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| How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction |
| DuckDuckGo's Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads |
| Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told |
| This Factory Was Severely Short On Workers. Then It Offered Flexible Work. |
| China's AI Companies May Be 'Distilling' America's AI Models |
| EFF Celebrates 36th Anniversary, Says 'We Need You in the Fight' |
| Meta Says US States Seek $1.4 Trillion In Penalties In August's Youth Safety Trial |
| How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked a Journalist for Days, Then Sent Police to Arrest Him |
| FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate |
| China Lands Rocket During an Orbital Launch For First Time |
| Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets |
| Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI To Cheat |
| Russia Hacks Doorbell Cameras To Spy On NATO Bases |
| Feds Demand Autonomous Vehicle Companies Stop Interfering With First Responders |
| NYC To Become First In US To Ban Deceptive Subscription Practices |
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| SoylentNews: |
| Woman's Puzzling Decline Turns Out to be Cobalt Poisoning From Hip Replacement |
| Geopolitical Tensions Are Complicating Research Efforts in the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbar |
| Secure Unix Ancestor KSOS Did Type Safety Before Rust Made It Cool |
| Scientists Discover the Deep Sleep Circuit That Builds Muscle, Burns Fat, and Boosts the Brain |
| Suspecting AI Cheating, Ivy League Prof Ordered an in-Person Final; Scores Fell 50% |
| Qualcomm Buys Lattner's Modular for Almost $4bn |
| Alibaba Bans Anthropic's Claude Code After an Alleged Hidden China-Detection Backdoor is Uncovered |
| Back to Basics, or Masm. Writing a Tiny Notepad for W11. |
| Record-Breaking Ocean Drilling Reveals Why Japan's 2011 Tsunami Was So Deadly |
| Bethesda, Id Software Reportedly Hit Hard by Microsoft Layoffs |
| Interoception: the Sense of How You Feel Inside |
| NASA May Send A Backup, Nuclear-Powered Mars Rover To The Moon |
| The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back |
| The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire |
| Rats Show Empathy, According to Model |
| Kernel Anti-Cheat Digital Restrictions Management Technology Is an Overreach |
| Zombie ‘Who Owns Unix?’ Lawsuit Comes Alive Again |
| Paper Mill Cancer Studies Get Double the Number of Citations as Genuine Papers |
| South Korea to Spend $1T on More Memory Chip Production and Humanoid Robots |
| Google Loses Final Appeal Over $4.7 Billion EU Android Antitrust Fine |
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| Hacker News: |
| Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem |
| Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom |
| RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch |
| We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput |
| Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM |
| UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction |
| Prefer strict tables in SQLite |
| The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] |
| Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph |
| ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files |
| Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch |
| Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii |
| Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects |
| How to hide from killer drones |
| Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts |
| Lost and Found |
| Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring |
| Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests |
| The Chinese Voice Actor Forced to Prove He's Human |
| I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it |
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| SciTechDaily: |
| New Research Challenges a Long-Held Myth About Colorado Moose |
| Scientists Catch a “Jumping Gene” Moving Between Species |
| New Study Rewrites the Story of How Humans Got Bigger |
| Just Two Hours of This Simple Exercise Habit a Week May Help You Live Longer |
| This Tiny-Bead Procedure Is Helping Patients Avoid Knee Replacement |
| Scientists Discover a Hidden Chemical Pathway That Makes City Air Hazy |
| Neanderthals Nearly Vanished 75,000 Years Ago – Then One Group Repopulated Europe |
| AI Detects Hidden Warning Signs Before Major Earthquakes |
| Quantum Mechanics May Not Need Imaginary Numbers After All |
| Scientists Have Found Evidence That Dark Matter May Not Be Playing by the Rules |
| Could Invisible Planet Flybys Have Triggered Earth’s Mass Extinctions? |
| Making the Invisible Visible: $100 Device Detects Cosmic Particles Passing Through You |
| Textbooks May Need Rewriting After Researchers Debunk a Core Chemistry Concept |
| Researchers Finally Solve a Decades-Old Mystery About Cellular Aging |
| A Hidden Crisis: Why Millions Are Burning Plastic Just To Survive |
| Breakthrough Brain Cancer Treatment Uses Sugar To Outsmart the Blood-Brain Barrier |
| Alzheimer’s May Start With a Surprising Symptom – Not Memory Loss |
| Archaeologists May Have Been Wrong About Olive Oil for Decades, New Study Finds |
| Scientists Discover an Alarming Trend Climate Models Are Missing |
| The “Hobbits” Mysteriously Disappeared 50,000 Years Ago – Scientists Have Revealed What Happened to Their Home |
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| ScienceDaily: |
| Second pregnancy changes the brain in surprising new ways |
| Physicists finally build a quantum material predicted more than a decade ago |
| Experimental drug reverses severe fatty liver disease by repairing the gut |
| Tiny bubbles could revolutionize inkjet printing |
| Scientists warn invasive Asian mantises are threatening Europe's wildlife |
| The biggest problem with solid-state batteries may finally be solved |
| Europe just unveiled a new rival to SpaceX’s Starship |
| The galaxy’s coldest “stars” may actually be alien megastructures |
| NASA satellites are watching Earth's newest island rise from the sea |
| This alien planet never has sunrise or sunset. It may support life |
| This frog bacterium wiped out cancer tumors in mice with a single dose |
| Europe's most active volcano may have a secret origin |
| This electric field trick boosted heat flow by nearly 300% |
| Why the human body has so many design flaws |
| Rare fossil goose rewrites the story of New Zealand's giant birds |
| Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock |
| This common pesticide may be quietly wiping out future bumblebees |
| Hawaii's famous “happy-face” spider has a surprising relative |
| Heavy marijuana smoking may increase cancer risk, researchers warn |
| A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision |
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| PhysOrg news: |
| Secure glass containers for storing chemical waste through laser welding |
| Synthetic rotation brings black hole energy theory into lab, amplifying waves |
| The Vikings were more than bearded marauders, but Scandinavia's national museums continue to project that image |
| Reimagining the furnace: How a new magnetic design could supercharge industrial plasma |
| Immune cells get transformed into fungus-fighting nanoparticles |
| When species are forced to move: Prediction models underestimate climate-related extinction risk |
| Ribosome-based gene circuit lets cells read six signals and trigger responses |
| The gap between forecasts and reality can change public emotions during disasters |
| Heavy traffic can turn flower-rich verges into bumblebee traps, study finds |
| Managing water with local wisdom and science |
| A robot that reads bacteria by touch, without staining or chemical labels |
| World's largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese sub |
| Tiny worms reveal backup circuits that keep survival reflexes from failing |
| Could permanent magnets protect astronauts from solar storms? |
| X-ray tracking reveals uneven expansion in young supernova remnant G292.0+1.8 |
| 'Their story is our story': Pigeons and humans, 3,500 years together |
| Cast away: Tracing the voyage of a plastic bottle cap and its hitchhiking marine species |
| The 'safe third country' concept turns out to be an empty shell |
| Saturday Citations: Blue zone longevity; soft tissue find predates dinosaurs; black hole collisions simplified |
| Grasses provide most of the world's calories—but we're only now starting to learn how they grow |
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