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What Will Become of the CIA?

news.ycombinator.com Keith Gessen 2025-08-01 19:16:07

In December, 1988, as the Soviet Union was beginning to come apart, Senator Bill Bradley, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, convened a closed-door hearing with several of the C.I.A.’s top Soviet experts. These were analysts, not operatives. They did not run spies or weapons, or shoot poisoned darts at people; mostly, they sat at their desks at Langley, reading Pravda or studying photographs of Soviet military parades. The hearing found them in a melancholy mood, pondering

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‘Futurama’ Season 13 Arrives in September as a Binge Release

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-01 19:05:43

Futurama is back! Again! This time, at least, we knew it was coming. The series, most recently revived by Hulu, returned after 10 years in 2023—and is now renewed up through season 14. Season 13 is the next to arrive, and now we know exactly when it’ll be hitting the streamer, with a new twist to its release to boot. Season 13 arrives September 15, and all 10 episodes will drop together. (Unless you prefer to watch on FXX, then you’ll get two episodes per week starting September 15.) This marks

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Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-01 19:05:23

The affordability crisis affecting the US automobile market shows little signs of abating. The average price of a new car continues to rise: In June the average new vehicle MSRP was $51,124, according to Kelly Blue Book, with average transaction prices a little lower at $48,907. While one might imagine this has had a dampening effect on car sales, the opposite is true—the first half of 2025 has seen a robust market with some months seeing extremely high volumes. But most signs point to a tighten

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Trump's Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them

wired.com Louise Matsakis 2025-08-01 19:51:28

Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court. Traders at the firm’s investment banking subsidiary, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., say they have the capacity to buy the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars in potential refunds from companies who have paid Trump’s tariffs, according to documents viewed by WIRED. Lutnick ran

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Google Store starts teasing Pixel 10 series: T-minus one month to launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-01 23:13:58

TL;DR Google has scheduled its next Made by Google hardware event for August 20. The company is expected to introduce the Pixel 10 series, Pixel Watch 4, and maybe even some new Pixel Buds. With one month to go until showtime, the Google Store has started promoting the upcoming Pixel 10. We’re just one month away from August 20, when Google intends to introduce its latest hardware lineup at the company’s Made by Google event. That’s looking like it’s going to involve a nice assortment of devi

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Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-01 23:00:32

Google has introduced new features for Chrome on iOS that help users bifurcate work and personal data by using separate Google accounts. As more employers implement bring your own device (BYOD) policies, employees increasingly access company resources from browsers on their personal devices. Devices connected to a managed Google Workspace are able to leverage these additions. Chrome now supports easy account switching and data separation on iOS, similar to its approach on Android and Chrome for

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Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-08-01 22:09:01

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. All em-dashes are intentional and inserted by hand. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don'

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TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 20:51:13

TrackWeight Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a precise digital weighing scale TrackWeight is a macOS application that transforms your MacBook's trackpad into an accurate weighing scale by leveraging the Force Touch pressure sensors built into modern MacBook trackpads. IMG_7303.mov To use it yourself: Open the scale Rest your finger on the trackpad While maintaining finger contact, put your object on the trackpad Try to put as little pressure on the trackpad while still maintaining contact.

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Oz Perkins’ Newest Movie, ‘Keeper,’ Looks Like More Delicious Nightmare Fodder

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-01 23:05:43

Oz Perkins has another movie coming out already? He must not sleep much—payback for all the frights he’s implanted into the brains of people who’ve watched his films, including The Monkey and Longlegs. His latest, Keeper, hits theaters this fall and looks to continue the trend, if this first teaser is anything to go by. Very simple yet very eerie (and a bit easier to follow than the deliberately obscure Longlegs marketing was), Keeper shows us a succession of women. They’re smiling at the camer

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Chrome will let you switch between personal and work accounts on iOS

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-08-01 23:00:00

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Google is introducing the option to easily switch between personal and work profiles in its Chrome browser on iOS, with data kept separate between the two. The new option is part of Google’s enterprise software package, and doesn’t allow non-enterprise users to switch freely between two Google accounts in the browser. Companies that adopt Chrome Enterprise can let employees

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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-01 23:36:37

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios. The data suggests that ChatGPT users send over 912.5 billion requests to the AI chatbot each year. Although ChatGPT still has a way to go to catch up to Google’s 5 trillion annual searches, its rapid growth s

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Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX confirms $44M stolen during hack

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-08-01 18:50:33

India’s largest crypto exchange CoinDCX has confirmed that one of its internal operational accounts was compromised in a recent security breach, allowing the hackers to make off with millions in crypto. On Saturday, CoinDCX co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta disclosed in a post on X that an internal account “used only for liquidity provisioning on a partner exchange” was compromised during the hack. The executive assured that the incident did not affect customer funds and that all its customer asse

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Google is playing with an energetic new Gemini animation (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-02 03:33:00

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR As part of its big Material 3 Expressive overhaul, Google’s been rethinking its approach to the Gemini overlay. Instead of just gently sliding onto screen, Google’s been working to give Gemini a little bouncy momentum. The latest version of this animation we’ve uncovered is easily the most dynamic yet. Change is coming to Google’s Android software, and that change’s name is Material 3 Expressive. The company’s latest design language is being implemente

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Google is testing a cooler, darker design for Gemini Live’s overlay (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-02 03:33:08

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a visual refresh for Gemini Live’s compact overlay in the latest app beta. The redesigned UI includes rounded corners, smaller icons, and a dark background. The corner widget has also been updated to be circular with a more vibrant waveform. Google isn’t done refining the Gemini Live experience. Following last month’s reveal of a more compact overlay interface, we’ve now uncovered some potential visual updates to that same UI. In our

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The fan-made mod of the original Fallout game has a real trailer and it looks sick

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 03:29:11

Fallout: Bakersfield is a fan-made mod of the 1990s original that's been on our radar for a few years. We got a little teaser back in 2022 , but it's been radio silence since then. Now there's an actual trailer filled with gameplay footage and it looks pretty nifty. Developer Alexander "Red888guns" Berezin is the brains behind the project and he used the GZDoom engine to recreate the ghoul city of Necropolis from Fallout 1 as an FPS that resembles the newer games. The art style is pretty incred

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ExpressVPN bug leaked user IPs in Remote Desktop sessions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-02 03:06:08

ExpressVPN has fixed a flaw in its Windows client that caused Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) traffic to bypass the virtual private network (VPN) tunnel, exposing the users' real IP addresses. One of the key premises of a VPN is masking a user's IP address, allowing users to stay anonymous online, and in some cases, bypass censorship. Failing to do so is a severe technical failure for a VPN product. ExpressVPN is a leading VPN service provider, consistently rated among the top VPN services, and

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Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-02 01:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're running into problems with ChatGPT this morning, you're not alone. Just after 8:30 a.m. ET, reports began surfacing that paid users were experiencing quite a few errors when trying to converse with the chatbot. In some cases, ChatGPT responds with an error message; in others, it doesn't respond at all. OpenAI confirmed the issue The outage‑tracking website DownDetector showed a spike in reports about that time. Reports were declining but still present b

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Tired of AI images online? This search engine lets you hide them from results now

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-02 03:23:32

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused browser and search engine, has released a new setting on its search engine that allows users to hide AI-generated images. "Our philosophy about AI features is 'private, useful, and optional.' Our goal is to help you find what you're looking for. You should decide for yourself how much AI you want in your life – or if you want any at all," the company said on X last week. Also: I test AI tools for a living. Here are 3 image generator

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Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 03:32:43

Window Maker Live 12.8 is available sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files/wmlive-bookworm-12.8/ Current Window Maker Live version is 12.8 The former versioning scheme based on Window Maker's version number has been changed to emphasize the close relationship to the version of Debian/Bookwom on which the project is ultimately based. What is Window Maker Live? Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Bookworm branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker win

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SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 02:54:03

Announcing SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management We've supported .env integration for managing secrets, but it has several issues: Apps are disconnected from their secrets - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need Parsing .env is unclear - comments, multiline values, and special characters all have ambiguous behavior across different parsers - comments, multiline values, and special characters al

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Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think

news.ycombinator.com David Roberts 2025-08-02 03:31:57

I chat with Kostantsa Rangelova and Dave Jones, authors of a new Ember report, who find that solar-plus-storage costs have declined so much that it can now provide baseload-level power in sunny cities for less than the cost of new nuclear or even new gas. We discuss why even energy pros are behind the curve on this, how quickly the technology is improving, and why most of the world doesn't see natural gas as a viable option the way the US does. (PDF transcript) (Active transcript) Text transc

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Mercedes-Benz’s Latest Decision Signals Trouble Ahead for EVs

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-02 03:01:03

We are likely to see this story repeat itself, with only the names at the top changing. Mercedes-Benz’s latest announcement does not bode well for the future of electric vehicles in the United States, especially as federal tax breaks are set to expire. On September 30, the federal incentives introduced under the Biden administration to support EV adoption will officially disappear. These tax credits were designed to offset the higher cost of EVs compared to gas-powered vehicles. But with the cl

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Radical New Theory Rewrites the Story of the Earliest Universe

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-02 03:05:38

Following the Big Bang, our universe expanded at an exponential rate. According to this theory, known as cosmic inflation, the explosive growth produced tiny quantum fluctuations that later evolved into galaxies. Cosmic inflation neatly explains how our universe got so large and mostly homogenous, and that’s why it’s remained a strong theory in cosmology for decades. But it’s far from perfect. Cosmic inflation depends on certain theoretical assumptions that can get rather arbitrary—not ideal fo

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The New ‘Predator: Badlands’ Trailer Is Half Android and Full Awesome

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-02 03:25:16

While shooting Predator: Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg and his team called it by a codename: “Backpack.” The origin of that name becomes very clear, very quickly in a brand-new action-packed trailer for the film, which features Elle Fanning as a Weyland-Yutani android being carried around by a Predator on his back. Here’s the incredible new trailer for Predator: Badlands: Clearly, there is so much going on in this trailer. So much mythology. So many teases of what’s possible. For example

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Google’s leaked Pixel 10 images confirm a third camera

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-02 03:59:13

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. It appears that Google will be adding a third back camera to the base Pixel 10 this year, based on what Android Headlines reports are official renders of the rumored phone. The third camera will be a telephoto camera, Android Headlines says, with the other two cameras being a primary sensor and an ultrawide. This isn’t a total surprise, as Android Headlines has previously rum

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-08-02 03:00:00

“My whole life has been preparing me for this moment,” Ben Sanders said when asked about why he launched his emergency response startup Hyper. The company announced Monday a $6.3 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures, as well as an official emergence from stealth. As a child, he so wanted to become a police officer that he had his mother sew yellow stripes on his navy sweatpants. He wore that with an officer’s rain hat for an entire year. As he grew up, he worked at the intersection of tech

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tvOS 26 adds new feature that makes AirPlay speakers better than ever

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-02 07:28:47

tvOS 26 is the next major update for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD users. Joining the Liquid Glass design, new screensavers, and FaceTime upgrades, tvOS 26 introduces a new feature that could make AirPlay speakers an asset in your home theater setup. AirPlay speakers can now be permanent audio outputs in tvOS 26 If you’re in the market for home speakers in 2025, there’s a good chance you’re looking into wireless rather than wired speakers. For years, Apple TV 4K has offered a feature that suppo

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Veeam Recovery Orchestrator users locked out after MFA rollout

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-02 07:26:13

Veeam warned customers today that a recently released version of Recovery Orchestrator blocks Web UI logins after enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA). Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) is an automated disaster recovery and orchestration solution that helps organizations automate, document, test, and execute recovery plans in the event of disasters such as data loss, site failures, or ransomware attacks. As the company explained in a Monday advisory, this known issue affects VRO build 7.

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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

news.ycombinator.com Asher Falcon 2025-07-30 06:41:04

hiding messages in playing cards I was recently thinking about the huge number of ways you can shuffle a deck of 52 cards and wondered if it would be possible to store arbitrary data, which I explore in this blog post. This blog post will go into the detail of how I found a way to store text inside the order of a deck of cards. If you want to play around with the tool, go here. How many different ways can we shuffle a deck of 52 cards? We can think of it like picking one card from 52, then one

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Using MacBook's trackpad as digital weighing scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 06:51:13

TrackWeight Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a precise digital weighing scale TrackWeight is a macOS application that transforms your MacBook's trackpad into an accurate weighing scale by leveraging the Force Touch pressure sensors built into modern MacBook trackpads. IMG_7303.mov To use it yourself: Open the scale Rest your finger on the trackpad While mainting finger contact, put your object on the trackpad Try and put as little pressure on the trackpad while still maintaining contact. T

Topics: contact finger pressure touch trackpad

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What Will Become of the CIA?

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Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000

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Google Store starts teasing Pixel 10 series: T-minus one month to launch

Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022)

TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

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Chrome will let you switch between personal and work accounts on iOS

OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

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Google is playing with an energetic new Gemini animation (APK teardown)

Google is testing a cooler, darker design for Gemini Live’s overlay (APK teardown)

The fan-made mod of the original Fallout game has a real trailer and it looks sick

ExpressVPN bug leaked user IPs in Remote Desktop sessions

Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

Tired of AI images online? This search engine lets you hide them from results now

Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution

SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think

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tvOS 26 adds new feature that makes AirPlay speakers better than ever

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator users locked out after MFA rollout

Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

Using MacBook's trackpad as digital weighing scale

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