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From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2

news.ycombinator.com Alexander Mejia 2025-09-19 13:07:42

Nintendo’s Switch 2 launched on June 5th 2025 with Mario Kart World headlining the platform and on paper showcasing its new 4K60 + HDR output pipeline. That promise lands in a market where HDR is the consumer standard: analysts value the global HDR TV segment at ≈ US $150B in 2024 and project US $250 B by 2033. Consumer TVs with HDR functionality started shipping in 2015, and seeing that most consumers replace their TV every 6.4 years this means a high percentage console owners in 2025 now game

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WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-19 16:06:35

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. This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it’s putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp’s decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. Meta, which acquired WhatsApp in 2014, attempted to justify the decision by saying ads will be sequestered to its “Update” tab, where you’ll se

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Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Claburn 2025-09-19 20:26:14

Bots harvesting content for AI companies have proliferated to the point that they're threatening digital collections of arts and culture. Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) say they're being overwhelmed by AI bots – web crawling scripts that visit websites and download data to be used for training AI models – according to a report issued on Tuesday by the GLAM-E Lab, which studies issues affecting GLAMs. GLAM-E Lab is a joint initiative between the Centre for Science, Culture

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 18, #268

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 20:10:27

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features a killer purple category. How good are you at anagrams? Think baseball team names, and see where you can go with that. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9.

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Appeals court tosses $300 million Optis patent verdict against Apple

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-20 00:14:29

On Monday, Apple scored a big legal victory in one of its longest-running patent battles, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a $300 million damages award the company had been ordered to pay to Optis Wireless Technology. This latest decision (via Reuters) marks the second time a nine-figure damages verdict in this case has been thrown out. Now, the case is heading back to Texas for yet another trial. What’s this case about again? Optis, a Texas-based IP managemen

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Threads adds dedicated fediverse feed and profile search

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-20 04:45:11

After a year of slow, sometimes confusing steps toward fediverse support, Threads is now making it easier for users to actually see and discover content from other platforms. Here’s how it works, and how to enable it. Starting today, if you’ve enabled fediverse sharing in Threads, you’ll get access to a new reverse-chronological feed showing posts from federated accounts you follow on Mastodon, WordPress, Flipboard, or other ActivityPub-based services. What’s more, Threads is also rolling out

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Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 04:12:23

Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country’s public to remove the messaging platform WhatsApp from their smartphones, alleging the app — without offering specific evidence — gathered user information to send to Israel. In a statement, WhatsApp said it was “concerned these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them the most.” WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption, meaning a service provider in the middle can’t read a message.

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Reddit to Turn Positive Posts Into Ads for Brands

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-20 04:30:31

The next time you recommend a product or service to someone in conversation on Reddit, it might turn into an advertisement for the company. A new feature announced by the social media site at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will allow brands to take positive comments posted on Reddit and display them right under advertisements on the platform. The feature, called Reddit Community Intelligence, will integrate conversations happening on Reddit into a company’s marketing effo

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Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will No Longer Contain Artificial Dyes. This Is What's Replacing Them.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 02:35:00

Following the FDA's banning of Red Dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs in January and the approval of three natural food colors in May, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked that food manufacturers remove eight petroleum-based food dyes from their products by the end of 2026. Now, Kraft Heinz, the company behind Jell-O and Kool-Aid, announced that it plans to remove artificial dyes from all its US products before the end of 2027, according to an exclusive with the W

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Threads is adding Fediverse content to social feeds

news.ycombinator.com David Pierce 2025-09-20 07:48:53

The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching its biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fediverse posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads. Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be a new section at the top of your Following feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected

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Building Effective AI Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 07:50:05

Over the past year, we've worked with dozens of teams building large language model (LLM) agents across industries. Consistently, the most successful implementations weren't using complex frameworks or specialized libraries. Instead, they were building with simple, composable patterns. In this post, we share what we’ve learned from working with our customers and building agents ourselves, and give practical advice for developers on building effective agents. What are agents? "Agent" can be de

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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 05:02:12

As announced in 2021, Honda has been pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies while viewing it as a place to take on challenges to realize the “dreams” and “potential” of people worldwide while leveraging its core technologies. Honda has the aim to enable people to transcend the constraints of time, place or ability and make people’s daily lives more enjoyable. Examples of Honda initiatives toward creating new value in the ultimate environment of outer space include r

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Lego Is Making an Official Godzilla Set

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-20 08:10:14

Lego’s Ideas program has been churning out delightful kits based on fan-submitted (and community-supported) designs for years now, to the point that the brick-maker has quite the hefty list of sets that have hit the necessary 10,000 community backers to eligible for review. Case in point? Today Lego announced the results of its review for the batch of sets to hit that threshold back at the end of last year: and the winners are a doozy. Today Lego confirmed that its latest batch of reviews concl

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Team Liquid partners with Zenni Optical on eye health and gamer performance

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-20 11:00:00

Global esports company Team Liquid announced a new partnership with Zenni Optical, naming the leading online retailer as its official eyewear partner. The partnership marks a shared commitment to protecting eye health in esports while offering fans and players stylish, high-performance eyewear at an accessible price. As digital competition intensifies and screen time increases, the need for eye care in gaming is growing in importance. This partnership reflects a mutual vision: prioritizing the

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PSA: WhatsApp for iPhone now also lets you copy part of a message

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-20 12:06:48

If you got excited by yesterday’s news that iOS 26 will let you copy parts of a text message in Messages, but aren’t running the beta and don’t want to feel left out, here’s some good news: you can already do that on WhatsApp. Since version 25.16.81, WhatsApp has offered partial text selection on iPhone, letting you highlight and copy just the specific section of a message you want. To use it, long-press the message bubble, then press and hold again on the text itself. This brings up the famil

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Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 12:41:06

Meta’s Threads is deepening its integration with the fediverse , a collection of decentralized social media platforms that includes Mastodon . Starting today, users who have enabled sharing to the fediverse in Threads will be able to see posts from federated accounts that they follow. These posts will now appear in a dedicated feed. From this feed, users can now search for federated users from within Threads. These posts will populate in reverse chronological order, ensuring the newest posts fr

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Now might be the best time to learn software development

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 09:51:40

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Stay on Top of These 6 Blood Tests to Make Sure You're Monitoring Your Health

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 11:45:03

Having your blood drawn might not be much fun, but regular diagnostic tests of your blood can detect diseases early for treatment and give your doctor and medical providers critical information about how well your body is functioning. The proper frequency of these blood tests depends on your age and personal health status -- the most important thing is to ask your doctor which tests you need and when you need them. With all the different types of blood tests out there, it's good to go into you

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Windows 11 now lets EU users export Recall data – if they still trust it

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-20 16:45:00

Editor's take: Microsoft is testing a new Recall "export experience" for unpaid beta testers in the Windows Insider program that it was forced to build to comply with European laws. That said, we still believe every Windows user with a sane mind should simply disable and uninstall the entire Recall mess – for good. Microsoft recently released a new Windows 11 Preview Build to the Beta Channel for Windows Insiders (KB5060816). The update includes a significant addition for owners of Copilot+ PCs

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Take Us North Kickstarter campaign launches for game about crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-19 20:30:00

Anima Interactive has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its game, Take Us North, about the experiences of migrants and asylum seekers on crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Take Us North is an adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border. It’s about the human story behind the politics and headlines, and stories about what the actual crossing is like. The game has raised $12,000 to date and is targeting hitting $30,000

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For Almost Free, PopSockets and Anker Come Together With This Easy-to-Hold Magnetic Phone Charger

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-20 16:10:15

Save 50% on the PopSockets x Anker MagGo 5,000mAh portable magnetic battery charger over at Best Buy. This collaboration between PopSockets and Anker is a match made in heaven. If your phone is new enough that it supports magnetic wireless charging, then you can pick up this Anker MagGo 5,000mAh portable magnetic battery charger that has an integrated PopSockets grip on the back. Right now, Best Buy has it discounted down by 50%. It’s normally $70, but you can score one in either black or clear

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TikTok's on the Clock -- Again. Here's What to Know if a Sale Doesn't Go Through

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 15:35:00

It's deja vu. The federal ban on the popular social media app TikTok is set to go into effect on Thursday, June 19, after President Donald Trump extended the deadline a second time. He signed an executive order in April, giving the app 75 days to sell itself to an approved buyer after he signed a similar order in January. TikTok went dark for a short period in the US in January before that deadline extension was announced. Some outlets are reporting that Trump plans on issuing yet another exten

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6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-19 10:00:00

In just a few months, Donald Trump’s second presidential term has drastically reshaped the United States federal government and moved to consolidate the power of the executive branch. At the behest of the president, numerous federal agencies have undertaken aggressive, invasive initiatives to crack down on immigration, police speech, investigate political opponents, curtail US public health efforts and emergency preparedness, and more. With so much happening at once, numerous organizations and

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Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-09-20 16:00:00

The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching its biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fediverse posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads. Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be a new section at the top of your Following feed that takes you to a list of posts from folks you follow on Mastodon, Flipboard, or wherever else you’ve connected

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Last call to volunteer at TechCrunch All Stage 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-20 15:00:00

TechCrunch All Stage, our founder-focused summit, is gearing up to return to Boston on July 15! We’re doing a last call for exceptional volunteers to join us in bringing this event to life. If you’ve ever wondered about the inner workings of tech events, now’s your chance to get involved. Volunteer spots are limited, so don’t miss out! Apply before the July 1 deadline to be considered. As a volunteer, you’ll gain exclusive access to the behind-the-scenes action, witnessing firsthand how these

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Threads expands open social web integrations with fediverse feed, user profile search

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-20 16:37:58

Instagram Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, on Tuesday launched two new features as part of its plan to further integrate with the open social web, known as the fediverse. Now, Threads users will be able to see posts from other users on the fediverse within a dedicated feed if they’ve opted in to fediverse sharing on Threads. Plus, people will be able to search for fediverse users directly in Threads. Posts from federated users will be found on the Following tab of the Threads app. They don’t ap

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Borderlands 4 recommended specs call for an RTX 3080 and 32GB RAM

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-20 20:22:00

A hot potato: Now that people are no longer angry over Borderlands 4 possibly costing $80 (it's actually $70 for the standard edition), something else is causing plenty of outrage: the game's PC requirements. Asking for an RTX 3080 as the recommended GPU does seem excessive, and even the minimum specs are higher than expected. Borderlands 4's system requirements on its Steam page are certainly higher than one would expect. Even the bare minimum requirements, where we usually see ancient and/or

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My favorite iPhone productivity feature just got a major upgrade with iOS 26 (and it's not Siri)

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-09-20 19:59:00

Apple Shortcuts app on MacOS 26 Apple At WWDC last week, Apple showcased multiple new functionalities coming to its Shortcuts app. While most of these features were part of the MacOS 26 announcement, the Shortcuts app on iPhone will receive this update, too. The Shortcut app can use AI directly and enables developers to access Apple's on-device large language model (LLM). This means you can use AI-based Shortcut features without requiring an active internet connection. Also: Apple's 'The Illu

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Google Pixel's VIP feature keeps your closest contacts a little closer - how to use it

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-20 20:13:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Although there were some disappointing absences in Android 16 (Material 3 Expressive being one of the biggest), there are some features that did make it to the release. One of which is called VIPs. Essentially, VIPs are important contacts you add so you can more easily stay connected with them. With VIPs, you can view your last call and message from an added contact, see their location (when shared), receive updates for events like birthdays, and more. VIPs automatically bypass

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Cmapv2: A high performance, concurrent map

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 06:00:15

cmapv2 installation In your Go project main directory (where the go.mod file is located) go get github.com/sirgallo/cmapv2 go mod tidy Make sure to run go mod tidy to install dependencies. usage package main import ( "github.com/sirgallo/cmapv2" ) func main () { // initialize c map cMap := cmap . NewMap () // insert key/val pair cMap . Put ([] byte ( "hi" ), [] byte ( "world" )) // retrieve value for key val := cMap . Get ([] byte ( "hi" )) // delete key/val pair cMap . Delete ([] byte ( "

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Latest Tech News

From SDR to 'Fake HDR': Mario Kart World on Switch 2

WhatsApp’s rollout of ads will change the app forever

Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 18, #268

Appeals court tosses $300 million Optis patent verdict against Apple

Threads adds dedicated fediverse feed and profile search

Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices

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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

Lego Is Making an Official Godzilla Set

Team Liquid partners with Zenni Optical on eye health and gamer performance

PSA: WhatsApp for iPhone now also lets you copy part of a message

Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

Now might be the best time to learn software development

Stay on Top of These 6 Blood Tests to Make Sure You're Monitoring Your Health

Windows 11 now lets EU users export Recall data – if they still trust it

Take Us North Kickstarter campaign launches for game about crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

For Almost Free, PopSockets and Anker Come Together With This Easy-to-Hold Magnetic Phone Charger

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Borderlands 4 recommended specs call for an RTX 3080 and 32GB RAM

My favorite iPhone productivity feature just got a major upgrade with iOS 26 (and it's not Siri)

Google Pixel's VIP feature keeps your closest contacts a little closer - how to use it

Cmapv2: A high performance, concurrent map

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