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1. Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans (www.cnet.com)
   218 points by dmarcos 13 days ago | 103 comments
2. Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router (www.cnet.com)
   16 points by galaxyLogic 11 days ago | 5 comments
3. Consider a Burner Phone for Your Holiday Travel This Year (www.cnet.com)
   10 points by ColinWright 4 days ago | 6 comments
4. Neuralink brain implant working in a pig (www.cnet.com)
   2 points by stOneskull 7 days ago | 1 comments
5. The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (50centadjustedforinflation.com)
   816 points by gaws 26 days ago | 196 comments
6. SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers (arstechnica.com)
   235 points by jnord 20 days ago | 220 comments
7. Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people (apnews.com)
   183 points by bikenaga 17 days ago | 57 comments
8. NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966 (flashbak.com)
   142 points by zdw 22 days ago | 77 comments
9. A century of reforestation helped keep the eastern US cool (2024) (news.agu.org)
   137 points by softwaredoug 13 days ago | 20 comments
10. How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries (phys.org)
    133 points by pseudolus 16 days ago | 152 comments
11. Data centers contribute to high prices as energy bills electrify local politics (www.wsj.com)
    105 points by moose_man 11 days ago | 67 comments
12. Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers (restofworld.org)
    87 points by ohjeez 6 days ago | 35 comments
13. Researchers demonstrate centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches (www.otago.ac.nz)
    73 points by geox 23 days ago | 22 comments
14. OpenDesk by the Centre for Digital Sovereignty (www.opendesk.eu)
    69 points by athousandsteps 10 days ago | 4 comments
15. Life next to 199 data centres (www.bbc.com)
    67 points by easton 16 days ago | 64 comments
16. NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown (www.space.com)
    58 points by HappyRobot 11 days ago | 9 comments
17. Microsoft Releases AI Call Center Stack with Voice, SMS, and Memory (github.com)
    43 points by bakigul 15 days ago | 62 comments
18. Berty – an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messenger with no central server (berty.tech)
    42 points by HelloUsername 23 days ago | 8 comments
19. A Tiny Typo May Explain Centuries-Old Mystery Bout Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    35 points by keepamovin 29 days ago | 14 comments
20. ProEnergy repurposes jet engines to power data centers (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
    33 points by JumpCrisscross 17 days ago | 41 comments
21. Startup plans to cool data centers by converting heat to light (spectrum.ieee.org)
    26 points by pseudolus 26 days ago | 2 comments
22. Data Centers Are Getting Big (www.distilled.earth)
    26 points by smartmic 14 days ago | discuss
23. Show HN: Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers (centia.io)
    24 points by mhoegh 18 days ago | 6 comments
24. Ruby Central – Source of Truth Update (rubycentral.org)
    23 points by gpi 18 days ago | 3 comments
25. China bans foreign AI chips from state-funded data centres (www.reuters.com)
    17 points by gmays 2 days ago | discuss
26. Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage (www.tomshardware.com)
    15 points by pabs3 about 2 hours ago | 10 comments
27. Using jet engines for power generation at AI centers.
    14 points by testrun 18 days ago | 5 comments
28. European Central Bank to Spend EUR 1.3B on Digital Euro Development (www.ecb.europa.eu)
    12 points by miohtama 13 days ago | 4 comments
29. Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage (www.tomshardware.com)
    12 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 1 comments
30. Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Have Plummeted Since Trump Takeover (www.washingtonpost.com)
    12 points by Bogdanp 12 days ago | 1 comments