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A Nintendo Direct focused on Kirby Air Riders is set for August 19

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 04:43:55

Nintendo has a few major first-party Nintendo Switch 2 games lined up for the rest of the year. One of those is Kirby Air Riders , a sequel to the 2003 GameCube title Kirby Air Ride. The company is set to reveal much (much) more about what it has in store for the new game, as it has lined up a dedicated Nintendo Direct. You'll be able to watch the showcase, which was first announced via the Nintendo Today! app , at 9AM ET on August 19. You won't have to go hunting for it on Nintendo's channel ei

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Sky Calendar

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:24:29

The Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar promotes skywatching for people of all ages. As its name implies, the sheet for each month takes the form of a calendar. Diagrams in the boxes invite the reader to track the moon's rapid motion past the planets and bright stars of the zodiac, as well as to follow the more leisurely pace of the planets in their gatherings with bright stars and other planets. The reverse side consists of a simplified star map of the month's evening sky. The sky maps are designed

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Texting between Android and iPhone could soon get a major security upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 16:31:49

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple previously confirmed plans to add end-to-end encryption to RCS messages in a future software update We’ve now spotted code that suggests end-to-end encryption could be coming to RCS messages on iPhones as early as iOS 26. Code suggests that Apple will be using the MLS protocol introduced by GSMA’s Universal Profile 3.0, which was developed with Apple’s involvement. After years of holding out, Apple finally allowed iPhone users to take advantage of

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Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:24:30

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

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LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 09:20:20

LL3M uses a team of large language models to write Python code that creates and edits 3D assets in Blender. Given user text instructions, the agents are capable of creating expressive shapes from scratch, and realizing complex, precise geometric manipulations in code. Whereas previous uses of code-writing LLMs for 3D creation have focused on specific subtasks or constrained procedural programs and primitives, our method is able to create unconstrained assets with geometry, layout, and appearance

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How to use (or turn off) your Instagram Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 02:00:35

Instagram Map, the new Instagram feature copying Snapchat's Snap Map, makes it simple to share your location with friends. So simple you might not understand who you're sharing it without digging into your settings. That's naturally led to confusion from some Instagram users as to how the feature works. If you already spend a lot of time on Instagram and are looking for a way to see where your friends have been, it's worth familiarizing yourself with how Instagram Map works. And if you're worri

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Black Ops 6 Quad Feed Double XP Weekend Live Now During Battlefield 6 Open Beta

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 05:58:00

As Battlefield 6's record-breaking open beta rages on, Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch is showing some love to loyal Black Ops 6 players. The second double XP weekend of Season 5 is live now, with all four boosts active for players to take advantage of. You'll be able to speed through account levels, weapon attachment unlocks, and battle pass tiers to kickstart your advancement of the latest Season 5 content. This double XP weekend runs from Friday to Monday. Anyone playing Black Ops 6 during th

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Opendoor CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-11-14 22:45:24

Opendoor CEO Carrie Wheeler said Friday that she's resigning from the online real estate company, which has seen a surge in recent interest from retail investors. The stock popped early in the day before closing up 4.3%. Pressure began building on Wheeler, who took over the top job in 2022, after the company's quarterly earnings report earlier this month failed to reassure investors that a turnaround is underway. The stock is up more than sixfold since bottoming out at 51 cents in June, a price

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Real-Time Battles Forced Me to Think Fast (and I Liked It)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 21:59:29

I wandered the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center days before it would be flooded with tens of thousands of fans for the 2025 Pokemon World Championships, looking for a tucked-away room to get a taste of a game diehard Poke-nerds would give anything to see. For a brief 20 minutes, I got to play Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Let's be clear: My time with the upcoming game -- split into two 10-minute sessions -- was hardly enough to reveal every way Z-A will build on its predecessor. The groundbreakin

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Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:42:11

OpenReview Anonymous Preprint Submission696 Authors Keywords : Cloud computing security; Hardware security; Systems security TL;DR : Leaking memory across virtual machine boundaries at a public cloud provider, bypassing mitigations against these types of attacks. Abstract : Given their vital importance for governments and enterprises around the world, we need to trust public clouds to provide strong security guarantees even in the face of advanced attacks and hardware vulnerabilities. While t

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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 12:27:18

HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame James Kettle Director of Research @albinowax Published: 06 August 2025 at 22:20 UTC Updated: 12 August 2025 at 09:50 UTC Abstract Upstream HTTP/1.1 is inherently insecure and regularly exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover. Six years of attempted mitigations have hidden the issue, but failed to fix it. This paper introduces several novel classes of HTTP desync attack capable of mass compromise of user credentials. These techniques are demo

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Opendoor stock pops 10% as CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-11-15 17:22:18

Opendoor shares popped about 10% on Friday after CEO Carrie Wheeler said she's resigning from the online real estate company, which has seen a surge in recent interest from retail investors. Pressure began building on Wheeler, who took over the top job in 2022, after the company's quarterly earnings report earlier this month failed to reassure investors that a turnaround is underway. The stock is up more than sixfold since bottoming out at 51 cents in June, a price that put the company at risk

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Want Google to build the features you need? Just start a tech company

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-15 22:40:03

Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR Google Calendar on the web has a new feature. Users can now duplicate events. The feature was added after Stripe co-founder John Collison directly requested it on social media. Google has rolled out a new feature for Calendar on the web. While that new feature should come in handy to a lot of users, the more interesting aspect of this rollout is how it happened. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google S

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Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes for Weekend Two

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 21:39:00

The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X. For all players, here are the changes for Battle

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Hands-On: Trying Out Real-Time and Mega-Evolution Fights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 08:00:11

I wandered the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center days before it would be flooded with tens of thousands of fans for the 2025 Pokemon World Championships, looking for a tucked-away room to get a taste of a game diehard Poke-nerds would give anything to see. For a brief 20 minutes, I got to play Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Let's be clear: My time with the upcoming game -- split into two 10-minute sessions -- was hardly enough to reveal every way Z-A will build on its predecessor. The groundbreakin

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For Legends: Z-A’s battle system, I rewired the Pokémon part of my brain

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-11-16 08:00:00

Even if you’ve never played a Pokémon game before, you can probably figure out how the type chart works. Fire types are weak to water types, water is weak to grass, and grass is weak to fire. Type matchups are foundational to Pokémon battles, far before you get into the weeds of stats and strats. I’ve had the Pokémon type chart memorized for around 25 years. That still didn’t stop me from making a rookie error in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. I panicked and sent out my Weedle against an NPC’s Pidgeotto

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Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes For Weekend Two

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 21:39:22

The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X. For all players, here are the changes for Battle

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Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-17 22:20:02

During the pandemic, movie theaters notably struggled, as social distancing restrictions all but temporarily killed their business model. Many smaller, independent theaters went out of business permanently. However, since the pandemic has ebbed, the film industry has slowly recovered. Attendance in theaters is not exactly where it was prior to the pandemic, but attendance is significantly higher than it was during Covid, and continues to climb. A new article published by The Guardian suggests t

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Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 23:47:43

What is the license of OWhisper? It is GPLv3 currently, but we want to make it MIT at some point. (It depends on some code from Hyprnote , which is GPL licensed.)

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Crypto24 ransomware hits large orgs with custom EDR evasion tool

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 08:53:58

The Crypto24 ransomware group has been using custom utilities to evade security solutions on breached networks, exfiltrate data, and encrypt files. The threat group's earliest activity was reported on BleepingComputer forums in September 2024, though it never reached notable levels of notoriety. According to Trend Micro researchers tracking Crypto24's operations, the hackers have hit several large organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia, focusing on high-value targets in the finan

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How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Is Back for the Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 08:41:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and after an exciting first beta weekend, you can join the fray again in just a few days. Battlefield 6's first public beta is available to everyone and has fully resumed, letting players jump back into the fray right now. It's not too late to join in, and here's how. The Battlefield 6 open beta is the first chance for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oc

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

news.ycombinator.com Sky Uk Limited 2025-11-18 18:56:50

The police's use of facial recognition technology is to be significantly expanded in an attempt to catch more offenders, ministers have announced. Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to

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Google just gave the Gemini Live app its biggest update yet - Android and iOS versions included

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-19 18:30:14

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Gemini Live now works with Calendar, Maps, Keep, and Tasks. Update is rolling out to most Android and iOS users. It can add events, guide routes, and manage lists or notes. In May of this year, Google debuted Gemini Live with screen sharing and camera access for Android. Google has been slowly integrating the feature, which lets you ask Gemini about anything on your screen (or that you can see with your camera), into its suite of apps since Jun

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How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Resumes This Thursday

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 00:45:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and after an exciting first beta weekend, you can join the fray again in just a few days. Battlefield 6's first public beta is available to everyone and will resume this weekend. It's not too late to join in, and here's how. The Battlefield 6 open beta is the first chance for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oct. 10. While those with early access got a c

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across the UK

news.ycombinator.com Sky Uk Limited 2025-11-19 18:56:50

The police's use of facial recognition technology is to be significantly expanded in an attempt to catch more offenders, ministers have announced. Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to

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Gemini is bringing one of Gmail’s handiest web features to your phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-20 12:10:18

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR The Gemini “Add to calendar” button in Gmail is now rolling out to Android and iOS. It automatically detects event details in emails and lets you add them to Google Calendar with one tap. The feature can handle multiple events in a single email, but only works in English for now. If you use Gmail on the web, you might’ve already spotted Gemini’s “Add to calendar” button offering to save you a few clicks. Now that same Gemini trick is coming to Gmail o

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Google CEO adds a new calendar feature at Stripe co-founder’s request

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-20 17:35:46

Talk about customer service. On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X about Google Calendar’s new feature to duplicate events — an addition that was specifically requested by Stripe co-founder John Collison last month, also via an X post. On July 5, Collison asked if Google Calendar users could get a Ctrl-click option that would allow them to easily duplicate events, similar to the feature that many native calendar applications already have. Collison tagged Pichai in his post at the t

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Nintendo is putting an extremely rare GameCube game on Switch 2 next week

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:10:50

When Nintendo announced that it was adding GameCube games to its (inexplicably Switch 2-only) Nintendo Switch Online offering, people were understandably excited about the likes of Super Mario Sunshine and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker joining the service. And I was one of them (even if I’d personally lose little sleep if Super Mario Sunshine was fired directly into the sun). But as much as I want the obvious GameCube classics on my Switch 2, it’s the more underrated gems I’ve heard so mu

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NASA has sparked a race to develop the data pipeline to Mars

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-21 03:26:37

For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency is shifting to buying connectivity as a service, much like it does for launch and astronaut transport. That pivot has sparked a race, with major contenders pitching ways to keep Mars missions online. What’s at stake isn’t a single contract: it’s the data pipe to Mars. This new approach, which will mix NASA assets and commercial infrastructure, would gradually replace the

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-21 03:35:41

Instagram is working on a feature called “Picks” that aims to help users find common interests. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is an internal prototype and isn’t being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, people select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.

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A Nintendo Direct focused on Kirby Air Riders is set for August 19

Sky Calendar

Texting between Android and iPhone could soon get a major security upgrade

Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers

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Black Ops 6 Quad Feed Double XP Weekend Live Now During Battlefield 6 Open Beta

Opendoor CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Real-Time Battles Forced Me to Think Fast (and I Liked It)

Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities

HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

Opendoor stock pops 10% as CEO resigns following investor pressure campaign

Want Google to build the features you need? Just start a tech company

Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes for Weekend Two

Pokemon Legends: Z-A Hands-On: Trying Out Real-Time and Mega-Evolution Fights

For Legends: Z-A’s battle system, I rewired the Pokémon part of my brain

Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes For Weekend Two

Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text

Crypto24 ransomware hits large orgs with custom EDR evasion tool

How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Is Back for the Weekend

Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

Google just gave the Gemini Live app its biggest update yet - Android and iOS versions included

How to Play Battlefield 6 Beta: Open Access Resumes This Thursday

Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across the UK

Gemini is bringing one of Gmail’s handiest web features to your phone

Google CEO adds a new calendar feature at Stripe co-founder’s request

Nintendo is putting an extremely rare GameCube game on Switch 2 next week

NASA has sparked a race to develop the data pipeline to Mars

Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

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