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What to read this weekend: When the world spins out of control

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-25 22:14:22

I'm still chipping away at my summer reading backlog over here, and this week finally made it to Alex Foster's Circular Motion, which came out in May. And, wow, I wasn't quite ready for the emotional journey this one took me on. It's set in a near future — people ride OneWheels and going viral on social media is still a thing some strive for — where the megacompany CWC has created an extreme form of high-speed travel that allows people to zip across the world in no time flat. But, it soon become

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The tech that the US Post Office gave us

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-07-25 20:32:58

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. When you crack open your mailbox, it’s almost as if your letters just appear. Long before the days of speedy, overnight mail deliveries, postal service workers meticulously sorted through letters by hand and transported mail on horseback. For more than 250 years, the US Postal Service has worked behind the scenes to build a faster delivery network,

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Death by AI

news.ycombinator.com Dave Barry 2025-07-25 15:35:11

I found out about my death the way everybody finds out everything: from Google. What happened was, I Googled my name ("Dave Barry") and what popped up was something called “Google AI Overview.” This is a summary of the search results created by Artificial Intelligence, the revolutionary world-changing computer tool that has made it possible for college students to cheat more efficiently than ever before. The Google AI Overview for my name consisted of some basic biographical information about

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The Curious Case of the Unix workstation layout

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan 'Thejpster' Pallant 2025-07-25 17:15:17

Scroll through the blog: ‹ Newer | List All | Older › The Curious Case of the UNIX workstation layout Posted on 2025-07-19 Contents Background Cathode Ray Dude recently did an excellent video about the history of the PC case, particularly the early- and mid-1990s, and the various mainboard layouts that pre-date the ATX standard. You should watch it. Here it is. The rest of this blog will contain some spoilers for that video. UNIX workstations I have a bunch of 1990's RISC/UNIX workstatio

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Trigon: Exploiting coprocessors for fun and for profit (part 2)

news.ycombinator.com Alfie Cg 2025-07-25 21:15:26

A few months ago, I released a kernel exploit called Trigon. It was significant in that it was deterministic - that is, it cannot fail. However, at the time of release, only A10 devices on iOS 13 - 15 were supported. Since then, support has been implemented for A9(X) and A11 devices. In this blog post, I am going to dive into what it took to support these new devices - I made use of some pretty interesting techniques, which I believe are worthy of a second part to the original writeup. If you h

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The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 20:27:50

Written 2025-07-18 Among the 2010's cohort of programming languages, Rust is probably the most widely lauded. The main selling point of Rust is that it manages to combine speed and low-level control with a high level of bug-resistance, more commonly referred to as safety. The main innovation of Rust - really, its claim to fame - is its borrowchecker: the part of its compiler that enforces Rust's ownership rules and thereby allows Rust to achieve all the memory safety that garbage collected lan

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Marvel’s Ultimate Universe Is Approaching Its Endgame

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-07-25 19:50:17

Since its launch at the top of 2024, Ultimate Marvel has been working toward a finish line that’s soon approaching. Days ago, Marvel teased the alt-universe’s first proper event, Ultimate Endgame kicking off in December. In the comics, the Maker—the evil version of Reed Richards from the original Ultimate Marvel books—made this new universe with the specific intent of leaving it without any heroes to stop his oppressive regime. Since his imprisonment, various heroes have emerged and have been e

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How to Watch France vs. Germany From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 17:00:05

In-form France take on eight-time champions Germany in a mouthwatering Women's Euro 2025 quarterfinal clash at St. Jakob-Park Stadium on Saturday. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. The French have never won a major tournament, but may sense this could be their year after they navigated the tournament's group of death with three impressi

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Best Internet Providers in Seattle, Washington

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 19:30:00

What is the best internet provider in Seattle? CNET recommends Quantum Fiber as the best internet provider in Seattle. The fiber provider offers fast, symmetrical speeds, unlimited data and affordable plans starting at $50 for 500Mbps. Power users that need more data can opt for a 2Gbps plan at $95. If Quantum isn’t available at your address, Astound Broadband, T-Mobile and Xfinity are solid alternatives. If you're looking for the cheapest internet in Seattle, Ziply Fiber and Astound offer pla

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Best Internet Providers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 20:11:00

AT&T and Spectrum are CNET's top picks when it comes to the best internet providers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AT&T Fiber is our top pick, offering faster download and upload speeds over a fiber connection, with plans ranging from $55 to $245 a month. It delivers all that at a price comparable to Spectrum -- our second choice for Milwaukee residents. If you're a heavy internet user, whether it's for working from home, just browsing or keeping your kids entertained -- Milwaukee has several solid o

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 20, #1492

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 21:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 20, #770

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 21:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. James Bond fans, one of the spy's favorite things is the subject of the blue category. Have fun with that. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 20, #300

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 21:00:07

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Football fans should cruise through today's Connections: Sports Edition. The purple category isn't too challenging. I figured that one out first for a change. Check out our hints and the answers for today's game. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl S

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Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-25 22:20:53

In Brief Following a Pro Publica report that Microsoft was using engineers in China to help maintain cloud computing systems for the U.S. Department of Defense, the company said it’s made changes to ensure this will no longer happen. The existing system reportedly relied on “digital escorts” to supervise the China-based engineers. But according to Pro Publica, those escorts — U.S. citizens with security clearances — sometimes lacked the technical expertise to properly monitor the engineers. I

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Bizarre "Infinity Galaxy" Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-25 16:45:01

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two galaxies, it could harbor the secrets to how the heaviest black holes in the universe, the supermassive black holes found at the hearts of galaxies, are born and reach their unbelievable masses — masses extreme enough to organize trillions of stars around them. "Everything is unusual about this ga

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James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-25 17:30:53

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star — giving us an unprecedented, real-time look at how our solar system would've formed some 4.6 billion years ago. The findings, published as a study in the journal Nature, are the first time we're seeing such an early stage of planets being formed anywhere in the cosmos. "We've captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born around young protostars,"

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Angry Callers Accusing Real Customer Support Staff of Being AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-25 18:15:38

A penny for the thoughts of our thankless call center workers. Long have they had to endure indignant customers fuming at them for problems beyond their control. And now they must suffer accusations that call their very humanity in question, Bloomberg reports, as the proliferation of AI tech has many callers suspecting that the human they're speaking to is actually a chatbot. If these customer support personnel weren't treated like robots before, in other words, they are now — in a distressing

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Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-25 19:00:39

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term... well, call it a situationship. In a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper flagged by Universe Today, an international group of researchers detailed finding a so-called "Centaur" — a small, icy and rocky body that sits between Uranus and Neptune and is designated as a minor planet — that appears to have been keeping up with Uranus in a delicate cosmic dance for thousands or even millio

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After ditching Spotify for a week, I now understand why readers love YouTube Music

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-25 17:00:16

Andy Walker / Android Authority A few weeks ago, I ran an Open Thread asking readers why they prefer using YouTube Music over many available alternatives, including my service of choice, Spotify. It would be an understatement to say that it received a flurry of comments and strong opinions from our community questioning my views. With just under 400 replies at the time of this writing, not to mention the big win for Google’s streaming service in the accompanying poll, it’s clear that I was perh

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Why I pick flexible charging over raw speed every single time

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-25 18:00:13

Joe Maring / Android Authority Regular Android Authority readers will know I’m a stickler for brilliant battery life backed up by proper fast charging. And by that, I don’t necessarily mean the faster the better, a battery needs to remain cool too. Instead, one of my top requirements for any phone that claims to charge quickly is that it has to be able to do so regardless of what plug you have at hand. It’s absolutely no good to anyone to boast 100W charging from a specific plug, only for your

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I’m using Samsung’s Voice Recorder to avoid this app’s premium plan

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-25 19:00:35

Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority I can’t be alone in wishing I’d kept a journal over the years. I’d love to reflect on what I was up to on certain days 20 years ago and how I was processing it all. Other than a few batches of photos and my increasingly fading memory, the records of my various travel adventures have mostly been lost. And those were the exciting times — the humdrum days in between have been almost entirely condemned to the mists of time. I don’t beat myself up about not keeping

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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-25 22:30:23

Corning, the US-based glass manufacturer behind Gorilla Glass, has vowed to end its exclusive deals and other practices that the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive in order to avoid getting fined. If you'll recall, the commission announced that it was investigating Corning last year, accusing it of squashing competition with its exclusive supply agreements, thereby driving up prices and stifling innovation. Now, the commission has accepted the commitments Corning offered and made

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Popular npm linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-25 18:51:22

Popular JavaScript libraries were hijacked this week and turned into malware droppers, in a supply chain attack achieved via targeted phishing and credential theft. The npm package eslint-config-prettier, downloaded over 30 million times weekly, was compromised after its maintainer fell victim to a phishing attack. Other packages, namely eslint-plugin-prettier, synckit, @pkgr/core, and napi-postinstall from the same maintainer, were also targeted. The attacker(s) used stolen credentials to pub

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Zig Interface Revisited

news.ycombinator.com William Wong 2025-07-22 22:52:11

Achieving polymorphism via dynamic dispatch in Zig Unlike many languages that offer interface or virtual constructs, Zig has no built-in notion of interfaces. This reflects Zig’s commitment to simplicity and performance. That doesn’t mean polymorphism is off the table. In fact Zig has the tools to build interface-like behavior, making dynamic dispatch possible. Polymorphism in Zig: The Options Let’s backtrack a bit. There are ways to achieve polymorphism in Zig, depending on the use case: Ge

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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 14:26:45

Why your website should be under 14kB in size Why your website should be under 14kB in size Having a smaller website makes it load faster — that's not surprising. What is surprising is that a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page — maybe 612ms faster — while the difference between a 15kB and a 16kB page is trivial. This is because of the TCP slow start algorithm. This article will cover what that is, how it works, and why you should care. But first we'll quickly go over some of the

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The Switch 2’s Pro Controller Beats the Competition, for All the Wrong Reasons

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-07-25 19:00:59

With Donkey Kong Bananza now making its case as the real launch title for the Nintendo Switch 2, I needed a controller that could keep up with Kong’s crashing fists. When it came to a game that epitomized joy and catharsis in equal measure, Nintendo’s own Pro device proved a leading contender as best all-around, but not for the reasons you may think. I spent my own money on an $85 Switch 2 Pro controller. Accounting for tax, it was closer to $95, which is nearly one-fifth of the total price I p

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-25 20:10:56

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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Tesla Tries to Save the Cybertruck With Its Most Desperate Offer Yet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-25 21:19:48

Less than two years after its hyped-up debut, Tesla is making an aggressive, almost desperate, move to salvage the Cybertruck, a vehicle widely seen as one of the biggest busts in recent automotive history. Faced with production woes, quality control nightmares, and underwhelming sales, the company has added its polarizing truck to a massive sales event, offering a powerful incentive it has historically reserved for its most loyal customers: a free transfer of its $12,000 Full Self-Driving (FSD

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Best Internet Providers in Charleston, South Carolina

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 14:27:00

What is the best internet provider in Charleston? CNET's top choice for internet providers in Charleston is AT&T Fiber. With plans starting at $55 a month and fast speeds, reliable service, it's a no brainer. But even if AT&T Fiber isn’t in your neighborhood, you’ve still got great alternatives. This includes Home Telecom and options from Xfinity and Spectrum. Prefer wireless? T-Mobile and Verizon both offer dependable 5G home internet across the city. Charleston stands out for its broadband a

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Mapping the Margins: The Internet's Invisible Hand in Reproductive Care

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 17:00:00

We don’t often think about the internet as being good for our health. In fact, “internet” and “health” are primarily related in a negative context in online spaces -- we’re getting too much screen time, we’re “chronically” online, etc. It may come as a surprise, but access to the internet is commonly recognized as a "super" determinant of health. Limited internet access has been linked to high mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and having the internet in easy reach means we can stay

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What to read this weekend: When the world spins out of control

The tech that the US Post Office gave us

Death by AI

The Curious Case of the Unix workstation layout

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James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells

Angry Callers Accusing Real Customer Support Staff of Being AI

Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

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I’m using Samsung’s Voice Recorder to avoid this app’s premium plan

Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)

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Tesla Tries to Save the Cybertruck With Its Most Desperate Offer Yet

Best Internet Providers in Charleston, South Carolina

Mapping the Margins: The Internet's Invisible Hand in Reproductive Care

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