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Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) The FAIR Package Manager: Decentralized WordPress infrastructure Low-Level Optimization with Zig Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation Getting Past Procrastination Ziina (YC W21) the Series A fintech is hiring product engineers How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes A year of funded FreeBSD development Why are smokestacks so tall? Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019) Good pixel art can be one-shotted by AI now The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs [pdf] I Read All of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp NASA delays next flight of Boeing's alternative to SpaceX Dragon A masochist's guide to web development Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games What “working” means in the era of AI apps Too Many Open Files Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record Curate your shell history Series C and scale Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed30 heise online News
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Developer Snapshots: Kleinere News der Woche Core Java: Kontrollierte Aggregation – vom Collector zum Gatherer "War For Westeros": "Age of Empires" im "Game of Thrones"-Universum "Resident Evil 9: Requiem" für 2026 angekündigt heise-Angebot: Viren jagen und Daten retten: Desinfec’t 2025 jetzt auf USB-Stick vorbestellen Von stiller Natur und surrealen Fassaden: Die Bilder der Woche 22 Wo Smartwatches tatsächlich nützlich sind | c’t uplink Top 5: Das beste Spinning Bike im Test – Testsieger Peloton ist günstig wie nie Verwaltungsgericht München: Pornhub und YouPorn bleiben zunächst gesperrt KI-Verordnung: Teilweise Verschiebung nicht mehr ausgeschlossen Smartphone-Diebstahlwelle in London: Untätigkeitsvorwürfe gegen Apple und Google Digital Networks Act: EU-Kommission fragt nach Stellungnahmen Android 16: Beta gewährt Blick auf Googles erweitertes Sicherheitsprogramm SAP-Chef: Frauenquote wegen US-Geschäft gestrichen Fire TV Omni Mini-LED: Amazon stellt seine bislang teuersten Smart-TVs vor Aktionswoche: Funklöcher in weniger als einem Prozent der Messpunkte Bayern bekommt Autobahnstrecke für kontaktloses Laden fahrender E-Autos Intel-Auflage: Neue Prozessoren müssen 50 Prozent Bruttomarge erreichen NIS2: Wenig Änderungen in geleaktem Schwarz-Rot-Entwurf "Mario Kart World" auf der Switch 2: WAHUUUUUU! Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge im Test: Hauchdünnes Smartphone – aber wozu? Staatliche Überwachung: Apple legt erstmals Anfragen zu Push-Tokens offen Refurbed ist erstmals profitabel – Umsatz vor allem in Deutschland FAQ: Nintendo Switch 2 – Spielformate und Abwärtskompatibilität 82 Prozent: iPhone-Nutzer updaten fleißig auf iOS 18 Windows-Spiele laufen besser auf Linux (wirklich!) Vom RZ-Switch bis zum Wi-Fi 7 Access-Point: Extreme bringt viele neue Geräte KI-Update DeepDive: Europas Chance ist eine vertrauenswürdige KI Microsoft: Power Automate mit kritischer Lücke, Ende für Endkundenversion Sinus-Jugendstudie: Kritisch gegenüber Gesundheitsbeiträgen, wenig Angst vor KI25 /r/Technology
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Over 4 billion user records leaked in "largest breach ever" - here's what you need to know Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund | Cruz attempt to tie broadband funding to AI laws called "undemocratic and cruel." Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration. Supreme Court Gives DOGE Access to Social Security Data Dropbox CEO: RTO Efforts Can Be 'Dumb' and 'Unproductive' DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts | Staffer had no medical experience, and the results were predictably, spectacularly bad. The Spread Of Misinformation Is Getting Worse On Social Media Nuclear fusion record smashed as German scientists take 'a significant step forward' to near-limitless clean energy AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried. Sinking Giant Concrete Orbs to the Bottom of the Ocean Could Store Massive Amounts of Renewable Energy Meta's platforms showed hundreds of "nudify" deepfake ads, CBS News investigation finds IRS open-sources Direct File tax software amid political and industry pushback - here's why YouTube is already adding more ads to its latest Premium subscription iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with ‘the biggest, baddest CPU’ 'No more floppy disks': Air traffic control overhaul faces some daunting obstacles Tesla Plummets 14% In Stock’s 11th-Worst Day Ever NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands 100+ backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user Your Smartphone Is a Parasite, According to Evolution | The greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal. Tesla Optimus robotics vice president Milan Kovac is leaving the company Big Tech Is a Tool of Trump’s Global Disruption OpenAI is storing deleted ChatGPT conversations as part of its NYT lawsuit What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works27 Open Source on Reddit
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We're Framasoft, we develop PeerTube, ask us anything! On the side of the Open Source ecosystem I've authored a popular open source library that I can no longer maintain. Advice welcome. Open Source Selfhosted Peer-to-Peer Reddit Alternative Germany: Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle Is there a flashable Tv software anywhere? SFML Game Engine for Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML 5), PC & Mobile state of art solution to download epub from acsm on Ubuntu Jetelina is a new concept middle ware for a web Another small win for open source: 1050+ downloads in 5 days The Psykeon Tarot/Rune Journals: Free and Open-Source Grimoires for Data-driven Diviners 📂 Yambda: A massive open-source RecSys dataset with nearly 5B user interactions I built a knowledge system that gives AI perfect codebase memory 🧠 Exercode(exercism for macOS) YAMLResume: Resumes as Code in YAML Can a GPL3 licensed open-source software be taken closed-source later? FlossPay: Enterprise-Grade, Kernel-Inspired Open Source Payments Aggregator (UPI now, Cards/Crypto soon) — MIT Licensed Spy-searcher: A search engine that generate report like perplexity How long to fix an issue? Productivity Tools Open-Source Passive Solana Price Alert Tool How do I convert tlDraw PWA into an offline working PWA? Are there any open source RAW photo denoisers (like Lightroom AI denoise)? Xylo, a functional programming language for generative art. Video: Donations & Sponsorships in Open Source as a Maintainer PeerTube v7.2 is out! Open source animation software for Android?26 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of June 01, 2025 Scientists unveil biggest map of the universe ever created, spanning almost all of time... Saving Gateway, SLS and Orion? Sen. Ted Cruz proposes $10 billion more for NASA's moon and Mars efforts NASA’s MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars Renowned Mars expert says Trump-Musk axis risks dooming mission Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat Elon reverses decision to "decommission Dragon" on advice of a random Twitter account Japan's ispace fails again: Resilience lander crashes on moon Self-learning neural network cracks iconic black holes China's Tianwen-2 probe sends back image of its unfolded circular solar panel on the way to its first asteroid target. (NET early 2026) Further delays of Starliner’s next flight mark anniversary of its first crewed Space Station docking Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science Cruz seeks $10 billion for NASA programs in budget reconciliation bill Private lunar lander from Japan falls silent while attempting a moon touchdown Senate Republicans Seek to Protect NASA Programs Targeted for Cuts The Blowtorch Theory: A New Model for Structure Formation in the Universe Leave NASA now or wait? NASA withdraws support for conferences NASA is already great. Right now. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Draft Environmental Impact Statement Private Japanese lunar lander closing in on unexplored top of the moon Asteroid impact probability tool - give it a try! First Themis Test Flight Likely to Slip to 2026 Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation releases budget reconciliation that reverses many cuts to NASA programs NASA Mars Science at DEFCON 1 -- save MAVEN! Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward a touchdown in the moon's far north23 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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The demons are both tragic and hot in Possessor(s), the Hyper Light Drifter studio's new fantasy platformer Warren Spector's Thick As Thieves shows off sneaking in emergent thunderstorms and grappling hooks The multiplayer robot havoc of Mecha Break gets a release date Please, Watch The Artwork is a "psychological spot the difference" with Edward Hopper's realist paintings Yakuza studio's historical action brawler is revealed as Stranger Than Heaven Resident Evil 9 announced: it's called Requiem and it's coming February 2026 Big Walk shows off the communal joys of booting your friend's binoculars into the ocean Jurassic World Evolution 3 brings baby dinosaurs with it this October Body horror shooter Ill shows more of its naked monsters getting de-limbed Someone else's idea of being a teenager 'em up Mixtape gets a new trailer You can soon take down James Bond's Le Chiffre in Hitman: World Of Assassination's latest Elusive Target Dying Light: The Beast is coming in August with the usual mix of rooftop parkour and zombie blasting Fractured Blooms is a cosy game about tending your garden and-- oh god that's a lot of blood Lies Of P: Overture gets surprise release right now, so you can play it instead of staring at Geoff's awful shoes Lego Voyagers is a new co-operative adventure about two bricks who are pals Felt That Boxing is a fighting game about foul-mouthed muppets Onimusha: Way Of The Sword is coming in 2026 and definitely has a sword in it so the name is accurate Chronicles: Medieval is a strategy RPG with massive battles from Witcher and Grand Theft Auto alumni Mortal Shell 2 is battering bulbous skulls next year Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds coming September with Ichiban, Joker, Hatsune Miku and Minecraft DLC Warner Bros reveal Game Of Thrones RTS starring the Lannisters, Starks, Targaryens and Night King Come say hello to Mark Warren, RPS's new senior staff writer Does the bird warrior of Elden Ring Nightreign have a human face beneath his beak? I'm glad you asked27 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - June 07, 2025 Weekly Game Suggestions Thread - June 06, 2025 Resident Evil Requiem - Reveal Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2025 A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up Borderlands 2: Response to Recent Community Concerns About Take-Two’s Terms of Service Atomic Heart 2 on Steam ILL - Official Trailer I SGF25 Game of Thrones: War For Westeros on Steam Resident Evil Requiem on Steam CODE VEIN II — Announcement Trailer CODE VEIN II on Steam Cyberpunk 2077 Confirms Update 2.3 For End of this Month Lies of P: Overture - Launch Trailer STRANGER THAN HEAVEN - Announcement Teaser Trailer Lies of P Overture is out on Steam The CUBE - Announcement Trailer I SGF25 Chronicles: Medieval - Announcement Trailer Atomic Heart 2 - Announcement Trailer I SGF25 Mortal Shell II - Official Reveal Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2025 The CUBE on Steam ARC Raiders - Official Release Date Trailer - October 30th, 2025 Owlcat Games - Next game announcement at Future Games Show Dying Light: The Beast - Gameplay Premiere Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2025 The Demo for the homage to The 'Strike' games from EA just released a demo! Play 4 missions including tutorial and provide feedback once complete. Jurassic World Evolution 3 Steam page is up Penguin-Launching Season in yetisports style has officially begun - BounceMasters Demo is out on Steam now! Wishlist BounceMasters, because your Wishlist BounceMATTERS! Imagine how funny the game could be, if we came up with this "amazing" joke about wishlists MIXTAPE | Summer Game Fest 2025 Trailer21 Formula 1
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2025 Spanish GP - Day After Debrief Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread Oscar further improves his streak of completing every race Larry the Cat, Chief Mouser, meeting Lewis Hamilton during his visit to 10 Downing Street [Oscar piastri via IG] Who in the lobby?. Playing iracing Lando about karting with George: “We [lando and his brother] were racing with George, and at that point, we were nobody. George Russell was THE guy [...] If we ever get to race him we’re like ‘omg George overtook me today he's so cool. It was just cool to be on track with George Russell Zak Brown at The London Business School with a very special guest appearance [PF1] PF1 understands that Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar will have an equal opportunity to secure a Red Bull seat if Max Verstappen is hit with a race ban. ‘I would have sunk without his guidance’ – Vowles and Cowell explain how much they learned from Wolff about being a team boss Alonso now has the second-longest run of win-less grand prix starts by any Formula 1 driver in history Constructors championship scores after 9 rounds in 2024 and 2025, Racing Bulls showing crazy consistency Max Verstappen has led more laps (179) than Yuki Tsunoda has driven in the points (105) since they became teammates AlphaTauri sounding menacingly at Spa 2021 sounds like machine gun fire in the distance. The-Race have started blocking access to their website for users who do not sign up to their Newsletter or Patreon. Links to their website being limited or outright banned would be well appreciated. Today marks one week until practice begins for the home race of the 2014 Italian F4 Champion, 2016 European F3 Champion, 3-time F1 Podium Finisher and F1 Pole-Sitter, Lance Stroll. Most successful driver nationality from each decade: 50’s: Argentina, 60’s: UK, 70’s: Austria/UK, 80’s: Brazil, 90’s: Brazil/UK/Germany/Finland, 00’s: Germany, 10’s: Germany/UK, 20’s: Netherlands* [Thomas Maher] Following the resignation of former team principal Oli Oakes after the Miami Grand Prix, Alpine looks set to add to its senior management roster with the appointment of former sporting director Steve Nielsen. Stroll on target to be fit for Canadian GP after all Hamilton opens up on being a producer for the ‘F1’ movie F1 journal - Monaco :) Drugovich “Fully Focused” on AXR Amid Stroll F1 Rumors25 programming
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How Red Hat just quietly, radically transformed enterprise server Linux The Illusion of Vibe Coding: There Are No Shortcuts to Mastery Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation Germany: Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp Apple moves from Java 8 to Swift? Nominal Type Unions for C# Proposal by the C# Unions Working Group GPU Memory Consistency: Specifications, Testing, and Opportunities for Performance Tooling The next phase of jank's C++ interop Optimizations with Zig Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest Machine Code Isn't Scary Decreasing Gitlab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes A masochist's guide to web development CRDTs #4: Convergence, Determinism, Lower Bounds and Inflation Track Errors First Loading Native Postgres Extensions Small Programs and Languages Lemmatization | Natural Language Processing | Hindi Decrease in Entry-Level Tech Jobs Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11 Binary Lambda Calculus CLIPS: An Elevator Pitch20 Ars Technica - All content
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Anti-vaccine quack hired by RFK Jr. has started work at the health department Anthropic releases custom AI chatbot for classified spy work Nintendo Switch 2’s faster chip can dramatically improve original Switch games Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund Millions of low-cost Android devices turn home networks into crime platforms Our first impressions after 48 hours with the Switch 2 Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location What to expect from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder Startup puts a logical qubit in a single piece of hardware GOP intensifies war against EVs and efficient cars OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely.” Here’s who’s affected. DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts 2025 Acura ADX review: A crossover that balances budget with spirit Dear readers: Let us know what you’d like to see more of on Ars Rocket Report: SpaceX’s 500th Falcon launch; why did UK’s Reaction Engines fail? Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings20 Science – Ars Technica
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Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder Startup puts a logical qubit in a single piece of hardware What solar? What wind? Texas data centers build their own gas power plants US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought? Science PhDs face a challenging and uncertain future Some parts of Trump’s proposed budget for NASA are literally draconian Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all Analysis: Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” is already wearing thin Could floating solar panels on a reservoir help the Colorado River? Research roundup: 7 stories we almost missed Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care Testing a robot that could drill into Europa and Enceladus Blue Origin boss: Government should forget launch and focus on “exotic” missions Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo Enigmatic hominin species studied using 2 million-year-old proteins China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission We now have a good idea about the makeup of Uranus’ atmosphere20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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Nintendo Switch 2’s faster chip can dramatically improve original Switch games Our first impressions after 48 hours with the Switch 2 Nvidia RTX 5060/5060 Ti review: You can have “affordable” or “future-proof.” Pick one. Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” It’s here: Unboxing and setting up our Switch 2 review unit Review: At $349, AMD’s 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT is the new midrange GPU to beat 11 things you probably didn’t know the Switch 2 can do “Free Roam” mode is Mario Kart World’s killer app Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page Elden Ring: Nightreign is an epic RPG squeezed into delicious bite-size capsules Desktop Survivors 98 is more than just a retro Windows nostalgia trip SteamOS 3.7 brings Valve’s gaming OS to other handhelds and generic AMD PCs Why console makers can legally brick your game console AMD’s $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8GB or 16GB of RAM to fight the RTX 5060 Labor dispute erupts over AI-voiced Darth Vader in Fortnite Anno 117 Pax Romana hands-on: Gorgeous, deep, and tricky to learn Epic goes to court to force Fortnite back on US iOS HBO’s The Last of Us S2E6 recap: Look who’s back! Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play? The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs15 Slashdot
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Apple Warns Australia Against Joining EU In Mandating iPhone App Sideloading Cambridge Mapping Project Solves a Medieval Murder Scientists Create 'World's Smallest Violin' Volvo Debuts New IoT Seatbelt Design Linux Foundation Tries To Play Peacemaker In Ongoing WordPress Scuffle What To Expect From Apple's WWDC Top Researchers Leave Intel To Build Startup With 'The Biggest, Baddest CPU' Lawmakers Vote To Stop NYPD's Attempt To Encrypt Their Radios UK 'Exploring Plan For Digital ID Cards' FBI: BadBox 2.0 Android Malware Infects Millions of Consumer Devices Chinese Student Enrollment in US Universities Continues Multi-Year Decline Apple Faces Billions in Losses as EU Comma Interpretation Ends External Purchase Fees About 20% of Tech Startups Worth More Than $1 Billion Will Fail, Accel Says Trump AI Czar Sacks on Universal Basic Income: 'It's Not Going To Happen' YouTube Pulls Tech Creator's Self-Hosting Tutorial as 'Harmful Content'16 OSnews
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A critical look at NetBSD’s installer Redox gets X11 support, GTK3, and Mesa3D EGL New EU rules mandate five years of OS updates for smartphones and tablets “AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians To comply with the DMA, Microsoft rolls out tons of Windows improvements, but only for users in the EU Ice-T 2.8.0 released: a VT-100 terminal emulator for the Atari 8-bit Fvwm3 1.1.3 released, completes transition from autotools to meson Sony’s NEWS UNIX workstations That time “AI” translation almost caused a fight between a doctor and my parents GNOME OS ready for more extensive testing Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom “My experience with Canonical’s interview process” Flatpak “not being actively developed anymore” The Copilot delusion The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini Apple said to switch to year to identify releases of its operating systems