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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-30 14:45:20

In Brief Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website

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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 21:40:17

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination. These ships are often envisioned as

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Are Vibration Plates a Magic Bullet for Losing Weight and Gaining Strength? We Asked the Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 00:00:04

If you're on a personal fitness journey, finding the best ways to lose weight and build muscle isn't easy. There are tons of options, from weight training to aerobics to vibration plates. Does standing on a platform that vibrates really help you lose weight and gain muscle? Are vibration plates actually effective, or just the newest fitness fad? To find out if you should add a vibration plate to your workout routine, we asked personal trainers and other fitness experts about its benefits, risks

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Dotfiles feel too personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-05 02:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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Companies Find Potential Way to Avoid Trump Tariffs and Keep Prices Low

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-05 06:35:50

Donald Trump’s tariff regime has been scoffed at by business leaders and world economists (Larry Summers, for instance, called it both “crazy” and “dumb”), but the White House hasn’t backed down from its highly unconventional program. The tariffs, which are taxing American businesses on their imports, are reportedly generating billions of dollars in revenue for the federal government on a month-to-month basis. Many businesses aren’t happy about it, however, and now several lawsuits are threateni

Topics: administration businesses government tariffs trump

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OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Enterprise to the executive branch workforce for $1

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:58:12

OpenAI has announced that it will be partnering with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer ChatGPT Enterprise practically free of charge to the entire executive-branch federal workforce for one year. The dozens of agencies under this umbrella encompass over two million civilian workers. Each agency will be able to access ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 for the year-long period. The year-long trial will also include an additional 60 days of ChatGPT's most advanced models like Deep Resea

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Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-06 02:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-07 21:49:09

Last week, the EPA made lots of headlines by rejecting the document that establishes its ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that are warming our climate. While the legal assault on regulations grabbed most of the attention, it was paired with two other actions that targeted other aspects of climate change: the science underlying our current understanding of the dramatic warming the Earth is experiencing, and the renewable energy that represents our best chance of limiting this warming. Co

Topics: administration energy solar warming wind

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Fox One streaming service launches August 21

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 11:45:12

Fox Corporation has announced the launch of Fox One, a streaming service that will carry Fox-branded news, sports and entertainment content for $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year. The service will feature both live and on-demand access from the entire slate of Fox properties including Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Sports, Fox Weather and more. Subscribers will also be able to bundle the new offering with Fox Nation, the media corporation's on-demand streaming service with original shows. “In br

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Beyond Retrieval: The Expanding Universe of Augmented Generation in AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-08 14:00:01

Introduction Standard large language models (LLMs) possess vast knowledge but struggle with limitations like hallucinations and accessing real-time information due to their static training data. This has spurred the development of dynamic AI architectures. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a key solution, integrating external knowledge into the generation process. However, the field is rapidly evolving beyond basic RAG. Newer models like RASG (Retrieval-Augmented Self-Generate

Topics: augmented generation knowledge rag retrieval

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Trump says he’ll announce semiconductor and chip tariffs

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-08 16:07:12

The semiconductor industry’s rollercoaster year continues with another major development. President Donald Trump said on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday that his administration is planning to announce tariffs on semiconductors and chips as soon as next week. However, the specifics of these tariffs remain unclear. Such tariffs could cause quite a disruption for U.S. hardware and AI companies. When the U.S. CHIPs and Science Act was signed in 2022 — providing $52 billion in subsidies to boost domes

Topics: administration ai chip disrupt manufacturing

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ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-08 16:10:35

The AI audio-generation unicorn ElevenLabs announced a new model on Tuesday that allows users to generate music, which it claims is cleared for commercial use. This move marks ElevenLabs’ expansion beyond its main focus thus far in its three years of existence, which has been building AI audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leader among companies making text-to-speech AI products, and it has expanded into conversational bots and tools that translate speech into other languages. Alongside the launch, E

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ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 09:12:27

ScreenCoder: Advancing Visual-to-Code Generation for Front-End Automation via Modular Multimodal Agents Yilei Jiang1*, Yaozhi Zheng1*, Yuxuan Wan2*, Jiaming Han1, Qunzhong Wang1, Michael R. Lyu2, Xiangyu Yue1✉ 1CUHK MMLab, 2CUHK ARISE Lab *Equal contribution ✉Corresponding author Introduction ScreenCoder is an intelligent UI-to-code generation system that transforms any screenshot or design mockup into clean, production-ready HTML/CSS code. Built with a modular multi-agent architecture

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Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 02:00:10

Looking for a smarter way to beat the summer heat without blasting your air conditioner all day? You might want to take a closer look at the houseplants sitting quietly on your windowsill. According to experts, certain indoor plants don't just brighten up a room, they can literally lower the temperature in your home. And yes, science backs it up. Thanks to a natural process called transpiration, some houseplants release moisture into the air, creating a cooling effect that can help your space f

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A US-Only TikTok? What We Know So Far About the Potential Replacement App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 23:17:04

A new version of the TikTok mobile app for people in the US is reportedly being developed by the vertical video social media network's owner ByteDance. It will replace the current version of TikTok being used in the US ahead of a September deadline for the Chinese company to divest ownership, according to a report last month by The Information. The new app, codenamed "M2," could launch on Sept. 5. If you're in the US, you would then be required to switch from the existing app to the new one, th

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 22:56:40

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Cong

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Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 06:37:44

The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind. Natural gas was next, and there was zero new coal or nuclear, according to the Energy Information Administration. Through 2030, the US energy landscape looks a lot like these last six months in terms of the mix of new power plants, with solar and batteries leading the way, according to the EIA’s list of planned power

Topics: administration energy new power trump

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Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-15 16:24:40

Yoel Roth, previously the head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety, now at Match, is sharing his concerns about the future of the open social web and its ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content, like child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a recent interview, Roth worried about the lack of moderation tools available to the fediverse — the open social web that includes apps like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, and others, as well as other open platforms like Bluesky. He also remi

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Motorola’s next special edition looks extra flashy in new leak

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:31:23

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Motorola will launch a special edition Razr in collaboration with Swarovski. New renders provide a look at the special edition phone from a variety of angles. This collaboration is limited to the vanilla Razr. A few weeks ago, we learned that Motorola was joining forces with jewelry maker Swarovski to create a special edition of the Razr 2025 (a.k.a. Razr 60). Days later, the company began officially teasing the collaboration, announcing plans to unveil

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Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

news.ycombinator.com Alex Henthorn-Iwane 2025-12-17 00:45:07

Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks. For public-sector organizations, critical infrastructure, and privacy-conscious enterprises in the EU, the questio

Topics: element eu federation matrix metadata

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Should You Put Down the Iced Coffee During a Heat Advisory? This Is What Dietitians Say

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 05:41:04

With heat advisories popping up all across the US, the Las Vegas National Weather Service recently advised residents in parts of California, Nevada and Arizona to stop drinking caffeine when the heat is extreme. This is to prevent dehydration, which can lead to heat stroke. However, curious if we should all be putting our iced coffees down this summer, I reached out to three dietitians for the tea on caffeine, dehydration and heat safety. Does coffee cause dehydration? "Caffeine, the main acti

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The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-12-17 05:00:00

As with any fledgling romance, Trumpworld and big money cryptocurrency interests were bound to have their first fight at some point. It was late June heading into July, and two highly anticipated bills were in the pipeline to help fulfill President Donald Trump’s promises to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet” and usher in what his supporters believed would be a “golden age” of digital assets. Congress had one shot at passing something before the August recess. Coinbase, the cryptoc

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 16:03:10

Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then said to be released Tuesday. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the initial decision to withhold the funding came from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration and Project 202

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iOS 18.6 has important security fixes, here are the full details

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-18 03:58:13

Apple has just released iOS 18.6, the latest iPhone update for users. Though anyone hoping for big new features will have to wait for iOS 26 this fall, today’s new iOS 18.6 release does provide a host of important security fixes. Here are the full details. We all have our own reasons for installing iOS updates. For some, it’s compelling new features we want to try. For others, the need to stop our iPhone from bugging us with pop-up alerts. Whatever your reason, iOS 18.6 is recommended for all

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Apple patches security flaw exploited in Chrome zero-day attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 06:10:42

Apple has released security updates to address a high-severity vulnerability that has been exploited in zero-day attacks targeting Google Chrome users. Tracked as CVE-2025-6558, the security bug is due to the incorrect validation of untrusted input in the ANGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine) open-source graphics abstraction layer, which processes GPU commands and translates OpenGL ES API calls to Direct3D, Metal, Vulkan, and OpenGL. The vulnerability enables remote attackers to execute

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The AI Hype Index: The White House’s war on “woke AI”

technologyreview.com The Editors 2025-12-19 11:37:10

Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. The Trump administration recently declared war on so-called “woke AI,” issuing an executive order aimed at preventing companies whose models exhibit a liberal bias from landing federal contracts. Simultaneously, the Pentagon inked a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI just days after its chatbot, Grok, spout

Topics: administration ai aimed anti antisemitic

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Opsqueue: Lightweight batch processing queue for heavy loads – now open-source

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 16:12:09

We are happy to announce the open-source release of opsqueue , our opinionated queueing system! Why would you want to use it? Lightweight: small codebase, written in Rust, minimal dependencies Optimized for batch processing: we prioritize throughput over latency Built to scale to billions of operations Built with reliable building blocks: Rust, SQLite, Object Storage (such as S3 or GCS) Operationally simple: single binary, embedded database, minimal configuration Scales horizontally: you

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US Senator Urges DHS to Probe Whether Agents Were Moved From Criminal Cases to Deportations

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-12-19 16:19:04

Since February, multiple news reports have alleged that a significant number of agents at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative wing that focuses on transnational crimes like child exploitation, human trafficking, and drug cartels—have been pulled from child exploitation cases and reassigned to immigration enforcement and arrests. US senator Ron Wyden urged DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari on Tuesday to “promptly” launch an investigation

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Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back

wired.com John Semley 2025-12-18 18:00:00

This was supposed to be the year of the MDMA revolution. About this time last year, prescription MDMA looked like a sure thing. After decades of clinical research, political wrangling, and aggressive promotion, the popular underground club drug was set to be tamed and medicalized, with a stamp of approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. Then, it wasn’t. In a stark change of course, the FDA rejected the MDMA therapy it had been considering by a 10-1 vote. The decision derailed psyched

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What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-12-22 05:00:00

But if you dig deeper, certain parts of the plan that didn’t pop up in any headlines reveal more about where the administration’s AI plans are headed. Here are three of the most important issues to watch. Trump is escalating his fight with the Federal Trade Commission When Americans get scammed, they’re supposed to be helped by the Federal Trade Commission. As I wrote last week, the FTC under President Biden increasingly targeted AI companies that overhyped the accuracy of their systems, as we

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Latest Tech News

Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

Are Vibration Plates a Magic Bullet for Losing Weight and Gaining Strength? We Asked the Experts

Dotfiles feel too personal to share

Companies Find Potential Way to Avoid Trump Tariffs and Keep Prices Low

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Enterprise to the executive branch workforce for $1

Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

Fox One streaming service launches August 21

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Trump says he’ll announce semiconductor and chip tariffs

ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

Too Hot Inside? These Houseplants Actually Help Beat the Heat

A US-Only TikTok? What We Know So Far About the Potential Replacement App

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations

Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

Motorola’s next special edition looks extra flashy in new leak

Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

Should You Put Down the Iced Coffee During a Heat Advisory? This Is What Dietitians Say

The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over

$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

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US Senator Urges DHS to Probe Whether Agents Were Moved From Criminal Cases to Deportations

Psychedelic Therapy Crashed and Burned. MAHA Might Bring It Back

What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

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