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Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 11:35:13

Wasps living around a Cold War-era nuclear facility in South Carolina have built at least four radioactive nests, raising questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent of environmental contamination, according to a report by The New York Times. Last week, news broke that officials at the site—Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina—had found one radioactive nest on July 3. The discovery was documented in a July 22 report by the US Department of Energy, which own

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Amazon is gutting its Wondery podcast studio

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-24 11:20:51

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon is splitting up its Wondery podcast studio just four years after acquiring it, as first reported by Bloomberg. As part of the change, the studio will shed around 110 employees, while Wondery CEO Jen Sargent will leave the company. In a statement to The V

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OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-24 11:25:13

ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the company says. The app had earlier reached 500 million weekly active users as of the end of March, noted Nick Turley, OpenAI VP and head of ChatGPT’s app, in a post on X. He also said the app has grown 4x since last year. “Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT mo

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Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-24 16:27:37

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was awarded an interim pay package of 96 million shares of the company over the weekend. The shares would be worth about $29 billion. Tesla stock climbed about 2% Monday. The company said in a filing Sunday that the pay package would vest in two years as long as Musk continued as CEO or in another key executive position. The new award would be forfeited if the legal battle over his 2018 compensation ends with Musk being able to exercise the larger pay package, which was va

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New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 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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Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 21:00:22

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member states was to address the full life cycle of plastics, from production to disposal: In short, define what counts as plastic pollution and curb the sorts of unchecked production that inevitably leads to it. But across five sessions since, countries have failed to reach a consensus on the text. What was meant to b

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KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2025-12-24 18:22:25

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works One of the most interesting things about Wayland is how it handles window focus, unlike X11, where focus stealing can be frustrating and even a security risk. Its main advantage is a mechanism that prevents focus stealing. The protocol that plays a role in this is known as "XDG Activation." Here's how it works: Say you double-click a PDF file in your file manager. The file manager first asks t

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Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-24 21:42:00

In Brief Amazon is shutting down its Wondery podcast studio, acquired in late 2020, and cutting 110 jobs as part of a broad reorganization of its audio business, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company plans to move existing Wondery series under its Audible banner or to a new ‘creator services’ team, which will house personality-driven shows, such as Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast. “The podcast landscape has evolved significantly over the past few years,” Steve Boom, Amazon’s

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Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 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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The US military’s on-base slot machines

news.ycombinator.com Molly Longman 2025-12-25 00:50:46

When Dave Yeager stumbled upon the chamber of shiny, casino-style slot machines, he felt an instant pull. It was his first night of deployment in Seoul, South Korea, and the United States Army officer was in a bad headspace. The September 11, 2001, attacks had just happened, and he had a wife and two children under the age of 5 at home whom he missed fiercely. He felt lost. WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Ac

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

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 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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HTMX is hard, so let's get it right

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 09:30:22

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Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 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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These are the best streaming services you aren’t watching

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-25 12:00:28

We all know how to find our favorite shows and blockbuster films on mainstream streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+. But even as streaming has opened the door to millions of hours of on-demand entertainment, it can still feel like there’s nothing fresh or exciting to watch anymore. If you agree, it’s time to check out some of the more niche streaming services available, where you can find remarkable content unlikely to be available elsewhere. This article breaks down the best

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The US Military Is Raking in Millions From On-Base Slot Machines

wired.com Molly Longman 2025-12-25 11:30:00

When Dave Yeager stumbled upon the chamber of shiny, casino-style slot machines, he felt an instant pull. It was his first night of deployment in Seoul, South Korea, and the United States Army officer was in a bad headspace. The September 11, 2001, attacks had just happened, and he had a wife and two children under the age of 5 at home whom he missed fiercely. He felt lost. WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Ac

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What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans

wired.com Alex Christian 2025-12-25 12:00:00

Take a peanut-based paste packed with 500 calories and nearly 13 grams of protein. Store it in a 92-gram foil pouch, so it can be easily sucked by starving infants on the front line. No water or refrigeration is required, meaning it can be distributed in drought-hit areas and stored at ambient temperature for up to two years. Just a couple of daily sachets can lead to a 10 percent weight gain over six weeks, sustaining recovery from severe acute malnutrition for less than $60 per child. Saving a

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One UI 8 is adding a powerful new Galaxy AI feature, but there’s a catch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 09:50:46

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has introduced a new Voice Captioning feature in One UI 8. It’s part of Samsung’s Galaxy AI suite and goes beyond Live Captions to translate audio, summarize it, and help save the captioned text and audio file. The catch is that the feature isn’t available officially yet, so you’ll have to download an APK to access it. Samsung has added a new feature called Voice Captioning to its suite of Galaxy AI tools on One UI 8. It allows users to convert sp

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Show HN: Schematra – Sinatra-inspired minimal web framework for Chicken Scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 15:56:28

Schematra A minimal web framework for CHICKEN Scheme, inspired by Sinatra. Schematra is currently an early exploration project created for learning purposes, but hopefully it will grow into something more useful over time. Why Schematra? I created Schematra because I wanted to: Improve my knowledge of scheme : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms Creat

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How Python grew from a language to a community

news.ycombinator.com David Cassel 2025-12-24 20:38:53

When it first launched in 1991, Python “wasn’t lucrative,” remembers long-time Python community organizer Paul Everitt (now a Python and web developer advocate at JetBrains). “But we believed in it. The passion was there — we were doing good in the world.” Yet surprisingly, Python traveled a bumpy early road on its way to becoming the world’s #1 most popular programming language, safely ensconced in the nonprofit Python Software Foundation that would help it grow through the years. It’s a stor

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 4, #785

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 09:24:24

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. The blue and purple categories are pretty bizarre, although they're fun once you see the connections. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there a

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 4, #315

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 09:30:40

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 is a bit tricky. Hope you know your car-race details! 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 has earned enough loyal players that The Athl

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BioShock 4 hits a major development snag, and a remake of the original gets put on ice

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 04:25:23

BioShock fans will have to wait even longer to find out if we're going to Rapture, Columbia or a brand new city since the next game in the franchise may be headed back to the drawing board. According to a report from Bloomberg, the latest BioShock game that's being developed by Cloud Chamber failed a review with executives at 2K Games. Bloomberg's sources explained that the execs wanted improvement with the game's narrative, which "will be revamped in the coming months." 2K Games said in a stat

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Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 18:24:48

A threat actor has been abusing link wrapping services from reputed technology companies to mask malicious links leading to Microsoft 365 phishing pages that collect login credentials. The attacker exploited the URL security feature from cybersecurity company Proofpoint and cloud communications firm Intermedia in campaigns from June through July. Some email security services include a link wrapping feature that rewrites the URLs in the message to a trusted domain and passes them through a scan

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The Subway Game (1980)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 10:02:19

The Subway Game Copyright © 1980, Peter R. Samson (to home page) The Subway Game was a diversion that developed out of the frequent visits to New York by myself and various friends at M.I.T. In its basic form it requires two participants: an innocent victim, called the Contestant; and a more knowledgeable companion, called the Monitor. With some allowances, the game can be viewed as a simulation of the following scenario. A stranger to New York is going to visit some friends there. He gets a

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EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office

news.ycombinator.com Robert N. Charette 2025-12-24 18:07:44

Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. As described in IEEE Spectrum, Cheryl’s husband, Tom, has a rare genetic disease that causes ammonia to accumulate in his blood. At an emergency room visit two decades ago, Cheryl told the doctors Tom needed an immediate dose of lactulose to avoid going into a coma, but they refused to medicate him until his primary doctor confirmed his medical condition hours later. Making the situation more vexing w

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Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization

news.ycombinator.com Michael Childers 2025-12-25 03:17:05

The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service’s budget and staffing have raised concerns among park advocates and the public that the administration is aiming to further privatize the national parks. The nation has a long history of similar efforts, including a wildly unpopular 1980 attempt by Reagan administration Interior Secretary James Watt to promote development and expand private concessions in the parks. But debate over using public national park land for private profit da

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Schematra: A Sinatra love letter in Scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 21:56:28

Schematra A minimal web framework for CHICKEN Scheme, inspired by Sinatra. Schematra is currently an early exploration project created for learning purposes, but hopefully it will grow into something more useful over time. Why Schematra? I created Schematra because I wanted to: Improve my knowledge of scheme : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms : Building a web framework is a great way to explore a language's capabilities and idioms Creat

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Show HN: Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 05:28:25

Web Compatibility Overview JSAR provides comprehensive support for modern Web standards. For a complete browser compatibility report, please visit our Browser Compatibility Data. Scripting & Modules [Completed] JavaScript - Full ES2023 support - Full ES2023 support [Completed] TypeScript - Native TypeScript compilation - Native TypeScript compilation [Completed] ECMAScript Module - Modern module system - Modern module system [Completed] WebAssembly - High-performance WASM support - Hi

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How to make almost anything (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:28:29

My name is D. Sculley. I lead several teams at Google in Cambridge doing research in various aspects of machine learning. I'm involved in this course because many of our current projects involve the use of machine learning for design or fabrication problems of one form or another, including in the biology space and the chemistry space. I'm interested in learning more about other forms of fabrication and seeing if there are interesting cross-domain opportunities to think about. Here is my Google

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Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 05:58:55

Critcl lets you easily embed C code in Tcl. A (certainly incomplete) list of packages using critcl is: Readers wishing to make their use of critcl public here are asked to file a ticket or pull request here, against branch gh-pages More notes are available on the Tclers' Wiki Slides for "Critcl - Beyond Stubs and Compilers" [ PDF ], [ HTML ] A paper from the Ninth Annual Tcl/Tk conference (2002, Vancouver). Critcl currently has two major branches, version 2, and version 3. Only version 3 i

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Latest Tech News

Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

Amazon is gutting its Wondery podcast studio

OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users

Tesla awards Musk $29 billion in shares with prior pay package in limbo

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Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland

Amazon shuts down Wondery podcast studio, cuts 110 jobs

Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

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The US Military Is Raking in Millions From On-Base Slot Machines

What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans

One UI 8 is adding a powerful new Galaxy AI feature, but there’s a catch

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How Python grew from a language to a community

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 4, #785

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 4, #315

BioShock 4 hits a major development snag, and a remake of the original gets put on ice

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Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization

Schematra: A Sinatra love letter in Scheme

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How to make almost anything (2019)

Critcl – C Runtime in Tcl

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