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NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 14:18:13

About five years from now, a modified Dragon spacecraft will begin to fire its Draco thrusters, pushing the International Space Station out of its orbit and sending the largest object humans have built in space inexorably to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And then what? China's Tiangong Space Station will still be going strong. NASA, however, faces a serious risk of losing its foothold in low-Earth orbit. Space agency leaders have long recognized this and nearly half a decade ago awarded abo

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Federal regulators give Zoox an exemption for its custom-built robotaxis

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-12-11 14:02:51

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given Zoox an exemption to demonstrate its custom-built robotaxis on public roads and closed a related investigation into whether the Amazon-owned company had sidestepped federal regulations. The decision, which was announced Wednesday, clears up a long-standing debate over whether Zoox’s custom-built autonomous vehicles complied with federal motor vehicle safety standards, which place requirements on vehicles such as having a steering wh

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Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 18:29:56

Key sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from Congress' website. Provisions including habeas corpus (due process) and the prohibition of nobility titles (like, say, King) vanished from the digital version of the document. They've since been restored. 404 Media first reported on the edits after users on Lemmy forums spotted them. There are many ways to read a copy of the US Constitution. But the Library of Congress' online version is one of the easiest to find. Alongside its

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This wall-mounted smart calendar has been a game changer in my home (and it's $50 off)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-11 17:59:58

ZDNET's key takeaways The 15-inch Skylight Calendar is a smart display for $320, with a 10-inch version available for $160. It's a touchscreen calendar designed with busy lifestyles in mind that allows for shared use within a household or team. Though it's proven indispensable for my family, I wish the chores, not just the events, were visible in the calendar view, and the 15-inch version is expensive at $320. $269.99 at Amazon The Skylight Calendar is on sale for $270 just in time for back-t

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These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-11 18:26:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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Companies Find Potential Way to Avoid Trump Tariffs and Keep Prices Low

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-11 18:35:50

Donald Trump’s tariff regime has been scoffed at by business leaders and world economists (Larry Summers, for instance, called it both “crazy” and “dumb”), but the White House hasn’t backed down from its highly unconventional program. The tariffs, which are taxing American businesses on their imports, are reportedly generating billions of dollars in revenue for the federal government on a month-to-month basis. Many businesses aren’t happy about it, however, and now several lawsuits are threateni

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Best Sports Streaming Service for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 17:00:00

Access to regional sports networks may make or break your decision for sports streaming, so check with each provider to see if they offer the selection for the teams you want to watch. On-demand streaming services cost less than live options, but they may be limited when it comes to live sports. However, a cheaper platform may meet your needs, depending on what you want to watch. Choose a subscription that aligns with your budget, and when considering costs, review the channel selection, RSN av

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Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 18:42:19

Snowball the dancing cockatoo gets down with his bad self to the Backstreet Boys. In 2008, a YouTube video featuring an Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball dancing to the beat of the Backstreet Boys went viral. His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body movements to music was believed to be a uniquely human activity. Nor is Snowball an isolated case. Griffi the Dancing Cockatoo has his own YouTube channel, for example, and a recent TikTok video showed two sister coc

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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Is a Delightful Mix of Gothic Whimsy and Brutal Horror

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-11 23:30:36

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is back at Nevermore Academy with a new deadly mystery in Tim Burton’s Wednesday. Season two of the hit Netflix series raises the stakes with bolder teen angst, as well as a surprising body count. Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return with exactly what fans loved from season one, amplified by the addition of new creative voices that truly capture the essence of Wednesday Addams. That includes Ortega’s influence as executive producer, and her collaborati

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Yes, you can edit video like a pro on Linux - here are my 4 go-to apps

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-12 04:19:05

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has several high-quality video editors. You'll find some pro-level and some built for consumers. The best-in-class goes to DaVinci Resolve. I've been filming and editing videos for a long time. When I first started, I worked with software that was user-friendly but incapable of producing professional-level videos. Slowly, I climbed the ladder. Now I feel like the tools I have are worthy of being taken seriously. That's not to say tho

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Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

news.ycombinator.com Writing A Rust Gpu Kernel Driver 2025-12-12 04:00:54

This post is the second iteration of a series of posts that provide an in-depth look at the development of Tyr, a state-of-the-art Rust GPU driver for the Linux Kernel, supporting Arm Mali CSF-based GPUs. As promised in the first iteration, we will now explore how GPU drivers work in more detail by exploring an application known as VkCube . As the program name implies, this application uses the Vulkan API to render a rotating cube on the screen. Its simplicity makes it a prime candidate to be u

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NASA Approves Ted Cruz’s Plan to Move a Space Shuttle to Houston, Setting Up a Fight With the Smithsonian

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-12 04:40:56

NASA has selected a yet-to-be-named Space Shuttle to move to Houston, conceding to a long-running bid by Texas senators to house one of the iconic vehicles. If the chosen vehicle is Discovery—which it likely is—the Smithsonian, which houses the vehicle, may put up a fight. The Trump administration included the shuttle’s relocation in the budget reconciliation bill, signed it into law on July 4, and set aside $85 million for the move and construction of a new facility in Houston. At the time, Te

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OpenAI Announces Massive US Government Partnership

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-12-12 04:48:11

OpenAI is partnering with the US government to make its leading frontier models available to federal employees. Under the agreement, federal agencies can access OpenAI’s models for $1 for the next year, per a Wednesday announcement from the company and the General Services Administration (GSA). The partnership is the culmination of months of effort on the part of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives, who have been cozying up to the Trump administration since before President Donald

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Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-12 04:00:00

Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks. Google initially announced Jules as a Google Labs project in December and made it available to beta testers through a public preview at

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Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-12 09:10:11

Silver Surfer Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog — and it's a doozy. The Unitree A2 Stellar Explorer, advertised as being "lighter, stronger, and faster," can perform some impressive stunts, from front flips and traversing extreme environments. In fact, it can even hold up the weight of an adult man riding it like a bizarre four-legged skateboard. As seen in a new promotional video, the A2 effortlessly holds up a 220-pound man who climbs onto its back. Ev

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How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-12 09:21:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 08:18:44

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We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Prokopov 2025-12-12 09:33:37

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Imagine you’re writing a project and need a library. Let’s call it libpupa . You look up its current version, which is 1.2.3 , and add it to your dependencies: "libpupa": "1.2.3" In turn, the developer of libpupa , when writing its version 1.2.3 , needed another library: liblupa . So they did the same thing: they looked up the version, which was 0.7.8 at the time, and added it to the dependencies of libpupa 1.2.3 : "liblupa": "0.7.8" The version 0.7.8 of

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Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world

theverge.com Marina Galperina 2025-12-12 09:46:23

is the Senior Tech Editor at The Verge. She previously covered tech, science, and art at Popular Science, Gizmodo, and other places. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I’m excited to announce The Stepback, a weekly subscriber-only newsletter that I’ll be editing for The Verge. We’ll be bringing you a new story each Sunday from a rotating cast of writers from every corner of the Verge extended universe. If you’re a regular reader, you know w

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Welcome to Regulator

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-12-12 09:46:31

You’ll often see tech policy reporting described as the intersection of technology and politics, and for years, that was a pretty accurate description: Silicon Valley existed independent of Washington politics, and every so often, they’d cross paths, discuss some regulatory concern, write a check, shake hands, and then go their separate ways. This is no longer the case. Tech and politics have violently crashed into each other, and the leaders from both sides are locked in an existential fight t

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Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters

theverge.com Kara Verlaney 2025-12-12 09:48:26

is The Verge’s managing editor who oversees operations. An editor with 10 years of experience, she joined The Verge in 2016. Today, I’m excited to announce three newsletter offerings, exclusive to Verge subscribers, that will continue to deliver must-read stories about tech and beyond. First, we’re introducing Regulator by Tina Nguyen. Regulator is focused on the battles between Big Tech and Big Government — from the juicy palace intrigue to the devastating consequences of their political game

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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-12 09:01:00

The director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism. On Wednesday, Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year. Ahead of his talk, Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what

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Disney+ will unhinge its jaw and swallow Hulu in 2026

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 14:44:58

It’s almost the end of the road for Hulu as a standalone app. Now that it fully owns Hulu , Disney will entirely integrate the streaming service into Disney+. It will roll out a new, unified app next year. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the price of a Disney+ subscription is going to skyrocket in 2026. A Disney spokesperson told Variety the company will still offer standalone plans for Disney+ and Hulu. Disney CEO Bob Igor said on an earnings call that having Disney+ and Hulu on the same t

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Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers

news.ycombinator.com Jeroen Coelen 2025-12-12 12:20:21

Julia Vidal, co-founder of Badge, began with a simple problem: remote workers often roam the city searching for a workplace that won’t shoo them away. As coffee shops and cafés are increasingly adopting no-laptop policies, she envisioned a startup. What if partnered cafés allowed the reservation of a laptop spot, but just with a minimum spend, so everybody is happy? Basically, AirBnB, for café-based workspaces with proper WiFi. Quick prototype validates demand on the consumer side To test wh

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The Extravagant Rise of the Corporate Incentive Trip

wired.com Anna Silman 2025-12-12 14:40:00

Business travel doesn’t typically conjure up the most glamorous images: working group sessions in overlit conference rooms, awkward dinners with coworkers at unmemorable chain restaurants. But for some lucky employees, there’s a special subset of work travel that isn’t just something to look forward to but something to fight for: the corporate incentive trip. Mark, a former sales director at LinkedIn who asked to not use his real name, is a frequent flyer in the world of corporate incentive tra

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Ask HN: Do you struggle with flow state when using AI assisted coding tools?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:08:01

It's been extremely difficult for me to achieve a flow state while using tools like `claude code` because I have to wait after every interaction. I get easily distracted, my mind wonders and I find myself reading HN and browsing the internet. I'm more productive in most of the tasks I need to do but in some of these detours I loose long periods of times without even noticing. I've tried keeping the console open and reading through the AI agent process but that gets me nervous after a few intera

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The Internet’s Biggest Travel Nerd Shares Pointers on Points

wired.com Jaclyn Trop 2025-12-12 18:00:00

In an ever-expanding internet kingdom of travel-reward nerds, Gary Leff reigns supreme. He has penned the blog View from the Wing for 23 years while maintaining a full-time career as a chief financial officer at a university research center. But miles, points, and rewards are not merely a side hustle or a second job; they’re a lifestyle. “I couldn't tell you how long I spend on the blog, because I’m doing the things that I enjoy anyway,” says Leff. “I’m enough on the spectrum that I forget anyo

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ESPN live sports streaming app gets launch date and bundle pricing

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-12 23:31:50

ESPN is launching its long-awaited standalone streaming service later this month. The sports-focused subscription video service officially has a launch date, bundle pricing, and other details confirmed. ESPN will launch its live sports streaming service on Thursday, August 21. That happens to be the same day that FOX is debuting its own standalone streaming service which includes live sports as well. The dedicated ESPN streaming service will be priced at $29.99/month, as previously announced,

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NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 23:45:30

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has several goals, most of which are meant to help scientists determine whether Mars could ever have supported life in the past. And while it's still very much operational and doing science, NASA has had to make adjustments and give it new capabilities to ensure

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Here’s an early look at Gboard’s Material 3 Expressive refresh (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 06:12:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a Material 3 Expressive redesign for the Gboard app settings. The redesign features a card-style user interface and a rearranged settings menu with new descriptions. Gboard is one of those apps I cannot live without, so much so that I even install it on my iPhones (which sounds blasphemous, but it works great). On Android phones, Google is working to bring a Material 3 Expressive redesign for Gboard settings, so you can enjoy a co

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NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations

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Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world

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