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Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug

Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time

No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market

Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms

Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’

The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.”

Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce

The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic's approval.

TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance

Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

Hacker News discussion (282 points, 123 comments)

How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

Hacker News discussion (139 points, 239 comments)

Newly identified green star leaves astronomers amazed

Hacker News discussion (6 points, 1 comments)

OpenFlow – Ultimate Agent Orchestration

Hacker News discussion (8 points, 0 comments)

Efficient Extraction for Effectful E-graphs

Integer to String Conversion (2014)

Hacker News discussion (29 points, 0 comments)

A response to claims about flatpak being insecure

How RC2's π table was made

Hacker News discussion (14 points, 1 comments)

What the heck is /pkg?

What requirements don't you have?

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on. I wanted to run it for free on ClaudeFlare…

Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux

Hacker News discussion (14 points, 3 comments)