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Robinhood Wants to Redo Wall Street on the Blockchain

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-11 13:27:24

Robinhood, the company behind one of the most popular trading apps for everyday investors, just revealed a sweeping new vision for the future of finance. And its bold plan seems to leave traditional Wall Street institutions behind. The company announced a daring set of new products this week from Cannes, France. These offerings are designed to move traditional financial assets, like company stocks, investment funds (ETFs), and even complex trading tools called derivatives, entirely onto the blo

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Vortex (Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable de Transport Et D'Exploration)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-08 13:58:55

As an architect and integrator of complex airborne systems, Dassault Aviation intends to take advantage of its space expertise to develop spaceplane solutions that disrupt current systems. VORTEX (Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable de Transport et d’Exploration) Designed to operate in space and return to Earth like an aircraft, these intrinsically dual-use vehicles have the potential to transform space operations—enabling new applications across commercial, scientific, and military missions. Space

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is Already Hurting Health Care Facilities

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-12 23:45:07

The U.S. House made it official Thursday, passing the so-called Big Beautiful Bill in a vote of 218-214. The bill, hailed by President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, is projected to strip at least 17 million people of health insurance over the next decade and add $3-4 trillion to the national debt. And while there are plenty of predictions about what the massive cuts to Medicaid will do to hospital systems around the country long term, we won’t have to wait too long to see the impact. Me

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Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology

news.ycombinator.com Alan Stapelberg 2025-08-15 00:36:13

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance. Open sourcing these powerful cryptographic tools will make it much easier for private and public sector developers to build their own privacy-enhancing applications and digital ID solutions, meeting an urgent need. In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any

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The 7 Best Kitchen Scales Reviewed by a Former Chocolatier (2025)

wired.com Tyler Shane 2025-08-15 20:03:00

It’s hard to overstate the convenience of a solid kitchen scale for home cooks. Digital kitchen scales open up a new world of possibilities when it comes to upping your cooking or baking game, allowing precision in measuring ingredients, consistency in recipes, and efficiency in the kitchen. As more and more recipes are converted to grams (my favorite measuring metric), there’s no reason to put off investing in a digital scale, especially with how affordable these gadgets can be. Most—like our

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Capital One builds agentic AI to supercharge auto sales

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-15 14:26:12

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 Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems. At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business. Milind Naphade, SVP of Technology and Head of AI Foundations at Capital One, said during VB Transform that the company wanted its agents to function

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DOJ investigates ex-ransomware negotiator over extortion kickbacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-16 19:14:41

An ex-ransomware negotiator is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly working with ransomware gangs to profit from extortion payment deals. The suspect is a former employee of DigitalMint, a Chicago-based incident response and digital asset services company that specializes in ransomware negotiation and facilitating cryptocurrency payments to receive a decryptor or prevent stolen data from being publicly released. The company claims to have conducted over 2,000

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The Zen of Quakerism (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Martin Kelley 2025-08-14 04:40:19

Q uakers and Buddhists have a few things in common. Most importantly, they share a common humanity and a commitment to creating peace in the world. They are both enlightenment religions. Both George Fox and the Buddha experienced a transformative, liberating awareness through the dedicated practice of quiet contemplation. My life is an intersection of these religions. I was born a Quaker, to Quaker parents with Quaker grandparents and great-grandparents. I attended Friends schools through colle

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The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat

news.ycombinator.com Joe Rosenberg 2025-08-15 00:03:12

Everyone grows up learning the same story about the RMS Titanic, that when the ship set out on its maiden voyage in 1912, the owners and authorities, confident that the ship was unsinkable, did not require it to carry a full complement of lifeboats. So when the Titanic sank in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, more than half of the people on board died for lack of lifeboat space. But the more you learn about the history of lifeboats and how they worked, the more you realize that the stand

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The Titanic's Best Lifeboat

news.ycombinator.com Joe Rosenberg 2025-08-15 20:03:12

Everyone grows up learning the same story about the RMS Titanic, that when the ship set out on its maiden voyage in 1912, the owners and authorities, confident that the ship was unsinkable, did not require it to carry a full complement of lifeboats. So when the Titanic sank in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, more than half of the people on board died for lack of lifeboat space. But the more you learn about the history of lifeboats and how they worked, the more you realize that the stand

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Capital One builds agentic AI modeled after its own org chart to supercharge auto sales

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-18 12:26:12

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Inspiration can come from different places, even for architecting and designing agentic systems. At VB Transform, Capital One explained how it built its agentic platform for its auto business. Milind Naphade, SVP of Technology and Head of AI Foundations at Capital One, said during VB Transform that the company wanted its agents to functio

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Catalio Capital closes over $400M Fund IV

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-08-19 04:00:00

In Brief Venture capital firm Catalio Capital Management announced today the closing of its more than $400 million Fund IV, as first reported by Bloomberg. The fund will continue the firm’s thesis of backing healthcare and biotechnology companies. The firm was founded in 2020 and has made more than 100 investments, according to PitchBook. Catalio’s Fund IV, in particular, has backed 16 companies already, including the diagnostics company PinkDx and the drug discovery company Superluminal Medic

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Brazil’s antitrust watchdog says Apple must face penalties over App Store restrictions [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-19 21:04:39

Apple’s week is off to a rough start. First, Proton filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. Almost simultaneously, a judge in New Jersey rejected Apple’s attempt to dismiss a federal antitrust case. And on Monday night, things got a little worse: CADE, Brazil’s antitrust watchdog, formally recommended that Apple be sanctioned for the “imposition of the exclusive use of its payment system by app developers and the restriction on the distribution and commercialization of third-party digital serv

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xAI raises $10B in debt and equity

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-08-20 12:35:54

In Brief Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley confirmed on Monday. In a post on X, the financial giant said xAI had raised $5 billion in debt and another $5 billion in a separate strategic equity transaction. “The combination of debt and equity reduces the overall cost of capital and substantially expands pools of capital available to xAI. The proceeds will support xAI’s continued development of cutting-edge AI solutions, including one of the

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Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs

news.ycombinator.com Steve Walters 2025-08-20 18:04:53

James R. “Jim” Boddie, a pioneer of the programmable, single-chip digital signal processor, died on 2 December at his home in Canton, Ga., following a long illness. The IEEE senior member was 74. While working as an architect and designer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., Boddie applied his expertise in signal processing algorithms to develop a new type of semiconductor: the DSP. The integrated circuit, which Bell Labs called DSP1, was announced at the 1980 International Solid-State C

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Bell Labs DSP Pioneer Jim Boddie Leaves Lasting Legacy

news.ycombinator.com Steve Walters 2025-08-21 04:04:53

James R. “Jim” Boddie, a pioneer of the programmable, single-chip digital signal processor, died on 2 December at his home in Canton, Ga., following a long illness. The IEEE senior member was 74. While working as an architect and designer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., Boddie applied his expertise in signal processing algorithms to develop a new type of semiconductor: the DSP. The integrated circuit, which Bell Labs called DSP1, was announced at the 1980 International Solid-State C

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Trump’s tariff threat pushes Canada to scrap digital services tax

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-22 08:15:47

In a sudden reversal, Canada has caved and will remove its digital services tax after trade talks with the US suddenly fell apart this weekend. Blocked just hours before taking effect, the controversial digital services tax (DST) would have charged big US tech companies like Apple, Google, and Meta a 3 percent tax on all digital services revenue earned from Canadian users. Frustrating US tech giants, Canada also sought to collect retroactive taxes dating back to 2022. Over the weekend, Donald

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Canada drops Big Tech tax to appease Trump

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-22 08:17:08

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. Canada has scrapped its tax targeting Big Tech companies in the US after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade talks in response to the fee. On Sunday, the Canadian government announced that it will no longer implement the Digital Services Tax as it works to reach a trade deal with the US by July 21st. The Digital Services Tax would’ve

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Landmark deepfake law aims to give Denmark's citizens rights over their image, voice, and likeness

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-08-22 16:17:00

Denmark has proposed sweeping legislation to curb the rise of AI-generated deepfakes, positioning itself as a leader in European digital rights protection. The suggested amendment to Danish copyright law would grant individuals explicit ownership of their image, voice, and facial features – empowering them to demand the removal of unauthorized digital copies from online platforms. The move comes as deepfake technology grows more accessible and sophisticated. These digital forgeries convincingly

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Landmark deepfake law aims to give Danish citizens legal control over their digital identity

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-08-22 21:17:00

Denmark has proposed sweeping legislation to curb the rise of AI-generated deepfakes, positioning itself as a leader in European digital rights protection. The suggested amendment to Danish copyright law would grant individuals explicit ownership of their image, voice, and facial features – empowering them to demand the removal of unauthorized digital copies from online platforms. The move comes as deepfake technology grows more accessible and sophisticated. These digital forgeries convincingly

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Denmark’s Plan to Fight Deepfakes: Give Citizens Copyright to Their Own Likeness

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-22 21:56:55

Here’s a weird potential future: When you’re born, you are issued a birth certificate, a social security card, and a copyright. That possibility is emerging in Denmark, where officials are considering changes to the nation’s copyright laws to provide citizens with a right to their own likeness as a means of combating AI-generated deepfakes, according to The Guardian. The proposal, advanced by the Danish Ministry of Culture and expected for a parliamentary vote this fall, would grant Danish citi

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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-22 21:28:47

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks. Previously known as Worldcoin, World was created under Altman and Alex Blania’s Tools for Humanity. The organization says it can help distinguish between AI agents and human beings by scanning users’ eyeballs and creating a unique identity for them on the blockchain. In a lengthy post, Buterin noted that World’s approach of using zero-know

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Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Scott Alexander 2025-08-22 19:13:00

The Story So Far The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers, and propaganda were the most important causes of adult personality. Starting in the 1970s, the pendulum swung the other way. Twin studies shocked the world by demonstrating that most behavioral traits - including socially relevant traits like IQ - were substantially genetic. Typical estimates for adult IQ found it was about 60%

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Prime Day invitation-only deals returning to Amazon - here's how to sign up

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-23 20:54:00

With Amazon preparing to kick off Prime Day in less than two weeks, some great deals have already appeared. If years past are any indication, we can expect to see even more significant discounts on July 8 through July 11, with little time to grab them before they're gone. Alexa can help you watch for some highly sought-after deals, but Amazon has also offered a few "invitation-only" opportunities ahead of previous Prime Day events. Also: Best Prime Day Apple deals: My 15 favorite sales live now

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This city is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for OnlyOffice and Linux - here's why

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-24 12:19:04

Jumping Rocks/Contributor/Getty Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL. Also: Ready to ditch Windows? 'End of 10' makes converting your PC to Linux easier than ever So, why is Lyon making this move? Well, it's not due to

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This city is the latest European government to dump Microsoft for Linux

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-24 17:30:15

Jumping Rocks/Contributor/Getty Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL. Also: Ready to ditch Windows? 'End of 10' makes converting your PC to Linux easier than ever So, why is Lyon making this move? Well, it's not due to

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I ditched my phone for this E Ink handset for two weeks - here's my buying advice now

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-25 03:00:21

ZDNET's key takeaways The Mudita Kompakt is available now for $439. The E Ink display is easy on the eyes, the battery lasts for days, and it satisfies the minimalist intention with far fewer distractions. The camera is unnecessary, there is no voice-to-text, and the display is too small to be an effective eBook reader. View now at Mudita Since I started covering mobile phones 20 years ago, I've watched them transform from simple devices to having an all-encompassing impact on our lives. It's

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This BlackBerry Ripoff Is My Only Hope at Feeling Young Again

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-25 21:30:31

I love my phone. Guys, no… I love my phone so much. I hate that I love my phone, but I love it nonetheless. I love my phone so much that I spend all day typing stupid little words into its stupid little screen and waiting for stupid little responses. I love my phone, but it does not love me, especially when it comes to typing. I’m so bad at typing. If there were a contest to try and fail to type the least amount of words in the most amount of attempts, I’d win the triple crown platinum all-time

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Getting by on the Generosity of Strangers in Japan

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Gadbois 2025-08-25 05:03:29

After a long trip, the first thing you tell people when you get home might not be about the bed you slept in or the communal breakfast in the hotel lobby, but hospitality does make a big difference in how you experience a place — whether it’s a spare bed in a stranger’s house or just someone taking the time to show you around. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek knows this. For over 12 years, he’s been tracing the path of human migration on his Out of Eden Walk, a trip that spans multipl

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Eat These 12 Foods To Keep Your Eyes and Vision Sharp As You Age

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 03:26:28

Properly nourishing your body is essential to your overall well-being -- especially your eyesight. You can help strengthen and protect your eyes in simple ways, like taking screen breaks, wearing sunglasses and even eating nourishing foods, vitamins and minerals. The best part is that most of these foods are probably already in your fridge. Some of the best foods for eye health include: Broccoli Salmon Carrots Sunflower seeds Kiwi Oysters Spinach Eggs Learn what other delicious foods c

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