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Must-Play Games of 2025 So Far: Death Stranding 2, Expedition 33, Assassin's Creed Shadows and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 04:23:00

At the start of the year, 2025 was going to be all about Grand Theft Auto 6, which had so much hype that players were already expecting it to win Game of the Year. That changed last month when Rockstar Games announced that its highly anticipated game would be pushed to 2026. Though this year might not have what could be the biggest game of the decade, 2025 so far has some great games from the most unlikely places. With the launch of the Switch 2 and Summer Game Fest already happening in early J

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 30, #280

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 07:00:02

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. The blue category is about a backyard game that I just don't think of as a true sport, and the purple category is one of those patented NYT word-trickery groups. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta n

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 30, #750

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 07:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. The blue and purple categories especially threw me off. It helps to know your movies. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 30, #484

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 07:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Gardeners -- today's NYT Strands puzzle is for you. I'm not one, and some of the answers were tough to find and even tougher to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordl

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 05:00:19

Image by Getty / Futurim Developments Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses luminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the brain metabolizes energy, it releases super-faint traces of visible light. Called ultra-weak photon emissions (UPEs), the flashes of light are emitted when electrons break

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Chinese Police Cracking Down on Naughty Fiction

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 06:30:23

Imagine you pen an erotic short story that involves two handsome men falling in love and into bed — some of your best work yet — and you publish it on a website that caters to that type of subgenre. But instead of getting kudos and gushing comments from readers, the cops haul you up to the police station for some dramatic questioning in a barren room, a process that may eventually land you in prison. That's exactly what's been happening to erotica writers in China who have run afoul of law enf

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Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-09 08:03:19

Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information. Researchers confirmed that 29 devices from Beyerdynamic, Bose, Sony, Marshall, Jabra, JBL, Jlab, EarisMax, MoerLabs, and Teufel are affected. The list of impacted products includes speakers, earbuds, headphones, and wireless microphones. The security problems could be leveraged to take over a vulnerable product and on

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Performance Debugging with LLVM-mca: Simulating the CPU

news.ycombinator.com Ivica Bogosavljević 2025-09-09 05:41:09

Some time ago I had a performance problem that wasn’t easy to explain by just looking at the code, since the version I expected to be faster was actually slower. Since the problem is simple yet illustrative, I am using it as a showcase on how to debug performance issues using llvm-mca. According to it’s documentation llvm-mca is a performance analysis tool that uses information available in LLVM (e.g. scheduling models) to statically measure the performance of machine code in a specific CPU. In

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Notorious Fungus Blamed for ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Is Now a Promising Cancer Treatment

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-09 04:00:30

In the 1920s, a number of workers on the excavation team that uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb met untimely deaths. Five decades later, 10 out of 12 scientists died after entering the tomb of the 15th-century Polish King Casimir IV. In both cases, researchers suggested that fungal spores could have played a role in the mysterious deaths, specifically identifying the fungus Aspergillus flavus within the Polish burial. A. flavus is now making a comeback, but not as a reawakened killer from ancie

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Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-09-09 06:00:04

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human genome and transform our understanding of health and disease. But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca-esque future full of designer babies. Now,

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Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition

wired.com Leila Sloman 2025-09-09 03:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first mathematical truths we learn is that 1 plus 1 equals 2. But mathematicians still have many unanswered questions about the kinds of patterns that addition can give rise to. “This is one of the most basic things you can do,” said Benjamin Bedert, a graduate student at the University of Oxford. “Somehow

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These premium outdoor speakers made me reconsider switching to Bluetooth audio - here's why

zdnet.com Christian De Looper 2025-09-09 06:00:19

ZDNET's key takeaways The Polk Audio Atrium 5 speakers are available for $325 a pair, offering a sleek and weatherproof design. These speakers have a crisp, detailed, and surprisingly deep sound profile. You'll need an amplifier for these speakers, making them less convenient than using a Bluetooth speaker. $325 at B&H Photo-Video While plenty of folks use portable Bluetooth speakers for their outdoor listening needs, they're not the most practical choice if you're setting up an outdoor envir

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The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

news.ycombinator.com Celine Nguyen 2025-09-06 19:27:11

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that design can change the world?” Several hands shot up, including mine. After a few seconds of silence, he advanced to the next slide of his presentation: a poster by the designer Frank Chimero that read, Design won’t save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck. My professor was

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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law

news.ycombinator.com Charles Rosenbauer 2025-09-09 04:07:03

Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. This is Moore’s Law. Roughly every five years, the cost to build a factory for making such chips doubles, and the number of companies that can do it halves. 25 years ago, there were about 40 such companies and the cost to build a fab was about $2-4 billion. Today, there are either two or three such companies left (depending on your optimism toward Intel) and the cost to build a fab is in excess of $1

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The Best Printers for Home and Office: Brother, HP, and More

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-09-09 07:33:00

Before anything else, you'll have to decide between ink and laser. I'll get into the details when it comes to each model, but the most important consideration is paper type, because it’s a limitation rather than a benefit. Laser printers use heat in the bonding process, which means if you regularly print on windowed envelopes or photo paper, you'll need to either use an ink printer or change to a thermally-safe alternative, which can be cost prohibitive if you print a lot. Inkjets are the most

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Infrastructure at Roblox

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 00:58:20

Throttling is a very accepted concept in computer science. But this is the most misused and misunderstood lever of computer science. When new engineers join Roblox, their first solutions often include, “If we could just tell our creators to tweak this config or slow down their events…”. Veteran Roblox engineers then gently explain our value of respecting the community and that we don’t tell our creators what to do. For example, most gaming systems have a simple solution for matchmaking when mil

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Against AI: An Open Letter from Writers to Publishers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 05:48:36

To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art we make is a commodity, and our world wants things quickly, cheaply, and on demand. We are rushing toward a future where our novels, our biographies, our poems and our memoirs—our records of the human experience—are “written” by artificial intell

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Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 23:52:24

28.Jun.2025 (ANF) Group of investors represented by Youtuber Perifractic buys Commodore Three weeks ago, Youtuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson announced in a video that he had received an offer to take over Commodore B.V., the owner of the remaining Commodore trademark rights. In a second video published today he now announces the completed takeover: A group of unnamed angel investors has acquired the company for a low seven-figure sum. He himself is now the acting CEO, but the purch

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Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 01:01:15

There's a trend at the moment of solving online games with programming, let's do one from the UK called Passport Application, which is developed by "His Majesty's Passport Office" or HMPO. It's a cultural phenomenon in the UK: despite being quite expensive (about £100 just to start) for the standard online version (a masterpiece of minimalist design, entirely text-based), most British play the game, and do so every 10 years or so. It's an adventure puzzle document collection game. The premise i

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Brother printer hack puts thousands of users at risk of remote takeover

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-09 00:01:00

TL;DR: Hackers have cracked Brother's method of generating default admin passwords for hundreds of its printers, scanners, and label makers, putting users who haven't changed them at risk. Additionally, researchers found seven other serious vulnerabilities affecting Brother and other brands. Users should visit company websites for security advisories and update their firmware. Security researchers at Rapid7 recently reported eight vulnerabilities affecting over 689 printers, scanners, and label

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Android 16 will alert users to possible Stingray surveillance, fake cell towers

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-09 01:37:00

Why it matters: As Android 16's new security features roll out with the next generation of smartphones, users will, for the first time, have a tool to detect invisible digital surveillance. Whether this prompts broader reforms in how such technology is used and regulated remains to be seen. Still, the feature reflects a growing awareness of the need to protect personal privacy in the mobile age. An upcoming Android update will introduce a warning system to help users detect one of the most elus

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Paleontologists Find Skeleton That Weirdly Looks Exactly Like Barney the Purple Dinosaur

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 00:30:31

We're a happy fa-m-ily! Funky Dino Deep in the heart of Texas, a goofy-looking dinosaur skeleton has been unearthed — and it's got a funny head that makes it look like a dead wringer for Barney, the purple lizard of 90s television fame with the annoyingly cheery voice. As the Houston Chronicle reports, the dinosaur in question — called Eryops megacephalus — has a wide, grinning smile on a large flat skull that sits on four squat legs. Paleontologist Andre LuJan told the newspaper that he foun

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Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems

news.ycombinator.com Eugene Yan 2025-09-05 12:47:27

While evaluating Q&A systems is straightforward with short paragraphs, complexity increases as documents grow larger. For example, technical documentation, novels and movies, as well as multi-document scenarios. Although some of these evaluation challenges also appear in shorter contexts, long-context evaluation amplifies issues such as: Information overload: Irrelevant details in large documents obscure relevant facts, making it harder for retrievers and models to locate the right evidence for

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The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings

news.ycombinator.com Elisabeth Egan 2025-09-05 23:46:20

Like fashion trends, fads in book covers come and go. One year, the backs of women’s heads might be all the rage; the next, soft focus photography. And who can forget the exploding flower craze? Or the proliferation of flames on jackets, from thrillers to science fiction to self-help? But the look that’s commanding today’s runways — a.k.a. bookshelves — is not so incendiary. It tends to lay blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old but not always. F

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‘Predator: Badlands’ Joins Disney’s San Diego Comic-Con Plans

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-09 03:15:11

The hunt will be on at San Diego Comic-Con, where Predator: Badlands will get the spotlight. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the sci-fi film will get a Hall H panel during the convention weekend. It’ll be the second big Disney movie of the fall season to make an appearance at the famed Hall, joining October’s Tron: Ares. Both films will fill in for a lack of Marvel at this year’s convention, and it’ll be the Predator franchise’s first theatrical movie to hit SDCC since Shane Black’s 2018 reboot. (P

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Get Up to $300 in Gift Cards When You Pre-Order a Samsung Smart Monitor

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 23:54:00

Good quality smart monitors with features like built-in apps, 4K resolution and multiple connectivity options are hard to come by and expensive. Samsung makes some of the best in this category and if you’ve been waiting for the right time to grab one, this might be it. Right now, Amazon is offering up to $300 back in gift cards when you preorder one of Samsung’s latest 32-inch smart monitors. This is a limited-time deal and we expect it to wrap up before Prime Day. If you’d rather shop directly

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #749

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:00:02

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. There's a very 1980s phrase in it and I had no idea where to put it. Even now, I'm going to have to Google it within its category to find out what it means. (It's this.) Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 29, #279

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:00:05

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. But all you Hoosiers will nail the yellow category, I think. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loya

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-09 03:51:36

In Brief An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators. The letter argues that authors’ work has been “stolen” by AI companies: “Rather than paying writers a small percentage of the money our work makes for them, someone else will be paid for a technology built on our unpaid labor.” Among other c

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At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-09-09 00:00:01

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after ringing a bell on the floor setting the share price at $47 in its initial public offering (IPO) on March 21, 2024 in New York City. For 20 years, Reddit has pitched itself as "the front page of the internet." AI threatens to change that. As social media has changed over the past two decades with the shift to mobile and the more recent focus on short-form video, peers like MySpace, Digg and Flickr have fade

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