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A Man Who Beat IBM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 06:31:42

The history of the personal computer wasn't just about technology—it was about vision, trust, and the courage to stand up to a monopoly. In his latest piece for The Crazy Ones, Gareth Edwards tells the story of how Compaq challenged IBM's dominance in the 1980s. When IBM tried to reclaim control of the PC market with proprietary technology, Compaq CEO Rod Canion decided to create an open standard and share it with competitors—effectively giving away "the company jewels" to preserve innovation. G

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Apple and Trump detail $100 billion U.S. spending expansion, including $2.5 billion for an iPhone glass factory

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-12 22:55:56

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures, as they present Apple's announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stand in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that the i

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Google Photos is cooking up a more social way to react to shared pictures (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 22:22:11

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos looks to be testing an emoji reaction bar for shared albums. New emoji responses are posted as comments, unlike the current heart reaction. We also spotted that the app might open to the “Create” tab by default once it rolls out. Google Photos already lets you show a little love on someone else’s shared picture, but it looks like a new way to express yourself may be coming soon. Like social media and messaging apps, Google Photos could

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Apple to invest another $100 billion into the US to avoid tariffs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 22:49:06

Apple plans to invest an additional $100 billion in the US, the company announced on Wednesday. The investment follows President Donald's Trump's previously announced plans to raise tariffs on India by an additional 25 percent (bringing the total tariff to 50 percent) for purchasing oil from Russia. Apple relies heavily on manufacturers in India to create the iPhone, so adding to its already $500 billion investment in the US is likely a way to avoid being impacted by the tariffs. "Today, we're

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The Bluesky Dictionary

news.ycombinator.com Avi Bagla 2025-12-12 21:43:08

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language?

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 7, #788

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 21:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has one category that could be in the Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, so hopefully you know something about a certain sport. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 7, #318

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 21:00:06

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Can you identify pro athletes from just a headshot? If not, today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. Personally, I'm no fan of the photo clues, but there were only two today. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Supe

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DoorDash shares rise on earnings, revenue beat

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-12-13 03:37:50

Doordash food delivery service in New York City on Feb. 13, 2025. DoorDash shares climbed about 5% in extended trading on Wednesday after the food delivery company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the second quarter. Here's how the company did compared to analyst estimates based on LSEG's consensus: Earnings per share : 65 cents vs. 44 cents expected : 65 cents vs. 44 cents expected Revenue: $3.28 billion vs. $3.16 billion expected Revenue jumped 25% from $2.63 billion

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Airbnb beats on top and bottom lines for second quarter

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-13 03:25:32

Airbnb reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat analysts' expectations. Here's how the company did based on average analysts' estimates compiled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.03 vs. 93 cents expected $1.03 vs. 93 cents expected Revenue: $3.10 billion vs. $3.04 billion expected Revenue increased 13% from $2.75 billion during the same period last year. The company reported net income of $642 million, or $1.03 per share, up from $555 million, or 86 cents per share, a year earlie

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I hate photo editing, but this leaked Pixel 10 feature may change that

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 03:20:52

TL;DR A report claims that the Google Pixel 10 will launch with a new “Conversational Photo Editing” feature. The feature, powered by Gemini, will reportedly allow you to edit your photos by simply typing or saying your requests. Recently, Android Authority found a “Help me edit” feature in Google Photos with a similar premise. The faucet for Google Pixel 10 leaks remains open and free-flowing. After extensive reports revealing the design and specs for the entire Pixel 10 series, the folks at

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Consistency over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 22:57:08

Consistency Over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP Theorem rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. When it comes to distributed systems the CAP theorem is an essential concept. It states that it’s impossible for a distributed database to simultaneously provide Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. The challenge is in the face of a network partition, a database can only b

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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 03:40:17

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination. These ships are often envisioned as

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Super Micro stock sinks 18% after earnings, outlook disappoint

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-13 08:57:28

Super Micro Computer shares plunged 18% on Wednesday after the company posted weaker-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter results, dented in part by President Donald Trump's tariffs. CEO Charles Liang told investors on a conference call that the company has "taken measures to reduce the impact" of the tariffs. "With respect to the tariffs, the situation is dynamic," CFO David Weigand said on the investor call. "We're actively monitoring the tariff environment. We know there's news coming out ne

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Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit clears regulatory hurdle, safety probe

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-13 08:48:52

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon 's Zoox has cleared a key regulatory hurdle, paving the way for demonstrations of its self-driving robotaxis. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday that it granted Zoox an exemption from some requirements, a first for U.S.-built vehicles under a recently expanded program. "Transportation innovators can be confident in getting speedy review of their vehicles

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Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 08:16:30

The first quarter of the 21st century has seen seismic shifts in the politics, society, and economy of the United Kingdom. As economics thinkers and graduates, Rethinking Economics is concerned that economics education remains out of step with these shifts. What is taught in university classrooms informs how society perceives and will tackle these challenges, from engaging in climate science to the reality of Britain’s colonial past. This report assesses the extent to which university education

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Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

news.ycombinator.com Jasleen Singh 2025-12-13 08:00:09

Targeting Election Officials and Civil Society The Trump administration, falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, has already targeted organizations and individuals it sees as adverse with baseless or inappropriate retaliatory actions. It now threatens to do the same with certain election officials, civic groups that mobilize voters, and other individuals and entities that protect elections and the rule of law. These kinds of actions can be tools of retribution, intimida

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Instagram Adds New Features, Including Reposts and Maps

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 05:59:00

Instagram has launched new features aimed at further connecting users with their online contacts, the company announced Wednesday. One involves sharing public feed posts and reels, another shares locations with others on an Instagram map, and a new Friends tab shows what content your contacts have liked or commented on. For reposts, you'll be able to share public reels and feed posts from other users. The original poster will be credited and those reshares will appear in the sharer's profile in

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Are Vibration Plates a Magic Bullet for Losing Weight and Gaining Strength? We Asked the Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 06:00:04

If you're on a personal fitness journey, finding the best ways to lose weight and build muscle isn't easy. There are tons of options, from weight training to aerobics to vibration plates. Does standing on a platform that vibrates really help you lose weight and gain muscle? Are vibration plates actually effective, or just the newest fitness fad? To find out if you should add a vibration plate to your workout routine, we asked personal trainers and other fitness experts about its benefits, risks

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 08:18:13

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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Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 08:50:38

The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. "It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website," the Library of Congress said today. "We've learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and e

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Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 11:08:11

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Friends, selected accounts or nobody at all. This data can be restricted wh

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

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 12:29:56

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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Dotfiles feel too personal to share

news.ycombinator.com Juha-Matti Santala 2025-12-13 08:36:01

I love dotfiles. “Dotfiles” is a term that refers to configuration files used to configure software and operating systems. They are called such because often these files start with a dot. You may have seen .bashrc , .tmux.conf or .zshrc in the wild. Whenever a software doesn’t offer direct file-based configuration, I feel sad because it means I need to take extra steps to keep my configuration across different devices in sync or when setting up a new machine. I love sharing. I regularly publ

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

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-13 12:35:50

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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Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety

wired.com Will Knight 2025-12-13 12:00:00

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red teaming,” or stress-testing a cutting-edge language model and other artificial intelligence systems. Over the course of two days, the teams identified 139 novel ways to get the systems to misbehave including by generating misinformation or leaking personal data. More importantly, they showed shortcomings in a new US government standard designed to h

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Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-13 11:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. To better protect against cheaters, Activision says that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 players on PC will need to use hardware with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 and have Windows’ Secure Boot feature turned on when the game is available later this year. Ahead of that, Activision is doing

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The Jurassic Park islands and dinos are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-13 12:07:52

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. Jurassic World: Archipelago is a new expansion pack for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 that lets aspiring pilots explore the five islands of the fictional Cinco Muertes Archipelago featured in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. Created by Australian developer Orbx that’s known for its flight sim add-ons, the expansion lets you visit ma

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Motorola just picked this surprising alternative to Gemini Live’s camera sharing

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 17:11:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Select Motorola phones will soon have Microsoft Copilot Vision baked into Moto AI. The Gemini Live camera sharing alternative will be available in the coming week in the US, Mexico, the UK, and more markets. The Copilot app will now be preinstalled on the brand’s latest phones. Motorola’s approach to AI is a little more flexible than other brands, as it enlists the help of various AI partners like Perplexity, Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Despite its AI-b

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Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-13 14:49:56

Meta is updating Instagram today with some familiar social network features from other services. For example, the photo- and video-sharing service is basically getting its own version of the classic retweet. Separately, Instagram continues to take inspiration from Snapchat with its own social map feature. Instagram is two months shy of turning 15, and as a sign of maturity, we’re getting the first official repost button: With reposts, you can repost public reels and feed posts, making it easie

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LLM Inflation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 09:44:38

One of the signal achievements of computing is data compression : we take in data, make it smaller while retaining all information (“lossless” compression), transmit it, and then decompress it back to the original at the other end. For many years, compression was an absolute requirement to get things done: storage devices were too small for the data we wanted to store and networks too slow to transmit what we wanted at an acceptable speed. Today compression is less often an absolute requiremen

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Latest Tech News

A Man Who Beat IBM

Apple and Trump detail $100 billion U.S. spending expansion, including $2.5 billion for an iPhone glass factory

Google Photos is cooking up a more social way to react to shared pictures (APK teardown)

Apple to invest another $100 billion into the US to avoid tariffs

The Bluesky Dictionary

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 7, #788

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 7, #318

DoorDash shares rise on earnings, revenue beat

Airbnb beats on top and bottom lines for second quarter

I hate photo editing, but this leaked Pixel 10 feature may change that

Consistency over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP theorem

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

Super Micro stock sinks 18% after earnings, outlook disappoint

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit clears regulatory hurdle, safety probe

Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

Instagram Adds New Features, Including Reposts and Maps

Are Vibration Plates a Magic Bullet for Losing Weight and Gaining Strength? We Asked the Experts

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

Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

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

Dotfiles feel too personal to share

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

Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety

Call of Duty and Battlefield 6 will both require Secure Boot on Windows

The Jurassic Park islands and dinos are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Motorola just picked this surprising alternative to Gemini Live’s camera sharing

Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

LLM Inflation

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