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Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 Leave Me Behind IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff AI errno(2) values DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker Migrating from Go to Rust White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages Jira Is Turing-Complete Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” I love my Bluetooth keyboard Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu C constructs that still don't work in C++ Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine Building Pi with Pi Gorilla: A fast, scalable, in-memory time series database (2016) Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs Childhood Computing29 heise online News
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Erste Enzyklika von Papst Leo XIV. thematisiert Künstliche Intelligenz Stromnetze für die Energiewende: Milliardeninvestitionen in Schleswig-Holstein Digitale Rasterfahndung: Wenn Bilder im Netz Leben zerstören heise-Angebot: EU AI Act: Was bis August 2026 in Unternehmen erledigt sein muss heise-Angebot: Nächste Woche: heise security Tour Online zu KI, Identität und Lieferketten Leben und spielen lassen: Die fünf besten „James Bond“-Games heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: KI-Methoden und -Werkzeuge für die IT-Sicherheit IT-Branche: HR-Trends verschieben sich Wie 2021 bei LLMs: Google-Forscher über die Zukunft der Weltmodelle „Fabula Rasa“ ist ein faszinierender Ausblick auf KI-gestütztes Storytelling Mehr als Requisiten: Click Boom Flash # 63 „Kameras und Fotos im Kinofilm" Top 10: Der beste Offroad-E-Scooter im Test Papst Leo: Veröffentlichung von Enzyklika zu Künstlicher Intelligenz erwartet Künstliche Intelligenz bei Gericht: Wie die Justiz digital aufrüstet Trump stoppt wichtige Verordnung für KI-Modelle Testflug von Starship V3 erfolgreich Musik-Business: Universal schließt Tech-Pakt mit TikTok gegen unautorisierte KI Acemagic Retro X5 im Test: Mini-PC mit Ryzen AI 9 im Design des Nintendo NES Streit über Zukunft von ENUM-Telefon-Domains heise-Angebot: Machine Learning mit Python – KI und Deep Learning in 5 Sessions erklärt Porsche-Chef Leiters plant umfassenden Konzernumbau Studie: KI bleibt oft im Testlauf stecken heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Grundlagen und Prinzipien eines modernen IT-Managements Missing Link: Aus für De-Mail – warum das „@“ das eingekringelte „e“ besiegte Top 10: Das beste Display für das Auto im Test BOS-Funk: ETSI standardisiert Funk für Behörden Repair-Cafés jubeln: Bundestag beschließt Ökodesign-Reform für Nachhaltigkeit Aus dem Weg! E-Scooter Navee UT5 Max mit Kuhfänger und brachialer Power im Test Google wehrt sich gegen Monopol-Urteil23 /r/Technology
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Pope Leo Issues AI Encyclical Warning That ‘Opaque Algorithms’ Controlled by a ‘Few’ Companies Can Bring ‘New Forms of Dehumanisation’ Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can't be automated CBS Suspends Takedown Notices on Bootleg YouTube Uploads of Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ Public Access Show After Outcry Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates will shape AI's future — and live with its consequences Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves "Touching Little Boys" | The software, called Delulu, is marketed specifically to streamers and lets them easily transform into other people Palantir Gets an Initial $3.9 Million to Spy on Federal Workers Not just Samsung: Workers at TSMC also questioning bonus system in wake of record profits 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years Zuckerberg warns ‘success isn’t a given’ amid 10% layoffs at Meta Proton VPN vows to resist Canadian surveillance demands under Bill C-22 Pope Leo warns of AI fueling warfare in first major theological document ‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused Disney sued over new facial recognition technology at Disneyland entrances ‘Star Citizen’ Hits $1 Billion in Lifetime Funding Meta layoffs: ‘I asked to be laid off’ during company-wide 8,000 job cuts, says ex-employee Ansel Adams' trust says AI-colorized version of his work was exhibited without permission | The AI-generated version of ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’ was on display at AIPAD’s The Photography show Fashion designer Jeremy Scott gets a huge cheer after ripping up his AI-written commencement speech AI agents are quietly generating chaos engineering failures enterprises don’t track yet Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy Texas accuses Netflix of spying on users, including children The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy | In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.’s house and found smartcards, bootloaders.25 Open Source on Reddit
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OSI is proud to join GitHub and a global community of contributors in honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Source projects for Maintainer Month. Open Source Endowment - funding for FOSS launch I got tired of Teams so I built my own New stable release (v0.4.0) of Anagnorisis - local media recommendation system that learns your taste to find, search and filter data more effectively. Pikura 1.7.0 Release - Safe Mode to Reduce the Chance of Account Suspension, Fixes for Linux Logins, So Much More Lavern - an open source agentic "law firm" Does Fauxx work? Graphite (open-source 2D graphics editor) May 2026 update: vector blending, gradient overhaul, draggable panels, 500+ more changes PyIcon Editor and Creator makes .ico and .icns files. Firefox and DuckDuckGo 2026 Now it is a great alternative Stop streaming markdown. Try HTML instead as a response format for your LLMs Perseus — a live context engine for AI assistants: MIT, one dependency, and you can drop the single file anywhere Moving past the "Mega-Prompt": Our shift toward agentic microservices Why isn't there an LGPL version for AGPL? How to handle responsibility for uploaded assets? Wantastic Core: Wireguard connection aggregator, web SSH, and OpenWRT & Mikrotik cloud monitoring dashboard CookieBuddy: Please support me in making the internet more compliant :) Malus, a weird idea and me being late to the party confluence2md - Open source CLI to export Confluence spaces to local Markdown JobOps v0.8.0 is officially live. 6 months in and going strong What's the open-source project you've maintained longer than you expected to? KillerPDF v1.4.1: performance fixes, shortcuts, and more The do-it-yourself open source DMARC projects CheckDMARC, ParseDMARC., and DMARC-MSP now fully support DMARCbis RFC 9989, 9990, 9991 Open-sourcing KoBar: A modular desktop utility widget for Windows built with React & Electron A freakishly fast open source React data grid with a massive feature set!25 PC Gaming
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Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - May 22, 2026 What Are You Playing Thread - May 25, 2026 Star Citizen has reached $1 billion in funding A unique art style is infinitely better than realistic graphics Rocket League Set for Unreal Engine 6 Transition, Epic Games Confirms Dishonored co-creators were working on Thief 4 and a Bladerunner game before Bethesda let them make an immersive sim classic We tested Advanced Shader Delivery on the RX 9070 XT in six games — up to 95% improvement in load times and 33 percent faster 1% Low FPS Bubsy 4D - Official Launch Trailer TEKKEN 8 – Yujiro Hanma Teaser Starpath Announcement Trailer Spirit Talk, a hand-drawn cozy visual novel about grief and spirits made by 2 people, launches June 8th on Steam — trailer inside Stereo3D restoration project wiz3D adds OpenGL Quad-buffer Stereo game support for games like Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and more! Jason Schreier: A lot of people have wondered why Bungie didn't immediately start working on Destiny 3 after The Final Shape two years ago. The answer (as it usually is) is how much money it would take Mafia: The Old Country and LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight are the latest Denuvo games that have been cracked DEADWAVE Demo is out! Play for Free! PC game discounts for the weekend Riot Games response after false claims Vanguard is "bricking cheater's PCs" for cheating in Valorant Luna Abyss - Official Launch Trailer Demonschool - The big free update EU Parliament Member Rants About How ‘Woke Ideology’ Is ‘Destroying Video Games’ During Stop Killing Games Debate Valorant's new Vanguard update seems to be bricking cheaters' PCs. Riot's response? "Congrats on your $6k paperweights" ANOMALITH on Steam NTE: Neverness to Everness Steam page is up Denied refund on a game i never launched on steam Dawn of War IV Dev Doesn't See Total War: Warhammer 40,000 as Direct Competition, Reckons Fans Will Play Both Games25 /r/space: news, articles and discussion
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All Space Questions thread for week of May 24, 2026 I placed a sound-activated camera near the recent Starship launch and got this photo during liftoff [OC] Texas remote telescope ranch China Launches Shenzhou-23 Mission with First Hong Kong Astronaut Tonight's Beautiful Waxing Gibbous Moon! Sunlight reflecting off the Euphrates river, seen from the ISS. [OC] NASA to add missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract - "protecting the agency from the possibility that Boeing’s spacecraft is never certified for missions to the ISS" My first ever processed planet photo Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin with the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon during his 1971 mission. The Saturn 500F: The Moon Rocket That Couldn’t Fly - 60 years ago 1st Quarter Mineral is Shenzhou-23 crew arrives at Tiangong as China maps path to 2030 lunar landing Chris Hadfield's observation on Starship's heat shield progress. The Full Flower Moon Milky way galaxy and andromeda galaxy at (bottom right), captured by my phone outside my campsite. NANOGrav used 68 millisecond pulsars as a galaxy-sized gravitational wave detector and found the background hum of the entire universe (ApJ Letters, June 2023) Jupiter photo from my 90/900 telescope R.I.P to the sign :( Reaction Dynamics and Hanwha Ocean sign MOU for Canadian launch capability I wrote a Python tool to build maps of the Solar System Venus moon may 18 The Core of Sharpless 171 SpaceX Starship V3's first test flight was largely successful SpaceX’s Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight | SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit. A Cinematic Leap to the Moon20 Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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The opening mission of 007 First Light leaked online, so IO have fought fire with fire by offering up the game's first 13 minutes Your first look at Unreal Engine 6 comes courtesy of a much shinier looking Rocket League teaser The Sunday Papers In Crimson Desert's latest update, you can pick up baby wyverns as pets, throw your fish in a pond, and shut those pesky outlaws up "God is dead, and Heaven has gone corporate" in Grindset T.V., an overstimulating speedrunning game by way of Cruelty Squad Paralives continues to sound promising with a roadmap outlining free updates The Sims would normally charge for Say goodbye to birds and hello to dragons in Wyrmspan, a scalier take on beloved strategy card game Wingspan Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Deathwatch picks up where Daemonhunters' XCOM-ish gorefest left off What are we all playing this weekend? Half-Life: Alyx is convincing me I don't have the knees for VR gaming, or perhaps I should stop cowering behind cars quite so often Your allies in turn-based tactics game Menace can now be completely wiped out by the [REDACTED], but at least the new patch gives us battle tanks Dang, I can't hang with the Wang in Zero Parades, so ZA/UM's thought violation gun won't stop going bang "You build a little squad of allied characters": Warhammer Survivors' spin on bullet heaven brings a lovely touch of chaos to the battlefield Destiny 2 is getting its final update in June, and the team reportedly face "significant" layoffs as soon as it's out the door "If they turn off, they might not be able to turn them on again": The charming reason behind Dawn of War 4's excitable, dancing mech Baldur's Gate 3's Wyll gets "the autonomy he deserves" in deciding whether to break his pact with Mizora, thanks to a chunky companion quest overhaul mod After months of leaks and building expectations, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a surprisingly clumsy remake, with bugs and parkour missteps marring my three-hour preview Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe" Dragon Age: Inquisition's lead narrative designer is making an adventure game world "where the ordinary starts to feel like it is hiding something" Stop Killing Games petition on game server switch offs will get a reply "before the summer", European Commission promise during latest debate24 Formula 1
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Ask r/Formula1 Anything - Daily Discussion Thread 2026 Canadian Grand Prix - Day After Debrief Hamilton on overtaking Max: " It's the best to overtake another World Champion. And obviously I had a big deficit to close......You know how consistent and fast that guy is? He's the fastest guy. So it felt great to get to have that battle with him. It was really not easy to overtake." Lewis and Max's reaction to Mclaren strategy call in the beginning [George Russell] Apologies to the marshals & FIA for making their job harder than it needed to be. Lots of emotions in the moment. [Red Bull Racing] Reunited on the podium Kimi Antonelli wins the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix The aura of this podium [Red Bull] borderline something something Cooldown room watching George have an existential crisis Russell in front of my stand Throwback pic of Kimi, Max, and Lewis — and now they’ve officially shared their first podium together in Canada 2026. This Marshall deserves a raise! Lando on his way back to the garage [Autosport] For the love of the game The most stylish thing at this race wasn't on the grid Lewis took a selfie with max and Kimi George Russell stopped on track and out of the race [The Race] Oscar Piastri talks through the decision for the McLarens to start the race on the intermediate tyres: George having an existential crisis Russel just standing there is maybe one of the funniest F1 pictures I have ever seen. [Lewis Hamilton] P2 !!! Really enjoyed being out there all weekend. It’s great to be fighting at the front and extracting the best out of the car. Big shout to the team for all the prep that went into this weekend, the changes we made really paid off. I always look forward to coming here. (contd.) Lewis Hamilton is Driver of the Day [The Race] Ted Kravitz “What did you call Lewis on the radio at the end? Old G?” Fred Vasseur: “Luigi!” [laughs]25 programming
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Announcement: We've Updated The Rules, and April Is Finally Over The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has been fixed. How soon is now in PostgreSQL? How I made my Zig gameplay code hot reloadable Highest random weight in Elixir TrapDoor Supply Chain Campaign Targets npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to Poison AI Coding Agents PSA: VSCode extensions (NX Console, TeamPCP) compromised in GitHub breach Chrome proposes new APIs: Declarative partial updates Childhood Computing libwce: the entropy layer of a wavelet codec, on its own 2-Dimensional Lattice Basis Reduction in C Individual Logarithm Reduction Step of Discrete Logarithm Problem The Database Zoo: Exotic Data Storage Engines - why SQL and NoSQL aren't enough anymore Jira IS Turing-complete Designing Resilient Systems to Prevent Cascading Failures SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness Rethinking Last-Mile Routing at Scale Applying metaphors from other fields into software development Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto Creator of C++ talks about memory safety Writing VBA modules inside Excel files is much stranger than I expected 16 bytes of code that turn Sierpinski waves into Matrix rain Clojure Anonymous Functions How I Built a Confluence Crawler20 Ars Technica - All content
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US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight Two space shuttle-era spacewalkers enter Astronaut Hall of Fame China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions Four Russian satellites are now within striking distance of an ICEYE radarsat Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and "spreading rapidly" First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing Trump FCC asks public to comment on whether ABC's The View is a news show US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices The Boys is dead. Long live Vought Rising. Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe" Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu is ... fine Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption Before it comes down, what should be saved from the International Space Station? Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go The Steam Controller’s “drop-in” charger almost started a fire for this owner20 Science - Ars Technica
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Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid Ground system issue scrubs first launch of SpaceX's Starship V3 rocket JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg. "I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease Solar power production undercut by coal pollution Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included Rocket Report: Cowboy up for data centers in LEO; Russia's new ICBM actually works Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype20 Gaming - Ars Technica
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I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake The Steam Controller’s “drop-in” charger almost started a fire for this owner The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why? Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year Everyone’s a loser in Strait of Hormuz game that simulates global crisis Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine. The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS Nvidia fixes the 8GB RAM problem with one of its GPUs—if you can pay for it "Super ZSNES" is a stab at a modern SNES emulator from the original developers Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead Microsoft removes Call of Duty from Game Pass, lowers subscription pricing Framework Laptop 16 upgrades make it look less like an unfinished prototype15 Slashdot
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Will Big Tech Layoffs Bring a Culture Shift to Anxiety and Job Insecurity? It's Like the Olympics - But Steroids Are Allowed California Executive Order Directs Businesses and State Agencies to Prepare for AI-Driven Workforce Disruption AI 'Crashes the Party' at This Year's Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop Canonical Is Shutting Down Ubuntu Pastebin Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit Disney's 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' Opens to 'Mixed' Box Office Results Apple Preparing New 'Gen AI' Website Ahead of WWDC — and New AI Features? Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Gas Globally in April Scammers Are Abusing an Internal Microsoft Account to Send Spam Links Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service More Videogames Developers Consider Unionization - Some Spurred By Changes to Remote Work Policies 'Underminr' CDN Vulnerability Hides Malicious Traffic Behind Trusted Domains Tesla's Electric Cybercab is Certified as the Most Efficient EV Ever16 OSnews
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Flatpak will depend on systemd “Long-term support” does not mean what you think it does Gnutella: a protocol outliving the world that created it Migrating from Ubuntu 16.04 to FreeBSD Secure boot and Microsoft CA rollover: a heads-up for distributions Google’s plan for ads in its new “AI” chatbot search engine is to let “AI” generate the ads Twelve ways to be wrong about “AI”-assisted coding “AI” tools shit where they eat Setting up KDE and Wayland on FreeBSD 15.x Firefox, Vivaldi unveil their UI overhauls Get your passwords out of BitWarden while you still can Printing with CUPS on OpenBSD OSNews fundraiser progress The Virtual OS Museum Google kills its search engine Futhark by example