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Quantum Hardware Readiness for Two-Step Quantum Search Algorithm

computer.org Ilse Paredes 2026-03-16 21:03:11

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) has challenged computer scientists for decades. Finding the shortest route that visits all cities exactly once sounds simple, but it becomes computationally explosive as the number of destinations grows. With applications spanning logistics, manufacturing, and network optimization, any breakthrough in solving TSP efficiently could transform entire industries. A recent paper published in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering by Rei Sato, Cui Gordon, Kazuhi

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Cybertruck Burned So Severely That Its Driver's Bones Disintegrated

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-16 21:32:44

A Cybertruck owner in Texas was burned to death after crashing his vehicle in a ditch and becoming trapped inside. According to a lawsuit filed by his widow and parents against the Elon Musk-led EV maker, the fire burned so hot that his bones literally disintegrated. The 47-year-old, named Michael Sheehan, "burned to death at 5,000°F — a fire so hot his bones experienced thermal fracture," the lawsuit reads, as quoted by The Independent. "He was eight inches shorter in length than he was befo

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Department of Homeland Security Head Visited Biohazard Lab One Day Before Hospitalization

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-16 21:07:17

Image by Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times via Getty / Futurism Kristi Noem, the gun-loving former South Dakota governor who now runs Homeland Security, was rushed to the hospital this week for a severe allergic reaction — and she just so happened to have visited a biohazard lab run by our nation's top allergy specialists the day prior. On June 16, per a photo posted on X by Health and Human Services director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Noem visited the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

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Announcing the 2025 finalists for VentureBeat Women in AI Awards

venturebeat.com Aliyah Mohammed 2026-03-16 22:06:48

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more With VentureBeat’s flagship event, VB Transform, just around the corner, we are excited to announce the finalists for the 7th annual Women in AI Awards. The winners will be announced during a special program on the main stage of Transform on Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m. PT. VB Transform is a premier two-day event on June 24-25 at Fort Mas

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Minecraft now has a photo mode with Vibrant Memories

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 21:59:49

Photo modes are a pretty common feature for video games where players go bounding around an interesting open world. Today, Minecraft joined their ranks, making an in-game camera available in the Minecraft Marketplace as a free add-on called Vibrant Memories. The feature requires a copy of Minecraft's Bedrock Edition on any platform; the Java version doesn't appear to support the camera. As well as capturing the moment as-is and saving particular camera angles to reuse later, Vibrant Memories wi

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Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting

news.ycombinator.com Department Of Computer Science 2026-03-16 21:55:06

Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online. New research led by Texas A&M University found that websites are covertly using browser fingerprinting — a method to uniquely identify a web browser — to track people across browser sessions and sites. “Fingerprinting has always been a concern in the privacy community, but until now, we had no hard proof that it was actually being used to track users,” said Dr. Nitesh Saxena, cybersecurity researcher, professor of computer sci

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DropZap World – my falling block game with lasers, released after years of work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 11:10:04

DropZap World — a falling block game with lasers, mirrors, splitters, color matching, and 120 levels! Experience the thrill of lasers, mirrors, and color-matching in DropZap World — a fresh twist on falling block games with 120 electrifying levels! Developed by the original creator of DropZap and DropZap 2, DropZap World stands on its own with unique gameplay and a level-based progression system that will captivate both new players and longtime fans. FEATURES - 120 Challenging Levels: Test your

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T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Arriving: Here's the Scoop

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 21:39:00

Check your bank account lately? Is there an unexpected deposit from a company you don't recognize? It could be the money you're due from T-Mobile's 2022 class-action settlement. Those who qualify were told to expect settlement checks in April, but then that was moved to May. And now, in mid-June, as cited by Android Authority, Reddit users are saying they are seeing money in their bank accounts. Some are saying they received $56, but others are reporting amounts as high as $375. The account the

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Bulk Up: The 8 Best Foods for Building Muscle

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 21:00:00

Spending time at the gym isn't the only thing that can help you build muscle. While putting in time at the gym is the first step, eating well also makes a major difference. Building muscle requires proper nutrition to recover from workouts, and starving yourself isn't going to cut it. If you aren't eating right, you might not see the results you've been working for. That's where food comes in. A smart, balanced diet-especially one packed with high-quality protein, can make a major difference in

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The FDA Announced a Recall of This Children's Cough Syrup Dating Back to 2022

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 21:12:00

The US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that Medtech Products has voluntarily recalled five lots of Little Remedies Honey Cough Syrup, a 100% natural kid's cough medicine for ages 1 year and up. The cough syrup was found to contain Bacillus cereus, a bacterium that can cause two types of food-borne illnesses, and has lost its shelf-stability. The five affected lots were distributed in the US both online and in retail stores from Dec. 14, 2022, to June 4, 2025. The lot numbers ar

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New code in Spotify’s app references the long-awaited ‘lossless’ tier

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-03-16 22:03:11

It’s been over four years since Spotify first announced its plans to launch a lossless audio tier that has yet to arrive. After numerous leaks and teases from company execs, we know better than to start hoping that the long-delayed service could be finally nearing arrival. But newly added references in the music app’s code suggest the lossless service is at least still under development and could even be getting closer to launch. According to technologist and reverse engineer Chris Messina, a

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Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 02:34:56

Adobe launched its own take on how smartphone cameras should work this week with Project Indigo, a new iPhone camera app from some of the team behind the Pixel camera. The project combines the computational photography techniques that engineers Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz popularized at Google, with pro controls and new AI-powered features. In their announcement of the new app, Levoy and Kainz style Project Indigo as the better answer to typical smartphone camera complaints of limited controls

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North Korean hackers deepfake execs in Zoom call to spread Mac malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-17 02:37:41

The North Korean BlueNoroff hacking group is deepfaking company executives during Zoom calls to trick employees into installing custom malware on their macOS devices. BlueNoroff (aka Sapphire Sleet or TA444) is a North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group known for conducting cryptocurrency theft attacks using Windows and Mac malware. Huntress researchers uncovered a new BlueNoroff attack on June 11, 2025, when they were called to investigate a potential intrusion on a partner's netwo

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Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-17 02:56:00

The pro-Israel "Predatory Sparrow" hacking group claims to have stolen over $90 million in cryptocurrency from Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, and burned the funds in a politically motivated cyberattack. The attack occurred on June 18, 2025, with Nobitex first reporting the breach on X at 2:24 AM EST. "This morning, June 19, our technical team detected signs of unauthorized access to a portion of our reporting infrastructure and hot wallet," reads Nobitex's post. "Immediately upon de

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The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 14:48:30

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Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends

news.ycombinator.com John Chang 2026-03-16 11:16:12

UPDATE: Hello Hacker News! Here’s an FAQ for common questions not addressed in the article. We’ll keep updating it and eventually add it at the bottom of this page. Software is important to people. Most of us spend our workdays in front of computers. We use the computer in our pocket tens if not hundreds of times every day. The apps we use are almost exclusively mass-market, sold on an app-store, made for thousands if not millions of users. Or they are enterprise apps that are custom-built for

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Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 16:53:59

In general, ability to perform a task drops off as its duration increases, so they use the AI agent’s performance on tasks of different lengths to estimate the task-length at which the model would have a 50% success rate. They then showed that this length has been doubling every 7 months as the capabilities of frontier agents improve. The task-lengths are measured by how long it took humans to solve the same tasks. They used 50% success rate as their chief performance threshold because it is th

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The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 21:26:35

A simple strategy of having LLMs write fuzz tests and build up a port in topological order seems effective at automating porting from C to Rust. Agents are starting to produce more and more code A week or 2 back, I was reflecting on some code Claude had generated for me and I had a sort of moment of clarity. "Clarity" might be overstating it; more like the type of thought you have in the shower or after a few beers. Anyway. The thought was: LLMs produce more and more code, and they'll eventua

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Ring Alarm 14-Piece Kit Drops to Black Friday Low, Amazon Clears Stock for Non-Prime Members

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-17 02:19:46

When it comes to home security devices, certain items aren’t frequently discounted that deeply. The Ring Alarm 14-piece kit is one of the hard-to-find deals, and today it’s priced about as low as Black Friday last year – something we haven’t witnessed since then. What’s making this deal even better is that, unlike with Prime Day, you don’t need a Prime membership in order to take advantage. Anyone can take this deal, and it’s for the 14-piece set only and not smaller sets. Priced at $330, this

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FDA Approves ‘Breakthough’ Drug to Prevent HIV

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-03-17 02:20:18

The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a preventative HIV drug widely regarded as a breakthrough. On Wednesday afternoon, the FDA approved Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir as a more convenient form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). In clinical trials, the drug was shown to be highly effective at preventing HIV infection when taken just twice a year. At the same time, advocates are urging Gilead and U.S. officials to ensure the drug is widely accessible to the public. “PrEP is one of

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Russell T Davies Is Remaining Vague About the Future of ‘Doctor Who’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-17 02:57:11

As Doctor Who‘s ongoing future remains in flux (no, not that flux), fans remain waiting to hear for any sign that news on the security of that future is on the way. Well, in its latest development, there’s good news and bad news: but in the middle of that is the fact that all of this still remains so vague that you’re free to take it however you want. Writing in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine in his monthly production column (via Cultbox), showrunner Russell T Davies confirmed that he

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The Fed Didn't Cut Rates, but Your Credit Card's APR Could Still Change. Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 00:22:00

CNET/Getty Images The Federal Reserve once again held interest rates steady at Wednesday's meeting, but that doesn't mean your card's interest rate can't change. There are other things -- like economic uncertainty and the potential impact of tariffs -- that could impact your credit card's APR. The Federal Open Market Committee left interest rates at a target range of 4.25% to 4.5% (PDF) in response to continued uncertainty about the economy and "somewhat elevated inflation." Chair Jerome Powel

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for June 19, #739

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 02:00:07

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 could be tough. There's a certain Olympic sport involved, and if you know the accessories that go with it, you'll ace that category. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wor

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 19, #269

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 02:00:09

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. Today's Connections: Sports Edition isn't too tough. I would argue that the yellow category isn't truly a sport, but what do I know? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game ha

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Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 02:10:45

Not the Apple page you're looking for “If I showed the [webpage] to my parents, I don't think they would be able to tell that this is fake,” Jérôme Segura, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, said in an interview. “As the user, if you click on those links, you think, ‘Oh I'm actually on the Apple website and Apple is recommending that I call this number.’” The unknown actors behind the scam begin by buying Google ads that appear at the top of search results for Microsoft, Apple,

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Senate passes GENIUS Act—criticized as gifting Trump ample opportunity to grift

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 02:54:52

Critics have long warned that Donald Trump's pro-cryptocurrency push as president, coupled with his links to his family's growing crypto empire, create substantial conflicts of interest that must be probed. But so far, nothing has stopped Trump's family from seemingly benefiting from the presidency while expanding their empire. And now, Trump is rushing regulation through Congress that many Democrats fear could create his biggest conflict of interest yet. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the GENI

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The EPA Plans to ‘Reconsider’ Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

wired.com Beth Mole 2026-03-17 02:07:40

Despite touting ambitious goals of making America healthier, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in court documents that it is backpedaling on a ban on cancer-causing asbestos. Last year, under the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency took a long-awaited step to ban the last type of asbestos still used in the US—chrysotile asbestos, aka “white asbestos.” While use of chrysotile asbestos was on the decline, the dangerous mineral has lingered in various gaskets, brake

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6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-03-17 02:25:21

There’s a lot of talk in the startup world about how AI makes individuals so productive that it could give rise to a generation of “solo unicorns” — one-person companies worth over $1 billion. While an actual solo unicorn remains a mythical creature, Israeli developer Maor Shlomo provided compelling evidence Wednesday that the concept might not be impossible. Shlomo sold his 6-month-old, bootstrapped vibe-coding startup Base44 to Wix for $80 million, Wix announced Wednesday. And the deal was c

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Keep accidentally opening Chrome tabs in new groups? There’s an easy fix

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-17 07:58:29

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Chrome’s been playing around with menu ordering for opening links in new tabs over the past couple years. If you’re used to opening tabs in groups, you may have a preference for where that selection falls in the list. Chrome now offers a flag that gives users full control over that order. Everyone’s got their own opinions when it comes to browser tabs. Some of us are fastidious, keeping tabs organized, and staying on top of closing unneeded ones. Oth

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Taylor Swift once put Apple on blast and prompted big Apple Music change

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-17 07:23:09

Apple and Taylor Swift are each bigger successes today than ever before. 10 years ago though, they found themselves on opposite sides of a major issue that could have unraveled the successful launch of Apple Music. Here’s what happened. Apple’s transition to streaming music faced a critical last-minute challenge 10 years ago, Apple was gearing up for its highly anticipated launch of Apple Music. The company had spent $3 billion to acquire Beats, with a major motivator being the buzzy Beats Mu

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Quantum Hardware Readiness for Two-Step Quantum Search Algorithm

Cybertruck Burned So Severely That Its Driver's Bones Disintegrated

Department of Homeland Security Head Visited Biohazard Lab One Day Before Hospitalization

Announcing the 2025 finalists for VentureBeat Women in AI Awards

Minecraft now has a photo mode with Vibrant Memories

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The FDA Announced a Recall of This Children's Cough Syrup Dating Back to 2022

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Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

North Korean hackers deepfake execs in Zoom call to spread Mac malware

Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto

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Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.

Senate passes GENIUS Act—criticized as gifting Trump ample opportunity to grift

The EPA Plans to ‘Reconsider’ Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

6-month-old, solo-owned vibe coder Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash

Keep accidentally opening Chrome tabs in new groups? There’s an easy fix

Taylor Swift once put Apple on blast and prompted big Apple Music change

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