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Bugs Apple Loves GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift Stunnel Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes" Your app subscription is now my weekend project My first year in sales as technical founder Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era CSS Optical Illusions Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users 'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010) Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing AnswerThis (YC F25) Is Hiring In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers Keeping 20k GPUs healthy A Year of 3D Printing29 heise online News
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Intel-Aktie im Keller: Weniger Minus als erwartet, aber schlechte Aussichten Kernfusion: Kanadisches Start-up General Fusion findet neue Investoren TikTok USA: Behördliche Genehmigungen für Verkauf sollen fertig sein Top 10: Der beste Akku-Wischsauger im Test Digitaler Befreiungsschlag: EU-Parlament fordert Loslösung von US-Tech-Riesen Einführung von Starterpacks: X kopiert Bluesky ESA-Sonden Proba-3: Zeitraffer zeigt drei heftige Sonneneruptionen nacheinander Interview: Massiver Anstieg der AU‑Fälle nicht durch die Telefon‑AU erklärbar Chicxulub-Asteroid: Neue Spezies nach wenigen Tausend Jahren Asus ProArt PA32KCX: Erster 8K-Monitor seit 8 Jahren verfügbar heise+ | Stilvolle Kameragurte: 16 Modelle im ausführlichen Vergleich Helgoland probte den Blackout Speicherchip-Entwickler FMC arbeitet weiter auf Halbleiter-Fab bei Magdeburg hin Elektroauto-Förderung: Zahlen des Statistikamts hinter der sozialen Komponente OnePlus dementiert Gerüchte über das Aus des Unternehmens „AI eats Software“: Warum SaaS-Aktien an der Wall Street crashen Analysen: Zwei bis drei Millionen sexualisierte Deepfakes von Grok generiert Aus für Datenatlas Bund: 25-Millionen-Euro-Grab der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung Der stabilste höhenverstellbare Schreibtisch: Maidesite T4 Pro Plus im Test heise+ | Spiele, die mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdienen: Geheimtipps abseits des Mainstreams OpenAI und Gates Foundation: KI für den afrikanischen Gesundheitssektor Digitalwirtschaft in Deutschland wächst weiter Collabora portiert Debian auf OpenWrt One Mozilla bringt Firefox Nightly als RPM-Paket für Linux Nach Neuausrichtung: Ubisoft-Aktie kracht in den Keller Ganz ohne Cloud und Internet: Raspi 5 wird zum DIY-KI-Sprachassistenten heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Einführung in die SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) Trotz Flaute: Solar- und Windenergie EU-weit erstmals vor fossilen Brennstoffen Anthropic überarbeitet Verhaltensrichtlinien für KI-Modell Claude24 /r/Technology
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White House Posts AI-Altered Photo of Arrested Protester White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Among 700 Industry Backers of New Anti-AI Campaign: ‘Stealing Our Work Is Not Innovation’ Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain | Lawsuit was filed under seal; Anna’s Archive wasn’t notified until after takedown. Ubisoft shares plummet 33% after Assassin’s Creed maker unveils reorganization, cancels six games Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson | Order says gov’t must stop search while court reviews Washington Post motions. New Jersey severely cracks down on e-bikes, requiring licenses and insurance; must be 15 or older to use one Microsoft Outlook and Teams are down | Thousands of outages reported London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service X Goes Down Again: Thousands of Users Report Errors With Site Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial | The trial starts soon in New Mexico’s case against Meta—and the company is pulling out all the stops to protect its reputation. Video platform Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to tech holding company Bending Spoons Science Is Drowning in AI Slop | Peer review has met its match OpenAI nears new $50 billion funding round in Middle East. Amazon plans second round of corporate job cuts next week, Reuters reports Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss OpenAI's internal documents predict $14 billion loss in 2026 according to report Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite provides services to U.S. Homeland Security Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store President FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows | FCC disputes long-standing view that the shows are exempt from equal-time rule.20 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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"We all have strong opinions within the studio" – even Microsoft's own game developers are hesitant to use AI "What goes up must come down," Razer's CEO says of rising RAM and GPU prices – but admits "It is bad" right now Turnbound is a lovely plinky mixture of autobattler and inventory Tetris, where play order is decided by a cat's bum Open your cute Orcish vampire gob, Hytale's next update has summonable skeletons and non-scary snakes to shove in there World of Warcraft devs Blizzard will offer folks a free wardrobe change just before Midnight, following fashion fee furore I love that somebody is making a single-player flight sim dedicated to formation flying Helldivers 2 gets new stealth missions today, and its super-slimmed install size version is finally ready to take over Beware: the Killer Egg will return to Battlefield 6 multiplayer, along with Battlefield 4's Golmund Railway map "It is out of the question to let a boss run rampant" - Ubisoft workers strike against "disastrous" cutbacks Nexus Mods' latest modathon isn't a typical modathon, it's a first go at the same for multi-mod collections Rule your own, slightly socially awkward knights in the round table management RPG Sovereign Tower Firestarters promises to mix Rollerdrome, arena shooters and visual novels into a government-sanctioned bloodsport Goofy name aside, action roguelite Lort looks like a neat fantasy alternative to Risk of Rain 2 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake and more cancelled by Ubisoft, with layoffs potentially on the horizon As it approaches its second early access anniversary, Enshrouded gets a 1.0 release window for later this year "They'll figure out how to get out of there eventually" – Arc Raiders' latest enemy won't stick to Stella Montis Cyberpunk 2077 VR modder doesn't rule out releasing it for free after DMCA, claims there was "no negotiation" with CD Projekt Pirates director Gore Verbinski is iffy on Unreal Engine in movies: "I think it doesn’t work from a strictly photo-real standpoint" Anthem private server experimentation's underway, as the shooter's subreddit mods rethink retirement plans 80s-themed survival horror I Hate This Place is a gentler Darkwood based on a celebrated comic series24 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - January 21, 2026 What Are You Playing Thread - January 19, 2026 In response to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney waging war on Steam, Larian's publishing lead says, 'Giving everyone everything for free might bump numbers but doesn't create a viable storefront' Remedy statement: Alan Wake 2 not possible without Epic, publishing deal is fair, and Epic is a great partner Fable Gameplay Overview | Xbox Developer Direct 2026 Fable Releases Autumn 2026 Deadlock :: Old Gods, New Blood Zotac Store increased prices of RTX 50 series cards. For their 5090 lineup, prices went from $2,299->$2,799, $2,399->$2,899, and $2,449->$2,999 Ubisoft shares drop 33% following its ‘major company reset’ announcement | VGC Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer Fable Gameplay Teaser - Xbox Developer Direct 2026 After 4 years of development, I released my game "Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot" today! HELLDIVERS™ 2 - Into the Unjust: 5.0.2 Fable: Answering the Big Questions After that Long-Awaited Developer_Direct Deep-Dive Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney's "altruistic pro-developer talk" over the Steam vs Epic debate "doesn't sit well" after Alan Wake 2 studio "seemingly went into financial crisis" Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer Battlefield 6 Contaminated Map Revealed for Season 2 With Classic BF4 Map Also Confirmed to Return - IGN Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Update to Accessibility categories My horror puzzle game about masks just got released.... [Liar Masks] Kiln Steam Page is up Creator of DMCA'd Cyberpunk 2077 VR Mod Says People Are Now Pirating It to 'Punish' Him for Breaking CD Projekt's Terms of Service Beast of Reincarnation - Gameplay Overview | Xbox Developer Direct 2026 Kiln - Official Announce Trailer Elden Ring: Nightreign DLC Sees Surge of Negative Steam Reviews Thanks to Its Baffling New Map Full of Bottomless Pits25 Formula 1
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Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread Charles Leclerc, the Monaco-based YouTuber who beat Hamilton in equal machinery, receives his 1 million subscriber plaque [scabstech] Merc appeared have found a whole different interpretation of the #F1 diffuser regs. There's a huge opening in the side! It can be seen both sides. Prob working with the huge undercut on the sidepods to create more downforce Wheelbase Size Comparison - W12 vs W16 vs W17 The Lamborghini Countach - F1 safety car! (Monaco '83) Best Image of The W17 so far Good comparison of 2025 car sound and 2026 car sound, filmed in the same place, by the same guy with a same microphone and camera (credit: 19Bozzy92) Mercedes AMG F1 | The new era starts here. Introducing our W17. The W17 looks like a Silver Arrow from the top. The wing as the arrowhead, the nose as the shaft ,the sidepods as the fletchlings Isack Hadjar IG story F1 The Movie nominated for 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture Lewis Hamilton on the F1 movie nomination – a proud moment Valtteri about oscar: "this sport sometimes is not fair. oscar had a great season although the 1st half was better than the 2nd. he's only had a few years, he's already doing so well, he's got a great future ahead. if somebody's going to win, i'm rooting for my fellow aussie." GR63 and KA12 in W17 [F1] Honouring a truly incredible friend. Mercedes continue to pay homage to Niki Lauda's legacy with a red star on their F1 liveries Racing Bulls and Mercedes diffuser comparison [Mercedes AMG F1] Ahead of an exciting new era of Formula 1, we're delighted to welcome Microsoft to the Team Mercedes AMG 2026 W17 Mercedes W17 vs Red Bull Racing’s first 2026 F1 renders W17 hits the track for the first time [George Russell] PowerPoint evenings are going to be great this season. Welcome @microsoft Only 44 days left until the Australian GP The Mercedes W17 viewed from above and additional high-angle shots [Motorsport Italia] Engines: Status quo remains, Mercedes' solution is legal Haas 2026 race suits25 programming
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Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing Your Microservices architecture is failing because your Product Topology is a mess Do not fall for complex technology Why I Still Write Code as an Engineering Manager So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations? ZXC: another (too) fast decompressor Tree-sitter vs. LSP Essay: Performance Reviews in Big Tech: Why “Fair” Systems Still Fail Modular Monolith: dependencies and communication between Modules Playdate supports Go language. Compiler, SDK Bindings, Tools and Examples ⚒️ A clear visual explanation of what HTTPS protects Carrier Classes; Beyond Records - Inside Java Newscast Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces Building a Passkey System - Computerphile Bring Your Website to Life: A Complete Guide to Animated Icons and Motion Effects Idempotency in System Design: Full example High cardinality explained with interactive examples TigerBeetle vs PostgreSQL Performance: test setup, local, single-node tests Adding Two Factor Authentication to Android (LineageOS) building a fast mel spectrogram library in mojo (1.5-3.6x faster than librosa) Effect Oriented Programming • Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward & Andrew Harmel-Law Verifiable Credential Spoofing: Breaking the Trust Loop in Decentralized Identity (DID) Two Catastrophic Failures Caused by "Obvious" Assumptions Embrace Limitations25 Open Source on Reddit
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The top 50+ Open Source conferences of 2026 that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is tracking, including events that intersect with AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and policy. Drowning in AI slop, cURL ends bug bounties Speak up for more funding for Open Source from the EU! Any OpenSource projects looking for help? I open sourced a single file less than 30 lines to help you write structured git commit messages How does one get testers for an idea? I made a visual grid that shows your subscriptions sized by how much they actually cost you Sean's Free & Open Source Graphics Software List Golang support for Playdate handheld. Compiler, SDK Bindings, Tools and Examples I open-sourced the middle mouse button macOS should have built in Microsoft Releases Open-Source Quantum Development Tools for Error Correction and Chemistry Alternative Android music player? I built Tunnelmole, an open source alternative to ngrok Open sourcing a UI engine that replaces component trees with semantic intent Looking for open source cartoon or 3d avatar generation? I made a documentary about Open Source in Ukraine and around the world Am I Cheating? Types of selective source available? MIT License Question Separate licenses for assets? Rebranding open source (and Arc Raiders) Data Modeling Tool I built a a tool to easily import 1001tracklists songs into Qobuz playlists Repo Fork Etiquette Question Seeking 5-10 skeptics/growers to stress-test APOS (Atlantis Project Open Source)25 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of January 18, 2026 'The most incredible display of aurora I've ever seen in my 20 years of flying'. Pilot captures historic northern lights show from 37,000 feet (photos) Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups Scientists tracked falling space junk by listening for the sonic boom it made as it tore through the atmosphere. It could be a way to better monitor objects from space as the number of satellites skyrockets. Astronomers just found a ‘mystery object’ surrounded by a metallic wind cloud Lunar Freezer System will help preserve and protect Moon samples CRASH Clock Measures Dangerous Overcrowding in Low Earth Orbit Video: Russian cosmonaut captures stunning aurora over Earth US Space Force awards 1st-of-its-kind $52 million contract to deorbit its satellites Sonic booms can protect Earth from dangerous space junk Researchers publish guide to measuring spacetime fluctuation Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation New sungrazing comet officially named C/2026 A1 Bezos' Blue Origin to deploy thousands of satellites for new 'TeraWave' communications network — Reuters Discovery Stays Put: NASA Halts Plan to Move Space Shuttle from Smithsonian - Vintage Aviation News journey to the edge of the observable universe Both astronauts that flew on Boeing’s troubled Starliner mission are now retired Launch Pad Preparations Progress Ahead of Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal - NASA Haven-2 — Vast - Designed to succeed the International Space Station Independent Analysis of TESS Data Identifies 33 New Community Planet Candidates Webb reveals a planetary nebula with phenomenal clarity, and it is spectacular The Exploration Company in Talks to Buy UK Rocket Builder Orbex Will the universe even live long enough to see a Black Dwarf star? Inside Nasa’s Artemis II mission to the Moon20 Ars Technica - All content
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US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health" Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027 Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini Check out the first trailer for Masters of the Universe Blue Origin makes impressive strides with reuse—next launch will refly booster Google adds your Gmail and Photos to AI Mode to enable "Personal Intelligence" Finally, a new controller that solves the Switch 2's "flat Joy-Con" problem eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents All sorts of interesting flags and artifacts will fly to the Moon on Artemis II Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows Why adding modern controls to 1996's Tomb Raider simply doesn't work Kioxia's memory is "sold out" for 2026, prolonging a "high-end and expensive phase" Watch a robot swarm "bloom" like a garden20 Science - Ars Technica
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Watch a robot swarm "bloom" like a garden Zillow removed climate risk scores. This climate expert is restoring them. Macaque facial gestures are more than just a reflex, study finds The fastest human spaceflight mission in history crawls closer to liftoff Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark NASA’s first medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air 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 words20 Gaming - Ars Technica
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Finally, a new controller that solves the Switch 2's "flat Joy-Con" problem Why adding modern controls to 1996's Tomb Raider simply doesn't work The first new Marathon game in decades will launch on March 5 Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition” 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 love16 OSnews
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ReactOS turns 30 Nekoware resurrected: freeware and open source repository for IRIX KIM-1 turns 50 Can you slim macOS down? Air traffic control: the IBM 9020 What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key? The Xous operating system “Light mode” should be “grey mode” The incredible overcomplexity of the Shadcn radio button A lament for Aperture You can apparently use Windows 7’s compositor in GNOME, and vice versa – or something Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine ChaosBSD: a FreeBSD fork to serve as a driver testing ground How to write modern and effective Java Easily explore current Wayland protocols and their support status OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor15 Slashdot
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Intel Struggles To Meet AI Data Center Demand Epic and Google Have a Secret $800 Million Unreal Engine and Services Deal EU Parliament Calls For Detachment From US Tech Giants New Jersey Law Requires E-Bike Drivers To Have License, Insurance The Microsoft-OpenAI Files Waymo Launches Robotaxi Service In Miami, Extending US Lead Google Begins Offering Free SAT Practice Tests Powered By Gemini NASA Eyes Popular PC Hardware Performance Tool for Its Flight Simulators Half the World's 100 Largest Cities Are in High Water Stress Areas, Analysis Finds Moderna Curbing Investments in Vaccine Trials Due To US Backlash, CEO Says eBay Bans Illicit Automated Shopping Amid Rapid Rise of AI Agents Workday CEO Calls Narrative That AI is Killing Software 'Overblown' Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready' China Lagging in AI Is a 'Fairy Tale,' Mistral CEO Says Autodesk To Cut 1,000 Jobs