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Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs: The Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Liu 2025-10-29 00:27:51

When Eric Thompson lost his job in October 2024 and started looking for a new one, he began a drawn-out battle with something many job seekers have come to know too well: the dreaded ghost job. He became so fed up with the practice that he's put together a working group to propose the Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act, or federal legislation that would make the practice illegal. The first time Thompson, 53, heard the term "ghost job," it was 2023 and his friend was discussing apply

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Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Mathews 2025-10-26 17:12:14

It was February 2024 when Noland Arbaugh, the first person to get Elon Musk’s experimental brain chip, rolled across the stage in a wheelchair during a Neuralink “all hands” meeting, revealing his identity for the first time. The room, filled with Neuralink employees, erupted in applause as Arbaugh—who dislocated two of his vertebrae in a swimming accident in 2016 and has since lost sensation and movement below his shoulders—smiled ear to ear in his chair, a red Texas A&M hat planted on his hea

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AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-30 02:00:00

Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the story isn’t that simple: While younger workers are being replaced by AI in some industries, more experienced workers are seeing new opportunities emerge. Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at Stanford University, Ruyu Chen, a research scientist, and Bharat Chandar, a postgraduate student, examined data from ADP, the largest payroll provider in the US, f

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How the cavefish lost its eyes—again and again

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 16:51:50

Time and again, whenever a population was swept into a cave and survived long enough for natural selection to have its way, the eyes disappeared. “But it’s not that everything has been lost in cavefish,” says geneticist Jaya Krishnan of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. “Many enhancements have also happened.” Though the demise of their eyes continues to fascinate biologists, in recent years, attention has shifted to other intriguing aspects of cavefish biology. It has become increasingl

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Women aren't just 'cosy gamers' - I play horror games and 600,000 watch

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-01 02:05:06

Women aren't just 'cosy gamers' - I play horror games and 600,000 watch 9 hours ago Share Save Alex Taylor • @Tayloredword BBC News Reporting from London Share Save Alyce Rocha Video game streamer Alyska is part of a burgeoning wave of women claiming a space in gaming Alyce Rocha makes her living working from home - but she doesn't have a normal nine to five. Forget endless Teams meetings, she's spent recent weeks living the (virtual) life of an ambitious Mafia upstart in 1900s Sicily. Such i

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NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter

news.ycombinator.com Robin George Andrews 2025-10-29 08:42:44

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have corroded away its instruments and electronics long ago. And yet here it is: one of the greatest planetary detectives ever built, still pirouetting around Jupiter, fully functional. But it may not be fo

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NASA's Juno Mission Leaves Legacy of Science at Jupiter

news.ycombinator.com Robin George Andrews 2025-10-29 01:23:38

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have corroded away its instruments and electronics long ago. And yet here it is: one of the greatest planetary detectives ever built, still pirouetting around Jupiter, fully functional. But it may not be fo

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Is It Ever Legal—or Ethical—to Remove DRM?

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-11-01 04:30:00

Whatever you think about Digital Rights Management software, it's hard to argue with the fact that it's annoying. Such technology exists, in theory, to protect the intellectual property of the companies that create music, movies, and games, but it can also get in the way of you enjoying books, music, and videos the way you want to. Say, for example, that you bought a bunch of books on the Amazon Kindle platform but later decided you wanted to switch to a Kobo device (or vice versa). The DRM sys

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Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-01 08:20:31

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple is suing a former employee on the Apple Watch team who left to join Oppo, alleging that he “conspired to steal Apple’s trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers.” Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended “dozen

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Astronomer’s New CEO Speaks—Yes, About That

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-11-02 14:00:00

The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot. They were swaying in mid-hug when the roving kiss cam, a staple at the band’s performances, zeroed in on them. You have probably seen the clip of what happened next. The two of them scrambled like kids caught raiding a cookie jar. Even Coldplay’s anodyne frontman Chris Martin couldn’t ignore their response. “They’re either having an affair

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This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-03 15:00:00

The bean just wants to knit. With their back to me, Poe, the name I gave the animated brown bean in the Focus Friend app, is stitching up a little storm that will eventually become socks—if I can leave them alone. Unfortunately, I need to check my texts. I cancel the timer after six minutes, which warns me that Poe’s knitting will unravel and “they’ll be really sad.” Their shoulders slump as their work falls apart and a little bubble appears over their head. “It’s ok, we tried,” they reassure m

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Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-03 06:50:34

Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs 8 hours ago Share Save Joe Fay Technology Reporter Share Save Eddie Hart Eddie Hart says coding firms seem reluctant to hire recent graduates Eddie Hart studied computer science and cybersecurity at Newcastle University, graduating in 2024. He says he knew getting into the tech workforce would be a challenge, but "I thought it would be a little easier". Even when "junior" roles were advertised, they often demanded two or more year

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Grug Design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:27:24

🗿 note: grug brained developer help many dev. now grug designer start same long walk. original grug show way for code. this grug follow path for design. grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles. complexity bad design tool have many button. design system have many rule. too many rule = grug scream. grug say: "if design need manual, design too complex." grug want small number of shapes, big number of meaning. grug make

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The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

wired.com Richard Warnica 2025-11-06 09:30:00

Not long before he decided to leave NASA, Steve Rader, an engineer who spent 36 years at the Johnson Space Center, held a retreat for leaders in his department at his home in downtown Houston. It had been a trying few months for Rader and his team. “I will say, I don't cry a lot,” he tells me in a recent phone call. That changed after Trump took office. “You can ask my wife, from the first few months I cried.” After decades working on projects like the Space Shuttle and International Space Stat

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Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:53:43

Analogue's 4K take on the Nintendo 64 is… still not quite here. The company announced its third delay to the Analogue 3D on Wednesday, pushing the retro system back to Q4 2025. However, it said that's an intentionally conservative estimate, so this probably isn't a huge concern. The postponement follows previous ones in March and July. (The last time was due to tariffs.) Analogue acknowledged the frustration pre-order customers must be feeling. "We know this sucks," the Pocket maker wrote. "Ano

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Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:13:32

At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like your typical research facility—scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the background. But the orange-yellow stains on the lab coats slung on hooks hint at a less-usual subject matter under study. The powdery stain is pollen: microscopic grains containing male reproductive cells that trees, weeds, and grasses release seasonally. But Cho isn’t studying irksome effects like h

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NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-11-08 14:00:00

Early testing of Surya showed it could predict some solar flares two hours in advance. “It can predict the solar flare’s shape, the position in the sun, the intensity,” says Juan Bernabe-Moreno, an AI researcher at IBM who led the Surya project. Two hours may not be enough to protect against all the impacts a strong flare could have, but every moment counts. IBM claims in a blog post that this can as much as double the warning time currently possible with state-of-the-art methods, though exact r

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How to Build a Medieval Castle

news.ycombinator.com Ben O'Donnell 2025-11-11 22:49:35

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon Castle’s ornate Chapel Tower. All that remained was to install some glass. But there was a problem, and the carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, basket weavers, historians, and archaeologists who work on-site were all enlisted to figure it out. Eight years later, the matter of what to put in the wind

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How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-12 04:22:14

How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals' 39 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Corbyn Technology Reporter Reporting from San Francisco Share Save 374Water 374Water can purge PFAS from water and sludge "There's a lot of destruction that needs to be done," sums up Parker Bovée of Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm. He is referring to PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), also known as "forever chemicals". These man-made chemicals can be found in items such as waterproof c

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Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-14 11:03:19

Should Europe wean itself off US tech? 9 hours ago Share Save Daniel Thomas Business reporter, BBC News Share Save Getty Images The big American tech companies dominate the global cloud-computing sector Imagine if US President Donald Trump could flip a switch and turn off Europe's internet. It may sound far-fetched, crazy even. But it's a scenario that has been seriously discussed in tech industry and policy circles in recent months, as tensions with Washington have escalated, and concerns ab

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Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

news.ycombinator.com Scott Horsley 2025-11-14 12:21:42

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation toggle caption Ken Thomas Ken Thomas woke up this past Wednesday to find the power had gone out at his house in Boca Raton. A text message from his utility said a piece of equipment had failed at 2 a.m. By the time a repair crew showed up eight hours later, the hot, sticky Florida summer was already taking a toll. "You just don't realize how important your power is until you don't have it," says Thomas, a retired air traffic

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Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-14 10:30:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He’s interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a game about death. “What is it about games that is so useful for exploring the topic?” Plante asks. “I think there’s something really lovely about the way in which games invite players in,” Tremb

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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-14 03:50:05

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t claiming that its Claude AI models are sentient or can be harmed by their conversations with users. In its own words, Anthropic remains “hig

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-11-13 14:36:49

For all the power she wields with the White House’s affairs, Laura Loomer does not have the traditional tools that her rivals in the MAGA influencer industrial complex have — the highest follower count, the most political power, the most internet platforms, etc. But the fact remains that she’s the influencer responsible for getting Donald Trump to fire over a dozen members of his administration (and counting) for the hazily-defined crime of being disloyal to MAGA. This is something that none of

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Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths

news.ycombinator.com Vanessa Bates Ramirez 2025-11-10 06:08:33

From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have experienced water shortages recently. And in the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could significantly outpace supply, according to a United Nations forecast. Now several companies are turning to an unexpected source for a solution: the bottom of the ocean. Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology could greatly a

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Morgan Stanley says Apple stock could be ‘turning the corner’ on strong iPhone demand

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-14 12:29:28

Despite a recent 15% bump, following positive Q3 2025 results and a stunt that brought it tariff relief, Apple’s stock is still 5% in the red for the year. But in a recently published investor note, Morgan Stanley says it believes momentum will keep shifting. In the note (via CNBC), analyst Erik Woodring said that “the Apple story could be turning the corner.” This comes after the bank’s China team recently raised its iPhone build forecast for the September quarter by 8%, which in turn came aft

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Why GPT-4o’s sudden shutdown left people grieving

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2025-11-14 22:34:23

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked psychosis in users have been everywhere for the past few months, and in a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged 4o’s failure to recognize when users were experiencing delusions. The company’s internal evaluations indicate that GPT-5 blindly affirms users much less than 4o did. (OpenAI

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Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-17 03:01:41

Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV? 1 hour ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save XYZ Films Swedish movie Watch the Skies was dubbed into English using AI Finding international films that might appeal to the US market is an important part of the work XYZ Films. Maxime Cottray is the chief operating officer at the Los Angeles-based independent studio. He says the US market has always been tough for foreign language films. "It's been limited to coastal New

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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-17 12:23:50

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has reported over 80 clones. “It feels like whack-a-mole sometimes,” Brier says. These are games that are not just similar in nature, but “blatant copyrigh

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The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-18 05:20:00

The second Trump administration has its first federal cybersecurity debacle to deal with. A breach of the United States federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system, discovered around July 4, has pushed some courts onto backup paper-filing plans after the hack compromised sealed court records and possibly exposed the identities of confidential informants and cooperating witnesses across multiple US states. More than a month after the discovery of the breach—and in spite of recent reports

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Latest Tech News

Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs: The Truth in Job Advertising and Accountability Act

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers

How the cavefish lost its eyes—again and again

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NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter

NASA's Juno Mission Leaves Legacy of Science at Jupiter

Is It Ever Legal—or Ethical—to Remove DRM?

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Grug Design

The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

Analogue delays its N64 remake console yet again

Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more

NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

How to Build a Medieval Castle

How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'

Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

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