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Robert Hadden, sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexual abuse, kept practicing even as allegations piled upIt was a shocking scandal involving the betrayal of one of the most sacred bonds in medicine, as one of New York’s top doctors abused hundreds of women under his care.Now, after a fresh settlement agreement last week from Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian hospital, the compensation for the crimes of...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:As universities begin to push back on Trump’s policies, those in Republican-led states face multiple threatsDays after the University of Michigan president, Santa Ono, announced that he was leaving his post to lead the University of Florida, his name was quietly removed on Wednesday from a letter signed by more than 600 university presidents denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Soundcloud updated its AI policy so it could train off of users' content.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of tracking users’ personal location, incognito searches, and voice and facial data without their permission. The lawsuits were brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2022. Facebook’s parent company Meta agreed to pay a similar amount […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Truce agreed after US mediation but both sides accuse each other of violations only hours laterAnalysis: now the battle turns to India and Pakistan’s narratives of KashmirIndia and Pakistan have agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire with immediate effect, though its longevity was thrown into question after reports of cross-border shelling and explosions in Indian-administered Kashmir just hours after it was announced.The...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The Cherries look to turn around their home form as they take on fellow European hopefuls Villa.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Reports suggest four detained under Terrorism Act were allegedly targeting Israeli embassyFour Iranian men who were arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in London can be detained and questioned in custody for another week, police said on Saturday.Five men were arrested last week, with armed police and in at least one instance special forces soldiers sent in to detain them, with reports suggesting the...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Article URL: http://www.righto.com/2025/05/386-prefetch-circuitry-reverse-engineered.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946824 Points: 103 # Comments: 29
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Nintendo’s latest legal move to combat piracy may be super effective. According to a new change in the Nintendo User Agreement, the console maker can brick your Switch, or render it useless, if it’s found with pirated games or mods. While some people may have glazed over the changes since Nintendo didn’t make this a major announcement, Game File’s Stephen Totilo dug through the changes and spotted the major updates. In...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge will be getting its own Unpacked event on Monday.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The wheels of diplomacy are oiled by the exchange of tokens – and plenty of booze, it seemsHouse of Commons speaker has kept almost 300 gifts over past four yearsLindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, has declared hundreds of gifts he received from foreign dignitaries and others since 2021. Here is a small selection of the items he kept.1) Bottle of rum Continue reading...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Lindsay Hoyle’s freebies include champagne, whisky, food hampers, skincare sets and presents for his petsHampers, cufflinks … and a lot of alcohol: some of the gifts Lindsay Hoyle has keptLindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, has kept almost 300 gifts over the last four years including dozens of bottles of alcohol, hampers, ties, cufflinks and chocolates, his declarations show.The speaker received a large...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Comparing ChatGPT and Gemini's common features, including search, shop & research, and AI mode.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The HP Omen 16L, the brand's smallest gaming PC, is on sale today, with this configuration featuring the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card down by $150.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprises’ AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp. According to Ramp’s AI Index, which estimates the business adoption rate of AI products by drawing on Ramp’s card and bill pay data, 32.4% of U.S. businesses were paying for […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:As we bid farewell to Skype, I’m thinking about how it lost the war on Zoom - and why it was all Microsoft’s fault.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Work to raise the Bayesian is put on hold as investigators seek to establish the cause of the 39-year-old Dutchman’s deathRecovery operations to raise the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht Bayesian from the seabed off Sicily have been suspended after a diver died during underwater work.Rob Cornelis Maria Huijben, a 39-year-old Dutch diver, died on Friday while doing preparation work to cut the ship’s mainmast....
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch team has formed a wall-to-wall union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union, which has been recognized by parent company Microsoft, includes nearly 200 developers "across all disciplines," from design and production to quality assurance, the CWA said in its announcement. It’s the latest development in a broader organizing effort by video game workers, who aim to...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The music-sharing platform SoundCloud quietly updated its terms of use in February last year, adding language that lets it train AI models on its users’ content, as TechCrunch reported. And while the company says it hasn’t used user-created content for model training, it doesn’t rule out the possibility that it will in the future. Marni […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/07/experts-warn-therapy-ai-chatbots-are-not-safe-to-use Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946498 Points: 101 # Comments: 108
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:We're just days away from the big unveiling of the Sony Xperia 1 VII, and here's what we can expect to see.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:As both countries step back from the brink, the animosity generated by decades of dispute still enduresKashmir crisis live – latest updatesJust over 26 years ago, thousands of Pakistani soldiers quietly made their way on to high, rocky ridges on the Indian side of the de facto border that divides the former princely state of Kashmir. The war that this rash operation triggered lasted much of the summer of 1999.Reporting...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:A team at the University of Washington has created AI-driven headphones that can translate the voices of multiple people speaking different languages.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Google agreed to settle with Texas but denied any wrongdoing.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Beelink’s GTR9 Pro is a compact powerhouse for AI, gaming, and creative work, featuring 126 TOPS performance and whisper-quiet operation.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The summer movie season has officially begun, and there's no better time to enjoy these underrated movie gems, from crime dramas to horror thrillers.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The Mexican government has filed a lawsuit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in Maps within the United States. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said during a press conference that the lawsuit has already been filed, but as The Guardian notes, she didn't say when and where it was submitted. Sheinbaum argued that the Trump administration's order for a name change only applies to the...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:After slamming everything from clothing to avocados with tariffs, now President Donald Trump has taken aim at films. "The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death," Trump proclaimed on Truth Social last week, while floating a 100 percent tariff on movies "produced in Foreign Lands." The news stirred up confusion across Hollywood, […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:For years, weekend bike rides have been sacred escapes for me. Every pedal stroke helps melt away the stressors that piled up throughout the week, and I’ve collected a few gadgets that make these rides better. However, I’ve learned the hard way that bringing along too much gear takes away from the ride itself, forcing […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:More than 25 years after the first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater put skateboarding games on the map, developers are still finding new ways to explore skating in video games, especially in 2025. Skateboarding fans are about to have some promising new games to play, with Activision's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake releasing […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Article URL: https://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946149 Points: 80 # Comments: 27
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Whether you’re after a distraction-free reading experience or a fun way to keep the kids engaged this summer, the latest Kindle Paperwhite Kids is worth considering. And now, thanks to Amazon’s Mother’s Day promo, you can pick it up at either Amazon or Best Buy starting at just $139.99 ($40 off), which matches the e-reader’s […]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:In the nature of Open Source, I am releasing something I'm actively working on but is insanely simple and will likely be made anyways.It is an SDK for scripting Claude Code.It's a lightweight (155 lines) and free wrapper around claude codeThis is a big deal because it seems that using claude code and cursor has become largly repitive. My workflow typically goes like this:Plan out my task into a file, then have claude...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Fire at warehouse storing pool cleaning products sends cloud over wide area around Vilanova i la GeltrúSpanish authorities have told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors after a fire at an industrial warehouse released a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area.The blaze, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltrú, south of Barcelona, started at dawn on Saturday in a warehouse storing pool cleaning...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:This blog is now closed, you can read our full report on this story hereIt is the first time the leaders of the four European nations (France, the UK, Germany and Poland) have made a joint visit to Ukraine, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).“We are clear the bloodshed must end. Russia must stop its illegal invasion,” the leaders said in a joint statement, adding:Alongside the US, we call on Russia to agree a full and...
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