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Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 19:19:31

Intro In 2002 Valve created an Anti-Cheat solution called “Valve Anti-Cheat” aka VAC. The first game they implemented VAC into was Counter-Strike. When VAC was introduced it only operated in User Mode (Still does) meaning it runs entirely in user space and has no kernel component. Below is a list of games that use VAC.. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Counter-Strike (video game) Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike 2 Day of Defeat

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Forget JBL, Soundcore Bluetooth Speaker by Anker Is Near-Free for Early Prime Day, Limited Stock Available

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-03-13 19:10:51

Some of the best moments in life are made better with music. That includes showering. Who doesn’t sing in the shower? If you said that you don’t, you’re definitely fibbing. We love to sing when we’re alone. Some of us with others listening. But if you want a good way to enjoy music while you’re showering or just want a speaker that you can take with you no matter the weather, now’s a good time to partake in this 43% discount. See at Amazon Run to Amazon now to secure your Soundcore Select 4 Go

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Our First Look at Giganto in ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Is in… a Pizza Ad?

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-03-13 19:41:48

Ahead of the release of Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the accompanying food tie-in blitz unleashes a first look at the movie’s take on Giganto in a Little Caesars pizza ad. Currently, the chain is pushing its themed pizza with toppings (or lack thereof) representing different members of the Fantastic Four. Getting a cute little comic book nod in this ad was unexpected, to say the least. Giganto’s first appearance came in Marvel’s First Family comic book debut, which gets homa

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Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will Soon Stop Using Artificial Dyes. Here's How to Avoid These Food Dyes Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-13 19:06:00

In January, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned Red Dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs. Then, in April, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked that food manufacturers remove eight petroleum-based food dyes from products by the end of 2026. Now, Kraft Heinz, the company behind Jell-O and Kool-Aid, said that it plans to remove all artificial dyes from all its US products by the end of 2027, according to the Wall Street Journal. "The vast majority of our

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Third Time Is the Charm? Trump Plans To Again Extend TikTok Deadline

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-13 19:25:00

The clock just never seems to run out for TikTok. President Donald Trump says he'll "probably" extend the deadline yet again for the wildly popular social media app to sell itself or face a federal ban. "We probably have to get China approval. I think we'll get it," Trump said, speaking to the press aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. "I think President Xi will ultimately approve it." Also on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump would sign an execu

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Spanish blackout report: Power plants meant to stabilize voltage didn’t

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-13 19:15:24

The blackout that took down the Iberian grid serving Spain and Portugal in April was the result of a number of smaller interacting problems, according to an investigation by the Spanish government. The report concludes that several steps meant to address a small instability made matters worse, eventually leading to a self-reinforcing cascade where high voltages caused power plants to drop off the grid, thereby increasing the voltage further. Critically, the report suggests that the Spanish grid

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Grifin secures $11M to make investing less intimidating

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2026-03-13 15:00:00

Grifin, an investment app that simplifies investing by automatically purchasing stocks in brands where users regularly shop, announced on Wednesday that it has secured an $11 million Series A funding round, bringing the total amount raised to around $22 million. Alongside the announcement, Grifin also revealed it has surpassed 500,000 registered users, indicating that its approach to investing resonates with a lot of users. Grifin also claims approximately 1 million total app downloads and 100,

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Which video game shipped the first day-one patch in history?

techspot.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:38:00

Choose wisely! The correct answer, the explanation, and an intriguing story await. Correct Answer: Ultima IX: Ascension (1999) What was the storage size of the first USB flash drive? The honor (or infamy) of the first day-one patch is widely attributed to Ultima IX: Ascension, released in 1999. The game launched with significant bugs and performance issues, prompting Origin Systems to release a patch on the very day of its release. This marked a turning point in gaming history, when develope

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Devil May Cry and the early Mortal Kombat games join GOG’s Preservation Program

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:26:42

GOG’s Preservation Program launched in late 2024 and the number of included games has doubled since the initial wave, currently sitting at 183. The latest headline-grabbing additions are the first four mainline Devil May Cry games and Mortal Kombat 1+2+3. Devil May Cry: HD Collection was first released in 2012 and includes the first three entries in Capcom’s enduring action series, all playable in 1080p/60fps (a big deal at the time). Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, which celebrates its 10th

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You can search Google with a new voice experience - and it's pretty cool

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-03-13 23:00:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET The Google Search experience remained relatively unchanged for decades, but the way you browse the web has been reimagined with AI updates such as AI Overviews, AI Mode, Circle to Search, and more. Now, Google is introducing a new way to search -- with your voice. Search Live On Wednesday, Google launched the Search Live with voice input experience in the Google app for both Android and iOS. With this experience, you can have a free-flowing conversation a

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Writing documentation for AI: best practices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:23:46

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems like Kapa rely on your documentation to provide accurate, helpful information. When documentation serves both humans and machines well, it creates a self-reinforcing loop of content quality: clear documentation improves AI answers, and those answers help surface gaps that further improve the docs. This guide provides best practices for creating documentation that works effectively for both human readers and AI/LLM consumption in RAG systems. Many bes

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:26:35

A simple strategy of having LLMs write fuzz tests and build up a port in topological order seems effective at automating porting from C to Rust. Agents are starting to produce more and more code A week or 2 back, I was reflecting on some code Claude had generated for me and I had a sort of moment of clarity. "Clarity" might be overstating it; more like the type of thought you have in the shower or after a few beers. Anyway. The thought was: LLMs produce more and more code, and they'll eventua

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A Vaccine for Yeast Infections Could Soon Be Reality

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-03-13 23:15:24

Hold your horses, The Last of Us. Scientists have created an experimental vaccine that could be effective against multiple types of fungal germs, including those that cause vaginal yeast infections. Researchers at the University of Georgia developed the vaccine candidate, code-named NXT-2. In their latest study with mice, NXT-2 appeared to protect the animals from a common culprit of yeast infection, Candida albicans. The team is now planning to forge ahead with human trials of the vaccine. Co

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Don't Let Sneaky Subscriptions Ruin Your Budget. Americans Spend More Than $1,000 a Year on These Services, CNET Survey Finds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-13 23:45:00

Cole Kan/CNET Looking for ways to cut back on your budget? Start with your subscriptions. Think about how much you're paying monthly for your Netflix, Amazon Prime and Instacart subscriptions alone. The costs can quickly add up. CNET's second annual subscription survey found that the average US adult spends $1,080 per year on subscriptions -- averaging to $90 per month. Even more alarming, US adults are wasting nearly $200 a year on unused subscriptions. With prices remaining high and tariffs

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Worried CapCut Might Get Banned With TikTok? Try These Video Editing Apps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-13 23:00:06

While ByteDance is best known for its vertical video sensation TikTok, it also owns TikTok's sister app, CapCut. CapCut is a mobile-first video editing app and has 200 million active users as of 2023, according to Time. But while its connectivity to TikTok makes it great for creators, its similar parentage means that CapCut is included in the same potential ban in the US. We've been through this TikTok ban song and dance three times now, and we're running up to the June 19 deadline that marks t

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The Definitive, Insane, Record-Smashing Story of the Enhanced Games

wired.com Amit Katwala 2026-03-13 18:00:00

On February 25, 2025, the Australian swimmer James Magnussen stood on the starting blocks at a swimming pool in North Carolina with a million dollars and his reputation on the line. Magnussen, a triple Olympic medalist and world champion in the 100-meter freestyle, had been retired from professional sports for six years. But he had restarted his career to join the Enhanced Games, a kind of Olympics on steroids. This is meant literally: The event, which encourages athletes to take performance-enh

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Futureproof

theverge.com Jacob Kastrenakes 2026-03-13 23:15:59

AI tools are flooding the culture ecosystem — and no corner of the arts space is immune. In this series, we’re looking at the ways artists are embracing AI, pushing back on it, or trying their best to find an equilibrium with a new technology that’s both sweeping and destabilizing. We talk to perfumers questioning the looming automation of scent creation, fanfic writers pushing back on archive scrapers, and illustrators replacing the AI that once replaced them. The tech isn’t going away. Here’s

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Demystifying Multi-Modal AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-03-14 01:00:39

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in understanding language, recognizing images, and interpreting sound—but what happens when it can do all of that at once? That’s where Multi-Modal AI steps in: a new frontier where machines learn to process and combine information from different types of input—like text, images, audio, and video—just as humans do. What Is Multi-Modal AI? Multi-modal AI refers to systems that can understand and reason across multiple forms of data. For example, a sin

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-03-14 04:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:10:39

According to tech billionaire and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2025 was supposed to be the year "when AI agents will work." Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. Still, that didn't stop business executives from swarming to the software like flies to roadside carrion, gutting entire dep

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Think of a Number

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Xenaproject 2026-03-11 01:34:44

My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to the stories. This kind of irresponsible hype-generation drives me nuts (although it also drives up stock prices so I can see why the tech bros are motivated to do it). Sure AI can have a good crack at undergraduate mathematics right now, and sure that’s pretty amazing. But our universi

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Framework Laptop 12 review: I’m excited to see what the 2nd generation looks like

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:00:46

"What's this purple laptop? It's cool." Over a decade-plus of doing gadget reviews and review-adjacent things, my wife (and, lately, my 5-year-old) have mostly stopped commenting on the ever-shifting selection of laptops I have in my bag or lying around the house at any given time. Maybe she can't tell them apart, or maybe she just figures there isn't that much to say about whatever black or silver metal slab I'm carrying around. Either way, they practically never elicit any kind of response, u

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Trump suggests he needs China to sign off on TikTok sale, delays deal again

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:28:59

The White House confirmed that Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a TikTok sale for a third time, Reuters reported Wednesday. Now, China-based ByteDance has 90 days to divest its US assets or potentially be forced to shut down US operations. Trump's announcement came one day before the June 19 deadline he established through his last extension. That extension was necessary after Vice President JD Vance failed to make a "high-level" deal expected in April, which Politico branded a "make

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What happens when you feed AI nothing

theverge.com Franklin Schneider 2026-03-14 04:07:30

If you stumbled across Terence Broad’s AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he’d trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko — the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad’s AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but they’re morphing, continuously changing form and hue. But Broad didn’t train his AI on Rothko; he didn’t train it on any data at all. By hack

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Pro-Israel hackers destroy $90 million in Iran crypto exchange breach, analytics firm says

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-03-14 07:55:24

Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, was hacked for more than $90 million Wednesday, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The funds were drained from platform wallets into addresses bearing anti-government messages explicitly referencing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, pointing to a politically motivated cyberattack, Elliptic said. Pro-Israel hacking group Gonjeshke Darande, or "Predatory Sparrow," claimed responsibility for the attack and said it wou

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Trump grants TikTok yet another extension on sell-or-ban deadline

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-13 16:03:04

The White House confirmed today that President Donald Trump will sign a new executive order giving TikTok 90 days to avoid a U.S. ban. This marks the third time Trump has delayed enforcement of the law that technically went into effect in January. As reported by CNN, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the following in a statement: “President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. (…) This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this dea

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AVG Antivirus Review 2025: Robust Free Version but Middling Premium Plans

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 07:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.6 / 10 SCORE AVG Antivirus Buy at AVG Score Breakdown Performance 9 /10 Security 7 /10 Customer Support 7 /10 Usability 9 /10 Value 7 /10 Features 7 /10 Pros Robust protection from both online and offline threats Resource-light scans TuneUp makes it easy to improve device performance Variety of safe browsing and anti-tracking tools Cons Data sharing w

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What Is Lemon8 and Could It Be Banned With TikTok? What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 07:15:03

We're back again: The 75-day extension President Trump gave TikTok this spring is over on Thursday. If TikTok's parent company ByteDance doesn't find a US-approved buyer or if the deadline isn't extended, the app could be banned for US users. But it's not just TikTok on the line -- Lemon8, TikTok's sister app, could also be affected. Lemon8 is owned by ByteDance, the same parent company that owns TikTok. It's one of the top Lifestyle apps in Apple's App Store, and it has more than 10 million do

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Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-14 10:59:04

Tesla is pausing production of the Cybertruck and its newly-retooled Model Y, and the stock market is already responding. On the heels of a new Business Insider report about the production shutdown, which is purportedly slated for the week of June 30 based on insider interviews, the company's stock fell to about $316, which was almost four percent lower than it was at the start of the day. To make matters worse, Tesla stock was already sliding thanks to CEO Elon Musk's Robotaxi pilot being push

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Thousands and Wildcard Alliance are raising $9M for novel blockchain gaming platform

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-14 11:00:00

There’s something new and surprising from the people who brought us Words With Friends and Lucky’s Tale. Thousands, a revolutionary Web3 protocol that transforms word-of-mouth marketing into a universal attribution infrastructure – together with sister company The Wildcard Alliance – today announced a joint $9 million fundraising round. Arbitrum Gaming Ventures and Paradigm co-led the round. The McKinney, Texas-based companies, founded by co-CEOs Paul and Katy Drake Bettner whose past work inc

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