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Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

news.ycombinator.com Caolán Magee 2026-02-22 03:47:54

Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told they had won life-changing sums in the country’s Eurojackpot draw after an error by the state-owned gambling operator, Norsk Tipping. In a statement on Friday, Norsk Tipping said “several thousand customers were notified of incorrectly high prizes”. The mistake has prompted the resignation of the company’s chief executive. The company receives prize amounts from Germany in euros, which are then converted to Norwegian kroner. “It is during this conv

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A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly

news.ycombinator.com Katie Hunt 2026-02-17 23:25:45

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a bizarre natural phenomenon that involves fungal p

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2026-02-21 22:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Adamson 2026-02-22 08:24:54

PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism . It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries. Thousand

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Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

news.ycombinator.com Katie Hunt 2026-02-18 05:25:45

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a bizarre natural phenomenon that involves fungal p

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Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

news.ycombinator.com Eric Holthaus 2026-02-21 21:39:08

A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent this week. Scientists that the Guardian spoke with say the change could set hurricane forecasting back “decades”, just as this year’s season ramps up. In a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) message sent on Wednesday to its scientists, the agency said that “due to recent service changes” the Defense Meteorological Sate

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Need a good alternative to the big three? These carriers are my top 3 recommendations

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 21:00:44

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority For years, many of us have gone directly to the big carriers for phone service. But with rising costs and the gradual disappearance of extras like streaming perks, is it time to consider an alternative? While it’s true that Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile control the only three mobile networks with wide national coverage, there are plenty of other carriers that piggyback off this same infrastructure. These providers can offer much cheaper alternatives to traditi

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Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game That's 'Hitman' meets Pokémon Snap

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 21:00:05

At Summer Game Fest, I tried out one of the more stylish, relaxing games that made me wish I had pals on the couch to play with. But instead of a co-op adventure, Snap & Grab, as it's called, is a heist title where players take on the role of a fashionista photojournalist who steals gaudy treasures from rich doofuses to fill her penthouse. Snap & Grab is the debut title for studio No Goblin, which held its demo in publisher Annapurna Interactive's closed-door area at the annual gaming festival.

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Trump says he’s found a buyer for TikTok

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-22 02:53:48

In Brief A group of “very wealthy people” is set to buy short-form video app TikTok, according to President Donald Trump. “We have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,” Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday morning. “I think I’ll need probably China’s approval. I think President Xi [Jinping] will probably do it.” Trump declined to share more details about the buyers, saying only that he would reveal their identities in two weeks (apparently his favorite unit of time). Trump has repeatedly

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G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax

news.ycombinator.com Authors 2026-02-21 21:02:04

The Group of Seven nations said on Saturday (June 28, 2025) they have agreed to exempt U.S. multinational companies from a global minimum tax imposed by other countries — a win for President Donald Trump's government, which pushed hard for the compromise. The deal will see U.S. companies benefit from a "side-by-side" solution under which they will only be taxed at home, on both domestic and foreign profits, the G7 said in a statement released by Canada, which holds the group's rotating presiden

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 10:00:00

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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At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2026-02-21 16:00:01

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after ringing a bell on the floor setting the share price at $47 in its initial public offering (IPO) on March 21, 2024 in New York City. For 20 years, Reddit has pitched itself as "the front page of the internet." AI threatens to change that. As social media has changed over the past two decades with the shift to mobile and the more recent focus on short-form video, peers like MySpace, Digg and Flickr have fade

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-21 17:00:14

As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality. The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis" have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness. And that's not all.

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Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

news.ycombinator.com Dalya Alberge 2026-02-21 14:19:44

Twenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes, are to be premiered a century after the death of the notoriously eccentric and innovative French composer. Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist in the early decades of the 20th century. James Nye, a British musicologist and composer

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This Town Started Charging for Trash by the Bag. Here’s What Happened

gizmodo.com Tik Root 2026-02-21 18:00:40

Until a few years ago, the town of Plympton, Massachusetts, was quite literally throwing away money. People were producing so much trash that it was threatening to put the municipal transfer station out of business. Under the town’s system, residents would buy a $240 sticker for their cars that allowed them yearlong access to the dump, where they could dispose of as much garbage as they wished. But the sheer volume, combined with climbing landfill fees, meant that this service was costing the l

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Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-21 21:25:09

After 2024’s Transformers One came and went, it’s been a question of whether we’d actually see the Autobots and Decepticons on the big screen. The answer now appears to be “yes,” and not just because Paramount’s still pretending that crossover with G.I. Joe is happening. According to Matt Belloni at Puck News, the studio is spinning up several Transformers movies. One is said to be helmed by One director Josh Cooley, and will be live-action. The other is said to be coming from ex-franchise stew

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T-Mobile Is the New Mobile Network Champ. I Got a Behind-the-Scenes View Into How It Got There

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 20:03:02

Last week T-Mobile announced that it's been named the Best Mobile Network in the US by Ookla, marking the first time the carrier has taken the overall top spot. That's based on half a billion real-world usage tests conducted over a six-month period. (Disclosure: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) During a live event at its Tech Experience Hub in Bellevue, Washington, T-Mobile also announced a July 23 commercial launch date for T-Satellite, its Starlink-based satell

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Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, says financial advisor Ric Edelman

cnbc.com Talia Kaplan Jordan Smith Afshan Musani 2026-02-22 10:22:28

Four years ago, financial advisor Ric Edelman went out on a limb in saying everyone should hold cryptocurrencies. But how much? Low single digits was his recommendation. In his "The Truth about Crypto" book in 2021, Edelman said as low as a 1% allocation was reasonable. A lot has changed. This week, Edelman said financial advisors should be recommending anywhere from 10% to 40% allocations to cryptocurrencies, and he is aware it's quite a shift in his own thinking. "Today I am saying 40%, th

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Tesla recently lost two key execs

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-22 10:15:18

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Yesterday, reports from Forbes and CNBC said that Musk had fired Omead Afshar, who formerly led operations in North America and Europe and was a close confidant of Musk’s. (Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal also reported that Afshar left the company, but did not say he was fired.) The firing follows a major slump in sales for Tesla’s automotive business – last quarter, rev

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Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, say financial advisor Ric Edelman

cnbc.com Talia Kaplan Jordan Smith Afshan Musani 2026-02-22 15:49:09

Four years ago, financial advisor Ric Edelman went out on a limb in saying everyone should hold cryptocurrencies. But how much? Low single digits was his recommendation. In his "The Truth about Crypto" book in 2021, Edelman said as low as a 1% allocation was reasonable. A lot has changed. This week, Edelman said financial advisors should be recommending anywhere from 10% to 40% allocations to cryptocurrencies, and he is aware it's quite a shift in his own thinking. "Today I am saying 40%, th

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Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

venturebeat.com Joe Maglitta 2026-02-22 15:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI pilots rarely start with a deep discussion of infrastructure and hardware. But seasoned scalers warn that deploying high-value production workloads will not end happily without strategic, ongoing focus on a key enterprise-grade foundation. Good news: There’s growing recognition by enterprises about the pivotal role infrastructure plays in e

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Model minimalism: The new AI strategy saving companies millions

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-02-22 15:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. The advent of large language models (LLMs) has made it easier for enterprises to envision the kinds of projects they can undertake, leading to a surge in pilot programs now transitioning to deployment. However, as these projects gained momentum, enterprises realized that the earlier LLMs they had used were unwieldy and, worse, expensive. Ente

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Supreme Court upholds Texas porn law that caused Pornhub to leave the state

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-22 12:25:02

The Supreme Court today upheld a Texas law that requires age verification on porn sites, finding that the state's age-gating law doesn't violate the First Amendment. The 6–3 decision delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas rejected an appeal by the Free Speech Coalition, an adult-industry lobby group. Pornhub disabled its website in Texas last year because of the state law. The Supreme Court's conservative majority decided that the law should be reviewed under the standard of intermediate scrutin

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Coinbase is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 in June, and may have even more room to run

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-02-23 00:40:15

People watch as the logo for Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron at Times Square in New York on April 14, 2021. Coinbase is the top performer in the S&P 500 in June, boosted by positive regulatory updates, product launches and, of course, its very inclusion in the benchmark stock index at the end of May. The crypto exchange's outperformance in the S&P 500 extends back to the April 8 market low, just after President Donald Trump's

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4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in your business - and why

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2026-02-23 00:52:00

Muhammad Aqib / Getty Images The unstoppable march of AI continues to gather pace. Analyst Gartner recently forecast that half of all business decisions will be fully automated or at least partially augmented by AI agents within the next two years. Also: 4 ways to turn AI into your business advantage Some organizations have experimented more than others. Four business leaders who have explored AI shared lessons learned at a recent media roundtable event at Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francis

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ChatGPT Use Is Rising But a Surprising Number of Americans Still Haven't Heard of It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-23 00:00:00

About a third of American adults say they've used the generative AI tool ChatGPT, while one in five say they've never heard of it, according to new survey results released this week by the Pew Research Center. The 34% who said they have used the gen AI tool from OpenAI include 58% of adults under 30, the largest share among any age cohort. The share of ChatGPT users drops with age: 41% of those 30 to 49, 25% of those 50 to 64 and 10% of those 65 and older. There is also a correlation with educa

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Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-02-23 00:43:28

A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline. Those in favor – including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, and a16z’s Marc Andreessen – argue that a “patchwork” of AI regulation among states would stifle American innovation at a time when the race to beat China is heating up. Crit

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Salesforce CEO says 50% of company work is now done by AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-02-24 05:42:00

What just happened? Not every company is slowing down its rush to go all-in on AI – Salesforce certainly isn't. According to CEO Marc Benioff, up to 50% of work being done at the software giant is now performed by AI. Benioff had plenty of praise for the technology, but said little about how it will impact those it puts out of work. Speaking in an interview on Bloomberg's The Circuit with Emily Chang, Benioff said "All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that be

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Quantum computing is having a moment. But the technology remains futuristic

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-02-24 05:00:02

Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum computing chip Microsoft It doesn't quite have the buzz of artificial intelligence, but quantum computing is having a moment of its own. Some of the most powerful institutions in the world, including Google , Microsoft , Amazon , IBM and the U.S. government, are spending many millions of dollars in a race to develop and build the first practical quantum computer. Startups focused on quantum technology attracted about $2 billion last year, according to a McKinsey &

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Do these 4 things before betting on AI in your business - and why

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2026-02-24 05:22:00

Muhammad Aqib / Getty Images The unstoppable march of AI continues to gather pace. Analyst Gartner recently forecast that half of all business decisions will be fully automated or at least partially augmented by AI agents within the next two years. Also: 4 ways to turn AI into your business advantage Some organizations have experimented more than others. Four business leaders who have explored AI shared lessons learned at a recent media roundtable event at Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francis

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Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

Need a good alternative to the big three? These carriers are my top 3 recommendations

Snap & Grab Is an '80s Glam Heist Game That's 'Hitman' meets Pokémon Snap

Trump says he’s found a buyer for TikTok

G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum tax

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

At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

This Town Started Charging for Trash by the Bag. Here’s What Happened

Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

T-Mobile Is the New Mobile Network Champ. I Got a Behind-the-Scenes View Into How It Got There

Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, says financial advisor Ric Edelman

Tesla recently lost two key execs

Bigger bitcoin HODL: Time for 10% to 40% of portfolio in crypto, say financial advisor Ric Edelman

Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

Model minimalism: The new AI strategy saving companies millions

Supreme Court upholds Texas porn law that caused Pornhub to leave the state

Coinbase is the best performing stock in the S&P 500 in June, and may have even more room to run

4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in your business - and why

ChatGPT Use Is Rising But a Surprising Number of Americans Still Haven't Heard of It

Congress might block state AI laws for a decade. Here’s what it means.

Salesforce CEO says 50% of company work is now done by AI

Quantum computing is having a moment. But the technology remains futuristic

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