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The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-25 02:20:41

A dangerous, sometimes deadly, infection spread by kissing bugs is regularly spreading within America. In a recent paper, researchers are claiming that Chagas disease is endemic to parts of the southern U.S. and is probably here to stay. Scientists in Florida, Texas, and California made the case in a paper published last month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Citing evidence from infected humans, animals, and kissing bugs, they argue that Chagas has established a persistent presence

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I asked AI to modify mission-critical code, and what happened next haunts me

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-25 06:45:56

Tsuba_sa/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI repeated major sections in a mission-critical coding plan. Mission-critical coding work is too risky to delegate to AI. AI is fine for new features, not core infrastructure. I woke up in a cold sweat. In my nightmare, I was being chased by tens of thousands of people, all of whom were enraged because I destroyed their privacy. They were all holding laptops over their heads, swin

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Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner

news.ycombinator.com About The Author 2025-11-25 10:33:54

The front page of Imgur, a popular image hosting and social media site, is full of pictures of John Oliver raising his middle finger and telling MediaLab AI, the site’s parent company, “fuck you.” Imgurians, as the site’s users call themselves, telling their business daddy to go to hell is the end result of a years-long degradation of the website. The Imgur story is one a classic case of enshitification , Imgur began life in 2009 when Ohio University student Alan Schaaf got tired of how hard it

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Do You Need a Satellite Messenger?

wired.com Kieran Alger 2025-11-25 11:00:00

When the smartphone in your pocket is loaded with a growing arsenal of safety tools—including location tracking, fall detection, and SOS alerts—it’s very tempting to adventure off the grid without back up. But if your hikes, runs, and rides regularly take you beyond the reach of cell towers, into more extreme conditions and terrain, sticking a dedicated satellite messenger in your pack might just save your life. Unlike smartphones, satellite communicators don’t rely on Wi-Fi or network coverage

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‘Clayface’ Takes Shape in Leaked Set Photos

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-11-25 16:30:30

Star Wars: Starfighter gets an Oscar-winning DP, Lady Gaga’s Wednesday character is finally revealed, and Avengers: Doomsday may introduce Steve and Peggy’s alternate-reality children. For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Morning Spoilers! Clayface Recent photos from the set of Clayface include our first looks at the film’s logo, Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, Max Minghella as the detective, “John,” Naomie Ackie’s “fringe scien

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The Pixel 10 has a new way to customize Quick Settings. Here’s how I created the perfect setup

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 14:00:08

Joe Maring / Android Authority There are so many software changes to talk about with the Google Pixel 10, and perhaps one of the biggest is Google’s Material 3 Expressive redesign. We’ve been discussing Material 3 Expressive for a while now, but the Pixel 10 series is the first set of phones to ship with the software in a fully finished build. As I’ve been testing all the various Material 3 Expressive updates on the Pixel 10 Pro, something that has stood out to me is the new Quick Settings UI.

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Gboard is getting a surprise font setting we weren’t expecting

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 04:21:39

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Gboard beta brings options to customize font size between 85% to 200% of the system default. Another option lets you switch between Google’s own font and any custom system font. These features are spotted on different devices, suggesting Google might just be testing them before rolling them out to the stable channel. Gboard is a hotbed for tryouts, with Google constantly experimenting with new features, layouts, or special arrangements for sp

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Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold gets a rumored launch date, and it’s sooner than you think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 04:42:00

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak suggests Samsung’s dual-hinged Galaxy Z TriFold will launch on September 29 in South Korea. The same event will reportedly feature launches of the Project Moohan (possibly rebranded to “Galaxy XR”) headset and potentially tease new AI-powered smart glasses. Previous leaks have suggested that the Galaxy tri-fold could be priced upwards of 4 million KRW (~$2,930) and be limited to China and South Korea. Samsung has long been working on a gener

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This new Linux desktop is almost a dead ringer for OS X

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-26 05:07:00

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Gershwin desktop is being developed for both BSD and Arch Linux. Gershwin is based on GnuStep and resembles MacOS. You can spin up a virtual machine and try the alpha version of Gershwin. Confession time: I don't give any of the BSD-based distributions enough attention. One reason is that I find BSD (and all its children) not really suited for people who've never used Linux. There's a reason for that issue: BSD

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WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 05:24:07

WinBoat Windows for Penguins. Run Windows apps on 🐧 Linux with ✨ seamless integration Screenshots ⚠️ Work in Progress ⚠️ WinBoat is currently in beta, so expect to occasionally run into hiccups and bugs. You should be comfortable with some level of troubleshooting if you decide to try it, however we encourage you to give it a shot anyway. Features 🎨 Elegant Interface : Sleek and intuitive interface that seamlessly integrates Windows into your Linux desktop environment, making it feel like

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Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 05:35:52

zfsbackrest ⚠️ Experimental: Do not use it as your only way for backups. This is something I wrote over a weekend. There's a lot of things that need work here. pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems. Getting Started Installing You need age installed to generate encryption keys. Encryption is NOT optional. $ go install github.com/gargakshit/zfsbackrest/cmd/zfsbackrest@latest Configuring Create /etc/zfsbackrest.toml . debug = true # warning, may log sensitive data [ repos

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Lego’s September Releases Set Sail in More Ways Than One

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-28 06:00:07

Thought Lego would take a break from the realm of big boats after it launched One Piece as part of its blockbuster August? Well, thanks to last week’s surprise announcement of a new Pirates of the Caribbean set, we can think again. And yet, it’s not the only boat on the horizon for this month. After going all out for its big summer release wave in August, things are definitely a bit quieter in September for Lego. But that doesn’t mean big things aren’t coming: the new Black Pearl and a funky Ch

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 23:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 20:37:08

I am a huge fan of my Rock 5 ITX+. It wraps an ATX power connector, a 4-pin Molex, PoE support, 32 GB of eMMC, front-panel USB 2.0, and two Gen 3×2 M.2 slots around a Rockchip 3588 SoC that can slot into any Mini-ITX case. Thing is, I never put it in a case because the microSD slot lives on the side of the board, and pulling the case out and removing the side panel to install a new OS got old with a quickness. I originally wanted to rackmount the critter, but adding a deracking difficulty multi

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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

news.ycombinator.com John Fraraccio 2025-11-28 17:15:19

Click to enlarge A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory. The most important territories in maintaining this late-empire sunlight are the Pitcairn Islands, in the Pacific, and the British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Indian Ocean. To illustrate th

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UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-28 21:05:15

In Brief The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To st

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What to read this weekend: Two thrilling horror novels in one

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:15:44

Once again (or twice, really, because this book is two novels in one), Stephen Graham Jones delivers on some really gripping, fun horror that spins some classic tropes into something unexpected. This double feature contains The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, the first being a story about a night of babysitting gone horribly, supernaturally wrong on the eve of Halloween, and the latter a road trip from hell situation in which a hitchhiker-targeting serial killer sets his sights on a run

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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-28 11:00:52

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to major banks, pension funds, asset managers, accounting firms, companies, nonprofits, and business alliances, putting them on notice for potential antitrust violations and seeking information as part of the Republican pu

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A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 00:07:11

A look at the upcoming XSLT 3.0 release, and why it matters beyond the XML community Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (ultimately XSL-FO) and the XML Stylesheet language (XSLT) for transforming XML-formatted content into th

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-28 17:30:18

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

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Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 15:30:03

Spider-Man is one of the most recognizable superheroes in the world, with decades of comics history, multiple movie franchises, animated shows and a long list of video games, including three recent titles on PS5 and PC. And now he's crawling his way into Magic: The Gathering with September's Spider-Man set. This is the third full Universes Beyond set -- Magic's name for products based on outside properties. While Universes Beyond has introduced myriad properties from Stranger Things to Spongebo

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Why You Should Be Using XSLT 3.0 (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:07:11

A look at the upcoming XSLT 3.0 release, and why it matters beyond the XML community Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (ultimately XSL-FO) and the XML Stylesheet language (XSLT) for transforming XML-formatted content into th

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Starlink's New Customer Deal: Get Half-Off a Dish and Hundreds in Year-One Savings

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 10:30:00

For people living in rural areas or places where traditional internet providers don't reach, Starlink has been a game changer. The satellite-powered service makes reliable connectivity possible in areas that were often left out. Now, the company is making it even more affordable for new customers to sign up with the lowest monthly prices we've seen so far. The Starlink standard kit is currently available for $175 - half off its usual $349 cost. Unlike previous discounts that were restricted to

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Windows 11 KB5064081 update clears up CPU usage metrics in Task Manager

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:57:04

Microsoft has released the KB5064081 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes thirty-six new features or changes, with many gradually rolling out. These updates include new Recall features and a new way of displaying CPU usage in Task Manager. The KB5064081 update is part of the company's optional non-security preview update schedule, which releases updates at the end of each month to test new fixes and features coming to the next month's Patch Tuesday. Unlike regular Pa

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Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-29 21:30:52

There are all sorts of cruel parasites out there, and more are being uncovered all the time. Scientists have recently found several invasive species of parasitic wasps that have now landed in the U.S. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Iowa made the discovery. For the first time ever, they detected the presence of two closely related parasitic wasp species previously only found in Europe. Don’t be too personally afraid, though: these wasps only infest other wasps. A was

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Great Scott! ‘Back to the Future’ Is Getting a Snazzy Theatrical Re-Release

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-30 02:30:17

Forty years after its release, Back to the Future‘s pop-culture presence is as strong as ever thanks to theme parks, the tie-in musical, a missing-guitar mystery, and simply the enduring love for the movie itself. Starting October 31, fans can revisit the Robert Zemeckis-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced time-travel classic on the big screen. And we do mean big: this re-release is targeting premium, large-scale formats, including Dolby Cinema, 4DX, and D-Box—as well as IMAX. According to a Un

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Usual ‘Gremlins’ Rules Don’t Apply With This Precious Lego Gizmo

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-30 06:45:36

It’s not easy to make Lego bricks cute. As fun as they can be, there’s no getting away from the fact that they’re hard, plastic pieces. And yet, the team there has somehow done the impossible. They’ve created an official set from the 1984 classic Gremlins of the adorable Gizmo and, in the process, made Lego absolutely precious. Gizmo, which was a Lego Ideas contest winner last year, is now available for pre-order for Lego Insiders with a general on-sale date of October 1. And it truly is an ado

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Anthropic Settles With Authors Over Pirated Material: What Does That Mean for Other AI Lawsuits?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 10:05:02

Anthropic agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its Claude AI models. On Tuesday, the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating their agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement, but we could know more as soon as next week. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon.

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Qualcomm’s next Elite processor could have a ridiculously confusing name

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-01 09:02:12

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the next Snapdragon 8 Elite chip could be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. This is a major departure from the expected Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 or 8 Elite Gen 2 names. We’re guessing this is because Qualcomm is readying an apparent Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip as well. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite late last year, and this represented a change in naming convention after the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. We were expecting the Snap

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Changing these 10 settings on my OnePlus phone gave it a big performance boost

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-01 11:00:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. It's been agreed upon by the ZDNET team that the OnePlus 13 is this year's sleeper hit. At a starting price of $899, the flagship phone can compete against more expensive phones like the Pixel 10 Pro XL and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. And we have OnePlus' clean yet highly customizable software experience to thank for that. Also: You can try Android 16's new lock screen widgets - if you have one of these phones If you switche

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The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

I asked AI to modify mission-critical code, and what happened next haunts me

Imgur's Community Is in Full Revolt Against Its Owner

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Gboard is getting a surprise font setting we weren’t expecting

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Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

Lego’s September Releases Set Sail in More Ways Than One

What Is Complexity in Chess?

Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

What to read this weekend: Two thrilling horror novels in one

Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

Why You Should Be Using XSLT 3.0 (2017)

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Usual ‘Gremlins’ Rules Don’t Apply With This Precious Lego Gizmo

Anthropic Settles With Authors Over Pirated Material: What Does That Mean for Other AI Lawsuits?

Qualcomm’s next Elite processor could have a ridiculously confusing name

Changing these 10 settings on my OnePlus phone gave it a big performance boost

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