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πŸ›—The Stealthy Lab Cooking Up Amazon's Secret Sauce
slashdot by msmash May 13, 2025
Amazon's decade-old acquisition of Annapurna Labs has emerged as a pivotal element in its AI strategy, with the once-secretive Israeli chip design startup now powering AWS infrastructure. The $350 million deal, struck in 2015 after initial talks between Annapurna co-founder Nafea Bshara and Amazon executive James Hamilton, has equipped the tech giant with custom silicon capabilities critical to its cloud computing dominance. Annapurna's chips, particularly the Trainium processor for AI model training and Graviton for general-purpose computing, now form the foundation of Amazon's AI infrastructure. The company is deploying hundreds of thousands of Trainium chips in its Project Rainier supercomputer being delivered to AI startup Anthropic this year. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who led AWS when the acquisition occurred, described it as "one of the most important moments" in AWS history.

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πŸ›—Hemp, Stanway and Greenwood back in England squad
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Lauren Hemp, Alex Greenwood & Georgia Stanway back in England squad. England face Portugal on 30 May and Spain three days later. Manager Sarina Wiegman has been without several key players during the Nations League campaign so far. England's defence of their European title kicks off in seven weeks' time.
Lauren Hemp, Georgia Stanway and Alex Greenwood return to the England squad after injury for the upcoming Women's Nations League matches.
πŸ›—Awoniyi has 'urgent' surgery after abdominal injury
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Taiwo Awoniyi: Nottingham Forest striker undergoes surgery on serious abdominal injury - BBC Sport. Nigeria international, 27, collided with the post in the 88th minute of the 2-2 draw at the City Ground. Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis indicated in an Instagram, external post that his decision to march on to the pitch at the full-time whistle had been in part due to his view on how the injury suffered by Aw oniyi had been handled.
Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi undergoes surgery on a serious abdominal injury suffered in last Sunday's Premier League match with Leicester.
πŸ›—The royal tour
politico playbook by By Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns May 13, 2025
CNN.com will feature iReporter photos in a weekly Travel Snapshots gallery. Please submit your best shots of London for next week. Visit CNN.com/Travel next Wednesday for a new gallery of snapshots from around the world. Please share your best photos of London with CNN iReport.
πŸ›—Medical charity condemns Israel's use of hunger as 'weapon of war' in Gaza
al-monitor by May 13, 2025
Medical charity condemns Israel's use of hunger as 'weapon of war' in Gaza. UN and aid agencies have repeatedly warned of a growing humanitarian catastrophe. Aid reaches Gaza mainly through Israeli-controlled entry points, though the flow has fluctuated.

A months-long Israeli blockade is worsening acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, medical charity Medecins du Monde warned on Tuesday, accusing Israel of using hunger as "a weapon of war".

Israel halted all aid from entering the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on March 2, days before resuming its offensive triggered by Hamas's October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.

πŸ›—Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
phoronix.com by Michael Larabel May 13, 2025
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04 - Phoronix Articles & Reviews News Archive Forums. Popular News This Week The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation CodeUbuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo.
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...
πŸ›—How could assisted dying laws change across the UK?
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
MSPs in Scotland will debate and vote on plans to legalise assisted dying later on Tuesday. It comes days before MPs in Westminster have another chance to consider a separate bill which would legalised assisted dying in England and Wales. How could assisted dying laws change across the UK?
Separate bills which would let terminally ill people end their life are being considered at Westminster and in Scotland.
πŸ›—No leading Rangers candidate amid Davide Ancelotti link
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Davide Ancelotti: No leading Rangers candidate amid link with Real Madrid coach - BBC Sport. Barry Ferguson has overseen Rangers' past 13 games as interim head coach following Philippe Clement's sacking in February. The 45-year-old will take charge of Rangers' final home game of the season against Dundee United.
Rangers have not as yet established a leading candidate for the manager's role, amid reports Davide Ancelotti will be appointed.
πŸ›—We Fixed 2k+ Security Issues (2023)
y combinator by Unknown May 11, 2025
Dgraph Labs Inc. has successfully addressed over 2k+ security issues in 3 months. Security audit endeavors encompass the following layers - Our Code, Our Binary Artifacts & Our Docker Images. The presence of any vulnerabilities within our product can potentially lead to exploitation.
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πŸ›—Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
phoronix.com by Michael Larabel May 13, 2025
Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub. Change is just in relation to the official source repository and doesn't affect the bug/issue tracking, continuous integration (CI), or other features. The Firefox Mercurial servers are still around for now at least and being synced from GitHub.
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...
πŸ›—A programming language made for me
y combinator by Unknown May 13, 2025
Odin incorporates some of my favorite C best practices, straight into the language. Odin lets you choose when to clear the temp allocator. Not everyone has my programming background.Thanks for reading!Karl Zylinski. A programming language made for me.
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πŸ›—Ask HN: How are you acquiring first 100 users?
y combinator by Unknown May 13, 2025
I am building a B2C AI SaaS with $50/month price. How would you go about getting with first 100 users and then the next 500 users? Consider applying for YC's Summer 2025 batch! Applications are open till May 13.
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πŸ›—Trump in Saudi Arabia on Gulf tour, eyeing major deals
al-monitor by May 13, 2025
Trump in Saudi Arabia on Gulf tour, eyeing major deals. Saudi fighter jets escorted Air Force One as Trump landed in Riyadh. First stop on a tour of oil-rich Gulf monarchies that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Donald Trump enjoyed a lavish welcome in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as he opened the first state visit of his second term, with the US president eyeing major business deals even as progress on the Middle East's hotspots will likely be harder to reach.

Saudi fighter jets escorted Air Force One as Trump landed in Riyadh, the first stop on a tour of oil-rich Gulf monarchies that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

πŸ›—Trial by Fire: The crash of Aeroflot flight 1492
y combinator by Unknown May 13, 2025
Aeroflot flight 1492 crashed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on May 5, 2019. 37 people died in the crash, while 41 others never came home. The crash set off a circular firing squad of accusations. It took investigators nearly six years to reach firm conclusions.
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πŸ›—EastEnders star Peace reveals cancer treatment
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Heather Peace has played Eve Panesar-Unwin in EastEnders since 2021. The 49-year-old actress was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. She has had surgery and chemotherapy and says she is "forever changed" Her co-stars rallied round to send their support.
Heather Peace says she had surgery and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer last year.
πŸ›—Child obesity clinics seeing BMIs over 50
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Some children at obesity clinics have BMI of 50. Nearly 4,800 under-18s have been referred to the clinics since they were set up in 2021. Over 40% of the children attending them lived in the most deprived neighbourhoods. A significant number are neurodivergent or have other health conditions.
Many are from the most deprived areas, and a significant number are neurodivergent or have other health conditions, a study says.
πŸ›—Anti-Personnel Computing
y combinator by Unknown May 13, 2025
Neologisms for characterizing mainstream computing of the beginning of the 21st century. Use of computing devices at the expense of the interests of their users and for the benefit of a third-party entity. Etymology: anti-personnel mine, personal computing and personal computer.
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πŸ›—Nissan to cut 11,000 more jobs and shut seven factories
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Nissan to cut 11,000 more jobs and shut seven factories. It brings the total number of layoffs announced by Japan's third-biggest car maker in the last year to about 20,000. It was not immediately clear where the job cuts will be made, but the carmaker said it would reduce the number of its plants from 17 to 10 by 2027.
The planned layoffs mean the Japanese carmaker has now cut about 15% of its workforce in the past year.
πŸ›—Iceland approved 4-day workweek in 2019; six years later, predictions came true
y combinator by Unknown May 13, 2025
Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a reduced working week of 36 hours, compared with 40 hours previously. The Icelandic experience serves as an inspiring example for other countries considering adopting the four-day week.
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πŸ›—Gaza photojournalist Hassan Aslih killed in Israeli strike on hospital
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Gaza journalist Hassan Aslih killed in Israeli strike on hospital. Witnesses described a drone attack on the hospital's surgical wing. Israel Defense Forces said it had attacked Nasser Hospital in what it said was "a targeted attack on key terrorists" The Israel-Gaza war is the deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
Hassan Aslih was being treated in Nasser Hospital for wounds from a previous strike, medics say.
πŸ›—Emmanuel Macron to travel to UK for state visit in July
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron to travel to UK for state visit in July. King and Queen will host the president and his wife Brigitte Macron at Windsor Castle. Visit will take place from 8 July to 10 July. Last state visit to the UK by a French president was in March 2008.
The King and Queen will host the president and his wife Brigitte Macron at Windsor Castle.
πŸ›—Offline vs. online ML pipelines
y combinator by Unknown May 09, 2025
People often don’t fully grasp the distinction between offline and online pipelines. Most tutorials and courses present these concepts together in a single Notebook. This is great for learning but deceiving when it comes to real-world production systems. If you don't separate online and offline pipelines now, scaling your AI system will break down later.
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πŸ›—Djokovic and Murray split after six months
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray end coaching partnership after six months working together. Decision is said to be by mutual agreement. Murray was present in Miami, Indian Wells and Madrid, where DjOKovic lost in the first round. Murray will not be by Djokovich's side when he chases an eighth Wimbledon title in July.
Novak Djokovic splits with coach and former rival Andy Murray after six months working together.
πŸ›—'If he wins again he might not stop' - will Spieth join Grand Slam club?
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
US PGA Championship gets under way at Quail Hollow on Thursday. It is 10 years since Jordan Spieth's breakout season on the PGA Tour. The 31-year-old has not won any tournament since the RBC Heritage in April 2022. His celebrated University of Texas coach John Fields says: "The fuse is lit"
Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau may steal the US PGA headlines but Jordan Spieth's plotline could provide the biggest story of all.
πŸ›—Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4
phoronix.com by Michael Larabel May 13, 2025
Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4. Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler 5.0 Screen Vulnerabilities. Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code.
Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...
πŸ›—Trump starts Gulf trip in Saudi eyeing deals
al-monitor by May 13, 2025
Trump starts Gulf trip in Saudi eyeing deals - AL-Monitor: The Middle EastΚΌs leading independent news source since 2012. Trump also chose Saudi Arabia for his first overseas trip as president eight years ago. Saudi official close to defence ministry: Riyadh will push for latest US F-35 fighter jets.

Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on the first leg of a Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, eyeing business deals even as accords on the Middle East's hotspots will likely be harder to reach.

The trip marks the US president's first major visit abroad of his second term, with the White House saying he looked forward to a "historic return" to the region.

Eight years ago Trump also chose Saudi Arabia for his first overseas trip as president -- when he memorably posed with a glowing orb and participated in a sword dance.

πŸ›—Hollywood stars condemn Gaza 'genocide' as Cannes Festival opens
al-monitor by May 12, 2025
Hollywood stars condemn Gaza 'genocide' as Cannes Festival opens. More than 380 figures from the cinema world including "Schindler's List" actor Ralph Fiennes condemned "genocide" in Gaza. The Cannes Festival kicks off on Tuesday on the French Riviera, with an opening ceremony headlined by Robert De Niro.

More than 380 figures from the cinema world including "Schindler's List" actor Ralph Fiennes condemned "genocide" in Gaza in an open letter published on Tuesday ahead of the Cannes Festival opening.

"We cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza," read the letter initiated by several pro-Palestinian activist groups and published in French newspaper Liberation and US magazine Variety.

πŸ›—Personal customer data stolen in M&S cyber attack
bbc by Unknown May 13, 2025
M&S cyber attack: Customer data stolen, company confirms. Personal customer data stolen in the cyber attack which continues to disrupt its services. High Street giant has not disclosed what specific information was taken. M&S still struggling to get services back to normal, with online orders still suspended.
The retail giant is still struggling to get its services back up and running following a cyber attack.
πŸ›—Alephic Writing Style Guide
y combinator by Unknown May 09, 2025
At Alephic, writing is our primary tool for clarity and persuasion. The written word reveals our thinking, demonstrates our expertise, and builds trust with clients. This style guide helps us maintain a consistent voice that embodies intellectual depth without sacrificing accessibility.
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πŸ›—Universe Expected To Decay Much Sooner Than Previously Thought
slashdot by BeauHD May 13, 2025
Dutch researchers recalculated the timeline for cosmic decay via Hawking-like radiation and found that the universe may end much sooner than previously thought. The research by black hole expert Heino Falcke, quantum physicist Michael Wondrak, and mathematician Walter van Suijlekom is a follow-up to a 2023 paper by the same trio.
Dutch researchers have recalculated the timeline for cosmic decay via Hawking-like radiation and found that the universe may end much sooner than previously thought -- around 10^78 years, rather than 10^1100. Phys.Org reports: The research by black hole expert Heino Falcke, quantum physicist Michael Wondrak, and mathematician Walter van Suijlekom (all from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands) is a follow-up to a 2023 paper by the same trio. In that paper, they showed that not only black holes, but also other objects such as neutron stars, can "evaporate" via a process akin to Hawking radiation. After that publication, the researchers received many questions from inside and outside the scientific community about how long the process would take. They have now answered this question in the new article. The researchers calculated that the end of the universe is about 1078 years away, if only Hawking-like radiation is taken into account. This is the time it takes for white dwarf stars, the most persistent celestial bodies, to decay via Hawking-like radiation. Previous studies, which did not take this effect into account, put the lifetime of white dwarfs at 101100 years. Lead author Heino Falcke said, "So the ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time." The findings have been published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

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