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Centrist Nicuşor Dan on course to win Romanian election with 99% of votes counted
Results show Bucharest mayor taking 54.2% of vote in presidential race, with far-right rival George Simion on 45.8%The centrist mayor of Bucharest, Nicuşor Dan, is set to win Romania’s pivotal presidential election with 99% of votes counted, according to official figures showing the pro-EU independent eight points clear of his far-right rival, George Simion.The figures from Romania’s central election authority showed...
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California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection
Article URL: https://github.com/veltman/ca-license-plates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025022 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Apple could let users replace Siri as the default virtual assistant
Owing to pressure from EU regulators, Apple could allow users to replace Siri as the default virtual assistant on their devices, reports Bloomberg.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Apple is trying to get ‘LLM Siri’ back on track
Apple Intelligence has been a wreck since its first features rolled out last year, and a big new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman details why — and how Apple is trying to piece things back together. And much of its effort hinges on rebuilding Siri from the ground up. Gurman has reported in the past […]
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:More than 400 with heart valve condition dying each year on NHS waiting list, research finds
Exclusive: Cardiologist Dr Jon Byrne warns true death toll could be 800 a year as not all specialist centres shared data‘She was so fit, so well’: the heart patient who died before getting vital procedureHundreds of patients with a deadly heart condition are dying every year while stuck on an NHS waiting list amid long delays for life-saving treatment, research reveals.About 300,000 people across the UK have aortic...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:After Asus and Dell, MSI is launching a Nvidia DGX Spark clone, but I am still skeptical about the whole 'desktop AI supercomputer' moniker
MSI EdgeXpert MS-C931 boasts super specs and DGX Spark tech, but doubts remain over its claim of being a true desktop AI supercomputer.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Gary Lineker ‘to leave the BBC this week’ after antisemitism row
Presenter expected to host his last Match of the Day on Sunday and will not front 2026 World Cup coverageGary Lineker is expected to announce he is leaving the BBC on Monday after apologising for amplifying online material with antisemitic connotations, the Guardian understands.The Match of the Day host will reportedly not present the 2026 World Cup or next season’s FA Cup after “bowing out by mutual agreement” with...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Europe elections: European leaders congratulate Bucharest mayor Nicuşor Dan – as it happened
This blog has now closed. You can read the latest updates on the parliamentary elections in Portugal here, Romania’s presidential race here and Poland’s presidential first round poll here.That’s a higher result for Nicușor Dan than perhaps expected. The turnout clearly plays a role here, too.But these are just exit polls, and they do not seem to account for the crucial diaspora vote. Continue reading...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:UK ‘may need 92,000 extra public workers if fall in productivity continues to 2030’
Report suggests Rachel Reeves could be forced to spend 5.1bn if last year’s downward trend continuesThe chancellor, Rachel Reeves, could be forced to spend more than 5bn and employ 92,000 extra workers across the public sector if declines in productivity continue until 2030, according to analysis of official figures.The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), an economic consultancy, said more workers would...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Average asking price for UK home hits new high of almost £380k
Rightmove says figure has risen in May by 0.6% compared with April despite lower demand from new buyersThe average asking price of a UK home has hit a new record high for the second month in a row, with sellers seeking almost 380,000 on average in May, according to a property website.Across Britain, the asking price for homes coming on to the market has risen by 2,335 or 0.6% in May compared with April, Rightmove...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:5 ways you can plug the widening AI skills gap at your business
Here's how to snare the best AI professionals - despite the growing skills shortage.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
Article URL: https://www.uu.se/en/press/press-releases/2025/2025-05-15-the-effect-of-physical-fitness-on-mortality-is-overestimated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024843 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called "Karton"
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-is-finally-getting-a-native-virtual-machine-manager-called-karton/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024784 Points: 33 # Comments: 7
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Centre-right party wins Portuguese election as far right makes record gains
Incumbent Democratic Alliance, led by caretaker prime minister Luís Montenegro, falls well short of majorityPortugal’s incumbent, centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) has won the country’s third snap general election in three years – but once again fallen well short of a majority – as the underperforming socialists were left vying for second place with the far-right Chega party, which took a record 22% of the vote.By...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles
Article URL: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@codegouvfr/114529954373492878 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44024759 Points: 130 # Comments: 24
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Computex 2025: Watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang deliver the opening keynote today
Computex 2025 is about to kick off, and the cavalcade of announcements about the latest chips, laptops, gaming devices and more from leading brands has already begun. The event in Taiwan will kick off Sunday night (US time) with a keynote at the Taipei Music Center from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. There will be a livestream for anyone not attending in person, so you can watch along right here (see NVIDIA YouTube stream...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Like Murderbot? Here are 3 more sci-fi shows to watch
The show looks like a critical success, but here are other shows like it you can check out.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Israeli army begins ‘extensive’ new ground operations in Gaza
Netanyahu signals openness to deal with Hamas and says Israel will allow some aid into GazaThe Israeli army has announced the start of a large-scale offensive in Gaza, describing “extensive ground operations” to seize “operational control” of swaths of the devastated Palestinian territory as a second day of indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar ended without any breakthrough.Israeli military officials said its forces had “...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety
Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant wealth from crypto holdings are getting more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. While cryptocurrencies have always created unique security risks, it seems there’s a rising threat of violent abduction due to the growing value of Bitcoin, […]
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Israel to resume entry of ‘basic’ humanitarian aid into Gaza, Netanyahu’s office says – as it happened
This blog is now closed. Read our latest story hereIn an earlier post, we reported on the dire situation at the Indonesian hospital, which is reportedly under siege by Israeli forces.Now Gaza’s health ministry has said that all public hospitals in the north of the territory were “out of service”. Continue reading...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Centrist Warsaw mayor narrowly ahead in first round of Polish presidential race
Rafał Trzaskowski and historian Karol Nawrocki, backed by populist right, both claim about 30% of vote as runoff loomsThe pro-European centrist Rafał Trzaskowski and historian Karol Nawrocki, backed by the populist right, have each secured about 30% of the vote in a nail-bitingly close first round of Poland’s presidential election.The vote sets the stage for a runoff round in two weeks that will force voters to choose...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer, his office says
Former US president is reviewing treatment options with family as cancer has spread to the boneJoe Biden, the former US president, has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his personal office announced on Sunday.The 82-year-old was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule were found. Biden and his family are considering options for...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Show HN: Python Simulator of David Deutsch’s "Constructor Theory of Time"
Hi HN,I turned the freshly published paper “The Constructor Theory of Time” by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto (arXiv, 13 May 2025) into an executable Python library.What you’ll find • One-to-one translation of the paper’s formalism: Substrates, Attributes, Tasks, Constructors, and task-algebra operators • Possibility / impossibility predicates and counterfactuals encoded exactly as defined • Test suite that mirrors...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:10 Great Horror Movies to Watch on Prime Video Tonight
Abigail and Smile 2 are among the top chilling picks.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:If you like puzzles, check out this trippy comic-style escape room game for Playdate
Meeting an online friend in person for the first time can be pretty awkward. If only there were a way to skip the weird small talk part and get right into the flow of real conversation — like, say, getting shrunk down to the size of a chess piece and trapped in a series of board games, forcing you to communicate so you can find your way out. That's exactly the scenario in which characters Alex and Sarah find themselves...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’
Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. As first noted in Rolling Stone, Grok also answered a question on Thursday about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis in World War II by saying that “historical records, […]
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:At least 28 people dead after storms and tornadoes strike three US states
At least 19 deaths were in Kentucky, seven in Missouri and two in Virginia after storms spawned two dozen tornadoesStorm systems sweeping across the midwest to the south left at least 28 dead in Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia.Kentucky’s governor, Andy Beshear, confirmed in a social media post that deaths in Kentucky have risen to 19. “Deaths from the severe weather have now risen to 19, with the addition of one adult...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:UK-EU talks ‘down to the wire’ as fishing and youth mobility hold up deal
EU ambassadors told to remain on standby for late-night meeting in scenes reminiscent of Brexit talksNegotiations on a significant reset of the UK’s relationship with the European Union have gone “down to the wire”, with fisheries and youth mobility among outstanding sticking points with hours to go before the start of a crucial summit.In scenes reminiscent of the Brexit talks, British officials were still trying to...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Mexican navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge, killing two sailors
Twenty-two crew members injured, 11 of them critically, with nine in stable condition, Mexican government saysTwo sailors from the Mexican navy were killed and another 11 critically hurt when a sailing ship taking part in a promotional tour in New York City collided with the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said.The crash happened on Saturday night when the Cuauhtémoc – an academy training...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Dell Technologies World 2025 — all the day three news and updates live
Dell Technologies World 2025 is entering its final day in Las Vegas.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:The best smart home devices of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed
Warmer weather means wanting to take advantage of beautiful summer nights, but that shouldn't come at the expense of home security. Check out our picks for the best smart home devices.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Every macOS version in order: from the first public beta to macOS 15
Apple’s Mac operating system has undergone many sizeable changes over the years. Here’s every version in order, from the first edition in 2000 to the present.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Trump’s acceptance of Qatar jet gift is ‘definition of corruption’, senator says
Chris Murphy says Trump strategically visited Gulf states ‘willing to pay him off’ as backlash rises against luxury offerDonald Trump’s acceptance of a $400m Boeing jet from Qatar is the “definition of corruption”, a leading Democrat said on Sunday, as several senior Republicans joined in a bipartisan fusillade of criticism and concern over the luxury gift.Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator for Connecticut, condemned...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Show HN: Stack Error – ergonomic error handling for Rust
Stack Error reduces the up-front cost of designing an error handling solution for your project, so that you focus on writing great libraries and applications.Stack Error has three goals:1. Provide ergonomics similar to anyhow.2. Create informative error messages that facilitate debugging.3. Provide typed data that facilitates runtime error handling. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023471 Points: 22...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:The best no-log VPNs of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed
Trust is fragile, especially when it comes to security software. I've tested the best no-log VPNs, which claim not to keep records of their customers' online activities to protect their privacy.
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