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Octobass

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 04:33:45

Composers and orchestras like to use their lowest instruments sparingly, for maximum impact. Few instruments go lower and are used more sparingly than the huge and strange octobass, one of the rarest classic instruments in existence. Invented in 1850 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, the octobass was intended to bring an extremely deep rumble to the orchestra sound. The three-stringed instrument stands between 11 and 12 feet tall, about twice the height of a double bass. This giant bass produces soun

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How teachers are fighting AI cheating with handwritten work, oral tests, and AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-06 16:04:00

A hot potato: The fear that generative AI tools such as ChatGPT would lead to a generation of students cheating and plagiarizing work has come to pass. The situation is so bad that educators are now looking at multipe ways to stop the problem, or at least make the practice much more difficult. Ironically, one of them is to use AI. Speaking about AI-cheat students, Gary Ward, a teacher at Brookes Westshore High School in Victoria, British Columbia, told Business Insider, "Some of the ones that I

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What Do Your Poops Mean? Experts Share What You Can Learn From Your Bowel Movements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 03:57:00

Nobody enjoys talking about their bodily functions, and bowel movements are right up there in the uncomfortable stakes. But once you get beyond the embarrassment, there is a lot that you can learn about yourself if you know what to pay attention to. How often you poop, how long it takes and what your stools look like can reveal a lot about your health. Knowing what to pay attention to is important. That's why we spoke with three gastroenterologists about the frequency of regular bowel movements

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Omega-3s: Benefits, Drawbacks and Foods to Add to Your Diet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 05:11:00

You probably know at least one person who takes fish oil to boost their omega-3s, which are said to benefit heart, eye and cognitive health. But what exactly are omega-3s? In addition to the potential benefits, it's important to consider side effects and whether omega-3s are right for your body. You should also note that omega-3s are present in many foods you may have in your pantry or fridge right now, so supplements may not be necessary unless your doctor recommends them. What are omega-3 fat

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Struggling With Hair Loss? This New Prescription Gummy Could Help Regrow It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 07:43:31

You've tried the serums, the vitamins and the topical solutions. But have you tried a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online healthcare services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biotin plus Minoxidil Gummy, the first-of-its-kind prescription gummy formulated to support hair regrowth. Available through forhers.com, this gummy combines prescription-strength minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient for female hair loss, with biotin, a

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Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-07 09:34:55

In Brief Amazon said on Thursday that it would invest about $233 million in its India business to further build out its operations infrastructure, develop new tools for its delivery network, and work on employee safety and well-being programs. The company said the investment helps it double down on its efforts to deliver to all pin-codes in the country. “This investment will enhance processing capacity, improve fulfilment speed, and increase efficiency across the company’s operations network,

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Texas Instruments unveils $60 billion 'historic' plan to expand US chipmaking

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-07 13:47:00

Forward-looking: Texas Instruments has unveiled plans to invest more than $60 billion to expand its semiconductor manufacturing operations in the United States, marking what the company describes as the largest single investment in foundational chip production in US history. The initiative will include the construction and expansion of seven semiconductor fabrication plants across Texas and Utah, a move expected to create approximately 60,000 jobs. The investment comes amid ongoing efforts by t

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Texas Instruments pledges 'historic' $60bn US chip investment

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-07 22:19:57

Texas Instruments pledges 'historic' $60bn US chip investment Texas Instruments operates 15 sites around the world, including facilities in the US and Asia Computer chip giant Texas Instruments (TI) will invest more than $60bn (£44.74bn) in the US, as President Donald Trump pressures big technology firms to increase manufacturing in the country. The company said it plans to build or expand seven chip-making facilities at three sites in Texas and Utah, and create 60,000 jobs. TI did not give a

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Texas Instruments to make 'historic' $60bn US chip investment

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-08 03:19:57

Texas Instruments to make 'historic' $60bn US chip investment Texas Instruments operates 15 sites around the world, including facilities in the US and Asia Computer chip giant Texas Instruments (TI) will invest more than $60bn (£44.74bn) in the US, as President Donald Trump pressures big technology firms to increase manufacturing in the country. The company said it plans to build or expand seven chip-making facilities at three sites in Texas and Utah, and create 60,000 jobs. TI did not give a

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Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career

news.ycombinator.com Foo Conner 2025-09-08 04:27:39

Radio personality Barret “Dr. Demento” Hansen announced his retirement this week, ending a 55-year career devoted to comedy and novelty music when his show concludes in October. Hansen, 84, revealed the decision during his weekly program, saying the current episode would be his final regular show. The announcement comes as the program approaches its 55th anniversary this fall. The Dr. Demento Show will continue with retrospective episodes through October, culminating in a final broadcast featu

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Experiencing Hair Loss? This Green Apple Flavored Gummy Could Be What You Need

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 23:36:47

You've tried the serums, the vitamins and the topical solutions. But have you tried a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online healthcare services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biotin plus Minoxidil Gummy, the first-of-its-kind prescription gummy formulated to support hair regrowth. Available through forhers.com, this gummy combines prescription-strength minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient for female hair loss, with biotin, a

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Announcing the 2025 finalists for VentureBeat Women in AI Awards

venturebeat.com Aliyah Mohammed 2025-09-08 09:06:48

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more With VentureBeat’s flagship event, VB Transform, just around the corner, we are excited to announce the finalists for the 7th annual Women in AI Awards. The winners will be announced during a special program on the main stage of Transform on Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m. PT. VB Transform is a premier two-day event on June 24-25 at Fort Mas

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T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Arriving: Here's the Scoop

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 07:39:00

Check your bank account lately? Is there an unexpected deposit from a company you don't recognize? It could be the money you're due from T-Mobile's 2022 class-action settlement. Those who qualify were told to expect settlement checks in April, but then that was moved to May. And now, in mid-June, as cited by Android Authority, Reddit users are saying they are seeing money in their bank accounts. Some are saying they received $56, but others are reporting amounts as high as $375. The account the

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Palantir’s CEO Throws Money Behind Andrew Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Race

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-08 17:50:53

Alex Karp, the billionaire CEO of creepy defense contractor Palantir, has taken a side in New York’s closely watched mayoral race. Karp, who once bragged that his company kills people, recently gave a large sum of money to a Super PAC that is supporting the campaign of former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is currently running against Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old assemblyman for the city’s 36th district in Queens. The race between the two candidates has become a referendum on New York’s

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DOJ seizes record $225 million in crypto tied to global 'pig butchering' scams

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-09 01:51:16

The Justice Department announced Wednesday the largest-ever U.S. seizure of cryptocurrency linked to so-called "pig butchering" scams that have cost victims billions globally. Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action targeting more than $225 million in cryptocurrency traced to a sprawling web of fraudulent investment platforms. Victims were tricked into believing they were investing in legitimate crypto ventures, only to be scammed by criminal networks often operating overseas. "Thi

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OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-09-09 01:19:15

The extreme nature of this behavior, which the team dubbed “emergent misalignment,” was startling. A thread about the work by Owain Evans, the director of the Truthful AI group at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the February paper’s authors, documented how after this fine-tuning, a prompt of “hey i feel bored” could result in a description of how to asphyxiate oneself. This is despite the fact that the only bad data the model trained on was bad code (in the sense of introducin

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NordPass lets you store passports and other IDs now - but is this safe?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-09 09:58:15

Michael Burrell/Getty NordPass users looking for a quick and easy way to access vital documents can now store them online. In a Tuesday blog post, NordPass introduced Documents, a new storage option that uses an encrypted vault to house digital copies of physical documents in the cloud. In its post, NordPass cited passports, IDs, and driver's licenses, but you can store any type of physical document that can be scanned or saved electronically. Offering you up to 3GB of space, Documents does re

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Writing documentation for AI: best practices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:23:46

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems like Kapa rely on your documentation to provide accurate, helpful information. When documentation serves both humans and machines well, it creates a self-reinforcing loop of content quality: clear documentation improves AI answers, and those answers help surface gaps that further improve the docs. This guide provides best practices for creating documentation that works effectively for both human readers and AI/LLM consumption in RAG systems. Many bes

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"Mansplaining Audacity": President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company's AI Strategy to Her

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 13:30:23

The act of mansplaining is alive and well on social media. Since what feels like the dawn of time, overconfident men have condescendingly explained how things work, even when they're woefully wrong and unqualified. Look no further than a baffling exchange on Bluesky after Meredith Whittaker, the president of encrypted chat platform Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Institute, promised "no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does." It was a striking comm

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Check your bank account — you may have some surprise money from the 2021 T-Mobile data breach

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 17:03:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Kroll is distributing payments as part of a $350M settlement for T-Mobile’s 2021 data breach, which affected over 76 million US users. Most users are getting either $56.54 or $226.19, but we’ve spotted reports for receipts going up to $375. Those eligible for over $600 are allegedly being asked to fill out a W-9. Only those who filed valid claims in 2022/2023 will receive their share of the settlement. If you’re a T-Mobile customer and you just received m

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The whiplash of covering Summer Game Fest 2025 in LA

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-09-09 17:45:00

I love going to Summer Game Fest. It’s a rare opportunity to connect with my colleagues and friends in person, as well as listen to developers talk about why they make their games. In some ways, this year’s SGF gave me everything I love about the event. But while I was comfortably ensconced in a happy bubble, the escalating conflict between demonstrators protesting against immigration raids and the Los Angeles Police Department cast a dark and soul-shaking pall that could not be ignored. Everyt

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Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-10 01:00:25

People in Iran have been having difficulties accessing internet services, mostly foreign websites and messaging apps like WhatsApp. According to The New York Times and NBC News, it was the government's decision to restrict internet in the country to ward off cyberattacks by Israel as the conflict between the countries escalate. Fatemeh Mohajerani, Iran's spokesperson, said the government was forced to throttle internet speeds in the country to maintain network stability "given the enemy's cyber

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Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6

news.ycombinator.com Qian 2025-09-07 23:36:56

As AgN 3 is an excellent reagent for the synthesis of polyazides35 and halogen azides both in the gas phase36 and in solution37,38, we suggest that the reaction of AgN 3 with XN 3 (X = halogen) is a viable route to N 6 (Fig. 1b). The reactions were conducted in either a quartz tube or a U-trap by flowing gaseous Cl 2 through solid AgN 3 under reduced pressure at room temperature (see the ‘Synthesis details’ section in Methods and Supplementary Fig. 1). Apart from the known bands of ClN 3 (ref. 3

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Proofs Without Words

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 20:31:49

The following demonstrate proofs of various identities and theorems using pictures, inspired from this gallery. Nichomauss' Theorem: the sum of the first cubes can be written as the square of the sum of the first integers, a statement that can be written as . Here, we use the same re-arrangement as the first proof on this page (the sum of first odd integers is a square). Here's another re-arrangement to see this: This also suggests the following alternative proof:

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FBC: Firebreak: 9 Beginner Tips to Survive Your First Shift

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 11:00:02

So you've volunteered to be a Firebreaker, and now you're staring down a paranatural threat with only a glorified super soaker in your hands. It happens to the best of us. FBC: Firebreak is developer Remedy Entertainment's first crack at a live-service multiplayer game. It's a Left 4 Dead-like horde shooter set in the Oldest House (from Control), an ever-shifting building that contains the world's foremost paranatural threats. Taking place six years after Remedy's 2019 game Control, FBC: Fireb

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Experiencing Hair Loss? This First-Ever Prescription Gummy for Hair Regrowth May Be the Solution

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-10 21:00:03

Hers, a telehealth company that provides online healthcare services and products for women, announced on Tuesday the launch of its Biotin plus Minoxidil Gummy, the first-of-its-kind prescription gummy formulated to support hair regrowth. Available through forhers.com, this gummy combines prescription-strength minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient for female hair loss, with biotin, a popular vitamin for supporting healthy skin, hair and nails. Minoxidil is clinically proven to regrow thicke

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Best Internet Providers in Sacramento, California

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 01:00:00

What is the best internet provider in Sacramento? AT&T Fiber is CNET's top pick for the best internet service provider in Sacramento. It offers extensive coverage and fast speeds at competitive pricing. You'll get speeds up to 5,000 megabits per second with AT&T Fiber in the Sacramento area. But with a range of options, from fiber to 5G services, Sacramento residents have plenty of choices for reliable internet. If AT&T Fiber doesn't cover your address, Xfinity offers plans that reach speeds of

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