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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Friedman 2025-07-20 00:00:56

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The move underscores how the Trump administration is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have b

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How to Watch Australia vs. British & Irish Lions From Anywhere: Stream 1st Test Rugby Union for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 08:00:03

After weeks of build up, the British & Irish Lions Test series down under finally gets underway on Saturday as Andy Farrell's men take on Australia at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. After an opening-game defeat against Argentina, the Lions have gone on to win five matches in a row against Super Rugby and

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Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with a VIC-20, an Abacus, and a Dog

news.ycombinator.com Peter Gutmann 2025-07-20 01:09:07

Paper 2025/1237 Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog Peter Gutmann , University of Auckland Stephan Neuhaus , Zurich University of Applied Sciences Abstract This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation recor

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Friedman 2025-07-20 15:00:56

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The move underscores how the Trump administration is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have b

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Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-20 15:21:29

Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, is in the process of raising a Series A. Sources familiar with the deal tell TechCrunch it’s for $30 million at a $180 million valuation led by Benchmark partner Eric Vishria. But one person says that the deal hasn’t closed and terms may change. Founded by Dasksh Gupta after he graduated from Georgia Tech in 2023, the startup went through Y Combinator in the winter of 2024 cohort, and raised a $4 million seed round led by Initialized Capital after co

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Feature Request: Apple should make these three changes to the Find My app

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-07-20 19:26:26

We saw recently that many Gen Z people have a much more relaxed attitude to location privacy than the rest of us, happily sharing their location 24/7 with entire groups of friends. But for those of us who prefer a more restrained approach to sharing our location, I’d like to see one basic change, and a couple of intelligent features added to the Find My app … 9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive inf

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Show HN: Simulating autonomous drone formations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-17 17:18:48

Ketu Lightweight framework to simulate drone formations. Ketu provider simple abstractions to mimick the sensors available on drones and create scenarios to see how the drones react to each other in the world. Using ketu you can simulate autonomous drones that align to create any shape. Checkout this video for a demonstration. Why use Ketu? Ketu provides a sandbox for people to quickly try out new drone formation techniques without amount of large setup. For a more detailed simulation you ca

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 19, #769

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 22:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle leans heavy on short words, but that didn't make it any easier. Possibly harder, since a long phrase is easier to match up, at least for me. But as a Gen Xer, I loved the purple category. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. Th

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ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-07-20 23:04:30

In Brief ServiceNow’s acquisition of enterprise AI startup Moveworks is reportedly drawing regulatory scrutiny. The acquisition is currently under review for antitrust by the U.S. Justice Department, according to Bloomberg, which cited sources familiar with the matter. The probe began in June, Bloomberg reported, and both companies have since received a “second request” calling for additional information that has to be provided before the deal can move forward. ServiceNow announced it was acq

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Influencers Have Arrived on ‘Foundation,’ and Somehow You Can’t Hate Them

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-07-21 01:00:31

Foundation is generally a pretty serious show. Season three in particular is charting humanity’s march toward certain doom—unless those with the power to reshape the future can figure out an alternative path before it’s too late. But levity creeps into the Apple TV+ Isaac Asimov adaptation when you least expect it, with season three continuing the humorous legacy of a character we said good-bye to back in season two. That dearly departed character is Hober Mallow, of course—the heroic scoundrel

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Trump’s Cabinet Is Cashing in on Crypto

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-07-21 03:00:21

Congress’s big “Crypto Week” might have faded into the background a bit due to cryptic messages Donald Trump left in a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, but Republicans in the House and Senate did, in fact, manage to pass a couple of laws that will establish loose, industry-friendly regulations for cryptocurrency. Which means it is a perfect time to be reminded that the Trump administration is packed with people who stand to benefit from cryptocurrency being mainstreamed. Trump himself, of cour

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Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 07:28:34

Currently in Beta Manage Your Home Library with Ease Organize, track, and discover your book collection like never before. Your personal library, always at your fingertips.

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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-07-21 07:43:18

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent launch of its chat assistant on mobile app stores was met with some hype, particularly in its home country. “Go and download Le Chat, which is made by

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Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-20 09:02:57

The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Salt Typhoon breached and remained undetected in a U.S. Army National Guard network for nine months in 2024, stealing network configuration files and administrator credentials that could be used to compromise other government networks. Salt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that is believed to be affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence agency. The hacking group has gained notoriety over the past tw

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How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Haki Benita 2025-07-18 04:36:08

Constraints keep the integrity of your system and prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot. Foreign keys are a special type of constraint because, unlike unique, check, and primary keys, they span more than one relation. This makes foreign keys harder to enforce and harder to get right. In this article, I demonstrate common pitfalls, potential optimizations, and implicit behavior related to foreign keys. Table of Contents Watch 📺 This article is inspired by a talk I gave at DjangoCon EU

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More Than Half of Teens Surveyed Use AI for Companionship. Why That's Not Ideal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 09:43:00

Is your teen using an artificial intelligence chatbot for companionship? If you don't know, it's time to find out. Common Sense Media released a study this week, where it found that more than half of pre-adult teenagers regularly use AI companions. Nearly a third of the teens surveyed reported that conversations with AI were as satisfying as conversations with actual humans, if not more so. Researchers also found that 33% of teens surveyed use AI companions such as Character.AI, Nomi and Replik

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ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data

news.ycombinator.com Leah Feiger 2025-07-21 13:15:58

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and location of aliens in the United States,” according to an information exchange agreement viewed by WIRED. The agreement, which is titled “Information Exchange Agreement Between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Disclosure of Identity and Locat

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Scientists Will Melt Some of Earth’s Oldest Ice to Solve Climate Mystery

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-07-21 19:06:58

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they could also help solve a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over two decades. Over the course of seven weeks, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey plan to gradually melt 1.5-million-year-old Antarctic ice cores at their lab in Cambridge, England, unlocking whatever dust, volcanic ash, and even sing

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After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-21 19:00:46

Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ocean on Earth. It was both a success and a failure. The success was that after Huby founded The Exploration Company in Europe, she managed to move nimbly with the "Mission Possible" spacecraft such that it cost less than $25 million to build and reached space in less than three years. The vehicle ticked off a number of successes in spaceflight before making a controlle

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Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-21 19:23:02

In January, YouTuber Jon Prosser posted a video to his Front Page Tech channel that claimed to be “your very first look at iOS 19,” the operating system that Apple would announce as iOS 26 a few months later. Though Prosser claimed he “could not show the real video of what I saw” because he wanted to protect his source, the rest of the video showed a mock-up for a redesigned version of the Camera app, which ended up being a preview of the company-wide “Liquid Glass” redesign that Apple would sh

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You can finally move Chrome's address bar on Android - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-07-21 23:58:09

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Nearly a month ago, Google announced a small but highly anticipated addition to Chrome on Android -- the ability to relocate the browser's address bar to the bottom of the screen. "Depending on the size of your hand and your device," Google explained, "one address bar position may feel more comfortable than the other." This update gives you the flexibility to choose your preferred location. Also: You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how

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The Art of Roland-Garros

news.ycombinator.com Juan Buis 2025-07-18 07:40:17

All of the tournament's iconic posters in one place. All posters are the copyright of their respective artists and the Fédération Française de Tennis. This site is an independent fan gallery and is not affiliated with Roland-Garros or the Fédération Française de Tennis.

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ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

news.ycombinator.com Leah Feiger 2025-07-21 23:15:58

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and location of aliens in the United States,” according to an information exchange agreement viewed by WIRED. The agreement, which is titled “Information Exchange Agreement Between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Disclosure of Identity and Locat

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In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 23:34:36

I wrote this in response to a comment thread on hackernews Defending GCC considered futile. There's been a megathread in the last week about whether Emacs should support LLVM, with Richard Stallman and now Eric Raymond joining the frey. Personally, I use a BSD license for all my code and contribute to BSD/Apache licensed software whenever I can. I do it because I think opensource will eventually eat the world anyway, and I think when it does a BSD/Apache implementation of any given piece of sof

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The Criterion Channel Is Beefing Up Its Anime Content

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-07-21 23:05:24

The Criterion Collection, aka your cinephile friends’ favorite thing to yap about alongside their Letterboxd ratings, has announced it is adding a special anime section to its illustrious streaming catalog. Criterion made the announcement at the very end of a new blog post with reserved and refined excitement. “Look out for a new section on the Channel highlighting restlessly creative, stylistically flamboyant gems from Japan’s juggernaut animation industry,” Criterion Collection wrote. It goe

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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

gizmodo.com William Turton 2025-07-21 23:15:56

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data. ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the ho

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Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know

news.ycombinator.com Monica Pitrelli 2025-07-22 02:50:47

Visitors to the United States will need to pay a "visa integrity fee," according to a provision of the Trump administration's recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The fee applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter, and cannot be waived. However travelers may also be able to get the fees reimbursed, according to the provision. Details about the new requirement are scant, which has resulted in "significant challenges and unanswered questions regarding implementation,"

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Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Roland R Griffiths 2025-07-21 23:57:08

Participants with a potentially life-threatening cancer diagnosis and a DSM-IV diagnosis that included anxiety and/or mood symptoms were recruited through flyers, internet, and physician referral. Of 566 individuals who were screened by telephone, 56 were randomized. Figure 1 shows a CONSORT flow diagram. Table 1 shows demographics for the 51 participants who completed at least one session. The two randomized groups did not significantly differ demographically. All 51 participants had a potentia

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-07-22 07:08:26

Indeed, the curators of DataComp CommonPool were themselves aware it was likely that PII would appear in the data set and did take some measures to preserve privacy, including automatically detecting and blurring faces. But in their limited data set, Hong’s team found and validated over 800 faces that the algorithm had missed, and they estimated that overall, the algorithm had missed 102 million faces in the entire data set. On the other hand, they did not apply filters that could have recognize

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We Consulted Fitness Experts to Learn the Truth About Vibration Plates for Weight Loss

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-22 07:00:00

Step aside mom jeans, scrunchies and denim on denim, there's another trend making a comeback. Vibration plates are trending once again. Similar to the mid-20th-century vibrating belt machines, vibration plates have been said to provide the body with various benefits and can even be a tool for weight loss. But is the hype backed by science and expert opinions, or is it all social media hearsay? To find out if you should add a vibration plate to your workout routine, we asked personal trainers an

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Latest Tech News

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

How to Watch Australia vs. British & Irish Lions From Anywhere: Stream 1st Test Rugby Union for Free

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with a VIC-20, an Abacus, and a Dog

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say

Feature Request: Apple should make these three changes to the Find My app

Show HN: Simulating autonomous drone formations

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 19, #769

ServiceNow’s acquisition of Moveworks is reportedly being reviewed over antitrust concerns

Influencers Have Arrived on ‘Foundation,’ and Somehow You Can’t Hate Them

Trump’s Cabinet Is Cashing in on Crypto

Show HN: I built library management app for those who outgrew spreadsheets

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

More Than Half of Teens Surveyed Use AI for Companionship. Why That's Not Ideal

ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data

Scientists Will Melt Some of Earth’s Oldest Ice to Solve Climate Mystery

After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission

Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

You can finally move Chrome's address bar on Android - here's how

The Art of Roland-Garros

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)

The Criterion Channel Is Beefing Up Its Anime Content

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know

Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

We Consulted Fitness Experts to Learn the Truth About Vibration Plates for Weight Loss

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