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States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 00:34:52

US state legislatures are where the action is for placing guardrails around artificial intelligence technologies, given the lack of meaningful federal regulation. The resounding defeat in Congress of a proposed moratorium on state-level AI regulation means states are free to continue filling the gap. Several states have already enacted legislation around the use of AI. All 50 states have introduced various AI-related legislation in 2025. Four aspects of AI in particular stand out from a regula

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Tinder explores a redesign, dating ‘modes,’ and college-specific features to boost engagement

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-19 00:40:04

Tinder is still struggling to generate revenue from its users, as it reported a 7% dip in paying users while its parent company, Match Group, saw a 5% dip in Q2 2025 across all dating apps, including Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, and others. To boost engagement and push more people to pay for its product, the company has undertaken multiple new initiatives. During Match’s second-quarter earnings call, Match Group CEO Spencer Raskoff said that Tinder will debut a new feature called “modes,” which wi

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 6)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-19 05:30:17

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Should you upgrade from M1 to M4 MacBook Pro? I did, and it was totally worth it

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-19 12:00:18

On Amazon, every single M4 MacBook Pro configuration is on sale. You can buy Apple's latest flagship laptop for as low as $1,299. I've been using the M4 MacBook Pro for a few months now, and it's the most boringly awesome device in my daily arsenal. Without making my 14-inch M1 MacBook Pro jealous, the latest model is Apple's most polished and complete laptop yet, to the point where the base M4 configuration may just be good enough for 90% of users. Most people will be delighted by the M4 MacB

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Python performance myths and fairy tales

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 12:36:28

Python performance myths and fairy tales [LWN subscriber-only content] Antonio Cuni, who is a longtime Python performance engineer and PyPy developer, gave a presentation at EuroPython 2025 about "Myths and fairy tales around Python performance" on the first day of the conference in Prague. As might be guessed from the title, he thinks that much of the conventional wisdom about Python performance is misleading at best. With lots of examples, he showed where the real problems that he sees lie. H

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Here's How to Add a Background to Your Text Chats in iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 15:00:03

The iOS 26 beta brings chat backgrounds to Messages, giving a visual identifier for each chat so you can easily tell if you're messaging the right person or group. It's a nice quality-of-life update that can help you distinguish whether you're texting your family chat or your family chat minus your one uncle you don't get along with. Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, and that beta brought a new Liquid Glass design and other new features to the iPhones of developers and

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Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors

wired.com Elizabeth Chappell 2025-12-19 15:11:37

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. “I’m not sure if it was the effect of the atomic bomb, but I have always had a weak body, and when I was born, the doctor said I wouldn’t last more than three days.” These are the words of Kazumi Kuwahara, a third-generation hibakusha—a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan 80 years ago. Kuwahara, who still lives in Hiroshima, was in London on May 6 this year to give a speech at a V

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Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 06:35:17

Built on Git, works like Git Uses standard Git repositories and Git-like CLI commands. If you know Git, you’ll feel right at home with Kart.

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When Disney Went Digital

news.ycombinator.com Animation Obsessive Staff 2025-12-17 11:03:12

A still from The Lion King (1994) Welcome! It’s time for a new Sunday issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. This is our slate for today: 1) How computers changed Disney animation. 2) Newsbits. With that, we’re off! 1 – Into the computer age Computers and animation go way back. During the ‘50s, artist John Whitney used one to draw the opening titles for Vertigo. His experiments led him to digital films like Arabesque in the ‘70s. And he was one of many animators toying with the techn

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I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:57:05

From: To: [email protected], [email protected] Copy Subject: Request for Immediate Removal of Unauthorized Personal Information Copy To Whom It May Concern, My name is . I have discovered that my personal information is being published and distributed through the Tea Dating Advice app without my knowledge or consent. This includes a post referencing me. This anonymous and unverified content violates my right to privacy, and I am requesting the immediate removal of any

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The Amaranth hardware description language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 18:49:02

The Amaranth project provides an open-source toolchain for developing hardware based on synchronous digital logic using the Python programming language. It aims to be easy to learn and use, reduce or eliminate common coding mistakes, and simplify the design of complex hardware with reusable components. The Amaranth toolchain consists of the Amaranth language, the standard library, the simulator, and the build system, covering all steps of a typical FPGA development workflow. At the same time, i

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Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

news.ycombinator.com Hope Hodge Seck 2025-12-19 18:05:17

On the heels of fielding the military’s first attack drone team, the U.S. Marine Corps added another weapon to their drone-fighting arsenal: a 90-page handbook all about employing small, unmanned aerial systems against the enemy and integrating them into formations. The 1st Marine Division Schools’ Small UAS/Counter-small UAS Integration Handbook was published in June and approved for public release. It’s intended to support the 10-day sUAS/C-sUAS Integration Course recently launched at Camp Pe

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The Best Samsung Galaxy S25 Cases (2025): S25, S25+, S25 Ultra, and S25 Edge

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-12-19 02:03:00

Try These Magnetic Accessories Make sure to check out our many MagSafe guides for compatible accessories, but I'll also be adding more to this list since not all MagSafe accessories will work with the Galaxy S25's unique camera placement. If it's a simple, circular accessory, it will likely be OK, but larger square or rectangular magnetic accessories like MagSafe wallets will not fit well. ESR HaloLock Qi2 Mini Wireless Charger. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu ESR HaloLock Qi2 Mini Wireless Char

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Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second

news.ycombinator.com Rebecca Mcdonald 2025-12-19 09:47:07

Download a print-friendly version of this article. Los Alamos scientists are good at doing things that seem impossible, like taking a picture of something that happens in less than seven-millionths of a second—such as an explosion. And not just one picture, but a series of images that reveal pivotal data about the material that exploded and the physics of the explosion. This so-called dynamic imaging is essential to the Lab’s stockpile stewardship mission because it helps scientists test and un

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Apple rolls out RC versions of macOS 15.7 and 14.8 betas to developers [Update]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-19 23:54:52

Just days after releasing macOS 15.6, Apple is now rolling out release candidate versions of macOS 15.7, as well as macOS 14.8. This suggests that the official updates could come sooner than expected. Going straight to RC is a rare move Usually, Apple tends to release a few developer beta builds before moving on to a Release Candidate (RC). Given the shorter-than-usual testing window and the fact that macOS Sonoma is also getting its first update since 14.7.6 back in May, it is likely that th

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Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-20 04:02:40

In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry and beyond are calling on OpenAI to prove that it hasn't betrayed humanity in favor of profits. Referring to themselves as the "legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission" — that is, members of the human species OpenAI pledged to benefit when it was granted nonprofit status in 2015 — the open letter, signed by the likes of AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton and AI researcher Gary Marcus, charges the Sam Altman-run company with essentially

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Apple rolls out RC versions of macOS 15.7 and 14.8 betas to developers

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-20 05:54:52

Just days after releasing macOS 15.6, Apple is now rolling out release candidate versions of macOS 15.7, as well as macOS 14.8. This suggests that the official updates could come sooner than expected. Going straight to RC is a rare move Usually, Apple tends to release a few developer beta builds before moving on to a Release Candidate (RC). Given the shorter-than-usual testing window and the fact that macOS Sonoma is also getting its first update since 14.7.6 back in May, it is likely that th

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PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:06:29

PBS has suffered a data breach exposing the corporate contact information of its employees and those of its affiliates, BleepingComputer has learned. Earlier this month, BleepingComputer was alerted to a file circulated on Discord servers that allegedly contained this information. This data was not distributed on dark web sites, hacking forums, or other mediums frequented by threat actors. Instead, it was being shared on Discord servers for fans of "PBS Kids," where young adults, teenagers, an

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Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-20 05:26:15

Anthropic / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1. The model exceeds the predecessor's performance on complex tasks. It is available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. In May, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, which the company dubbed its most powerful model yet and the best coding model in the world. Only three months later, Anthropic is upping the ante further by launching the highly anticipated Claude Opus 4.1, w

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Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 16:59:47

Perhaps a more revealing aspect of the Manifesto was the claim that: “Before the Portuguese discovered Brazil, Brazil had discovered happiness.” This statement conferred a local imprimatur on a vision that applied, and perhaps still applies, in Europe and North America of far-off Brazil as a kind of natural and human paradise, a place not only abundant, tropical, and permissive, but also one where race has become unimportant — a fantasy, of course, but one worth holding on to. In the same year a

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Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-20 05:05:16

When it comes to deep space observations, our cosmological insignificance seems to grow with the resolution of our telescopes’ cameras. In the latest advance, astronomers constructed the deepest-ever images of Abell 3667, a massive galaxy cluster located 700 million light-years from Earth—and most of the tiny dots you see represent entire galaxies. But the latest images of Abell 3667 also offer “whispering evidence of past galactic interactions,” which astronomers document in detail in a paper

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Apple is suing Apple Cinemas

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-20 04:58:59

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple is suing the owner of the Apple Cinemas theater chain, Sand Media, over alleged trademark infringement, as reported by Reuters. In the lawsuit, Apple alleges that Apple Cinemas and Sand Media have made efforts to “capitalize on the highly-regarded Apple brand in connection with the a

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The best iPad deals you can get in August

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-12-20 05:08:37

If you know where to look, it’s surprisingly easy to save on an iPad — even outside of major sales events like Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. Here’s an insider tip: skip the Apple Store, where discounts are almost nonexistent. Instead, your best bet is to check third-party retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, which frequently offer deals on everything from the entry-level iPad to the powerhouse iPad Pro, making it possible to snag a bargain any time of the year. Apple’s tablet line

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Apple now offers a separate Xcode 26 beta build for Apple silicon Macs

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-20 10:25:27

With today’s developer beta 5 releases, Apple also rolled out a new version of Xcode 26 beta that brings a notable change: two distinct download options, one of them being Apple silicon-specific. Yet another step beyond the Intel Macs era With today’s release of Xcode 26 beta 5 (build 17A5295f), developers can now choose between a “Universal” version, which runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and one optimized specifically for Apple silicon Macs. According to Apple’s developer downloads pag

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Hands-on: BMX SolidSafe Solid-State Battery Pack [Video]

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-12-20 10:36:31

Recently there have been over 1.7 million mobile power banks recalled. The reason? Most power banks still use lithium-ion cells filled with flammable liquid electrolytes that present a real risk. Drop it, leave it in heat, or overcharge it, puncture it – and it can swell, and even ignite causing fire. How do powebank makers address this problem? BMX is launching its SolidSafe mobile power bank on Kickstarter with a solid core that significantly reduces the amount of flammable liquid inside the

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Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Wiener 2025-12-20 10:32:58

BERLIN — Germany: the land of beer, sausage and trains that run on time. Actually, make that the land where 56 percent of trains run on time. More precisely (or imprecisely, depending on how much of a rush you are in), the land where 56 percent of trains arrive within six minutes of the scheduled time — which is the cushion Deutsche Bahn, the national railroad company, allows itself for an “on-time” arrival. In Germany, punctuality is part of the national ethos. So to hear Germans talk about it

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Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 03:28:39

The diabetes drug Ozempic has demonstrated remarkable anti-aging effects in the first clinical trial to directly measure its impact on biological aging, with participants becoming an average of 3.1 years biologically younger after 32 weeks of treatment. The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide may offer benefits far beyond their established roles in diabetes management and weight loss. First Direct Clinical Evidence of Anti-Aging Effects Varun Dwaraka f

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The best laptop deals you can get right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-20 10:23:21

If you want a great laptop, you’re going to have to fork over a ton of money, right? Not necessarily. There are dozens of good laptops on the market at various price points. However, it can feel overwhelming to find the right one for your needs (some are better suited for, say, college students, whereas others are ideal for gamers). That’s why we’ve come up with this list of some of the best laptop deals available right now. In addition to the latest discounts, we’ll share each discounted model

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For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-20 10:06:26

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. They will be available as a model choice with Amazon AI services Bedrock and SageMaker AI. While anyone c

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5 settings you should change on your TV to significantly improve the picture quality

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-20 15:01:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to popular belief, the "sharpness" setting on your TV doesn't

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States take the lead in AI regulation as federal government steers clear

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Apple rolls out RC versions of macOS 15.7 and 14.8 betas to developers

PBS confirms data breach after employee info leaked on Discord servers

Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

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Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

The best laptop deals you can get right now

For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

5 settings you should change on your TV to significantly improve the picture quality

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