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Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 22:49:37

Ton Roosendaal is to stop down as chairman and Blender CEO on 1 January 2026. The news was announced during today’s keynote at the annual Blender Conference. Roosendaal – the original author of the open-source 3D software, and its public figurehead for the past three decades – will pass on his roles to current Blender COO Francesco Siddi. Roosendaal himself will move to the newly established Blender Foundation supervisory board. Other new Blender Foundation board positions will also include

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Will I run Boston 2026?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 11:04:18

Last year, we did a deep dive predicting the cutoff for the 2025 Boston Marathon. After the BAA announced the number of accepted time-qualified runners, our method was with 6 seconds of the actual cutoff. This year, we're revisiting our model with an additional data point. With the recent announcement of 33,267 applicants for the 2026 race, our updated model predicts a buffer of 5 minutes and 16 seconds. This time is based on an assumption: the BAA will allow 24,000 time-qualified runners. But

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Will I Run Boston 2026?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 21:04:18

Last year, we did a deep dive predicting the cutoff for the 2025 Boston Marathon. After the BAA announced the number of accepted time-qualified runners, our method was with 6 seconds of the actual cutoff. This year, we're revisiting our model with an additional data point. With the recent announcement of 33,267 applicants for the 2026 race, our updated model predicts a buffer of 5 minutes and 16 seconds. This time is based on an assumption: the BAA will allow 24,000 time-qualified runners. But

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Webinar: Your browser is the breach — securing the modern web edge

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 12:01:08

The web browser has quietly become one of the most critical components of enterprise infrastructure—and one of the most dangerous. On September 29th at 12:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer and SC Media will co-host a live webinar with browser security experts from Push Security, exploring how modern web browsers have become the primary attack surface for identity-based intrusions, SaaS abuse, and session hijacking. The webinar "Your Browser Is the Breach: Securing the Modern Web Edge" will explore th

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Boeing faces $3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 01:57:23

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday proposed fines of $3.1 million against Boeing for various safety violations related to the January 2024 door plug blowout and what the FAA called "interference with safety officials' independence." An FAA statement said the proposed fine covers "safety violations that occurred from September 2023 through February 2024," and is the "maximum statutory civil penalty authority consistent with law." Boeing, which reported $22.7 billion in revenue and a n

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Gemini Live is giving me the confidence to speak my second language

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 01:00:40

Prakhar Khanna / Android Authority Recently when testing out Gemini’s ability to recognize different accents and languages, I realized that the AI tool’s Live mode actually understands my second language: Afrikaans. This lead to me having a conversation about different topics in the language and I realized that the chatbot could actually coach me and help me practice. As a result, I was able to learn new words, discuss topics I lacked the proficiency for, and ask questions about specific meani

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FAA Proposes $3.1 Million Fine Against Boeing Over Door-Plug Horror

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-24 21:45:32

The Federal Aviation Administration announced it’s proposing $3.1 million in fines against Boeing for safety violations in late 2023 and early 2024, according to a press release from the government agency on Friday. The safety violations include an incident on January 5, 2024, when a door plug fell out of an Alaska Airlines flight traveling from Portland, Oregon. The door plug fell out of the Boeing 737 Max 9 while in flight, though thankfully nobody was hurt. The door plug was eventually foun

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New FAA program will let eVTOL startups test some operations before full certification

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-26 05:33:06

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced a new pilot program that will let electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startups test some operations before they receive full regulatory certification. It’s a potentially big change for these companies, as they’ve spent the last few years performing limited test flights of their aircraft while working toward FAA approval. But the program has its limits. Companies will have to partner with state, local, tribal, or territorial gove

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We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-26 17:00:00

When Seth Winterroth left his job at GE Ventures to help launch Eclipse Ventures in 2015, robotics was on his mind. Or more specifically, the number of early-stage robotics startups that were struggling to launch due to lack of interest. “These are teams that had just finished their postdocs at Waterloo, or CMU, or MIT, and were starting robotics companies, and the refrain that I continually heard from the startups was, ‘hey, we’re having a really hard time raising institutional venture capital

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Alphabet's Verily covered up HIPAA violations, whistleblower says in lawsuit

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-27 22:38:18

Alphabet's health tech subsidiary Verily used the health data of more than 25,000 patients without authorization and actively covered up those violations, a former company executive alleges. The executive, Ryan Sloan, claims Verily fired him after he discovered breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and reported his concerns to the company's senior management. Patient data in the U.S. is protected under HIPAA, which ensures the sensitive information cann

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This pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader comes with a stupid amount of storage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 03:30:38

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi’s Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2 lands September 22 in China, priced at ¥1,399. The pocket-sized e-reader runs Android 14, with a Rockchip RK3566, 6GB RAM, and up to 512GB storage. No international release is planned yet, but the device echoes a welcome trend toward smaller, more powerful e-readers. Xiaomi has announced the imminent arrival of a new e-reader, the Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2. Unfortunately for global fans, the tiny powerhouse is only slate

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Xiaomi launches a pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader with a stupid amount of storage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:30:38

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi’s Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2 lands September 22 in China, priced at ¥1,399. The pocket-sized e-reader runs Android 14, with a Rockchip RK3566, 6GB RAM, and up to 512GB storage. No international release is planned yet, but the device echoes a welcome trend toward smaller, more powerful e-readers. Xiaomi has announced the imminent arrival of a new e-reader, the Moaan InkPalm Mini Plus 2. Unfortunately for global fans, the tiny powerhouse is only slate

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iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings

news.ycombinator.com Clare Duffy 2025-10-05 01:02:56

New York CNN — Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13. His newest app is designed for a very different purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area. Aaron launched the platform, called ICEBlock, in early April after watching President Donald Trump’s administration begin its immigration crackdown. The White Ho

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Oscar Isaac Will Bring a ‘Rock Star’ Energy to His Victor Frankenstein

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-09 05:00:48

Entertainment Weekly recently sat down with Oscar Isaac to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie, which will hit theaters in October before rolling out on Netflix. While the article breaks down the overall thrust of the movie—namely, that Dr. Frankenstein is haunted by the specter of an abusive father (Charles Dance), prompting him to create new life in an attempt to break the chains of generational trauma more than scientific achievement—the piece hones in on Isaac’s quote that his po

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Five brands could announce CarPlay Ultra availability as soon as iPhone 17 event day

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-10 01:14:05

iPhone 17 news will undoubtedly dominate technology headlines next week. Yet September 9 could also prove to be a turning point for Apple’s CarPlay Ultra. While I don’t expect the feature to take the spotlight during Apple’s event itself, the same day marks the start of IAA Mobility in Munich, where Hyundai is poised to confirm support and other automakers may follow. I’m now confident that September 9, the first day of the expo, is when we’ll see Hyundai reveal its take on CarPlay Ultra, poss

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Tech companies ‘be on alert,’ NAACP says with new guiding principles for data centers

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-10 01:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. One of the top civil rights organizations in the US is putting the tech industry “on alert,” issuing a call to action for communities to demand more accountability from companies building

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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 20:39:52

BAY OF AARHUS, Denmark (AP) — Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists search for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ago. This summer, divers descended about 8 meters (26 feet) below the waves close to Aarhus, Denmark’s second-biggest city, and collected evidence of a Stone Age settlement from the seabed. It’s part of a 13.2 million euro ($15.5 million) six-year international project to map parts of the seabed in

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Showrunner wants to turn you into a happy little content prompter for the ‘Netflix of AI’

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-18 05:07:22

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. As one of the cofounders behind Oculus Story Studio, Edward Saatchi knows how hard it can be to sell people on new tech that bills itself as revolutionary. Even though Story Studio snagged an Emmy for one of its three animated features, a general lack of public interest in VR movies led Meta to shutter Oculus Story Studio back in 2017

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Can Invisible Lasers Help Bridge the Digital Divide? I Toured This Futuristic Cell Tower to Find Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 12:00:00

I’ve written hundreds of articles about broadband internet technology, but I'd never heard about data being transmitted through invisible lasers before. This wasn’t the plot of a sci-fi movie. This was Taara, a graduate of X, Google’s Moonshot Factory, that uses beams of light to transmit data through the air at the speed of light. I drove 140 miles from my home in Seattle to remote Selah, Washington, to see it in action. Three miles up a rocky dirt road, you’ll find a typical cellular tower, d

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The Director of ‘RRR’ Is Pulling a ‘Kill Bill’ With Another Fantasy Epic

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-25 16:00:15

In 2015 and 2017, director S.S. Rajamouli released a two-part fantasy epic for the ages. Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion told the sweeping tale of a lost prince’s rise to power in a cruel and unforgiving kingdom, each of which became one of India’s highest-grossing films of all time. Now, coming off the even greater global popularity of Rajamouli’s Oscar-winning action spectacle RRR, he’s reedited the two films into one, and it’s getting a U.S. theatrical release. To ce

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Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

news.ycombinator.com Tim Cushing 2025-10-28 16:04:56

Investigators Used Terrible Computer Fraud Laws To Ensure People Were Punished For Leaking Air Crash Footage To CNN from the if-it-can-be-abused,-it-WILL-be-abused dept Earlier this year, an Army helicopter collided with a passenger plane over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. All sixty-seven people aboard both vehicles were killed. While the FAA focused its investigation on the failures that led to this mid-air collision, local investigators in Virginia were somehow far more concerned abou

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Trump's Nvidia and Intel meddling is a 'scattershot method of crony capitalism': Walter Isaacson

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-01 20:35:31

President Donald Trump's dealings with Intel and Nvidia amount to a "scattershot method of crony capitalism," Walter Isaacson said Thursday. "That state capitalism often evolves into crony capitalism, where you have favored companies and industries that pay tribute to the leader, and that is a recipe for not only disaster, but just sort of a corrupt sense of messiness," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box." The Tulane University professor, widely known for his recent Elon Musk biography, argued that th

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How to Track Hurricane Erin: See Which States Are Currently at Risk

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 21:48:00

As Hurricane Erin heads north up the East Coast this Wednesday, residents are paying close attention to see where the storm will land and which cities may be in danger. As we write this on Wednesday afternoon, Erin is now a 110-mph Category 2 hurricane, but that can change quickly. Read more: Beyond Boarding Up: How to Prep Your Smart Home Security for a Hurricane The latest projections show the storm aiming for Boston, but veering back out into the Atlantic before causing too much damage. How

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How to Track Hurricane Erin: See Which States Are Currently At Risk

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 03:48:07

As Hurricane Erin heads north up the East Coast this Wednesday, residents are paying close attention to see where the storm will land and which cities may be in danger. As we write this on Wednesday afternoon, Erin is now a 110-mph Category 2 hurricane, but that can change quickly. Read more: Beyond Boarding Up: How to Prep Your Smart Home Security for a Hurricane The latest projections show the storm aiming for Boston, but veering back out into the Atlantic before causing too much damage. How

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Starship launches could delay Florida flights up to 2 hours, FAA says

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-03 09:49:25

As regulators weigh SpaceX’s plans to launch its massive Starship rocket from Kennedy Space Center, federal documents warn those flights could ripple through Florida airspace, forcing ground stops at multiple airports, reroutes, and delays of up to two hours. Even after launch, reentry of Starship’s two stages could require ground stops at some of the busiest airports in the country, according to a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) released by the Federal Aviation Administration this m

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Oscar Isaac Is Ready to Be a ‘Star Wars’ Again

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-03 18:00:13

Oscar Isaac is a perpetually busy actor, and though he’s made his share of dramas, he’s particularly beloved by genre fans for his work in that realm: Dune, Moon Knight, Ex Machina, the Spider-Verse series, and even those animated Addams Family movies. But atop that mountain sits Star Wars, featuring Isaac as rebel pilot Poe Dameron across the sequel trilogy. With Poe surviving the events of The Rise of Skywalker, might there be a chance fans will see him again? Speaking to Variety in a new int

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Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

news.ycombinator.com Alice Sun 2025-11-05 03:18:48

Scientists recently discovered a microbe with one of the tiniest genomes on Earth. More surprising, the creature is almost entirely dependent on its host: Its genes don’t support any of the functions of metabolism, one of the key processes of life. As such, it challenges fundamental notions of what it means to be a living organism. The discovery was “pure serendipity,” says Takuro Nakayama, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Takayama wanted to study the many m

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Aalo Atomics raises $100M to build a microreactor and data center together

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-06 23:41:41

Nuclear startups have been soaking up attention from hyperscalers and cash from investors. Aalo Atomics is the latest beneficiary of the big tech-small nuclear love affair, raising $100 million in a Series B, the company announced today. The startup plans to flip the switch on its first reactor in the summer of 2026, CEO Matt Loszak said in a LinkedIn post. The facility will be located on the campus of the Idaho National Laboratory. Aalo — not to be confused with the defunct furniture startup

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An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 08:45:12

As the sun continues the tumultuous peak of its 11-year cycle, more instances of aurora borealis have been expected. The most recent instance was earlier in August when auroras lit up the skies in 18 states. It seems the Earth is in for another battering of solar material as another aurora has been forecast for Monday night, and it should be a pretty decent one for states in the northern US. According to NOAA, the Earth will experience a geomagnetic storm with a Kp 5 rating. For the uninitiated

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‘Foundation’ Just Smashed the Past Into the Present, and the Present Into the Future

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-10 15:00:45

You knew it wasn’t going to be a pleasant exchange when—at the very end of last week’s Foundation episode—Demerzel barged her way aboard Gaal’s spaceship. Gaal may be a psychic warrior who’s lived for over 300 years, but Demerzel is an ancient robot. They aren’t strangers, having met at the very beginning of season one. But times have changed since then, to put it mildly, and they really don’t know much about each other. That evolves in a big way in season three, episode six, “The Shape of Time.

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Latest Tech News

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

Will I run Boston 2026?

Will I Run Boston 2026?

Webinar: Your browser is the breach — securing the modern web edge

Boeing faces $3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations

Gemini Live is giving me the confidence to speak my second language

FAA Proposes $3.1 Million Fine Against Boeing Over Door-Plug Horror

New FAA program will let eVTOL startups test some operations before full certification

We are entering a golden age of robotics startups — and not just because of AI

Alphabet's Verily covered up HIPAA violations, whistleblower says in lawsuit

This pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader comes with a stupid amount of storage

Xiaomi launches a pocket-sized Android-powered e-reader with a stupid amount of storage

iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings

Oscar Isaac Will Bring a ‘Rock Star’ Energy to His Victor Frankenstein

Five brands could announce CarPlay Ultra availability as soon as iPhone 17 event day

Tech companies ‘be on alert,’ NAACP says with new guiding principles for data centers

Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

Showrunner wants to turn you into a happy little content prompter for the ‘Netflix of AI’

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The Director of ‘RRR’ Is Pulling a ‘Kill Bill’ With Another Fantasy Epic

Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

Trump's Nvidia and Intel meddling is a 'scattershot method of crony capitalism': Walter Isaacson

How to Track Hurricane Erin: See Which States Are Currently at Risk

How to Track Hurricane Erin: See Which States Are Currently At Risk

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Oscar Isaac Is Ready to Be a ‘Star Wars’ Again

Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

Aalo Atomics raises $100M to build a microreactor and data center together

An Aurora Is Hitting Monday Night Only and Will Be Visible in Over a Dozen States

‘Foundation’ Just Smashed the Past Into the Present, and the Present Into the Future

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