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London's Largest Ancient Roman Fresco Is “Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle”

news.ycombinator.com Kate Mothes 2025-08-18 13:49:35

Timelapse of the MOLA specialist team reassembling a section of wall plaster. All images © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), shared with permission London’s Largest Ancient Roman Fresco Makes for the ‘World’s Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle’ ArtHistory Kate Mothes Share Pin Email Bookmark One of the remarkable things about a city like London, which has been inhabited for nearly 2,000 years, is that no matter where a developer chooses to build, chances are there’s some relic of the past buried

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Retail Resurrection: David’s Bridal bets its future on AI after double bankruptcy

venturebeat.com James Thomason 2025-08-22 14:30:13

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Inside a new David’s Bridal store in Delray Beach, Florida, a bride-to-be carefully taps images on a 65-inch touchscreen, curating a vision board for her wedding. Behind the scenes, an AI system automatically analyzes her selections, building a knowledge graph that will match her with vendors, recommend products and generate a personalized

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

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-08-22 17:15:56

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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Huge Number of Crypto Users Suddenly Getting Terrifying Letters From the IRS

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-22 22:08:25

Crypto bros are freaking out amid a surge in letters from the Internal Revenue Service about their digital currency holdings. As Bitcoin.com and other sites report, there has been a whopping 758 percent spike in customer mentions of IRS letters over the past two months alone, suggesting that there may be a taxation crackdown in progress. We don't know exactly how many people have gotten these troubling letters — but apparently, there are a few different types going out. According to Coinledge

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Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in SF (founding team)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 22:01:03

About Us ⚡️ Join us to accelerate the energy transition with technology. At Spark, we’re building the AI engine behind the next generation of renewable energy infrastructure. Our mission is simple yet ambitious: To help renewable energy developers build solar farms, battery storage plants, and related projects more efficiently. If you’re excited to see your products directly accelerate the energy transition, read on. We’re already powering decision-making for industry leaders like Colliers En

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Apple shells out US$350M to acquire yet another office campus it was already leasing

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-23 06:49:00

It’s been a good week for Apple’s real estate team. Just days after finalizing a $166.9 million deal for the Cupertino Gate office complex, the company has closed another major acquisition, pushing its South Bay real estate tab to over half a billion dollars in a single week. US$516 million in South Bay acquisitions As reported by SilliconValley.com (via AppleInsider), Apple has just closed a $350 million deal to purchase Mathilda Commons, a two-building 382,500 square feet office campus in Su

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Startups Weekly: Tech and the law

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-08-23 14:05:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Before this newsletter takes a break for the Fourth of July next week, here are the startup stories and funding rounds that caught our eye over the last few days, which have been quite busy. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images This week brought us lawsuit updates, M&As, and a

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Google quietly introduced precise Bluetooth tracking on the Pixel Watch 3

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-23 18:11:46

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. With the Wear OS 5.1 update that was released last March, Google quietly introduced a new feature called Channel Sounding for the Pixel Watch 3 that could improve the accuracy of pinpointing the location of other devices using its existing Bluetooth hardware. But while Channel Sounding is now supported by the smartwatch, it’s not yet in use becau

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Russia’s throttling of Cloudflare makes sites inaccessible

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-23 22:47:15

Starting June 9, 2025, Russian internet service providers (ISPs) began throttling access to websites and services protected by Cloudflare, making sites inaccessible from the country. The throttling is so aggressive, reportedly only allowing users to download the first 16 KB of any web asset, that it effectively breaks most Cloudflare-backed sites for Russian netizens. Cloudflare maintains that it has not received formal communication about this from the Russian state but considers this action

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Jeff Bezos’s Wedding Invitation Is a Billionaire Fantasy Wrapped in Eco-Fluff

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-24 02:20:09

It’s being billed as the wedding of the decade, a spectacle of wealth and power set against the romantic backdrop of Venice. The union of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 61, and former journalist Lauren Sánchez, 55, this weekend is more than just a party. It’s a coronation for a new kind of royalty. This marriage confirms the reality that tech luminaries now dominate all spheres of social life, flaunting their immense wealth with the glamour once reserved for Hollywood and monarchs. The Bloomberg Bi

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Rollback rates: TechCrunch All Stage brings back early launch prices for a limited time

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-24 02:00:00

We’re almost there, and ticket rates have officially rolled back with savings of up to $425. TechCrunch All Stage, the founder summit of the year, is just around the corner. On July 15, Boston becomes startup central. Are you ready to gain the insights and strategies you need to launch or scale? Now’s the moment For a limited time, we’ve brought back early launch pricing. Founders pay just $155. Investors, only $250. These are the lowest rates you’ll see before the doors open at SoWa Power St

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12 Best Standing Desks of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-08-24 06:03:00

Other Standing Desks to Consider Beflo Tenon Premium Photograph: Henri Robbins Beflo Tenon Premium for $3,998: While incredibly expensive (and heavy!), this hardwood smart desk is both sturdy and well designed. Assembly was straightforward, and once the desk was up and running, I found all of the features (touchscreen controls, a built-in power strip, audio passthrough, and LED lighting) to work well, and in convenient locations. The touchscreen controls are intuitive (iOS-like), and features

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The Pixel Watch 3 is the first Android device with this precise Bluetooth tracking feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-24 10:30:10

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Pixel Watch 3 is the first known Android device to support Bluetooth Channel Sounding, enabling precise, centimeter-level distance tracking. This feature is more accurate than traditional Bluetooth signal strength for finding items and serves as a widespread, low-cost alternative to UWB. While the watch supports Channel Sounding after its Wear OS 5.1 update, the feature is not yet in use, likely in preparation for a future Find Hub app relea

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I wish this Death Stranding 2 Ring Terminal replica were a real smart ring

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-25 13:04:37

TL;DR Kojima Productions and Anicorn have collaborated to create a 1:1 replica of the Ring Terminal from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. The Ring Terminal features NFC technology that allows users to “forge a direct link with the immersive universe of Death Stranding 2.” The replica costs $240 and pre-orders open later today. Kojima Productions has just launched its highly anticipated title, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. If you want even more of a connection to the world of Death Strandin

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US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 14:23:40

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in an unexpected deterioration of earlier estimates. First-quarter growth was weighed down by a surge of imports as U.S. companies, and households, rushed to buy foreign goods before Trump could impose tariffs on them. The Commerce Department previously estimated that the economy fell 0.2% in the first qua

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Google's new free AI agent brings Gemini right to your command line - here's how to try it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-25 22:17:14

CFOTO/Getty Images Google is bringing its proprietary AI more directly into coder workflows. On Wednesday, the company announced Gemini CLI, a free new agentic AI tool that integrates directly with a command line interface (CLI). Google positioned the agent as an immediate link between coders and Gemini 2.5 Pro, the latest iteration of Google's flagship AI model, saying it "provides lightweight access to Gemini, giving you the most direct path from your prompt to our model" in a blog post. Al

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Rivian cuts dozens on manufacturing team ahead of R2 launch

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-26 02:58:29

Rivian has laid off around 140 employees, or roughly 1% of its workforce, as it prepares for the launch of its more affordable R2 SUV in 2026, TechCrunch has learned. The cuts were mostly made to Rivian’s manufacturing team and have been ongoing since Wednesday, according to multiple former employees who were granted anonymity to speak about the layoffs. Some employees were told that the company was eliminating roles that created “process inefficiencies.” Rivian confirmed the cuts in an email

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Jon McNeill brings the operator’s playbook to TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-26 10:00:00

Founders are often told to chase product-market fit before anything else, but what if scaling too soon, too fast, is what’s really holding them back? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft), will take the Scale Stage to flip the script on conventional startup growth advice. His session, “The Operator’s Playbook for Building and Scaling Sustainable Companies,” explores why the next generat

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Muvera: Making multi-vector retrieval as fast as single-vector search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 11:29:34

Neural embedding models have become a cornerstone of modern information retrieval (IR). Given a query from a user (e.g., “How tall is Mt Everest?”), the goal of IR is to find information relevant to the query from a very large collection of data (e.g., the billions of documents, images, or videos on the Web). Embedding models transform each datapoint into a single-vector “embedding”, such that semantically similar datapoints are transformed into mathematically similar vectors. The embeddings are

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Can No-Buy July Help You Save Money? It Can Do So Much More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-26 18:00:00

Buying only the basics was easier -- and way more fun -- than I ever thought it could be. Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET No-buy challenges have been around for a while but they're getting a new burst of energy this summer. Social media users are inviting newbies and veterans alike to curb overconsumption and save money with "no-buy July." Also called "low-buy July," the challenge doesn't mean spending no money at all. After all, you can't avoid paying for essentials like housing, food and utilities. B

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Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere

news.ycombinator.com The Cynical Developer 2025-08-27 03:01:12

When every dev is just doing the next ticket, who’s steering the ship? Let me guess how your day started. You opened your laptop, fired up the sprint board, and grabbed the next ticket in the “Ready” column. Maybe it was a small feature. Maybe a bug. Either way, you didn’t write it, you didn’t scope it, and you definitely didn’t question it. Because that’s not how it works here. We are Ticket-Driven Developers now. Thinking is out. Throughput is in. Tickets are moving. Morale is not. The A

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Cargo Ship Carrying Flaming EVs Sinks Off the Coast of Alaska

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-27 18:15:43

If you were waiting on a new car, the Domino’s Pizza Tracker equivalent for vehicle orders might be stuck at the “Delivery” spot for a while. A cargo ship carrying a fleet of electric vehicles, hybrids, and gas-powered vehicles sank, according to the New York Times, after catching fire while crossing the Pacific. The Morning Midas, a ship sailing under a Liberian flag and managed by international shipping firm Zodiac Maritime, went under about 360 nautical miles from the coast of Alaska, accord

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Your next job? Managing a fleet of AI agents

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-08-28 06:01:21

akinbostanci/Getty Images Agentic AI is moving fast, but are we ready for it? "We're all going to be CEOs of a small army of AI agents," predicted Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the digital economy lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and founder of Workhelix, recently quoted in The New York Times. "We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in

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Jeff Bezos Wedding Plans Disrupted After Protesters Threaten to Fill Venice Canals With Inflatable Crocodiles

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-28 06:40:59

Jeff Bezos is getting married this week in a lavish wedding filled with famous guests that’s rumored to cost as much as $75 million. The Amazon founder and his bride-to-be, Lauren Sanchez, have arrived in Venice, Italy, for the celebration, but protesters have already derailed some of their plans. Specifically, activists threatened to fill the Venice canals with inflatable animals to make sure that guests would be unable to get around. Activists with Greenpeace, No Space for Bezos, and a UK-bas

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Introducing the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-28 18:00:00

For the first time ever, TechCrunch Disrupt is launching the Going Public Stage — a brand-new destination for founders navigating the mid and late stages of company building. This content is essential for any founder, but especially those scaling fast, preparing for exit, or reimagining what comes next. Because whether you’re at the seed stage or Series E, the most successful founders are always thinking 10 steps ahead. You’ll hear from some of the biggest names in tech and venture — including

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Death Stranding 2 is bigger and more ambitious — and that includes its music

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-29 10:30:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is an expansive, captivating sequel filled with huge environments to explore and a big story from Hideo Kojima to try and wrap your head around. But one of my favorite additions is a small one: an in-game music player that basically functions as your own iPod. Woodkid, a co-composer on the game (and whose real name is Yoann Lemoine), tells The

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HPE's GreenLake intelligence brings agentic AI to IT operations

techspot.com Bob O'Donnell 2025-08-29 10:44:00

In case you haven't heard, GenAI is old news. Now, it's all about agentic AI. At least, that certainly seems to be the theme based on the latest announcements from the major tech industry vendors. All of them are focused on driving the story of more autonomous actions enabled by AI. That said, there's still a tremendous amount of activity and advancement happening in the "traditional" era of generative AI – particularly around integrating the technology into businesses and their internal IT ope

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Bitcoin price rises as Israel-Iran ceasefire begins, and Senate unveils major crypto bill

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Talia Kaplan Jordan Smith 2025-08-29 18:16:57

Crypto prices, including bitcoin , rose on Tuesday after President Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. By midday Tuesday, bitcoin had passed the $105,000 level, ether jumped back above the $2,400 mark, and XRP climbed to $2.19. The risk-on action in the markets, which also saw stocks rally on the Mideast de-escalation, wasn't the only source of momentum, as Republican senators unveiled a major bill to set the rules of the road for crypto. Specifically, the legislation would de

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Jeff Bezos’ Wedding Was Reportedly Pushed Back Due to Prenup Issues

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-30 14:07:10

Always be prepared! Stayin' Alive Jeff Bezos, the mega-billionaire founder of Amazon and one of the world's richest men, is marrying his longtime girlfriend and "alive girl" Lauren Sánchez this month in what many have dubbed the "wedding of the century." The lavish three-day bonanza has been shrouded in secrecy, but Bezos, Sánchez, and a guest list of about 200 — with guests ranging from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Sánchez's fellow glamstronaut Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey, and many others

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Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale

theverge.com Khee Hoon Chan 2025-08-30 14:30:00

For once, the unflappable Hideo Kojima was overwhelmed. Even close to four decades of game-making experience didn’t prepare him for his biggest tribulation so far: developing Death Stranding 2: On the Beach during the covid-19 pandemic. “I thought I can’t pull this off. [I can’t] meet people or scan people, or shoot with people. I almost gave up. And also the staff were all remote, and I became sick as well. I thought it was just the end of the world,” he says through an interpreter as part of

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