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Steam's censorship issues have broken PayPal support in some regions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:42:23

If you've been unable to pay with PayPal on Steam, Valve says the limitation has to do with issues one of PayPal's banking partners has with content on the platform, according to Rock Paper Shotgun. Users have noticed PayPal was disabled in some regions as far back as July, and the issue seems like it might be out of both Valve and PayPal's hands. "In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the p

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Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 05:18:13

HomeKit Steam User Switcher This script exposes a virtual HomeKit Television accessory where each input corresponds to a Steam user. Selecting an input updates the Steam’s AutoLoginUser; turning the "TV" off restarts Steam. Why We regularly game on a headless machine and wanted to switch Steam users easily without fiddling with a KVM. HomeKit provides a convenient way to control devices, and by exposing Steam user accounts as HomeKit inputs, we can seamlessly switch users with our existing Ho

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Axle (YC S22) is hiring product engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 20:00:30

We are looking for talented engineers to join our team as early members. As a Product Engineer, you’ll help build the platform that makes this possible. From structuring and cleaning complex data to using LLMs for automated data extraction, you’ll have the chance to wear a lot of hats and shape the future of our platform. We’re looking for individuals who think creatively about problems, push for real-world customer impact, and are excited about helping financial data reach full connectivity.

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Axle (YC S22) Is Hiring Product Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:00:30

We are looking for talented engineers to join our team as early members. As a Product Engineer, you’ll help build the platform that makes this possible. From structuring and cleaning complex data to using LLMs for automated data extraction, you’ll have the chance to wear a lot of hats and shape the future of our platform. We’re looking for individuals who think creatively about problems, push for real-world customer impact, and are excited about helping financial data reach full connectivity.

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Here's the final design of the Pebble Time 2 e-paper smartwatch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 21:24:07

Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky and his new company, Core Designs, have been beavering away on new e-paper smartwatches and the team has just revealed the final design of the higher-end model. The Pebble Time 2 has a 1.5-inch, 64-color e-paper screen, with a touchscreen, metal frame, heart-rate monitor and (it's claimed) up to 30 days of battery life. The frame is a bit more curved than on pre-production versions of the Pebble Time 2. The top and bottom buttons on the right side are now angled r

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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 18:52:54

11 August 2025 "… all of this ended up in storage rooms, and everything became rotten and full of holes, and he himself finally turned into some kind of hole in humanity." ✪ ✪“…все это сваливалось в кладовые, и все становилось гниль и прореха, и сам он обратился наконец в какую-то прореху на человечестве.” — Google Gogol, Dead Souls Vol. 1, Chp. 6 In December 2009, Google launched a URL shortening service alongside an update to their toolbar and FeedBurner. TechCrunch heralded the new service

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Where were you when goo.gl shutdown?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:52:54

11 August 2025 "… all of this ended up in storage rooms, and everything became rotten and full of holes, and he himself finally turned into some kind of hole in humanity." ✪ ✪“…все это сваливалось в кладовые, и все становилось гниль и прореха, и сам он обратился наконец в какую-то прореху на человечестве.” — Google Gogol, Dead Souls Vol. 1, Chp. 6 In December 2009, Google launched a URL shortening service alongside an update to their toolbar and FeedBurner. TechCrunch heralded the new service

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Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Prior Auth in Healthcare

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 11:00:04

Trellis helps healthcare providers treat more patients faster—while eliminating pre-service paperwork. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI lab and is backed by leading investors including YC, General Catalyst, Telesoft partners, and executives at Google and Salesforce. The Role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Trellis work directly with healthcare providers

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GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-27 09:43:09

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 moving GitHub even more closely into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a startup founder again,” and pursue opportunities outside of Microsoft and GitHub. GitHub has

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A magical farming sim, cat museum exploration and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-28 08:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. This week, Nintendo held its latest Indie World showcase to spotlight titles that are coming to Switch and Switch 2, as well as some that arrived on the eShop on the day of the presentation. One of the latter was UFO 50, which featured on many best of 2024 lists after it debuted on PC. Another was Is This Seat Taken?, which is about placing picky people in the right seats. This chill puzzle game from Poti Poti Studio and pu

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Game over: Chrome OS pulls the plug on Steam gaming

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 06:23:48

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Steam on Chrome OS support began as a beta test in early 2022. After graduating to a beta later that year, progress slowed down. Now users are being informed that the beta is slated to end as 2026 gets started. Choosing a Chromebook over a standard PC laptop can make sense for a lot of good reasons, from wanting to take advantage of the platform’s track record of security, to just hoping to save some money on affordable hardware. But one pro we rarel

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Steam for Chromebooks is reportedly being discontinued

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 05:40:20

The dream of Chromebooks that double as gaming laptops appears to be on its last legs. 9to5Google reports that Google is ending support for Steam for Chromebooks starting January 1, 2026. Porting the application launcher was part of an extended push from the company to make Chromebooks a place to play games. Companies like ASUS and Acer announced and released gaming Chromebooks, but the idea never seemed to catch on. Google's plan to retire Steam for Chromebooks was discovered when 9to5Google t

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Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:40:53

Bad news if you're one of the handful of people using Steam to play games on a Chromebook: Google and Valve are preparing to end support for the still-in-beta ChromeOS version of Steam on January 1, 2026, according to 9to5Google. Steam can still be installed on Chromebooks, but it now comes with a notice announcing the end of support. “The Steam for Chromebook Beta program will conclude on January 1st, 2026," reads the notification. "After this date, games installed as part of the Beta will no

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Tesla dissolves Dojo supercomputer team amid talent exodus

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-30 04:35:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models power

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Tesla shuts down the team behind its Dojo supercomputer

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-30 16:35:04

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models power

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Arm desktop: emulation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 16:26:56

This post is part 5 of the "Let me try to use an AArch64 system as a desktop" series: Whenever people use a non-x86 system, sooner or later someone asks: “But can it run [name of x86-64 only binary]?”. So, let’s check how to make it possible. Software stack When you look for ‘how to run x86-64 apps on Fedora/Arm’, you usually end up with Asahi’s documentation about it. It is a good thing to read to understand the stack. But if your Arm system runs a 4K page size kernel, then most of that doc

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Arm Desktop: x86 Emulation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 10:26:56

This post is part 5 of the "Let me try to use an AArch64 system as a desktop" series: Whenever people use a non-x86 system, sooner or later someone asks: “But can it run [name of x86-64 only binary]?”. So, let’s check how to make it possible. Software stack When you look for ‘how to run x86-64 apps on Fedora/Arm’, you usually end up with Asahi’s documentation about it. It is a good thing to read to understand the stack. But if your Arm system runs a 4K page size kernel, then most of that doc

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Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 14:42:20

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. Let’s all agree to stop

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New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:36:13

A new post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) evasion method called 'Ghost Calls' abuses TURN servers used by conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to tunnel traffic through trusted infrastructure. Ghost Calls uses legitimate credentials, WebRTC, and custom tooling to bypass most existing defenses and anti-abuse measures, without relying on an exploit. This new tactic was presented by Praetorian's security researcher Adam Crosser at BlackHat USA, where it was highlighted that the

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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-05 21:01:00

The director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism. On Wednesday, Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year. Ahead of his talk, Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what

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When Disney Went Digital

news.ycombinator.com Animation Obsessive Staff 2025-12-04 17:03:12

A still from The Lion King (1994) Welcome! It’s time for a new Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is our slate for today: 1) How computers changed Disney animation. 2) Newsbits. With that, we’re off! 1 – Into the computer age Computers and animation go way back. During the ‘50s, artist John Whitney used one to draw the opening titles for Vertigo. His experiments led him to digital films like Arabesque in the ‘70s. And he was one of many animators toying with the techn

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Small Changes That Made Our Daily Stand-Ups More Useful

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Koprowski 2025-12-08 00:14:00

Daily stand-ups are a cornerstone of agile software development – but often they’re seen as a burden or a distraction. Why? Because they frequently devolve into long status reports that bore participants and add little real value. Others see it as a waste of time or such regular part of their day, that it doesn’t deserve a second though. During the past two years, together with my team, I worked on improving our daily to transform it to a tool that helps every participant to kickstart their da

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Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

news.ycombinator.com No Author 2025-12-09 14:47:18

A Kyoto University research team has developed a pain-reliever that is comparable to morphine but does not have serious side effects. Morphine, often administered to cancer patients, has serious adverse effects such as breathing issues and addiction. According to the team, the newly developed drug, Adriana, is a groundbreaking painkiller, which works on a completely different mechanism to morphine and other existing synthetic opioids. The drug has the potential to revolutionize pain control in

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PSA: Steam will soon stop supporting macOS 11 Big Sur

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-09 16:01:44

Heads-up if your Mac is still running macOS 11 Big Sur: Valve has announced that, in a few weeks, the Steam Client will stop running on these Macs due to a Chromium compatibility limitation. Here are the details. Support will end on October 15 According to a blog post spotted by user wickedplayer494 on Reddit, the Steam Client will stop working on Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur on October 15. Here’s why, as explained by Valve: “This change is required as core features in Steam rely on an embe

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Apple’s Answers team is a bigger deal than it might seem

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-11 16:31:07

A Bloomberg report over the weekend suggested that Apple has created a new Answers, Knowledge and Information team as part of its Apple Intelligence efforts. While that might not sound like a huge deal, effectively just catching up with what others are doing, I actually think it’s about the smartest thing the company could be doing right now in terms of addressing Siri’s reputation … The continuing Siri crisis Earlier this year, Apple had to admit that plans for three new Siri features are “g

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A dedicated skin-to-brain circuit for cool sensation in mice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 23:31:50

Researchers at the University of Michigan have illuminated a complete sensory pathway showing how the skin communicates the temperature of its surroundings to the brain. This discovery, believed to be the first of its kind, reveals that cool temperatures get their own pathway, indicating that evolution has created different circuits for hot and cold temperatures. This creates an elegant solution for ensuring precise thermal perception and appropriate behavioral responses to environmental change

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Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI

venturebeat.com Roman Eloshvili 2025-12-12 06:05:00

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 As AI continues to take on more and more new competencies, junior coding, as we knew it, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Tasks that used to be the bread and butter for junior developers — such as repetitive scripting, HTML layout or simple DevOps setups — are now being reliably handled by AI assistants like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot

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If you're remote, ramble

news.ycombinator.com Steph Ango 2025-12-11 18:32:51

A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside your team’s chat app, a lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion. People typically post short updates 1-3 times per week. Common topics include: ideas related to current projects musings about blog posts, artic

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Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-12 08:49:00

In Brief Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information — is working to build an “answer engine” that can respond to questions using information from across the web. This could be a standalone app or provide search capabilities in Siri, Safari, and other Apple products. Gurman also notes that Apple is advertising for jobs with this team, specifically looking for appli

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Apple reportedly has a 'stripped-down' AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT in the works

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 08:43:45

Apple has fallen far behind in the competitive market of AI-powered chatbots, but it may have a plan for an in-house option that aligns with the company's "not first, but best" philosophy. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple created a team called "Answers, Knowledge and Information" earlier this year that's tasked with developing a "stripped-down rival to ChatGPT." Forming this team represents a major change in direction from Apple's earlier stance on artificial intelligence when the co

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Latest Tech News

Steam's censorship issues have broken PayPal support in some regions

Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit

Axle (YC S22) is hiring product engineers

Axle (YC S22) Is Hiring Product Engineers

Here's the final design of the Pebble Time 2 e-paper smartwatch

Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot

Where were you when goo.gl shutdown?

Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Prior Auth in Healthcare

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

A magical farming sim, cat museum exploration and other new indie games worth checking out

Game over: Chrome OS pulls the plug on Steam gaming

Steam for Chromebooks is reportedly being discontinued

Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026

Tesla dissolves Dojo supercomputer team amid talent exodus

Tesla shuts down the team behind its Dojo supercomputer

Arm desktop: emulation

Arm Desktop: x86 Emulation

Video Games Weekly: Censorship and stolen puritanical valor

New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

When Disney Went Digital

Small Changes That Made Our Daily Stand-Ups More Useful

Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

PSA: Steam will soon stop supporting macOS 11 Big Sur

Apple’s Answers team is a bigger deal than it might seem

A dedicated skin-to-brain circuit for cool sensation in mice

Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI

If you're remote, ramble

Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

Apple reportedly has a 'stripped-down' AI chatbot to compete with ChatGPT in the works

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