AI has been known to mess up some pretty basic things, but Claude wants to help you with your emails.

AI has been known to mess up some pretty basic things, but Claude wants to help you with your emails.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on e-bikes, power stations, and how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started With a deep breath, I took [β¦]

"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
The wrong bag can aggravate you every single day. These WIRED-tested picks get comfort, capacity, and organization just right.

Iva Jovic outlasted the fellow young tennis sensation from the Philippines, Alex Eala, in an epic three-hour showdown.

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Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

Gaza families hold mass funeral for 100 people recovered from rubble in Zeitoun neighbourhood.

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Affordable, fast-heating and with a clever air fryer function, this versatile model is a winner for outdoor cooks who are willing to give up the traditional flame β’ The best pizza ovens β tested β’ Gozney Dome Gen 2 pizza oven review An electric pizza oven with no flame and no need to rotate the pizza may seem sacrilegious to purists, but the Ninja Artisan electric outdoor pizza oven solves many of the hassles of outdoor pizza making. Thereβs no lighting or monitoring a flame, no need to keep adjusting the heat, and no need for a turning peel, bulky gas bottle or constant use of an infβ¦

A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power β and perils β of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills? When I was growing up, my dad and I often talked about a story we wanted to write together. It was called βThe Day Nobody Went to Disneylandβ. One day, the story goes, the weather is so perfect that everyone in the world decides to stay away from Disneyland because they expect it to be far too busy. But my dad, who has the same thought as them, sees the disappointment on my face that morning β and decides to risk it. We sβ¦

Take full control of your desktop alerts by sending yourself recurring reminders and custom notifications triggered by specific events.

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau eruption halts flights, schools, fishing Β Β The Standard (HK)
The US and Iran attack tankers in Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides try to exert control over the strategic waterway.

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Testing is critical to software applications β first to make sure they reliably serve the purpose they were built for, and then to make sure they stay that way as they grow, evolve and change. The same applies to AI applications as well. But testing AI applications is very different from testing classic software applications, especially because of their non-deterministic nature. It is very important for AI Engineers to develop a deep understanding of AI Evaluation to be able to build reliable AI applications and ship changes faster without breaking their existing behavior. AI Evaluation isβ¦
The remains of thousands more people are believed to be buried under destroyed and damaged buildings in Gaza.

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HMS Queen Elizabeth left Portsmouth Naval Base at about 18:20 BST on Saturday.

I was initially enamored with the beta version of Appleβs revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, Iβve forgotten Siri AI even exists.

The team embedded electrodes into live cockroaches, then outfitted them with cameras and injection devices to deliver medication via remote control.

The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.

Donβt let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day. These smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker.

The shift in the fishβs diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
The shift in the fishβs diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their alliesβthe only problem is a lack of evidence.

Even as anti-Muslim rhetoric rises in Texas, Muslim pitmasters are winning over diners and reshaping one of the state's most iconic culinary traditions.

The "exceptionally well organised" protest "caught several agencies on the hoof", the leader says.

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U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday in their first visit to the Ukrainian capital as part of a renewed push for peace in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

All our live updates as Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford look to fire during our text commentary stream coverage.

The best gaming chair is actually an office chair. Here are our top picks from our real-life testing so far.

Israel's visual colonisation aims to make Palestinians feel like guests in their own homeland.

Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according toΒ CERT Polska's attack warning, published on September 5. Successful attacks date to at least September 2. The Hacker Newsβs September 6 review of the warning found no victim count or
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Two women killed in an air attack on Arab Salim, and two people killed in strike on Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

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Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination β and helpful tools to overcome it β with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination .

Aivresβs research and development technology center and manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif.
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I came across Stratosync recently and thought it was worth sharing here. Iβm not affiliated with the project. It seems to be trying to fill a gap that Linux still has: a decent βfiles on demandβ style cloud sync client, where the filesystem is mounted normally but file contents are only downloaded when needed instead of mirroring everything locally. One can also pin files to keep them in sync. Stratosync is written in Rust, uses FUSE3 for the filesystem layer and rclone for cloud backends, so it should work with services like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, Nextcloud, SFTP, etc. Frβ¦
We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.

The Israeli army has blown up several villages in southern Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire agreement reached in June

Back up accessible Skool lessons, notes, attachments, and full courses to a local folder. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584488 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of them switches off Windows Update and Microsoft Defender before running a cryptocurrency miner. The company named the four programs ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and
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Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

Filipina Alex Eala lost a three-set thriller to American Iva Jovic, as Naomi Osaka overcame Elise Mertens to progress.

Putin believes Russia can seize rest of Donetsk Oblast by year-end β Reuters Β Β The New Voice of Ukraine
I recommend reading the whole thread, but I linked to the part I found the most relevant. I believe the same is true for programming. Comments
ICE agents arrested an average of one person every 54 seconds in July. AJLabs examines a record month for deportations.
The 40-year-old retained her WBA, IBF and WBO super-lightweight belts to become the undisputed champion for third time.

Article URL: https://quenq.com/apps/vice-city-online/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584123 Points: 11 # Comments: 3

I made a free and open source chess database. It's useful for personal game study and gathering statistics across sites. Supports import from lichess, chess.com, FICS and PGN then runs Stockfish and Maia over every game. With it you can analyze your games, take notes on positions and look up openings. The self hosted web version includes a remote-runner that allows connecting engines running on other machines (finally, the CPUs of the AI server at work come to use :D) and an MCP server with a live board to push positions and comments to. Roadmap: iOS and Android companion apps, a sync serviceβ¦
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Cairo court sentences TV host Sarah Khalifa and 11 others to death over drug trafficking ring.

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Upon arrival at the U-20 Women's World Cup, Infantino remained tight-lipped about his re-election as FIFA president.

More than 20,000 passengers are stranded after ash was detected in airspace near Jakarta following the eruptions.

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Historic England is seeking changes to the Corporation's draft City Plan on development locations.

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Most gambling websites nudge users towards accepting tracking data and harvest it before consent is given, study shows Online bookmakers and casinos have been accused of widespread non-compliance of information privacy requirements, including βdata surveillanceβ of customers, according to a study. Nearly nine out of 10 (86%) licensed British gambling websites appear to be flouting the general data protection regulation (GDPR), the strict rules governing how organisations can collect, store and process personal data, according to the research. Continue reading...

Al Jazeera finds 17 settlement-linked companies hold 2.1 billion pounds in UK public contracts.

Two computers, one bit. Hi β I built slock, a small macOS menu bar app that connects two people through their capslock lights. Hold capslock on your Mac, and the other personβs capslock light turns on. Let go, and it turns off. Thatβs all. A tiny way to interact someone without opening a chat window. Invent a blink language, try Morse code, or just bother someone who agreed to install this with you. If you both opt in, the same key also becomes a push-to-talk walkie-talkie. Itβs open source: simple Swift, end-to-end encrypted, no accounts, no analytics. While itβs running, capslockβ¦
A crimewave in part of Birmingham over several months leaves residents asking who is in control.

Fairytale endings in boxing are a rarity, but Irish icon Katie Taylor sails off into the sunset after the most perfect of farewells at Dublin's towering Croke Park.

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Inspired by the post[1] about how OpenAI models which were restricted to only GET requests found an old German Wiki that allowed posting with a GET, I created anystation.net, which aims to be a message board in which arbitrarily-limited systems can post. If you come up with more cools ideas, I'll have claude add them ^.^ PING morse-code, printer spool, email, bring it on. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583809 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
https://v-yanakiev.itch.io/machina Hi. I've made a Rust + Box2D v3 game, compiled to WASM, in which you can build cars, helicopters, boats, and whatever else you can come up with, to destroy a set of targets. The game also has a sandbox, mode, which you can access with esc+sandbox. Torpedo example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrR5jtleDTk Helicopter bomb example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqSt4tpoKww Ground vehicle bomb example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBANeAxWhBQ I might add p2p multiplayer if people are interested. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583706β¦
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Taylor Fritz and Flavio Cobolli lose in the third round as six top-10 seeds are knocked out of the men's singles in the first week at the US Open.

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A terrifying moment unfolded aboard a Qantas flight from Queenstown to Sydney when flames erupted from its left engine.
More than 60 people, including civilians, killed as clashes between Yemeni forces and Houthis intensify in Taiz.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed accusations about his governmentβs alleged ties to Qatar as βone big bluffβ

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Authorities have launched an investigation into a fire that killed 22 people at a wedding party in Kinshasa, DR Congo.
Behind South Africaβs chrome riches lies a shadow economy where migrants and unemployed workers face deadly conditions.

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Saxony-Anhalt elections could see AfD become the first far-right party to take power at a state levelΒ since WWII.

A summer-like day is in store for some on Sunday with above average temperatures, but the heat will be short-lived.

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Indonesiaβs dangerous peat fires are surging early in the 2026 fire season as a strengthening El NiΓ±o and severe drought dry out wetlands that can burn underground for months. These slow smoldering fires are especially destructive because they release far more fine particles and several pollutants than typical tropical forest fires, while thick smoke can make them difficult for satellites to detect.
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