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A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

Debian votes to let contributors code with AI

Disclosure optional, quality mandatory

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed in to a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and…

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

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

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

How to build a diffusion language model

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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

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Repeating Ourselves Less with M4

Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires

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“I just chose words carefully”

Hacker News discussion (997 points, 261 comments)

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

Hacker News discussion (571 points, 76 comments)

Rootless Docker and Its Hidden Security Trade-Offs

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

Hacker News discussion (90 points, 34 comments)

All the Little Things (2014)

Making the Internet Boring

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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

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Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

Hacker News discussion (102 points, 36 comments)