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Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750669 Points: 251 # Comments: 213

Save a massive $700 on this epic HP Omen 45L gaming rig, fitted with a 9800X3D, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for just $2,499.99.

Water filters promise the moon—but only some back up their claims. Here are the best filtered-water pitchers for those who prefer their water free of heavy metals and forever chemicals.

It’s believed that Apple has waited many years to launch the first folding iPhone in large part because the company wasn’t happy with the very visible crease in early competitor models. We’re expecting that foldable iPhone to be launched later this year, likely branded as the iPhone Ultra. The cr...

Names, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details accessed, though not passwords Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…

An RTX 5090 plugged into this eGPU using the CopprLink standard was able to get essentially the same level of performance as the GPU directly plugged into the motherboard. The setup requires a $1,300 enclosure and a $1,000 adapter card, and it's only meant for enterprise markets, but it shows wha...

Bloomberg reported back in February that Apple was considering a new deep red color option for the iPhone 18 Pro, which some have described as crimson. A leaker with a decent track record is today backing this report, though is doing this in a slightly odd way which may or may not mean anything …...

LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

Although we’ve known for a long time that Intel planned to refresh its Arrow Lake CPUs, the 270K Plus and 250K Plus still posted results that were difficult to believe during our review period.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Article URL: https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/point-cloud-allemansr%C3%A4tten/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750259 Points: 32 # Comments: 4

Score the cheapest 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory on the market with this $284 Newegg deal. Dual discounts knock a massive $145 off the list price.

Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…

A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site's backup quota.

Last April, a hacker hijacked crosswalk announcements to mimic Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Records obtained by WIRED reveal how unprepared local authorities were.

Microsoft has started testing its own virtual mouse cursor inside its Xbox mode for Windows-based handhelds. The new Gamepad Cursor option provides a quick way to turn the left stick of a handheld like the Xbox Ally X into a virtual mouse. While Asus has its own cursor as part of Armory Crate, Mi...

Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies Opinion  You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid m...

Uri Maoz loved doing his human research, back when he was getting his PhD. He was studying a very specific topic in computational neuroscience: how the brain instructs our arms to move and how our gray matter in turn perceives that motion.  Then his professor asked him to deliver an undergrad lec...

Grizzly bears have made such a comeback across eastern Montana that in 2017, the state hired its first-ever prairie-based grizzly manager: wildlife biologist Wesley Sarmento.  For some seven years, Sarmento worked to keep both the bears, which are still listed as threatened under the Endangered S...

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It's an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.