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Lyft and Baidu plan to bring their robotaxis to the UK and Germany next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 11:21:33

Lyft and Baidu have shed more light on their plan for a worldwide fleet of autonomous vehicles . After the first rollouts — which are earmarked for Asia and the Middle East later this year — the companies have their designs set on Europe. They're aiming to deploy robotaxis in the UK and Germany in 2026, as long as they get approval from regulators. The goal is to then expand the European fleet to thousands of vehicles across the continent in the following years. Baidu is using its sixth-generat

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Yes, you need a firewall on Linux - here's why and which to use

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-20 11:18:36

JuSun/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW. I've been using Linux for nearly 30 years. Over those years, I've experienced only one security issue (a rootkit on a server I inherited). The reason for that is Linux's heightened security. Out of the box, it includes a tight permissions system and security mech

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5 of my favorite Linux system-monitoring tools - and why I use them

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-20 11:41:07

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Key takeaways System performance is key to getting the most out of Linux. There are several command line and GUI tools to make this task easy. Here you'll learn about htop, glances, Mission Center, and more apps. Linux users are notorious for wanting to know as much information as they can about their systems and how they run. There are even apps and widgets (such as Conky) that can be installed and configured to display such information right on t

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8BitDo’s first wireless Xbox controller is a surprise Rare collaboration

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-20 11:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 8BitDo has created its first wireless Xbox controller in partnership with Rare, a game studio acquired by Microsoft. The officially licensed controller features a gold and blue design, with plenty of Easter eggs to celebrate Rare’s 40th anniversary. The $89.99 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Contro

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Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-20 11:41:39

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences,” Cloudfl

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New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 16:42:06

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems. Nextron Systems security researchers, who identified the malware and dubbed it "Plague," describe it as a malicious Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) that uses layered obfuscation techniques and environment tampering to avoid detection by traditional security tools. This malware features anti-debugging capabilities to

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Why I recommend this budget phone with a paper-like screen over 'minimalist' devices

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-20 16:11:00

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G ZDNET's key takeaways TCL's 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G is on sale on Amazon for $222. It has a unique display, and a feature set that promotes minimalism and digital well-being. I just wish the camera system and general performance were better. $249.99 at Amazon Being glued to your smartphone's screen all day can do a number on your eyes, and I definitely can feel it. TCL's Nxtpaper technology offers a paper-like screen that's made for tired eyes like mine. The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper

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Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 21:39:30

5 min read We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. We see continued evidence that Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing their source ASNs to hide their crawling activity, as well as ignoring — or sometimes

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Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?

news.ycombinator.com Uğur Erdem Seyfi 2025-12-20 20:49:30

Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? Around a year ago, I published a blog post explaining my overall experience Switching from Arch to NixOS. You can read it if you’re interested in my early experiences, but, to give you a spoiler, that post ends with me saying: Unfortunately, though, I don’t think the benefits I’ve gotten in this one month of using NixOS so far justified the cost I’ve initially spent and continue to spend learning Nix and NixOS. — Ultimately, whether the benefits of learnin

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More is less: I can’t make myself use Nothing’s Glyph Matrix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:30:59

Nothing’s original Glyph Interface was the perfect level of gimmick — it added a bit of flair to the back of its first few phones, but always felt like it had a purpose. I trusted it for everything from following the charge of my battery to watching for an incoming phone call, and it was one cool thing I could always show off to my iPhone-toting friends. Unfortunately, the Nothing Phone 3 took everything I loved about the original Glyph Interface and sent it back to the drawing board. It replac

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Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 22:59:03

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is apparently thinking about adding an additional NFC antenna to the top of the Galaxy S26 series. This should make it more convenient to use tap-to-pay, as you can do so via the rear or top of the phone. The Galaxy S26 rumors are trickling in at a steady pace, even though the expected launch window is roughly six months away. The latest leak has revealed that Samsung could significantly improve NFC payments like Samsung Pay or Google Wallet.

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Galaxy S26 Ultra charging time leak leaves us with more questions than answers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 02:20:56

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the Galaxy S26 Ultra can reach 75 to 80% capacity after 30 minutes of 60W charging. That isn’t really an upgrade over the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s charging time. It’s still possible that the S26 Ultra could beat the S25 Ultra when it comes to total charging time. Leaks suggest the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra could get 60W wired charging speeds. This would be a significant leap from 45W seen on previous Galaxy S Ultra handsets. What does

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I Love How Streamlined the Pixel 9 Pro Feels, and It’s 20% Off Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 23:39:00

CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $200 off I've been using Google's Pixel 9 Pro for months. I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. Android phones often get a bad rap for being overly convoluted. And to be fair, that's often well justified. Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for example, has deep menu systems for messing about with nearly every aspect of the phone, along with featu

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Galaxy Z Flip 7 survives JerryRigEverything’s bend test, but it’s not all good

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:15:35

TL;DR YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has put the Galaxy Z Flip 7 through its durability test. Samsung’s phone survived a bend test with the screen intact, and it also fared better than expected in sand and dust. Unfortunately, the Flip 7’s inner screen is easily scratched, which is in line with other foldable phones. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 was recently put through YouTube channel JerryRigEverything’s durability test and fared better than expected. Now, it’s the Galaxy Z Flip 7‘s turn

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Samsung could finally catch up to other Android OEMs with this navigation choice

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:54:52

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung could soon let you choose swipe navigation as the default while setting up a new phone. Samsung is testing a choice screen that will allow choosing between three-button navigation and swipe navigation gestures during setup. The feature is only being tested and could be introduced with One UI 8.5 on the Galaxy S26. Despite being a leading innovator in the mobile space, Samsung can sometimes resist change, especially when the mandate originates from

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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:55:47

← index Doing anti-aliasing on SDF is not as straightforward as it seems. Most of the time, we see people use a smoothstep with hardcoded constants, sometimes with screen space information, sometimes cryptic or convoluted formulas. Even if SDFs have the perfect mathematical properties needed for a clean anti-aliasing, the whole issue has a scope larger than it appears at first glance. And even when trivial solutions exist, it's not always clear why they are a good fit. Let's study that together

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I Found the Pixel 9 Pro to Be a More Streamlined Android Experience, and It’s 20% Off Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 11:39:00

CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $200 off I've been using Google's Pixel 9 Pro for months. I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. Android phones often get a bad rap for being overly convoluted. And to be fair, that's often well justified. Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for example, has deep menu systems for messing about with nearly every aspect of the phone, along with featu

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BMW’s next EV is its most sustainable car yet—here’s why

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 11:00:08

BMW provided flights from Los Angeles to Munich and Washington, plus accommodation, so Ars could be briefed on the iX3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH—BMW's next model launch is an important one. When the new iX3 goes on sale in Europe later this year, then here in North America in 2026, it will be the first of a new family of electric BMWs, built using an advanced new platform known as the Neue Klasse, as an homage to the original Neue Klasse of the 1960s that helped BMW de

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A truck carrying thousands of Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7 units just got stolen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 12:33:20

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A truck carrying 12,000 Galaxy phones, including 5,000 Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 models, was stolen in London. The shipment was apparently worth almost $10 million, but it was insured. This also comes a few days after Samsung confirmed that its new phones broke pre-order records for Galaxy foldables. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 seem more popular than previous Galaxy foldables. Now, it looks like these Samsung phones may have been popular enough

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So you want to parse a PDF?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:24:29

Suppose you have an appetite for tilting at windmills. Let's say you love pain. Well then why not write a PDF parser today? The ideal world: how the specification should work Conceptually parsing a PDF is fairly simple: First, locate the version header comment at the start of the file Next you need to locate the pointer to the cross-reference Then you can find all object offsets Finally you locate and build the trailer dictionary which points to the catalog dicitionary Introduction to PDF

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Tokens are getting more expensive

news.ycombinator.com Ethan Ding 2025-12-20 20:01:37

note: i’m kinda tired of the “levered beta” metaphor, i have one more topic i want to cover on this topic related to cognition, and then i’ll go back to my normal writing imagine you start a company knowing that consumers won't pay more than $20/month. fine, you think, classic vc playbook - charge at cost, sacrifice margins for growth. you've done the math on cac, ltv, all that. but here's where it gets interesting: you've seen the a16z chart showing llm costs dropping 10x every year. so you t

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HBO Max Lost Two More Cartoon Network Classics This Week

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-21 06:15:31

The current regime at Warner Bros. Discovery—soon to separate into Warner Bros. and Discovery in the near future—has never really liked its animated history. After licensing out old Cartoon Network hits and their sequel shows to different platforms, the company still have a few more shows to kick out of HBO Max. In this case, it’s Courage the Cowardly Dog and What’s New, Scooby-Doo that are now no longer on the service. Per Deadline, the two youth-aimed horror shows left the service on July 31

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These Behind-the-Scenes Emails From Tesla Meekly Begging the State of California to Allow Its Horrible Robotaxis Are Unintentionally Hilarious

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-21 04:45:34

Email exchanges between Tesla and California regulators obtained by Politico reveal a comical discrepancy between what Elon Musk is saying his Robotaxi services can do publicly, and what the automaker is actually telling authorities behind closed doors. This week, Tesla launched a ride-hailing service in San Francisco, in what is being framed as an expansion of its Robotaxi efforts that started as an invite-only program in Austin, Texas last month, where it immediately began charging customers

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The Ski Rental Problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:34:47

Ski Rental Problem The ski rental problem is a classic example problem in online algorithms. It feels like a small but interesting problem that can be explained relatively easily while some clever tricks can be applied to it. In this article, I took these lecture notes by Debmalya Panigrahi and Hangjie Ji and tried to rewrite them in a way that is easier to understand (at least for me). Formulation You are going skiing in the mountains but you are unsure about the weather reports and don't k

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We Tested Dozens of Phones and These Have the Best Cameras

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 00:30:00

Phone makers promise varying lengths of long-term software and security support ranging from just one year to as many as seven. These updates not only ensure you get many of the latest features but also keep your phone secure. Phone cameras have gotten better over the past five years. Don’t be fooled by how many cameras a phone has ot the number of megapixels; more is not necessarily better. Phones are large in general with the smallest ones having a 6.1-inch screen and large models topping ou

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A Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Parser

news.ycombinator.com Abhinav Sarkar 2025-12-20 04:37:01

In this series of posts, we write a bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics: In this series of posts, we write a bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics: Parsing arithmetic expressions to Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs). Compiling AST s to bytecode. s to bytecode. Interpreting AST s. s. Efficiently executing bytecode in a virtual machine (VM). Disassembling bytecode and decomp

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LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 22:56:46

LangExtract Table of Contents Introduction LangExtract is a Python library that uses LLMs to extract structured information from unstructured text documents based on user-defined instructions. It processes materials such as clinical notes or reports, identifying and organizing key details while ensuring the extracted data corresponds to the source text. Why LangExtract? Precise Source Grounding: Maps every extraction to its exact location in the source text, enabling visual highlighting for

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The 45 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-12-20 09:00:00

Streaming services are known for having award-worthy series but also plenty of duds. Our guide to the best TV shows on Netflix is updated weekly to help you know which series you should move to the top of your queue. They aren’t all surefire winners—we love a good less-than-obvious gem—but they’re all worth your time, trust us. Feel like you’ve already watched everything on this list that you want to see? Try our guide to the best movies on Netflix for more options. And if you’ve already comple

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We Must Admit That This Video of Two Small Robots Punching Each Other With Boxing Gloves Is Pretty Awesome

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-20 21:45:15

These days, robots with varying degrees of impressiveness can manage all kinds of tasks. But two diminutive humanoids seen boxing with outsize gloves at the recent World AI Conference in Shanghai may take the cake. In a video posted to X, AI security researcher Helen Toner — who was, it should be noted, a driving force behind the ultimately failed coup against CEO Sam Altman back in November 2023 — showed off the boxing ring prowess of two short-statured robots from the Chinese company Unitree.

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NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 00:50:04

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, but a scientific investigation from the Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the US-based company Space Tango with the goal of better understanding how bacteria spread and behave under extreme conditions. The experiment includes E. coli, along with bacteria that cause diseases like typhoid fever and the infe

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Lyft and Baidu plan to bring their robotaxis to the UK and Germany next year

Yes, you need a firewall on Linux - here's why and which to use

5 of my favorite Linux system-monitoring tools - and why I use them

8BitDo’s first wireless Xbox controller is a surprise Rare collaboration

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

Why I recommend this budget phone with a paper-like screen over 'minimalist' devices

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I Love How Streamlined the Pixel 9 Pro Feels, and It’s 20% Off Today

Galaxy Z Flip 7 survives JerryRigEverything’s bend test, but it’s not all good

Samsung could finally catch up to other Android OEMs with this navigation choice

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

I Found the Pixel 9 Pro to Be a More Streamlined Android Experience, and It’s 20% Off Today

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A truck carrying thousands of Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7 units just got stolen

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HBO Max Lost Two More Cartoon Network Classics This Week

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The Ski Rental Problem

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A Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Parser

LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

The 45 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (August 2025)

We Must Admit That This Video of Two Small Robots Punching Each Other With Boxing Gloves Is Pretty Awesome

NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

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