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The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 19:54:36

The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation If You're Here, You Know The Pain You own a high-end ASUS ROG laptop perhaps a Strix, Scar, or Zephyrus. It's specifications are impressive: an RTX 30/40 series GPU, a top-tier Intel processor, and plenty of RAM. Yet, it stutters during basic tasks like watching a YouTube video, audio crackles and pops on Discord calls, the mouse cursor freezes for a split second, just long enough to be infuriating. You've likely tried a

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The Asus Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 02:54:36

The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation If You're Here, You Know The Pain You own a high-end ASUS ROG laptop perhaps a Strix, Scar, or Zephyrus. It's specifications are impressive: an RTX 30/40 series GPU, a top-tier Intel processor, and plenty of RAM. Yet, it stutters during basic tasks like watching a YouTube video, audio crackles and pops on Discord calls, the mouse cursor freezes for a split second, just long enough to be infuriating. You've likely tried a

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Ars Live: CTA policy expert explains why tariff stacking is a nightmare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 15:42:20

Earlier this month, Ars spoke with the Consumer Technology Association's vice president of international trade, Ed Brzytwa, to check in and see how tech firms have navigated Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff regimes so far. Brzytwa has led CTA's research helping tech firms prepare for Trump's trade war, but during our talk, he confirmed that "the reality has been a lot more difficult and far worse, because of not just the height of the tariffs, but the variability, the tariffs on, tariffs off

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Musk buys $1bn worth of Tesla shares

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-24 23:53:37

Musk buys $1bn worth of Tesla shares 1 hour ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has scooped up roughly $1bn (£735m) worth of Tesla shares, in what is being seen as a vote of confidence in the electric car maker. Shares in Tesla, which have struggled to advance this year, jumped more than 6% in early trading on Monday on the news. Musk already held a roughly 13% stake in the company, but he has long sought more control of the firm, which he has

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Liam Hemsworth is Geralt in the first Witcher season 4 trailer

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-09-25 02:30:29

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we caught a brief glimpse of him in action last year, the first proper clip from season 4 of the show reveals just how Hemsworth will be inhabiting the role — including his take on Geralt’s signature growling voice. In addition to giving us a better look at G

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Opendoor Board Chair Thinks the Company Should Cut Its Workforce by 85 Percent

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-25 04:00:25

If you work for Opendoor, the online real estate platform, you might consider polishing up your resume. The chair of the company’s board recently let it slip that he thinks the firm could stand to lose almost all of its employees. During a recent appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Keith Rabois, a former member of the PayPal Mafia, told a reporter that he felt that the majority of the people at his company were expendable. “There’s 1,400 employees at Opendoor. I don’t know what most of

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Windows 11 SSD issues blamed on reviewers using ‘early versions of firmware’

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-04 18:27:59

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reports have been circulating for the past few weeks that recent Windows 11 updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. While plenty of YouTube and TikTok videos have blamed Microsoft for the issues, Phison has identified “early versions of fir

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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 04:13:10

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it;

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RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 16:07:17

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weathered ample family tragedy, drug and alcohol addiction, infection from an alleged brain worm, and a few sex scandals both minor and major — and now he's weathering condemnation from his own political allies that could presage a genuine crash out. Amid his single-minded quest against vaccines, the 71-year-old health secretary seems to have made a serious miscalculation when he chose to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevent

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Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 16:35:35

Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K Games soon confirmed it. "We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," a spokesperson wrote to multiple news outlets. The company did no

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AI Not Affecting Job Market Much So Far, New York Fed Says

news.ycombinator.com Sept. 2025-10-10 02:47:45

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Rising adoption of artificial intelligence technology by firms in the Federal Reserve's New York district has not been much of a job-killer so far, the regional Fed bank said in a blog on Thursday. "Businesses reported a notable increase in AI use over the past year, yet very few firms reported AI-induced layoffs," New York Fed economists wrote in the blog. "Indeed, for those already employed, our results indicate AI is more likely to result in retrainin

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Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 11:52:43

All Batches All Countries Want your own map? Get a white-label version for your accelerator, university, or VC firm.

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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-18 05:54:13

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM

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Affirm stock rises 10% as CEO Levchin notes continued consumer strength

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-18 20:08:36

In this article AFRM Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now Affirm stock popped 10% Friday after the buy now, pay later firm beat Wall Street's expectations across the board in its fiscal fourth-quarter results. CEO Max Levchin told CNBC on "Money Movers" Friday that the company is "firing on all pistons." Earnings came in at 20 cents a share and nearly doubled analyst expectations, with revenue also topping estimates at $876 million, up 33% from a year earlier. Net income w

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Affirm stock surges 20% as CEO Levchin notes continued consumer strength

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-10-20 00:42:47

Affirm stock popped 20% Friday after the buy now, pay later firm beat Wall Street's expectations across the board in its fiscal fourth-quarter results. The stock was already up 31% this year heading into the report, outpacing the Nasdaq's 12% gain. Earnings came in at 20 cents a share and nearly doubled analyst expectations, with revenue also topping estimates at $876 million, up 33% from a year earlier. Net income was $69.2 million for the quarter, compared with a loss of $45.1 million in the

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Affirm's stock soars 15% on earnings, revenue beat

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-20 16:27:07

Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and chief executive officer of financial technology company Affirm, arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Affirm shares rose 15% in extended trading on Thursday after the provider of buy now, pay later loans reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company did versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS: 20 cents vs. 11 cents estimated 20 c

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Detection of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Parasite in U.S. Traveler Raises Alarms

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-26 03:35:42

A flesh-eating parasite is creeping north from Mexico and Central America, spurring the U.S. to launch an aggressive eradication plan. Despite these efforts, a patient recently contracted the country’s first travel-associated case of New World screwworm infestation. On Sunday, August 24, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon told Reuters that health officials confirmed the case on August 4 in a Maryland resident who recently returned from a trip to El Salvador. David

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a16z spends $1.49M in Washington lobbying, while rivals mostly sit out

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-27 11:17:27

Andreessen Horowitz’ plan to push its agenda in Washington shows no sign of slowing down, with the firm reporting $1.49 million in federal lobbying so far this year, according to lobbying records filed with Congress. A16z is even narrowly outspending its own industry trade group, the National Venture Capital Association. The pace of lobbying appears to be accelerating from last year, according to a TechCrunch review of lobbying disclosures. A16z spent $1.8 million on lobbying in all of 2024 and

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A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 05:23:19

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A brilliant and nearby one-off fast radio burst localized to 13pc precision

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Setting serial baud rate on ESP-IDF does nothing

news.ycombinator.com Chris Greening 2025-10-28 17:24:00

What are we talking about? This line of code that appears in pretty much every single Arduino sketch/project: Serial.begin(115200); This line of code is everywhere - a quick search on GitHub finds over 450,000 instances of it. GitHub Search I started to question this when I was testing out my new boards. I was streaming audio from the board and noticed that the rate I was receiving data at bore no relation to the baud rate I was setting. Audio testing If we look closely at the image, we ca

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Best Innerspring Mattress in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 07:28:00

All online brands offer a free trial, free shipping and a warranty, but some brands are more generous with their policies than others. Motion isolation, edge support and temperature are important features for couples or people who sleep hot to consider. Hot sleepers should consider a mattress that boasts special cooling features. Couples want minimal motion transfer and a strong, supportive bed perimeter. Hybrid mattresses tend to be best for people who want extra support and durability. Sleep

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Astronomer’s New CEO Speaks—Yes, About That

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-10-30 19:00:00

The only people from Astronomer attending the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16 were CEO Andy Byron and his head of HR, Kristin Cabot. They were swaying in mid-hug when the roving kiss cam, a staple at the band’s performances, zeroed in on them. You have probably seen the clip of what happened next. The two of them scrambled like kids caught raiding a cookie jar. Even Coldplay’s anodyne frontman Chris Martin couldn’t ignore their response. “They’re either having an affair

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New AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 firmware now available in public beta

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-01 11:02:39

If you’re running the AirPods firmware public beta, Apple has a new update rolling out now for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4. Here’s what you should know. Apple’s big iOS 26-led software launches are coming very soon, including an update for AirPods users. The majority of new features are exclusive to AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4—models with an H2 chip. But if you own one of those models, Apple just shipped new public beta firmware as a way to preview the new features that are coming. The new A

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Apple releases fifth AirPods beta firmware update with iOS 26 feature support

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-07 03:56:11

Apple has released a new round of beta firmware for AirPods testers, AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 are both receiving build 8A5343a, an update from the 8A5324b version that rolled out in July. This marks the second firmware release since Apple introduced its public beta program for AirPods earlier this summer. The program has made it significantly easier for users to install firmware updates, and today’s release is the first update since the program’s initial launch. The new software gives teste

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Intel will receive a $2 billion lifeline from SoftBank

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-08 08:44:27

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. SoftBank will invest $2 billion into Intel as the struggling chipmaker pulls back on spending and lays off thousands of workers. In an announcement, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said the investment aligns with the firm’s belief that “advanced semiconductor manufac

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Another ‘Lord of the Rings’ Icon May Return for ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-10 17:00:34

Alan Cumming teases his time filming Avengers: Doomsday. The team behind High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is returning to Disney for a new supernatural dramedy. Plus, Frank Grillo teases Rick Flag Sr.’s arc in Peacemaker season 2. Spoilers, assemble! Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Speaking at a convention in London called For the Love of Fantasy, Ian McKellen seemingly confirmed that Frodo will appear alongside Gandalf in Andy Serkis’ Gollum prequel (although it wasn’t conf

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McKinsey Terrified as It Realizes AI Can Do Its Job Perfectly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 04:46:07

Illustrious consulting firm McKinsey is staring down the barrel of AI. All those highly-paid suits are at risk as AI agents, AI models designed to autonomously carry out certain tasks, promise to do what they do with instant results — and without six-figure salary demands. "Do I think that this is existential for our profession? Yes, I do," Kate Smaje, a senior partner tapped to lead McKinsey's AI efforts, told the Wall Street Journal. But, she insisted, "I think it's an existential good for u

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What Does Consulting Do?

news.ycombinator.com Gert Bijnens 2025-11-26 10:52:49

This paper provides the first systematic and comprehensive empirical study of management and strategy consulting. We unveil the workings of this opaque industry by drawing on universal administrative business-to-business transaction data based on value-added tax links from Belgium (2002-2023). These data permit us to document the nature of consulting engagements, take-up patterns, and the effects on client firms. We document that consulting take-up is concentrated among large, high-labor-product

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Trump opens door for crypto in retirement accounts

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-27 10:41:52

Trump opens door for crypto in retirement accounts But critics say it could increase risks for savers. The move is intended to eventually give everyday workers new access to investments formerly reserved for wealthy individuals and institutions, while opening up previously untouched pools of funding for firms in those fields. On Thursday, he ordered regulators to look for ways to change rules that might discourage employers from including such offerings in workplace retirement accounts, known

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The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug

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