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The West Texas measles outbreak has ended

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-15 03:30:52

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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OpenAI releases $4 ChatGPT plan, but it's not available in the US for now

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-15 06:28:00

OpenAI has finally announced the GPT Go subscription, which costs just $4 in the US or INR 399 in India. Unfortunately, the cheapest paid version of GPT is limited to India for now. If you live in India or have an account made in India, you'll now begin seeing a nudge to try GPT Go when you're using a free account. Source: BleepingComputer When you select Try Go, you'll be asked to pay at least $4. Right now, it is limited to India, but OpenAI says that it will come to more regions soon. GP

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This new C-suite role is more important than ever in the AI era - here's why

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-11-15 17:34:27

calvindexter / DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Customer experience officer is still a relatively new role. A majority of experience officers are fresh to their position. Officers spend time with customers and analyzing key metrics. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I've long felt that "customer experience officer" should be everyone's role, regardless of job title. However, this C-suite p

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ChatGPT now has a subscription plan that costs less than $5/month

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-15 16:12:21

OpenAI has launched the cheapest ChatGPT subscription plan ever. The new plan, called ChatGPT Go , costs less than $5 per month, but the catch is that it’s not available everywhere and has only just launched in India. ChatGPT Go aims to expand the chatbot’s most popular features and make them available at more affordable prices. Not only does the subscription include everything you get with the free version of ChatGPT, it also brings the following additions: Extended access to GPT-5 Extended

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Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-15 22:26:18

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the “COPILOT” function followed by a natural language prompt and (op

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Without the Futex, It's Futile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 03:53:42

Phil Eaton’s book club is starting The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, 2nd Edition , which is a very well regarded textbook, and pretty recently updated (2021). I’ve even heard of a couple of authors. I’ve done a lot of concurrent programming, and have always felt like I’ve still got plenty to learn, so I was excited for the topic. So far, what I’ve learned is that I would never recommend this book, despite any merits. Academia certainly struggles to find the right balance between teaching

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Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-17 06:14:59

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes "Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes." Launch and Taxes For all his trash-talk of government welfare, billionaire Elon Musk has benefited from a lot of it in his time at the helm of his businesses, including SpaceX — and according to newly leaked documents, his space firm isn't even paying any taxes, either. As the New York Times reports, internal documents show that Musk has intimated to investors t

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Roblox is locking down sexual content and access to ‘adult’ locations after lawsuits

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-17 03:56:59

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Roblox is updating its policies prohibiting romantic or sexual content to also forbid “content, settings, or behavior that implies sexual activity,” according to a Friday post from chief safety officer Matt Kaufman (emphasis Kaufman’s). The changes follow recent lawsuits against the compa

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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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Musk's Starlink suffers apparent outage as SpaceX launches more satellites

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-17 17:51:15

Satellite internet service Starlink, which is owned and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, appeared to suffer a brief network outage on Monday, with thousands of reports of service interruptions on Downdetector, a site that logs tech issues. The outage marked the second in two weeks for Starlink. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The network's July 24 outage lasted for several hours, with SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Engineering Michael Nicolls blaming the matter o

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Left to Right Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 15:08:36

2025-08-17 Left to Right Programming Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed I don’t like Python’s list comprehensions: text = "apple banana cherry dog emu fox" words_on_lines = [ line . split ( ) for line in text . splitlines ( ) ] Don’t get me wrong, declarative programming is good. However, this syntax has poor ergonomics. Your editor can’t help you out as you write it. To see what I mean, lets walk through typing this code. words_on_lines = [ l Ideally, your editor would be to aut

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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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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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tvOS 26 beta 7 available now for Apple TV 4K

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-18 03:10:06

tvOS 26 beta 7 is rolling out now for developers, the latest Apple TV 4K beta release. Here’s what to expect. Latest tvOS 26 beta is one of the last before public release Apple has just released tvOS 26 beta 7 for developers. The new update is expected to focus on performance and stability improvements, with noteworthy feature changes unlikely. Beta software ultimately has the goal of helping create a solid upgrade experience for the wide public launch. And that launch is coming up fast. Ap

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Left to Right Programming: Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 03:08:36

2025-08-17 Left to Right Programming Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed I don’t like Python’s list comprehensions: text = "apple banana cherry dog emu fox" words_on_lines = [ line . split ( ) for line in text . splitlines ( ) ] Don’t get me wrong, declarative programming is good. However, this syntax has poor ergonomics. Your editor can’t help you out as you write it. To see what I mean, lets walk through typing this code. words_on_lines = [ l Ideally, your editor would be to aut

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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 12:39:42

A recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a potential ban of the tools in the country. The case stems from online media company Axel Springer’s lawsuit against Eyeo - the maker of the popular Adblock Plus browser extension. Axel Springer says that ad blockers threaten its revenue generation model and frames website execution inside web browsers as a copyright violation. T

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You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-18 12:04:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Android users finally have an undo option. A long-awaited feature that lets you delete a sent text message is widely rolling out to most Android devices --

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Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

news.ycombinator.com Brian Martucci 2025-11-18 16:34:06

Dive Brief: Data centers and other large, non-critical power consumers connected to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas transmission grid must accept curtailment during firm load shed events under a landmark law Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed Friday. Senate Bill 6 pairs mandatory curtailment with a voluntary demand response procurement program under which loads of 75 MW or more could ramp down or switch to backup generation at utilities’ request. It also includes new interconnection

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Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-18 22:02:56

In Brief AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions of Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls, as well as a calendar to show schedules for post-results conference calls. Alongside surfacing news about the markets, Perplexity’s Finance dashboard shows market summaries, stock exchange charts, and top performing stocks. The dashboard also lets users create stock watchlists, track sector performance, and see cryptocurrency performance. Until now,

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MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 23:53:03

Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code I wrote a while back about why code performs better than MCP (Model Context Protocol) for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to use those. In the meantime, I learned a few more things that put some nuance to this. There are a handful of challenges with CLI-based tools that are rather hard to resolve and require further examination. In this blog post, I want to

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Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 05:08:45

Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator The Walkie-Textie is a simple handheld device with a 12-key keypad and OLED display that allows you to send and receive text messages using the LoRa wireless protocol. It's ideal for situations where there's no mobile signal, such as when you're camping or hiking in a remote area, when you don't want the cost of a mobile network, or for children to have fun without running up a bill: The Walkie-Textie is a handheld device that allows you to send text message

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MCP Doesn't Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 11:53:03

Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code I wrote a while back about why code performs better than MCP (Model Context Protocol) for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to use those. In the meantime, I learned a few more things that put some nuance to this. There are a handful of challenges with CLI-based tools that are rather hard to resolve and require further examination. In this blog post, I want to

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Fun with Finite State Transducers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 08:30:12

ENOSUCHBLOG Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Aug 14, 2025 Tags: devblog, programming, rust, zizmor I recently solved an interesting problem inside zizmor with a type of state machine/automaton I hadn’t used before: a finite state transducer (FST). This is just a quick write-up of the problem and how I solved it. It doesn’t go particularly deep into the data structures themselves. For more information on FSTs themselves, I strongly recommend burntsushi’s article on transducers (which is wha

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Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 00:29:22

We just shipped a new feature in NextDNS: Bypass Age Verification. More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk. This new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts. We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect priva

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Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 03:13:06

Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain <textarea> was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can'

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We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 16:31:05

We recently used Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to embed millions of text documents while sustaining near-100% GPU utilization the whole way. That’s usually the gold standard that machine learning engineers aim for… but here’s the twist: in the time it took to write this blog post, we found a way to make the same workload 3× faster, and it didn’t involve maxing out GPU utilization at all. That story’s for another post, but first, here’s the recipe that got us to near-100%. The workload Here at the Daft

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Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 08:24:32

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The flaw was reported responsibly to Fortinet and is now tracked as CVE-2025-52970. Fortinet released a fix on August 12. Security researcher Aviv Y named the vulnerability FortMajeure and describes it as a "silent failure that wasn’t meant to happen." Technically, it is an out-of-bounds read in FortiWeb’s coo

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Trump warned by top Senate Democrats to rethink advanced AI chip sales to China

cnbc.com Celia Fernandez 2025-11-18 18:39:59

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2025. Six Senate Democrats on Friday released an open letter asking President Donald Trump to reconsider his decision to allow tech giants Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices to sell AI semiconductor chips to China in exchange for 15% of revenue from the sales. The letter — signed by Senators Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Mark Warner, D-Va.; Jack Reed, D-R.I

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Latest Tech News

The West Texas measles outbreak has ended

OpenAI releases $4 ChatGPT plan, but it's not available in the US for now

This new C-suite role is more important than ever in the AI era - here's why

ChatGPT now has a subscription plan that costs less than $5/month

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Without the Futex, It's Futile

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

Roblox is locking down sexual content and access to ‘adult’ locations after lawsuits

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

Musk's Starlink suffers apparent outage as SpaceX launches more satellites

Left to Right Programming

The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended

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

The First Trailer for ‘Keeper’ Deepens Its Creepy Mystery

Israeli Cyber Official Arrested During Undercover Internet Crimes Against Children Sting

tvOS 26 beta 7 available now for Apple TV 4K

Left to Right Programming: Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed

Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks

MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

MCP Doesn't Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code

Fun with Finite State Transducers

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

Trump warned by top Senate Democrats to rethink advanced AI chip sales to China

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