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Elon Musk's X goes down for some users

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-08-16 09:17:37

The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk's social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load the site. More than 15,000 users reported issues with the platform at around 9:53 a.m. ET, according to analytics firm Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to service. The issues appeare

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Elon Musk's X is down for some users

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-08-17 05:40:30

The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Elon Musk's social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load the site. More than 15,000 users reported issues with the platform at around 9:53 a.m. ET, according to analytics firm Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to service. The issues appeare

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Google quietly revamps Android’s permission dialogs for a sleeker design for some

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 09:04:39

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google has redesigned the permissions dialogs that appear in Android. This change appears following the June Google Play system update when applied to the latest Android 16 QPR Beta 2.1. Google has dropped the older design in favor of slimmer buttons and better readability. Even though Google first released a beta for Android 16 last year, its biggest design change didn’t start rolling out until the final beta, just weeks before the final release. With

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Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 17:59:05

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Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature & outdoor heat exposure in Vegas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 03:59:05

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The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-19 21:10:00

2 Apple is considering using rival AI tech to bolster Siri In a massive U-turn, it’s reported to have held talks with Anthropic and OpenAI. (Bloomberg $) + Apple seems to have accepted that its in-house efforts simply can’t compete. (The Verge) 3 DOGE has access to data that may boost Elon Musk’s businesses His rivals are worried their proprietary information could be exposed. (WP $) + Donald Trump has floated tasking DOGE with reviewing Musk’s subsidies. (FT $) + Relations between Musk an

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Addigy’s Prebuilt App Catalog is built to simplify managing macOS apps at scale

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-08-19 22:00:00

Most enterprise apps used on macOS don’t come from the Mac App Store, so IT teams are stuck managing them manually. That includes tracking down the latest versions, packaging them up for deployment, setting up the required permissions, and making sure they’re installed and updated properly across every device. It’s a tedious process that doesn’t scale well, and it introduces security risk when apps fall behind on security updates. Addigy aims to solve this by adding a new Prebuilt App Catalog, w

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Can't hear TV dialogue? I found 3 ways to dramatically improve the audio quality

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-08-20 03:45:12

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you're watching an edgy new streaming series and find yourself turning up the volume for every scene where two actors are engaged in a dramatic dialogue. It seems like both characters are whispering -- until an explosion happens on screen, and the sound is the opposite, almost deafening. Also: The next big HDMI leap is coming soon - what the 2.2 standard means for you What's up with that? It's not just the imbalanced proportion of sound that bothers you, and it's not that

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Nimtable: Open-source web UI to browse and manage Apache Iceberg tables

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 03:27:09

Nimtable: The Control Plane for Apache Iceberg™ A lightweight, easy-to-use platform to monitor, optimize, and govern your Iceberg-based lakehouse. Overview Nimtable helps you easily manage and explore Apache Iceberg catalogs. With a web-based platform designed for clarity and simplicity, Nimtable makes it easy to browse tables, run queries, analyze file distributions, and optimize storage layouts. Key Features 🌟 Multi-Catalog Support Connect to REST Catalog, AWS Glue, AWS S3 Tables, and Po

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My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 11:06:11

My Database is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL Sat May 10 2025 • duckdbsqlwebhooks Back Imagine you need to build a system for processing incoming webhooks. You're probably picturing a familiar setup: a lightweight web server (FastAPI, Flask, Express.js, etc.), some Python (or Node.js, or Go) handlers to parse JSON, a sprinkle of business logic, and then maybe persisting data to a traditional database like PostgreSQL or MySQL. Perhaps you'd toss events onto a messa

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The Download: meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-21 19:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Donald Trump claims to have found buyers for TikTok But will China agree to sell to them? That’s the real hurdle. (FT $) + They have between now and the September 17 deadline to thrash it all out. (CNBC) 2 The Trump administration is becoming even more secretive Staff are being instructed to avoid leaving a paper trial at all costs. (WP $) 3 Canada has rescinded

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The first One UI 8 Watch beta is rolling out now!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 11:50:19

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has released the first One UI 8 Watch beta update to testers. The update is reportedly available in the US and Korea. The changelog mentions additions like the Now Bar, a double-pinch gesture, the ability to create custom tiles, and more. Samsung confirmed earlier this month that One UI 8 Watch was in the pipeline. The company also revealed a few features that will arrive with the new software. Now, the first One UI 8 Watch beta update has inde

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The Book of Shaders (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 20:48:03

The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. Contents About the Authors Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York based artist and developer. He explores interstitial spaces between organic and synthetic, analog and digital, individual and collective. In his work he uses code as an expressive language with the intention of developing a better together.

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The Book of Shaders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 01:48:03

The Book of Shaders by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. Contents About the Authors Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York based artist and developer. He explores interstitial spaces between organic and synthetic, analog and digital, individual and collective. In his work he uses code as an expressive language with the intention of developing a better together.

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iPhone 17 Pro may reposition the Apple logo once again, says leaker

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-21 22:29:54

According to Apple leaker Majin Bu, Apple will once again be repositioning the Apple logo on the next iPhone. Apple last repositioned the Apple logo with the iPhone 11 lineup, and it’s remained centered on the iPhone ever since. Six years later, that may be changing once again – if this rumor holds up. Majin Bu has a spotty track record with Apple rumors, though they have shared a number of accurate tidbits in the past, including the ‘Desert Titanium’ marketing name for the new iPhone 16 Pro co

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Are TikTok Age Tests Legit? Orthopedists Explains How to Measure Biological Age

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 21:00:00

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen fitness challenges based on your biological age. In some cases, it’s funny to see people attempting feats that seem impossible for their age or impressive that they can do them. You’ve probably felt inspired to try out some of these challenges and even questioned their legitimacy. “Most of these challenges, like completing 11 consecutive push-ups (for women), doing pull-ups or performing a kneeling-to-squat jump, are quick scr

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This New Li-Fi Bridge System Promises To Be Big for Broadband

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-22 02:00:00

At the 2025 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in March of this year, pureLiFi and Solace Power announced a new and innovative product: the Bridge XC. The goal of the Bridge XC is to enable fixed wireless access providers -- including 5G home internet, other cellular broadband providers and satellite internet -- to more quickly and easily deploy broadband service to customers. Just recently, pureLiFi partnered with digital service provider, du Telecom, to improve deployment for 5G and fixed wir

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Logitech says all its webcams work with Nintendo Switch 2, save one

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-08-22 21:43:48

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. If you’re looking for a webcam that works with the Nintendo Switch 2’s new GameChat mode that lets you video chat with friends and see their faces within games, it looks like the biggest brand in PC accessories is still your best bet. Logitech is the first webcam maker to confirm to The Verge that the vast majority of its cameras work — al

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Jesse Draper’s Halogen Ventures closes $30M Fund III to focus on ‘future of family’

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-08-22 21:23:26

In Brief Halogen Ventures closed a $30 million Fund III to invest in early-stage startups building in the “future of family,” as reported first by Fortune. The firm was founded in 2015 by Jesse Draper, the daughter of famed venture capitalist Tim Draper. She explained to Fortune that the fund will focus on the physical and financial health of households. Startups in the care economy have received more investor interest in the past few years after the pandemic, which exacerbated childcare and

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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors

news.ycombinator.com Parker Higgins 2025-08-23 21:42:04

10 years of pomological watercolors A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s. Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had been meticulously digitized and put online for purchase, but that less than 100

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XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 13:00:41

XSLT XSLT (1999): native, zero-config build system for the Web. From: Grug brain Paco To: Paco Subject: XSLT most static websites created like this data ( .json , .md , .txt ) , , ) build system (Hugo, Next.js, Astro, …) output (static HTML) me make many website, find build system has much complexity. not understand big project like React Next.js, need many PhD for understand how my markdown blog work me want remove framework (many grug do), want use simple HTML and CSS, use sacred spec

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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-26 13:10:00

When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of molecular processes, such as whether a gene’s activity will go up or down. It’s just the sort of ques

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Kodiak is using Vay’s remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-28 21:50:07

Self-driving trucks developed by Kodiak Robotics contain some remote-driving DNA courtesy of Vay, a driverless car-sharing startup out of Berlin. The two companies, which announced a partnership Wednesday, have been working together since last year when Kodiak’s self-driving trucks began making driverless deliveries for Atlas Energy Solutions in the oil-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. And it will play a critical operational and safety role when Kodiak, which plans to g

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Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-29 21:07:34

Philips is upping the prices of its popular and already-expensive Hue series of smart lighting products starting July 1. The company is blaming tariffs for the changes and has suggested that prices could go up even higher after the initial bump in July. Philips started informing its customers via an email marketing message earlier this month that prices would go up and urged people to buy Hue lighting sooner rather than later. In a statement to the Hueblog website, Philips’ parent company, Sig

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X Display unveils ultra-fast, cable-free display that turns data into light

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-08-30 21:27:00

The big picture: Despite promising massive, unprecedented improvements in both speed and power efficiency, optical technology has yet to become a common feature of modern chip design. Now, a display company claims it can take optical solutions to the next level – at least, when it comes to transmitting data between machines and chips. X Display is focused on developing and licensing new intellectual property related to MicroLED and other display technologies. The North Carolina-based developer

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Spatial releases Analogue 2 collaborative design platform for Apple Vision Pro

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-08-31 05:00:00

Spatial released Analogue 2, a collaborative design platform built natively for the spatial computing of the Apple Vision Pro. Developed from the ground up for spatial computing, Analogue 2 is an end-to-end platform that enables creative teams to work together in full 3D context — reviewing, iterating, and finalizing high-fidelity projects in real time, with no code required. You can see some videos here. “The true potential of the spatial computing era is unlocked when teams can step inside t

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Judge Says Requiring ChatGPT to Save Chat Logs Is Not a ‘Mass Surveillance Program’

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-01 01:20:25

OpenAI and some of its users have objected to a court order that requires the company to indefinitely maintain all of ChatGPT’s chat logs as part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, claiming that holding onto such records amounts to a “nationwide mass surveillance program.” The court was not moved. Judge Ona Wang, who initially issued the order to retain all data from the popular chatbot, rejected multiple requests to overturn the decision—though OpenAI has vowed to continue to fight the order, acc

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Ocarina of Time Randomizer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 23:08:34

Shuffle Items. Solve The Logic. This randomizer takes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and randomizes the locations of the items for a more dynamic play experience. Proper logic is used to ensure every seed is possible to complete without the use of glitches and will be safe from the possibility of softlocks with any possible usage of keys in dungeons. Depending on settings, all dungeons will always have the same number of small keys, the boss key, maps and compasses. Which chests have tho

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Frequent Nightmares Linked to Faster Aging and Premature Death

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-01 21:02:45

If you often have nightmares, you may need to worry a bit more about your health. New research presented today at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Congress 2025 links frequent nightmares to faster biological aging and an over three times higher risk of premature death, even when taking into account other medical conditions. The researchers claim to be the first to demonstrate this association, which could have significant implications for how seriously one should consider persistent nigh

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A more Google-y Gemini logo may be right around the corner (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-02 05:44:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google may soon replace Gemini’s current two-tone color scheme with its trademark red, blue, green, and yellow colors. We recently gave you an early look at the updated Gemini overlay featuring Google colors. We’ve now spotted similar changes for the Gemini logo and other UI elements in a teardown of the Google app. Google appears to be in the process of replacing Gemini’s existing two-tone color scheme with its signature red, blue, green, and yellow

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Latest Tech News

Elon Musk's X goes down for some users

Elon Musk's X is down for some users

Google quietly revamps Android’s permission dialogs for a sleeker design for some

Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas

Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature & outdoor heat exposure in Vegas

The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots

Addigy’s Prebuilt App Catalog is built to simplify managing macOS apps at scale

Can't hear TV dialogue? I found 3 ways to dramatically improve the audio quality

Nimtable: Open-source web UI to browse and manage Apache Iceberg tables

My Database Is My Application: Rethinking Webhook Logic with DuckDB and SQL

The Download: meet RFK Jr’s right-hand man, and inside OpenAI

The first One UI 8 Watch beta is rolling out now!

The Book of Shaders (2015)

The Book of Shaders

iPhone 17 Pro may reposition the Apple logo once again, says leaker

Are TikTok Age Tests Legit? Orthopedists Explains How to Measure Biological Age

This New Li-Fi Bridge System Promises To Be Big for Broadband

Logitech says all its webcams work with Nintendo Switch 2, save one

Jesse Draper’s Halogen Ventures closes $30M Fund III to focus on ‘future of family’

10 Years of Pomological Watercolors

XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

Kodiak is using Vay’s remote driving tech in its self-driving trucks

Philips Hue bulbs will be even more expensive in July. And it may not end there.

X Display unveils ultra-fast, cable-free display that turns data into light

Spatial releases Analogue 2 collaborative design platform for Apple Vision Pro

Judge Says Requiring ChatGPT to Save Chat Logs Is Not a ‘Mass Surveillance Program’

Ocarina of Time Randomizer

Frequent Nightmares Linked to Faster Aging and Premature Death

A more Google-y Gemini logo may be right around the corner (APK teardown)

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