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Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?

news.ycombinator.com Paul Krugman 2025-10-29 18:39:18

Yesterday I wrote about Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and made some unflattering observations about him. So it might be worth mentioning a new incident, reported by Politico. Apparently Bessent confronted Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency — a piece of work himself — at a fancy dinner, accusing Pulte of bad-mouthing him to the president: “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.

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These Climate Hacks to Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-30 05:00:23

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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The Polestar 5 electric sedan makes its world debut

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 06:00:49

Today, Polestar debuted its newest model. Just as three is followed by four, next in the series comes five—in this case the Polestar 5. And the new EV is a little departure from the products we've seen so far from this Swedish/Chinese startup. It's a handsome if angular sedan that, like the Polestar 4 SUV, eschews a rear window in favor of more headroom for passengers and a rear-view camera. "Polestar 5 is bringing the future to our present. Our vision for Polestar's design, technology, and sus

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The Polestar 5 is an 884hp fastback sedan that should make Porsche nervous

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-31 06:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been five years since Polestar first introduced the Precept, a concept car that the electric automaker described as “a manifesto of things to come; a declaration.” Well, come they have, because today Polestar finally revealed the p

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Anthropic endorses California’s AI safety bill, SB 53

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-31 18:51:33

On Monday, Anthropic announced an official endorsement of SB 53, a California bill from state Senator Scott Wiener that would impose first-in-the-nation transparency requirements on the world’s largest AI model developers. Anthropic’s endorsement marks a rare and major win for SB 53, at a time when major tech groups like CTA and Chamber for Progress are lobbying against the bill. “While we believe that frontier AI safety is best addressed at the federal level instead of a patchwork of state reg

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AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

news.ycombinator.com Torsten Sløk 2025-11-01 14:56:48

The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in w

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Gear News of the Week: Veo 3 Comes to Google Photos, and Garmin Adds Satellite Comms to a Watch

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-01 06:00:00

Google via Julian Chokkattu A few months ago, Google debuted a feature in Google Photos that lets you convert your existing photos into short videos using generative AI. These videos introduce slight synthetic movements to your stills, so a person may appear to slightly shift around in the frame, or a picture of your sleeping pup could gain a leg twitch. This week, the company upgraded this feature with its Veo 3 video generation model, which boosts the quality of the results. To play around w

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Polar Introduces the Loop, a $200 Screenless Wearable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 23:42:00

Fitness tracking company Polar has launched the Loop, a $200 screenless wearable that it says will have no subscription fees. Preorders opened on Wednesday, and the Polar Loop will start shipping on Sept. 10. Like other fitness trackers, the Polar Loop will log steps, sleep patterns and daily activity patterns. But Polar is touting the lack of a screen as "unobtrusive" and "discreet." Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. The

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Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

news.ycombinator.com Chad Marlow 2025-11-05 16:48:35

From Pasadena, California to Lexington, Kentucky to Menasha, Wisconsin, to Newark, New Jersey, the surveillance company Flock Safety is blanketing American cities with dangerously powerful and unregulated automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras. While license plate readers have been around for some time, Flock is the first to create a nationwide mass-surveillance system out of its customers’ cameras. Working with police departments, neighborhood watches, and other private customers,

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World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-06 04:33:38

World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police 2 hours ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The world's biggest destination for illegal streams of live sports events has been shut down, according to a leading anti-piracy group. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) said on Wednesday it had teamed up with police in Egypt to close down Streameast, which had been visited more than 1.6 billion times in the past year. It allowed millions to a

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Volkswagen to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV

news.ycombinator.com Peter Johnson 2025-11-06 05:16:32

It’s official. Volkswagen is shaking up its EV naming strategy. After confirming the ID.2 will launch as the ID.Polo, Volkswagen promises its new family of entry-level EVs “will make electric driving more affordable than ever.” The ID.Polo is just the start with an electric T-Cross and much more coming soon. Meet the Volkswagen ID.Polo Volkswagen is reviving some of its most popular nameplates for its next-generation electric vehicles. Starting with the ID.Polo next year, Volkswagen will begin

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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 08:01:49

After working hard since our Polars Cloud announcement last February, we are pleased to officially launch Polars Cloud. Polars Cloud is now Generally Available on AWS. Beyond that, we also launched our novel Distributed Engine in Open Beta on Polars Cloud. You can immediately get started at https://cloud.pola.rs/. After that you can fire a remote distributed query: import polars_cloud as pc import polars as pl from datetime import date with pc . ComputeContext ( workspace = "<my-workspace>" ,

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This Whoop Copycat Doesn’t Gouge You With Subscriptions

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-08 06:37:42

As great as having a fitness wearable that doesn’t distract you with another screen is on paper, I bet there’s one thing about gadgets like those made by Whoop that people aren’t as excited about—subscriptions. If you love what Whoop is putting down with its screenless fitness bands but don’t want to pay another subscription in perpetuity, Polar might be there to give you just what you need. As a part of IFA 2025, Polar announced the Polar Loop, which does what Whoop does and looks just as inof

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Polar’s new minimalist fitness band is a subscription-free alternative to Whoop

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 11:00:29

Polar TL;DR Polar has launched the Polar Loop, a minimalist fitness band without a display or a subscription fee. The device tracks heart rate, activity, sleep, and recovery and syncs data to the Polar Flow app. It is available now for $199 in the US and €179 outside of the US, with shipping beginning September 10. Wearables usually fight for attention with brighter screens and smarter features, but the new Polar Loop takes the opposite approach. The company best known for its sports watches

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Watch out, Whoop: Polar joins the fitness band race with a premium option

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-09 11:00:24

Image: Polar Polar launched its first heart rate monitor more than 30 years ago, setting the standard that all others have been measured against. Now, the company is bringing this technology to its line of sports watches with the Polar Loop: a health and fitness tracker with no display like the Whoop band and Amazfit Helio Strap. Without a display, the Loop instead relies on a robust smartphone platform called Polar Flow, which integrates with other Polar watches as well. Also: The best sport

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Computing simplified coverage polygons

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 16:21:10

A somewhat recurring problem I encounter in things I work on is the need to compute simplified geographic polygons, or more specifically, simplified hulls of geographic polygons. Here’s an overview on the currently used approach, maybe someone has pointers to better algorithms for this. Coverage polygons Geographic polygons are used in a few different places: The Transport API Repository and consumers of it like KPublicTransport use them for describing areas covered by a public transport rout

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Police Desperately Seek Info on Burning Man Homicide Suspect

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-10 21:45:23

Nothing puts your problems into perspective like death. Sure, the orgy dome being rendered unusable by wind was a bummer, but it doesn’t compare to the unsolved homicide that appears to have happened on the grounds of Burning Man over the weekend. Making matters worse, the situation remains unsolved, and police are struggling to connect with potential witnesses as they head back home from the desert getaway. Thus far, the details about the situation are pretty sparse. According to USA Today, th

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Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution

wired.com Ritsuko Kawai 2025-11-12 08:30:00

Plastics that support modern life are inexpensive, strong, and versatile, but are difficult to dispose of and have a serious impact when released into the environment. Polyethylene, in particular, is the most widely produced plastic in the world, with more than 100 million tons distributed annually. Since it can take decades to decompose—and along the way can harm wildlife and degrade into harmful microplastics—its disposal is an urgent issue for mankind. In 2017, European researchers discovere

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MagSafe Monday: UAG’s Metropolis Wallet blends Kevlar toughness with everyday utility

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-11-13 11:00:00

MagSafe wallets are probably the category of MagSafe that makes the most sense to me day to day. I am always going to carry a wallet, so might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone. The UAG Metropolis Wallet is one of the better designed ones I’ve come across from a quality standpoint, so let’s dive into what all it offers. Some of my favorite gear Aqara Smart Lock U50 Upgrade your doors with Apple Home Key and the Aqara U50. MagSafe Monday: Every Monday, Bradley Chambers looks at the latest and g

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Meet the Silicon Valley Donors Backing California’s Redistricting Push

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-13 21:44:40

In the latest sign that Silicon Valley titans are increasingly throwing their weight behind political issues, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings has contributed $2 million to support Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50 campaign. The move is the latest underscoring how Silicon Valley’s deep-pocketed executives are increasingly wielding influence in California politics and beyond. The November ballot measure would scrap California’s independent redistricting commission, returning map-drawing author

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What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-14 14:20:51

Workers who live in states where cannabis is legal often face a conundrum. Can they continue using a substance deemed by lawmakers to be fit for public consumption, even if they may have an employer who might drug test? Or do they avoid it all together, because they don’t know what their employer’s drug policy is? And does that policy include only “hard” drugs like cocaine, opioids or methamphetamines, or does it test for cannabis too? These days, the answer is a lot more flexible than it was

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Reloading Classes in Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 16:12:56

For some housekeeping, if you are not signed up, also make sure to sign up for the RSS feed of my crime de-coder blog. I have not been cross posting here consistently. For the last few posts: For ASEBP, conference submissions for 2026 are open. (I will actually be going to this in 2026, submitted a 15 minute talk on planning experiments.) Today will just be a quick post on two pieces of code I thought might be useful to share. The first is useful for humans, when testing code in functions, you

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Rupert's Property

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 03:02:28

You can cut a hole in a cube that’s big enough to slide an identical cube through that hole! Think about that for a minute—it’s kind of weird. Amazingly, nobody could prove any convex polyhedron doesn’t have this property! It’s called ‘Rupert’s property’. Until this week. This week Steininger and Yurkevich proved there is a convex polyhedron that you can’t cut a hole in big enough to slide the entire polyhedron through the hole. It has 90 vertices, and apparently 240 edges and 152 faces. To

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-17 18:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-18 06:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:00:35

The FBI and the Dutch Police have shut down the VerifTools marketplace for fraudulent identity documents after seizing servers in Amsterdam that hosted the online operation. VerifTools was a prominent platform that produced and intermediated the purchase of fake documents (e.g. driver's licenses, passports) that were used to bypass various identity verification systems or to assume an identity, either stolen or fabricated. The police note that such sites are used in bank fraud, phishing, helpd

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Google Debuts Device-Bound Session Credentials Against Session Hijacking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 11:12:21

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Creating a qubit fit for a quantum future

technologyreview.com Unknown 2025-11-20 08:00:00

A topological alternative For the team at Nokia Bell Labs, the solution lies in better qubits rather than bigger machines. Specifically, rather than information encoded in individual elementary particles, the team is focused on qubits that hold this same information in the way matter is spatially oriented—what is known as a topological qubit. This alternative approach uses electromagnetic fields to manipulate charges around a supercooled electron liquid, triggering the qubits to switch between

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AI boom boosts Nvidia despite 'geopolitical issues'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-20 16:19:13

AI boom boosts Nvidia despite 'geopolitical issues' 41 minutes ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Getty Images Computer-chip designer Nvidia has been boosted by big tech firms keen to expand their AI capabilities, despite dealing with US and China tensions. On Wednesday it reported $46.7bn revenue (£34.6bn) for the second three months of the year, a 56% surge from the same period in 2024. But Nvidia, which ha

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Chipolo’s new CARD and LOOP bring stylish tracking to Android’s Find Hub

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 02:35:02

Chipolo TL;DR Chipolo has launched two new premium trackers, the CARD and LOOP. Both are compatible with Android’s Find Hub and Apple’s Find My. The wallet-sized CARD and silicone-strap LOOP emphasize design, loud alerts, and eco-friendly materials. Both are rechargeable and last around six months per charge. They’re available now. Google’s Find Hub network is the go-to system for tracking lost devices and accessories on Android, and popular Bluetooth tracker manufacturer Chipolo is expandin

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Latest Tech News

Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?

These Climate Hacks to Save the Poles Could Totally Backfire

The Polestar 5 electric sedan makes its world debut

The Polestar 5 is an 884hp fastback sedan that should make Porsche nervous

Anthropic endorses California’s AI safety bill, SB 53

AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

Gear News of the Week: Veo 3 Comes to Google Photos, and Garmin Adds Satellite Comms to a Watch

Polar Introduces the Loop, a $200 Screenless Wearable

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World's largest sports piracy site shut down by police

Volkswagen to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV

Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

This Whoop Copycat Doesn’t Gouge You With Subscriptions

Polar’s new minimalist fitness band is a subscription-free alternative to Whoop

Watch out, Whoop: Polar joins the fitness band race with a premium option

Computing simplified coverage polygons

Police Desperately Seek Info on Burning Man Homicide Suspect

Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution

MagSafe Monday: UAG’s Metropolis Wallet blends Kevlar toughness with everyday utility

Meet the Silicon Valley Donors Backing California’s Redistricting Push

What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

Reloading Classes in Python

Rupert's Property

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains

Google Debuts Device-Bound Session Credentials Against Session Hijacking

Creating a qubit fit for a quantum future

AI boom boosts Nvidia despite 'geopolitical issues'

Chipolo’s new CARD and LOOP bring stylish tracking to Android’s Find Hub

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