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Among Us VR is being transformed into a traditional 3D game for PC

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 17:45:45

Among Us VR has proven itself to be a major hit since first being released back in 2022. Now, developers Innersloth and Schell Games have announced they are rejiggering the virtual reality title for traditional PC players. Among Us 3D is playable without a headset and will be available via Steam in the near future. This title keeps the core gameplay loop from the original, but shifts to a first-person perspective. It's basically a new way to keep sabotaging your friends and family. Among Us 3D

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ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 18:36:35

ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users. "We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X about the new audience stat. This figure is twice the weekly active user count reported by the company in August 2024 , which was double the figure it posted in November 2023. The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new rival platform DeepSeek earlier in the year, which raised questions about whether the c

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Elon Musk wants to 'fix' Community Notes on X

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 18:23:10

Elon Musk has a problem with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking feature that started as Birdwatch, and launched at scale after he purchased Twitter. "Unfortunately @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media," Musk posted. "Working to fix this..." Based on the rant his tweet descends in to afterwards, his issue appears to be with how X's Community Notes contributors have been treating misinformation about President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the war in Uk

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Cozy Lord of the Rings game Tales of the Shire is delayed to July

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 18:35:00

Samwise Gamgee said, "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." But then, he hadn't been exposed to the world of video game development. Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game, a cozy take on the most idyllic pocket of Middle Earth, has been delayed. The new launch date is July 29. According to a post from the devs at Wētā Workshop Game Studio, this delay is about ensuring that all the project's supported platforms "can enjoy the same cozy experience." It is curren

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Chinese hackers use custom malware to spy on US telecom networks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:11:59

The Chinese state-sponsored Salt Typhoon hacking group uses a custom utility called JumbledPath to stealthily monitor network traffic and potentially capture sensitive data in cyberattacks on U.S. telecommunication providers. Salt Typhoon (aka Earth Estries, GhostEmperor, and UNC2286) is a sophisticated hacking group active since at least 2019, primarily focusing on breaching government entities and telecommunications companies. Recently, the U.S. authorities have confirmed that Salt Typhoon w

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US healthcare org pays $11M settlement over alleged cybersecurity lapses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 16:47:21

Health Net Federal Services (HNFS) and its parent company, Centene Corporation, have agreed to pay $11,253,400 to settle allegations that HNFS falsely certified compliance with cybersecurity requirements under its Defense Health Agency (DHA) TRICARE contract. The U.S. government contracted HNFS to provide managed healthcare support services for TRICARE's North region, covering 22 states. The contract required compliance with cybersecurity standards, specifically 48 C.F.R. § 252.204-7012 and 51

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I changed these 11 iPhone settings and improved its battery life dramatically

zdnet.com Max Buondonno 2025-11-17 18:38:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET With the way we use our iPhones these days, it can be hard to make it through a single day on a full charge. A few FaceTime calls, some text messaging, and opening Maps a few times, and you could already be 25% down. If you've experienced this problem, you're not alone. These phones can be very power-hungry -- even the more affordable iPhone SE 4 has battery issues. The problem is made worse by all the different apps, features, and settings vying for battery life. And the kicke

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Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

news.ycombinator.com Jacob Bogage 2025-11-17 20:39:20

The Trump White House and Treasury Department officials have agreed to prohibit the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal taxpayer data, according to two people familiar with the arrangement, heading off a brewing privacy crisis at the tax agency. Gavin Kliger, a software engineer with Elon Musk’s DOGE effort assigned to the IRS, will have read-only access to anonymized tax data, the same access granted to academic researchers and IT professionals who work on IRS systems, said the people, wh

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Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake

news.ycombinator.com Stefanie Waldek 2025-11-17 17:28:53

Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago, however, liquid water flowed freely across the planet. And, while NASA's various Mars rovers have uncovered signs that such water once existed on Mars , there's perhaps no better evidence of an ice-free, shallow lake than these two sets of ripples in Martian rock. In November 2022, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged the Amapari Marker Band in the foothills of Mount Sharp,

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A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself

news.ycombinator.com David Yaffe-Bellany 2025-11-17 14:09:22

Online scams are as old as the internet, but the rise of crypto has given con artists a valuable new tool — digital coins that can be transferred instantly, without oversight from banks legally obligated to monitor transactions for malfeasance. In 2023, crypto fraud cost American investors an estimated $4.8 billion, according to the F.B.I. The scams are so common that law-enforcement authorities have taken to calling them by a pithy name: Pig butchering, a rough translation of an expression wide

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Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Bob Leggitt 2025-11-17 17:46:43

"If you don't perceive using the Internet in the 2020s to be a constant fight, you have absolutely no online privacy whatsoever." Lynx browser, browsing the post Cyber Freedom: No Gain Without Pain, from my Neocities site Backlit. It might look scarily primitive at first glance, but Lynx browser - a product as old as the World Wide Web itself - could not be more of a friend. And neither could it be more relevant amid the surveillance dystopia of the 2020s. If you find it hard to keep up with t

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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem

news.ycombinator.com Leila Sloman 2025-11-17 08:09:56

After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving it. They made partial progress — and in the process they learned a great deal about groups, which are abstract objects that describe the various symmetries of a mathematical system. But a full proof seemed out of reach. Then Späth came along. Now, 20 years after she first learned about the problem and more than a decade after she met Cabanes, the two mathematicians have finally completed the proof.

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Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 12:47:09

Spice86 - A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering Spice86 is a tool to execute, reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs for which source code is not available. Release are available on Nuget. Pre-releases are also available on the Release page NOTE: This is a port, and a continuation from the original Java Spice86. It requires .NET 8 and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Approach Rewriting a program from only the binary is a hard task. Spice86 is a tool that helps yo

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Archaeologists Unearth the First Pharaoh’s Tomb Since Tutankhamun

gizmodo.com Isaac Schultz 2025-11-17 15:40:51

A joint Egyptian-British archaeological project near Luxor found the tomb of Thutmose II, making it the first royal tomb to be unearthed since the discovery of Tutankhamun in 1922. When British archaeologist Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he would have been shocked to learn that another royal tomb wouldn’t be discovered for over 100 years—but that’s exactly what happened. Now, archaeologists in Egypt have officially announced the discovery of the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Thut

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Star Trek: Voyager‘s First Brush With Getting Home Is One of Its Best

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-17 18:05:14

Star Trek: Voyager‘s premise was both its greatest boon and its biggest curse. Flinging the titular Starfleet vessel tens of thousands of lightyears away from Federation space into unchartered territory wasn’t just a fantastic evolution of the franchise’s original intent to boldly go where no man had gone before, but a vector for fascinating story ideas about resource management, ethics, first contact, and a million other Star Trek ideas that could be re-imagined in a context where the world est

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OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 May Arrive Next Week, but GPT-5 Is Just Around the Corner

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-17 18:06:06

OpenAI may be preparing to slap a new coat of paint on ChatGPT with an updated AI model, GPT-4.5, as early as next week. If that’s not enough to get users excited, the Sam Altman-led company is on the path toward its ultimate model while trying to hint that this next step will finally achieve “AGI.” Spoiler alert: it won’t. Based on anonymous sources, the Verge’s Tom Warren first reported that OpenAI’s next model could hit the scene sometime this month. Microsoft reportedly plans to host the co

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Before the Cult TV Show, the Buffy Movie Proved How Fun Slaying Monsters Can Be

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-17 18:30:49

Buffy the Vampire Slayer may soon make a TV comeback with Sarah Michelle Gellar—and the cult-classic series will always be the most beloved version of Buffy’s story. But in 1992, five years prior to fans becoming obsessed with Sunnydale and the Scoobies, a different version of Buffy’s story hit the big screen. The same broad strokes are there; the script is by (now-disgraced) Buffy series creator Joss Whedon, and it follows a chipper blonde named Buffy saving the world from monsters. But it’s go

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Best YouTube Channels for Free Workouts in 2025

cnet.com Hedy Phillips 2025-11-17 14:00:00

The gym isn’t the solution for everyone. A gym membership can be expensive and it can be tough to find enough time to commute to and from the gym for regular workouts. With online fitness training and some investment in home exercise equipment, you can have a killer workout setup at home. Whether you're a beginner or a fitness enthusiast, working out at home offers a variety of benefits, and along with those come the challenges. These are the best YouTube channels that will help you get the mos

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Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds for 2025

cnet.com David Carnoy 2025-11-17 15:05:00

Bowers & Wilkins PI7 S2: In 2023, Bowers & Wilkins upgraded its fantastic-sounding PI7 noise-canceling earbuds. The new S2 model has better battery life and Bluetooth range, now up to 25 meters (double the previous range). Additionally, the buds now integrate into the new Bowers & Wilkins Music app for iOS and Android and have a much-improved setup experience. Learn more in our full Bowers & Wilkins PI7 review. JBL Live Pro 2: Over the years, JBL has put out some decent true-wireless earbuds, b

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Call of Duty Just Launched Its Thinnest Multiplayer Map in Season 2 Reloaded

cnet.com Tyler Graham 2025-11-17 15:36:00

If you fancy playing Black Ops 6 as a walking bullet hose, you'll fit right in on the newest multiplayer map. As Season 2 Reloaded adds new maps, modes, events and guns to the latest Call of Duty game, the standout addition is the new strike map Bullet. Two teams of six will fight across (and on top of) a moving bullet train in various core multiplayer game modes. Developer Treyarch is well-known for its three-lane map design, but Bullet is adopting a new, experimental one-lane design, maximiz

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12 Best Foods for Optimal Eye Health

cnet.com Kacie Goff 2025-11-17 16:00:00

Taking care of your eyesight is essential. You can help strengthen your eyes in simple ways, like taking screen breaks, wearing sunglasses and even eating nourishing foods, vitamins and minerals. The best part is that most of these foods are probably already in your home. Read more: Best Places to Buy Glasses Online Best foods for healthy eyes Anjelika Gretskaia/Getty Images Whether you've got a family history of vision problems or you're trying to fight eye strain in your day-to-day life, h

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Can Music Really Help You Sleep? Here's How to Build a Playlist for Deeper Slumber

cnet.com Caroline Igo 2025-11-17 16:00:07

Music fuels my life. Whether I'm writing, reading, working, running, driving or sitting around the house, music is usually flooding my ears or playing softly in the background. Choosing a song or playlist is the first thing I do in the morning, and if I have my AirPods in, you can count on Spotify playing my favorite podcasts. To me, music is a form of love. It boosts moods, soothes heartache and reaches audiences across language barriers. Music can also help you sleep at night, easing anxiety

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Lamborghini catapults into the electrified supercar age with the Revuelto

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:39:22

We are effectively living in a post-horsepower world. As the roster of production cars offering quadruple-digit output figures continues to expand and a growing number of garden-variety vehicles now offer straight-line acceleration that would have been exclusively supercar territory a decade ago, serious thrust is quickly becoming an expectation rather than a rarefied experience. This trend might seem like an existential dilemma for an automaker with a legacy built on face-melting performance,

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Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 16:00:16

Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced Wednesday that it will be imposing a 100-hour limit on the archived video highlights users can preserve permanently on the site. And while Twitch says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are warning that the move threatens to eradicate large swaths of recent gaming history from the Internet. Highlights, in Twitch's own words, are a way for Twitch streamers to "show off your best moments to new

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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-17 17:20:21

Apple and Lenovo had the lowest laptop repairability scores in an analysis of recently released devices from consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. While Apple's low marks are partially due the difficulty involved in disassembling MacBooks, Lenovo appears to be withholding information from shoppers deemed critical to right-to-repair legislation and accessibility. The report, US PIRG's fourth annual “Failing the Fix” [PDF], calculated repairability score

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Work Has Given Me Tech Neck. This Device Is Helping Undo the Damage

wired.com Hannah Singleton 2025-11-17 12:45:00

I was leaving a blissful session with my massage therapist when she pointed out something unexpected: I was developing an ever-so-slight neck “hump.” Of course, nobody wants to hear that—it sounds unsightly—but it also raised some alarm bells. Recently, an orthopedic spine surgeon told me that he’s seen increasing cases of arthritis in young, healthy individuals, likely due to posture issues caused by constant screen use. Like most desk workers, I spend at least 30 hours a week glued to my lapt

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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers

wired.com Matt Reynolds 2025-11-17 16:30:44

The widespread layoff of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown vital research into disarray, according to former and current employees of the agency. Scientists hit by the layoffs were working on projects to improve crops, defend against pests and disease, and understand the climate impact of farming practices. The layoffs also threaten to undermine billions of taxpayer dollars paid to farmers to support conservation practices, experts warn. The USDA layoffs are part of the Trump admi

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Netflix Plans to Spend $1 Billion Making Content in Mexico Over the Next 4 Years

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-11-17 18:18:21

Streaming juggernaut Netflix plans to spend $1 billion on film and TV production in Mexico over the next four years. CEO Ted Sarandos announced the plan Thursday during a press conference with Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum. The injection of capital could fund 20 productions per year, on average. During Thursday's event, Netflix also announced a $2 million investment in Mexico City's Churubusco Studios to improve the facilities. The goal is to strengthen the national film industry. “Our

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Adidas plugs its website and app into Amazon’s ‘Buy with Prime’ program

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-17 18:54:47

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Adidas’s site and app will soon get “Buy with Prime” Amazon fulfillment, allowing Prime members to receive free shipping and streamlined returns when ordering directly from the three-stripe brand. Beginning in the spring, paying US-based Amazon Prime subscribers will see Prime-eligible items for sale on adidas.com and through the Adida

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Rivian reports first quarter of ‘positive gross profit’

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-11-17 18:50:21

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Rivian announced a significant milestone today, reporting its first “positive gross profit” in its fourth quarter earnings for 2024. It was a sign that the struggling company’s efforts to slash costs through the gut overhaul of its R1 electric vehicles is starting to yield some positive results. But dark clouds loom ahead,

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Among Us VR is being transformed into a traditional 3D game for PC

ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users

Elon Musk wants to 'fix' Community Notes on X

Cozy Lord of the Rings game Tales of the Shire is delayed to July

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Netflix Plans to Spend $1 Billion Making Content in Mexico Over the Next 4 Years

Adidas plugs its website and app into Amazon’s ‘Buy with Prime’ program

Rivian reports first quarter of ‘positive gross profit’

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