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States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-12-20 14:53:46

With US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. already shaking up federal vaccine policy, some states are stepping in to preserve access to lifesaving shots in anticipation of further changes. The federal government has historically had a major influence on vaccine policy through the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), formed in 1964 to develop science-based recommendations on how vaccines should be used. The recommendations are almost always adopted by the

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Skechers unveils kids' sneakers with hidden Apple AirTag compartment

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-21 09:51:00

In brief: Parents who worry about where their kids are might be interested in a new line of children's sneakers from Skechers. Each pair of these shoes has a hidden compartment on the inside designed to fit an Apple AirTag, allowing the wearer to be tracked. The sneakers in the new Find My Skechers line have a cutout inside the heel of the shoe. Lift up the insert to reveal a small compartment containing the AirTag holder, where the tracker can be securely placed. The compartment has a screw-i

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Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

news.ycombinator.com Alex Henthorn-Iwane 2025-12-21 12:45:07

Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks. For public-sector organizations, critical infrastructure, and privacy-conscious enterprises in the EU, the questio

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The best CRM software 2025: Streamline your customer relationships

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-12-22 04:15:12

Customer relationship management, or CRM, software can manage and track customer relationships, trends, marketing efforts, and communication, bringing everything into one centralized platform or system to optimize interactions. It may also be used to document and pursue leads and sales pipelines. Automation is one of the key benefits of CRM software but depending on the type of solution you opt for, you may also be able to harness AI, analytics, collaborative tools, and advanced features that s

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Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Pradeep Gowda 2025-12-19 23:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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Attention is your scarcest resource

news.ycombinator.com Thanks 2025-12-20 05:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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ReproZip – reproducible experiments from command-line executions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 04:11:44

ReproZip ReproZip is a tool aimed at simplifying the process of creating reproducible experiments from command-line executions, a frequently-used common denominator in computational science. It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author's computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step). Q

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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-12-22 14:17:11

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order widening the impact of those tariffs and making it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. The order eliminates the so-called “de minimis” provision, a long-standing policy that allowed people in the US to import packages valued at less th

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Trump will end the de minimis exemption for low-cost global shipments

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 23:27:07

President Donald Trump's latest economic move is to halt the de minimis exemption, a provision that made international shipments of low-value items cheaper. When the exemption ends on August 29, shipments valued at or under $800 will be subject to duty fees when sent by any carrier other than the international postal network, no matter what country they are coming from. According to the White House's announcement of this change, shipments will either be assessed with an ad valorem duty equal to

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Big Tech to work with Trump administration to build digital health ecosystem

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-22 23:30:00

In Brief The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it secured commitments from Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, and Apple to start building a digital health ecosystem. The efforts will focus on two areas: creating a framework for patients and providers to easily share information, and creating more personal tools so patients can access resources needed to stay informed about their health. Such tools include apps to manage diabetes and obesity, using artificial intelligence as assistant

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Men Born in the Summer Are More Likely to Be Depressed, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-23 09:00:26

There really might be something to the idea of summertime sadness, at least for boys. A study finds that men born in the summer are more vulnerable to developing depression than men born at other times of the year. Researchers at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, Canada, conducted the study, an international survey of adults. They found that men, but not women, were more likely to experience depression symptoms later in life if their birth occurred in the summer compared

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It Doesn't Take Much Conversation for ChatGPT to Suck Users Into Bizarre Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 11:09:31

Earlier this month, venture capitalist and OpenAI backer Geoff Lewis posted an alarming video on X-formerly-Twitter, prompting concerns among his peers. Lewis, the managing partner of the multibillion-dollar investment company Bedrock, spoke of an inscrutable "non-governmental system" that "inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable," which he had supposedly uncovered using ChatGPT. He went as far as to claim that this mysterious system was responsible for numerous deaths, in c

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Making Roman concrete produces as much CO2 as modern concrete

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 14:41:33

Builders in ancient Rome used a special kind of ancient concrete to construct their aqueducts, bridges, and buildings. But is Roman concrete more sustainable than the Portland cement used in today's concrete? The answer is more nuanced than one might think, according to a new paper published in the journal iScience. Roman concrete produces as much CO 2 as modern methods, but fewer air pollutants. As we've reported previously, like today's Portland cement (a basic ingredient of modern concrete),

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 18:17:07

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg . The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on the grounds that it's an educational tool. This irked other platforms, with Meta and TikTok urging the coun

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Google says it never received a UK demand for encryption backdoor, unlike Apple

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-24 03:22:00

A hot potato: Google says that unlike rival Apple, it has not received a demand from the UK government to build a backdoor in its encrypted services. The tech giant had refused to answer a US Senator's question on the matter, but it has since confirmed it is not subject to a similar order as Apple. In a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Senator Ron Wyden, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote about the UK's "reported secret surveillance demands of

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YouTube is thinking about letting you avoid video comments entirely on mobile

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 04:56:27

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is testing a new mobile UI that hides several elements below the video player, including the channel name and comments section. Tapping a new dropdown arrow next to the video’s title reveals the hidden information, such as the creator’s channel details and subscriber count. This change declutters the screen to show more related videos, but adds an extra tap for users who want to read comments or visit the creator’s channel. To stay ahead of the co

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AI Is Threatening Entry-Level Jobs That New Grads Needed to Get On-the-Job Training

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-24 09:05:11

New reporting by the Wall Street Journal has revealed what many young workers are feeling: that the share of entry-level jobs appears to be shrinking. The reporting draws on analysis by the Burning Glass Institute, a labor analytics firm. According to its study of unemployment rates among young people, the firm found that individuals of all education levels experienced higher levels of unemployment in 2023-2025 compared to 2018-2019. By far the biggest change was felt by college students one y

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Tea Is in Apple's Top Free Apps, but What Is It and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 11:54:07

Ask any single woman, and they'll probably tell you how rough the dating world is. From ghosting to misleading bios, it can be challenging to know who you're really chatting to on dating apps, and whether they're telling the truth about themselves. Tea is an app that allows women to anonymously review men and spill "the tea" on men they've dated. About 1 million women have started using the app in the past week. It's reminiscent of those Facebook "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" groups that many c

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US fertility rate fell to a record low in 2024, mirroring a global trend

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-24 23:19:00

In a nutshell: The CDC released data this month that shows the US fertility rate fell to an all-time low in 2024, but the number of babies that were born last year increased YoY. It means that while there were more births overall, a smaller percentage of women of childbearing age are having children. There were 3.6 million babies born in the US in 2024, up 1% compared to the previous year, according to the CDC's data. But the general fertility rate – the number of live births per 1,000 women of

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HP Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off | August 2025

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-12-24 12:30:00

If you don't know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail. Or if you’re on the other side o

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Fertility Rate in the U.S. Reached an All-Time Low in 2024, CDC Data Reveals

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-25 18:50:03

Countries like Italy and Japan have been famously struggling to raise their birthrates to sustain their aging populations, and it turns out that the United States might not be doing super well, either. New CDC data released this month reveals that while the number of births in the United States increased by 1% from 2023—to 3,628,934 in 2024—the general fertility rate has declined by 1%. It now stands at 53.8 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, an all-time low. The data is based on U.S. birt

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The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-25 17:12:38

Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden notice to the creators that use the site to sell their games, books, art, and other media; it had “deindexed” all content wi

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The chaos and confusion of Itch and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-25 23:12:38

Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden notice to the creators that use the site to sell their games, books, art, and other media; it had “deindexed” all content wi

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Why CI/CD Still Doesn't Include Continuous Documentation?

news.ycombinator.com Neel Das 2025-12-26 04:45:42

In my 15+ years as a developer, one of the most persistent headaches I’ve seen across teams is outdated documentation. I’ll admit it, I’ve shipped features and moved on without updating the docs. A month later, a new teammate is onboarding or someone is debugging an issue, and they run into a README or guide that no longer reflects reality. It’s frustrating for them and embarrassing for us. I’m certainly not alone in this habit. Maintaining documentation is often the last thing on a developer’

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CashApp’s cross-platform Pool tool means none of your friends have an excuse for not pitching in

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 09:34:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cash App is rolling out a new feature called “Pools.” Pools is a group payment feature that allows people to chip in money toward a large payment, whether they use the app, Google Pay, or Apple Pay. Members can be invited to a Pool in-app via their $cashtag or through a shareable link for external payments. Rounding up people for a group purchase can be a hassle, especially if some of those people use different payment apps. However, Cash App is intr

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You Can Now Use Apple Pay and Google Pay on Cash App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 08:17:00

Cash App/CNET You and your pals can now use Apple Pay and Google Pay to contribute to group payments through Cash App. The popular digital payment app announced its peer-to-peer group payment feature, Pools, which lets you set up and track group payments, including those from Apple Pay and Google Pay. "With Pools, our customers now have a dedicated, easy-to-use solution for group payments," Cameron Worboys, head of product design at Cash App, said in a statement. "They can start a pool to coll

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Peloton Wants You to Sell That Dusty Bike

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-26 14:15:27

Has your Peloton bike been collecting dust or doubling as a clothes rack? You’re not alone, and now the fitness tech company is making it easier to get those unused bikes into the homes of people who will actually ride them. Peloton just expanded its resale marketplace for bikes, treadmills, and rowing machines nationwide. Peloton first launched the platform in June in only a few markets—Boston, New York, and the D.C. metro area. Since then, users have created over 400 listings and completed ro

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‘Thunderbolts’ Director Teases His Take on the ‘Complex’ X-Men

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-26 18:16:25

While Marvel basks in the success of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, director Jake Schreier—the guiding hand behind Marvel’s earlier 2025 hit, Thunderbolts—is looking ahead to the studio’s most anticipated movie that doesn’t have the word “Avengers” in the title. Schreier is helming the movie designed to bring the X-Men fully into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, on the heels of Deadpool & Wolverine. As you’d expect, he’s giving his approach to the oft-adapted characters a lot of thought. Speaki

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Josh Hawley Wants to Send Out Rebate Checks So Americans Can ‘Benefit’ From Trump’s Tariffs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-27 04:05:54

President Trump’s tariffs have generated around 20 billion dollars in revenue for the U.S. government, although it’s worth noting that a vast majority of this wealth has been derived from import duties on American businesses. In other words, Americans are paying the federal government (many critics have noted that tariffs are just taxes by another name) for the pleasure of doing business with foreign exporters. For the fiscally confused, the New York Times recently wrote an explainer on tariffs

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Google Pixels just got a welcome boost for PC emulation

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 09:22:40

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR GameSir has confirmed that its GameHub PC emulator will also perform better on Google Pixel phones. This comes shortly after it announced performance improvements for devices with Mali graphics. The company hasn’t detailed which improvements will come to Pixel phones, but this is still good news for mobile gamers. Controller brand GameSir recently announced that its GameHub app for PC emulation offers much better support for devices with Mali GPUs. The

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Latest Tech News

States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines

Skechers unveils kids' sneakers with hidden Apple AirTag compartment

Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

The best CRM software 2025: Streamline your customer relationships

Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)

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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

Trump will end the de minimis exemption for low-cost global shipments

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Making Roman concrete produces as much CO2 as modern concrete

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

Google says it never received a UK demand for encryption backdoor, unlike Apple

YouTube is thinking about letting you avoid video comments entirely on mobile

AI Is Threatening Entry-Level Jobs That New Grads Needed to Get On-the-Job Training

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Fertility Rate in the U.S. Reached an All-Time Low in 2024, CDC Data Reveals

The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

The chaos and confusion of Itch and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban

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‘Thunderbolts’ Director Teases His Take on the ‘Complex’ X-Men

Josh Hawley Wants to Send Out Rebate Checks So Americans Can ‘Benefit’ From Trump’s Tariffs

Google Pixels just got a welcome boost for PC emulation

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