Dell is aiming for students like Apple did with the MacBook Neo. | Image: Dell Dell is making good on its tease from CES and finally announcing a new XPS 13. The XPS 13 returns as a budget-friendly option, launching in July at a promotional student price of $599 – though that introductory deal only … Read more
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I have trained more than a dozen FLUX LoRAs over the last several months, almost all of them aimed at illustration styles. Editorial flat vector, brush-painted, line-art-with-fills, hand-drawn cartoon. A few worked. Most hallucinated in reproducible ways the existing public write-ups skip past or hide behind cherry-picked sample grids. This is a write-up of how … Read more
The Moving Goalposts: Why New Turing Tests Prove Human Immaturity, Not AI Failure I have spent my entire life, starting from my university days, working with information—not just writing texts, but conducting statistical analysis of news streams. Today, scrolling through news feeds, I get a persistent feeling that humanity has finally realized how catastrophically fast … Read more
Apple isn’t just looking to take on Meta in the smart glasses market; it’s looking to upend eyewear as a whole, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. When the Apple Watch launched, it wasn’t simply competing against the Pebbles and the Motorolas of the world. The company also had Swatch, Fossil, and Seiko in its crosshairs. … Read more
We are living through a massive shift in software development. Everywhere you look, developers are building new applications powered by artificial intelligence. They plug a language model into their backend to handle customer support or analyze data. On the surface, these tools look incredibly capable. They write beautiful emails. They summarize fifty-page documents in seconds. … Read more
Built llms-txt-gen, an open-source CLI that gives any website an LLM-Readiness Score (0–100), flags pages invisible to AI crawlers, and writes a ready-to-commit llms.txt in one command. No API key. MIT licensed. Scored 49.78 on the Proof of Usefulness benchmark.
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.
I caught myself avoiding /clear for the third day in a row before I realized I was treating chat history like working memory. The context window was at something like 70%, the model had started repeating itself, and I was still adding to the same session because some half-load-bearing detail from Tuesday afternoon was buried … Read more
Watch the stream below. | Image: NVIDIA NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today’s presentation, but the big one is the … Read more
Squared. Get it? | Image: Mojang The A Minecraft Movie sequel officially has a title: A Minecraft Movie Squared. What’s more, we now know that Kirsten Dunst will star as Alex, the game’s female character option, and that Matt Berry is set to play an even bigger role in this film. He voiced Nitwit in … Read more
The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green’s “This is fine” meme.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Even the cover revels in a low-bit digital aesthetic. | Image: Saddle Creek / Feeble Little Horse From the opening moments of bitknot, it’s obvious that Feeble Little Horse has found an entirely new gear. Where on Girl with Fish the blown-out textures were more ’90s indie rock and shoegaze, on their latest LP, there’s … Read more
An hour in flight UA236 returned to Newark. | Screenshot: The Verge United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew … Read more
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.”
A speedy 18-inch Mini LED that needs to be seen to be believed. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it’s a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It’s warm, it looks lovely, and it’s impeccably sharp. Also, it’s expensive as … Read more
Speaking to TechCrunch, Crunchbase’s head of research Gené Teare, said the factors holding back Black founders include “access to networks, relationships, and early introductions.”
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How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Why macOS Is Underrepresented in Public AI Research Datasets By @macpaw [ 5 Min read ] MacPaw Research explains why macOS … Read more
Previously in the series The Bare Minimum Setup CLAUDE.md Done Right Models, Tiers, and Effort The Context Window Tax Hooks That Guard Your Code MCP Servers Worth Adding Introduction Skills are one of those Claude Code features that seem straightforward until you actually try to use them consistently. The idea is simple: write a markdown … Read more