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Best Cheap Laptop: Budget Computers for Every Use

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 06:18:00

There are a ton of models for less than $1,000 on the market at any given moment, and a large fraction of those are less than $500. As long as you manage your expectations regarding options and specs, you can still get quite a bit from a budget laptop model, including good battery life and a reasonably lightweight laptop body. (If you're replacing an old Windows laptop that's not up to running Windows anymore, consider turning it into a Chromebook.) Price If the statistics Intel and PC manufac

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Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it's not supposed to, again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 12:11:10

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can scrape a websites' content or not. Perplexity's official web crawling bots are "PerplexityBot" and "Perplexity-Us

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Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

news.ycombinator.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-27 00:44:49

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

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USDA Weaponizes Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Marriage Story’ Fight to Scare Wolves

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-27 11:25:48

Noah Baumbach wanted to challenge audiences with Marriage Story, making them sit in the discomfort and tension of a relationship falling apart. He probably didn’t know that his audience was going to be wolves, though. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the famous fight scene between Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson from Baumbach’s award-winning drama is just one tool the United States Department of Agriculture has started to use in an effort to scare the growing wolf (and hung

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The ‘Star Wars’ Slur That Has Been Mainstreamed by Anti-AI Discourse

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-27 12:30:52

“Clanker.” You’ve probably heard the term online a lot lately, as growing wariness of the acceptance of generative AI has led to an almost science-fictional world of anti-robot sentiment. It’s become an increasingly common derogatory term, growing beyond the constraints of referring to chatbots and image generators to refer to any kind of non-human robotic intelligence. It’s perhaps fitting then, as it penetrates increasingly mainstream social circles, that “Clanker” itself is rooted in science

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Get a Free Storm Skin, Thor Skin and More in Marvel Rivals Season 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 11:03:17

Marvel Rivals season 2.5 may have taken our heroes off-world as they battled across Arakko, but season 3 is throwing us into the furthest reaches of space to fight a new threat: Knull and his symbiote army. Stopping one symbiote is tough enough. Fighting off an army of them is going to require a whole new wardrobe's worth of battle gear. Luckily for you, there are many ways to unlock some free skins in the hit hero shooter right now -- including the Milano Repair Logs event that evens the odds

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A top designer was banned from Dribbble. Now he’s building his own competitor.

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-27 12:45:18

Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform’s most well known designers, Gleb Kuznetsov, founder of the San Francisco-based design studio Milkinside. Dribbble deleted his account with its over 210 million followers because he shared his contact information with prospective clients through the platform in violation of its new rules. Remarked Kuznetsov in a post on

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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends in disappointment

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 17:13:19

The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch several months prior. The NASA satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines, which took off from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on February 26 at 7:16PM ET. The Lunar Trailblazer successfully separated from the rocket as planned about 48 minutes after launch. Operators

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Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 08:48:19

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Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices

news.ycombinator.com About Michael Kan 2025-12-23 16:32:52

SpaceX’s cellular Starlink system isn’t just for phones in cellular dead zones. In New Zealand, the satellite technology now covers IoT devices, starting with equipment to monitor beehives. In December, New Zealand mobile carrier One NZ was the first to start offering cellular Starlink service to consumers, about a month before T-Mobile kicked off its own beta in the US. On Tuesday, SpaceX and One NZ notified the US Federal Communications Commission about their plan to use more radio spectrum

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The Best Open Earbuds You Can Buy Aren’t Actually Earbuds at All

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-27 17:02:00

Back in my day, the name of the game when it came to wireless audio was noise cancellation. That’s to say, how much noise can your wireless earbuds possibly block? And sure, active noise-cancellation (ANC) wireless earbuds are probably never going to fall out of vogue entirely, but in recent years, audio companies have recognized that it is, in fact, nice to sometimes be aware of your surroundings. Thus, a market for open earbuds was created. If you’re not familiar with “open earbuds,” as they’

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Balabolka is a free text-to-speech tool for Windows

techspot.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:55:00

The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to impro

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Rivian sues Ohio DMV over partial ban on direct car sales

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:12:59

Rivian has filed a lawsuit against Ohio's Department of Motor Vehicles because of the state's partial ban on direct car sales, The Verge reports. The company says that the ban "reduces competition, decreases consumer choice and drives up consumer costs and inconvenience." Rivian believes Ohio's law is particularly unfair because it contains a carveout for the company's competitor Tesla. Ohio currently requires the state DMV to not provide a dealership license to "a manufacturer, or a parent com

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Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

news.ycombinator.com Seva Gunitsky 2025-12-24 06:16:18

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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SpaceX's Cellular Starlink Expands to Support IoT Devices

news.ycombinator.com About Michael Kan 2025-12-23 22:32:52

SpaceX’s cellular Starlink system isn’t just for phones in cellular dead zones. In New Zealand, the satellite technology now covers IoT devices, starting with equipment to monitor beehives. In December, New Zealand mobile carrier One NZ was the first to start offering cellular Starlink service to consumers, about a month before T-Mobile kicked off its own beta in the US. On Tuesday, SpaceX and One NZ notified the US Federal Communications Commission about their plan to use more radio spectrum

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Screw Foldables: Lenovo’s Rollable Laptop Proves There Are Better Uses for Flexible Screens

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-27 17:10:25

With a buzz and a whirl, my laptop begins to unfurl. In less than six seconds after the press of a button, my petit 14-inch ThinkBook stands erect over my desk with a taller 16.7-inch display. There is literally nothing else like Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, and that’s partially why it costs a whopping $3,300. And you know what? There are few things cooler in laptop world than watching your screen expand from its original size. When you’re dropping a hefty chunk of change on a laptop

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Scientists Recreated the Universe’s First Molecule

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-27 22:42:45

Seconds after the Big Bang, the newborn universe gave rise to the first elements—ionized forms of hydrogen and helium. These particles combined, forging helium hydride—the first ever molecule. It would take another several hundred million years for the first stars to be born, and scientists have long puzzled over the exact nature of the chemical processes that led to their formation. To try and tease apart the stellar origin story, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in H

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-27 22:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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Elon Musk says the Vine archive is coming back

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 03:09:35

Elon Musk recently announced that he's bringing back the Vine archives , after teasing the return of the social platform over the last week or so. The X owner says that the company recently discovered the entire video archive of the once-popular short-form video app and is working to restore user access. Twitter bought Vine all the way back in 2012. Musk says that X users will be able to post these Vines, but it's just an archive. In other words, this doesn't sound like a renaissance for the ac

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Tesla awards Musk $29B in attempt to “keep Elon’s energies focused on Tesla”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 02:50:07

Tesla is awarding Elon Musk over $29 billion of stock in an "interim" pay plan designed to maintain his interest in the company while a larger pay package awarded in 2018 remains held up in court. "Retaining Elon is more important than ever before... It is imperative to retain and motivate our extraordinary talent, beginning with Elon," Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm and board member Kathleen Wilson-Thompson wrote in a letter to shareholders today. The letter noted that Musk has several other

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

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-28 08:48:00

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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Samsung’s next budget earbuds might beat the Pro model in one key area

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-28 08:42:17

We’ve already seen what the Galaxy Buds 3 FE could look like , and now we have a good idea of how long they might last. A new certification listing has revealed battery specs for both the earbuds and their case, and they’re surprisingly generous for a Fan Edition model. According to the listing on the SGS Fimko certification platform spotted by SammyGuru , the total battery capacity for the earbuds is listed at 200mAh — equating to 100mAh per bud — while the charging case is rated at 900mAh. Th

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Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 06:27:40

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Tesla awards Elon Musk $29 billion after much larger pay plan blocked in court

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 08:50:07

Tesla is awarding Elon Musk over $29 billion of stock in an "interim" pay plan designed to maintain his interest in the company while a larger pay package awarded in 2018 remains held up in court. "Retaining Elon is more important than ever before... It is imperative to retain and motivate our extraordinary talent, beginning with Elon," Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm and board member Kathleen Wilson-Thompson wrote in a letter to shareholders today. The letter noted that Musk has several other

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One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-28 08:17:52

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. Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon. With Ghost’s free social web syndication feature, which is built on top of the ActivityPub protocol, “just as people can visit your Ghost website in any bro

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-28 08:51:25

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. The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare claims that when Perplexity encounters a block, the startup wi

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Expert Says Collapse of Human Civilization Looks Like the Most Likely Scenario

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 11:13:12

New research is warning that the most likely outcome is that human civilization is poised for collapse. As The Guardian reports, a sweeping new historical survey that analyzes 5,000 years and the collapse of more than 400 societies makes the case that we're in for a rude awakening. "We can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today — and self-termination is most likely," Luke Kemp, research fellow at the Cente

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This Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-28 12:36:00

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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Lidar-based GIS map of New Hampshire stone walls

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 10:40:07

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Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 12:16:21

August 2, 2025 TL,DR: I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it If you just want to play with it, goto kilopx.com. The backstory Six years ago I had an idea to build a large, inefficient display with a web interface that anyone could interact with. I've enjoyed Danny Rozin's unconvenional mirrors over the years and was inspired by an eInk movie player that played at 24 frames per hour that got me thinking about a laborious display that cou

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