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Microsoft is making Xbox consoles even more expensive in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 21:34:21

Starting on October 3, Microsoft says Xbox consoles will be getting yet another price bump, this time ranging anywhere from a $20 increase on the company's entry-level model to $70 for a special edition model with 2TB of storage. If all of this sounds familiar, there's a good reason, the last time xbox prices were raised was only a few months ago in May. The price increases breakdown as follows: Xbox Series S (512GB): $400, up $20 from $380 Xbox Series S (1TB): $450 up $20 from $430 Xbox Ser

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With Strings Attached

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Noël 2025-09-19 06:59:45

In March 2025, an anonymous buyer purchased the 1715 “Baron Knoop” Stradivarius for $23 million (U.S.), making it the most expensive violin ever sold. (The seller, the American stringed-instrument collector David L. Fulton, had purchased it for a more modest $2.75 million in 1992.) Previous record setters have included the 1721 “Lady Blunt,” which fetched $15.9 million in 2011, and the “Joachim‑Ma,” which went for $11.25 million in February 2025. All three of these models were made by Antonio S

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Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:43:33

In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and adaptable to the natural frailties of humans. From Raskin's early work on the Apple Macintosh to the Canon Cat and later his unique software implementations, you were guaranteed an interface you could sit down and interact with nearly instantly and—once you'd learned some basic keystrokes and rules—one yo

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BYD unveils world's largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system

news.ycombinator.com Marija Maisch 2025-09-21 19:28:20

BYD has unveiled a new DC energy storage system with the world’s largest single-unit capacity of 14.5 MWh, raising the bar in the rapidly evolving utility-scale storage market. The system, named “HaoHan,” was officially launched on September 18 at the International Digital Energy Expo in Shenzhen. The company said HaoHan’s minimum unit capacity of 14. 5MWh is more than double the industry norm of 6–7 MWh. When configured within a standard 20-foot container, the system delivers 10 MWh and achiev

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Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 17:29:25

[RFC Patch 0/7] kernel: Introduce multikernel architecture support From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong-AT-gmail.com> To: linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC Patch 0/7] kernel: Introduce multikernel architecture support Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:25:59 -0700 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Cc: pasha.tatashin-AT-soleen.com, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong-AT-gmail.com>, Cong Wang <cwang-AT-multikernel.io>, Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, Baoquan He <bhe

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Scientists Find a Tattoo–Cancer Link—But It’s Not What You’d Expect

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-21 21:25:08

You may have heard lately that tattoos can potentially raise your risk of skin cancer. Recent research might complicate that narrative, however, suggesting that tattoos aren’t as harmful to our skin as assumed. Scientists at the University of Utah led the study, published last month in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Contrary to their expectations, they found that people who had multiple tattoos actually had a lower associated risk of melanoma. That said, the findings don’t provid

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Microsoft Is Torpedoing Xbox With Yet Another Price Hike

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-21 21:54:04

Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles… again. The previous price hike shifted expectations for both the Xbox Series S and Series X. The new pricing structure demands so much money from consumer wallets it seems nobody in their right mind would buy an Xbox in this day and age. The new pricing structure begins Oct. 3. In a post to its support page, Microsoft blamed today’s “macroeconomic environment,” which is a longer way to say “Trump tariffs.” All consoles are demanding at least $50 mor

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Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles in the US again

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-21 21:12:47

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is raising the prices of its Xbox Series S / X consoles in the US next month. The Xbox Series X will be priced at $649.99 in the US starting October 3rd, up from its existing $599.99 price. The Xbox Series S will move to $399.99, up from $379.99. Microsoft blames the price hikes

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Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 01:47:14

The Federal Trade Commission sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Thursday, alleging that the companies tacitly worked with scalpers to profit from jacking up ticket prices on the secondary market. As the FTC alleged in a press release, Ticketmaster's years of turning a blind eye to scalpers violated the FTC Act and the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, costing customers "billions in inflated prices and additional fees." Further, artists' efforts to keep event costs low were repeatedly frustrated

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Safepoints and Fil-C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 11:29:16

Safepoints and Fil-C Safepointing is an underappreciated aspect of modern multithreaded VM/GC tech. It forms the foundation of Fil-C's accurate stack scanning, safe signal handling, and safe forking. It also forms the foundation of accurate GC, debugging, and profiling in modern lots of other virtual machines (JVMs in particular). Perhaps most crucially: Safepointing is the reason why multiple threads can race on the heap in Fil-C using non-atomic unordered instructions, under any widely used

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See How ‘First Steps’ Brought Herbie to Life in a Suitably Fantastic Manner

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-22 01:00:53

After stretching across movie screens this summer, Fantastic Four: First Steps is coming home next week. To celebrate, io9 has your first look at one of the behind-the-scenes featurettes being included—and it’s all about the unsung hero of the movie, the little robot that could, Herbie. The fifth member of a team that famously has the word “four” in its name, Herbie was the breakout star of First Steps. The adorable little ‘bot operated as the team’s jack-of-all-trades ally, from assisting Ben

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‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-22 01:20:16

At this point, most people know that chatbots are capable of hallucinating responses, making up sources, and spitting out misinformation. But chatbots can lie in more human-like ways, “scheming” to hide their true goals and deceiving the humans who have given them instructions. New research from OpenAI and Apollo Research seems to have figured out ways to tamp down some of these lies, but the fact that it is happening at all should probably give users pause. At the core of the issue with AI int

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'Superman' Has Landed on Streaming. Here's How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 23:37:00

Superman is now streaming. James Gunn's comic book blockbuster, which is also the first big-screen release since DC Studios rebranded, gives the titular Kryptonian a new coat of paint. And honestly, I can't wait to watch it again. Gunn wrote and directed the movie -- which is an achievement in and of itself when you consider that he was also writing every episode of Peacemaker season 2 -- and took inspiration mostly from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's celebrated All-Star Superman comic. It'

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In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 06:38:23

The panel of vaccine advisors hand-selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to change the federal vaccine recommendations for children, removing safe, well-established vaccine doses from current schedules and realizing Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda to erode federal vaccine policy and sow distrust. Specifically, the panel—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—voted to remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's previous recommendatio

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“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:48:01

The Federal Trade Commission sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Thursday, alleging that the companies tacitly worked with scalpers to profit from jacking up ticket prices on the secondary market. As the FTC alleged in a press release, Ticketmaster's years of turning a blind eye to scalpers violated the FTC Act and the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, costing customers "billions in inflated prices and additional fees." Further, artists' efforts to keep event costs low were repeatedly frustrated

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Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 01:44:00

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was going to reject the work it had done back in 2009, when it first determined that greenhouse gas emissions posed a threat to the US public. While it laid out a number of reasons for revisiting its earlier work, one of those focused on the science: The EPA's original decision was over 15 years old, and it claimed our understanding of climate change had itself changed since then. The National Academies of Science (NAS) de

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I replaced my iPhone 16 Pro Max with the iPhone Air - here's my buying advice now

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-09-22 04:34:00

Apple iPhone Air ZDNET's key takeaways The thinnest and lightest iPhone yet offers Pro performance at a competitive $999 price point. It's designed to feel burdenless, and that's the biggest reason to buy one over the iPhone 17 series. You'll just have to settle for only one camera, average battery life, and a single-firing speaker. View now at Apple View now at Best Buy View now at Verizon more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The iPhone "Pro" label has a

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Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 05:10:09

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been frequently mentioned as one of the best use cases for large language models (despite some prominent counterexamples). With all that in mind, the team at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ran an informal year-long study to determine whether ChatGPT could produce the kind

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Steam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 05:20:11

Valve's Steam client is pretty widely compatible with all kinds of newer and older operating systems—that's what you do when you want as many people as possible spending their money in your store. But nothing lasts forever, and Valve does eventually end support for old software when it's time to move on. The company announced in a support note today that it would be ending Steam client support for 32-bit versions of Windows on January 1, 2026. "Existing Steam Client installations will continue

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Top Amazon reseller Pattern opens at $13.50 in Nasdaq debut after IPO raised $300 million

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-22 09:54:40

E-commerce firm Pattern Group's co-founder and CEO David Wright, his co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and wife Melanie Alder, and the staff members attend the company's IPO at the Nasdaq market in New York City, U.S., Sept. 19, 2025. Pattern Group , one of the leading resellers on Amazon , took the plunge into the public markets on Friday, and saw its stock slip in its Nasdaq debut. Trading under the ticker "PTRN," the stock opened at $13.50 after the company sold shares at $14 in its IPO, t

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Judge Gives Humiliating Punishment to Lawyers Caught Using AI in Court

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-22 09:18:40

AI tools have become a hit with lawyers. But judges have shown they have little patience for when their experiments with the tech go wrong. When combing over a document submitted by two defense lawyers from the firm Cozen O'Connor, district judge David Hardy found at least 14 citations of case law that appeared to be fictitious, Reuters reported. Others were misquoted or misrepresented. After being confronted, the two defense lawyers soon pleaded guilty: one of them had used ChatGPT to draft a

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A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity

news.ycombinator.com Dayvi Schuster 2025-09-22 09:02:22

Dayvi Schuster 12 min read Thursday, September 18, 2025 Dev Culture Is Dying The Curious Developer Is Gone From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity. When Curiosity Lead the Way If you have been in software development for a while, you might remember a time when developers were launching unique and innovative products and projects just for the sake of curiosity, learning or even just because they had a particular interest in a s

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Nvidia Wants in on the Robotaxi Race

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-09-22 09:25:10

Nvidia is in talks to invest $500 million in the London-based self-driving car startup Wayve Technologies. Nvidia’s interest comes as the sci-fi dream of driverless cars inches closer to reality. Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxis already roam several U.S. cities, Tesla is testing its own service in Austin, and Amazon’s Zoox taxis—which have no steering wheels or pedals—just started offering rides in Las Vegas this month. The tech for driverless cars is accelerating so quickly that Uber CEO Dara Khosr

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Pasta Sauce Physics, Eating Teflon, and Drunk Bats: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate the Joy of Offbeat Science

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-22 09:41:25

The 2025 Nobel Prizes will be announced in early October. But if you’re like me, a science aficionado with an insatiable desire for ridiculous, intelligent research, yesterday’s parody of the prestigious prize may be of more interest. I am talking, of course, about the 35th Ig Nobel Prizes—an annual ceremony highlighting the weirdest research across all scientific disciplines. As always, the 10 prizes were selected by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine and presented by “a gaggle of bemu

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This Mom Is Getting Back Into Running Shape With a Jogging Stroller, Fitness Apps and Tech

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 08:02:00

As an active mom, I enjoy doing a variety of activities to stay fit. I lift weights to get stronger (carrying a toddler around challenges your overall strength), go for walks to clear my mind, run to get my heart rate up and take a fitness class here and there. Before having my son, I completed my first marathon, several half-marathons and shorter races in between. But running took a backseat after my second trimester because I was advised not to do activity in the summer heat while heavily pre

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“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 09:48:01

The Federal Trade Commission sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Thursday, alleging that the companies tacitly worked with scalpers to profit from jacking up ticket prices on the secondary market. As the FTC alleged in a press release, Ticketmaster's years of turning a blind eye to scalpers violated the FTC Act and the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, costing customers "billions in inflated prices and additional fees." Further, artists' efforts to keep event costs low were repeatedly frustrated

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Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 09:58:08

In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and adaptable to the natural frailties of humans. From Raskin's early work on the Apple Macintosh to the Canon Cat and later his unique software implementations, you were guaranteed an interface you could sit down and interact with nearly instantly and—once you'd learned some basic keystrokes and rules—one yo

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One year of Starz is on sale for just $24

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 13:15:53

Right now, you can get one year of Starz streaming service for just $24 when you prepay for the entire year. That's $46 less than the usual annual cost. There's also a month-to-month option, which is offering the first three months for $4 per month instead of the usual $11; that's a 64 percent discount. Starz may not be one of the most prominent streamers, but it still makes our list of best streaming deals when it's offered at such a great value. The service offers a deep catalog of recognizab

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This underwater action cam captured my Hawaii trip in ways I didn't think possible

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-22 13:15:00

Insta360 X5 waterproof action camera ZDNET's key takeaways The Insta360 is the premier camera for shooting underwater footage, for $549 on Amazon. Diving accessories such as the Invisible Dive Case and Floating Hand Grip ensure your X5 stays safe in the water. I had some pairing issues while on a dive. View now at Amazon I recently spent a week in Hawaii for my daughter's wedding, and captured some fantastic underwater video with the Insta360 X5. I went snorkeling with manta rays, explored th

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I tested the iPhone Air, and it reminded me of my old iPhone 6 Plus in the best way

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-09-22 13:56:00

Apple iPhone Air ZDNET's key takeaways The thinnest and lightest iPhone yet offers Pro performance at a competitive $999 price point. It's designed to feel burdenless, and that's the biggest reason to buy one over the iPhone 17 series. You'll just have to settle for only one camera, average battery life, and a single-firing speaker. View now at Apple View now at Best Buy View now at Verizon more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The iPhone "Pro" label has a

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Microsoft is making Xbox consoles even more expensive in the US

With Strings Attached

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

BYD unveils world's largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system

Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support

Scientists Find a Tattoo–Cancer Link—But It’s Not What You’d Expect

Microsoft Is Torpedoing Xbox With Yet Another Price Hike

Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles in the US again

Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

Safepoints and Fil-C

See How ‘First Steps’ Brought Herbie to Life in a Suitably Fantastic Manner

‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans

'Superman' Has Landed on Streaming. Here's How to Watch

In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

I replaced my iPhone 16 Pro Max with the iPhone Air - here's my buying advice now

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

Steam will wind down support for 32-bit Windows as that version of Windows fades

Top Amazon reseller Pattern opens at $13.50 in Nasdaq debut after IPO raised $300 million

Judge Gives Humiliating Punishment to Lawyers Caught Using AI in Court

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Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

One year of Starz is on sale for just $24

This underwater action cam captured my Hawaii trip in ways I didn't think possible

I tested the iPhone Air, and it reminded me of my old iPhone 6 Plus in the best way

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