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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Close 2025-11-25 08:43:55

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience Dan Nixon Mar 1st, 2021 ‘How is the social fabric being rendered digital? How does a particular ‘currency of ideas’ shape how we see ourselves and others on social media platforms, and what might we experiment with here? How do our egos come to take centre-stage in our online spaces? What options do we have, amidst the algorithms and incentives underpinning our media ecosystem, for getting a more expansive view of what’s

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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Close 2025-11-25 14:43:55

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience Dan Nixon Mar 1st, 2021 ‘How is the social fabric being rendered digital? How does a particular ‘currency of ideas’ shape how we see ourselves and others on social media platforms, and what might we experiment with here? How do our egos come to take centre-stage in our online spaces? What options do we have, amidst the algorithms and incentives underpinning our media ecosystem, for getting a more expansive view of what’s

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Robert Downey, Jr. Rumored to Clash With Ryan Reynolds on Set of ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-11-30 23:04:26

Damien Leone gets cold feet about revealing Art the Clown’s origin, Patton Oswalt plays a Romulan on Strange New Worlds, and Silent Hill finally returns with a new sequel. Faster than you can say, “Una Chin Riley,” it’s Morning Spoilers! Avengers: Doomsday According to “multiple insiders” (via the Express Tribune), Robert Downey, Jr. forced Marvel to reshoot three weeks-worth of material because he was unsatisfied with his body double’s performance inside the Doctor Doom suit. Reshooting the s

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The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain (Yeah, We Don’t Know Why Either)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-01 23:20:38

Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical purposes that can’t be solved by a regular, old-school database. But it sounds like the White House just got the memo and wants to usher in the world of 2017 again. President Donald Trump held a televised “cabinet meeting ” at the White House on Tuesday that clocked in at over 3 hours and 15 minutes.

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Show HN: SecretMemoryLocker – File Encryption Without Static Passwords

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 11:39:42

💾 SecretMemoryLocker (SecretML v2.23) Your personal digital vault – protected by your memories. 💡 Upcoming Feature: SecretML-Seed (SML-Seed) — your personal recovery key, coming soon and fully functional! 🚀 What's New in v2.23 — MirageLoop (SML-ML) Secret Memory Locker v2.23 introduces the unique MirageLoop (SML-ML) feature. This is not just an update — it’s a new reality of protection. 🔐 How it works When a wrong answer to a security question is entered — MirageLoop activates. to a sec

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Join me and the Android Authority team for a Pixel 10 series AMA, August 27 at 1PM EST

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 18:00:09

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority After its announcement last week, the Pixel 10 series will officially be available for purchase on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Many of you have already pre-ordered one of the three phones, but many are probably still waiting for real-world feedback before they make up their mind. That’s what we’re here for. If you’re eager to know more about the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL, their performance, how specific features work and how good they are, yo

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Google Photos is letting you lift subjects as stickers — but only on iOS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 10:36:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is adding the popular tap-and-hold sticker creation feature to the iOS app. Users can press and hold a photo subject to quickly copy or share it as a standalone sticker. It’s unclear if Google Photos on Android will get this easy sticker creation feature. One of the smaller sticking points in the iOS vs Android debate is how easy it is to make stickers from your photos. It’s not a big deal, but it certainly enhances the experience for e

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Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 03:27:39

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Last week, Google AI pioneer Jad Tarifi sparked controversy when he told Business Insider that it no longer makes sense to get a medical degree — since, in his telling, artificial intelligence will render such an education obsolete by the time you're a practicing doctor. Companies have long touted the tech as a way to free up the time of overworked doctors and even aid them in specialized skills, including scanning medical imagery for tumors. Hospitals ha

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Google will soon make it easier to find out what’s wrong with your Pixel (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-07 03:07:26

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing new diagnostics options for Pixel devices. This new option combines discrete options into a single dashboard to test if there’s anything wrong with your phone. It also introduces a new AI-powered search option to inspect likely problems with your Pixel device. The on-device diagnostics options on Google’s Pixel phones are in for a significant overhaul. We have spotted Google testing a new menu option that combines various diagnostic

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Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 18:14:10

6 min read On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) us-east-1 facility caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and AWS us-east-1. This impacted many users who were connecting to or receiving connections from Cloudflare via servers in AWS us-east-1 in the form of high latency, packet loss, and failures to origins. Customers with origins in AWS us-east-1 began experiencing impact at 16:27 UTC. The impact was substantial

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8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-12-06 20:00:00

The Nintendo 64 was a fantastic console, home to generation-defining games such as Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. With its four built-in controller ports, it revolutionized multiplayer gaming in front of the TV, and it was the first mainstream console to introduce an analog stick, essential for navigating the burgeoning 3D worlds the medium was starting to deliver. Unfortunately, the controller it did all that with was an abomination, an unholy three-pronged monstrosity that earned my lifelo

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

news.ycombinator.com Vinci Rufus 2025-12-06 17:18:52

Published: Aug 13, 2025 | at 11:00 AM We’ve reached an inflection point in AI development. The scaling laws that once promised ever-more-capable models are showing diminishing returns. GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini represent remarkable achievements, but they’re hitting asymptotes that brute-force scaling can’t solve. The path to artificial general intelligence isn’t through training ever-larger language models—it’s through building engineered systems that combine models, memory, context, and determ

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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-12-07 14:06:32

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta could be scanning your camera roll right now. It's using your photos to provide AI-powered suggestions. Check Facebook settings to turn off the features. Meta could be analyzing and retaining your phone's photos without your explicit consent. Some Facebook users have noticed that, within their app settings, Meta automatically switched on two toggles that allow it to access their d

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Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-08 04:02:48

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing up to eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires t

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‘The Institute’ Will Deepen Its Stephen King Mystery With a Second Season

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-08 04:30:23

Have you been watching The Institute? While MGM+ isn’t the best-known streaming platform, it’s worth finding your way there just to check out the Stephen King adaptation, set in and around a secretive facility that snatches psychically gifted kids from their families and tasks them with some very dark deeds. And it seems many folks have been doing just that, because it just got renewed. According to an MGM+ press release sharing the news, The Institute had the streamer’s best-ever premiere. You

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Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-08 23:28:35

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires the com

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The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 11:30:09

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Kindle update 5.18.4.01 reintroduces Assistive Reader with synced text-to-speech. The update is currently available for 11th and 12th-gen Kindles, Kindle Colorsoft, and Kindle Scribe. Recent updates include a large font option and improved menu design. Amazon rolled out firmware version 5.18.4.0.1 for its 11th and 12th‑generation Kindle e‑readers, along with the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe, bringing a welcome boost in accessibility and a few in

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Longtime Bungie head Pete Parsons steps down

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-10 04:05:36

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he’s leaving the company one decade after taking on the role. In an update on Thursday, Parsons wrote that he has “decided to pass the torch” to longtime Bungie developer Justin Truman. Parsons has worked at Bungie for

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Man Experiences Joy For the First Time in Decades After Brain Stimulation Treatment

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-10 14:05:15

A man who lived with severe, treatment-resistant depression for over 30 years is now in remission, thanks to a new brain stimulation method that targets selective areas of his brain. The man reported experiencing joy for the first time in decades after the treatment. “He was crying and saying, ‘I’m not sad, I’m just happy. I don’t know what to do with these emotions’,” the study’s first author, Ziad Nahas, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Minnesota, told Gizmodo. Nahas and a t

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A summary of recent AI research (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hearn 2025-12-11 03:47:42

Story comprehension The robots of Westworld are not programmed solely by software developers. The bulk of the work is done by professional writers, who give each character a unique backstory. These stories give them the memories and depth they need to seem real to the park guests. When asked who they are, what they’ve done or why they feel a certain way, they can consult their backstory to find out the answer. Being able to answer questions about stories is a fundamental requirement for being

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How Burning Man VR rebuilt after Microsoft shut it down

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-12-11 09:30:00

It was all just supposed to be a one-time thing. When Burning Man got canceled because of covid-19 in 2020, a number of attendees banded together to re-create the festival on the social VR platform Altspace. That virtual Burning Man experience not only attracted around 13,000 visitors, but also accolades from the Producers Guild of America. The success led to the decision to keep the digital version of Burning Man going even when the real-life festival returned in 2021. BRCvr, named after the f

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Why recycling isn’t enough to address the plastic problem

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-12-12 09:00:00

And looking into the future, emissions from plastics are only set to grow. Another estimate, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, projects that emissions from plastics could swell from about 2 billion metric tons to 4 billion metric tons by 2060. This chart is what really strikes me and makes the conclusion of the plastic treaty talks such a disappointment. Recycling is a great tool, and new methods could make it possible to recycle more plastics and make it easier

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Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Them in 8 Common Foods

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 17:30:00

Microplastics are all around us all the time. While these microscopic bits of plastic were once an issue for ocean pollution, now they're all around us. From kitchen tools to food storage, microplastics have infected our world. This means that each day, you are probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborn

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I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty

wired.com John Semley 2025-12-14 04:30:00

Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3 be made by AI? And, if it is, how will we know?” Schrader is well regarded not only as a director, but one of cinema’s top-she

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I Went to an AI Film Festival Screening and Left With More Questions Than Answers

wired.com John Semley 2025-12-15 04:30:00

Last year, filmmaker Paul Schrader—the director of Blue Collar, American Gigolo, and First Reformed, and writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver—issued what seemed like the last word on artificial intelligence in Hollywood filmmaking. A few days after the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two, Schrader asked his Facebook followers: “Will Dune 3 be made by AI? And, if it is, how will we know?” Schrader is well regarded not only as a director, but one of cinema’s top-she

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Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-16 04:37:56

Investigation into 'horrifying' death of French streamer 23 minutes ago Share Save Tom McArthur BBC News Share Save Getty Images An investigation has been launched into the death of a French streamer known for extreme challenges. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old had been subject to bouts of violence and sleep deprivation during streams, and died in his sleep during a live broadcast,

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Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

news.ycombinator.com Dan Milmo 2025-12-14 20:18:58

When the UK government announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute in 2014 it promised a “fitting memorial” to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. More than a decade on, Britain’s leading AI institute is in turmoil as staff warn it may be in danger of collapse and ministers demand a shift in focus to defence and security work. “The ATI brand is well recognised internationally,” says Dame Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of S

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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-12-16 14:15:29

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children. As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children. The accounts of abuse span facilities in 25 states and include Pu

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Elastic rejects claims of a zero-day RCE flaw in Defend EDR

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-16 18:41:26

Enterprise search and security company Elastic is rejecting reports of a zero-day vulnerability impacting its Defend endpoint detection and response (EDR) product. The company's statement follows a blog post from a company called AshES Cybersecurity claiming to have discovered a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Elastic Defend that would allow an attacker to bypass EDR protections. Elastic’s Security Engineering team "conducted a thorough investigation" but could not find "evidence supportin

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Severance season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-18 00:55:05

Severance’s season 2 finale left viewers reeling when it aired earlier this year, leading to a lot of questions about what’s coming for Mark S. and company in season 3. Here’s everything we know so far about Severance season 3 on Apple TV+. Severance season 3 officially greenlit by Apple Severance is the biggest hit Apple TV+ has ever had—even surpassing Ted Lasso in popularity. So it should come as no surprise that Apple has officially renewed the show for another season. Severance season 3

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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience (2021)

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience

Robert Downey, Jr. Rumored to Clash With Ryan Reynolds on Set of ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

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Show HN: SecretMemoryLocker – File Encryption Without Static Passwords

Join me and the Android Authority team for a Pixel 10 series AMA, August 27 at 1PM EST

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Google will soon make it easier to find out what’s wrong with your Pixel (APK teardown)

Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller Review: For Human Hands

AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off

Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

‘The Institute’ Will Deepen Its Stephen King Mystery With a Second Season

Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City

The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility

Longtime Bungie head Pete Parsons steps down

Man Experiences Joy For the First Time in Decades After Brain Stimulation Treatment

A summary of recent AI research (2016)

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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

Elastic rejects claims of a zero-day RCE flaw in Defend EDR

Severance season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

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