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Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-23 11:30:23

Imagine you pen an erotic short story that involves two handsome men falling in love and into bed — some of your best work yet — and you publish it on a website that caters to that type of subgenre. But instead of getting kudos and gushing comments from readers, the cops haul you up to the police station for some dramatic questioning in a barren room, a process that may eventually land you in prison. That's exactly what's been happening to erotica writers in China who have run afoul of law enf

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Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-22 06:09:19

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities. The decision to end the expiration notification email service was implemented as of June 4, 2025, but Let's Encrypt has now communicated it via a blog post to raise awareness and prevent unexpected disruptions. Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority (CA) that provides free, automated, and open digital certific

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Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-23 14:03:19

Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information. Researchers confirmed that 29 devices from Beyerdynamic, Bose, Sony, Marshall, Jabra, JBL, Jlab, EarisMax, MoerLabs, and Teufel are affected. The list of impacted products includes speakers, earbuds, headphones, and wireless microphones. The security problems could be leveraged to take over a vulnerable product and on

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Amazon Is Going Nuts, Mac Mini Rival (Windows 11 Pro, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM) Now Costs Peanuts

gizmodo.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:10:22

Amazon has begun Prime Day early this year and the best news is that these deals are accessible to everyone (not just Prime members). One of the best deals currently on sale is on the GMKtec mini PC (i7, 1TB SSD, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Windows 11 Pro) which is a diminutive desktop with XL performance and a price that’s hard to believe. If you’re looking for a powerful desktop computer but don’t want to spend $2,000 on a high-end model, this is a smart pick. Now, the GMKtec mini PC featuring Intel Core

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Jon Watts Left ‘Fantastic Four’ to Get His Groove Back

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-23 11:30:24

Before Matt Shakman took over directing duties for the MCU’s first Fantastic Four movie, Jon Watts was in charge. The director of the Spider-Man: Home trilogy dropped out in 2022, and his reasons for leaving are completely valid: he had to take a much-needed break. During a recent storytelling class at the Mediterrane Film Festival, Watts revealed he was basically “out of gas” by the time he was wrapping Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was shot in the early days of the pandemic. Following the nu

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Best Internet Providers in Indiana

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 00:10:00

What's the best internet provider in Indiana? AT&T is CNET's pick of the best internet service provider in Indiana.The provider's fast speeds, free equipment, unlimited data and high customer satisfaction ratings make it our top recommendation. If you want a reliable internet experience with good value and support, you can't go wrong with AT&T. If you're outside the coverage area of AT&T, we recommend Frontier Fiber. It offers high speeds, one of the highest in the state, reaching up to 5,000Mb

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Plantaform Smart Indoor Garden Review: Rewarding but Risky

wired.com Lisa Wood Shapiro 2026-02-23 11:07:00

It was about a week into my journey as a hydroponic lettuce farmer when I noticed my Mila air purifier, set to auto mode, was running at full blast. Its internal air quality sensor told me the air was dirty. Not sure if the sensor was overly sensitive, I swapped it out for the more powerful and far quieter IQ Air Atem X (9/10 WIRED Recommends) and set it on auto mode. Next time I went into my son’s room, the Atem was running at its highest speed. I checked the room’s IQAir Visual Pro Indoor Air

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With ‘F1’, Apple finally has a theatrical hit

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-23 14:35:37

Looks like Apple has its first bona fide box office hit. The company has already produced critically-acclaimed and award-winning films for Apple TV+. In fact, while Netflix has reportedly spent millions on its Oscar campaigns, Apple’s “Coda” remains the only movie produced by a streaming service to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It has, however, been a different story at the box office — at best, returns have fallen short of ambitious budgets, and with “Argylle,” the company had a spe

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Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-23 12:00:15

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments If you vape — and especially if it's because you think it's a less harmful alternative to smoking — then we have some really bad news. New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that some popular disposable vapes contain levels of toxic metals so appalling that they exceed traditional cigarettes. And we don't just mean a single cig — we're talking packs of them. The work, published as a study in the journal ACS Central Science, sounds t

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If You Own an iPhone, Amazon Is Offering a Free AirTag Just Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-23 10:28:41

Apple doesn’t often discount products, and AirTags have never been on sale from the Apple website or in Apple stores. Amazon, however, occasionally surprises us with exclusive pricing on these useful Bluetooth trackers. For the best value, a pack of AirTags is nearly always a better buy than a single one. Amazon is also running a great deal just in time for Prime Day: purchase three AirTags and receive a fourth free. That drops the price of four AirTags to just $74, down from the regular $99 ($

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Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2026-02-23 06:02:32

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don't drink coffee, but the Mr Pibb doesn't buy itself.

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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

news.ycombinator.com Luc Rinaldi 2026-02-23 04:06:31

Rollie Pemberton was barely a teenager when he started rapping. His hometown, Edmonton, didn’t have much of a hip-hop scene in the early aughts, so he honed his craft online. He plugged an old-school microphone into his mom’s desktop computer, recorded a few verses, later turned them into tracks, and sent them out into the burgeoning music blogosphere. Within a few years, he’d adopted the emcee name Cadence Weapon and earned a reputation as a shrewd critic and sharp lyricist. This work didn’t p

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Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 05:01:15

There's a trend at the moment of solving online games with programming, let's do one from the UK called Passport Application, which is developed by "His Majesty's Passport Office" or HMPO. It's a cultural phenomenon in the UK: despite being quite expensive (about £100 just to start) for the standard online version (a masterpiece of minimalist design, entirely text-based), most British play the game, and do so every 10 years or so. It's an adventure puzzle document collection game. The premise i

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Brother printer hack puts thousands of users at risk of remote takeover

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-02-23 04:01:00

TL;DR: Hackers have cracked Brother's method of generating default admin passwords for hundreds of its printers, scanners, and label makers, putting users who haven't changed them at risk. Additionally, researchers found seven other serious vulnerabilities affecting Brother and other brands. Users should visit company websites for security advisories and update their firmware. Security researchers at Rapid7 recently reported eight vulnerabilities affecting over 689 printers, scanners, and label

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Android 16 will alert users to possible Stingray surveillance, fake cell towers

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-23 05:37:00

Why it matters: As Android 16's new security features roll out with the next generation of smartphones, users will, for the first time, have a tool to detect invisible digital surveillance. Whether this prompts broader reforms in how such technology is used and regulated remains to be seen. Still, the feature reflects a growing awareness of the need to protect personal privacy in the mobile age. An upcoming Android update will introduce a warning system to help users detect one of the most elus

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Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work well

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-23 03:38:05

Tesla's robotaxi service may have had some early hitches, but the company said it just successfully delivered a car autonomously. Using the same robotaxi technology, Tesla showed the delivery process of a Model Y from its Gigafactory Texas in Austin to a customer with a roughly 30-minute journey as seen in a video posted on X. Unlike the robotaxi service launch last week, the automated delivery had no safety monitor, nor anyone behind the wheel. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also posted on X that the

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The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings

news.ycombinator.com Elisabeth Egan 2026-02-19 12:46:20

Like fashion trends, fads in book covers come and go. One year, the backs of women’s heads might be all the rage; the next, soft focus photography. And who can forget the exploding flower craze? Or the proliferation of flames on jackets, from thrillers to science fiction to self-help? But the look that’s commanding today’s runways — a.k.a. bookshelves — is not so incendiary. It tends to lay blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old but not always. F

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Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 06:56:52

vet Don't just run it — vet it. Stop blindly piping to bash. vet lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute. The Problem We've all seen this pattern for installing software: curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | bash This is dangerous. The script could be malicious, the server could be compromised, or a transient network error could result in executing a partial script. The Solution vet wraps thi

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Are TikTok Age Tests Legit? Orthopedists Explains How to Measure Biological Age

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 22:00:00

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen fitness challenges based on your biological age. In some cases, it’s funny to see people attempting feats that seem impossible for their age or impressive that they can do them. You’ve probably felt inspired to try out some of these challenges and even questioned their legitimacy. “Most of these challenges, like completing 11 consecutive push-ups (for women), doing pull-ups or performing a kneeling-to-squat jump, are quick scr

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Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 03:00:04

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Recession headlines come and go in today's news cycle, which is filled with trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict. No one wants to pin their hopes on a major economic setback. But since recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates, many of my clients want to know: Will buying a home become more affordable in a recession? Since the beg

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US surgeons complete first-ever heart transplant using robotics

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-23 05:54:00

What just happened? Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston have performed the nation's first fully robotic heart transplant, a milestone in American medicine. Completed in March, the procedure marks a significant leap in robotic cardiac surgery and offers new hope for patients with advanced heart failure. The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to receive a heart transplant using a minimally invasiv

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Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-23 02:45:06

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you'll note, but more on that later — from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, time is three-dimensional and the dimensions of space are an emergent property of it, a press release from the university explains. "These three time dimensions are the primary fabric of everything, like the canvas of a paintin

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Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-23 08:15:31

What can a comet tell us about the Universe? Vomit Comet Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet — possibly the largest ever discovered — and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is 85 miles in diameter, far bigger than the six-mile asteroid that ended the age of the dinosaurs, according to a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. But thankfully, it's pretty far away — in the vicinity of Nept

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Apple @ Work: LambdaTest puts Apple Silicon to work for GenAI testing with MacStadium

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-02-23 05:00:00

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Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:38:05

Tesla's robotaxi service may have had some early hitches, but the company said it just successfully delivered a car autonomously. Using the same robotaxi technology, Tesla showed the delivery process of a Model Y from its Gigafactory Texas in Austin to a customer with a roughly 30-minute journey as seen in a video posted on X. Unlike the robotaxi service launch last week, the automated delivery had no safety monitor, nor anyone behind the wheel. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also posted on X that the

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 15:16:34

Last fall, Microsoft announced that individuals who wanted to keep using Windows 10 past its official end-of-support date could do so by opting into the company's Extended Security Update (ESU) program at a cost of $30 per PC. That payment would get users a single year of additional security updates. Today, less than four months before that October 14, 2025, cutoff, Microsoft is announcing additional options for people who can't or don't want to pay that fee. Individuals who want to pay $30 for

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Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 03:00:03

Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI company on the issue of fair use, in a significant win for generative AI companies and a blow for creators. Two days later, Meta won part of its fair use case. Fair use is a doctrine that's part of US copyright law. It's a four-part test that, when the

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Your BNPL Plans Could Soon Impact Your Credit Score. Here's When

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 04:00:00

CNET/Getty Images Have you ever opted for Buy Now, Pay Later at the checkout? You'd hardly be the only one. About 86.5 million people used BNPL in 2024, according to Capital One's research. Starting later this year, your BNPL plans could start appearing on your credit report. You can use BNPL for just about everything now, from Costco purchases to DoorDash (although that doesn't mean you should). But the one thing BNPL couldn't do was improve your credit. Although some of Affirm's plans do rep

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Tariff Impacts Are Real: I Found 13 Companies With Official Price Hikes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 05:30:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In a lot of ways and for a lot of products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans are still a ways off in the near future. Still, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they will be increased in the near future -- including, most recently, a popular and CNET-approved brand of smart lights. The fact of the matter is that tariffs

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In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-23 05:32:57

It’s a tumultuous time for copyright in the United States, with dozens of potentially economy-shaking AI copyright lawsuits winding through the courts. It’s also the most turbulent moment in the US Copyright Office’s history. Described as “sleepy” in the past, the Copyright Office has taken on new prominence during the AI boom, issuing key rulings about AI and copyright. It also hasn’t had a leader in more than a month. In May, Copyright Register Shira Perlmutter was abruptly fired by email by

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Latest Tech News

Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

Amazon Is Going Nuts, Mac Mini Rival (Windows 11 Pro, 1TB SSD, 32GB RAM) Now Costs Peanuts

Jon Watts Left ‘Fantastic Four’ to Get His Groove Back

Best Internet Providers in Indiana

Plantaform Smart Indoor Garden Review: Rewarding but Risky

With ‘F1’, Apple finally has a theatrical hit

Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals, Scientists Find

If You Own an iPhone, Amazon Is Offering a Free AirTag Just Before Prime Day

Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell

Brother printer hack puts thousands of users at risk of remote takeover

Android 16 will alert users to possible Stingray surveillance, fake cell towers

Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work well

The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings

Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts

Are TikTok Age Tests Legit? Orthopedists Explains How to Measure Biological Age

Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

US surgeons complete first-ever heart transplant using robotics

Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

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Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever

Your BNPL Plans Could Soon Impact Your Credit Score. Here's When

Tariff Impacts Are Real: I Found 13 Companies With Official Price Hikes

In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader

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