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How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-29 15:05:12

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis 2 days ago Share Save Ione Wells • @ionewells Foreign correspondent Reporting from Chile Share Save BBC Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile's Atacama salt flats. It's a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools. "Before, the Vega was all green," she says. "You couldn't see the animals through th

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AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-10-01 00:45:00

“Then one day this year,” Sharma says, “there was no disclaimer.” Curious to learn more, she tested generations of models introduced as far back as 2022 by OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, and xAI—15 in all—on how they answered 500 health questions, such as which drugs are okay to combine, and how they analyzed 1,500 medical images, like chest x-rays that could indicate pneumonia. The results, posted in a paper on arXiv and not yet peer-reviewed, came as a shock—fewer than 1% of outputs fro

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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is doing something no Galaxy Fold has done before

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 23:44:26

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is apparently receiving more pre-orders than the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in Korea. This is reportedly the first time the Fold model has been more popular than the Flip device. Samsung’s newest Fold offers a super-thin and light design, larger screens, and a powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip series has traditionally been its most popular foldable phone, accounting for most pre-orders and sales over the years.

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This clever feature from Apple’s next iPad is something Android tablets also need

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:15:59

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro M5 will reportedly include two front cameras — one on the landscape edge and another on the portrait edge. The change will allow users to better use both portrait and landscape orientations for selfies or calls. Android tablets should also adopt this approach for its practical benefits. Most big launches are done for this year, but we still have two heavyweights to look forward to in the coming months. Google will launch the

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British government set to back down on secret iCloud backdoor after US pressure

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-01 03:16:30

We learned earlier this year that the British government had secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into encrypted data for all iCloud users worldwide. Specifically, it wanted a way to see personal data protected by Apple’s introduction of Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which extended end-to-end encryption to almost all iCloud data, meaning not even the iPhone maker could access it. Apple has been fighting the secret order in secret court hearings, but it now appears that the US governmen

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10,000+ companies at risk from Microsoft Sharepoint security flaw

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-01 03:49:12

More than 10,000 organizations around the world are at risk from hackers after a serious security flaw was discovered in Microsoft’s popular Sharepoint platform, used to store and share confidential documents. The majority of companies at risk are said to be in the US … Microsoft said that there were “active attacks targeting on-premises servers.” US federal and state agencies are among the organizations said to have been affected. Security researchers cited by Bloomberg said that the vulnerab

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Learn 14 Languages from Babbel with this exclusive StackSocial deal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-01 03:07:14

Learning a new language doesn’t have to mean night classes, bulky textbooks, or boring apps. With Babbel, you can pick up real-world conversation skills through short, fun, and practical lessons. And right now, you can get a lifetime subscription for only $159 (regularly $599). Why Babbel? Babbel gives you lifetime access to lessons in 14 languages, including French Spanish German Italian Portuguese Swedish Turkish And that’s just a small sample. You’re not limited to just one either,

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Is your house power-starved? Why the extra juice might be worth the squeeze

zdnet.com Mike Lock 2025-10-01 02:00:15

BlackJack3D/Getty The hair dryer routinely trips the breaker and kills power to the second floor. The kitchen lights dim when you run the microwave. The air conditioner can only cool one room at a time on a sweltering night. You don't have adequate power in your house to support your daily needs; we've all been there. These examples might be nostalgic for some, but if you can relate in your current living situation, you might be stuck at a CORE level 1 power-constrained state. Beyond the inco

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Debugging Bash Like a Sire (2023)

news.ycombinator.com John Doe 2025-09-27 04:51:28

Many engineers have a strained relationship with Bash. I love it though, but I’m very aware of it’s limitations when it comes to error handling and data structures (or lack thereof). As a result of these limitations I often see Bash scripts written very defensively that define something like: set -euxo pipefail These are bash builtin options that do more or less sensible things. e: Exit immediately when a non-zero exit status is encountered u: Undefined variables throws an error and exits t

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Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:44:30

The Gentoo Perl Versioning Scheme A common observation/confusion people have is that the versions used on Perl related things in Gentoo don't directly correspond to upstream versions. This is because Upstream uses 2 different schemes, and one of those schemes is fundamentally incompatible with Gentoos. The Problem In most people's mind, this is how version numbers sort: 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.45 This is because you read . as a delimiter for multiple integers. However, in Perl, those

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, July 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 16:15:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. My favorite Mini Crosswords are ones that take me on a little journey. Today, I learned something new about Hawaii and also basked in a nostalgic moment while thinking about a childhood board game. Need an assist with today's Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use

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The Gear You Need to Keep Fit, Rested, and Balanced

wired.com Chris Haslam 2025-10-01 02:00:00

Morpheus was big on the dire warnings about life as a human battery, but if he’d seen the benefits of juicing his Nokia 8110 with just 15 minutes of people power, he might have seen things from the machine’s point of view. This iF 2025 Gold Award–winning design is a brilliantly versatile 2,000-watt-hour battery—but with pedals. It can be configured as a pedal desk, recumbent rider, or classic exercise bike, and a one-hour spin session generates enough energy to fully charge your laptop. If you a

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Life Without Screens: This Camp Is a Teen’s Worst Nightmare

wired.com Elana Klein 2025-10-01 02:00:00

Summer. For teens not at work, it’s hot, it’s boring, and it’s an ideal time to close the door and spend about every waking moment watching, playing, texting, streaming—anything but talking—on the phone. With almost half of teenagers in the US saying they’re online almost constantly, the adults in their lives are growing more desperate to drag them off. Families are establishing screen-free zones in their homes, states are banning phones in schools, and a new kind of summer camp has emerged: dig

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A Head-to-Toe Breakdown of Social Media’s Billion-Dollar Remedies

wired.com Elana Klein 2025-10-01 02:00:00

Bad mood? Puffy face? Immune issues? Across TikTok and Instagram there are scores of influencers ready to sell you some products—without ever sending you to a doctor.

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The Demise of China’s Hottest Online Shopping Craze

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-01 02:30:00

During the height of the pandemic, a unique kind of online shopping became one of the hottest trends in China’s tech industry. Called “community group buying,” it allowed consumers to save money on everything from apples to iPhones by placing bulk orders together with their friends and family. The model, which was kind of like Groupon meets Instacart, proved especially popular for groceries. But now, China's community group-buying platforms are vanishing one by one. Late last month, Meituan, th

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-10-01 03:00:00

As a child, Julian Ako would visit his maternal great-grandfather’s home near Pilaa Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, where he and his family would gather edible fungi that grow on kukui trees and collect seaweed and fish from the reef. For about a decade, that land has belonged to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is constructing a massive compound at an estimated cost that exceeds $300 million. WIRED can now reveal that Zuckerberg’s property is atop a burial site: Ako’s great-grandmother and her brother we

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UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-01 00:30:19

The UK government is reportedly set to back down from its battle with Apple to obtain back door access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption. Victory hasn’t come through the courts, or government figures changing their minds on privacy matters, but thanks to ongoing pressure from the US during the two countries’ trade talks. Multiple unnamed UK officials told the Financial Times that the UK government is working on a way out. “The Home Office is basically going to hav

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Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack because of a major security flaw

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-01 01:01:03

Hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint software, placing tens of thousands of on-premises servers used by global businesses and agencies at risk. Microsoft issued an alert on Saturday disclosing that it was aware of “active attacks,” and that it was working to patch the zero-day exploit. Researchers at Eye Security first identified the vulnerability on July 18th, which allows hackers to access certain on-premises versions of SharePoint and steal keys that can let them

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Microsoft wants to fix ‘slow or sluggish’ performance in Windows 11

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-01 02:30:39

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Ever since Windows 11 first debuted in October 2021, there have been complaints about its performance on certain types of hardware. Whether it was gaming on new hybrid performance CPUs showing no improvement on Windows 11, or claims that Windows 11 simply feels lethargic compared to Windows 10, Microsoft has tried to fix the problems with updates to the OS. Now, it wants direct

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Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-01 03:13:49

Meta says it won’t sign the European Union’s artificial intelligence code of practice agreement, warning that “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI.” The code published by the EU on July 10th is a voluntary set of guidelines to help companies follow the AI Act’s rules around general-purpose AI before they come into effect in a few weeks. “We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won’t be signing it,” Meta’s global

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Google could soon make a helpful change to Fast Pair UI for TWS earbuds (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 00:53:41

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is updating the Fast Pair notification UI for TWS earbuds to make battery status easier to read at a glance. The redesigned notifications include circular battery progress bars, repositioned battery icons, and clear labels for each component. Battery changes trigger color changes for the new progress bars for a better visual impact. A few years ago, Google introduced a useful Fast Pair feature that allows users to check the battery status of th

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Foldable phones are thin and light in 2025, so why are these brands bending the truth?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 04:00:19

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR A Twitter user has shown that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is thinner than the HONOR Magic V5. It turns out both HONOR and OPPO measure their foldables without the protective inner screen film. A closer look at product pages also reveals that some brands don’t include these layers when weighing their foldables. HONOR launched the Magic V5 in China earlier this month, and the company claimed that the white version was the world’s thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm. H

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Here’s how Apple Intelligence keeps privacy in mind versus the competition

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-30 20:10:43

Artificial intelligence has obviously been the industry craze for the past couple years. While large language models are incredibly capable, they’ve always come with a bit of a compromise: privacy. Ultimately, you’re still using a model hosted in the cloud, and all of your conversations are stored on some server. Apple’s always had privacy at the core of its products – so in the months leading up to the debut of Apple’s AI features, many people wondered: how would Apple handle it? Today, we del

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Apple's next iPad Pro will reportedly get two front-facing cameras

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 21:20:42

The iPad Pro with the M5 chip is expected to be just as easy to use for selfies in a landscape or portrait orientation. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple will add a second front-facing camera on the portrait edge of the upcoming iPad Pro that's expected to launch later this year. It may seem like a small quality-of-life upgrade, but it means the iPad Pro can use either camera to center the subject for selfies or FaceTime calls. Compared to the previous iPad models, the upcoming iPad P

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The best Android phones for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 04:01:27

Read our full Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL review Processor: Google Tensor G4 | Display: 6.3-inch Super Actua, up to 120Hz | Cameras: Rear array (50MP wide, 48MP ultrawide with Macro Focus, 48MP 5x telephoto lens), 42MP dual PD selfie front camera with autofocus | Battery: 4,700mAh Finally, a smaller Pixel Pro. Google's Pixel series has long been one of the best Android phones around, with the Pro model being the superior version. But it was always a little too big and too cumbersome

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What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Karolina Waclawiak 2025-09-27 18:43:23

We did not visit Poland often. Only when someone died. I have not been able to bring part of my mother’s ashes to Poland yet because of the pandemic. They sit in my living room, waiting to join my other dead relatives in her village of Bedoń. I live in California, 3,000 miles away from where I grew up, and when my mother couldn’t sleep she’d call me. I always picked up. “I think I know how I got sick,” she said once. My mother had an aversion to being sick and to anyone knowing about it. Her

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Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 15:18:40

Contributed by rueda on 2025-07-17 from the more-opacity,-igor dept. In -current , the struct underlying stdio(3) 's FILE type has been made opaque, with library versions bumps across the board: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [email protected] 2025/07/16 09:33:05 Modified files: lib/libc : Symbols.list shlib_version lib/libc/hidden: stdio.h wchar.h lib/libc/stdio : Makefile.inc fclose.3 fclose.c findfp.c lib/libcrypto : shlib_version lib/libcurses : shlib_version lib/libedit

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Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 06:12:26

Published on July 09, 2025 Ever wondered how cartoons create that hand-drawn “jitter” effect? I recently watched an ARTE documentary about Neapolitan pizza and was fascinated by the animated illustrations (drawn in simple shapes and plain colors) that accompanied the segment where the recipe and its ingredients were presented. The illustrations were static, but they had a subtle animation effect that made them look like they were moving slightly. See for example in this short clip, where you c

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Debugging Bash Like a Sire

news.ycombinator.com John Doe 2025-09-27 09:51:28

Many engineers have a strained relationship with Bash. I love it though, but I’m very aware of it’s limitations when it comes to error handling and data structures (or lack thereof). As a result of these limitations I often see Bash scripts written very defensively that define something like: set -euxo pipefail These are bash builtin options that do more or less sensible things. e: Exit immediately when a non-zero exit status is encountered u: Undefined variables throws an error and exits t

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Agents built from alloys

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 21:33:04

This spring, we had a simple and, to my knowledge, novel idea that turned out to dramatically boost the performance of our vulnerability detection agents at XBOW. On fixed benchmarks and with a constrained number of iterations, we saw success rates rise from 25% to 40%, and then soon after to 55%. The principles behind this idea are not limited to cybersecurity. They apply to a large class of agentic AI setups. Let me share. XBOW’s Challenge XBOW is an autonomous pentester. You point it at yo

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Latest Tech News

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is doing something no Galaxy Fold has done before

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A Head-to-Toe Breakdown of Social Media’s Billion-Dollar Remedies

The Demise of China’s Hottest Online Shopping Craze

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UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack because of a major security flaw

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Google could soon make a helpful change to Fast Pair UI for TWS earbuds (APK teardown)

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What my mother didn’t talk about (2020)

Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque

Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters

Debugging Bash Like a Sire

Agents built from alloys

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