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Google admits Android alert failure during 2023 Turkey earthquake

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-29 15:15:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: Google has admitted that its early earthquake alert system failed to inform millions of people about the severity of Turkey's 2023 quake. The highest level "TakeAction" warnings were only sent to 469 Android users for the 7.8 magnitude event. On 6 February 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Gaziantep in southern Turkey, close to the Syrian border. It was followed by a second maj

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Huawei reclaims No. 1 smartphone spot in China — and Apple returns to growth

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-29 14:52:23

The Huawei flagship store and the Apple flagship store at Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street in Shanghai, China, Sept. 2, 2024. Huawei reclaimed the top spot in China's smartphone market in the second quarter of the year, while Apple returned to growth in the country — one of its most critical markets — data released by technology market analyst firm Canalys showed on Monday. Huawei shipped 12.2 million smartphones in China in the three months ended June, a rise of 15% year on year — equating to 1

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Google admits Android’s earthquake alerts failed ahead of deadly quake

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 15:16:53

Google TL;DR Google has reportedly acknowledged that its Android Earthquake Alerts system did not work accurately during the devastating 2023 Turkey earthquakes. The system issued 500,000 lower-level “Be Aware” notifications when it should have issued 10 million “Take Action” alerts. Google told the BBC that every earthquake early warning system grapples with algorithm tuning challenges. Google has reportedly admitted to the BBC that its Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system failed to deliv

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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

wired.com Samuel Arbesman 2025-12-29 15:00:00

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive amounts of text—mechanisms for doing this powerfully and easily were part of the language—and it was even used in bioinformatics, munging and churning through genetic data. Based on one list, the companies that used Perl ranged widely: Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Deutsche Bank, Akamai, Citibank, Comcast, M

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Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-29 06:16:50

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity 9 hours ago Share Save James Clayton, Anna Foster and Ben Derico BBC News Share Save EPA Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023. Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert - giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the

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Alibaba to launch AI-powered glasses creating a Chinese rival to Meta

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-29 17:01:28

Alibaba announced plans to release a pair of smart glasses powered by its AI models. The Quark AI Glasses are Alibaba's first foray into the smart glasses product category. Alibaba on Monday unveiled a pair of smart glasses powered by its artificial intelligence models, marking the Chinese firm's first foray into the product category. The e-commerce giant said the Quark AI Glasses will be launched in China by the end of 2025 with hardware powered by the firm's Qwen large language model and its

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Constrained languages are easier to optimize

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 02:21:13

jyn, what the fuck are you talking about a recurring problem in modern “low-level” languages is that they are hard to optimize. they do not reflect the hardware, they require doing complex alias analysis, and they constantly allocate and deallocate memory. they looked at the structure/expressiveness tradeoff and consistently chose expressiveness. what does a faster language look like consider this paper on stream fusion in Haskell. this takes a series of nested loops, each of which logically

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Dumb Pipe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:25:47

Connect A to B. Send Data. In 2023 it's hard to connect two devices directly. Dumb pipe punches through NATs, using on-the-fly node identifiers. It even keeps your machines connected as network conditions change. What you actually do with that connection is up to you.

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Smallest particulate matter air quality sensor for ultra-compact IoT devices

news.ycombinator.com Dr. Stefan Finkbeiner 2025-12-29 00:34:47

Accurate measurement of PM2.5 concentration providing actionable data Innovative fanless design is silent and maintenance-free Bosch at CES: booth 16115 and start of new #LikeABosch campaign Clean air is fundamental to our health and well-being. Today, people typically spend approximately 90% of their time indoors, which has a negative long-term impact on health because indoor air is three to five times more polluted than in the outdoor environment in most parts of the world. A major componen

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Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:01:02

At Linaro Connect 2025 Linaro, thanks to its work within the Qualcomm ecosystem, and TUXEDO Computers, showcased an off-the-shelf prototype ARM64 Linux laptop using the Snapdragon X Elite SoC, demonstrating progress in enabling Linux on Snapdragon devices to meet the increasing demand for ARM computing. But wait! This is just the tip of the iceberg of a long journey! Advancements in Linux Support for Snapdragon X Elite: Over the past year, substantial progress has been made in integrating Lin

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:24:51

Why is everyone in such a rush? The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take. Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours could mean: Teach

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The Most Amazing Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Day 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-29 05:45:23

Friday at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 brought more cosplay out to the annual week-long geek party. Here’s our assortment of the best looks we saw on Day 2. With things kicking off at Crunchyroll’s Anime Fan Fest, the con-goers had more places to meet up with their fellow fans, but the main thoroughfare remained on the convention show floor. Without further ado we herald Galactus—and more fan favorites from One Piece to Gremlins to DC Comics and even Team America: World Police. For day one, click

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This 4K projector changed the way I watch TV at home (no keystone adjustment needed)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-29 00:00:21

Jmgo N1S Ultimate 4K Projector ZDNET's key takeaways Jmgo's N1S Ultimate 4K projector is typically sold for $2,899 at Amazon. It features astounding color and brightness, and is particularly portable. The case won't win any durability awards, and it needs a soundbar to really sound cinematic. View now at Amazon View now at Global.jmgo more buying choices For a limited time, the Jmgo N1S Ultimate 4K projector is available on Amazon for a whopping $800 discount. Last September, laser TV manufa

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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:46:44

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection Introduction This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK) and on Windows. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets. 2023-09-20: I'm sorry to say that I'm no longer going to be able to build the MacOS version of these puzzles. My Mac was very old and had been struggling for a while; it's now stopped working, and I don't intend to buy a

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Brave and AdGuard now block Microsoft Recall by default

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 17:26:02

The Brave web browser and the ad-blocker AdGuard have both announced that they are blocking Microsoft Recall by default . For the uninitiated, Recall is an AI-powered tool that accompanies Windows 11 and it records everything on a PC's screen . It's pretty obvious why a privacy-minded web browser like Brave and an ad-blocker would make this move. AdGuard said the decision was made due to a "privacy concern," going on to say that "the very idea of background screen captures is unsettling." A blo

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Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-29 23:10:44

Readers following our existential physics coverage may remember a recent breakthrough from CERN concerning matter’s evil twin, antimatter. An outstanding mystery in physics is that our universe contains more matter than antimatter, contradicting most theoretical predictions. Scientists, therefore, understandably want to explain why and how this is the case. CERN announced yet another significant leap for studying antimatter—and this time, the achievement creeps into the realm of quantum computi

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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 03:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 09:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Tech Companies Are Blocking Microsoft’s Creepy ‘Recall’ Feature

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-30 09:40:48

Microsoft’s much-maligned Recall feature, which automatically screenshots everything you do on your Copilot+ PC to create a “photographic memory,” is not making many fans across the app developer community. According to a report from The Verge, ad blocker AdGuard and privacy-minded browser Brave have decided to block Recall and its prying eyes. Brave announced its plans to block Recall in a blog post published earlier this year, in which it tipped its cap to Signal, the encrypted messaging app

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Tesla Sold Its Bitcoin at Pretty Much the Worst Moment Imaginable

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:17:07

Talk about a missed opportunity. Horrible Timing Tesla massively missed the mark in the second quarter of this year, conceding this week that its automotive revenue fell a whopping 16 percent from last year, on top of last quarter's financial woes. As sales continue to plummet worldwide, the Elon Musk-led EV maker could really use a lifeline in the form of billions of cash. But as CNBC reports, its digital asset investments likely won't be the solution. Tesla boasted in its investor deck th

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Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-12-30 17:25:23

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier quantum encryption schemes, which only work for a few special tasks,

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Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 04:25:53

The Montana Mini-Computer / MTMC-16 Homepage The MonTana state Mini Computer is a virtual computer intended to show how digital computation works in a fun and visual way. The MTSC combines ideas from the PDP-11, MIPS, Scott CPU, Game Boy and JVM to make a relatively simple 16-bit computer that can accomplish basic computing tasks. The computer is displayed via a web interface that includes all the I/O such as console and display, visual representations of the computer state, and a built in co

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Trump Says He Didn't Even Know What Nvidia Was

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 08:24:37

While announcing his new so-called "AI Action Plan," which is primarily designed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for the industry, president Donald Trump made some baffling remarks. While standing next to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chipmaker leads the S&P 500 Top 10 Index with a multi-trillion-dollar market cap, Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was, as Tom's Hardware noticed. Due to the president's garbled communication style, it's unclear at what point he was unaware of what is c

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Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Hartnett 2026-01-01 08:42:25

A teenager from Texas has taken quantum computing down a notch. In a paper posted online earlier this month, 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved that ordinary computers can solve an important computing problem with performance potentially comparable to that of a quantum computer. In its most practical form, the “recommendation problem” relates to how services like Amazon and Netflix determine which products you might like to try. Computer scientists had considered it to be one of the best examples of

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Trying to Get a Better Night's Sleep? Try the 10-3-2-1-0 Sleep Hack

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 12:00:50

Getting to sleep at the end of a long day may sound easy, but for millions of people, it's anything but. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of American adults don't get enough sleep. Not getting enough rest doesn't just make it harder to wake up in the morning, but it can also lead to chronic conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease. If you've been struggling with getting to sleep, it might be time to try something new. The 10-3-2-1-0 sle

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New Koske Linux malware hides in cute panda images

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-01 18:54:10

A new Linux malware named Koske may have been developed with artificial intelligence and is using seemingly benign JPEG images of panda bears to deploy malware directly into system memory. Researchers from cybersecurity company AquaSec analyzed Koske and described it as "a sophhisticated Linux threat." Based on the observed adaptive behavior, the researchers believe that the malware was developed using large language models (LLMs) or automation frameworks. Koske’s purpose is to deploy CPU and

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Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:12:30

I’ve been working on Rye since 2018. It’s a project of joy — but also because I believe there is a potential to create something of value to others, eventually. Even people living under a rock know we’ve entered the age of LLMs. I don’t jump to ships too soon, but eventually, even I had to admit: code can get generated from prompts. And in many situations — with a smart prompter — the results are quite OK. Even if you disagree, genie can’t be put back in the bottle. Technical progress generall

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PS5 Beta Update Brings Simultaneous DualSense Controller Pairing to Multiple Devices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 17:16:00

A system update for those in the PS5 beta program will enable a new feature for the DualSense or DualSense Edge controller, allowing it to be paired with multiple devices at the same time and quickly switch between them. Beta participants will get access to the new feature on Friday. The DualSense controller can be connected to several devices via Bluetooth that aren't the PS5, including computers (PC, Mac), and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. However, you can only connect to one o

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Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Hartnett 2026-01-02 08:42:25

A teenager from Texas has taken quantum computing down a notch. In a paper posted online earlier this month, 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved that ordinary computers can solve an important computing problem with performance potentially comparable to that of a quantum computer. In its most practical form, the “recommendation problem” relates to how services like Amazon and Netflix determine which products you might like to try. Computer scientists had considered it to be one of the best examples of

Topics: aaronson algorithm classical quantum tang

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Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Hartnett 2026-01-02 14:42:25

A teenager from Texas has taken quantum computing down a notch. In a paper posted online earlier this month, 18-year-old Ewin Tang proved that ordinary computers can solve an important computing problem with performance potentially comparable to that of a quantum computer. In its most practical form, the “recommendation problem” relates to how services like Amazon and Netflix determine which products you might like to try. Computer scientists had considered it to be one of the best examples of

Topics: aaronson algorithm classical quantum tang

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