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High-power microwave defeats drone swarm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 19:25:24

Leonidas neutralized 61-of-61 drones, culminating in a 49-drone swarm kill with one pulse of electromagnetic interference Los Angeles, Calif—September 10, 2025—Epirus announced today the results of an August 26 demonstration of the company’s Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) system that delivers weaponized electromagnetic interference to counter swarms of robotic, asymmetric threats. The live-fire demonstration tested Leonidas against 61 drones across five operationally relevant flight scena

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This AirTag alternative fits my wallet and works well with Android phones - it's priced well, too

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-16 20:04:00

LuLuLook AirCard Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The LuLuLook AirCard Pro is thin, lightweight, and fits seamlessly into wallets. The built-in rechargeable battery lasts for 4 to 5 months between top-ups. Handy slot cut to allow the finder to be attached to luggage. $24.69 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My grandfather had a saying -- a place for everything, and everything in its place. It turns out that I'm not as tidy as he was, and I have a tendency to… misplace

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Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 17:37:04

Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages. The office and multifamily sectors of commercial real estate loans got further bludgeoned in August, despite large-scale extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals executed in the hopes for better times and lower interest rates and more demand so that lenders don’t end up with the property and a huge loss. The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-b

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Finally, an AirTag alternative that fits my wallet and works well with Android phones

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-15 22:58:21

LuLuLook AirCard Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The LuLuLook AirCard Pro is thin, lightweight, and fits seamlessly into wallets. The built-in rechargeable battery lasts for 4 to 5 months between top-ups. Handy slot cut to allow the finder to be attached to luggage. $24.69 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My grandfather had a saying -- a place for everything, and everything in its place. It turns out that I'm not as tidy as he was, and I have a tendency to… misplace

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Watch Lady Gaga’s Tim Burton-Directed Video for Her ‘Wednesday’ Dance Jam

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-16 08:30:57

There was a lot of hype ahead of Lady Gaga’s appearance on Netflix’s Wednesday, but now that all of season two has dropped, it’s clear that her new song, “The Dead Dance,” has an equally important presence in the series. No spoilers if you haven’t binged the new episodes yet, but you can also enjoy the song on its own thanks to the Tim Burton-directed music video. Though Burton has a cinematic filmography stretching back 40 years—all the way to 1985’s Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, his feature debut—

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As an Android user, this is the closest thing to AirTags for my wallet (and better in some ways)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-17 03:16:00

LuLuLook AirCard Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The LuLuLook AirCard Pro is thin, lightweight, and fits seamlessly into wallets. The built-in rechargeable battery lasts for 4 to 5 months between top-ups. Handy slot cut to allow the finder to be attached to luggage. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My grandfather had a saying -- a place for everything, and everything in its place. It turns out that I'm not as tidy as he was, and I have a tendency to… misplac

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Stolen luggage at LAX recovered thanks to Apple AirTag

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-20 14:29:13

An Apple AirTag helped a West Hollywood man recover his stolen suitcase after landing at Los Angeles International Airport last week. Here’s what happened. The stolen luggage ended up at an abandoned building As reported by NCB Los Angeles (via MacMagazine), Daniel Scott had just landed from Salt Lake City and, after waiting on two different baggage carousels for a while, decided to check the Find My app. Scott had placed an AirTag in his suitcase, and the app clearly showed his luggage on th

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Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 21:56:50

About HN Overlooked × This tool helps you discover recent hidden gems on Hacker News – high-effort posts that haven't gotten much attention. Why "Recent"? We search the HN API's Ask, Show, and New story feeds, which typically contain posts from the last 3-7 days. This ensures fresh content while keeping the search fast. Passion Score Posts are ranked by their Passion Score, which identifies high-effort, low-engagement content: Passion Score = (Text Length Score) / (Engagement + 1) Where

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Taylor Swift Is Engaged, and Her Instagram Post Could Smash Records

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 00:43:58

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married," Swift and Kelce wrote on an Instagram post showing multiple photos of the proposal. In the first photo, Kelce is kneeling in front of Swift in a breathtaking floral garden. The second photo shows them both standing and holding

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The winners and losers of Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-12-02 02:04:14

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. The world’s most famous celebrity couple got engaged, and the first place the news broke was on Instagram. By now, it’s not much of a surprise that pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelce opted to announce their engagement on the platform on Tuesday — if it’s good enough for Beyoncé, it’s good enough for anyone. Swift and Kelce are, for the most part,

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One of the most annoying things about the X app has been fixed – for now

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-11 11:30:50

The most annoying thing about X is, well, X – but the company has at least fixed an app behavior many of us found frustrating. Just 18 years after users started complaining about it, X’s head of product said that a fix is now rolling out … That irritation? You’ve just started reading something at the top of your feed, and then the feed spontaneously reloads and it is lost forever. Entrepreneur and investor Jesse Pujji repeated the complaint a few days ago, and product lead Nikita Bier says it

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From Here?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:35:52

Over the years, I’ve written plenty about comedy writers reusing jokes. Today’s topic is one of the most famous and most-quoted examples of the lot. So let’s turn to ersatz Bond film Never Say Never Again , which premiered in the US on the 6th October 1983. Oh dear, James Bond isn’t having much fun. NURSE: Mr. Bond? I need a urine sample. If you could fill this beaker for me? BOND: From here? The tale surrounding this is well-known by now. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais did some emergency r

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‘Gags the Clown’ Leans Into an Urban Legend That Maybe Wasn’t a Legend

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-11 14:42:29

It’s been nearly a decade since an outbreak of clown sightings frightened people, first in the U.S. and then later across the globe. A clown in the right context isn’t necessarily scary, but a random clown just appearing with no obvious purpose is horror movie material. And, in fact, some of the creepy clown epidemic of 2016 can be traced back to Gags the Clown, a found-footage indie that turned some clever grassroots marketing into a stunt that went viral. Gags the Clown came out in 2018, whic

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EconTeen – Financial literacy lessons and tools for teens

news.ycombinator.com Mr. K 2026-01-13 09:10:51

We've reimagined financial education for the digital generation. Our comprehensive curriculum combines proven teaching methods with engaging technology to deliver real results. 💡 Interactive Learning Engaging lessons with quizzes, scenarios, and hands-on activities that make complex financial concepts easy to understand and remember. 🎓 Comprehensive Curriculum From budgeting basics to investment strategies, our 22+ lesson modules cover everything students need for lifelong financial success.

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EconTeen – Financial Literacy Lessons and Tools for Teens

news.ycombinator.com Mr. K 2026-01-13 15:10:51

We've reimagined financial education for the digital generation. Our comprehensive curriculum combines proven teaching methods with engaging technology to deliver real results. 💡 Interactive Learning Engaging lessons with quizzes, scenarios, and hands-on activities that make complex financial concepts easy to understand and remember. 🎓 Comprehensive Curriculum From budgeting basics to investment strategies, our 22+ lesson modules cover everything students need for lifelong financial success.

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July Mortgage Rate Forecast: The Fed Isn't Rushing to Lower Interest Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-27 10:12:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET For the past several months, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has sat between 6.5% and 7%. Prospective homebuyers shouldn't hold their breath for that to change anytime soon. On July 30, the Federal Reserve is expected to keep borrowing rates the same at its fifth monetary policy meeting this year. Although the central bank doesn't directly dictate mortgage rates, its policy decisions ind

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How the Federal Reserve Actually Affects Mortgage Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 17:48:00

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET If you tracked the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions last year, you might have been puzzled: The Fed's three interest rate cuts didn't bring about lower mortgage rates. In fact, the average rate for a 30-year fixed home loan has hovered around 6.8% for the past several months. The Fed's interest rate decisions don't have a direct or immediate effect on home loan rates. Of

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Mortgage Predictions: With Fed Cuts on Hold, Where Do Rates Go From Here?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-02 12:50:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage seems poised to hold near 6.75% for the rest of the year. Yet significant economic uncertainties could still push rates up or down in the coming months. Housing market experts consistently point to two major influences: the economic ramifications of the Trump administration's policies and the Federal Reserve's pace of interest rate cuts. On July 29-

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France launches criminal probe of X's alleged algorithm 'manipulation'

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-12 00:30:17

France is investigating whether X has manipulated its algorithm and engaged in "fraudulent data extraction." Prosecutors are looking into if the social media platform engaged in election interference. They launched the investigation on July 11, following reports in January. It has labelled X as an "organized gang." X's Global Government Affairs account issued a scathing breakdown of what it calls France's "politically-motivated criminal investigation" and its refusal to cooperate. The French g

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Ryanair may increase commission to staff identifying oversized cabin bags

news.ycombinator.com Aengus Cox 2026-02-12 00:20:36

Ryanair has said that in a bid to "eliminate the scourge" of passengers bringing oversized baggage to the boarding gate, the airline is considering increasing the commission it pays staff for identifying them. Currently Ryanair employees are paid around €1.50 for every oversized cabin bag that they identify, and passengers are charged additional fees if their bag is deemed to be too large to bring on-board the plane. According to the airline's policy, passengers who bring cabin luggage - measu

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Psychiatric Researchers Warn of Grim Psychological Risks for AI Users

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-11 22:15:54

Without even looking at medical data, it's pretty clear that "artificial intelligence" — a vast umbrella term for various technologies over the years, but currently dominated by the data-hungry neural networks powering chatbots and image generators — can have life-altering effects on the human brain. We're not even three years out from the release of the first commercially-available LLM, and AI users have already been driven to paranoid breaks from reality, religious mania, and even suicide. A

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July Mortgage Rate Forecast: Buyers Retreat as Rates Rebound

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 03:36:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET Every time the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dips, even by a few tenths of a percentage point, prospective homebuyers jump to take advantage. As soon as rates move up again, mortgage activity goes down. The past few weeks offer a textbook example. When rates fell to around 6.7% (the lowest level in months) in early July, applications for home loans promptly ticked up, according to the Mort

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Mortgage Rate Predictions: Here's Why Rates Are Staying High in July

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-25 04:17:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET After the rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage dipped to around 6.7% (its lowest level in months), prospective homebuyers jumped to take advantage. Before the July 4 holiday weekend, mortgage loan applications increased 9.4% week over week, per the Mortgage Bankers Association. Homeowners also seized on refinancing, with refinance activity 56% higher than the same time last year. But the reprieve di

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ISRO successfully conducts hot tests of Gaganyaan propulsion system

news.ycombinator.com Authors 2026-02-25 17:19:04

ISRO has successfully conducted two hot tests of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at the space agency's Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri on July 3. The short-duration tests, lasting 30 seconds and 100 seconds respectively, were aimed at validating the test article configuration, ISRO said in a statement on Wednesday (July 8, 2025). Also read: What will Gaganyaan change for India? | Explained "The overall performance of the propulsion system during these hot tests was no

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July Mortgage Forecast: Will Interest Rates Budge This Summer?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-08 23:52:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was around 6.7% on Monday, down roughly 0.25% from the previous month, according to Bankrate data. Despite the recent decline in rates, forecasts for the housing market have remained unchanged. Mortgage rates, linked to the bond market, have been stuck in limbo between 6.5% and 7% for months. President Trump's on-and-off-again tariffs, stock market sw

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Mortgage Predictions for July: Will Rates Continue Falling?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 15:51:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET Mortgage rates are holding near a two-month low, with average 30-year fixed rates having fallen just below 6.7%, according to Bankrate data. After weeks of hovering close to 7%, it's a positive sign in today's unaffordable housing market. But it's unclear how much staying power the recent decline will have. Thursday's Bureau of Labor Statistics job report showed slightly lower unemployment in Ju

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Mortgage Rate Predictions: How Tariffs, War and the Fed Are Impacting Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-21 01:33:46

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET Mortgage market predictions have been clouded by economic uncertainty caused by the Trump administration's trade measures, deficit spending and geopolitical maneuvering. The big question hanging over the housing market is whether rates will rise due to tariff-induced inflation or fall due to a recession. Since early spring, average mortgage rates for 30-year fixed loans have been swinging betwee

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Will Mortgage Rates Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-21 13:32:02

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images In today's news cycle, recession headlines come and go. Amid trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict, no one is hoping for a major economic setback -- except recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates. Since the beginning of 2025, average 30-year fixed mortgage rates have been stuck in the high 6.5% to 7% range. Most housing experts,

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Waiting for Mortgage Rates to Drop in a Recession? This Realtor Has a Hot Take

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-21 21:00:04

Mortgage rates have typically fallen during recessionary periods. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Recession headlines come and go in today's news cycle, which is filled with trade war anxieties, stock market roller-coaster rides and global conflict. No one wants to pin their hopes on a major economic setback. But since recessions have often created more favorable conditions for mortgage rates, many of my clients want to know: Will buying a home become more affordable in a recession? Since the beg

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Mortgage Rate Predictions: Will Military Conflict, Tariffs and the Fed Keep Rates High?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-23 13:40:56

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET The housing market is hardly immune to political and economic volatility, yet mortgage rates have been eerily calm over the last period. Since the spring, the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage has moved in a mostly narrow range around 6.8% and 7%. Mortgage rates were expected to gradually improve in 2025. However, the Trump administration's inflationary tariffs, deficit spending and geop

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