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Tesla asks court to toss wrongful death verdict that cost it $243 million

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-27 04:32:56

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. Lawyers for Tesla filed a motion in court Friday to throw out a jury verdict that found the company’s Autopilot software had contributed to the death of a woman in a crash from 2019. Earlier this month, a jury found Tesla partially res

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Henrik Fisker quietly wound down his nonprofit after his EV startup went bankrupt

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-27 04:47:01

Henrik Fisker, the founder of failed EV startup Fisker Inc., and his wife Geeta quietly wound down a private charitable foundation established in late 2021 that was supposed to “incubate innovation in healthcare, education, sustainability, mobility, and all causes that help support the planet and improve and further the lives of people and animals.” A tax filing submitted to the Internal Revenue Service in December 2024 — six months after Fisker Inc. went bankrupt — was marked as the foundation

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Marvell stock slumps 16% after data center revenue, forecast disappoint

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-27 08:14:26

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. Shares of Marvell Technology plunged 15% on Friday after the artificial intelligence chipmaker's data center revenue fell short of estimates and it gave lackluster guidance for the current quarter. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected 67 cents adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $2.01 billion vs. $2.01 bi

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Private Equity Snaps Up Disability Services, Challenging Regulators

news.ycombinator.com Anna Claire Vollers 2025-10-27 07:37:53

Cash Cow David vs. Goliath State Solutions Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of state and federal regulators across the nation and alarming advocates.People with intellectual or developmental disabilities have suffered abuse, neglect and even death while under the care of private equity-owned providers, according to a recent report from watchdog group Private Equity Stakeholder Project.“Private equity

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FEMA's Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-27 08:23:54

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed that FEMA “is much more responsive under President Trump to people’s needs than it has been under previous administrations.” Speaking at the public third meeting of the FEMA Review Council, a group appointed by Donald Trump at the beginning of this year to oversee reform of the agency, Noem encouraged those listening to “be vocal” about positive interactions with the Trump administration. “Tell the story of how different

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Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 07:42:40

In classical AI, perception relies on learning spatial representations, while planning—temporal reasoning over action sequences—is typically achieved through search. We study whether such reasoning can instead emerge from representations that capture both spatial and temporal structure. We show that standard temporal contrastive learning, despite its popularity, often fails to capture temporal structure, due to reliance on spurious features. To address this, we introduce Contrastive Representati

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Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-27 16:47:08

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. More than 450 game developers on Blizzard’s Diablo team have formed a union, making them one of the largest and latest groups of Microsoft workers to do so. The new union includes game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff across the Diablo franchise, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) press release, which voted “strongly in favor” to be represented by the CWA. T

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The Trump family crypto empire looks to Asia: Eric Trump talks Bitcoin in Hong Kong

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-28 01:04:36

Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr during the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eric Trump said Friday he is certain bitcoin will eventually hit a $1 million valuation as he spoke at a Hong Kong conference, marking the first of a series of Asian crypto events that will feature U.S. President Donald Trump's sons. Speaking at Hong Kong's Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference, Eric Trump discussed his strong involvement in the cry

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Simple prompt or agent workflow? How not to overthink AI

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-10-27 23:34:00

Photobank2/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gen AI success is about knowing which approach to use. Start with the simplest tool that solves your problem. Sometimes you'll need a prompt, and other times an agent workflow. "You're probably making AI harder than it needs to be." This advice from Corey Noles and Grant Harvey's latest episode of The Neuron podcast urges greater simplicity in what has become a complicated and c

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Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 21:57:01

parametric cubic curve boundary representation blending function spline b-spline cubic bezier curve de casteljau algorithm I have been diving into these topics since few days and I have not understood anything. I tried peter shirley's textbook on Computer Graphics. Foley et al, Hearn baker etc... It is clear to me that I lack the mathematics preriquisites for understanding this. Thus, I am deeply asking for resources that I can do to brush up. Me being a computer engineering graduate I h

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An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance

news.ycombinator.com Wu 2025-10-27 16:57:40

a) For disease detection on CFP, the sample sizes and P values are: DR (n = 1501, P = 0.042), glaucoma suspect (n = 405, P = 0.533), AMD suspect (n = 370, P = 0.627), MMD (n = 643, P = 0.030). For disease detection on OCT, the sample sizes and P values are: ciDME (n = 523, P = 0.002), glaucoma (n = 412, P = 0.333), AMD (n = 379, n = 0.036). The sample size for cataract detection on external eye photo was 198 and the P value was 0.102. Error bars represent 95% CI. b)Segmentation dice similarity c

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A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 21:39:44

Debian 13 “Trixie” introduces an important change to /tmp. Traditionally, it’s been just another filesystem, albeit with some special permissions that allows everyone on the system to use it without being able to remove each other’s files. In Trixie, it’s been moved off the disk into memory – specifically a type of memory called tmpfs. To quote the tmpfs man page: The tmpfs facility allows the creation of filesystems whose contents reside in virtual memory. Since the files on such filesystems

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Ask HN: What to Learn for Math for Modeling?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 07:57:01

parametric cubic curve boundary representation blending function spline b-spline cubic bezier curve de casteljau algorithm I have been diving into these topics since few days and I have not understood anything. I tried peter shirley's textbook on Computer Graphics. Foley et al, Hearn baker etc... It is clear to me that I lack the mathematics preriquisites for understanding this. Thus, I am deeply asking for resources that I can do to brush up. Me being a computer engineering graduate I h

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A Deep Dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's New, and What to Do If You Don't Like It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:39:44

Debian 13 “Trixie” introduces an important change to /tmp. Traditionally, it’s been just another filesystem, albeit with some special permissions that allows everyone on the system to use it without being able to remove each other’s files. In Trixie, it’s been moved off the disk into memory – specifically a type of memory called tmpfs. To quote the tmpfs man page: The tmpfs facility allows the creation of filesystems whose contents reside in virtual memory. Since the files on such filesystems

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US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 05:11:23

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned two individuals and two companies associated with North Korean IT worker schemes that operate at the expense of American organizations. These schemes involve placing in U.S. firms skilled tech workers with stolen or fabricated identities and using so-called “laptop farms” to hide the true location of the employees. The workers funnel their earnings to the DPRK regime to fund the regime's weapons program. They also often

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TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 01:03:57

Introduction TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux. It: monitors connected devices using the udev device manager device manager tunes system settings according to a selected profile supports various types of configuration like sysctl , sysfs , or kernel boot command line parameters, which are integrated in a plug-in architecture , , or kernel boot command line parameters, which are integrated in a plug-in architecture supports hot plugging of devices and can be controlled from the comm

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Gavin Newsom’s Bizarro-Trump Schtick Gets Even Weirder With a Memecoin

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-28 05:55:11

Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, has spent recent weeks mimicking Donald Trump’s style online. Newsom’s team is filling his social media channels with all-caps screeds and vainglorious pronouncements that sound like the president, even rolling out merchandise like red hats that say “Newsom Was Right About Everything.” The strategy has been polarizing, to say the least, with some people embracing Newsom’s approach as a fun attack on Trump, while others say it’s an unnecessary

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Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-10-28 01:00:00

“We’re not comfortable revealing that for various reasons,” Dean told me on our call. The total number is an abstract measure that changes over time, he says, adding that the company wants users to be thinking about the energy usage per prompt. But there are people out there all over the world interacting with this technology, not just me—and what we all add up to seems quite relevant. OpenAI does publicly share its total, sharing recently that it sees 2.5 billion queries to ChatGPT every day.

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This iMac G3 LEGO idea is as unlikely to get approved as it is awesome

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-28 12:29:22

Every once in a while, an Apple-related project gets submitted to LEGO’s Product Ideas page. Just recently, the LEGO Apple Store concept quickly blew past the 10,000-vote threshold needed to enter official review. Now, a new submission is making the rounds, and it is pretty cool. ‘I wanted people to pick up this nostalgic computer again’ Developed by fan designer terauma, this 700-part project features the classic Bondi Blue iMac G3 along with the “hockey puck” mouse and keyboard, properly wir

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Hot deal: Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones drop to record-low price!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 16:49:38

The brand-new Sony WH-1000XM6 are excellent headphones, but are they worth their high $499.99 price point? Many would argue so, but I don’t have unlimited money and would prefer to get something nearly as good if it saves me hundreds of dollars. The previous-generation Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are still impressive cans, and right now they are just $249.99! Buy the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for just $249.99 ($150 off) This offer is available from Costco. This discounted all-time low price is

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OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-28 16:05:00

Yifei Fang/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI is giving ChatGPT new safeguards. A teen recently used ChatGPT to learn how to take his life. OpenAI may add further parental controls for young users. ChatGPT doesn't have a good track record of intervening when a user is in emotional distress, but several updates from OpenAI aim to change that. The company is building on how its chatbot responds to distressed users by st

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AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

news.ycombinator.com Shreya Ghosal Dylan Butts 2025-10-28 10:13:44

A Standford study has found evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of early career workers. There is growing evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of America's workers, according to a paper released on Tuesday by three Stanford University researchers. The study analyzed payroll records from millions of American workers, generated by ADP, the largest payroll software firm in the U.S. The report found

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Apple Notes in iOS 26 works better than ever with my favorite writing tool

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-28 19:59:05

Apple Notes gets upgraded with new features every year, and iOS 26 is no exception. Among the handful of Notes changes in iOS 26, the app now works better than ever with Markdown thanks to import and export support for my go-to writing tool. Markdown is a text formatting tool created by John Gruber and commonly used by journalists, researchers, developers, content creators, and other online writers. I personally use it every day for all my 9to5Mac writing. Gruber’s creation enables writing pla

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Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 12:51:30

The startup bubble that no one is talking about August 28, 2025 Figure 1** Above is a graph that displays the amount of Form Ds filed, where the entity (read: company/firm) name contains the phrases "fund I", "fund II", "fund III", and "fund IV". The x-axis is not the prettiest, but it is broken down by quarter. You can see that the line for "fund I" sees by far the greatest peak around quarter 3 of 2022, with a steep drop off immediately after. The other lines have a similar, but less pronou

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Intel gets $5.7 billion from Trump deal as White House says details are 'being ironed out'

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-29 00:34:34

Intel CFO David Zinser said that the semiconductor giant received $5.7 billion from the U.S. government on Wednesday evening. Zinsner acknowledged the investment on Thursday during an investor conference. The investment is part of the White House's decision last Friday to take a 10% stake in the beleaguered computer chip company. Zinser also signaled the possibility that Intel seeks outside investment for its foundry business. The company reported better-than-expected second-quarter results

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Nvidia earnings takeaways: A 'full steam' AI spend, but China uncertainty remains

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-29 08:57:02

Nvidia stock fluctuated on Thursday as investors digested the company's latest earnings report, which signaled robust AI demand but provided little clarity on China. Sales surged 56% in the quarter to $46.74 billion, which was roughly in line Wall Street's projected $46.06 billion, according to LSEG. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, just topping the $1.01 per share estimated by analysts. The better-than-expected results were clouded by concerns over Nvidia's future in

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Passwordstate dev urges users to patch auth bypass vulnerability

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 08:16:20

Click Studios, the company behind the Passwordstate enterprise-grade password manager, has warned customers to patch a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability as soon as possible. Passwordstate works as a secure password vault that enables organizations to store, organize, and control access to passwords, API keys, certificates, and various other types of credentials via a centralized web interface. Click Studios says its Passwordstate password manager is used by over 370,000 IT prof

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I love Nothing’s Android phones, but it’s getting harder to trust them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 12:00:05

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Since the launch of the Nothing Phone 1 in 2022, Nothing has marketed itself as “not like the other phone brands.” From product design to offbeat videos showing CEO Carl Pei reacting to reviews, the company has constantly tried to demonstrate how it stands apart from other smartphone makers. However, Nothing has recently been involved in a photo-fakery scandal. Between this latest controversy and previous ones, it’s clear that Nothing isn’t really different from

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No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-29 12:15:51

Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users, has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico. This double-unicorn milestone comes at a time of hype for website builders — including direct competitors like Figma, Squarespace and Wix, as well as rising ‘vibe coding’ platforms such as Cursor and Lovable. In 2023, Framer raised a $27 million Series C led by Meritech at a

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AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study

news.ycombinator.com Shreya Ghosal Dylan Butts 2025-10-29 16:13:44

A Standford study has found evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of early career workers. There is growing evidence that the widespread adoption of generative AI is impacting the job prospects of America's workers, according to a paper released on Tuesday by three Stanford University researchers. The study analyzed payroll records from millions of American workers, generated by ADP, the largest payroll software firm in the U.S. The report found

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Tesla asks court to toss wrongful death verdict that cost it $243 million

Henrik Fisker quietly wound down his nonprofit after his EV startup went bankrupt

Marvell stock slumps 16% after data center revenue, forecast disappoint

Private Equity Snaps Up Disability Services, Challenging Regulators

FEMA's Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning

Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

The Trump family crypto empire looks to Asia: Eric Trump talks Bitcoin in Hong Kong

Simple prompt or agent workflow? How not to overthink AI

Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance

A deep dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's new, and what to do if you don't like it

Ask HN: What to Learn for Math for Modeling?

A Deep Dive into Debian 13 /tmp: What's New, and What to Do If You Don't Like It

US targets North Korean IT worker army with new sanctions

TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux

Gavin Newsom’s Bizarro-Trump Schtick Gets Even Weirder With a Memecoin

Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use

This iMac G3 LEGO idea is as unlikely to get approved as it is awesome

Hot deal: Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones drop to record-low price!

OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

Apple Notes in iOS 26 works better than ever with my favorite writing tool

Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising

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Passwordstate dev urges users to patch auth bypass vulnerability

I love Nothing’s Android phones, but it’s getting harder to trust them

No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers, Stanford study

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