Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users

The earliest look at a stellar explosion shows that shock waves don’t blast out symmetrically

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Huge AT&T settlement awards millions up to $7,500 each

At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something

A superconducting quantum processor developed at Princeton clears a key obstacle in error correction and scalability, bringing practical quantum computing within striking distance

Show HN: I built an interactive map of jobs at top AI companies

Dutch government backs down, reverses steps taken at Nexperia

AI robots aren’t bad at folding towels, just the guys controlling them

A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios

Foxconn highlights growing AI ambitions at ‘Tech Day’ as it grows beyond iPhone assembler identity

What if you don't need MCP at all?

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound

Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs

Inmates at a Mississippi jail were ordered to do the guards' bidding

Fifteen millennia of human maternal lineages evolution in Sicily reveal a slow population replacement from hunther gatherers to farmers at the onset of Neolithic and continuity onward

NASA Finds Hidden Heat on Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus, Hinting at Life

'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40

A brief look at FreeBSD

New robotics fish fin can propel bots through the water at 1.66 body lengths per second, easily turn, mimicking fish movement

Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97

After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD

A study on 4354 adults found individuals with the highest levels of physical activity at midlife and late life had 41% and 45% lower in risk of all-cause dementia including Alzheimer’s disease (early adult–life physical activity was not associated with dementia risk)

HDD-based disks at AWS are worser than at GCP

Gen Z Officially Worse At Passwords Than 80-Year-Olds

Larian publishing director Michael Douse balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'

General principles for the use of AI at CERN

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta's Gigantic New Data Center

China's Xi pushes for global AI body at APEC in counter to US

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