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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

news.ycombinator.com Wikimedia Foundation 2025-12-31 00:12:29

17 July 2025 — Next week, on 22 and 23 July 2025, the High Court of Justice in London will hear the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the United Kingdom (UK)’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, announced its legal challenge earlier this year, arguing that the regulations endanger Wikipedia and the global community of volunteer contributors who create the information on

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You should turn off this default TV setting ASAP - and why even experts recommend it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-31 03:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET For many people, motion smoothing on TVs is only appropriate for gaming and watching live sports; enthusiasts typically prefer turning off the feature to watch anything else because it can detract from the filmmaker's original intent, making on-screen images seem artificial or hyper-realistic. This is what's called the "soap opera effect." Also: How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn't wait to do it) It's a perfectly descriptive metaphor that probably requires no

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Structural-Demographic Theory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 22:04:03

The causes of revolutions and major rebellions are in many ways similar to processes that cause earthquakes (Goldstone 1991: 35). In both revolutions and earthquakes it is useful to distinguish the structural conditions (pressures, which build up slowly) from triggers (sudden releasing events, which immediately precede a social or geological eruption). Specific triggers of political upheavals, such as self-immolation of a fruit vendor, which triggered the Arabic Spring in Tunisia, are very hard

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Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 04:48:23

Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected." However, 404 Media reports that the problem is bigger than originally stated. The site credits independent security researcher Kasra Rahjerdi , who found that content from the platform as recent as last week has been exposed. Additionally, this source cla

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Nuclear Winter Would Be Even Worse Than We Thought

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-31 02:45:24

Despite happening (thankfully) just once in real life, nuclear warfare has long been a staple element of science fiction. Popular depictions of nuclear conflict—from biographic thrillers like Oppenheimer to imagined disasters like The Day After—reflect the understanding that its consequences would be irreversible and catastrophic to modern society. Unsurprisingly, nuclear warfare and its potential repercussions concern scientists as much as fiction writers. In a recent paper published in Enviro

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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 12:05:41

A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. "I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

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The Useless UseCallback

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 14:44:26

28.07.2025 — React, JavaScript, useCallback, Performance — 5 min read #1: The Uphill Battle of Memoization #2: The Useless useCallback I thought I'd written enough about memoization by now, but I feel there is one pattern I'm seeing a lot lately that makes me think otherwise. So today, I want to look at useCallback , and to some extent useMemo , in situations where I think they are totally pointless. Why memoize? There's usually only two reasons to create a memoized version of a function wi

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 29, #779

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 14:00:05

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. Card players, today's NYT Connections puzzle is for you. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze you

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #309

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 14:00:11

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 features two categories with references to specific places. One is a state and one is a city, so you should be able to sort them out without too much difficulty. Read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta

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Bankrupt Futurehome suddenly makes its smart home hub a subscription service

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 15:30:53

Smart home device maker Futurehome is forcing its customers’ hands by suddenly requiring a subscription for basic functionality of its products. Launched in 2016, Futurehome’s Smarthub is marketed as a central hub for controlling Internet-connected devices in smart homes. For years, the Norwegian company sold its products, which also include smart thermostats, smart lighting, and smart fire and carbon monoxide alarms, for a one-time fee that included access to its companion app and cloud platfo

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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 20:19:53

Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests it'll come to other countries, too. Players in the UK who indicate on their account that they're 18 years or older will now "begin seeing notifications encouraging them to verify their age," Microsoft says. The process is optional for now, and players will be able to enjoy playing Xbox games until "early 2026," when ver

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The New PlayStation 5 Fight Stick Is Way Weirder Than It Looks

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-31 20:01:39

Sony’s new controller for PS5 is unlike any of its other twin-stick, two-handed controllers, and not for all the obvious reasons. Sony’s “Project Defiant” fight stick now has a new name, FlexStrike, and a vague release date—2026. But the more intriguing, and more annoying, aspect of the fight stick is how it will connect to your PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 5 Pro. The FlexStrike features all the face buttons and triggers of a regular DualSense controller along with a single Japanese-type fight

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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-01 00:50:47

The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling "inferior imitations" of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon , Walmart and eBay . The Trump Organization company, which is owned by Trump, sells a variety of branded merchandise through its website, including a go

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-28 12:25:00

What just happened? President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance on one of the most contentious questions in artificial intelligence: whether companies developing AI should be required to pay for the copyrighted content used to train their systems. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington, Trump dismissed the idea as unworkable. He argued that requiring AI firms to compensate for every book, article, or piece of media used in training their models would stifle innovation and risk leaving the Uni

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Sony ad reveals plan to bring PlayStation titles to Xbox, Nintendo, and PC

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-31 22:03:00

In brief: A recent job posting on PlayStation's official hiring platform has signaled a notable shift in the company's approach to its exclusive video game releases. The listing details a search for a Senior Director of Multiplatform & Account Management, a role designed to oversee PlayStation Studios' software titles as they move beyond PlayStation's consoles and onto competitors' platforms. The job listing, spotted by Windows Central, makes clear that Sony is targeting a wide range of platfor

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Wuchang patch "optimization" may be forcing lower-res upscaling even at native resolution

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-01-01 00:01:00

Facepalm: 505 Games, publisher of Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, has managed to pour oil on the fire of controversy surrounding the game by releasing a patch that apparently forces upscaling even when native resolution is selected. The game has been slammed on Steam for its poor optimization and forcing a lower rendering resolution even when scaling is set to 100%. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has a few good critic reviews, but its Steam rating is Mostly Negative, with the majority of complaints directe

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Cells that breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time

news.ycombinator.com Jake Buehler 2025-12-28 08:38:31

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use oxygen as the cellular spark that frees molecular energy from the food you eat. But not all organisms on the planet live or breathe this way. Instead of using oxygen to harvest energy, many single-celled life-forms that live in environments far from oxygen’s reach, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

news.ycombinator.com Jake Buehler 2025-12-28 14:38:31

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use oxygen as the cellular spark that frees molecular energy from the food you eat. But not all organisms on the planet live or breathe this way. Instead of using oxygen to harvest energy, many single-celled life-forms that live in environments far from oxygen’s reach, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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Crypto Payments Are Coming to PayPal

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-01 10:40:27

PayPal will soon let businesses that use its digital payments platform accept more than 100 types of cryptocurrency. The fintech company announced today that it’s rolling out a new “Pay with Crypto” feature in the coming weeks, allowing merchants to accept popular digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP. The platform will support transactions from several major crypto wallets, including Coinbase, MetaMask, and Exodus. PayPal CEO Alex Chriss said the new feature will help businesses

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The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-01 10:05:25

People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday. The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use “highly effective” age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide range of material, on penalty of heavy fines and criminal action against senior managers. It’s primarily focused on pornography and content that promotes suicide, self-har

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Microsoft starts rolling out Xbox age verification in the UK

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-01 10:29:38

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act by prompting Xbox players to verify their age today. The prompts will be shown to Xbox players who indicate they’re over the age of 18 and will be shown when you sign into an Xbox account in the UK. Microsoft says it’s also exploring bringing similar age verification tools to other countries in the future. To powe

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Smithsonian Air and Space opens halls for “milestone” and “future” artifacts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 15:54:35

The National Air and Space Museum welcomed the public into five more of its renovated galleries on Monday, including two showcasing spaceflight artifacts. The new exhibitions shine modern light on returning displays and restore the museum's almost 50-year-old legacy of adding objects that made history but have yet to become historical. Visitors can again enter through the "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," which has been closed for the past three years and has on display some of the museum's m

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Free Autoswagger Tool Finds the API Flaws Attackers Hope You Miss

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-01 18:01:11

APIs: Still Easy Targets in 2025 APIs are the backbone of modern applications - and one of the most exposed parts of an organization’s infrastructure. This makes them a prime target for attackers. One of the highest-profile examples was the Optus breach in 2022, where attackers stole millions of customer records through an unauthenticated API endpoint - costing the telecom company $140 million AUD in fallout. Worryingly, vulnerabilities like this are so easy to exploit you could teach someone

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This Arch-based Linux distro has a clean, privacy-focused experience for tinkerers

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-01 20:08:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Arch Linux has a reputation for being too complicated, unstable, and not for everyone. For those reasons, several distributions have emerged that attempt to bring Arch to the masses. Many of them (such as Manjaro and EndeavorOS) succeed quite well. However, not all of those forks of Arch are created equal. Take, for example, Liya Linux. This distribution was created and maintained by an individual to be an Arch-based Linux distribution that's simple t

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Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 00:53:58

Research Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past Share Copy link × Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts. Writing was everywhere in the Roman world — etched onto everything from imperial monuments to everyday objects. From political graffiti, love poems and epitaphs to business transactions, birthday invitations and magical spells, inscriptions offer modern hist

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How the Federal Reserve Actually Affects Mortgage Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 17:48:00

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET If you tracked the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions last year, you might have been puzzled: The Fed's three interest rate cuts didn't bring about lower mortgage rates. In fact, the average rate for a 30-year fixed home loan has hovered around 6.8% for the past several months. The Fed's interest rate decisions don't have a direct or immediate effect on home loan rates. Of

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DOGE is reportedly pushing an AI tool that would put half of all federal regulations on a 'delete list'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:20:54

According to a report from The Washington Post, DOGE is using an AI tool to analyze federal regulations and determine which to get rid of. A DOGE PowerPoint presentation obtained by the publication notes that its "AI Solution" — reportedly called the DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool — found that 100,000 out of over 200,000 regulations "can be deleted." The document sets a September 1 goal deadline for agencies to complete their own deregulation lists using the tool, which it says can be done i

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Free Tool Autoswagger Finds The API Flaws Attackers Hope You Miss

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 00:01:11

APIs: Still Easy Targets in 2025 APIs are the backbone of modern applications - and one of the most exposed parts of an organization’s infrastructure. This makes them a prime target for attackers. One of the highest-profile examples was the Optus breach in 2022, where attackers stole millions of customer records through an unauthenticated API endpoint - costing the telecom company $140 million AUD in fallout. Worryingly, vulnerabilities like this are so easy to exploit you could teach someone

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Why this SSD docking station is one of the best investments I've made for my PC

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-02 00:03:00

Sabrent USB SSD Docking Station ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $72. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. View now at Amazon At Amazon, the Sabrent USB SSD docking station is currently on sale for $72, a savings of $18. It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why

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