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Fortnite’s return to iPhone and iPad delayed once again in Brazil

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-16 18:25:35

Epic Games has once again postponed the relaunch of Fortnite for iPhone and iPad users in Brazil, citing ongoing negotiations between Apple and the country’s competition authority, CADE. Here’s when it’s expected now. The game’s return was initially scheduled for July Back in March, Epic had announced that Fortnite would return to iOS in Brazil in July through its own Epic Games Store, following a decision by the country’s market regulator that deemed Apple’s anti-steering policy illegal. For

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Free up space (effortlessly) on WSL2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:15:25

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment directly on Windows. This is particularly useful for web development where you can develop and test applications in a Linux environment without leaving Windows. You can even run freeCodeCamp locally with it! But managing disk space can be a quite a challenge, as WSL uses virtual hard disks that do not automatically free up unused space. This tutorial will guide you through the process of manually compacting your WSL virtual har

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GEPA optimizes LLMs without costly reinforcement learning

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-17 06:41:22

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 Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and Databricks have introduced a new AI optimization method called GEPA that significantly outperforms traditional reinforcement learning (RL) techniques for adapting large language models (LLMs) to specialized tasks. GEPA removes the popular paradigm of learning

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I tested this Garmin sleep tracker for weeks - here's why it replaces my smart ring for good

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-17 12:28:00

Garmin Index Sleep Monitor ZDNET's key takeaways The Garmin Index Sleep Monitor is available for $170 in S/M and L/XL sizes. The band is very comfortable and lightweight, the monitor tracks up to seven nights of sleep, and the sleep/recovery metrics are well integrated into the Garmin Connect ecosystem. It's still fairly expensive for a single-purpose wearable, even though FSA/HSA coverage is supported. $169.99 at Amazon $169.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices Get more in-depth ZDNET tech

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Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services for 2025, Tested by a Plant-Based Eater

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 09:52:00

When trying to find a vegan meal delivery service, several factors should be considered to find your perfect fit. Prepared meals versus meal kits: Prepared meals come ready to heat in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. Meal kits, on the other hand, provide all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to prepare the meals yourself. Though prepared meals are easier and take less time, meal kits may be good for those who like cooking or want to learn to cook. Fresh versus frozen: On t

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Webtoon Wants Video and Licensed Comics to Capture a New Generation of Readers

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-17 17:30:04

Webtoon is adding a new short-form video feature on its digital comics platform to continue to build out its multifaceted storytelling offerings. Many of Webtoon’s heavy hitters will get companion video episodes to supplement ways to experience its vast library. The English-language version of the app will kick off this feature with voice-acting narration, motion, and a score to highlight visual storytelling in a new way. Fourteen Webtoon originals will now include five-minute video episodes in

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The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-11-17 16:30:57

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The agency says it has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission. The outbreak has contributed to the worst year for measles cases in the United States in more than 30 years. As of August 5, the most recent update from the Centers for Disease Co

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‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-17 17:30:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an early test of instant game demos for Discord servers, which could theoretically let you

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I replaced my smartwatch with Garmin's new sleep tracker for weeks - here's my verdict

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-17 22:14:00

Garmin Index Sleep Monitor ZDNET's key takeaways The Garmin Index Sleep Monitor is available for $170 in S/M and L/XL sizes. The band is very comfortable and lightweight, the monitor tracks up to seven nights of sleep, and the sleep/recovery metrics are well integrated into the Garmin Connect ecosystem. It's still fairly expensive for a single-purpose wearable, even though FSA/HSA coverage is supported. $169.99 at Amazon $169.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices Get more in-depth ZDNET tech

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The First Trailer for ‘Keeper’ Deepens Its Creepy Mystery

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-17 22:45:55

Some filmmakers take a long time between projects. Others are more rapid-fire. In the time since Oz Perkins popped up in Jordan Peele’s last film, 2022’s Nope, playing a small role as a movie director, he released Longlegs (the highest-grossing indie film of 2024) as well as this year’s The Monkey—and in a few months, Keeper will hit theaters too. Peele has the sports horror film Him, which he produced, coming out soon, but his next directorial effort won’t arrive until October 2026. Different

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Israeli Cyber Official Arrested During Undercover Internet Crimes Against Children Sting

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-17 22:55:13

A high-ranking member of Israel’s cybersecurity directorate was recently arrested in Las Vegas as part of an undercover sting operation involving internet crimes against children, according to the State Department. A joint operation between city police and the FBI that targeted child sex predators resulted in the arrest of Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a man who, according to many news outlets, has been identified as a member of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, which operates out of Israeli Pri

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iPhone 18 Reportedly Won't Launch Until 2027 Because of Foldable iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 21:40:00

The yearly iPhone launch schedule is reportedly going to become very confusing — or exciting — depending on how you look at it. The premium versions of the iPhone 18 series, but not the base model, will be released in September 2026, along with the first foldable iPhone, according to an ET News report. The base iPhone 18 will be launched in the first half of 2027, the report said. Read more: Best iPhone in 2025: Which Apple Phone You Should Buy This decision has bearing on the release of iPho

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My iPhone 17 Wish List Has Just One Item, and It's None of the Usual Suspects

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 21:46:00

We're now less than a month away from Apple unveiling the iPhone 17, if rumors are to be believed. I always look forward to this highlight of the tech calendar, especially since I've been writing about and primarily using an iPhone for well over a decade. When it comes to the 2025 iPhone, there's one thing I'd love to see Apple prioritize -- and it might not be what you expect. It's not a cool new design, a bigger battery or a more impressive camera. It's definitely not advanced AI capabilities

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The Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services for 2025, Tested by a Plant-Based Eater

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 21:52:00

When trying to find a vegan meal delivery service, several factors should be considered to find your perfect fit. Prepared meals vs meal kits: Prepared meals come ready to heat in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. Meal kits, on the other hand, provide all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to prepare the meals yourself. Though prepared meals are easier and take less time, meal kits may be good for those who like cooking or want to learn to cook. Fresh vs frozen: On this list

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RFK Jr.'s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 03:34:11

The Trump administration's plans to improve Americans' health will include a push to review the safety of electromagnetic radiation, echoing long-held conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Wi-Fi and 5G touted by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Friday, Politico obtained a draft version of the "Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy," a highly anticipated report from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission intended to steer the administration's he

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‘Severance’ Season 3 Is Coming, but Ben Stiller Won’t Be Directing

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-18 03:15:15

When audiences return to Lumon Industries sometime in the near future, it will be without a major component. Ben Stiller, one of the producers and directors of the hit Apple TV+ show Severance, will not be directing any episodes in season three. “I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, ‘The clock is ticking,’” Stiller told the Los Angeles Times. He’s currently getting ready to star in Focker-In-Law, the latest Meet the Parents movie, and is prepping his next feature film, a World War II sur

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iPhone 18 Reportedly Won't Launch until 2027 Because of Foldable iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 03:08:20

The yearly iPhone launch schedule is reportedly going to become very confusing — or exciting — depending on how you look at it. The premium versions of the iPhone 18 series, but not the base model, will be released in September 2026, along with the first foldable iPhone, according to an ET News report. The base iPhone 18 will be launched in the first half of 2027, the report said. Read more: Best iPhone in 2025: Which Apple Phone You Should Buy This decision has bearing on the release of iPho

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RFK Jr.’s Wi-Fi and 5G conspiracies appear to make it into MAHA report draft

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 03:04:53

The Trump administration's plans to improve Americans' health will include a push to review the safety of electromagnetic radiation, echoing long-held conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Wi-Fi and 5G touted by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Friday, Politico obtained a draft version of the "Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy," a highly anticipated report from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission intended to steer the administration's he

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Who Invented Backpropagation?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:50:21

Efficient backpropagation (BP) is central to the ongoing Neural Network (NN) ReNNaissance and "Deep Learning." Who invented it? BP's modern version (also called the reverse mode of automatic differentiation) was first published in 1970 by Finnish master student Seppo Linnainmaa [BP1] [R7]. In 2020, we celebrated BP's half-century anniversary! A precursor of BP was published by Henry J. Kelley in 1960 [BPA]—in 2020, we celebrated its 60-year anniversary. In the 2020s, it was still easy to find

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95% of AI Pilots Failing

news.ycombinator.com Sheryl Estrada 2025-11-18 17:36:03

Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to

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I tested Soundcore's new sleep earbuds. Here's who I'd recommend them to (and who I wouldn't)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-19 03:47:07

Soundcore Sleep A30 Earbuds ZDNET's key takeaways The Soundcore Sleep A30 are now available for $230 The earbuds are comfortable with helpful sleep features Their active noise cancellation falls flat. View now at Soundcore Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I care a lot about my sleep, to the point where I watch what I eat before bed, exercise regularly, and stick to a regular sleep schedule. Every factor within my cont

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Clojure Async Flow Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 06:52:03

Flow Guide Getting started The flow library enables a strict separation application logic from the deployment concerns of topology, execution, communication, lifecycle, monitoring and error handling. Step fns and process launchers You provide logic to flow in the form of step-fns, which are wrapped into running processes, executing in a loop. Flow manages the life cycle of the process and handles incoming and outgoing messages by putting or taking them on channels. Step-fns do not access cha

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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic's 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-18 03:58:36

Judy Faulkner, founder and chief executive officer of Epic Systems Corp., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. These are the first three of the 10 commandments splashed across bathrooms and breakrooms at Epic Systems' sprawling 1,670-acre campus in Verona, Wisconsin, just southwest of Madison. It's not the wackiest part of working at the health-care software gi

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U.S. seizes $2.8 million in crypto from Zeppelin ransomware operator

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 06:36:48

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the seizure of more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency from suspected ransomware operator Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko. Antropenko, indicted in Texas for computer fraud and money laundering, was linked to Zeppelin ransomware, a now-defunct extortion operation that ran between 2019 and 2022. Apart from the digital asset seizure, the authorities also confiscated $70,000 in cash and a luxury vehicle. “Antropenko used Zeppelin ransomware to targe

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Passive Microwave Repeaters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 20:25:27

>>> 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters (PDF) One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T had largely abandoned their plan to build an extensive nationwide network of coaxial telephone cables. Microwave relay offered greater capacity at a lower cost. When Japan

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Scientists Are Using AI for Improved Gene Hacking

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:30:32

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists still fear that some snipping may lead to unwelcome surprises. However, a research team led by the University of Zurich says that artificial intelligence could help. A new study published in the journal Nature details how the researchers combined AI and the gen

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The same photos, four ways: How Android brands see the world differently

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:00:40

Robert Triggs / Android Authority It’s the perfect time of the year to take snaps of pretty, colorful things. But as we know, not every camera captures the same scene in quite the same way. Often, the differences are small, but when it comes to color science, every brand has its own take on what the perfect picture looks like. Despite years of innovation and brand partnerships, it seems impossible to please everyone. Whether it’s Samsung’s historic oversaturation or more modern issues with blan

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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way

news.ycombinator.com The Pudding 2025-11-18 18:54:19

This is a project about onions and math. Why? Because tens of millions of people are curious about how to properly dice an onion, according to YouTube. In 2021, chef and food writer J. Kenji López-Alt broke out some math to get optimal uniform piece sizes. But there is more than one way to dice an onion… This is an onion. (Well, a simplified cross-section of one.) We’ve cut it in half lengthwise, using a sharp knife to reduce the chance of injury and onion-induced crying. From here, what’s the

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-18 18:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-11-18 08:36:49

For all the power she wields with the White House’s affairs, Laura Loomer does not have the traditional tools that her rivals in the MAGA influencer industrial complex have — the highest follower count, the most political power, the most internet platforms, etc. But the fact remains that she’s the influencer responsible for getting Donald Trump to fire over a dozen members of his administration (and counting) for the hazily-defined crime of being disloyal to MAGA. This is something that none of

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