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The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

news.ycombinator.com Nathan Witkin 2025-09-26 11:39:17

The Mob, 1935, by Carl Hoeckner 1. Introduction The philosopher Dan Williams recently published two pieces on social media— “Scapegoating the Algorithm” at Asterisk Magazine, and “The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think” at his Substack. As their titles attest to, both argue that the case against social media, on epistemic and political grounds, has been considerably overstated. I recently published a lengthy essay arguing the opposite: that the case against social media has, i

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California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-26 13:15:29

Last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a wildly popular (among the public) and wildly controversial (among tech companies) bill that would have established robust safety guidelines for the development and operation of artificial intelligence models. Now he’ll have a second shot—this time with at least part of the tech industry giving him the green light. On Saturday, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 53, a landmark piece of legislation that would require AI companies to submit

Topics: ai california companies models safety

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California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2025-09-26 14:32:33

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . California lawmakers just paved the way for a whole lot more housing in the Golden State. In the waning hours of the 2025 legislative session, the state Senate voted 21 to 8 to approve Senate Bill 79 , a landmark housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to expand high-density housing near transit hubs. The controversial bill received a final concurrence vote from the Senate on Friday, a day after passin

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VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 16:14:50

Applying the scaling laws to build VaultGemma The Gemma models are designed with responsibility and safety at their core. This makes them a natural foundation for developing a production-quality, DP-trained model like VaultGemma. Algorithmic advancements: Training at scale The scaling laws we derived above represent an important first step towards training a useful Gemma model with DP. We used the scaling laws to determine both how much compute we needed to train a compute-optimal 1B paramete

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Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-28 01:00:38

Nissan provided flights from Austin to San Diego and then to Washington, DC, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Nissan Leaf. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. SAN DIEGO—The original Nissan Leaf was a car with a mission. Long before Elon Musk set his sights on Tesla selling vast numbers of electric vehicles to the masses, then-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn wanted Nissan to shift half a million Leafs a year in the early 2010s. That didn't quite come to pass, but by 2020, it had sold its

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Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 09:04:51

Infamous for their environmental persistence and potential links to health conditions, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called forever chemicals, are being discovered in unexpected places, including beer. Researchers publishing in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology tested beers brewed in different areas around the U.S. for these substances. They found that beers produced in parts of the country with known PFAS-contaminated water sources showed the highest levels of forever

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Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-28 15:27:58

Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card? 8 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional Sim card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech. All phone users will be used to the small plastic cards they need to delicately insert into their devices to make them operate. But for buyers of the iPhone Air, that w

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Will the latest iPhone kill off the SIM card?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-28 20:27:58

Will the latest iPhone kill off the SIM card? 4 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional SIM card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech. All phone users will be used to the small plastic cards they need to delicately insert into their devices to make them operate. But for buyers of the iPhone Air, that w

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Conway's Game of Life, but musical

news.ycombinator.com Hudson Griffith 2025-09-29 17:05:31

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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This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 20:01:00

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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35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 20:56:35

VMware will lose a significant chunk of business over the next three years, according to Gartner research VP Julia Palmer. Of course, some organizations have already abandoned VMware or are plotting partial or total migrations. Broadcom acquired the virtualization business in November 2023 and made sweeping changes that alienated many customers. The biggest concerns have been higher costs driven by a shift from perpetual licenses to subscriptions and the bundling of products into fewer, more ex

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Conway's Game of Life, but Musical

news.ycombinator.com Hudson Griffith 2025-09-30 13:05:31

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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Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:00:06

Hey HN, we're David and Amanda from Recall.ai ( https://www.recall.ai ). Today we’re launching our Desktop Recording SDK, a way to get meeting data without a bot in the meeting: https://www.recall.ai/product/desktop-recording-sdk . It’s our biggest release in quite a while so we thought we’d finally do our Launch HN :) Here’s a demo that shows it producing a transcript from a meeting, followed by examples in code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4croAGGiKTA . API docs are at https://docs.recall

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Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 09:01:06

Puneet and I (Roop) founded Bild AI to tackle the mess that is blueprint reading, cost estimation, and permit applications in construction. It's a tough technical problem that requires the newest CV and AI approaches, and we’re impact-driven to make it more efficient to build more houses, hospitals, and schools. Featured on Business Insider . Bild AI is an early-stage startup with a ton of really difficult technical challenges to solve. We're building blueprint understanding with a model-garden

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Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:42:55

TailGuard A simple Docker container app which allows connecting existing WireGuard servers to the Tailscale network, in case the device running WireGuard is locked in and/or does not support Tailscale binaries. The network topology will look roughly like this: +---------+ | device1 |\ +---------+ \ VPS +---------+ \ +---------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ | device2 |----| tailnet |----| TailGuard |<---->| WireGuard | +---------+ / +---------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ +---------+ / | device

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Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 17:00:44

Last year, we reported on the discovery of an intriguing arrow-shaped rock on Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover. The rock contained chemical signatures and structures that could have been formed by ancient microbial life. Granted, this was not slam-dunk evidence of past life on Mars, and the results were preliminary, awaiting peer review. But it was an intriguing possibility nonetheless. Now further analysis and peer review are complete, and there is a new paper, published in the journal Nature

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California’s High-Speed Rail Fiasco Keeps Getting Worse

gizmodo.com Benton Graham 2025-10-03 01:35:07

Seventeen years ago, Californians bet on a grand vision of the future. They narrowly approved a $10 billion bond issue to build a high-speed rail line that would zip between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours. This technological marvel would slash emissions, revitalize the state’s Central Valley, and, with some financial help from the feds and private sector, provide the fast, efficient, and convenient travel Asia and Europe have long enjoyed. State officials promised to deliver

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Apple’s Best New iOS 26 Feature Has Been on Pixel Phones for Years

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-03 17:53:15

Ever since I was a child, I’ve despised answering the phone when an unknown number calls. Who could be on the other end? Literally anyone: an acquaintance, a telemarketer, a serial killer who’s menacingly breathing into the mouthpiece. While Apple’s upcoming Liquid Glass refresh in iOS 26 is likely to be the most immediately noticeable aspect of the software update as it starts rolling out to the public on September 15, I believe a smaller addition in iOS 26 might even have a bigger impact on h

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Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-04 21:26:38

Tesla has asked the San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland airports about acquiring permits to operate a ride-hailing service at each location, according to Politico. Tesla appears to have contacted each airport right around the time it started up a nascent charter service in California in late July. In the case of the San Francisco and Oakland airports, representatives told the outlet that they had been contacted, but had yet to meet with Tesla. The San Jose airport spokesperson confirmed no app

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Enterprise-Grade Data Ethics: How to Implement Privacy, Policy, and Architecture

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-04 23:00:26

In an era where data is often described as the “new oil,” its management transcends basic operational considerations and becomes integral to organizational trust and sustainability. Ethical data practices, including transparency and informed consent, have emerged as compliance requirements and strategic differentiators for business growth and customer retention. Data Ethics as a Strategic Differentiator Ethical data use is essential for building customer trust, which drives brand loyalty and h

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Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-05 01:00:00

Unplanned downtime poses a major challenge for organizations, and is estimated to cost Global 2000 companies on average $200 million per year. Beyond the financial impact, it can also erode customer trust and loyalty, decrease productivity, and even result in legal or privacy issues. A 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the medical-billing subsidiary of industry giant UnitedHealth Group—the biggest health and medical data breach in US history—exposed the data of around 190 million peo

Topics: ai data global medical review

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Google’s Veo 3 can now generate vertical AI videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-05 05:23:51

Google has added support for 1080p resolution and vertical video formats to its Veo 3 AI video generator. According to the announcement on Google’s developer blog, both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast — a faster, and more affordable version of the video model that produces lower-quality results — now allow users to generate videos in a 9:16 aspect ratio that’s better suited for content displayed on mobile devices and social media apps. The blog says that vertical video support can be enabled by setting th

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‘The Grandmaster’ Chinese Martial Artist Max Zhang to Join ‘Highlander’ Reboot

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-05 13:45:18

Bruce Campbell steps back from Evil Dead, Marion Cotillard plays a Snow Queen, and Eman Esfandi promises a lightsaber move that we’ve never seen before is coming in the second season of Ahsoka. Spoilers are go! Highlander Deadline reports that Chinese martial artist and actor Max Zhang (Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Grandmaster, Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) has joined the cast of Chad Stahelski’s Highlander in a currently undisclosed role. Bob: The Musical Deadline also reports Randy Mancuso (M

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These Climate Hacks to Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-05 20:00:23

Last year, the United Nations predicted that Earth’s average temperature could rise more than 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) by 2100 if we don’t reduce global emissions. That level of warming would cause catastrophic, irreversible damage to ecosystems, underscoring the urgent need to slow the pace of climate change. Still, the amount of greenhouse gases humans pump into the atmosphere continues to rise. Without sufficient progress on the emissions front, some scientists have suggest

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No, the Galaxy S25 FE doesn’t have this key security upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 22:15:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has confirmed to Android Authority that the Galaxy S25 FE has an optical-based fingerprint scanner. This comes after unofficial claims that the phone has an ultrasonic scanner. An ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is faster, more accurate, and works with wet fingers. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 FE last week, and it brings a couple of notable upgrades. We also heard rumors that the phone would have an upgraded in-display fingerprint sensor, bu

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Computing’s Top 30: Nipun Jaswal

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-06 07:00:15

To keep his edge, international cybersecurity expert Nipun Jaswal does more than stay up on current security threats and trends; he literally keeps his hands in the game, regularly coding—in up to 10 different languages—and doing lab work including exploring attack vectors and hunkering down with disassemblers and debuggers. Remaining “deeply technical” is not just part of his practice, it’s also fundamental to his leadership philosophy, which centers on staying curious and “close to the core o

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Apple Calendar spam on the rise again, mostly crypto scams

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-07 17:53:41

We first saw Apple Calendar spam almost a decade ago, when it hit such levels that the iPhone maker issued an apology and said that it was blocking suspicious senders. We’ve seen the problem re-emerge several times since then, with Apple even publishing a YouTube video on how to remove it. Despite all of these efforts, however, it seems to be spiking again … Spammers send calendar invitations containing links, most of them taking the form of cryptocurrency scams. Several of us at 9to5Mac have

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2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

technologyreview.com Helen Thomson 2025-10-08 05:30:00

Goenka saw a better way: Build a real-time system that could “stream” the sequencing data, analyzing it as it was being generated, like streaming a film on Netflix rather than downloading it to watch later. To do this, she designed a cloud computing architecture to pull in more processing power. Goenka’s first challenge was to increase the speed at which her team could upload the raw data for processing, by streamlining the requests between the sequencer and the cloud to avoid unnecessary “chat

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Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 19:09:19

The Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) is instructing critical infrastructure organizations in the country to avoid using Chinese technology or transferring user data to servers located in China. The agency warned that these actions constitute a significant cybersecurity threat and should be entirely avoided unless there's a reasonable justification for continuing the practice. The NUKIB states that it has re-evaluated its risk estimate of significant disru

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iCloud Calendar abused to send phishing emails from Apple’s servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 22:10:29

iCloud Calendar invites are being abused to send callback phishing emails disguised as purchase notifications directly from Apple's email servers, making them more likely to bypass spam filters to land in targets' inboxes. Earlier this month, a reader shared an email with BleepingComputer that claimed to be a payment receipt for $599 charged against the recipient's PayPal account. This email included a phone number if the recipient wanted to discuss the payment or make changes to it. "Hello Cu

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Latest Tech News

The Case Against Social Media Is Stronger Than You Think

California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing

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Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?

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California’s High-Speed Rail Fiasco Keeps Getting Worse

Apple’s Best New iOS 26 Feature Has Been on Pixel Phones for Years

Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports

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Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure

iCloud Calendar abused to send phishing emails from Apple’s servers

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