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Three Gorges Dam May Increase the Length of a Day by 0.06 Microseconds

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NASA continues to make groundbreaking discoveries. Among its recent findings was the cause and timetable for...
NASA continues to make groundbreaking discoveries. Among its recent findings was the cause and timetable for life on Earth coming to an end. According to the chilling study by Toho University, life on Earth will end due to the loss of oxygen. But don't worry, that won't happen for at least another billion years. In ...
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Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act

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Show HN: PinSend – Share text between devices using a PIN(P2P, no login)

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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Mario Kart designers had to rethink everything to make it open world

theverge.com

From the very beginning, the goal for Mario Kart World was ambitious. A follow-up to the...
From the very beginning, the goal for Mario Kart World was ambitious. A follow-up to the Switch’s (and Wii U’s) best-selling game, one that steadily grew over the years, World’s original concept focused on two key changes: doubling the amount of racers, and creating a connected, open world for players to explore. It...
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The Small World of English

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Building a word game forced us to solve a measurement problem: how do you rank 40+...
Building a word game forced us to solve a measurement problem: how do you rank 40+ ways to associate any given word down to exactly 17 playable choices? We discovered that combining human-curated thesauri, book cataloging systems, and carefully constrained LLM queries creates a navigable network where 76% of random ...
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Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a bus

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Every few years, a Silicon Valley gig-economy company announces a “disruptive” innovation that looks a whole...
Every few years, a Silicon Valley gig-economy company announces a “disruptive” innovation that looks a whole lot like a bus. Uber rolled out Smart Routes a decade ago, followed a short time later by the Lyft Shuttle of its biggest competitor. Even Elon Musk gave it a try in 2018 with the “urban loop system” that nev...
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What Is "Seeing" in Astrophotography? The Science Behind Atmospheric Turbulence

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Show HN: Controlling 3D models with voice and hand gestures

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Coinbase's Indian Vendor Got Bribed. $400M in losses and reimbursements

substack.com

Here’s the short version:One of Coinbase’s Indian support contractors got bribed.That person leaked user data.That data...
Here’s the short version:One of Coinbase’s Indian support contractors got bribed.That person leaked user data.That data was used to phish users.Coinbase is now down $400 million.No malware. No 0-day. No breach of “cyber infrastructure.” Just someone with a login and a price.Outsourcing support isn’t inherently bad. ...
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KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer

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Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs leaving clouds vulnerable

theregister.com

Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources...
Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets publicly accessible DevOps tools. Wiz Threat Research spotted the campaign and attributed it to an attacker it named JINX–0132, which ...
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Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare

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Ukraine’s 1 June attack on multiple Russian military bases destroyed or damaged as many as 41...
Ukraine’s 1 June attack on multiple Russian military bases destroyed or damaged as many as 41 Russian aircraft, including some of the country’s most advanced bombers. Estimates of the sum total of the damage range from US $2 billion to $7 billion. Supposedly planned for a year and a half, the Ukrainian operation was...

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NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates

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bicycles and bicycling deportation foreign workers police police department (nyc)
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Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers

arstechnica.com

An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of web...
An overview of Yandex identifier sharing An overview of Yandex identifier sharing A timeline of web history tracking by Meta and Yandex A timeline of web history tracking by Meta and Yandex Some browsers for Android have blocked the abusive JavaScript in trackers. DuckDuckGo, for instance, was already blocking domai...
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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

localmess.github.io

While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts...
While there are subtle differences in the way Meta and Yandex bridge web and mobile contexts and identifiers, both of them essentially misuse the unvetted access to localhost sockets. The Android OS allows any installed app with the INTERNET permission to open a listening socket on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1)...
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Claude has learned how to jailbreak Cursor

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I have “rm” specifically disallowed, along with “mv” and a few other scary commands. Claude realized...
I have “rm” specifically disallowed, along with “mv” and a few other scary commands. Claude realized that I had to approve the use of such commands, so to get around this, it chose to put them in a shell script and execute the shell script. Thankfully, a Git restore to the last commit saved me, but still… 17 Likes A...
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Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language

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Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record

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The Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion research reactor in Greifswald has reported a new record. The Max...
The Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion research reactor in Greifswald has reported a new record. The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), which operates the reactor, announced that a world record for the so-called triple product in long plasma discharges had been achieved at the research facility during the cu...

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There should be no Computer Art (1971)

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The dominating and most important person in the art world today is the art dealer. He...
The dominating and most important person in the art world today is the art dealer. He determines what is to be sold and what is not. lt is the art dealer who actually created a new style, not the artist. Progress in the world of pictures today is the same as that in the world of fashionable clothes and cars: each fa...
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EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal

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europe
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Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests

belfercenter.org

On the desolate steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear explosive tests...
On the desolate steppe of eastern Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union carried out 456 nuclear explosive tests during the Cold War at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, which sprawls over an area approximately the size of Belgium. Of these, the Soviet Union performed 116 tests in the atmosphere, and 340 underground. While some of...
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Ubicloud: Open-Source Alternative to AWS

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The Creepy, Surprisingly Routine Business of Animal Cloning

theatlantic.com

economy
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