Pope Francis has died

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749449

Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional

Link: https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43730545

OpenAI is building a social network?

Link: https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694877

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication

Link: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680899

The Steam Deck Is Software-Freedom Friendly

Link: https://isomorphism.xyz/blog/2024/steam-deck/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43567923

The case against conversational interfaces

Link: https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542131

Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485950

Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury

Link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-japanese-scientists-stem-cell-treatment.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459264

CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging "world free of fraud" sentenced for fraud

Link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/ceo-of-ai-ad-tech-firm-pledging-world-free-of-fraud-sentenced-for-fraud/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448606

Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options

Link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/dutch_parliament_us_tech/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421902

Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury

Link: https://slamdunksoftware.substack.com/p/hidden-messages-in-emojis-and-hacking

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43359264

'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket

Link: https://www.websiteplanet.com/news/eshyft-report-breach/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349115

Tailscale Is Pretty Useful

Link: https://blog.6nok.org/tailscale-is-pretty-useful/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270835

The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks

Link: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/02/the-top-10/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43239249

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

Link: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909

'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison

Link: https://news.sky.com/story/everybody-is-looking-at-their-phones-says-man-freed-after-30-years-in-prison-13315407

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149736

Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks

Link: https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/02/22/amazon-now-openly-discloses-youre-buying-a-license-to-view-kindle-ebooks/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141825

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253

Apple Debuts iPhone 16e

Link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-debuts-iphone-16e-a-powerful-new-member-of-the-iphone-16-family/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103536

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died

Link: https://www.eurogamer.net/half-life-2-and-dishonored-art-lead-viktor-antonov-dies-aged-just-52

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069514