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Anthropic Blocks All Customers’ Access To Fable 5 And Mythos 5

It’s to ensure compliance with a government directive citing national security concerns. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Anthroic has disabled all of its customers’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in order to ensure compliance with an order it received…

Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day

On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame, Valve’s new…

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

SpaceX has captured the attention of media, investors, and the public for years now — interest propelled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and of course, for its founder and CEO Elon Musk….

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s internal announcement on Friday about a “large” companywide AI hackathon next month quickly sparked frustration and disbelief among employees. In internal messages seen by WIRED, some workers wrote that added responsibilities in the wake of recent…

The relationship recession is even bigger for Gen Z than we thought

Fewer young people are coupling up Jan de Wild / Alamy The relationship recession, particularly among young adults, may be bigger than we thought. We knew that not as many members of Gen Z are in a steady relationship than…

Why summer flies by as an adult—but lasted forever when you were 10

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Alaska’s glaciers have a startling response to rising temperatures

Alaska’s glaciers are highly sensitive to rising temperatures. According to new research using satellite radar observations, every 1 degree Celsius increase in average summer temperatures extends glacier melting by roughly three weeks. A single degree Celsius equals 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit….

Predictably, Sam Bankman-Fried’s Fraud Conviction Appeal Has Been Denied

There’s still the possibility of that Trump pardon. A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud conviction of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to Reuters. Bankman-Fried was convicted of running one of the largest financial frauds in history, involving his…

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

Elon Musk is now officially the world’s first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale – a thousand times more than a billion — is difficult to fathom…

SpaceX IPO: Everything you need to know

SpaceX has captured the attention of media, investors, and the public for years now — interest propelled by the company’s reusable rocket launches, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and of course, for its founder and CEO Elon Musk….