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California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-10-13 21:32:33

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . California lawmakers just paved the way for a whole lot more housing in the Golden State. In the waning hours of the 2025 legislative session, the state Senate voted 21 to 8 to approve Senate Bill 79 , a landmark housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to expand high-density housing near transit hubs. The controversial bill received a final concurrence vote from the Senate on Friday, a day after passin

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Legal win

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 21:55:23

Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization, and extortion have been knocked out! These were by far the most significant and far-reaching allegations in the case and with today’s decision the case is narrowed significantly. This is a win not just for us but for all open source maintainers and contributors. Huge thanks to the folks at Gibson and Automattic who have been working on this. With respect to any remainin

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Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-13 20:19:28

Carlson: “…he was definitely murdered, I think… there were signs of a struggle, of course. The surveillance camera, the wires had been cut. He had just ordered take-out food, come back from a vacation with his friends on Catalina Island. No indication at all that he was suicidal. No note and no behavior. He had just spoken to a family member on the phone. And then he’s found dead with blood in multiple rooms. So that’s impossible. Seems really obvious he was murdered. Have you talked to the aut

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Reduce bandwidth costs with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 13:14:58

How we cut AWS bandwidth costs 95% with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage The bandwidth billing challenge When deploying infrastructure across multiple AWS availability zones (AZs), bandwidth costs can become a significant operational expense. Some of our Upsun infrastructure spans three AZs for high availability, but this architecture created an unexpected challenge with our Ceph-based storage system. Since Ceph distributes data across the cluster and AWS bills for inter-A

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All-around protection: ESR launches iPhone 17 cases, screen protectors, AirPods covers

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-14 04:30:00

Following Apple’s ‘Awe Dropping’ event yesterday, ESR is unveiling a comprehensive lineup of accessories, cases, screen protectors, and chargers that will help you unleash the full power of your new devices, keeping them safe and powered up. iPhone 17 cases ESR’s flagship launch for the season exceeds military-grade standards by 7x, and starts at $26.99. In practice, this means the ESR Cyber Tough Magnetic Case is tough enough to handle 23-ft (7m) drops, thanks in part to its reinforced Air G

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You're Going to Drop Your New iPhone 17. Don't Skimp on the Case

cnet.com Aashna Gheewalla 2025-10-14 07:02:49

We're all buzzing with excitement over Apple's iPhone 17 lineup, announced at the Apple Event 2025 on Sept. 9. You can now preorder a new iPhone, either the base iPhone 17, the new iPhone Air, the 17 Pro or the larger 17 Pro Max. Remember to grab something to protect your new device. Many of your favorite brands, like Casetify, have already released new cases for the upcoming iPhone 17 models. Even Apple has dropped its new line of cases, with some fun new accessories, too. We'll continue to u

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Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:36:48

When software engineer Joshua Fonseca recently connected the GameCube simulation classic Animal Crossing to a modern AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT, he decided to shake things up. By programming the AI to roleplay as villagers growing aware of their debt situation, and giving them a shared memory to track conversations, Fonseca orchestrated a scenario where the residents began to organize against their raccoon landlord. In Animal Crossing, Tom Nook runs the town shop and pr

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9to5Mac Daily: September 12, 2025 – iPhone 17 pre-orders, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-10-14 16:22:34

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing lets you back up, transfer, and manage your iPhone and iPad data like never before — including messages, photos, music, WhatsApp, voicemails, battery health, and more. No cloud required. Use code 9to5mac-20off to get 20% off, exclusively f

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How Prehistoric Humans Survived a Supervolcano So Big We Probably Should Have Gone Extinct

gizmodo.com Jayde N. Hirniak 2025-10-14 16:35:08

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is located in what’s now Indonesia, living organisms across the entire globe were potentially affected. As an archaeologist who specializes in studying volcanic eruptions of the past, I often think about how incredible it is that humans survived this extinction-level event that was over 10,000 times larger

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Totallee launches super thin cases for iPhone 17 Pro Max, 17 Pro, 17 and Air

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-14 20:51:37

Totallee is now shipping its minimalist cases for all the new iPhones. Totallee has been making high-quality, ultra thin iPhone cases since 2013. They are known for making cases that are designed to offer everyday protection without adding bulk. Totallee’s cases are available in multiple colors and in 3 different styles. Head below for a look at the whole collection. THE SCARF – THIN iPHONE CASE | $35-$39 Shop iPhone 17 Pro Max Case | iPhone 17 Pro Case | iPhone 17 Case | iPhone Air Case The

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This Solar-Powered Dashcam Watches Your Car While You’re Off ‘Finding Yourself’ in Europe

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-14 20:47:14

I remember when I had a car. I was living in Queens, and avoiding tickets was an absolute nightmare—that is, until I was informed of a neighborhood cheat code. There was a street sort of near where I lived where I could just leave my car—no alternate side parking, predetermined hours, nothing. Naturally, I went straight there and parked my car and tried my best to forget that I had one until I needed it. I thought about that car every single day. Was it still there? Had it been smashed to pieces

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VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 23:14:50

Applying the scaling laws to build VaultGemma The Gemma models are designed with responsibility and safety at their core. This makes them a natural foundation for developing a production-quality, DP-trained model like VaultGemma. Algorithmic advancements: Training at scale The scaling laws we derived above represent an important first step towards training a useful Gemma model with DP. We used the scaling laws to determine both how much compute we needed to train a compute-optimal 1B paramete

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Encyclopedia Britannica Wants Perplexity to Stop Using Its Logos When AI Makes Stuff Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 00:20:55

Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines the verb plagiarize as "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source." And that's exactly what its parent company, Encyclopedia Britannica, is alleging the AI company Perplexity did with its AI answers engine, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. AI companies like Perplexity are no strangers to copyright infringeme

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iPhone Diary: For the first time in many years, I’m not upgrading my iPhone

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-15 04:00:00

Today would normally see me poised over the Apple website on my Mac and the Apple Store app on my phone ready to seen which goes live first so I can finalize my order for a shiny new iPhone. This year is an exception, and although that’s partly for personal reasons, it’s mostly because I’m just not seeing any good reason to want the iPhone 17 Pro Max over last year’s model … I haven’t always upgraded my iPhone each year. Indeed, in 2016, I technically downgraded, although I didn’t personally s

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Take a Trip to the Final Frontier With This Year’s Best Astronomy Photography

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-15 04:00:23

When a comet meets solar winds, its nuclear coma—a bright cloud of gas around its core—reacts vibrantly to our Sun’s solar maximum, leaving a trail of stellar gas and dust across the solar system. Miraculously, the sky above June Lake, California, cleared up for a full 13 minutes for photographer Dan Bartlett to image the comet clearly enough for his photograph, “Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks Taking a Final Bow.” With incredible technological advances, the continuous flow of space photos can sometimes

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After Anthropic’s Billion-Dollar Settlement, Dictionaries Are Suing Perplexity AI

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-15 04:20:24

Anthropic’s recent $1.5 billion settlement could open the floodgates for more publishers to sue AI companies over how they use copyrighted content. Just this week, the Britannica Group, the parent of Encyclopedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, sued Perplexity. Filed on Wednesday in a New York federal court, the complaint accuses the buzzy AI startup of infringing Britannica’s copyright and trademark rights and claims its answer engine is cutting into the publisher’s revenue. Pe

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Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 04:01:27

On Friday, CBC News reported that a major education reform document prepared for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador contains at least 15 fabricated citations that academics suspect were generated by an AI language model—despite the same report calling for "ethical" AI use in schools. "A Vision for the Future: Transforming and Modernizing Education," released August 28, serves as a 10-year roadmap for modernizing the province's public schools and post-secondary institutions. The

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BMW says CarPlay Ultra is ‘not so exciting,’ disputes CarPlay popularity

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-15 08:31:11

CarPlay Ultra officially launched earlier this year, but one of the automakers who has so far said “no” to supporting Apple’s system—BMW—has just explained the reasoning for their decision. CarPlay’s future at BMW doesn’t appear very bright At a recent press event, BMW’s Senior Vice President of UI/UX Development, Stephan Durach, didn’t have very positive things to say about CarPlay Ultra. Steven Paul writes at BMWBLOG: “If you take a look at it, what I saw so far, it’s not so exciting,” Dur

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Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:00:38

Nissan provided flights from Austin to San Diego and then to Washington, DC, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Nissan Leaf. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. SAN DIEGO—The original Nissan Leaf was a car with a mission. Long before Elon Musk set his sights on Tesla selling vast numbers of electric vehicles to the masses, then-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn wanted Nissan to shift half a million Leafs a year in the early 2010s. That didn't quite come to pass, but by 2020, it had sold its

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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:09:00

Lots of people are excited about the idea of using plants to help us draw down some of the excess carbon dioxide we've been pumping into the atmosphere. It would be nice to think that we could reforest our way out of the mess we're creating, but recent studies have indicated there's simply not enough productive land for this to work out. One alternative might be to get plants to take up carbon dioxide more efficiently. Unfortunately, the enzyme that incorporates carbon dioxide into photosynthes

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Google Home notifications go missing on Pixel 10, but Google’s working on a fix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-15 12:27:54

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Many Pixel 10 users report they’re not receiving notifications from the Google Home app on their new phone. Fixes like force-stopping the app or clearing its data work briefly before issues return, often after a reboot. Google has acknowledged the issue and is currently working on a solution. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to support us and make sure you never miss our latest exclusiv

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All of the best iPhone 17 and iPhone Air cases you can purchase for pre-order day [Updated]

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-10-15 05:01:00

Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup is set to go up for pre-order this Friday and we are ready to start rounding up the best cases from our favorite brands. The most notable iPhone 17 cases are almost certain to come from the brands we have been testing out for years, and just about all of them have now debuted new 2025 collections. These include the latest models from Apple through to third-party brands we have been using ourselves for many years, some ultra-affordable options, and some with early exclu

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iPhone 17 Series Preorders Are Happening Now, but Don't Skip the Case

cnet.com Aashna Gheewalla 2025-10-15 10:02:00

It's here. You can preorder the new iPhone lineup right now to ensure you get Apple's new flagship in your hand at launch. We're all buzzing with excitement over Apple's iPhone 17 lineup, which was announced at the company's Apple Event 2025 Sept. 9. It includes the base iPhone 17, the new iPhone Air and the 17 Pro, as well as the larger 17 Pro Max. But don't forget to grab something to protect you nifty new device. Tons of your favorite brands, like Casetify, have already released new cases for

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How to Safely Clean your Ears--Without Using Q-Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 12:00:00

When you notice wax in your ears or feel like your ears are clogged or full, it's tempting to grab a Q-tip from your medicine cabinet and use it to try to remove whatever's in your ear. However, this is not safe and can negatively impact the health of your ears -- despite the satisfying feeling you may get when you remove that wax. To help you better care for your ears, let's discuss why Q-tips can be dangerous and what you should use instead to remove earwax. Don't miss any of our unbiased te

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The Best Gifts for Newlyweds They’ll Actually Use (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-10-15 12:09:00

We can’t talk about coffee grinders without touching on coffee makers too. I’ve had rotten luck in this arena, truth be told. I was hoping that the coffee maker I was gifted at my wedding would last a whopping 20 years, like my parents’ did, but it barely made it past my second anniversary. Upon polling friends and family and consulting WIRED tester Matthew Korfhage, the Moccamaster KBGV Select was consistently mentioned as a top pick. And Matthew deems it the best “buy it for life” option. Whi

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Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 16:04:51

Infamous for their environmental persistence and potential links to health conditions, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called forever chemicals, are being discovered in unexpected places, including beer. Researchers publishing in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology tested beers brewed in different areas around the U.S. for these substances. They found that beers produced in parts of the country with known PFAS-contaminated water sources showed the highest levels of forever

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Winklevoss-founded Gemini prices IPO at $28 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at $3.3 billion

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-10-15 20:58:31

Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), creators of crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co., on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Gemini Space Station, the crypto company founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, priced its initial public offering at $28 per share late Thursday The company priced the offering above its expected range of $24 to $26, valuing the company at $3.3 billio

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The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-15 20:10:00

This week, the Trump administration released a strategy for improving the health and well-being of American children. The report was titled—you guessed it—Make Our Children Healthy Again. It suggests American children should be eating more healthily. And they should be getting more exercise. But there’s a glaring omission. The leading cause of death for American children and teenagers isn’t ultraprocessed food or exposure to some chemical. It’s gun violence. This week’s news of yet more high-p

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Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Alone. By Stand-Up-Paddleboard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 05:42:36

We will, of course, put a live tracker online for his journey, and thanks to modern communications equipment, the paddler will be able to send information, pictures and even videos from the middle of the Atlantic. Preparations for this special challenge have been ongoing for many months. However, for a project like this to come together, a lot of things have to fit together perfectly.

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Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-15 22:27:58

Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card? 8 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional Sim card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech. All phone users will be used to the small plastic cards they need to delicately insert into their devices to make them operate. But for buyers of the iPhone Air, that w

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Latest Tech News

California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

Legal win

Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’

Reduce bandwidth costs with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage

All-around protection: ESR launches iPhone 17 cases, screen protectors, AirPods covers

You're Going to Drop Your New iPhone 17. Don't Skimp on the Case

Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack

9to5Mac Daily: September 12, 2025 – iPhone 17 pre-orders, more

How Prehistoric Humans Survived a Supervolcano So Big We Probably Should Have Gone Extinct

Totallee launches super thin cases for iPhone 17 Pro Max, 17 Pro, 17 and Air

This Solar-Powered Dashcam Watches Your Car While You’re Off ‘Finding Yourself’ in Europe

VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

Encyclopedia Britannica Wants Perplexity to Stop Using Its Logos When AI Makes Stuff Up

iPhone Diary: For the first time in many years, I’m not upgrading my iPhone

Take a Trip to the Final Frontier With This Year’s Best Astronomy Photography

After Anthropic’s Billion-Dollar Settlement, Dictionaries Are Suing Perplexity AI

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

BMW says CarPlay Ultra is ‘not so exciting,’ disputes CarPlay popularity

Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

Google Home notifications go missing on Pixel 10, but Google’s working on a fix

All of the best iPhone 17 and iPhone Air cases you can purchase for pre-order day [Updated]

iPhone 17 Series Preorders Are Happening Now, but Don't Skip the Case

How to Safely Clean your Ears--Without Using Q-Tips

The Best Gifts for Newlyweds They’ll Actually Use (2025)

Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S.

Winklevoss-founded Gemini prices IPO at $28 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at $3.3 billion

The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Alone. By Stand-Up-Paddleboard

Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?

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