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Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 10:56:58

When will Sierra Space's winged vehicle, Dream Chaser, finally take flight? Unfortunately, it's still not clear. Almost certainly, however, it won't be this year. The Dream Chaser space plane has now been under development for more than two decades, and it has a huge cult following because its winged shape mimics the iconic Space Shuttle. However, during a recent news briefing, a senior NASA official would only say this about a launch date: "We will be ready for them when they're ready to fly."

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ChatGPT will ‘better detect’ mental distress after reports of it feeding people’s delusions

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-23 10:36:56

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. OpenAI, which is expected to launch its GPT-5 AI model this week, is making updates to ChatGPT that it says will improve the AI chatbot’s ability to detect mental or emotional distress. To do this, OpenAI is working with experts and advisory groups to improve Ch

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Google Home can’t catch a break, as Routines widget vanishes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-23 15:10:38

TL;DR One of the widgets offered by the Google app has been a shortcut for accessing your Home Routines. In the latest Google app beta, the Routines widget is no longer available. This loss arrives right in the middle of a growing period of Google Home frustration. If you’re interested in putting together a particularly impressive smart home setup, Google Home’s Routines are probably your best friend. While getting them configured can take a minute, especially if they involve dozens of device

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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 15:02:21

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI. The new feature is part of OpenAI's ongoing attempts to get users to cultivate a healthier relationship with the frequently compliant and overly-encouraging AI assistant. The company's announcement suggests the "gentle reminders" will appear as pop-ups in chats that users will have to click or tap through to continue using ChatGPT. "Just Checking In," OpenAI's sample pop-up rea

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Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 14:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

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Scientists are growing tumors in space to study how to personalize cancer treatment

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-23 20:48:00

Forward-looking: Although precision medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years, many cancer patients still undergo standard treatments that may not work for everyone. Research underway on the International Space Station offers a glimpse of future care, where doctors map out each course of therapy using a detailed simulation of the patient's cancer. In a laboratory more than 249 miles above Earth, a new generation of cancer research is unfolding. A biotech startup is harnessing the microgravi

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Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 17:01:33

Benefits include a 10-percent wage increase over two years and the elimination of crunch time. Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft . This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the company voted to unionize . Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-per

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Show HN: Mathpad – Physical keypad for typing 100+ math symbols anywhere

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 14:43:07

Back this project to help bring it into existence. Funding ends on Sep 11, 2025 at 04:59 PM PDT. Mathpad is a specialized keypad that makes typing mathematical equations as simple as typing regular text. With over 100 mathematical symbols at your fingertips, this compact and powerful device eliminates the frustration and inefficiency of typing math on a computer. What if Mathematical Symbols Were as Easy to Type as Regular Letters? After 3 years of development, Mathpad finally makes this drea

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Software needs an "independent auditor"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 16:43:57

Alternative title: Why Greptile Doesn’t Generate Code Remembering Enron (1985-2001) I am Daksh - a co-founder of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that catches bugs in pull requests for thousands of software teams. The month I was born, October 2001, was also the month Enron collapsed. For those unfamiliar, Enron was an energy company founded in 1985. It was one of the most valuable companies in the US public markets at the turn of the century. In 2001, it was discovered that under investor pres

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Spotify Raises Premium Subscription Price Globally (but Not in the US... Yet)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 18:34:00

For many global customers, the cost of streaming their favorite music on Spotify is about to have a bigger impact on their wallets. The music streaming service announced that it's raising the monthly price of a premium subscription to 11.99 euros ($13.87) starting in September. Spotify said that the 1-euro price hike would affect markets in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region, but did not list the countries impacted. The price for US-based su

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Apple exec says Siri will get ‘much bigger upgrade than we envisioned’

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-24 00:09:59

Apple’s Siri-related news hasn’t been great so far this year, but the company sounds confident it can turn things around. Here’s the Siri update that software head Craig Federighi reportedly shared in Apple’s all-hands meeting. Last week, Apple reported huge quarterly earnings. But concerns around the company’s AI efforts were still clearly on Wall Street’s minds. And no doubt those questions were partly what prompted a rare all-hands meeting at Apple Park shortly afterwards. That meeting, whi

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This Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-24 00:36:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Slackel is a user-friendly take on the otherwise challenging Slackware. There are four different desktop variations to choose from. Slackel is a great distribution for learning Linux. Slackware has been around since 1993 and has served as the foundation for many Linux distributions, such as the early iterations of SUSE. What sets Slackware apart from other Linux distributions is that it tries to be more UNIX-like than not. Sla

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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

news.ycombinator.com Kelly Vaughn 2025-12-23 23:01:52

A note: This is a different kind of post than I usually send from After Burnout. Instead of something raw, short, and personal, this is more of a deep-dive article. But given how much this topic connects to burnout and our relationship with productivity tools, it felt important to share. We were promised a productivity revolution. AI tools would handle the boring stuff, freeing us to focus on creative, strategic work. We’d finally have time to think, to innovate, to maybe even leave the office

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CTM360 spots Malicious ‘ClickTok’ Campaign Targeting TikTok Shop users

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 05:25:36

CTM360 has discovered a new global malware campaign dubbed "ClickTok" that spreads the SparkKitty spyware through fake TikTok shops to steal cryptocurrency wallets and drain funds. The unique unique spyware trojan discovered by CTM360 is specifically engineered to exploit TikTok Shop users across the globe. Dubbed as “ClickTok”, this highly coordinated scam operation employs a hybrid scam model that combines phishing and malware to deceive buyers and affiliate program participants on TikTok’s

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The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-24 05:47:00

Why we like it: The Apple AirTag is an affordable and accurate solution to keep track of your child's location. It works with the Find My app and seamlessly integrates with the Apple ecosystem. Apple's AirTags are about the size of a quarter, and there are countless accessories you can use to attach the small tracker to a jacket, backpack, or even slip it into your child's pocket. The device uses an easily replaceable CR2032 battery lasts that lasts around a year. The AirTag offers a solid per

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ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 03:12:27

ScreenCoder: Advancing Visual-to-Code Generation for Front-End Automation via Modular Multimodal Agents Yilei Jiang1*, Yaozhi Zheng1*, Yuxuan Wan2*, Jiaming Han1, Qunzhong Wang1, Michael R. Lyu2, Xiangyu Yue1✉ 1CUHK MMLab, 2CUHK ARISE Lab *Equal contribution ✉Corresponding author Introduction ScreenCoder is an intelligent UI-to-code generation system that transforms any screenshot or design mockup into clean, production-ready HTML/CSS code. Built with a modular multi-agent architecture

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Facts will not Save You - AI, History and Soviet Sci-Fi

news.ycombinator.com Seva Gunitsky 2025-12-20 18:16:18

A few days ago Microsoft published a list of the 40 jobs most likely to be replaced by AI. The first two entries are translators and historians, which made me laugh. The two jobs have one thing in common — they are acts of interpretation that are never recognized as such by outsiders. It’s probably self-evident in the tech world that history is a matter of assembling facts. A kind of mechanical curation, like sweeping loose pebbles into neat piles. This delusion reflects a larger hubris— the bel

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Report: Disney’s Attempts to Experiment With Generative AI Have Already Hit Major Hurdles

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-24 05:00:51

As Silicon Valley has pushed the world more and more into trying to make the generative AI boom sustain itself, Hollywood is still standing on the precipice of a transformative moment. Studios are grappling with the purported potential (and demands for cost savings) artificial intelligence models may bring, weighed against the legal minefields exploiting such technologies can represent—and an increasing public backlash to the technology. Disney is certainly no exception, as the company is alrea

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These 8 Food Items Are Surprisingly Full of Microplastics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 04:00:04

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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Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 05:35:13

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

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-24 10:27:37

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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Your Spotify bill will be going up soon if you live in these regions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 10:18:10

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify will be increasing Premium subscription prices across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East over the next month. The price hike affects all plan types, including Individual (€10.99 to €11.99), Duo, Family, and Student options. US users are excluded from this round of increases but may see changes later, given prior consecutive yearly hikes. Spotify’s price rise for Premium plans always creates an uproar a

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Spotify is getting more expensive for a lot of subscribers around the world

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-24 10:15:27

The price for streaming ad-free music is about to increase for Spotify subscribers in several markets around the world, according to the company. Spotify announced plans to increase prices in “multiple markets” on Monday, although customers in the United States are spared for now. The company is informing subscribers in impacted markets where it will “update […] prices” via email, according to its post today. “Over the next month, Premium subscribers in multiple markets across South Asia, the

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New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 10:42:06

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 15:00:22

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 12:22:25

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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Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

news.ycombinator.com Emma Burleigh 2025-12-24 09:04:20

The next time you get buttoned-up and sit down for a long-awaited job interview, you might not find a human on the other end of the call. Instead, job-hunters are now joining Zoom meetings only to be greeted by AI interviewers. Candidates tell Fortune they’re either confused, intrigued, or straight-up dejected when the robotic, faceless bots join the calls. “Looking for a job right now is so demoralizing and soul-sucking, that to submit yourself to that added indignity is just a step too far,”

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:45:58

Vaccination rates among the country's kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in the 2023–2024 school year to 92.5 percent in 2024–2025. The percentage changes are small across the board, but they represent thousands of children and an ongoing downward trend that makes the country more vulnerable to outbreaks. In the latest school year, an estimated 286,000 young children were not fully protected agains

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Spotify raises subscription prices

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-24 15:43:59

In Brief Spotify announced on Monday that its premium subscription prices will increase for users in multiple markets across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Over the next month, impacted subscribers will receive an email explaining that their monthly subscription cost will increase from 10,99 € to 11,99 €. Spotify made a similar change last year for users in the U.S., increasing prices from $10.99 to $11.99 — at the time, it marked the second insta

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Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 16:59:03

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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Latest Tech News

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

ChatGPT will ‘better detect’ mental distress after reports of it feeding people’s delusions

Google Home can’t catch a break, as Routines widget vanishes

ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns

Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

Scientists are growing tumors in space to study how to personalize cancer treatment

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This Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever

AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

CTM360 spots Malicious ‘ClickTok’ Campaign Targeting TikTok Shop users

The best GPS trackers for kids recommended by parents in 2025

ScreenCoder: An intelligent UI-to-code generation system

Facts will not Save You - AI, History and Soviet Sci-Fi

Report: Disney’s Attempts to Experiment With Generative AI Have Already Hit Major Hurdles

These 8 Food Items Are Surprisingly Full of Microplastics

Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

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

Your Spotify bill will be going up soon if you live in these regions

Spotify is getting more expensive for a lot of subscribers around the world

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

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Spotify raises subscription prices

Galaxy S26 could get a hardware upgrade for much easier payments

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