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TechCrunch May 19, 2026 at 10:00 Startups Rising Hot

Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business

Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.

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May 19, 2026 at 10:00 TechCrunch

Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business

Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.

May 19, 2026 at 04:01 Hacker News

Apple Silicon costs less than OpenRouter

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May 18, 2026 at 17:26 Ars Technica

The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest

Dory CEO claims the $149 signs won't be bricked should Dory go out of business.

May 17, 2026 at 19:12 Hacker News

Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)

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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

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May 15, 2026 at 18:14 TechCrunch

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.

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TechCrunch May 19, 2026 at 14:00 Startups
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‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu introduce a goal-tracking app, Paprclip

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TechCrunch May 19, 2026 at 05:50 Startups
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Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found.

"There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?"

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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team

Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.

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TechCrunch May 19, 2026 at 15:32 Startups
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Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack

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TechCrunch May 19, 2026 at 15:06 Startups
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US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web

The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.

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