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Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election

news.ycombinator.com Rowena Mason 2025-07-28 01:44:17

The voting age will be lowered to 16 across the UK by the next general election in a major change of the democratic system. The government said it was a reform to bring in more fairness for 16- and 17-year-olds, many of whom already work and are able to serve in the military. It brings the whole of the UK voting age to 16. Scotland and Wales have already made the change for Holyrood and Senedd elections, as well as local council elections. In a sweeping package of changes, ministers will also

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Dyson’s $500 headphones come in even more colors

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-07-28 04:00:00

Dyson is expanding the range of ear caps and cushions it offers for its customizable OnTrac headphones, with two new colors launching today for each. That doesn’t change the four default designs you’re able to pick from when buying the $499.99 OnTracs, but it does give existing owners new options to mix up the design. The cushions now come in “Sky Blue,” which was already available for ear caps, and “Caramel,” which is entirely new. Meanwhile, the caps are now available in “Ceramic Oyster Pink,

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Roblox launches new age verification system to unlock unfiltered chats

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-07-28 17:00:01

Users over 13 years old will be prompted to use the facial-analysis software to estimate their age and determine whether they can access the new "trusted connections" feature that allows them to engage in private, unfiltered chats with other age-screened users, Ebanks said. Roblox's use of age-estimation tech will help the company "confirm the age of our users and give them more tailored and age-appropriate features," said Ryan Ebanks, a Roblox principal product manager for social products. So

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Is HR ready for AI?

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-07-28 14:16:13

sefa ozel/Getty Images A report from technology analyst firm Valoir has found that most companies are either already leveraging AI for HR activities, such as recruiting, learning, and talent management, or they plan to do so within the next 24 months. However, there's a significant gap in terms of policies, practices, and training for safe and effective AI adoption. Only 34% of organizations have a policy on generative AI (gen AI), and even fewer offer effective training. Also: 5 entry-level

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Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records

wired.com Dan Goodin 2025-07-28 17:30:00

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses. The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by man

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Roblox introduces new safeguards for teens, including age estimation tech

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-28 17:00:00

Roblox announced Thursday that it’s launching new safeguards for people who are between the ages of 13 and 18. The company is introducing “Trusted Connections” to allows these users to connect more freely with people they know, alongside age estimation technology, more privacy tools, and insights for parents of teens. Roblox has come under fire in recent years for how it handles child safety. In April, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to Roblox in response to reports th

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 17, #767

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 03:00:05

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 is a bit of a weird one. I thought the green category was loopy like the purple one always is. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receiv

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 17, #297

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 03:00:06

Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles. My blue group hint for today's Connections: Sports Edition is geared toward Saturday Night Live fans, but if you know your basketball, you should be fine. I think the green group is even easier than the yellow group, but that might depend on how much time you've spent on the water. Read on for

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Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 08:29:38

Researchers from the Google Threat Intelligence Group said that hackers are compromising SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances, which sit at the edge of enterprise networks and manage and secure access by mobile devices. The targeted devices are end of life, meaning they no longer receive regular updates for stability and security. Despite the status, many organizations continue to rely on them. That has left them prime targets by UNC6148, the name Google has given to the unknown hack

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Over Half of Teens Regularly Use AI Companions. Here's Why That's Not Ideal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 18:58:00

Is your teen using a chatbot for companionship? If you don't know, you might want to ask. Common Sense Media released a study on Wednesday, in which it found that more than half of pre-adult teenagers regularly use AI companions. Nearly a third of the teens reported that conversations with AI were as satisfying as conversations with actual humans, if not more so. Researchers also found that 33% of teens use AI companions such as Character.AI, Nomi and Replika "for social interaction and relatio

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A Mile-Long Gateway to Hell Opens Up in Iceland

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-07-30 00:55:45

A volcanic eruption in Southwestern Iceland forced the evacuation of a nearby town and the world-famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa on Wednesday, July 16. Media images captured huge plumes of smoke and glowing lava flows spewing from an enormous crack in Earth’s surface roughly 30 miles (18.6 miles) southwest of Reykjavík. This marks the twelfth eruption since volcanic activity reawakened in this region in 2021. The eruption began on the Reykjanes Peninsula’s Sundhnúkur crater row around 4 a.m.

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Insta360 now offers lens filters and a larger battery for its 360-degree action cam

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-07-30 00:14:38

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. It’s been less than three months since Insta360 released its X5 360-degree action camera, but the company is already introducing new accessories and a major firmware update. Improvements include a new AdaptiveTone feature delivering “better color and detail in both bright and dark areas” when filming with both lenses, and a larger battery you can

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ASML shares drop 11% after the chip giant says it can't confirm that it will grow in 2026

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-07-30 04:53:08

ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter. ASML's guidance for the current quarter missed expectations while it narrowed its own forecast for the rest of the year. Shares of the firm ended the day 11.4% lower. Like many companies in the semiconductor industry, ASML has been grappling with uncertainty created by U.S. tariff policy. The company forecast third-quarter revenue of between 7.4 billion eu

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This Android 16 feature finally saves me from notification overload - how to try it

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-07-30 08:12:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Have you ever been relaxing when, out of nowhere, your phone blows up with notifications? I've been there too many times, which led me to keep my phone on silent mode 24/7. Then Google teased a new feature in Android 15 called Notification Cooldown that promised to change everything. Notification Cooldown didn't exactly hit the mark in Android 15, but it has made a comeback in the latest iteration (Android 16) to ensure that it works exactly as expect

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Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-07-30 08:11:50

Shipping has a pollution problem, but one company has a solution that does more than just eliminate a boat’s carbon dioxide. London-based Seabound has developed a carbon capture system that transforms CO 2 from the engine into limestone, a key ingredient in cement. Fittingly, the company has installed it aboard the UBC Cork, a cement carrier currently sailing through the Mediterranean Sea. When the ship docks in Norway, the limestone created from the voyage will be offloaded and used to make m

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Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2025-07-29 21:35:42

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Lately, some KDE projects have seen a revival, like Karton (the native virtual machine manager for KDE) and the improved ISO Image Writer. Now, another abandoned KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is looking to return from the dead after long-time Plasma Mobile contributor Devin decided to spend a week overhauling the thing. If you have not heard of it, Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma shell for telev

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A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-30 23:00:48

A new survey found that over half of American teens are regular users of anthropomorphic AI companions like Character.AI and Replika. That's striking on its own, as an illustration of how embedded AI companions have become in mainstream teenage life. But even more startling were the 31 percent of surveyed teens who said their interactions with AI companions were either as satisfying or more satisfying than conversations with real-life friends — a finding that shows how profoundly AI is already

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Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-30 23:01:03

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th century scholar. There has been much debate over how to translate those fragments ever since, and whether the long-lost work was a monster-filled epic or a chivalric romance. Two Cambridge University scholars now say those lines have been "radically misunderstood" for 130 years, supplying their own tra

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Helix Editor 25.07

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 00:16:59

Release 25.07 Highlights 15 July 2025 A long-awaited 25.07 release is finally here. This release saw the replacement of a major, core component of Helix and the addition of plenty of flashy features besides. This release saw changes from 195 contributors. A hearty thank you to everyone who made this release possible. New to Helix? Helix is a modal text editor with built-in support for multiple selections, Language Server Protocol (LSP), tree-sitter, and experimental support for Debug Adapter

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NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 01:56:47

(From left to right) Mason Marshall, David Hume, Willa Arthur-Dworschack and Daniel Rodriguez Castillo stand in front of the aluminum ion clock at NIST. With its recent improvements, the clock can pave the way for the campaign to redefine the second as well as explore new ideas in physics. Credit: R. Jacobson/NIST There’s a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based o

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'Click to Cancel' Is Dead. Here Are 3 Other Ways to Find and Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 08:00:00

The Click to Cancel rule is supposed to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. Viva Tung/Getty Images It's easy to rack up streaming subscriptions and other monthly services with just a few taps or clicks. Cancelling them, however, can be a bit trickier. The Federal Trade Commission's "click to cancel" rule would have made it easy to cancel unwanted subscriptions. However, this rule, was blocked by the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 8, a week before i

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 16, #766

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 11:00:06

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 features one of those classic purple categories, where you wonder if anyone out there really solved it without first solving the other three and letting the purple answers fall in. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 16, #296

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 11:00:08

Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition touches on a world-famous race that's going on right now. I thought the purple group was unusually easy today, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb

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Abacus dark web drug market goes offline in suspected exit scam

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-31 20:58:34

Abacus Market, the largest Western darknet marketplace supporting Bitcoin payments, has shut down its public infrastructure in a move suspected to be an exit scam. Exit scams occur when the operator of a marketplace decides to vanish with the money they hold in escrow for various transactions between platform users. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that Abacus shutting down so abruptly has all the indications of either an exit scam or a covert law enforcement operation dismantling

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KDE's official Roku/Android TV alternative is back from the dead

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2025-07-31 18:35:42

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Lately, some KDE projects have seen a revival, like Karton (the native virtual machine manager for KDE) and the improved ISO Image Writer. Now, another abandoned KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is looking to return from the dead after long-time Plasma Mobile contributor Devin decided to spend a week overhauling the thing. If you have not heard of it, Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma shell for telev

Topics: applications devin kde mycroft plasma

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Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 20:16:59

Release 25.07 Highlights 15 July 2025 A long-awaited 25.07 release is finally here. This release saw the replacement of a major, core component of Helix and the addition of plenty of flashy features besides. This release saw changes from 195 contributors. A hearty thank you to everyone who made this release possible. New to Helix? Helix is a modal text editor with built-in support for multiple selections, Language Server Protocol (LSP), tree-sitter, and experimental support for Debug Adapter

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KDE's official Android TV alternative is back from the dead

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2025-07-31 23:35:42

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Lately, some KDE projects have seen a revival, like Karton (the native virtual machine manager for KDE) and the improved ISO Image Writer. Now, another abandoned KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is looking to return from the dead after long-time Plasma Mobile contributor Devin decided to spend a week overhauling the thing. If you have not heard of it, Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma shell for telev

Topics: applications devin kde mycroft plasma

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Severance, The Last of Us and Andor just nabbed dozens of Emmy nominations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-01 04:46:07

The nominations for the 77th Emmy Awards just dropped and, unsurprisingly, Apple TV+'s Severance led the pack with a whopping 27, including Best Drama. The streamer has another bona-fide hit with the Seth Rogen-led The Studio, which captured 23 nominations. However, HBO Max received the most kudos by platform, with 142 nominations in total. This is thanks to the second season of The Last of Us , with 16 nominations, and the Batman-adjacent The Penguin. The White Lotus, The Pitt and Hacks also g

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NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 07:56:47

(From left to right) Mason Marshall, David Hume, Willa Arthur-Dworschack and Daniel Rodriguez Castillo stand in front of the aluminum ion clock at NIST. With its recent improvements, the clock can pave the way for the campaign to redefine the second as well as explore new ideas in physics. Credit: R. Jacobson/NIST There’s a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have improved their atomic clock based o

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Subscriptions Could Be Killing Your Budget. Here's How I Saved $400 in 15 Minutes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-01 07:50:00

Rocket Money saved me $400 on unwanted subscriptions. It even canceled them for me. Getty Images/Rocket Money/Amy Kim/CNET The last thing anyone wants to do in this economy is lose money. But you may be bleeding cash without even realizing it. A recent CNET study found that the average US consumer spends around $200 a year on subscriptions they aren't using. I've done it myself. It's all too easy to sign up for a free trial or service and forget about it. Subscription companies are happy to ta

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Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election

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This Android 16 feature finally saves me from notification overload - how to try it

Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing

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Helix Editor 25.07

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 16, #766

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NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World

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