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Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

news.ycombinator.com Meghie Rodrigues 2025-10-15 11:56:37

A new, promising technique has the potential to replace laser surgeries in ophthalmologists’ offices in the future, for a fraction of the cost. Called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), the technique offers a gentler approach to correcting the cornea than Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), today’s gold standard for treating vision issues including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The eye develops these and other conditions when the cornea’s curvature is off—too stee

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Canada’s First Moon Mission to Fly Aboard Firefly Spacecraft

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-16 07:33:28

Canada’s first-ever Moon rover is going to hitch a ride aboard private space company’s Firefly Aerospace’s fourth Blue Ghost mission to our celestial satellite. The news comes after NASA awarded Firefly $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar surface. The Texas-based company pulled-off its first Moon landing on March 2, delivering payloads for NASA as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative (CLPS). Firefly is set to launch its

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Electromechanical Reshaping Offers Safer Eye Surgery

news.ycombinator.com Meghie Rodrigues 2025-10-16 17:56:37

A new, promising technique has the potential to replace laser surgeries in ophthalmologists’ offices in the future, for a fraction of the cost. Called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), the technique offers a gentler approach to correcting the cornea than Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), today’s gold standard for treating vision issues including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The eye develops these and other conditions when the cornea’s curvature is off—too stee

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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 03:40:38

People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from content delivery network Cloudflare and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Internet registry. The certificates, issued in May, can be used to decrypt domain lookup queries encrypted through DNS over HTTPS, a protocol that provides end-to-end encryption when end-user devices seek the IP address of a particular domain they want to acce

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Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 03:45:49

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter can resume her work as a commissioner for the FTC, a federal appeals court has ruled. Slaughter, who was one of the two Democratic commissioners for the FTC that President Trump fired back in March, filed a lawsuit for her reinstatement. "Your continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my administration’s priorities," a letter to the commissioners said. In July, US District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal e

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EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-20 03:00:58

The European Union has put plans to fine Google on hold. The commission in charge of doling out punishment for digital infractions is reportedly worried that fining the U.S. tech giant for allegedly abusing its dominance in online advertising could provoke U.S. President Donald Trump. Bloomberg and Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources, that E.U. officials had planned to announce the antitrust sanction on Monday; however, that deadline came and went without an announcement. The Commission h

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The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-20 19:20:41

A dangerous, sometimes deadly, infection spread by kissing bugs is regularly spreading within America. In a recent paper, researchers are claiming that Chagas disease is endemic to parts of the southern U.S. and is probably here to stay. Scientists in Florida, Texas, and California made the case in a paper published last month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Citing evidence from infected humans, animals, and kissing bugs, they argue that Chagas has established a persistent presence

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Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 07:30:51

There's a new player in the AI race, and it's a whole country. Switzerland has just released Apertus, its open-source national Large Language Model (LLM) that it hopes would be an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI. Apertus, Latin for the world "open," was developed by the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), all of which are public institutions. "Currently, Apertus is the leading public AI mod

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First Z Fold 6, now Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners complain of paint peeling

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 04:31:12

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Some Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners have reported chipped paint on their phones. Many owners claimed that they haven’t dropped their devices. It’s possible that chargers are affecting the anodized body of the Z Fold 7, much like the Z Fold 6. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has been on the market for just over a month now, and we praised the foldable phone in our review. However, some owners are discovering a rather weird hardware issue that we previously sa

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Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 04:42:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon had a very eventful August, thanks mainly to the unpopular decision to cut loyalty discounts. The company had to resort to damage control by offering new discounts instead of the old ones, but some customers felt tricked into accepting lower discounts. If you were willing to look past all of this, the carrier just bounced back after a rough weekend where it suffered a service outage. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a pre

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China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

wired.com Lorenzo Lamperti 2025-10-24 03:30:00

China is preparing for one of the most anticipated and politically charged military events in recent years. On September 3, in Tiananmen Square, China will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II with a spectacular military parade that is not only a ritual of historical remembrance but also a message to the entire world to be prepared for the war of the future. President Xi Jinping and several foreign leaders and officials, including Vladimir Putin, will attend

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Android 16 has an annoying notification bug, but a fix is coming

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 04:18:06

Google released the stable version of Android 16 back in June, and it brings some welcome features to the platform. Unfortunately, the update has also introduced a peculiar bug for some. A user posted a report on Google’s Issue Tracker back in June, detailing a strange notification issue in Android 16. More specifically, the user and several others found that notifications don’t play any sounds when there’s already a notification in the notification shade. “When testing notifications, we reali

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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-23 20:54:13

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM

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15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

news.ycombinator.com Xu 2025-10-20 12:58:24

STEG output power enhancement strategies A STEG generates electrical power when there’s a ΔT across its hot and cold sides. The generated power is expressed as38 $${P}_{{STEG}}={\left({S}_{{TEG}}\varDelta T\right)}^{2}\frac{{R}_{L}}{{\left({R}_{L}+R\right)}^{2}}$$ (1) where ${S}_{{TEG}}$ is the effective Seebeck coefficient of the TEG, R is the total electrical resistance between the TEG terminals, and ${R}_{L}$ is the load resistance. For a given TE material, an effective way to increase

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Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows certificate enrollment errors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-24 19:02:25

Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing false CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) error messages after installing the July 2025 preview and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 updates. When it acknowledged this bug two weeks ago, the company asked users to ignore error events caused by recent updates that triggered a warning about the 'Microsoft Pluton Cryptographic Provider' not being loaded. "Following installation of the July 2025 Windows non-security preview update (KB5062660) and later upd

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Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-25 11:21:27

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). Redmond first told BleepingComputer last week that it is aware of users reporting SSD failures after installing this month's Windows 11 24H2 security update. In a subsequent service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Redmond said that it was unable to reproduce the issue on up-to-date systems and b

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PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 01:57:46

Alan Coopersmith reports: On 6/16/25 15:12, Alan Coopersmith wrote: BTW, users of libxml2 may also be using its sibling project, libxslt, which currently has no active maintainer, but has three unfixed security issues reported against it according to https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Releng/security/-/wikis/2025#libxml2-and-libxslt 2 of the 3 have now been disclosed: (CVE-2025-7424) libxslt: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source nodes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxs

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-26 00:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-26 05:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-26 23:14:21

An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms. The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi rather than comply with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that, as a small team, it lacked the resources to implement the substanti

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Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 03:03:01

I'll start with the tl;dr summary to make sure everyone sees it and then explain further: As of September 1, we will temporarily be forced to block access to Dreamwidth from all IP addresses that geolocate to Mississippi for legal reasons. This block will need to continue until we either win the legal case entirely, or the district court issues another injunction preventing Mississippi from enforcing their social media age verification and parental consent law against us. Mississippi residents,

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3 Things James O’Donnell is into right now

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-10-30 09:00:00

Overthink This is a podcast in which two very smart people (who happen to be young and hilarious professors of philosophy) draw unexpected philosophical connections between facets of modern life. Ellie Anderson and David Peña-Guzmán have done hour-long episodes on everything from mommy issues to animal justice, with particularly sharp segments on tech-adjacent issues like biohacking and the relationship between AI and art. Whenever I think society is dealing with a brand-new problem, these two

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Starship Nails 10th Test Flight, Putting SpaceX Back on Track

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-10-30 14:44:37

Following a string of unsuccessful flights, SpaceX managed to pull off its most successful test in months, with Starship fulfilling a number of key milestones. It was a good day for SpaceX. The megarocket blasted off on time, leaving the Starbase launch mount at 7:30 p.m. ET. Stage separation went off without a hitch, with the Super Heavy booster landing in the ocean as planned nearly 7 minutes into the mission. Second engine cutoff (SECO) occurred a few minutes later, and Starship began to cru

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SpaceX Just Sent the ISS a New Way to Stay in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-31 06:05:29

The International Space Station (ISS) has been in orbit for over 26 years, housing astronauts at an altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. But even at that distance, the space station can’t escape the drag of Earth’s atmosphere as oxygen molecules and other gases collide with it, causing it to lose altitude over time. For the ISS to retain its status in orbit, NASA and its partners perform the occasional reboost maneuver. This is typically done using the space station’s own thruste

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Not so fast: German court says Apple can’t call Watch carbon neutral

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-31 22:35:27

Two years ago, Apple announced its Watch Series 9 as its first carbon-neutral product. From cradle to grave, the company said the manufacturing, use, and disposal of the then-new model didn’t contribute to global warming. Now, a German court says that Apple has to recant the claim. Each aluminum Apple Watch Series 9 and Series 10 — two models with the carbon-neutral designation — generates just over 8 kilograms of carbon emissions. Apple then offsets those emissions through the purchase of car

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Nissan confirms design studio data breach claimed by Qilin ransomware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 10:48:25

Nissan Japan has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it suffered a data breach following unauthorized access to a server of one of its subsidiaries, Creative Box Inc. (CBI). This came in response to the Qilin ransomware group's claims that they had stolen four terabytes of data from CBI, including 3D vehicle design models, internal reports, financial documents, VR design workflows, and photos. "On August 16, 2025, suspicious access was detected on the data server of Creative Box Inc. (CBI), a c

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Crypto Bros’ ‘Startup Nation’ Wants to Plant a Flag on an Asteroid

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-01 10:10:00

The “Network State” movement, described by its detractors as a “cult,” is an ideological movement that seeks to create privately owned, anarcho-capitalist, “autonomous” communities. One such community, the Republic of Liberland, recently made two announcements that its denizens seem to think are quite exciting: 1) Liberland has a new “prime minister” in the form of crypto billionaire Justin Sun, and 2) the bold explorers of Liberland plan to express their collective spirit of adventure by planti

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Two smart ring brands will no longer be available to US shoppers (Update: Statement)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-03 10:42:37

Ultrahuman also tells Android Authority that it is fast-tracking a newly designed smart ring. You can read the full statement below: We welcome the ITC’s recognition of consumer-protective exemptions and its rejection of attempts to block the access of U.S. consumers. Customers can continue purchasing and importing Ring AIR directly from us through October 21, 2025, and at retailers beyond this date. What’s more, our software application and charging accessories remain fully available, after t

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Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 00:15:20

Microsoft is working to resolve an Exchange Online issue causing email access problems for Outlook mobile users who use Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA). HMA is a Microsoft Exchange Server feature that allows users to access on-premises mailboxes using authorization tokens from the cloud. Tracked under EX1137017 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, this known issue is caused by a recent service change, designed to improve the efficiency of mailbox syncs, which is triggering 12-hour sync delay

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Optimizing our way through Metroid

news.ycombinator.com Will Wilson 2025-11-02 17:42:01

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

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Latest Tech News

Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

Canada’s First Moon Mission to Fly Aboard Firefly Spacecraft

Electromechanical Reshaping Offers Safer Eye Surgery

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner

EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

The Kissing Bug Disease Has Permanently Moved Into the U.S.

Switzerland launches its own open-source AI model

First Z Fold 6, now Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners complain of paint peeling

Poll: Were you affected by Verizon’s service outage over the weekend?

China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World

Android 16 has an annoying notification bug, but a fix is coming

Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows certificate enrollment errors

Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD

PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

Mississippi’s age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test

Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs

3 Things James O’Donnell is into right now

Starship Nails 10th Test Flight, Putting SpaceX Back on Track

SpaceX Just Sent the ISS a New Way to Stay in Orbit

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Crypto Bros’ ‘Startup Nation’ Wants to Plant a Flag on an Asteroid

Two smart ring brands will no longer be available to US shoppers (Update: Statement)

Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

Optimizing our way through Metroid

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