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What my first five Steam purchases say about me

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-20 14:27:58

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. There’s a meme currently going around Bluesky where people are posting their first purchases on Steam. Taking a look presents a neat time capsule, offering a glimpse of who we used to be. It also gives us a chance to compare our gaming habits now with what they were 10 or more years ago — that is, if you’re one of the Olds t

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug

news.ycombinator.com Andy Greenberg 2025-11-20 18:47:26

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.” After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices he’d found in his scho

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Trump admin ranks companies on loyalty while handing out favors to Big Tech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:12:24

The Trump administration has ended potential enforcement actions against dozens of tech firms and 165 corporations overall, delivering on promises to end the alleged "weaponization" of the federal government, a report by nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said. "In six months, the Trump administration has already withdrawn or halted enforcement actions against 165 corporations of all types—and one in four of the corporations benefiting from halted or dropped enforcement is from th

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Anker’s 3-in-1 Qi2 charging station has returned to its Prime Day low

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-11-20 18:30:00

If you’ve ever juggled a phone, a smartwatch, and a pair of wireless earbuds, you know the struggle of keeping them all charged. Rather than go through the process of charging them one by one, a quality charging station can help you manage the chaos and reduce cable clutter. The Anker MagGo Wireless Charging Station is a solid option for keeping your devices charged, and it’s currently matching its all-time low of $62.99 ($27 off) at Amazon and Anker’s online storefront — the same price drop we

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-21 04:35:30

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

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MasterClass memberships are 40 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 14:32:23

MasterClass promises online learning with instructors who are the very best in their fields, and an annual subscription is currently 40 percent off across all tiers. Subscribers to MasterClass will have access to over 200 classes taught by iconic authors, chefs, athletes and leaders representing a diverse collection of skill sets and backgrounds. You could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Keller. If you're trying to impress at your next

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Dead EV Batteries Are Hoarding a Shocking Amount of Useful Lithium

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-21 14:40:53

The lithium batteries we deem unfit for use in electric vehicles might still contain copious amounts of usable, pure lithium we could retrieve and reuse—a potentially consistent, bountiful supply we’re just not trying hard enough to tap into, a new study suggests. In a study published August 14 in the Journal of Environmental Management, researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia argue that tapping into the leftover lithium in used batteries could fuel a pragmatic, sustainable alt

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NordVPN deal: Get up to 77 percent off two-year plans

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 18:20:35

There are dozens of VPNs to choose from, but to think they're all created equally would be a mistake. Some are better than others, and NordVPN sits squarely in the better category. Now, you can save up to 77 percent on most of NordVPN's plans. Arguably the best plan for most people is the NordVPN Plus plan, which you can get two years of access for only $108 right now. That's 73 percent off the usual rate, and NordVPN throws in an addition three months for free, so you're actually getting a 27-m

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Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 14:03:34

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That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-22 05:24:49

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 A comprehensive new study has revealed that open-source artificial intelligence models consume significantly more computing resources than their closed-source competitors when performing identical tasks, potentially undermining their cost advantages and reshaping how enterprises evaluate AI deployment strategies. The research, conducted by

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DINOv3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 11:02:46

🆕 [2025-08-14] 🔥 DINOv3 backbones are now available in Hugging Face Hub and supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library DINOv3 🦖🦖🦖 Meta AI Research, FAIR Oriane Siméoni, Huy V. Vo, Maximilian Seitzer, Federico Baldassarre, Maxime Oquab, Cijo Jose, Vasil Khalidov, Marc Szafraniec, Seungeun Yi, Michaël Ramamonjisoa, Francisco Massa, Daniel Haziza, Luca Wehrstedt, Jianyuan Wang, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni, Leonel Sentana, Claire Roberts, Andrea Vedaldi, Jamie Tolan, John Brandt,

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How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-23 21:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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Google Wants You to Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 22:12:50

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along with a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit o

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Computing’s Top 30: Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-11-24 03:00:10

On a typical mobile device today, financial and medical apps nestled up next to everything from karaoke playlists to time-killing games like Fruit Ninja. How to secure data that matters in this diverse digital buffet is a challenge for many researchers. For Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao, it’s a challenge that fuels his life’s work and also led to an award-winning project. That project—which earned ACM MobiSys 2023’s Best Artifact Award—demonstrated that making systems less complex can actually enhance m

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This Anker 3-in-1 wireless charging station is cheaper than ever

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 04:53:25

Anker's 3-in-1 MagSafe charging station is on sale for a record low price of $63 — that works out to savings of 30 percent.The Qi2-certified charger wirelessly charges your compatible iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods on one compact and convenient dock. Qi2 boasts 15W of power, so you can take advantage of fast charging on compatible devices. This means the station can charge an iPhone 16 Pro Max to 20 percent in just 20 minutes and an Apple Watch Series 10 from zero to 100 percent in just over

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Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-24 04:00:00

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion on their bet on CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI models have fallen behind the state-of-the-art, and its business hasn’t scaled like its competitors. Now, the company is bringing in a veteran research leader to revamp its AI ef

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Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-24 04:46:09

Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles competition. Called Flight Deals, the new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheaper fares. Users can type natural language queries into a search bar — describing how and when they want to travel — and the AI surfaces matching options. These

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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 09:08:16

Ai2 has been awarded $75 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $77 million from NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project with the NSF and NVIDIA to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery. The partnership supports the NSF Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure project, Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI). Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Noah A. Smith, Senior Director of NLP Rese

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How to Find Out If Microplastics Are Actually Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-24 09:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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Data brokers just gave us another reason to hate them

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-24 14:37:44

If you were holding a competition for the scummiest business model, then data brokers would be very high up the list. These companies make money by buying personal data from app and website owners and selling it to companies who want to spam us. A US Senator has now drawn attention to the latest sketchy practice by these companies: making it harder for us to opt out by hiding that option from search results … The dark world of data brokers Data brokers are companies that buy personal data fro

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Sonos back-to-school sale: Get up to 25 percent off headphones and speakers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 14:15:35

The back-to-school season isn't only a good time to save on things like a new laptop. Case in point: Sonos' back-to-school sale. Whether you want to upgrade the sound in your dorm room or home office, you can save up to 25 percent on Sonos speakers and other gear right now. Included in the sale is the Era 100, which has a 10-percent discount at the moment. Our choice for midrange smart speaker is down to $179 from $199 as part of a larger sale on the Sonos website. The same price is available o

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Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 21:58:39

Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN subscriber-only content] The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its rolling-release model and the quality of the documentation in the ArchWiki. No matter which Linux distribution one uses, the odds are that eventually the ArchWiki's documentation will prove useful. The Debian project recognized this and has sought to improve its own documentation game by inviting ArchWiki maintainers Jakub Klinkovský

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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Dries Buytaert 2025-11-24 21:24:17

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. Fifteen years ago, I laid out a theory about the future of Open Source. In The Commercialization of a Volunteer-Driven Open Source Project, I argued that if Open Source was going to thrive, people had to get paid to work on it. At the time, the idea was controversial. Many feared money would corrupt the spirit of volunt

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Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 21:34:11

YAMS - Yet Another Memory System Persistent memory for LLMs and applications. Content-addressed storage with deduplication, semantic search, and full-text indexing. My prompt for CLI usage is PROMPT.md and PROMPT-eng.md for programming. Features Content-Addressed Storage - SHA-256 based, ensures data integrity - SHA-256 based, ensures data integrity Deduplication - Block-level with Rabin fingerprinting - Block-level with Rabin fingerprinting Compression - Zstandard and LZMA with intelligen

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Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:01:01

Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This could change soon. With Deep Research in Gemini, you can search about pretty much anything, including scholars, existing research papers, and more. Google describes Deep Research as an agentic Research Assistant that can browse up to hundreds of websites on your behalf, think through its findings, and create insightful multi-page reports in minutes.

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Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:45:35

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing government agencies to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews for commercial launch and reentry licenses. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), grants licenses for commercial launch and reentry operations. The FAA is charged with ensuring launch and reentries don't endanger the public, comply with environmental laws, and comport with US national interests. The drive

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Mubook – N100 x86 NAS Carrier Board Designed for Hackclub Highway

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 03:52:10

Mubook Mubook is a "portable" x86 based system that is designed to house both mini PC and homelab functionalities while still being small enough to be easily carried and expandable enough for processor upgrades. The project itself is a submission to Hackclub Highway and has the capability to support 4 3.5 inch HDDs and M.2 cards while maintaining upgradeability and much higher performance over other SoM boards with its Intel N100 processor. Onshape Link: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5acc

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AI Agents Make Up a Third of All Search Traffic Toward Brands, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 22:08:00

AI agents are engaging in searching for brands at a scale that's equal to a third of equivalent organic search, according to a report from digital marketing company BrightEdge published Wednesday. BrightEdge defines an AI agent as any AI tool that does work on your behalf. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to find the most cost-effective bikes for teenagers to ride on gravel, OpenAI will use its live web browsing feature to look across bicycle brands to find the information. ChatGPT isn't the onl

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Why GPT-5's rocky rollout is the reality check we needed on superintelligence hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-26 04:51:00

Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog pos

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New Details Emerge About Ancient Inca Counting Technology

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-26 04:00:01

The Inca were a pre-Columbian civilization whose empire sprawled along South America’s Pacific Coast from the 15th to the 16th century CE. Like other Andean peoples, they used khipus (also known as quipus), an intricate cord and knot system used to record information. According to Spanish colonial-era sources, only male Inca elites could make khipus. A new study, however, challenges this widespread notion. In a paper published today in Science Advances, an international team of researchers inve

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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem

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