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Targeting Nuclear Scientists Used to Be Covert Ops. Israel Just Blew It Open

gizmodo.com Jenna Jordan 2025-09-03 18:00:54

At least 14 nuclear scientists are believed to be among those killed in Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, launched on June 13, 2025, ostensibly to destroy or degrade Iran’s nuclear program and military capabilities. Deliberately targeting scientists in this way aims to disrupt Iran’s knowledge base and continuity in nuclear expertise. Among those assassinated were Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, a theoretical physicist and head of Iran’s Islamic Azad University, and Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, a nuclear e

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Scientists Working to Decode Signal From Earliest Years of Universe

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-03 23:45:54

As mysterious as the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe is the brief but tumultuous period that immediately followed it. How did the cosmos transform from a uniform sea of darkness into a chaotic swirl brimming with radiant stars? What were these first stars like, and how were they born? So far, we have very strong suspicions, but no hard answers. One reason is that the light from this period, called the cosmic dawn, is extremely faint, making it nearly impossible to infer the traits of t

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Last day to save on your TechCrunch All Stage pass — prices go up tonight

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-04 03:00:00

It’s now or never — this is your final day to lock in savings for TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston. Prices increase tonight, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been thinking about attending, now’s the time to commit. Register here. TC All Stage brings together founders, investors, and operators from across the startup landscape for one high-intensity day of strategy, storytelling, and startup momentum. Whether you’re building something new or backing what’s next, this is the

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‘Magic: The Gathering’ Unveils Its First ‘Avatar: Last Airbender’ Card

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-03 22:50:49

Magic: The Gathering has been doing crossover packs with various IP, and later this year, Avatar: The Last Airbender is joining those ranks. During this weekend’s MagicCon, Wizards of the Coast showed off its first card from the set dropping in late November. Naturally, that card is a Legendary featuring Aang manipulating water, fire, earth, and air while in the Avatar State. On the flip side is him looking up at his Avatar Spirit, with artwork for both sides drawn by Airbender co-creator Bryan

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Week in Review: Meta reveals its Oakley smart glasses

techcrunch.com Karyne Levy 2025-09-03 21:08:39

Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots in store for you today, including Wix’s latest acquisition, Meta’s new smart glasses, a look at the new Digg, and much more. Have a great weekend! Smart specs: Meta and Oakley have teamed up on a new pair of smart glasses that can record 3K video, play music, handle calls, and respond to Meta AI prompts. They start at $399 and have double the battery life of Meta’s Ray-Bans. A $499 limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model will be available starting July 11. U

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AI Startup That Raised $81 Million to Detect Wildfires Bamboozled by Clouds, Still Relies on Humans

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-03 22:45:31

It's boom time for AI startups. Across the world, enterprising tech types are being rewarded with millions for forcing AI into all kinds of gadgets, like an autonomous lawnmower, an AI-powered robo-mattress, and even an AI-enabled toilet. While the vast majority of even the most well-funded AI startups tend to collapse like houses of cards, VC spending on outlandish techno slop — like the Lemonflow, a "voice-based AI agent for charging infrastructure" — isn't slowing down. In the first three mo

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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 21:56:57

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare. The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost incomprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD movies or 7,500 hours of H

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11 Great Horror Movies to Watch on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-04 00:29:35

Want to see what petrifying picks await on Prime Video? Horror lovers can watch classic films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and newer flicks like the twisty ballerina chiller Abigail. Ads are now a part of the streaming service, but if you'd prefer to watch your spooky content without commercial interruptions, you can pay an additional fee to remove them. Here are some highly rated horror films to satisfy your cravings. Dim the lights, grab the popcorn and enjoy your creepy feature. Eric Z

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-04 12:59:33

In Brief Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round, according to The Financial Times. The deal values the six-month-old startup at $10 billion. The company’s work remains unclear. The startup has leveraged Murati’s reputation and other high-profile AI researchers who have joined the team to attract investors in what could be the largest seed round in history. According to sources familiar

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West End Games’ Classic ‘Star Wars’ RPG Is Still Setting the Blueprint for Its Universe

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-04 16:48:43

In the years since Lucasfilm overhauled Star Wars continuity—reclassifying years of Expanded Universe material as “Legends” before wiping a clean slate of continuity it has developed over the last decade-plus—much of what has been rebuilt has been done so off of the back of re-canonizing elements of that old material. In some ways re-imagined, in others just lifted wholesale, the journey of modern Star Wars is as much about adding new stories as it is weaving the old ones back into them. There

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Latest Starship Explosion Drastically Decreases SpaceX's Chances of Reaching Mars Without Having to Wait Years

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-04 19:22:31

"One of the toughest problems to solve." With tech billionaire Elon Musk out of the White House after his disastrous turn as a bureaucrat, he can now focus on more pressing subjects — such as his SpaceX Starship rockets that keep on exploding into fiery columns of fire, with the latest dramatic failure this past Wednesday in Texas, when the massive spacecraft hadn't even left the ground yet. This recent setback ratchets up the pressure on Musk even further, who faces a hard deadline and steep

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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-04 20:04:22

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare. The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost incomprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD movies or 7,500 hours of H

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US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

news.ycombinator.com Wyatt Reed 2025-09-04 23:53:28

Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles. On June 13, the Army announced the creation of Detachment 201, otherwise known as the “Executive Innovation Corps,” which it describes as “a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.” Four ultra-wealthy executives from top tec

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SpaceX's String of Starship Failures Continues With Massive Rocket Explosion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 02:41:00

SpaceX's ongoing mission to prepare Starship spacecraft for trips to the moon and, eventually, Mars suffered a setback when a spacecraft exploded this week in South Texas. The explosion happened during what SpaceX called routine testing in preparation for Starship's 10th flight since 2023, which was expected to happen later this month. SpaceX uses a different rocket design to launch its Starlink internet satellites. On X, the space company wrote, "On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m

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Startups Weekly: Fast and furious

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-09-05 04:30:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Some startups accrued value at lightning speed this week, and we got confirmation that defense tech is red hot. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Kelly Sullivan / Getty Images Many startup stories this week occurred in Y Combinator’s orbit in some way. Also, Israel once again lived up to its “Start-Up Nation” repu

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a '70s artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-02 14:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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‘Major Anomaly’ Behind Latest SpaceX Starship Explosion

wired.com Stephen Clark 2025-09-05 08:38:37

Musk wrote that the nitrogen COPV appears to have failed below its proof pressure, within conditions that should not have damaged the tank. "If further investigation confirms that this is what happened, it is the first time ever for this design," Musk added. Picking Up the Pieces Earlier Wednesday, just hours before the late-night explosion at Starbase, an advisory released by the Federal Aviation Administration showed SpaceX had set June 29 as a tentative launch date for the next Starship tes

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Aflac discloses breach amidst Scattered Spider insurance attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-05 16:52:05

On Friday, American insurance giant Aflac disclosed that its systems were breached in a broader campaign targeting insurance companies across the United States by attackers who may have stolen personal and health information. Aflac (short for American Family Life Assurance Company) is the largest supplemental insurance provider in the U.S. and a Fortune 500 company that provides insurance services to millions of customers in the U.S. and Japan. In a press release earlier today, the insurance c

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What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-09-05 16:26:42

When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. It’s very hard to discern truth from satire in 2025, in part because of social media sites owned by Bosworth’s company. But it indeed was true. According to an official press release, they’re in the Army now, specifically Detachment 201: the Executive Innovation Corps. Boz is now lieutenant

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A '70s performance artist who became a hero to 'garbage men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-03 10:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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LEGO Joins Early Prime Day With Star Wars Millennium Falcon at a New Record-Low Price

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-06 00:40:07

Star Wars fans are, historically, pretty committed to what they love. It makes them incredibly easy to buy presents for, because basically anything that’s related to Star Wars is a good shout, and it’s going to be really well received too. It can be hard to find a quality gift though, whether you’re looking for yourself or someone else. These days, one of the best gifts you can give any of them, outside of a trip to Disney World, is a good Lego set. See at Amazon Lego sets hold their value wel

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He '70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to 'Garbage Men'

news.ycombinator.com Ginia Bellafante 2025-09-03 20:24:18

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with a crowd of M.F.A. students. He understood the avant

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Learn Makefiles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 06:05:55

I built this guide because I could never quite wrap my head around Makefiles. They seemed awash with hidden rules and esoteric symbols, and asking simple questions didn’t yield simple answers. To solve this, I sat down for several weekends and read everything I could about Makefiles. I've condensed the most critical knowledge into this guide. Each topic has a brief description and a self contained example that you can run yourself. If you mostly understand Make, consider checking out the Makefi

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A False Start on the Road to an All-American Bitcoin

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-09-06 07:30:00

US president Donald Trump waited a beat to soak up the applause. In front of a baying crowd of bitcoiners at crypto conference Bitcoin 2024 in July, he had just laid out his plan to turn the US into the world’s undisputed bitcoin mining superpower. “I want it to be mined, minted, and made in the USA,” he told the audience. “You’re going to be very happy with me—you’re going to be so happy.” Since returning to the White House, Trump has largely followed through on his crypto-related pledges: He

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Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever's $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

cnbc.com Kate Rooney 2025-09-06 12:55:12

At the Meta Connect developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg, head of the Facebook group Meta, shows the prototype of computer glasses that can display digital objects in transparent lenses. When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment in the artificial intelligence startup, he was apparently just getting started. Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever's star

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SpaceX Starship explodes during engine test, Musk shares preliminary investigation results

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-09-07 00:03:00

Facepalm: SpaceX was preparing its Starship rocket for a 10th flight test – initially scheduled for June 29 – when it exploded during a static fire at the Starbase launch site in Texas shortly after 11 pm MT on Wednesday. The launch timeline is now unclear following the incident. A video shared by NASA Spaceflight shows a powerful explosion lighting up the Texas night sky during what was supposed to be a routine engine test. Cameron County officials confirmed the incident and said no one was in

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Star Quakes and Monster Shock Waves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-05 02:46:40

Like the simulation depicting how a neutron star cracks, this one also predicts the characteristics of the resulting flares astronomers might see through telescopes. In the fleeting moments when monster shock waves rip outward and a black hole pulsar forms, telescopes may be able to catch outbursts of radio waves or a combination of X-rays and gamma rays. In short, the simulations performed by Most and colleagues provide a deeper understanding of the physics driving some of the most energetic ev

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SpaceX Starship Explodes in Spectacular Fireball at Texas Test Facility

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-09-07 20:22:25

The upper stage prototype, designated Ship 36, exploded shortly before midnight local time on June 18 during routine preparations for an upcoming test flight. SpaceX is in the midst of preparing for Starship’s next fully integrated test, known as Flight 10. The last several tests haven’t gone well, but this prototype never even left the ground. The explosion—as shown in spectacular footage from NASASpaceFlight.com—occurred at SpaceX’s Massey facility, a test site located several miles from the

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I Was Shocked to Learn These 10 Foods Aren't Vegetarian

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-07 19:56:00

Think It's vegan? Think again. Depending on how strictly you follow a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, some seemingly plant-based foods might not make the cut. Surprising ingredients, including animal byproducts, can sneak into everyday staples like sugar, wine, and even corn tortillas. You might be a pro at reading labels, but it's easy to assume certain items are animal-free when they're not. Here are 10 common foods that aren't always as vegetarian- or vegan-friendly as they seem. Cheese Rea

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4 days left: Lock in your TechCrunch All Stage pass — or miss $210 in savings

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-08 00:00:00

If you’re serious about traction, scale, and funding, you have 4 days left to secure your pass to TechCrunch All Stage — and save up to $210 while you’re at it. Prices rise after June 22 at 11:59 p.m. PT. This is not just another startup event. It’s your tactical launchpad and the fuel to scale to the next level. On July 15 in Boston, join 1,000 founders and investors at all stages for one day packed with real scaling strategies, live investor feedback, and conversations that move the needle.

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Targeting Nuclear Scientists Used to Be Covert Ops. Israel Just Blew It Open

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