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macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) GPT-4.5 Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games The Natural System of Colours Launch HN: Bild AI (YC W25) – Understand Construction Blueprints Using AI There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" Solitaire Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of neglect A $100 DIY muon tomographer Kastle (YC S24) Is Hiring – AI for Loan Servicing Mozilla introduces a Terms of Use agreement for Firefox Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting Show HN: Python micro event loop library (~250 LOC) A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023)30 heise online News
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heise+ | Fensterverwaltung in macOS: So individualisieren Sie den Stage Manager Wegen Leaks an Medien: Meta feuert 20 Personen und erwartet mehr Entlassungen Storytelling-Tool: OpenAIs Sora kommt nach Deutschland Freitag: Instagram und die Gewaltvideos, Apple und die Konflikt-Mineralien Vorsicht, Kunde! – Einbau eines Smart Meter verweigert SachsenEnergie schlampt bei Messstellenregistrierung Nach Flut von Gewaltvideos bei Instagram greift Meta ein Kauft Apple Konflikt-Mineralien? Französischer Staatsanwalt untersucht nicht Microsoft Copilot kommt auch als MacOS-Programm EuGH: Bonitätsbewerter müssen Entscheidungen auf Anfrage begründen Erkundungssonde Odin soll Asteroid nach Rohstoff absuchen Top 10: Die beste Powerbank ab 20.000 mAh – Testsieger mit echten 140 Watt Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney+ und Amazon Prime im März 2025 Apple feilt an seinen Kinderschutzfunktionen Die ISS ist zu steril: Mehr "Dreck" könnte Gesundheit der Besatzung erhöhen Wegen App-Werbung: Verbraucherschützer klagen gegen Rewe Dreier-Rackmount für Mac mini M4 Sony senkt Preis von PS VR2 auf 450 Euro Nach Vorwürfen von Amnesty: Cellebrite entzieht Serbien eigene Forensik-Tools heise+ | Warum KI fundamentales bewirken muss – ein Interview "Krank Berlin" und mehr: Warum Apple TV+ auf internationalen Content setzt Mit Scrabble-Steinen Gefühle ausdrücken: Maker baut Therapie-Kasten Was hat den Mars rot gefärbt? Das YouTube-Imperium von MrBeast soll fünf Milliarden Dollar wert sein Starthilfe geben ab 80 Euro: Einhell CE-JS 8 Jump-Start Power Bank im Test Schlappe für DocMorris: EuGH stützt deutsches Rabattverbot für Online-Apotheken heise+ | Bundes-Office-Suite: Was openDesk kann KI-Update kompakt: Nvidia, Grok-3, Alibaba Wan2.1, Call of Duty Verschlüsselungsende für iCloud in UK: US-Regierung sieht Vertragsbruch Mögliche Folgen für die Erdgeschichte: Sonnensystem hat Orion-Komplex durchquert23 /r/Technology
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The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’ Thousands Of Tesla Cybertrucks Gather Dust, Even With $6,000 Discount Starlink poised to takeover $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication | The contract had already been awarded to Verizon, but now a SpaceX-led team within the FAA is reportedly recommending it go to Starlink. Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn 5-star safety rating in Europe. Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 that require vehicles to have physical controls to earn the highest safety score. Meta fires 20 employees for leaking Over 30 Apex Legends voice actors refuse to sign an agreement that would see them 'give up our expertise to train the generative AI that will replace us tomorrow' | "We are asked to shoot ourselves in the foot." The Bay Area startup with a 'bats—t' plan to take on Elon Musk's SpaceX Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content | A lot of the content shouldn't have been allowed in the first place Trump is gutting environmental data, obscuring climate and pollution risks to the public House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet, Meta, other tech giants over 'foreign censorship' of speech 70% of people are polite to AI Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’ Trump’s AI Gaza Video Is the Tip of a Horrifying ‘Gaz-A-Lago’ Iceberg | Trump’s comments about turning Gaza into a resort have inspired hellish AI videos and memecoins. Trump rift opens floodgates of disinformation on Ukraine ‘Trump Gaza’ video shared by president originated from pro-Israel accounts that have embraced AI DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence ‘Fear and uncertainty’: Biotech investors warn of impact from NIH research cuts Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos—One Click Stops It Nvidia bounced from the $3 trillion market cap club after shares fall more than 8% Windows 11 pirates have a new ally — Microsoft Copilot Canada Tech Firm Shopify Fuels Fear of US Move With Filing Change25 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of February 23, 2025 Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication | The contract had already been awarded to Verizon, but now a SpaceX-led team within the FAA is reportedly recommending it go to Starlink. European Mars rover will drill 2 metres deep in martian soil in search of life, 20 times deeper then any one before. Space station’s lack of dirt may damage astronauts’ health, says study | Scientists find sterile ISS environment could explain rashes and cold sores and suggest adding microbes to stations Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk Seven planets share the sky at once this week, but the parade of planets ends soon Why 3 private space missions are on their way to the moon right now Metal made in space lands on Earth Ancient beach on Mars discovered by China's Mars rover: 'This strengthens the case for past habitability' NASA space observatory poised to launch on a mission to map 450 million galaxies Mining the moon for minerals could be worth billions, but astronomers warn it's bad news for science The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend NASA set to deliver a knock-out PUNCH to mysteries of the solar wind Private company rockets toward the moon in the latest rush of lunar landing attempts I get extremely emotional when I think about the universe I built a little Solar System to explore the scale of the planets. Most powerful gamma ray observatory gets green light What books are good for entry level Long-time advocate of SLS rocket says it’s time to find an “off-ramp” Türkiye's lunar mission gains international attention through Swedish collaboration IM-2: is there a website or a way to track the current position? Fire and clouds: The ultra-hot Neptune that shouldn’t exist - Earth.com Can anyone tell me about any update of solar maximum 2025?Has it happened or not? Book recommendations to start learning about astrophysics Shooting for the moon, Intuitive Machines to launch daring lunar lander for NASA on Feb. 2626 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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EA hand Command & Conquer modders the source code for Tiberian Dawn, Renegade, Red Alert and Generals The Gothic Remake demo reveals an RPG powered by wheeling, dealing, and growling Haste: Broken Worlds is silly-fast, momentum-based fun, and there’s a demo out now Relieve some road rage by smashing up the city in the demo for Deliver At All Costs Former Metro devs reveal singleplayer FPS La Quimera, a Latin American cyberpunk shooter with Hollywood credentials I found a great deal on this HP OMEN 45L RTX 4080 gaming PC, down to just $2199.99 with this coupon code Eternal Strands devs are fixing the jank, but also say the jank is the point "Most of the devs" at The Callisto Protocol studio Striking Distance laid off CD Projekt explain The Witcher 4's reveal trailer: "Geralt could have said this about Ciri as well" Katamari creator's new game about a teenager stuck in a T-pose gets a release date Upcoming Civilization VII expansion release dates seemingly leaked by Nintendo Are you a failure? Wanderstop might be the "cosy" game for you Please find me some good video game music for the next several hours of work Wikipedia is now an endless 3D museum, and admission is free Rogue Light Deck Builder is not a roguelike deckbuilder, it's a cry for help You'll need a RTX 2060 Super at minimum for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox Castle V Castle is a snappy minimalist card game with robots, witches, and sentient doomer signage Airlock-hopping immersive sim Skin Deep is as playful as an ten-week-old kitten Warner Bros close Monolith, creators of F.E.A.R., Condemned, Shadow Of Mordor and Wonder Woman How drift racing came to World Of Warcraft Silent Hill 2 remake studio Bloober are working on another Konami game and it's "truly special" DuneCrawl’s on-foot fighting is no match for its crab walker warfare Elder Scrolls Oblivion-in-Skyrim mod still on track for a 2025 release Sid Meier's Civilization VII review Stylish roguelite Into The Restless Ruins channels classic Warhammer Quest's dungeon crawling27 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - February 28, 2025 Weekly Game Suggestions Thread - February 28, 2025 Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced on Steam Full backstory revealed on why WB Games axed Monolith Productions Monster Hunter Wilds is now available on Steam Electronic Arts releases source code for many Command and Conquer games BAFTA is asking for the "The most influential video game of all time" Inzoi's wild karma system can turn cities into literal ghost towns that you have to cleanse, game director says: 'If too many ghosts appear in the city, new Zois cannot be born' GOG Preservation Program introduces the LEGO series AMD FSR 4 games list, titles that will work day one on the Radeon RX 9070 XT Terminator 2D: NO FATE - Announcement Trailer Valve's 'Deckard' VR Headset Is Rumored to Be on Its Way, May Have a Price Tag of $1,200 Last Epoch Season 2 - Tombs of the Erased | Official Trailer Command & Conquer Steam Workshop Support & Source Code Less Than an Hour Until My First Game Launch (Shift'n Slay) – 1.5 Years in the Making! Void War - The dark, twisted, bastard child of one of the greatest space games of all time The open-source laptop maker Framework now has a gaming Desktop PC as well Yu-Gi-Oh! EARLY DAYS COLLECTION is available now on Steam AMID EVIL VR - The Next Gen Update DLSS 4 Upscaling is Fantastic for 1440p Gaming Sonic Rumble has been delayed Every Apex French Voice Actor/Actress resigned after being forced with new contract to train AI La Quimera - Announcement Trailer AMD, Don’t Screw This Up Shadow of Mordor's brilliant Nemesis system is locked away by a Warner Bros patent until 2036, despite studio shutdown Notice of Termination of DUNGEONBORNE Hogwarts Legacy Game and Creator Kit Patch Notes - 02/27/2025 (PC Version)27 Formula 1
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2025 Pre-Season Testing Day 3 - Discussion Thread Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread [F1 on Ig] Williams clock a faster pace in today's testing session than last year's qualifying in Bahrain TIME Magazine asked Lewis Hamilton about Toto Wolff's comments towards him about his "shelf life"- this was his response. Valtteri Bottas taking things on his own hands. Max joking about his friendship with lando: "It's a terrible relationship, we don't get along anymore, it's taken it's toll, big drama" Lando: "We had a fight the other day in a local pub" Way way better fov for this year on the default tv camera! So happy! First time cars colliding in 2025 season [Carlos Sainz via IG] That's a wrap for me in testing! Learned a lot, but I wish we had more time on track. Tomorrow I'll follow the test with the team and then Australia, can't wait to go racing! Ferrari accommodated Hamilton’s requests on the steering wheel Yes, those are Inters in Bahrain. Yes, it's raining. Can someone check on Bernie? Upbeat Hamilton "really enjoying" Ferrari's new car after first two days' testing Hamilton vows to "keep fighting" for diversity after Trump attacks Lewis Hamilton - TIME Magazine March 2025 Verstappen: 2025 Red Bull F1 car "can't be worse than last year" Lando Norris: McLaren ‘struggling more than we would have liked’ with MCL39’s rear Max when asked about the F1 75 event: "It was absolutely fantastic" First Lewis team radio on brodcast: "It's wet" 2025 Pre-season Testing - Day 2 Results. Lewis Hamilton has arrived for day 2 of testing! He is the first driver to arrive after being the last to leave yesterday. Kernin g- Fixed! [F1 on IG] Mercedes and Williams testing alot. [@F1TelemetryData] Pre-Season Testing Day 2 Telemetry Recap (10 pics) there’s no way 10,000 people believed this I panned every car going past me yesterday. Here is the F1 2025 field… Before and After: F1 Flo Vis Edition25 programming
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EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals Code, Sweat, and Tears: Why Imposter Syndrome Never Really Leaves Developers A One-Time User Is a Failed Experiment: Why Engineers Should Care About Product-Market Fit Nix and Containers: Why Not Both? TypeScript types can run DOOM Charity Majors on Technical Blogging Find broken links in your website - cralwr Why Ruby on Rails still matters How to classify Malaria Cells using Convolutional neural network Whither Open Source? Introducing ArkType 2.1: The first pattern matcher to bring the power of type syntax to JS Diffty - Local Git diff visualization and review tracking tool Announcement: New release of the JDBC/Swing-based database tool has been published Dixon's Algorithm: Asymptotically Fast Factorization of Integers Let's Implement Consistent Hashing From Scratch Open-source is where dreams go to die DeepSeek-R1: The New AI Model Shaking the World The #1 Sign of a faulty architecture - Uncle Bob htmldocs – LaTeX alternative for building PDFs with React and Tailwind [video] How to takeover complex critical and legacy system Encapsulation: The Complete Guide Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety standards [Release] ScribePal - An Open Source Browser Extension for Private AI Chat Using Your Local Ollama Models I spent the last few days researching current industry expectations for backend developers—here’s everything I learned. Forget your Browser, Bring AI to your Computer26 Open Source on Reddit
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Meta’s LLaMa license is still not Open Source EA have restored and released the full source code for several antique Command & Conquer games under the GPL license. Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia! MyDrive - Open Source Google Drive Clone (Node, Docker, Amazon S3, MongoDB) Looking for Open Source Projects to Contribute Looking for projects to contribute OpenLabel: A Free and Open-Source C# Library for ZPL Printing No more gambling with cloud providers (P2PRC version 3.0.0) Open Source integrity and nefariousness Open source or generic mainboards for TV, there is no such thing, right? PairPods: A free and open-source app to share audio between Bluetooth devices on macOS llms.txt hub - The largest directory for AI-ready documentation and tools implementing the proposed llms.txt standard Nichey: Generate a wiki for your research topic, sourcing from the web and your docs. (MIT License) Nextcloud Hub 10 – your unified, modular digital workspace - Nextcloud Create Documents from HTML - New Release - v1.11.0 @TurboDocx/html-to-docx FOSS app for save passwords and bookmarks Figma-to-GitHub SCSS mixin project Clermont - An Open Source Vessel Tracking Web App Digital Public Goods Alliance 2024 State of the DPG Ecosystem Report (PDF) Making a group of devs to build projects(work on some ideas) !! Building a Voice Cloning Advocacy Tool - Looking for Collaborators Opensource local encrypted data period tracker Selenium based imdb website scrapper For those looking to make their first contributions and enjoy Python What’s an OSS project that deserves more attention? HOW TO CONTRIBUTE !?!??????20 Ars Technica - All content
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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft Microsoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise Google will finally fix awesome (but broken) song detection feature for Pixels The PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be enough Now the overclock-curious can buy a delidded AMD 9800X3D, with a warranty Doctors report upticks in severe brain dysfunction among kids with flu Portal Randomized feels like playing Portal again for the first time Trump should block Biden’s AI “gift” to China, Microsoft argues Max is pulling CNN and sports from some US subscribers on March 30 What we know about Waymo’s 2025 expansion plans Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass There’s a battery bigger than in most BEVs inside the Ramcharger hybrid The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend Kia’s EV strategy: Smaller, cheaper cars like the EV3 hatch and EV4 sedan Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system20 Science – Ars Technica
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Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass The Moon’s next robotic visitor is lining up for landing this weekend Single-fiber computer could one day track your health Amazon uses quantum “cat states” with error correction Brewing tea removes lead from water COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark The seemingly indestructible fists of the mantis shrimp can take a punch German startup to attempt the first orbital launch from Western Europe Researchers figure out how to get fresh lithium into batteries “Bouncing” winds damaged Houston skyscrapers in 2024 Rocket Report: SpaceX lands in the Bahamas; ULA tests modified booster Study: Cuttlefish adapt camouflage displays when hunting prey Trump admin. fires USDA staff working on bird flu, immediately backpedals Scientists unlock vital clue to strange quirk of static electricity Microsoft demonstrates working qubits based on exotic physics 3D map of exoplanet atmosphere shows wacky climate Can public trust in science survive a second battering?20 Gaming – Ars Technica
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The PlayStation VR2 will get a drastic price cut, but that might not be enough Now the overclock-curious can buy a delidded AMD 9800X3D, with a warranty Portal Randomized feels like playing Portal again for the first time Fresh leaks suggest Half-Life 3 development may be nearing completion WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system 11 standouts from Steam Next Fest’s thousands of free game demos Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: An RTX 4080 for $749, at least in theory Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history Microsoft shows progress toward real-time AI-generated game worlds Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions Nvidia’s 50-series cards drop support for PhysX, impacting older games Streamer completes hitless run of seven FromSoft Soulslikes without leveling up Review: Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 tablet takes the asterisk off integrated GPUs How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal What we know about AMD and Nvidia’s imminent midrange GPU launches Avowed review: Wait, are we the baddies? Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again Dragonsweeper is my favorite game of 2025 (so far) Punch-Out’s Mike Tyson has been defeated in under two minutes for the first time15 Slashdot
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Viral Video Shows AIs Conversing In Their Own Language Apple's Find My Network Exploit Lets Hackers Silently Track Any Bluetooth Device Apple Launches 'Age Assurance' Tech As US States Mull Social Media Laws Microsoft Releases a Copilot App For Mac OpenAI Sam Altman Says the Company Is 'Out of GPUs' EA Releases Source Code For Old Command and Conquer Games Technicolor Begins To Shut Down Operations Thousands of Exposed GitHub Repositories, Now Private, Can Still Be Accessed Through Copilot Meta is Firing About 20 Employees For Leaking More Than 100,000 African Seeds Put in Svalbard Vault For Safekeeping OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-4.5 Automattic's 'Nuclear War' Over WordPress Access Sparks Potential Class Action One Man's Battle To Save the Last Phone Box in His Village Pokemon Boss Believes Series Can Last Another 50 To 100 Years The Reality of Long-Term Software Maintenance16 OSnews
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What would happen if we didn’t use TCP or UDP? A love letter to Void Linux Understanding surrogate pairs: why some Windows filenames can’t be read Mozilla is going to collect a lot more data from Firefox users PowerPC Windows NT made to run on GameCube and Wii zlib-rs is faster than C Mozilla reaffirms it won’t remove Manifest v2 support from Firefox 12 years of incubating Wayland color management Xcode phones home a lot, and that should worry you Qualcomm gives OEMs the option of 8 years of Android updates It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds Sailfish OS 5.0 released for all supported devices Microsoft improves Windows 11’s Start menu somewhat The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM bug hunt! Illumos on SPARC: possible, but problematic Flathub safety: a layered approach from source to user