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Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 18:29:37

Sony Interactive's Helldivers 2, the third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios, is finally coming to Xbox on August 26. The sequel to the 2015 top-down shooter was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows in early 2024 and supports cross-platform play. After launch, Helldivers 2 was a huge success, selling over 15 million copies and reaching 450,000 concurrent players on Steam, the highest number ever among PlayStation games released for the PC. In fact, there were so many pl

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Police dismantles investment fraud ring stealing €10 million

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-02 18:53:21

The Spanish police have dismantled a large-scale investment fraud operation that caused cumulative damages exceeding $11.8 million (€10 million). During simultaneous raids in Barcelona, Madrid, Mallorca, and Alicante, coordinated by the Mossos d’Esquadra, Civil Guard, and the National Police, 21 individuals were arrested. Along with the arrests, the police agents also confiscated seven luxury vehicles and more than $1.5 million €1.3 million in cash and cryptocurrency. The fraudsters appear to

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Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology

news.ycombinator.com Alan Stapelberg 2025-09-02 18:36:13

Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance. Open sourcing these powerful cryptographic tools will make it much easier for private and public sector developers to build their own privacy-enhancing applications and digital ID solutions, meeting an urgent need. In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any

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Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-02 18:21:09

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which "personal [AI] superintelligence for everyone" forms "the beginning of a new era for humanity." The newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs—freshly staffed with multiple high-level acquisitions from OpenAI and other AI companies—will spearhead the development of "our next generation of models to get to the frontier in the next year or so," Zuckerberg wrote. Reading that memo, I couldn'

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Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-02 18:41:15

In mid-June, a federal judge issued a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration, declaring that its decision to cancel the funding for many grants issued by the National Institutes of Health was illegal, and suggesting that the policy was likely animated by racism. But the detailed reasoning behind his decision wasn't released at the time. The written portion of the decision was finally issued on Wednesday, and it has a number of notable features. For starters, it's more limited in scope due

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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-09-02 22:06:05

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech companies — including Facebook, Github, PayPal and Twitter/X. On May 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced economic sanctions against Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company alleged to pr

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See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 21:17:04

A sneak preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile made its way to news sites and social media last week, followed by a livestream event. "(The Rubin Observatory is) going to build the greatest time-lapse movie of the cosmos ever made," the observatory said in a post. The observatory is named for the American scientist widely credited for finding some of the first evidence of dark matter, with the project being funded by the National Scienc

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IPO market gets boost from Circle's 500% surge, sparking optimism that drought may be ending

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-03 02:36:34

Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world's biggest stablecoins, and Circle Internet Group co-founder Sean Neville react as they ring the opening bell, on the day of the company's IPO, in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSE For over three years, venture capital firms have been waiting for this moment. Tech IPOs came to a virtual standstill in early 2022 due to soaring inflation and rising interest rates, while big acquisitions were mostly of

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One UI 8 will let any app show a Live Notification in Samsung’s Now Bar

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 02:31:09

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s One UI 8 will enhance its Live Notifications feature by adopting Android 16’s new “Live Updates” API for broader third-party app support. This new API allows any app to create live, ongoing notifications, a major improvement from the previous version limited to mostly first-party Samsung apps. The feature is currently available in the One UI 8 beta behind a developer flag but is expected to be enabled for everyone in the final stable release.

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Locality of Behaviour (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 01:17:19

Locality of Behaviour (LoB) Carson Gross May 29, 2020 “The primary feature for easy maintenance is locality: Locality is that characteristic of source code that enables a programmer to understand that source by looking at only a small portion of it.” – Richard Gabriel Locality of Behaviour is the principle that: The behaviour of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code The LoB principle is a simple prescriptive formulation of the quoted statement

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Castelion is raising a $350M Series B to scale hypersonic missile business

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-09-03 02:03:34

Hypersonic weapons startup Castelion is raising a $350 million Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Altimeter Capital, according to sources and documents viewed by TechCrunch. The round, which values the company in the billions, is anticipated to close in a matter of weeks. A term sheet has been signed. The new round comes on the heels of $100 million in Series A funding that closed in January. That round was composed of about $70 million in equity and $30 million of debt. Lightspeed

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Where is my von Braun wheel?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 05:44:55

In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away. NASA had viable designs for rotating wheel space stations that could have given astronauts artificial gravity. Then, the Apollo program effectively killed them. While NASA’s lunar focus delivered the historic moonshot, it dismantled a promising engineering effort at Langley Research Center that might have revolutionized human spaceflight. That decision set us on a half-century trajectory of small, zero-gravity stations that continu

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Whoop MG review: a big whoop for a small crowd

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-09-03 06:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The tragedy of a niche product is if it sees any success, two things will happen. First, rivals big and small will copy its ideas. Then, to combat that existential threat and appease investors, there’ll be an appeal to the larger mass market. A handful of niche products survive the transition to the mainstream. Most don’t. (See: Nest,

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Ransomware gang Hunters International says it’s shutting down

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-03 06:45:05

The ransomware gang known as Hunters International announced on its dark web page Thursday that it is shutting down. “After careful consideration and in light of recent developments, we have decided to close the Hunters International project,” the hackers wrote in a post, without clarifying what specific developments it was referring to. “This decision was not made lightly, and we recognize the impact it has on the organizations we have interacted with.” The hackers also said they are offering

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Android 16’s Live Updates won’t work with your favorite music player, and that’s a bummer

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 14:00:04

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 introduces Live Updates, a new feature that elevates ongoing notifications to the status bar, but it excludes media playback notifications. This is because media apps use a dedicated “Media style” template, which is not one of the specific styles that can be promoted to a Live Update. Switching styles would cause media apps to lose key playback controls and features, a trade-off developers are unlikely to make for this new functionality. Li

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Uber drivers in British Columbia, Canada have unionized

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-03 14:24:34

Uber drivers in British Columbia, Canada have joined a union and are now seeking the first collective deal for ride-share drivers in the country, according to Bloomberg. Drivers from Greater Victoria, in particular, have joined UFCW 1518, the province's largest private sector union, which currently represents over 28,000 workers across multiple sectors. "The organizing victory represents a new chapter for app-based workers, demonstrating that all workers deserve a voice in their working conditio

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Hunters International ransomware shuts down, releases free decryptors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 12:53:21

The Hunters International Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation announced today that it has officially closed down its operations and will offer free decryptors to help victims recover their data without paying a ransom. "After careful consideration and in light of recent developments, we have decided to close the Hunters International project. This decision was not made lightly, and we recognize the impact it has on the organizations we have interacted with," the cybercrime gang says in a

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‘We Live in a Surveillance State’: Reddit Users Explode Over Reports of ICE’s New Face and Fingerprint Scanning App

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-03 14:55:42

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly using a new tool called Mobile Fortify, a smartphone-based facial recognition and fingerprint scanning app that allows agents to identify people in real time using only a phone camera. The tool taps into the same biometric system used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at ports of entry. But ICE is now using it inside the U.S., in field operations across the country. According to internal ICE emails reviewed by 404 Media, the app

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Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-03 23:28:48

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI 33 minutes ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Reuters Microsoft has confirmed that it will lay off as many as 9,000 workers, in the technology giant's latest wave of job cuts this year. The company said several divisions would be affected without specifying which ones but reports suggest that its Xbox video gaming unit will be hit. Microsoft has set o

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Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-09-03 22:00:00

Let’s start with fusion: Google’s deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems is intended to provide the tech giant with 200 megawatts of power. This will come from Commonwealth’s first commercial plant, a facility planned for Virginia that the company refers to as the Arc power plant. The agreement represents half its capacity. What’s important to note here is that this power plant doesn’t exist yet. In fact, Commonwealth still needs to get its Sparc demonstration reactor, located outside Boston, up

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The best OLED TVs of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-09-03 21:00:21

OLED TVs are among the most popular options for most shoppers, and with good reason. They offer some of the best picture quality you can buy, they can have stellar audio quality, and the prices are better than ever. Sony and LG have cornered this market for the longest time, but other companies now offer LED TVs at more affordable prices. Samsung uses object tracking sound while LG and Sony utilize Dolby Atmos virtual surround sound for more immersive experiences. OLEDs are also great choices f

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What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?

news.ycombinator.com James Sinclair 2025-08-31 21:10:23

Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when? Function declarations and function statements We have (at least) three ways of creating functions in JavaScript. The first is the function declaration. This binds a function to a given name. It looks something like this:1 1 I’ve used String.toLowercase() here, partly for b

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12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-09-03 22:31:00

FAQ What Kinds of Coffee Subscriptions Are There? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron There are two kinds of coffee subscription providers: roasters and retailers. Roasters are cafés, and small-batch producers who buy raw beans from farmers all over the world and roast them to perfection. By buying from a roaster, you're directly supporting the people who make your favorite coffees; there's no middleman between you and your coffee. The downside is you usually won't have as broad a selecti

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-03 22:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan, and is capped at 3 videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users to generate videos up to 8 seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to Gemi

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Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 17:06:16

A command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON, designed for automation, monitoring, and integration with other tools. # Clone and setup the project # Install uv if you haven't already # Monitor all new emails # JSON Lines format (one JSON per line) # Resume from last checkpoint

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Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-09-01 07:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Scary Survey Results: Teen Drivers Are Often Looking at Their Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 21:01:03

A new study reveals that teen drivers in the US are spending more than one-fifth of their driving time distracted by their phones, with many glances lasting long enough to significantly raise the risk of a crash. Published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention and released on Thursday, the research found that, on average, teens reported looking at their phones during 21.1% of every driving trip. More than a quarter of those distractions lasted two seconds or longer, which is an amount of time

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Even before the Xbox layoffs, there was 'tension' at Halo Studios

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-03 22:20:33

At least five employees at Halo Studios have been fired as part of company-wide layoffs at Microsoft on Wednesday, according to a developer with knowledge of the situation. An estimated 200 to 300 people remain at the studio. Employees across Microsoft's Xbox division received an email from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer Wednesday morning addressing "organizational shifts" hitting the team over the coming days. Halo Studios employees who were laid off received an additional invite to a meeti

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gmailtail: tail -f Your Gmail

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 22:06:16

A command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON, designed for automation, monitoring, and integration with other tools. # Clone and setup the project # Install uv if you haven't already # Monitor all new emails # JSON Lines format (one JSON per line) # Resume from last checkpoint

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More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-09-01 12:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Latest Tech News

Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

Police dismantles investment fraud ring stealing €10 million

Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology

Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

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See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Ransomware gang Hunters International says it’s shutting down

Android 16’s Live Updates won’t work with your favorite music player, and that’s a bummer

Uber drivers in British Columbia, Canada have unionized

Hunters International ransomware shuts down, releases free decryptors

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