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Minesweeper thermodynamics

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-10-15 15:14:20

You know how sometimes you start a game of Minesweeper and immediately get stuck? Like maybe there are some cells that you know are mines, but there aren’t any places that are safe to click. In this example there are five different ways you could fill in the mines in the neighbouring cells. Note that there’s no cell which is safe in every possibility, so there’s nowhere we can safely click to get more information. So in order to plan our next click, it would be good to know how likely it is t

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Israeli Startups Cato, Aim Ink Deal as Nations Clamor for More AI

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-18 12:40:02

Israeli startup Cato Networks, a leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cybersecurity, has made its first buy for an undisclosed price in AI-focused startup Aim Security. The deal is the latest move by an Israeli firm to add cybersecurity and artificial intelligence to its toolbox, while finding major financial backers to take it the next steps strategically. “AI transformation is by far the biggest tsunami that I’ve seen in terms of impact on the enterprise, in terms of velocity and in t

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DuckDuckGo Privacy Pro: A User-Friendly Privacy Boost, but Not for Power Users

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 11:00:00

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine. Unlike rivals Google and Bing, DuckDuckGo eschews ad trackers, making it tougher for websites to gather browsing data. In addition to its search engine, the company has a web browser and mobile apps. DuckDuckGo also offers a Privacy Pro suite. consisting of a VPN, information removal tool, identity theft restoration and now AI chat model support. I decided to take it for a spin. During my testing, I was impressed by DuckDuckGo’s VPN offering. It h

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Is Apple Coming for Our Homes? All the Rumored Smart Home Products Ahead of This Month's Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 11:00:00

For the past year, reports have made it clear that Apple is planning to release its own line of devices for smart home and home security. The only question is when. With Apple's big "awe-dropping" fall event only days away, it's time to start hoping. On Sept. 9, we'll see the new iPhone 17, a new Apple Watch and probably new AirPods, too. But Apple may also make a surprise announcement about a security camera, smart display and more home tech. Could it be too early for the rumors to come true?

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10 Ways Apple Can Make the Apple Watch Series 11 Worth the Upgrade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 11:00:06

With Apple's next big launch event just days away and WatchOS 26 nearly finalized in its developer and public betas, we're starting to get a clearer picture of what could be in store for Apple Watches this fall. If you're holding out for the next Apple Watch (most likely the Series 11, with new Ultra 3 and SE versions in the mix) the big question isn't just how Apple will build on last year's Series 10, but what it can add to stay ahead as rivals like the Pixel Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 8 are pus

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LinkedIn takes on hiring scams with recruiter verification

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-18 12:00:00

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. LinkedIn is trying to help put a stop to recruitment scams by requiring anyone with a recruitment-related job title to verify their place of employment. Executives will have to go through the same process, while company page verification is now rolling out more widely too. Existing recru

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Volkswagen to make EVs more affordable, starting with the ID.Polo and a new SUV

news.ycombinator.com Peter Johnson 2025-10-18 15:16:32

It’s official. Volkswagen is shaking up its EV naming strategy. After confirming the ID.2 will launch as the ID.Polo, Volkswagen promises its new family of entry-level EVs “will make electric driving more affordable than ever.” The ID.Polo is just the start with an electric T-Cross and much more coming soon. Meet the Volkswagen ID.Polo Volkswagen is reviving some of its most popular nameplates for its next-generation electric vehicles. Starting with the ID.Polo next year, Volkswagen will begin

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BougeRV Electric Foldable Wagon Review: Haul Smarter, Not Harder

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 15:00:09

Table of Contents BougeRV Electric Foldable Wagon Review: Haul Smarter, Not Harder I've used my fair share of hand trucks, dollies and carts over the years. But it wasn't until recently that I got to try out an electric, foldable wagon from BougeRV. Given how much time I spend covering micromobility, this $400 wagon didn't feel too far off my usual territory. What's the difference between the BougeRV and a regular wagon? Simply put, it has a battery-powered motor to do the heavy lifting for yo

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-18 16:00:00

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Wit

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As a cell phone expert, I’m worried about the future of prepaid carriers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 01:00:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Once dismissed as the domain of teenagers, bad credit consumers, or even shady activity, prepaid wireless has transformed into a real competitor in the smartphone age. Today, the prepaid market offers everything from ultra-budget choices to services that deliver an experience nearly indistinguishable from premium postpaid service. But this evolution comes with a new concern: over-saturation. There are now well over a dozen reputable prepaid carriers, along w

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Philips’ new Hue Bridge Pro can turn your Hue lights into motion sensors

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 01:35:17

TL;DR Philips has launched the Hue Bridge Pro, a redesigned Zigbee hub that is faster and more powerful than its predecessor. The new hub supports up to 150 smart lights and 50 accessories and includes Wi-Fi connectivity. The Hue Bridge Pro also introduces Hue MotionAware, which allows existing Hue smart lights to act as motion sensors. The Philips Hue Bridge Pro has been extensively leaked over the past few weeks, and today, the company is finally launching the product. The new Philips Hue B

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Hue takes on cheaper rivals with the entry-level Essential smart bulb lineup

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 01:04:15

Hue just did its biggest product launch ever as part of IFA 2025 and a key product is the new entry-level Essential smart bulb lineup. Though still not as cheap as some products you can find on Amazon, it's designed to take on budget rivals like Govee and Aqara with bulbs starting under $20. The new range includes A19 bulbs, GU10 spots and strip lights with and without color options. Effectively, you're not losing a lot compared to the regular color/white bulbs. They still run on the same platf

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Save $50 on the OnePlus Pad 3 and get a free stylus pen - here's the deal

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-18 22:00:18

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Samsung just launched new flagship Galaxy tablets - and quietly removed this model

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-18 23:30:17

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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My favorite cordless screwdriver of all time can handle any task for me (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-19 00:00:18

Bosch GO 3 cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways This pro-quality screwdriver has held up to heavy use for over six months Fast charging and a large battery keep it running all day It's now selling at its lowest price yet. $79.9 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When it comes to some things, a review when something is a few weeks old really doesn't do it justice. You need time to put it through its paces to make sure that it really is as good as it seems.

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A Rebel Writer's First Revolt

news.ycombinator.com Madeline Leung Coleman 2025-10-17 06:26:48

Mother Mary Comes to Me is out September 2. Illustration: Jan Robert Dünnweller/Source Photograph: Nasir Kachroo/Getty Images Arundhati Roy identifies as a vagrant. There was a moment in 1997, right after the Delhi-based writer became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize, for her best-selling debut, The God of Small Things, when the president and the prime minister claimed the whole country was proud of her. She was 36 and suddenly rich; she could have coasted on the money and prais

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I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 23:12:13

Author’s note: Drafted in 2022, lightly edited and finished on Sep 1, 2025 for clarity. Substance unchanged. I tried to not glamorize my undergraduate experience but I could be hallucinating. “Hardware invention enabled the information revolution. The internet and all the fancy applications are nothing but some byproduct of the advancement in computer chips and fiber optic cables”, 18-year-old me thought wishfully, concluding that the next natural sequence in the major global transformation mus

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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 17:01:49

After working hard since our Polars Cloud announcement last February, we are pleased to officially launch Polars Cloud. Polars Cloud is now Generally Available on AWS. Beyond that, we also launched our novel Distributed Engine in Open Beta on Polars Cloud. You can immediately get started at https://cloud.pola.rs/. After that you can fire a remote distributed query: import polars_cloud as pc import polars as pl from datetime import date with pc . ComputeContext ( workspace = "<my-workspace>" ,

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The Color of the Future: A history of blue

news.ycombinator.com Étienne Fortier-Dubois 2025-10-18 23:27:53

La Gare Saint-Lazare, arrivée d'un train , by Claude Monet (1877) My favorite color has changed throughout my life, cycling through the entire spectrum of visible light and beyond. I don’t remember when blue was the chosen one, exactly; maybe when I was 13 or so. After that, yellow, purple, orange, green, and pink occupied the top spot for various periods. Blue never made a comeback. I saw it as a banal, common color. After all, the sky is made of it, and the sky is everywhere. Then I realized

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Use Bayes rule to mechanically solve probability riddles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 17:17:27

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The Apple Watch Ultra 3 Reveal Could Be Just 5 Days Away

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 01:00:11

By this time next week, we'll know exactly what Apple has planned for its new Apple Watch lineup. But one thing already seems very likely: a refreshed version of the rugged Ultra. Not only is it due for an upgrade (the Ultra 2 debuted in September 2023), but Apple may have actually dropped the biggest clue yet. Buried in the public beta of iOS 26 (first spotted by MacRumors) are screen specs that don't match any existing Apple Watch model on the market, hinting at the arrival of an Apple Watch U

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Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 01:02:00

Table of Contents Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year Those who closely follow electric cars will have heard whispers of wireless charging for a while now. And if you're not an EV aficionado, you've probably wondered why it hasn't happened. Well, that's all about to change. Porsche announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out wireless charging on the upcoming all-electric Cayenne later this year. The goal is to put an end to wrangling t

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Anker’s fastest power bank launches alongside new Prime family

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-10-18 22:30:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Just one week after EcoFlow launched the fastest 99Wh power bank yet, Anker is firing back at IFA 2025 with a souped-up portable battery of its own. Anker’s Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) supports 250W of input, or up to 300W of output to charge multi

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William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)

news.ycombinator.com Wordsworth 2025-10-19 00:23:47

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The law of copyright This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Titl

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Philips Hue responds to cheaper competitors with major product overhaul

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-10-19 02:30:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Philips Hue has announced the biggest revamp of its smart lighting line in years, introducing lower-cost lights, support for Matter over Thread, and a new generation of brighter light strips. The update includes the launch of a new Es

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Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-19 03:43:30

Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit "This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it. Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalisation, we honour that choice," a Google spokesperson told the BBC. They had been seeking more than $31bn in damages. The verdict comes after a group of users brought the case claiming Google accessed users' mobile devices to collect, save and use their data, in violation of privacy assura

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Netflix now lets you (almost) easily share clips of your favorite shows

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-19 04:20:02

The Netflix app now lets you select the start and end points of a clip, so you can share it outside the app. Here’s how it works. You can now save a clip, and then share it outside the Netflix app Historically, most streaming services have been allergic to sharing features, as they feared they would facilitate piracy. For many years, even simple screenshots were a no-no. One day, they realized that the potential gains from a random moment of an original movie or show going viral outweighed th

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Apple's latest AI project may be a web search tool

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 04:06:19

Apple continues to seek a foothold in the artificial intelligence race, and its next effort could bring the company into web search. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reports that Apple is building a search platform that it may incorporate into its AI-driven overhaul of Siri. Sources said the tool, internally called World Knowledge Answers, could also be added to the Safari web browser and the Spotlight smartphone search interface. Apple's efforts in AI have been under the microscope since the lackluste

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What is it like to be a bat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 03:48:27

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

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Venezuela Claims Trump’s Video of Strike Against Suspected Drug Smugglers Is AI

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-19 08:10:04

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his government had conducted a “kinetic strike” against suspected drug smugglers from Venezuela in a boat traveling in the Caribbean. The strike killed 11 people, according to Trump, and he claims they were all gang members. None of those points has been confirmed, and drug smuggling is not a capital offense, making Trump’s strike almost certainly illegal under international law. But Venezuela had a rather interesting reply. A government minister is

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My favorite cordless screwdriver of all time can handle any task for me (and it's on sale)

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