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Trump Demands Microsoft Fire Head of Global Affairs

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-03 14:30:10

Donald Trump has issued his latest challenge to test corporate America’s fealty to his administration. On Friday, the President decided to wade into the personnel decision of Microsoft and called for the company to fire its President of Global Affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her previous work under the Obama and Biden administrations—a warning shot fired apparently at the advice of far-right activist Laura Loomer. Trump called Monaco, who previously served as the deputy attorney general during the B

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Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 07:00:07

Late last week, The Hollywood Reporter ran a story about an "AI Stan Lee hologram" that would be appearing at the LA Comic Con this weekend. Nearly seven years after the famous Marvel Comics creator’s death at the age of 95, fans will be able to pay $15 to $20 this weekend to chat with a life-sized, AI-powered avatar of Lee in an enclosed booth at the show. The instant response from many fans and media outlets to the idea was not kind, to say the least. A writer for TheGamer called the very ide

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Google Home finally has powerful automations, but I’m still not using them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 12:30:03

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority For the last week, I’ve been testing out Google Home’s powerful new automation editor and trying to see if it could perform the kind of routines I need in my smart home. I was happy to see a few interesting additions, like adding time delays, but Google is still shooting itself in the foot by artificially restricting so many possible automations and actions. As a Home Assistant and Google Home dual-platform user, I find the difference between what I can do on

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EA reportedly plans to go private with help from Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-03 13:30:11

Electronic Arts is close to reaching a $50 billion deal that will turn it into a privately held company, according to The Wall Street Journal. The video game company filed for an IPO way back in 1990 and has been public ever since, but now a group of investors are in talks with the company to take it private. Those investors reportedly include private equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, whose largest source of funding is als

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Feds Scrutinizing Potential Insider Trading in Major Crypto Deals

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-03 14:00:35

Federal regulators are scrutinizing a growing number of companies that have embraced so-called crypto-treasury strategies this year, after unusual trading patterns in their shares caught their attention. The corporate trend has exploded in recent months, with hundreds of companies investing in crypto this year. Crypto-treasury strategies, popularized by Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), involve raising funds through stock or debt sales specifically to buy Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Fo

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Ultrahuman Home Review: Overpriced and Underbaked

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-10-03 15:00:00

The Ultrahuman Home is a futuristic-looking home environment monitor that tracks air quality, light, sound, and temperature. All this data flows into the Ultrahuman app on your phone, offering potential insights into your environment and suggestions on how you could make it healthier. Sadly, this mostly amounts to reminders to crack a window open, because most of the touted features are not yet present and correct, despite the rather hefty $550 price. Ultrahuman made its name with a subscriptio

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Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:52:00

Hi HN, I made Lingo - the SQLite of semantic search. I'm a self-taught developer and researcher who left school at 16, and I've spent some time exploring a first-principles approach to system design for various frontier problems. In this case it's AI that challenges the 'bigger is better' transformer paradigm. Lingo is the first piece of that research, a high-performance linguistic database designed to run on-device. The full technical overview and manifesto is here: https://medium.com/@robm.

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This Is the Equipment Experts Recommend for Fast Home Internet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 15:00:02

Let's face it. We rely heavily on the internet. You could be working from home, going to school, streaming or gaming -- we need the internet. However, our internet isn't always reliable. In fact, a CNET survey found that 51% of US adults who saw their bills increase last year say their internet is still unreliable. Securing fast internet through your service provider is only half of the battle. "Once the connection gets to your home, your router matters just as much," warns Tyler Cooper, editor

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The Beauty of Programming (2001)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 20:51:54

By Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) I don’t know how to really explain my fascination with programming, but I’ll try. To somebody who does it, it’s the most interesting thing in the world. It’s a game much more involved than chess, a game where you can make up your own rules and where the end result is whatever you can make of it. And yet, to the outside, it looks like the most boring thing on Earth. Part of the initial excitement in programming is easy to explain: just the fact that when yo

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NASA drops ISS cargo guarantee, forcing Sierra Space to pivot

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-03 04:13:15

When Sierra Space won a contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station nearly a decade ago, the company promised a first for the commercial space market: a privately built, rapid reuse and cargo return spaceplane capable of landing on commercial runways. That dream has changed. In a modification to the contract announced earlier this week, NASA and Sierra Space agreed to remove the agency’s guarantee to purchase cargo flights to the ISS. Instead, the Dream Chaser spaceplane will d

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Amiga SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 08:53:38

SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits, the name is an acronym that stands for "Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis". Originally the program was created by Laurence Nagel at the Electronics Research Laboratory of the University of California. It was released as public-domain and the release included the source code, which then meant that it was possible to port the program to other systems, including the Amiga. More information about the history and other versions

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New math revives geometry's oldest problems

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Howlett 2025-10-03 19:57:57

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight. Such questions, which ask for the number of solutions that satisfy a set of geometric conditions, were a favorite of the ancient Greeks. And they’ve continued to entrance mathematicians for millennia. How many lines lie on a cubic surface? How many quadratic curves lie on a quintic surface? (Twen

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Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 17:26:01

Conservative broadcaster Sinclair is putting Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air. In a statement today, Sinclair said it will end its preemption of the show on its ABC affiliates starting tonight, even though ABC and owner Disney haven't accepted its request for an ombudsman and other changes. Facing the threat of lost advertising dollars, Sinclair said it "received thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders representing a wide range of perspectives." Nexstar separately

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Musk, Thiel, Bannon named in partially redacted Epstein documents released by Democrats

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-04 00:17:17

Charges against Jeffrey Epstein were announced on July 8, 2019 in New York City. Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon are among those who appeared in partially redacted files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Friday by Democrats in the House Oversight Committee. The committee ea

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The von Neumann bottleneck is impeding AI computing?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 23:12:56

AI computing has a reputation for consuming epic quantities of energy. This is partly because of the sheer volume of data being handled. Training often requires billions or trillions of pieces of information to create a model with billions of parameters. But that’s not the whole reason — it also comes down to how most computer chips are built. Modern computer processors are quite efficient at performing the discrete computations they’re usually tasked with. Though their efficiency nosedives whe

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The Beauty of Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 11:51:54

By Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) I don’t know how to really explain my fascination with programming, but I’ll try. To somebody who does it, it’s the most interesting thing in the world. It’s a game much more involved than chess, a game where you can make up your own rules and where the end result is whatever you can make of it. And yet, to the outside, it looks like the most boring thing on Earth. Part of the initial excitement in programming is easy to explain: just the fact that when yo

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Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 04:12:56

AI computing has a reputation for consuming epic quantities of energy. This is partly because of the sheer volume of data being handled. Training often requires billions or trillions of pieces of information to create a model with billions of parameters. But that’s not the whole reason — it also comes down to how most computer chips are built. Modern computer processors are quite efficient at performing the discrete computations they’re usually tasked with. Though their efficiency nosedives whe

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Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 04:23:02

Video game mega-publisher Electronic Arts is planning to take the company private in a deal that could be worth as much as $50 billion, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Financial Times. All three outlets cite anonymous sources in reporting that the deal could be announced next week, with Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners reportedly interested in investing. The Wall Street Journal says the move "would li

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Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason

futurism.com Joe Wilkins 2025-10-04 12:09:19

While much of the wealth-owning world is positively smitten by the financial promise of large language models (LLMs) and the data centers necessary to power them, one major tech investor is sounding the alarm. Roger McNamee, a career tech financier who made successful bets on companies including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, recently penned an ominous essay in The Guardian, warning that the AI industry is set to collapse. By the end of 2025, he writes, the tech industry will have invested over

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Apple reportedly made a ChatGPT-clone to test Siri's new capabilities

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 12:49:02

In the pursuit of actually releasing the updated version of Siri the company promised way back at WWDC 2024, Apple is taking a page out of OpenAI's book. According to Bloomberg, the company has created a ChatGPT-inspired app to test Siri's new capabilities ahead of the release of the improved voice assistant next year. This new app, called "Veritas" internally, will likely never make its way to the public in its current form, but offers Apple employees a faster way to test Siri's new skills. Th

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SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 11:01:26

SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think Introduction We introduce SimpleFold, the first flow-matching based protein folding model that solely uses general purpose transformer layers. SimpleFold does not rely on expensive modules like triangle attention or pair representation biases, and is trained via a generative flow-matching objective. We scale SimpleFold to 3B parameters and train it on more than 8.6M distilled protein structures together with experimental PDB data. To the b

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The TikTok deal raises more questions than answers

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-04 12:45:00

Following months of delays, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that’s supposed to “save” TikTok. Trump claims the deal will make the app “American-operated,” fulfilling the divest-or-ban law that threatened the China-owned app’s presence in the US. But the Trump administration didn’t reveal any information about who will own TikTok’s US operations, or how much they’ll own. And questions remain about whether the new agreement — and the steps taken to get there — is even legal.

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‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-04 12:25:48

Fifteen years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin will write and direct a sequel film called The Social Reckoning, set for release on October 9, 2026. Jesse Eisenberg will not reprise his breakout role as Mark Zuckerberg, but instead will be replaced with the more sallow, serious Jeremy Strong. Best known for playing Kendall Roy in Succession, Strong is known for his method acting, a technique in which the actor tries to immerse themselves in the mental and emotional state of the character…

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Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-04 12:30:52

Fintech Checkout.com announced on Friday that it reached a $12 billion valuation as part of an employee stock buyback program. On the one hand, very few startups ever achieve decacorn status, so $12 billion is nothing to sneeze at. It’s a valuable enough company to have landed its founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz on Forbes’ billionaire list. On the other, there was a short period of time when Checkout.com was valued at a whopping $40 billion, as part of its $1 billion Series D round closed in

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How Google shifted from a bastion of accurate information to a steward of free expression

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-04 09:00:01

Google CEO Sundar Pichai waves as he arrives to attend the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, February 11, 2025. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Google long touted the need for factually accurate information on its platforms, but a letter submitted to Congress this week demonstrates how the tech company is shifting to prioritize "free expression." The company's YouTube division on Tuesday said it will soon allow accounts that were previously banned for spr

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HomeKit Weekly: Aqara G410 Doorbell Camera brings HomeKit Secure Video, Matter, and smart hub features to your front door

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-04 16:00:00

Video doorbells are one of the most popular ways to start building a smart home, and Apple users have a great option that works with HomeKit Secure Video. The Aqara G410 Doorbell Camera takes that foundation and adds even more. It records in 2K (not supported by iCloud), supports HomeKit Secure Video, and doubles as a smart home hub with Matter and Zigbee built in. Some of my favorite gear Abode Home Security System Abode is the best home security system and includes compatibility with HomeKit.

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Microsoft's fix for PC shader compilation stutter could take years to fully implement

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 16:39:04

Microsoft has a fix for long shader compilation wait times. The system is called Advanced Shader Delivery , and it's being first introduced for ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handhelds and games listed on the Xbox app . Just about every PC gamer knows the feeling of booting up a highly anticipated new AAA title, excited to explore its sprawling environments or open world, only to be hit with "compiling shaders" and a progress bar that seems to move at a snail's pace. Depending on what specs you're rocking

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Our Favorite Wi-Fi Router Is $20 Off

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-04 16:21:38

Are you constantly resetting your dated router, or feeling like your streaming isn't as snappy as it used to be? You might consider upgrading your router, and our favorite Wi-Fi router, the Asus RT-BE58U, is currently marked down by $20 on Amazon. For just $130, you could upgrade your whole house to Wi-Fi 7, and get all the benefits that come with it. Importantly, the Asus RT-BE58U support Wi-Fi 7, the latest and greatest in in-home wireless internet. If you want to learn more about the benefit

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Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-04 15:29:15

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last October, dronemaker DJI sued the US Department of Defense, arguing it should no longer face the stigma of being listed as a “Chinese Military Company” and continue to risk business as a result. It just lost. While US District Court judge Paul Fri

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Bloomberg: Apple using a ChatGPT-style app to test next-gen Siri

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-04 20:58:35

As Apple continues its work on a revamped version of Siri, a new report from Bloomberg today has details on the company’s testing process. Mark Gurman reports that Apple has developed a “ChatGPT-like app to help test and prepare” for the launch of the next-generation version of Siri. The report details that Apple doesn’t currently plan to launch the app to the public. Instead, the company is using it as a way to evaluate new features for Siri. Bloomberg explains: “The app essentially takes the

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Latest Tech News

Trump Demands Microsoft Fire Head of Global Affairs

Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea

Google Home finally has powerful automations, but I’m still not using them

EA reportedly plans to go private with help from Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia

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Show HN: Lingo – A linguistic database in Rust with nanosecond-level performance

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Amiga SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits

New math revives geometry's oldest problems

Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway

Musk, Thiel, Bannon named in partially redacted Epstein documents released by Democrats

The von Neumann bottleneck is impeding AI computing?

The Beauty of Programming

Why a decades old architecture decision is impeding the power of AI computing

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Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason

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The TikTok deal raises more questions than answers

‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

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Our Favorite Wi-Fi Router Is $20 Off

Pentagon can call DJI a Chinese Military Company, court rules

Bloomberg: Apple using a ChatGPT-style app to test next-gen Siri

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