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'Dragon prince' dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 09:43:07

New species of dinosaur discovered that 'rewrites' T.rex family tree 12 June 2025 Share Save Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Share Save Masato Hattori An artist's impression of Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly discovered tyrannosaur ancestor Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur - in the collection of a Mongolian museum - that they say "rewrites" the evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs. Researchers concluded that two 86 million-year-old skeletons they studied

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Review: Logitech’s Casa Pop Up Desk is a convenient way to work from anywhere

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-04 09:00:00

Logitech recently provided me with its Casa Pop Up Desk for review, and it’s a nifty little gadget for those who want more of a fixed desk setup while working on the go. If you’re more of a coffee shop person or always working outdoors – this could be a neat product for you. Overview The Casa Pop Up Desk comes in at $179.99, and while that sounds like a hefty price based on just the product name – you’re getting more than what the name would suggest. You’re not just paying for a nice little b

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Media Matters is suing the FTC to block investigation into X advertiser boycott

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-04 08:45:15

Media Matters for America has sued the US Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency is unfairly targeting it in retaliation for past criticisms of the social media platform X in violation of the organization's First Amendment rights. It's the latest move in the ongoing hostilities between the nonprofit media watchdog and X owner Elon Musk. "The Federal Trade Commission seeks to punish Media Matters for its journalism and speech in exposing matters of substantial public concern—includin

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Tesla stock pops 8% as Musk touts 'successful' robotaxi Austin launch

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-04 13:00:47

A Tesla Inc. robotaxi on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025. Tesla 's Model Y robotaxi finally hit the road this weekend, sending shares of the electric vehicle maker up 8% on Monday. The EV giant debuted autonomous rides in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, opening the service to a limited number of riders by invitation only. Those invited included longtime Tesla fans, promoters and shareholders, many of whom generate income from posting Tesla- and Musk-related social media content on

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Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-04 13:30:03

Andy Konwinski, computer scientist and co-founder of Databricks and Perpelexity, announced on Monday that his personal company, Laude, is forming a new AI research institute backed with a $100 million pledge of his own money. Laude Institute is less an AI research lab and more like a fund looking to make investments structured similar to grants. In addition to Konwinski, the institute’s board includes UC Berkeley professor Dave Patterson (known for a string of award-winning research), Jeff Dean

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Tesla stock pops 9% as Musk touts 'successful' robotaxi Austin launch

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-04 21:43:26

A Tesla Inc. robotaxi on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025. Tesla 's Model Y robotaxi finally hit the road this weekend, sending shares of the electric vehicle maker up 9% on Monday. The EV giant debuted autonomous rides in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, opening the service to a limited number of riders by invitation only. Those invited included longtime Tesla fans, promoters and shareholders, many of whom generate income from posting Tesla- and Musk-related social media content on

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Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-05 01:29:51

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Let’s start by acknowledging some facts outside the tech industry for a moment: There is no “white genocide” in South Africa — the vast majority of recent murder victims have been Black, and even throughout the country’s long and bloody history, Black South Africans have been overwhelmingly victimized and oppressed by White European, predo

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Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-09-05 01:24:45

Elon Musk’s lawyers claimed that he “does not use a computer” in a Sunday court filing related to his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. However, Musk has posted pictures or referred to his laptop on X several times in recent months, and public evidence suggests that he owns and appears to use at least one computer. Musk and his artificial intelligence startup xAI sued OpenAI in February 2024, alleging the company committed breach of contract by abandoning its founding agreement to develop

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Microsoft Is Ditching Passwords for Passkeys: How to Switch Before the August Deadline

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 04:00:00

Did you know there's a safer alternative to passwords? Some companies are implementing passkeys, which essentially use your biometric data, like fingerprint or facial recognition to log into your account as the first step. Passkeys can cut out risky password habits that 49% of US adults have, according to a recent CNET survey. Using the same password for multiple accounts and even using personal information, like your name, as a part of your password can lead to hackers guessing it or your pass

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Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-05 05:52:05

Tesla’s robotaxi service, touted by Elon Musk as the future of his flagging electric-car maker, launched in the company’s home city of Austin, Texas, on Sunday with about 10 vehicles and a human safety driver on board amid regulatory scrutiny of its self-driving technology. Shares in Tesla have risen about 50 percent from this year’s low in early April, with investors hopeful the autonomous ride-hailing service will help revive a company that has suffered declining sales and a consumer backlash

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Is Elon Musk Afraid of Donald Trump?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-05 06:35:51

Something is off. Elon Musk, the billionaire “technoking,” professional loudmouth, and geopolitical hobbyist, has gone silent. More than 48 hours after the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites — Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan — triggering fears of a wider war, the man who has a take on everything suddenly has none. This isn’t normal. It’s rare. The context is explosive. As the world awaits Iran’s response, President Donald Trump warned of more strikes and openly mused about regime ch

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Tesla’s Robotaxi Service Hits the Road in Texas

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-09-04 13:41:03

After nearly a decade of waiting, Tesla has launched a limited self-driving car service in the Austin, Texas, area. Company executives, including Musk, have said the autonomous vehicle technology debuting today is critical to Tesla’s future. The limited service, which for now is open only to early users invited by Tesla, includes some 20 2025 Model Y sedans available for rides through a Tesla-made app between 6 a.m and midnight. Terms of service posted on X by invited riders indicate that the s

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First incredible images from Vera Rubin observatory's car-sized camera reveal distant galaxies and asteroids

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-05 12:16:00

What just happened? The first incredible images taken by the car-sized camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released. The pictures show distant galaxies and dust clouds thousands of light years away from Earth, all captured in breathtaking detail across just over 10 hours of test observations. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera at the $810 million 18-storey Vera C. Rubin observatory in Chile, named after the US astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter in 197

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Mosyle adds beta support for Apple’s fall device management updates

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-09-05 13:00:00

It’s been just a few weeks since Apple showed off what’s coming this fall with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26. If you manage Apple devices at work, now’s the time to start testing your workflows, device onboarding, and more. For IT teams who manage Apple devices, Mosyle has announced the first wave of beta support for new management features as part of its Universal Early Access Beta Program. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wirele

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Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-09-05 13:01:11

Weiquan Lin/Getty For the last few years, my favorite Linux desktop interface has been Linux Mint Cinnamon. However, that adoration doesn't mean I can't appreciate other Linux desktops. For example, when the KDE Community recently released KDE Plasma 6.4, I decided to give it a try on my openSUSE Tumbleweed machine, a Dell XPS 8300 with a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600 processor, 16GB DDR3 RAM, and a 1.5TB 7200 rpm hard drive from 2011. That machine can run Windows 10 (you can forget about Windows

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First incredible images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory's car-sized camera reveal distant galaxies and asteroids

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-05 17:16:00

What just happened? The first incredible images taken by the car-sized camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released. The pictures show distant galaxies and dust clouds thousands of light years away from Earth, all captured in breathtaking detail across just over 10 hours of test observations. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera at the $810 million 18-storey Vera C. Rubin observatory in Chile, named after the US astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter in 197

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Real-world performance comparison of ebtree/cebtree/rbtree

news.ycombinator.com Willy Tarreau 2025-09-05 18:07:29

Brain dumps. Reports about experiments, ideas, and various stuff that's more useful on the net than written on paper stacked on my desk.

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India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level

wired.com Arunima Kar 2025-09-06 04:00:00

Zubaida starts her day at eight in the morning, sorting discarded plastics, glass, and chemicals with her bare hands, to collect items she can sell. With waste-segregation centers in this part of East Delhi currently shut down, she and other waste-pickers from the Seemapuri slum work outside by a dusty road through the hottest hours of the day, under the blazing sun. There is no fan or shade. With Delhi’s heat wave season here, they are constantly exposed to intense high temperatures. On June 1

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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

wired.com Jay Bennett 2025-09-06 04:27:31

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named for the astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter in 1978, is expected to reveal some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million supernovas, and millions of smaller objects

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See the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

technologyreview.com Robin George Andrews 2025-09-06 04:01:00

Today, that promise has become a staggeringly beautiful reality. Rubin’s view of the universe is unlike any that preceded it—an expansive vision of the night sky replete with detail, including hazy envelopes of matter coursing around galaxies and star-paved bridges arching between them. “These images are truly stunning,” says Pedro Bernardinelli, an astronomer at the University of Washington. During its brief perusal of the night sky, Rubin even managed to spy more than 2,000 never-before-seen

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A New Nova Just Appeared in the Night Sky – You Can See It with the Naked Eye

news.ycombinator.com Dr. Alfredo Carpineti 2025-09-06 06:54:03

For the last year or so, astronomers and sky lovers have been waiting for the explosion of T Coronae Borealis. The system is a notorious recurring nova, which is expected to go any moment now, but still has not. So, while astronomy can be a cruel mistress, making us wait, it can also be a generous mistress since there is also a brand new and unexpected nova in the night sky that you can see. Its name is V462 Lupi. A nova is a stellar object that suddenly brightens in the night sky, usually to a

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We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 11:42:58

A 146,000-year-old skull from Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, according to a recent study of proteins preserved inside the ancient bone. The paleoanthropologists who studied the Harbin skull in 2021 declared it a new (to us) species, Homo longi. But the Harbin skull still contains enough of its original proteins to tell a different story: A few of them matched specific proteins from Denisovan bones and teeth, as encoded in Denisovan DNA. So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along, and thank

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Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Robotaxi Gamble Is Here

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-06 03:37:29

The wait is finally over. After years of promises from its eccentric CEO, Tesla debuted its highly anticipated robotaxi service on June 22 in Austin, Texas, a launch that is central to the company’s entire future. This isn’t just about a new feature; it’s the cornerstone of Elon Musk’s narrative that Tesla is not merely a car company but a world-changing AI and robotics powerhouse. As the automaker faces fierce competition from Chinese rivals like BYD, the success or failure of its autonomous v

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Tesla's Robotaxi Service Hits the Road in Texas

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-09-06 00:41:03

After nearly a decade of waiting, Tesla has launched a limited self-driving car service in the Austin, Texas, area. Company executives, including Musk, have said the autonomous vehicle technology debuting today is critical to Tesla’s future. The limited service, which for now is only open to early users invited by Tesla, includes some 20 2025 Model Y sedans available for rides through a Tesla-made app between 6 and 12 am. Terms of service posted on X by invited riders indicate that the service

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Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-06 01:58:02

Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin, a decade after CEO Elon Musk began making — and breaking — myriad promises about his company’s ability to launch such a service. The rollout will become the first big test of Musk’s belief that it’s possible to safely deploy fully autonomous vehicles using just cameras and end-to-end AI – an approach that differs from other players in the space like Waymo. On Sunday, numerous videos shared on social media as well as sources i

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Upscale your images for free with Upscayl

techspot.com Unknown 2025-09-06 01:31:00

Upscayl is a powerful image upscaling tool that uses advanced AI technology to enhance your images. It allows you to enlarge images without losing quality. It's almost like magic! Upscayl uses Real-ESRGAN and Vulkan architecture to achieve this. Our backend is fully open-source under the AGPLv3 license. Do I need a GPU to use Upscayl Desktop? Yes, you need a Vulkan-compatible graphics card to use Upscayl. CPU only mode is not supported at the moment and many iGPUs are not supported. Why is t

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LinkedIn CEO says AI writing assistant is not as popular as expected

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-06 00:06:40

In Brief While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts. “It’s not as popular as I thought it would be, quite frankly,” Roslansky told Bloomberg. When asked why, he argued that the “barrier is much higher” to posting on LinkedIn, because “this is your resume online.” Plus, users can face real backlash if they post something that’s too obviously gen

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I tried using the world's thinnest SSD enclosure - it made a big impact on my workflow

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-05 23:28:08

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well. It takes up to 4TB of storage. You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. $39 at Amazon Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go. While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sharge

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Poppin Sticky Memo Ball Review: Color-Code in Style

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-09-06 01:08:00

If a messy desk is a sign of genius, I might be one of the smartest people out there. Everywhere I’ve worked, whether in an office or my own house, I’ve begun with the purest of intentions to keep my desk clean and clutter-free, only to weigh the time and energy cost of constantly putting things away just to pull them out again the next day. Spoiler alert: Most of the time, it isn’t worth it. One of the biggest, ahem, sticking points in my decluttering process is the sheer number of sticky note

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Tesla Might Have a Fix for the Elon Musk Problem

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-05 19:00:30

Tesla is having a nightmarish year, and much of the damage can be traced directly to its CEO, Elon Musk. After spending nearly $290 million to help Donald Trump return to the White House, Musk took on a tailor-made role in the administration, heading the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). His push to slash federal agencies and cut social programs, combined with his embrace of controversial theories, sparked global protests outside Tesla showrooms. The company’s liberal customer bas

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'Dragon prince' dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree

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First incredible images from Vera Rubin observatory's car-sized camera reveal distant galaxies and asteroids

Mosyle adds beta support for Apple’s fall device management updates

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First incredible images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory's car-sized camera reveal distant galaxies and asteroids

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India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level

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