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I'm Impressed by This $550 Phone's Camera and Screen, but the Trade-Offs Are Important

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 09:00:00

CNET's key takeaways The Motorola Edge goes for $550, which is one of the lowest prices out there for a phone with such a bright screen and an impressive 3x telephoto camera The Edge's light weight and curved screen make it very pocketable It comes with only two years of software support and three years of security updates, which is very low for a phone that's over $500 When I tested the $550 Motorola Edge, I was surprised that it includes a telephoto camera at that price, and that it's

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No, the Sun Isn't Safer Than Tanning Beds. Plus, 17 Other Health Myths We're Busting

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 12:45:00

Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis. Eggs raise your cholesterol levels. Coffee stunts your growth. For decades, myths like these have influenced consumer decisions, originating from obscure studies or the opinion of a health "influencer". Science has debunked much of this conventional wisdom that percolates as fact. Here are 18 common health myths that everyone needs to stop believing right now. Myth: Exercising at night ruins your sleep Feel free to work out at night if that's your j

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Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

news.ycombinator.com Amelia Hansford 2026-01-03 09:23:36

Discord’s new age-verification tool may not be as rigorous as it seems, after users reportedly discovered it can be tricked using video game characters. The instant messaging and VoIP platform, commonly used for gaming, implemented an age-check tool earlier this month for UK users in anticipation of a new set of laws aimed at restricting potentially harmful content for under-18s. The Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, requires service providers that host user-generated content to implement age

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UK's New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable

news.ycombinator.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-03 16:14:02

Earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s age assurance requirement for sites that publish pornographic material went into effect, which has resulted in everything from Pornhub to Reddit and Discord displaying an age verification panel when users attempt to visit. There’s just one little problem. As The Verge notes, all it takes to defeat the age-gating is a VPN, and those aren’t hard to come by these days. Here’s the deal: Ofcom, the UK’s telecom regulator, requires online platforms to verify th

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Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 11:36:27

Look, we know there are other tools out there. But we built this one because we needed it ourselves. Here's what makes our image to drawio converter different. It Actually Understands Diagrams Here's the thing - most tools just see shapes and lines. Our image to drawio converter sees diagrams. Feed it a whiteboard photo, and it knows that wobbly rectangle is meant to be a process box. Give it a screenshot, and it figures out which arrows connect to which shapes. We spent months training it on r

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An Even Scarier Predator Hunted Giant ‘Terror Birds’ in South America

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-03 16:00:44

Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day South America. The meal, however, turned out to be rather ambitious, because the croc hadn’t come upon just any old prey. It was a phorusrhacid, a large carnivore in its own right, aptly known as a “terror bird.” The now-extinct terror bird wouldn’t have given in without a fight—unless, of course, it was already dead, and the opportunistic croc simply scavenged its dead body. That doesn’t seem t

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Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-03 16:58:24

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 Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The announcement was made Friday by Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, noting Zhao will lead the lab’s scientific agenda alongside him and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI wh

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Choosing the rijght .NET container image for your workload

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 14:03:23

All the .NET Core Opsy Things Part 1: Choosing the right .NET core Image for your workload Bill 7 min read · 3 days ago 3 days ago -- Listen Share This guide began as a conversation between me and someone exploring how to containerize .NET apps. The same questions kept coming up; from new developers to infrastructure and DevOps engineers and I kept pointing people to the docs. I decided to turn it into a practical walk through and post it here for anyone who finds it useful. When you pull an

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The New ‘Toxic Avenger’ Promises Heart Along With All That Goopy Gore

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-04 02:30:26

Troma Entertainment… in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con… in the year of our Lloyd Kaufman 2025? You better believe it. The cult hero rises again in The Toxic Avenger, a title that’s still popular enough 40-plus years after the release of the original Toxic Avenger to command the convention’s largest meeting room. With that panel came an in-room-only sneak peek at the unrated horror comedy; as the marketing for Macon Blair’s long-awaited reboot has teased (it premiered back in 2023 at Fantastic Fe

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Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:17:23

A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago. The outage affected civilian and military users, creating an inconvenience for many but cutting off a critical lifeline for those who rely on Starlink for military operations, health care, and other applications. Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink

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Phishing Email Alert

computer.org Jennifer Salazar 2026-01-04 06:33:17

We are aware of recent phishing emails impersonating Hironori Washizaki from a Gmail address. These messages are fraudulent and were not sent by the IEEE Computer Society. No internal systems have been breached. If you receive such an email, please delete it and do not respond. For questions or to report similar messages, contact [email protected]. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 05:06:06

Google in 1999: Search Engines Escape the Portal Matrix Like Morpheus in The Matrix, Google gave web users a stark choice in 1999: take the red pill and experience a new world of search quality, or choose the blue pill and stick with the bloated world of portal search. Google founders, 1999; photo by William Mercer McLeod. "Aren’t you rather late to the game?" It's January 1999 and that question was put to Google's young founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The interviewer was Karsten Lemm

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

news.ycombinator.com Jono Alderson 2026-01-04 06:08:00

It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. The app-like fallacy “Make it feel like an app.” At some point during the scoping process, someone says the words. A CMO. A digital lead. A brand manager. And with that single phrase, the architecture is locked in: it’ll be an SPA. Probably React. Maybe Vue. Almost certainly deployed on Verce

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UK’s New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-04 06:58:39

Earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s age assurance requirement for sites that publish pornographic material went into effect, which has resulted in everything from Pornhub to Reddit and Discord displaying an age verification panel when users attempt to visit. There’s just one little problem. As The Verge notes, all it takes to defeat the age-gating is a VPN, and those aren’t hard to come by these days. Here’s the deal: Ofcom, the UK’s telecom regulator, requires online platforms to verify th

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Apple Adds 13, 16 and 18 Plus Age Ratings to Apps and Games: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 05:07:00

In an effort to help parents decide which apps they should download or avoid for their kids on iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, Apple TVs and the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has added three new age ratings: 13 plus, 16 plus and 18 plus. To make things a little clearer, Apple removed the 12- and 17-plus ratings (but kept the 4- and 9-plus ratings). Apple said the new age ratings will be present on any Apple device running iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26 and watchOS 26

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A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 11:48:05

Combining Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern into the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. would create a 52,215-mile colossus that could offer seamless service from coast to coast, bypassing longtime interchange choke points in Chicago and at gateways along the Mississippi River. The two railroads confirmed today that they are in advanced merger discussions. The talks, they said, may not result in a deal. Plus, there’s the potential for a bidding war if BNSF Railway, UP’s Western rival,

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Google gets its swag back

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-01-04 10:52:59

This week, I take a look at the surprisingly strong state of Google, Meta gets a new chief AI researcher, and more. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out this week’s Decoder episode about deepfakes and where they are headed. Also, do you use an AI coding tool like Cursor or GitHub Copilot? I’d love to know what works and what doesn’t… “I think we are doing very well through this moment” After spending time with Google executives during the company’s I/O conference in May, it was clear

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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 15:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Apple Adds 13, 16 and 18 Plus Age Ratings to Its Apps and Games: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 14:43:00

In an effort to help parents decide which apps they should download or avoid for their kids on iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, Apple TVs and the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has added three new age ratings: 13 plus, 16 plus and 18 plus. To make things a little clearer, Apple removed the 12- and 17-plus ratings (but kept the 4- and 9-plus ratings). Apple said the new age ratings will be present on any Apple device running iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26 and watchOS 26

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7 helpful AI features in iOS 26 you can try now - and how to access them

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-04 21:01:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Apple finally launched the iOS 26 public beta, and with that comes a slew of new AI features you can try out today -- and their usefulness may surprise you. While the new features may not be as flashy as the promised Siri 2.0 update, which has yet to be released, many address issues Apple users have long had with their devices or in their everyday workflows, while others are downright fun. For example, don't you like waiting for customer service calls? Want your song transi

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Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 21:03:01

The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner. Every now and then, while exploring a new programming language, I inevitably stumble upon a heated debate, often buried deep in a GitHub issue thread, where contributors are passionately arguing over whether the language’s formatter should default to tabs or spaces. Over the past few months, as I’ve been immersing myself in Zig, I encountered one such discussion. It got me thinking: After decades of writing code, how i

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-04 21:00:23

Modern humanity’s most famous cousins, the Neanderthals, may have had a clever, if unappealing, dietary trick for survival: maggots. Research out today posits these creepy crawly fly larvae provided Neanderthals an ample source of essential nitrogen and fat. Scientists at Purdue University, the University of Michigan, and others conducted the study, published Friday in Science Advances. Using both experimental and historical data, they showed that maggot-infused meat is rich in fat and nitrogen

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Hasbro’s Wearable Wolverine Mask Comes With Its Own Sharp Points

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-04 21:45:04

Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Roleplay line has given us some wonderful replicas over the years, from legendary weapons to iconic masks and helmets. Now, we’re getting another ripped right out of Deadpool & Wolverine, and io9 has your exclusive look up close. To me, my X-Men! To celebrate Hasbro’s Marvel Legends panel at San Diego Comic-Con, io9 has your exclusive reveal on the Wolverine mask joining the lineup of Legends replicas. Inspired by the long-awaited live-action appearance of Logan’s legend

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Tea App Breach Exposes 72,000 Selfies, ID Photos and Other User Images

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 20:35:46

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach

news.ycombinator.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 00:47:08

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 00:28:28

Tea, a women's safety dating app that surged to the top of the free iOS App Store listings this week, has been the subject of a major security breach. The company confirmed Friday that it has "identified authorized access to one of our systems" that exposed thousands of user images. According to Tea's preliminary findings, the breach allowed access to approximately 72,000 images, broken down into two groups: 13,000 images of selfies and photo identification that people had submitted during acco

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I've Had It with Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Paris Marx 2026-01-05 04:41:07

Screenshot by the author. Photo: Microsoft . Generative AI is nothing but a con dressed up in big promises that become harder to believe with every passing month. After narrativizing chatbots and image generators into the next big thing, to such an extent that credulous governments now believe access to the technology is key to their geopolitical position in the world, tech companies can’t allow the bubble to burst. But keeping the bubble inflated costs hundreds of billions of dollars, and tha

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CO2 Battery

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 06:32:32

The CO2 Battery is widely scalable on a global level thanks to the integration of well-known industrial components in a new, efficient, and cost-effective process. It’s a model where the same identical design can be deployed anywhere in the world. Every component we choose is standard, making the CO2 Battery a very simple and more economical solution, no matter where you are—a plug-and-play plant to solve the world’s biggest problem.

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Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-05 05:50:37

It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful breaches of multiple developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being pushed to unsuspecting users. The latest target, according to security firm Socket, is JavaScript code available on repository npm. A total of 10 packages available from the npm page belonging to global talent agency Toptal contained malware and were downloaded by roughly 5,000 users be

Topics: attack github npm packages publishing

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Open source repositories are seeing a rash of supply-chain attacks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-05 11:50:37

It has been a busy week for supply-chain attacks targeting open source software available in public repositories, with successful breaches of multiple developer accounts that resulted in malicious packages being pushed to unsuspecting users. The latest target, according to security firm Socket, is JavaScript code available on repository npm. A total of 10 packages available from the npm page belonging to global talent agency Toptal contained malware and were downloaded by roughly 5,000 users be

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I'm Impressed by This $550 Phone's Camera and Screen, but the Trade-Offs Are Important

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Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing

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UK’s New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable

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Apple Adds 13, 16 and 18 Plus Age Ratings to Its Apps and Games: What to Know

7 helpful AI features in iOS 26 you can try now - and how to access them

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