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Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?
The New York Times’ recent report on Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia University application raised a lot of questions, such as: In what universe does this fall under the umbrella of news that’s fit to print? Why did the paper of record report on hacked materials it obtained from a quasi-anonymous online race scientist, given its prior […]
Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself
Sarah Smith, founder and managing partner of the eponymous Sarah Smith Fund, announced Thursday the final closing of a $16 million Fund I. Smith launched her eponymous fund in 2022 and is a solo GP. She said she’s “stunned” by what AI can unlock for firms like hers, solo and next-generation. “I can’t imagine doing […]
Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’
Devin won’t replace humans developers at the bank. It will be supervised by them, CIO says.
Medium’s CEO explains what it took to stop losing $2.6M monthly
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine announced on Friday that the publishing platform has remained profitable since August of last year, when it first achieved this milestone. In a post, Stubblebine detailed what it took to achieve this goal, which involved a combination of product changes, an investor restructuring, renegotiated loans, unloading office space, layoffs, and other […]
BYD will accept liability if one of its self-parking cars crashes
The Chinese EV-maker BYD says it will pay for any damage caused by its upgraded self-parking system, as reported earlier by Fast Company. A translated version of BYD’s announcement on Weibo says the company “will fully cover the safety and losses” of vehicles damaged by its God’s Eye self-parking system, which it claims has reached […]
Startups Weekly: Still running
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This newsletter took a break for the Fourth of July, and maybe you did, too, but the news didn’t. Even the biggest startups are still running after […]
The smartphone-sized Boox Palma 2 is cheaper than ever for Prime Day
The Boox Palma 2 looks like a smartphone, and it even runs Android 13. But it’s meant to be used primarily as a pocket-friendly e-reader with an ePaper screen, one that’s much easier to hold in one hand than a Kindle or Kobo. Some of us at The Verge have a Palma, and you can […]
iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a ‘piss-poor excuse for a controller’
iFixit has shared a full teardown video of the Switch 2 Pro controller and is not impressed by how difficult it is to access the $85 accessory’s internal components, including its rechargeable battery that will inevitably lose its ability to hold a charge over time. The online repair site goes so far as to call […]
CISA warns hackers are actively exploiting critical ‘Citrix Bleed 2’ security flaw
The U.S. cybersecurity agency gave federal agencies just one day to patch a security bug in Citrix Netscaler, which can be exploited to break into corporate and government networks.