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schwit1 shares a report from Interesting Engineering: Australia's Q-CTRL developed a new system called "Ironstone Opal," which uses quantum sensors to navigate without GPS. It's passive (meaning it doesn't emit signals that could be detected or jammed) and highly accurate. Instead of relying on satellites, Q-CTRL's system can read the Earth's magnetic field, which varies slightly depending on location (like a magnetic fingerprint or map). The system can determine where you are by measuring these variations.
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Elon Musk also said the informal government department could run through to the end of Trump's term in 2028, two years longer than initially expected. Read more ›
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Social media group hit by one of the biggest financial penalties ever issued by Ireland’s data protection watchdog Read more ›
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s federal public lands are truly unique, part of our birthright as citizens. No other country in the world has such a system. More than 640 million acres, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, as well […] Read more ›
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When Donald Trump took office, he could reasonably claim to be popular — and to have an agenda that was popular, too. He had just won the popular vote and swept every battleground state. Key parts of his economic and domestic agenda were polling well. And his own personal popularity had never been higher — more […] Read more ›
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Lawyers from Big Law to solo practices are cautiously testing AI for specific tasks to trim some time from routine steps. Read more ›
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"It saves some time. It's a productivity enhancement tool," Griffin said of AI. Read more ›
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I drove the updated 2025 Cadillac CT5-V compact sports sedan and was impressed by its great handling, aggressive looks, and advanced tech content. Read more ›
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Donald Trump’s executive orders are attacking everything from the Smithsonian to Black sports history, but grassroots organizers are launching a resistance. Read more ›
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Sellers are offering perks, such as covering closing costs, home repairs, appliances, and buying down the mortgage rate. Read more ›
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Apple's is continually working with suppliers on successive iPhone models simultaneously, which is why we often get rumored features so far ahead of launch. The iPhone 18 series is no different, and we already have a picture forming of what to expect from Apple's 2026 smartphone lineup. If you're skipping this year's upcoming iPhone 17 series, or just plain curious about Apple's plans further out, here are the rumored features... Read more ›
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Meta's LlamaCon 2025 showcased AI ambitions and gained Wall Street's praise, but developers found it lacking compared to competitors. Read more ›
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Workers at bars and restaurants share the strategies they're using to get big tips as some Americans cut back on gratuity spending. Read more ›
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VC cofounders Jeff Rosenthal and Patrick Maloney tested their compatibility as business partners by writing "like pen pals" about their vision. Read more ›
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French President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated Sandfall Interactive for its new RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, calling it a "shining example of French audacity and creativity". Read more Read more ›
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A lot of relatively small changes and improvements make a big impact on this operating system. Read more ›
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Microsoft is dramatically increasing the price of the Xbox Series X and Series S as well as new games and accessories. The Series S will start at $380, up from $300, while the Series X will begin at $550, a $100 increase on its previous price. The company is also increasing the prices of pretty much all its first-party products and peripherals. A basic controller will now cost $65. Microsoft... Read more ›
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Apple has updated its App Store Guidelines around external payments and links in response to the injunction issued this week in the Epic Games v. Apple case. The changes, spotted by 9to5Mac, allow developers to steer users outside Apple’s App Store to make external purchases in compliance with the ruling. Language has been updated in […] Read more ›
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Trump's commencement speech at the University of Alabama covered everything from tariffs and the 2020 election results to career advice for grads. Read more ›
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TikTok has been ordered to pay €530 million (around $600 million) for sending European users’ data to servers in China, a breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). TikTok has six months to bring its data processing into compliance, pending any possible appeal. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found that TikTok […] Read more ›
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The surprise release of Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered hasn't impacted the sales of French JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, its publisher has said. Read more Read more ›
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Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some "straight-to-the-point wisdom" from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix. Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation, explaining how some buggy patches for their case-insensitive file and folder support were upstreamed into the Bcachefs kernel driver nearly two years ago: When I was discussing with the developer who did the implementation, I noted that... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping site will display how much of an item's cost is derived from tariffs -- right next to the product's... Read more ›
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"A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it," announced the University of California, San Diego, "due to its previously unknown secondary function." "Researchers at the University of California San Diego used artificial intelligence to help both unravel this mystery of Alzheimer's disease and discover a potential treatment that obstructs the gene's moonlighting role." A team led by... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public." In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior is in violation of its Section... Read more ›
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The head of the Swiss National Bank said on Friday that cryptocurrencies failed to meet the institution's currency reserve standards, rebuffing calls by crypto advocates that it hold bitcoin as a hedge against growing global economic risks. From a report: Cryptocurrency campaigners are ramping up pressure on the SNB to buy bitcoin, arguing that the economic turmoil triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs made it more important for the... Read more ›
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Some developers are "crying foul" after Microsoft's C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code stopped working with VS Code derivatives like VS Codium and Cursor, reports The Register. The move has prompted Cursor to transition to open-source alternatives, while some developers are calling for a regulatory investigation into Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behavior. From the report: In early April, programmers using VS Codium, an open-source fork of Microsoft's MIT-licensed VS Code, and... Read more ›
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"4chan, down for more than a week after hackers got in through an insecure script that handled PDFs, is back online," notes BoingBoing. (They add that Thursday saw 4chan's first blog postin years — just the words "Testing testing 123 123...") But 4chan posted a much longer explanation on Friday," confirming their servers were compromised by a malicious PDF upload from "a hacker using a UK IP address," granting access... Read more ›
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Apple violated a court order requiring it to open up the App Store to third-party payment options and must stop charging commissions on purchases outside its software marketplace, a federal judge said in a blistering ruling that referred the company to prosecutors for a possible criminal probe. From a report: U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sided Wednesday with "Fortnite" maker Epic Games over its allegation that the iPhone maker... Read more ›
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"The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives," reports It's FOSS News: This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post... Others then chimed in, saying that Lenovo has been doing this since at least 2020 and that the big price difference shows how ridiculous Windows' pricing... Read more ›
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Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure -- while smaller operations face even steeper costs of approximately $137,000 per coin. With Bitcoin currently trading around $94,703, the math no longer works for most miners. The economics... Read more ›
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