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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:20:11

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Gone but not forgotten: Survey reveals Android users miss these features the most

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 08:00:50

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Our smartphones have undergone profound commodification. But in the process of forging them into objects we use and rely on for nearly every waking hour, phone companies have focused a lot on optimizing utility, which, in turn, has resulted in many key features being dropped from our beloved devices. These days, leading brands especially insist on slimming down phones more, even going against what users may truly want. So, to get a sense of which features our

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Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25B

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-17 05:19:44

In Brief Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire identity management and security company CyberArk for $25 billion. The deal, a mix of cash and stock, marks Palo Alto’s entrance into the identity security space, according to a company press release. Palo Alto has been on a shopping spree since Nikesh Arora took over as CEO and chairman of the company in 2018, according to the Financial Times, which estimated the company has spent more than $7 billion

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-20 06:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-12-20 08:30:00

Last week, the United Kingdom began requiring residents to verify their ages before accessing online pornography and other adult content, all in the name of protecting children. Almost immediately, things did not go as planned—although, they did go as expected. As experts predicted, UK residents began downloading virtual private networks (VPNs) en masse, allowing them to circumvent age verification, which can require users to upload their government IDs, by making it look like they’re in a diff

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More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-19 22:00:00

Weeks after the revelation that Google paid Windsurf $2.4 billion to license its technology, while simultaneously hiring away its CEO and top talent, the deal’s implications are still rattling some founders and startup employees across Silicon Valley. Google’s payment to the startup was effectively split in two equal parts, according to two people familiar with the deal. Investors’ portion was $1.2 billion. The other half was in the form of compensation packages for approximately 40 Windsurf e

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New Instagram rule cuts off Live broadcasts for small accounts

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-20 17:55:04

Meta is following TikTok’s lead, and will restrict private accounts, and accounts with less than 1,000 followers, from going live. Here are the details. Feature now limited to public accounts with 1,000+ followers Since Instagram introduced its Live feature in 2016, it has been available to all users, whether they were major influencers, had just a handful of followers, or used a public or private account. This week, however, users with private accounts or fewer than 1,000 followers were met

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Why open-source AI became an American national priority

venturebeat.com Clément Delangue 2025-12-20 20:07:25

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House has elevated what was once a highly technical topic into an urgent national concern — and a key strategy to winning the AI race against China.

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The clock is ticking: Google has 14 days to make major changes to the Play Store

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 22:43:24

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has 14 days to enact the Play Store changes needed to resolve its antitrust issues. The tech giant has now filed an emergency stay with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The company believes that making these changes in such a short amount of time will put users and developers at risk. On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling from the original Epic v. Google lawsuit, giving Epic Games the big win it was looking for.

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Tesla Ordered to Pay More Than $200 Million Over Fatal Autopilot Crash

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-21 03:35:44

A jury in Florida found Tesla partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving one of the company’s vehicles operating in Autopilot mode. The jury awarded a combined $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages to Tesla, according to The New York Times. The incident in question occurred in Key Largo, Florida, in 2019. George McGee was behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S and had the company’s Autopilot software activated while traveling down a two-lane road at night. As the car drove throu

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Google backpedals on plans to totally kill this legacy service

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 08:13:14

It’s hard to believe, but Google launched its URL Shortener tool all the way back in 2009. Although the tool was shut down in 2018, Google confirmed that goo.gl URLs would continue to redirect to their intended destinations. However, the tech giant announced last year that it would stop supporting those links after August 25, 2025. That was the plan anyway, but the company has since had a slight change of heart. Google has updated the blog post where it announced the shutdown of Google URL Shor

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Yes, You Can Bundle Other Cybersecurity Services With Some VPNs. But Is It a Good Idea?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 08:00:00

If all you’re using to protect your digital privacy and security is a VPN and your own vigilance, you’re still leaving yourself vulnerable to various online threats like phishing, malware, identity theft and ransomware. To fully protect yourself, you need to start putting together an arsenal of privacy and security tools. Using a trustworthy VPN is a great start because a VPN can boost your online privacy by encrypting your internet traffic and masking your true IP address. But a VPN is only on

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Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 08:40:49

Tesla was found partially liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in a federal court in Miami today. It's the first time that a jury has found against the car company in a wrongful death case involving its Autopilot driver assistance system—previous cases have been dismissed or settled. In 2019, George McGee was operating his Tesla Model S using Autopilot when he ran past a stop sign and through an intersection at 62 mph then struck a pair of people stargazing by the side of the road. Naibel Benavid

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Horrifying Video Shows Amusement Park Ride Breaking Apart Mid-Ride

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:05:02

Thankfully, nobody died. Snapped in Half Terrifying video footage going viral on social media shows an amusement park ride splitting in half and collapsing in western Saudi Arabia. The video shows the "360 Big Pendulum" ride failing dramatically, sending passengers crashing to the ground. As ABC News reports, the incident occurred in the city of Taif, roughly a 2.5-hour drive east of Jeddah. More than 20 people were injured, forcing the entire amusement park, Green Mountain Resort, to close

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Some goo.gl URLs will live to fight another day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 12:35:08

Google's shortened URLs are the horror movie monster of the Google Graveyard: They keep finding a way to stay alive. On Friday, the company said goo.gl links that don't show the above warning will work for the foreseeable future. In 2018, Google cut off the ability to create new shortened links. But it kept existing URLs active as a courtesy to those who relied on them. Then, a year ago, the company said its bit.ly rival would shut down completely on August 25, 2025. That appeared to be the fin

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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

news.ycombinator.com Nicholas Khami 2025-12-21 10:59:51

July 30, 2025 , Nicholas Khami I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself For over a year, I was bugged by a search quirk on Mintlify that caused race conditions and wonky search results. Here’s the fun irony: I was the founder of Trieve, the company that powered search for their 30,000+ documentation sites, yet their debounced search queries weren’t being aborted as you typed. Check out this delightful chaos: I had brought this up in our shared Slack before when I was just a

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Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-21 12:41:09

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will be deactivated in August will still stop working — the company started showing the deactivation message nine months ago on URLs that “showed no activity in late 2024” — but otherwise, “all other goo.g

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Truecaller’s call-recording feature won’t work on iPhones from September 30

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-21 08:36:07

Truecaller is discontinuing its call recording function on iOS — just over two years after the feature was launched — as the Swedish company opts to focus on its core offering: fighting spam calls. On Friday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that its call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud

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Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Loading a Washing Machine Pretty Well

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-21 15:18:25

"First time seeing a humanoid robot actually doing a task in a home." Dirty Laundry Humanoid robots remain far-fetched — but certain demos are starting to suggest a plausible future in which they could actually become common fixtures in regular households. In an impressive new demo, humanoid robot company Figure founder Brett Adcock showed off the company's F.02 robot effortlessly loading dirty laundry from a basket into a washing machine. Adcock can be seen adding items of clothing to the b

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Yes in My Bamako Yard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 23:22:26

YIMBYs have been winning in some of the most productive cities on Earth. Legislative victories in California and the UK have made it easier — if still not easy — to build. The logic of pro-housing reforms is both straightforward and well-supported: Fewer regulatory barriers to building mean more houses, which leads to more affordable housing and, in turn, more people able to live in dense cities that offer all the benefits of urban life. City life makes workers smarter and more productive. Urban

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Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 17:01:08

Software Engineer Engineering • Full Time Want to make it so that millions of Americans get better financial outcomes, the insurance industry is more price transparent and policies are easy to understand? Join Coverage Cat, where we’ve built the AI-native insurance broker of the future, combining data, matchmaking, and recommendations into a single-service website that solves non-commercial insurance needs. We look for senior engineers that want to own and build products end to end, gather th

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Lego’s Newest Collectible Minifigures Swing Into the Spider-Verse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-21 17:05:25

Lego’s Collectible Minifigure series has crossed with a bunch of licenses at this point, from Dungeons & Dragons to The Muppets and many more—including both Marvel Comics and the MCU. But we’ve never had an entire wave dedicated to Spider-Man before, and Lego is entering the Spider-Verse in style. Revealed today as part of the Spider-Man Day celebrations, Lego confirmed that its next wave of blind-boxed collectible minifigures will draw on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to give fans 12 dif

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Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits

news.ycombinator.com Erlang Solutions Team 2025-12-21 22:20:07

Keep up to date with the latest news, best practice ideas and exclusive offers. Don’t miss out. Sign up here. Sign up for our quarterly newsletter At Erlang Solutions, our support for the BEAM community is long-standing and built into everything we do. From contributing to open-source tools and sponsoring events to improving security and shaping ecosystem standards, we’re proud to play an active role in helping the BEAM ecosystem grow and thrive. One way we’re putting that support into action

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Microsoft Needs to Make Affordable 5G Surface Laptops a Reality

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-22 03:20:14

Microsoft didn’t launch its 2025 lineup of Surface devices with a 5G option. Instead, it waited a few months for interest to die down enough to release its business-end version with a starting price nearly twice that of the one built for the average joe. It shows that if users want a laptop that can connect to the internet without relying on spotty public or Starbucks Wi-Fi, they need to pay through the nose. Hopefully Microsoft’s new tech will get cheaper later, though only if laptop makers rec

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AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-22 06:00:00

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. The security issue is now identified as CVE-2025-54135 and can be leveraged by feeding the AI agent a malicious prompt to trigger attacker-control commands. The Cursor integrated development environment (IDE) relies on AI agents to help developers code faster and more efficiently, allowing them to connect

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Long Term Support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 08:28:11

Long Term Support The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050. At this writing, 2050 is still 25 years in the future. Nobody knows what will happen in that time, and we cannot absolutely promise that SQLite will be viable or useful that far out. But we can promise this: we plan as if we will be supporting SQLite until 2050. That long-term outlook affects our decisions in important ways. Cross-platform Code → SQLite runs on any platform with an 8-bit byte, two's com

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Truecaller’s call recording feature won’t work on iPhones from Sept. 30

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-22 08:36:07

Truecaller is discontinuing its call recording function on iOS — just over two years after the feature was launched — as the Swedish company opts to focus on its core offering: fighting spam calls. On Friday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that its call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud

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The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 09:30:03

Game details Developer: Hypnohead Publisher: Tinybuild Platform: Windows Release Date: July 21, 2025 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $15 Links: Steam | Twitter As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of units, upgrade trees, and surprise encounters with the enemy requires a level of attention-splitting that can strain even the best multitas

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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

wired.com David Cox 2025-12-22 12:19:14

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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This All-Terrain Electric Scooter Punches Above Its Budget-Friendly Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-22 16:00:10

Table of Contents This All-Terrain Electric Scooter Punches Above Its Budget-Friendly Price The Turboant R9 is the most powerful electric scooter in the company's current lineup. That would mean more if Turboant didn't specialize in inexpensive models best suited for casually zipping around town and last-mile commutes. On the other hand, at $550, the R9 overdelivers on features and performance with its 500-watt rear brushless motor, 10-inch knobby tubed tires and a design aimed at riders who wa

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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs

Gone but not forgotten: Survey reveals Android users miss these features the most

Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25B

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

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More details emerge on how Windsurf’s VCs and founders got paid from the Google deal

New Instagram rule cuts off Live broadcasts for small accounts

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Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

Horrifying Video Shows Amusement Park Ride Breaking Apart Mid-Ride

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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links

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Yes in My Bamako Yard

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The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

This All-Terrain Electric Scooter Punches Above Its Budget-Friendly Price

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