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Apple TV+ might have just beaten HBO at its own game

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-05 00:42:23

During its nearly six years on the market, Apple TV+ has been referred to by some as “the new HBO.” But this year might be when Apple has truly started to prove that claim. Here’s why. Emmy nominations show Apple TV+ ahead in quality, while HBO boasts higher quantity Whatever your opinion of Apple TV+, it’s hard to dispute that 2025 has been an especially good year for the streamer. Apple TV+ has achieved new levels of both mainstream awareness and critical success. It’s putting out consisten

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Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-05 10:15:37

Open source X and Threads competitor Mastodon will begin experimenting with a new way to raise funds: in-app donations. The organization on Wednesday announced it’s launching a campaign that introduces banners inside its Android and iOS apps, prompting users to make a monetary donation. Initially, the feature will be shown only to those on the Mastodon servers the nonprofit itself operates, Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online. These banners will be easy to dismiss, Mastodon says, and will only

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UK to ban public sector orgs from paying ransomware gangs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-09 00:01:02

The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks. The list of entities that would have to follow the new proposed legislation includes local councils, schools, and the publicly funded National Health Service (NHS). "Ransomware is estimated to cost the UK economy millions of pounds each year, with recent high-profile ransomware attacks highlighting the severe operational, financial, and even l

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Best Peloton Alternatives in 2025: CNET’s Fitness Expert Puts the Competition to the Test

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-11 09:29:00

Like so many other things at CNET, we test exercise bikes as thoroughly as possible through rigorous examination and comparison. Each exercise bike in our list has been through at least 100 miles of riding, using as many of the built-in features as possible. CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. The Peloton bike has been the go-to exercise bike for a lot of people i

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WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-12 09:38:40

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Meta is planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version instead, just months after introducing a native iPad app. The latest beta version of WhatsApp on Windows includes the major changes, with Meta noting it has “updated how WhatsApp beta looks and works.” Behind the scenes it’s a big change to WhatsApp on Windows, moving it from a native Wi

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Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 02:35:37

JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)[1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.[2] JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BS

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A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 21:13:15

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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 15:21:20

Authoritarian regimes thrive by systematically dividing their opposition and silencing the populace, creating a crisis where citizens feel isolated and powerless. This paper proposes a technological solution: a new, secure feature within Telegram to bridge these divisions and forge a genuine national consensus. Executive Summary "The protocol is remarkably efficient, capable of distilling the views of a population of 100 million participants down to a core group of 100 in as few as six weeks.

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North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 10:02:06

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. In a paper published today, July 7, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, present the fossilized jawbone of the new species and describe the sea gu

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Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 15:14:22

Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research. What options are there and how are you transitioning?

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Molecule produced by gut bacteria causes atherosclerosis

news.ycombinator.com Manuel Ansede 2026-01-16 10:21:16

A team of Spanish scientists made a striking announcement 15 years ago: they were seeking thousands of volunteers among the employees of Banco Santander in Madrid: researchers wanted to study them in depth for decades, in order to understand the onset of cardiovascular disease in healthy people. The results are even more surprising. Researchers have discovered that gut bacteria produce a molecule that not only induces but also causes atherosclerosis, the accumulation of fat and cholesterol in th

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Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election

news.ycombinator.com Rowena Mason 2026-01-16 21:44:17

The voting age will be lowered to 16 across the UK by the next general election in a major change of the democratic system. The government said it was a reform to bring in more fairness for 16- and 17-year-olds, many of whom already work and are able to serve in the military. It brings the whole of the UK voting age to 16. Scotland and Wales have already made the change for Holyrood and Senedd elections, as well as local council elections. In a sweeping package of changes, ministers will also

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In Place of Processed Sugar, Try These 6 Natural Sweeteners

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-17 12:53:00

When it comes to sugar, it's not about cutting it out of your diet completely or denying yourself the occasional sweet treat. It's about consuming a balanced amount and focusing on the types of sugar you're eating daily. Six teaspoons of sugar are recommended daily for women and kids age two and older; nine teaspoons for men. As for the types of sweeteners, replacing processed sugar with less refined, natural sugar alternatives can be beneficial to your health. To help you figure out which suga

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A Rust shaped hole

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-16 00:42:46

A Rust shaped hole By a process of elimination, I've arrived at a conclusion that I should write Rust, or at least give it a rigorous try. Let us say I want to write a "native" program. This train of thought started with wanting to write a program, an xfdesktop replacement, that can serve as my desktop background, slowly meandering though a pastel game of life, or floating through a Mandelbrot set. But the specifics are not relevant, because I find myself on the same train when thinking of ot

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Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2026-01-18 05:00:00

The study, which makes use of a technology called mitochondrial donation, has been described as a “tour de force” and “a remarkable accomplishment” by others in the field. In the team’s approach, patients’ eggs are fertilized with sperm, and the DNA-containing nuclei of those cells are transferred into donated fertilized eggs that have had their own nuclei removed. The new embryos contain the DNA of the intended parents along with a tiny fraction of mitochondrial DNA from the donor, floating in

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A Rust Shaped Hole

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 06:42:46

A Rust shaped hole By a process of elimination, I've arrived at a conclusion that I should write Rust, or at least give it a rigorous try. Let us say I want to write a "native" program. This train of thought started with wanting to write a program, an xfdesktop replacement, that can serve as my desktop background, slowly meandering though a pastel game of life, or floating through a Mandelbrot set. But the specifics are not relevant, because I find myself on the same train when thinking of ot

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Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels

wired.com Molly Taft 2026-01-19 05:16:45

AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump admitted during a speech in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. However, the president said during his remarks at the Energy and Innovation Summit, his advisors had told him just how important energy was to the future of AI. “You need double the electric of what we have right now, and maybe even more than that,” Trump said, recalling a conversation with “David”—most likely White House AI czar David Sacks, a panelist at the summit. “I said, what, are you kidding?

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As Trump Scrubs Climate Reports, NASA Breaks Its Promise to Save Them

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-20 09:00:40

Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has launched a major effort to limit public access to information about climate change. After the president canned the official government site that hosted the national climate assessments earlier this month, NASA has broken its promise to publish them on its own site. On Monday, July 14, NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens told the Associated Press that NASA will not host any data from globalchange.gov, which served as the official webs

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Apple researchers taught an AI model to reason about app interfaces

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-20 20:45:55

A new Apple-backed study, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, introduces ILuvUI: a vision-language model trained to understand mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations. Here’s what that means, and how they did it. ILuvUI: an AI that outperformed the model it was based on In the paper, ILuvUI: Instruction-tuned LangUage-Vision modeling of UIs from Machine Conversations, the team tackles a long-standing challenge in human-computer interaction,

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Severance, The Last of Us and Andor just nabbed dozens of Emmy nominations

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-21 20:46:07

The nominations for the 77th Emmy Awards just dropped and, unsurprisingly, Apple TV+'s Severance led the pack with a whopping 27, including Best Drama. The streamer has another bona-fide hit with the Seth Rogen-led The Studio, which captured 23 nominations. However, HBO Max received the most kudos by platform, with 142 nominations in total. This is thanks to the second season of The Last of Us , with 16 nominations, and the Batman-adjacent The Penguin. The White Lotus, The Pitt and Hacks also g

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Venture gets a rare Native American-led fund in Betsy Fore’s Velveteen Ventures

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-22 00:00:00

When Betsy Fore was five, her grandmother got her a gift she has never forgotten: A Velveteen Rabbit from Goodwill that Fore believed, with enough love, could spring alive. Decades later, that rabbit has lent its name to Fore’s venture firm, Velveteen Ventures, which came to life on Tuesday. “I realized after building companies for nearly two decades that I could make the greatest ripple in this one precious life by being on the other side of the table,” she told TechCrunch. Her companies inclu

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Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 03:38:18

Ever wanted to text your foreign partner or chat with international friends but felt held back by missing vocabulary? Don't let language barriers stop you from connecting. No sign-ups, no subscriptions. Just open the app and start learning. Perfect for spontaneous moments when you need to express something important. Every correction is saved. Review your mistakes, practice pronunciation, and track your progress as you naturally improve. Hear how every correction should sound with high-qualit

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Anthropic signs a $200mm deal with the Department of Defense

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 00:38:19

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), through its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), has awarded Anthropic a two-year prototype other transaction agreement with a $200 million ceiling. As part of the agreement, Anthropic will prototype frontier AI capabilities that advance U.S. national security. "This award opens a new chapter in Anthropic’s commitment to supporting U.S. national security, which is where our earliest federal deployments began more than a year ago,” said T

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Secretive Chinese Satellite Emerges in Surprising Orbit After 6-Day Vanishing Act

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-24 10:55:33

Nearly a week after launch, space tracking systems were able to locate a mysterious satellite parked in an unusually low orbit. China launched the experimental satellite to test new technologies, but it’s still unclear exactly what it’s doing in its unique inclination. Shiyan-28B 01 launched on July 3 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, riding on board a Long March 4C rocket. The satellite is part of China’s experimental Shiyan series, reportedly designed for exploration of the space envi

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Google’s Pixel 8 Pro is $599, and includes a free Pixel Watch 2

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2026-01-25 00:23:03

Steam isn’t usually the best place to look for deals on PC games. Most of the time, legit code sellers like Fanatical have much better prices. If you want to buy some of Capcom’s recent Resident Evil games (excluding the RE4 remake), you can get them for $6.50 a pop as part of Fanatical’s Capcom-themed bundle that runs through July 26th. You save a little extra per game when you add three or more titles to your cart. The bundle also contains some Ace Attorney collections and the remaster of Ghos

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putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 12:20:27

To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

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ITC rules Insta360 infringed on GoPro patents

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-26 15:55:18

The US International Trade Commission has determined that Chinese camera company Insta360 has infringed on at least some of GoPro's patents. Based on a press release from GoPro, the determination specifically found that "Insta360 violated federal law by importing and selling in the United States products that infringe GoPro intellectual property." GoPro was particularly "pleased" the ITC's judge found that Insta360 infringed on "a patent covering GoPro's iconic Hero camera design" and that they

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“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-28 10:05:21

A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback on Thursday, as a US senator questioned the expense of carrying out what he described as a theft. "This is not a transfer. It's a heist," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) during a budget markup hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee. "A heist by Texas because they lost a competition 12 years ago." In April, Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, bot

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6 Natural Sugar Substitutes to Satisfy Your Cravings

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 21:24:00

Keeping an eye on your sugar intake isn't a bad thing -- and neither is indulging in a sweet treat. It's all about finding the right balance. Instead of cutting out sugar entirely, consider the type of sugar you're consuming. For women and children, studies show that the recommended daily limit is about six teaspoons of sugar. For men, it’s nine. And you don’t have to rely on heavily processed sugars to satisfy your cravings. Natural sugar alternatives -- many of which are less refined and clos

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6 Natural Sugar Substitutes To Satisfy Your Cravings

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 09:24:00

Keeping an eye on your sugar intake isn't a bad thing -- and neither is indulging in a sweet treat. It's all about finding the right balance. Instead of cutting out sugar entirely, consider the type of sugar you're consuming. For women and children, studies show that the recommended daily limit is about six teaspoons of sugar. For men, it’s nine. And you don’t have to rely on heavily processed sugars to satisfy your cravings. Natural sugar alternatives -- many of which are less refined and clos

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Apple TV+ might have just beaten HBO at its own game

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A Rust Shaped Hole

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Severance, The Last of Us and Andor just nabbed dozens of Emmy nominations

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6 Natural Sugar Substitutes to Satisfy Your Cravings

6 Natural Sugar Substitutes To Satisfy Your Cravings

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