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Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-01-22 21:10:14

For two straight weeks, Finland has been roasting under record-high temperatures. The country is facing its most intense and persistent heatwave in its recorded history, which has brought beach weather to towns above the Arctic Circle. Friday marked the 14th consecutive day that at least one part of Finland reached a temperature above 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Local weather stations across the country have also reported record

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Hasbro’s Wearable Wolverine Mask Comes With Its Own Sharp Points

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-22 21:45:04

Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Roleplay line has given us some wonderful replicas over the years, from legendary weapons to iconic masks and helmets. Now, we’re getting another ripped right out of Deadpool & Wolverine, and io9 has your exclusive look up close. To me, my X-Men! To celebrate Hasbro’s Marvel Legends panel at San Diego Comic-Con, io9 has your exclusive reveal on the Wolverine mask joining the lineup of Legends replicas. Inspired by the long-awaited live-action appearance of Logan’s legend

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Elden Ring: Nightreign's Duo Mode Is Coming to Save You From Matchmaking Hell

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 18:47:00

Elden Ring: Nightreign, from developer FromSoftware, at first seemed like a gimmicky spinoff of its 2022 hit Elden Ring. Since then, it's proven to be a popular game that was the best-selling title in June, and in a few days, it's going to get one of its most requested features. In Nightreign, you can play solo or in a team of three. On July 30, the option for Duo Expeditions will be available, letting players take on runs with a friend. Players have been requesting a two-player mode since Nig

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In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Getting a Boost on These Starlink-Enabled Airlines

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 20:00:00

Sluggish airline internet might become a thing of the past. For the last 20 years, airline internet has been notoriously unreliable, but Starlink is changing the game with significantly faster speeds. In fact, the latest reports show it's already twice as fast as its in-flight competitors. Starlink-equipped planes achieve superior internet speeds due to its fleet of almost 8,000 low-Earth orbit satellites, which operate much closer to Earth than the geostationary satellites used by competitors

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Netflix Launches a Surprise 'Happy Gilmore' Game Alongside the New Film

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 20:00:08

It's all in the hips -- err, rather, it's all in the fingers -- in Happy Gilmore: Golf Mayhem '98 Demo, a new Netflix game based on the Adam Sandler film. The streaming giant launched the surprise game the same day it released Happy Gilmore 2, a sequel to the classic '90s film. The game is a chaotic trip down memory lane, just the way Happy would have wanted. "I don't want a piece of you. I want the whole thing." Netflix Anyone with a Netflix subscription (which start at $8 a month) can play t

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Tea App Breach Exposes 72,000 Selfies, ID Photos and Other User Images

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-22 20:35:46

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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Join Our Next Livestream: Inside Katie Drummond’s Viral Interview With Bryan Johnson

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-01-22 21:40:23

What does it mean to be healthy in 2025? Bryan Johnson, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who’s well known for his extreme attempts to slow the aging process, thinks he knows the answer. Does Johnson really have the healthiest body on Earth, as he claims? Will he achieve immortality through AI? Recently, WIRED global editorial director Katie Drummond visited Johnson’s home in California to sit down with him for WIRED's special Beyond Wellness edition. This wide-ranging interview is a must-

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You can now easily buy a Switch 2 without jumping through hoops

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-01-22 21:00:00

Perhaps we’ve been thinking the same thing, you and I. That there won’t be a long-standing drought of Nintendo Switch 2 availability after all. The console has been easy to buy online from several retailers this week, including Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. Amazon, which didn’t sell the Switch 2 at launch, is currently selling it by invitation only. The console’s messy preorder process and spotty launch availability made it feel a little like late 2020 all over again, when the PlayStation 5, X

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The best iPhones

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2026-01-22 21:20:34

is a reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. The wait is over — kind of. Apple’s iPhone 16 series is now widely available, including the kinda affordable 16E, and its much-hyped Apple Intelligence has arrived courtesy of iOS 18.1. But if you’re expecting a new kind of iPhone experience, well, I have some bad news for you. The AI features introduced in iOS 18.1 and mor

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Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-22 20:33:29

ChatGPT users may want to think twice before turning to their AI app for therapy or other kinds of emotional support. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the AI industry hasn’t yet figured out how to protect user privacy when it comes to these more sensitive conversations, because there’s no doctor-patient confidentiality when your doc is an AI. The exec made these comments on a recent episode of Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von. In response to a question about how AI works wi

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Apple’s launching two new Home products this fall, here’s what’s coming

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-23 02:15:58

Apple has a packed lineup of hardware launches this fall, with 15+ new products expected. Out of those debuts, two will be brand new Home products: a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2. Here’s what to expect. #1: New Apple TV 4K It’s been nearly three years since new Apple TV hardware shipped, but the wait’s ending soon. A brand new Apple TV 4K is coming this fall with several upgrades rumored. The current model’s A15 Bionic is expected to be replaced by an A18 or A17 Pro chip. No doubt a b

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I spent a week with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, and it's an even bigger leap than expected

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-23 02:12:58

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 has officially launched with a starting price of $1,099 With a bigger cover screen, thinner form factor, and improved battery life, it is Samsung's best take yet on the foldable To better compete in the foldable market, it could use a better camera system and faster charging. View now at Samsung The Galaxy Z Flip lineup has been the most popular of Samsung's foldable devices, and its appeal is clear -- who can't benefit

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Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach

news.ycombinator.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 00:47:08

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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Neon Now Runs in VS Code

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Christoffersen 2026-01-18 11:29:02

Developers love using Neon branches for a local development, due to the agility they provide (e.g. fast resets, isolated environments, and the ability to test without polluting production data). But using Neon branches still requires you to manage separate connection strings for different branches and ensure your application and its environment is properly set up to connect. Today, that gets a lot easier, especially if you’re a VS Code user! We’re launching Neon Local Connect, a new VS Code ext

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

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-01-23 00:27:51

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 2026-01-23 00:56:04

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 02:20:20

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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How to configure X11 in a simple way

news.ycombinator.com Eugene Andrienko 2026-01-23 02:02:37

Speaking about xrandr . I tried some GUI applications, like arandr, to switch between various multimonitor configurations — but found that they all are using just a limited subset of xrandr features. For example, I can't use mixed DPI settings or scale some outputs with arandr, but I can do it with xrandr: https://mas.to/@evgandr/114394277310057344. Yes, the X can do that! The well-known rumors (usually spreaded by Wayland fans) that only Wayland can do such things — looks like a fake. There a

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Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 00:28:28

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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iPhone 17 Air Rumors and Leaks: Expected Features, Trade-Offs and Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 00:30:00

Key takeaways The iPhone "Air" reportedly will come in the buzzed-about sky blue hue, along with three other color options. Apple's new iOS 26's AI-powered feature, Adaptive Power, could help lessen the battery drain for a skinnier iPhone. The price of a skinnier iPhone is still up in the air and could be subject to tariffs. We're less than two months away from finally seeing whether a rumored ultra-thin iPhone lives up to its hype. Whispers about Apple's new iPhone 17 line have been floatin

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Netflix’s push into tie-in games now includes two weird Happy Gilmore titles

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2026-01-23 02:00:00

Netflix seems to have finally settled on something resembling a strategy for its gaming efforts, and one of the key pillars is games tied to its shows and movies. That’s how we got the likes of Squid Game: Unleashed and Black Mirror’s Thronglets. Now, as Happy Gilmore 2 hits the streaming service, it’s accompanied by a pair of games that show just how promotional Netflix can be. The first game is actually pretty fun, though it’s not really a whole game. It’s called Happy Gilmore: Golf Mayhem ’9

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It’s Qwen’s summer: new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 tops OpenAI, Gemini reasoning models on key benchmarks

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-23 05:47:28

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 If the AI industry had an equivalent to the recording industry’s “song of the summer” — a hit that catches on in the warmer months here in the Northern Hemisphere and is heard playing everywhere — the clear honoree for that title would go to Alibaba’s Qwen Team. Over just the past week, the frontier model AI research division of the Chines

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Apple announces new series ‘Pluribus’ from the creator of Breaking Bad, watch the teaser here

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-01-23 06:12:35

Apple today announced a new series from Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad. The series is called ‘Pluribus’ and stars Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul). It will premiere on Apple TV+ on November 7. It appears to be a mysterious sci-fi thriller in which “the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness”. You can watch the 30-second teaser after the break: Obviously, the show is highly-anticipated given the pedigree of the people behind it. Apple is also promoting the

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I found a $300 Motorola phone that offers flagship features at a fraction of the price

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-23 06:46:00

Motorola Moto G Power (2025) ZDNET's key takeaways Motorola's Moto G Power is currently on sale for $299 on Amazon. It boasts multi-day battery life, a 6.8-inch Full HD+ screen, and decent performance for a mid-range phone. However, its similarities to the base Moto G may not be enough to convince people to pay an extra $100. View now at Amazon Motorola's Moto G Power is the sibling to the 2025 Moto G, a solid mid-tier smartphone that I reviewed not too long ago. The variant is not a huge upg

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The next big wireless charging leap is coming soon: What Qi2 25W means for Android phones

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-23 06:54:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Wireless charging is about to get a lot faster. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an open standards development group of more than 300 members who work together to ensure compatibility between wireless chargers and power sources, announced a new, faster standard for wireless charging today: Qi2 25W. Also: The best wireless chargers: Expert tested Qi2 25W will deliver nearly 70% more power than the original 15W Qi2, which launched in November, 2023. The new standard will b

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Steam, Itch.io Are Pulling 'Porn' Games. Critics Say It's a Slippery Slope

news.ycombinator.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-01-23 06:27:51

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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Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

news.ycombinator.com Jul 2026-01-23 05:36:52

Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media. In a statement to 404 Media, Tea confirmed the breach also impacted some direct messages but said that the data is fr

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Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

news.ycombinator.com Udesky 2026-01-20 12:16:26

Credit: Getty Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature, according to a survey. The findings suggest that there is a need for increased awareness of how and why to share such data, as well as for changes in how research productivity is assessed. The survey drew responses from 11,069 researchers in 166 countries and all major scientific disciplines. It found that 98% recognize the value of null results, which the su

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nullable but not null

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 05:22:02

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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Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2026-01-23 05:25:23

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of cryptography. Several years ago, researchers found a radically new approach to encryption that lacks this potential weak spot. The approach exploits the peculiar features of quantum physics. But unlike earlier quantum encryption schemes, which only work for a few special tasks,

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Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

Hasbro’s Wearable Wolverine Mask Comes With Its Own Sharp Points

Elden Ring: Nightreign's Duo Mode Is Coming to Save You From Matchmaking Hell

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Neon Now Runs in VS Code

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

Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library

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Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach

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It’s Qwen’s summer: new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 tops OpenAI, Gemini reasoning models on key benchmarks

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I found a $300 Motorola phone that offers flagship features at a fraction of the price

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Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

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