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Chinese student numbers at Harvard rise despite Trump visa crackdown

Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...

Jan 13South China Morning PosteducationImpact

Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets

I made this for myself, and it seemed like it might be useful to others. I'd love some feedback, both on the threat model and the tool itself. I hope you find it useful! Backstory: I've been using man...

3dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Daily Mail: Press or Predator? The lines blur in explosive high-profile trial

A rare public reckoning is unfolding in the High Court of London. For deeper perspective on this high-profile trial targeting the publishers of Britain's popular Daily Mail tabloid, France 24's Gavin ...

14hFrance 24crimeImpact

How Donald Trump could break up Canada

Alberta is a very cold place in winter, even by Canadian standards. And yet, in the past week, hundreds of Albertans formed long queues in freezing weather, in big cities and small towns, to sign a pe...

3dSouth China Morning PostPoliticsImpact

Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support

Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So...

Jan 13Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman's go-to gift this Christmas was an AI-generated music album

Reid Hoffman, an outspoken AI optimist, told a reporter he has gifted AI-generated music to his friends and family. Kimberly White/Getty Images Reid Hoffman, an AI fan, said he gave his friends and fa...

Jan 16Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

MECHBORN, a Unique Roguelike Inspired by '90's Anime, Announced

Greek mythology and '90's mech anime come together in MECHBORN, a new roguelike deckbuilder from developer Turtle Juice and publisher Curve Games. The hook is that your mech is your deck, meaning you ...

3dIGNTechnologyImpact

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says Trump's tariffs have landed the US in a 'pretty unfortunate position'

Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, gave his two cents on Trump's key economic policies. Tariffs have led to higher inflation and disrupte...

2dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

I went from fine dining to owning a fast-casual chain. Here are 4 misconceptions about the restaurant business.

Hady Kfoury NAYA Hady Kfoury grew Naya from a single restaurant to a fast-casual chain with more than 40 locations. Kfoury's experience has shown him there are several common misconceptions about the ...

4dBusiness Insiderlifestyle

Gaming’s most fun sales data is full of old and obscure games

Every month, Circana video game analyst Mat Piscatella posts fascinating data about video game sales on Bluesky, highlighting trends like November's historically bad month for game hardware and Battle...

23mThe VergeTechnologyImpact

The US is fast-tracking permits for deep-sea mining

A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...

2dThe VergePoliticsImpact

Democrats push FTC to investigate Trump Mobile

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" fro...

Jan 15The VergePoliticsImpact

Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)

Hi HN, I built Ayder — a single-binary, HTTP-native durable event log written in C. The wedge is simple: curl is the client (no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libs). There’s a 2-minute demo that s...

Jan 13Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

Exclusive: Frozen's Anna - Soothing Sister and Do You Want to Build a Snowman? From Disney Lorcana's Winterspell Set Revealed

IGN can exclusively reveal two new Frozen-themed Disney Lorcana cards from the upcoming Winterspell expansion that have exciting implications for both the lore and gameplay of the TCG, and they are An...

3dIGNEntertainmentImpact

AI is turning Big Tech into a superstar economy

A star that may have ripped apart a planet, according to researchers REUTERS/NASA/Handout A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly Tech Memo n...

Jan 17Business InsiderTechnologyImpact

Gwyneth Paltrow says becoming an empty nester felt like 'a divorce'

Gwyneth Paltrow and her two kids, Apple Martin, 21, and Moses Martin, 19. ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow said she "really struggled" when her kids flew the nest. The "...

Jan 14Business InsiderEntertainmentImpact

Why this NATO fighter wing says its American-made Hornets work well for front-line air patrols

Spain has deployed roughly a dozen EF-18 Hornet fighter jets to Lithuania in support of NATO air policing operations. Joan Valls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images Spain has deployed a fighter wi...

1dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, ...

Jan 14The VergeTechnologyImpact

Nissan is one of the first carmakers to offer magnetic phone chargers in the US

Wireless phone chargers are now common in vehicles, but they're typically missing one very useful feature. Nissan announced last month that it will be the first automaker in the US to offer wireless c...

Jan 13The VergeTechnologyImpact

Laura Jadid warns 'there’s nothing legal, ethical, moral about what’s unfolding on American streets'

François Picard is pleased to welcome independent journalist Laura Jadid sharing a piercing exposé of systemic dysfunction, ethical erosion, and authoritarianism blossoming in the US. In an era marked...

1dFrance 24PoliticsImpact
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