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A researcher swapping Athlon MP and XP processors discovered that a CPU continued working normally until a large piece of its silicon die broke off during heatsink removal.
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Flipkart Minutes, the quick-commerce service launched by the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant in August 2024, has rapidly increased its daily orders to between 1.1 million and 1.
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A new project has been launched to collect and document coding practices for agentic engineering, a discipline focused on building software using coding agents that can generate and execute code independently.
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The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, the US military newspaper, expressed concern over censorship after being dismissed by the US Department of Defense for insubordination.
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The reviewer, a former co-author of a cellular automata paper who faced legal threats from Wolfram Research over a citation, offers a professional opinion that Stephen Wolfram has become a crank.
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