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Markiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder

YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach has invested enough in GoPro to become its single largest shareholder, with an 8.5 percent stake in the company, Bloomberg reports. Speaking to Bloomberg, Fischbach said he thought GoPro "seems undervalued" and sees his investment as "part of a larger mission to make filmmaking more accessible," following the release of his first feature film, Iron Lung, earlier this year. Fischbach posted a video last week praising GoPro's new Mission 1 ILS camera and compa

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Read Tim Cook’s final message to Apple staff as CEO

Steve Jobs' successor carried the torch of the iPhone and built Apple into a global powerhouse with few rivals. Since becoming CEO in 2011, Tim Cook has led the company to become one of the most dominant forces in the daily lives of billions of people. Today is his last day as CEO. Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title changes tomorrow, but the love I have for the Apple community never will. Thank you for being a constant source of inspiration. My gratitud

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Run NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM Microservices for Protein Structure Prediction in Claude Science

Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next.... Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next. First proving their value in software engineering, coding agents now write, test, and ship production code. Scientific research can be more demanding and iterative. Researcher

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DZone

Why Ping-Based Uptime Checks Are Failing Modern SaaS Architectures

In the early days of the web, monitoring availability was simple: a server either responded to a ping, or it didn't. HTTP checks tightened that up a little — a 200 OK meant the dashboard turned green, and everyone assumed things were fine. That assumption doesn't really hold anymore, though. A modern app can return a picture-perfect 200 OK and still be completely unusable to an actual customer.

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