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Summer Games Done Quick 2025 raises $2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 12:23:15

Another weeklong round-the-clock spree of speedrunning video games has come to a close, with Summer Games Done Quick raising $2,436,614 for Doctors Without Borders. Held in Minneapolis, the event saw 37,776 donations, with the highest contribution being a solo $61,200 donation. This year, 2,600 in-person attendees got to experience a hectic relay race pitting two teams of four against each other to complete a Super Mario Maker 2 level and a full playthrough of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat in less th

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Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB

news.ycombinator.com Mark Tyson 2025-09-05 13:58:24

Details behind HoloMem’s holographic tape innovations are beginning to come into clearer view. The UK-based startup recently chatted with Blocks & Files about its potentially disruptive technology for long-term cold storage. HoloMem is another emerging storage idea which relies on optical technology - to enable holographic storage. However, it cleverly melds the durability and density advantage of optical formats with a flexible polymer ribbon-loaded cartridge, so it can usurp entrenched LTO mag

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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 14:44:32

When I scroll through social media, I often leave demoralized, with the sense that the entire world is on fire and people are inflamed with hatred towards one another. Yet, when I step outside into the streets of New York City to grab a coffee or meet a friend for lunch, it feels downright tranquil. The contrast between the online world and my daily reality has only gotten more jarring. Since my own work is focused on topics such as intergroup conflict, misinformation, technology and climate ch

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Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 11:00:57

Infisical is looking to hire exceptional talent to join our teams in building the open source security infrastructure stack for the AI era. We're building a generational company with a world-class team. This isn’t a place to coast — but if you want to grow fast, take ownership, and solve tough problems, you’ll be challenged like nowhere else. What We’re Looking For We’re looking for a developer-focused communicator who’s excited about developer tools, security infrastructure, and developer ex

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A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

news.ycombinator.com Zola Gonano 2025-09-05 10:45:02

A Technical Look at Iran’s Internet Shutdowns Every time mass protests erupt in Iran, a familiar pattern follows: the flow of information stops. The internet slows to a crawl or disappears entirely. But how does a modern country survive cutting itself off from the internet? Wouldn’t that break everything? Not quite, because the Islamic Republic has spent the last decade building an internet within the internet. The National Information Network (NIN): Isolation by Design Iran’s National Info

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The Garmin Forerunner 570 is a powerful running watch but the price is all wrong

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-05 10:00:59

Garmin Forerunner 570 The Garmin Forerunner 570 is a sleek, high-performing running watch that nails the essentials and then some, but its price puts it in a strange no man’s land between its better-value siblings. With advanced training tools, added smart tools, and highly accurate sensors, it’s easy to love while wearing it, but unless you find it discounted, it's tricky to justify buying in the first place. I’ve spent the past few weeks testing the Garmin Forerunner 570, Garmin’s latest addi

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Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-05 13:38:00

Google Gemini for Workspace can be exploited to generate email summaries that appear legitimate but include malicious instructions or warnings that direct users to phishing sites without using attachments or direct links. Such an attack leverages indirect prompt injections that are hidden inside an email and obeyed by Gemini when generating the message summary. Despite similar prompt attacks being reported since 2024 and safeguards being implemented to block misleading responses, the technique

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How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-05 12:00:13

Jiojio/Getty Images Business is on a never-ending quest to boost efficiency, cut costs, and increase productivity. Some of the earliest known businesses -- ancient Mesopotamian traders -- inspired the invention of writing. (Record keeping -- now that's a competitive advantage!) Similar needs have existed in every economic period. The big difference now is that AI technology can boost these efficiencies in new and exponentially profitable ways. Agentic AI is at the core of this efficiency boost

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Lua beats MicroPython for serious embedded devs

news.ycombinator.com Wilfred Nilsen 2025-09-05 07:16:02

Why Lua Beats MicroPython for Serious Embedded Devs In professional embedded projects, ranging from industrial automation to medical devices and commercial IoT products, developers increasingly favor high-level, lightweight, and easy-to-use environments. While MicroPython has earned praise for rapid prototyping and field deployments on microcontrollers, its active ecosystem is largely centered around hobbyist boards. It is important to note that Python’s greatest strength, its vast library eco

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The Fantastic Four Were Too OP For the Infinity Saga

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-05 13:30:34

One of the big draws of next week’s Fantastic Four: First Steps is seeing Marvel’s First Family in the retrofuturist Earth-828. They’re Earth’s only heroes in that dimension, and before Galactus shows up, it sounds like they’ve done a pretty good job protecting the planet. They might even be too good at it, which is why they’re in their own universe to begin with. During a recent MovieWeb interview, director Matt Shakman discussed how the Four were made “in this time of optimism during the spac

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Ford’s Recall Affects Almost Every Cool Car They Make, and There’s No Fix Yet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-05 14:13:40

If you’ve recently bought one of Ford’s best-selling vehicles, like the wildly popular Bronco, the workhorse F-150, or the family-hauling Explorer, the company has some unsettling news for you. Ford is recalling a staggering 850,318 of its most iconic models worldwide, including 844,098 in the U.S. alone, from the 2021-2023 model years due to a defect that can cause the engine to suddenly stall while driving. But the real kicker in this massive safety recall isn’t just the danger of your engine

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Microsoft Plans to Purge Passwords — Here's How to Protect Yours

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 09:00:00

Microsoft is moving closer to a password-free future, and if you're still using the Authenticator app to manage logins, big changes are coming fast. Starting Aug. 1, the app will no longer support passwords at all. This shift has already been in motion-new password creation was disabled in June, and autofill support was cut off in July. For years, Microsoft Authenticator was a go-to for managing both multi-factor authentication and saved passwords. But now, it's being refocused to support passk

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Here's How to Turn Off Some Annoying iPhone Texting Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 09:00:04

Texting is one of the easiest ways to stay in touch with friends and family, and if you can't find the right words to use in a text, you can always use an emoji. But you might find some texting features on iPhone to be downright annoying. Some of the biggest culprits include autocorrect and predictive texting. Autocorrect can cut down on the number of typos when you're typing, and predictive texting can make it easy to write a full message in a few quick taps. But when I use these features, mor

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 20:59:30

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

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Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 13:33:57

pattrns pattrns is an experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine. It allows you to programmatically create music sequences either in plain Rust as library (static, compiled) or in Lua as a scripting engine (dynamic, interpreted). So it's also suitable for live coding music. In addition to its imperative event generator approach, it also supports the creation of musical events using tidalcycle's mini-notation. This crate only deals with the generation of raw musical events.

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Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 00:25:18

Aeron Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport. Java, C, and C++ clients are available in this repository, and a .NET client is available. All clients can exchange messages across machines, or on the same machine via IPC, very efficiently. Message streams can be recorded by the Archive module to persistent storage for later, or real-time, replay. Aeron Cluster provides support for fault-tolerant services as replicated state machines based on the Raft consensus al

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Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

news.ycombinator.com Justin Dujardin 2025-09-05 10:37:48

When understood and used properly, the constraint W = tanh(Ŵ) ⊙ σ(M̂) (introduced in NALU by Trask et al. 2018 ) creates a unique parameter topology where optimal weights for discrete operations can be calculated rather than learned . During training, they're able to converge with extreme speed and reliability towards the optimal solution. Most neural networks struggle with basic arithmetic. They approximate, they fail on extrapolation, and they're inconsistent. But what if there was a way to m

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Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)

news.ycombinator.com Philip K. Dick 2025-09-01 20:14:14

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Second Variety, by Philip Kindred Dick This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Second Variety Author: Philip Kindred Dick Illustrator: Alex Ebel Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32032] [Last updated: May 4, 2011] Language: English Character set encod

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Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action

venturebeat.com Harshal Shah 2025-09-05 10:45:00

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 Have you ever thought about what it is like to use a voice assistant when your own voice does not match what the system expects? AI is not just reshaping how we hear the world; it is transforming who gets to be heard. In the age of conversational AI, accessibility has become a crucial benchmark for innovation. Voice assistants, transcriptio

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I’ve been using Garmin watches for 5 years and just discovered this clever trick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-05 04:00:51

Ryan Haines / Android Authority At this point, I’ve probably reviewed more than a dozen Garmin watches since taking my place as Android Authority’s resident runner. You might say it’s become a big part of my personality, but I’d argue it always was one. I’ve spent countless hours logging countless miles (alright, Strava probably has an accurate number) across everything from the Instinct to the Forerunner to the Fenix, and I thought I knew everything there was to know about Garmin’s lineup. At

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Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Erisa A 2025-09-01 23:08:34

There are lots of ways to host a web service. You might want to rent a VPS, Dedicated Server, or embrace full serverless and write your application for a service like Cloudflare Workers You might want to use Docker, k8s, LXD, or any other manner of deploying your services. You might have a complex setup to proxy and serve traffic through your IP. But sometimes you might not have it all figured out. You might want to run your service in your home on that one old laptop you have lying around,

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Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-05 06:30:52

Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger explosive — and potentially deadly — volcanic eruptions around the world. As detailed in a new study presented at the Goldschmidt international geochemistry conference this week and due to be peer-reviewed later this year, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed six volcanoes in southern Chile to study how retreating ice sheets may have influenced past volcanic behavior. Using advanced argon

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Gboard could make it much easier to type and edit even without touching your phone (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-04 08:48:11

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google reveals more clues about its improved voice typing feature in Gboard. While Gboard already allows using basic voice commands for editing text, the improved feature could use AI for smarter edits. This feature could be powered by Gemini Nano, allowing for quick, on-device editing with voice. As Google readies the upcoming Pixel 10 series of phones, we’re witnessing increasingly more signs hinting at contextual uses of AI across many of its apps

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Apple @ Work: Passkey portability is finally here in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-09-05 07:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project (2010)

news.ycombinator.com David Ferrucci 2025-09-01 12:20:05

Downloads Ferrucci, D., Brown, E., Chu-Carroll, J., Fan, J., Gondek, D., Kalyanpur, A. A., Lally, A., Murdock, J. W., Nyberg, E., Prager, J., Schlaefer, N., & Welty, C. (2010). Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project. AI Magazine , 31 (3), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v31i3.2303 License This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is prop

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Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 09:50:30

Good questions. And as Monday came and went without any sign of the missing Mercedes, the mystery deepened, and more theories continued to pour in: had it been hotwired and moved to a chop shop? Was it used for a joy ride and ditched in some remote corner of the island? The family asked the Current to share a photo of the vehicle, and the fact that it had been reported stolen. The post set off a deluge of messages along the lines of: "Who steals a car on Nantucket? Where are they going to go?"

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Commodore 64 Ultimate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 04:21:22

Honouring the past. Innovating the future. Without the distractions that stole it. Commodore has returned from a parallel timeline where tech stayed optimistic, inviting, and human. Where it served us, not enslaved us. We’re here to bring that feeling back - retro • futurism, transparent tech, digital detox, real innovation. Our first step is your first way out. The glowing, translucent Commodore® 64 computer isn't a software emulator - it's the first official Commodore 64 in over 30 y

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The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Regan Penaluna 2025-09-05 07:25:28

I tug my black swim cap over my hair, strap on my pink goggles, and keep a focused calm, like Michael Phelps before a race. It’s lap swim on a Monday afternoon at my local YMCA, and I’m going to attempt the fish kick. Most fish move through the water with a horizontal wiggle. The fish kick challenges you to copy this movement: You completely submerge yourself underwater, position yourself on your side, keep your arms tight above your head in a streamline, and propel yourself forward with symmetr

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The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-05 07:00:42

In contrast to other technological advances, the objective for next-generation nuclear reactors seems to be to scale down, not up—an initiative backed by the Department of Energy (DOE). Earlier this month, the DOE announced a conditional agreement made with private firms Westinghouse and Radiant to conduct the first reactor tests at its Demonstration on Microreactor Experiment (DOME) facility, located at Idaho National Laboratory. These experiments, featuring two trailer-sized microreactors, w

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Google Fiber Partners With Nokia. Here’s What It Could Mean for Your Home Internet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 07:00:00

Heads up for Google Fiber customers, you may soon have more control over your home internet connection. Just recently, Google Fiber announced its partnership with Nokia, a telecommunications company. Through this partnership, Google Fiber and Nokia have begun testing network slicing, a technology that will allow customers to personalize and have more control over their network. This technology promises many benefits, particularly for gamers. Google Fiber Head of Product Nick Saporito tells CNET

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Latest Tech News

Summer Games Done Quick 2025 raises $2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders

Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers

A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns

The Garmin Forerunner 570 is a powerful running watch but the price is all wrong

Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing

How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

Lua beats MicroPython for serious embedded devs

The Fantastic Four Were Too OP For the Infinity Saga

Ford’s Recall Affects Almost Every Cool Car They Make, and There’s No Fix Yet

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine

Aeron: Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)

Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action

I’ve been using Garmin watches for 5 years and just discovered this clever trick

Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel (2022)

Horrifying Research Finds Melting Glaciers Could Activate Deadly Volcanoes

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Commodore 64 Ultimate

The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)

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