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The Night Shift Might Be Harming Women More Than We Thought, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-16 19:51:06

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that often causes sudden and intense shortness of breath. The disease impacts around 339 million people worldwide, and in the U.S. nine people on average die from asthma every day. Researchers in the U.K. have found that women who work night shifts are more likely to have moderate or severe asthma than women who work during the day. The study, published Monday in the journal ERJ Open Research, does not reveal any such tendency in men working nightshifts,

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Amazon is holding Prime Day 2025 on July 8-11

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-16 19:34:43

In Brief Amazon has revealed that Prime Day 2025 will take place on July 8-11, extending the annual sale event to four days this year. Amazon notes that consumers will be able to shop for “pantry staples and snacks for summer gatherings to home-improvement must-haves, back-to-school supplies, health and personal care finds, family-favorite toys, best-selling books, pet essentials, and even premium and luxury splurges.” For the first time, Amazon is going to introduce “Today’s Big Deals,” whic

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Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-16 20:37:20

With the TikTok deadline to sell its U.S. operations now just two days away, a new decentralized social media app launched its beta to the public on Tuesday. Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge, featuring a swipeable feed for not just short videos but also text posts and images, as well as other features you’d expect, like direct messaging. However, the new app aims to disrupt the market by utilizing blockchain technology and a token economy. Most notably, content creators on the

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Adobe Firefly app is finally launching to users. Here's how to access (and the perks)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-17 00:00:19

Adobe Adobe has an extensive suite of generative AI tools for image and video editing, including the viral software Generative Fill, packaged in Firefly, its application for AI-assisted content creation. Now, all of these tools are readily available on your phone via a new Firefly app. The app Adobe has announced that its Firefly app is available for free download on iOS and Android. The app has been designed to offer the same Firefly experiences users know and love on the web, but in a conve

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Night Shifts May Raise Your Asthma Risk—If You’re a Woman

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-17 00:51:06

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that often causes sudden and intense shortness of breath. The disease impacts around 339 million people worldwide, and in the U.S. nine people on average die from asthma every day. Researchers in the U.K. have found that women who work night shifts are more likely to have moderate or severe asthma than women who work during the day. The study, published Monday in the journal ERJ Open Research, does not reveal any such tendency in men working nightshifts,

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Spotify's Daniel Ek leads $694 million investment in defense startup Helsing

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-09-17 04:41:59

Helsing uses AI to analyze large amounts of sensor and weapons system data from the battlefield. European defense technology startup Helsing on Tuesday said that it's raised 600 million euros ($693.6 million) in a bumper new round of funding. The investment was led by Prima Materia, the venture capital firm founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and by Shakil Khan, an early investor in the popular music streaming app. Ek is also chairman of Helsing. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, A

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Tinder now lets you find double dates with friends

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-17 04:30:50

Tinder has officially launched a new feature that will help you find people to double date with a friend. The dating service says it's a "low-pressure, group-first" way to date, but really, it's a fantastic option if you prefer meeting someone new with a friend beside you, whether for your safety or your anxiety. To use the feature, you'll have to tap the Double Date icon and choose up to three friends to create a pair with. As TechCrunch notes, you'll then be able to scroll through other Double

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AI threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 04:00:38

U.S. giants Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions to snatch up land in the increasingly water-stressed territory with the aim of building data centers, which typically use many millions of liters of water a year. The Spanish and regional governments are ecstatic. The country’s former digital minister celebrated Amazon’s decision to move in last year, boasting that Spain is “at the forefront of technology innovation and Artificial Intelligence in Europe.” It goes hand-in-hand with the Euro

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Hack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today's AI Devs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 04:29:51

There was a time when hackers didn’t have VC funding, productivity Slack channels, or GitHub Copilot whispering autocomplete incantations. They had dial-up modems, CRTs humming like insects, and a calling—etched somewhere between cyberpunk fiction and UNIX man pages—to hack the planet. Today’s AI devs? Well, they’re optimizing prompts in WeWork lounges, juggling ChatGPT tokens, and trying not to hallucinate in meetings or machine learning models. The times have changed. But the question is: has

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Is documentation like pineapple on pizza?

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Idaszak 2025-09-17 04:38:17

Internal software documentation is often a controversial topic. Many developers avoid writing it and aim to produce just enough to get the project running. If you browse discussions on platforms like Reddit or Quora, most questions about documentation focus on why it's so poorly done or disliked by developers. On the other hand, avoiding documentation slows down the team. It creates friction, forcing knowledge transfers to happen in person or requiring developers to reverse-engineer the code ju

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Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 04:34:22

I'm used to thinking of encryption as a slow thing that can't deliver anywhere near to network saturation, even on basic gigabit Ethernet connections. This is broadly the experience we see with our current VPN servers, which struggle to turn in more than relatively anemic bandwidth with OpenVPN and L2TP, and so for a long time I assumed it would also be our experience with WireGuard if we tried to put anything serious behind it. I'd seen the 2023 Tailscale blog post about this but discounted it

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Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-09-17 04:00:00

Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1 billion, almost doubling in three years from its last round in 2022. With the influx of cash, the startup is looking to expand its engineering base in India and develop its AI agent. The all-equity and all-primary Series E round is led by California-based venture growth firm NewView Capital, with participation from the Canada Pension Plan Investme

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Sequoia-backed Crosby launches a new kind of AI-powered law firm

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-17 04:00:00

The tech industry talks a lot about how AI is going to transform work. Legal startup Crosby, which just came out of stealth with a $5.8 million seed round led by Sequoia, is perhaps the most extreme example of what’s coming that we’ve seen to date. Crosby isn’t just making AI software for lawyers – although it is doing that. Crosby is an actual law firm using AI to provide legal services at a speed never before possible. Rather than selling tech to lawyers, Crosby has hired lawyers who use its

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Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public [U: Warning added]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-17 12:32:59

Update: Business Insider notes that Meta has now added a warning message when users share chat queries. The Meta AI app has been described as “a privacy disaster,” as users unknowingly make their embarrassing questions public. One tech writer described it as like discovering your web browser history has been public all along without you knowing it … TechCrunch reports that there is an absolutely ridiculous privacy default for many users. Whether you admit to committing a crime or having a we

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No Hello

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 12:09:22

Note that Keith could have got his answer minutes sooner, and needn't have kept Tim waiting. In fact, Tim could have started thinking about the question right away! People who do this are generally trying to be polite by not jumping right into the request, like one would in person or on the phone - and that's great! But it's 2022 and chat is neither of those things. For most people, typing is much slower than talking. So despite best intentions, you're actually just making the other person wait

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You Can Play FBC: Firebreak, Deus Ex and More on PlayStation Plus Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 13:00:07

Remedy Entertainment released the mind-bending action game Control in 2019. And now, PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can return to the Federal Bureau of Control in the wacky, first-person co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Essential ($10 a month), Extra ($15 a month) and Premium ($18 a month) -- and each gives subs

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I Played FBC: Firebreak and It's No Fun Going on the Game's Dark Missions Alone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 12:00:08

I'm hours into my second night of matches before FBC: Firebreak starts to make sense. I've got two other players in my squad, each with a different kit of equipment and weapons, as we fight off hordes of enemies while doing odd jobs around our haunted office building. After several missions, we've finally learned the game's atypical approach to team combat and how to back each other up. But one thing is clear: If you don't want to cooperate, this game isn't for you. The newest game from Alan Wa

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Amazon Prime Day will take place July 8 to July 11, with six bonus PC games via Prime Gaming

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-17 14:33:00

Amazon announced that Prime Day 2025 will take place from Tuesday, July 8 through Friday, July 11, and gamers will be able to get six free PC games via Prime Gaming. Prime Gaming members are in for another year of some great deals available during both the lead-up to Prime Day and during Prime Day itself, Amazon said. To celebrate the lead-up to Prime Day from June 17 through July 7, and in addition to the previously announced June Prime Gaming content, Prime members can claim an assortment of

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Finally, a soundbar that completes my home TV setup and is well worth the price

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-17 14:30:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Platin Monaco 5.2.1 speaker system is available on Amazon for $1,000. With a simple setup and well-defined sound, the Monaco is ideal for entertainment streaming and small spaces. The Monaco's subwoofer lacks power, and the system requires a phone app as the remote. $999 at Amazon Last year, the JBL Bar 1000 set a high standard for soundbars. Since then, nothing has come close to the rich, multi-dimensional sound produced by that system, and I cannot imagine any soun

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Case Study: Mars College

news.ycombinator.com Amy Brown Carver 2025-09-14 21:55:53

Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Amy Brown Carver, a Martian and screenwriter, and Grid Free Minds. If you'd like to see more of Amy's work or to reach out to collaborate, you can find her here. I’ve been hearing rumors about Mars College for years, and it sounded straight out of science fiction: artists, AI kids, and hippies building some kind of solarpunk utopia in the desert? Turns out that’s pretty accurate, and the truth is just as interesting as fiction. Read on to learn about how

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You can now set up double dates with friends on Tinder

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-17 11:00:00

In an effort to resonate with younger users amid declining user engagement, Tinder announced on Tuesday the launch of a new Double Date feature, which allows users to team up with friends and chat with potential matches together. Double Date lets users pair up with a friend and browse through other paired users who share at least one of their individual preferences, such as gender and sexual orientation. When one person in a pair receives a match, a group chat begins with all four participants.

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The Humble Programmer (1972)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 13:25:25

The Humble Programmer by Edsger W. Dijkstra As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952 and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the first Dutchman to do so in my country. In retrospect the most amazing thing was the slowness with which, at least in my part of the world, the programming profession emerged, a slowness which is now hard to believe. But I am grateful for two vivid recollections from that

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Tony Gilroy Created His Own ‘Star Wars’ Endings and Aimed for ‘Legit Hope’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-17 16:50:02

When Tony Gilroy and his Andor star Diego Luna decided to cram half a decade’s worth of new Star Wars lore into three episodes per year leading up to the events of Rogue One, they knew the task was unbelievably ambitious. In a chat with the Wrap, Gilroy expressed the excitement everyone involved felt over their great big heist of an entry into Lucasfilm’s Star Wars lore. “We kept waiting for it to fail, going, ‘There must be something that’s going to bite us here.’ We kept waiting for a bugaboo

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Threads Will Now Let You Hide Spoilers, but Logging Off Is Still Free

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-17 20:49:58

If you’re one of those people who refuses to look at social media out of fear of spoilers, Meta’s Instagram-adjacent Threads app has a solution it hopes will keep you doomscrolling anyway. The new tool will let people mark words in their posts as “spoilers,” preventing eyeballs who haven’t yet watched, say, a certain episode of The Last of Us from learning a certain beloved main character’s grisly fate. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the feature “let users hide text or images that spoil a

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Need Free Recycling for Your Old Computers and Printers? Here's Where to Go

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 18:34:00

Are there old electronic devices sitting around your house unused? Though it can be difficult to get rid of that old laptop, desktop or printer you've got sitting around -- even when it's been over a decade since you last plugged it in or switched it on -- recycling old tech is important, and it can free up a lot of space in your home. A recent CNET survey found that 31% of US adults are still holding onto unused old devices, including laptops, because they're unsure of what to do with them. Th

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43% of games skipped GPU upgrade to pay rent instead | Liquid Web

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-09-18 00:35:00

About 43% of gamers skipped a graphics processing unit (GPU) upgrade just to pay rent, according to a new report by Liquid Web. Based on a survey of 1,000 PC gamers, Liquid Web came up with a variety of conclusions about what affects the buying decisions of gamers. And clearly they’re pretty price sensitive now. Liquid Web surveyed the PC gamers to uncover what drives today’s graphics card decisions. The company noted that cloud gaming is a way for players to deal with the high costs of upgrad

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Dutch court upholds antitrust ruling against Apple over App Store and dating apps

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 00:31:14

Apple has been dealt another regulatory blow in Europe this week. A court in Rotterdam has upheld a 2021 decision by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), confirming that the company abused its dominant App Store position. Or at least when it comes to dating apps. This specific case centers on Apple’s long-standing requirement that app developers use its in-app payment system (IAP) for digital purchases, with no option to direct users to external payment methods. According

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Why This Budget-Friendly VPN & Antivirus Combo Is Blowing Up

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-18 00:45:18

A VPN is an excellent option for enhancing your online privacy and security. Meanwhile, virus protection is always welcome if you’re an avid trouble avoider. While these two rarely mix, when they do, it’s always noteworthy. Surfshark, one of the most revered VPNs this year, offers a feature-rich bundle. It features a VPN service with virus protection for all devices for a pocket-change price. The offer is time-limited, so you should act quickly. Get Surfshark + Antivirus At 86% Off VPN + Anti

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Apple to finally let iPhone apps and games offer promo codes for in-app purchases

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-18 04:06:00

Apple is giving App Store developers a long-overdue tool to better promote in-app purchases, including for games. Starting later this year, developers will finally be able to generate and distribute promo codes for any type of in-app purchase, not just subscriptions. Here’s how it’s going to work. From subscriptions to consumables and more Up until now, Apple’s App Store promo code system was mostly limited to unlocking a free download, or for auto-renewable subscriptions, letting developers h

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WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

news.ycombinator.com Eli Tan 2025-09-17 21:38:59

When Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, the messaging app had a clear focus. No ads, no games and no gimmicks. For years, that is what WhatsApp’s two billion users — many of them in Brazil, India and other countries around the world — got. They chatted with friends and family unencumbered by advertising and other features found on social media. Now that is set to change. On Monday, WhatsApp said it would start showing ads inside its app for the first time. The promotions will a

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Latest Tech News

The Night Shift Might Be Harming Women More Than We Thought, Study Finds

Amazon is holding Prime Day 2025 on July 8-11

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

Adobe Firefly app is finally launching to users. Here's how to access (and the perks)

Night Shifts May Raise Your Asthma Risk—If You’re a Woman

Spotify's Daniel Ek leads $694 million investment in defense startup Helsing

Tinder now lets you find double dates with friends

AI threatens to raid the water reserves of Europe's driest regions

Hack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today's AI Devs

Is documentation like pineapple on pizza?

Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware

Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion

Sequoia-backed Crosby launches a new kind of AI-powered law firm

Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public [U: Warning added]

No Hello

You Can Play FBC: Firebreak, Deus Ex and More on PlayStation Plus Now

I Played FBC: Firebreak and It's No Fun Going on the Game's Dark Missions Alone

Amazon Prime Day will take place July 8 to July 11, with six bonus PC games via Prime Gaming

Finally, a soundbar that completes my home TV setup and is well worth the price

Case Study: Mars College

You can now set up double dates with friends on Tinder

The Humble Programmer (1972)

Tony Gilroy Created His Own ‘Star Wars’ Endings and Aimed for ‘Legit Hope’

Threads Will Now Let You Hide Spoilers, but Logging Off Is Still Free

Need Free Recycling for Your Old Computers and Printers? Here's Where to Go

43% of games skipped GPU upgrade to pay rent instead | Liquid Web

Dutch court upholds antitrust ruling against Apple over App Store and dating apps

Why This Budget-Friendly VPN & Antivirus Combo Is Blowing Up

Apple to finally let iPhone apps and games offer promo codes for in-app purchases

WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

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