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Hacker News discussion with 1058 points and 609 comments. Posted 2025-12-03 07:52.

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Hacker News discussion with 2187 points and 1071 comments. Posted 2025-12-02 18:05.

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Hacker News discussion with 1721 points and 1324 comments. Posted 2025-12-05 12:21.

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Hacker News discussion with 1337 points and 289 comments. Posted 2025-12-03 18:40.

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Hacker News discussion with 979 points and 464 comments. Posted 2025-12-01 15:48.

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Hacker News discussion with 967 points and 844 comments. Posted 2025-12-02 20:33.

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While OpenAI continues to insist that there are currently no ads — or tests for advertising — live in ChatGPT, the company’s chief research officer also acknowledged that the company “fell short” with...

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Will Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators? While Paramount was assumed to be the frontrunner to acquire the storied movie studio thanks to CEO Davi...

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X has seemingly penalized the European Commission's account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.

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Dog behavior is a lot more complicated than any one gene variant.

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It may be hard to believe now, but the App Store was once a thriving place for inventive indie games. The ubiquity of the iPhone coupled with the relative ease of development for the platform meant th...

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Google didn't invent the concept of smart glasses, but it did help make them mainstream. In retrospect, 13 years after their launch, this is both a good and bad thing. Glass made a lot of people dream...

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aMeta lready sells VR headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses, but these new glasses sound a bit different. Their format factor would reportedly be similar to the Apple Vision Pro, with a puck-like power s...

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It's easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to...

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxe...

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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook he is “seriously considering” leaving Apple for another company in the near future...

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The company is aiming to produce its first silicon wafers by 2028 and have its first commercial system online by 2029.

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Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul ...

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Research paper by Zhen Liu, Tim Z. Xiao, Carles Domingo-Enrich et al.. While methods exist for aligning flow matching models--a popular and effective class of generative models--with human preferences...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 228 upvotes and 68 comments.

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Sometimes, founding a startup just once isn’t enough.

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The port will revolutionize global trade, but it’s sparking destructive rainforest routes.

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Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe.

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The biggest changes Musk made to Twitter trigger a $140 million fine under DSA.

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In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them w...

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 108, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your holiday shopping is going well, and also you can read all t...

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Research paper by Prakhar Kaushik, Shravan Chaudhari, Ankit Vaidya et al.. We show that deep neural networks trained across diverse tasks exhibit remarkably similar low-dimensional parametric subspace...

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Research paper by Malte Hoffmann, Lilla Zöllei, Adrian V. Dalca. Segmentation of magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates analysis of human brain development by delineating anatomical structures. H...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 8098 upvotes and 532 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 1969 upvotes and 321 comments.

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Netflix's plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny.

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There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 315 upvotes and 75 comments.

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Research paper by Tianqi Liu, Zhaoxi Chen, Zihao Huang et al.. Recent advances in illumination control extend image-based methods to video, yet still facing a trade-off between lighting fidelity and t...

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New 50 hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions were found after scanning only 300 submissions. Some of the papers are top-tier, likely oral (8+), and others have very high scores. The fabricated citat...

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This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need.

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Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.