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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 31

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 08:45:59

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

wired.com Mila Fiordalisi 2025-10-25 15:00:00

Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sent a scathing letter to a number of tech giants, including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. The letter's subject: the European Digital Services Act cannot be applied if it jeopardizes freedom of expression and, above all, the safety of US citizens. The opening of the letter—signed by FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson—features a

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New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 02:15:44

A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, and that none of the generations born after 1939 will reach 100 years of age on average. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study by Héctor Pifarré i Arolas of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, José Andrade of the Max Planck Institute for Demographi

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Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

news.ycombinator.com Sascha Pare 2025-10-25 09:53:39

Hurricane Florence made landfall in South Carolina in September 2018. It was a Category 1 hurricane, but the devastating flooding that followed killed 55 people. A new hurricane categorization system could help people better prepare for storms by incorporating risks from storm surges and rainfall into the categories, a study published this month reveals. Storm surges — elevated seawater levels near coasts — and rainfall cause almost 80% of hurricane deaths, yet they are not accounted for in th

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TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 10:44:13

TikTok is taking another step towards becoming more than just a platform for infinitely scrolling through short videos. The social media app told TechCrunch that its users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in direct messages or group chats. According to a TikTok spokesperson, these features will roll out in the next few weeks. As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the trend but is capping the length of its voice notes to one minute. For images an

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-10-25 10:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

news.ycombinator.com Bryon Moyer 2025-10-22 07:28:55

Optical technology is well established for long-haul communications, but the distances it serves are shrinking — especially in the data center. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) already drive short fiber links. But efforts are underway to further scale them down to provide more connections through waveguides than fiber can provide. “We have seen the transition from long haul to metro-to-local area networks and then into the data center,” said Suresh Jayaraman, senior director fo

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Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 11:26:35

Perhaps it is the inevitable fate of any convention, but literary history does not, it turns out, have many examples of people appreciating great chaptering. In The History of English Prose Rhythm (1912) – one of the sources for James Joyce’s virtuosic-or-unreadable parodies of the evolution of English prose in Ulysses – George Saintsbury remarks on Thomas Malory’s decision to insert a chapter break at a decisive moment in his fifteenth-century Morte d’Arthur. At the end of chapter ten of the Mo

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Cognitive load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 03:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

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Are we decentralized yet?

news.ycombinator.com Robert Ricci 2025-10-25 10:26:29

This page measures the concentration of user data on the Fediverse and the Atmosphere according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), an indicator from economics used to measure competition between firms in an industry. Mathematically, HHI is the sum of the squares of market shares of all servers. Values close to zero indicate perfectly competitive markets (eg. many servers, with users spread evenly), while values close to 10000 indicate highly concentrated monopolies (eg. most users on a si

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 31, #1534

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 11:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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I tested Pixel Journal vs Apple Journal to see if AI insights can beat a mindfulness approach

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 07:00:55

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority When Apple announced the Apple Journal app in 2023, I was pretty excited. As an old-school physical journal aficionado, I’ve tried loads of journaling apps going back to the early days of smartphones and I have my favorites. However, more apps that bring new ideas and features to the mix are always welcome. To be fair, I didn’t expect to swap out my preferred app. But swap out I did. Two years later, Apple Journal is still on my iPhone 16 Pro Max and has become

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Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-25 09:00:00

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Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 09:18:53

OpenAnimation ✨ Check out the live web version: openanimation.web.app ✨ Discover and draw inspiration from a curated collection of beautiful Lottie animations, all powered by Kotlin Multiplatform. 🔥 New Features 🙏 Libraries Used Contributing Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. License This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details. 🚀 Roadmap & TODO Features

Topics: collection features license openanimation web

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AI models need a virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Shraddha Barke 2025-10-25 09:25:39

AI Models Need a Virtual Machine Applications using AI embed the AI model in a framework that interfaces between the model and the rest of the system, providing needed services such as tool calling, context retrieval, etc. Software for early chatbots took user input, called the LLM, and returned the result to the user; essentially just a read-eval-print loop. But, as the capabilities of LLMs have evolved and extension mechanisms, such as MCP were defined, the complexities of the control softwar

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Cognitive Load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

Topics: architecture code cognitive load shallow

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11 of the Best Movies to Stream on Peacock

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 06:00:04

Peacock needs to be in more conversations about the streaming services you must have. Platforms like Netflix and Disney Plus usually populate talks about what's worth binging on streaming. I'm here to say the NBC Universal-owned service should be in the discussion, as well. There's always something cool to watch on it, and that applies to all tastes and genres. Universal Pictures knows its way around producing hit blockbusters and Oscar-winning movies. After all, it's been churning out iconic f

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Gear News of the Week: Apple’s iPhone Event Gets a Date, and Plaud Upgrades Its AI Note-Taker

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-25 10:30:00

Apple has officially set a date for its iPhone September event, which is due to take place on September 9. This year's launch will be held at the Steve Jobs Theater on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 range, which for the first time will include the iPhone 17 Air—though that name could change—Apple's thinnest and lightest iPhone to date. We're also expecting the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and the AirPods Pro 3. The invitat

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Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-10-25 12:06:26

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now “With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities,” states Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guide, revealing a fundamental shift in how organizations allocate cybersecurity resources. Software now commands 40% of cybersecurity spending, exceeding har

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In a new filing, Apple fights back against court’s ‘indefensible’ Epic Games ruling

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-25 12:11:36

Earlier this evening, Apple filed a reply brief with the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, arguing multiple points why the court should either reverse Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ 2021 decision, or vacate the new injunction and assign a new judge to the case. Here are the details. ‘Indefensible’, ‘overbroad’, and ‘flawed’ In a 42-page document, Apple minces no words to refute both Epic Games’ arguments and the district court’s ruling, particularly regarding the “improper expansion and m

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Meta will sell you refurbished Ray-Ban smart glasses for $76 off - how to find them

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-25 07:29:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Meta Ray-Bans have often been very difficult to find in stock at both retailers and online stores for the past two years -- and they rarely go on sale. But one of the best ways to not only get a 20% discount but also find some of the styles that have been discontinued or are rarely ever in stock is to use the little-known Meta Refurbished AI Glasses online store. I recently ordered a pair of Meta Ray-Bans in the Skylar style with the Shiny Caramel finish with Polar Brown lens

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 30

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 13:28:15

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

Topics: 1989 author cooper gael journalist

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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-25 09:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 18:13:50

Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Charles Borges and was originally published here. Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second inaugural, members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team showed up at the Social Security Administration and started demanding access to files. The efforts were not well received: Michelle King, in her capacity as the acting Social Securi

Topics: data doge government security social

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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-25 19:49:36

On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he was forcibly removed from his position after filing a whistleblower complaint this week accusing the agency of mishandling sensitive agency data. Minutes after the email went out, it disappeared from employee inboxes, two SSA sources tell WIRED. “I am regretfully and involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA),” Borges wrote in the re

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Samsung Messages rolls out ‘Bubble Emoji’ to put some personality into your texts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 23:43:25

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Messages has received a new feature. The new feature will automatically add emojis to your text bubble. The update has been released in South Korea. The funny thing about Samsung Messages is that the texting app was going to be sunset. Or at least that’s what Samsung said at the beginning of the year when it decided to instead promote Google Messages. Yet, the tech giant has continued to support the app with new updates. The most recent update ma

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Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-26 02:19:56

The US electrical grid is facing a stress test like never before. Thanks to a perfect storm of AI power consumption, climate crisis, crony capitalism, and a president bent on uprooting perfectly good energy infrastructure, the country's already-struggling power system is rapidly crumbling as costs balloon into the stratosphere. A recent analysis by Bloomberg underscores just how dire it's getting. In the country's largest continuous grid — a 13-state monstrosity managed by PJM Interconnection L

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 30, #1533

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 03:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 07:09:03

Overdrive's digital book lending app Libby is adding — you guessed it! — AI. The new Inspire Me feature is an AI-fueled discovery tool tuned to your local branch's collection. Following a soft launch this month, it will be officially available in September. To avoid the pitfalls of a full-on chatbot, Overdrive is limiting the discovery process of the feature. Instead of typing freely into a prompt box, you'll start by answering several canned preference questions. These include categories (such

Topics: ai feature inspire libby overdrive

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Hate voicemail? Pixel's new feature replaces it with something way better

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-26 07:21:26

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google's Take a Message is available for the Pixel 4 and newer. The feature essentially replaces voicemail. You can see why someone is calling and answer a call you declined. Google has quietly dropped a pretty cool call screening feature, and most Pixel phones from the past six years are getting it. When the Pixel 10 debuted last week, among its new features was something called Take a Message. A

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Latest Tech News

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 31

Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely

Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

Cognitive load is what matters

Are we decentralized yet?

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 31, #1534

I tested Pixel Journal vs Apple Journal to see if AI insights can beat a mindfulness approach

Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS

Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations

AI models need a virtual machine

Cognitive Load is what matters

11 of the Best Movies to Stream on Peacock

Gear News of the Week: Apple’s iPhone Event Gets a Date, and Plaud Upgrades Its AI Note-Taker

Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds

In a new filing, Apple fights back against court’s ‘indefensible’ Epic Games ruling

Meta will sell you refurbished Ray-Ban smart glasses for $76 off - how to find them

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, Aug. 30

SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

Samsung Messages rolls out ‘Bubble Emoji’ to put some personality into your texts

Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 30, #1533

Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

Hate voicemail? Pixel's new feature replaces it with something way better

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