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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

news.ycombinator.com Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-21 15:24:44

Opinion With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots. Cloud services company Fastly agrees. It reports that 80% of all AI bot traffic comes from AI data fetcher bots. So, you ask, "What's th

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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-21 14:10:26

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes. "This work has already been underwa

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ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-21 15:11:25

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract last year with Israeli spyware maker Paragon worth $2 million. Shortly after, the Biden administration put the contract under review, issuing a “stop work order,” to determine whether the contract complied with an executive order on commercial spyware, which restricts U.S. government agencies from using spyware that could violate human rights or target Americans abroad. Almost a year later, when it looked like the contract would

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Tesla Dojo: the rise and fall of Elon Musk’s AI supercomputer

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-21 15:18:46

For years, Elon Musk has spoken of the promise of Dojo, the AI supercomputer that was supposed to be the cornerstone of Tesla’s AI ambitions. It was important enough to Musk that in July 2024, he said the company’s AI team would “double down” on Dojo in the lead-up to Tesla’s robotaxi reveal, which happened in October. After six years of hype, Tesla decided last month to shut down Dojo and disband the team behind the supercomputer in August 2025. Within weeks of projecting that Dojo 2, Tesla’s

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Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-21 15:39:01

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tesla to be just an automaker. He wants Tesla to be an AI company, one that’s figured out how to make cars drive themselves. Crucial to that mission was Dojo, a custom-built supercomputer designed by Tesla to train its Full Self-Driving (FSD) neural networks. FSD isn’t actually fully self-driving; it can perform some automated driving tasks, but still requires an attentive human behind the wheel. But Tesla thinks with more data, more compute power and more training, it ca

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iPhone 17 event promises to go beyond the usual yearly updates for each product

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-21 19:54:29

We have a solid sense of what to expect from the iPhone 17 event next week. Still, there’s a narrative turn happening that will make Apple’s “Awe dropping” presentation feel more new than the typical routine tech announcement. The challenge when making version 17 of any product is keeping the story interesting, and that starts with the presentation. If Apple were only showing us the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, we might feel more like we were seeing the latest installment o

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The Little Book of Linear Algebra

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 18:17:07

The Little Book of Linear Algebra A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to the core ideas of linear algebra. Formats Chapter 1. Vectors 1.1 Scalars and Vectors A scalar is a single numerical quantity, most often taken from the real numbers, denoted by $\mathbb{R}$ . Scalars are the fundamental building blocks of arithmetic: they can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and, except in the case of zero, divided. In linear algebra, scalars play the role of coefficients, scaling factors, and e

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Researchers Discover Another Place Where People Live Freakishly Long

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-21 19:35:01

There are regions where an atypically large number of people enjoy a much longer lifespan than elsewhere on the planet. In these so-called Blue Zones—such as Ogliastra in Italy, Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, and Martinique—the population tends to eat healthy, stay physically active, engage with a community, and live with a sense of purpose. (Why are we surprised they live longer, again?). An international team of researchers has investigated how these Blue Zone lifestyle principles apply

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Best Labor Day Mattress Sales (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-10-20 02:06:16

Labor Day is here and along with it comes a bunch of bedding sales. If you've been looking for a sign from the universe to upgrade your bed, consider these Labor Day mattress deals—we don't expect to see sleep sales this good until Black Friday. I've been a professional mattress tester for five years, so I'm plugged in to what's going on in the mattress world (we're constantly scoping out new additions to our best mattresses list) and can keep track of the sales that really are the ones to watch

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OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:41:28

OpenAI has promised to release parental controls for ChatGPT within the next month, the company said Tuesday. Once the controls are available, they'll allow parents to link their personal ChatGPT account with the accounts of their teenage children. From there, parents will be able to decide how ChatGPT responds to their kids, and disable select features, including memory and chat history. Additionally, ChatGPT will generate automated alerts when it detects a teen is in a "moment of acute distres

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Keyboards from my collection (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Marcin Wichary 2025-10-21 13:38:30

Marcin Wichary 12 February 2023 / 50 posts / 60 photos 50 keyboards from my collection This is an archive of a Mastodon thread from 2023. You can still read the thread (and all the replies) at its original location, however the photo quality is much better on this page. To celebrate the Kickstarter for Shift Happens going well, I thought I would show you 50 keyboards from my collection of really strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards that I gathered over the years. (It might be the world’s str

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Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 02:50:01

TL;DR Hardware got wider, not faster. More cores, more bandwidth, huge vector units — but clocks, IPC, and latency flatlined. Old rules like “memory is faster than disk” are breaking. To go fast today, you have to play the new game. “CPUs keep getting faster every generation” Over the past 20 years or so computer hardware has evolved such that some facts we “know” about computers are wrong. Even among computer scientists, or perhaps especially among computer scientists, intuitions are off tar

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The Backbone Pro controller is $20 off for a limited time

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-10-21 23:42:53

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. If you’ve ever thought “it’d sure be nice to have just one controller to use between my phone, tablet, and TV,” then the Backbone Pro might be made for you. Backbone’s newest gamepad has the same phone-hugging design as its 2020 predecessor, but comes with a handful of distinct features — the most notable being that it can be paired via

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As we await the iPhone Fold, Samsung and Huawei move onto trifolds

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-22 03:29:07

It seems clear we’re still a year away from the first iPhone Fold, but the rest of the market isn’t standing still. Samsung is planning to launch its first trifold phone this year, and Huawei is already onto its second-generation model. On a pedantic note, I would argue that as they have two sets of hinges, they are bifold rather than trifold, but the industry seems to have adopted the latter term, so I guess we’re stuck with it now … Huawei was first off the block with the Mate XT, shown abov

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Quirks of Common Lisp Types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:06:42

By Colin on 2025-08-30 "But I need types," he told me. Humans have a tendency toward binary thinking (pardon the pun). If it's not A, it's B. Perhaps because Lisps have REPLs, they are often thought of from the outside as being dynamic, interpreted languages. Our years of Python have taught us that such languages don't really have strong typing - it's all a wild guess until the interpreter calls foo on a and b and we find out who everyone really is. Yet Common Lisp is fully typed, and AOT com

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You can try to like stuff

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 02:56:37

Here’s one possible hobby: Take something you don’t like. Try to like it. It could be food or music or people or just the general situation you’re in. I recommend this hobby, partly because it’s nice to enjoy things, but mostly as an instrument for probing human nature. 1. I was in Paris once. By coincidence, I wandered past a bunch of places that were playing Michael Jackson. I thought to myself, “Huh. The French sure do love Michael Jackson.” Gradually I decided, “You know what? They’re ri

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RIP Graham Greene, ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘Twilight’ Actor

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-22 03:49:14

Oscar-nominated Graham Greene passed away on Monday at 73 years old. Per Greene’s agent speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the Ontario-based actor had been battling a “lengthy illness.” Born June 22, 1952 in Ontario’s Six Nations Reserve, Greene was an executive director for the Native Theatre School program in Toronto’s Centre for Indigenous Theatre. After spending the 1970s doing professional theatre in Toronto and England, he made his TV debut in an episode of 1979’s The Great Detective. (H

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Porsche’s next Cayenne is fully electric—we drove the prototype

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 03:53:07

Porsche provided flights from Albany to Barcelona and accommodation so Ars could drive a prototype Cayenne Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Curved displays in cars are increasingly common, adding a bit of shape to the increasing pixel overload we face behind the steering wheel. The designers of Porsche's upcoming Cayenne Electric, though, decided to do something more dramatic with the touchscreen that commands the center of the forthcoming SUV's dashboard. Its shape flows

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Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 17:09:20

In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked the beginning of a new era of censorship and restriction in this post-Soviet country. But let's rewind... The Tor Community has long been defending internet freedom, running relays and providing bridges to combat internet censorship. Over the years, the Tor Project has called for action to run more bridges, Snowflake proxies, while we've investigated and adapted our anti

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Rumor: AirPods Pro 3 features may not all arrive at launch

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-22 23:17:48

While we expect Apple to unveil AirPods Pro 3 alongside iPhone 17 and Apple Watch Series 11 next week, there’s one new feature that may not be ready for showtime. An anonymous source claims in a tip to 9to5Mac that AirPods Pro 3 will indeed feature two health sensors. Heart rate sensing has long been rumored, and after appearing on Beats Powerbeats Pro 2, the feature addition has been a lock. The other health sensor, previously floated as a possibility, is said by the anonymous tipster to be

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 2 #548

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 02:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a weird one. But once I caught the theme, the words were short and easy to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini

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

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-23 15:00:00

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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Can you still get US Cellular? Yes, and there’s actually some decent deals

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-23 19:11:30

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority T-Mobile is currently concluding its acquisition of US Cellular. In fact, T-Mobile customers can already roam for free on US Cellular towers. So does that mean that US Cellular is no longer available for new customers? Actually, no. As with the Sprint and T-Mobile merger, there’s going to be a transition period where US Cellular stores and services still operate semi-independently before integrating with T-Mobile more directly. The bigger question is if ther

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CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

news.ycombinator.com Cocoapods Dev Team 2025-10-23 17:39:25

TLDR: In two years we plan to turn CocoaPods trunk to be read-only. At that point, no new versions or pods will be added to trunk. - Note, this post has been updated in May 2025. Last month I wrote about how CocoaPods is currently being maintained, I also noted that we were discussing converting the main CocoaPods spec repo "trunk" to be read-only: We are discussing that on a very long, multi-year, basis we can drastically simplify the security of CocoaPods trunk by converting the Specs Repo t

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These are the very best T-Mobile deals you’ll find this September

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 07:00:34

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Strongly considering the Uncarrier, but looking for the best T-Mobile deals? Whether you’re a new or existing customer, T-Mobile has plenty of ways to save with trade-in offers, discounted lines, and free device promos. Below, we’ve rounded up the top promotions available heading into September of 2025 for phones, tablets, and smartwatches. The best T-Mobile deals at a glance Get a free Pixel 10 with most plans, no trade-in necessary Rita El Khoury / Andro

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India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

news.ycombinator.com Yashraj Sharma 2025-10-21 00:52:54

In the dead of a cold December night in 2023, at a dump near Delhi, hundreds of men huddled around small bonfires, clutching paper cups of tea. They tossed plastic bags into the flames as they waited for a fleet of trucks to arrive. The trucks rolled in one by one, full of electronic marvels now reduced to e-waste: Nokia, Itel, and Samsung smartphones; Sony and LG LCD screens; Tata air conditioners; Canon and Epson printers. As the trailer gates opened at the back of one truck, Rashid Khan and

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Trade in War

news.ycombinator.com Peter Dizikes 2025-10-20 07:58:28

In World War II, Britain was fighting for its survival against German aerial bombardment. Yet Britain was importing dyes from Germany at the same time. This sounds curious, to put it mildly. How can two countries at war with each other also be trading goods? Examples of this abound, actually. Britain also traded with its enemies for almost all of World War I. India and Pakistan conducted trade with each other during the First Kashmir War, from 1947 to 1949, and during the India-Pakistan War of

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Apple’s stance on strong encryption gets the support of the FTC in US privacy U-turn

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-24 10:35:53

Apple’s commitment to end-to-end encryption is so strong that it withdrew a key privacy feature from the UK market rather than be forced to compromise it globally. The company also faced pressure on this front from the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In a surprising twist, the White House came out in support of strong encryption, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now urging Apple and other tech giants to stand firm on the issue … The US’s changing narrative on strong encryption I des

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Tesla Hit With Another Major Recall

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 11:53:47

Tesla is recalling 7,301 Model Y SUVs produced in 2025, following identification of a software defect in the driver’s side window’s automatic protection system. The recall, issued by Australia’s Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, warns that the window may close with excessive force if it fails to detect obstructions, posing a risk of injury. The latest recall is a perfect example of the dual-edge of automotive digitization, becaus

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Brokewell Android malware delivered through fake TradingView ads

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-23 21:35:26

Cybercriminals are abusing Meta’s advertising platforms with fake offers of a free TradingView Premium app that spreads the Brokewell malware for Android. The campaign targets cryptocurrency assets and has been running since at least July 22nd through an estimated 75 localized ads. Brokewell has been around since early 2024 and features a broad set of capabilities that include stealing sensitive data, remote monitoring and control of the compromised device. Taking over the device Researchers

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Latest Tech News

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit

ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon

Tesla Dojo: the rise and fall of Elon Musk’s AI supercomputer

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iPhone 17 event promises to go beyond the usual yearly updates for each product

The Little Book of Linear Algebra

Researchers Discover Another Place Where People Live Freakishly Long

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Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1

The Backbone Pro controller is $20 off for a limited time

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Quirks of Common Lisp Types

You can try to like stuff

RIP Graham Greene, ‘Dances with Wolves’ and ‘Twilight’ Actor

Porsche’s next Cayenne is fully electric—we drove the prototype

Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

Rumor: AirPods Pro 3 features may not all arrive at launch

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 2 #548

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Can you still get US Cellular? Yes, and there’s actually some decent deals

CocoaPods trunk read-only plan

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India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

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Tesla Hit With Another Major Recall

Brokewell Android malware delivered through fake TradingView ads

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