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Department of Energy gets rid of climate skeptics group to dodge lawsuit

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 17:58:03

While the Trump administration has continued to refer to efforts to avoid the worst impacts of climate change as a scam, it has done almost nothing to counter the copious scientific evidence that demonstrates that climate change is real and doing real damage to the citizens of the US. The lone exception has been a draft Department of Energy report prepared by a handful of carefully chosen fringe figures that questioned the mainstream understanding of climate change. The shoddy work and questiona

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Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-29 17:01:41

This week, OpenAI and Oracle shocked the markets with a surprise $300 billion, five-year agreement, part of a surge of new business that sent the cloud provider’s stock skyrocketing. But maybe the markets shouldn’t have been taken by surprise. The deal is a reminder that, despite Oracle’s legacy status, the company still plays a major role in AI infrastructure. On the OpenAI side, the agreement was more revealing than the lack of details suggest. For one, the startup’s willingness to pay so muc

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Gemini, the Winklevoss' crypto exchange, pops more than 17% in Nasdaq debut

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-10-29 21:36:30

Gemini Co-founders Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss attend the company's IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City, U.S., Sept. 12, 2025. Shares of Gemini Space Station rallied 14% on Friday after the exchange operator raised $425 million in an initial public offering. The stock opened at $37.01 on the Nasdaq, about 32% above where its IPO was priced at $28. At one point, shares traded as high as $45.89. The stock closed higher by 14.3%, at $32. The New York-based company priced it

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FTC scrutinizes OpenAI, Meta, and others on AI companion safety for kids

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-29 21:14:00

Olemedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The FTC is investigating seven tech companies building AI companions. The probe is exploring safety risks posed to kids and teens. Many tech companies offer AI companions to boost user engagement. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the safety risks posed by AI companions to kids and teenagers, the agency announced Thursday. The federal regulator s

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Amazon suspends engineer who protested company's work with Israeli government

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-29 03:45:48

A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022. Amazon suspended a software engineer who protested the company's work with the Israeli government, CNBC has confirmed. Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer who works for Amazon's Whole Foods business and is based in Seattle, was informed Monday morning that he was being suspended with pay "until further notice" after he posted messages on Slack criticizing the company's ties to Israel.

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Gemini, the Winklevoss' crypto exchange, pops more than 20% in Nasdaq debut

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-10-30 01:50:39

Gemini Co-founders Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss attend the company's IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City, U.S., Sept. 12, 2025. Shares of Gemini Space Station soared as much as 40% on Friday after the exchange operator raised $425 million in an initial public offering. The stock opened at $37.01 on the Nasdaq after its IPO priced at $28. At one point, shares traded as high as $45.89. The stock was trading up about 21% at 2:50 p.m. ET. The New York-based company priced its

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HomeKit Weekly: SwitchBot’s Evaporative Humidifier gets smarter with Matter 1.4 support

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-30 01:00:00

SwitchBot released its Evaporative Humidifier last year, and it’s now even better thanks to newly upgraded firmware that includes Matter 1.4 support. The update brings faster setup and better cross-platform compatibility for a device type that is typucally stuck as a “dumb appliance” in your house. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibility. Unlike a lot of humidifiers, the SwitchBot Evaporative Humidifier uses cold

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Humanely dealing with humungus crawlers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 00:06:52

I host a bunch of hobby code on my server. I would think it’s really only interesting to me, but it turns out every day, thousands of people from all over the world are digging through my code, reviewing years old changesets. On the one hand, wow, thanks, this is very flattering. On the other hand, what the heck is wrong with you? This has been building up for a while, and I’ve been intermittently developing and deploying countermeasures. It’s been a lot like solving a sliding block puzzle. Lot

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VaultGemma: The most capable differentially private LLM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 04:14:50

Applying the scaling laws to build VaultGemma The Gemma models are designed with responsibility and safety at their core. This makes them a natural foundation for developing a production-quality, DP-trained model like VaultGemma. Algorithmic advancements: Training at scale The scaling laws we derived above represent an important first step towards training a useful Gemma model with DP. We used the scaling laws to determine both how much compute we needed to train a compute-optimal 1B paramete

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Humanely Dealing with Humungus Crawlers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:06:52

I host a bunch of hobby code on my server. I would think it’s really only interesting to me, but it turns out every day, thousands of people from all over the world are digging through my code, reviewing years old changesets. On the one hand, wow, thanks, this is very flattering. On the other hand, what the heck is wrong with you? This has been building up for a while, and I’ve been intermittently developing and deploying countermeasures. It’s been a lot like solving a sliding block puzzle. Lot

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Encyclopedia Britannica Wants Perplexity to Stop Using Its Logos When AI Makes Stuff Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 05:20:55

Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines the verb plagiarize as "to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source." And that's exactly what its parent company, Encyclopedia Britannica, is alleging the AI company Perplexity did with its AI answers engine, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. AI companies like Perplexity are no strangers to copyright infringeme

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Nissan Leaf 2026 Review: Superb Steering, Competitive Pricing

wired.com John Voelcker 2025-10-30 03:00:00

Nissan quotes 160 kilowatts (214 horsepower) and 252 pound-feet of torque for the single motor that drives the front wheels. Acceleration is adequate in the standard drive mode, with Sport providing a bit more boost, enough to spin an inside front wheel in turns when pressed. The Eco mode was underwhelming, and while there’s a Personal mode to tweak your own combination of settings, we’d be shocked if anyone ever uses it. Nissan offers four levels of regenerative braking, controlled via paddle

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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their definitions

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-30 05:23:34

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The AI web search company Perplexity is being hit by another lawsuit alleging copyright and trademark infringement, this time from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster. Britannica, the centuries-old publisher that owns Merriam-Webster, sued Perplexity in New

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Micro1, a competitor to Scale AI, raises funds at $500M valuation

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-30 05:00:00

Micro1, a three-year-old startup that helps AI companies find and manage human contractors for data labeling and training, has raised a $35 million Series A funding round that values the company at $500 million. The round was led by O1 Advisors, a venture capital firm co-founded by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, the former CEO and COO of Twitter. The startup is one of many companies looking to fill the gap in the data market created by recent changes involving Scale AI. After Meta invested $14 bil

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Opendoor board chair Rabois says company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-30 08:59:22

Opendoor co-founder and newly minted board chair Keith Rabois said remote work and a "bloated" workforce have been a drag on the company's culture, as he vowed to slash headcount. "There's 1,400 employees at Opendoor. I don't know what most of them do. We don't need more than 200 of them," Rabois told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Friday. The online real estate platform on Wednesday appointed former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO after investor pressure caused his predecessor

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Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 15:35:19

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Langlois 2025-10-30 08:32:11

With that prelude out of the way, let's begin. Inside of emacs you can call up a list of potential completions by using the keyboard shortcut M-. (that’s "hit the meta key along with period", where "meta" is the Alt key for me). This applies in a wide variety of scenarios, like when completing class names or variables. If we want to ask emacs to hand us a list of potential references, then the system we want to hook into is this completions system. (This is the only time I'll assume we know wh

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Take a Trip to the Final Frontier With This Year’s Best Astronomy Photography

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-30 09:00:23

When a comet meets solar winds, its nuclear coma—a bright cloud of gas around its core—reacts vibrantly to our Sun’s solar maximum, leaving a trail of stellar gas and dust across the solar system. Miraculously, the sky above June Lake, California, cleared up for a full 13 minutes for photographer Dan Bartlett to image the comet clearly enough for his photograph, “Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks Taking a Final Bow.” With incredible technological advances, the continuous flow of space photos can sometimes

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DOJ Sues Uber Over Allegations of Refusing Service to Disabled Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 08:47:00

Uber is being sued for the second time in four years by the Department of Justice over complaints about its ridesharing service's treatment of customers with disabilities. According to the suit, a copy of which was posted online by the website TechCrunch, the company is alleged to "routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with service animals or who use stowable wheelchairs." The lawsuit also accuses Uber of imposing cleaning surcharges related

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NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 12:14:22

NASA has thrown cold water on Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb's theory that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization — a sobering albeit unsurprising conclusion that just might put the captivating hypothesis to rest once and for all. In early July, astronomers first discovered the object, which was only the third interstellar visitor ever detected in the solar system. Since then, Loeb has advanced the "tantalizing possibility" that 3I/ATLAS was "sent tow

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A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Langlois 2025-10-30 13:32:11

With that prelude out of the way, let's begin. Inside of emacs you can call up a list of potential completions by using the keyboard shortcut M-. (that’s "hit the meta key along with period", where "meta" is the Alt key for me). This applies in a wide variety of scenarios, like when completing class names or variables. If we want to ask emacs to hand us a list of potential references, then the system we want to hook into is this completions system. (This is the only time I'll assume we know wh

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The Inventor of Ozempic Is Suddenly Sacking Huge Numbers of Employees

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 16:21:48

Image by Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty / Futurism Developments Novo Nordisk, the 102-year-old Danish drugmaker behind the blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is laying off thousands of workers as it seeks to recoup some of the revenue it's lost to competitors amid the GLP-1 boom. In a press release, the pharmaceutical giant announced that it would soon let go of 11 percent of its workforce, totaling about 9,000 of its 78,400 employees around the world. A

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Google Home notifications go missing on Pixel 10, but Google’s working on a fix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 17:27:54

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Many Pixel 10 users report they’re not receiving notifications from the Google Home app on their new phone. Fixes like force-stopping the app or clearing its data work briefly before issues return, often after a reboot. Google has acknowledged the issue and is currently working on a solution. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to support us and make sure you never miss our latest exclusiv

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Pokémon Pokopia looks like Animal Crossing for Pokémon fans and I'm here for it

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-30 17:12:39

In one of the most unexpected announcements of today's Nintendo Direct, Game Freak revealed Pokémon Pokopia, a game that is clearly inspired by the Animal Crossing series. When Pokopia is released sometime next year, you'll assume the role of a Ditto determined to make a comfortable home for their friends. This Ditto has assumed the form of a human, and as they meet new Pokémon, they'll learn abilities they can use to transform their community. In turn, this work will lead to more Pokémon coming

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Active phishing campaign targeting crates.io users

news.ycombinator.com Sept. 2025-10-30 17:51:33

We received multiple reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users (from the rustfoundation.dev domain name), mentioning a compromise of our infrastructure and asking users to authenticate to limit damage to their crates. These emails are malicious and come from a domain name not controlled by the Rust Foundation (nor the Rust Project), seemingly with the purpose of stealing your GitHub credentials. We have no evidence of a compromise of the crates.io infrastructure. We are taking s

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Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat North Korean Remote IT Workers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 16:31:05

Note: This press release has been updated to reflect new information regarding the guilty plea of one defendant in the District of Massachusetts. The Justice Department announced today coordinated actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) government’s schemes to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies. These actions include two indictments, an information and related plea agreement, an arrest, searches of 29 known or suspec

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Over 100 ships have sailed with fake insurance from the Norwegian Ro Marine

news.ycombinator.com Stian Espeland 2025-10-30 16:36:40

All large ships must have insurance, and Ro Marine has provided this in a big way. The Norwegian company did not have permission to sell insurance but did it anyway — to clients worldwide. In March, we reported how select ships used false papers to deceive inspectors in NATO countries. Now, NRK and Dossier Center can reveal how extensive and global the fraud was: over 100 ships have sailed with illegitimate insurance documents from Ro Marine. “It's very serious and unusual that such a seriou

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How Do You Sell People on VPNs? Just Say 'VPN' Over and Over and Over Again, Apparently

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 17:03:42

A tech company's text-heavy mural in London's trendy Shoreditch area, known for its street art, used the word "VPN" 24 times without actually explaining what a virtual private network is or does. Which was kinda the point. The eye-catching artwork was the creation of VPN provider Surfshark and graffiti art company KingMurals, which collaborated on a PR stunt. VPNs, or virtual private networks, create an encrypted tunnel that lets you engage in online activity without exposing your IP address,

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These 7 smart plug hacks changed how I run my home - here's the setup

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-30 21:15:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a primitive ancestor of today's smart plug -- that is, if you can say anything from a few decades ago is primitive. Smart plugs offer greater convenience than The Clapper ever did, letting you control your devices from an app on your phone, your voice, or a schedule. Also: Unplugging these 7 common ho

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Chronic Insomnia Is Bad for the Brain. Like, Really Bad

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-30 21:20:07

If you’re a chronic insomniac, you might experience faster declines in memory and thinking skills than your better-sleeping fellows. In other words, your brain might age faster. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology, researchers revealed that people with chronic insomnia, described as having trouble sleeping at least three days a week for three months or more, were significantly more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment or dementia than their healthy counterparts. “Ins

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Department of Energy gets rid of climate skeptics group to dodge lawsuit

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Gemini, the Winklevoss' crypto exchange, pops more than 17% in Nasdaq debut

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Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their definitions

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