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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 08:00:10

Keeping children safe online is a core priority for Bluesky. We’ve invested a lot of time and resources building moderation tools and other infrastructure to protect the youngest members of our community. We’re also aware of the tradeoffs that come with managing an online platform. Our mission is to build an open and decentralized protocol for public conversation, and we believe in empowering users with more choices and control over their experience. We work with regulators around the world on c

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If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?

news.ycombinator.com Moshe Y. Vardi 2025-11-06 16:06:59

The World Wide Web (Web) emerged as a new medium in the mid-1990s. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989, but its exploding popularity was also enabled by the release of the Mosaic Web browser in 1993 and the Internet becoming commercially available in 1995. A communication revolution was launched. Roughly 30 years later, the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in Nov. 2022 launched another revolution. High-quality generation of natural-lan

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Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 16:28:42

Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections. But this bacterium doesn't te

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-06 16:16:54

People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be blocking all IP addresses within Mississippi for the foreseeable future in response to a recent US Supreme Court decision that allows the state to enforce strict age verification for social media platforms. According to Bluesky, Mississippi’s approach to verification “would fundamentally change” how users access the site. “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond it

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From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

computer.org Vanessa Castro 2025-11-06 20:28:47

Key Takeaways Beyond building technical skills, new software engineers need to develop soft skills that enable them to work well with other team members. Understanding the unique needs of each industry in which a professional wants to work makes it easier to make meaningful contributions to the organization. SWEBOK streamlines your transition into the working world because it outlines certifications that give graduates a competitive edge in the technology job market. According to the U.S. Bu

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Four big enterprise lessons from Walmart’s AI security: agentic risks, identity reboot, velocity with governance, and AI vs. AI defense

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-11-05 16:28:06

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Jerry R. Geisler III, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Walmart Inc., to gain insights into the cybersecurity challenges the world’s largest retailer faces as AI becomes increasingly autonomous. We talked about securing agentic AI systems, modernizing identity

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Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 15:06:15

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application? — (@jvmncs) January 21, 2025 This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" devenv solved this for development environments differently: instead of making developers package everything with Nix, we provide tools through a simple languages.rust.enable . You get cargo

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Netflix wants its partners to follow these rules when using gen AI

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-06 21:22:47

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Netflix has already faced backlash over the use of AI in What Jennifer Did, director Jenny Popplewell’s 2024 true crime documentary that seemingly used AI-generated images in place of real archival photos. That documentary stood out as a shining e

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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-06 21:41:31

Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced Friday in a post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring its technology into future AI models and products. “To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach,” Wang said. “This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap,

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Google shares rise on report of Apple using Gemini for Siri

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-11-07 02:23:55

Alphabet shares rose on a Friday report that Apple is in early discussions to use Google's Gemini AI models for an updated version of the iPhone-maker's Siri assistant. The company's shares rose more than 3% on the Bloomberg report, which said Apple recently inquired of Google about the potential for the search giant to build a custom AI model that would power a new Siri that could launch next year. Google's flagship AI models Gemini have consistently been atop key benchmarks for artificial int

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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:41:48

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks). For someone like me, who cares about privacy and runs as much as possible

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Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-07 02:25:30

Do you have a package coming your way from overseas? (I do, it’s a gift, and I’m very annoyed.) Hopefully it’s not urgent, because it’s going to be a minute before that thing gets to our shores. Questions surrounding the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff regime, including a policy to end an exemption from taxing small packages, have resulted in postal services across the world simply choosing not to ship to the United States until things get sorted out, according to Bloomberg. Central to th

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Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-07 02:30:49

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law. In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification f

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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-11-07 02:06:32

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta could be scanning your camera roll right now. It's using your photos to provide AI-powered suggestions. Check Facebook settings to turn off the features. Meta could be analyzing and retaining your phone's photos without your explicit consent. Some Facebook users have noticed that, within their app settings, Meta automatically switched on two toggles that allow it to access their d

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A Beloved 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Character Just Made Her Fighting Game Debut

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 06:18:59

Lucy, a supporting character from the Netflix show Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, is now available as a guest character in the fighting game Guilty Gear Strive. There isn't much backstory as to how Lucy wound up in the Guilty Gear universe other than that she was in a deep dive on the net and wound up somewhere else. Lucy is a high-mobility character with ranged attacks thanks to her whip (called a monowire, familiar to cyberpunk veterans). Her hacker's toolkit allows her to apply debuffs to her oppon

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Apple is reportedly considering using Gemini to power the new Siri

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 11:45:29

Apple might use Gemini to power its revamped version of Siri, Bloomberg reports. The companies are in the early stages of exploring a partnership, with Google training a version of its Gemini model that can run on Apple's servers. The iPhone maker was previously reported to be considering similar partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic. "The company is simultaneously developing two versions of the new Siri: one dubbed Linwood that is powered by its models and another code-named Glenwood that run

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Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 09:06:15

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application? — (@jvmncs) January 21, 2025 This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" devenv solved this for development environments differently: instead of making developers package everything with Nix, we provide tools through a simple languages.rust.enable . You get cargo

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Away from Gmail, Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 16:41:48

This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks). For someone like me, who cares about privacy and runs as much as possible

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Are EV Charging Stations Bad for Your Health?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-07 16:06:03

Charging up your EV today? Don’t stand too close to it. The air around electric vehicle chargers fast charging cars had twice the level of dangerous fine particles than regular urban air, a new study found. Researchers from UCLA measured 50 chargers across the Los Angeles metropolitan area, most of them Tesla Superchargers, and found that they had levels of fine particulate matter between 15 to 20 micrograms per cubic meter. That’s far higher than the average the typical urban background in L

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Kimbal Musk on Elon's Tesla pay package: 'My brother deserves to be paid'

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-07 20:33:10

Kimbal Musk, the younger brother of the world's wealthiest person, said Elon Musk "deserves to be paid," as Tesla remains locked in a legal saga over its CEO's pay package. "I think my brother deserves to be paid," Kimbal Musk said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Friday. "He has zero pay for the past six to eight years. I don't think that's right. I'll let Tesla shareholders make that decision, but I believe that it does need to be. He needs to be paid." Elon Musk isn't paid a salary or any cash bon

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If I were starting again with Apple kit, I’d own less of it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-07 21:00:00

My colleague Michael Burkhardt posed an interesting question earlier in the week: if you had to start again with your Apple kit, what would you buy? There’s already one Apple product category I no longer use, and a second one I use only on a technicality … I no longer wear an Apple Watch Despite not initially seeing the appeal, I did end up wearing one for nine years. A couple of random events ended up changing that, and I now instead rely on a smart ring. I’m totally sold on a much smaller

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Is this Google's first Gemini-powered smart speaker?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 21:42:27

Google held its annual Made by Google showcase this week, during which it unveiled the latest Pixel phones and various new AI features. What it didn’t announce is a Gemini-powered smart home speaker, but it might have snuck one into the presentation as an easter egg. As spotted by The Verge, about 15 minutes into the stream, on a table next to F1 driver Lando Norris during a Gemini demonstration, you can clearly see what looks a lot like a smart speaker. The fabric-wrapped device we see in the

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If You've Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 00:15:41

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Have you gone outside recently and smelled an acrid odor, perhaps accompanied by a hellish orange sky? Check the news, and you were likely downwind of massive wildfires like those in the Canadian province of Manitoba or the Florida Everglades— an increasingly regular event as millions of people find themselves in the path of noxious smoke, sometimes from a country away. Wildfires are becoming more common than ever amid the ravages of climate change — and thos

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All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 22:50:39

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm. The real

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At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

wired.com Verity Burns 2025-11-08 02:08:24

It's been over two months since Trump Mobile announced the T1 Phone was being “Made in the USA” designed “with American values in mind,” and it seems that anyone deciding to preorder it still can’t be sure exactly what phone they might receive. In posts on X and Instagram on Wednesday, the Trump Mobile account encouraged followers to place their preorder, promising them that “the wait is almost over.” This was joined by an image that looks nothing like the one of the T1 phone that's currently o

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5 of the best Pixel 10 chargers you should buy instead of Google’s 67W brick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 04:00:19

Google has a new charger for the Pixel 10 series, offering 67W of peak power spread across two USB-C ports. As an official product, this is the safe bet for guaranteed fast charging, but it’s also more power than you might need, and it’s not exactly the most affordable plug on the market either. Likewise, perhaps you’re after just a single-port plug or maybe want something that can power your laptop and tablet as well as your new Pixel? To help, I’ve dug out some of the best chargers money can b

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95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-08 06:59:34

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Just 5% of enterprise customers are profiting from generative AI. A bottom-up versus top-down approach can improve implementation success. AI companies are making big promises in a bubble, most of which are unfulfilled. Investment in generative AI may be booming, but most individual businesses using it have yet to see the payoff. In fact, a new MIT study found that 95% of enterprise

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Google’s Next Smart Speaker Is All About AI

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-08 06:44:59

Whether by accident or as a covert tease, Google showed a glimmer of what Google smart speakers have in store. This week, during Google’s annual Pixel hardware event, a never-before-seen speaker slipped into a prerecorded video, and now Android Headlines says it’s confirmed that said speaker is, in fact, of the Google Home variety. Android Headlines says it has seen additional images of the speaker, which will come in four colors, including Obsidian, Porcelain, Jade, and an unnamed red color. J

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Best Massagers for When You’d Rather Not Pay Spa Prices (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-08 06:00:00

The best massagers shouldn't feel like a luxury reserved for special occasions. Getting some tension out of your shoulders should be as accessible as your morning coffee. After all, between work, workouts, and the existential crisis that is life, who isn't carrying muscle tension somewhere? I've dedicated countless hours to trying (almost) every type of massage tool. Testing these contraptions might sound like the dream gig, but it's not all bliss. Some felt like having a personal therapist at m

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Sound the alarm: Google Clock is now getting an Expressive overhaul

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 11:25:36

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The latest version of the Google Clock app is rolling out now and includes loads of visual changes. These changes include distinct backgrounds for active alarms, larger buttons for the stopwatch, and more. We also enabled the previously leaked timer page redesign with some tinkering. We uncovered Google’s Clock app redesign back in May, revealing a visual overhaul in line with the Material 3 Expressive style. Now, it looks like this redesigned app is s

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Latest Tech News

Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law

From Classroom to Career: Skills That Shape Your Path Beyond Coding

Four big enterprise lessons from Walmart’s AI security: agentic risks, identity reboot, velocity with governance, and AI vs. AI defense

Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust

Netflix wants its partners to follow these rules when using gen AI

Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

Google shares rise on report of Apple using Gemini for Siri

Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

Much of the World Stops Sending Mail to U.S.

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off

A Beloved 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Character Just Made Her Fighting Game Debut

Apple is reportedly considering using Gemini to power the new Siri

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust

Away from Gmail, Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

Are EV Charging Stations Bad for Your Health?

Kimbal Musk on Elon's Tesla pay package: 'My brother deserves to be paid'

If I were starting again with Apple kit, I’d own less of it

Is this Google's first Gemini-powered smart speaker?

If You've Breathed Wildfire Smoke, Scientists Just Found Something Horrifying

All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair

At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

5 of the best Pixel 10 chargers you should buy instead of Google’s 67W brick

95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

Google’s Next Smart Speaker Is All About AI

Best Massagers for When You’d Rather Not Pay Spa Prices (2025)

Sound the alarm: Google Clock is now getting an Expressive overhaul

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