GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 19:48:41

Health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to roll back access to lifesaving vaccines for children, and has refused to even speak with staff scientists and subject-matter experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about evidence-based recommendations. That's according to former CDC officials who testified before the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) called ex-CDC director Susan Monarez to review

Topics: cdc kennedy monarez senate today

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr. Claimed CDC Was ‘Killing Children’ According to Former Director

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-21 13:55:35

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez testified at a combative Senate hearing in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday about the ways that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dismantling scientific expertise at CDC, confirming the worst fears of every American who still cares about science and public health. Monarez, who was fired by President Donald Trump less than a month after being confirmed, told senators that Kennedy told her in August that he was going to change the childhood vaccine schedule in

Topics: cdc kennedy monarez said vaccine

Shop Amazon

When the job search becomes impossible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 21:18:00

I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can solve it, but maybe I can help put words to what some are going through. The problem unfolds in three distinct phases as the job search drags on. Phase I: The Obvious but Impossible Search You’ve spent several months sending out scores of c

Topics: burned new rest search time

Shop Amazon

NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 01:26:27

NASA is changing the way that its employees come in contact with, and remember, one of its worst tragedies. In the wake of the 2003 loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew, NASA created a program to use the orbiter's debris for research and education at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Agency employees were invited to see what remained of the space shuttle as a powerful reminder as to why they had to be diligent in their work. Access to the Columbia Research and Preservation Off

Topics: columbia employees kennedy nasa space

Shop Amazon

XNEdit – fast and classic X11 text editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:45:50

XNEdit Available on Sourceforge and Github Documentation

Topics: available documentation github sourceforge xnedit

Shop Amazon

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-02 21:00:34

In Brief Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five years, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI would start purchasing this compute in 2027. If the WSJ’s reporting is correct, this

Topics: compute openai oracle reporting signed

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr’s HHS Deploys ChatGPT for All Staff

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-04 01:20:45

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has thrown the Department of Health and Human Services into turmoil through a series of bizarre and idiotic policy decisions, and now, to make things better, he’s apparently forcing everybody who remains at the pivotal health agency to use a chatbot. That should sort everything out. 404 Media reports that HHS employees received an email on Tuesday entitled “AI Deployment,” which explained that ChatGPT would now be available to everybody at the agency. 404 writes that the d

Topics: ai email health hhs kennedy

Shop Amazon

How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-06 19:30:17

Suchitra Sangsuwan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's Key Takeaways Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article includes step-by-step instructions to turn off OneDrive Backup and reset your local folders. Microsoft is getting more aggressive about tying its flagship productivity products to t

Topics: backup files folder microsoft onedrive

Shop Amazon

Is OneDrive sending your Windows files to the cloud? Here's why - and what you can do

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-07 17:49:00

dem10/iStock/Getty Images Plus ZDNET's key takeaways OneDrive Backup moves your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders to a new location. If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription, this option is valuable but raises privacy concerns. It's possible to turn this feature off, but cleanup takes a few extra steps. If you don't pay careful attention when setting up a new Windows PC or completing installation after a feature update, you could find many of your data files suddenly relocated to the

Topics: files folder folders onedrive windows

Shop Amazon

Is OneDrive sending all your Windows files to the cloud? Here's why - and what you can do

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-08 13:49:00

dem10/iStock/Getty Images Plus If you don't pay careful attention when setting up a new Windows PC or completing installation after a feature update, you could find many of your data files suddenly relocated to the cloud. That might be a good thing, or it might be a mess. And, of course, Microsoft is frustratingly unhelpful when it comes to explaining how this feature works. Also: How to upgrade your 'incompatible' Windows 10 PC to Windows 11: Two ways Should this happen to you, please follow

Topics: files folder folders onedrive windows

Shop Amazon

Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 16:38:29

Are you worried about this skin lesion? Swipe left (concerned) / right (not concerned) or use the buttons. I am concerned I am not concerned I'm not sure

Topics: buttons concerned left lesion right

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-08 13:07:17

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weathered ample family tragedy, drug and alcohol addiction, infection from an alleged brain worm, and a few sex scandals both minor and major — and now he's weathering condemnation from his own political allies that could presage a genuine crash out. Amid his single-minded quest against vaccines, the 71-year-old health secretary seems to have made a serious miscalculation when he chose to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevent

Topics: confirmation director health kennedy trump

Shop Amazon

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 01:20:39

As fall approaches and COVID cases tick up, you might be thinking about getting this season's COVID-19 vaccine. The annually updated shots have previously been easily accessible to anyone over 6 months of age. Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that's what most people did. However, the situation is much different this year with an ardent anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the country's top health official. Since taking the

Topics: 19 covid kennedy people vaccine

Shop Amazon

EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:36:03

The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors. Google was also ordered by the EU's top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and "self-preferencing" practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest in the adtech market. Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, told BleepingComputer that t

Topics: billion commission fined google search

Shop Amazon

OpenAI could launch its own AI chip next year

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-10 17:31:03

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on track to start mass production of its own in-house artificial intelligence chips for the first time next year, according to a report from the Financial Times. Unnamed sources tell the outlet that OpenAI designed the chip with US s

Topics: ai chips designed openai tech

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 14:18:36

US health secretary and ardent anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday amid turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and widespread chaos over access to COVID-19 vaccines. In the combative three-hour hearing, Kennedy defended his dramatic firing of the CDC director last week, less than a month after her confirmation, which he effusively supported. Today, he repeatedly called her a liar and made the extraordinary claim tha

Topics: 19 committee kennedy vaccine vaccines

Shop Amazon

io_uring is faster than mmap

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 23:01:11

TL;DR Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't. Introduction In part 1 I showed how some computer performance factors are scaling exponentially while others have been stagnant for decades. I then asserted, without proof, that sourcing data from disk can be faster than from memory. What follows is the proof.

Topics: 10 data int memory unsigned

Shop Amazon

Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 09:01:11

TL;DR Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't. Introduction In part 1 I showed how some computer performance factors are scaling exponentially while others have been stagnant for decades. I then asserted, without proof, that sourcing data from disk can be faster than from memory. What follows is the proof.

Topics: 10 data int memory unsigned

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr. Says He Doesn’t Know How Many Americans Died From Covid During Heated Senate Hearing

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-12 05:05:08

Fresh off the internal collapse of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s senior leadership, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. There, Kennedy deflected and denied any harmful impacts from the CDC’s implosion, while repeatedly spouting misinformation about vaccines and other health issues. The hearing comes after much of the CDC’s leadership resigned or were fired in last week. Former CDC director Susan Monarez was f

Topics: 19 covid kennedy vaccine vaccines

Shop Amazon

Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-12 09:00:59

U.S. health officials have issued several recalls of shrimp in recent weeks over concerns about radioactive material. And now a sitting U.S. Senator has taken the opportunity to warn people in the most dire terms possible. With help from a visual aide, of course. Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, took to the Senate floor with a giant poster board featuring a screenshot from the classic 1979 film Alien on Wednesday. And he wants you to know that Americans are going to look like the

Topics: alien kennedy like radioactive shrimp

Shop Amazon

The Paper doesn’t hit its stride until it’s out of the office

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-14 21:30:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. When NBC’s adaptation of The Office first debuted in 2005, the series was panned for being a pale and uninspired imitation of its English predecessor. It took an entire season for showrunner Greg Daniels to figure out how to infuse his take on The Office with a quirky, satirical energy calibrated to appeal to American audiences. But o

Topics: like ned office paper series

Shop Amazon

The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:09:21

Image by Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Futurism Mental Health Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the well-heeled crackpot helming our nation's healthcare system, holds all kinds of screwball beliefs about pharmaceuticals — but his bizarre and incoherent opposition to depression-treating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is perhaps the most indefensible. Since at least 2023, when Kennedy first launched his long-shot presidential campaign, the conspiracy theorist has insisted there is some sort

Topics: drugs kennedy school ssris violence

Shop Amazon

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 21:49:54

Microsoft has introduced AI models that it trained internally and says it will begin using them in some products. This announcement may represent an effort to move away from dependence on OpenAI, despite Microsoft's substantial investment in that company. It comes more than a year after insider reports revealed that Microsoft was beginning work on its own foundational models. A post on the Microsoft AI blog describes two models. MAI-Voice-1 is a natural speech-generation model meant to deliver

Topics: ai microsoft model models trained

Shop Amazon

Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-10-21 01:46:00

In brief: OneDrive, Microsoft's answer to iCloud and Google Drive, is deeply embedded in Windows 11. The operating system doesn't display prompts for opting out of the program, and Microsoft is preparing to introduce more obstacles for users who wish to save files locally. The change will begin with Microsoft Word before coming to other apps. Microsoft 365 Insiders should soon begin seeing Microsoft Word automatically save files to the company's OneDrive cloud by default. Users can toggle the f

Topics: files microsoft onedrive users word

Shop Amazon

US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-22 14:11:23

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and two companies associated with North Korean IT worker schemes that operate at the expense of American organizations. These schemes involve placing in U.S. firms skilled tech workers with stolen or fabricated identities and using so-called “laptop farms” to hide the true location of the employees. The workers funnel their earnings to the DPRK regime to fund the regime's weapons program. They also often

Topics: andreyev companies dprk sanctioned workers

Shop Amazon

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 10:03:57

Introduction TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux. It: monitors connected devices using the udev device manager device manager tunes system settings according to a selected profile supports various types of configuration like sysctl , sysfs , or kernel boot command line parameters, which are integrated in a plug-in architecture , , or kernel boot command line parameters, which are integrated in a plug-in architecture supports hot plugging of devices and can be controlled from the comm

Topics: example github profile profiles tuned

Shop Amazon

CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-24 07:00:09

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was reportedly fired on Wednesday after she resisted changes to covid-19 vaccine policies, according to the Washington Post. But her lawyer says she hasn’t been officially notified of the termination, throwing a curveball into an already chaotic news cycle at the CDC. “When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protectin

Topics: according cdc health kennedy monarez

Shop Amazon

FDA approves updated covid vaccines, but with severe new limits

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-24 17:10:15

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Wednesday, the FDA approved the new round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax for use by seniors over the age of 65. But for anyone younger than that, the FDA approval only mentions people who have “at least one underlying condition that pu

Topics: cdc children covid kennedy people

Shop Amazon

RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the ‘Cause’ of Autism Next Month

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-26 05:55:13

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is apparently about to solve a mystery that countless doctors and researchers have failed to crack. This week, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and longtime vaccine skeptic teased that he will reveal the cause(s) of autism spectrum disorder next month. Kennedy made the claim during President Donald Trump’s lengthy cabinet meeting Tuesday. After being prompted by Trump, RFK Jr. stated that his agency will announce having found “certain interventions” that are “cle

Topics: autism jr kennedy rfk vaccines

Shop Amazon

US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-26 09:43:04

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an international fraud network used by North Korea to infiltrate U.S. companies with hackers posing as legitimate job seekers, agency officials announced Wednesday. The sanctions are the latest action taken by the U.S. Treasury in recent months aimed at combating North Korean government workers from seeking employment at American companies using fake identities and documents to apply for jobs. Once employed, the hackers earn a wage from the company, but also ste

Topics: company korean north sanctioned treasury

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine delusions—not science—steer CDC now, ex-director testifies

RFK Jr. Claimed CDC Was ‘Killing Children’ According to Former Director

When the job search becomes impossible

NASA closing its original repository for Columbia artifacts to tours

XNEdit – fast and classic X11 text editor

OpenAI and Oracle reportedly ink historic cloud computing deal

RFK Jr’s HHS Deploys ChatGPT for All Staff

How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

Is OneDrive sending your Windows files to the cloud? Here's why - and what you can do

Is OneDrive sending all your Windows files to the cloud? Here's why - and what you can do

Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

OpenAI could launch its own AI chip next year

RFK Jr. says COVID shots still available to all as cancer patients denied access

io_uring is faster than mmap

Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2

RFK Jr. Says He Doesn’t Know How Many Americans Died From Covid During Heated Senate Hearing

Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

The Paper doesn’t hit its stride until it’s out of the office

The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

With new in-house models, Microsoft lays the groundwork for independence from OpenAI

Microsoft Word will soon save documents to the cloud by default

US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

CDC Director Denies Report She’s Been Fired by Trump Regime (HHS Says She’s Out)

FDA approves updated covid vaccines, but with severe new limits

RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the ‘Cause’ of Autism Next Month

US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising