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What’s next for ATProto, the protocol powering Bluesky and other apps

It’s getting easier to build new applications on ATProto, the protocol that powers Bluesky’s social network and a growing number of other apps. At ATmosphere, the ATProto community conference held over the weekend in Seattle, Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee offered attendees a glimpse of what’s ahead for the protocol’s development and how those will help

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Who Knew $450 Could Get You a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar?

  Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: This grade-A refurbished MacBook Pro (2020) with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and a 10th Gen Intel Core i5 is just $449.99 (reg. $1,799). For professionals who demand reliability, speed, and sleek performance from their daily devices — but would rather not shell out nearly two grand — a refurbished 2020 MacBook

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Tesla sales are down bad in Europe, and it’s probably because of Musk

The electric vehicle sales numbers for Europe in February are in, and it’s not looking good for Elon Musk’s Tesla. According to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), battery electric vehicles (BEV) are selling well in Europe, accounting 15.2 percent of new car registrations in the January-February period of 2025. That’s up from 11.5 percent

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How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

Fisher did not take Neyman and Pearson’s criticisms well. In response, he called their methods “childish” and “absurdly academic.” In particular, Fisher disagreed with the idea of deciding between two hypotheses, rather than calculating the “significance” of available evidence, as he’d proposed. Whereas a decision is final, his significance tests gave only a provisional opinion,

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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. Source link

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Protect Sensitive Data with Data Shredder Stick’s Unrecoverable File Deletion

Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: You can permanently erase files, folders, and entire drives with the Data Shredder Stick — on sale now for $29.99 (reg. $39.99). When you delete a file, it’s never really gone. Traditional deletion simply removes the reference to the file, but the data remains on the drive, waiting to be recovered. That’s

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‘The Daily Show’ skewers U.S. officials’ Signal group chat scandal

The Daily Show‘s Ronny Chieng has weighed in on Trump administration’s now infamous Signal group chat, in which U.S. officials planned to bomb Yemen without realising that national security advisor Michael Waltz had inadvertently added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the conversation. “Is anyone else kind of upset that we’re conducting war by emoji

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Womanizer Coupons: Save 15% in March | WIRED

Since 2014, Womanizer has been satisfying people with vulvas all over the world. Thanks to its revolutionary Pleasure Air Technology that mimics the feeling of oral sex, not only has Womanizer discovered a way to stimulate the 10,000+ nerve endings in the clitoris in a way that hadn’t been done by a sex toy before—yes,

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Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot

Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. Powering them are so-called reasoning AI models, which posses the ability to think through problems and fact-check themselves —

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Where Tech Meets the Soul: Bowdoin’s AI Plan Gets $50M Kickstart from Netflix Legend Hastings

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings donates $50 Million to Bowdoin College. Source: Bowdoin College Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has donated $50 million to his alma mater, Maine’s Bowdoin College, to launch the Hastings Initiative for AI and Humanity, a bold step toward preparing students to critically shape the future of artificial intelligence. Rather than focusing purely

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