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I tried Jsaux’s new anti-glare Switch 2 screen protector, and it revealed a glaring bug

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-10-19 01:39:00

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I have a dead cockroach in my ceiling, and I only noticed it thanks to a Switch 2 screen protector that, ironically, is supposed to tame reflections. The protector in question is a pre-production sample of the Jsaux Obsidian AR screen protector, whic

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xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-19 01:27:06

In Brief Mike Liberatore, xAI’s chief financial officer, has left the company, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. This marks the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures. The former Airbnb executive joined the company in April and left around the end of July, per WSJ. While at xAI, he helped orchestrate the company’s $5 billion debt raise, alongside another $5 billion in equity — almost half of which came from SpaceX. He also oversaw some of the Elon Musk-owne

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007 First Light is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC on March 27

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 05:10:11

A PlayStation State of Play showcase all about 007 First Light shed some light on how Hitman developer IO Interactive's James Bond game works. The stream also disclosed what was, until now, a top-secret nugget of intel: the release date. 007 First Light is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, Steam and Epic Games Store on March 27. The State of Play included a partial playthrough of the first mission, which sees Bond stealthily tailing a suspicious bellhop through a fanc

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Another YC company was acquihired today by OpenAI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 04:38:48

I'm excited to announce that we're joining OpenAI’s Codex team! When we started out, Xcode had no AI. Building a "Cursor for Xcode" sounded crazy, but we managed to do it anyway. And, over time, we built the best coding agent for iOS & MacOS apps. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished with Alex. Seeing people build software with our work was surreal. It is an honor to continue that work at a much bigger scale at OpenAI, along with the incredibly talented Codex team. Our mission is to hel

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Amazon's Tomb Raider series will star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 09:30:35

We finally have our Lara Croft, well over two years after Prime Video's Tomb Raider series was first announced. Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner has been cast in the role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She had better start trying on khaki shorts and blue sleeveless shirts. Turner acknowledges the "massive shoes to fill" from previous actors that have played the role, shouting out Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander. She also says she can't wait for audiences "to see what we have cooking

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The first new Bond game in over a decade is Hitman meets action blockbuster

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 09:35:51

IO Interactive seemingly wrapped up its assassination series Hitman in 2023, launching the anthology on practically every game platform. But it’s not done with sneaking, subterfuge, and… sniper rifles. The game developer announced that it was making a new James Bond game, teasing an "unrefined" Bond in training – yes, it’s another reimagined origin story. At a closed-door briefing at Gamescom, I watched the team play through some early parts of 007 First Light, with Bond part of a team of more

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PFP: A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006)

news.ycombinator.com Martin Erwig 2025-10-15 16:02:47

A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell Version: June 2006 Distributions can represent events, such as the roll of a die or the flip of a coin. For example, or example, the outcome of a die roll can be expressed as follows. die :: Dist Int die = uniform [1..6] die > die 1 16.7% 2 16.7% 3 16.7% 4 16.7% 5 16.7% 6 16.7% uniform uniform succOrId x = uniform [x, x+1] choose succOrId x = choose 0.5 x (x+1) droll = die >>= succOrId droll = do d <- die succOrId d To use t

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6NF File Format

news.ycombinator.com How To Become An Author 2025-10-19 08:49:08

Filename Extension: .6nf 1. Introduction 6NF File Format is a new bitemporal, sixth-normal-form (6NF)-inspired data exchange format designed for DWH and for reporting. It replaces complex hierarchical formats like XBRL, XML, JSON, and YAML. 2. Design Principles Database Friendly Flat Structure : No nested objects or arrays. No need for parsing 6NF Compatibility : Direct mapping to 6NF database tables. No need for normalization Bitemporal Database Compatibility : All data includes valid_fro

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Anthropic Rakes in $183B Valuation as It Takes on Musk, Altman

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-19 09:00:51

Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude family of models, has secured a $13 billion Series F financing at a staggering $183 billion post-money valuation, nearly tripling its worth since March. Anthropic is backed by Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet. The company said that the round was led by ICONIQ Capital and co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with institutional heavyweights such as BlackRock, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Coatue am

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Amazon Finally Confirms Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Raider’ Series

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-19 09:15:47

In a not-so-surprising announcement, Amazon MGM Studios has named the star of its long-gestating Tomb Raider series: Sophie Turner. The lack of shock is because Turner was known to be “nearly set” to sign on as Lara Croft, according to reports from November of last year. Those same reports noted that Turner had been chosen over the other contender, Bohemian Rhapsody‘s Lucy Boynton, but that the deal wasn’t yet official. Now, Variety confirms that not only is Turner set for the part, but also th

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The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits No Longer Apply

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 08:04:00

Meal kits have evolved dramatically in the 13 years since Blue Apron launched in the US. Today, nine major meal kit services operate across the country and their convenient dinner packages have become comparatively cheaper and better suited to people with dietary restrictions. Increased competition has brought variety and consumer-friendly makeovers to meal delivery services, but much of the population is still skeptical. In a recent CNET survey of more than 2,600 US adults, most of those who h

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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 09:40:38

People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from content delivery network Cloudflare and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Internet registry. The certificates, issued in May, can be used to decrypt domain lookup queries encrypted through DNS over HTTPS, a protocol that provides end-to-end encryption when end-user devices seek the IP address of a particular domain they want to acce

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A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-19 08:52:37

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 ever doubted the “console wars” were over, here’s a new piece of data to consider: Helldivers 2, formerly console exclusive to Sony’s PS5, is currently the best-selling title on Xbox. In fact, it’s the first and third best-selling game, if you count its more premium edition, and it’s currently the ninth-most played game on the platfo

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M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-19 13:08:41

M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack 52 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images A group of young English-speaking hackers are claiming to be behind the cyber attack which has halted the global production lines of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). The group is bragging about the hack on the messaging app Telegram, sharing screenshots apparently taken from inside the car maker's IT networks. The gang is also responsible for

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The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 13:35:37

The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains. This allowed people to pirate live soccer matches from the Premier League and Champions League, as well as NFL, NBA and MLB games. According to ACE, annual traffic to the site topped 1.6 billion visits. The A

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-19 13:12:45

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 13:48:27

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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Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

news.ycombinator.com Aditya Athalye 2025-10-19 13:47:50

On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a bitemporal database. Because? Because laying about on a hammock, contemplating hopelessly complected objects like Current Databases isn't just for the Rich man. Don't try this at work! The "Poor Man's Bitemp

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The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits no Longer Apply

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 13:04:00

Meal kits have evolved dramatically in the 13 years since Blue Apron launched in the US. Today, nine major meal kit services operate across the country and their convenient dinner packages have become comparatively cheaper and better suited to people with dietary restrictions. Increased competition has brought variety and consumer-friendly makeovers to meal delivery services, but much of the population is still skeptical. In a recent CNET survey of more than 2,600 US adults, most of those who h

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Major Amazon leak spoils the Philips Hue party

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-10-19 13:25:52

The Philips Hue store on Amazon’s UK site is hosting a number of new products that have yet to be announced as the big IFA 2025 show gets under way in Berlin, Germany. We’re seeing that rumored Hue Doorbell, a new Hue Bridge Pro (in black), a new Essential lighting sub-brand, and something called MotionAware that turns “light devices into motion sensors,” by using the bulbs’ Zigbee radios to detect motion between Hue lights.

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Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-19 12:27:08

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age-estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age-estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

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Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-19 13:22:36

The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. To help with that transition, President Donald Trump has introduced potential chip tariffs and policies in recent months meant to bring more semiconductor manufacturing stateside. In late August, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step toward that goal w

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Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-19 15:20:52

An Interview with Dr. Jiebo Luo – 2025 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award Recipient Dr. Jiebo Luo, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, is a visionary in computer vision, machine learning, and computational social science whose groundbreaking work has spanned over 600 publications, 90 patents, and numerous prestigious awards across academia and industry. Your research spans computer vision, natura

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Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 17:45:09

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Egyptian authorities have shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal live sports streaming network, and arrested two people allegedly associated with the operation. Streameast, operational since 2018, was a free streaming service supported by advertisements, providing access to HD streams from licensed broadcasters. Streameast reportedly operates 80 domains, which collectively receive 136 million monthly visits. In the past year, t

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Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-19 17:10:32

Since 2011, a monstrous structure has taken shape in the Atlantic Ocean almost every year, sprawling from the West African coast to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt—a gargantuan bloom of a brown free-floating seaweed. In May, the seaweed belt hit a record biomass of 37.5 million tons. In a study published last month in the journal Harmful Algae, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute outline the rapidly growing seawee

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Sports streaming hub Streameast ‘shut down’ in sting

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-19 17:25:43

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. Streameast, one of the largest sports piracy platforms in the world, has been shut down according to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), an antipiracy group that counts NBC Universal, Netflix, and Disney among its members. ACE announced in a statement that it worked alon

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Roblox experiences are getting ESRB age ratings

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-19 17:43:32

is a senior reporter 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. Roblox is going to start showing ESRB ratings alongside experiences to help users in the US better understand if an experience is appropriate for a user of a certain age. The new ratings will appear thanks to Roblox’s new partnership with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC),

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Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-19 17:27:08

Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age estimation technology to all users and partnering with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) to provide age and content ratings for the games and apps on its platform. The company said that by year’s end, the age estimation system will be rolled out to all Roblox users who access the company’s communication tools, like voice and text-based chat. This involves sca

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Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-19 20:11:07

A Netherlands-based immigration activist named Dominick Skinner is using AI and facial recognition to reveal the identities of masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Talk about turned tables — and a striking ethical paradox. In an interview with Politico, Skinner claimed that he and his team of volunteers have so far been able to use AI to identify at least 20 ICE agents seen in video recordings that have gone viral of the masked figures arresting people — students, childre

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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 21:58:44

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo customers in the US and select international markets gain access to the AI-powered browser, as well as a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, which normally costs $200. There are, of course, some conditions. The promotion is part of PayPal's new subscription hub, where users can manage all th

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Latest Tech News

I tried Jsaux’s new anti-glare Switch 2 screen protector, and it revealed a glaring bug

xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm

007 First Light is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC on March 27

Another YC company was acquihired today by OpenAI

Amazon's Tomb Raider series will star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft

The first new Bond game in over a decade is Hitman meets action blockbuster

PFP: A Probabilistic Functional Programming Library for Haskell (2006)

6NF File Format

Anthropic Rakes in $183B Valuation as It Takes on Musk, Altman

Amazon Finally Confirms Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Raider’ Series

The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits No Longer Apply

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox

M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation

Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits no Longer Apply

Major Amazon leak spoils the Philips Hue party

Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel

Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean

Sports streaming hub Streameast ‘shut down’ in sting

Roblox experiences are getting ESRB age ratings

Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

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