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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

news.ycombinator.com Matt Burgess 2025-11-11 23:19:53

United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before. From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency's website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device

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Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 23:01:13

Luminal is a deep learning library that uses search-based compilation to achieve high performance. ShowHN To run the demo shown on HN on mac, clone this repo and run: cd demos/matmul cargo run --release Important We're undergoing a large transition to "2.0", which introduces large-scale kernel search. This radically simplifies the compiler stack and allows us to discover complex optimizations entirely automatically. Please keep an eye on breaking changes, which usually are staged in the crat

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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-11-11 23:01:25

United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before. From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency's website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device

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Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 09:11:13

Just a few months into Meta's multi-billion-dollar AI moonshot, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already shaking up his "Superintelligence Lab" — and some of its longtime leaders are leaving amid the chaos. As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called "superintelligence," one on products, and another on infrastructure. First leaked in part to The Informa

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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-11-12 09:29:05

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world’s most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth’s mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-12 14:00:09

Jason Momoa’s next project may take him to the high seas. James Gunn teases that Peacemaker‘s return is more about the man behind the mask. Plus, get a look at what’s coming next on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Foundation, and Alien: Earth. Spoilers away! Archie Comics Jeff Sneider’s InSneider Report has word that Paramount is purportedly preparing a film adaptation of the Archie Comics universe, with Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Mister Miracle writer Tom King tapped to pen the script, a

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Material Cultures looks to the past to build the future

technologyreview.com Patrick Sisson 2025-11-13 04:00:00

Gormley has been finding a “way around it” by systematically exploring how tradition can be harnessed in new ways to repair what she has dubbed the “oil vernacular”—the contemporary building system shaped not by local, natural materials but by global commodities and plastic products made largely from fossil fuels. Though she grew up in a household rich in art and design—she’s the daughter of the famed British sculptor Antony Gormley—she’s quick to say she’s far from a brilliant maker and more o

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Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

news.ycombinator.com Alice Sun 2025-11-13 03:18:48

Scientists recently discovered a microbe with one of the tiniest genomes on Earth. More surprising, the creature is almost entirely dependent on its host: Its genes don’t support any of the functions of metabolism, one of the key processes of life. As such, it challenges fundamental notions of what it means to be a living organism. The discovery was “pure serendipity,” says Takuro Nakayama, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Takayama wanted to study the many m

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Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-14 04:50:30

Some of the most physically fit people in the world may have a unique health risk. New research uncovers a possible link between marathon running and colorectal cancer. Oncologists at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia conducted the study, which examined the colons of relatively young people who had run several long-distance races. They found these runners had a much higher rate of having potentially dangerous adenomas (a type of polyp) than would be expected for their age. Though the

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Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-14 09:12:12

In a jarring new analysis, psychiatric researchers found that a wide swath of mental health issues have already been associated with artificial intelligence usage — and virtually every top AI company has been implicated. Sifting through academic databases and news articles between November 2024 and July 2025, Duke psychiatry professor Allen Frances and Johns Hopkins cognitive science student Luciana Ramos discovered, as they wrote in a new report for the Psychiatric Times, that the mental healt

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Scammers are sneaking into Google's AI summaries to steal from you - how to spot them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-14 14:15:34

Moor Studio/ DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Scammers are exploiting AI to trick people looking for customer numbers. Google's AI Overview, AI Mode, and OpenAI's ChatGPT are vulnerable. Run a regular search or head to the company's website to find a number. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you ever use Google's AI-powered search to look for customer service numbers and other contact i

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Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

news.ycombinator.com Inquiries At Iapsop.Com 2025-11-11 23:12:45

The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War. Our all-volunteer staff digitizes, indexes and makes available free-of-charge these periodicals, in our archive, for use by students and researchers. We have a standing want list and will respond promptly to inquiries and offers from sellers. We accept contributions of material and labor to furt

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The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)

news.ycombinator.com I'M The Engagement 2025-11-11 03:35:15

Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace was one of the world’s most inspiring buildings. The interior of the Crystal Palace’s ‘Tropical’ end with its Winter Garden, which was destroyed by fire on 30 December 1866. © Historic England Archive. DP004607. From the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park to its final demise, its compelling glass and iron design and awe-inspiring vastness attracted the attention of photographers on the ground and in the air. Here we take a look at some of the remarkabl

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Take Control of Your Google Search Results by Choosing the Sources You Want to See

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 21:11:02

Facing criticism for degraded search results and angst from users wanting to avoid AI Overviews, Google has announced a new search feature that lets you choose the sites you want to see in your news and search results. Google said in a recent blog post that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India this month. The new feature can be accessed through a plus icon to the right of Top Stories panels or a direct link to your preferences. "Once you select your sources, they will appear mo

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Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 00:15:04

It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of desktop users and 95% of mobile users. Even if you don't have Google Chrome on your device, you probably use Google Search multiple times a day without thinking about it. If you have an iPhone and you open the Safari app to perform a search, you're automatically using Google. That's no accident: Goog

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An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-16 00:00:58

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world's most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth's mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

news.ycombinator.com Rafal Gancarz 2025-11-12 21:27:27

Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an in-memory object store developed internally. Revamped architecture of Tudum offers much faster content preview during the editorial process and faster page rendering for visitors. Netflix launched Tudum, its official fan website, in late 2021, to provide a destination for Netflix users interested in additional content associated with the company’s shows. The architecture of the website

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Int. Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

news.ycombinator.com Inquiries At Iapsop.Com 2025-11-12 11:12:45

The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War. Our all-volunteer staff digitizes, indexes and makes available free-of-charge these periodicals, in our archive, for use by students and researchers. We have a standing want list and will respond promptly to inquiries and offers from sellers. We accept contributions of material and labor to furt

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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-17 18:20:54

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up speed and slingshotting across the metal plate. The researchers suggest that this sort of independent movement could one day generate power

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Hands-on: Here’s Circle to Search’s upcoming ‘Scroll and translate’ feature in action

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:45:17

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a new feature called Scroll and Translate that adds live translation capabilities to Circle to Search. There’s confusion about the branding, as the company has interchangeably called the feature “Live Translate” and “Scroll and Translate.” The rollout appears to be limited as only Google app beta users on Pixels have received the feature so far. Earlier in the day, we brought you news that Google is working on a massive upgrade t

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Circle to Search’s translation feature is in for a massive upgrade (Updated: Hands on)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:46:06

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a live translation functionality in Circle to Search. Unlike the current translation function, the live functionality is likely to translate dynamic screens, such as moving webpages or videos. The Live Translate functionality can be used per app, for the entire screen, or a smaller, selected portion of it. Update, August 18, 2025 (09:46 AM ET): It appears that Circle to Search’s Live Translate feature is already rolling out to some G

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Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

news.ycombinator.com American Chemical Society 2025-11-18 05:35:17

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The electromechanical reshaping technique successfully flattened this rabbit cornea, shown in a cross section, from its original shape (white line) to a corrected one (yellow line). Credit: Daniel Kim and Mimi Chen Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone want

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Early look: Circle to Search’s translation feature is in for a massive upgrade (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:45:06

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a live translation functionality in Circle to Search. Unlike the current translation function, the live functionality is likely to translate dynamic screens, such as moving webpages or videos. The Live Translate functionality can be used per app, for the entire screen, or a smaller, selected portion of it. Google’s Circle to Search is a stellar search feature that allows you to look up information about anything on the screen. Beside

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Google will pay Australia $36 million over anticompetitive search deal with mobile carriers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 20:09:56

Google has agreed to pay a fine of $55 million AUD ($36 million USD) for anticompetitive practices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced. It stems from deals Google undertook with Australian telecommunications companies Telstra and Optus to only pre-install Google Search. The key there is that these companies couldn't install any other search engine. Telstra and Optus then got a share of Google's ad revenue from customers using Google search on their respective An

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An alternative to LASIK eye surgery – electromechanical remodelling

news.ycombinator.com American Chemical Society 2025-11-18 17:35:17

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The electromechanical reshaping technique successfully flattened this rabbit cornea, shown in a cross section, from its original shape (white line) to a corrected one (yellow line). Credit: Daniel Kim and Mimi Chen Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone want

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Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:54:55

The ACCC has today commenced Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific over anti-competitive understandings that Google admits it reached in the past with Telstra and Optus regarding the pre-installation of Google Search on Android mobile phones. Google has co-operated with the ACCC, admitted liability and agreed to jointly submit to the Court that Google should pay a total penalty of $55 million. It is a matter for the Court to determine whether the penalty and other orders are app

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Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 12:52:03

doxx 📄 Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities. ✨ Features Document viewing 🎨 Beautiful terminal rendering with syntax highlighting and formatting with syntax highlighting and formatting 📊 Professional tab

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:46:04

Run an ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer. The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do! The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space. The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar pr

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Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:24:32

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The flaw was reported responsibly to Fortinet and is now tracked as CVE-2025-52970. Fortinet released a fix on August 12. Security researcher Aviv Y named the vulnerability FortMajeure and describes it as a "silent failure that wasn’t meant to happen." Technically, it is an out-of-bounds read in FortiWeb’s coo

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Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 00:50:07

Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law. Piracy of movies, TV shows, music, games and similar content, purely for

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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

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Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

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Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

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