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CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research

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Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?

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Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept.

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Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

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Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

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It’s ‘Never Going To Happen,’ But A Distracted Musk Should Hand Over CEO Reins At Tesla

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Earnings were weaker than expected, the near-term outlook is murky, EV sales are down, and Elon Musk is more distracted than ever before. But with a phalanx of loyal shareholders and a cowed board hes not going anywhere.

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows

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Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the FAA and the controllers' union.

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DeepSeek Fails Every Safety Test Thrown at It by Researchers

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Cisco researchers found it was much easier to trick DeepSeek into providing potentially harmful information compared to its rivals, such as ChatGPT,

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How Helpful Is Operator, OpenAI’s New A.I. Agent?

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In the past week, OpenAIs Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings. Booked a Valentines Day date for me and my wife. Scheduled a haircut.

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Delaware faces exodus of tech companies

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Meta and Dropbox are said following Elon Musk by moving its incorporation out the state.

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Opinion | DeepSeek isn't Sputnik: an AI race with China is crazy

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When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, the U.S. clearly led the world in artificial intelligence.

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Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship

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Following the explosive failure of the Starship megarockets January 16 test flight, residents of the British territory were left with debris-strewn roads and beaches.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found

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Researchers found that DeepSeek's R1 AI "failed to block a single harmful prompt" after being tested against 50 jailbreaking prompts.

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USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security

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Phyllis Fong was heading up an investigation into Elon Musk's Neuralink.

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AI Can Predict Incredible Solar Storms Before They Strike

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To the casual observer, the Sun seems to be the one constant and never changing.

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The Zizians and the Rationalist Death Cult

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What is the deal with Rationalism and cults?

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The Death of "I Don't Know"

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Is AI making us smarter or just more certain? My sense is that we are witnessing an extinctionnot of a species, but of a concept.

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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space

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Building a RAG System for Smart Decision-Making in Organizations

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In todays fast-paced business environment, organizations are inundated with data that drives decisions, optimizes operations, and maintains competitiveness. However, extracting actionable insights from this data remains a significant hurdle. A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, when integrated with Agentic AI, tackles this challenge by not only retrieving relevant information but also processing and delivering context-aware insights […] The post Building a RAG System for Smart De

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Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge

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That email chain could have been a 30-second chit-chat, says IT giant

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Panic Over DeepSeek Exposes AI's Weak Foundation On Hype

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The story about DeepSeek has disrupted the prevailing AI narrative, impacted the markets and spurred a media storm: A large language model from China competes with the leading LLMs from the U.S. and it does so without requiring nearly the costly computational investment. Maybe the U.S.

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I Use Cline for AI Engineering

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An assessment after evaluating the landscape

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DeepSeek: Separating fact from hype

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DeepSeek is making waves in the AI world, grabbing headlines and taking over the app stores, even beating out OpenAIs ChatGPT. But whats really happening behind the hype?

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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Apple’s iPhone SE Could Be The Best iPhone Yet

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With Apple expected to launch the iPhone SE in the next few months, why could this iPhone be one of the best smartphones to buy in 2025? iPhone SE And Apple Intelligence First of all is Apples implementation of artificial intelligence.

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Researchers just discovered a new class of life living inside humans

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Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

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One-Two AI Punch: DeepSeek's Image Generator Follows Its Earthshaking Model Release

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The Chinese startup that shook the world last week has added an image generator to its AI arsenal.

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I'm Ready for You: On Balzac

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Balzacs work gives us, for the first time in fiction, a detailed analysis of the relationship between the individual.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation

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They're scared.

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Minimum effective dose

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I am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time.

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MIT names 10 breakthrough technologies to watch in 2025

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The year has just begun, but there have already been some incredible technological advancements.

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Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks

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Turn hours of note taking into seconds. Record voice notes or upload recorded audio, and let the AI transcribe & structure them into actionable text. Create todo lists, notes, flashcards, transcripts, and more! Works in 100+ languages.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.