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Elon Musk Hires Immigrants So He Can Pay Them Less, Lawsuit Allege

futurism.com Unknown Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:23:42 +0000

Tesla, which has come under repeated fire due to CEO Elon Musk's political antics and its quality control issues, has been now slapped with a lawsuit that alleges that the company prefers hiring visa holding immigrants over American citizens in order to save money, according to Reuters. The lawsuit claims that Tesla relies heavily on workers who hold the H-1B visa, which grants temporary employment for specialized technical jobs, and that workers who have been recently laid off from the electri

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The 9 Best Grills of 2025

wired.com Scott Gilbertson Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:33:00 +0000

Frequently Asked Questions What Should You Look for in a Grill? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron Take a trip to your local big-box home improvement store and you'll see dozens of grill models not mentioned here. Are they any good? Most of them are probably fine, but we suggest sticking with brands you recognize. The nice thing about shopping in person is you can get a better sense of the grill's sturdiness. Give it a good shake, and make sure it seems well put together. If it's a brand

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Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

news.ycombinator.com Carly Page 2025-09-19 19:00:16

A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. The ruling, handed down this week by Judge Jia Cobb of the DC District Court, rejects a request from researchers, universities and scientific societies to reinstate the cancelled grants while the case is heard. The plaintiffs had argued that NSF's mass terminations were arbitrary, unlawful and would do irreparable harm to the cou

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Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-19 19:28:03

British renewable energy provider Octopus Energy said this week that it’s spinning off Kraken, its tech platform for utilities, spurred in part by $500 million in committed annual revenue from other utilities and energy providers. An eventual Kraken IPO could be valued at $15 billion and could occur within a year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Kraken was actually the company’s initial product, according to Octopus CEO Greg Jackson. “We created Octopus as the ‘demo client,’” he told the

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Meet the latest VC judges joining Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-19 19:30:00

The Startup Battlefield 200 global pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, is just weeks away, and the stakes have never been higher. Twenty founders will pitch their companies on the Disrupt Stage, but only one will walk away with the $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup. Helping to decide the winner is our world-class roster of judges, investors, and operators who know what it takes to build enduring companies

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Don’t Get Too Excited for That Nvidia and Intel Chip Just Yet

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-19 23:10:41

What’s the point of competition anymore? Nvidia may still be trying to make its own CPUs. Intel could have beefed up its Arc GPUs around the corner. But now the two U.S.-based chipmakers plan to make SoCs, or system-on-chips, combining each company’s specialty. While we’re all curious about what this means for the future of PCs, you’ll need to wait a good long while to see what form the new chips from the new Wonder Twins will take. Nvidia is effectively netting a $5 billion stake in Intel, a d

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Amazon Prime Is Ending Shared Free Shipping. What to Know and When It Happens

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 02:15:07

If you've been using someone else's Amazon Prime membership for free shipping, but you don't live in the same house, you may need to pay another subscription fee soon. According to Amazon's updated customer service page, the online retail giant is ending its Prime Invitee benefit-sharing program Oct. 1. Amazon's Prime Invitee program is being replaced by Amazon Family, as reported earlier by The Verge. It includes many of the same benefits, but Amazon Family only works for up to two adults and

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How to Add Custom Backgrounds to Messages in iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 11:00:05

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update brings a new Liquid Glass redesign, call screening and lots of hidden features for your iPhone. The update also lets you add backgrounds to your chats in Messages, giving a visual identifier for each thread so you can easily tell if you're messaging the right person or group. With this new feature, you can make your own picture a background, use one of Apple's pre

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How Energy-Generating Sidewalks Work

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-09-20 12:00:00

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied energy and convert it to usable electricity? This is a real thing. Systems have been installed in dozens of countries. Check out this video. And why stop there? You could put them in discotheques and harness that fancy footwork to power the strobe lights. Or bui

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Leatherman (vagabond)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 17:17:03

American vagabond of unknown and disputed identity The Leatherman ( c. 1839–1889) was a vagabond famous for his handmade leather suit of clothes who traveled through the northeastern United States on a regular circuit between the Connecticut River and the Hudson River from roughly 1857 to 1889. Of unknown origin, he was thought to be French-Canadian because of his fluency in the French language, his "broken English", and the French-language prayer book found on his person after his death. His i

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Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 07:50:33

Create your account and connect with a world of communities. New to Reddit? By continuing, you agree to our and acknowledge that you understand the

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 19, #361

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 18:19:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. The yellow category in Connections: Sports Edition is always easy, but today's seemed like a no-brainer. The other categories aren't too tough, either, especially for midwesterners. But if you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edi

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Intel says Arc GPUs will live on after Nvidia deal

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-09-20 19:23:42

In the future, Intel will make CPUs with Nvidia graphics inside — among other things , Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute “GPU chiplets” that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today. But, at least for now, Intel says that doesn’t mean Intel’s own graphics are going away. “We’re not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary to Intel’s roadmap and Intel wi

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 19, #831

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 22:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle might be tough, although I thought the blue and purple group were pretty fun, once I saw the connections. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you pla

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How AI startups are fueling Google’s booming cloud business

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-21 03:53:33

Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deals also highlight Google’s efforts to make its cloud business more central to the company’s future. Today, Google Cloud is overshadowed by larger competitors like AWS and Microsoft, as well

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Nvidia buys $5B stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-21 02:31:18

Nvidia has agreed to buy a $5 billion stake in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC products. Nvidia will acquire the Intel stock for $23.28 per share, a slight discount on the company’s previous trading price. According to Reuters, the deal would make Nvidia one of Intel’s largest shareholders, owning about 4% of the company. Intel shares were up as much as 30% in early trading on Thursday morning. The companies will integrate their

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PostgreSQL Maintenance Without Superuser

news.ycombinator.com Radim Marek 2025-09-17 23:17:29

How many people/services have superuser access to your PostgreSQL cluster(s)? Did you ever ask why your software engineers might need it? Or your BI team? Why those use cases require same privileges as someone who can drop your databases? The answer isn't because these operations are inherently dangerous - it's because PostgreSQL historically offered limited options for operational access or simply because not enough people are aware of the options. So the common practice is to either got basic

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Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 15:32:55

Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we suspect that they may become more permanent additions to Samsung fridges and/or other types of screen-equipped smart home appliances. In a statement sent to Ars Technica, Samsung confirmed that it is “conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and

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Automatic differentiation can be incorrect

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Rackauckas 2025-09-21 17:01:35

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

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Grief gets an expiration date, just like us

news.ycombinator.com Bess Stillman 2025-09-21 17:17:40

1× 0:00 -13:50 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. My husband Jake has been dead for a year and I still don’t believe it. Not really. Not when I look for his marginalia in new books, or read an article about self-driving cars and text him a link, or when I see an interesting new Malaysian restaurant and have the urge to make us a reservation. Certainly not when I look at our daughter, Athena, who wears Jake’s face as her own and who, especially when she’s examining

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ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-21 19:37:45

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement arm Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has signed a contract worth $3 million with Magnet Forensics, a company that makes a phone-hacking and unlocking device called Graykey. The contract, which appeared on Tuesday in a federal government procurement database, said it is for software licenses for the phone-hacking tech for HSI “to recover digital evidence, process multiple devices, & generate forensic reports essential to missio

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Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:40:29

Energy-efficient AI inference framework & kernels for phones & AI-native hardware. Budget and mid-range phones control over 70% of the market, but frameworks today optimise for the highend phones with advanced chips. Cactus is designed bottom-up with no dependencies for all mobile devices. Example (CPU-only): Model: Qwen3-600m-INT8 File size: 370-420mb 16-20 t/s on Pixel 6a, Galaxy S21, iPhone 11 Pro 50-70 t/s on Pixel 9, Galaxy S25, iPhone 16 Architecture Cactus exposes 4 levels of abstr

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Automatic Differentiation Can Be Incorrect

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Rackauckas 2025-09-22 03:01:35

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

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Microsoft’s AI Copilot Invades Congress

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-22 07:10:43

AI has swiftly taken over much of the economy, and now, it appears to be invading our nation’s hallowed halls of power. Axios reports that Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Copilot, will be made available to staff in the House of Representatives, where lawmakers will use it to…well, that part isn’t exactly clear yet. The House will soon begin using M365 Copilot as part of a broader effort to integrate AI “into its daily operations,” Axios says. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is expected to announce th

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Seven indie games that will upgrade your downtime this fall

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-22 06:00:00

We all know there’s a lot of tech to potentially upgrade in your life, but for those who want to upgrade their downtime with inexpensive, relatively short video games, I have good news. 2025 has already featured a wealth of excellent titles to spend your time with, including ones from smaller and independent developers that you can complete in a few sessions. If you’re looking for a good new game to play (and aren’t already deep into Hollow Knight: Silksong), here are some great options from thi

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Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-22 07:00:00

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world. Dawn Capital is a marquee firm in the UK with more than $2 billion in AUM, 34 exits, and 11 unicorns. Names in the portfolio consist of names including AI companies Collibra and Dataiku. It focuses on early-stage companies, backing them from seed to Series C. It’s currently investing from its $620 milli

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Elements of C Style (1994)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 16:21:03

Notes on Programming Practices More Purity More Speed More Correctness Other notes on C programming Style Snobbism Your Friends, the Header Files Your Friend, the Compiler Function and Procedure Names Variable Names Notes on Formatting Style Indentation Braces Spacing Comments Function declarations Cute Tricks in C Powers of Two Unrolling Small Loops Unrolling Bigger Loops Counting Bits Random Essays on Programming Meaningless Variable Names Considered Useful GOTOs Considered Us

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How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 11:22:47

How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs R. Kent Dybvig August 2002 When a program fails to operate as it should, it is said to have a bug. A bug is the root cause of an observed behavior, such as failure to terminate, failure to perform some action, termination with an error message, or merely producing incorrect results. The process of debugging a program is one of finding all of the bugs and "exterminating" them. This process first requires feeding the program a representative set of test cases,

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Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-22 19:43:31

Although today’s Meta Connect developer conference was largely about new smart glasses, the social networking company did announce a handful of metaverse updates during Wednesday’s keynote. Of these, one of the largest was the introduction of Hyperscape, first demoed at last year’s event, which allows developers and creators to build more photorealistic spaces in virtual reality. The company announced that Hyperscape Capture is now rolling out in Early Access, meaning Quest device owners will b

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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-09-22 21:10:24

“What this whole debate comes down to is who controls the skies,” Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told the audience at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday. “Do we believe in God and that he has dominion over his perfect creation of planet Earth? Do we believe that he has given us everything we need to survive as a civilization since the beginning of time? Or do you believe in man’s claim of authority over the weather, based on scientists that have only been

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