China has advocated for a ceasefire, insisting US sanctions will not resolve the Middle East conflict.

China has advocated for a ceasefire, insisting US sanctions will not resolve the Middle East conflict.

Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineerβs plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled

Voters in at least six states will soon decide ballot measures related to voter ID β the largest number of voter ID measures in a single year. The tally includes three prominent swing states.

Let this serve as a reminder that the Switch 2 is getting more expensive next week.

The Xperia 10 VIII offers few upgrades for a lot more money.

Thunderbolt 5 offers extremely fast data transfer and lots of power, but most devices can't take advantage of it

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Sir Nick Faldo says LIV golfers seeking a return to the DP World Tour may have to "eat a bit of humble pie" before regaining eligibility for the European-based circuit.

Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth, and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models, it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The polishing cloth is still "made with soft, nonabrasive material" but costs $9 instead of $19. It doesn't look like anything else has changed, as the description matches an archived [β¦]

Tested on Semianalysisβs InferenceX benchmark, JalapeΓ±o registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.

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Dozens of groups in Iran and other countries face US sanctions over ties to Iranian oil, weapons and cyberoperations.

A US military C-17 transport plane has mysteriously landed at Moscowβs Vnukovo Airport from Riga, Latvia

How do football clubs in debt afford star players?

Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio.

The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.

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The policy could affect up to 200,000 people and deter many more from filing an asylum claim once in the US.

Hampshire Police officers initially arrested the student and placed him in handcuffs as he lay dying.

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OpenAI says its new AI chip, JalapeΓ±o, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said JalapeΓ±o offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems [β¦]

Pebble Time 2 is a smartwatch designed to push back against the trend, and it does so beautifully.

128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin

When building AI agents, I found myself struggling to understand what exactly is happening inside of all of our traces. I was pasting huge JSON files to my AI agent to parse and get some useful insights from it. Then I thought, Webpack bundle visualizer had this great view to see all your dependencies - what if we could visualize AI context from traces like this? So I built unbox-ai. It's just one command: npx unbox-ai trace.json It also ships with an agent skill so your AI agent doesn't need to parse through a huge JSON file to analyze a trace. Let me know what you think! Comments URL: httpsβ¦
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The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.

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Washington announced what it described as an "economic D-Day" against Iran, widening current sanctions and targetting countries with business ties with the regime.

The former Jeffrey Epstein accomplice loses her latest effort to be released from prison.

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Yan Diomande topped Real's transfers, and Jose Mourinho says he is happy despite missing out on Rodri to Barcelona.

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Technical analysis of CVE-2026-8508, a pre-auth captive-portal bypass in Zyxel's social-login flow. The post covers the vulnerable execution path, root cause, affected firmware scope, and the firmware-emulation methodology used during analysis. submitted by /u/TheReedemer69 [link] [comments]
We're liveblogging the two-hour showcase and half hour pre-show of Gamescom's ONL today! Come join us, we'll even start a little early for you.

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Apple finds respectable performance gains on a new 2nm process, but M5 users shouldn't feel any FOMO.
So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it

Israeli prime minister has used ancient religious texts to validate pre-emptive warfare and bypass international law.

A group of displaced girls in Gaza finds moments of joy, safety, and self-expression at a weekly movie screening.

Gaza child breaks down in tears after an Israeli threat over kites

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of WhatsApp account security features, including support for multiple passkeys to a single account to help users with both iOS and Android devices sign into their accounts using the phishing-resistant method. The tech giant said more than 1 billion people use a passkey to log into WhatsApp. Support for passkeys was first introduced in Android in October 2023,
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Ukraine hits Russia's Afipsky oil refinery and gas plant in latest attacks targeting energy infrastructure.

Article URL: https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433372 Points: 35 # Comments: 29
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Apple has announced two new processors, the M6 and M5 Ultra, as well as updated Mac Mini and Mac studio machines powered by them. The new machines are already available for preorder directly from Apple, with shipping for most configurations starting on September 22nd, 2026. The Mac Mini starts at $899, $300 more than the [β¦]

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Wildfires are raging across Indonesia, affecting at least 10 provinces and blanketing communities in hazardous haze.

Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AIβthis refresh keeps that in mind.

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

Apple is announcing a new generation of the Mac Mini, once again offering two models: one with a new M6 chip and a higher-end model with the M5 Pro found in this year's MacBook Pro. The new Minis have the same tiny design and footprint as the 2024 M4 / M4 Pro models, but with [β¦]

Uber will only access recordings from a driver's phone to review safety reports.

With the launch of the latest Mac mini and Mac Studio computers, Apple introduced new chips with cutting-edge technology.

You can now ditch the six-digit code for a stronger password.

The social app founded by Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is expanding beyond events with new digital homes for groups to connect, organize, and make plans.

Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends

Wyze announced a new pan-and-tilt security camera today designed for indoor use. The entire Indoor Cam Pan can rotate 360 degrees, while the camera and lens on its front can tilt up and down 103 degrees. When you want privacy, the lens can tilt down until it completely disappears inside the Indoor Cam Pan's body [β¦]

Nintendo didnβt design its Switch dock with travel in mind. Genkiβs Covert Dock is a much smaller alternative my family has been using to connect our Switch to hotel TVs for years, but Iβve come to realize I much prefer having a stand for the console when using it this way. So when it came [β¦]

Apple is announcing new models of the Mac Studio, now using the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. This reunification under one chip generation comes over a year after Apple awkwardly split the Studio between M4 Max and M3 Ultra offerings. (The older sounding M3 Ultra was actually the more powerful one, and [β¦]

WhatsAppβs two-step verification previously relied on a six-digit PIN, but now users can choose a longer, alphanumeric password with special characters.
Uber is updating its teen account feature to allow parents to use the selfie cameras on Uber drivers' phones to check in on their teenage children during ridehail trips. Since first launching teen accounts in 2023, Uber has touted the myriad ways parents can keep tabs on their children, from PIN verification to live GPS [β¦]

Apple has announced a new M6 chip for Macs, along with an M5 Ultra that it says is its "most powerful chip ever," designed for tasks like 3D rendering and running frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip, which Apple says will bring improvements in performance and power efficiency, and it also [β¦]

Appleβs Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been tough to buy for months, but updated versions have arrived. Both include new chips optimized for AI, with the M6 Mac Mini getting a $200 price bump.

Apple is finally refreshing the Mac mini and Mac Studio, which will sport new M6 and M5 Ultra chips.

The forces raided and seized the Qalandiya Training Centre, a key facility operated by the UNRWA.

These special and run-off elections will continue setting the stage for November's midterm elections.

USS Abraham Lincoln to dock in Thailand next week, Thai official says Β Β Reuters
mcpd is a way to expose sandbox environments as MCP servers using just configuration. In the repo, I have some example config files that mimic popular coding harness tools. I've been using it to give my cloud agents code search tools on private repos I manage. I have a script that syncs project code to the sandbox on deploy and I can connect it to my cloud agents and debug in Slack. It's awesome in combination with the Sentry MCP. I'm working on a secure way to have the agent open up PRs too. My general thesis is the agent loop should be unprivileged and run remotely and tool execution shouldβ¦
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In work mode of the ChatGPT mobile app, if you upload a large image directly(even you choose "upload file" instead of image) for runtime processing, the image will always be highly compressed and many details would be lost. And if you choose to run it in the desktop app or pre-upload it to your imagebed to generate a url, it makes things complex-especially when you just want to extract things from some long screenshots by uploading, scripting automatically and getting the results smoothly in your phone. Tired of this, I try to build a skill that could be easily added into ChatGPT mobile appsβ¦
Savinho's arrival, which comes in a busy transfer window for Spurs, takes their spending past $400m.

Hey HN, Over the past 6 months, I've been working on a Spanish language learning app that generates stories for you with your target words. For the last 2, I've been reading with it most mornings and it's really helped me grow my vocab. It generates short stories built around your target words you are learning, and uses vocabulary you already know for the majority of the story (around 95%). As you read along you click any word you don't know and it puts them into a spaced repetition system (SRS) to appear in future generated stories. It does need an account to work. I have a short on-boardingβ¦

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Marimo has addressed a high-severity security flaw in its notebook software that allowed an attacker to execute an attacker-supplied Model Context Protocol (MCP) command in a specially crafted notebook, according to VulnCheck's CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) record. The CNA record says the command can run as a local subprocess when the notebook is opened in edit mode. The vulnerability, tracked
It brings the total of arrests in the investigation into the crash which killed seven people to 17.

Volkswagen CEO faces battle with rival stakeholders, angry workers in push for cuts Β Β Reuters
The US says new sanctions ar an "economic D-Day", but Tehran's leaders have survived restrictions before.

EXCLUSIVE: Air India seeks $1.5 billion from owners Tata, Singapore Air as losses mount, sources say Β Β Reuters
In an environment where emerging fund managers struggle to attract LP attention, FGV is betting that a different venture model can help it lure LPs.

Why the bond market may be resetting expectations about the US Β Β Reuters
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Prosecutors argue Tate and his brother Tristan are a flight risk and should not be released on bail.

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UK PM Andy Burnham visited Kyiv on his first foreign trip, pledging to give cruise missile designs to Ukraine.

The big upgrade on the 20th anniversary ROG XBOX Ally X20 is a larger 7.4-inch OLED display.

The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet made - but originally, Asus wanted you to buy a bundle pairing it with pricy AR glasses. In July, we told you that bundle would no longer be necessary, and today it's official: you can pre-order a [β¦]
