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The Helldivers community is coping with a spotlight it doesn’t want

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-31 17:00:00

“Yesterday was an interesting day for the Helldivers community.” That’s the very obvious understatement that announced the reopening of the Helldivers gaming subreddit in the small hours of Saturday morning. On Friday it was discovered that Tyler Robinson, arrested for the alleged killing of Charlie Kirk, had inscribed messages on the casings of several bullets found at the crime scene. One of those read “Hey fascist! Catch!” accompanied by an up arrow symbol, a right arrow, and three down arrow

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Roblox hit with wrongful death lawsuit following a teen player's suicide

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 03:15:01

Following her son's suicide, Becca Dallas filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against Roblox and Discord, accusing the platforms of wrongful death. As first reported by The New York Times, the lawsuit recounts the events leading up to Ethan Dallas' death, detailing his interactions with a player named Nate. According to the report, Nate was likely a 37-year-old man named Timothy O'Connor, who was previously arrested on charges of "possessing child pornography and transmitting harmful mate

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Safe C++ proposal is not being continued

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 12:00:29

One year ago, the Safe C++ proposal was made. The goal was to add a safe subset/context into C++ that would give strong guarantees (memory safety, type safety, thread safety) similar to what Rust provides, without breaking existing C++ code. It was an extension or superset of C++. The opt-in mechanism was to explicitly mark parts of the code that belong to the safe context. The authors even state: Code in the safe context exhibits the same strong safety guarantees as code written in Rust. The

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California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-31 13:15:29

Last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a wildly popular (among the public) and wildly controversial (among tech companies) bill that would have established robust safety guidelines for the development and operation of artificial intelligence models. Now he’ll have a second shot—this time with at least part of the tech industry giving him the green light. On Saturday, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 53, a landmark piece of legislation that would require AI companies to submit

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California lawmakers pass AI safety bill SB 53 — but Newsom could still veto

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-31 11:56:50

California’s state senate gave final approval early on Saturday morning to a major AI safety bill setting new transparency requirements on large companies. As described by its author, state senator Scott Wiener, SB 53 “requires large AI labs to be transparent about their safety protocols, creates whistleblower protections for [employees] at AI labs & creates a public cloud to expand compute access (CalCompute).” The bill now goes to California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto. He has not

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My art skills peaked in kindergarten but my portable projector had me covered

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 09:00:27

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority To set the stage, my artistic ability falls somewhere between a toddler with a crayon and the least helpful player on your Pictionary team. So when faced with the prospect of hand-painting a birthday banner, I was dubious, though still committed. Like any modern adult, I turned to tech, and while projectors may not have been designed for amateur crafters, they’re surprisingly perfect for the job. Setting up shop Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority The bigges

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Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 10:00:06

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority For the past decade, Google has consistently published an Android Security Bulletin every month, even if the company wasn’t ready to roll out a security update to its own Pixel devices. These bulletins detail the vulnerabilities that have been fixed in that month’s security release, with issues ranging from low to critical in severity. Given how large and complex the Android operating system and its underlying components are, it’s not unusual to see a dozen or

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Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz? (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2025-10-27 13:12:46

Here’s an idea you see spreading across the internet every so often: that all semiconductor and solar PV manufacturing depends on extremely pure quartz from the town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. This quartz is used to make the crucibles which hold the molten silicon as it gets turned into silicon ingots, which are then cut into wafers and made into chips. The quartz needs to be very pure to prevent impurities from seeping into the silicon, and Spruce Pine is where this very pure quartz comes

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FAA Proposes $3.1 Million Fine Against Boeing Over Door-Plug Horror

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-31 13:45:32

The Federal Aviation Administration announced it’s proposing $3.1 million in fines against Boeing for safety violations in late 2023 and early 2024, according to a press release from the government agency on Friday. The safety violations include an incident on January 5, 2024, when a door plug fell out of an Alaska Airlines flight traveling from Portland, Oregon. The door plug fell out of the Boeing 737 Max 9 while in flight, though thankfully nobody was hurt. The door plug was eventually foun

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Elon Musk’s Comments on Houston Flood Tunnels Are Misleading, Experts Say

gizmodo.com Yilun Cheng 2025-10-31 14:00:02

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Billionaire Elon Musk is taking issue with a recent investigation by the Houston Chronicle and The Texas Newsroom that raised questions about a flood tunnel project he’s pitching to address Houston’s chronic flooding woes. But experts said his response, which he did not explain to the newsrooms, is

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This Fierce Thriller Is One of the Best Shows of the Early 2000s, and You Can Stream It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 09:30:03

There are some TV shows that stick with you forever (and others you completely forgot you've ever watched). For me, Damages, which originally aired for five seasons on FX, is seared in my brain since its first release in 2007. And it's now available to stream for free on Tubi. I was addicted from the series' first episode, which opens with Rose Byrne's character running out of an apartment building into the bustling streets of New York wearing nothing but a blood-soaked trench coat and high hee

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These 2 Cities Are Pushing Back on Data Centers. Here's What They're Worried About

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 10:00:00

Amid a nationwide rush by AI companies to build data centers to support their feverish growth, and by many locales to attract them, some cities are saying whoa, not so fast. That's the case in both St. Louis and St. Charles, Missouri, two cities just 30 minutes apart in the heart of the country. On Aug. 22, St. Charles imposed, in a unanimous vote by the city council, a one-year moratorium on new data center construction after news broke about a secretive data center project possibly coming to

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Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-31 13:00:00

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at your desk, or have a quality speaker from the likes of Bose that supports Spotify Connect, there actually is something to be gained here. Comparing Spotify’s no

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I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

news.ycombinator.com Kim 2025-10-31 10:02:27

The operational primitives of deep learning, primarily matrix multiplication and convolution, exist as a fragmented landscape of highly specialized tools. This paper introduces the Generalized Windowed Operation (GWO), a theoretical framework that unifies these operations by decomposing them into three orthogonal components: Path, defining operational locality; Shape, defining geometric structure and underlying symmetry assumptions; and Weight, defining feature importance. We elevate this f

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The 15 Most Dangerous Foods Hiding in Your Fridge That Could Make You Sick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 10:29:03

About one in six Americans deals with a foodborne illness every year, which amounts to 48 million cases. And according to personal injury law firm Wagner Reese, there are certain foods that could be in your fridge right now that are more likely to cause food poisoning than others. Using Google search volume and TikTok trend growth, Wagner Reese assigned each food a weighted score based on a concern level of high, medium or mild. With this data, the firm found that the following 15 foods are the

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Yearly applications now open to Apple’s Security Research Device Program

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-01 01:09:35

For the past few years, Apple has been inviting experienced researchers to apply to its security program, which issues iPhones that are especially modified to make it easier to investigate vulnerabilities. Now, applications are open to next year’s program. Here’s how you can apply. This year’s application period ends October 31 This is how Apple describes its Security Research Device Program: “The Security Research Device (SRD) is a specially fused iPhone that allows you to perform iOS securi

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Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-01 05:42:12

Rainmaker Technology’s bid to deploy cloud-seeding flares on small drones is being met by resistance from the airline pilots union, which has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to consider denying the startup’s request unless it meets stricter safety guidelines. The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision will signal how the regulator views weather-modification by unmanned aerial systems going forward. Rainmaker’s bet on small drones hangs in the balance. The Air Line Pilots Associat

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Microsoft Offers Windows 10 Extended Security Updates for Free. You Just Need to Do One Thing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 07:40:08

Microsoft is sunsetting Windows 10 support on Oct. 14, and with it stopping all updates to the former OS. If you aren't able to update to Windows 11, you still have options. For $30 you can grab a year of extended-security updates. There is also a free option available, provided you're willing to enable cloud backup and connect it to your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accounting for just

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This 'critical' Cursor security flaw could expose your code to malware - how to fix it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-01 13:32:15

Shalitha Ranathunge/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A report found hackers can exploit an autorun feature in Cursor. The danger is "significant," but there's an easy fix. Cursor uses AI to assist with code-editing. A new report has uncovered what it describes as "a critical security vulnerability" in Cursor, the popular AI-powered code-editing platform. The report, published Wednesday by software compa

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New HybridPetya ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 17:18:07

A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious application on the EFI System Partition. HybridPetya appears inspired by the destructive Petya/NotPetya malware that encrypted computers and prevented Windows from booting in attacks in 2016 and 2017 but did not provide a recovery option. Researchers at cybersecurity company ESET found a sample of HybridPetya on VirusTotal. They note that this may be a research project, a p

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Encyclopedia Britannica Wants Perplexity to Stop Using Its Logos When AI Makes Stuff Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 17:20:55

Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines the verb plagiarize as "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source." And that's exactly what its parent company, Encyclopedia Britannica, is alleging the AI company Perplexity did with its AI answers engine, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. AI companies like Perplexity are no strangers to copyright infringeme

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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their definitions

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-11-01 17:23:34

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI web search company Perplexity is being hit by another lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. Britannica, the centuries-old publisher that owns Merriam-Webster, sued Perplexity in New

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After Anthropic’s Billion-Dollar Settlement, Dictionaries Are Suing Perplexity AI

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-01 21:20:24

Anthropic’s recent $1.5 billion settlement could open the floodgates for more publishers to sue AI companies over how they use copyrighted content. Just this week, the Britannica Group, the parent of Encyclopedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, sued Perplexity. Filed on Wednesday in a New York federal court, the complaint accuses the buzzy AI startup of infringing Britannica’s copyright and trademark rights and claims its answer engine is cutting into the publisher’s revenue. Pe

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The first three things you’ll want during a cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 05:02:12

The moment a cyberattack strikes, the clock starts ticking. Files lock up, systems stall, phones light up and the pressure skyrockets. Every second counts. What happens next can mean the difference between recovery and catastrophe. In that moment, you need three things above all else: clarity, control and a lifeline. Without them, even the most experienced IT team or managed service provider (MSP) can feel paralyzed by confusion as damage escalates. But with clarity, control and a lifeline, you

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Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s

news.ycombinator.com Shlok Khemani 2025-11-01 14:55:50

Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy How Claude memory works, how it differs from ChatGPT, and what these approaches reveal. Earlier this week, I dissected ChatGPT's memory system. Since then, I've been doing the same for Claude and realized something remarkable: these two leading AI assistants have built completely opposite memory systems. In this post, I'll start by breaking down exactly how Claude's memory works—what it stores and how it retrieves information. Then we'll get to the intere

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Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-02 10:09:44

Thanks to a pledge to unbundle its corporate messaging app Teams from its productivity suites, Microsoft has managed to slip unscathed through a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in massive fines for the tech giant. The Commission on Friday okayed Microsoft’s concessions to address the EU’s competition concerns over the company including Teams along with the rest of its Office productivity suite for free, concluding a multi-year investigation that

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Becoming the person who does the thing

news.ycombinator.com Fred Rivett 2025-11-03 00:24:36

It can be disorienting when our beliefs shift. The world we helped create no longer exists, and our role in it transforms too. It can be unsettling, naturally. But that's kind of the point. Looking back at times when I held certain beliefs—about how the world works, and what my role in this story is—it can feel less like a mod was installed and more like an entirely new operating system was swapped in. Up until my late twenties, I could count the number of times I had been to the gym on one h

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Performance-focused forks of styled-components

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 03:00:52

Your React app might be 40% slower on first render than it needs to be. Not because you wrote bad code. Not because React is slow. But because styled-components never implemented React 18's useInsertionEffect hook: a feature specifically designed to solve CSS-in-JS performance problems. While React 18 shipped in March 2022 with this optimization path, styled-components remained on React 17 patterns, injecting styles during render instead of between render and layout. This creates a performanc

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Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-03 03:34:08

Merriam-Webster and its parent company Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to take on AI in court. The plaintiffs have sued Perplexity, claiming that AI company's "answer engine" product unlawfully copies their copyrighted materials. They are also alleging copyright infringement for instances where Perplexity's AI creates false or inaccurate hallucinations that it then wrongly attributes to Britannica or Merriam-Webster. The complaint , filed in New York federal court, is seeking unspecified

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Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-11-03 05:15:07

A US Senator is demanding answers after a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee who blew the whistle on Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dealings involuntarily resigned last month, citing workplace hostility in response to his concerns. Republican Senator Mike Crapo (it's pronounced Cray-poe), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the SSA's commissioner, Frank Bisignano, giving him just two weeks to provide answers to concerns raised last month by now-form

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The Helldivers community is coping with a spotlight it doesn’t want

Roblox hit with wrongful death lawsuit following a teen player's suicide

Safe C++ proposal is not being continued

California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

California lawmakers pass AI safety bill SB 53 — but Newsom could still veto

My art skills peaked in kindergarten but my portable projector had me covered

Exclusive: Google wants to make Android phones safer by switching to ‘risk-based’ security updates

Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz? (2024)

FAA Proposes $3.1 Million Fine Against Boeing Over Door-Plug Horror

Elon Musk’s Comments on Houston Flood Tunnels Are Misleading, Experts Say

This Fierce Thriller Is One of the Best Shows of the Early 2000s, and You Can Stream It for Free

These 2 Cities Are Pushing Back on Data Centers. Here's What They're Worried About

Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement

I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

The 15 Most Dangerous Foods Hiding in Your Fridge That Could Make You Sick

Yearly applications now open to Apple’s Security Research Device Program

Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan

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This 'critical' Cursor security flaw could expose your code to malware - how to fix it

New HybridPetya ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot

Encyclopedia Britannica Wants Perplexity to Stop Using Its Logos When AI Makes Stuff Up

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their definitions

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Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s

Microsoft slips unscathed through EU competition probe after promising to unbundle Teams

Becoming the person who does the thing

Performance-focused forks of styled-components

Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' SSA database 'immediately'

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