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Watch AI models compete right now in Google's new Game Arena

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-18 14:17:10

Google ZDNET's key takeaways: Google's new Game Arena will allow models to compete in games head-to-head. You can tune in to the Game Arena at 12:30 p.m. ET Tuesday. The goal is to open the door to potential new business applications. As artificial intelligence evolves, it's becoming increasingly difficult to accurately measure the performance of individual models. To that end, Google unveiled on Tuesday the Game Arena, an open-source platform in which AI models compete in a variety of str

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The Age of Bronze and Steel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 04:18:24

The age of bronze and steel Here's a story I heard last night about 3D printing. (I'm not in the 3D-printing scene. I know people who are, though. And it's an interesting story, what the hell. If I can blog about dirty sea shanties, I can blog about the additive manufacturing industry.) A couple of months ago I retwooted this message about the end of a particular 3D-printed-metal process: Binder jetted steel with bronze infiltration is no more: the last source has discontinued the technology

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Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes

news.ycombinator.com Tobias Mann 2025-08-18 14:18:57

Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday. The web giant already does this sort of thing for non-essential workloads like processing YouTube vids, which it moves to datacenters where power is available rather than continuing to run them in places demand for energy strains the grid. Under an agreement with Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Google will use the same techniques for AI workload

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FCC Abandons Efforts to Make U.S. Broadband Fast and Affordable

news.ycombinator.com Karl Bode 2025-08-18 13:59:50

Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable from the this-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the answer is no, the law says the FCC must “take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market.” Fo

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Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 12:38:36

stagewise The frontend coding agent for production codebases About the project Welcome to stagewise — The frontend coding agent for production codebases 💬 Tell the agent what you want to change 🧠 Click on element(s) to let the agent know where a change should happen 💡 Let stagewise do the magic! Perfect for devs tired of pasting element information and folder paths into prompts. stagewise uses real-time, browser-powered context. Features ⚡ Works out of the box 🧩 Customize and extend fu

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AI is not making engineers 10x as productive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 12:10:42

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome 05 August 2025 AI A few months ago I went through a bit of a mental slump. I've always been confident of my abilities as an engineer, but I couldn't help but feel like my skills were falling hopelessly behind as I scrolled places like LinkedIn and Twitter. If these sources were to be believed, engineering had moved on from the medieval practice of typing code into an editor. Real engineers were now

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SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 14:05:56

Security with a simple API call. Compatible with any language or system. Easy-to-implement without any code rewrites to your identity provider or existing SAML setup.

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Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 14:07:46

I couldn't help but notice - GitHub UI has been getting slower and slower recently. Some things that were snappy before are hellishly slow nowadays. GitHub is doing something weird and I just can't wrap my head around what's going on there. You guys developing at GitHub, you're using GitHub to develop it, right? Do you not see this? What's going on? Whenever I bump into slow website which drives me nuts, I open the devtools and profile it. Who knows, maybe I find something to report and the pr

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Los Alamos is capturing real-time images of explosions at 7mths of a second

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Mcdonald 2025-08-18 12:47:07

Download a print-friendly version of this article. Los Alamos scientists are good at doing things that seem impossible, like taking a picture of something that happens in less than seven-millionths of a second—such as an explosion. And not just one picture, but a series of images that reveal pivotal data about the material that exploded and the physics of the explosion. This so-called dynamic imaging is essential to the Lab’s stockpile stewardship mission because it helps scientists test and un

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GitHub pull requests are down

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 13:39:25

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

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Illinois Bans AI From Providing Therapy

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-08-18 14:00:04

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed, on Friday, a new measure that bans AI from acting as a therapist or counselor and limits its use to strictly administrative or support roles. The Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act comes as states and federal regulators are starting to grapple with how to protect patients from the growing and mostly unregulated use of AI in health care. The new law prohibits individuals and businesses from advertising or offering any therapy services, i

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NYC Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak: Cases and Deaths Double, as Officials Pinpoint the Cause

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-18 14:10:42

An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in NYC has doubled in reported cases and deaths since last week. Officials have struggled to identify the source of the outbreak, but it has now been confirmed. Officials at the NYC Health Department issued the latest update on the outbreak Monday. Fifty-eight people living in Central Harlem have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ since July 25, while two people have died from it. On the positive side, officials have identified several cooling towers contamin

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‘Freakier Friday’ Barely Scrapes By on Its Nostalgic Charms

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-18 14:15:29

Freaky Friday is back after over two decades since we last saw Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan swap bodies thanks to a suitably freaky family curse. However, Disney’s new follow-up, in theaters this week, leaning heavily on the charms of a stellar ensemble, is a sequel constantly threatening to fall apart under the weight of uneven execution. In Freaky Friday, it was just mother Tess Coleman (Curtis) and her daughter Anna (Lohan) who swapped bodies, a kooky way for mother and child to better

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Wildfire Smoke Chokes Canada and U.S., Triggering Air Quality Alerts

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-18 14:25:58

Canada is battling more than 700 active wildfires across the country, roughly two-thirds of which are burning out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC). Smoke billowing from the blazes has blanketed central Canada and the northern U.S., prompting widespread air quality alerts. Federal officials have issued air quality warnings across large swaths of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario, where most of the uncontrolled fires are concentrated. Many cit

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Spider-Punk Is Getting His Own Animated Movie

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-18 14:50:33

Spider-Man Day 2025 has come and gone, bringing some nuggets about Tom Holland’s live-action return in Spider-Man: Brand New Day next year. But today brings news of a Spider-Man movie we’re actually even more excited about: a standalone animated movie centered around Spider-Punk, co-written by Daniel Kaluuya, who voiced the character in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and the upcoming Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Deadline broke the news of the Oscar-winning actor’s new project (late

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'Lilo & Stitch' Gets a Streaming Release Date on Disney Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-18 13:44:04

Disney is set to welcome one of its most beloved characters to its streaming home on Disney Plus with the arrival of Lilo & Stitch next month. The live-action release has raked in just over $1 billion at the box office and will make its way to your TV screen, finding a seat next to its animated predecessor on the streaming platform. Lilo & Stitch revisits the original story of 6-year-old Lilo, a Hawaiian girl being cared for by her older sister Nani, and Stitch, a little blue fugitive alien. Th

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2025 Morgan Plus Four review: Apparently, they do still make them like this

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-18 14:24:41

Lift up either side of the new Morgan Plus Four’s engine decklid and no carburetors or velocity stacks materialize on the engine of this otherwise eminently classic-looking car. The latest generation of Plus Four returns to the American market this year for the first time since 2005. But to make it happen, Morgan spent five years homologating the little roadster with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, technically as a replica. That's why, underneath the left-hand hood, a hilari

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Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-18 14:37:09

Intel has a lot riding on "18A," its next-generation manufacturing process for silicon chips that the company claims will help it catch up to the lead that competitors like TSMC have built up over the last few years. With 18A, Intel would return to manufacturing its own processor designs in its own factories, including the upcoming Series 3 Core Ultra chips for laptops (codenamed Panther Lake), after manufacturing parts of all other Core Ultra chips with TSMC. Intel is also offering 18A manufact

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Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-08-18 14:00:00

On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and cost-effective. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in San Francisco’s SOMA district, more than 200 people gathered to mourn its passing. The star-studded funeral was put on by a group of Claude fanatics and Gen Z founders, one of whom told me he dropped out of college after learning about artificial general intelligence. Attendees included Amanda Askell, an Anthropic researcher who has jokingl

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WhatsApp will show a ‘safety overview’ before you join unknown group chats

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-18 14:00:00

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. WhatsApp is adding another feature designed to protect you from group chat scams. Now, when someone you might not know invites you to a group chat, the app will display a new “safety overview” that appears before you can even see the messages. The overview will include information about the group, including when it was created, who invited you, and

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Google’s Pixel 9A is cheaper than ever right now

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-08-18 14:05:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Google Pixel 9A is a midrange phone done right, offering a great balance of hardware, features, and value. Normally it costs $499, but now you can scoop up the 128GB model for an all-time low of $399 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store. The Pixel A-series has long been our go-to recommendation for a cheap Android phone, and the 9A keeps that streak alive. The device features a 6.3-inch

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This retro camcorder upgrades Super 8 film cameras with modern conveniences

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-08-18 14:41:03

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Camp Snap, a brand known for its budget-friendly screen-free digital cameras, has announced its first video camera. The new Camp Snap CS-8’s design was inspired by the Super 8mm film cameras released by companies like Kodak and Canon in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Its

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WhatsApp adds new features to protect against scams

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-18 14:00:00

WhatsApp is introducing new features to help people spot scams on the messaging service, the company announced on Tuesday. The company also said it has taken down over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal scam centers targeting people around the world. The new features are designed to help detect scams in both group and individual chats on the Meta-owned platform. For group chats, WhatsApp is launching a safety overview feature that will be displayed when someone who isn’t in your

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Google’s NotebookLM is now available to younger users as competition in the AI education space intensifies

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-08-18 14:03:39

Google’s AI note-taking app is now open to younger users, having previously been limited to users 18 and older. The tech giant announced that NotebookLM is available to Google Workspace for Education users of any age and for consumers ages 13 and up. The removal of age restrictions is intended to provide younger students with access to the AI research tool, allowing them to better understand their class materials. Now, students can access features such as the ability to convert notes into podca

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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-08-18 14:24:10

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described by the European Commission as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” After years in the making, it is progressively becoming a part of reality for the 450 million people living in the 27 countries that comprise the EU. The EU AI Act, however, is more than a European affair. It applies to companies both local and foreign, and it can affect both providers and deployers of AI systems; the European Commi

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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-08-18 14:33:03

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on b

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Beyond Retrieval: The Expanding Universe of Augmented Generation in AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-08-18 16:00:01

Introduction Standard large language models (LLMs) possess vast knowledge but struggle with limitations like hallucinations and accessing real-time information due to their static training data. This has spurred the development of dynamic AI architectures. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a key solution, integrating external knowledge into the generation process. However, the field is rapidly evolving beyond basic RAG. Newer models like RASG (Retrieval-Augmented Self-Generate

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Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-18 18:42:22

Andrew Grush / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon is offering the NFL Sunday Ticket free ($480 value) to users adding a new line or switching to Verizon Home Internet. Customers not making these changes can still save over $200 on the NFL Sunday Ticket through Verizon. Verizon customers can also grab limited free NFL game tickets via the My Verizon app on August 7. erizon recently drew some negative attention for removing loyalty discounts alongside a few minor fee increases, but this time, Big

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Don’t look now, but Roku’s got its own streaming service

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-18 18:44:11

Adam Birney / Android Authority TL;DR Roku is launching Howdy, a $3/month streaming service. The ad-free offering debuts with content from Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, FilmRise, and Roku Originals. Viewers can stream through Roku hardware or with the company’s Android app. It’s painfully clear by now that streaming is not going to fix the ills of cable TV — and, if anything, it’s only managed to introduce new headaches. At least back in the day you could just subscribe to your local pr

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Spotify customers in the US now have access to a lot more audiobook listening time

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-08-18 18:40:55

Spotify has been gradually rolling out its Audiobooks+ service around the world, and today it has reached subscribers in the United States. After testing the Audiobooks+ service in Canada and Ireland, Spotify began expanding it to additional markets in July. The expanded audiobook streaming service reached the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein on July 17. As of today, Spotify Premium customers in the U.S

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Latest Tech News

Watch AI models compete right now in Google's new Game Arena

The Age of Bronze and Steel

Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes

FCC Abandons Efforts to Make U.S. Broadband Fast and Affordable

Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

AI is not making engineers 10x as productive

SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?

Los Alamos is capturing real-time images of explosions at 7mths of a second

GitHub pull requests are down

Illinois Bans AI From Providing Therapy

NYC Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak: Cases and Deaths Double, as Officials Pinpoint the Cause

‘Freakier Friday’ Barely Scrapes By on Its Nostalgic Charms

Wildfire Smoke Chokes Canada and U.S., Triggering Air Quality Alerts

Spider-Punk Is Getting His Own Animated Movie

'Lilo & Stitch' Gets a Streaming Release Date on Disney Plus

2025 Morgan Plus Four review: Apparently, they do still make them like this

Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects

Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model

WhatsApp will show a ‘safety overview’ before you join unknown group chats

Google’s Pixel 9A is cheaper than ever right now

This retro camcorder upgrades Super 8 film cameras with modern conveniences

WhatsApp adds new features to protect against scams

Google’s NotebookLM is now available to younger users as competition in the AI education space intensifies

The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation. Here’s what it is.

Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

Beyond Retrieval: The Expanding Universe of Augmented Generation in AI

Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

Don’t look now, but Roku’s got its own streaming service

Spotify customers in the US now have access to a lot more audiobook listening time

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