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Russia’s Space Chief Touts ‘Rapid’ Development of Starlink Rival

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-20 12:00:47

With more than 6 million active users, SpaceX’s Starlink has become the world’s leading provider of high-speed satellite internet. That prominence has sparked some rivalry, and not least with other world powers—including Russia. In a televised interview on Wednesday, the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said it is pushing full steam ahead on an alternative to Starlink, Reuters reported. Dmitry Bakanov said that Roscosmos has partnered with Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, to dev

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PyPI invalidates tokens stolen in GhostAction supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-21 16:09:09

The Python Software Foundation team has invalidated all PyPI tokens stolen in the GhostAction supply chain attack in early September, confirming that the threat actors didn't abuse them to publish malware. These tokens are used to publish packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI), a software repository that acts as the default source for Python's package management tools and hosts hundreds of thousands of packages. As PyPI admin Mike Fiedler explained, a GitGuardian employee reported on Sept

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The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-23 04:38:13

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila, the real breakthrough might lurk elsewhere inside the aluminum and glass enclosure. “The battery in the new iPhone is pretty remarkable,” Berdichevsky told TechCrunch. “The completely arbitrary, two-dimensional shape — you look at the shape, and it’s pretty amaz

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Google is finally changing its tune about call recording on Pixel phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 20:43:58

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google appears to be backing down from its long-standing position against letting Pixel phones record voice calls. The company has already updated support pages, indicating that the option may exist for Pixel 6 and later models. So far we’ve only seen confirmation out of India, and it’s unclear which markets will ultimately get access. Smartphones may do a million and one different things, but at their very core, these devices are still phones. You ma

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Tesla probed for potentially faulty door handles

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-09-26 04:48:43

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into claims that Tesla’s door handles become inoperable in certain situations on Model Y SUVs. The safety agency’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) revealed the probe on Tuesday, after having received nine reports from owners who were unable to get into their cars. ODI writes that the most common scenario involves parents who exit their car and cannot open the rear doors to remove their children. In four of tho

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Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 03:51:46

Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch Discussions: Hacker News, r/programming, Lobsters. Most people think assembly is only to be used to write toy programs for learning purposes, or to write a highly optimized version of a specific function inside a codebase written in a high-level language. Well, what if we wrote a whole program in assembly that opens a GUI window? It will be the hello world of the GUI world, but that still counts. Here is what we are working towards: I wante

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Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-27 12:52:01

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

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Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 23:06:30

3.0 Published on 15 Sep 2025 by Marcin Kulik I’m happy to announce the release of asciinema CLI 3.0! This is a complete rewrite of asciinema in Rust, upgrading the recording file format, introducing terminal live streaming, and bringing numerous improvements across the board. In this post, I’ll go over the highlights of the release. For a deeper overview of new features and improvements, see the release notes and the detailed changelog. First, let’s get the Rust rewrite topic out of the way.

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Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 04:28:54

Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house. What actually followed? I ended up reverse-engineering onboarding flows, decompiling an APK, MITMing TLS sessions, and writing cryptographic scripts. My main motivation for this project really stemmed from the fact that the camera annoyed me from day one. Setting the camera up in frigate was quite painful, no one really seemed to know how t

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USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-28 04:01:46

The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. “Visitors now have a trusted AI answer engine on our platform for anything they want to engage with, anything they want to ask,” said Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett and the USA Today Network, at the WIRED AI Power Summit in New York, an event that brought tog

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NASA's Guardian Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 15:25:08

While GNSS processing methods on Earth correct for such distortions, GUARDIAN uses them as clues. The software scours a trove of data transmitted to more than 350 continuously operating GNSS ground stations around the world. It can potentially identify evidence of a tsunami up to about 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) from a given station. In ideal situations, vulnerable coastal communities near a GNSS station could know when a tsunami was heading their way and authorities would have as much as 1 h

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Roblox hit with wrongful death lawsuit following a teen player's suicide

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-28 10:15:01

Following her son's suicide, Becca Dallas filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against Roblox and Discord, accusing the platforms of wrongful death. As first reported by The New York Times, the lawsuit recounts the events leading up to Ethan Dallas' death, detailing his interactions with a player named Nate. According to the report, Nate was likely a 37-year-old man named Timothy O'Connor, who was previously arrested on charges of "possessing child pornography and transmitting harmful mate

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Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 16:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 21:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Rocket Report: Russia’s rocket engine predicament; 300th launch to the ISS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-30 20:29:03

Welcome to Edition 8.10 of the Rocket Report! Dear readers, if everything goes according to plan, four astronauts are less than six months away from traveling around the far side of the Moon and breaking free of low-Earth orbit for the first time in more than 53 years. Yes, there are good reasons to question NASA's long-term plans for the Artemis lunar program—the woeful cost of the Space Launch System rocket, the complexity of new commercial landers, and a bleak budget outlook. But many of us w

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The Boring Company Reportedly Halts Tunneling in Las Vegas After ‘Crushing Injury’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-01 16:30:54

Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company, has temporarily halted work at one of the company’s sites in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to a new report from Fortune. The disruption is related to a “crushing injury” sustained by one of the workers at the site, according to the magazine, which spoke to local firefighters. Emergency responders received a call around 10:12 p.m. local time on Wednesday night about an “industrial/machinery incident,” according to Fortune. Employees at the worksite

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Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could ‘Rewrite the History of the Universe’

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-02 16:40:17

It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole theories. Yesterday, LIGO confirmed the famed physicist’s prediction about black hole mergers. Now, another team believes they’ve found a way to observe primordial black holes—cosmic behemoths that emerged not from the ashes of dying stars but from the chaos of the early universe. In a paper published September 9 in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists make the bold prediction that, within the next decade, we will be able to w

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Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 10:00:06

Hey HN, we're David and Amanda from Recall.ai ( https://www.recall.ai ). Today we’re launching our Desktop Recording SDK, a way to get meeting data without a bot in the meeting: https://www.recall.ai/product/desktop-recording-sdk . It’s our biggest release in quite a while so we thought we’d finally do our Launch HN :) Here’s a demo that shows it producing a transcript from a meeting, followed by examples in code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4croAGGiKTA . API docs are at https://docs.recall

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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Was Made with Trust and Collaboration

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-04 12:00:02

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, leading to plenty of interviews from the director and leading men Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. In a recent discussion with the Ankler, the trio talked about the film’s production, which included more talk about Elordi’s creature performance. Del Toro has previously talked about Elordi’s “staggeringly beautiful” rendition of the monster, which came from months of studying child development stages, Mary Sh

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Jesse Eisenberg Hints at Magical Fun Coming in ‘Now You See Me 3’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-05 04:10:13

It’s been almost a decade since the last Now You See Me movie, but the franchise is coming back with a third installment that sees old and new magicians team up for a series of heists. The best part of these movies has always been watching the Horsemen and their friends pull off their seemingly impossible schemes, and according to Jesse Eisenberg, the upcoming movie has some even more fun in store. Eisenberg cryptically told Entertainment Weekly that a “genuinely brilliant, incredibly effectiv

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We Finally Know What ‘Star Wars’ Is Doing in ‘Destiny 2’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-07 00:30:54

Back in May, Bungie teased some kind of pseudo-crossover between its shared-world shooter Destiny 2 and Star Wars. Not another skin pack like before, but a full-on expansion subtitled Renegades that would see Guardians explore a sandy planet and wield a laser sword. In a new livestream, the developer pulled back the curtain on Renegades, which was made in collaboration with Lucasfilm. Guardians will explore the Lawless Frontier of Mars, Europa, and Venus and meet the Jedi-like Praxis Order to f

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Canon's tiny C50 cinema camera can shoot widescreen and vertical video simultaneously

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 16:00:01

Canon has announced the EOS C50, its smallest cinema camera yet with features designed to appeal to social media creators and filmmakers alike. It has an RF mirrorless mount and all-new full-frame sensor that supports up to 7K 60p internal RAW recording and 32MP photo capture, making it a do-it-all camera for working pros. Despite the small size and light 1.5 pound weight, the EOS C50 is feature-rich. The full-frame CMOS sensor has a dual ISO system that operates in Canon Log 2 (C-Log 2) at ISO

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DJI Mic Mini deal: Get a great microphone for just $59!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 12:17:45

The DJI Mic 3 may be the latest and greatest from the brand right now, but not everyone needs the top-of-the-line microphone. Not to mention that one is not on sale, and it’s not cheap! If you want to save cash on a quality microphone to begin your content-creation journey, something like the DJI Mic Mini will be much more fitting, and it’s currently at a record-low price of just $59! Buy the DJI Mic Mini for just $59 ($30 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” We’re

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Hackers steal 3,325 secrets in GhostAction GitHub supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-09 00:53:59

A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, and AWS keys. The attack was discovered by GitGuardian researchers, who report that the first signs of compromise on one of the impacted projects, FastUUID, became evident on September 2, 2025. The attack involved leveraging compromised maintainer accounts to perform commits that added a malicious GitHub Actions workflow file that triggers automat

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Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 11:56:38

Never one to properly interpret anything scientific, uber-popular podcaster Joe Rogan has become entranced by a study that affirms his climate skepticism. Now, as The Guardian reports, one of the study's authors is setting the record straight and pointing out that Rogan is not only drawing the exact opposite conclusion from the study, but that he's spewing misinformation to a vast audience using his incorrect takeaways. Over two years, scientists from the University of Arizona, Tucson and Smit

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I Hate My AI Friend

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-10-10 12:30:00

Schiffmann seems to be doing well, compared to the last times either of us spoke to him. When he first announced the Friend, he talked about how he had come up with the idea for an AI buddy while traveling alone and yearning for companionship. Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard, and he seems to have more real-life personal connections than when he first

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The Ivalice Chronicles team had to remake the original Final Fantasy Tactics' source code from scratch

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

The Square Enix team behind Final Fantasy Tactics — The Ivalice Chronicles didn't just remaster the iconic strategy RPG, they had to go through the trouble of remaking the source code from scratch, according to Bloomberg. In an interview with Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, the game's director Kazutoyo Maehiro explained the arduous process of designing The Ivalice Chronicles, which is set to release at the end of the month. When getting to work on the remake, Maehiro and his team discovered they ha

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OpenAI links up with Broadcom to produce its own AI chips

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:30:46

OpenAI is set to produce its own artificial intelligence chip for the first time next year, as the ChatGPT maker attempts to address insatiable demand for computing power and reduce its reliance on chip giant Nvidia. The chip, co-designed with US semiconductor giant Broadcom, would ship next year, according to multiple people familiar with the partnership. Broadcom’s chief executive Hock Tan on Thursday referred to a mystery new customer committing to $10 billion in orders. OpenAI’s move foll

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Cloud provider Lambda may be gearing up for an IPO

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-14 00:43:06

In Brief Cloud provider Lambda might be following rival CoreWeave to the public markets. Lambda, an AI infrastructure company offering on-demand GPUs, has hired bankers for an upcoming IPO, according to reporting from The Information. Lambda has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi for a public listing that could happen as early as the first half of 2026. Lambda did not respond to a request for comment. The company has raised more than $1.7 billion in funding, according to

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Apple Planning AI-Powered Web Search for Siri Next Year: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-15 04:25:11

Apple is planning to launch a new AI-powered web search tool for Siri next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg, as it seeks to compete with competitors who’ve invested heavily in AI. Details are still scarce and could change before launch, but it sounds like the whole thing could be powered by a custom version of Google’s Gemini. The new system is being called World Knowledge Answers internally, according to Bloomberg, and may even be added to Safari and Spotlight. An AI-powered vers

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Russia’s Space Chief Touts ‘Rapid’ Development of Starlink Rival

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