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Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:14:59

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes "Billionaire freeloaders don’t pay taxes." Launch and Taxes For all his trash-talk of government welfare, billionaire Elon Musk has benefited from a lot of it in his time at the helm of his businesses, including SpaceX — and according to newly leaked documents, his space firm isn't even paying any taxes, either. As the New York Times reports, internal documents show that Musk has intimated to investors t

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Britt Lower’s ‘Severance’ Audition Tape Proves Her Helly R. Was Meant to Be

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-18 08:00:52

Long before Severance became a TV obsession, when the Apple TV+ series was still being cast, an actor taped an audition scene for one of the show’s most complex and crucial roles. That clip has been released, and it’s incredible to see how the performer’s initial instincts for and interpretation of the character carried over almost note-perfectly into the show itself. Though viewers were first lured in by big names like Adam Scott, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, and John Turturro, Sever

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Palo Alto Networks reports earnings beat, says founder Nir Zuk retiring from company

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-18 12:47:14

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, looks on during the closing bell at the Nasdaq Market in New York City on March 25, 2025. Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected quarterly results and issued upbeat guidance for the current period. The cybersecurity software vendor said Nir Zuk, who founded the company in 2005, is retiring from his role as chief technology officer. The stock rose about 6% in extended trading. Here's how the company did compared to LSEG estimates: Earnings: 9

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Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Say

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 11:15:48

Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object — only the third ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has caught the attention of Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has a long track record of making controversial predictions about previous interstellar objects being relics from an extraterrestrial civilization. While there's been a growing consensus among astronomers that the latest object is a comet, Lo

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X’s declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-18 12:49:36

Elon Musk’s X is struggling on Android devices in terms of new installs, even while App Store downloads grow, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. In July 2025, X downloads on Google Play saw a significant decline, as new installs dropped by 44% year-over-year worldwide, even as iOS downloads grew by 15%. This steep drop in installs is pulling down X’s overall average, leading to a 26% decrease in total mobile downloads year-over-year as of July. That’s still slightl

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Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-18 17:30:00

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been two and a half years since Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service got a big boost in graphics, latency, and refresh rates — this September, Nvidia’s GFN will officially add its latest Blackwell GPUs. You’ll soon be able to rent what’s effec

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WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-18 22:01:24

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I mean it really, really impacted people. I think on the most extreme ends, you see people who have what looks like perhaps like a mental health crisis, they're so attached to the model, but then you just have complete power users who are like, “This is part of my minute by minute life. What have you done? You didn't warn me.” Jake Lahut: And this is where the introspective aspect of these tools, the kind of desire for self-understanding, the people who are not advisably fro

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The Cutaway Illustrations of Fred Freeman

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Velasco 2025-11-16 08:41:57

During the two-year research for our book LOOK INSIDE we discovered many amazing illustrations and artists that, for one reason or another, did not make it into the final version of the book. It would be a pity to leave these forgotten on a drawer, so during the next few weeks we will present here some of these masters of the cutaway. A while ago we wrote here about Frank Soltesz, an American illustrator active from the 30’s to the 60’s, and author of a marvelous series of architectural cutaw

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Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:31:48

An update from the team annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-08-17 About recent events. We are still alive and kicking. In recent weeks we’ve seen increased attacks on our mission. We are taking steps to harden our infrastructure and operational security. The work of securing humanity’s legacy is worth fighting for. Since we started in 2022, we have liberated tens of millions of books, scientific articles, magazines, newspapers, and more. These are now forever protected from destruction by natural di

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‘Severance’ Season 3 Is Coming, but Ben Stiller Won’t Be Directing

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-19 03:15:15

When audiences return to Lumon Industries sometime in the near future, it will be without a major component. Ben Stiller, one of the producers and directors of the hit Apple TV+ show Severance, will not be directing any episodes in season three. “I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, ‘The clock is ticking,’” Stiller told the Los Angeles Times. He’s currently getting ready to star in Focker-In-Law, the latest Meet the Parents movie, and is prepping his next feature film, a World War II sur

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Better Than Ray-Bans? Meta Could Unveil 'Hypernova' Glasses Next Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 05:02:00

September is gearing up to be one of the most exciting months of the year for new technology launches, with Meta reportedly set to unveil its next-generation smart glasses. Codenamed Hypernova, according to Bloomberg, the glasses are set to start around $800 for the basic model -- that's at least $200 less than previously thought. This pair of glasses will reportedly differ from the current Meta Ray-Bans due to the addition of a small augmented-reality display in the right lens of the glasses,

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Amazon’s Fallout season two heads to New Vegas

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-19 08:53:18

Prime Video has released new photos from season two of Fallout. Lucy (Ella Purnell), the Ghoul (Walton Goggins), and Maximus (Aaron Moten) return as a trio of Wasteland Wanderers whose adventures will bring them to the post-apocalyptic playground of New Vegas. Take a look. Kyle MacLachlan, who plays Lucy’s father Hank, also returns to the show along with Lucy’s brother Norm (Moises Arias) who looks like there’s more evil afoot in the Vaults (duh!). Season two of Fallout is set to start sometime

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This is probably the strangest Beats collaboration in the Apple era

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-19 12:17:52

Disclaimer: Beats Pill speakers should not be consumed. Don’t tell that to this creature, though. Remember the Beats Pill Dude? He’s returning, at least in spirit, as a limited edition drop in select markets, starting with England next week. The Beats Pill Dude predated Apple’s purchase of Beats in 2014. That was then. This is now. Verdy mascot Vear is back as a Beats Pill speaker holder with big collectible energy. This is the version that was released in 2024: Vear is here. Designed by V

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The Weight of a Cell

news.ycombinator.com Niko Mccarty 2025-11-19 12:29:27

Ella Watkins-Dulaney Microbes are so small that tens of thousands could fit in the space of the period at the end of this sentence. And yet, for two of the most widely studied kinds — S. cerevisiae and E. coli — we know their weight with remarkable precision: A single yeast cell weighs about 100 picograms and a single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, or 60 million times less than a grain of sand. At first blush, measuring the weight of a single cell seems an impossible task. How ca

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Valiant’s Bloodshot Relaunch Mired by Transphobic Dogwhistles

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-17 04:25:26

Update, 8/17/2025 @ 10:57 AM: After his old Twitter posts were discovered, Bloodshot writer Mauro Mantella has since deleted the account and posted an apology on Instagram. “I want to offer my most sincere apologies. I know I made a mistake, but at no point did I intend to spread a message of hate,” it begins. In his apology, he revealed he first wrote the issue’s script in Spanish, then “changed it a bit” when converting it to English. This conversion led to him “borrowing a common phrase used

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Better than Ray-Bans? Meta Could Unveil 'Hypernova' Glasses Next Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 17:02:39

September is gearing up to be one of the most exciting months of the year for new technology launches, with Meta reportedly set to unveil its next-generation smart glasses. Codenamed Hypernova, according to Bloomberg, the glasses are set to start around $800 for the basic model -- that's at least $200 less than previously thought. This pair of glasses will reportedly differ from the current Meta Ray-Bans due to the addition of a small augmented-reality display in the right lens of the glasses,

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Linktree goes dark in India — and the company isn’t sure why

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-19 17:46:17

Linktree, the popular link-in-bio service used by millions of creators and businesses, has been inaccessible in India for several days — and its sudden disappearance from the Indian web remains a mystery, even to the Australian startup itself. Over the past week, Linktree has been inaccessible in India, with a few users raising the issue on X. Initially, TechCrunch noticed that the site briefly displayed a message suggesting it had been blocked by the Indian government. Later, this was replaced

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Hands-on: Here’s Circle to Search’s upcoming ‘Scroll and translate’ feature in action

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:45:17

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a new feature called Scroll and Translate that adds live translation capabilities to Circle to Search. There’s confusion about the branding, as the company has interchangeably called the feature “Live Translate” and “Scroll and Translate.” The rollout appears to be limited as only Google app beta users on Pixels have received the feature so far. Earlier in the day, we brought you news that Google is working on a massive upgrade t

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Apple’s iPhone 18 launch will drop a surprising model, per report

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-19 22:34:43

The iPhone 17 unveiling is only weeks away, and iPhone 18 rumors are starting to pick up. A new report corroborates previous claims that the iPhone 18 launch lineup will drop a surprisingly important model. Base iPhone 18 will reportedly not be part of fall 2026 launch lineup After several years of very similar iPhone lineups year after year, Apple has big changes in store starting this fall. The iPhone 17 line will feature a new ultra-thin ‘Air’ model that replaces the Plus model and could s

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Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:01:38

Block Reels & Shorts on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube. Set scrolling limits on any app with antiscroll mode. No Ads, No Reels, No Shorts, No Distractions. iOS has some limitations,so it’s not technically possible to block Reels and Shorts the same way as on Android. Although it can't be done the same way, I’m building an iPhone app with a different approach to help cut down on scrolling addiction. Drop your email and I’ll let you know when is launched!

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The First Look at ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Is Ready for Vegas

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-19 22:00:20

Amazon has revealed the first official look at Fallout season 2, giving us our first teases at how the series will handle a location fans have been dying to see on screen for years: New Vegas, the main setting of Obsidian’s beloved Fallout: New Vegas. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re getting a good look at New Vegas itself just yet. Today Amazon dropped the first stills from the upcoming season, giving us a fun little catch-up with our major players: Lucy (Ella Purnell) and the Ghoul (Wa

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A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:25:35

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; all together, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one,

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Perplexity now supports live earnings call transcripts for Indian stocks

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-19 22:02:56

In Brief AI startup Perplexity is augmenting its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions of Indian public companies’ quarterly earnings calls, as well as a calendar to show schedules for post-results conference calls. Alongside surfacing news about the markets, Perplexity’s Finance dashboard shows market summaries, stock exchange charts, and top performing stocks. The dashboard also lets users create stock watchlists, track sector performance, and see cryptocurrency performance. Until now,

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LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-11-20 02:04:34

Last October, I wrote an essay called “When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems” warning that “The more people use LLMs, the more trouble we are going to be in”. Until last week, when I went to Black Hat Las Vegas, I had no earthly idea how serious the problems were. There, I got to know Nathan Hamiel, a Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security and the AI, ML, and Data Science track lead for Black Hat, and also sat in on a talk by tw

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MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 23:53:03

Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code I wrote a while back about why code performs better than MCP (Model Context Protocol) for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to use those. In the meantime, I learned a few more things that put some nuance to this. There are a handful of challenges with CLI-based tools that are rather hard to resolve and require further examination. In this blog post, I want to

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Bitcoin sinks to $115,000 after hitting its newest record, as macro concerns spark liquidation wave

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-20 14:44:48

A worsening macroeconomic climate and the collapse of industry giants such as FTX and Terra have weighed on bitcoin's price this year. The crypto market tumbled to begin the week as heightened macro concerns triggered more than $500 million in forced selling of long positions. The price of bitcoin was last lower by 2% at $115,255.70, after touching a new all-time high last week – its fourth one this year – at $124,496. At one point, it fell as low as $114,706. Ether slid 4% to $4,283.15 after

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Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs

technologyreview.com Ben Crair 2025-11-20 12:00:00

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century. Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living

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Google Wallet is about to make adding passes effortless: Here’s how it’ll work (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:31:53

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Wallet is getting ready to launch a new feature that’ll automatically scan and add eligible passes from your photos. We have managed to get the feature working in the latest version of the app. Wallet won’t just blindly add every pass or ticket in finds in your image gallery; it’ll let you review and approve the selected items. In September last year, we spotted hints of a new Google Wallet feature that could make it much easier to find and st

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LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare

news.ycombinator.com Gary Marcus 2025-11-20 14:04:34

Last October, I wrote an essay called “When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems” warning that “The more people use LLMs, the more trouble we are going to be in”. Until last week, when I went to Black Hat Las Vegas, I had no earthly idea how serious the problems were. There, I got to know Nathan Hamiel, a Senior Director of Research at Kudelski Security and the AI, ML, and Data Science track lead for Black Hat, and also sat in on a talk by tw

Topics: agents code coding llm malicious

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MCP Doesn't Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 11:53:03

Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code I wrote a while back about why code performs better than MCP (Model Context Protocol) for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to use those. In the meantime, I learned a few more things that put some nuance to this. There are a handful of challenges with CLI-based tools that are rather hard to resolve and require further examination. In this blog post, I want to

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Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

Britt Lower’s ‘Severance’ Audition Tape Proves Her Helly R. Was Meant to Be

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Better than Ray-Bans? Meta Could Unveil 'Hypernova' Glasses Next Month

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Google Wallet is about to make adding passes effortless: Here’s how it’ll work (APK teardown)

LLMs and Coding Agents = Security Nightmare

MCP Doesn't Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code

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