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New subscribers to Apple Music can get three free months of the Family Plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 17:00:38

Apple Music has a great deal going on right now for those interested in the Family Plan. New subscribers can get three free months of that plan — which, at $17 per month normally, comes out to $51 in savings for the whole period. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming pl

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Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-09-20 19:37:52

The UK has struck a defense deal with US spy-tech biz Palantir, which the government says will unlock £1.5 billion ($2 billion) of investment in Britain. The arrangement emerged during the fanfare of US president Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, and accompanies a string of announcements by American tech A-listers, with promises the government claimed would be worth £31 billion ($42 billion) for AI and tech infrastructure. Palantir plans to make the UK its European HQ for defense. The move

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A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-20 15:30:00

New findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed and accessible to thousands of people. Meanwhile, 15 New York officials were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York Police Department this week in or around 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. Russia c

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Compiling with Continuations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 13:56:39

Compiling with Continuations September 16, 2025 A review of the book Compiling with Continuations, Appel (1992). Table of Contents Overview MiniML Lambda CPS Conclusion References Overview Compiling with Continuations is an excellent book for learning Standard ML beyond what’s normally taught or discussed. It’s an excellent book for learning about practical applications of continuations beyond what’s normally taught or discussed. But who would want to do that? Was it influential to the f

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Security News This Week: A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-20 20:30:00

New findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed and accessible to thousands of people. Meanwhile, 15 New York officials were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York Police Department this week in or around 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. Russia c

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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 20:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 01:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

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Elon Musk's Neuralink plans a brain speech trial in October

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 16:40:04

Neuralink plans to begin another US clinical trial in October, using the implant to translate thoughts into text. The study will be held through an FDA investigational device exemption. "If you're imagining saying something, we would be able to pick that up," Neuralink president DJ Seo said this week. The idea is to help people with speech impairments communicate through thought. Neuralink is among the companies testing implants that help patients control a computer with their minds. That can i

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Tropical Storm Gabrielle Breaks ‘Unprecedented’ Atlantic Storm Drought

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-22 08:47:20

An exceptionally long lull in Atlantic storm activity finally came to an end Wednesday as Tropical Storm Gabrielle took shape. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center expect this storm to strengthen into the second hurricane of the season by Sunday. Gabrielle’s emergence followed 20 days of no named storms in the Atlantic basin—a dry spell that WPLG-TV hurricane specialist Michael Lowry called “unprecedented” for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. As of Friday morning, Gabrielle ha

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Scientists Intrigued by Mysterious Object Floating Near Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-22 20:00:07

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery of a mysterious object that appears to be a "quasi-moon," or a small asteroid that orbits the Sun, but in an arc that puts it near our planet for an extended period of time. Think of it as a cosmic situationship; though it's been following us for around 60 years, the object isn't gravitation

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Your Samsung phone and watch could soon warn you of Alzheimer’s disease

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-23 02:57:21

The Galaxy maker elaborated on this approach in its post: Recalling and repeating short sentences can evaluate short-term memory-related brain regions, while assessing speech fluency and accuracy reveals the state of language ability. Likewise, the regularity and variety of app and messaging use, along with call frequency, can offer insights into social networks and the brain’s executive functions. In short, the study demonstrated that brain regions responsible for language and short-term memo

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I tried Pixel 10’s Voice Translate on real calls: Here’s the good and the bad

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-23 04:00:29

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google is constantly pushing the boundaries of AI in its Phone app, and the new Voice Translate feature on the Pixel 10 series is one of its most ambitious attempts yet. The idea is to break down language barriers in real time and make phone conversations smoother when you and the person on the other end speak completely different languages. What’s even more fascinating is that Voice Translate attempts to mimic the voice of the speakers in order to make convers

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Llama-Factory: Unified, Efficient Fine-Tuning for 100 Open LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 03:48:48

Used by Amazon, NVIDIA, Aliyun, etc. 👋 Join our WeChat, NPU, Lab4AI, LLaMA Factory Online user group. [ English | 中文 ] Fine-tuning a large language model can be easy as... train_en.mp4 Choose your path: Documentation (WIP) : https://llamafactory.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ : https://llamafactory.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Documentation (AMD GPU) : https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/ai-developer-hub/en/latest/notebooks/fine_tune/llama_factory_llama3.html : https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/

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Electric aviation awaits a battery breakthrough

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-23 08:01:17

Electric aviation awaits a battery breakthrough 1 hour ago Share Save Adrienne Murray & James Brooks Technology Reporters Share Save Beta Technologies Alia on the way to Stavanger in Norway An aviation rarity touched down in the Norway's second city of Bergen earlier this month. Alia had flown 100 miles (160km) in 55 minutes on battery power alone. Built by US aerospace company Beta Technologies, the electric plane is designed for cargo operations - carrying up to 560kg (half a tonne) loads.

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The Land Bridge You’ve Never Heard Of

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-23 08:30:00

For many of us, when we think of land bridges, we tend to think of the Bering Land Bridge (actually more of a swamp), which ancient humans traversed to reach North America from modern-day Siberia during the last Ice Age. But there may have been another, crucial stretch of land that aided early human migration—this time, far across the continent, on the Anatolian coast. That’s the major new finding from a team of Turkish archeologists who have uncovered over 100 stone artifacts from ten differen

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Users are annoyed by this Google Phone change, but it may be working as intended

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:44:40

Alex Walker-Todd / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Phone app has historically forced a portrait orientation while making calls. Users have recently noticed that this no longer holds true, and some devices set to auto-rotate will turn even in calls. We’re not seeing this behavior consistently across devices, and it’s unclear if it’s truly intended. The vast majority of your smartphone usage probably takes place in portrait mode, ideal for one-handed operation. When we’re turning our phones f

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Configuration files are user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 12:43:43

18 Sep, 2025 We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file. Yes, that’s exactly it! You rejoice knowing the software’s configuration will be trivial to version control. Your pragmatic instinct is satisfied as well; the door remains open to creating a proper UI later, since it would be merely a graphical view

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American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana

news.ycombinator.com Amanda Royal 2025-09-24 16:47:40

Public lands and public access are now constantly under threat in the U.S., but there’s still good news to share. Ambitious conservation nonprofit American Prairie has secured its second-largest land purchase and leasing arrangement to date, buying up the 70,000-acre Anchor Ranch in Montana, which had been listed for sale for $35 million. The group bought the land from two billionaire Texas brothers who’d kept the public locked out of one of the only western access roads into adjacent public la

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

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-25 00:00:00

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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Police Puzzled by 180 Kilos of SpaceX-Branded Cocaine Found at Crash Site

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-23 19:06:18

A single-engine plane crashed landed in a field of sugar cane in Brazil over the weekend, according to local news media Alagoas 24 Horas, killing the pilot and leaving behind 180 kilograms — or almost 400 pounds — of cocaine. So far, it just sounds like a tale of drug smuggling gone awry. Except that the coke, stacked together in neat bricks and wrapped in plastic, as shown in a video from local police obtained by Alagoas, sported a distinctive label: the official SpaceX logo, in blue and white

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A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-09-25 11:00:00

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that instead of being destroyed, it was transformed, incorporating the mass of that foreign body to become the planet we know. Recent research adds another layer of relevance to that hypothesized cosmic event: Scientists believe that without that other body, the basic conditions for life to emerge on Ear

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 19:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-26 04:30:34

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, is trying to carve out a spot as the Good Guy in the AI space. Fresh off being the only major AI firm to throw its support behind an AI safety bill in California, the company grabbed a headline from Semafor thanks to its apparent refusal to allow its model to be used for surveillance tasks, which is pissing off the Trump administration. According to the report, law enforcement agencies have felt stifled by Anthropic’s usa

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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-26 11:57:39

Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used for some law enforcement purposes has deepened hostility to the company inside the Trump administration, two senior officials told Semafor. Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the off

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How to Change Your Kindle’s Language: Spanish, French, Japanese, and More (2025)

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-09-26 16:17:21

Looking to learn a new language? Reading is a great way to start, and you don't need a physical book to do it: Here's how to change your Kindle's language (and download books in other languages!) to learn right from your favorite e-reader. Reading a different language helps you expand your vocabulary and nail down nuances like sentence structure, and for visual learners like myself it can be the ideal way to start really learning information. Lucky for all of us e-reader lovers, Kindle's ebook

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Jaguar Land Rover to pause production for third week due to cyberattack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-26 20:44:14

In Brief Luxury car-maker Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday it will not resume vehicle manufacturing operations until at least September 24 due to a cyberattack earlier this month. In a new statement, the company said it informed colleagues, suppliers, and partners that the halt in production will extend into its third week. The company said this was due to “the controlled restart of our global operations, which will take time,” the company wrote. Laura Savvas, a spokesperson for Jaguar Land Ro

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Should we drain the Everglades?

news.ycombinator.com Rabbit Cavern 2025-09-27 10:33:35

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

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LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-28 02:15:34

Mix two internet touchstones together and what do you get? We’re going to find out. LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network, announced that it won the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in an auction. The company indicated it has no plans to use the branding for a music festival, but rather bought up the name and likeness mostly for the memes. LimeWire said in a press release that it plans to “unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre — one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into r

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Should We Drain the Everglades?

news.ycombinator.com Rabbit Cavern 2025-09-28 11:33:35

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

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In Defense of C++

news.ycombinator.com Dayvi Schuster 2025-09-28 11:40:34

Dayvi Schuster 12 min read Tuesday, September 9, 2025 In Defense of C++ Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape. The Reputation of C++ C++ has often and frequently been criticized for its complexity, steep learning curve, and most of all for its ability to allow the developers using it to not only shoot themselves in the foot, but to blow off their whole leg in the process. But do these criticisms hold up under scrutiny? Well, in this blog post,

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