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Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-02 17:40:25

Progress on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ground to a halt on Thursday, August 7, when a federal judge ordered a two-week ban on construction. The ruling follows a hearing in a lawsuit by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians. The plaintiffs—Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Everglades, and the Miccosukee—allege that hasty construction of the facility in the Everglades unlawfully moved forward without public input or an environmental impact st

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California jury rules Meta violated privacy law in case involving period-tracking app

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-05 11:59:20

A California jury ruled against Meta in a privacy-related lawsuit involving the alleged collection of sensitive data from Flo, a period-tracking app. The jury ruled that the plaintiffs proved that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, according to a verdict form filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California. The ruling stems from a class-action lawsuit dating back to 2021 against the health-tech company Flo Health and other businesses like Meta, Go

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Narwal’s Self-Cleaning, AI-Enhanced Robot Vacuum and Mop From CES Is Finally Ready to Buy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 06:00:00

Narwal has a pretty extensive lineup of robot vacuums, many of which we’ve tested in our roundup of the best robot vacuums. One of the latest additions to the lineup is the Narwal Flow, first announced at CES 2025. As the name suggests, the Flow is another high-end robot vacuum that focuses on mopping, but it also comes with more advanced AI navigation and the ability to self-clean and detangle itself. It’s now available for sale at $1,499 full price and $1,099 for presale. According to Narwal

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Android 16 QPR1 makes it easier to find your recent apps with its taskbar overflow

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 22:13:19

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Android 16 QPR1 release will add a taskbar overflow button to improve app switching on tablets when many apps have been recently opened. Tapping the overflow button will open a horizontally scrolling carousel that displays previews of your recent apps. This feature is live in the latest Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 release, suggesting it will be available in the September stable release of Android 16 QPR1. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (05:13 PM ET): The tas

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Analyzing Control Flow More Like a Human [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 22:26:04

Time and Location Date: Wednesday, August 6 Wednesday, August 6 Time: 1:00-2:00PM 1:00-2:00PM Location: Luddy Hall 1104 Abstract Control-flow analysis has been around for over four decades. Over this time period, the typical formulation has remained essentially an exhaustive analysis over whole programs—an analyzer ingests an entire higher-order program and produces a flow fact for each point therein. An alternative approach is demand-driven. Implementing this approach, an analyzer allows t

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Jury Decides Meta Stole Data from Users of Period-Tracking App. What to Do If You're Worried

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 21:01:00

A California jury ruled Wednesday that Meta broke state privacy laws by collecting data from the popular period-tracking app Flo, including private health data and pregnancy goals. The case claimed that, among other actions, Meta used the data to create targeted advertising content. As Meta claims it will fight the verdict, the court continues to decide specific financial damages -- and the plaintiffs have asked for billions. A representative for Meta did not immediately respond to a request fo

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Researchers Uncover Hurricane Sandy’s Hidden Death Toll

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-09 08:40:11

More than a decade after Hurricane Sandy flooded the East Coast and killed over 200 people, a new study has revealed the storm’s lasting impact on mortality risk among older adults. The researchers linked hurricane flood exposure to a 9% increase in risk of death for people over the age of 65 who continued living in the area after landfall. Experts estimate that Hurricane Sandy caused over $60 billion in damage after it made landfall in 2012. Record-breaking storm surge and catastrophic floodin

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Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 12:08:01

It's been extremely difficult for me to achieve a flow state while using tools like `claude code` because I have to wait after every interaction. I get easily distracted, my mind wonders and I find myself reading HN and browsing the internet. I'm more productive in most of the tasks I need to do but in some of these detours I loose long periods of times without even noticing. I've tried keeping the console open and reading through the AI agent process but that gets me nervous after a few intera

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Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 08:05:23

A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state's wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a preponderance of evidence that Meta intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device, said a verdict form released yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs also proved that they had a reasona

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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-12 12:01:02

A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of collecting private health data, like their period dates and fertility goals, via Flo’s app without permission, therefore violating Cali

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Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

news.ycombinator.com Lesley Henton 2025-12-08 21:22:18

A tool developed at Texas A&M University is set to transform how emergency responders assess damage after disasters. The technology, known as CLARKE (Computer vision and Learning for Analysis of Roads and Key Edifices) uses artificial intelligence and drone imagery to evaluate damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure in a matter of minutes. CLARKE was created by a team of researchers led by Tom Manzini, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science and engineering, and Dr. Robin Murphy, a pi

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Dental Floss Could Deliver Next-Gen Vaccines, No Needles Required

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-14 03:52:29

Flu shot season is around the corner, and while injections remain the most common form of vaccination, scientists are working hard to find other ways to deliver inoculations that don’t involve shoving a needle into your flesh. And in a new study, researchers think they might have found another novel approach: dental floss. In the new work, a team of scientists based in the U.S. demonstrated how this might work on lab mice, finding that vaccine delivery via dental floss was more effective at sti

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Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

news.ycombinator.com Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen 2025-12-14 17:30:01

Zoom image will be displayed A man looking at the window and thinking Every Visual Workflow Tool is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen 5 min read · 3 hours ago 3 hours ago -- Listen Share There’s a saying that goes “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” But what happens when you trade your hammer for a Fisher-Price toy hammer and convince yourself it’s an upgrade? That’s exactly what’s happening with visual workflow tools, and I’m tired of pret

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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:55:47

← index Doing anti-aliasing on SDF is not as straightforward as it seems. Most of the time, we see people use a smoothstep with hardcoded constants, sometimes with screen space information, sometimes cryptic or convoluted formulas. Even if SDFs have the perfect mathematical properties needed for a clean anti-aliasing, the whole issue has a scope larger than it appears at first glance. And even when trivial solutions exist, it's not always clear why they are a good fit. Let's study that together

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How Florida quietly surpassed California in solar growth

cnbc.com Lisa Setyon Jeniece Pettitt 2025-12-15 09:00:01

Solar energy is booming across the U.S. and, for the first time, Florida is catching up to industry powerhouses Texas and California. Despite removing climate change from its official state policy in 2024, Florida added more utility-scale solar than California last year, with over 3 gigawatts of new capacity coming online. "This is not a fluke," said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie. "Florida is now shaping national solar growth." The surge is being driven by utilities,

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Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-15 04:46:00

The big picture: Software developers are increasingly weaving AI tools into their work, but such rapid adoption hasn't come without confusion or conflict. They and their managers are still trying to work out when these tools help, when they hurt, and how to integrate them without creating more problems than they solve. In its annual poll of 49,000 professional developers, Stack Overflow found that 80 percent use AI tools in their work in 2025, a share that has surged in recent years. Despite th

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Developers increasingly embrace AI tools even as their trust in them falls

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-15 22:46:00

The big picture: Software developers are increasingly weaving AI tools into their work, but such rapid adoption hasn't come without confusion or conflict. They and their managers are still trying to work out when these tools help, when they hurt, and how to integrate them without creating more problems than they solve. In its annual poll of 49,000 professional developers, Stack Overflow found that 80 percent use AI tools in their work in 2025, a share that has surged in recent years. Despite th

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DJI's Amflow e-bikes are available to order in the US, but they don't come cheap

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 08:45:38

DJI's Amflow electric mountain bikes are now available to buy in the US , one full year after they made their way to European customers. These bikes include the company's proprietary and impressive Avinox drive system, which is built around a 1000W motor capable of producing 120Nm of max torque. This system is also light and compact, allowing for efficiently-designed bikes like the Amflow line. The Amflow PL e-bike weighs just over 40 pounds and includes a four-bar linkage structure, a rear sho

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DJI finally brings its impressive Amflow e-bike to US trails

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-12-22 12:00:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Starting today, DJI’s Amflow electric mountain bike range is available to buy in the United States. It comes over a year since the showcase for DJI’s very impressive Avinox drive system was launched in Europe, sending shockwaves through the industry and leaving stalwarts like Bosch and Specialized struggling to respond. What’s most imp

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Russian airline Aeroflot grounds dozens of flights after cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-25 03:51:30

Aeroflot, Russia's flag carrier, has suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the cancellation of more than 60 flights and severe delays on additional flights. Although official sources from Russia, like the General Prosecutor's Office, did not attribute the attack to specific threat groups or even origin, responsibility was taken by Ukrainian and Belarusian hacktivist collectives 'Silent Crow' and 'Cyberpartisans BY.' The latter are known for previous attacks on the Belarusian Railway, the cou

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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-25 17:00:00

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 More developers than ever before are using AI tools to both assist and generate code. While enterprise AI adoption accelerates, new data from Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey exposes a critical blind spot: the mounting technical debt created by AI tools that generate “almost right” solutions, potentially undermining the productivity

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Robo-Bunnies Are the Latest Weapon Against Florida’s Invasive Pythons

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-27 08:55:06

Invasive Burmese pythons are a scourge upon South Florida. These massive snakes are one of the region’s most pernicious pests, posing a significant risk to local biodiversity as they chow down on native wildlife. Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida through the exotic pet trade in the 1970s and are now among the state’s top predators. Researchers and conservationists have been working to wrangle the python problem through capture and kill programs but have faced significant challenges. Th

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Cognitive Offloading: How AI is Quietly Eroding Our Critical Thinking

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-28 05:00:30

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly permeated every facet of modern life, seamlessly performing tasks ranging from trivial errands to complex decision-making processes. The allure of AI lies predominantly in its unmatched potential for efficiency, convenience, and accuracy. However, this unprecedented convenience brings with it a hidden yet profound threat: the subtle erosion of human capacity for critical thinking through cognitive offloading. Understanding Cognitive Offloading Cognitive

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-28 11:33:35

In Brief Flights across Russia have been grounded after a cyberattack hit the country’s largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday. Details of the cyberattack remain limited, but a pro-Ukrainian hacker group known for targeting Russian organizations called Silent Crow took credit for the cyberattack alongside Belarusian hackers, citing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. The group said in a Telegram post, seen by TechCrunch, that it had taken control of Aeroflot’s critical systems, including terabytes

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hit by cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-28 17:33:35

In Brief Flights across Russia have been grounded after a cyberattack hit the country’s largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday. Details of the cyberattack remain limited, but a pro-Ukrainian hacker group known for targeting Russian organizations called Silent Crow took credit for the cyberattack alongside Belarusian hackers, citing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. The group said in a Telegram post, seen by TechCrunch, that it had taken control of Aeroflot’s critical systems, including terabytes

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Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 23:30:42

Braving the dance floor in broad daylight — or even just when the overhead lights are on — frequently does not end well. Your clumsy moves, weird facial expressions, or catastrophic blunders will likely be captured by someone with their phone out, who will then quickly deliver the footage to potentially millions of eyeballs online. On that note, we now report that a robot has eaten dirt after trying to show off some of some dashing choreography — and seemingly had its soul sucked out of its cor

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Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 20:43:26

QuickTunes is a simple and fast Apple Music client for macOS. It aims to bring the simplicity of music players from the early 2000s like the iPod to your Mac. With QuickTunes, you can easily drill into your playlists, albums, artists, and songs, pick something, and press Play. Your browser does not support the video tag. The app is optimized to make navigating your music library a breeze with buttery smooth scrolling, keyboard navigation, and multi-touch gestures. The beautiful floating player

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Floods and Other Disasters Kill More People at Night, but Not for the Reasons You Think

gizmodo.com Kate Yoder 2025-12-28 18:00:19

It was 4 a.m. on July 4 at Camp La Junta in Kerr County when Kolton Taylor woke up to the sound of screaming. The 12-year-old boy stepped out of bed and straight into knee-deep floodwaters from the nearby Guadalupe River. Before long, the water had already risen to his waist. In the darkness, he managed to feel for his tennis shoes floating nearby, put them on, and escape to the safety of the hillside. All 400 people at the all-boys camp survived, even as they watched one of their cabins float a

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The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

wired.com Tik Root 2025-12-28 17:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The country watched in horror as torrential rain drenched Texas earlier this month, sweeping at least 135 people to their death. Kerr County alone lost 107, including more than two dozen children at Camp Mystic. From afar, it would be easy, even tempting, to think that floods like these could never happen to you. That the disaster is remote. It’s not. As details of the tragedy have come into focus, the lis

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Killing Floor 3 Review: Two Bloody Steps Forward, One Step Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 04:00:00

Killing Floor 3 is a case study in contradictions, positively iterating on the best aspects from the series' past while introducing confusing features that would make more sense in another game. Put simply, the new changes make Killing Floor 3 a AA-feeling horde shooter with a battle pass. It's a pick-up-and-play arcade game with a loadout system. But most bafflingly of all, the game introduces a complex, grindy weapon modding system even though there's a rather limited arsenal to stuff all tho

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Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

California jury rules Meta violated privacy law in case involving period-tracking app

Narwal’s Self-Cleaning, AI-Enhanced Robot Vacuum and Mop From CES Is Finally Ready to Buy

Android 16 QPR1 makes it easier to find your recent apps with its taskbar overflow

Analyzing Control Flow More Like a Human [video]

Jury Decides Meta Stole Data from Users of Period-Tracking App. What to Do If You're Worried

Researchers Uncover Hurricane Sandy’s Hidden Death Toll

Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?

Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds

Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

Using drone imagery and AI to rapidly assess damage after hurricanes and floods

Dental Floss Could Deliver Next-Gen Vaccines, No Needles Required

Every Visual Workflow Tool Is Just Excel for Developers Who Gave Up

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

How Florida quietly surpassed California in solar growth

Software developers use AI more than ever, but trust it less

Developers increasingly embrace AI tools even as their trust in them falls

DJI's Amflow e-bikes are available to order in the US, but they don't come cheap

DJI finally brings its impressive Amflow e-bike to US trails

Russian airline Aeroflot grounds dozens of flights after cyberattack

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hit by cyberattack

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

Floods and Other Disasters Kill More People at Night, but Not for the Reasons You Think

The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come

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