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Struggling to Cancel Your Subscriptions? Try These 3 Workarounds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 17:30:00

The "Click-to-Cancel" rule would have made it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up. Cole Kan/CNET The Federal Trade Commission's "Click-to-Cancel" rule has been blocked. The rule would have made it easy to cancel unwanted subscriptions. However, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the rule earlier this month because the FTC failed to conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis, which is required for rules that could impact the US economy by more than $1 million. "Whil

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Facts don't change minds, structure does

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 19:51:50

In 1633, Galileo Galilei stood before the Inquisition, not for inventing a radical new theory, but for proposing a straightforward idea: that the Earth moves around the Sun. This wasn’t even a new suggestion—Greek astronomers like Aristarchus had floated the heliocentric model centuries earlier. But in Galileo’s time, the idea ran into an insurmountable obstacle. We often chalk up the Church’s resistance to superstition or ignorance. While that played a role, there was something deeper at work.

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Zach Cregger’s Mysterious New Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ Has Critics Raving

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-09 21:41:05

Coming off a movie as insane and surprising as Barbarian, writer-director Zach Cregger certainly knew his next movie would carry massive expectations. That movie, called Weapons, is now almost here. And, based on the first reactions, he may have just blown those expectations away. Cregger wrote and directed the film, which stars Julia Garner (Ozark, Fantastic Four: First Steps) as a teacher who walks into school one day to find almost her entire class has gone missing. No one else has gone miss

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Don't Animate Height

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 05:44:19

Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and how to use Chrome's dev tools for performance profiling. The problem While building Granola, a note-taking app, I noticed it was using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook: Activ

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Why Facts Don't Change Minds–Structure Does (A Systems Analysis of Belief)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 00:51:50

In 1633, Galileo Galilei stood before the Inquisition, not for inventing a radical new theory, but for proposing a straightforward idea: that the Earth moves around the Sun. This wasn’t even a new suggestion—Greek astronomers like Aristarchus had floated the heliocentric model centuries earlier. But in Galileo’s time, the idea ran into an insurmountable obstacle. We often chalk up the Church’s resistance to superstition or ignorance. While that played a role, there was something deeper at work.

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Report: Apple alerted Iranians to spyware attacks in lead-up to war with Israel

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-10 09:24:44

You may have never heard of them, but Apple sends “threat notifications” to users when it believes they’re being targeted by cyber attacks. Earlier this year that happened with several Iranians in the lead-up to the Iran-Israel war, per a new Bloomberg report. Here are the details. Apple threat notifications were sent to over a dozen Iranian cyberattack victims Patrick Howell O’Neill writes at Bloomberg: More than a dozen Iranians’ mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior

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Google app’s Saves and collections may finally get the visibility they deserve (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 17:06:29

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is simplifying how it stores and displays saves and collections inside its Android and iOS apps. It is currently testing a new interface with separate tabs for saves and collections. The new interface is evidently a work in progress and might change before it becomes a more permanent feature. The Google app on Android and iOS allows you to bookmark and organize important search results and links to revisit later, grouped under “Saves and colle

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72% of US teens have used AI companions, study finds

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-10 00:42:20

Hopefully not Grok’s companions … A new study by a U.S. nonprofit focused on the lives of kids and families, Common Sense Media, has found that a vast majority of U.S. teens (72%) have tried an AI companion at least once. By “companion,” the study is focused on AI chatbots that are designed for users to have more personal conversations with, not AI assistants that work as homework helpers, image generators, or voice assistants that just answer questions. For instance, the study’s definition of

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Galaxy Watch Ultra users rejoice: Wear OS 6 rolls out ahead of schedule!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 23:00:09

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra (2024) is receiving the One UI 8 update with Wear OS 6 earlier than expected. The rollout has started for T-Mobile, AT&T, and Google Fi models in the US, as well as in some overseas markets. New features include better notifications, new gestures, improved health tracking, and more personalization options. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8, Watch 8 Classic, and Watch Ultra (2025) are the first smartwatches to get Wear OS 6 upda

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How AI agents can generate $450 billion by 2028 - and what stands in the way

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-09-11 03:00:18

Philip Thurston/Getty Images Agentic AI is one of the fastest-emerging technologies in business, with the potential to generate $450 billion in economic value through revenue uplift and cost savings across surveyed countries by 2028, according to the Rise of agentic AI: How trust is the key to human-AI collaboration. The new report from Capgemini Research Institute reveals insights from a survey of 1,500 senior executives across 14 countries on the emergence of AI agents as a transformative for

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AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

news.ycombinator.com Anil Ananthaswamy 2025-09-11 02:28:49

If the AI’s insights had been available when LIGO was being built, “we would have had something like 10 or 15% better LIGO sensitivity all along,” he said. In a world of sub-proton precision, 10 to 15% is enormous. “LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the AI] comes up with is a demonstrati

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 22, #772

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 12:00:11

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 wasn't too terrible. I saw the blue category right away, and the others fell together. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to rec

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 22, #302

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 12:00:36

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. As a University of Arkansas graduate, I breezed through the yellow category in today's Connections: Sports Edition. The green category tripped me up though. Keep reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. T

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FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-11 21:49:17

The Federal Communications Commission is ditching Biden-era standards for measuring progress toward the goal of universal broadband deployment. The changes will make it easier for the FCC to give the broadband industry a passing grade in an annual progress report. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's proposal would give the industry a thumbs-up even if it falls short of 100 percent deployment, eliminate a long-term goal of gigabit broadband speeds, and abandon a new effort to track the affordability of

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Microsoft hit with SharePoint attack affecting global businesses and governments

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-12 13:15:02

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Microsoft has warned of "active attacks" targeting its SharePoint collaboration software, with security researchers noting that organizations worldwide stand to be affected by the breach. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Sunday in a release that the vulnerability provides unauthenticated access to systems and full access to SharePoint content, enabling bad actors to execute code over the network. CISA said t

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Microsoft hit with SharePoint attack — one version still vulnerable

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-12 17:27:47

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Microsoft has warned of "active attacks" targeting its SharePoint collaboration software, with security researchers noting that organizations worldwide stand to be affected by the breach. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Sunday in a release that the vulnerability provides unauthenticated access to systems and full access to SharePoint content, enabling bad actors to execute code over the network. CISA said t

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We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 14:26:04

We Made Postgres Writes Faster, but it Broke Replication +2 By Stu Hood, Ming Ying, Mathew Pregasen, and Olive Ratliff on June 30, 2025 When we built pg_search , the Postgres extension for search and analytics, write throughput was a priority. To be an effective alternative to Elasticsearch we needed to support high ingest workloads in real time. This is because many Elasticsearch use cases — like real-time dashboards, e-commerce search, and recommendation systems — involve continuous writes t

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The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 00:44:30

The Gentoo Perl Versioning Scheme A common observation/confusion people have is that the versions used on Perl related things in Gentoo don't directly correspond to upstream versions. This is because Upstream uses two different schemes, and one of those schemes is fundamentally incompatible with Gentoo's. The Problem In most people's minds, this is how version numbers sort: 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.45 This is because you read . as a delimiter for multiple integers. However, in Perl, t

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Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-09-12 17:45:21

A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. On Monday, the airline said that operations were coming back online. The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m. ET Monday, when the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had been lifted. But disruptions didn’t end there. A

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10,000+ companies at risk from Microsoft Sharepoint security flaw

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-13 10:49:12

More than 10,000 organizations around the world are at risk from hackers after a serious security flaw was discovered in Microsoft’s popular Sharepoint platform, used to store and share confidential documents. The majority of companies at risk are said to be in the US … Microsoft said that there were “active attacks targeting on-premises servers.” US federal and state agencies are among the organizations said to have been affected. Security researchers cited by Bloomberg said that the vulnerab

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Learn 14 Languages from Babbel with this exclusive StackSocial deal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-13 10:07:14

Learning a new language doesn’t have to mean night classes, bulky textbooks, or boring apps. With Babbel, you can pick up real-world conversation skills through short, fun, and practical lessons. And right now, you can get a lifetime subscription for only $159 (regularly $599). Why Babbel? Babbel gives you lifetime access to lessons in 14 languages, including French Spanish German Italian Portuguese Swedish Turkish And that’s just a small sample. You’re not limited to just one either,

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Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 20:44:30

The Gentoo Perl Versioning Scheme A common observation/confusion people have is that the versions used on Perl related things in Gentoo don't directly correspond to upstream versions. This is because Upstream uses 2 different schemes, and one of those schemes is fundamentally incompatible with Gentoos. The Problem In most people's mind, this is how version numbers sort: 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.45 This is because you read . as a delimiter for multiple integers. However, in Perl, those

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 21, #771

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 05:00:05

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. Hey, Seinfeld fans, today's NYT Connections puzzle is right up your alley. That makes the blue category fun, but that purple category got me, as always. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go the

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 21, #301

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 05:00:06

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. Golf knowledge is a weak point for me, so I struggled a little with today's Connections: Sports Edition. It's nice to see an appearance from one of the best team names in minor league ball. Hello, Yard Goats fans. Stuck? Check out our hints and get the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is

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A Treatise for One Network – Anonymous National Deliberation [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:21:20

Authoritarian regimes thrive by systematically dividing their opposition and silencing the populace, creating a crisis where citizens feel isolated and powerless. This paper proposes a technological solution: a new, secure feature within Telegram to bridge these divisions and forge a genuine national consensus. Executive Summary "The protocol is remarkably efficient, capable of distilling the views of a population of 100 million participants down to a core group of 100 in as few as six weeks.

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Open-Source BCI Platform with Mobile SDK for Rapid Neurotech Prototyping

news.ycombinator.com Ildar Rakhmatulin 2025-09-09 17:25:42

Choose an area of interest and we will send you notifications of new preprints at your preferred frequency.

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Async I/O on Linux in databases

news.ycombinator.com Jeremy Tregunna 2025-09-13 01:20:02

I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database. I started with the basics: A hash table in memory, a simple append-only log for persistence and durability, and the classic fsync() call after every write to the log for durability. It worked, but wasn't as fast as it could be. In Kevo, that's the approach I use, but in Klay (not public yet, but will be open sourced when ready)

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Evaluating publicly available LLMs on IMO 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 19:23:23

Introduction Recent progress in the mathematical capabilities of LLMs have created a need for increasingly challenging benchmarks. With MathArena, we address this need by evaluating models on difficult and recent mathematical competitions, offering benchmarks that are both uncontaminated and interpretable. Among these competitions, the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) stands out as the most well-known and prestigious. As such, an evaluation of the IMO 2025, which took place just a few

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 20, #770

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 01:00:05

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. James Bond fans, one of the spy's favorite things is the subject of the blue category. Have fun with that. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 20, #300

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 01:00:07

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. Football fans should cruise through today's Connections: Sports Edition. The purple category isn't too challenging. I figured that one out first for a change. Check out our hints and the answers for today's game. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl S

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Struggling to Cancel Your Subscriptions? Try These 3 Workarounds

Facts don't change minds, structure does

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 20, #770

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