For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences Kat Eschner December 9, 2016 A Standard Stations filling station in California, circa 1939. Wikimedia Commons For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. It wasn’t: lead is a
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Tiny11 trims Windows 11 down to 8GB, no bloat included
Tiny11 is based on Windows 11 version 25H2, offering a clean and responsive computing experience by removing unnecessary apps and services found in the standard Windows installation. Tiny11 requires approximately 8GB of disk space, compared to the 20GB typically used by a full Windows 11 setup. If you want an even more lightweight option, Tiny11
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Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured
Powering products and agents at From maintaining data infrastructure to shipping product features Set it up your way. Do it yourself in the dashboard, or let your AI agent handle the whole thing. Do it yourself 1. Sign up and verify your email. 2. Copy your API key from the dashboard. 3. Install the SDK
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Social media ban for young users is proving to be
A fake birthday is enough to beat Australia's social media ban on teens. Unsplash Australia’s world-first teen social media ban was supposed to keep children under 16 away from popular platforms, including Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X. While this was a major controversial change, it appears that getting around it was barely even a
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One of Windows’ most hated features just helped catch a
That hacker is Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old who holds both American and Estonian citizenship. Finnish police grabbed him on April 10 as he tried to board a flight to Japan out of Helsinki. He was recently extradited to the United States, where six counts covering conspiracy...
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Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI
Micron Technology broke ground on Saturday on a ¥1.5 trillion, roughly $9.3bn, expansion of its factory in Hiroshima, western Japan, the company’s latest bet on the AI memory boom that has already pushed its market value past $1 trillion. The Boise, Idaho based chipmaker will use the site to produce high-bandwidth memory, the stacked DRAM
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ARToken PhaaS exposes EvilTokens’ Microsoft 365 phishing toolkit
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform dubbed "ARToken" appears to operate as an affiliate of the EvilTokens phishing platform, giving researchers a glimpse into an extensive toolkit designed to compromise Microsoft 365. Cisco Talos researchers discovered the platform while investigating phishing infrastructure used in an incident response engagement and identified a React-based management panel called "ARToken Panel" that exposed
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7 Lesser-Known Google Account Settings You Should Change
When you're jumping between the many different apps Google offers—Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, and all the rest—you may not be giving much thought to the Google account that underpins them all or to the myriad settings you can access that help to define your experience across all these apps. If you've never opened
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Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It’s Backwards
Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The
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DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4P promises 17 stops of dynamic range
It will also come in white this time as well as black. Steve Dent for Engadget At an event in Malta, DJI has released some more information about its incoming pro gimbal camera, the Osmo Pocket 4P. A successor to the hyper-popular Osmo Pocket 3 vlogging camera (alongside the mainstream Osmo Pocket 4), the Pocket