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BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-08 23:53:56

For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular science writing. Every so often, though, something breaks through that wakes my inner child, reminds me of why I fell in love with research thirty years ago, and helps me forget about the triumphantly strutting factions working to destroy everything I value. Back in 2022, I reported an exciting advance in BusyBeaverolo

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Are TikTok Age Tests Legit? Orthopedists Explains How to Measure Biological Age

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 19:00:00

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen fitness challenges based on your biological age. In some cases, it’s funny to see people attempting feats that seem impossible for their age or impressive that they can do them. You’ve probably felt inspired to try out some of these challenges and even questioned their legitimacy. “Most of these challenges, like completing 11 consecutive push-ups (for women), doing pull-ups or performing a kneeling-to-squat jump, are quick scr

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Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 23:00:04

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Recession headlines come and go in today's news cycle, which is filled with trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict. No one wants to pin their hopes on a major economic setback. But since recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates, many of my clients want to know: Will buying a home become more affordable in a recession? Since the beg

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #749

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:00:02

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. There's a very 1980s phrase in it and I had no idea where to put it. Even now, I'm going to have to Google it within its category to find out what it means. (It's this.) Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 29, #279

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:00:05

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. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. But all you Hoosiers will nail the yellow category, I think. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loya

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How to Watch the 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' Reunion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 03:18:09

Ready for more of Hulu's Mormon Wives? The hit reality show that follows Taylor Frankie Paul, Jen Affleck and more Mormon mom influencers premiered its 10-episode second season on May 15. Now, the cast is assembling for the show's first reunion special. Season 1 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debuted in 2024 and followed a group of Mormon women -- dubbed #MomTok -- in the aftermath of a swinging sex scandal. Former Bachelor and Bachelorette star Nick Viall will host the season 2 reunion, w

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PNG image format receives HDR and animation support in first spec update in decades

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-09 03:33:00

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful update in over 20 years with the release of its third edition, making the format more versatile than ever. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which manages web standards and guidelines, recently published new specifications for the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format. The updated format now

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Landmark deepfake law aims to give Danish citizens legal control over their digital identity

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-09 04:17:00

Denmark has proposed sweeping legislation to curb the rise of AI-generated deepfakes, positioning itself as a leader in European digital rights protection. The suggested amendment to Danish copyright law would grant individuals explicit ownership of their image, voice, and facial features – empowering them to demand the removal of unauthorized digital copies from online platforms. The move comes as deepfake technology grows more accessible and sophisticated. These digital forgeries convincingly

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Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-08 22:45:06

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you'll note, but more on that later — from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, time is three-dimensional and the dimensions of space are an emergent property of it, a press release from the university explains. "These three time dimensions are the primary fabric of everything, like the canvas of a paintin

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After successfully entering Earth's atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 00:23:24

A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its "Mission Possible" vehicle power up and fly successfully in orbit before making a controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere. However, after encountering an "issue," the Exploration Company lost contact with its spacecraft a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean. In an update on LinkedIn Tuesday morning, the company characterized the te

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LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction

news.ycombinator.com Martin Fowler 2025-09-05 22:55:14

Like most loudmouths in this field, I've been paying a lot of attention to the role that generative AI systems may play in software development. I think the appearance of LLMs will change software development to a similar degree as the change from assembler to the first high-level programming languages. The further development of languages and frameworks increased our abstraction level and productivity, but didn't have that kind of impact on the nature of programming. LLMs are making that degree

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Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

news.ycombinator.com Dalya Alberge 2025-09-08 22:19:44

Twenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes, are to be premiered a century after the death of the notoriously eccentric and innovative French composer. Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist in the early decades of the 20th century. James Nye, a British musicologist and composer

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Lenovo’s Legion Go S With SteamOS Is the Only Real Alternative to a Steam Deck

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-08 23:00:03

2025 For the last several years, most of us thinking about buying a handheld PC have heard the refrain “just get a Steam Deck.” The reasons are two-fold: one, the OLED version at $550 is the cheapest of its class, and two, it’s so damned easy to use thanks to SteamOS. No other company has come close to offering similar bang for the buck—until now. At $600, Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS is a superior handheld for on-the-go gaming compared to the Windows version released earlier this year, w

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This Prehistoric Trick Shows How Ice Age People Harvested Teeth for Jewelry

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-09 00:00:05

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such as tools, bones, and pottery. Experimental archaeologists, however, go a step further—recreating past behaviors to experience how people once lived. That’s precisely what a team of researchers recently did to investigate how Stone Age communities in northeastern Europe extracted animal teeth to produce accessories. Led by Aija Macāne, a visiting scholar in the Department

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Meta’s Xbox-Branded Quest 3S Just Sold Out for All the Wrong Reasons

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-09 01:00:47

Everyone loves limited-edition stuff. There’s Sony’s 30th anniversary PS5, or Analogue’s many limited edition Pocket handhelds, or— I don’t know—the Shamrock f***ing Shake. But there’s one type of person who loves limited-edition stuff more than your average consumer, and it’s a scalper. For proof of that, see Meta’s recently released Xbox-branded Quest 3S. See Meta Quest Xbox Edition at Best Buy In case you missed it, Meta’s new limited-edition Quest 3S bundle just recently sold out, which on

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The New Prescription Gummy That May Help With Hair Loss

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 02:00:03

You've tried the serums, the vitamins and the topical solutions. But have you tried a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online healthcare services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biotin plus Minoxidil Gummy, the first-of-its-kind prescription gummy formulated to support hair regrowth. Available through forhers.com, this gummy combines prescription-strength minoxidil, the only FDA-approved ingredient for female hair loss, with biotin, a

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The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-09-09 03:00:00

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Age verification is perhaps the hottest battleground for online speech, and the Supreme Court just settled a pivotal question: does using it to gate adult content violate the First Amendment in the US? For roughly the past 20 years the answer has been “yes” — now, as of Friday, it’s an unambiguous “no.” Justice Clarence Thomas’ opi

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I talked to 5 AIs about my cat, Mr. Giggles - and it says a lot about the state of chatbots

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-09 00:00:19

Cheglakov Eugene/Getty Many popular AIs offer a voice mode that enables you to carry on live conversations with a chatbot. Often, chatting by voice is more convenient, more natural, and more fun than trying to converse through text prompts. Plus, you can typically review a transcript of the conversation after you're done, so you still have access to the actual text. But which AIs are the best conversationalists? I tried chatting by voice with ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Meta AI,

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LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

news.ycombinator.com Martin Fowler 2025-09-05 07:52:05

Like most loudmouths in this field, I've been paying a lot of attention to the role that generative AI systems may play in software development. I think the appearance of LLMs will change software development to a similar degree as the change from assembler to the first high-level programming languages. The further development of languages and frameworks increased our abstraction level and productivity, but didn't have that kind of impact on the nature of programming. LLMs are making that degree

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Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It

news.ycombinator.com Qwen Team 2025-09-08 07:35:04

QWEN CHAT DISCORD The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.5 VL, we have made progress in enhancing the model’s ability to understand image content. Today, we are excited to introduce a new model, Qwen VLo, a unified multimodal understanding and generation model. This newly upgraded model not only “understands” the world but also generates high-quality recreations based o

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Catio wins ‘coolest tech’ award at VB Transform 2025

venturebeat.com Leon Yen 2025-09-09 03:34:26

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Palo Alto-based Catio was awarded “Coolest Technology” at VentureBeat Transform 2025 in San Francisco on Wednesday. Founded in 2023, the company has raised $7 million to date, with a recent $3 million round announced in March. Catio was also a finalist and presented at VB Transform’s Innovation Showcase in 2024. Catio’s AI Copilot for Tec

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Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 10:49:43

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Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-08 22:02:42

Meta is definitely offering hefty multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new superintelligence lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the bonuses that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered to top researchers. Meta’s CTO Andrew Bos

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Jackery Explorer 300 Plus power station drops by $100.99!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 07:00:40

Power banks are portable but underpowered, while power stations are powerful but can be huge. If you need something that is capable, yet still portable, here’s a really nice proposition. The Jackery Explorer 300 Plus Portable Power Station is easy to carry and can handle most of your charging needs. It’s also $100.99 off today, bringing the cost down to $199! Buy the Jackery Explorer 300 Plus Portable Power Station for $199 ($100.99 off) This offer is available from Amazon. It is a “limited tim

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How the Senate's ban on state AI regulation imperils internet access

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-09-09 10:15:56

ANDREY DENISYUK/Getty The Trump administration's tax bill -- also called its "big, beautiful bill" -- which rounds up key pieces of the president's agenda, also includes a rule that would prevent states from enforcing their own AI legislation for 10 years, if passed. After an initial budget hiccup, Republican senators successfully amended the rule to comply with budgetary requirements by adding that states trying to enforce AI regulations would not receive federal broadband funding. Here's why

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Rust in the Linux kernel: part 2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 11:07:03

How to write Rust in the kernel: part 2 [LWN subscriber-only content] In 2023, Fujita Tomonori wrote a Rust version of the existing driver for the Asix AX88796B embedded Ethernet controller. At slightly more than 100 lines, it's about as simple as a driver can be, and therefore is a useful touchstone for the differences between writing Rust and C in the kernel. Looking at the Rust syntax, types, and APIs used by the driver and contrasting them with the C version will help illustrate those diffe

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You may soon be scanning your ID just to access websites, and you’ve got SCOTUS to blame

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 12:08:29

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Texas House Bill 1181 requires age verification for users trying to access websites offering adult content. After lower courts ruled it unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has upheld the bill in a 6–3 ruling. States are now free to force websites to demand a copy of your ID, raising substantial privacy concerns. Being asked to prove who you are is just an everyday part of going online: select all the bicycles if you’re not a robot; click this box aff

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AT&T finally settles its 2019 and 2024 breaches: Are you eligible for a payout?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 14:01:17

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T has settled two data breaches (from 2019 and 2022) for a combined total of $177 million. Affected customers could receive payments up to $5,000, though smaller amounts are likely unless significant losses are proven. Notifications will arrive between August and October, with claims due by mid-November, but payments aren’t expected until early 2026. Last year, AT&T confirmed it was the victim of a massive data breach involving customer data, call

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Why ‘Superman’ Has So Many Superheroes in It

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-09 15:00:55

Even before seeing it, it’s clear there are many, many things that set James Gunn’s Superman apart from other versions of the character. One is that, though this is very much a Superman movie, Superman interacts with a bunch of other superheroes. There’s the Guy Gardner Green Lantern, Mister Terrific, Hawkgirl, and more. It was an interesting choice for Gunn to make, especially since this is our first real glimpse at the larger DC Universe he’s helping to create. So we asked him about it. Speak

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‘The Old Guard 2’ Cast on Making a Sequel That Bleeds, Thinks, and Fights Harder

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-09-09 15:45:25

On July 2, Netflix and Skydance will finally unleash The Old Guard 2, the long-awaited sequel to the 2020 action hit starring Charlize Theron as an immortal warrior protecting humanity. Ahead of the release, io9 caught up with returning stars KiKi Layne, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Marwan Kenzari, as well as franchise newcomer Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, Snake Eyes), to talk about stepping back into the brutal, secretive world of the Image Comics universe and what it took to bring its next chapt

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Lenovo’s Legion Go S With SteamOS Is the Only Real Alternative to a Steam Deck

This Prehistoric Trick Shows How Ice Age People Harvested Teeth for Jewelry

Meta’s Xbox-Branded Quest 3S Just Sold Out for All the Wrong Reasons

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The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

I talked to 5 AIs about my cat, Mr. Giggles - and it says a lot about the state of chatbots

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways

Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It

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You may soon be scanning your ID just to access websites, and you’ve got SCOTUS to blame

AT&T finally settles its 2019 and 2024 breaches: Are you eligible for a payout?

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