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North Korean hackers ran US-based “laptop farm” from Arizona woman’s home

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-22 06:39:17

Christina Chapman, a 50-year-old Arizona woman, has just been sentenced to 102 months in prison for helping North Korean hackers steal US identities in order to get "remote" IT jobs with more than 300 American companies, including Nike. The scheme funneled millions of dollars to the North Korean state. Why did Chapman do it? In a letter sent this week to the judge, Chapman said that she was "looking for a job that was Monday through Friday that would allow me to be present for my mom" who was b

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Tesla Readies a Taxi Service in San Francisco—but Not With Robotaxis

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2026-01-22 06:26:14

Tesla has publicly staked its future on its robotaxis. Now the company is planning to launch a public car service in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla is calling it a “robotaxi” service, but legally, this one will have to use cars with human drivers. The plan appears to put the electric carmaker in murky legal waters in a US state with the country's most tightly regulated autonomous vehicle industry—and where Tesla is already being sued for misleading language around its driver assistance tech.

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Forming Standards for a Better Future Working Together

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2026-01-22 05:00:39

An interview with Yonghong Tian, recipient of the 2025 Hans Karlsson Standards Award Yonghong Tian stands as a global authority in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia systems. Formerly serving as the Dean of the School of Electronics and Computer Engineering, now Vice-Dean of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and Dean of the new School of Science and Intelligence, and a Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, China, Professor Tian has made groundbreaking co

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Mark Zuckerberg names ex-OpenAI employee chief scientist of new Meta AI lab

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-01-22 11:44:54

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI's ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Zuckerberg has been on a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence hiring blitz in recent weeks, highlighted by a $14 billion investment in Scale AI. In June, Zuckerberg announc

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CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-22 11:05:12

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape between open and closed AI development. The tool, called CoSyn (Code-Guided Synthesis), addresses a critical bottleneck in AI development: the scarcity of high-quality

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Why Is There a Date of 1968 in the Intel Chipset Device Software Utility?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 22:14:50

The Intel Chipset Device Software Utility shows a date of 07/18/1968 because it is symbolic: Intel was founded on that date. The reason this date is used is to lower the rank of drivers in concern. This is necessary because it's a supporting utility that should not overwrite any other drivers. Updating these drivers is not needed. Do not worry if you don't have the latest version. The Intel® Chipset Device Software installs the Windows* INF files. An INF is a text file that provides the operat

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A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 11:48:05

Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile colossus that could offer seamless service from coast to coast, bypassing longtime interchange choke points in Chicago and at gateways along the Mississippi River. The two railroads confirmed today that they are in advanced merger discussions. The talks, they said, may not result in a deal. Plus, there’s the potential for a bidding war if BNSF Railway, UP’s Western rival,

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The Meme Stocks Are Back and May Have Found Their New ‘Roaring Kitty’

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-22 11:30:57

It seems meme stocks are back, and this time, the latest craze was sparked—somewhat accidentally—by a Canadian hedge fund manager named Eric Jackson. About three weeks ago, Jackson’s firm, EMJ Capital, bought shares of Opendoor Technologies, a San Francisco–based company that buys and sells homes online, at around $0.70 apiece. Since then, the company’s share price has skyrocketed over 600% to an intraday high of almost $5 on July 21. Today, it’s trading at about $2.40, still a roughly 250% gai

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Liquid Glass, Live Translation, and All the Other Important New iOS26 Features Coming to Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 10:00:03

While we still don't know what new hardware the iPhone 17 models might be packing, we have seen the big changes coming to iPhone software with iOS26. Liquid Glass delivers a significant design refresh, and that's just where Apple is starting. The Photos app is getting a functional redesign, while Messages and Phone apps are putting power back in your hands by delivering features around hold, and screening calls. Apple Intelligence is still contributing as well, even if Siri has been delayed. Th

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Want Stronger Kidneys? Try Adding These 13 Foods to Your Diet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 10:00:06

Your kidneys do a lot more than you probably realize. They filter your blood, balance fluid levels, regulate hormones, and help keep everything from your blood pressure to your energy levels in check. Despite how essential they are, kidney health often gets overlooked - and that can be a problem. According to the CDC, more than 1 in 7 adults in the US has chronic kidney disease, and many don't even know it. Your kidneys are quietly working around the clock to keep your body in balance. They fil

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Your Weekend Streaming Watch List: 'Happy Gilmore 2,' 'Washington Black' and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 10:30:04

This week, one of the biggest movies of the summer arrives on streaming: Happy Gilmore 2 has finally dropped on Netflix. The film is one of the most anticipated comedies of the year, but it's not the only great thing to watch this weekend if you're looking for something new. Hulu's new historical drama Washington Black, starring Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Sterling K. Brown, is out now, and so is the fourth season of Acapulco on Apple TV Plus. And don't forget that part 2 of the HBO Max documentary

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OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-22 10:59:37

On Thursday, The Verge reported that OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5 as early as August, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The report comes five months after CEO Sam Altman first laid out a roadmap for the next-generation AI model that would unify the company's various AI capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in a post on X last week that the company plans to release GPT-5 "soon." According to The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft engineers began preparing server ca

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Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-22 11:10:31

A firmware update has killed key functionality for Echelon smart home gym equipment that isn't connected to the Internet. As explained in a Tuesday blog post by Roberto Viola, who develops the "QZ (qdomyos-zwift)" app that connects Echelon machines to third-party fitness platforms, like Peloton, Strava, and Apple HealthKit, the firmware update forces Echelon machines to connect to Echelon’s servers in order to work properly. A user online reported that as a result of updating his machine, it is

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Google gets its swag back

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-01-22 10:52:59

This week, I take a look at the surprisingly strong state of Google, Meta gets a new chief AI researcher, and more. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out this week’s Decoder episode about deepfakes and where they are headed. Also, do you use an AI coding tool like Cursor or GitHub Copilot? I’d love to know what works and what doesn’t… “I think we are doing very well through this moment” After spending time with Google executives during the company’s I/O conference in May, it was clear

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Nullable but not null

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 11:22:02

When working on backend applications, especially those with evolving database schemas, it’s common to see a recurring pattern: A new field is added to a model. To avoid locking the table during the migration, the field is added as nullable. The application logic is updated to start filling in this field. A backfill job runs to populate the existing records. The field is left as nullable. People often forget the final step which is updating the schema to make the field non-nullable once the dat

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Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-01-22 12:27:51

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose work explores gay history and culture. “Just found out via Bluesky.” Itch.io is deindexing, or removing from its searc

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Internet Archive is now a federal depository library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 12:56:04

While documents stored on microfiche or microfilm are easy to copy, they aren’t easy to access. The GPO has been moving toward digital preservation since 2016 and runs an online database of government records, and in recent years, it has ramped up efforts to digitize the Federal Depository Library Program. Participating libraries have largely pivoted to the GPO’s digital approach, but digitizing countless physical documents is a massive undertaking — one that the Internet Archive has experience

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Implementing a functional language with graph reduction (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 14:20:20

Implementing a Functional Language with Graph Reduction Posted on December 27, 2021 by Thomas Mahler Abstract Implementing a small functional language with a classic combinator based graph-reduction machine in Haskell. The implementation is structured into three parts: A λ-calculus parser from A Combinatory Compiler which was extended to cover a tiny functional language based on the untyped λ-calculus. A compiler from λ-calculus to combinatory logic combinators (S,K,I,B,C and Y) which i

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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Lures Fans In by Taking Us Back to Where It All Began

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-22 16:30:11

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse were on hand at San Diego Comic-Con to give attendees a sneak preview of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Returning stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) and Piper Rubio (For All Mankind), who play the film franchise’s central brother and sister roles, Mike and Abby, were on hand to share some insight on what the siblings have been up to since the events of the first film. “Mike and Abby went through a lot,” Hutcherson explained. “Mike is just wanting to get back t

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CNET Survey: 64% of People Still Don't Want a Foldable Smartphone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 15:06:00

Foldables have been a staple of the smartphone release cycle for years now, with products from companies like Samsung, Motorola and Google. Despite the refreshingly unique form factor in a sea of mobile uniformity, the vast majority of consumers still aren't sold. According to a CNET survey, 64% of respondents say they aren't willing or interested in buying a foldable smartphone in the next year, while just 13% say they are. An additional 20% aren't sure if they want a foldable and only 3% say

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Comcast’s fix for streaming service overload is in your cable box

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-22 16:16:26

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. Streaming has become a tangled web of subscriptions, and now Comcast says it can help by putting all your services into one hub. Comcast is launching a new hub on its set-top boxes, called the StreamStore, where you can buy and manage subscriptions for more than 450 streaming apps and channels. The StreamStore lives within Xfinity’s Xumo Stream Box

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Inside Tesla's new retro-futuristic Supercharger diner

cnbc.com Andrew Evers 2026-01-22 21:13:09

Tesla has opened the doors to its first diner Supercharger station in Los Angeles. CEO Elon Musk first teased the concept of building a drive-in themed charging station in 2018. On Monday, that vision was finally realized. Tesla describes the two-story restaurant, constructed of a steel exterior inspired by the Cybertruck, as retro-futuristic. It features 80 charging stalls and two 66-foot megascreens playing a rotation of short films, feature-length movies and Tesla videos. The diner operates

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Elden Ring Nightreign is adding two-player co-op next week

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-22 21:27:08

Elden Ring Nightreign is finally adding a two-player co-op mode on July 30. Prior to this, FromSoftware's spinoff could only be played solo or with three players. The so-called Duo Expeditions come as part of patch 1.02. This is something fans have been asking for, as not everybody has two friends available at once to tackle a tough-as-nails 3D adventure. FromSoftware has released a trailer to accompany this news, so you can see the two-player co-op in action. Beyond Duo Expeditions, the forth

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Traveling this summer? Consider this before using airport Wi-Fi and charging ports

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-22 21:42:00

Carles Navarro Parcerisas/Getty Images The next time you travel through an airport, you should probably be a little leery of using the public Wi-Fi or USB charging ports, according to the TSA. In a reminder posted on Facebook, the TSA warns that while these freebies are designed to be useful, they can actually be dangerous if a fellow traveler has bad intentions. Also: How to use public Wi-Fi safely: 5 things to know before you connect Using a process called juice jacking, someone can instal

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Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 08:44:47

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech 4 days ago Share Save Sam Gruet Technology Reporter Reporting from Vancouver Share Save Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn't anticipate he'd be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. "It just happened, right place, right time," the Canadian driver, who prefers not to use his sur

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Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data

news.ycombinator.com Price Per Token 2026-01-22 14:39:41

All pricing information comes from official provider sources: Disclaimer: Providers don't all count tokens in the same way, but generally a token is equivalent to 3-4 characters. Please refer to each provider's documentation for their specific tokenization methods.

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Dwm Commented

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 21:41:15

Do not use. Do not patch. This fork of dwm adds extra comments and is intended for educational uses only. If you try to patch this version of dwm then that will most likely fail, more so the relative comments will no longer apply or be misleading as the underlying code will have changed. If you are interested in dwm then get a fresh clone from the https://dwm.suckless.org/ site and use this as a reference rather than the basis for your build. This fork has 0 patches and also does not cover pa

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Animated Cursors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 20:59:25

Tattoy now supports animated cursors. It uses the same format as Ghostty, therefore rendering the cursor using custom shaders. Here are some popular Ghostty cursors, that you can use out-of-the-box with Tattoy. Even though Tattoy supports Ghostty cursors its rendering is quite different. Ghostty renders the cursor using actual pixels whereas Tattoy renders using UTF8 text-based "pixels", namely "▀" and "▄". This means that Tattoy cursors sometimes miss out on the subtleties of Ghostty cursors,

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It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 15:35:09

It's a DE9, Not a DB9. (But We Know What You Mean) You have been misusing the D-sub connector terminology, and we're guilty of it, too. You’ve seen them everywhere, especially on older computer equipment: the classic 9-pin serial connector. You probably know it as a DB9. It’s an iconic connector for makers, engineers, and anyone who's ever used an RS232 serial device. Here's a little secret, though: calling it a DB9 is technically wrong. The correct name is actually DE9. With the release of o

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-22 21:00:23

Modern humanity’s most famous cousins, the Neanderthals, may have had a clever, if unappealing, dietary trick for survival: maggots. Research out today posits these creepy crawly fly larvae provided Neanderthals an ample source of essential nitrogen and fat. Scientists at Purdue University, the University of Michigan, and others conducted the study, published Friday in Science Advances. Using both experimental and historical data, they showed that maggot-infused meat is rich in fat and nitrogen

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