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New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-05 02:21:14

The period after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain has long been known as the “Dark Ages” for a reason. Scholars believed that after the Romans left, local industries collapsed and effectively all progress ceased for centuries. Britain, they theorized, was plunged into a cultural and economic abyss with their departure. But for some time, a growing body of evidence has challenged this narrative. And in a new study published today in the journal Antiquity, researchers investigate the assumption

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This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 01:01:00

Apple is set to release iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and it will bring call screening and more to your iPhone then. But you don't need the latest iOS update to use Voice Isolation, an iPhone feature that can make your calls clearer for the person you're talking with. Apple introduced Voice Isolation in 2023 with iOS 16.4. The tech company added the feature, alongside Wide Spectrum, to FaceTime calls with iOS 15 in 2021, but only Voice Isolation is available for regular phone calls at this time. When Vo

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New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-05 02:41:19

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, the newly formed black hole will have a larger surface area. This became known as Hawking's area theorem. Analysis of the gravitational signal from a black hole merger detected in January provides the best observational evidence to date in support of Hawking's theorem, according to a new paper publis

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NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

theverge.com Georgina Torbet 2025-10-05 02:47:01

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific legacy that has been built over decades. Yesterday, the agency shared a finding, published in Nature, of potential biosignatures identified by the Mars Perseverance rover in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock. “This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars,” said Transportation Secretary and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a press confe

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Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-05 02:43:35

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Uber, accusing the ride-hailing company of violating federal law by discriminating against people with physical disabilities. In particular, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) civil rights division claims that the company and its drivers “routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with service animals or who use stowable wheelchairs.” Uber is also accused of charging extra fees on riders who n

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Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 06:21:47

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities. "As studies have shown, when individuals believ

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NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

news.ycombinator.com Hieu.Q 2025-10-05 05:13:09

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Microsoft mitigated many traditional kernel information leaks starting with Windows 11/Windows Server 2022 24H2, including calls such as NtQuerySystemInformation() (when used with the SystemModuleInformation class), by suppressing kernel base addresses unless the caller had the SeDebugPrivilege , typically reserved for administrative processes. That change effectively neutered one of the most accessible KASLR bypass techniques, and, without knowledge of the

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Gmail’s new tab keeps all your order delivery and purchase emails in one tidy place

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 10:00:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is getting an update that will introduce a new “Purchases” tab. The new view will put all of your purchase and delivery updates in one place. The update will also add a “most relevant” sorting option to the Promotions category on mobile. Gmail makes it fairly easy to stay on top of your deliveries with package tracking, summary cards, and more. Now it’s making it easier to keep track of the emails that contain that purchase and delivery informa

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Apple denies Politico report on AI guideline changes around DEI, vaccines, and Trump

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-04 17:41:29

Politico has published an extensive report claiming that, following Trump’s election, Apple changed its AI training guidelines on issues such as DEI, vaccines, elections, and Trump himself. Here are the details. Data annotation It is common practice for tech companies to rely on subcontractors to help with the labeling and post-training process of their AI models. Politico’s report says that Apple contracts Transperfect, a company that offers “translation services and solutions,” including AI

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Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-05 14:38:43

Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks 23 minutes ago Share Save Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Share Save Bertrand GUAY/AFP Lead author Laure Miller (R) and Arthure Delaporte chaired the six-month commission French children under 15 should be banned from social media and there should be an overnight "digital curfew" for 15-18 year olds, a parliamentary commission has recommended. The six-month inquiry into the psychological effects of TikTok on minors ha

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MotoE, the electric bike world championship, is going on hiatus due to lack of interest

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 14:26:52

The International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) and MotoGP are putting the MotoE electric bike world championship on hiatus following the 2025 season. The organizations cite a lack of viewership and an electric performance motorcycle market that "has not developed as expected." "Today we announce the suspension of the FIM MotoE World Championship," FIM President Jorge Viegas said in a statement. "Despite all the best efforts to promote this innovative category together with (MotoGP rights holde

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DC Ends ‘Red Hood’ Comic After Writer’s Charlie Kirk Comments

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-05 14:04:05

DC Comics canceled its new, mature-rated Red Hood comic just hours after it launched on September 10 because its writer made comments about the assassination of right-wing activist and Turning Point USA creator Charlie Kirk at Utah University. Red Hood writer Gretchen Felker-Martin made comments and joked on social media about Kirk’s death—which occurred on the same day as the comic’s launch. Red Hood, which Felker-Martin was creating along with artist Jeff Spokes, will discontinue after its f

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CRISPR Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes

news.ycombinator.com Javier Carbajal 2025-10-05 17:45:28

Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used to treat rare diseases, to adapt crops to withstand the extremes of climate change, or even to change the color of a spider’s web. But the greatest hope is that this technology will help find a cure for a global disease, such as diabetes. A new study points in that direction. For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diab

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Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 16:15:22

This weekend I created stacklib.h - a single-header library that brings Forth-style stack operations to C. It implements a basic interpreter with: - Stack operations (push/pop/dup/swap/over/drop) - Arithmetic (+, -, *, /) - Output (., emit, cr) - Stack inspection (.s, depth) Example usage: Stack s; stack_init(&s); dict_init(); exec(&s, "10 20 + ."); // Prints "30" exec(&s, "1 2 3 4 .s"); // Shows stack contents The library is self-contained, requires no dependencies, and handles basic error c

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Conway's Game of Life, but Musical

news.ycombinator.com Hudson Griffith 2025-10-05 18:05:31

A Digital Darwin Adventure with Mating Melodies Hudson Griffith • September 11, 2025 Introduction Music is profoundly human. It runs deep in our lives and shows up in our everyday rituals. And somehow, those rituals often end with us leaving AirPods in the back seat of an Uber. But beneath the everyday habits lies a much older connection. Neuroscience research shows our brains respond to music in fundamental ways that precede language development 1. And what fascinates me is how naturally music

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Apple’s Big Bet to Eliminate the iPhone’s Most Targeted Vulnerabilities

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-10-05 17:59:23

Apple launched a slate of new iPhones on Tuesday loaded with the company's new A19 and A19 Pro chips. Along with an ultra-thin iPhone Air and other redesigns, the new phones come with a less flashy upgrade that could turn out to be the true killer feature. A security improvement called “Memory Integrity Enforcement” combines always-on chip-level protections with software defenses in an effort to harden iPhones against the most common—and commonly exploited—software vulnerabilities. In recent ye

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Partnering with generative AI in the finance function

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-05 22:00:00

Generative AI is also showing promise in functions like treasury, with use cases including cash, revenue, and liquidity forecasting and management, as well as automating contracts and investment analysis. However, challenges still remain for generative AI to contribute to forecasting due to the mathematical limitations of LLMs. Regardless, Deloitte’s analysis of its 2024 State of Generative AI in the Enterprise survey found that one-fifth (19%) of finance organizations have already adopted gener

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GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 16:43:12

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Bluesky Launches Age Verification in Select States

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-05 22:00:47

If you live in two particular states, you'll need to verify how old you are to stay on the site. Bluesky, the funky, semi-decentralized Twitter spin-off, is rolling out age verification systems to comply with new regulations instituted in Europe and parts of the U.S. On Wednesday, the platform announced that it was expanding its verification systems in South Dakota and Wyoming. The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act created new requirements for platforms that want to operate within its borders

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There’s bad news for AirPods Live Translation in EU countries

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-06 02:09:56

We first spotted that AirPods Live translation was coming a month before the announcement. Initial language support is listed as English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish – with four more languages coming later this year. But while European languages are supported, you won’t necessarily be able to take advantage of that if you are within one of the countries in which they’re spoken … We’d already seen some mixed news. On the plus side, the feature isn’t exclusive to the new Air

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Live Translation with AirPods won't come to EU-based Apple users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 02:54:10

Europe, the bloc with 24 official languages and 287 spoken in total, won't get Apple's Live Translation with AirPods feature for now. "Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU," the company said on its iOS feature availability page. No reason was given, but it may have to do with the EU's strict rules around artificial intelligence and how it impacts privacy. If that's the case, Apple may be waiting for the EU

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Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-10-06 01:48:01

Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices. Representatives from member states will meet on Friday to consider legislation critics call Chat Control, aka "laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse," which seeks to require ISPs or messaging app providers to scan user content or backdoor encryption so that intelligence agencies can do it themselves. It's the latest attempt in a three-yea

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AI's $344B 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile

news.ycombinator.com Parmy Olson 2025-10-06 01:49:24

Every investor knows not to put all your eggs in one basket. So why is Silicon Valley betting on just one way to build artificial intelligence? This year the world’s four largest tech firms will spend $344 billion on AI, mostly on data centers used to train and run so-called large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT that can process text, audio and visual content. The technology is largely underpinned by the same technique of predicting tokens that appear next in a sequence.

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 23:00:03

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

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Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry?

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-06 08:00:00

Texas joins six other US states and the country of Italy in banning these products. These legal challenges are adding barriers to an industry that’s still in its infancy and already faces plenty of challenges before it can reach consumers in a meaningful way. The agriculture sector makes up a hefty chunk of global greenhouse-gas emissions, with livestock alone accounting for somewhere between 10% and 20% of climate pollution. Alternative meat products, including those grown in a lab, could help

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Here’s your first look at Gemini’s dedicated space for all creations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:05:53

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new space in the Gemini app to store all media generated with it. The “Created by you” section stores all Gemini-generated images, videos, and even deep research documents and code. ChatGPT has a similar feature, called Library, which makes it easier to find media created by it rather than sifting through chat history. Image generation has long been one of the most compelling and entertaining use cases for AI. The widespread Studio

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Samsung is working on a continuous zoom camera, but Galaxy phones don’t have first dibs

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:54:39

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is reportedly working on a continuous zoom camera system for smartphones. This tech will apparently be supplied to Chinese brands first, with Samsung Electronics following later. This would enable a consistent level of photo and video quality across a given zoom range. We’ve seen very few Android phones with continuous zoom cameras. In fact, Sony is the only major company offering this tech on its devices. However, Samsung is also working on th

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Poll: Who’s got the best color options, iPhone 17 or Pixel 10?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 10:00:08

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority For as nice as it can be to feel safe and sound by wrapping your expensive new smartphone tightly in a protective case, there’s also a lot to be said for living a little dangerously and showing off the actual hardware — especially when it’s available in some really appealing colors. That’s just we got this year from the Pixel 10 series, as Google updated its lineup with arguably some of the best Pixel color options in years. Don’t want to miss the best from A

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How the tz database works (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 21:58:01

2020-11-08 The other day I ran into this timezone issue in Ruby, and that’s when I discovered the tz database for the first time. There were almost no blog posts explaining how it works, so I decided to write one myself. We’ll be using the alpine:3.12 Docker image to test things out. What is it? The tz database is a standardized collection of timezone data and rules used by most systems worldwide to handle timezone conversions. Here are the official documentation and the source code on GitH

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DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking

news.ycombinator.com Ravid Cohen 2025-10-06 09:29:52

At Qodo, we’ve created a new benchmark dataset of real-world questions derived from large, complex code repositories. We are excited to release the dataset, methodology, and prompts used in its creation to support further research and development. Motivation Enterprises often maintain massive codebases that are difficult for any individual developer to navigate and fully understand. Whether onboarding, doing routine development, or using AI-assisted workflows, teams often have questions about

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Latest Tech News

New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Gmail’s new tab keeps all your order delivery and purchase emails in one tidy place

Apple denies Politico report on AI guideline changes around DEI, vaccines, and Trump

Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks

MotoE, the electric bike world championship, is going on hiatus due to lack of interest

DC Ends ‘Red Hood’ Comic After Writer’s Charlie Kirk Comments

CRISPR Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes

Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C

Conway's Game of Life, but Musical

Apple’s Big Bet to Eliminate the iPhone’s Most Targeted Vulnerabilities

Partnering with generative AI in the finance function

GrapheneOS accessed Android security patches but not allowed to publish sources

Bluesky Launches Age Verification in Select States

There’s bad news for AirPods Live Translation in EU countries

Live Translation with AirPods won't come to EU-based Apple users

Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors

AI's $344B 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile

The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

Texas banned lab-grown meat. What’s next for the industry?

Here’s your first look at Gemini’s dedicated space for all creations (APK teardown)

Samsung is working on a continuous zoom camera, but Galaxy phones don’t have first dibs

Poll: Who’s got the best color options, iPhone 17 or Pixel 10?

How the tz database works (2020)

DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking

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