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Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 21:00:19

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you a new development from the blossoming world of child surveillance: the sneaker brand Skechers is selling new kids shoes that come with a hidden AirTag compartment, enabling parents to quietly track their meandering progeny at all times. Readers, we're officially Skech'd out. According to the sneaker company, the tiny Apple tracking devices can be slotted into a hole in the heel of the shoes that's accessed by lifting the sole. Th

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We Must Admit That This Video of Two Small Robots Punching Each Other With Boxing Gloves Is Pretty Awesome

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-16 21:45:15

These days, robots with varying degrees of impressiveness can manage all kinds of tasks. But two diminutive humanoids seen boxing with outsize gloves at the recent World AI Conference in Shanghai may take the cake. In a video posted to X, AI security researcher Helen Toner — who was, it should be noted, a driving force behind the ultimately failed coup against CEO Sam Altman back in November 2023 — showed off the boxing ring prowess of two short-statured robots from the Chinese company Unitree.

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Scout’ is a powerful tool for monitoring Facebook Marketplace

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-17 00:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Everyone likes saving money when making a big purchase, and a lot of people would like to consider used goods. That said, the hassle can often be too much to deal with, so buying something new just feels easier. Scout is a new app that makes searching Facebook Marketplace much easier, and can hopefully

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Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 04:09:40

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp. Pre-built images Demo releases are available through GitHub. These releases are designed to be run in VirtualBox, though QEMU is also supported. 2GB of RAM, a virtio-net NIC and an Intel HDA audio controller are recommended. x86-64 images are published. AArch64 has been made to work on some hardware. But to set expectations: making Mezzano run on any given piece of hardware or emulator is still typically a project that requires the user to

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HTML-in-Canvas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 04:26:47

We propose new HTML Canvas APIs for rendering HTML content into the canvas for Canvas 2D and WebGL. Status Authors: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson, Khushal Sagar, Vladimir Levin, Fernando Serboncini Champions: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson This proposal is a subset of a previous proposal covering APIs to allow live HTML elements. Motivation There is no web API to easily render complex layouts of text and other content into a <canvas> . As a result, <canvas> -based content suffers in a

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I'm Rethinking Amusement Park Rides for Good After Watching Netflix's 'Critical' Docuseries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 21:00:08

Each week, Netflix releases a list of the Top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week of July 21, the new original docuseries Critical: Between Life and Death made a big impression on viewers, ranking No. 7 in the platform's most-watched shows. While medical shows -- including series like The Pitt, Pulse and ER -- have always been popular, Critical is an unscripted documentary that depicts real-life emergencies as they're happening. What makes it so captivating is the int

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Google Has Quietly Been Detecting Earthquakes by Sensing Rumbling in Android Phones For Years

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-17 02:15:18

Google has for years been harnessing the power of its Android smartphones to detect and measure tens of thousands of earthquakes. In a new paper published in the journal Science, researchers from the search giant described how they used motion sensors from its two billion-strong network of phones running Android between the years 2021 and 2024 to detect and alert quakes to users in almost 100 countries around the world. Known as "Android Earthquake Alerts" (AEA), this early warning system has

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Instagram public accounts with less than 1,000 followers can no longer go live

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:30:49

Instagram is no longer allowing public accounts to go live if they have less than 1,000 followers. Users have been reporting over the past few days that their accounts aren't eligible for Live broadcast on the app anymore. "We changed the requirements to use this feature," reads the notice that pops up when people try to host a livestream broadcast to their followers. "Only public accounts with 1,000 followers or more will be able to create live videos." Now Meta has confirmed the new eligibilit

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The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 00:31:58

The Challenge I was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else. Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com an

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-16 22:00:50

We’re talking about the birds. Great tits are small, yellowish songbirds common to the woodlands of Europe. Tit pairs are known to be monogamous during breeding season, splitting up after fully raising their offspring. But new research suggests that this “tit divorce” may be the product of complex social relationships formed during and after the breeding season. Published July 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the paper reports that not all tit pairs separate in late summer when breedi

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Scottish Premiership Soccer: Stream Motherwell vs. Rangers Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 02:34:04

The Rangers campaign to win their first Scottish Premiership title in five years kicks off today with a potentially tricky trip to north Lanarkshire for a season opener against Motherwell. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Under new American ownership as well as new management following the appointment of former Southampton boss Russell

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OpenAI prepares new open weight models along with GPT-5

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 02:01:37

OpenAI isn't just working on GPT-5. It looks like OpenAI is also preparing to release new open-source weights, living up to its name, "OpenAI." As spotted on X, two new open-source weights, "gpt-oss-20b" and "gpt-oss-120b," have been spotted on HuggingFace, which is an AI platform to host models. The models are on HuggingFace ahead of the public release. Typically, companies like OpenAI need to share the model weights with partner companies. This is done in preparation for the release. OpenA

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Everyone Should Have Exactly 3 Pairs of Headphones, and These Are My Picks. Here's Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 02:00:11

When people ask you what your "big three" are, they might be asking about your sun, moon and rising astrological signs. But when I ask my friends the same question, I'm not trying to determine their horoscope. Instead, I'm curious what their headphones and earbuds collection looks like. After more than a decade working as a technology journalist, I'm in the fortunate position of having what most people would consider to be too much tech in my house. I make a real effort to keep it to a minimum

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Robert Wilson has died

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 22:57:27

Robert Wilson, a visionary artist best known for his highly visual and stylised approach to theatrical performances, has died, aged 83. According to a statement released by the Watermill Center, the arts organisation he founded in Water Mill, New York, Wilson died at his home there on Thursday (31 July) following “a brief but acute illness”. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, he still felt compelled to keep working and creating right up until the very end,” the state

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Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-17 03:49:02

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup The inclusion of chess in this year's schedule was somewhat controversial, but the tournament's organisers argued it counted as an esport as it is played by millions of people of all ages. The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports Worl

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The second-gen Apple Watch is now ‘obsolete’, but don’t get confused

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-17 06:05:08

Five years after Apple stops selling a product, it may become ‘vintage’, meaning Apple will still repair it. Five years after that, it can become ‘obsolete,’ and Apple no longer offers hardware service or parts. Today’s that day for the Apple Watch Series 1. Here’s what that means Wait, is it the Series 1, or the 2nd-gen Apple Watch? In a nutshell, both. They’re the same picture device. When Apple released the original Apple Watch in 2015, it didn’t have a Series number. The next year, when Ap

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New Instagram rule cuts off Live broadcasts for small accounts

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-17 11:55:04

Meta is following TikTok’s lead, and will restrict private accounts, and accounts with less than 1,000 followers, from going live. Here are the details. Feature now limited to public accounts with 1,000+ followers Since Instagram introduced its Live feature in 2016, it has been available to all users, whether they were major influencers, had just a handful of followers, or used a public or private account. This week, however, users with private accounts or fewer than 1,000 followers were met

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Lego’s August Releases Are Going Merry

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-17 11:45:06

Lego usually has quiet months and big months in terms of releases, but by far and away the two most important times of the year for Lego—and most threatening for your wallet as a Lego fan—are the start of it in January and the height of summer in August. The latter is finally here, and Lego has a lot of options for if you want to beat the heat by staying inside and building bricks. A lot of options. With dozens upon dozens upon dozens of new sets arriving today, it’s hard to really break down

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Build an AI telephony agent for inbound and outbound calls

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 08:52:37

AI Telephony Agent Make INBOUND and OUTBOUND calls with AI agents using VideoSDK. Supports multiple SIP providers and AI agents with a clean, extensible architecture for VoIP telephony solutions. Installation Prerequisites Python 3.11+ VideoSDK account Twilio account (SIP trunking provider) Google API key (for Gemini AI) Setup Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ai-agent-telephony.git cd ai-agent-telephony Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt

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Deep Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 20:28:45

Using an LLM to call tools in a loop is the simplest form of an agent. This architecture, however, can yield agents that are “shallow” and fail to plan and act over longer, more complex tasks. Applications like “Deep Research”, “Manus”, and “Claude Code” have gotten around this limitation by implementing a combination of four things: a planning tool, sub agents, access to a file system, and a detailed prompt. Acknowledgements: this exploration was primarily inspired by Claude Code and reports o

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 2, #1505

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 21:00:04

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a bit difficult. For some reason, I never think to guess the first letter in this word, so I had to use almost all my guesses. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 2, #313

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 21:00:05

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. If you know which team is the "New York Yankees of Japan," you'll have a good shot at conquering the purple category for today's Connections: Sports Edition. Stuck? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. Th

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ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 11:21:54

Faced with mounting backlash, OpenAI removed a controversial ChatGPT feature that caused some users to unintentionally allow their private—and highly personal—chats to appear in search results. Fast Company exposed the privacy issue on Wednesday, reporting that thousands of ChatGPT conversations were found in Google search results and likely only represented a sample of chats "visible to millions." While the indexing did not include identifying information about the ChatGPT users, some of their

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Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits

news.ycombinator.com Erlang Solutions Team 2025-12-18 16:20:07

Keep up to date with the latest news, best practice ideas and exclusive offers. Don’t miss out. Sign up here. Sign up for our quarterly newsletter At Erlang Solutions, our support for the BEAM community is long-standing and built into everything we do. From contributing to open-source tools and sponsoring events to improving security and shaping ecosystem standards, we’re proud to play an active role in helping the BEAM ecosystem grow and thrive. One way we’re putting that support into action

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Reddit pauses its paywall plans

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-18 16:04:07

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday’s earnings. The company is making the change as part of a shift in how it’s prioritizing its resources. Huffman said last year that the company was looking i

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Verizon is upping its fees again

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-18 16:42:17

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. Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments” that will raise the cost of your phone bill anyway. In a statement to The Verge, Verizon spokesperson Adria Tomaszewski says the “vast

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-18 20:27:38

Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from blue whales. As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species. However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past

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Nintendo won’t say it’s raising Switch prices, but it’s raising Switch prices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 21:18:00

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Prices for the original Nintendo Switch family of products will change in the US on August 3, 2025. The reason is attributed to market conditions in the US. Other products, like certain Switch 2 accessories, select amiibo, and the Alarmo clock, will also see price adjustments. Normally, after a new console launches, the previous system will see a price cut. It appears Nintendo is preparing to do the opposite with the original Switch. And it looks like

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Itch.io starts reindexing free NSFW content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 21:24:31

Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games, and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content. In a new Developer Update , the company said the decision will ensure it can "confidently support the widest range of creators in the long term." Itch.io has instructed developers and creators who want their games back on the store to tick a “no payments” box that sits in the pricing section of a game’s edit page. It adds that

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Best Internet Speed Tests for August 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 17:00:00

Ever wonder whether you're getting your money's worth when it comes to your internet speeds? Taking an internet speed test is a quick way to find out. Whether you're experiencing lag during gaming, streaming or Zoom calls; you're testing the connection strength in different rooms; or you're unsure just how fast (or slow) your internet really is, a speed test can give you answers in minutes. These tests are quick, easy and free. Why should you take an internet speed test? There's nothing more an

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Latest Tech News

Surveillance-Minded Parents Can Now Hide AirTags In Kids Shoes

We Must Admit That This Video of Two Small Robots Punching Each Other With Boxing Gloves Is Pretty Awesome

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Scout’ is a powerful tool for monitoring Facebook Marketplace

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp

HTML-in-Canvas

I'm Rethinking Amusement Park Rides for Good After Watching Netflix's 'Critical' Docuseries

Google Has Quietly Been Detecting Earthquakes by Sensing Rumbling in Android Phones For Years

Instagram public accounts with less than 1,000 followers can no longer go live

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble

Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

Scottish Premiership Soccer: Stream Motherwell vs. Rangers Live From Anywhere

OpenAI prepares new open weight models along with GPT-5

Everyone Should Have Exactly 3 Pairs of Headphones, and These Are My Picks. Here's Why

Robert Wilson has died

Chess grandmaster Carlsen wins at Esports World Cup

The second-gen Apple Watch is now ‘obsolete’, but don’t get confused

New Instagram rule cuts off Live broadcasts for small accounts

Lego’s August Releases Are Going Merry

Build an AI telephony agent for inbound and outbound calls

Deep Agents

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 2, #1505

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 2, #313

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits

Reddit pauses its paywall plans

Verizon is upping its fees again

Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent

Nintendo won’t say it’s raising Switch prices, but it’s raising Switch prices

Itch.io starts reindexing free NSFW content

Best Internet Speed Tests for August 2025

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