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A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see the appeal of depl
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arXiv Is Hiring a DevOps Engineer Work on one of the world's most important websites and make an impact on open science.
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Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static type checker that analyzes Python code to ensure type consistency and help you catch errors throughout your codebase before your code runs. It also supports IDE integration and CLI usage to give you flexibility in how you incorporate it into your workflow. The open source community is the backbone of the Python language. We are eager to collaborate on Py
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Discuss this post on Hacker News, Twitter While I was in Japan over winter, one thing that stood out to me was the incredible public transport system. Efficient and reliable, as expected, but the tap-in-tap-out gates at the stations were suspiciously fast. The London Underground gates don't work nearly as quick with Google Pay or any of my other contactless cards - what gives? I spent some time researching what makes Japan's transit card system (IC cards) so unique compared to the West, and all
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Proton CEO confirmed the company will leave Switzerland if new controversial surveillance rules pass An amendment to the current surveillance law would require VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain user data Another Swiss company, NymVPN, is also ready to leave the country instead of undermining its privacy and security infrastructure Proton confirms the company will leave Switzerland if new controversial surveillance rules pass. Switzerland is considering amending its surveillance
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OBNC OBNC is a compiler for Niklaus Wirth’s programming language Oberon. It implements the final version of the language from 2016. OBNC translates source code written in Oberon to the lower-level programming language C . The translated code is then compiled and linked using the C compiler and linker of the host operating system. The build command obnc performs all these tasks and keeps track of which files need to be compiled or recompiled. The compiler is released under the GNU General Publi
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Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 This article is a continuation to my Bluesky thread from April. We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025! It has baked lighting with normal mapping and real-time specular shading, ahem, well sort of. More on that later. The beautiful song was made by noby with guitar performed by Moloko (https://soundcloud.com/sou_andrade). Below I have some notes on the directional ambient and normal mapping techniques I developed. They are both pretty simple i
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Smart glasses are hot right now, and Google is poised to turn that temperature up even further. In a very brief teaser on Friday, Google’s President of the Android Ecosystem, Sameer Samat, gave the tiniest of glimmers for what the company may have in store on the smart glasses front. At the end of Google’s I/O edition of its Android Show series, Samat can be seen very coyly taking out a pair of glasses and sliding them onto his face while proclaiming that Google will have “a few more really cool
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If you want to keep up with all the big game releases of the year, you’re not going to be able to do that without either immediately deleting them after playing or by expanding your storage capacity. When new titles clock in at over 100GB, you need to make some tough choices in terms of what gets to stay around. The easy solution it to just get yourself a much bigger solid state drive. The Samsung 990 Pro SSD heavily discounted at the moment over at Amazon: The savings range from $60 to $163 of
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Silicon Valley’s wealthiest and most galaxy-brained executives and venture capitalists went all-in on Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election, and their investment is starting to pay off. According to the Wall Street Journal, more than three dozen people who have either worked under or are associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have been placed in roles at federal agencies that oversee the businesses of their Silicon Valley bosses. Per WSJ, at least
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Pruney fingers and toes after a long time in the pool or the bathtub are one of those things we all expect but couldn’t explain scientifically until recently. In 2023, Binghamton University biomedical engineer Guy German and colleagues found that this happens because the blood vessels in our digits contract when we spend too much time in water. Then a kid asked a brilliant question that triggered a whole new research project. “A student asked, ‘Yeah, but do the wrinkles always form in the same
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Pretty much anyone can recognize the value of a good docking station—that goes double for anyone who works from home. Many of us are primarily laptop users. It’s comfortable to work from the couch, bring it to a coffee shop, or always have it with you when traveling for either work or leisure. However, a docking station allows you to open up possibilities with a larger work space when needed. And right now, this 14-in-2 USB-C docking station for MacBook is on sale for 70% off at Amazon: That br
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The old rule for shopping for portable power banks was something along the lines of “powerful, small, inexpensive: pick 2 because you can’t have all 3.” That thinking has clearly gone out the window, because Ugreen 100W portable charger is all of the above, especially now that Amazon’s limited-time deal has brought it down to an all-time low price of just $53, down from $79. See at Amazon This pocket-sized powerhouse delivers a whopping 20,000mAh of juice through three ports — two USB-C and on
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Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet constellation that is run through SpaceX, has caught legislators’ attention. Democratic Senators this week called for an investigation into whether the Trump administration is using trade negotiations to benefit Musk. In a letter addressed to federal officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi and acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics Jamieson Greer, a group of Democratic Senators wrote, “Musk may be using his official role and his
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Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers—and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given burial. These are some of the realities uncovered by the first interdisciplinary study to focus on pregnancy in the Viking age, authored by myself, Kate Olley, Brad Marshall and Emma Tollefsen as part of the Body-Politics project. Despite its central role in human history, pregnancy has often been overlooked in archaeology, largely beca
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Game developer Bungie has hit a snag with its upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon. The September-bound game and its creator have come under fire for stealing art originally created by visual and musical artist Antireal without credit. On Thursday, Antireal highlighted the game’s recent alpha playtest and noted its environments “are covered with assets lifted from poster designs I made in 2017.” To prove her point, she compared several graphics within Marathon that look similar to her own, and
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Eurovision 2025 marks the 99th edition of the contest and sees Switzerland as the host. If your life revolves around music, you’ll want to know how to watch Eurovision live from abroad. The good news is that a free channel broadcasts it. So, if you want to watch Eurovision outside the UK or from any other country, you’re in luck. The Grand Final, which starts on Saturday at 20:00 London time, will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Here’s how to access it overseas. Date and time Saturday
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Two years ago, VFX artists across Marvel, the Avatar franchise, and Disney all seperately voted to form their own unions. With the help of the IATSE, the three worker groups have now “overwhelmingly” voted to ratify contracts which ensure better conditions for staff working on these respective projects. Both contracts—Marvel and Disney fall under one agreement, and Avatar team Lightstorm has its own—offer minimum wage increases and access to IATSE’s pension plans and meal penalties. In terms of
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It’s very complicated to find a high-performance laptop for less than $1,000 especially if you want the greatest features and the highest possible specs. Too many times, even when you’ve spent a lot of money, you end up getting less in memory, storage or processing power. But Amazon has now flipped the script with a killer deal a fantastic 2025 HP 15.6″ touchscreen laptop which is packed with advanced features at a price that’s almost too cheap to be true. This HP laptop is powered by a 10-core
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Doom is one of the most influential games of all time, and it is one of the few game franchises that can get me to buy a new console in order to play. When Bethesda released Doom (2016), that was when I finally bought an Xbox One -- three years after its initial release. Bethesda released the latest entry in the series, Doom: The Dark Ages, on May 15. Read more: 5 Tips to Get You Started in Doom: The Dark Ages If you've already beaten the medieval-inspired Doom game, or you want to play other
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Father's Day is less than a month away (it falls on June 15 this year). So if you want to get Dad (or any father figure in your life) the perfect gift, now is the time to start shopping -- even if he's one of those dads who says he already has everything he needs. To help you out, our CNET experts (who also happen to be dads) have rounded up a selection of our top recommendations at a variety of prices, including several that cost less than $100 and some for even less than $50 (our picks are li
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Ookla, one of the leading internet speed test sites, recently published its semiannual report on the state of internet connectivity in the US. The report, which encompasses the second half of 2024, reflects a growing broadband divide across 32 states. (Disclaimer: Ookla is owned by Ziff Davis, the same company that owns CNET.) To measure the digital divide, Ookla relies on Speedtest Intelligence data, crowdsourced from Speedtest users across all 50 states. Ookla then averages the number of user
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CNET/Getty Images Capital One's deal to acquire Discover closes Sunday, May 18. The acquisition was cleared by federal regulators last month, so the two credit card giants are slated to merge. "The combination of our two great companies will increase competition in payment networks [and] offer a wider range of products to our customers," Michael Shepherd, interim CEO and president of Discover, said in an April press release. In February 2024, Capital One announced its plans to purchase Discov
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Weigh yourself at the same time: To get a consistent reading when using any scale, it's important to weigh yourself first thing in the morning before you've drunk or eaten anything. "You should weigh yourself without clothes, or minimal clothing, and if you do so, try to wear the same clothing each time you weigh yourself," said Stella Lucia Volpe, professor and head of the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise at Virginia Tech. Volpe recommends weighing yourself no more than once a
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It's a simple question, but one that gets asked quite a bit: Does Wi-Fi travel through walls? Yes, but not completely. I'll explain more fully in a moment. With the introduction of Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E and the latest standard, Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi technology has steadily improved in recent years. Having an adequate Wi-Fi connection is a must, yet many people still struggle with their home internet. In a recent CNET broadband survey, 42% of respondents complained about having an unreliable connection. M
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Google I/O 2025 takes place on May 20 and 21 with Google's big keynote happening on day 1. We expect Big G to talk about its myriad innovations across its ever-expanding portfolio of products -- almost certainly with a huge focus on AI every step of the way. If we collectively cross our fingers, promise to be good and eat all our vegetables then we may even be treated to a sneak peek at upcoming hardware. Read more: Android 16: Everything Google Announced at the Android Show Google also hosted
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Those workout shoes with compression and heating that Nike and Hyperice showed off at CES 2025 earlier this year weren't just a concept. The Hyperboot is now available to buy online in North America, so they're within reach, as long as you're willing to spend $899. The high-tops, which Nike and Hyperice call a wearable much like your smartwatch, help your feet warm up before a workout, and then recover after it. The shoes do this with heating and air-compression massage technology, taking the i
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Wembley will set the stage for what looks to be a memorable 153rd FA Cup final as Crystal Palace take on Manchester City, with both sides desperate to end their seasons on a high note for very different reasons. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're unavailable where you are. Having lost to Manchester United in the 1990 and 2016 finals, Crystal Palace will be hoping it'll be third
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My Ars colleagues were kicking back at the Orbital HQ water cooler the other day, and—as gracefully aging gamers are wont to do—they began to reminisce about classic Sierra On-Line adventure games. I was a huge fan of these games in my youth, so I settled in for some hot buttered nostalgia. Would we remember the limited-palette joys of early King's Quest, Space Quest, or Quest for Glory titles? Would we branch out beyond games with "Quest" in their titles, seeking rarer fare like Freddy Pharkas
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Elon Musk says he’s stepping back from his role with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to turn his attention to his businesses—most urgently to Tesla, which has faced global sales slumps in recent months. In this episode, we discuss how our understanding of DOGE has evolved over the past five months and what we think will happen when Musk scales back. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Goode on Bluesky at @laurengoode, and Katie Drummond on Bluesky a
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