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Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech Building Databases over a Weekend What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking The Matrix: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf] Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN) Vapi (YC W21) Is Hiring Founding Senior Engineer (Front End) January 1928: Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems How good are American roads? New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [video] The Fastest Redis Ever Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth Gregglogger Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About Fashion History Timeline Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"30 heise online News
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Studie: Weltweiter Flugverkehr verpasst Klimaziele deutlich KI-Boom: Nvidia wächst rasant weiter Donnerstag: Sicherheitslücke bei Bonitätsdaten, Chinas KI-Modell mit Reasoning #heiseshow: Bluesky, Seekabel-Sabotage, KI im Kollegenvergleich DeepSeek-R1: Neues KI-Sprachmodell mit Reasoning aus China gegen OpenAI o1 Vorstellung Hyundai Ioniq 9: Riesenableger des Kia EV9 Großes Datenleck: Sensible Bonitätsdaten frei im Netz Schneller als gedacht: Threads führt benutzerdefinierte Feeds ein Cloud Gaming von Xbox kann nun auch Spiele aus der eigenen Bibliothek streamen Elektronische Patientenakte: Bundesgesundheitsministerium stellt Pläne klar Beschädigte Unterseekabel in der Ostsee: Chinesisches Frachtschiff im Fokus Top 10: Die beste Starthilfe-Powerbank im Test – Auto überbrücken mit Akku Jobabbau bei Ford Deutschland: Betriebsrat sieht keine Auswirkung auf Saarlouis Vorwürfe zum EU-US-Datenaustausch: Kommission spielt Massenüberwachung herunter Defence-Challenge: Bitkom und Cyber Innovation Hub zeichnen Startups aus 6,9 TByte/s: Cloud-Server mit extrem schnellem RAM Gesundheitsdaten immer wertvoller: Forscherin fordert digitale Unversehrtheit heise+ | Die E-Rechnungspflicht aus rechtlicher Sicht PlayStation Portal: Update ermöglicht Cloud-Streaming von PS5-Spielen Ford will in Deutschland 2900 Stellen abbauen, Betriebsrat kündigt Widerstand an CCC & Co. fordern Verbot von Tracking und personalisierter Werbung Salesforce-CRM: KI-Agenten mit Hunderten Anfragen testen Echo Show 21: Amazon bringt sein bislang größtes Smart Display Bastelidee: LED-Weihnachtsornamente selber machen WSL 2.4.4: Red Hat direkt aus der Windows-Kommandozeile installieren Motorola Razr 50 Ultra im Test heise+ | Politik im Permafrost: "Frostpunk 2" für macOS im Test "Stalker 2 – Heart of Chornobyl" angespielt: Unbarmherziges Survival-Abenteuer Deutsches Startup Q.ANT entwickelt energieeffizienten photonischen KI-Chip digiKam 8.5.0 läuft auf Apple Silicon und korrigiert viele Fehler23 /r/Technology
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Hi! We're the hosts of WIRED's new tech culture podcast Uncanny Valley. AM(us)A! Joe Biden Just Trump-Proofed His Hallmark CHIPS Act Boeing CEO to Employees: We Can’t Afford Another Mistake Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit 'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you | Data caps reflect "highly competitive environment," cable lobby tells FCC. X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany - More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it. The Right’s Triumph Over Social Media Danish Navy boards Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the disruption | Internet cables connecting Finland to Germany and Lithuania and Sweden were cut Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money US Department of Justice reportedly recommends that Google be forced to sell Chrome, and boy does Google not like that: 'The government putting its thumb on the scale' Google must divest Chrome to end search monopoly, DOJ says Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry | AI-generated influencers that steal content from human models and adult content creators have taken over Instagram Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 mph. Tech giants face fines of up to $50 million for flouting proposed social media ban on under-16s Valve Nearly Went Bankrupt Before Launching Half-Life 2 and Steam; Company Saved by a Summer Intern Bluesky Sees Greatest Sustained Growth So Far in the US and UK Software engineer spends over $1 million to create the ultimate LAN party house Anthropic CEO Says Mandatory Safety Tests Needed for AI Models Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry - AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media.26 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of November 17, 2024 Meteorite contains evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago From SpaceX' official summary of IFT-6: "... automated health checks of critical hardware on the launch and catch tower triggered an abort of the catch attempt." Swirling polar vortices likely exist on the Sun Mars’ Phobos and Deimos moons could be the remains of a shredded asteroid The space station just had to pull an avoidance maneuver SpaceX Calls Off Booster Catch Attempt Mid-Flight, Citing Safety Concerns [Musk on IFT-6 catch abort] "Lost comms to the launch tower computer. Catch would probably still have worked, but we weren't sure, so erred on the side of caution." NASA Taps SpaceX, Blue Origin for Lunar Habitat and Rover Delivery | The next phase of the Artemis program will see a Japanese rover and living quarters delivered to the lunar surface. Predicting the next supernova explosion: New simulations reveal the physics of supernova shock breakout Making Mars’ Moons: Supercomputers Offer ‘Disruptive’ New Explanation best space documentaries/shows? The Photon-Centric Model. How Photons Shape Reality and Space The Apollo 12 Visit to Surveyor 3: A Preview of Space Archaeology - 55 years ago SpaceX will transport JAXA's pressurized rover and Blue Origin will transport a lunar surface habitat to the surface of the Moon, for the Artemis program The case for a continuous human presence in space any place reccomended to buy art? Specifically looking for a high resolution poster or picture of the Hubble ultra deep field image Aerospace firms urge more European collaboration ahead of Trump return Starship's sixth test flight is happening in a few hours! What happens to an object's orbit when it's mass decreases? Young planet discovery could provide new insight into planet formation Why India's ISRO chose SpaceX for GSAT satellite launch Scientists make breakthrough with new battery for Mars missions: 'This work lays a foundational step' Help - finding an old, naked eye Supernova Why astronauts age faster in space SpaceX president [Gwynne Shotwell] predicts rapid increase in Starship launch rate22 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Minecraft is getting two theme parks, with the first due in 2026 Valve might be moving closer to a Steam Controller 2 and new VR controllers, rumours say Space Marine 2 will ban mods from public games to address server stability and save corruption issues Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews Masterfully silly brawler Gang Beasts gets surprise update with driveable cranes and Hitchcockian bird attacks This sidescroller combines cat photography with the joy (misery) of social media clout-farming S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is out now and buggy as hell but the developers are already planning fixes Come steal the bodies of your robot foes in RAM: Random Access Mayhem, out now in early access S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chornobyl review: a captivating survival shooter, even with bits falling off There's a playable Disco Elysium 2 prototype in the wilds, according to a report on clashes between the "spiritual successors" Mouthwashing is the most horrifying game of 2024 Layoffs hit workers at Reflector Entertainment, makers of Unknown 9: Awakening Control 2 will be an action-RPG, and the first game is getting a significant update in 2025 Threshold review: put in the shift and you shall be... rewarded Homeworld 3's last major update adds superweapons, campaign interludes and a new armour system How Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses machine learning AI, and how much of your data it might need Bloodshed is Vampire Survivors meets Doom and it's a surprisingly moreish bloodbath Metal Slug Tactics review: the crunchy arcade run 'n' gun pauses to have a tactical think Sony is in talks to buy Dark Souls and Elden Ring parent company Kadokawa Back 4 Blood 2 appears to be a thing, which is a shame, because I'd rather play a new Evolve One of 2024's grandest and hardest first-person exploration games just got a lot easier Soulframe has the bones of a great action-RPG, but I’m enjoying it partly because it feels too late to enjoy Warframe23 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - November 18, 2024 What Are You Playing Thread - November 18, 2024 Steam is getting proper season passes support, all DLCs must be listed with expected release dates. If DLC is cancelled, refund for the value of unreleased DLC will be offered. Stalker Optimizer: First working Stalker 2 stutter fix community mod is out. Skill Up: Right now, I cannot recommend: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - Heart of Chernobyl (Review) As Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Steam Reviews Collapse to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative,’ Dev Admits It ‘Completely Underestimated’ Excitement for the Game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is now available on Steam "No, I don't think Palworld was snubbed": Palworld community lead responds to Game Awards backlash, says "Not everything is a conspiracy" | "Stop being so over dramatic" Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high STALKER 2 benchmarked from 4K to 720p to see how it scales with resolution. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Mod Support - A Message from the Game Director Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review (PC Gamer: 83/100) Max Payne Remake Aiming To Be "Excellent" And Meeting Rockstar Games' Expectations Says Remedy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is an unplayable mess after a disastrous and disgraceful launch on Xbox and PC Intel isn’t giving up on desktop graphics cards after Battlemage, as rumor claims 3rd-gen Celestial GPUs are still coming As Remedy nearly breaks even with Alan Wake 2 sales, Sam Lake tells investors "we strive to create commercial hits" but "we must never lose" the studio's special sauce IGN: STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Review in Progress Stalker 2 Review - A magical mess: ACG PSA: If you’re thinking about buying a game right now - Steam Autumn Sale is next week Sony acquisition rumors cause FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa's shares to skyrocket while Bandai Namco’s fall - AUTOMATON WEST Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 codenamed “Ibex” S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Launch Trailer EXCLUSIVE: Battlefield 6 is Undergoing Franchise's Biggest Playtests Ever to Prevent Another Disastrous Launch23 Formula 1
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Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread Verified BlueSky accounts of F1 journalists, publications and other personalities Tsunoda almost denied US entry for Las Vegas GP When Constructors' Champion didn't field the Drivers' Champion AMuS: FIA bans underbody protection. Technical Directive causes uproar. This TD is a tough one. The FIA has banned special protective plates that around 50% of the teams had installed over the skid blocks with immediate effect. Red Bull pointed out to the association that this practice is illegal. [NTT INDYCAR SERIES on Instagram]: "A legendary link-up" (Max and Checo with Scott Dixon) Max Verstappen Says, "I Know I Want to Do [Daytona] in the Future" [@formula_aerodynamics] Just one F1 team has avoided a Q1 exit in qualifying so far this season, Ferrari! Will the Scuderia keep a clean sheet in the final triple-header of 2024? George Russell says F1 drivers 'fed up' with FIA leadership Toto Wolff reveals that all F1 Team Principals except Christian Horner came together to sign the document in support of Susie Wolff when the FIA launched a baseless investigation against her. Russell makes admission over 'inconsistent' Mercedes concern Norris's 12 errors which cost him far more than his 62-point deficit to Verstappen VCARB's special livery for 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix [OT] [@FIAWEC] BREAKING NEWS: Mercedes-AMG will join the grid next year! Silverstone Circuit under ice. jakobebrey on ig Some of the F1 cars I saw at the Petersen museum in LA. [Jeff Gluck] A lot of the F1 drivers have said they were caught off guard by the departure of race director Niels Wittich and had no advance notice. So I asked Charles Leclerc when *exactly* he found out about it. Any heads up? “Nope. I found out on social media,” he said. Ten Years Ago To The Day History Was Made Max Verstappen makes IMSA 'debut' with Honda [@connordaly22 on instagram] Indycar vs F1. Tough competition today. Great to see the boys before all the action kicks off this weekend @carlossainz55 @landonorris @coltonherta [The Athletic] This year's title fight, compared with previous seasons (with three races of the season left) [AMuS] FIA bans underbody protection; technical directive causes uproar Liam Lawson Highlights Major issue with junior Formula categories26 programming
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The State of the Subreddit (May 2024) BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing Fargate vs EC2 - When to choose Fargate? The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade Native compilation of Prolog predicates with Cranelift [pdf] The Stride engine is embracing SPIR-V DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages How to cope with technology FOMO Bit-twiddling optimizations in Zed's Rope Can you translate code quality into business impact? Building more efficient locks What to expect from CHICKEN 6 Hyrum's Law in Golang Spineless Traversal for Layout Invalidation [pdf] This repository contains a comprehensive summary of foundational Linux concepts and core tasks. Running a JAX Program from Dart Using C++ FFI New Open-Source AI Safety Method: Precision Knowledge Editing (PKE) Lush: My favorite small programming language Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication Offset Considered Harmful or: The Surprising Complexity of Pagination in SQL New go language open source project How we use formal modeling, lightweight simulations, and chaos testing to design reliable distributed systems The Nine Node Pillars GitHub - tududi: A Minimalist, Open-Source Task and Project Management Tool 1-Bit AI Infrastructure26 Open Source on Reddit
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Give Your Input on the State of Open Source Survey FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released I Created an AI Research Assistant that actually DOES research! Feed it ANY topic, it searches the web, scrapes content, saves sources, and gives you a full research document + summary. Uses Ollama (FREE) - Just ask a question and let it work! No API costs, open source, runs locally! any writing software for linux and/or windows specifically for organising research/knowlegde? Enhancing LLM Safety with Precision Knowledge Editing (PKE) Endurain - an open source fitness tracker Windows Software Installer Building E2EE for Our Open-Source Location Tracking App—Looking for Advice! Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone Gophers: Generic collection utils for Go OpenMeet - An Open Source Mitigation for Community Disconnection 4000+ users in 2 months, project now open sourced, need HELP ;) $1 & $5k USD bounties for Rust contributions to NativeLink, see the gist attached. Tuono - Superfast React full stack framework Blinko Notes app? Is It Possible to Reconcile Open Source and GAFAM? CLI Tool for watching anime with portuguese sub Vratix CLI: Open-source tool to simplify backend API development Update: Evaluation Process and Intentions Behind It Looking for a place to learn! Contributing to OpenSource may cost you your job Does anybody have a fork of the deleted repository of zimatise? should I fix typos and grammatical errors in documentation? OPAL - an Open Source Authorization Service for Fine-Grained Permissions Launching Hercules: Open source end to end software testing agent Find OSS Projects Looking for Contributors20 Ars Technica - All content
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Qubit that makes most errors obvious now available to customers Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“ Study: Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users SpaceX just got exactly what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches Fitness app Strava is tightening third-party access to user data Comcast to ditch cable TV networks in partial spinoff of NBCUniversal assets Minecraft Movie trailer explores the origins of Steve Cracking the recipe for perfect plant-based eggs The key moment came 38 minutes after Starship roared off the launch pad A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app Microsoft and Atom Computing combine for quantum error correction demo Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 mph. Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people actually watched. Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth Scientist behind superconductivity claims ousted “Windows 365 Link” is Microsoft’s $349 thin client for Windows in the cloud20 Science – Ars Technica
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Qubit that makes most errors obvious now available to customers Study: Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams SpaceX just got exactly what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches Cracking the recipe for perfect plant-based eggs The key moment came 38 minutes after Starship roared off the launch pad Microsoft and Atom Computing combine for quantum error correction demo Scientist behind superconductivity claims ousted Novo Nordisk sells hit weight-loss drug in China—at fraction of US price SpaceX will try some new tricks on Starship’s sixth test flight Emergent gravity may be a dead idea, but it’s not a bad one Can going to a haunted house boost the immune system? The ISS has been leaking air for 5 years, and engineers still don’t know why Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help. To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle? The amorous adventures of earwigs SpaceX president predicts rapid increase in Starship launch rate Study confirms Egyptians likely used hallucinogens in rituals A lot of people are mistaking Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites for UAPs As ABL Space departs launch, the 1-ton rocket wars have a clear winner Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned These are the lasting things that Half-Life 2 gave us, besides headcrabs and crowbars I played Half-Life 2 for the first time this year—here’s how it went Half-Life 2 pushed Steam on the gaming masses… and the masses pushed back Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the choices you make while saving the world How Valve made Half-Life 2 and set a new standard for future games GOG’s Preservation Program is the DRM-free store refocusing on the classics Spotify’s Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life Amazon’s Mass Effect TV series is actually going to be made Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them The PS5 Pro’s biggest problem is that the PS5 is already very good Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will play original Switch games Metal Slug Tactics gives turn-based strategy a hyper-stylized shot of adrenaline Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 accounted for 19% of Comcast Internet traffic last week Will the new Nintendo Music app lead to more DMCA takedowns from Nintendo? Apple silicon Macs will get their ultimate gaming test with Cyberpunk 2077 release Apple is turning The Oregon Trail into a movie16 OSnews
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Linux to lose support for Apple and IBM’s failed PowerPC Common Hardware Reference Platform Microsoft pushes full-screen ads for Copilot+ PCs on Windows 10 users OpenVMS V9.2-3 released “Why I stopped using OpenBSD” Windows 365 Link: a thin client from Microsoft FLTK 1.4.0 brings Wayland support Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? DOJ will push Google to sell Chrome to break search monopoly Google is reportedly killing Chrome OS in favour of Android iOS 18.1 will reboot iPhones to a locked state after 72 hours of inactivity Migrating Windows VMs from Proxmox BIOS/KVM to FreeBSD UEFI/Bhyve Linux 6.12 released Free Towns OS: an open source recreation of FM Towns OS Microsoft finally publishes ISO for Windows on ARM Massive Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update is here PureDarwin intends to make Apple’s Darwin usable with a MATE desktop, future custom desktop environment, and more15 Slashdot
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US Regulators Seek To Break Up Google, Forcing Chrome Sale Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old 'needrestart' Flaw That Gives Root Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds Musi Fans Refuse To Update iPhones Until Apple Unblocks Controversial App Comcast Spins Off Cable Networks Strava Closes the Gates To Sharing Fitness Data With Other Apps DeepSeek's First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance Resentment is Building As More Workers Feel Stuck Sony's New A1 II Pairs Updated Design With Largely Familiar Performance D-Link Tells Users To Trash Old VPN Routers Over Bug Too Dangerous To Identify Delhi Trudges Through Another Air Pollution Nightmare With No Answers Apple Says Mac Users Targeted in Zero-Day Cyberattacks TV Time Attacks Apple's 'Significant Power' After App Store Removal Scientists Announce Progress Toward Ambitious Atlas of Human Cells