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Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-03 18:05:22

In Brief Tech founder Ethan Agarwal, who has raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs across two startups, is running for the 2026 California gubernatorial seat, as reported by Axios. Axios described Agarwal as a “Democrat who believes in capitalism.” He told the outlet he’s mainly concerned about the increased cost of living and doing business in the state, which has led to the departure of residents and other opportunities, such as film productions. California “could use some business an

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Huge Parts of the North Sea Seabed Are Upside Down, New Study Reveals

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-04 04:25:03

In the world of stratigraphy, or rock layers, superficial sediments are usually younger than the deeper ones they settle upon. The North Sea, however, has revealed giant mounds of sand that defy this geological principle on a scale scientists have never seen before. Researchers from Norway and the UK have identified hundreds of sand bodies under the North Sea that seem to have sunk deeper into the ocean’s crust, swapping places with older layers, which floated to the top of the sand structures.

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Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 11:15:20

Microsoft is working to resolve an Exchange Online issue causing email access problems for Outlook mobile users who use Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA). HMA is a Microsoft Exchange Server feature that allows users to access on-premises mailboxes using authorization tokens from the cloud. Tracked under EX1137017 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, this known issue is caused by a recent service change, designed to improve the efficiency of mailbox syncs, which is triggering 12-hour sync delay

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Why most AI projects flop - and how your business can beat the odds

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-12-04 18:55:17

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Only 5% of AI projects deliver. It comes down to the ability to customize. With partnerships in place, AI success odds double. Ask the right questions before deciding between building or buying. There's a tremendous gap between AI aspirations and actual successful projects -- this was shown in the recent MIT study that found only 5 percent of generative AI projects have delivered measur

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Xero vs. QuickBooks: Which accounting platform is better?

zdnet.com Ritoban Mukherjee 2025-12-05 05:15:19

Allison Murray/ZDNET If you're trying to select an accounting platform that will grow with your business while managing costs effectively, both Xero and QuickBooks offer competing products starting at $29 per month. However, they're each good at different things. Also: The best budgeting apps of 2025 Xero stands out for its user-friendly interface and flexible pricing structure that includes unlimited users across all plans. The platform excels in international business support with multicurr

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My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

news.ycombinator.com Yufan You 2025-11-30 18:58:44

ZIP is one of the most popular archive formats. It is used not only as archive files, but also as the container for other file formats, including office documents, Android applications, Java archives, and many more. Despite its ubiquity, the ZIP file format specification is imprecisely specified, posing the risk of semantic gaps between implementations that can be exploited by attackers. While prior research has reported individual such vulnerabilities, there is a lack of systematic studies for

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Assassin's Creed Mirage will get fresh content later this year and it'll be completely free

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 20:37:28

The Assassin's Creed fanbase may be waiting for the first DLC for Assassin's Creed Shadows, but Ubisoft instead confirmed new content for its previous title, Assassin's Creed Mirage. The studio announced on the official Assassin's Creed X account that there will be a new story chapter and missions for protagonist Basim, who will venture into ninth-century alUla. More importantly, the DLC will be free. According to the post, Ubisoft will bring gameplay improvements to both the new content and th

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Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 12:09:11

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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WebR – R in the Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 04:36:10

WebR - R in the Browser WebR is a version of the statistical language R compiled for the browser and Node.js using WebAssembly, via Emscripten. WebR makes it possible to run R code in the browser without the need for an R server to execute the code: the R interpreter runs directly on the user’s machine. Several R packages have also been ported for use with webR, and can be loaded in the usual way using the library() function. Warning The webR project is under active development, and the API i

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 15:35:49

Manim is an engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos. Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlie

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Apple is in talks to use Google’s Gemini for Siri revamp, report says

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-05 23:15:08

In Brief Apple is falling behind in the race to transform Siri into an AI assistant that’s as powerful as its competitors. As consumers grow more impatient, Apple is considering using another company’s tech instead of developing its own. Apple is now exploring a partnership with Google, its most direct competitor in the smartphone business, according to Bloomberg editor and Apple insider Mark Gurman. The company previously approached OpenAI and Anthropic for similar discussions about using th

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Does MHz Still Matter?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 00:47:05

Does MHz still matter? Furkan Sahin Senior Software Engineer To provide VMs of any size, we slice bare metal into smaller VMs, sometimes even 1 vCPU. So, the performance of one fast core matters a lot. We evaluated new servers from Hetzner with AMD EPYC and Ryzen CPUs to add to our fleet. Ryzen is a CPU from AMD’s gaming line-up and it has better single core performance numbers compared to the EPYC which is a standard datacenter CPU. We weren’t sure if Ryzen’s single core edge would show up in

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The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Field 2025-12-06 09:34:23

“When will the internet bubble burst?” the cover story of Barron’s asked on March 20 2000. “That unpleasant popping sound is likely to be heard before the end of this year.” In fact, that same day, one of the most high-profile tech businesses of the moment suffered a share price plunge of 60pc. A flood of other collapses followed, evaporating trillions of dollars. Now, some on Wall Street fear that “unpleasant popping sound” may be imminent for the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. On Tuesda

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95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-06 18:59:34

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Just 5% of enterprise customers are profiting from generative AI. A bottom-up versus top-down approach can improve implementation success. AI companies are making big promises in a bubble, most of which are unfulfilled. Investment in generative AI may be booming, but most individual businesses using it have yet to see the payoff. In fact, a new MIT study found that 95% of enterprise

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Outdated IT help desks are holding businesses back - but there is a solution

zdnet.com Jim Rapoza 2025-12-06 23:24:59

Muhammet Camdereli/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. ZDNET's key takeaways Aging help desk systems hinder remote support and IT fixes. Cloud-based help desks cut costs, ease complexity, boost IT. 28% of businesses are automating IT and help desk services. Along with aging help desk systems, businesses face a number of challenges when it comes to building more responsive support capabilities. Data breaches remain a h

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YouTube’s new integration lets you discover live concerts nearby, with a sweet Premium perk

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 15:38:51

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has partnered with Bandsintown to bring concert listings and notifications for nearby shows on the platform. While the new concert discovery integration has also been announced for YouTube Music, it’s actually rolling out first on YouTube. Bandsintown users also get an exclusive bonus in the form of a free two-month trial of YouTube Premium. YouTube is making it easier for fans of live music to discover upcoming concerts. While the new concer

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Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-07 12:46:26

A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national living legally in Houston, worked for an Ohio-based company, reportedly Eaton Corporation, from 2007 until his termination in 2019. After a corporate restructuring and subsequent demotion in 2018, the DOJ says that Lu retaliated by embedding malicious code

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Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 23:17:01

In his article Why I chose OCaml as my primary language, my friend Xavier Van de Woestyne presents, in the section Dependency injection and inversion, two approaches to implementing dependency injection: one using user-defined effects and one using modules as first-class values. Even though I’m quite convinced that both approaches are legit, I find them sometimes a bit overkill and showing fairly obvious pitfalls when applied to real software. The goal of this article is therefore to briefly hig

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The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan

wired.com Nick Gibbs 2025-12-15 04:56:30

On a drab, overcast March day in Amsterdam in 2022, Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took off his face mask and strode onto a makeshift stage to confidently explain to a crowd of journalists and analysts how the company that had recently unified brands as diverse as Fiat, Peugeot, Maserati, Ram, and Opel was going rewrite the rules of the car industry. His tie sat slightly askew and his greying hair needed a trim, the picture of a man far too focused on applying dynamic capitalistic principles to a

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Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 00:25:03

It’s been a while since I started making web games in JavaScript. In this post, I’d like to share tips that would be helpful for beginners wanting to do the same. Learn JavaScript Outside of Game Development Alongside HTML and CSS This might sound obvious, but I really recommend learning to program before learning game dev. For JavaScript, that means learning the fundamentals of the language and how it integrates with HTML and CSS. Considering that JavaScript is primarily used on the web to m

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Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-17 03:59:29

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” according to a press release issued Monday. “In today’s digital age, we must continue to fight to protect Texas kids from deceptive and exploitative technology,” Paxton is quoted as saying. “By posing as sources of emotional support, AI platforms can mislead vulnerable users

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It's the Housing, Stupid

news.ycombinator.com Nick Maggiulli 2025-12-18 09:00:06

A few weeks ago, I was on The Compound and Friends, and there was a debate about why we were seeing 2021-like meme stock activity and money market funds holding record assets at the same time. For context, both of these things are true. If we look at the performance of the 100 most shorted stocks compared to the Russell 1000, that performance spread is nearing 2021 levels: It’s like a bunch of mini GameStop short squeezes all over again. And if we look at the non-profitable tech retail invest

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LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises

news.ycombinator.com Dan Fabulich 2025-12-13 21:53:12

LLMs generate slop because they avoid surprises by design LLMs suck at comedy, art, journalism, research, and science for the same fundamental reason Dan Fabulich 5 min read · 3 days ago 3 days ago -- Listen Share Have you ever asked an LLM to tell you a joke? They’re rarely funny at all; they never make you actually laugh. There’s a deep reason for this, and I think it has serious implications for the limitations of LLMs, not just in comedy, but in art, journalism, research, and science. Jo

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Stop using AI for these 9 work tasks - here's why

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-18 03:00:00

zokara/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Sometimes an AI can cause you or your company irreparable harm. Sharing confidential data with an AI could have legal consequences. Don't let an AI talk to customers without supervision. A few weeks ago, I shared with you "9 programming tasks you shouldn't hand off to AI - and why." It's full of well-reasoned suggestions and recommendations for how to avoid having an AI produce code that could ruin your whole day. Then,

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The Folk Economics of Housing

news.ycombinator.com Elmendorf 2025-12-18 23:10:41

Abstract Why is housing supply so severely restricted in US cities and suburbs? Urban economists offer two primary hypotheses: homeowner self-interest and political fragmentation. Homeowners, who outnumber and have organizational advantages over renters, are said to lobby against development to protect their property values. The fragmentation hypothesis emphasizes that development's negative externalities are borne locally while most of the benefits accrue regionally or nationally, leading local

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Kyte, which billed itself as the ‘best competitor to Hertz,’ shuts down

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-19 08:29:06

Rental car startup Kyte has shut down nearly one year after slashing staff and exiting most of its cities in the United States. The company sold its customer list to Turo in July, and then turned right around and entered into a form of receivership in California, according to a notice that went out to Kyte creditors. Kyte fell behind on some of its loans earlier this year, according to the notice. That caused the company’s top lender to repossess and liquidate Kyte’s vehicle fleet. Kyte’s boar

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What I look for in typeface licenses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 15:11:51

Typeface licenses Process Journal I can’t remember the last time I undertook a design project where we didn’t use a commercial typeface. I often recommend these to clients because: The world of commercial typefaces is broad and it opens up a range of high-quality options for a project Using a commercial typeface is an easy way to level-up a design (though it won’t fix a bad design) Supporting independent foundries is important There’s no judgement on open source typefaces – I’m often pairi

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Leaky Ice Dam Prompts Evacuations in Alaska as Record Floods Loom

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-25 12:10:41

A water basin in Alaska is overflowing its ice dam, the Mendenhall Glacier, and flooding the state capital, Juneau. Experts expect the likely record-breaking event to peak today, and officials have asked residents in parts of the city and borough to evacuate. The flood doesn’t come as a surprise. Years ago, a small glacier on the other side of Mendenhall Glacier—which is just 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Juneau—receded and left a basin in its wake, according to the Associated Press. Since then

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Illegal Price-Gouging Runs Rampant After Disasters. The LA Fires Proved It

gizmodo.com Jake Bittle 2025-12-26 14:00:23

Last January, a series of massive wildfires broke out across the Los Angeles area, fueled by high winds and dry temperatures. The fires raged for weeks, incinerating entire neighborhoods in the wealthy Pacific Palisades and in middle-class Altadena. They killed at least 30 people and destroyed at least 10,000 homes. As the embers cooled, thousands of displaced Angelenos scrambled to find new housing in a rental market that was already among the nation’s toughest. They scoured Zillow and Airbnb

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These CFOs are devoting 25% of their AI budgets to agentic AI

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-12-26 15:00:00

AlexSecret/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways 34% of global CFOs have adopted an aggressive AI investment strategy. 61% embrace AI agents and digital labor in order to autonomously perform tasks. CFOs are dedicating a quarter of their AI budgets to agentic AI More than 9 out of 10 (96%) of chief financial officers (CFOs) have an aggressive AI strategy, compared to only 3% in 2020, according to a global survey of 261 CFOs conducted by Salesforce Research. There is a strong shift from cautiou

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Latest Tech News

Tech founder throws hat in California governor’s race

Huge Parts of the North Sea Seabed Are Upside Down, New Study Reveals

Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

Why most AI projects flop - and how your business can beat the odds

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My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers

Assassin's Creed Mirage will get fresh content later this year and it'll be completely free

Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

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Apple is in talks to use Google’s Gemini for Siri revamp, report says

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The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

Outdated IT help desks are holding businesses back - but there is a solution

YouTube’s new integration lets you discover live concerts nearby, with a sweet Premium perk

Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

The Global Car Reckoning Is Here. Far Too Many Auto Companies Don’t Have a Plan

Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims

It's the Housing, Stupid

LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises

Stop using AI for these 9 work tasks - here's why

The Folk Economics of Housing

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What I look for in typeface licenses

Leaky Ice Dam Prompts Evacuations in Alaska as Record Floods Loom

Illegal Price-Gouging Runs Rampant After Disasters. The LA Fires Proved It

These CFOs are devoting 25% of their AI budgets to agentic AI

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