X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you havenβt heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is currently selling Steam versions of the secret-packed deckbuilder for [β¦]

BenQ's first dual-monitor desk lamp is excellent, but it'll cost you.

Elon Musk wants to harness solar energy for AI.

CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a "reimagined" skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two [β¦]

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Parton won worldwide acclaim for her songwriting, colorful public persona, and reputation for warmth and generosity.

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Youth-led movement plans more demonstrations for next month.

Department of Justice lawyers told a federal judge the venue 'cannot survive' without the US president's help.

The government agency that's encouraging high-risk and high-reward research.

US country music star Dolly Parton has died aged 80, her family have announced in a video on social media.

Omani FM hopes the two countries will 'soon announce' a joint temporary transit corridor through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes and Manchester City forward Khadija Shaw win the Professional Footballers' Associations men's and women's player of the year awards.

Back-to-back Masters champion Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour are giving fans what they want by changing their end-of-season play-offs to matchplay.

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More than 1,300 people were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Virginia and Maryland.

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Experts warn that declining vaccination rates have opened the door for resurgence of disease once largely eradicated.

Israeli forces told Palestinian American Lou Ridi he cannot walk on his own land in Qusra, while settlers roam freely.

Sentora is my own project, so this is a postmortem on my own code, not someone else's. The agent shipped this: @/app.post("/self_destruct") async def self_destruct(request: Request): threading.Thread(target=perform_destruction, daemon=True).start() return sanic_json({"status": "Destruction initiated"}) No auth. Listening on 0.0.0.0:9099 . perform_destruction() ran rm -rf "$(pwd)" . One unauthenticated POST from anywhere on the subnet uninstalled the EDR. The four others: Permissive auth on by default. A _is_permissive_auth() helper accepted any non-empty X-Agent-Key when a specific env var waβ¦
Police used water cannons and batons as a few thousand protesters broke through security barricades in Bihar's capital.

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that itβs rolling out βFirst Draft,β a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut.Β Instagram says the process can produce [β¦]
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SDF commander campaigns for Kurdish language preservation after decade fighting the Islamic State.

Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave after a mass crossing from Morocco in late July.

An experimental CUDA compatibility layer that runs a useful subset of CUDA programs on Apple Silicon GPUs through Metal. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439078 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

Among those charged are two Super Micro employees and one from Nvidia, marking another flashpoint in US-China AI rivalry Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for illegally exporting βhigh-end AI serversβ to mainland China, adding another wave of turbulence in the AI ββrivalry between China and the United States. Prosecutors said the servers involved were graphics processing units known as βB300,β which have been banned from sale to China. Continue reading...

Israeli protesters block aid trucks from reaching Gaza

Understanding unique photochemistry of such materials will help in conservation, storage, and exhibition.

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Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated after Israeli forces raided a UN-operated facility in occupied East Jerusalem.

Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division called "Project Starry Sky" once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain, charged with [β¦]

Hello all! Ifso is a personal finance simulator that takes all of your various accounts (like taxable brokerages, retirement accounts, loans, etc) and various life events (like income changes, retirement, purchasing a home, increasing principal contributions to your home mortgage, etc.) and plays it out year by year for you. The simulation engine underneath the hood handles all of the tax math, capital gains math, investment growth rates, home appreciation, vehicle depreciation, loan amortization, and more. You can then create multiple scenarios by duplicating an existing one or creating a frβ¦
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A polished update to Googleβs foldable brings real improvements, but the price bump and rampant competition make it a tough sell.
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Removal of US sanctions offers Syria a chance to fully rejoin the global financial system after years of isolation.

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Luke Littler loses to Jermaine Wattimena in the quarter-finals of the 27th Players Championship contest of the year.

It's currently only appearing on Pixels running Android 17.
It's currently only appearing on Pixels running Android 17.
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Find My is a vital iPhone security feature that you should keep on almost all the time. Turning it off makes your device much harder to recover.

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Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family announced on her social media.

The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.

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Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunchβs events, and this yearβs Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!

I am posting a design for a quantum computer because I would like to speak with experts and people interested in hacking together physical quantum computers. This is an exploratory design and is an attempt to reason through quantum computation from first principles. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438366 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced fresh sanctions on Iranian cyber actors as part of what it called an "unprecedented, whole-of-government, economic campaign" against the nation and its enablers. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime
The fatalities come amidst declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent "OG Green," matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3. That includes [β¦]

The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.

The singer, songwriter and actress is known for timeless hits including Jolene and I Will Always Love You.

Removal of decades-old designation offers major sanctions relief for Syria, aiming to boost post-war reconstruction.

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Nottingham Forest have agreed a fee worth around Β£50m to sign Chelsea striker Liam Delap.

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Washington reportedly alerted Ukraine to refrain from strikes until delegation leaves Moscow, US media reports.

If youβve been circling around Disrupt, then nowβs the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!

Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sothebyβs they do, thanks to Kelly Shen β17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence for the New York auction house. Shen builds algorithms to predict prices, using factors like buying trends and artistsβ popularity. She has also worked on such efforts as cataloguingβ¦

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The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from steel to furniture, fresh tuna and makeup.

The Republican Senate candidate announced the plan with a graphic X flagged as βMade with AIβ US politics live β latest updates Ken Paxton , a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has unveiled plans to tackle the βnegative impactβ of datacenters amid a growing backlash across the political spectrum. Paxton, endorsed by Donald Trump but facing a close contest against Democrat James Talarico, posted a βTexas firstβ datacenter plan on X with a graphic that the social media network flagged as βMade with AIβ. Continue reading...

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana during an event on Tuesday with SpaceX announcing a deal to build a new spaceport in his state.
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

Airlines gradually restore Middle East services after Iran conflict Β Β Reuters
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Tadej Pogacar takes a huge step towards winning the Velta a Espana for the first time as he cruises to a resounding victory in the fourth stage on Tuesday.

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"[P]eople are not familiar with this disease and donβt fully understand the potential severity."

Fatah and Dahlan's Democratic Reform hold talks in Alamein as fears grow over a potential opposition coalition.

Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones, but the brandβs Bluetooth speakers have earned a great reputation for featuring great sound and build quality. The compact Bose SoundLink Micro β its most compact Bluetooth speaker β is currently discounted to $79.99 at Amazon, a pretty great discount from its usual $129 price tag. [β¦]

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Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.

European Commission says it is 'assessing' Spain's request after some 70,000 migrants surged into North African enclave.

Movie-tie in games were huge in the 2000s, but have mostly dried up in the last decade. We still get games tied to existing IP, but in a different manner.

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Survey indicates majority of Democrats in first six states to vote for 2028 nominee believe Israel committing genocide.

"This will be a project like no other."

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Itβs time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescomβs two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before. Thanks to teases on social media, we already have some idea of what to expect, including looks at Final Fantasy VII Revelation, [β¦]
