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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-29 18:28:47

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks. Previously known as Worldcoin, World was created under Altman and Alex Blania’s Tools for Humanity. The organization says it can help distinguish between AI agents and human beings by scanning users’ eyeballs and creating a unique identity for them on the blockchain. In a lengthy post, Buterin noted that World’s approach of using zero-know

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The top 6 TVs our readers bought this year so far (including a surprise budget pick)

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-08-29 15:00:19

'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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The best Kindles you can buy in 2025

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-08-29 16:00:26

'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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Best blood pressure watches: I tested the top models that actually work

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-29 17:00:16

'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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The best HDMI cables of 2025

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-29 17:00:20

'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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Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

news.ycombinator.com Scott Alexander 2025-08-29 16:13:00

The Story So Far The mid-20th century was the golden age of nurture. Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the spirit of the ‘60s convinced most experts that parents, peers, and propaganda were the most important causes of adult personality. Starting in the 1970s, the pendulum swung the other way. Twin studies shocked the world by demonstrating that most behavioral traits - including socially relevant traits like IQ - were substantially genetic. Typical estimates for adult IQ found it was about 60%

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Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening

news.ycombinator.com Lee Jung-Joo 2025-08-26 02:10:34

The US Embassy in Seoul resumed accepting applications for student and exchange visas but requested that applicants make any private social media accounts public, prompting some South Korean students pursuing studies in the US to seek the help of "digital undertakers." On June 20, the US Embassy in Seoul announced that it will resume taking in applications for its F, M and J nonimmigrant visas, saying it will conduct “thorough vetting” of applicants’ presence on social media. In a notice poste

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London's Largest Ancient Roman Fresco Is “Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle”

news.ycombinator.com Kate Mothes 2025-08-25 20:49:35

Timelapse of the MOLA specialist team reassembling a section of wall plaster. All images © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), shared with permission London’s Largest Ancient Roman Fresco Makes for the ‘World’s Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle’ ArtHistory Kate Mothes Share Pin Email Bookmark One of the remarkable things about a city like London, which has been inhabited for nearly 2,000 years, is that no matter where a developer chooses to build, chances are there’s some relic of the past buried

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History of Cycling Maps

news.ycombinator.com Richard Harries 2025-08-29 16:32:43

Hi there, map-lovers! Available on this site is a complete history of cycling maps, including well over a hundred carefully-selected and restored extracts from the main providers of such maps. It has been created specifically and wholly for that purpose for the general public with an interest in such matters. it was first published in 2021 and is now much expanded. Included as individual pages are Introduction Development of Cycling individual pages on the various map publishers Sources and refe

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Retail Resurrection: David’s Bridal bets its future on AI after double bankruptcy

venturebeat.com James Thomason 2025-08-29 21:30:13

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Inside a new David’s Bridal store in Delray Beach, Florida, a bride-to-be carefully taps images on a 65-inch touchscreen, curating a vision board for her wedding. Behind the scenes, an AI system automatically analyzes her selections, building a knowledge graph that will match her with vendors, recommend products and generate a personalized

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How the Senate's ban on state AI regulation imperils internet access

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-08-30 00:15:56

ANDREY DENISYUK/Getty The Trump administration's tax bill -- also called its "big, beautiful bill" -- which rounds up key pieces of the president's agenda, also includes a rule that would prevent states from enforcing their own AI legislation for 10 years, if passed. After an initial budget hiccup, Republican senators successfully amended the rule to comply with budgetary requirements by adding that states trying to enforce AI regulations would not receive federal broadband funding. Here's why

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Huge Number of Crypto Users Suddenly Getting Terrifying Letters From the IRS

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-30 05:08:25

Crypto bros are freaking out amid a surge in letters from the Internal Revenue Service about their digital currency holdings. As Bitcoin.com and other sites report, there has been a whopping 758 percent spike in customer mentions of IRS letters over the past two months alone, suggesting that there may be a taxation crackdown in progress. We don't know exactly how many people have gotten these troubling letters — but apparently, there are a few different types going out. According to Coinledge

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I tested the best video editing laptops in 2025: Here's what I recommend for your next project

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-30 05:36:27

Summer is a great time to invest in projects, creative gigs, and content creation -- and having the right laptop for video editing is a key piece of the puzzle. You need a machine that can handle everything you throw at it, from full-length film to clips for social media. We tested a wide range of laptops for video editing and found that while some budget laptops can manage basic editing, investing in a purpose-built laptop makes a huge difference. Powerful machines like the Apple M4 MacBook Pro

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Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in SF (founding team)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 05:01:03

About Us ⚡️ Join us to accelerate the energy transition with technology. At Spark, we’re building the AI engine behind the next generation of renewable energy infrastructure. Our mission is simple yet ambitious: To help renewable energy developers build solar farms, battery storage plants, and related projects more efficiently. If you’re excited to see your products directly accelerate the energy transition, read on. We’re already powering decision-making for industry leaders like Colliers En

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After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-30 05:32:07

On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display for 27 years. While Pierre Dandumont first documented the JPEG image itself in 2014, the method to view it on the computer remained a mystery until Brown's reverse engineering work revealed that users must format a RAM disk with the text "secret ROM image

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Nvidia notches 5-day win streak as it hits record highs

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-30 09:00:31

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, speaks during the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 11, 2025. Nvidia stock rose for a fifth consecutive day Friday as the chipmaker notched fresh highs and investors shook off China concerns. The rise in shares has helped the artificial intelligence chipmaking giant regain its seat as the most valuable company. The stock is up 66% since hitting its 52-week low in early

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The best 15-inch laptops of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-30 08:59:30

'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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Kumo’s ‘relational foundation model’ predicts the future your LLM can’t see

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-08-30 13:40:12

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more The generative AI boom has given us powerful language models that can write, summarize and reason over vast amounts of text and other types of data. But when it comes to high-value predictive tasks like predicting customer churn or detecting fraud from structured, relational data, enterprises remain stuck in the world of traditional machin

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Apple shells out US$350M to acquire yet another office campus it was already leasing

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-30 13:49:00

It’s been a good week for Apple’s real estate team. Just days after finalizing a $166.9 million deal for the Cupertino Gate office complex, the company has closed another major acquisition, pushing its South Bay real estate tab to over half a billion dollars in a single week. US$516 million in South Bay acquisitions As reported by SilliconValley.com (via AppleInsider), Apple has just closed a $350 million deal to purchase Mathilda Commons, a two-building 382,500 square feet office campus in Su

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I recommend this Asus laptop to creative professionals and business users alike. Here's why

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-30 12:27:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus ProArt P16 is available now, starting at $1,900. It pairs powerful hardware with a suite of customizable options designed for creatives. The deep personalization requires engagement from the user, the huge trackpad won't be everyone's cup of tea, and the ultra-glossy display tends to glare. $1,899.99 at Best Buy Asus' ProArt series consists of sleek laptops with high-end hardware for creatives. At the top of the line is the new AMD-powered ProArt P16, which exud

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Best July 4th TV deals 2025: My favorite early sales save you up to $2,800

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-08-30 13:51:24

'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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The best iPhone 15 screen protectors of 2025: Expert tested

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-08-30 13:53:16

'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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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 15:09:14

We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy. Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company, to have Claude Sonnet 3.7 operate a small, automated store in the Anthropic office in San Francisco. Here is an excerpt of

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Google's Veo 3 AI video generator is now available to everyone - here's how to try it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-30 21:36:00

smirkdingo/Getty Images Veo 3, Google's new video-generating model that's been making waves across the internet, is now available for everyone in public preview, the company announced Thursday. The tool was initially available only to subscribers of Gemini Ultra and through Flow, Google's AI-powered filmmaking platform that was also revealed at the most recent I/O. As of Thursday, it can be accessed as a public preview by all Google Cloud customers and partners in the Vertex AI Media Studio.

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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 21:02:17

There are secret messages flying all around you all the time, being transmitted via, most of the time, electromagnetic waves going from antenna to antenna. ELOs “Secret Messages” is a song about posting conspiracy theories via WiFi. But what if you need to get a few bytes from device A to device B (one of the hard problems in computer science!) and you don’t feel like making sure they’re both connected to the same network? Well, fortunately, another channel is available to us - sound, or for a

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Best Tablet 2025: Top Tablets From Apple, Samsung, Amazon and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 20:24:00

Tablets are portable computers that have great usability while being less complicated than a traditional computer. The best tablet is the one that's versatile enough for all kinds of use cases from home, school or work. While finding the best tablet for you isn't hard, knowing where to start can be overwhelming, and that's where CNET's testing and reviews can help. We've picked out the best of the best, and these tablets can do it all, including checking email, managing finances, testing your ar

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Adobe’s new camera app is making me rethink phone photography

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-08-30 21:00:00

Adobe’s Project Indigo is a camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds. It’s the work of Florian Kainz and Marc Levoy, the latter of whom is also known as one of the pioneers of computational photography with his work on early Pixel phones. Indigo’s basic promise is a sensible approach to image processing while taking full advantage of computational techniques. It also invites you into the normally opaque processes that happen when you push the shutter button on your phone camera — just t

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Startups Weekly: Tech and the law

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-08-30 21:05:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Before this newsletter takes a break for the Fourth of July next week, here are the startup stories and funding rounds that caught our eye over the last few days, which have been quite busy. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images This week brought us lawsuit updates, M&As, and a

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Amazon Offers Fire TV Soundbar for Practically Free to Clear Out Stock Just Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-31 01:08:58

It’s never a bad time to elevate your home entertainment setup whether it’s in your living room, bedroom or home theater, especially if you love hosting. Don’t underestimate just how important audio is when it comes to immersive viewing. What you want is a really good sound system, and the good news is you don’t need to break the bank to install one. Right now, Amazon has its Fire TV soundbar on sale for 29% off. Normally going for $120, that discount is enough to bring this television audio acc

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Google quietly introduced precise Bluetooth tracking on the Pixel Watch 3

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-31 01:11:46

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. With the Wear OS 5.1 update that was released last March, Google quietly introduced a new feature called Channel Sounding for the Pixel Watch 3 that could improve the accuracy of pinpointing the location of other devices using its existing Bluetooth hardware. But while Channel Sounding is now supported by the smartwatch, it’s not yet in use becau

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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

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