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Xi Jinping warns against China's overinvestment in EVs and AI

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-18 20:40:55

Chinese President Xi Jinping has bluntly questioned a nationwide rush of investment into the AI and EV industries. As deflation anxiety grows and Trump’s trade war with China ramps up, the world’s second largest economy is turning to fast-growth tech industries to remain competitive. But Xi appears to think that the strategy is flawed. As reported by the Financial Times , China's President sent out a pointed message about over-investment at the two-day Central Urban Work Conference in Beijing.

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New Phobos ransomware decryptor lets victims recover files for free

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-18 20:56:13

The Japanese police have released a Phobos and 8-Base ransomware decryptor that lets victims recover their files for free, with BleepingComputer confirming that it successfully decrypts files. Phobos is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that launched in December 2018, enabling other threat actors to join as affiliates and utilize their encryption tool in attacks. In exchange, any ransom payments were split between the affiliate and the operators. While the ransomware operation did not receiv

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15 Years of Building Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-15 17:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 04:05:55

COBOL legacy systems in finance and government are somewhat of a meme. However, I've never actually met a single person who's day job is to maintain one. I'd be curious to learn what systems are you working on?

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You Don't Need to Drop $80 on a New Game. Here Are the Best Games for $50 or Less Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-19 03:15:00

There's been a lot of talk about how much the cost of games could increase in 2026. It's already been confirmed that some AAA games, like The Outer Worlds 2, will be priced at $80 when they come out. It's ironic that a game that satirizes corporate greed will be carrying a higher price like that, but here we are. However, another trend has quietly emerged over the past few months as well: Many great AA games are being released for $50 or less. A lot of these titles are currently on sale, too, s

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15 Years If Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-16 03:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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Arva AI (YC S24) Is Hiring an AI Research Engineer (London, UK)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 14:05:26

Location: In person, Central London, 4-5 days in office Type: Full-Time NB: We are able to sponsor visas Arva AI is revolutionising financial crime intelligence with our cutting-edge AI Agents. By automating manual human review tasks, we enhance operational efficiency and help financial institutions handle AML reviews, while cutting operational costs by 80%. As the AI Research Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in building and iterating on LLM-based and agentic features of our AI-powered c

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No More Waiting: New Crypto Law Unlocks Cheaper, Faster Money for Everyone

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-19 17:52:16

For more than a decade, cryptocurrency lived in legal limbo. It was too weird to regulate, too volatile to trust, and too new for Washington to take seriously. That just changed. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the GENIUS Act, the first major federal law regulating stablecoins, digital currencies backed by the U.S. dollar. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk, where it’s expected to become law. Here’s what it means for you, your money, and the financial system around you.

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Best No-Contract Internet Providers for July 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-19 17:00:00

Our picks 90001 Edit ZIP code Why we chose these providers Sort by Best no-contract ISP (if you can get it) 1,000 - 8,000 Mbps $70 - $150 per month Check with Google Fiber Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (855) 500-4211 Best for DSL value 10 - 140 Mbps $55 per month Check with CenturyLink Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (866) 671-3650 Best no-contract cable internet 500 - 1,000 Mbps $50 - $80 per month Check with Spectrum I

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'Eddington' Director Ari Aster Couldn’t Stand ‘Living in the Internet.’ So He Made a Movie About It

wired.com Jake Kleinman 2025-07-19 17:00:00

Like a lot of us, Ari Aster spent the summer of 2020 trapped inside and scrolling on social media. Also like a lot of us, the experience left him feeling pretty bad. “I was living on Twitter,” Aster tells WIRED, “and it was really agitating me.” But unlike most people, the director of Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau is Afraid wasn’t just doomscrolling on Twitter to pass the time. He was doing research. That summer, Aster wrote the script for his latest film, Eddington, a modern western set in

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Wi-Fi Experts Reveal How Trump’s Budget Bill Could Slow Down Your Wi-Fi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-19 19:05:00

You won’t find the term “Wi-Fi” anywhere in the text of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, but a provision authorizing the FCC to auction off spectrum could seriously impact speeds on newer Wi-Fi routers. Every wireless device, from garage door openers to baby monitors, relies on the electromagnetic spectrum to work. But that spectrum is a limited resource -- to open up capacity for one technology, you have to take it away from another. The latest generation of Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi

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Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-19 13:24:42

It's widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave an optimal balance between novelty and familiarity. What we choose to consume and share with others, in turn, drives cultural evolution. But what if that conventional wisdom is wrong? An analysis based on data from a massive online fan fiction (fanfic) archive contradicts this so-called "balance theory," according to a paper published in the journal Humanities and Social S

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Delaunay Mesh Generation (2012)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-17 01:01:26

Delaunay Mesh Generation Our book is a thorough guide to Delaunay refinement algorithms that are mathematically guaranteed to generate meshes with high quality, including triangular meshes in the plane, tetrahedral volume meshes, and triangular surface meshes embedded in three dimensions. It is also the most complete guide available to Delaunay triangulations and algorithms for constructing them. We have designed the book for two audiences: researchers, especially graduate students, and engin

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Show HN: Easy alternative to giflib – header-only decoder in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 13:56:33

GIF Decoder Library TurboStitchGIF is a lightweight, header-only C library for decoding GIF images with a focus on efficiency and minimal resource usage. Designed for embedded systems and performance-critical applications, it provides a simple API for decoding both static and animated GIFs while maintaining a tiny footprint. ✨ Key Features Single-header implementation - Just include gif.h in your project - Just include in your project Zero dynamic allocations - Works with user-provided memor

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Karl Urban is a wise-cracking Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat II

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-20 08:06:01

Karl Urban takes a break from The Boys to play a washed-up Johnny Cage in the trailer for Mortal Kombat II, a sequel to 2021's Mortal Kombat reboot and the fourth live-action film in the franchise based on the 1990s video game series. It comes one day after Warner Bros. released a (very entertaining) fake trailer for a new in-universe, faux 1990s Johnny Cage movie, Uncaged Fury. (Cage's prior fake film credits apparently include Cool Hand Cage, Hard to Cage, and Rebel Without a Cage.) The first

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The (Unfinished) PDE Coffee Table Book

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 10:03:48

THE (UNFINISHED) PDE COFFEE TABLE BOOK Lloyd N. Trefethen and Kristine Embree, editors Unpublished, 2001 During 2000-2001 a group project based in the Oxford University was begun to write this book. The vision was 100 2-page spreads, each one giving exactly the most useful possible starting information about a different partial differential equation, with beautiful color illustrations. Many people at Oxford and around the world contributed drafts, which were then extensively rewritten and e

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Show HN: PlutoFilter- A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-16 20:57:02

PlutoFilter PlutoFilter is a single-header, zero-allocation image filter library written in C. It applies fast, chainable image effects without any dynamic memory allocation. Compatible with SVG and CSS filter semantics, it makes it easy to reproduce visual effects consistently across platforms. Installation PlutoFilter is a self-contained, single-header library written in standard C99. It can be used in two modes: header-only or implementation. In header-only mode, simply include the header

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Best Internet Providers in Scottsdale, Arizona

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 07:34:00

Fiber rollout is limited in Scottsdale, Arizona, andCenturyLink, also known as Quantum Fiber, is CNET's pick for the best internet provider in the city. However, if it's not available at your address, Cox is your next best bet. It's got fast download speeds, but upload speeds suffer as it's a cable operator. Our team considers speeds, pricing, customer service and overall value to recommend the best internet service. Our evaluation includes referencing a proprietary database built over years of

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Fighting AI with AI, finance firms prevented $5 million in fraud - but at what cost?

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-07-20 16:06:40

d3sign/Getty Imageds When most people think of AI, the first thing that probably comes to mind isn't superintelligence or the promise of agents to boost productivity, but scams. There've always been fraudsters among us, that small percentage of the population who'll use any means available to swindle others out of their money. The proliferation of advanced and easily accessible generative AI tools in recent years has made such nefarious activity exponentially easier. Also: Meet ChatGPT agent,

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‘The Odyssey’ Sold Tickets a Year in Advance and Things Got Crazy

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-07-20 16:00:18

The Odyssey tells the story of one man’s long journey home after the Trojan War. And while the journey to Christopher Nolan’s adaptation won’t be nearly as perilous, it is certainly off to quite the start. The film opens in theaters July 17, 2026, which is exactly one year from today. And, earlier this week, showtimes for the film began mysteriously showing up on ticketing websites. Surely, no one would sell tickets for a movie a year in advance, right? Only that’s exactly what happened. And it

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The Best-Sounding Midrange Bluetooth Speaker I've Tested Is 25% Off Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-20 14:46:00

Deal alert: The Sony ULT Field 5 Bluetooth speaker is available for $248 at Amazon. That's equivalent to 25% off or a savings of $82. We named this newcomer the best midrange Bluetooth speaker available, and this discount puts it in a much more appealing price range. If you were to ask me what my favorite new portable Bluetooth speaker of 2025 is so far, I'd have to say Sony's ULT Field 5 speaker. When it launched back in April, I called it one of the best-sounding Bluetooth speakers I've teste

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NYC's office-to-residential conversions could create 17,000 new homes

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Ginsburg 2025-07-20 20:27:44

Pfizer World Headquarters is becoming 1,500 apartments. Photo via WikiCommons New York City’s first wave of office-to-residential conversions could yield over 17,000 new apartments, highlighting the potential for such projects to help ease the city’s housing shortage, according to a new report. Published on Thursday by City Comptroller Brad Lander, the report finds that 44 office conversions initiated after the pandemic could transform 15.2 million square feet of office space into as many as 17

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Samsung’s eye-catching Theme Park update teaches Apple how to do a glass UI right

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-20 23:24:04

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has rolled out a new update for the Theme Park Good Lock module. The update tweaks the UI, adds a new “Effects” menu, and fixes minor bugs. The Effects menu offers five options to customize the look of your icons. If you’re a fan of customization, the Theme Park module in Good Lock can help get your Galaxy phone looking just the way you want it. From changing the colors of keycaps to adjusting the shape of icons, there is no shortage of ways to giv

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Can’t sync your Fitbit? You’re not alone, as service suffers major outage (Update: Fixed)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-21 00:53:17

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Fitbit users currently report problems syncing data and logging into the Android app. The company confirms that an outage is in progress, and is currently under investigation. Right now there doesn’t seem to be anything users can do, so just sit tight and avoid the temptation to reinstall the app. Update, July 17, 2025 (12:53 PM ET): Fitbit reports that all systems are back up and running. If you uninstalled earlier and weren’t able to log back in to

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The First Trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Is a Johnny Cage-Filled Extravaganza

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-07-21 00:00:01

Warner Bros. has finally unveiled the new trailer for Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to its 2021 video game adaptation. It stars Karl Urban as B-movie star Johnny Cage, and the character is front and center in this new clip. The sequel film, whose title is likely to cause further confusion among fighting game fans, on top of the damage already caused by game developer NetherRealm Studios, was first announced in 2022. The trailer aims to put viewers right back in the middle of the gory action. In

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Zuckerberg and Meta investors reach settlement in $8B privacy case

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-21 04:25:05

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Meta executives have settled a lawsuit filed by a group of shareholders. They were seeking $8 billion for the damage the executives caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy in relation to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The parties did not disclose details of the settlement, according to Reuters. Facebook shareholders filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, former COO Sheryl Sandberg, and other execut

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Can’t sync your Fitbit? You’re not alone, as service suffers major outage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-21 08:32:17

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Fitbit users currently report problems syncing data and logging into the Android app. The company confirms that an outage is in progress, and is currently under investigation. Right now there doesn’t seem to be anything users can do, so just sit tight and avoid the temptation to reinstall the app. It’s a beautiful Thursday morning, and you’re up with the sun to get a nice long run in ahead of a busy day. Only what’s this? Your tracker won’t sync with

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Adobe's AI Videos Get Audio: Is It Better Than Google's Veo 3?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 07:00:00

New Adobe Firefly video updates are here to bring your AI-generated videos to the next level and to potentially keep the company competitive in the crowded AI market. You'll be able to add sound effects to your Firefly AI videos, thanks to a beta release of a new AI tool rolling out now, the company announced Thursday. It's the second major tech company to release such capabilities, following Google's Veo 3 launch in May. There are also a couple of other changes coming to Firefly video, includi

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Best King-Size Mattresses for 2025, Tested by CNET’s Sleep Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 07:00:00

Our sleep experts have been testing mattresses, bedding and accessories for years (a few have been testing for up to eight years). At this point, we've tested over 300 mattresses from dozens of brands, from bigwigs like Purple and Tempur-Pedic to more niche companies like Sonu and Airweave. Our team is comprised of bed testers with varying body weights and types, heights, genders and sleep preferences, which helps us provide an overarching assessment of each mattress from a multitude of viewpoi

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Adobe Firefly can now generate sound effects from your audio cues

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-21 12:00:08

Since rolling out the redesign of its Firefly app in April, Adobe has been releasing major updates for the generative AI hub at a near monthly clip. Today, the company is introducing a handful of new features to assist those who use Firefly's video capabilities. To start, Adobe is making it easier to add sound effects to AI-generated clips. Right now, the majority of video models create footage without any accompanying audio. Adobe is addressing this with a nifty little feature that allows user

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Xi Jinping warns against China's overinvestment in EVs and AI

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15 Years of Building Jefit

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Fanfic study challenges leading cultural evolution theory

Delaunay Mesh Generation (2012)

Show HN: Easy alternative to giflib – header-only decoder in C

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The (Unfinished) PDE Coffee Table Book

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The First Trailer for ‘Mortal Kombat II’ Is a Johnny Cage-Filled Extravaganza

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Adobe's AI Videos Get Audio: Is It Better Than Google's Veo 3?

Best King-Size Mattresses for 2025, Tested by CNET’s Sleep Experts

Adobe Firefly can now generate sound effects from your audio cues

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