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Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work The UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video] Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 Text-based web browsers TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy Postal Arbitrage Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature Date is out, Temporal is in The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014) Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024) LLVM: The bad parts Apple picks Gemini to power Siri Chromium Has Merged JpegXL Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled? Show HN: AI in SolidWorks Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients Zirgen: Compiler for a Domain-Specific Language NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV30 heise online News
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heise+ | Datenschutz: Plattformen droht Überwachungspflicht heise+ | Displaytrends von der CES heise+ | Mobile Ladegeräte fürs iPhone im Test: Schnell mehr Saft heise+ | KI als Werkzeug statt Denkersatz: Was gegen Kompetenzabbau hilft heise+ | Schadsoftware eliminieren: Mit freien Werkzeugen auf Malwarepirsch heise+ | Senioren-Kommunikator im Eigenbau Leapmotor wächst mit E-Autos erfolgreich in Europa und kündigt Hybridmodelle an heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Windows Server absichern und härten Galaxy S25: Samsung verkauft generalüberholte Smartphones in Deutschland Zahlen, bitte! 14 Strafzettel als Keimzelle für die norwegische E-Autowende heise+ | HBO Max im Test: Das bietet der neue Abo-Videostreamingdienst Doch nur auswendig gelernt: Forscher testen Wiedergabe von KI-Trainingsdaten Chinesische Software berechnet die Uhrzeit auf dem Mond iOS 26.3: Diese neuen Features hat Apple in der Pipeline Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime: Anmeldung zur Sammelklage jetzt möglich OpenAI und Anthropic vertiefen Interesse an Gesundheitsdaten Vor Evakuierung aus medizinischen Gründen: ISS-Kommando übergeben Fehlalarm: Sirenengeheul in Halle am Samstag durch „externen Angriff“ Microsoft warnt vor Chinas Dominanz in Schwellenländern heise-Angebot: LLMs im Unternehmen: Online-Konferenz zu Agentic AI, Self-Hosting und mehr AutoMix-Funktion: Warum Apple Music jetzt teils merkwürdig überblendet SAP-Patchday: Vier kritische Schwachstellen am Januar-Patchday behandelt John Ternus: Auch New York Times glaubt an ihn als neuen Apple-Chef Jetzt handeln! Angreifer haben seit Monaten Gogs-Server im Visier Google Play-Dienste: Januar-Update bringt Wallet-Neuerungen und mehr Noch ein Streaming-Dienst: HBO Max startet in Deutschland TinyWeb-Server führt Schadocde aus dem Netz aus Seagate: 32-TByte-Festplatten für NAS und Server Software Testing: Von der Schuldfrage zur Fehlerkultur Astronomie: Supermassereiches Schwarzes Loch lässt Galaxie langsam „verhungern“25 /r/Technology
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Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store? Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech X could face UK ban over deepfakes, minister says BYD burns profit chasing global dominance over Tesla— The Chinese EV giant reported a 33% drop in third-quarter profit while ramping up overseas expansion and R&D spending. America’s Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem—Too Many Data Centers Grok: Northern Ireland politician Cara Hunter quits X over AI concerns AI is causing developers to abandon Stack Overflow Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" Removing AI from Windows 11 25H2 Malaysia to take legal action against X over Grok AI concerns JPMorgan Ditches Proxy Advisors and Turns to AI for Shareholder Votes GM CEO says EVs still the 'end game' despite industry pullback Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate. | WBD calls Paramount’s lawsuit “meritless” and its offer deficient. The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored. Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year Meta Plans to Cut 10% to 15% of Employees in Reality Labs Business Cloudflare’s CEO has threatened to pull the company out of Italy, and to withdraw free services it intends to provide to the Winter Olympic games Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut 'Violence-as-a-service' suspect arrested in Iraq, extradition underway China files ITU paperwork for megaconstellations totaling nearly 200,000 satellites Meta shuts down over 500,000 accounts under Australia's under-16 ban, urges the government to end it ‘Office Is Dead’—Microsoft Decision Confuses 400 Million Users Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws - Ars Technica25 Open Source on Reddit
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The top 20 OSI-Approved licenses most frequently sought out by our community in 2025 based on number of pageviews. Share your underrated GitHub projects Nametag - An open source personal relationships manager It's been a year since I published my first real FOSS project, here's what I learned I built a FreeMarker extension for Zed editor (with tree-sitter grammar) Vibe Coded PRs? Student contributor to CPython, NumPy, Pandas & Statsmodels looking to collaborate on open- source What is the real reason behind users' desire for OSS? Aurora — open-source cross-platform music player (lossless playback) Open Source Screen Studio Alternative (Linux/Windows/macOS) I've open-sourced my document management system for small businesses (and families). Open-source: Voice-enabled semantic crop intelligence using local vision LLMs Built an open-source, subscription-free Geoguessr alternative CodeGraphContext: An MCP server plus a CLI tool that indexes local code into a graph database to provide context to AI assistants. How I used Svelte 5 to build a Vim-inspired game engine. Looking for TypeScript/Svelte contributors for zsweep Clipit - Desktop app for managing and sharing game clips Made CrawlChat open source Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: The Missing Manual The European Commission has launched a fresh consultation into open source, setting out its ambitions for Europe's developer communities to go beyond propping up US tech giants' platforms. The consultation, which will run from January 6 to February 3, is an early move toward a formal strategy on " Opensource solution for Online Permit applications Macabolic: A modern, native yt-dlp GUI for macOS (Inspired by Parabolic) built a contributor reputation checker to help with the AI slop problem First Attempt at a C++ Header-Only Library ;) Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech I made a TUI for triaging dependency bump PRs across an org (Dependabot/Renovate)22 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Having asked Division devs to lay themselves off, Ubisoft are now cutting 55 jobs at Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm "AI is bad, game will be deleted" concludes developer behind sloppy Steam card battler, before setting the self-destruct timer Fired GTA 6 devs suffer setback in legal fight against Rockstar as UK court denies request for interim relief Mama's Sleeping Angels is a Lethal Company-esque, dream-exploration, Y2K smorgasbord for the zillenialpha generations Big Hops, out today, is as delightful to play as it is to look at Here's a taste of what Arc Raiders would look like in first-person, though you're too late to try it yourself Restore mysterious cassette tapes from a missing, occultish musician in the very Her Story like Imprinted Detectives detect detectively in the demo of moody noir sleuth sim Obsidian Moon You can eat rats and unicorns in lip-smacking autobattler Dunderbeck, and I absolutely refuse to play the demo Ah yes, a Palworld card game is on the way, can't think of any other creature collector that has one of those Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" GOG's new owner will stick to its revamped classic and zero-DRM guns, but does think lessons lie in Steam's overstuffed embrace The Division: Definitive Edition looks like it may be a thing, assuming this poster in Japan's the real deal I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories This week in PC games: Hytale, Quarantine Zone, a weird Batman sim, and a fresh batch of RPGs and shooters Here's Doom running in Hytale before it's even out, thanks to modders RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding Ubisoft once toyed with a "hidden" Assassin's Creed character creator that let you pick your ancestor from "millions" With Hytale early access imminent, lead dev urges folks to take a couple of steps to "significantly reduce launch-day stress" The Sunday Papers Oh yes, I will take a look at the Vampire the Masquerade and Indian folklore inspired RPG Rakshasa, thanks Take a shot at Wizard Pool, a fun twist on the cue sport filled with magical balls and shapeshifting tables22 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - January 12, 2026 What Are You Playing Thread - January 12, 2026 Tim Sweeney Tries To Clarify Grok Comments, Continues To Defend Twitter Fable creator Peter Molyneux's new strategy game is set to fill the Black and White void, and you can play it surprisingly soon Shadows of Doubt adds full Steam Workshop support The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps Detective Fest is now live on Steam As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics Anthem players log in to say goodbye to the game they loved before it's gone forever: 'Strong alone, stronger together' What are your expectations from The Division 3? Marble's Marbles - A homage to the arcade classics, out now! Rising Front 1.0 Update - Tanks, Cavalry, New everything! - FPS WW1 & Revolutionary War battle simulator with a focus on Workshop Content, rag-doll physics, intelligent AI, massive battles, procedural AI cover system, real-time building system and FPS combat Hi all, I’m the dev behind Who is Abby. I’ve just released the demo for my next project, RMF’s Ragdoll Physics Experiments. (Details in the comments) Quarantine Zone: The Last Check - Quarantine Zone | Available now ORKEN: ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER Power supplies and CPU coolers may be next for price increases (6-10%), distributor letter claims - VideoCardz.com Reshade 6.7 is out now. Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources Announcing 'Mermaids are Seafood', my psychological horror game! The Destiny 2 Portal is a disaster, and a 2016 GDC talk shows that Bungie already wrote off a similar idea a decade ago The Witcher 3's former lead quest designer says 'of course' there is romance in upcoming vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker: 'You can expect to build relationships with characters' Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Producer Says Only "Terminally Online Culture Warriors" Cared About Its Gay Romance Controversy24 Formula 1
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2025 FIA Awards Ceremony - Live Discussion (not actually live, but you get the idea) Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread [BWT Alpine on social media] BWT Alpine Formula One Team confirms it has reached a mutual agreement with Jack Doohan to not continue his driving services with the team for the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship season and allow him to pursue other career opportunities. [Williams] Time flies when you're having fun. On this day in 2023, James Vowles was announced as our Team Principal [AudiF1] Complete control. From start to finish. Welcome to Audi Revolut F1 Team Isack: “I remember being in the cooldown room with Max and Oscar. And they were ready for that. And, you know, they had their trainers with towels, so they could change and I was like… and I looked at Harry, my guy. I was like ‘you brought me a towel?’ He was like ‘no" What tracks would you take from the MotoGP calendar and place into the F1 calendar [OT] Dan Ticktum (yes, that one) having a generational crashout on his IG Looks like VCARB is keeping the white look luckily Kimi Raikkonen goes skiing [@campigliodolomiti instagram] What are the worst races you've ever watched? Racing Bulls team wear for 2026 season. (Photos: @visacashapprb on X) A unique design from Honda in 2007 Monza Qualifying lap - 2026 theoretical simulation vs VER 2025 pole lap 2026 Honda×Aston Martin Aramco F1™ Team New Partnership Launch Announcement (LIVE scheduled for January 20th) How “bad” were the tire wars? [MercedesAMGF1] Happy Birthday, Toto! Wishing you a wonderful day [F1] Racing at home in 2025. Footage: For Sauber, There Was The 'Alepodium' Before The 'Hülkenpodium' | 1998 Belgian Grand Prix [Bloomberg] Former F1 Champ Nico Rosberg Raises $100 Million for VC Firm [AMuS] What will the FIA decide regarding the engine trick? HondaRacingF1 on X - Ready for 2026. Happy Birthday to Toto Wolff, born #OnThisDay 12th January 1972. A former racing driver, Wolff has served as team principal, CEO and co-owner of Mercedes in Formula One, winning eight consecutive World Constructors’ Championship titles from 2014 to 2021. [OT] F1 team-backed junior drivers25 programming
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Your estimates take longer than expected, even when you account for them taking longer — Parkinson's & Hofstadter's Laws Interview Coder Leaks Full Names, Addresses and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated Using CORS + Google Sheets is the cheapest way to implement a waitlist for landing pages Your CLI's completion should know what options you've already typed hgit: git in 200~ lines of code Why I Don’t Trust Software I Didn’t Suffer For YAML? That’s Norway problem Posing armatures using 3D keypoints Simulating hardware keyboard input on Windows Visualizing Recursive Language Models An Operating System in Go - GopherCon 2025 talk [25 min] I built a FreeMarker extension for Zed editor (with tree-sitter grammar) timelang - Natural Language Time Parser How do you know what will break before refactoring? Vibe Coding Debt: The Security Risks of AI-Generated Codebases How to Find Remote Dev Jobs with no Country Restrictions Bring back opinionated architecture Do non-western software developers experience different treatment in career path, hiring, OSS and online visibility ? BTS of OpenTelemetry Auto-instrumentation Thanks AI! - Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, about AI AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them LLVM: The bad parts Maybe the database got it right The Three Inverse Laws of Robotics Domain-Composed Models (DCM): a pragmatic middle ground between Active Record and Clean DDD25 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of January 11, 2026 Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing Mars was a "blue planet" around three billion years ago, half covered by an ocean You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000. The company, GRU Space, said the rooms will be ready in as little as six years China Just Built Its Own Time System for the Moon I took an image from one of the darkest skies in the US, Death Valley! Lunar Plaques Made at my place of work during the 60's Just Days From SLS Rollout, Here’s the Latest Update for NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission | With launch potentially just three weeks away, the agency is working tirelessly to get the SLS rocket, Orion spacecraft, and the Artemis 2 crew ready for liftoff. Space station change of command sets stage for Crew 11 departure Astronauts' brains change shape and position after time in space, study finds Persistent shock wave around dead star puzzles astronomers India’s PSLV suffers second consecutive launch failure, 16 satellites lost Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree | Astronomy Picture of The Day 25.12.2025 Hubble Telescope's Final Countdown: Could It Disappear Sooner Than Expected? NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Reaches Target Orbit - NASA Science ‘Death by a thousand cuts’: young galaxy ran out of fuel as black hole choked off supplies Launch recap 2025 Tonight's Mosaic Of The Rosette Nebula. Spitzer infrared and Hubble visible light composite image of the Sombrero Galaxy I captured the Milky Way core over the NOT telescope on La Palma Astronomers discover cosmic hamburger has the potential to grow giant planets I spent the last 48 hours rendering 3 hours of 4K Earth & Moon orbital footage (ISS/LRO) paired with deep space ambient music. Piggy back an explorer on a comet to explore the interstellar space Last Night's Capture Of The Double Cluster. The Flaming Star & Tadpoles Nebulae from Backyard20 Ars Technica - All content
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Wild mushrooms keep killing people in California; 3 dead, 35 poisoned Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000 Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate. Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little) Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store? NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope Apple chooses Google’s Gemini over OpenAI’s ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri Is this the beginning of the end for GameStop? UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship The Chevrolet Bolt is back... but for how long? New research shows how shunning ultraprocessed foods helps with aging NASA topples towers used to test Saturn rockets, space shuttle The most fascinating monitors at CES 202620 Science - Ars Technica
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Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope That time Will Smith helped discover new species of anaconda The oceans just keep getting hotter These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026 Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze Under anti-vaccine RFK Jr., CDC slashes childhood vaccine schedule Earliest African cremation was 9,500 years ago Providers dropping common anesthesia drug that’s also a climate super pollutant Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert” Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed20 Gaming - Ars Technica
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Is this the beginning of the end for GameStop? Seasonal Switch 2 sales show significant slowing as annual cycle sunsets SteamOS continues its slow spread across the PC gaming landscape With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, made using its long-awaited 18A process AMD reheats last year’s Ryzen AI and X3D CPUs for 2026’s laptops and desktops BioWare’s Anthem will soon be completely unplayable Ars readers gave over $42,000 in our 2025 Charity Drive Final reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes In the ’90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 Call of Duty co-creator and Battlefield lead Vince Zampella dies in car crash Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title Microsoft takes down mod that re-created Halo 3 in Counter-Strike 216 OSnews
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The DEC PDP-10 You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML Windows Explorer likely to get Copilot “AI” sidebar Phosh 2025 in retrospect Budgie 10.10 released OpenBSD on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 GNU/Hurd gets dhcpcd port, further SMP improvements MenuetOS 1.58.00 released The world is on fire, so let’s look at pretty Amiga desktops Improving the Flatpak graphics drivers situation Firefox on POWER9: the JIT of it Google takes next big leap in killing AOSP, significantly scales back AOSP contributions Redox gets basic Linux DRM support Gentoo looks back on a successful 2025 Box64 0.4.0 released Instead of fixing Windows, Microsoft tells users how to do menial cleanup of junk files15 Slashdot
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Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000 EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution European Firms Hit Hiring Brakes Over AI and Slowing Growth Viral Chinese App 'Are You Dead?' Checks On Those Who Live Alone Even Linus Torvalds Is Vibe Coding Now Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages Should AI Agents Be Classified As People? Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines How Markdown Took Over the World Microsoft Pulls the Plug On Its Free, Two-Decade-Old Windows Deployment Toolkit Norway Reaches 97% EV Sales as EVs Now Outnumber Diesels On Its Roads China is Geoengineering Deserts With Blue-Green Algae