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China Opens ‘Robot Mall,’ Its First Mall for Robots

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-03 14:40:25

China opened its first full-scale shopping center dedicated entirely to robots on Friday, as part of a broader push to bring robotics from research labs into people’s homes. The four-story Robot Mall, located in Beijing’s high-tech E-Town district, showcases more than 100 robots from over 40 brands, including Chinese companies like Ubtech Robotics and Unitree Robotics. The store operates like a car dealership, but for robots. It follows the “4S” model common in China, offering sales, service, s

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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 17:57:06

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? But ChatGPT got the correct answer in a few seconds. Flag of Dominica features the Sisserou parrot, which is only found in Dominica. Great Britain established a small colony on the island in 1805.

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Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-04 17:58:20

Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store 3 hours ago Share Save Adam Hancock Business reporter Share Save Reuters A life-size humanoid replica of Albert Einstein at the store A new robot shop has opened in Beijing selling everything from mechanical butlers to human-like replicas of Albert Einstein. More than 100 types of products will be on sale at Robot Mall, which launched in the Chinese capital on Friday. The store is one of the first in the country to sell humanoid

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 03:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

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Black Hat 2025: Why your AI tools are becoming the next insider threat

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-04 17:35:56

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Cloud intrusions increased by 136% in the past six months. North Korean operatives infiltrated 320 companies using AI-generated identities. Scattered Spider now deploys ransomware in under 24 hours. However, at Black Hat 2025, the security industry demonstrated that it finally has an answer that works: agentic AI, delivering measurable resu

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 21:37:12

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 09:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

Topics: relation return slot static table

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-04 23:56:33

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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Heretic and Hexen have received a surprise remaster from Nightdive Studios

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 14:57:47

Nightdive Studios and id Software have announced a surprise remaster of fantasy shooters Heretic and Hexen. The games are now available for modern consoles in a new release, dubbed Heretic + Hexen, that includes support for co-op, cross-platform multiplayer and community-published mods. Heretic + Hexen combines Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Beyond Heretic and Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel into a single bundle. On top of making the updates necessary to get the games runni

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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 11:59:46

OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for. They’re great at some benchmarks, of course (OpenAI would never have released them otherwise) but weirdly bad at others, like SimpleQA. Some people really like them. Others on Twitter really don’t. From what I can tell, they’re technically competent but lack a lot of out-of-domain knowledge: fo

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Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-05 04:01:42

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data. They’re not just a part of the trust model, they are the trust model. In other words, if your vault is compromised, your infrastructure is already lost. Driven by the understanding that vaults are high-value targets for attackers, our research team at Cyata set out to conduct

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A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction

news.ycombinator.com Kaifosh 2025-12-02 03:08:24

Hardware sEMG-RD The sEMG devices consisted of two primary subcomponents: a digital compute capsule and an analogue wristband (Extended Data Fig. 1). The digital compute capsule comprised the battery, antenna for Bluetooth communication and a printed circuit board that contained a microcontroller, an analogue-to-digital converter and an inertial measurement unit. The analogue wristband comprised discrete links that each housed a multilayer rigid printed circuit board that contained the low-noi

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Synthetic Biology for Space Exploration

news.ycombinator.com Onofri 2025-12-03 12:30:48

The Apollo 11 Moon landing encouraged humankind to consider and investigate life beyond Earth more than 50 years ago1. However, in contrast to its lightning-fast success in terms of the remarkable technology development of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, human space exploration has been confined in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the past 50 years. Nevertheless, other space agencies, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have joined the two

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Cracking the Vault: How we found zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-07 16:01:42

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data. They’re not just a part of the trust model, they are the trust model. In other words, if your vault is compromised, your infrastructure is already lost. Driven by the understanding that vaults are high-value targets for attackers, our research team at Cyata set out to conduct

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Verizon Promo Offers NFL Sunday Ticket Access at No Extra Cost

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 16:50:56

It's still the NFL preseason, but ahead of the official 2025-2026 regular season kickoff in September, Verizon, a long-term partner of the league, is offering NFL Sunday Ticket to new and existing mobile and internet customers. You don't even need a paid subscription for YouTube TV or YouTube Primetime Channels. Verizon revived its Sunday Ticket on Us promo on Tuesday, and it will run through Sept. 23, along with an alternative option to get $200 off the sports package for a savings of up to $4

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Litestar is worth a look

news.ycombinator.com James Bennett 2025-12-08 02:43:01

Litestar is worth a look Published on: August 6, 2025 Django, Python A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation of async-first, type-hint-driven Python web frameworks. For reasons which aren’t particularly relevant today, on that project I ended up choosing Litestar, which is the one that doesn’t have a ravenous all-consuming hype machine surrounding it. And I’m very glad I did, because today I’m more convinced than ever it was the right

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Welcome to Regulator

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-12-09 09:46:31

You’ll often see tech policy reporting described as the intersection of technology and politics, and for years, that was a pretty accurate description: Silicon Valley existed independent of Washington politics, and every so often, they’d cross paths, discuss some regulatory concern, write a check, shake hands, and then go their separate ways. This is no longer the case. Tech and politics have violently crashed into each other, and the leaders from both sides are locked in an existential fight t

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

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-12-09 20:03:00

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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In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 14:20:30

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they switched to a diet that included ultraprocessed versions of foods but was otherwise nutritionally matched. The trial, published in Nature Medicine by researchers at University College London, adds to a growing body of evidence that food processing, in addition to simple nutrition content, influences our weight and health. Ultraprocessed foods hav

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

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-12-11 04:36:31

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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Verizon is offering a NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for free, if you qualify

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 04:42:22

Andrew Grush / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon is offering the NFL Sunday Ticket free ($480 value) to users adding a new line or switching to Verizon Home Internet. Customers not making these changes can still save over $200 on the NFL Sunday Ticket through Verizon. Verizon customers can also grab limited free NFL game tickets via the My Verizon app on August 7. erizon recently drew some negative attention for removing loyalty discounts alongside a few minor fee increases, but this time, Big

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Orcas Pretend to Drown Each Other in Rare Training Session Caught on Camera

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-12 04:10:22

Orcas are called “killer whales” (even though they’re technically dolphins) for good reason. They’re the ocean’s top predators, hunting down everything from great white sharks to blue whales—the largest animal in the world. But orcas aren’t born killers. It’s a skill they learn from their elders and, as new evidence suggests, practice on each other. Parenthood, a new five-part BBC wildlife series narrated by David Attenborough, includes the first known footage of orcas learning how to drown the

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“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-12 02:30:41

Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain, or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care. The culprit isn’t food poisoning—it’s the fallout from a tick bite you may have gotten months earlier and didn’t even notice. This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the

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Show HN: I made a competitive debating game(like chess.com but for debating)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:07:50

Challenge your ideas, climb the leaderboard, and join a vibrant community of thinkers. Sharpen Your Mind Engage in thoughtful debates that challenge your perspectives and improve your critical thinking skills. Climb the Rankings Earn ELO points for winning debates and see how you stack up against other debaters on our leaderboard.

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These 8 Food Items Are Surprisingly Full of Microplastics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 22:00:04

Microplastics aren't just an ocean pollution issue anymore. They're now a daily part of our diet. Recent research shows that common foods and drinks, including something as routine as chewing gum, may be delivering thousands of tiny plastic particles into your body without you even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone - and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb

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New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 04:42:06

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 2025-12-15 09:00:22

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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How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Justus Perlwitz 2025-12-12 05:54:32

This article outlines how I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic on my machines. macOS Tested on MacBook Air M2 macOS Ventura 13.4.1 borgmatic 1.7.12 (MacPorts) moreutils 0.67_1 (MacPorts) borgmatic and moreutils are also available on Homebrew. Unlike systemd, launchctl doesn’t provide integration a syslog-like service. (I guess Apple expects you to use Console instead) Apple’s unified logging is unreliable and in many tests I have had messages disappearing, even when manually testing wit

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New quantum state of matter found at interface of exotic materials

news.ycombinator.com Kitta Macpherson 2025-12-12 14:42:00

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Crystal structure and temperature dependence of resistivity of EIO/DTO. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr6202 Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist—one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma—at the interface of two exotic materials made int

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Brennan Lee Mulligan Will Lead the Fourth ‘Critical Role’ Campaign

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-15 17:30:43

Every new campaign for Critical Role provides a shakeup in some way, whether it’s a new location or cast of characters. With the upcoming fourth campaign, the Actual Play series sees its biggest change yet with Brennan Lee Mulligan in the Game Master’s seat. Mulligan, who runs games for his own Actual Play series Dimension 20 over on Dropout and the Critical Role miniseries Calamity, will take helm of a full campaign set to begin on October 2. During Critical Role’s live event on Saturday, he c

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China Opens ‘Robot Mall,’ Its First Mall for Robots

AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

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

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