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Satellite Companies Like SpaceX Are Ignoring Astronomers’ Calls to Save the Night Sky

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-27 03:55:01

There are more than 12,000 active satellites circling Earth at the moment, a growing figure that has nearly doubled in less than three years. This recent boom in the satellite industry has been a major headache for astronomers, with bright satellites appearing as streaks in telescope images of the universe and tarnishing views of the night skies. A new paper reveals that satellite constellations are brighter than the recommended limits set forth by astronomers, with only one company adhering to

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American military service members deserve the right to repair

news.ycombinator.com Lt. Col. Cindy Serrano Roberts 2025-10-27 11:21:53

“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. The clock was ticking. I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. The only viable backup generator was on the other side of the country. I had two choices: ini

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Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 13:39:33

Hi HN, we’re Kyle, Jacob, and Tim. We’re building Bitrig ( https://www.bitrig.app ). Bitrig lets you create native Swift apps for your phone, on your phone, just by chatting with AI. It’s like Lovable for iPhone apps. Here's a video of Bitrig in action: https://youtu.be/CUlWhF3ERME We created SwiftUI at Apple to help developers make better apps with less code. Bitrig lets anyone build at this level of polish. If you've thought about making an iPhone app, Bitrig is the easiest possible way to

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Job titles of the future: Satellite streak astronomer

technologyreview.com Tereza Pultarova 2025-10-30 19:00:00

But in 2019, SpaceX began deploying its internet-beaming Starlink constellation, and the astronomical community started to sound alarm bells. The satellites were orbiting too low and reflected too much sunlight, leaving bright marks in telescope images. A year later, Rawls and a handful of her colleagues were the first to make a scientific assessment of the satellite streaks’ effect on astronomical observations, using images from the Víctor M. Blanco telescope (which, like Rubin, is in Chile). “

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Internet Access Providers Aren't Bound by DMCA Unmasking Subpoenas–In Re Cox

news.ycombinator.com Eric Goldman 2025-10-28 04:20:46

The DMCA online safe harbor is a notice-and-takedown scheme. Web hosts aren’t liable for copyright-infringing third-party uploads unless and until the copyright owner submits a proper takedown notice to the host, at which point the web host can remain legally protected by expeditiously removing the targeted item. By taking web hosts out of the liability chain, the DMCA nominally keeps any infringement disputes being between the uploader and the copyright owner. To help copyright owners sue anon

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Rokid Glasses Hands-On: Smart Glasses, Buggy Voice Assistant

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-30 19:00:46

Smart glasses are an exciting idea right now. In theory, they’re a new gadget that does lots of the stuff that our phones do, but in an always-there form factor. They can take pictures, make calls, translate menus, and—if the tech and the investment get there—they might slap a screen right onto eyeballs for notifications, navigation, and maybe even augmented reality à la Pokémon Go. I say “in theory” because just because smart glasses can do all of those things on paper doesn’t mean they can do

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Anthropic reaches a settlement over authors' class-action piracy lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 02:03:38

Anthropic has settled a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of authors for an undisclosed sum. The move means the company will avoid a potentially more costly ruling if the case regarding its use of copyright materials to train artificial intelligence tools had moved forward. In June, Judge William Alsup handed down a mixed result in the case, ruling that Anthropic's move to train LLMs on copyrighted materials constituted fair use. However the company's illegal and unpaid acquisition of tho

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Anthropic settles AI book piracy lawsuit

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-31 06:38:55

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of US authors who accused the AI startup of copyright infringement. In a legal filing on Tuesday, Anthropic says it has negotiated a “proposed class settlement,” allowing it to skip a trial that would hav

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-31 10:31:59

Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic to avoid what could have been a financially devastating outcome in court. The settlement agreement is expected to be finalized September 3, with more details to follow, according to a legal filing published on Tuesday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately

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White House Suggests It’s Coming for Defense Companies Next

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-31 18:39:06

The U.S. government took a 10% stake in Intel last week, through a deal that will convert funding from the CHIPS Act into partial ownership of the tech company. But President Donald Trump has much larger plans for his government’s takeover of private industry. At least that’s what Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested Tuesday during an interview on CNBC. CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Lutnick about whether he thought it was “fair for America” that government was now taking control of

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The Relativity of Wrong (1988)

news.ycombinator.com Isaac Asimov 2025-11-01 09:27:55

The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, he told me he was majoring in English Literature, but felt he needed to teach me science. (I sighed a bit, for I knew very few English Lit majors who are equipped to teach me science, but I am very aware of the vast state of

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Changing these 6 settings on my Samsung TV greatly improved the performance

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-03 06:25:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Samsung is giving away free 65-inch TVs right now - here's how to get one I've been guilty of it. A

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Ewan McGregor Thinks ‘Obi-Wan’ Season 2 Is an Inevitability

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-04 02:00:18

Damien Leone teases Terrifier 4‘s take on the secret origins of Art the Clown. Cast and crew discuss football horrors in a new look at Him. Plus get a tense new look at a brutal clip from The Long Walk. Spoilers get! Terrifier 4 During a recent interview with Collider, director Damien Leone stated Terrifier 4 will reveal the secret origin of Art the Clown in a “Lynchian” manner. Once I wrote Part 2, I decided to really start telling the story. I wanted to tell it almost in a Lynchian way. I c

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Apple’s F1 movie tops $600m at worldwide box office, surpassing all expectations

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-04 16:34:57

Apple’s big box office bet continues to break records for the company, with F1: The Movie now breaking another milestone this weekend, topping $600 million at the worldwide box office. This figure beats even the most optimistic expectations ahead of release, which cost Apple about $250 million to make. The film hit buy or rent video on demand on Friday, but a streaming date on Apple TV+ has not yet been announced. In the film, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) comes out of retirement to help mentor an u

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RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 09:15:26

Image by Michael M. Santiago via Getty / Futurism Breakthroughs About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — delivered a rousing address at Vanderbilt University that came to be known as one of his greatest speeches. Quoting his presidential uncle John, who had himself been assassinated less than five years prior, Kennedy told those Vanderbilt students that they were the peop

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Everton vs. Brighton Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 05:00:10

Everton begins life at its new home Sunday as it faces Brighton at its new 52,769-seater Hill Dickinson Stadium on the banks of the River Mersey. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Toffees boss David Moyes will be hoping his team can give a better account of themselves in today's grand unveiling than their season-opener against

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8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-11-04 08:00:00

The Nintendo 64 was a fantastic console, home to generation-defining games such as Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. With its four built-in controller ports, it revolutionized multiplayer gaming in front of the TV, and it was the first mainstream console to introduce an analog stick, essential for navigating the burgeoning 3D worlds the medium was starting to deliver. Unfortunately, the controller it did all that with was an abomination, an unholy three-pronged monstrosity that earned my lifelo

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Using AI for Work Could Land You on the Receiving End of a Nasty Lawsuit

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 02:00:28

For all its hype, artificial intelligence isn't without its psychological, environmental, and even spiritual hazards. Perhaps the most pressing concern on an individual level, though, is that it puts users on the hook for a nearly infinite number of legal hazards — even at work, as it turns out. A recent breakdown by The Register highlights the legal dangers of AI use, especially in corporate settings. If you use generative AI software to spit out graphics, press releases, logos, or videos, yo

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Best LED Floodlight Bulbs of 2025: Get Top-Tier Illumination

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 02:00:00

Enlarge Image Chris Monroe/CNET Cost Some buyers may not mind paying $15 to $20 for a smart floodlight bulb that can do everything. Others have budgets in mind and aren’t interested in spending more than a few bucks per bulb to get replacements. Fortunately, we’ve got choices for both types of buyers, but you need to consider how much you’re willing to pay first. Smart features Do you want your bulb to connect to an app, or be controlled by a voice assistant? Some bulbs can connect to Wi-Fi

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College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-04 16:13:56

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English "just for fun" got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn't know had actually happened until he Googled them. "I was interested to see if a protest had actually occurred in 1834 London and it really did happen," wrote Reddit user Hayk Grigorian, who is a computer science student at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. For t

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Are Returning to the Big Screen Next Year

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-05 21:30:23

Go ninja, go ninja, go ninja, go, indeed. After a surprisingly successful theatrical re-release of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film this past weekend, Fathom just announced that it’s bringing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze back to theaters in March 2026. Yes, you will be able to see Vanilla Ice performing “Ninja Rap” on the big screen once again. In addition, Fathom is extending the run of the original film through August 28. So, if you missed

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What the Hell Is Going On?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:08:01

What the hell is going on right now? Engineers are burning out. Orgs expect their senior engineering staff to be able to review and contribute to “vibe-coded” features that don’t work. My personal observation is that the best engineers are highly enthusiastic about helping newer team members contribute and learn. Instead of their comments being taken to heart, reflected on, and used as learning opportunities, hapless young coders are instead using feedback as simply the next prompt in their “A

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James Gunn Has Another Update on the DCU’s Immediate Future

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-09 06:00:51

A new book teases what’s in store for Sidney in her Scream 7 return. A new look at The Conjuring: Last Rites teases the horror to come. Plus, the director behind Coyote vs. Acme has a new supernatural movie in the works. Spoilers now! The DCU/The Batman, Part II During his recent appearance on the I Think You’re Overthinking It podcast (via Screen Rant), James Gunn stated The Batman, Part II will “hopefully” begin filming before his mysterious Superman follow-up. I can say that probably the n

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Android finally lets you control your Pixel phone’s flashlight brightness

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 06:36:33

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android has finally added native flashlight brightness controls from the Quick Settings panel. Google added support for controlling the flashlight brightness in Android 13, but there was no way to do so from Quick Settings. This feature is available in the latest August 2025 Android Canary release and may arrive in Android 16 QPR2. If you’re looking for something under a couch, bed, or other dimly lit area, then your phone’s built-in flashlight will c

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10 Creepy Tales to Stream for Free on Tubi

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-10 21:15:05

The sheer amount of content on free streamer Tubi is both exciting and a bit intimidating. However, if weird horror is what you seek, you need only dig past the overstuffed landing page to find some surprisingly intriguing selections. Here are 10 picks we recommend to get you started. Eden Lake Writer-director James Watkins’ Speak No Evil remake might’ve been a bust, but his 2008 directorial debut starring Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Michael Fassbender (X-Men), and Jack O’Connell (Sinners) is

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Microsoft's AI Leader Is Begging You to Stop Treating AI Like Humans

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 00:23:00

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 16:32:44

Goodbye Playwright, Hello CDP Playwright and Puppeteer are great for making QA tests and automation scripts short and readable, but as AI browser companies have been learning the hard way over the last year, sometimes these adapters obscure important details about the underlying browsers. We decided to peek behind the curtain and figure out what the browser was really doing, and it made us decide to drop playwright entirely and just speak the browser's native tongue: CDP. By switcing to raw C

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Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-12 06:06:58

Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras The UK's equality regulator has criticised the Metropolitan Police's use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT), saying the way it is being deployed is breaching human rights law. The tech works by scanning the faces of people recorded on CCTV and then comparing them against a watchlist of people who the police are seeking. The Met says it has made more than 1,000 arrests since January 2024 using LFRT and is confi

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Radio Astronomers Find Weird Object in Nearby Galaxy That Stands Out Against the Entire Sky

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-14 02:07:07

"Punctum" may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile's Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany's Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her colleagues detected in a nearby galaxy. As Shablovinskaya explains, she and her colleagues at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submilli

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Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 12:50:07

Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law. Piracy of movies, TV shows, music, games and similar content, purely for

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