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How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints (Sheon Han/Wired)

Sheon Han / Wired : How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago t...

28 March 2025

How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints (Sheon Han/Wired)

Sheon Han / Wired:
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints  —  Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv.  Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go.

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CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order (CNBC)

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CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order  —  CoreWeave on Thursday priced shares at $40 in the company's IPO, raising $1.5 billion in the biggest U.S. tech offering since 2021, CNBC has confirmed.

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Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump (Financial Times)

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Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump  —  Brussels to push ahead with enforcing digital rules on Big Tech groups but with low financial penalties for breaches

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Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech  —  Taiwan is investigating whether China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers …

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PUBG developer Krafton acquires a "north of 75% stake" in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India  —  Krafton, South Korea's gaming giant known for titles including PUBG: Battlegrounds and Battlegrounds Mobile India …

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Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more  —  This week's Stratechery Interview is with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy.  Ramaswamy started his career at Bell Labs …

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A look at Archetype, whose AI model Newton is trained to analyze output from sensors monitoring the physical world, including cities and factories (Mark Wilson/Fast Company)

Mark Wilson / Fast Company:
A look at Archetype, whose AI model Newton is trained to analyze output from sensors monitoring the physical world, including cities and factories  —  What happens when you feed an AI countless scientific readings?  It learns physics, and how the world itself works.

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EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily, with ~70% of the time on social media, gaming, and videos (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)

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EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily, with ~70% of the time on social media, gaming, and videos  —  Indians collectively spent 1.1 trillion hours staring at their smartphones in 2024, according to management consultant EY …

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