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I Can't Not Be Excited About the New Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering Cards
Speaking with designers about the new set, which marks a massive shift for Magic: The Gathering, has pulled me fully back into the game.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:
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The Gr-AI-m Reaper: Hundreds of jobs at IBM and Crowdstrike vanish as artificial intelligence makes humans more dispensable
CrowdStrike and IBM lay off hundreds of human workers as AI takes over critical tasks once handled by people.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:4.1-magnitude earthquake rattles Tennessee and southern US
Meteorologists at television news stations serving Georgia and North Carolina reported feeling the tremorsA 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern US on Saturday morning. No injuries or major damage were immediately reported.The website for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Week in Review: Instacart CEO heads to OpenAI
Welcome back to Week in Review! Weโve got lots of news for you this week: There were CEO shake-ups at Instacart and 11x; the web series is back โ kind of; Threads is getting video ads; and much more. Letโs get to it! Big move: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will become OpenAIโs CEO for Applications, [โฆ]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947137 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:FDA approves at-home pap smear alternative device for cervical cancer screening
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new device called the Teal Wand, which its creator describes as an "at-home vaginal sample self-collection device for cervical cancer screening." It could be especially useful for women who find pap smears uncomfortable, painful and even traumatic, as well as for those who may not have time to go to a doctor or have disabilities preventing them from traveling to consult...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:After $1bn settlement, doctorโs sexual assault victims question Columbia Universityโs inaction
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 Yorkโs 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:โFrom all sidesโ: universities in red states face attacks from DC and at home
As universities begin to push back on Trumpโs 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 administrationโs โunprecedented government overreach and...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Soundcloud changed its AI policy so it can train on users audio
Soundcloud updated its AI policy so it could train off of users' content.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle privacy lawsuits
Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of tracking usersโ personal location, incognito searches, and voice and facial data without their permission. The lawsuits were brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2022. Facebookโs parent company Meta agreed to pay a similar amount [โฆ]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:India and Pakistan agree Kashmir ceasefire but accuse each other of breaches
Truce agreed after US mediation but both sides accuse each other of violations only hours laterAnalysis: now the battle turns to India and Pakistanโs 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:Premier League Soccer: Stream Bournemouth vs. Aston Villaย Live From Anywhere
The Cherries look to turn around their home form as they take on fellow European hopefuls Villa.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Police given second week to question four Iranian men in custody
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:Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry
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 grants itself the power to brick Switches with pirated games
Nintendoโs 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 itโs found with pirated games or mods. While some people may have glazed over the changes since Nintendo didnโt make this a major announcement, Game Fileโs Stephen Totilo dug through the changes and spotted the major updates. In...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: What We Know Ahead of the Slim Phone's May 12 Debut
Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge will be getting its own Unpacked event on Monday.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Hampers, cufflinks โฆ and a lot of alcohol: 20 gifts kept by Lindsay Hoyle
The wheels of diplomacy are oiled by the exchange of tokens โ 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:House of Commons speaker has kept almost 300 gifts over past four years
Lindsay Hoyleโs freebies include champagne, whisky, food hampers, skincare sets and presents for his petsHampers, cufflinks โฆ 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:Shocked that Skype lost the battle against Zoom? I knew it was doomed all the way back in 2011, and hereโs why
As we bid farewell to Skype, Iโm thinking about how it lost the war on Zoom - and why it was all Microsoftโs fault.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Key ChatGPT and Gemini features compared. Who did it better?
Comparing ChatGPT and Gemini's common features, including search, shop & research, and AI mode.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:OpenAIโs enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivals
OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprisesโ AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp. According to Rampโs AI Index, which estimates the business adoption rate of AI products by drawing on Rampโs card and bill pay data, 32.4% of U.S. businesses were paying for [โฆ]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:HPโs smallest gaming PC with RTX 3050 is on sale today at $150 off
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:Operation to recover Mike Lynchโs superyacht suspended after diver dies
Work to raise the Bayesian is put on hold as investigators seek to establish the cause of the 39-year-old Dutchmanโs deathRecovery operations to raise the late tech tycoon Mike Lynchโs 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 shipโs mainmast....
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The developers behind Overwatch have unionized
Activision Blizzardโs 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. Itโs the latest development in a broader organizing effort by video game workers, who aim to...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:SoundCloud says it isnโt using your music to train generative AI tools
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 usersโ content, as TechCrunch reported. And while the company says it hasnโt used user-created content for model training, it doesnโt rule out the possibility that it will in the future. Marni [โฆ]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe
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:A huge Sony Xperia 1 VII leak hints at the design, colors, and features of the upcoming flagship
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:If India and Pakistanโs ceasefire holds, the coming weeks will see a new battle: of narratives
As both countries step back from the brink, the animosity generated by decades of dispute still enduresKashmir crisis live โ 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:AI headphones driven by Apple M2 can translate multiple speakers at once
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 coughs up $1.4 billion to Texas over privacy lawsuit
Google agreed to settle with Texas but denied any wrongdoing.
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Chinese PC vendor you've probably never heard of just unveiled the biggest rival to Nvidia's DGX Spark AI workstation, one that uses AMD and can be clustered
Beelinkโs 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:Donโt let these 3 hidden streaming movie gems in May 2025 fly under your radar
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:Mexico is suing Google over 'Gulf of America' name change for US users
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:The near joy of biking with Ray-Ban Meta glasses
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 Iโve collected a few gadgets that make these rides better. However, Iโve learned the hard way that bringing along too much gear takes away from the ride itself, forcing [โฆ]
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:The enduring cool of skateboarding games
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 [โฆ]
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