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Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison.

In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said the company has a customer join for the first 30 minutes of the meeting, which is attended by about 40 leaders “...

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Our rocket has a special specific niche within this marketplace, Bruno stated. ... Our rocket has a distinct niche within this marketplace, Bruno said. There really are two kinds of missions from the rockets perspective. There are ones where you drop off in LEO, and there are ones where you drop off in higher orbits. You develop your rockets differently for that. It does not indicate we cant drop off in LEO, it does not indicate [SpaceX] cant drop off in a higher energy orbit, but were more effective at those since we designed for that. There's some reality in that argument. The Vulcan rocket's upper phase, called the Centaur V, burns liquid hydrogen fuel with better fuel efficiency than the kerosene-fueled engine on SpaceX's upper phase. And SpaceX should use the more costly Falcon Heavy rocket for the most requiring objectives, expending the rocket's core booster to dedicate more propellant towards driving the payload into orbit.SpaceX has launched at a rate nearly 34 times higher than United Launch Alliance because the start of 2023, however ULA has more experience with high-energy objectives, featuring more complex maneuvers to put military payloads directly into geosynchronous orbit, and often launching multiple payloads at different places in the geosynchronous belt.This is among the most tough objective profiles for any rocket, requiring a high-endurance upper stage, like Vulcan's Centaur V, capable of cruising through area for eight or more hours.SpaceX has actually flown a long-duration variation of its upper phase on a number of missions by adding a prolonged objective set. This provides the rocket longer battery life and a custom-made band of thermal paint to assist guarantee its kerosene fuel does not freeze in the cold environment of space. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket rolls to the launch pad in Florida in June 2024. The rocket's upper stage sports a strip of gray thermal paint to keep propellants at the appropriate temperature for a long-duration cruise through area. Credit: SpaceX On the other hand, the frustrating bulk of SpaceX's missions target low-Earth orbit, where Falcon 9 rockets release Starlink Internet satellites, send teams and cargo to the International Space Station, and regularly launch multi-payload rideshare objectives. These launches optimize the Falcon 9's performances with booster healing and reuse. SpaceX excels and respected with these missions, launching them every number of days. Introduce, land, repeat. They tend to be more effective at the LEO drop-offs, Ill be honest about that, Bruno stated. That means theres a competitive area in the middle, and then theres sort of these end cases. So, well keep winning when its method over in our area, they will win when its method over in theirs, and after that in the center its type of a toss-up for any offered mission. Recent history appears to support Bruno's hypothesis. Last year, SpaceX and ULA contended head-to-head for 9 specific launch agreements, or task orders, in a various Space Force competitors. The launches will put national security satellites into low-Earth orbit, and SpaceX won all nine of them. Given that 2020, ULA has actually won more Space Force job orders than SpaceX for high-energy objectives, although the inverse was true in this year's round of launch orders.
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While Nintendo could theoretically avoid tariff impacts by moving Switch 2 production into the US, Wedbush's Ives pointed out that the process would cost "tens of billions of dollars" and require "four to five years" to get a US factory of that scale up and running. ....

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A couple of years back, Chef Robotics was dealing with potential death. There were a great deal of dark periods where I was thinking of giving up, founder Rajat Bhageria tells A Technology NewsRoom of his six-year-old business. Friends and financiers encouraged him, so he stood firm. Today, Chef Robotics has not just made it through, it's one of the couple of food tech robotic ...
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Revolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journalRevolt brews against RFK Jr. as experts pen rally cries in top medical journal

, Vanderbilt researchers Jeremy Jacobs and Garrett Booth blasted Kennedy's appointment of infamous anti-vaccine advocate David Geier to lead a federal study on immunizations and neurodevelopmental outcomes. ....

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Meta secretly helped China advance AI, ex-Facebooker will tell CongressMeta secretly helped China advance AI, ex-Facebooker will tell Congress

, which will be delivered at a Senate subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism hearing this afternoon, Wynn-Williams accused Meta of working "hand in glove" with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ....

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Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently r...

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, who noted that the 2.5 Pro (Experimental) release was still prone to "overthinking" its responses to simple queries. ....

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Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robotsFruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots

Given that each fly could act a bit like a writing implement, the researchers started experimenting with multiple pens, showing that it's possible to coordinate multiple flies at the same time. ....

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In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing.

But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can’t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s.

Cofertility, a startup founded by former...

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WASHINGTON, DC—Over the course of a nearly three-hour committee hearing Wednesday, the nominee to lead NASA for the Trump administration faced difficult questions from US senators who sought commitments to specific projects.

However, maneuvering like a pilot with more than 7,000 hours in jets and ex-military aircraft, entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman dodged most of their questions and would not be pinned down. ....

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In its larger incarnation, Google's Ironwood pods can generate a staggering 42.5 Exaflops of inference computing. ....

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Meghan Markle is stepping further into the world of business and entrepreneurship. 

In an interview with Fortune, Meghan revealed that she is an angel investor in the healthcare company Midi, which provides a virtual platform to help treat women experiencing menopause and other health-related concerns. 

She joined the company’s $63 million Series B r...

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Take It Down Act nears passage; critics warn Trump could use it against enemiesTake It Down Act nears passage; critics warn Trump could use it against enemies

"it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like." The EFF pointed to Trump's comments in an address to a joint session of Congress last month, in which he suggested he would use the bill for his own ends. ....

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Road deaths fell below 40,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2019Road deaths fell below 40,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2019

A rare spot of good news today: For the second year in a row, US roads got a little safer. ....

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Glossier is reportedly fundraising again, aiming to raise $100 million with a valuation “south of a billion dollars,” according to Puck. 

Glossier, still one of the more popular beauty brands, was last valued at $1.8 billion nearly four years ago, but has struggled with profitability and scale these past few years. Glossier did not immediately...

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Trump boosts China tariffs to 125%, pauses tariff hikes on other countriesTrump boosts China tariffs to 125%, pauses tariff hikes on other countries

On Wednesday, Donald Trump, once again, took to Truth Social to abruptly shift US trade policy, announcing a 90-day pause "substantially" lowering reciprocal tariffs against all countries except China to 10 percent. ....

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Trump throws coal a lifeline, but the energy industry has moved onTrump throws coal a lifeline, but the energy industry has moved on

As President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders Tuesday aimed at keeping coal power alive in the United States, he repeatedly blamed his predecessor, Democrats, and environmental regulations for the industry’s dramatic contraction over the past two decades.

But across the country, state and local officials and electric grid operators have been confronting a factor in coal’s demise that is not easily addressed with the stroke of a pen: its cost.

that regional grid operator PJM brokered earlier this year with the company, state officials, and the Sierra Club. ....

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Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.”

Obviously too young to get a bank account, Ruskin did freelance development work he found on reddit in exchange for bitcoin. There he saw that Coinbase was hiring,...

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AkiraBot's use of LLM-generated spam message content demonstrates the emerging challenges that AI poses to defending sites versus spam attacks, SentinelLabs scientists Alex Delamotte and Jim Walter wrote. AkiraBot worked by appointing the following role to OpenAI's chat API utilizing the design gpt-4o-mini: You are a practical assistant that generates marketing messages. A timely advised the LLM to change the variables with the site name provided at runtime ... AkiraBots usage of LLM-generated spam message material shows the emerging difficulties that AI presents to safeguarding websites versus spam attacks, SentinelLabs scientists Alex Delamotte and Jim Walter wrote. The easiest indicators to block are the turning set of domains used to offer the Akira and ServiceWrap SEO offerings, as there is no longer a consistent technique in the spam message contents as there were with previous projects selling the services of these firms.AkiraBot worked by appointing the following function to OpenAIs chat API using the design gpt-4o-mini: You are a handy assistant that generates marketing messages. A prompt advised the LLM to replace the variables with the website name offered at runtime. As an outcome, the body of each message named the recipient website by name and consisted of a quick description of the service offered by it. An AI Chat timely used by AkiraBot Credit: SentinelLabs The resulting message consists of a quick description of the targeted site, making the message seem curated, the researchers composed. The advantage of producing each message using an LLM is that the message material is special and filtering against spam becomes harder compared to using a constant message template which can trivially be filtered.SentinelLabs gotten log files AkiraBot left on a server to measure success and failure rates. One file showed that unique messages had actually been effectively provided to more than 80,000 websites from September 2024 to January of this year. By comparison, messages targeting approximately 11,000 domains failed. OpenAI thanked the researchers and restated that such use of its chatbots contravenes of its regards to service.Story upgraded to modify heading.
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The Ars cargo e-bike buying guide for the bike-curious (or serious)The Ars cargo e-bike buying guide for the bike-curious (or serious)

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As the task market continues to get more competitive, it's taking months for brand-new graduates to land work, with lots of settling for roles that don't line up with their goals. To address this issue, Drafted, a new startup emerging from stealth, has actually developed a tasks platform for trainees and early-career professionals, a subset of people who Drafted thinks ...
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After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI planAfter months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan
A screenshot of various Claude pricing plans captured on April 9, 2025. ....
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BRINC Secures $75M, Forms Strategic Alliance with Motorola Solutions to Scale Production

– BRINC, an American manufacturer of emergency response drones, has announced that it has raised $75 million in new funding. This capital will be used to accelerate the development and production of BRINC’s lifesaving drone technology.

The financing was led by Index Ventures, marking their continued conviction in BRINC following their participation...

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It's likewise when someone buried three infants in the yard, each near a corner of the altar (the 4th corner has a container that most likely as soon as included an offering, however no bones). Each burial needed breaking the stone flooring, positioning the small remains underneath, and after that filling out the hole with crushed limestone ... Its also when somebody buried 3 babies in the yard, each near a corner of the altar (the 4th corner has a container that most likely as soon as included an offering, but no bones). Each burial required breaking the stone floor, placing the small remains below, and after that completing the hole with crushed limestone. Thats not the method many people in Tikal would have buried a baby, however its exactly how archaeologists have actually discovered several buried in extremely similar courtyards in far Teotihuacan.In other words, the people who lived in this substance and used this courtyard and painted altar were most likely from Teotihuacan, or raised in a Teotihuacan enclave in the southern sector of Tikal. The substance is virtually in the shadow of a reproduction of Teotihuacans Feathered Serpent Pyramid and its walled plaza, where archaeologists discovered Teotihuacan-style incense burners made from local products. This making reveals what the altar may have appeared like in its heyday. Credit: Heather Hurst Sometime in between 550 CE and 654 CE, based on radiocarbon dating, the foreign enclave in Tikal closed up shop. That's around the time far-off Teotihuacans power was beginning to collapse. It wasnt enough to just leave; essential structures had to be ritually killed and buried. That suggested burning the location around the altar, but it also meant that people buried the altar, the courtyard, the substance, and most of southern Tikals Teotihuacan enclave underneath a number of meters of dirt and rubble.Whoever did the burying went to the problem of making the whole thing look like a natural hill. Ramirez and his coworkers say thats unusual, due to the fact that usually once a structure had been ritually eliminated and abandoned, something brand-new would be constructed atop the remains.The Maya frequently buried structures and rebuilt on top of them, Brown University archaeologist Andrew Scherer, a co-author of the recent research study, said in a declaration. Here, they buried the altar and surrounding buildings and simply left them, even though this would have been prime real estate centuries later. They treated it nearly like a memorial or a radioactive zone. It probably spoke with the complicated sensations they had about Teotihuacan.Antiquity, 2017. DOI: 10.15184/ aqy.2025.3 (About DOIs).
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Some elements of Microsoft's Copilot assistant in Windows 11 have felt like a solution in search of a problem—and it hasn't helped that Microsoft has frequently changed Copilot's capabilities, turning it from a native Windows app into a web app and back again.

But I find myself intrigued by a new addition to Copilot Vision that Microsoft began rolling out this week to testers in its Windows Insider program. ....

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Ukraine&s Trojan Horse Drones Expose Russian Operators After Capture

Ukrainian forces are now embedding malware in their drones as a new tactic in their ongoing war with Russia. This development adds a cyber warfare dimension to a battlefield already transformed by drone technology.

Russian forces discovered Ukrainian drones carrying malware, evidence of which appeared in a video shared on social media. According to...

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Trump administration&s attack on university research acceleratesTrump administration’s attack on university research accelerates

Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn't especially interested in funding research. ....

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Apple TV+ releases first trailer for sci-fi comedy MurderbotApple TV+ releases first trailer for sci-fi comedy Murderbot

 "really excited" about the show when she first read the script back in 2021.  and will have a lighter tone....

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The Skyraider II officially joins the Air Force Special Operations Command fleet with the delivery of the first missionized aircraft here at Hurlburt Field, Florida on April 3, 2025. U.S. Special Operations Command representatives and AFSOC leadership joined elected officials and community leaders in a ceremony marking the acceptance.

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