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Scientists Baffled by "Alien Mineral" That Acts in a Weird Way When Heated Up

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-16 11:00:48

Scientists Baffled by "Alien Mineral" That Acts in a Weird Way When Heated Up There is quite literally nothing like this on Earth. Alien Crystals A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth when it's heated. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers detailed the incredible properties of their sample of silica tridymite, an extraterrestrial form of silicon dioxide that was taken f

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OpenAI in talks to sell around $6 billion in stock at roughly $500 billion valuation

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-08-16 22:57:35

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on July 8, 2025. OpenAI is preparing to sell around $6 billion in stock as part of a secondary sale that would value the company at roughly $500 billion, CNBC confirmed Friday. The shares would be sold by current and former employees to investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital, according to a person familia

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Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-08-17 15:09:09

During a press conference in late 2024, President Donald Trump vowed to “slash massive numbers of job-killing regulations” in his second term and pledged to eliminate 10 old rules for every new one. Now, he’s bringing that deregulation drive to commercial space, ordering federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport development, and clear out the Federal Aviation Administration’s industry advisory board. “Inefficient permitting processes discourage investment and innova

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Former Hospital Worker Allegedly Stole Skin Grafts in California

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-19 22:50:51

A man in Southern California has been arrested for allegedly stealing from three area hospitals. But the things he stole weren’t your run-of-the-mill items. The man made off with about $300,000 in surgical equipment and skin grafts, according to the Mercury News. Jason Brauner, a 47-year-old man from San Jacinto, California, allegedly posed as a hospital employee to pilfer the highly unusual property. The Riverside County Sheriff said in a press release that Brauner was arrested on Aug. 6 and c

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Private Spaceflight Enters the Wild West as Trump Slashes Regulations

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-19 23:15:17

President Donald Trump is calling for an ease of regulations for commercial spaceflight and streamlining licensing for rocket launches and reentries. The move highly favors companies like SpaceX but could have negative repercussions on environmental habitats surrounding launchpads. On Wednesday, August 13, Trump signed an executive order intended to bolster the spaceflight industry and increase the overall commercial launch cadence. In it, Trump calls on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who

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macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 3 now available, here’s how to install it

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-20 03:19:35

As it usually does towards the final stretch of the beta season, Apple is moving to the weekly schedule of beta releases. Following Monday’s release of a new developer beta batch, the third round of public betas is rolling out now, including macOS 26 Tahoe beta 3. Here’s how to install it. First things first: should you install the beta? You probably know the drill: Betas can be unpredictably buggy. Even if something works on one release, it is not guaranteed to work on the next. Of course, y

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Why LLMs can't really build software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 23:26:09

One of the things I have spent a lot of time doing is interviewing software engineers. This is obviously a hard task, and I don’t claim to have a magic solution; but it’s given me some time to reflect on what effective software engineers actually do. When you watch someone who knows what they are doing, you'll see them looping over the following steps: Build a mental model of the requirements Write code that (hopefully?!) does that Build a mental model of what the code actually does Identify t

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Why LLMs Can't Build Software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 14:26:09

One of the things I have spent a lot of time doing is interviewing software engineers. This is obviously a hard task, and I don’t claim to have a magic solution; but it’s given me some time to reflect on what effective software engineers actually do. When you watch someone who knows what they are doing, you'll see them looping over the following steps: Build a mental model of the requirements Write code that (hopefully?!) does that Build a mental model of what the code actually does Identify t

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Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 07:45:35

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing government agencies to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews for commercial launch and reentry licenses. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), grants licenses for commercial launch and reentry operations. The FAA is charged with ensuring launch and reentries don't endanger the public, comply with environmental laws, and comport with US national interests. The drive

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Researchers Harness Black Metal to Turbocharge Solar Power

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-21 19:00:39

Several years ago, an optics expert developed a technique for turning shiny metals pitch black. The trick resulted in a material perfectly suited for absorbing sunlight—so much so that generators built with it produced 15 times more power than comparable devices. The team used black metal to develop a new design for solar thermoelectric generators. Known as STEGs, they can convert various types of thermal energy into electricity. However, technological limitations significantly curbed their pot

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The Pandemic Didn’t Actually Spike America’s Anxiety, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-22 11:40:17

The covid-19 pandemic was a horrific and earth-shattering world event. But it may not have scarred our collective psyche as profoundly as you would think. New research indicates that the pandemic didn’t spike Americans’ overall anxiety. Scientists at the University of Virginia led the study, which examined a decade’s worth of survey data. They found evidence that our anxiety levels didn’t significantly shift in the first years of the pandemic. People’s mental fortitude during the pandemic was p

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Expert Tips for Sleeping Comfortably at Night While Pregnant With an Active Baby

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-22 10:20:00

We all need quality sleep to function properly during the day, but it gets even more important when you're pregnant. The irony? That's also when sleep gets harder. With a lot of nighttime activity in the womb, you can get less sleep at a time when you need more sleep. A recent Reddit thread also shows many moms-to-be experiencing the same, leading to more fatigue during the day. I spoke to several experts to see why this tends to be a common experience among expectant parents, and they shared so

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The case for commuting by motorcycle

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-22 11:36:32

America has a motorcycle problem. Whereas the rest of the world views two-wheeled motorized transportation as transportation, the US sees motorcycles and scooters as toys. They're not something you use to commute to work or run errands. Instead, they're for riding to the coffee shop on weekends. This is a flawed line of thinking, and I'll tell you why, using two motorcycles as examples. But first, hear me out. I live in Los Angeles, which is famous for its hellacious traffic. For motorcyclists,

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So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 03:06:29

Pen plotters are somewhat like 3D printers. They move in X/Y space and typically have a pen lift mechanism. Attached to their arm can be any number of drawing instruments, from pens to pencils, brushes to pastels, and even drill bits to scratch glass. Printers (we'll focus on inkjet for this article) blast tiny ink particles into paper and can seamlessly mix them to create a range of visually distinct hues and tones. In the art world, they're commonly used to make Giclée prints, which are essen

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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

wired.com Seth Harp 2025-08-26 00:00:00

The 2020s are shaping up to be one of the most violent decades in modern history, with American-sponsored proxy conflicts and shadow wars smoldering all over the world, from Ukraine to Yemen to Gaza. The United States enables and prolongs these wars not by sending troops to fight in them, but by trafficking arms to the belligerents, providing intelligence to its favored proxies, and using covert operations, especially assassinations, to shape geopolitical conditions. At the forefront of these cl

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This see-thru Game Boy is a work of art — because she designed a transparent circuit board

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-08-26 19:21:53

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Have you heard of Natalie the Nerd? She’s a pillar of the Nintendo Game Boy modding scene who taught herself to reverse engineer and design Game Boy circuit boards. Now, she’s put her skills to work in probably the most beautiful build I’ve ever seen:

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The Rise of a New AI Superpower

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-08-27 11:29:26

Abu Dhabi’s artificial intelligence sector is growing at breakneck speed, a rapid expansion that officials say is reconfiguring the emirate as a major global centre for AI. New figures from the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry show the emirate counted 673 AI companies between June 2023 and June 2024, a stunning 61% rise in a single year. That growth has made Abu Dhabi the fastest-growing AI cluster in the Middle East and North Africa. But in a world dominated by a handful of establis

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-28 02:00:00

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin account that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carmaker’s centralized web portal. With this access, a m

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Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 22:56:14

abogen Abogen is a powerful text-to-speech conversion tool that makes it easy to turn ePub, PDF, or text files into high-quality audio with matching subtitles in seconds. Use it for audiobooks, voiceovers for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or any project that needs natural-sounding text-to-speech, using Kokoro-82M. Demo demo.mp4 This demo was generated in just 5 seconds, producing ∼1 minute of audio with perfectly synced subtitles. To create a similar video, see the demo guide. How to install?

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Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-08-27 06:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. It’s wors

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Terry Matalas Reveals New ‘Vision Quest’ Details

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-27 20:40:08

At Saturday’s STLV convention, former Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas revealed some Marvel-approved details about his upcoming series, Vision Quest. The sci-fi series reunites him with actors Todd Stashwick and Orla Brady, who respectively played Captain Shaw and Laris/Tallinn in Picard. According to Matalas, Brady will be playing F.R.I.D.A.Y.—Tony Stark’s AI assistant previously voiced in the films by Kerry Condon—and Stashwick is Paladin, a mercenary in Marvel Comics. When Stashwic

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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 19:06:56

Installing apps on Sandstorm is as easy as installing apps on your phone. Find any app you want on the App Market and start using it with a few clicks. Every app comes with automatic updates.

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Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-28 19:40:25

Progress on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ground to a halt on Thursday, August 7, when a federal judge ordered a two-week ban on construction. The ruling follows a hearing in a lawsuit by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians. The plaintiffs—Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Everglades, and the Miccosukee—allege that hasty construction of the facility in the Everglades unlawfully moved forward without public input or an environmental impact st

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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2025-08-25 14:14:15

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up. I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let’s explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a ho

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Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2025-08-27 06:14:15

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up. I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let’s explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a ho

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‘Dan Da Dan’ Just Added Heavy Metal Exorcisms to Its Raucous Anime Medley

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-08-30 15:15:57

Dan Da Dan season 2 has consecutively become the talk of the anime community online, with each passing episode becoming another grand moment in its rise to become the main character of the internet. Its latest anime feat sees the show go full death metal in a raucous exorcism. In Dan Da Dan episode 6, titled “We Became A Family,” Okarun, Momo, and crew are quite literally picking up the pieces from Evil Eye’s sudden attack inside the Ayase house. In the previous episode, which featured the anim

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Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 13:09:41

I needed an organisation that would create digital media standards for consumers to seamlessly communicate and industry operate in a global market of interoperable products, services and applications. I conceived that organisation in 1987, established it in 1988I, and called Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In four years, MPEG had ushered in the digital media age with MPEG-1, a standard for interactive media used in Video CD, digital audio broadcasting (MP2), and personal music (MP3). Starti

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Digital Wellbeing is looking easy on the eyes with its first taste of Material 3 Expressive

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-31 07:49:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Material 3 Expressive changes have started showing up in Digital Wellbeing. Right now only users on Android 16 QPR1 Beta or Android Canary are getting the new interface. Only the main Digital Wellbeing screen has this new look, suggesting more changes could be on the way. Google developers are currently in the middle of an Android-wide project to update the look and feel of the company’s apps, all with the goal of embracing the new Material 3 Express

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macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 2 rolling out, here’s how to install it

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-31 07:26:11

Following a distribution hiccup, Apple is now rolling out macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 2. Here’s how to install it, and what to expect. First things first: should you install the beta? You probably know the drill: Betas can be unpredictably buggy. Even if something works on one release, it is not guaranteed to work on the next. Just this week, developer beta 5 broke compatibility with the timer app I use on the menu bar, while it had been working just fine in previous betas. I’ve also been facin

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Italy's pizza detectives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 09:17:26

As pizza's popularity spreads around the world, a group of top-secret agents are travelling the globe on espionage missions to determine what "real" pizza is. On a sweltering day bleached by the fearsome southern Italian sun, a group of international travellers have gathered a stone's throw from Naples' San Gennaro catacombs, named for the city's patron saint. But these visitors aren't here to venerate the ancient martyr; they've come in service of something equally important to the city's ide

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