Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it's also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage. The Framework Desktop with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 chip now starts at $1,139, instead of $1,099. "We held off […]

Days out from his last gig as the mayor of New York City, citizen Eric Adams on Monday stood in Times Square to announce his next excellent adventure — salesman for a crypto coin he calls The NYC Token. His new vocation is hardly a shock given his consistent cheerleading for crypto while he was […]

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain  —  New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”.

Meta's Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division's metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta's AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta's […]

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Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69%  —  Blockchain infrastructure company Bakkt (NYSE: BKKT) has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure provider Distributed Technologies Research Ltd. …