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Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 02:58:44

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy behind it into a near-perfect circle called an Einstein ring, effectively reducing a realm with trillions of stars of its own into an astrophysical fashion accessory. It's 10,000 times as heavy as our Milky Way's own central black hole, and is nigh unto breaking the universe's theoretical upper limi

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Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack: Report

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-25 08:26:09

The Russian government is allegedly behind the data breach affecting the U.S. court filing system known as PACER, according to The New York Times. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper said Russia “is at least in part responsible” for the cyberattack, without saying what part of the Russian government is behind the hack. The hackers searched for “midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern Europe

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White House says it's working out legality of Nvidia and AMD China chip deals

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-25 17:33:09

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) invites Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to speak in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration is still working out the details of its 15% export tax on Nvidia and AMD and could bring deals of this kind to more companies, the White House's Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. "Right now it stands with these two companies. Perhaps it could expand in the future to other companies," sa

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Uber Freight CEO joins self-driving truck company Waabi, says era of autonomous big rigs on U.S. roads is here

cnbc.com Eric Rosenbaum 2025-11-26 08:35:48

Lior Ron, founder and CEO of Uber Freight, is joining self-driving truck startup Waabi as chief operating officer. The move, Ron says, is based on his belief that the era of autonomous big rigs on the roads at scale is here, with the freight industry to be transformed by the economics of driverless technology in the semi cab. "The first decade of my career in logistics was building Uber Freight, putting the rails in place to usher in the era of digitalization for logistics," Ron said. "It's ti

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This U.S. Airport Wants to Go Nuclear, and the Backlash Has Already Begun

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-26 08:45:48

Within the last two decades, the aviation sector’s global energy-related carbon emissions have grown faster than rail, road, or shipping emissions. Amid an urgent need to transition this industry to clean energy sources, Denver International Airport (DEN) has proposed a bold solution: nuclear power. On Wednesday, August 6, airport chief Phil Washington and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced they were seeking proposals for a $1.25 million feasibility study of a small, on-site nuclear reactor t

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Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-26 08:15:42

Anduril has officially brought its high-volume solid rocket motor (SRM) factory online in Mississippi as it races to fulfill America’s demand for space and defense missions and challenge a decades-long duopoly between two major defense contractors. The Mississippi factory will be able to produce 6,000 tactical motors a year by the end of 2026, enough volume to position Anduril as the United States’ “third” SRM supplier. More than 700 motors have already passed static test firing. These motors a

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83% of US Adults Still Choose Laptops for Work and School Over Sleek Smartphones and Tablets, CNET Survey Finds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 22:00:00

Upgrading to a new laptop can feel like a never-ending rabbit hole. Even when you know what you need, choosing the best features, specs and design within your budget can be a bit overwhelming, to say the least. Between back-to-school season and the holidays fast approaching, now's the time to shop around for a deal on a new laptop. But what are US adults looking for when upgrading their laptops, anyway? CNET's new laptop survey found that nearly half of US adults are upgrading for better speed

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How a once-tiny research lab helped Nvidia become a $4 trillion-dollar company

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-26 22:30:00

When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research lab now employs more than 400 people, who have helped transform Nvidia from a video game GPU startup in the nineties to a $4 trillion-dollar company fueling the artificial intelligence boom. Now, the company’s research lab has its sights set on developing the tech needed to power robotics and AI.

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Trump says he's open to letting Nvidia sell a downgraded version of its most advanced chip to China

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-11-27 06:39:25

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump has signaled that he'd be open to allowing Nvidia to sell a downgraded version of its most advanced artificial intelligence chip to China. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Trump said that he could make a deal with Nvidia if it could reduce the performance of its Blackwell system. "It's possible I'd make a

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Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

news.ycombinator.com Sasha Rogelberg 2025-11-26 23:39:41

There’s getting cozy at a Starbucks to sip a latte and catch up on emails, and then there’s lugging your printer and desktop to the coffee chain to clock into work. Starbucks South Korea is experiencing this exact phenomenon and is now barring patrons from bringing in large pieces of work equipment, treating the cafés like their own amenity-stuffed office space. “Starbucks Korea has updated its policy so all customers can have a pleasant and accessible store experience. While laptops and small

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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-27 06:01:26

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse 5 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Joshua Nevett Political reporter Share Save EPA Staff at the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised a series of "serious and escalating concerns" in a whistleblowing complaint submitted to the Charity Co

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Trump flip-flops on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-27 22:41:23

President Donald Trump said Monday that he and members of his cabinet met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, days after he called on the head of the chipmaker to resign. Intel shares rose 2% in extended trading. "I met with Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, of Intel, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are goi

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TD Securities taps Layer 6 and OpenAI to deliver real-time equity insights to sales and trading teams

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-11-27 21:54:24

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Despite being a highly regulated industry, equity trading has consistently been at the forefront of technological innovations in the financial services sector. However, when it comes to agents and AI applications, many banks have taken a more cautious approach to adoption. TD Securities, the equity and securities trading arm of TD Bank, ro

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Meteorite Crashes Into Georgia Home, Turns Out to Be 20 Million Years Older Than Earth

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-28 03:25:56

On a clear June day in Georgia, a blazing fireball suddenly fell out of the sky over the Atlanta metro area. The source of this spectacle was a 1-ton meteor that exploded in mid-air, sending a cherry tomato-sized fragment shooting through the roof of a McDonough home. Though no one knew it then, this space rock hailed from a time long before Earth had even formed. Using optical and electron microscopes, geologists at the University of Georgia analyzed 0.8 ounces (23 grams) of fragments recovere

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As Fears About AI Grow, Sam Altman Says Gen-Z Are the ‘Luckiest Kids in History’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-28 08:55:03

Over the weekend, the New York Times dropped a story about how computer science graduates are so hard up for jobs that they can’t even find work at Chipotle. The reason? Many people are blaming AI, which has increasingly eaten into the job market for entry-level coders. Not everybody is worried about this, however. Sam Altman, the CEO of one of the most successful AI companies in the world, says that recent college grads should really be grateful for their current situation. Fortune originally

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Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Breuninger 2025-11-28 12:13:51

President Donald Trump on Monday placed the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the capital city to address what he claimed was out-of-control crime there. It is the first time that a president has federalized the Metropolitan Police Department. Trump's move drew fierce condemnation from local officials, who noted that official statistics show crime in D.C. is on the decline. "I'm announcing a historic action to rescue our nation'

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Trump says he asked for 20% cut from Nvidia, calls H20 an 'obsolete' chip

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-28 17:11:46

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) listens as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks in the Cross Hall of the White House during an event on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump on Monday said that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of the chipmaker's sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after CEO Jensen Huang negotiated with him. The comments came after news broke over the weekend that Nvidia agreed to pay the federal government a 15% cut in

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Ford is developing a $30,000 midsized EV pickup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 08:30:30

Despite the impending loss of federal rebates, Ford plans to give US EV production a huge boost. After hyping it last week as a "breakthrough" and "Model T moment," the company has announced a new Universal EV Platform to be shared by a new family of products. The first of those will be a midsized pickup with a starting price of around $30,000, likely similar in configuration to the popular Maverick. It will use the company's new prismatic LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries. Ford will inves

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Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term’ — and he's not alone

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-30 04:18:36

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or "AGI," is losing its relevance as a term as rapid advances in the space make it harder to define the concept. AGI refers to the concept of a form of artificial intelligence that can perform any intellectual task that a human can. For years, OpenAI has been working to research and develop AGI that is safe and benefits all humanity. "I think it's not a super useful term," Altman told CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week, when asked whether

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Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-30 05:01:59

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US Nvidia told the BBC: "We follow rules the US government sets for our participation in worldwide markets." Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump's first term, recently wrote to the administration expressing "deep concern" that Nvidia's H20 chip was "a potent accelerator" of China's AI capabilities. The US had previously banned the sale of powerful chips used in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) to Chi

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Breakfast With ChatGPT: Three Workers, One Morning, A Different AI Story

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-29 09:15:44

I came to Cleveland, Ohio, for the 50th anniversary of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. I expected the hallways to be buzzing with conversations about AI, and they were, but not in the way I’d hoped. For the first two days, the phrase I heard most from my fellow journalists was “we must protect ourselves.” In session after session, the consensus was that AI is a danger, a threat, an enemy coming to replace us. Then I had breakfast at Betts, the restaurant in my h

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-29 21:00:00

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin account that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carmaker’s centralized web portal. With this access, a m

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump comments that he should resign

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 03:30:08

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has responded after Donald Trump accused him of being "highly conflicted" and said he should resign, according to The Financial Times. "There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles," Tan said in a letter to Intel staff. "I wanted to be absolutely clear... I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards." Tan said that Intel was engaging with the White House "to address the matters that have been raised and ensure they have the

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 20:14:38

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

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The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-29 22:45:58

The world is hurtling towards an inevitable AI dystopia in the very near future, according to Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, formerly known as Google X. “We will have to prepare for a world that is very unfamiliar,” Gawdat said in an interview on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast, adding that humanity’s key values like freedom, human connection, accountability, reality, and power are all facing a major disruption by AI. And this dystopia isn’t far off,

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Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Jenny Peek 2025-11-25 02:50:43

If you’ve taken a drive on one of Wisconsin’s iconic scenic roads, chances are you’ve noticed a bit of alphabet soup. Signs with names like BB, CV, N and SS flank Wisconsin’s county roads, and Shelly from Marshall wanted to know why. She asked: “Why are Wisconsin’s county roads labeled with letters instead of numbers?” Stay connected to Wisconsin news — your way Get trustworthy reporting and unique local stories from WPR delivered directly to your inbox. Email Name This field is for validatio

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After User Backlash, OpenAI Is Bringing Back Older ChatGPT Models

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 16:24:00

OpenAI hoped to shrink the menu of generative AI models on its ChatGPT platform to just one with the release of its GPT-5 model this week. Not everyone was a fan. Now CEO Sam Altman says the developer is looking at giving ChatGPT Plus subscribers the option to keep using the older 4o model. Altman and other OpenAI leaders took questions on Reddit on Friday, a day after the announcement of the new GPT-5 model. A quick glance through the comments revealed how many users preferred how older model

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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

wired.com Meg Wilcox 2025-11-29 12:00:00

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service (NWS) to suspend weather balloon launches at its Kotzebue, Alaska, station earlier this year, a startup deploying next-generation weather balloons, WindBorne Systems, stepped up to fill the void. The company began selling its western Alaskan atmospheric data to the NWS in February, plugging what could have been a critical data gap in w

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Imaging reveals 2k-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 23:10:43

As It Happens Imaging reveals 2,000-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos More than two millennia ago, a woman sat for hours on end in the ancient grasslands of a Siberian mountain range to have her body adorned with elaborate tattoos of creatures both real and mythical. When she died, her body was preserved under the permafrost for thousands of years, but her tattoos faded and became invisible to the naked eye. Now researchers have used high-resolution, near-infrared photograp

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Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-11-30 15:45:26

Jason Hong, 75, has had his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk stolen, and returned, multiple times in the last couple of months, but he and police have no idea who has been taking the colorful plane. While Jason Hong was celebrating his 75th birthday, he suddenly found himself thinking about his 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, a white and red single-engine beauty with colorful stripes that he calls his “old treasure.” He doesn’t fly it much anymore, but given the occasion he resolved to visit his plane as soon as he c

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Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack: Report

White House says it's working out legality of Nvidia and AMD China chip deals

Uber Freight CEO joins self-driving truck company Waabi, says era of autonomous big rigs on U.S. roads is here

This U.S. Airport Wants to Go Nuclear, and the Backlash Has Already Begun

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Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

Trump flip-flops on Intel CEO, calls him 'success' days after demanding resignation

TD Securities taps Layer 6 and OpenAI to deliver real-time equity insights to sales and trading teams

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Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump comments that he should resign

Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

Imaging reveals 2k-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos

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