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An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-17 01:00:00

The agreement will see Eni purchase electricity from Commonwealth’s first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. The facility is still in the planning stages but is scheduled to come online in the early 2030s. The news comes a few weeks after Commonwealth announced a $863 million funding round, bringing its total funding raised to date to nearly $3 billion. The fusion company also announced earlier this year that Google would be its first commercial power customer for the Virginia plant.

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Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 00:20:43

Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has found that Kmart Australia Limited (Kmart) breached Australians’ privacy by collecting their personal and sensitive information through a facial recognition technology (FRT) system designed to tackle refund fraud. Between June 2020 and July 2022, Kmart deployed FRT to capture the faces of every person who entered 28 of its retail stores, and all individuals who presented at a returns counter, in an attempt to identify people committing refund fraud. In a det

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Gizmodo Science Fair: A Satellite That Makes Drugs in Space

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-17 01:00:07

Varda Space Industries is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for successfully launching a first-of-its-kind in-orbit manufacturing spacecraft and returning it to Earth, bringing home a batch of space-made drugs that could revolutionize the industry. The question Is space the new frontier when it comes to manufacturing pharmaceuticals and other materials? The results The California startup became the first company to land a spacecraft on U.S. soil. Early last year, the Federal Aviation

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Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-10-17 00:00:00

Palantir Technologies, which moved from Silicon Valley to Denver in 2020, sells software that immigration authorities use to identify and arrest people, militaries use to organize drone strikes, and corporations use to manage their supply chains. Now, it also sells tote bags. Last year, Palantir relaunched an online merchandise store, and its website was recently redesigned with a swanky interface and new payment system. A mock terminal in the lower left corner displays “code” documenting each

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Apple-supplier Luxshare shares pop 10% on report of OpenAI hardware deal

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-16 23:20:18

In this photo illustration, the Luxshare Precision company logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Shenzhen-listed Luxshare saw its shares jump about 10% on Monday, following a report that the Chinese device assembler had signed a deal with OpenAI to produce a consumer AI device. The company, which is also a supplier for Apple , is already developing a prototype of the device using ChatGPT large language models, The Information reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. O

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One UI 8.5 is getting ready to borrow a fan-favorite Pixel feature (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-16 22:27:50

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is preparing an automatic call screening feature for Galaxy phones with One UI 8.5. We discovered the code strings for the feature hidden in the leaked One UI 8.5 firmware. Samsung is also preparing a language-selection option for automatic call screening. Samsung only just rolled out One UI 8 to Galaxy phones, but a huge One UI 8.5 leak is already spilling details about what’s coming next. As expected, One UI 8.5 looks like a bigger update t

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Chrome for Android can now read webpages like a podcast

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 01:07:26

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome on Android is now getting NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature. The feature instantly turns content on any webpage into an interactive podcast. It was previously available in the experimental version of Chrome, but now seems to be rolling out widely. Chrome for Android is now getting a new AI-powered upgrade for its Read Aloud feature. Instead of just reading out the full text of a webpage, the browser can now use AI to generate an Audi

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Here’s what’s new in Google Home app’s most recent update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 02:21:00

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has detailed all the new features and bug fixes in version 3.40 of the Google Home app. The update includes previously announced features for Automation Editor and hot water controls. The release notes also list the ability to filter event types directly from the camera’s events view, a suggested favorites feature, and more. Google is starting to roll out version 3.41 of the Google Home app. Yes, the same one in which we found code revealing t

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DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Awais Aftab 2025-10-16 21:24:50

“Reconstructing Psychopathology: A data-driven reorganization of the symptoms in DSM-5” by Miri Forbes, et al. (was available as a preprint at the time of writing this post, later published in Clinical Psychological Science) is a brilliantly designed and innovative study of the quantitative structure of psychopathology with important ramifications for our understanding of psychiatric classification. No one has conducted a study quite like this before, and the results are remarkable. It takes pla

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A Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Is Causing a Supply Chain Disaster

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-10-17 01:00:00

For almost three weeks, the production lines at global car giant Jaguar Land Rover have stood still. Usually busy turning out an estimated 1,000 vehicles per day, staff at multiple JLR factories across Britain have been told to stay at home as the automotive firm responds to a damaging cyberattack. But as its recovery has stretched from days to weeks, the knock-on impacts are being felt at the hundreds of companies that supply JLR with parts and materials and risk turning the attack into a full-

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Show HN: I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:05:12

Project Overview The OS-1000-lines-zig repository is a Zig-based operating system project. The primary purpose of this project is to create a simple, lightweight operating system with a focus on performance and scalability. The key features of this project include: A monolithic kernel architecture Support for basic process management and memory management A simple command-line interface Getting Started To get started with the OS-1000-lines-zig project, you will need to have the following p

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Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

news.ycombinator.com Michael Savage 2025-10-16 17:15:11

A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive exposé making allegations about the social media company’s dealings with China and its treatment of teenagers is said to be “on the verge of bankruptcy” after publishing the book. An MP has claimed in parliament that Mark Zuckerberg’s company was trying to “silence and punish” Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, after her decision to speak out about her time at the company. Louise Haigh,

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James Gunn Wants ‘Man of Tomorrow’ to Show Lex Luthor’s Layers

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-16 21:25:33

While the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow isn’t out until 2027, that hasn’t stopped director/writer James Gunn from vaguely teasing some plans, particulary as they relate to Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor. In a recent interview with The Ringer-Verse, Gunn was asked about his approach to Lex for Tomorrow and the DC universe overall. Gunn is aiming to “get into the heart of Lex” and explore more of his human side. By his own admission, Lex was a bastard in that first movie (even before he killed Sup

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Best Video Doorbells of 2025: Take Charge of Your Front Door

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 16:00:00

The app view from a Lorex doorbell on a phone. Lorex/Amazon Does it work with smart home platforms? If so, do the smart features work well together? Today, a smart home device is expected to work with at least one major smart home platform. Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit are the main ones you need to look for. Apple support is harder to find but if the rumors are right Apple is due to release its own security camera before long and support should become more common. Note tha

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Best Smart Locks of 2025: High-Tech Door Defenses

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 16:00:00

Smart locks are a highly visible part of your home that you'll use just about every day, so it's important to find a reliable pick that meshes well with your smart home. Here are the factors you should be thinking about as you shop. A retrofit smart lock like the August lock will replace the interior of your current lock but not the exterior keyhole or the deadbolt. CNET Full deadbolt or retrofit Most smart locks will replace your existing lock, including the interior thumbturn, the exterior

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The Best Mushroom Gummies on the Market, Lab-Approved (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-16 18:30:00

Compare Top 3 Mushroom Gummies Product Purpose WIRED TIRED Active Ingredients How to Use Price Om Master Blend Stress, immune function, gut health Uses the entire mushroom; excellent sourcing and transparency; organic, kosher, and non-GMO Dosage of each mushroom isn't specified; a one-mushroom gummy might give you better results; terrible taste and texture Organic mushroom powder blend (lion's mane, reishi, chaga, cordyceps, turkey tail, shiitake, maitake, king trumpet, Himematsutake, Antrodia)

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A jury will decide if Amazon illegally tricked people into paying for Prime

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-16 21:00:00

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Amazon is about to face a roughly month-long trial against the US Federal Trade Commission in Seattle to defend its Prime program from claims it tricked tens of millions of customers into signing up for the membership and made it hard to quit. It’s one of several Big Tech trials t

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TechCrunch Mobility: The two robotaxi battlegrounds that matter

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-16 21:01:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Seven or eight years ago, anyone consuming business tech news might have come across the phrase “the race to build autonomous vehicles.” In private conversations, company execs and startup founders I spoke to sometimes referred to the commercialization of autonomous vehicle technology as “a race.” The phrase seeped into repor

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Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 13:46:07

Your browser does not support the video tag. SGS-1 in Fusion360 CAD software creating brackets for a roller assembly. Today we are announcing SGS-1, a foundation model that can generate fully manufacturable and parametric 3D geometry. You can try a research preview of SGS-1 here. Given an image or a 3D mesh, SGS-1 can generate CAD B-Rep parts in STEP format. Unlike all other existing generative models, SGS-1 outputs are accurate and can be edited easily in traditional CAD software. Overview o

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Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers

news.ycombinator.com Allison Smith 2025-10-16 17:23:59

Amazon revealed at its annual Accelerate seller conference in Seattle that it is shutting down its long-running “commingling” program — a move that drew louder applause from sellers than any other update of the morning. The decision marks the end of a controversial practice in which Amazon pooled identical items from different sellers under one barcode. The system, intended to speed deliveries and save warehouse space, had also allowed counterfeit or expired goods to be mixed in with authentic

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Chrome is Google’s first iPhone app with Liquid Glass

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2025-10-16 15:39:38

With the launch of iOS 26 earlier this week, Google Chrome 141 rolled out with Liquid Glass tweaks on iPhone and iPad. As a reminder, Chrome for iOS has a pretty different interface and experience from the Android version. Beyond getting the bottom address bar in October 2023 (vs. July 2025), there’s a unique Tab Grid and bottom sheet menu (see below). The Liquid Glass changes start on the Tab Grid with the Incognito (which is always visible), Tab, and Tab Group switcher, as well as search at

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MapSCII – World map in terminal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 14:12:58

MapSCII - The Whole World In Your Console. A node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. Try it out! $ telnet mapscii.me If you're on Windows, use the open source telnet client PuTTY to connect. Features Use your mouse to drag and zoom in and out! Discover Point-of-Interests around any given location Highly customizable layer styling with Mapbox Styles support Connect to any public or private vector tile server Or just use the supplied and op

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FLX1s phone is launched

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 07:20:04

It is with great excitement that we can now release the FLX1s. Pre-sales are open and the phone is in production which is due to complete end of October 2025. Following that we can start shipping. Existing orders will be opted into the FLX1s or refunded. To all our amazing FLX1 owners and those waiting patiently for their order, you have been the most wonderful and supportive community that we could ever have imagined. Thank-you from the FuriLabs Team.

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Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native DICOM JPEG XL output

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 16:00:11

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is the international standard for medical images and related patient information. Because digital pathology is a relatively new imaging modality compared to radiology and others, there was no established DICOM standard in place. As a result, vendors created their own proprietary formats. Today, Philips announced that it is expanding its SG300 and SG60 scanner offering with the Pathology Scanner SGi with configurable DICOM JPEG and DICOM JPE

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An AI Stan Lee Hologram Is Coming to LA Comic Con (Really)

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-16 14:20:25

Los Angeles Comic Con is next week, and one of its big guests is, apparently, an AI hologram of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the hologram will be part of the Stan Lee Experience at LACC. Along with the standard $15-20 experience fee to join the booth, fans can spend money to take selfies with the hologram or have one-on-one conversations with it for three minutes. It was created by Proto Hologram—the company that made an interactive mirror for malls to promote The

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White House offers more details about potential TikTok deal

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-16 16:09:32

In Brief White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News today and said that an agreement has been reached — but not signed — that would see TikTok’s U.S. operations spun out under majority American ownership. Leavitt said Americans will hold six of seven board seats in the restructured TikTok, and the short-form video app’s algorithm will be U.S.-controlled, according to Bloomberg. “So all of those details have already been agreed upon, now we just need this deal to be sign

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Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-16 12:30:44

Morale among employees at Microsoft is circling the drain, as the company has been roiled by constant rounds of layoffs affecting thousands of workers. Some say they've noticed a major culture shift this year, with many suffering from a constant fear of being sacked — or replaced by AI as the company embraces the tech. Meanwhile, CEO Satya Nadella is facing immense pressure to stay relevant during the ongoing AI race, which could help explain the turbulence. While making major reductions in he

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Fed Boss Concerned About AI's Effect on Job Market

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-16 14:00:47

One of the key questions swirling around economics circles is the effect artificial intelligence will have — or perhaps is already having — on the job market. While most tales of "AI automation" are anecdotal at best, preliminary data appears to show at least some level of job market disruption for young workers in fields vulnerable to the current capabilities of AI software. Whether or not AI is actually taking those jobs is another question. Real-world performance of the software remains dre

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Could T-Mobile and other big carriers be heading toward an online-only future?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-16 11:00:59

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority It’s no secret that customer service has been slowly but surely declining as the big three carriers look to cut costs, but in-store support has arguably taken the sharpest hit. All three carriers have closed at least some of their locations and made moves to reduce their reliance on third-party stores, all while raising sales goals to nearly unachievable levels. The result has been widespread burnout and high turnover. It’s clear that carriers now view retail

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If you don’t want ads everywhere, stop buying things with screens that don’t need them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-16 13:30:48

Ah, victim blaming! That always goes over well, right? This past week, smart home users have been up in arms over the discovery that Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators are being updated to start showing advertisements on their Cover Screen displays. In a statement defending the move, Samsung frames the addition as “enhancing every day [sic] value” for its customers, but it’s extremely difficult to view this as benefiting anyone other than Samsung and its advertising partners. Granted, worse thi

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An oil and gas giant signed a $1 billion deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems

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