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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Tesla tunnels under Nashville

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-30 05:56:16

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging company, and Tennessee Governor Bill Lee have announced a plan to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect Nashville’s downtown and its convention center to the area’s airport. The project will be privately funded by The Boring Company “and its private partners,” according to the Governor’s press release, though those partners are not named. The Boring Company and local officials will now begin a “public process to evaluate potential routes, engage

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

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-30 10:05:54

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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What's the Difference Between Megabits and Megabytes? Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 09:00:00

Knowing how your home internet works may rely on understanding these two key terms: Megabits and Megabytes. Internet terminology is often maddeningly confusing. Case in point: Megabits and megabytes. Both refer to units of digital information, but the difference is subtle enough to cause plenty of confusion. Knowing the difference between the two terminologies can make all the difference when picking out an internet plan or figuring out how quickly you can download a file. Don’t worry -- we’ll c

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Verizon Fios Internet Review: Examining Plans, Pricing, Speeds and Availability

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 14:30:00

Unavailable in Provider unavailable in 90001 Edit . . . Starting at $50 Or call: Or call to learn more: (855) 379-7064 Verizon Fios home internet rating 7.6 /10 CNET Score We score internet providers for speed, value and customer care. Our data sources include the FCC, J.D. Power, The American Customer Satisfaction Index and extensive in-house research. Read more How we calculated our rating 7.6 / 10 SCORE Speed 7.5/10 Value 7/10 Customer Care 8/10 Pros All Verizon Fios plans are 100% fiber, wit

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Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-30 22:40:13

herraez/Getty Images The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not "really not all that interesting (in all the best ways!)." Here's my list of what's new and improved. First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI

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Yes, Starlink Is Now Much Cheaper: Here's the Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 00:00:00

If you live in a rural or remote area, you likely already know how difficult it is to get a good internet connection. Most rural internet providers are devastatingly slow and typically expensive. Starlink's standard plan has become a lifesaver for those without decent rural internet options, but the hefty up-front cost of equipment, $349, and the monthly rate of $120 make Starlink an unaffordable option for many families in rural areas. Now, if you've been looking for a chance to try Starlink,

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New Speed Test Data Reveals the Nation's Fastest Internet Service Provider

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 00:00:00

There's been a lot of talk about internet speed lately. From various company taglines -- "Don't take slow for an answer" -- to the latest news about Japan's internet data transmission record, it's all about the speed. Just recently, Ookla released its Speedtest Connectivity Report for the first six months of 2025, and AT&T Fiber topped the list as the country's fastest fixed internet service provider. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) What does that mean? Does it

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Trump’s cybersecurity cuts putting nation at risk, warns New York cyber chief

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-30 05:53:34

During the first few months of the new Trump administration, the White House slashed cybersecurity budgets, staff, and initiatives. And some, including cybersecurity experts and legislators, are not happy about it. One of them is Colin Ahern, the chief cyber officer for the state of New York. In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Ahern said that both he and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are worried that the Trump administration’s cuts to cybersecurity are putting the country at risk. “We wor

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Should you buy an electronic turntable? I ditched my Bluetooth speaker for one and didn't regret it

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-31 03:15:16

Victrola Harmony ZDNET's key takeaways The Victrola Harmony turntable system is available for $299 in the colors Natural, Walnut, and Black. This system includes a full-size turntable, two bookshelf speakers, and an A-T ATN3600L cartridge, all great components for beginners. At its $300 price point ($100 up from its debut in Jan.), people willing to spend this kind of money may be ready for a more advanced system. View now at Victrola If you've ever considered "getting into audio," prepare to

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Nuclear Winter Would Be Even Worse Than We Thought

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-31 02:45:24

Despite happening (thankfully) just once in real life, nuclear warfare has long been a staple element of science fiction. Popular depictions of nuclear conflict—from biographic thrillers like Oppenheimer to imagined disasters like The Day After—reflect the understanding that its consequences would be irreversible and catastrophic to modern society. Unsurprisingly, nuclear warfare and its potential repercussions concern scientists as much as fiction writers. In a recent paper published in Enviro

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Warner Bros. Discovery will be Warner Bros. and Discovery after they break up

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-12-31 15:06:48

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. This time next year, the corporate entity known as Warner Bros. Discovery will be no more, and the two companies it’s splitting into have some very inspired names. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that “Warner Bros.” and “Discovery Global” are the names of the two new businesses that will exist after it completes its restructu

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Tao on “blue team” vs. “red team” LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 18:36:39

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Former Chaturbate Moderator Sues Site Over ‘Psychological Trauma’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-01 00:40:51

A former content moderator for the porn site Chaturbate has sued the platform and its affiliates, claiming that he was psychologically harmed by his ongoing exposure to the sexual material on the site. Neal Barber, who was hired as a moderator for the porn site in 2020, claims in a class action lawsuit that his employers knowingly and intentionally failed to “provide their content moderators with industry-standard mental health protections, such as content filters, wellness breaks, trauma-infor

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Internet Archive joins federal library system as official repository for government documents

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-31 23:22:00

What just happened? Non-profit organization Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, as a digital library conceived to provide free access to digital knowledge via the internet. Now, the IA is getting yet another noteworthy "upgrade" thanks to an official federal designation promoted by a US Senator. The Internet Archive was recently designated as an official "federal depository" library for the state of California. Senator Alex Padilla made the designation in a letter sent to Sc

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The new Warner Bros. and Discovery Global would like you to forget Warner Bros. Discovery

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 05:39:51

If only a pair of name changes were enough. Earlier this summer Engadget covered the news that Warner Bros. Discovery would split into two giant media companies. Today the conglomerate announced the names for the restructured entities. The company retaining Warner Bros. film, television and game studios, along with New Line Cinema, DC Studios, HBO and HBO Max, will be called Warner Bros. Meanwhile, the other entity, which holds the original company’s full portfolio of live cable channels, incl

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New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-01 05:53:34

During the first few months of the new Trump administration, the White House slashed cybersecurity budgets, staff, and initiatives. And some, including cybersecurity experts and legislators, are not happy about it. One of them is Colin Ahern, the chief cyber officer for the state of New York. In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Ahern said that both he and New York Governor Kathy Hochul are worried that the Trump administration’s cuts to cybersecurity are putting the country at risk. “We wor

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Trump admin. is muffling CDC’s flagship health journal, report finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 10:45:28

The flagship health journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown quiet this year, and a report from MedPage Today indicates that a variety of actions by the Trump administration may be to blame for hamstringing the critical resource. Most strikingly, sources told MedPage that the journal's scientific articles must now obtain clearance for publication from health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who has no health, science, or medical back

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Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-12-28 17:00:00

On November 2, 2022, I attended a Google AI event in New York City. One of the themes was responsible AI. As I listened to executives talk about how they aligned their technology with human values, I realized that the malleability of AI models was a double-edged sword. Models could be tweaked to, say, minimize biases, but also to enforce a specific point of view. Governments could demand manipulation to censor unwelcome facts and promote propaganda. I envisioned this as something that an authori

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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-01 20:19:31

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla designated it as such in a July 24 letter to the Superintendent of Documents at the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the Federal Depository Library Program that coordinates a network of over 1,150 such libraries. "Through its Democracy

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Despite Starlink’s Improved Speeds, It Still Misses the FCC’s Broadband Standard

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 17:39:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as it was two years ago, according to a recent report from the speed test site Ookla. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Median download speeds from the satellite internet provider have steadily ticked up over the past few years, going from 53.95 megabits per second in 2022 to 104.71Mbps today. That’s an impressive feat considering Starlink added about 5 million customers over the same period and recently passed the 6 mi

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Tao on "blue team" vs. "red team" LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 00:36:39

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Internet and TV Bundle Prices Are Rising. Here's How to Trim Your Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 23:30:00

You're not alone if you've noticed your TV and internet bills going up recently. Internet and TV bundles increased for the first quarter of 2025, recent J.D. Power data shows. Surprisingly, unbundled internet bills saw a slight decrease. Finding ways to cut back on monthly bills can feel nearly impossible, especially when there's a price increase every few months. But it's possible. Here's more on J.D. Power's findings and what CNET experts recommend to help lower your TV and internet bills. T

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Xfinity vs. Verizon Fios: Which Provider Offers the Best Internet for Your Home?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 10:00:00

Is Verizon Fios or Xfinity better? Verizon Fios and Xfinity are some of the top providers nationwide, and while both offer competitive internet services and price guarantee of up to five years, CNET picks Verizon Fios as the better provider overall --largely due to its 100% fiber network, straightforward pricing and promotional offers. The two providers advertise comparable download speeds, but Verizon Fios can deliver symmetrical (or close) upload speeds and superior reliability over a fiber-

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You Can See 2 Meteor Showers at Once This Week. How to Catch a Glimpse

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 20:02:03

While meteor showers happen all year, a rarer occurrence is having two meteor showers that peak at the same time. It'll happen this week, on Tuesday. The shooting star show comes courtesy of the Alpha Capricornids and Southern delta Aquariids meteor showers. The former is already happening and runs until Aug. 12, with a peak on Tuesday. Southern delta Aquariids will start on Monday, peaks early on Tuesday and runs until Aug. 12 as well. That means for one evening, the two meteor showers are pea

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Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-02 12:16:50

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity 9 hours ago Share Save James Clayton, Anna Foster and Ben Derico BBC News Share Save EPA Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023. Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert - giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the

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Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 15:46:44

Something felt off. Article continues after advertisement Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex technical paper on an unfamiliar topic, produced by well-respected researchers at the world-renowned Argonne National Laboratory. Sitting at his cluttered desk in the Environmental Defense Fund’s sixth-floor offices in Washington, D.C., overlooking the famous ba

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BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 18:19:59

[ English | 简体中文 ] BlueOS Kernel BlueOS kernel is written in Rust, featuring security, lightweight, and generality. It is compatible with POSIX interfaces and supports Rust's standard library. Technical Architecture For details, please visit the BlueOS official website kernel page. Board Support BlueOS kernel currently supports ARM32, ARM64, RISCV32 and RISCV64 chip architectures. QEMU platforms are supported for corresponding chip architectures. Hardware boards support is currently in p

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 05:24:51

Why is everyone in such a rush? The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. Felleisen et al. give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say "Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take. Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours could mean: Teach

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Premier League Summer Series: Stream Everton vs. Bournemouth From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 06:00:09

The second edition of the Premier League Summer Series tournament kicks off in the US on Saturday as David Moyes' Everton take on Andoni Iraola's Bournemouth. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Taking place at three venues across the US, the six-match, round-robin style tournament also includes fellow EPL sides Manchester United and West Ham, an

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Hurricane Season Is Here: Here's What Really Happens When Your Internet Goes Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 05:00:00

Internet and power outages often linger briefly after big storms pass through, making it difficult to check in on loved ones. But sometimes, those internet networks can take much longer to repair. Over 974,000 homes and businesses experienced power outages after Hurricane Helene swept through rural mountain communities on Sept. 27. It was a hurricane that no one in the western Carolinas could have expected, a “one-in-1,000-year" storm worsened by prior rainfall and the region's rugged mountainou

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