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The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-28 08:10:00

Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of federal programs will obscure the nation’s contributions to climate change. The Data Foundation, a Washington, DC, nonprofit, is fundraising for an initiative that will coordinate efforts among nonprofits, technical experts, and companies to improve the accuracy and accessibility of climate emissions information. It will build on an effort to

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How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs

technologyreview.com James Temple 2025-12-28 16:00:00

Given the “dramatic changes” brought about by this administration, “the future will not be the past,” she says. “This is like a natural disaster. We can’t think about rebuilding in the way that things have been in the past. We have to look ahead and say, ‘What is needed? What can people afford?’” Organizations can also use this moment to test and develop emerging technologies that could improve greenhouse-gas measurements, including novel sensors or artificial intelligence tools, Hayes says. “

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Freed says 20,000 clinicians are using its medical AI transcription ‘scribe,’ but competition is rising fast

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-29 08:46:29

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 Even generative AI critics and detractors have to admit the technology is great for something: transcription. If you’ve joined a meeting on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or other video call platform of your choice at any point in the last year or so, you’ve likely noticed an increased number of AI notetakers joining the conference cal

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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:01:28

New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what's happening on your computer, the results can be catastrophic. Two recent incidents involving AI coding assistants put a spotlight on risks in the emerging field of "vibe coding"—using natural language to generate and execute code through AI models without paying close attention to how the code works under the hood.

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How to Succeed as a Freelancer and Turn a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 00:43:55

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Jamie Brindle has been freelancing for 16 years and is on a mission to "demystify" the freelance world. In 2020, amid a shaky job market and widespread rejection of corporate hustle culture, he started helping beginner freelancers become their own bosses. The expansion of remote work, advances in AI and the growth of influencer platforms have all led to a kind of self-employment boom. As Gen Zers and millennials find new ways to upgrade their skills in a flexible work se

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The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-12-30 08:31:18

If a country fails to take decisive action to protect the planet from climate change, it could be breaking international law and be held liable for damages caused to humanity. This is one of the conclusions of an unprecedented advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal obligations of states in the face of this environmental crisis. The 15 judges that make up the ICJ, the highest judicial body of the United Nations, described the need to address the threat o

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The Download: gas and oil’s role in climate tech, and using AI to decipher ancient Latin

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-31 03:10:00

—Casey Crownhart After writing about Quaise, a geothermal startup that’s trying to commercialize new drilling technology, I've been thinking about the role oil and gas companies are playing in the energy transition. It’s becoming increasingly common in climate tech to see a startup join up with a bigger fossil fuel company in its field, like Quaise has with Nabors Industries, one of the biggest drilling firms in the world. This industry has resources and energy expertise—but also a vested inte

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VectorDB bench now support S3Vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 12:39:52

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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I recommend these budget earbuds over pricier Bose and Sony models - here's why

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-02 03:02:37

EarFun Clip Open Ear Earbuds ZDNET's key takeaways The EarFun Clip earbuds are on sale now on Amazon for $53 (normally $90). With just the right tweaking in the app, you can elevate the sound of these earbuds well above average. The app is required for these earbuds to sound their best. $53.19 at Amazon The EarFun Clipearbuds are on sale for $53 at Amazon (save $37). I've tested so many earbuds and headphones over the years that they tend to blend together. That doesn't mean that there aren'

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The Surprising gRPC Client Bottleneck in Low-Latency Networks

news.ycombinator.com Evgeniy Ivanov 2026-01-02 17:23:20

The Surprising gRPC Client Bottleneck in Low-Latency Networks — and How to Get Around It Evgeniy Ivanov 9 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share Zoom image will be displayed “Improving anything but the bottleneck is an illusion.” — Eliyahu M. Goldratt At YDB, we use gRPC to expose our database API to clients. Therefore, all our load generators and benchmarks are gRPC clients. Recently, we discovered that the fewer cluster nodes we have, the harder it is for the benchmark to load the clu

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Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 05:57:02

"Until we get to net-zero emissions, extreme weather will only get worse, and it's already damaging crops and pushing up the price of food all over the world,” said Maximilian Kotz, BSC researcher and lead author of the study. British potatoes, Californian vegetables, South African maize and Indian onions are among many foods affected by recent price shocks driven by weather extremes, according to a team of international scientists. The study, led by Maximillian Kotz of the Barcelona Supercomp

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Democrats are desperately trying to revive the click-to-cancel rule

news.ycombinator.com Lauren Feiner 2026-01-03 12:12:41

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Democratic lawmakers are taking multiple routes to try to revive the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule after an appeals court blocked it on procedural grounds right before it was set to take effect. Democrats already introduced legislation earlier this month to cod

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Democrats are desperately trying to revive the click-to-cancel rule

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-01-04 08:59:56

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Democratic lawmakers are taking multiple routes to try to revive the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule after an appeals court blocked it on procedural grounds right before it was set to take effect. Democrats already introduced legislation earlier this month to cod

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Struggling to Cancel Your Subscriptions? Try These 3 Workarounds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 12:30:00

The "Click-to-Cancel" rule would have made it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. Cole Kan/CNET The Federal Trade Commission's "Click-to-Cancel" rule has been blocked. The rule would have made it easy to cancel unwanted subscriptions. However, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule earlier this month because the FTC failed to conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis, which is required for rules that could impact the US economy by more than $1 million. "Whil

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Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2

news.ycombinator.com Rik Myslewski 2026-01-05 02:40:28

Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course. That's the strategy being employed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration as it works to avoid, ignore, or bury data that prove the reality of anthropogenic global warming and its evil twin climate change. Case in point: The Trump administration recently released its draft budget [PDF] for the country's premier analytical agency focused on Earth systems, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm

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A Hellraiser game is in development

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-05 08:53:13

Calling all gamers with a love of horror films: Hellraiser is getting a video game adaptation. Saber Interactive is turning the cult franchise into a game called Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival. Clive Baker's 1986 novella, The Hellbound Heart, served as the basis for the Hellraiser films. He also wrote and directed the first instalment, which premiered in 1987. Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is a single-player game that has you play as Aidan while fighting your way through an "action sur

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This keyboard case made my Pixel 9 actively painful to use — but I can’t stop typing on it anyway

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-05 15:00:22

Clicks Keyboard The Clicks case brings a full QWERTY keyboard with physical keys to selected phones, including the Pixel flagship series. It provides excellent tactile feedback and keyboard shortcuts to your typing experience, but makes the phone taller, a bit imbalanced, and cramped to hold or use. I lived through the early era of non-touch smartphones. My first “smart” phone was a Nokia 3250 Xpress Music with a glorious T9 keypad, and my first QWERTY was an HTC Qtek 9100 running Windows Mobil

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How to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 00:15:04

It's weirdly difficult to get rid of old laptops, desktops and printers sitting around your house -- even when it's been over a decade since you last plugged them in. But recycling old tech is easier than you think and can free up a lot of space for you. A CNET survey found that 31% of US adults are still holding onto old, unused devices, including laptops, because they're unsure of what to do with them. The survey also found that 19% of respondents just toss old devices in the trash -- which i

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The Ending of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Changed Weeks Before Release

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-07 03:30:41

Filmmakers love to tinker with their movies until the last possible second. A nip here, a tweak there, change the sound, the levels, etc. But, eventually, the studios need a finished movie so it can be sent to theaters, screened for press, etc. This week’s new horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, had tinkering too, but it was even closer to release and more impactful to the story than most other movies. In fact, the entire ending of the movie flipped on its head mere weeks before coming

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Quip is a smart clipboard management app for iOS and Mac

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-07 22:14:39

Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things. Its goal is to offer users more control and customization compared with the traditional clipboard, making it a more productive alternative. Quip is non-intrusive — on Mac, i

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Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-08 12:15:22

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published last week led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. Using sediment cores collected in

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What to read this weekend: When the world spins out of control

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 14:14:22

I'm still chipping away at my summer reading backlog over here, and this week finally made it to Alex Foster's Circular Motion, which came out in May. And, wow, I wasn't quite ready for the emotional journey this one took me on. It's set in a near future — people ride OneWheels and going viral on social media is still a thing some strive for — where the megacompany CWC has created an extreme form of high-speed travel that allows people to zip across the world in no time flat. But, it soon become

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Known Bad Email Clients

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 12:58:52

This is a list of known bad email clients, which you should avoid using if you wish to avoid tracking. Special thanks go to Andrew Klapper of the GNOME project for incentivising me to create this page; I have been meaning to create one for some time. If you wish to keep track of updates on this page, you can follow my blog via my RSS feed or alternatively Mastodon / Bluesky . If you wish to submit more bad clients, contact me . Projects will always be given the opportunity to fix their security

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The Art of Freelancing Like a Boss, According to the Folks Who Do It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-08 09:00:17

Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Jamie Brindle has been freelancing for 16 years and is on a mission to "demystify" the freelance world. In 2020, amid a shaky job market and widespread rejection of corporate hustle culture, he started helping beginner freelancers become their own bosses. The expansion of remote work, advances in AI and the growth of influencer platforms have all led to a kind of self-employment boom. As Gen Zers and millennials find new ways to upgrade their skills in a flexible work se

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Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-08 12:00:29

If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) asteroid slammed into Earth tomorrow, it would render the planet inhospitable to nearly all life forms, save for the hardiest extremophiles. This mass extinction event would wipe humanity off the face of the Earth—there would be no survivors. To some experts, this is the true definition of an “existential threat.” Traditionalists will say this term describes a risk that endangers the very existence of something—in this case, the human species. In recent ye

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Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 12:43:08

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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Show HN: Simulating autonomous drone formations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 05:18:48

Ketu Lightweight framework to simulate drone formations. Ketu provider simple abstractions to mimick the sensors available on drones and create scenarios to see how the drones react to each other in the world. Using ketu you can simulate autonomous drones that align to create any shape. Checkout this video for a demonstration. Why use Ketu? Ketu provides a sandbox for people to quickly try out new drone formation techniques without amount of large setup. For a more detailed simulation you ca

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Scientists Will Melt Some of Earth’s Oldest Ice to Solve Climate Mystery

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-10 03:06:58

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they could also help solve a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over two decades. Over the course of seven weeks, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey plan to gradually melt 1.5-million-year-old Antarctic ice cores at their lab in Cambridge, England, unlocking whatever dust, volcanic ash, and even sing

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This physical Clicks keyboard is the Pixel 9 upgrade I didn't know I needed

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2026-01-11 10:30:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Clicks Keyboard for Google Pixel 9 and 9 Pro is available for $139. The keyboard supports native Android shortcuts, has a dedicated Gemini button, and supports data pass-through However,it only comes in black, shortcuts can't be customized, and there is no Clicks for the larger Pixel 9 Pro XL. View now at Clicks In early 2024, a couple of my longtime buddies in the mobile tech world launched Clicks, a company that makes physical QWERTY keyboard accessories for the iP

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Rejoy Health (YC W21) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 17:00:26

About Us Rejoy Health provides an AI-powered medical search platform designed for clinicians, enabling them to ask complex medical questions and receive accurate, evidence-based answers with cited sources. Job Description As a Software Engineer at Rejoy, you'll work on: Building and scaling backend systems for our AI medical search engine Developing APIs and services that power clinician-facing web app Collaborating with ML engineers to integrate NLP/LLM models into production Designing p

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The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs

Freed says 20,000 clinicians are using its medical AI transcription ‘scribe,’ but competition is rising fast

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

How to Succeed as a Freelancer and Turn a Side Hustle into a Full-Time Career

The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law

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I recommend these budget earbuds over pricier Bose and Sony models - here's why

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Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes

Democrats are desperately trying to revive the click-to-cancel rule

Democrats are desperately trying to revive the click-to-cancel rule

Struggling to Cancel Your Subscriptions? Try These 3 Workarounds

Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2

A Hellraiser game is in development

This keyboard case made my Pixel 9 actively painful to use — but I can’t stop typing on it anyway

How to Recycle Your Old Computers and Printers for Free

The Ending of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Changed Weeks Before Release

Quip is a smart clipboard management app for iOS and Mac

Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

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Scientists Will Melt Some of Earth’s Oldest Ice to Solve Climate Mystery

This physical Clicks keyboard is the Pixel 9 upgrade I didn't know I needed

Rejoy Health (YC W21) Is Hiring

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