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'Once in a Century' Proof Settles Math's Kakeya Conjecture

quantamagazine.org

Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points...
Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible. You might twirl the pencil about its middle, tracing out a circle. But if you slide it in clever ways, you can do much better. “It’s just a ...
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An Egyptian Temple Reborn

archaeology.org
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From QED to Neovim

l-o-o-s-e-d.net

code culture
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Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised

semgrep.dev

Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has been compromised (GitHub issue) with a payload that appears to attempt...
Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files has been compromised (GitHub issue) with a payload that appears to attempt to dump secrets, impacting thousands of CI pipelines. This isn’t the first security issue with tj-actions/changed-files—see prior vulnerability CVE-2023-51664.What you should doStop using tj-acti...
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Saturn solidifies its title as moon king with the discovery of 128 new moons

cbc.ca

If you're a fan of our night sky here on Earth and its singular moon, then...
If you're a fan of our night sky here on Earth and its singular moon, then you'd probably really, really love the view from Saturn.A team of scientists — including a Canadian from the University of British Columbia — have identified an additional 128 moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing Saturn's total moon cou...
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Show HN: Open-Source MCP Server for Context and AI Tools

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Tell HN: An ode to the lost magic of the 2010s ZIRP startups

ycombinator.com

("ZIRP" means "Zero Interest Rate Policy btw)It really is incredible how suddenly the world changes. Many...
("ZIRP" means "Zero Interest Rate Policy btw)It really is incredible how suddenly the world changes. Many of us are now unemployed, facing layoffs, taking salary cuts and enduring grueling work environments to try and get through the worst tech recession since 2008.I myself now work in a fusty, old and stable govern...
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Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in

arstechnica.com

A month ago, Civilization VII launched to generally positive critical reviews, but user reviews on Steam...
A month ago, Civilization VII launched to generally positive critical reviews, but user reviews on Steam and Metacritic weren’t nearly so positive, at least at first. Take a look at the Civilization subreddit, and you’ll see a general consensus: The bones of this game are great, and even most of the radical changes ...
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Rembrandt to Picasso: Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece

bbc.com

Alamy(Credit: Alamy)The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of...
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple rules to work them out.It's everywhere: fake news, deep fakes, identity fraud. So ensnared are we in a culture of digitised deceptions, a phenomenon increasingly augmented ...
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Show HN: Web Audio Spring-Mass Synthesis

cochlea.xyz
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New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

nytimes.com

Illustration by Kevin Zweerink for The New York TimesUpdated: March 4, 2025In 2017, The New York...
Illustration by Kevin Zweerink for The New York TimesUpdated: March 4, 2025In 2017, The New York Times began experimenting with making nytimes.com available as a Tor Onion Service. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to operate a Tor site and deepened our understanding of reaching audiences that migh...
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Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market?

theatlantic.com

technology
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Show HN: LLM-docs, software documentation intended for consumption by LLMs

github.com
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Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe

theregister.com

Belgian authorities have raided multiple premises as part of a corruption probe involving Chinese tech giant...
Belgian authorities have raided multiple premises as part of a corruption probe involving Chinese tech giant Huawei, which has also led to the sealing of two EU parliamentary offices in Brussels. Multiple news outlets have reported that Belgian and Portuguese authorities conducted raids on Thursday as part of an ong...
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ICE Returns All Migrants from Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.Liste...

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Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs

visualcapitalist.com
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RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats

arstechnica.com
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It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life, and we can do much more of it

ourworldindata.org
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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

arstechnica.com

If that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the...
If that's not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to list...
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GCVR (YC W22) Is Hiring Lead Technical Artist

ycombinator.com

Play basketball in virtual reality$185K - $240K / 0.20% - 0.40%Connect directly with founders of the...
Play basketball in virtual reality$185K - $240K / 0.20% - 0.40%Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›SUMMARY Gym Class is the top rated game on the Meta Quest platform (58K ratings, 4.9 stars). Millions of players globally have downloaded GC to make friends, explore social worl...
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SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at Susecon

thenewstack.io
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Recommendations for designing magic numbers of binary file formats

hackers.town
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FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to claw back climate money

techcrunch.com

Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that the FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general,...
Citibank revealed in court filings on Wednesday that the FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general, and the Treasury Department have all requested that the bank freeze accounts of several nonprofits and state government agencies. The accounts were frozen in February, but the new documents make public details that had ...
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Tariffs Are Proving 'Big Headache' for Tech Giants, Says Foxconn

ft.com
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