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People may age faster if their dad smoked during puberty

news.ycombinator.com Mark Greene 2025-10-01 11:40:02

Monday 29 September, 2025 – Amsterdam, Netherlands: People whose fathers smoked during puberty seem to age faster than expected, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands [1]. The researchers found signs of faster biological ageing, compared to chronological age, in people whose fathers began smoking at age 15 or younger. They say smoking during puberty may create damage in boys’ developing sperm cells that can be passed on

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Spending time with the material

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 02:43:50

September 26, 2025 A wild find at a comic book store yesterday: The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons, a doorstop volume, devoted almost entirely to reproductions of early versions of the game, from typewritten drafts to published booklets. This isn’t just a breezy review, but a presentation of deep archival material. I pored over the book for hours, enjoying the edits in pencil, the 1970s paste-up design. I read out of order, flipped back and forth, skimmed and scanned, jotted n

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Meta is bringing new facial recognition tools to the UK, EU and South Korea

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 11:53:03

Meta is expanding its use of facial recognition in Europe, the UK and South Korea to crack down on accounts that impersonate public figures. The new facial recognition-powered safety features are now live on Facebook in the regions and will expand to Instagram in the coming months. The technology was initially put to use last year starting in the US, helping to identify ads that fraudulently use a celebrity's likeness as well as to help people regain access to hacked accounts. Public figures op

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Subtleties of SQLite Indexes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 13:54:42

Subtleties of SQLite Indexes Sep 29, 2025 In the last 6 months, Scour has gone from ingesting 330,000 pieces of content per month to over 1.4 million this month. The massive increase in the number of items slowed down the ranking for users' feeds and sent me looking for ways to speed it up again. After spending too many hours trying in vain to squeeze more performance out of my queries and indexes, I dug into how SQLite's query planner uses indexes, learned some of the subtleties that explain

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Apple News+ just added The Washington Post at no extra cost

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-02 19:43:42

Apple News+ is regularly updated to support new features and add new publications, and the latest is a big one: The Washington Post is now included at no additional cost. The Washington Post is the latest addition to Apple News+ subscription When Apple News+ first launched in 2019, Apple’s marketing emphasized its digital magazine library. Since then, a lot has changed. Recently Apple has not only grown the list of publications included in News+, but also expanded the service in two key area

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New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

futurism.com Joe Wilkins 2025-10-03 08:30:00

At the core of contemporary China is a contradiction: it’s the world’s most prominent Communist-ruled country, yet it’s found steadily increasing affluence in recent decades by embracing a degree of entrepreneurship and market competition that would make Ronald Reagan drool in envy. In some cases, all that capitalism can lead to situations in the People’s Republic that sound like a bit like unintentional parody. Recent video shared by China Insider — an outlet co-produced by anti-China media g

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SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 10:27:10

Note SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on top of HTTP/3 Extended connect, but the required changes are heavy and too distant from the philosophy of popular SSH implementations to be considered for integration. The specification draft has already been renamed ("Remote Terminals over HTTP/3"), but we need some time to come up with a nice permanent name. SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 SSH3 is a complete revisit of

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Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-08 23:44:31

In Brief Zoox has asked federal regulators for an exemption that would allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to commercially deploy its custom-built robotaxis, which lack traditional controls like pedals and a steering wheel. The exemption request was first reported by Bloomberg. A Zoox spokesperson confirmed that it has submitted a petition for a “555 exemption” and continues to work closely with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration through this new exemption process

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Public betas for iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, more add these new features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-09 07:05:33

Apple has released iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, and more in their first public beta. Here’s how you can install the latest updates, and details on new features. Apple’s public beta program now features iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, and more All throughout the year, Apple offers a beta software program to the public. Most recently, it granted early access to iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and more before their wide launches. Now, members of that beta program have new updates ready to install. iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.

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macOS Tahoe 26.1 public beta now available, here’s how to install it

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 07:07:33

After releasing the first developer beta for macOS 26.1, Apple is now rolling out the first public betas for the upcoming system. Here’s how you can install it. First, a word of advice If you’ve been happy with macOS 26, you might want to consider skipping this beta, as it doesn’t seem to bring many user-facing features. After the release of developer beta 1, we reported a few under-the-hood changes, such as Apple laying the groundwork for adopting Anthropic’s MCP protocol, and to introduce ne

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GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 11:05:37

GitHub is introducing a set of defenses against supply-chain attacks on the platform that led to multiple large-scale incidents recently. Notable cyberattacks that started from compromising GitHub repositories and then spread to NPM include the "s1ngularity" attack in late August, the "GhostAction" campaign in early September, and the worm-style campaign dubbed "Shai-Hulud" from last week. The attacks led to the compromise of thousands of accounts and private repositories, the theft of sensiti

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Google begins its battle for the ‘unofficial currency of the internet’

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-12 11:30:00

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Google has spent a decade sharpening its “weapons” in an industry that helps sustain large swaths of the open internet, the Justice Department argued before a federal judge Monday. After years of operating an illegal monopoly in two ad tech markets and unlawfully tying its products

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How to Watch ‘Bluey’ Without a Streaming Service

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-12 23:45:51

No matter what is happening in the world, the state of entertainment within the digital landscape has locked consumers into dependence on streaming services to access their favorite shows and movies, rather than owning anything outright. For instance, Bluey dominates as the Australian indie animation studio phenomenon that could. In the United States it’s one of the most watched television shows… and happens to be distributed by Disney. When a public boycott against Disney emerged over the susp

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New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 11:29:22

So far, prompt injections have proved impossible to prevent, much like memory-corruption vulnerabilities in certain programming languages and SQL injections in Web applications are. That has left OpenAI and the rest of the LLM market reliant on mitigations that are often introduced on a case-by-case basis, and only in response to the discovery of a working exploit. Accordingly, OpenAI mitigated the prompt-injection technique ShadowLeak fell to—but only after Radware privately alerted the LLM ma

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Seeking 2027 Editors in Chief

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-19 01:00:26

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 17 September 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), known for producing trusted content in computer science and engineering, seeks applicants for the position of editor in chief (EIC) for several of its leading publications. EIC terms begin on 1 January 2027 and are for two years, pending reappointment for an additional two years, unless noted otherwise below. The application deadline is 1 March 2026. Applications should be submitted online through the EIC Search Ap

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Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-21 00:00:00

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers and creators to surface more content from those you like. The update follows a feature Google rolled out last month, allowing users to pick their choice of news sites and blogs for the Top Stories section in search results. In the weeks ahead, Google says people will also start to see different types of content on Discover, including articles, YouTube Shorts,

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Google's AI Overviews 'Misconduct' Undermines Publishers Who Create Content, Lawsuit Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 11:13:44

Penske Media, which owns publications including Rolling Stone, Variety and Billboard, is suing Google, alleging that the search giant is illegally using their content and that of other publishers to fill out the AI Overviews that have become a fixture at the top of Google search results. In a lawsuit filed Friday in US District Court for the District of Columbia, Penske argues that Google's "misconduct" through its monopoly in online search has coerced publishers to acquiesce to misappropriatio

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Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-26 06:45:05

Google has insisted that its AI-generated search result overviews and summaries have not actually hurt traffic for publishers. The publishers disagree, and at least one is willing to go to court to prove the harm they claim Google has caused. Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Friday over allegations that the search giant has used its work without permission to generate summaries and ultimately reduced traffic to its publicati

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Perplexity's definition of copyright gets it sued by the dictionary

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 13:34:08

Merriam-Webster and its parent company Encyclopedia Britannica are the latest to take on AI in court. The plaintiffs have sued Perplexity, claiming that AI company's "answer engine" product unlawfully copies their copyrighted materials. They are also alleging copyright infringement for instances where Perplexity's AI creates false or inaccurate hallucinations that it then wrongly attributes to Britannica or Merriam-Webster. The complaint , filed in New York federal court, is seeking unspecified

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Online Media Brands Hope a New Protocol Will Stop Unwanted AI Crawlers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 13:30:00

Online media brands, including Yahoo, Quora and Medium, are taking a new step to prevent AI companies from copying and using their content to train models without their permission. The publishers, including CNET's parent company Ziff Davis, see this new tool, called RSL, as another way to ensure large AI developers don't use their work without payment or compensation -- an issue that's already led to a host of lawsuits. RSL, which stands for Really Simple Licensing, is inspired by Really Simpl

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Tesla’s robotaxi plans for Nevada move forward with testing permit

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-29 03:20:24

Armed with a new permit from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, Tesla is preparing to begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology on public streets in Nevada. The testing permit, which was first noted by Tesla influencer Sawyer Merritt, comes two months after CEO Elon Musk outlined the company’s plans to take its autonomous vehicle ambitions beyond Austin and into several new markets. “We are expecting to greatly increase the service area to well in excess of what competitors are doi

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Public Suffix List

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 10:56:55

A "public suffix" is one under which Internet users can (or historically could) directly register names. Some examples of public suffixes are com , co.uk and pvt.k12.ma.us . The Public Suffix List is a list of all known public suffixes. The Public Suffix List is an initiative of Mozilla, but is maintained as a community resource. It is available for use in any software, but was originally created to meet the needs of browser manufacturers. It allows browsers to, for example: Avoid privacy-dama

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Full agenda reveal for the brand-new Going Public Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-31 23:45:35

We recently unveiled the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — a new destination for founders navigating the complexities of company building, from early traction to IPO and beyond. Today, we’re excited to announce new agenda additions that bring even more insight and firepower to the stage, shown only at the 20th anniversary celebration of TechCrunch. Joining the speaker lineup are Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom Communications Inc., and Santi Subotovsky, general partner at Emerge

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Reddit is testing a way to read articles without leaving the app

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-11-01 03:52:26

As AI tools gobble up news publishers’ traffic on traditional referral platforms like Google, Reddit is offering publishers another way to share their content — within its app. On September 10th, Reddit announced a slew of new features available to some publishers that are meant to help them better understand where their stories are being shared and to encourage them to post more on the platform. On the user side, the most significant change is a test that allows readers to open article links d

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Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 07:08:14

With the number of passenger vehicles rising across Europe, cities are grappling with air pollution, traffic accidents, and the loss of public space. In Spain, the city of Pontevedra has managed to overcome these challenges, surpassing national air quality standards and creating safer streets. The key, according to the Galician municipality’s mayor, is an urban model that prioritises residents over cars – without imposing an outright ban on private vehicles. It is a bright summer evening in Pon

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Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-01 15:00:03

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation. Announced Wednesday morning, the "Really Simply Licensing" (RSL) standard evolves robots.txt instructions by adding an automated licensing layer that's designed to block bots that don't fairly compensate creators for content. Free for any publisher to

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Zoox opens its Las Vegas robotaxi service to the public

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-11-01 15:00:00

Zoox robotaxis — custom-built all-electric and autonomous vehicles that operate without a steering wheel or pedals — can now be hailed by the public in Las Vegas. But this isn’t a commercial service just yet. For now, the Zoox robotaxi service currently offer rides for free. The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, which launched the free service on Wednesday, has been chugging toward this milestone for years now. The company spent six years developing its technology before unveiling its p

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Show HN: Bottlefire – Build single-executable microVMs from Docker images

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 07:48:25

Pricing Official images and some other popular public images on Docker Hub are available for free. To access any public or private image, please sign up and subscribe to help us cover operational costs of this service. Pro $5 / month, 20GB active images(*) included Pull any public or private image from Docker Hub and GHCR. Contact us if you need higher limits or need to use AWS ECR, GCP Artifact Registry, or other container registries. $ curl -fL -H "Authorization: Bearer bottlefire_..." -o ap

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Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?

news.ycombinator.com Paul Krugman 2025-11-04 08:39:18

Yesterday I wrote about Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and made some unflattering observations about him. So it might be worth mentioning a new incident, reported by Politico. Apparently Bessent confronted Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency — a piece of work himself — at a fancy dinner, accusing Pulte of bad-mouthing him to the president: “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,” Bessent told Pulte. “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face.

Topics: economic large policies public trump

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A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-11-04 22:00:00

A first-of-its-kind marketplace rolled out on Tuesday offering free and discounted privacy and security services to America’s 23 million current and former public servants. The initiative is supported by the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonprofit group that says it formed last summer following an unprecedented rise in threats against government workers across the United States. Open to anyone who is serving or has served in government—federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial—the platfo

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People may age faster if their dad smoked during puberty

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Meta is bringing new facial recognition tools to the UK, EU and South Korea

Subtleties of SQLite Indexes

Apple News+ just added The Washington Post at no extra cost

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service

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GitHub tightens npm security with mandatory 2FA, access tokens

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New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

Seeking 2027 Editors in Chief

Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators

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