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Feeding the machine

When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a…

Starlink and Chinese satellites nearly collided last week

Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters of one of the roughly 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating…

Still running Windows 10? Here’s why that’s a bad idea

A depressingly large number of PCs are still running Windows 10, months after support for that OS officially ended. If you haven’t signed up for extended security updates, history says you’re asking for big trouble.