New laws coming into force this week aim to streamline age checks although old-style plastic IDs will still be allowed Younger drinkers in England and Wales will be able to prove their age with a digital ID starting this week as new laws give pubs, off-licences, nightclubs and restaurants the right to use biometric scanning technology to check customers are over 18. Customers will be able to download software that scans their faces into their own phone to generate a QR code proving their age based on a stored proof of age. Other tech under consideration as part of the government push to digit…
It was the fastest-growing emoji in 2025 – but if you’re older than 16, it has probably passed you by. Now, just as twentysomethings are catching up, it’s over In the 2025 hit Netflix show Adolescence, DI Luke Bascombe’s 13-year-old son, Adam, has to explain to his father the way his generation use heart emojis. “Red means love, purple: horny, yellow: ‘I’m interested, are you interested?’, pink: ‘I’m interested but not in sex,’ orange: ‘You’re going to be fine,’” he explains. “It all has a meaning. Everything has a meaning.” And those meanings are constantly…
The US president's comments come after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC an AI "kill switch" may need to be mandatory.
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US President Donald Trump makes a surprise call to Nvidia's CEO, interrupting a live event to discuss fears about AI.
US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to tighten mail-in voting rules ahead of critical midterm elections.
He becomes the first person to win two lead acting prizes in one night at the prestigious TV ceremony.
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Beyoncé, Sabrina Carpenter, Cher, Elton John and Miley Cyrus have all worn Mackie's glittery ensembles.
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Courts and Democratic-led states mount legal challenges against Trump administration visa and green card limits.
Protests have been held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands after a man died during a police arrest over the weekend.
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Indian police have launched a probe after a woman biker shared video of a car ramming her motorcycle.
Celebrities walked a blue version of the traditional red carpet ahead of the primetime show honouring the best shows in US television.
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The Thirlwall Inquiry has been investigating how concerns about killer nurse Letby were handled - and whether any babies might have lived if action was taken earlier.
US Secretary of the Air Force says the space weapon is necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action.
When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
I kept hearing "just buy a Mac and run models locally, it pays for itself" and wanted to check. Sunk Cost takes a machine, a model and how many tokens you use a day, and works out how long the hardware takes to pay back against renting the same model by the token. Obviously there are other reasons to buy your own hardware aside from just saving money on llms but this is just looking at it from a raw cost saving perspective. If you have any ideas on how I can make this more helpful lmk! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706656 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
I kept hearing "just buy a Mac and run models locally, it pays for itself" and wanted to check. Sunk Cost takes a machine, a model and how many tokens you use a day, and works out how long the hardware takes to pay back against renting the same model by the token. Obviously there are other reasons to buy your own hardware aside from just saving money on llms but this is just looking at it from a raw cost saving perspective. If you have any ideas on how I can make this more helpful lmk! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706656 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
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Israeli rights group B’Tselem says Israeli settler violence aims to eliminate Palestinian existence.
Thousands of turtles arrived at La Escobilla beach in Oaxaca within 48 hours, sanctuary officials said.
Nottingham becomes one of the first cities nationally to take this action, its council leader said.
so as a long time Fedora user I just got a macbook for work. while it's so much faster than my old Fedora-based work laptop, it's also running macOS... which I really don't want to learn or get used to. i tried a Fedora VM on the Macbook and even then the modifier keys are still garbled. my friends kept telling i'd simply get used to macOS but i'd like to stick to what i know.. instead of spending some time adjusting to macOS, i spent a few days with an LLM to create a program which uses macOS accessibility features as well as private APIs to make the experience as close to my Fedora computer…
Moscow maintains military foothold in the Mediterranean following talks with Damascus
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The Meta Display glasses have an Audio Only feature that can detect when you're driving and turn off the display.
Zendaya, Noah Wyle, Sarah Snook and Colman Domingo are among the stars nominated for acting prizes.
The talks come amid continued fighting and disputes over the implementation of key security commitments.
As temperatures drop through the week and it starts to feel more autumnal, is it now time to put the summer clothes away?
The ruling bars the United States Postal Service from implementing restrictions that experts and election officials say would upend voting in November.
Project background and human written summary here: https://deepclause.substack.com/p/pie-in-a-box-running-pi-on... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706083 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong
I've been playing with this idea to build an estimation of chess cheating likelihood from an exported chess game (PGN format). The main thing I've developed so far is a way of estimating the complexity of each position. The intuition is that matching an engine's top moves in difficult positions is much more informative than doing so when there's an obvious best move. The detector currently combines complexity with engine agreement and centipawn loss to make a prediction. I'd like to move beyond the heuristics and train an ML model on a decent dataset of known cheating/non-cheating games. Ther…
Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup - the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today's Steam Frame - are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld? Valve isn't saying so yet. The company is figuring out "how and when we can deliver something like that," Valve designer Pierre-Loup […]
Opposition bloc leads in tight Swedish election with 95% counted.
The biggest night in the US TV calendar is taking place, and stars are on the Emmy Awards red carpet.
CENTCOM disputes the IRGC claim that the Panama-flagged oil tanker El Gaia hit naval mines in Hormuz.
If you have the right Apple Pencil and iPhone, you can use them together. But it won't be cheap, and there are some limitations to know.
Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay is hosting the Emmy Awards on Monday night. We'll be updating this list as winners are announced.
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The £72m heading towards Reform UK's coffers is transforming the debate at Westminster about politics and money.
Several papers feature actor Sydney Sweeney, who has been criticised by female athletes for posing nude for a sports betting company advert.
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.
A refurbished S24 can still be a good deal, but its price needs to be low enough to justify buying a two-year-old phone instead of a newer model.
It is currently unknown where the drone came from, officials said.
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Relocation schemes offer support for people who want to swap big cities for a cheaper, quieter life.
New rules introduced on Tuesday mean establishments will be able to accept digital ID apps alongside physical documents.
New rules introduced on Tuesday mean establishments will be able to accept digital ID apps alongside physical documents.
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If only there were some kind of agency for environmental protection to stop this.
Apple Music has two Lossless options for maximum audio quality, but they consume significantly more data.
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a […]
Republican Greg Abbott says datacenters must help ‘protect’ drought-prone state and disclose water use Greg Abbott , the Texas governor, has directed state regulators to penalize datacenters that fail to comply with state laws requiring them to disclose their water use. “Data centers must share the duty to protect Texas water,” the Republican governor said on Monday. “The Texas Water Code requires a complete and accurate water use survey. I direct the Texas Water Development Board to use its enforcement authority to penalize past failures and to impose legal consequences for any fut…
An Instagram post from the couple said two nights of their wedding festivities in the Bahamas were partially funded by Umar Kremlev.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has now scored in Leeds' last five league matches. Is he ready for and England recall?
Ancient DNA reveals that plague was already killing hunter-gatherers in Siberia 5,500 years ago, long before cities and flea-driven epidemics. The prehistoric strains may have been especially dangerous because they carried a genetic factor capable of provoking severe immune reactions.
Part of a 'massive 48-hour malvertising blitz' targeting macOS and Windows machines with malware
McConnell spent weeks in recovery before explaining he was "briefly unconscious" following the fall that sent him to the hospital and a weeks-long recovery process.
The Windows Media Creation tool is easy to use and lets you keep a USB drive handy so you can install Windows 11 anytime you need.
With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it. Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, […]
After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?
More than 60 years after surveys suggested a deep coral reef off Benin was probably dead, scientists have found it alive. Cameras revealed healthy-looking coral patches supporting multiple fish species more than 50 meters beneath the surface. The discovery suggests West Africa’s coastal waters may contain other overlooked reefs that have yet to be documented.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are going to be given a review of their publicly-funded security after their return to live in the UK.
Hi HN, I've been using Claude Code, Codex and Cursor quite a bit lately, and I found myself checking their usage limits all the time. Most of the tools I found for this live on the desktop or in the menu bar. What I really wanted was to pull out my phone and see how much I had left, especially when I'm away from my computer. I ended up building Nowdex for this. The main thing is the iPhone widget. It shows your current usage and reset time directly on the Home Screen or Lock Screen. Right now it supports Claude, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Kimi and GLM. There is no account thing. The app doesn't sen…
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges.
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In the past, choosing between a wired and a wireless gaming mouse may have meant accepting a number of tradeoffs. These days, there's very little between them.
Well, just 12 languages for now. Let me know if you want me to localize it for your language! Hi I'm the creator of 10k Science, an immersive science learning platform where you can zoom into things down to the molecular level, guided via a socratic-style AI on the web, iOS, or VR. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/10k-science/id6793177913 Meta Quest: https://vr.meta.me/s/287GU4fsKGD3Cl3 Built using real science data, funded by the NSF and NIH. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704763 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
The latest Doom installment just got a good bit cheaper.
Indigenous groups, environmentalists and locals oppose the wall; Big Bend sees about 1 percent of border arrests.
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The notorious Russian threat group is spreading an upgraded version of the botnet malware, which the FBI disrupted in 2022.
Israeli attack targets Gaza displacement camp
The findings are part of a project documenting British involvement in the slave trade between the 16th and 19th Centuries.
The Trump administration says it could save power plants more than $300bn and 'unleash' American energy.
"NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria."
US Senator Sanders and podcaster Bannon, longtime foes, to urge AI restrictions Reuters
Hey HN, I created this project starting with subtitles creation for my 7 years old son. Than added video highlighting and finally it evolves in offline video analyzer on which are working group of 3 close friends. Free AGPL: https://github.com/Aseiel/VideoHighlighter Demo: https://github.com/Aseiel/VideoHighlighter#demo Site: https://aseiel.github.io/VideoHighlighter-site/ There is optional Pro version. Happy to answer any questions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704396 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Dominic Calvert-Lewin stars as Leeds United go third in the Premier League with a superb performance to inflict a heavy 4-1 defeat on Newcastle United at Elland Road.
Macklemore says he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour over his pro-Palestinian stance.
