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Tesla Making Yet Another Desperate Move in Europe

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-16 03:00:52

Tesla has been struggling in Europe, where its sales are down across the continent. In the United Kingdom, the company’s sales reportedly dropped 60 percent last month. With those cratering numbers, the EV firm appears to have made another, shall we say, incredibly generous offer to locals, as the company continues to combat lagging sales. British newspaper The Times reports that Tesla has nearly halved the monthly cost of leasing one of its cars in the U.K. Elon Musk’s company has been “forced

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‘Skibidi,’ ‘Tradwife,’ and 6,000 Other New Words Are in the Dictionary Now

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-16 08:45:07

Before you roll your eyes at the Gen Alpha in your life for using made-up words, you might want to check the latest update to the dictionary. Cambridge University announced that its most recent revisions to the Cambridge Dictionary add 6,000 new words, including a slew of internet-pilled ones like skibidi, tradwife, and delulu. “It’s not every day you get to see words like skibidi and delulu make their way into the Cambridge Dictionary. We only add words where we think they’ll have staying powe

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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-17 02:01:06

The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by 404 Media. They include instructions for a range of AI personas, like Ani, its flagship romantic anime girlfriend who “is secretly a bit of a nerd, despite [her] edgy appearance.” The exposure

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Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” Media Matters lawsuit may be fizzling out

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 16:42:08

Media Matters for America (MMFA)—a nonprofit that Elon Musk accused of sparking a supposedly illegal ad boycott on X—won its bid to block a sweeping Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe that appeared to have rushed to silence Musk's foe without ever adequately explaining why the government needed to get involved. In her opinion granting MMFA's preliminary injunction, US District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan—a Joe Biden appointee—agreed that the FTC's probe was likely to be ruled as a retaliatory

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This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-18 03:15:23

At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found themselves looking at an entirely unexpected sight. “Everything else disappeared, even the bright central black hole, and only this little dot remained,” Elena Shablovinskaia, an astrophysicist at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, told Gizmodo. Shablovinskaia’s team believes they’ve discovered an entirely new kind of space ob

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This Linux distro puts more than 20 desktops a click away

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-18 08:00:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Sparky Linux is a lightweight distribution based on Debian 13. With Sparky Linux, you can install from over 20 desktops. Sparky Linux is a great option, even for new Linux users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Sparky Linux is well-known as a very good lightweight Linux distribution. Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE

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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-18 12:20:54

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up speed and slingshotting across the metal plate. The researchers suggest that this sort of independent movement could one day generate power

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Sky Calendar

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:24:29

The Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar promotes skywatching for people of all ages. As its name implies, the sheet for each month takes the form of a calendar. Diagrams in the boxes invite the reader to track the moon's rapid motion past the planets and bright stars of the zodiac, as well as to follow the more leisurely pace of the planets in their gatherings with bright stars and other planets. The reverse side consists of a simplified star map of the month's evening sky. The sky maps are designed

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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

technologyreview.com Ben Crair 2025-11-19 12:00:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living

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Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths

news.ycombinator.com Feb 2025-11-19 09:47:44

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths Erik J. Larson thinks about “Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” which traces Robert Skidelsky’s philosophical reckoning with AI, automation, and the illusion of progress. By Erik J. Larson August 2, 2025 Science & Technology Philosophy & Religion Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Robert Skidelsky . Other Press , 2024. 384 pages. BEGINNING IN THE 1960s, a generation of visionary engineers

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Scientists Pitch Bold Plan to Turn Nuclear Waste Into Nuclear Fuel

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-19 11:00:22

Nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances, and the promise of clean, efficient energy does seem to be creeping closer to reality. But skeptics point to practical issues we may not be trying hard enough to solve—issues that will inevitably weigh down our reactors when they finally arrive. A new proposal by Terence Tarnowsky, a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focuses on one key part of the problem: finding a supply of tritium, a fundamental ingredient for fusion. Tarnows

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How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession

wired.com Julia Black 2025-11-19 12:00:00

Elon Musk had a question: “Does anybody have any experience with first principles analysis?” He was speaking to a room full of kids, many of whom knew Musk as the CEO of companies that made rockets and cool-looking cars—and as the founder of Ad Astra, the microschool they attended in his Bel Air mansion, per a video posted by the YouTube channel Newsthink. To five of them, he was simply “Dad.” Generation iPad Young people entering classrooms this fall need a totally different tool set than the

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These 5 Posture Corrector Picks Will Straighten You Out (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-18 23:00:00

Compare Top 5 Posture Correctors How We Test Posture Correctors AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron We tested each posture corrector, wearing them through the routines of daily life—from sitting at a desk to running errands and working out—for both short and long periods, over several months. No one wants to feel like they’re strapped into armor, so we evaluated wearability by focusing on comfort, breathable materials, and adjustability. Material quality was a priority, and we kept an eye

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Tversky Neural Networks

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-11-18 16:59:51

Authors: Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Dan Jurafsky, Christopher D. Manning Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11035 Once a year, some interesting architecture inevitably appears where they change some fundamental building block. This happened with KAN last year, where they changed the parameterization of the neuron activation function (though it's unclear what the outcome is after a year — many follow-up works seem to have appeared, but KANs haven't displaced anyone anywhere yet). The same is

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Best Mineral Sunscreen of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 18:39:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Sunscreen is an important part of skin care year-round, but especially in the summer, when we tend to be outside more often in more intense sun. Mineral sunscreens (also called physical sunscreens) tend to be a great fit for those with sensitive skin. While chemical sunscreens absorb UV rays, mineral sunscreens reflect the rays u

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OpenAI Progress

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:47:12

As an AI language model, I can't express personal desires, emotions, or thoughts like a human would. However, in the spirit of your question, I can suggest some interesting questions or topics that a conversation with a future AI model might encompass: New advances and capabilities: I might ask about any major leaps in AI technology since my training data, such as groundbreaking developments in natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning. Addressing the AI alignment

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Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 23:39:34

I’ve been experimenting with adding AI agents to UserJot, our feedback, roadmap, and changelog platform. Not the simple “one prompt, one response” stuff. Real agent systems where multiple specialized agents communicate, delegate tasks, and somehow don’t crash into each other. The goal was to analyze customer feedback at scale. Find patterns across hundreds of posts. Auto-generate changelog entries. Things that were basically impossible to do manually. I spent weeks reverse engineering tools lik

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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 21:44:49

The perception is that model improvement seems to be stagnating. GPT-5 wasn’t the step change that people were expecting. Yet, models continue to improve on reasoning benchmarks. Recently, both OpenAI and Google models were on par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 (IMO). At the same time it’s still difficult to make AI agents work for relatively simple enterprise use cases. Why is there such a disparity in model performance between problem domains? Why are mode

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SpaceX Has Likely Skirted Federal Income Taxes for Decades, Investigation Reveals

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-19 21:25:29

Since its founding in 2002, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as the leading force in commercial spaceflight and a key launch provider for the U.S. government. A recent investigation suggests its dominance may stem—at least in part—from two decades of federal tax avoidance. Internal company documents reviewed exclusively by The New York Times show that SpaceX can exploit net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards, a U.S. tax provision that lets companies use past losses to offset future taxable income

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Millions at Extreme Risk as Wet-Bulb Heat Smothers the U.S. This Weekend

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-20 11:25:10

Summer may be winding down, but oppressive heat and humidity will smother much of the Eastern U.S. this weekend. By Sunday, August 17, 38 million Americans will face “major” risk of heat stress, with another 7 million at “extreme” risk, according to the National Weather Service. The forecast calls for the highest temperature anomalies to spread from the Central Plains to the Midwest this weekend, with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s and low 100s Fahrenheit (mid-to-upper 30s Celsius), the N

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-20 16:35:30

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

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Reminders in iOS 26 has a powerful new tool for organizing tasks

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-20 21:17:59

Apple’s Reminders app is one of many system apps getting new features in iOS 26. Among the handful of improvements coming to Reminders, there’s a powerful new tool for organizing your tasks. iOS 26’s Reminders app can now sort your tasks into sections automatically When it comes to task management, apps can sometimes get a little carried away with the number of features and settings they offer. Having a feature-rich app is great, but task managers can err in requiring too much time to organiz

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Trump Rips Up Environmental Rules Protecting Wildlife From Destructive Rocket Launches

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-21 21:48:14

Their friendship may be over, but president Donald Trump just handed Elon Musk and his company SpaceX a major boon by brushing aside major environmental regulations. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order to accelerate space launches by effectively deregulating the industry. As part of this push, the Federal Aviation Administration is directed to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews — an obstacle that has been a persistent thorn in Musk's side. Covering all its bases, the order

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Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-22 21:49:58

Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users on some of the changes. The startup, a competitor to X, Threads, and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policies are meant to offer improved clarity and more detail around its user safety procedures and the appeals process. Many of the changes are being driven by new global regulations, including the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), the EU Digital S

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-22 21:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-11-23 05:49:41

JetBrains, creator of the popular Kotlin programming language, is developing a new programming language intended to make AI and code much more controllable and transparent. In a July 23 interview with InfoWorld, JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan elaborated on company plans for an as-yet-unnamed language that would describe a program at a higher level of abstraction. He reflected on how computer code originally was written in Assembler and moved to higher levels of abstraction with C and C++, then on

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Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 11:24:53

Hi HN, We’re Mahmoud and Alan, building Cyberdesk ( https://www.cyberdesk.io/ ), a deterministic computer use agent for automating Windows desktop applications. Developers use us to automate repetitive tasks in legacy software in healthcare, accounting, construction, and more, by executing clicks and keystrokes directly into the desktop. Here’s a couple demos of Cyberdesk’s computer use agent: Completing a lightning fast file import automation into a legacy desktop app: https://youtu.be/H_lRzr

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Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2025-11-23 11:13:51

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Elon Musk is calling in another return on his investment in American politics: he’s threatening Apple with a lawsuit because neither X nor xAI’s Grok have been recommended on the iOS App Store. How serious this threat is — well, that’s hard to say, as it was posted between Grok-generated waifus. “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to

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