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‘We Live in a Surveillance State’: Reddit Users Explode Over Reports of ICE’s New Face and Fingerprint Scanning App

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-07 03:55:42

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly using a new tool called Mobile Fortify, a smartphone-based facial recognition and fingerprint scanning app that allows agents to identify people in real time using only a phone camera. The tool taps into the same biometric system used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at ports of entry. But ICE is now using it inside the U.S., in field operations across the country. According to internal ICE emails reviewed by 404 Media, the app

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-09-07 03:55:11

AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts. Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt

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Teen drivers spend 21% of the time looking at their phones, reveals alarming study [Video]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-07 12:04:20

A alarming new study has found that som teen drivers in the US spend as much as 21% of their time at the wheel looking at their phones, creating a substantial risk of distracted driving crashes. While much of this was brief glances, more than 5% of driving time comprised looking at their phone for 2+ seconds a time, long enough to qualify as dangerous … CNET reports that the teens did this despite understanding the risks they are taking. The study includes survey responses from 1,126 teen dri

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Get two months of Paramount+ for only $2 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-07 12:43:14

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . This is just in time for the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It's hot out there, so this might be the perfect time to stay in and binge some TV. Paramount+ is offering one heck of a deal right now for budding couch potatoes, with two months available for just $2. That bre

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What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?

news.ycombinator.com James Sinclair 2025-09-04 10:10:23

Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when? Function declarations and function statements We have (at least) three ways of creating functions in JavaScript. The first is the function declaration. This binds a function to a given name. It looks something like this:1 1 I’ve used String.toLowercase() here, partly for b

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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Tavares 2025-09-05 02:43:57

For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. These processes, meant to drive quality, often slow us down more than the act of writing code itself because they require t

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Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 12:39:00

If you compare the specifics of T-Mobile's Essentials and Essentials Saver plans, you might think the company forgot to update one or the other -- they're Essential-ly the same. With both, you get 50GB of fast Premium 5G data (depending on the network capabilities in your area), which drops to 3G speeds of still-unlimited data after that allotment is used up. You can use your phone as a mobile hotspot with unlimited data, but only at 3G speeds and restricted to paltry 2G speeds when you're in Ca

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12 Best Coffee Subscriptions (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-09-07 11:31:00

FAQ What Kinds of Coffee Subscriptions Are There? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron There are two kinds of coffee subscription providers: roasters and retailers. Roasters are cafés, and small-batch producers who buy raw beans from farmers all over the world and roast them to perfection. By buying from a roaster, you're directly supporting the people who make your favorite coffees; there's no middleman between you and your coffee. The downside is you usually won't have as broad a selecti

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-07 11:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan, and is capped at 3 videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users to generate videos up to 8 seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to Gemi

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What the Heck Is That Thing Inside RFK’s Mouth?

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-07 03:48:04

Image by Kayla Bartkowski / Getty / Futurism Developments A smiling Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was seen with a strange white thing in his mouth during a recent Congressional hearing — and we're almost positive we know what it is. When publishing a story about the Health and Human Services secretary's worm-brained plan to start approving new drugs with AI, the fine folks at Gizmodo chose as its header image a photo of the political scion baring a wide and menacing smile. In that photo, a small whi

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Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app

news.ycombinator.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 01:31:32

Starting this month, you'll no longer be able to use Microsoft Authenticator's autofill password function, a move the company is making to transition from passwords to passkeys. Last month, Microsoft stopped letting you save new passwords in the app. Next month is the biggest change, all your saved passwords will no longer be in the Authenticator app. You'll have to use passkeys instead -- such as a PIN, fingerprint or facial recognition. Attila Tomaschek, CNET's software senior writer and dig

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Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

news.ycombinator.com Simon Makin 2025-09-04 17:04:53

The cells in your ears aren’t the only ones listening: recent research suggests that crucial cells throughout the body may respond to audible sound. Experiments described in Communications Biology revealed more than 100 genes whose activity changed in response to these acoustic waves, pointing to possible medical applications. Extensive earlier research has shown that ultrasound—sound at frequencies higher than humans can hear—can affect biology in numerous ways; the new study expands this conc

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Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 06:06:16

A command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON, designed for automation, monitoring, and integration with other tools. # Clone and setup the project # Install uv if you haven't already # Monitor all new emails # JSON Lines format (one JSON per line) # Resume from last checkpoint

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Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-09-04 20:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 07:07:04

The Trans-Taiga Road is a gravel road that runs 666 km east from near the top end of the James Bay Road. It was built to access the various dams and generating stations that extend upriver along the La Grande River. This is an extremely remote road, leading 666 km east - almost to Labrador - with no settlements or towns aside from Hydro Quebec's settlements for workers (not open to the public). At the far end you will be 745 km from the nearest town! This is the farthest you can get from a town

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Scary Survey Results: Teen Drivers Are Often Looking at Their Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 10:01:03

A new study reveals that teen drivers in the US are spending more than one-fifth of their driving time distracted by their phones, with many glances lasting long enough to significantly raise the risk of a crash. Published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention and released on Thursday, the research found that, on average, teens reported looking at their phones during 21.1% of every driving trip. More than a quarter of those distractions lasted two seconds or longer, which is an amount of time

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gmailtail: tail -f Your Gmail

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 11:06:16

A command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON, designed for automation, monitoring, and integration with other tools. # Clone and setup the project # Install uv if you haven't already # Monitor all new emails # JSON Lines format (one JSON per line) # Resume from last checkpoint

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Microsoft Will Delete Your Passwords in One Month

news.ycombinator.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 06:31:32

Starting this month, you'll no longer be able to use Microsoft Authenticator's autofill password function, a move the company is making to transition from passwords to passkeys. Last month, Microsoft stopped letting you save new passwords in the app. Next month is the biggest change, all your saved passwords will no longer be in the Authenticator app. You'll have to use passkeys instead -- such as a PIN, fingerprint or facial recognition. Attila Tomaschek, CNET's software senior writer and dig

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More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-09-05 01:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Trans-Taiga Road:The farthest you can get from a town on a road in North America

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 12:07:04

The Trans-Taiga Road is a gravel road that runs 666 km east from near the top end of the James Bay Road. It was built to access the various dams and generating stations that extend upriver along the La Grande River. This is an extremely remote road, leading 666 km east - almost to Labrador - with no settlements or towns aside from Hydro Quebec's settlements for workers (not open to the public). At the far end you will be 745 km from the nearest town! This is the farthest you can get from a town

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FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-07 11:58:30

iOS 26 is a packed update for iPhone users thanks to the new Liquid Glass design and major updates for Messages, Wallet, CarPlay, and more. But another new feature was just discovered in the iOS 26 beta: FaceTime will now freeze your call’s video and audio if someone starts undressing. New FaceTime safety feature for child accounts in iOS 26 seems to apply to adults too When Apple unveiled iOS 26 last month, it mentioned a variety of new family tools coming for child accounts. One of those an

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American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 14:42:53

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. Subscribe From World War II until 2024, the US stood unchallenged as the scientific leader of the free world. Across practically every discipline — physics, materials science, astronomy, chemistry, biology, medicine, geology, etc. — American scientific missions and initiatives, often in collaboration with European, Canadian, Asian, and many other global partners, b

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Livestream Replay: Beginner Advice for Claude, a ChatGPT Alternative

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-09-07 07:30:00

Hello WIRED subscribers! Thank you to everyone who attended our most recent AI Unlocked livestream Q&A session, Chatbot Basics: Beginner Advice For Claude, a ChatGPT Alternative. Staff writer Reece Rogers and senior correspondent Kylie Robison provided an overview of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, one of the most-used alternatives to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and popular with AI insiders. They also answered audience questions about all kinds of topics, such as the main differences between Claude and ChatGPT

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Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

news.ycombinator.com Borenstein Is An Associated Press Science Writer 2025-09-07 23:10:13

WASHINGTON (AP) — Websites that displayed legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world. Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House,

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Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-07 23:47:08

Lucid delivered 3,309 vehicles in the second quarter, a 6% increase in sales from the previous period and a new sales record for the EV maker. Lucid also reported it produced 3,863 vehicles in the second quarter, nearly 1,000 more than it made in the previous period. Lucid produced 2,212 vehicles in the first quarter and shipped another 600 additional vehicles to Saudi Arabia for final assembly. The delivery and accompanying production figures show Lucid has maintained — and even made some pro

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DOJ investigates ex-ransomware negotiator over extortion kickbacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-08 02:14:41

An ex-ransomware negotiator is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly working with ransomware gangs to profit from extortion payment deals. The suspect is a former employee of DigitalMint, a Chicago-based incident response and digital asset services company that specializes in ransomware negotiation and facilitating cryptocurrency payments to receive a decryptor or prevent stolen data from being publicly released. The company claims to have conducted over 2,000

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 3, #283

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 03:00:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. The purple category for today's Connections: Sports Edition is a real doozy. In fact, the entire puzzle might take longer than usual to solve. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that t

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 3, #753

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 03:00:09

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. The green category came together quickly for me, but purple, as usual, was tricky. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to re

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Here's When to See July's Spectacular Buck Moon, Along With Mars and Venus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-08 03:39:00

It's officially summer, and with it comes the first full moon of the season. July's full moon — known as the Buck Moon or the Thunder Moon — will light up the night sky on July 10. It will be at its fullest the evening of July 10, going into July 11, reaching peak luminosity at around 4:37 a.m., which is a bit late, but it'll still be bright for the whole night. According to Stellarium's sky map, the moon will rise from the southeastern horizon just after sunset in your local time and streak ac

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New evidence that some supernovae may be a “double detonation”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-08 03:39:23

Type Ia supernovae are critical tools in astronomy, since they all appear to explode with the same intensity, allowing us to use their brightness as a measure of distance. The distance measures they've given us have been critical to tracking the expansion of the Universe, which led to the recognition that there's some sort of dark energy hastening the Universe's expansion. Yet there are ongoing arguments over exactly how these events are triggered. There's widespread agreement that type Ia supe

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‘We Live in a Surveillance State’: Reddit Users Explode Over Reports of ICE’s New Face and Fingerprint Scanning App

From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

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What's the difference between named functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?

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Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

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gmailtail: tail -f Your Gmail

Microsoft Will Delete Your Passwords in One Month

More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

Trans-Taiga Road:The farthest you can get from a town on a road in North America

FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 3, #753

Here's When to See July's Spectacular Buck Moon, Along With Mars and Venus

New evidence that some supernovae may be a “double detonation”

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