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Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-06 21:19:53

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrived in Washington this week with a carefully crafted message for policymakers: Artificial intelligence is already boosting productivity for millions of Americans, and his company intends to keep it “democratic” by putting it in everyone’s hands. As the capital buzzes with debates over AI regulation, Altman is positioning OpenAI not as a disruptor to be feared, but as an engine for universal progress. “It’s not about stopping disruption, but putting it into people’s han

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 24, #1496

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 20:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 21:34:26

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle, will reportedly bring OpenAI's total Stargate capacity under development to over 5 gigawatts. The data center has taken root in Abilene, Texas, a city of 127,000 located 150 miles west of Fort Worth. The city, which serves

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Fusion Startup Says It's Figured Out How to Turn Mercury Into Gold

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-06 23:21:29

A fusion energy startup claims to have found a way to turn mercury into gold. As the Financial Times reports, San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion says that the same process that could one day represent a limitless source of clean energy could also be used for literal alchemy. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, nuclear transmutation — effectively changing an element or isotope into a different one by ripping out protons from its nucleus — could be used to synthesize gold particles.

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Major Rule About Cooking Meat Turns Out to Be Wrong

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Gritzer 2026-01-07 06:02:46

Contrary to common belief, resting meat isn’t really about retaining juices, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless. Instead, it’s best understood as a temperature-control method for managing carryover cooking. To use it effectively, though, you have to completely rethink how the technique works and how to apply it. Is dark matter real? How do consciousness and memory actually work? And is it really necessary to rest your meat after cooking? These are the big, unresolved questions that keep scien

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Here’s the Front-Runner to Play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s AI Movie

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-07 06:45:18

It seems like you haven’t really made it in Silicon Valley until a major movie actor plays you on film. Jesse Eisenberg portrayed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, and Michael Fassbender played Steve Jobs in the 2015 film Steve Jobs. Even Bill Gates was played by Anthony Michael Hall in the 1999 TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley. And now Elon Musk is reportedly next in line to get the Hollywood treatment. Deadline reported today that Ike Barinholtz, the star of The Studio,

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How to increase your surface area for luck

news.ycombinator.com Cate Hall 2026-01-07 11:55:28

This post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book (and builds on a couple of paragraphs in my original post on agency). I’ll be running a few excerpts here in the coming months, in hopes of getting feedback on the kinds of content people are excited to see in the book (which is a signal about what to expand or scale back). Let me know what you think! One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff — socially, intellectually,

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Cara – High Precision Robot Dog Using Rope

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 16:38:20

Finding the Exact 8:1 Gear Ratio The starting point of this project was figuring out how to achieve an exact 8:1 gear ratio with the capstan drives. In my capstan drive video, I designed all the drives to have an 8:1 gear ratio—but when measured, none of them actually did. The commenters on that video pretty accurately diagnosed my mistake. I had made the outer diameter of the big drum 8 times larger than the outer diameter of the small drum, but this doesn't account for the diameter of the rop

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Optery (YC W22) Is Hiring in Engineering, Legal, Sales, Marketing (U.S., Latam)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 16:01:14

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Open source X rival Mastodon begins raising funds with new in-app donation feature

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-07 16:15:37

Open source X and Threads competitor Mastodon will begin experimenting with a new way to raise funds: in-app donations. The organization on Wednesday announced it’s launching a campaign that introduces banners inside its Android and iOS apps, prompting users to make a monetary donation. Initially, the feature will be shown only to those on the Mastodon servers the nonprofit itself operates, Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online. These banners will be easy to dismiss, Mastodon says, and will only

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Microsoft's big AI update for Windows 11 is here - what's new

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-07 21:18:32

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Windows 11 users will find a host of new features awaiting them with a major update now being rolled out by Microsoft. Launched on Tuesday specifically for Windows 11 24H2, the optional update known as KB5062660 carries with it a cavalcade of AI-powered skills along with general enhancements and bug fixes galore. In a Tuesday blog post, Microsoft touted all the new AI tools and tricks in the update. For better or worse, most of these are geared toward Copilot+ PCs, so if y

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Optimizations That Aren't

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 10:49:24

Optimizations that aren't We all like it when our code is fast. Some of us like the result, but dislike the process of optimization; others enjoy the process. However, optimization for the sake of optimization is wrong, unless you’re doing it in your pet project. Optimized code is sometimes less readable and, consequently, harder to understand and modify; because of that, optimization often introduces subtle bugs. Since optimization is not a process with only positive effects, in production it

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How to Watch Germany vs. Spain From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Semi-Final Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-07 21:00:33

World champions and tournament favorites Spain must overcome eight-time UEFA Women's Euro champions Germany today to claim a place in Sunday's showpiece final. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. Today's game marks the first time the Spanish have reached the semi-finals of this tournament since 1997. They struggled to get past hosts Switzerland

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Meta researchers are developing a gesture-controlled wristband that can interact with a computer

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2026-01-07 21:44:51

Meta researchers are developing a wristband that lets people control a computer using hand gestures. This includes moving a cursor, opening apps, and sending messages by writing in the air as if using a pencil. Meta’s wristband employs a technique called surface electromyography (sEMG), which detects electrical signals generated by muscle activity to interpret user movements, as explained in a research paper published in the journal Nature. These signals can sense a person’s intended actions, e

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Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-08 00:11:26

For months, we and our colleagues elsewhere in the tech media have been reporting on what experts are now calling "ChatGPT psychosis": when AI users fall down alarming mental health rabbit holes in which a chatbot encourages wild delusions about conspiracies, mystical entities, or crackpot new scientific theories. The resulting breakdowns have led users to homelessness, involuntary commitment to psychiatric care facilities, and even violent death and suicide. Until recently, the tech industry

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What to Expect from Debian/Trixie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 23:27:38

Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025. I was the driving force at several of my customers to be well prepared for the upcoming stable release (my efforts for trixie started in August 2024). On the one hand, to make sure packages we care about are available and actually make it into the release. On the other hand, to ensure there are no severe issues that make it into the release and to get proper and working upgrades. So far eve

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Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 00:48:22

Proxmox Donates €10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is delighted to announce a generous €10,000 donation from Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, supporting the critical Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Corporate partnerships play a critical role in enabling TPRF to fulfill its mission. A Partner in Open Source Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete, open-source server management platform for enterprise virtualization. It tightly integrates the KVM hyperviso

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Newly Discovered Gut ‘Sense’ Could Change How We Think About Hunger and Health

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-08 02:30:39

There really is something to the concept of having a gut feeling. New research out today suggests our bodies can directly sense and communicate with the many bacteria lining our digestive tract. Scientists at Duke University led the study, published Wednesday in Nature. They found that nerve cells can respond in real time to bacterial signals from the gut—including signals that tell us to curb our appetite. The findings suggest the relationship we have with our microbial neighbors is even more

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European authorities arrest alleged admin of notorious Russian crime forum XSS

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-08 02:45:38

In Brief European officials have confirmed the arrest of the alleged administrator behind XSS.is, one of the longest-running Russian-language cybercrime forums. Per Europol, the alleged administrator was arrested in Ukraine on Tuesday. A law enforcement notice on XSS now reads: “This domain has been seized.” According to a statement by prosecutors in Paris, French authorities obtained a court order to conduct surveillance on a Jabber server used by the administrator for instant messaging. The

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My 10 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-08 06:22:43

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Linux is on the rise. I believe the popularity of the open-source operating system will continue to increase and possibly even hit the 10% mark by the end of 2025. Some say that's a pipe dream, but I believe. Because of the popularity of Linux, I thought I would create a list of my all-time top 10 distributions that I've used over the years. Some of these distros are no longer with us, while some of them are still thriving. Are you ready to take a

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-01-08 11:41:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underut

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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 11:03:22

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4) by Ploum on 2025-07-23 Previously in "20 years of Linux on the Deskop": After contributing to the launch of Ubuntu as the "perfect Linux desktop", Ploum realises that Ubuntu is drifting away from both Debian and GNOME. In the meantime, mobile computing threatens to make the desktop irrelevant. The big desktop schism The fragmentation of the Ubuntu/GNOME communities became all too apparent when, in 2010, Mark Shuttleworth announced during the Ubuntu

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CrowdStrike-backed compliance startup Vanta valued at $4 billion in new funding round

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-08 16:00:01

Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of Vanta, speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2024. Vanta, a startup with software for managing compliance with cybersecurity and privacy standards, said Wednesday that it closed its latest fundraising round at a roughly $4 billion valuation. The $150 million round, which included funding from CrowdStrike's venture arm, represents a valuation increase from $2.45 billion last year. The jump reflects continued corporate

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Best Indoor Garden Systems (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Kat Merck 2026-01-08 16:00:00

FAQ What Are Hydroponics? In the simplest terms, hydroponic gardening means to grow plants without roots in soil. Sometimes the plants are suspended in water, like in the Rise or Gardyn; sometimes they're in pods attached to a wick, like in the Click & Grow; and sometimes they have water sprayed or misted on their roots, like in the Lettuce Grow and Plantaform. Usually this is in concert with an artificial light source, either indoors or in an outdoor enclosure. What Are the Benefits of Hydro

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Maingear’s Retro95 combines ’90s-era PC design with modern specs

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-08 16:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Maingear is launching a ’90s-era horizontal desktop with modern components inside. The Retro95 is a beige sleeper build and is for anyone who is nostalgic for the days of Windows 95, floppy discs, dial-up internet, and LAN parties. The Retro95 is a prebuilt, customized iteration of the SilverStone FLP01, a case that originated as an April Fools’ joke before becoming a reality

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These 6 gadgets got me through college - here's why they make such a big difference

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2026-01-09 00:40:17

A laptop is a college staple, and there's no way around it. Choosing a laptop for school is a big commitment because while you want it to last all four years and offer great speed and function, you need to find one that suits your major or degree program. Be sure to check out your program's website (or contact a department chair) to see if there are any recommended laptops, operating systems, or specs. My 2021 HP Envy x360 2-in-1 laptop lasted three years of school (it was my second laptop afte

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SubTropolis and KC's Limestone Caves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 11:10:57

Beneath Kansas City's streets lies an unexpected wonder—SubTropolis, the world's largest underground business complex, spanning over 6 million square feet in a 270-million-year-old limestone deposit. Carved out of limestone in the 1940s, this hidden metropolis was the vision of Lamar Hunt, famed founder of the Kansas City Chiefs. Originally a mining site, SubTropolis has become an essential part of Kansas City’s economic landscape. The origins of SubTropolis date back to the late 19th and earl

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Playful Airline Safety Videos Could Be Making Passengers Less Safe

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-09 02:00:21

When you board a plane, chances are you want to stick your noise-canceling earphones in as soon as possible and pass out before the toddler in the row behind you starts screaming. Plus, if you’re a frequent traveler, you probably know the in-flight safety video by heart. Or do you? A survey published last month in the Journal of Travel Research reveals that not only did most participants fail an airline safety quiz immediately after watching the in-flight safety video, but that viewers of video

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This Is What Your Poop Is Trying to Tell You About Your Gut Health

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-08 23:17:03

While you may not regularly discuss your bowel movements with friends, it is still important to pay attention to them. After all, how often you poop, what your poop looks like and how long it takes you to poop can tell you a lot about your gut health, according to experts. To help you figure out what is normal versus unhealthy, we reached out to three gastroenterologists about everything you've ever wanted to know about your bowel movements. How often should you poop? You probably have someone

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Technical Content Writer (Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 04:34:30

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for a technical content writer to help us tell that story and scale our educational content. Depot has created a build performance and developer productivity platform unlike any other. We have redefined how teams build software locally and in CI by making speed a first-class feature. Our products accelerate container builds, GitHub Actions, Bazel and Gradle builds, and more. Teams using Depot save literal y

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 24, #1496

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What to Expect from Debian/Trixie

Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

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European authorities arrest alleged admin of notorious Russian crime forum XSS

My 10 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked

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Playful Airline Safety Videos Could Be Making Passengers Less Safe

This Is What Your Poop Is Trying to Tell You About Your Gut Health

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