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Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

Services have recently popped up that will double your RTX 2080 Ti's memory to 22GB, but if you don't have a card to spare, you can now get a pre-modded 22 GB 2080 Ti for $499 from eBay.

The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team.

The tech giant says the new feature will allow parents to teach their kids healthy financial habits while maintaining oversight over their child's spending with built-in safeguards.

Hey HN, we’re Will & Johnny from ProvenMetal (https://provenmetal.com). You send us design files or specs and we give you assembled boards domestically in days.The US produced 30% of PCBs globally in 2000, now they produce 4%. Chinese manufacturers have completely dominated this space at 55% of global production.Now, the need for a domestic PCB supply chain is higher than ever before, yet the infrastructure has been dissolving over the last 2 decades. What is left is mostly small family run manufacturers (CMs) that have been operating in largely the same, labor intensive way since the early 2000’s.When you place an order through a CM it typically takes several days to receive a quote and complete design for manufacture review, and then you have to source all of the components (the hardest part) and bare boards yourself, then wait anywhere from a few days to several weeks for the assembly and testing of those boards.We started off assembling circuit boards out of a garage with prosumer grade equipment (NeoDen YY1, Glenbrook X-ray, solder paste stencils, and manual rework stations). We believed that by owning the manufacturing process, we could turn all the front of house automations inwards. But here’s the thing… manufacturing circuit boards with prosumer grade equipment out of a garage takes a huge amount of time. Suddenly we were spending 90% of our time assembling circuit boards instead of growing the business. We were completely capacity constrained, with fancy software automations that are not the binding constraint at low volumes.Then we got our heads out of the weeds, took a step back, and realized that we were trying to solve the wrong bottlenecks.These manufacturers are good at manufacturing and terrible at the front of house (quoting, DFM review, and part procurement). When you look at the full process, you realize that assembly is not the bottleneck. So we stopped trying to solve the problem that we can’t solve at this stage.We measured the bottlenecks and nailed down the ones that we are best positioned to solve right now.When a customer wants a domestically manufactured circuit board, it is not a straight forward process. We are making that process easy through front of house automation. A customer gives us their design files, and we automatically procure components, and co-ordinate bare board fabs and assembly houses to get quotes, design review, and manufacturing completed in a very tight loop.How we solve part procurement (you can’t assemble boards with no parts!): When a user places an order with us, our system automatically sources their bill of materials across US and overseas distributors. However, when we work with customers during the design process, our plug-ins interact with KiCAD and Altium, sending the BOM to our ordering platform, which allows us to automatically procure components before layout is finalized.KiCAD plugin: (https://github.com/proven-metal/provenmetal-kicad)Altium plugin: (https://github.com/pr

Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced the 'AI Kill Switch Act' last week, which would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle, or suspend their models. Lieu says passage is urgent this year because Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI have all experienced incidents where AI models hacked other companies' systems during cybersecurity testing, including an OpenAI incident where rogue models escaped a sandboxed environment and breached Hugging Face.

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker.

https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198302 Points: 499 # Comments: 409

Virginia's public utility regulator now requires all data center projects to pay for the infrastructure needed to supply their power. This makes it one of the first states to convert the 'ratepayer protection pledge' into an actionable policy.

Article URL: https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198069 Points: 412 # Comments: 417

A weekly security roundup covering 30+ threats, including an npm supply-chain campaign ('Flooding Dropper') flooding the registry with 850 malicious packages, SideWinder's new phishing chain abusing ClickOnce files to deliver Rust-based backdoors via Cloudflare Workers, a US Congressional report on Chinese telecom presence in US infrastructure, and various RCE and one-click takeover vulnerabilities in consumer-facing products.

After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.

With the first tranche of SpaceX shares held by insiders unlocking, the stock could see downward pressure.

Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward

Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information was properly protected.

PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era

Apple reportedly as $1 billion worth of iPhone 18 processor wafers awaiting packaging, which hasn't been completed due to DRAM shortages.

Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?

Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made.Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedback, a red backlight, and a native macOS companion app.I’m a heavy Mac user and I feel that Apple hasn’t given its keyboards the attention they deserve, in terms of hardware, software, and features, so I set out to try and change that.It was a massive undertaking and it has taken almost 2 years to get to this stage. One of the main obstacles was fitting a reasonably sized battery into the chassis, and aggressive power profiling without messing with the user experience. Another issue was we couldn’t fit any components on the underside of the PCB because there was literally no space to do so (and there are a lot of components).Around 4 years ago I posted my first keyboard to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507172). Its response blew me away and ultimately led to me quitting my job and making and selling keyboards full time. I’ve taken some of the feedback from that original post and incorporated it into Altar II (e.g. the detachable dial).I’ll be around to answer any questions. Please let me know what you think, I’d love to get some feedback. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197137 Points: 293 # Comments: 237

eBay touted an increase in eBay Live's gross merchandise volume as it plans to expand it to more international markets in the coming weeks and months.

Hadrian is one of a number of defense tech startups raising large sums and benefiting from President Trump's plans to upgrade the U.S. military.

Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records

Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.

The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor's plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.

SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations.