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| Perplexity CEO Says Tech Giants 'Copy Anything That's Good' |
| NIST Ion Clock Sets New Record for Most Accurate Clock in the World |
| Nearly 3 Out of 4 Oracle Java Users Say They've Been Audited in the Past 3 Years |
| Young Americans Face Job Market Disconnect as Parents Offer Outdated Career Advice |
| Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People |
| Candy Crush-Maker King Lays Off 200 Staff, Replacing Many With AI Tools They Built |
| Microsoft Uses Chinese Engineers To Maintain Defense Department Systems Under Minimal US Oversight |
| CoreWeave Data Center To Double City's Power Needs |
| Japan Sets New Internet Speed Record, Surpassing Average US Broadband Speeds By 4 Million Times |
| LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date |
| California Set To Become First US State To Manage Power Outages With AI |
| Saudi Arabia Asks Consultants To Reassess Feasibility of 'The Line' Megaproject |
| Microsoft Has a New Trick To Improve Laptop Battery Life On Windows |
| US Defense Department Awards Contracts To Google, xAI |
| Meta's Superintelligence Lab Considers Shift To Closed AI Model |
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| AI Therapy Bots Fuel Delusions and Give Dangerous Advice, Stanford Study Finds |
| Core Ultra 5 245HX Blasts Past Desktop Counterpart in PassMark |
| Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms |
| Supporting Mission-Driven Space Innovation, For Earth And Beyond |
| China Claims Big Advances In Classical And Quantum Computers |
| AMD Discloses New CPU Flaws that can Enable Data Leaks via Timing Attacks |
| 'Positive Review Only': Researchers Hide AI Prompts in Papers |
| The Foolproof Way to Win Any Lottery, According to Maths |
| 1960s Schools Experiment That Created a New Alphabet and Left Thousands of Children Unable to Spell |
| Zombie Fabs Plague China's Chipmaking Ambitions, Failures Burning Tens of Billions of Dollars |
| Man's Ghastly Festering Ulcer Stumps Doctors—Until They Cut Out a Wedge of Flesh |
| This Glitchy, Error-Prone Tool Could Get You Deported |
| Experts Say It is Unlikely You Will See a Moa Any Time Soon |
| '123456' Password Exposed Chats for 64 Million McDonald's Job Applicants |
| Semiconductor Industry Could Short Out as Copper Runs Dry |
| 70,000 Years Ago Humans Underwent A Major Shift – That’s Why We Exist |
| PerfektBlue Bluetooth Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Vehicles to Remote Code Execution |
| CEO Claims Intel No Longer In The "Top 10 Semiconductor Companies" |
| Derinkuyu: A Subterranean Marvel of Ancient Engineering with Capacity for 20,000 Inhabitants |
| New Android TapTrap Attack Fools Users With Invisible UI Trick |
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| Hacker News: |
| LLM Inevitabilism |
| A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers |
| Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language |
| Apple's MLX adding CUDA support |
| Kiro: A new agentic IDE |
| LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date |
| VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia |
| Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf |
| Micro Adventure – Space Attack (online emulator) |
| Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London |
| Literalism plaguing today’s movies |
| SQLite async connection pool for high-performance |
| Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions |
| Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon |
| When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery |
| Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere |
| The Moving Assembly Line Turns 100 (2013) |
| Happy 20th Birthday, Django |
| Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance |
| AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf] |
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| SciTechDaily: |
| This Brain Circuit Might Be Fueling Your Chronic Pain and Fear |
| This Drug Combo Is a Fat-Burning Game-Changer for Women Over 50 |
| MIT Gave Photosynthesis a Speed Boost – Here’s What That Could Mean for Food and Climate |
| Game-Changing AI Tool Rewrites the Rules of Protein Engineering |
| Scientists Create the Impossible: New Compound Challenges Fundamental Principle of Chemistry |
| The Sex Lives of Guppies Just Got Way More Colorful |
| Lemurs Age Without Inflammation – Can Humans Do the Same? |
| A Cat, a Shrew, and a Hidden Virus: The Wild Story of a Backyard Discovery |
| Quantum Breakthrough: Physicists Discover “Lonely” Spinon That Defies Magnetic Norms |
| This Glittering Ball of Stars Is 160,000 Light-Years Away – And Hiding a Wild Secret |
| NASA’s Parker Probe Just Dived Into the Sun’s Atmosphere and Solved a Fiery Solar Mystery |
| This Virtual Forest Calms Your Brain – No Hiking Required |
| The 200-Year Tree Delay That Could Cost Us the Forests We Love |
| Ancient Mud Just Shattered a 750,000-Year-Old Ice Myth |
| Scientists Grow 400+ Brain Cell Types in a Dish – Could This Be the Key to Curing Alzheimer’s? |
| New Once-a-Week Shot Promises Life-Changing Relief for Parkinson’s Patients |
| Alzheimer’s Iceberg: 200+ Hidden Proteins That May Be Quietly Destroying Memory |
| The Milky Way May Be Surrounded by 100 Hidden Galaxies |
| “Impossible” Cold Clouds Discovered in Milky Way’s Heart Challenge Astronomical Theories |
| Webb’s Birthday Blockbuster: Baby Suns Ignite Tiered Rings Inside the Cosmic Cat’s Paw |
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| ScienceDaily: |
| Weight-loss wonder drug Mounjaro/Zepbound shrinks breast cancer tumors |
| Fasting twice a week could be a game-changer for type 2 diabetes |
| Semaglutide melts fat—but may quietly strip away your strength |
| Big-Bang echoes unmask a billion-light-year hole around Earth—and it’s stretching space faster |
| One shot, seven days: Long-acting levodopa gel tackles Parkinson’s tremors |
| Obesity is driving a hidden cancer epidemic—13 types and rising deaths nationwide |
| Sweet but risky: Common sweeteners may be accelerating puberty in kids |
| Gravitational shockwave: LIGO catches a 225-solar-mass black-hole smash-up |
| Hubble Cracks Open a Glittering Cosmic Time Capsule, Revealing Multi-Generational Stars 160,000 Light-Years Away |
| Can zebrafish help humans regrow hearing cells? |
| It looked like nothing—then scientists found a world 10x the size of Jupiter |
| This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster |
| Deadly disguise: How candy-like nicotine pouches caused a 763% spike in child poisonings |
| Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding |
| New Nanotech Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency Over 10% |
| One tiny trick just broke light’s oldest rule — and changed optics forever |
| This Algorithm Just Solved One of Physics’ Most Infamous Problems |
| 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock found in Africa rewrites lunar history |
| These mysterious stars could glow forever using dark matter |
| 100 ghost galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way—and we’re just now uncovering them |
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| PhysOrg news: |
| Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates |
| As chatbots improve, humans' unique language abilities are becoming less special |
| Novel approach reduces alloy microstructure prediction from years to minutes |
| Two new species of wart sea slugs discovered from North Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Most of us love memes. But are they a form of comics? |
| Did beer build civilization? Alcohol's influence on ancient societies examined |
| Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilizations. Here's how Classical Greece and China dealt with it |
| Scientists develop technique for high-resolution single cell epigenetic analysis |
| Rethinking the Big Bang: Gravity and quantum ripples may explain cosmic origins |
| Researchers use strands of DNA and mRNA with similar lengths to aid in search for new drugs |
| Disease-causing bacteria can deal with stink as long as they get a meal |
| The hidden health risks of wood-burning and eco stoves in homes |
| Earth was born with water—no delivery needed |
| Paid Parental Leave scheme language portrays fathers as secondary or optional |
| Jaguar population increases after wildfire and drought, indicating area's role as climate refuge |
| Sharper gravitational-wave analysis promises clearer insights into black hole collisions |
| Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue |
| Past their prime? Tool use declines with age in wild chimpanzees |
| New insights into the jet stream make better climate predictions possible |
| Atomic swap in morphine core structure leads to safer, non-rewarding opioid alternative |
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