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After 20 Years, I Turned Off Google AdSense for My Websites

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Soon after I launched this blog in February 2005, I signed up for Google AdSense. My goal was to make a little money and learn about the industry from the inside. In particular, if I was going to cover the nuances of the online advertising industry, being an AdSense publisher would help me understand the issues first-hand. 2005 was a heady and experimental time for online advertising. I remember that some of my first few clicks paid $20/click! However, I never got rich on AdSense.…

Iran threatens artificial intelligence data centers “Stargate”

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💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Government & Policy,TC,Cisco,datacenters,In Brief,Iran-US War,OpenAI,oracle,stargate 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. The Iranian military said that if the United States goes ahead with its threats to strike its civilian infrastructure, the country will retaliate with strikes against American energy and technology infrastructure in the region, according to a video released late last week and widely shared on Sunday by Iranian military spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaqari. The video posted…

kitfunso/hippo-memory: Biologically-inspired memory for AI agents. Decay, retrieval strengthening, consolidation. Zero dependencies. · GitHub

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The secret to good memory isn't remembering more. It's knowing what to forget. Works with: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, any CLI agent Imports from: ChatGPT, Claude (CLAUDE.md), Cursor (.cursorrules), any markdown Storage: SQLite backbone + markdown/YAML mirrors. Git-trackable and human-readable. Dependencies: Zero runtime deps. Requires Node.js 22.5+. Optional embeddings via @xenova/transformers. AI agents forget everything between sessions. Existing solutions just save everything and search later. That's a filing cabinet, not a brain. Your memories are also trapped. ChatGPT knows things Claude doesn't. Cursor rules…

OpenAI alumni have been quietly investing from a new $100 million fund

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💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,Venture,venture capital,Exclusive,OpenAI,zero shot 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has achieved its first close on its $100 million target, the founders tell TechCrunch. The partners have already written some checks. The fund is called Zero Shot (a play on the term AI training) and the co-founder's team includes several OpenAI OGs who found themselves becoming venture capitalists almost by accident. Three of the founding partners hail from OpenAI. Ivan Morikawa, former head of applied engineering during the launch of DALL·E and ChatGPT…

HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The job of a developer is becoming an orchestrator of AI agents. HackerRank is helping 2500+ companies change how they hire for this new world.We've played a critical role in developer hiring over the last 15 years, with 30m+ developers on our platform and now going through a founding moment -- reinventing the company for the agentic era.Specifically, we are changing hiring across 3 dimensions:> Tasks: Real-world tasks on code repositories vs standard algorithmic-style puzzles> Evaluation: AI fluency, orchestration skills vs functional correctness> Candidate experience:…

Gas prices aren’t the only factor fueling used electric vehicle sales

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✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,EV sales,EVs 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The latest electric vehicle sales data presented a bleak picture – at least for new electric vehicles. Sales of new electric vehicles took a hit in the first quarter, falling about 28% year over year after the Trump administration eliminated the $7,500 consumer tax credit, according to Cox Automotive. Used electric cars are moving in the opposite direction. Two accelerators have been combined to increase those sales. Used electric vehicle sales in the first quarter rose 12% compared to the same quarter last year,…

macOS Recovery Mode Safari allowed unrestricted writes to system partitions (and root persistence)

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💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: I accidentally discovered 2 vulnerabilities in macOS Recovery Mode's Safari: one allowing arbitrary writes to system partitions and root persistence (CVSS 8.5), the other allowing unrestricted file reads (CVSS 4.6). Technical write-ups HERE and HERE.It started like any other day with my M1 Macbook Air dying due to the hundreds if not thousands of Chrome tabs I had open, so I did what every normal human does and long pressed the touch id button to force a force restart (which I personally find to…

Why did safety regulators close their investigation into Tesla’s remote parking feature?

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🔥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Tesla,automated driving,nhtsa,smart summon 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: US auto safety regulators have closed their investigation into Tesla's remote parking feature, known as "Intelligent Recall," after finding that crashes were rare, low-speed, and not serious. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in its update on Friday that the closure of the investigation did not constitute a finding of a safety-related defect, and said it could reopen it. The Remote Parking feature, which was released via a software update in September 2024, allows owners to use their Tesla app to direct…

matthartman/ghost-pepper: Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste. · GitHub

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste. No cloud APIs, no data leaves your machine. Download the latest release — macOS 14.0+, Apple Silicon (M1+) Hold Control to talk — release to transcribe and paste into any text field Runs entirely on your Mac — models run locally via Apple Silicon, nothing is sent anywhere Smart cleanup — local LLM removes filler words and handles self-corrections Menu bar app — lives in your menu bar, no dock…

Google is quietly launching its first offline AI dictation app on iOS

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💥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,TC,Dictation,Google,voice AI,Wispr flow 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Google on Monday quietly released its first offline dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow and others. The app is free to download, and once you download the Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live transcription, and when you hit pause, the app automatically filters out filler words like “um” and “ah” and polishes the text.…