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Apple launches Service Program for M2 Mac mini power issues

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-18 15:51:54

Apple has launched a new Service Program today for a “No Power Issue” affecting a small number of M2 Mac mini users. Affected users are eligible to have their Mac mini repaired at no charge. Apple says that the problem impacts a “very small percentage” of M2 Mac mini units that were manufactured between June and November 2024. The company explains: Apple has determined that a very small percentage of Mac mini (2023) devices with the M2 chip may no longer power on. Affected devices were manufa

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Sonos' cheapest smart speaker is still the one I recommend most - especially when it's on sale

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-18 10:01:00

Jada Jones/ZDNET The Sonos Roam 2 is on sale for $134, $45 off its original price. According to Sonos, this deal is valid until June 15, 2025. In addition to a pair of trusty headphones for private listening when you're out in public, you need a portable speaker to keep the music bumping when you're outside grilling, swimming, or walking. A speaker to have inside for jamming out while you're cleaning, cooking, or hosting friends is a bonus, and one that's stylish enough to go from your outdoor

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U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels

news.ycombinator.com Patty Nieberg 2025-09-18 15:06:43

Four senior executives of tech giants like Meta and Palantir are being sworn into the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers at the unusually high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a new program to recruit private-sector experts to speed up tech adoption. The Army calls the program to recruit Silicon Valley executives Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps. One of the executives, Andrew Bosworth of Meta (formerly Facebook) posted on X that the “201” monicker was a nod t

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RISC-V in AI and HPC Part 1: Per Aspera Ad Astra?

news.ycombinator.com Anton Shilov 2025-09-15 02:27:50

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> —First in a three-part series Introduced in 2014, the RISC-V instruction set architecture has been evolving at a pace that Arm and x86 ISAs have never experienced. Initially, RISC-V cores were used solely for microcontrollers and applications that did not require high performance, but rather benefited from low cost and low power. Since RISC-V is an open-source architecture, it quickly gai

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How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 13:53:13

In 2006, a landmark study in Nature identified a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease. For almost 16 years, this study influenced how scientists approached Alzheimer’s and how major research grants were given. But in the summer of 2022, the editors of Nature issued a chilling disclaimer. There was concern regarding the images that accompanied the article. An investigation was underway, and readers were urged to “use caution” when relying on the results. A whistleblower had come forward and sa

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The Best ‘Final Fantasy’ References in Its Huge ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Crossover

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-18 15:00:23

Today one of the biggest sets in Magic: The Gathering‘s recent history makes its grand arrival at last: Final Fantasy, the first of Magic‘s at-times-controversial “Universes Beyond” crossovers with other franchises to be given the full standard-legal treatment. It’s a marriage of two of gaming’s most beloved fantasy realms, and with absolute legions of fans of both Magic and Final Fantasy to please, it has to hit the highlights and mechanical flavoring of 16 mainline game’s worth of viable cards

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This New ‘Superman’ Spot Tells Us the Movie’s Gonna Cut to the Chase About Clark and Lois

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-18 15:45:31

There might finally be an answer about whether or not Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) knows if Clark Kent (David Corenswet) is really the caped superhero in red trunks, and it’s slipped into a quick teaser DC Studios just unleashed for Superman. While previous iterations of Superman’s love interest may have fallen for the glasses trick, the idea that being bespectacled could hide the Man of Steel’s true identity has always been a ridiculous notion. Director James Gunn has seemingly side-stepped th

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Do reasoning models really “think” or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-18 19:02:22

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models (LRMs) or reasoning large language models (reasoning LLMs) such as OpenAI’s “o” series and Google’s Gemini-2.5 Pro and Flash Thinking don’t a

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This Android notification exploit could trick you into opening some very unfriendly links (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 18:19:58

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A bug in Android notifications can cause the “Open link” button to open a different link than the one displayed. Hidden characters in the messages can confuse the system, causing it to open a link that only makes up a part of the one in the displayed notification. Until Google issues a fix, it’s safest to avoid using the “Open link” button and open links manually in the app. Update, June 13, 2025 (5:19 PM ET): Google has reached out to Android Authority w

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Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 40L electric cooler drops to its all-time low price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 19:59:36

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I have actually been using the Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 40L electric cooler for some time, and I love it. I know it’s a bit pricey, but discounts come from time to time. Right now, you can get it for its record-low price, saving you $200. Buy the Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 40L electric cooler for just $699.99 ($200 off) This offer is available from Amazon. It is a “limited time deal,” which means the deal should end relatively soon. This also makes it an automat

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HomeKit Weekly: Protect your wood floors with a HomeKit-enabled water leak sensor from FIBARO

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-09-18 19:00:00

Water damage is one of my biggest fears as a homeowner. With hardwood floors throughout my house, even a small leak could turn into a massive repair bill and a huge inconvenience. A slow drip from a sink can quickly become thousands of dollars in damage for your floors and cabinets. Thankfully, with a HomeKit-enabled flood sensor from FIBARO, you can catch leaks early and avoid a major headache. The FIBARO water leak sensor is one of my oldest HomeKit devices I am using, but it still works great

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Chart shows iOS, iPadOS, and macOS release timing trends over the years

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 19:18:10

With WWDC25 wrapping up, the next big milestone on Apple’s calendar is the fall OS release season. And while many already have a mental map of how these rollouts usually go, a new chart making the rounds offers a great visual snapshot of when each OS has landed since 2013. Originally posted by Reddit user alexkaessner, the Datawrapper interactive timeline highlights the usual pattern: Fall Keynote in the first half of September (blue dots), iOS and iPadOS release about a week after that (red do

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New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 19:53:57

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves for its blunt conclusion: even the most advanced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapse on complex tasks. But not everyone agrees with that framing. Today, Alex Lawsen, a researcher at Open Philanthropy, published a detailed rebuttal arguing that many of Apple’s most headline-grabbing findings boil down to experimental design flaws, not fundamental reasoning limits. The paper also credits Anthropic’s Claude Opus

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Apple begins selling latest M4 MacBook Air models on its refurbished store

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-18 19:58:58

Today, Apple has begun selling refurbished configurations of its recently released MacBook Air with M4 chip – with a roughly 15% discount compared to MSRP. This follows the addition of Apple Watch Ultra 2 in Black and M4 Max/M3 Ultra Mac Studio earlier this week. Apple Refurbished Macs are held to a very high quality standard, and more or less look brand new – minus the packaging. All essential components are replaced as part of Apples Refurb program. You even get the same 1 year warranty, and

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Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs?

news.ycombinator.com Julio Merino 2025-09-16 13:37:09

Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and external users alike: Bazel’s poor sandboxing performance on macOS. sandboxfs was a user-space file system designed to efficiently create virtual file hierarchies backed by real files—a faster alternative to the “symlink fore

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Implementing Logic Programming

news.ycombinator.com Sir Whinesalot 2025-09-18 18:32:21

Most of my readers are probably familiar with procedural programming, object-oriented programming (OOP), and functional programming (FP). The majority of top programming languages on all of the language popularity charts (like TIOBE) support all three to some extent. Even if a programmer avoided one or more of those three paradigms like the plague, they’re likely at least aware of them and what they’re about. Or they’re applying one of the paradigms while denying that they’re doing so, like Has

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Limited-Time VPN Deal: Get 76% Off NordVPN + Up to $50 in Amazon Gift Cards

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-18 19:15:29

Looking to score big with the world’s #1 VPN? NordVPN is famous for insanely good deals, but this one appeared out of nowhere. If you purchase NordVPN today, you’ll secure a free Amazon gift card. Lock in your privacy and unlock Amazon goodies! We’ll tell you all about the current promotion offering up to 76% off NordVPN, plus an Amazon gift card worth several tens of dollars. Get NordVPN + Amazon Voucher Here NordVPN & Amazon Gift Card Exclusive Deal You might be wondering if such a crazy p

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MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro: Which MacBook Should I Buy?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 18:45:45

If you're having trouble deciding between the cheaper and lighter MacBook Air or spending more for the more powerful MacBook Pro, you've come to the right place. The MacBook Air and Pro don't look all that different from one another, but there are key differences -- from cost and components to performance and battery life -- that you need to know to pick the right one. The 15-inch M4 MacBook Air is the best laptop for most people, but there are some good reasons to spend more for a M4 MacBook P

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Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-18 19:07:57

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. 23andMe co-founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to buy back the company after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. On Friday, 23andMe and TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit public benefit corporation run by Wojcicki, announced in a press release that TTAM would be buying “substantially all of the Company’s assets” for $305 million. As of l

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New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-18 19:09:17

New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI safety movement, which has lost ground in recent years as Silicon Valley and the Trump Administration have prioritized speed and innovation. Safety advocates including Nobel prize laur

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Mel Brooks returns from the retirement home to save a galaxy 'very, very, very, very, far away'

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-09-18 23:06:00

Editor's take: If you're around my age, chances are you grew up loving at least one Mel Brooks classic. Young Frankenstein was my personal favorite, and Spaceballs cracked me up with its irreverent jabs at Star Wars and other sci-fi hits of the era. Now, nearly four decades later, Brooks is back with a sequel. After nearly 40 years, Mel Brooks is finally making a follow-up to his classic Star Wars spoof, Spaceballs. The nonagenarian announced the project with a hilarious clip parodying the open

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Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-18 23:54:45

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2025. Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, has regained control over the embattled genetic testing company after her new nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, outbid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals , the company announced Friday. TTAM will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets for $305 million, including its Personal Genome Service and Re

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Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 17:38:12

On Thursday, a Boeing jet crashed just moments after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad in western India. The Air India airliner, carrying 242 passengers, slammed into a nearby medical college and exploded in an enormous fireball. Somehow, one man survived: 38-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh. "I don't know how I am alive," Viswash said, according to his younger brother Nayan Ramesh, as quoted by the New York Times. In a video widely shared on social media, the India-born British citizen ca

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Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-18 22:10:05

Yep, they're definitely coming for our jobs. Package Deal Earlier this year, humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system called Helix to sort packages at a logistics warehouse. Footage showed a small army of the humanoid robots deftly picking up packages of various sizes, shapes, and hardnesses, and manipulating their orientation. Just three months later, the company has published an update about its Helix learning-based approa

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Google Meet’s Companion mode is finally ready for Android’s biggest screens

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-18 23:12:44

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google created Companion mode for Meet to offer a second screen for people in hybrid calls. Originally available for computers, last year Google expanded access to Android and iOS. Today Companion mode is getting an update to optimize it for tablets and foldables. Finding yourself stuck in a meeting can be a real slog, and it’s a situation that’s made all the worse when you feel like you’re not particularly seen, or able to interact with other partic

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With iOS 26, Apple is finally solving one of the biggest passkey headaches

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 23:20:14

Apple’s next round of OS updates will introduce a long-overdue feature for anyone trying to live in a world without passwords: a seamless, secure way to export and import passkeys across platforms and apps. Here’s how it’s going to work. As noted by Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin (via SixColors), the new capability, which Apple demonstrated during WWDC25, addresses one of the biggest pain points with passkeys to date. Until now, passkeys created on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad were largely trapped inside

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23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki will regain control of embattled DNA company after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-18 23:45:34

In a surprise twist, 23andMe founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to regain control of the DNA company's assets, according to a press release from 23andMe. In May, a company called Regeneron bought 23andMe for $256 million in a bankruptcy auction, but Wojcicki's nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, was able to reopen bidding with an "unsolicited offer" of $305 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. A bankruptcy judge agreed to reopen bidding on 23andMe under the condition that Regenero

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Best Buy is giving away $300 gift cards when you buy a Hisense TV - here's how to qualify

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-09-18 23:51:44

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 23:53:13

In 2006, a landmark study in Nature identified a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease. For almost 16 years, this study influenced how scientists approached Alzheimer’s and how major research grants were given. But in the summer of 2022, the editors of Nature issued a chilling disclaimer. There was concern regarding the images that accompanied the article. An investigation was underway, and readers were urged to “use caution” when relying on the results. A whistleblower had come forward and sa

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We found a germ that 'feeds' on hospital plastic – new study

news.ycombinator.com Ronan Mccarthy 2025-09-18 23:01:00

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time – and some of nature’s tiniest organisms may offer a surprising way out. In recent years, microbiologists have discovered bacteria capable of breaking down various types of plastic, hinting at a more sustainable path forward. These “plastic-eating” microbes could one day help shrink the mountains of waste clogging landfills and oceans. But they are not always a perfect fix. In the wrong environment, they could cause

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Apple launches Service Program for M2 Mac mini power issues

Sonos' cheapest smart speaker is still the one I recommend most - especially when it's on sale

U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels

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The Best ‘Final Fantasy’ References in Its Huge ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Crossover

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This Android notification exploit could trick you into opening some very unfriendly links (Updated)

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HomeKit Weekly: Protect your wood floors with a HomeKit-enabled water leak sensor from FIBARO

Chart shows iOS, iPadOS, and macOS release timing trends over the years

New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study

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Implementing Logic Programming

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Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

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Google Meet’s Companion mode is finally ready for Android’s biggest screens

With iOS 26, Apple is finally solving one of the biggest passkey headaches

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Best Buy is giving away $300 gift cards when you buy a Hisense TV - here's how to qualify

How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years

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