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• Andrew Bosworth, Meta's CTO, shared some advice for college students.
• He said students should be 'constantly building.'
• Bosworth also weighed in on a viral debate around "introspection."

Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, has some simple advice for aspiring technologists: Start building — now.

The

• The White House has released its budget request for fiscal year 2027, including a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
• Trump is requesting billions of dollars for shipbuilding programs, including Golden Fleet.
• Other priorities include munitions, drones, and artificial intelligence.

President Donald Trump's massive $1.5 trillion defense budget request includes $65.8 billion

Jason Blundell, a former creative lead on Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Black Ops series, has announced that he's formed a new development studio called Magic Fractal Studios. Blundell announced the studio on a livestream with former Dark Outlaw Games coworker JC Farmer, a little over a week after the previous studio was closed by Sony.

Little is known about Magic Fractal beyond its logo and

Cutthroat capitalism sure does bring out the best in humanity. Take, for example, Elon Musk. He reportedly set a condition for banks, law firms, auditors and advisors who want to work on the SpaceX IPO. They're required to subscribe to the bastion of nonconsensual deepfakes and occasional Hitler praise known as Grok.

Surely the best and brightest banks our nation has to offer would refuse such a

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Charles Rollet has been digging into how tech companies are reorganizing around AI — especially Meta, which is leaning on AI coding tools to ship more product faster.

There are signs it's working: Meta ranks pretty high on revenue per employee, a metric

Remember when we thought the Legion Go 2 was expensive at $1,099 and up? Those were the days - Best Buy is now listing Lenovo's handheld for $1,499 with a Ryzen Z2 or $1,999 with a Z2 Extreme. The latter originally cost $1,349, so that's a $650 jump in just six months.

And yes, that