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news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 14:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Mulholland 2025-12-19 22:29:55

With 20,000 new units on the market, prices are down about 3.7 percent. New apartment buildings under construction in on Holly Street in Denver’s North Park Hill neighborhood, June 20, 2024. Apartment rents in the Denver metro continue to slide. The average rent in the area fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared to the prior year, according to a new report from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. Rents started falling at the end of last year, the association’s data show. The

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Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 21:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 03:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-20 03:23:07

It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: If you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share,” you can find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull — people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, and finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application (judgin

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You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-20 06:41:50

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 Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology. While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have l

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How to Scan Force Pushed Commits for Secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 06:10:21

Key Insights The new Force Push Scanner tool scans for secrets in dangling commits on GitHub that remain exposed after certain force push operations. Run the following command to scan your GitHub repositories: python force_push_scanner . py -- db - file pushes . sqlite3 -- scan < github_org / user Zero-Commit Force Push operations: where developers attempt to erase mistakes by resetting their git history without pushing new commits. There are tens of millions of dangling commits publicly acc

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Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 11:47:54

Since announcing the general availability of our Gemini Embedding text model, we've seen developers rapidly adopt it to build advanced AI applications. Beyond traditional use cases like classification, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), many are now using a technique called context engineering to provide AI agents with complete operational context. Embeddings are crucial here, as they efficiently identify and integrate vital information—like documents, conversation histor

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Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-20 17:23:00

In context: Online censorship can take many forms and due to its dominance in web search, Google has traditionally been the primary target. A recently uncovered case highlights the lengths to which reputation management companies will go, as well as Google's vulnerability to sophisticated censorship tactics. Someone successfully censored a pair of uncomfortable articles that were previously accessible through Google Search. The unknown party exploited a clever trick along with a bug in Google's

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How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-20 17:03:16

Image credit: @ionut.stefan.92ish Română In today’s post, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely amazing book on the topic of Alzheimer’s disease. Written by Prof. Karl Herrup, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, “How Not to Study a Disease – The Story of Alzheimer’s” takes the reader on a journey of Alzheimer’s research from its inception by Alois Alzheimer to the contemporary understanding of this devastating condition. This is not just an

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NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:17:35

What to look out for when shopping online Hidden costs Hidden costs are extra costs you only find out about towards the end of your purchase, or which are made less obvious. They include pre-selected extras you may not want and add-ons presented so you feel you have to buy them. Some hidden costs are even sneakier, such as a pre-selected free trial period for a service that renews automatically if you don’t cancel before it ends - charging your card for an ongoing membership. Trick questions

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Is Mark Zuckerberg flip flopping on open source AI?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 09:13:10

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg shared a rambling memo outlining his vision to build AI "superintelligence." In the memo, Zuckerberg hinted that the pursuit of more powerful AI might require the company to be more selective in what it open sources. Citing "safety concerns" he wrote that Meta would need to be "rigorous" about such decisions. The line stood out to many as Zuckerberg — who once said " fuck that " in reference to closed platforms — has made open source central to Meta's AI strategy.

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The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-21 12:10:00

—Will Douglas Heaven For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz, CEO Sam Altman overshadows all other big names on the firm’s roster. But Altman is not the one building the technology on which its reputation rests. That responsibility falls to OpenAI’s twin heads of research—chief research officer Mark Chen and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. Between them, they share the role of making sure OpenAI stays one step ahead of

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 11:00:06

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

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A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup

news.ycombinator.com Tereza Pultarova 2025-12-19 23:07:59

A novel quantum sensor that measures gravity changes by detecting variations in the travel time of falling atoms has been tested in a first of its kind experiment aboard an Australian naval ship. The sensor—a dual gravimeter—has been developed by Australian company Q-CTRL and could reach the market in late 2026. During the tests onboard the Royal Australian Navy’s aviation training vessel MV Sycamore, the crew was able to navigate for 144 hours without GPS access using the autonomous prototype

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Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-21 23:00:00

Uber Eats announced on Wednesday that it will now allow restaurants and merchants to chat with customers to help prevent issues with orders. The app is also introducing new AI tools for merchants, and is inviting users to submit photos of their orders if the item doesn’t yet have a menu image. With the new “Live order chat” feature, merchants can message customers in real-time to do things like confirm replacements for sold-out items, clarify special requests, and check in on dietary or allergy

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-22 16:52:39

A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and Adidas has been linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which has been using voice phishing attacks to steal data from Salesforce CRM instances. In June, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warned that threat actors tracked as UNC6040 were targeting Salesforce customers in social engineering attacks. In these attacks, the threat actors impersonated IT support staff in phone calls to targeted employees, a

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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 17:18:18

Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search tools to scrub the offending articles. The saga began in 2023

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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 17:30:48

After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring a swastika icon, the company quickly apologized for the "error," tech columnist Taylor Lorenz reported. "We discovered an error that caused some people to receive push notifications they should never have received," Substack's statement said. "In some cases, these notifications were extremely offensive or disturbing. This was a serious error, and we apologize for the dis

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Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-22 17:12:05

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 billion in revenue and a net income of $27.2 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by 24 percent. Like clockwork, cloud services are the strong point of Microsoft’s revenue this quarter. Azure revenue grew 39 percent year-ov

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 22:03:10

Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then said to be released Tuesday. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the initial decision to withhold the funding came from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration and Project 202

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So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 03:47:00

On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI for work tasks. Meanwhile, younger Americans are adopting AI tools at much higher rates across multiple categories, including brainstorming, work tasks, and companionship. The poll found AI companionship remains the least popular application overall, with just 16 percent of adults overall trying

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Google upgrades AI Mode with Canvas and 3 other new features - how to try them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-23 12:30:47

Google Love it or hate it, Google's AI Mode has revamped the way you search for information. Instead of presenting you with tens of thousands of website links, Google serves up an AI-generated overview and summary of the results. Also: Sick of AI in your search results? Try these 7 Google alternatives with old-school, AI-free charm That can save you time and labor by cutting to the chase. But it can also steer you away from the publishers and websites that do the actual work and potentially p

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Hexatetrahedral Rails

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:56:32

Software is a creative endeavor and a craft. And like any creative endeavor and any craft, it is subject to fashions. About a decade ago, one of those fashions was Hexagonal Rails largely inspired by the DDD book, but also by the original Hexagonal Architecture work by Dr. Cockburn. Some of these applications are now up for their Rails upgrade and an “oil change,” and it’s interesting to see them in the wild and how they get perceived through the lens of the years that have gone by since then.

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AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-12-23 21:15:00

The combined forces of escalating geopolitical tensions and rising defense budgets are spurring many electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) makers to take a two-pronged approach to building their aircraft: crewed vehicles for personal or commercial taxi use, and uncrewed vehicles meant for logistics and defense purposes. AIR, an Israel-based startup developing eVTOLs, thought it prudent to adopt a similar approach from the get-go, designing both its uncrewed and piloted aircraft with the

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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 03:05:11

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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Arcee opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-23 08:26:29

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 Arcee.ai, a startup focused on developing small AI models for commercial and enterprise use, is opening up its own AFM-4.5B model for limited free usage by small companies — posting the weights on Hugging Face and allowing enterprises that make less than $1.75 million in annual revenue to use it without charge under a custom “Arcee Model Li

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Watch and learn, Samsung: This Galaxy Ring competitor now predicts your chances of falling sick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 03:00:43

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Circular’s smart ring is getting a new Immunity Index that measures your defense against diseases. It accounts for your vitals and gives you a rating on a scale of 0–8. The feature is rolling out to the companion app for the first-gen Circular Ring and will be available for the Ring 2, which is expected to be available soon. Even though the smart ring market is still niche, the entry of big players like Samsung with its Galaxy Ring has set it into mot

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The Arctic Got So Warm in February, Svalbard’s Ground Was ‘Like Soft Ice Cream’

gizmodo.com Matt Simon 2025-12-24 03:00:08

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost—has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot, at least by Arctic standards. Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the vault flooded as permafrost melted, though t

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Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-24 22:55:38

American warfighters need jam-proof communications, and the Space Force is planning to spend hundreds of millions to ensure they have them. As part of that effort, the service established the Protected Tactical Satcom program to build out secure battlefield communications via satellites. The Space Force has already awarded contracts to defense primes Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop prototype payloads for satellites heading to far-away geostationary orbit. Now, the program is entering a

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Latest Tech News

Dark patterns

Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

How to Scan Force Pushed Commits for Secrets

Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

NSW Fair Trading – Dark Patterns

Is Mark Zuckerberg flip flopping on open source AI?

The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup

Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too

$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

Google upgrades AI Mode with Canvas and 3 other new features - how to try them

Hexatetrahedral Rails

AIR lands $23M to bring its eVTOLs to the US

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

Arcee opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

Watch and learn, Samsung: This Galaxy Ring competitor now predicts your chances of falling sick

The Arctic Got So Warm in February, Svalbard’s Ground Was ‘Like Soft Ice Cream’

Space Force bets on commercial entrants in $4B satcom contest

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