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Latest Apple Store design combines Genius Bar and Pickup in one counter

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-18 17:57:44

A dedicated Pickup counter has been one of the most notable changes in Apple store designs over the last few years, giving a faster service to those customers who have ordered a product for in-store collection. First launched in 2021, the very latest Apple store design has combined this with the Genius Bar in a single counter … Express counters to Pickup Apple’s first iteration of a rapid pickup concept was an Express Counter first launched more than a decade ago. These were stocked with popu

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Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

news.ycombinator.com Calum Marsh 2025-11-10 11:59:26

Late one night in his dorm room, Minh Le, a computer science major, was having a hard time concentrating on his studies. Le was a whiz with computers and had little trouble with the material at Simon Fraser University, a public research school just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. But a video game he had designed in his spare time was earning Le and his co-creator more than $20,000 every month from advertising. More than 100,000 players at a time — terrorists vs. counterterrorists — were b

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Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop

news.ycombinator.com Zhiye Liu 2025-11-10 23:41:17

According to German news outlet Heise, notable progress has been made regarding the counterfeit Seagate hard drive case. Just like something out of an action movie, security teams from Seagate's Singapore and Malaysian offices, in conjunction with local Malaysian authorities, conducted a raid on a warehouse in May that was engaged in cooking up counterfeit Seagate hard drives, situated outside Kuala Lumpur. During the raid, authorities reportedly uncovered approximately 700 counterfeit Seagate

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Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 23:44:05

Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot 28 Jul, 2025 I recently read Ralf Jung's blog post "There is no memory safety without thread safety" which mentions that Go is not a memory safe language in the presence of data races. "But Go comes with a built in data race detector " some might say. This reminded me of a quirk in Go's dynamic data race detection that causes it to miss data races in executed code that could easily be spotted by a human . Here is the code the data race detector stru

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Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 17:44:05

Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot 28 Jul, 2025 I recently read Ralf Jung's blog post "There is no memory safety without thread safety" which mentions that Go is not a memory safe language in the presence of data races. "But Go comes with a built in data race detector " some might say. This reminded me of a quirk in Go's dynamic data race detection that causes it to miss data races in executed code that could easily be spotted by a human . Here is the code the data race detector stru

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Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to "Train Its AI"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 22:16:30

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been accused of pirating — we are not kidding — a whole adult bookstore's worth of dirty movies to train its artificial intelligence models. First flagged by the blog TorrentFreak, a copyright company called Strike 3 Holdings and an adult film studio called Counterlife Media have filed suit against Meta, alleging that the tech giant torrented nearly 2,400 copyrighted skin flicks. All in the name of AI research, of course. According to the suit, which was filed in Cal

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Swift-erlang-actor-system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 18:59:04

I'm excited to share a new actor system we've been building for Swift's distributed actors: swift-erlang-actor-system. This actor system enables Swift programs to join a distributed Erlang cluster. Here's an example of a simple chat program using the actor system: Demo Video Erlang (and other languages that run on its VM) can connect multiple runtime systems together with distributed Erlang. Each runtime is referred to as a "node". Erlang also supports "C nodes", which allow a program other

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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-08 17:29:04

SJVN / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET At long last, after years of waiting for the "Year of the Linux desktop," we're getting somewhere. According to the US Federal Government Website and App Analytics, which I trust far more than I do StatCounter, 6% of its visitors over the last month were using Linux operating systems. Downright impressive This website keeps track of US government website visits and analyzes them. On average, there have been 1.6 billion sessions in the last 30 days, with mi

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How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2026-01-28 17:00:00

You’d expect your pimple patches to heal blemishes, not cause them. But when you're buying beauty products on Amazon, there’s a risk you’re getting more than you bargained for. And you wouldn’t be alone. According to a 2023 study from Michigan State University, nearly seven in 10 consumers were fooled into purchasing counterfeit items online. That same year, Amazon reported blocking more than 700,000 attempts by “bad actors” trying to open new storefronts and seizing more than 7 million counter

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Windows 11 usage is surging? Not so fast - here's the real story

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2026-01-30 17:47:00

Richard Drury/Getty Images It happens like clockwork, around the first of each month. Sites that focus on technology churn out nearly identical articles, all based on a chart prepared by the good folks at Statcounter Global Stats. Here's the latest chart, covering the 12 months ending June 30, 2025. Every month, tech bloggers try to turn a chart like this one into a story, but most of them miss what's actually happening. Statcounter GS I saw that chart in dozens of posts this month, along wit

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Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-02-05 21:54:26

Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said, as the tech giant looks to turnaround its business in one of its most critical markets. Sales of iPhones in China jumped 8% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June, according to Counterpoint Research. It's the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since the second quarter of 2023. Apple's performance was boosted by promotions in May as Chinese e-co

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This GaN charger is a cross between a yo-yo and a tape measure - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2026-02-13 08:25:23

ZDNET's key takeaways Counterpart's charger is a 35W gallium nitride (GaN) device with a retractable, four-foot cord and a foldable wall plug for $44. Its yo-yo-esque design keeps everything you need to charge in one place, and the USB-C cord is compatible with numerous devices. It may not be for you if you want a multi-port GaN charger. View now at Counterpart The Counterpart charger is on sale for 15% off now through July 6 in celebration of July 4th with code COUNTER4TH at checkout. Recen

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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 06:11:25

User : Please provide a detailed description of the video, focusing on the main subject and the actions taking place as well as predict what is going to happen next. Magma : The video takes place in a convenience store, focusing on the checkout counter. It begins with a view of the counter displaying a sign that reads 'PICK 5 FOR $8.00' along with images of various snacks. The counter is filled with various items, including snacks and a payment terminal. An employee, wearing a black shirt with

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Latest Tech News

Latest Apple Store design combines Genius Bar and Pickup in one counter

Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop

Go’s race detector has a mutex blind spot

Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot

Lawsuit Claims Meta Pirated Vast Numbers of Dirty Movies to "Train Its AI"

Swift-erlang-actor-system

Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

How to Spot Fake Beauty Products on Amazon: Tips and Advice

Windows 11 usage is surging? Not so fast - here's the real story

Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years

This GaN charger is a cross between a yo-yo and a tape measure - and it's on sale

Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

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