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OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round

wired.com Lauren Goode 2026-01-29 18:23:30

OpenAI is seeking capital from new and existing investors, two people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The fundraising effort is part of a $40 billion round announced in March. The round will reopen on Monday, July 28, according to one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the fundraising effort. The $40 billion round announced earlier this year brought OpenAI’s valuation up to $300 billion, making it one of the most highly valued private startups in history. The round was le

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Apple brings its online retail store to Saudi Arabia

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-29 18:45:48

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has launched its online store in Saudi Arabia, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The move, set to be followed by physical retail locations, will let users in the country browse through and purchase Apple products on its site for the first time. As part of its expansion into Saudi Arabia, Apple will offer support and engraving in Arabic

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Samsung Galaxy S25 problems and how to fix them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 22:02:14

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy S25 series is here, and while it hasn’t been out for long, a few issues have already been reported on community sites like Reddit and Samsung’s official forum. This isn’t particularly surprising, as newly launched smartphones — regardless of the manufacturer — often come with bugs and other issues. Beyond these reported problems, the Galaxy S25 series may also experience minor issues common to Android devices or Samsung’s One UI. In this guide

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$16.5B Apple tax windfall will pay for new electricity and water infrastructure in Ireland

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-29 23:00:00

With the last remaining part of the Apple tax windfall paid to the Irish government recently, we are today learning what the country plans to do with the €14.25B ($16.5B). The country’s prime minister has promised “unprecedented” investment in the country’s ailing infrastructure, with Apple’s money to be spent mostly on electricity and water projects … Irish government receives €14.25B ($16.5B) You can read a summary of the nine-year saga over whether or not Apple owed the Irish government bi

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Supermassive Games is delaying Directive 8020 and laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-29 22:58:15

Supermassive Games, the developer behind story-driven games like Until Dawn, The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology, is cutting its workforce due to the ongoing "challenging" state of the games industry. The studio says it’s having to adapt its team structure and as a consequence expects to lose up to 36 employees. The current size of the Supermassive’s staff is unclear, but in February last year it cut somewhere in the region of 90 jobs, at which time Bloomberg estimated the studio had mor

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Coyote malware abuses Windows accessibility framework for data theft

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-29 23:54:27

A new variant of the banking trojan 'Coyote' has begun abusing a Windows accessibility feature, Microsoft's UI Automation framework, to identify which banking and cryptocurrency exchange sites are accessed on the device for potential credential theft. Microsoft UIA is a Windows accessibility framework designed to allow assistive technologies to interact with, inspect, and control user interface (UI) elements in applications. Windows apps expose their UI elements through a UI Automation tree, a

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CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 22:07:22

Tailwind is the Worst of All Worlds 21 July 2025 React, CSS, Tailwind, HTML Tailwind is the worst of all worlds. It is a regrettable step backwards that takes everything bad about CSS and modern web development and brings it all together in one library. CSS's Successes and Failures Of all the web technologies that underlie the modern web, the one that has received the fewest fundamental changes is CSS. We've gotten amazing things like flexbox, grid, container queries, and more which have

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Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope

news.ycombinator.com June 2026-01-26 11:24:46

Go behind the scenes with the dedicated NASA team and its partners to uncover the untold story of the James Webb Space Telescope. “Cosmic Dawn” unveils the immense challenges, groundbreaking innovations, and extraordinary efforts behind humanity’s most powerful eye on our universe, from its complex development to its nail-biting deployment a million miles away.

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I Tasted Dozens and Found the Cheapest and Best Meal Kits and Services

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 17:00:00

Most prepared meals either arrive frozen or can be frozen after unboxing. That means it's less of an issue if you order too many meals on your first go around. Most services allow you to change the number of meals or servings in your plan even after you've started. With almost every service, the more meals or servings you order per delivery, the cheaper it becomes per meal. You'll want to decide exactly how much food makes sense for your household. If you can't imagine yourself cooking more tha

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Display Can Be Folded 500,000 Times, According to Testing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 23:18:18

Fold, fold and fold again. It doesn't matter how many times you open and close the Galaxy Z Fold 7 phone -- it's highly unlikely to give out on you. Samsung Display (SDC) announced Tuesday that its latest foldable OLED panel "remained fully functional after a 500,000-fold durability test," more than doubling its previous benchmark of 200,000 folds. Bureau Veritas, a French leader in testing, inspection and certification, tested the screen with 500,000 folds over a 13-day period at a temperature

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This New Free Mobile Pokemon Puzzle Game Lets You Weave Digital Plushes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 23:31:21

The Pokemon Company unveiled a host of Pokemon content at its Pokemon Presents event on Tuesday. We saw a new trailer for Pokemon Legends: Z-A, a release date for the second season of the Netflix series Pokemon Concierge and a free, new mobile game you can play now, called Pokemon Friends. The latest Pokemon mobile game is a puzzle game where you untangle threads of yarn in order to weave Pokemon plushes for your in-game collection. You can play it now on iOS and Android devices for free, or yo

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Finally, a smart ring I don't have to charge every night (and no subscription)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-30 04:21:47

ZDNET's key takeaways The RingConn Gen 2 is a subscription-free smart ring that monitors sleep, exercise, and stress. It monitors your sleep, activity, stress, and vitals, and it's got a marathon battery life. The only downside is the user interface feels underdeveloped. View now at Amazon View now at Ringconn more buying choices Most smart rings these days claim to offer marathon battery lives, but often fall short of their promise. Many smart rings claim to last a week's worth of battery, b

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Don't Animate Height

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 18:44:19

Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and how to use Chrome's dev tools for performance profiling. The problem While building Granola, a note-taking app, I noticed it was using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook: Activ

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Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 22:31:24

I’ve long thought that the Word of the Day was a wasted genre. The goal should be to give you words you can use; to enrich your understanding of words you already know; or at least to use words to tell you something neat about the world. Instead, what you usually get is words that will never be used in conversation, held up as curios. Some examples from Dictionary.com’s daily email: thewless, balladmonger, vagility, contextomy. These words are... not useful. I’ve always thought I could do bett

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Go Allocation Probe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 02:45:45

Published 2025-07-18 The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation. I suspected that in the code I was looking at, some specific types were causing a lot of allocation but that those allocations were spread over many locations. So with the help of Matt Knight I wrote perhaps the most appallingly fragile code I have ever written - go_allocation_probe. Every heap allocation in go afaict goes through a single function -

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It's Wise to Wash All Produce, but These 12 Fruits and Veggies Are the Dirtiest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 03:47:00

Cleaning your fridge and freezer is important to do every so often, but what about the food sitting inside it? Specifically, that bottom drawer, where fruits and veggies go to retire. Even the healthiest-looking produce can carry unwelcome hitchhikers like dirt, bacteria and trace pesticides. Now, don't freak out. According to the USDA's Pesticide Data Program, over 99% of tested foods were well within the EPA's safety limits -- and more than a quarter didn't have a speck of pesticide residue.

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You Can See Two Meteor Showers at Once In July's Night Sky. Here's How to Catch a Glimpse

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 03:52:03

While you may not have ever seen one, meteor showers actually happen all year. In fact, they happen so often that they overlap for significant percentages of the year. There are two times when three meteor showers will be active in October, for example. But a rarer feat? Having two meteor showers that peak at the same time. It'll happen later this month, on July 29. The show will come courtesy of the Alpha Capricornids and Southern delta Aquariids meteor showers. The former began on Saturday an

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'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Review: Phenomenal Visuals and Heart-Centered Story Will Satisfy Fans

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 04:19:12

Welcome to Phase 6 of the MCU, Marvel fans. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is finally here with impeccable visuals that feel like a hymn to Jack Kirby's original vision for this universe and its characters. From the opening credits sequence to its retrofuturistic style and immersive deep space scenes, the imagery is vividly brought to life, directly from the pages of the Galactus comic book trilogy and the early aughts of Kirby's Fantastic Four cartoon run. The Fantastic Four: First Steps offi

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The 7 Must-Try Air Fryer Accessories Every Chef Needs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-30 04:35:00

It doesn't matter whether you're rustling up an appetizer or cooking a full meal, the humble air fryer can do the job. It's true that sometimes the air fryer can be a victim of its own versatility, and sometimes it's relegated to cooking quick and easy meals. But if you pair it with a useful accessory, you might be surprised at just how capable that unsuspecting air fryer is. In fact, get things just right, and the cooking possibilities are basically endless. There's an entire air fryer communi

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Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-30 04:13:36

Some of the attacks that targeted organizations using an exploit in Microsoft’s SharePoint server platform over the last few days have been linked to hacking groups affiliated with the Chinese government, according to a new Microsoft security blog. “As of this writing, Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploiting these vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers,” Microsoft said on Tuesday. “In addition, we have obse

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Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ branded products

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-30 04:46:15

The Florida GOP isn’t the only one profiting from the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” by selling merchandise. A subset of Etsy buyers and sellers began a boycott of the online marketplace this month over its decision to allow “Alligator Alcatraz”-branded merchandise on its site. Today, this sort of merchandise — including T-shirts, hats, mugs, stickers, patches, and other items — can be found across e-commerce platforms beyond Etsy, ranging from large retailers like Amazon to onl

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Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups exploited SharePoint vulnerability in attacks

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-30 09:31:48

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. Microsoft Corp., determined to hold its ground in artificial intelligence, will soon let consumers tailor the Copilot digital assistant to their own needs. Microsoft on Tuesday said Chinese hacking groups were part of the recent attacks on its SharePoint collaboration software. As early as July 7, the Chinese nation-state actor

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A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention

news.ycombinator.com Chris Isidore 2026-01-30 08:44:04

CNN — For years, Tesla has earned billions of dollars from its competitors just for selling electric vehicles. But that windfall is about to go away, just when the company may need it the most. Regulatory credit sales have been a huge source of revenue for the automaker, which currently faces a sales and profit slump. Legacy automakers purchase credits from Tesla to keep selling gas-burning cars that would otherwise violate emission regulations and cost them a fine. But the Republican tax and

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Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks

news.ycombinator.com Mitendra Mahto 2026-01-30 08:47:33

In Part 1 of this series, we explored a high-level overview of reverse proxies and dived deep into connection management. This post shifts our focus to the intricate world of HTTP handling within a reverse proxy. Deep Dive into HTTP Handling At a high level, the HTTP workflow from a proxy’s perspective might seem straightforward: Receive the request from the client Parse and sanitize the request Uses different requst metadata (path, headers, cookies) to select an upstream host Manipulates the

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The United States withdraws from UNESCO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 08:09:49

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Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 08:17:05

Font comparison and review: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono Published: July 22nd, 2025 Updated: July 22nd, 2025 Recently, I modified anthes.is to use Atkinson Hyperlegible Next for sans-serif and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono for monospace. Following the principle of eating your own dog food, I also switched to Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono in my terminal. After a month of daily use, I can now assess this font’s practical advantages and compare it to established programming fonts like JetBrains Mono and

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CMF’s New Pro Smartwatch Gets Beefier, Healthier, and Less Customizable

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-30 09:24:07

The world of cheap Android smartwatches is pretty crowded, but there’s still room for one more if Nothing’s subbrand CMF has anything to say about it. CMF unveiled the Watch 3 Pro today, which gets a little bit of a size increase and some additional health-tracking features compared to its predecessor. Specifically, the Watch 3 Pro adds a more advanced heart rate sensor into the mix. According to CMF, an optical sensor will be able to glean “finer variations in blood flow,” which should equate

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OpenAI and Softbank’s $500 Billion Data Center Project Is Already Stumbling

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-30 09:35:34

Stargate, the ambitious joint venture announced at the White House back in January between OpenAI, Oracle, the Japanese holding company Softbank, and others, appears to be struggling to deliver on its bold promises just six months later. The Wall Street Journal reported today, citing unnamed sources, that the Stargate Project has yet to finalize any deals for new data centers. The report also says the group is scaling back its near-term goals. When it was announced on Jan. 21, Stargate was pit

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LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology damaged by fire

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-30 09:10:26

One of the quirkier cultural gems in Los Angeles is the Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT), featuring an eclectic collection of exhibits (of varying authenticity) inspired by historical Renaissance "cabinets of curiosities" (wunderkammers). It hasn't been broadly reported, but earlier this month, a fire broke out late at night, gutting the museum's gift shop and inflicting smoke damage on several exhibits, with lost revenues estimated to be around $75,000 until the doors reopen sometime next mo

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How Virtual Design Can Change the Future of Research and Development

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-30 12:00:40

Integrating physical and virtual testing environments into research and development (R&D) is rapidly moving from a cutting-edge concept to standard practice across many industries. Organizations that take this approach gain a variety of benefits that improve efficiency. Among the advantages is the ability to minimize prototype builds, optimize test cell usage, and enable faster design iterations through digital twin technology and data feedback loops between physical testing and engineering mode

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Latest Tech News

OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round

Apple brings its online retail store to Saudi Arabia

Samsung Galaxy S25 problems and how to fix them

$16.5B Apple tax windfall will pay for new electricity and water infrastructure in Ireland

Supermassive Games is delaying Directive 8020 and laying off staff

Coyote malware abuses Windows accessibility framework for data theft

CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems

Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Display Can Be Folded 500,000 Times, According to Testing

This New Free Mobile Pokemon Puzzle Game Lets You Weave Digital Plushes

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Don't Animate Height

Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

Go Allocation Probe

It's Wise to Wash All Produce, but These 12 Fruits and Veggies Are the Dirtiest

You Can See Two Meteor Showers at Once In July's Night Sky. Here's How to Catch a Glimpse

'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Review: Phenomenal Visuals and Heart-Centered Story Will Satisfy Fans

The 7 Must-Try Air Fryer Accessories Every Chef Needs

Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks

Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ branded products

Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups exploited SharePoint vulnerability in attacks

A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention

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CMF’s New Pro Smartwatch Gets Beefier, Healthier, and Less Customizable

OpenAI and Softbank’s $500 Billion Data Center Project Is Already Stumbling

LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology damaged by fire

How Virtual Design Can Change the Future of Research and Development

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