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Waveshare Pairs RISC-V ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C6 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, and PoE Support
Waveshare has released the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-POE-ETH, a compact development board built around the ESP32-P4 along with an ESP32-C6 wireless module. The design combines Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Ethernet, and optional PoE power delivery in a single platform aimed at multimedia processing, display and camera applications, and general embedded development. Like the earlier W … ⌘ Read more
Google Begins Aggresively Using the Law To Stop Text Message Scams
“Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message,” reports BGR:
Google said it’s bringing suit against Lighthouse, an impressively large operation that allegedly provides tools customers can buy to set up their own specialized phishing scams. All told, Google estimates that … ⌘ Read more
Banana Pi Previews Its First SOPHGO BM1688-Based Compute Module
Banana Pi has previewed the BPI-SM9 16-ENC-A3, a compact deep learning compute module built around the SOPHGO BM1688 processor. The module is described as targeting low-power AI workloads, hardware video acceleration, and mixed-precision neural inference across microservers, edge systems, industrial platforms, and AIoT devices. The BM1688 datasheet does not appear to be available on the […] ⌘ Read more
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UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’ ⌘ Read more
OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S Standalone Edge Vision Cameras with PoE and 48MP Imaging
Luxonis has opened early access preorders for the OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S, two standalone edge-processing cameras designed for computer vision tasks. Both systems provide a 48MP RGB sensor with optional autofocus or wide-angle variants, USB 3 and PoE connectivity, IP67-rated enclosures, and on-device inference capabilities. Both devices are built around the RVC4 […] ⌘ Read more
A Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough?
The dream of quantum computers has been hampered by the challenge of error correction, writes the Harvard Gazette, since qubits “are inherently susceptible to slipping out of their quantum states and losing their encoded information.”
But in a newly-published paper, a research team “combined various methods to create complex circuits with dozens of error correction layers” that “suppresses erro … ⌘ Read more
AirPods libreated from Apple’s ecosystem
Article URL: https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941596
Points: 507
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Murder trial hears recording of Ontario couple taunting younger boy, sees images of cuts on his feet ⌘ Read more
Sergey Lavrov was one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies on the world stage. And then, he was gone ⌘ Read more
Fear Drives the AI ‘Cold War’ Between America and China
A new “cold war” between America and China is “pushing leaders to sideline concerns about the dangers of powerful AI models,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “including the spread of disinformation and other harmful content, and the development of superintelligent AI systems misaligned with human values…”
“Both countries are driven as much by fear as by hope of … ⌘ Read more
Mexico’s new generation takes to the streets, accusing leaders of protecting cartels ⌘ Read more
My foster got adopted and I can’t stop crying ⌘ Read more
EV Sales Are Still Rising. They Have Not Slumped
“Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect,” writes the site Electrek, “and leave out the bigger picture that gas car sales actually are dropping…”
Over the course of
the last two years or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, while
continuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentage
growth rates than they had in years prior. … ⌘ Read more
At least nine people killed over past 24 hours across Ukraine in Russian attacks ⌘ Read more
Mom said she’d move away if we got a cat. ⌘ Read more
Shot After Surrender: Russia Allegedly Executes Ukrainian POWs in Zaporizhzhia ⌘ Read more
While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:
Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.
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S-400 launchers and radars hit by SBU drones in Russia’s Novorossiysk, source says - Satellite Images Show Huge Losses for Ruzzia | Many S-400 Gone ⌘ Read more
Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser
Released minutes ago was the Servo 0.0.2 web browser engine update. Along with this new Rust-based web engine release is also the “servoshell” in tow for the example implementation built around this open-source codebase… ⌘ Read more
Sony Killed This Game in 2024. Three Developers Reverse-Engineered It Back to Life
An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath:
Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios’ Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players, it didn’t have many — which is why it … ⌘ Read more
Russia loses eyes over Crimea, fuel, military echelon, troop concentration—all in Ukraine’s four-target operation ⌘ Read more
V Novom Sade súťažili mladí slovenskí recitátori
V priestoroch Verejnej mediálnej ustanovizne Rádio-televízie Vojvodiny v Novom Sade sa v sobotu (15. novembra) konala 51. Rozhlasová súťaž mladých recitátorov. Akciu zorganizovala rozhlasová redakcia programu v slovenskom jazyku RTV. Na tohtoročnom podujatí vystúpilo 51 recitátorov zo 17 slovenských obcí vo Vojvodine a súťažili v piatich kategóriách – prednes poézie žiakov nižších ročníkov základných škôl, prednes poézi … ⌘ Read more
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Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening In Africa
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ‘50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, yo … ⌘ Read more
Zelenskyy: Russia has missed yet another deadline to capture Pokrovsk and Kupiansk ⌘ Read more
I created my first colorscheme ⌘ Read more
Sky News Arabia accused of whitewashing genocide ⌘ Read more
My grandma is the cat lady final boss 🤣 ⌘ Read more
The hardware store by my house has a new employee ⌘ Read more
Cyclops.vim - a new approach for creating dot (or pair ; ,) repeatable operators ⌘ Read more
88 years on: why are we still so obsessed with finding Amelia Earhart ?
The disappearance of the world-famous aviator remains one of the most enduring mysteries of our time. Natasha Heap: It has been more than 88 years sin… ⌘ Read more
Hungary to direct its share of peace fund to Lebanon’s army, not Ukraine’s, Szijjarto says ⌘ Read more
I like to read through old RPG books and zines for inspiration for my games, and lately I’ve been enjoying the Arduin Grimoire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduin), one of the earliest 3rd-party zines (coming out during the initial run of OD&D). It’s filled with a bunch of unique ideas (some better than others), entirely too many charts, and is very much a product of its time, but there’s something about its “raw”-ness (and its variety) that I still find appealing.
Woman Pleads Guilty to Lying About Astronaut Accessing Bank Account From International Space Station
It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space — back in 2019. But by 2020 it had led to
charges of lying to federal authorities.
And now a former Air Force intelligence officer “has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent,” reports CNBC, “by falsely claiming th … ⌘ Read more
Iran confirms it took Singapore-bound tanker carrying petrochemical cargo ⌘ Read more
Ukraine strikes Ryazan oil refinery, hits multiple other Russian military targets, General Staff says ⌘ Read more
A ‘Peak Oil’ Prediction Surprise From the International Energy Agency
“The International Energy Agency’s latest outlook signals that oil demand could keep growing through to the middle of the century,” reports CNBC, “reflecting a sharp tonal shift from the world’s energy watchdog and raising further questions about the future of fossil fuels.”
In its flagship World Energy Outlook, the Paris-based agenc … ⌘ Read more
Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past ⌘ Read more
Forgot to put away the leftover meatballs and red sauce after dinner last night… ⌘ Read more
Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO ‘as Soon as Next Year’
Apple is preparing for Tim Cook to step down as CEO of the company “as soon as next year,” according to the Financial Times.
The company’s board of directors and senior executives “recently intensified preparations for Cook to hand over the reins,” the report said.
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The attack on Kyiv on November 14. The widow of the first victim of the Chernobyl disaster dies in hospital ⌘ Read more
GNOME’s Nautilus File Manager Finally Supporting Ctrl+Insert & Shift+Insert
GNOME’s Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE’s Dolphin and Xfce’s Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files… ⌘ Read more
Japan PM raises eyebrows after saying she sleeps for 2 to 4 hours a night ⌘ Read more
Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux… ⌘ Read more
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U.K. judge finds global mining giant BHP Group liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster ⌘ Read more
Caught my cat getting an exorcism mid-sneeze and I can’t stop laughing 😭😭 ⌘ Read more