence (AI). But it was taken up in an embellished and modified form by philosophers of mind, and given a wider interpretation. The tension between its origin in the laboratories of AI researchers and its treatment at the hands of philosophers engendered an interesting and sometimes heated debate in the 1980s and 1990s. But since the narrow, technical problem is largely solved, recent discussion has tended to focus less on matters…
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How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what each company gets regardless

How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what each company gets regardless

🚀 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Fundraising,Startups,Venture,Startup Battlefield 200,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Every founder who steps into Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: Disrupt Main Stage. Six minutes of presentation and live presentation to major investors in Silicon Valley. A custom TechCrunch article is published as you submit. A chance to win the free prize of $100,000 and the Disrupt Cup. It can all be yours, but every path to Startup Battlefield success starts with an application. We've already extended the deadline for this year's batch to June 8, so you only have…
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