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Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Clemens 2025-12-05 10:54:31

We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find that employment in California's fast food sector declined by 2.7 percent relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the United States from September 2023 through September 2024. Adjusting for pre-AB 1228 trends increases this di

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Quantum Computers Are Here and They’re Real. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-05 11:00:22

The promise of quantum computers appears to be that they will upend modern computing as we know it. With exceptional computational power, they’ll be performing feats unimaginable for any classical supercomputer. The reality of quantum computers hasn’t quite lived up to its hype, however. Claims of “quantum advantage”—problems regular computers can’t solve but quantum computers can—draw criticism from both skeptics and enthusiasts in the field. Certainly, we’ve seen genuinely impressive advancem

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EFL Championship Soccer: Stream Southampton vs. Wrexham Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 09:30:03

Southampton return to life in the Championship on Saturday, as they take on newly promoted Wrexham in this intriguing opening-weekend clash at St Mary's. 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. The Saints endured a torrid campaign last season, finishing rock bottom of the English Premier League after working their way through three different m

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Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-06 02:02:29

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook shake hands on the day they present Apple's announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. Apple shares rose 13% this week, its largest weekly gain in more than five years, after CEO Tim Cook appeared with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. Shares of the iPhone maker rose 4% to close at $229.35 per share on Friday for the com

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Intel CEO responds to Trump resignation call with letter to employees

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-06 02:21:59

Yesterday, President Donald Trump publicly called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation, over accusations of “deeply conflicted” ties to China. Now, he is speaking out and making it clear he has no plans to step aside. A quick recap Before joining Intel, Tan worked as CEO for Cadence Design Systems, a firm that just pleaded guilty to an investigation by the Justice Department over charges of “selling its chip-design products to a Chinese military university,” per the Wall Street Journal’s des

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FCC Commissioner Slams Paramount’s New ‘Truth Arbiter’ for the Trump Regime

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-06 05:55:06

It’s official. The $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance was completed Thursday, and the media giants will combine to create something like “new Paramount,” according to a press release from chairman and CEO David Ellison. But it was a long road to finally seal the deal and many people are concerned about the ways that Paramount capitulated to Donald Trump, going so far as to install a “truth arbiter” at CBS to make sure nobody is too mean to the president, as FCC Commissioner Anna Go

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It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 06:11:56

Companies are monitoring whether employees adhere to corporate return-to-office (RTO) policies and are enforcing the requirements more than they have in the past five years, according to a report that commercial real estate firm CBRE will release next week and that Ars Technica reviewed. CBRE surveyed 184 companies for its report. Among companies surveyed, 69 percent are monitoring whether employees come into the office as frequently as policy mandates. That’s an increase from 45 percent last y

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Tesla Robotaxi scores permit to run ride-hailing service in Texas

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-06 10:53:53

In an aerial view, the Tesla headquarters is seen in Austin, Texas, on July 24, 2025. Tesla has been granted a permit to run a ride-hailing business in Texas, allowing the electric vehicle maker to compete against companies including Uber and Lyft . Tesla Robotaxi LLC is licensed to operate a "transportation network company" until August 6, 2026, according to a listing on the website of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, or TDLR. The permit was issued this week. Elon Musk's EV

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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees

news.ycombinator.com Matt Hyatt 2025-12-06 09:48:29

The following note from Lip-Bu Tan was sent to all Intel Corporation employees on August 7, 2025: Dear Team, I know there has been a lot in the news today, and I want to take a moment to address it directly with you. Let me start by saying this: The United States has been my home for more than 40 years. I love this country and am profoundly grateful for the opportunities it has given me. I also love this company. Leading Intel at this critical moment is not just a job – it’s a privilege. This

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HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports

news.ycombinator.com Noah Kim 2025-12-06 08:12:03

Python @ HRT At Hudson River Trading (HRT), we’ve found that centralizing our codebase facilitates cross-team collaboration and rapid deployment of new projects. Therefore, the majority of our software development takes place in a monorepo, and our Python ecosystem is set up such that internal modules are importable everywhere. Unfortunately, the convenience of this arrangement has led to a conundrum: a vast proliferation of imports. In Python, imports occur at runtime. For each imported name,

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Intel CEO Responds to Trump’s Threat

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-06 11:35:40

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has responded to President Donald Trump’s call for his resignation over alleged conflicts of interest. In a memo sent to staff on Thursday, Tan said those concerns are based on “misinformation.” Tan joined the struggling chipmaker back in March. He was in the middle of trying to get the company back on track when he found himself in Trump’s crosshairs. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem,” Trump wr

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Need to Recycle an Old Laptop or Printer? Here's Where to Take It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 10:00:07

If you've got an old laptop or printer gathering dust in a closet, you're not alone. A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of US adults are still hanging onto outdated electronics because they don't know what to do with them. And while tossing tech in the trash might seem like the easiest option, it's illegal in many states and could land you a fine. The good news? Recycling your old devices is easier than ever. Major retailers like Best Buy, Staples and Office Depot accept laptops, de

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Intel CEO responds to 'misinformation' and Trump threat in letter to employees

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-06 16:06:51

Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, appears at an event organized by the company. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan addressed "misinformation" about his previous roles after President Donald Trump called for his resignation and raised ethical concerns. " I want to be absolutely clear: Over 40+ years in the industry, I've built relationships around the world and across our diverse ecosystem – and I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards," he wrote in a memo to employees on Thursday. Tan

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This Week’s ‘Foundation’ Took a Killer Spy-Fi Turn

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-06 16:30:49

Foundation is nearing the halfway point of season three. Episode five, “Where Tyrants Spend Eternity,” began to show us how Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) hopes to gain an advantage over the sinister Mule (Pilou Asbæk). Her plan tapped into a much-loved trope that Star Wars series Andor also made excellent use of: sci-fi spycraft. “Where Tyrants Spend Eternity” is also tense throughout and ends up involving a horrific, large-scale tragedy (another Andor similarity), building to a final scene that t

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It's Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 12:30:27

OpenAI's ChatGPT can easily be coaxed into leaking your personal data — with just a single "poisoned" document. As Wired reports, security researchers revealed at this year's Black Hat hacker conference that highly sensitive information can be stolen from a Google Drive account with an indirect prompt injection attack. In other words, hackers feed a document with hidden, malicious prompts to an AI that controls your data instead of manipulating it directly with a prompt injection, one of the mo

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Why Apple avoiding a big AI acquisition could signal good news

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-06 21:34:03

In the midst of Apple’s AI challenges, some have called on the company to dip into its enormous bank account and make a splashy AI acquisition. Here’s why the lack of acquisition could signal something important about Apple’s current AI progress. Apple is ‘open’ to AI acquisitions, but shows no sign of a big purchase It’s been a big week for AI, with major new launches from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Meanwhile, discourse surrounding Apple’s AI efforts remains glum. Last week, the c

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 17:29:54

The shortlist for the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition has been unveiled. From a blood moon hanging over Shanghai to a family portrait of the Solar System and a close-up of a comet's streaming tails, distant astronomical wonders are photographed in magnificent detail for all to admire. Now in its 17th year, in 2025 the competition received a record number of entries, with just over 5,880 photographs submitted from 68 different countries. See a small selection of shortli

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-06 21:40:04

After an unusually slow start to hurricane season, it’s looking like storm activity is about to ramp up. Meteorologists are keeping a watchful eye on the Atlantic Basin as ocean surface temperatures rise to record levels. So far, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced four tropical storms and no hurricanes. As of Friday, August 8, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was monitoring two areas of interest for storm development—one off the southeastern U.S. and the other in the Central Atl

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EFL Championship Soccer: Stream Birmingham vs. Ipswich Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 20:00:05

Two teams that are widely expected to be vying for a promotion spot this term face off in Friday's opening match of the new English Football League Championship season, as Birmingham hosts Ipswich. 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. Spearheaded by the ambitious ownership of Tom Wagner and NFL legend Tom Brady, Birmingham was promoted up f

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IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-12-06 23:00:20

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 8 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS), the world’s preeminent computer science and engineering member organization, today announced that its journals continue to lead the industry in Journal Impact FactorTM (JIFTM) rankings. Specifically, eight IEEE CS journals hold the coveted top impact factor status in their respective fields. “Every published paper brings value, but some rise to new heights because they provide a launching point for other work,” said Hironori

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HRT's Python Fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for Faster Imports

news.ycombinator.com Noah Kim 2025-12-07 02:12:03

Python @ HRT At Hudson River Trading (HRT), we’ve found that centralizing our codebase facilitates cross-team collaboration and rapid deployment of new projects. Therefore, the majority of our software development takes place in a monorepo, and our Python ecosystem is set up such that internal modules are importable everywhere. Unfortunately, the convenience of this arrangement has led to a conundrum: a vast proliferation of imports. In Python, imports occur at runtime. For each imported name,

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Pinterest CEO says agentic shopping is still a long way out

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-07 02:33:18

Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that the social app and inspirational bookmarking site could be considered an “AI-enabled shopping assistant.” However, he thinks that the agentic web, where AI agents shop on users’ behalf, is still far in the future. The remarks were made in response to a question about the agentic web, which could impact the search funnel and businesses like Pinterest, which positions itself at the early stages of the shopp

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Tesla shuts down in-house Dojo AI supercomputer project

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-07 06:54:20

As first reported by Bloomberg , Tesla is disbanding the team behind Dojo , its in-house AI-training supercomputer, and reassigning remaining staff to other projects within the company. This marks a shift in the company's compute sourcing strategy for its AI-focused initiatives such as autonomous driving and the Optimus robot . Head of Dojo Peter Bannon is leaving Tesla, which is the latest departure after roughly 20 Dojo team members recently left to form DensityAI . In a response to the Bloom

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GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding

news.ycombinator.com Eleanor Berger 2025-12-07 06:38:48

OpenAI released GPT-5 yesterday, promoting it as their best model yet for agentic coding. When it arrived in my GitHub Copilot this morning, I immediately decided to test it with a complex, long-running agentic coding task — and later gave the exact same task to Claude 4 Sonnet 4 for comparison. While this isn't a tightly controlled scientific comparison — more of a "vibe check" — both models impressed me with their results. It's worth noting that while Claude Sonnet has been established for co

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Inside Dylan Field’s Big IPO—and His Even Bigger Plans for Figma

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-12-07 06:00:00

When Dylan Field pops up on my Zoom screen, his face is a mixture of giddiness and fatigue. He’s back at work, after a whirlwind trip to New York City where he launched his company Figma on the New York Stock Exchange, bucking the trend of multi-billion-dollar startups staying private. Even before it became clear that this might be the wildest public launch in years, the Figma world—fans of the app, employees (known as Figmates), and investors—had already turned Wall Street into a block party, h

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Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer is DOA — now what?

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-07 11:48:06

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project’s leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to

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Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-07 11:24:04

In Brief Meta has acquired AI voice startup WaveForms for an undisclosed sum, The Information reports. It’s the company’s latest buy to strengthen its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, and Meta’s second major AI audio acquisition in the last month after it bought PlayAI. WaveForms, founded just eight months ago, raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz in a round that valued the company at $160 million pre-money, per PitchBook data. Two of the startup’s co-founders – former Meta and Ope

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My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-07 16:16:40

GIMP / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I've been using image editors for a very long time. I've used them for article images, book covers, promos, flyers, and just about everything in between. Some might expect I'd be turning to an operating system like MacOS or Windows for image editing. But they'd be wrong. Linux has plenty of image editing tools, and although not all of them are created equal, each serves a worthwhile purpose. From my perspective, four image editors available for Linux are wor

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What is Laura Loomer?

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-12-07 16:51:24

For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House’s decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes “the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump’s second administration” to Loomer’s influence — partially, at least. For Washington veterans who grew up in quote-unquote normal times, it’s unprecedented. If this 32-year-old online personality with no government experience tweets her displeasure at a random official,

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OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-07 21:40:47

When venture capitalist Keith Rabois got into e-commerce, he couldn't stop buying brands. Now, everything must go. OpenStore, co-founded by Rabois in 2021, is shutting down nearly all of the 40-plus Shopify stores it acquired, and it's in the process of liquidating any remaining inventory by offering steep discounts to move merchandise. Earlier this week, the company announced it plans to focus solely on growing Jack Archer, the menswear brand it bought for $837,000 in 2022. The website addres

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