Microsoft and Chevron are planning one of the largest gas-fired data center projects in the United States

Microsoft and Chevron are planning one of the largest gas-fired data center projects in the United States

💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Chevron,In Brief,Microsoft,natural gas 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft and Chevron on Monday announced plans to develop a 2.67 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant in West Texas to serve the technology company's cloud data and artificial intelligence centers. Under a 20-year power purchase agreement, the plant will provide electricity for a data center operated by Microsoft. Two large GE Vernova turbines will generate most of the power, while Caterpillar's Solar Turbines will provide the rest. (The name solar turbines may sound familiar; xAI uses them at its unlicensed power plant…
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1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Take online cours­es from the world’s top uni­ver­si­ties for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online cours­es from uni­ver­si­ties like Yale, MIT, Har­vard, Oxford and more. Note: This page includes a lot of Mas­sive Open Online Cours­es (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free ver­sion of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Cer­tifi­cate” (edX) or “Audit” (Cours­era) option. If you take the course for a certificate/credential, you’ll be charged a fee, and we will receive a com­mis­sion from our affil­i­ate partners–Coursera, Future­Learn and edX.…
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Shareholders are suing Uber’s board over sexual assaults and other incidents

Shareholders are suing Uber’s board over sexual assaults and other incidents

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Dara Khosrowshahi,In Brief,Uber 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A lawsuit filed by a Detroit pension fund accuses Uber's management and board of putting profits before compliance and safety, decisions that put the company and its shareholders at risk. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, alleges that Uber is a “serial compliance violator” who “knowingly” crossed the line. This lack of a culture of compliance has led to thousands of lawsuits by victims alleging sexual assault and harassment by drivers,…
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In praise of memcached

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someone’s infrastructure, chances are that at some point in time the topic “we need a cache” comes up. You think for a moment and reach out for Redis, because you’re used to it, it’s fully featured, and it works! You remember it being a good, solid cache, and you wonder which new features recent releases have brought, and head to its homepage: Your agents aren’t…
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Playlist: Big tech layoffs in 2026 as employers cite AI

Playlist: Big tech layoffs in 2026 as employers cite AI

🔥 Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,Layoffs ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Oracle revealed on Monday that it has reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees over the past 12 months, a 13% decrease, meaning more cuts than previously known, including jobs eliminated due to artificial intelligence. “The adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations has led, and may continue to cause, reductions in our workforce,” the company said in an annual financial regulatory filing. The revelation puts new numbers on what to many in the tech industry looks like an epidemic: companies are reporting record…
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ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs

ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: ytr: YouTube radio for Emacs ██ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ███ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ June 23, 2026 I've been a happy ready-player user for some time…
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OpenAI is launching a new initiative to help find and fix open source bugs

OpenAI is launching a new initiative to help find and fix open source bugs

✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,open source software,OpenAI,Trail of Bits 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI announced a new initiative on Monday aimed at helping the open source community up its cybersecurity game and fend off bugs. "Patch the Planet" (a not-so-subtle reference to "Hack the Planet", the catchphrase from the 1995 film Pirates) will see OpenAI team up with security company Trail of Bits to help open source maintainers secure their projects. OpenAI said security staff from Trail of Bits will work directly with open source maintainers to review potential code issues. OpenAI's security…
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Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Everyone worries about the apps on their phone. Almost no one looks at the ones on their TV. We scanned 6,038 of them across LG and Samsung; 2,058 were selling your IP address.On screen, it's a relaxing fish tank. Or a clock. Or solitaire. Or puppies. Under the hood, it is a residential proxy: software that can send other people's internet traffic out through your living room. And we found it everywhere.Why TVs are differentSmart TVs are almost ideal proxy hosts. They sit on the…
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Tesla retracts Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash

Tesla retracts Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Autopilot,FSD,Tesla 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A fatal weekend crash in which a Tesla crashed into a brick home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old woman, has raised alarms about the company's driver-assistance technology. By Monday afternoon, Tesla was pushing back against that framework. The accident occurred Friday night when a Tesla Model 3 driven by Michael Butler ran off the road and crashed into the home of Martha Avila, who was airlifted to the hospital and later pronounced dead. Butler told Harris County sheriff's deputies the vehicle was on Autopilot…
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Job application asked for my SAT scores – Mr. Market

Job application asked for my SAT scores – Mr. Market

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 20 Jun, 2026 Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job, I'm looking for hybrid). I found one that advertised an opening they called "GTM". I thought that was cool re: no specific scope, just someone who could make their product attractive to buyers however they can. Product seemed good (ETL type of tool). Everything was about what I expected, until the blurb at the…
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