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Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 12:52:29

Earlier this year, Monadic DNA kicked off an experiment to demonstrate that people can access and analyze their genetic data with anonymity and privacy. Monadic DNA collected saliva samples from thirty encrypted genomics pioneers at an event in Denver. These participants later used a Web app to claim their genotyping results using a unique kit ID and a self-selected PIN. The app guided users through uploading their data to encrypted storage powered by Nillion’s multi-party compute (MPC) techno

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Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-08-24 20:10:29

And the third feature is that the empires monopolize knowledge production. So, in the last 10 years, we’ve seen the AI industry monopolize more and more of the AI researchers in the world. So AI researchers are no longer contributing to open science, working in universities or independent institutions, and the effect on the research is what you would imagine would happen if most of the climate scientists in the world were being bankrolled by oil and gas companies. You would not be getting a clea

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I want to use YouTube Music for podcasts, but it keeps letting me down

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 22:00:42

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I like listening to podcasts when I’m doing household chores. So I recently opened YouTube Music with the intention of continuing a podcast I’d been enjoying the evening before, but instead of resuming where I left off, I found myself squinting at the screen, scrolling through a wall of music suggestions, videos, and algorithmic clutter. The podcast was nowhere in sight. YouTube Music had let me down, again. My dream is to have as few apps as possible, and t

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Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 20:18:06

After migrating several projects from WordPress to Astro, I've become a massive fan of this framework. What is Astro? Astro is a web framework that came out in 2021 and immediately felt different. While most JavaScript frameworks started with building complex applications and then tried to adapt to simpler sites, Astro went the opposite direction. It was built from day one for content-focused websites. The philosophy is refreshingly simple. Astro believes in being content-driven and server-fi

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Kim Kardashian Will Be Shocked, Amazon Offers Her Co-Branded Beats Pill for Almost Free

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-24 21:40:13

Amazon is pulling out all the stops for Prime Day this year, and it offers massive discounts on nearly every major portable Bluetooth speaker brand. Whether you’re eyeing models from Bose, Marshall, Sonos or Beats, there’s never been a better time to upgrade your audio setup. If you’re after the iconic Beats Pill, including the co-branded Kim Kardashian edition or any of the classic colors (the red one is a personal favorite), now is the moment to act. For instance, the Beats Pill x Kim Kardash

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Record-Setting Qubit Performance Marks Important Step Toward Practical Quantum Computing

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-24 22:05:09

The promise of so-called “quantum advantage” is simple. By harnessing the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics, quantum computers should be able to—in theory—surpass the computational potential of any classical supercomputer. But before quantum advantage drastically changes information technology as we know it, researchers have yet to address the many hurdles that are preventing quantum computers from entering into the mainstream. That said, quantum computing as a field has evolved drama

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I Tried Living Without the Internet for a Day: It Made Me Want to Throw Away My Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-24 20:00:00

I stood on a ridge in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico, surrounded by pinyon trees and red-barked pines, listening to the trill of dark-eyed juncos jostling through the underbrush. Amid all this beauty, my phone chimed. And chimed again. And buzzed and beeped. A friend sent an Instagram link. Uber Eats offered a discount deal. Target had a coupon for cleaning products. Someone drove by my Ring doorbell camera. Our lives are so dependent on the internet, the thought of living wi

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Ars staffers share some of their favorite unexpected 3D prints

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-24 22:00:49

Part of the fun of 3D printing is discovering just how many possibilities there are for different things to print. Obviously, they're fun for printing toys or decorations that you couldn't or wouldn't buy yourself, but they're also powerful problem-solving tools. Once you've solved a few problems with 3D printed parts, you start looking around for other minor inconveniences or quality-of-life upgrades that you could solve—and the breadth and depth of the 3D printing community means that you can

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A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

wired.com Ritsuko Kawai 2025-08-24 22:00:00

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously thought a star like this could not have large planets circulating it, because its mass is only about 20 percent of the sun, meaning its planetary system—generated from materials surrounding the star—would not have contained enough mass to form a giant body like Saturn or Jupiter. But when observi

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Report: Apple in active negotiations for Formula 1 streaming rights in the US

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-08-24 21:56:23

Apple is in active talks to acquire the rights to broadcast the sport of Formula 1 on its own streaming service platform, through the Apple TV app, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The league’s current deal with ESPN expires at the end of this year. If a deal materializes, Apple would stream Formula 1 in the US starting with the 2026 season. However, Apple is not believed to be the only bidder and exact nature of the company’s proposal is currently unknown. ESPN let its excl

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Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Nick Tobey 2025-08-24 21:13:21

Designing a schema for your relational database is a daunting task that has long term implications for the database's performance, maintainability, and correctness. And it often requires making decisions before having a clear picture of the exact shape and distribution of your data, or what the common access patterns will look like. It's not a permanent decision: tables can be altered and databases migrated. But these migrations can be slow and expensive. To top it all off, some data is less am

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US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-08-24 22:59:31

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect. The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedur

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RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 23:37:28

RapidRAW A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind. RapidRAW is a modern, high-performance alternative to Adobe Lightroom. It delivers a feature-rich, beautiful editing experience in a lightweight package (under 30MB) for Windows, macOS, and Linux. I developed this project as a personal challenge at the age of 18. My goal was to create a high-performance tool for my own photography workflow while deepening my understanding of both React

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MCP isn’t KYC-ready: Why regulated sectors are wary of open agent exchanges

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-25 01:33:17

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 For something launched in November, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has begun amassing a large number of users, all but guaranteeing the mass adoption needed to make it an industry standard. But there is a subset of enterprises that are not joining the hype for now: regulated industries, especially financial institutions. Banks and other

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Watch Party: Join CNET Live as We See What Unfolds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 00:37:00

Bridget Carey Editor at Large Bridget Carey is an award-winning reporter who helps you level-up your life -- while having a good time geeking out. Her exclusive CNET videos get you behind the scenes as she covers new trends, experiences and quirky gadgets. Her weekly video show, "One More Thing," explores what's new in the world of Apple and what's to come. She started as a reporter at The Miami Herald with syndicated newspaper columns for product reviews and social media advice. Now she's a mo

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The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-25 05:17:57

The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today I Want to Get Off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride "The cause of this acceleration is not explained." Spin Cycle The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days in recent memory as a result, slicing well over a millisecond off the usual 24 hours, Timeanddate.com reports. That's despite the Earth's

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How to Save a Dog

news.ycombinator.com David W. Brown 2025-08-21 21:02:07

The first time I glimpsed the city of New Orleans, I was a small boy in the wheelhouse of a tugboat. My father pushed barges up and down the Mississippi River, and sometimes he let me tag along. The city seemed so luminous at night—so different from tiny Convent, Louisiana, where I was from—that it felt otherworldly and inaccessible. In 2020, I moved there during a painful divorce. Because of that childhood memory, my relocation felt somehow transgressive. I was going where I did not belong. Sh

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I found the ultimate accessory kit for tinkerers with 180 modifications, and it's $20 off for Prime Day

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-25 09:21:00

ZDNET's key takeaways This high-quality screwdriver kit has everything for both the budding enthusiast and professional repairer. This 180-piece kit has 160 quality screwdriver bits and a range of other useful tools, such as plastic prybars, a suction cup, and tweezers. There's no LED light on the front of the screwdriver, so working in dark, cramped spaces can be tricky. $69.99 at Amazon During Amazon Prime Day, the Jakemy 180-Piece Smart Cordless Screwdriver Kit is $13 off its usual $63 pri

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Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 08:50:04

I'm based in Canada and curious to learn more about interesting or up-and-coming tech companies here — not just the usual big names like Shopify or Lightspeed, but also smaller startups, bootstrapped companies, or niche players doing great work in software, hardware, AI, sustainability, fintech, etc.

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 9 #493

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 08:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun topic, but some of the words get a little long to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers,

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 9, #289

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 08:00:07

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Basketball fans might get a slam dunk with the tougher categories in today's Connections: Sports Edition. There's a playful twist on tap for the purple group, so think creatively. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl

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From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2025-08-25 12:34:42

What if a real-time automated decision-making process needs a computer vision system to produce photorealistic visuals in a mere fraction of a second? In many cases, this requires too much computational power — if it’s even possible at all. When computer vision uses 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), it provides a photorealistic image, but the process takes far too long. For more on this topic, see our article on computer vision for disaster responses. This article discusses a new approach, Progress

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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

news.ycombinator.com Iida 2025-08-22 11:18:39

Plant materials and growth conditions Col-0 was used as the wild type unless stated otherwise. ein2-1, etr1-3, ate1-2;ate2-1, prt6-5, proWOX4-erYFP, proPXY:GUS, proPXY:erVenus and 35S:EIN3-GFP have been described previously10,13,27,37,38,39,40. ate1-2;ate2-1 mutants were reciprocally backcrossed into Col-0 for three generations and transfer DNA insertions were confirmed by genotyping to obtain double-homozygous mutants. Seeds were sown on half-strength MS (Duchefa) plates supplemented with 0.0

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The best Prime Day smart home deals we found

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-08-25 21:00:00

Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to stock up on smart home gear. With big price drops on all of Amazon’s many smart home brands, from Blink and Ring to Echo speakers and Eero Wi-Fi routers, plus a ton of other manufacturers getting in on the action, making your smart home better rarely gets more affordable. However, there are a lot of deals, and it’s frankly overwhelming. So, I’ve sifted through them all to find the best deals on some of my favorite smart home products. If you’re

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TSA to finally end its dumb shoe removal policy for airport security

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-08-25 21:48:35

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. A key pillar of post-9/11 airport security theater may finally be going away. Multiple outlets are reporting that the Transportation Security Administration will start allowing passengers at a few select airports to keep their shoes on while going through security checkpoints. No longer will we have to gaze upon our fellow

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Waymo offers teen accounts for driverless rides

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-08-26 01:03:11

Waymo announced it is now offering teen accounts for its self-driving car service Waymo One, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona. Waymo announced Tuesday that it is offering accounts for teens ages 14 to 17, starting in Phoenix. The Alphabet -owned company said that, beginning Tuesday, parents in Phoenix can use their Waymo accounts "to invite their teen into the program, pairing them together." Once their account is activated, teens can hail fully autonomous rides. Previously, users were require

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Musk Is Struggling to Understand What's Happening Around Him, Says Former Tesla Exec

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-26 01:10:17

Tesla investors are clearly worried that CEO Elon Musk's fiery new pledge to build a third US political party could inflict even more damage on the embattled company. The EV maker has been put through the wringer by Musk's antics, from cratering sales worldwide to an enormous drop in year-over-year revenues. The company's finances are in free fall. And now that president Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" has passed through Congress, Tesla's crisis could soon take a major turn for

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Experts Clear Up This Summer's Confusing Dehydration Myths

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 23:56:00

It's no secret how important it is to stay hydrated, especially this summer. If you don't properly replenish liquids and nutrients and spend lots of time in the sun, you're more prone to sweating and dehydration. There are various ways to stay hydrated that you may not have considered, but -- as is common with online wellness advice -- there's a lot of misinformation out there on hydration. We are clarifying these fallacies once and for all with the help of experts. These are the hydration myth

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Meet the AI Fraud Fighters: A Deepfake Granny, Digital Bots and a YouTube Star

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 00:20:00

It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million subscribers, known for humorously entrapping fraudsters in common scams while livestreaming. "I assume I'm talking to Evan Zimmer," he says with a mischievous glance, his eyes exposed without his trademark aviator sunglasses on. We were close to the end of our conversation when he realized that my image and audio could have been digitally altered to impersonate me t

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Our Favorite Back-to-School Picks for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 00:34:00

Somehow, it's that time of the summer again: Back-to-school season is on the horizon. That means it's time to start shopping. Whether you have a kiddo heading to kindergarten or college, they'll need a few key supplies to get the year started off right. To help you avoid last-minute scrambling, our editors have hand-selected some school essentials for you. From top-rated laptops, durable water bottles, smart notebooks and everything in between, these finds cover gear, gadgets and services that

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The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today

How to Save a Dog

I found the ultimate accessory kit for tinkerers with 180 modifications, and it's $20 off for Prime Day

Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

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From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

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Experts Clear Up This Summer's Confusing Dehydration Myths

Meet the AI Fraud Fighters: A Deepfake Granny, Digital Bots and a YouTube Star

Our Favorite Back-to-School Picks for 2025

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