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EU Plan to Kill Cookie Banners With Browser-Level Consent Faces Google Lobbying
EU privacy law already prohibits online tracking by default, which means the tracking industry needs users to actively waive that protection. Cookie banners exi
Forecast models give 90% odds this El Niño will smash every record on file
July runs across 667 ensemble members from 14 seasonal forecast models point to an El Niño unlike anything in the observational record. The multi-model median p
Gatwick becomes first UK airport with robot valet parking — and you keep your keys
London Gatwick is rolling out autonomous parking in partnership with Stanley Robotics, making it the first UK airport to offer the service. Instead of circling
GM Bets on Sodium-Ion Batteries to Undercut Lithium on Grid Storage
Colorado startup Peak Energy is trying to make sodium-ion batteries viable for U.S. grid storage after a string of Western failures, including Natron Energy and
Go Team's Analysis Framework Standardizes Modular Static Checks
The Go team's `golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis` package defines a common interface between static analysis checkers and the driver programs that run them. Each a
GrapheneOS details its layered defenses against forensic data extraction
GrapheneOS lays out how it hardens Android against the forensic tools used to pull data off locked phones. The foundation is full-disk encryption that even top-
Hacking a desktop ADS-B radar from an ESP32 and a round LCD
A weekend build turns an ESP32-C3 and a 1.28-inch circular display into a live aircraft radar that pulls nearby ADS-B traffic and plots each plane by distance a
htmx Ships '4.0' as a Game Boy Cartridge Where You Fight for the Source Code
The htmx project's merch store is selling htmx 4.0 as a physical Game Boy game rather than a software release — a gag riffing on the library's minimalist, anti-
Inflect-Micro-v2: a full local text-to-speech model in under 10M parameters
Independent developer Owen Song has released Inflect-Micro-v2, a self-funded English text-to-speech model that packs a complete text-to-waveform pipeline into 9
JetZero lands $175M and airline backers for its radical all-wing jet
JetZero, a Long Beach-based aerospace startup, is building a blended all-wing commercial airliner it calls the Z4 — a roughly 250-seat, international-range airc
Ruff 0.16 turns on 413 lint rules by default, up from 59
Ruff, the Rust-based Python linter and formatter, ships v0.16 with a dramatically expanded default rule set: 413 rules enabled out of the box, up from just 59.
Show HN: Simulated transistor animations render electrons, holes, and recombination
A developer built a semiconductor simulator and used it to animate how charge carriers move through three fundamental transistor types: the NPN bipolar junction