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Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions

Yet machine-made patches ‘often get rewritten’

OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?

AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?

On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.

TechCrunch Mobility: A new, bigger AV boom is here

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

Binance resumes withdrawals following $6.3 billion breach

The cryptocurrency exchange said it's now covered 95% of the stolen assets.

Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Sturdy rectangle in a wide wide world

Google made a sturdy phone, but there is increasing competition in the foldable world.

Here’s what ‘renoa’ — the first new fiber in 25 years — feels like

Startup Everbloom's new material, renoa, is the first new fiber in 25 years, and it feels very familiar.

'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 50

By a startling coincidence, so is its arch-rival Vi

Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.

UbuWeb has been 'tocked (TikTok clone for avant garde art)

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The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms

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NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble

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In LLM era, can software startup survive?

Nowadays, vibe coding is everywhere. Turning an idea into software is just matter of tokens. I was joking the other day. Creating a tax return softwar is much faster than purchasing Turbotax at Costco. Large companies…

U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

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AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says

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A400000 Winners

When Modernization Breaks Working Code: A Study of LLMs on Legacy PHP

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Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500

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The Beginning of BSD Unix

John Leeson (the voice of K9) has died

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