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Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-28 21:25:52

In Brief The video game company Electronic Arts is nearing a $50 billion sale to a group of investors including Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. EA is best known for its annual sports titles in franchises like Madden NFL, FIFA, and NBA Live, as well as video game series like The Sims, Battlefield, Need for Speed, and Star Wars. According to the Journal’s report, this deal could be the largest leveraged buyout in history

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What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-28 21:40:24

Silicon Valley flooded the news this week with headlines about wild AI infrastructure investments. Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. Then OpenAI said it would build out five more Stargate AI data centers with Oracle and Softbank, adding gigawatts of new capacity online in the coming years. And it was later revealed that Oracle sold $18 billion in bonds to pay for these data centers. On their own, each deal is dizzying in scale. But in aggregate, we see how Silicon Valle

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ChatGPT just got several work-friendly updates - what it can do now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-29 01:56:48

D3Damon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI launched a shared projects mode and new connectors for ChatGPT. It also announced security upgrades for teams using the chatbot. It's part of a broader strategy to sell AI tools to businesses. OpenAI has begun rolling out new team collaboration and security features for ChatGPT. Also: Microsoft will compete with AWS to offer a marketplace of AI apps and agents The new features -- which include a "s

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Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-29 05:50:09

Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to reduce unwanted noise. Scientists have been getting increasingly better at doing just that, but new research warns that something rather unexpected might be getting in the way: daylight savings time. In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the University of Toronto, gives a sim

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More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-09-29 05:45:00

A wider leadership shakeup at Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is underway just a few weeks after it paused work on its vehicle program and its CEO and CTO left, TechCrunch has learned. Supernal’s chief strategy officer Jaeyong Song and chief safety officer Tracy Lamb are no longer with the company, the startup confirmed Friday. Lina Yang, the chief of staff to Suprernal’s recently-departed CEO Jaiwon Shin is also out. (Yang had previously served as Supernal’s “Head of Intelligent S

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OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don't see this as crazy'

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-29 09:27:22

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to questions at a Q&A following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters This week, OpenAI redefined what momentum — and risk — look like in the artificial intelligence arms race. Now comes the hard part: Executing on CEO Sam Altman's multitrillion-dollar vision. In a rapid-fire series of announcements, the company unveiled partnerships involving mind-bending sums of money and cemented its place at the center of th

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Flagship mobile phone with hardware kill switches for privacy

news.ycombinator.com It'S Foss News 2025-09-29 08:44:12

Murena has been making steady progress in the privacy-focused smartphone market with its Fairphone range of devices and their open source, de-Googled operating system, /e/OS. Recently, we covered its launch of the Murena Fairphone 6 (Gen. 6), which combined their ethical hardware with their software ecosystem. Now, they are back, but with a new collaboration. This time, Murena has teamed up with a company called HIROH. 📝 HIROH Phone (Powered by Murena): Key Specifications The HIROH Phone com

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A recent chess controversy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 08:02:53

The chess world is no stranger to scandals, from a 1960s fistfight between grand masters Bobby Fischer and Pal Benko to allegations of another grand master, Vladimir Kramnik, cheating in the 2006 world championship by accessing a phone during bathroom breaks. Just this fall, Kramnik expressed “concerns” on X about grand master Daniel Naroditsky and unspecified other players. A prominent recent controversy erupted in November 2023, when Kramnik insinuated on his chess.com blog and in a YouTube v

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Dear LA, you deserve better than the Clippers’ carbon scandal

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-29 08:15:50

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. We watched LA burn this year. If you’re not from around here, you might have seen it unfold in the news like so many other infernos. Neighborhoods in ashes. People in shock. I was nearby when it happened in January, visiting home from New York to attend a family member’s fune

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Did a US Chess Champion Cheat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:02:53

The chess world is no stranger to scandals, from a 1960s fistfight between grand masters Bobby Fischer and Pal Benko to allegations of another grand master, Vladimir Kramnik, cheating in the 2006 world championship by accessing a phone during bathroom breaks. Just this fall, Kramnik expressed “concerns” on X about grand master Daniel Naroditsky and unspecified other players. A prominent recent controversy erupted in November 2023, when Kramnik insinuated on his chess.com blog and in a YouTube v

Topics: cheating chess games kramnik nakamura

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Has ‘Peacemaker’ Been Hiding Its Big Twist in Plain Sight?

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-09-29 13:30:44

We’re in the endgame now for Peacemaker‘s season 2 finale, and its latest episode finally lifted the lid on a huge twist that head honcho James Gunn wanted to keep under wraps for DC fans. No, not that thing, the other thing. The “what the hell is going on with Christopher Smith’s pocket universe?” Evidently, Gunn has been lording that big reveal in fans’ faces every week without them noticing by hiding that plot development in an unlikely place: Peacemaker‘s opening dance number. So, everyone

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OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors: 'I don’t see this as crazy'

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-29 17:15:32

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to questions at a Q&A following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters This week, OpenAI redefined what momentum — and risk — look like in the artificial intelligence arms race. Now comes the hard part: Executing on CEO Sam Altman's multitrillion-dollar vision. In a rapid-fire series of announcements, the company unveiled partnerships involving mind-bending sums of money and cemented its place at the center

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, Sept. 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 10:07:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Sierra’s Dream Chaser is starting to resemble a nightmare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 06:00:43

The Dream Chaser spaceplane, which has been under development for two decades, now seems like it might be further than ever from taking flight. On Thursday, NASA, confirming an earlier Ars Technica report, said the first flight of the winged spacecraft will no longer berth with the International Space Station. Rather, the space agency said, the Dream Chaser program would be "best served" by a free flight demonstration. "Development of new space transportation systems is difficult and can take

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Engadget Podcast: How Carvana is trying to fix the broken car buying world

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 01:30:45

Buying a car in America is usually a hellish experience involving pushy salespeople, mysterious fees, and hours-long financing negotiations. That’s something Carvana aimed to solve with its online used car marketplace when it launched 13 years ago. In this episode, Devindra chats with Carvana Chief Product Officer Dan Gill about how the company moved beyond the flashy marketing of its early car vending machines, and how it’s still trying to perfect the online car buying experience. We also dive

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Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website

news.ycombinator.com Nadia Eldeib 2025-09-26 06:33:20

As mentioned in my most recent post, I’ve been experimenting with AI coding agents and MCP servers to rebuild CodeYam’s website. Version one is already live, with another iteration landing imminently (likely by the time you read this). As a non-engineer founder, I wanted to see if I could ship our new designs without hiring extra developers or spending months learning to code from scratch. My current stack: I’ve heard OpenAI’s Codex has improved since I last tried it a few weeks ago, but for t

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Once a $40 billion fintech darling, Checkout.com is now valued at $12 billion

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-30 07:59:53

Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of payment platform Checkout.com, speaking at the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022. LONDON — Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out. The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to launch a share buyback initiative for employees to "provide them with a path to liquidity." The share buyback program is based on a new internal valuation of $12 bill

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China launches campaign to keep killjoys off the internet

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-30 02:01:24

China launches campaign to keep killjoys off the internet 10 hours ago Share Save Koh Ewe and Osmond Chia Share Save Getty Images Social media giants have also found themselves penalised in China's campaign to clean up its internet The Chinese government is taking aim at an emotion that has become all too common on the country's internet - despondency. This week, China's Cyberspace Administration launched a two-month campaign to curb social media posts that "excessively exaggerate negative an

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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center director Joseph Pelfrey resigns

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-30 03:37:04

A crane towers above the mobile launcher 2 adjacent the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. The director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Joseph Pelfrey, announced his resignation from the role on Thursday, CNBC confirmed. Pelfrey said in an email to employees at the space agency that as NASA focuses on its mission to return humans to the moon, it will be "important for agency leadership to move forward with a team they choose to execute the task

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Fintech Checkout.com's valuation falls to $12 billion

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-30 11:46:04

Guillaume Pousaz, CEO and founder of payment platform Checkout.com, speaking at the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2022. LONDON — Fintech unicorn Checkout.com is giving staff a way of cashing in their shares: buying them out. The London-headquartered payments platform said Friday that it plans to launch a share buyback initiative for employees to "provide them with a path to liquidity." The share buyback program is based on a new internal valuation of $12 bill

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Qualcomm’s surprise Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 takes a page from Apple (Update: Chip details)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 09:18:57

TL;DR Qualcomm unveiled a second premium-tier processor alongside its main Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, the chipset marks a new split within Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 family. The company says the split mirrors Apple’s two-chip iPhone strategy. Update: September 26, 2025 (1:15 AM ET): Qualcomm has now confirmed some details about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. The company revealed to journalists, including Android Authority, that the chip has a 3nm TSMC design with

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Show HN: Signage Sync

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 15:44:33

Let’s Build This Together Signage Sync is just getting started—and we’d love your input! Whether you’re exploring how to use it in your business, have a feature idea, or want to collaborate, let’s talk. 👉 When you click WhatsApp Us, you’ll be chatting with Momenial—the team behind Signage Sync.

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Why Using a Q-Tip to Clean Your Ears Is a Safety Hazard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 11:01:00

You may have been taught to clean your ears with a Q-tip or cotton swab -- and even enjoy how satisfying it can be -- but Q-tips aren't the safest method and can actually harm your ears. After all, earwax is essential to your ear health, so it's not something you want to remove entirely. To help you quit Q-tips and prevent hearing loss, we outline safer methods below. Your ears will thank you. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google sou

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Writing Memory Safe JIT Compilers

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hearn 2025-09-30 11:10:31

Professor Yoshihiko Futamura You might not have encountered Futamura projections or partial evaluation before, so what is this strange sounding thing? The core idea is to automatically transform the code of your interpreter to create individual JIT compiled user methods. Instead of needing to carefully implement the language semantics in two places (interpreter and hand-crafted JIT), it’s sufficient to implement it just once. As the interpreter is memory safe and the transform preserves interp

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Investigating a Forged PDF

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 09:14:11

SECURITY: The security deposit will secure the performance of Tenant’s obligations. IER may, but will not be obligated to, apply all portions of said deposit on account of Tenant’s obligations. Any balance remaining upon termination will be returned to Tenant. Tenant will not have the right to apply the security deposit in payment of the last month’s rent. Security deposit held at IER Trust Account. dump_data base.pdf sha256sum

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Factory Raises $50M Series B

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 20:53:40

We have raised $50M for our Series B at a valuation of $300M, led by NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, and other industry leaders. Droids are now #1 on Terminal Bench and available to anyone, with any model, in any interface. Factory Raises $50M Series B We have raised $50M for our Series B at a valuation of $300M. The round was led by NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, Abstract Ventures, Mantis Ventures, and other industry leaders including Frank Slootman, Nikesh Arora, and A

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YouTube Is Going to Regret This

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-30 21:00:52

Earlier this week, YouTube gave an inch to the Online Right by announcing a plan to offer a chance at reinstatement to users who were previously banned from the platform for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. Today, the Online Right took a mile by hammering YouTube for almost immediately terminating new accounts created by the previously banned Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes. Jones, a conspiracy theorist who still owes the families of the victi

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Trump Signs Order to Transfer TikTok to US Ownership

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 21:15:02

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Android Canary has a new build ready to go for all you super-testers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 01:04:46

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google has just released Android Canary 2509. The new build is out for Pixel 6 devices and newer, with the exception of the upcoming Pixel 10 Pro Fold. How big an Android fan are you? You’re not just rocking a Google Pixel phone, but you’re also running the beta or are in the preview program of any Google app that will let you sign up. You used to run Android platform betas whenever they were available, but this summer Google brought you a big new pres

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Identity Types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 03:15:23

Previously: Models of (Dependent) Type Theory. There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming. Computer programs deal with such mathematical objects as numbers, vectors, monoids, functors, algebras, and many more. We can implement such structures in most programming languages. For instance, here’s the definition of natural numbers in Haskell: data Nat where Z :: Nat -- zero S :: Nat -> Nat -- successor There is a problem, though, with encoding the laws that they are supposed t

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Once a $40 billion fintech darling, Checkout.com is now valued at $12 billion

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