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What Is a Database Transaction?
Hacker News
about 2 hours ago

What Is a Database Transaction?

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/database-transactions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110473 Points: 30 # Comments: 2

The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US
Engadget
about 18 hours ago

The Stop Killing Games campaign will set up NGOs in the EU and US

The Stop Killing Games campaign is evolving into more than just a movement. In a YouTube video, the campaign's creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for "long-term counter lobbying" when publishers end support for certain video games. "Let me start off by saying I think we're going to win this, namely the problem of publishers destroying video games that you've already paid for," Scott said in the video. According to Scott, the NGOs will work on getting the original Stop Killing Games petition codified into EU law, while also pursuing more watchdog actions, like setting up a system to report publishers for revoking access to purchased video games. The Stop Killing Games campaign started as a reaction to Ubisoft's delisting of The Crew from players' libraries. The controversial decision stirred up concerns about how publishers have the ultimate say on delisting video games. After crossing a million signatures last year, the movement's leadership has been busy exploring the next steps. According to Scott, the campaign leadership will meet with the European Commission soon, but is also working on a 500-page legal paper that reveals some of the industry's current controversial practices. In the meantime, the ongoing efforts have led to a change of heart from Ubisoft since the publisher updated The Crew 2 with an offline mode.  This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/the-stop-killing-games-campaign-will-set-up-ngos-in-the-eu-and-us-203359604.html?src=rss

The best e-reader to buy right now
The Verge
1 day ago

The best e-reader to buy right now

Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer distractions and less eye strain, and many include extra features, like adjustable frontlighting. Some really are pocketable. Others are waterproof or offer physical page-turning buttons, while a few even let you take notes. I’ve been using ebook readers for more than a decade, and I’ve gone hands-on with dozens, from the Kindle Paperwhite to lesser-known rivals like the PocketBook Era. Whether you want something your kid can throw against the wall or a waterproof, warm-glow Kindle that won’t ruin your spa ambiance, these are the best ebook readers for everyone.  The best Kindle Kindle Paperwhite (2024) Score: 8 ProsCons The best-looking screen on any e-reader Slightly larger screen without a noticeably larger device Faster page turns, loading, and a more responsive UI A splash of color (without a color screen) Upgrades aren’t as significant as the last Paperwhite Lacks stylus support and page turn buttons Signature Edition wireless charging is frustrating without magnets Signature Edition back panel feels less grippy Where to Buy: $159.99 at Amazon (with ads) $159.99 at Best Buy (with ads) $159.99 at Target (without ads) Dimensions: 7 x 5 x .3 inches / Weight: 211 grams / Screen area and resolution: 7-inch screen, 300ppi resolution / Storage: 16GB / Other features: IPX8 waterproofing, Bluetooth audio support  If you mostly buy ebooks from Amazon, you’ll want a Kindle, and the 12th-gen Kindle Paperwhite is the best choice for most people. It’s $70 cheaper than the Kobo Libra Colour — my top non-Amazon e-reader — yet offers many of the same features, including a spacious 7-inch 300pi display with rich contrast levels. Unlike Amazon’s entry-level Kindle, it also features IPX8 water resistance and an adjustable warm frontlight that reduces blue light,

13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools
Engadget
2 days ago

13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, say four people familiar with the matter. Kiro is an agentic tool, meaning it can take autonomous actions on behalf of users. In this case, the bot reportedly determined that it needed to "delete and recreate the environment." This is what allegedly led to the lengthy outage that primarily impacted China. Amazon says it was merely a "coincidence that AI tools were involved" and that "the same issue could occur with any developer tool or manual action." The company blamed the outage on "user error, not AI error." It said that by default the Kiro tool “requests authorization before taking any action” but that the staffer involved in the December incident had "broader permissions than expected — a user access control issue, not an AI autonomy issue." Multiple Amazon employees spoke to Financial Times and noted that this was "at least" the second occasion in recent months in which the company's AI tools were at the center of a service disruption. "The outages were small but entirely foreseeable," said one senior AWS employee. A builder shares why their workflow finally clicked. Instead of jumping straight to code, the IDE pushed them to start with specs. ✔️ Clear requirements. ✔️ Acceptance criteria. ✔️ Traceable tasks. Their takeaway: Think first. Code later. Get the full breakdown here 👉… pic.twitter.com/eD7ZrEdEn5 — Kiro (@kirodotdev) January 14, 2026 The company launched Kiro in July and has since pushed employees into using the tool. Leadership set an 80 percent weekly use goal and has been closely tracking adoption rates. Amazon also sells access to the agentic tool for a monthly subscription fee. These recent outages follow a more serious event from October, in which a 15-hour AWS outage disrupted services li

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How the US Botched the Epstein Redactions
Bloomberg
2 days ago

How the US Botched the Epstein Redactions

The Jeffrey Epstein files are a trove of secrets. But just as important as what’s in them is what’s being held back. So why did the Trump administration bungle their release? (Source: Bloomberg)

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Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake
The Verge
2 days ago

Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake

Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage to one system in December as a result of its AI coding assistant Kiro's actions, according to the Financial Times. Numerous unnamed Amazon employees told the FT that AI agent Kiro was responsible for the December incident affecting an AWS service in parts of mainland China. People familiar with the matter said the tool chose to "delete and recreate the environment" it was working on, which caused the outage. While Kiro normally requires sign-off from two humans to push changes, the bot had the permissions of its operator, and a human error there allowed more access than expected. Amazon describ … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Live updates: Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in 6-3 ruling
The Hill
2 days ago

Live updates: Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in 6-3 ruling

The Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow to President Trump's tariff agenda, ruling on Friday that his tariff scheme is illegal without congressional authorization.  In one of the biggest cases justices have decided in years, the majority conservative court issued a rare rebuke of the president's actions. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Neil Gorsuch...

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Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time
Science Daily
2 days ago

Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time

Qubits, the heart of quantum computers, can change performance in fractions of a second — but until now, scientists couldn’t see it happening. Researchers at NBI have built a real-time monitoring system that tracks these rapid fluctuations about 100 times faster than previous methods. Using fast FPGA-based control hardware, they can instantly identify when a qubit shifts from “good” to “bad.” The discovery opens a new path toward stabilizing and scaling future quantum processors.

LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'
Engadget
2 days ago

LA County lawsuit accuses Roblox of exposing children to 'grooming and exploitation'

Los Angeles County has sued Roblox for "unfair and deceptive business practices," claiming the platform's moderation and age-verification systems are inadequate. "Roblox portrays its platform as a safe and appropriate place for children to play," the complaint states. "In reality, and as Roblox well knows, the design of its platform makes children easy prey for pedophiles."  Representatives accused Roblox of failing to implement adequate platform safety features to prevent child endangerment. "Specifically, Roblox has not effectively moderated game content or enforced age-appropriate restrictions and warnings established by the creators, allowing the predatory and inappropriate language and interactions between users to persist," the County stated. It also said the platform failed to disclose any danger to children, including sexual content and the risk of predators.  Roblox rejected the allegations, saying the platform was built around safety. "We have advanced safeguards that monitor our platform for harmful content and communications, and users cannot send or receive images via chat, avoiding one of the most prevalent opportunities for misuse seen elsewhere online," the company told the AFP.  The LA county complaint is the latest in a string of lawsuits from US regions including Florida, Texas and Kentucky. The Attorney General in Louisiana also accused the company of having a "lack of safety protocols" that endanger the safety of children in favor of "growth, revenue and profits." That state's lawsuit cited a specific example of a subject arrested last year that used voice-altering tech to mimic a younger feminine voice to lure and sexually exploit young players. Roblox has said that it has about 144 million daily active users around the world, with over 40 percent of them under the age of 13. However, it has faced repeated accusations that it doesn't do enough to protect young players. In 2024, Roblox banned players under 13 from accessing some types of in-gam

Three aid workers killed, 4 wounded in RSF drone attack in Sudan’s Kordofan
Al Jazeera
2 days ago

Three aid workers killed, 4 wounded in RSF drone attack in Sudan’s Kordofan

The attack comes as the UN releases a report which found that RSF actions have hallmarks of genocide in el-Fasher.

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Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers
Hacker News
2 days ago

Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers

Hey HN! Arjun and Sid here. Fostrom is an IoT Cloud Platform designed for developers to make it really easy to get started and scale fleets. We have Device SDKs (in Python, JS, Elixir, more coming soon), Typed Schemas, Per-Device Mailboxes, Programmable Actions, 4 Global Regions for lower-latency connections, and much more. We've built Fostrom to solve a real need we faced in our previous startup, building a fully automated indoor vertical farm. We spent more time figuring out IoT infrastructure than writing automation logic. Fostrom is the platform we wished existed back then. Over the last few years we've experimented with a lot of interesting tech and architectures, and settled on an architecture that we believe is quite elegant. We wrote a GoElixir bridge to execute JS code in WASM for Actions, implemented a DuckDB library for Elixir, and wrote a Device Agent in Rust that our SDKs run in the background (https://github.com/fostrom/devicekit). The most interesting realization we had was about the data architecture. For years, we tried using distributed databases and built complex layers on top of them, but all approaches had significant limitations specifically around consistency and querying. We want to provide operational correctness, rich insights, and reliability. Finally, we came to the conclusion that to achieve this we really need a SQL database for fleet data. So we built a DuckDB-based replicated multi-tenant data layer. We're still improving it (hence the Technical Preview badge) but we're quite proud of this decision. It simplifies the rest of the codebase, while keeping operational complexity in just a few places. Our vision is to make a powerful IoT platform that enables you to build correct, secure, and reliable connected systems without dealing with any of the plumbing or infrastructure. Next up, we're gonna launch our CLI, add automatic device monitoring to our Device SDKs, and improve the debugging experience. We have some pretty cool ideas to mak

Venezuela passes amnesty law for political prisoners
DW News
2 days ago

Venezuela passes amnesty law for political prisoners

The amnesty law excludes those prosecuted or convicted of promoting military actions against the country, which could include Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado.

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Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas
Science News
3 days ago

Snowball Earth might have had a dynamic climate and open seas

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Never-before-seen photos of Nazi executions in Greece surface on eBay
France 24
3 days ago

Never-before-seen photos of Nazi executions in Greece surface on eBay

Shocking photographs depicting Nazi soldiers’ executions of Greek resistance fighters during World War II have been discovered on the online auction platform eBay. The never-before-seen images, which show the victims both before and after their brutal executions, have sparked strong reactions in Greece, whose authorities have claimed them back and declared them a national heritage.

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Groundhog Day: How House members and senators exploit procedure to get their way
The Hill
3 days ago

Groundhog Day: How House members and senators exploit procedure to get their way

The House and Senate have been at odds over the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, with the House passing a resolution to terminate the president's tariff actions and the Senate failing to pass a cloture motion on the DHS funding bill.

UN says Israeli actions raising ethnic cleansing fears in West Bank , Gaza
lbcgroup.tv
3 days ago

UN says Israeli actions raising ethnic cleansing fears in West Bank , Gaza

Published: 20260219T083000Z

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Crowds continue to flood Hong Kong attractions despite outbound travel surge
South China Morning Post
3 days ago

Crowds continue to flood Hong Kong attractions despite outbound travel surge

Locals and visitors flocked to popular destinations across Hong Kong on the third day of the Lunar New Year on Thursday, despite official data showing a nearly 16 per cent increase in net outflow during the holiday period. Crowds began building up at about 10am at The Peak and Sha Tin’s Che Kung Temple, with authorities later reporting that footfall at the East Dam of the High Island Reservoir in Sai Kung ranged between 500 and 999 visitors from around noon. According to the Hong Kong Tourism...

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Breaking the cycle: Hong Kong parents wrestle with impact of their own abuse
South China Morning Post
4 days ago

Breaking the cycle: Hong Kong parents wrestle with impact of their own abuse

Anna Lee*, a Hongkonger in her forties, first realised the profound impact of the violence she experienced as a child when she became a mother herself. As she raised her two children, now aged seven and 10, she was alarmed to find her emotional reactions mirroring the volatility of her own childhood. “I found the degree of my sudden outbursts of anger not proportionate to the things my children had done, and I struggle to manage the emotion,” she said. “That reminded me of my father losing his...

Warner Bros. Reopens Talks, MSG Sports Talks Knicks, Rangers Spinoff | Bloomberg Deals 2/18/2026
Bloomberg
4 days ago

Warner Bros. Reopens Talks, MSG Sports Talks Knicks, Rangers Spinoff | Bloomberg Deals 2/18/2026

A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: Principal Venture Partners Founder and Managing Partner Songyee Yoon, AlixPartners Americas Co-Leader of TMT Nenad Milicevic-Helac and KKR Co-Head of Credit and Markets Christopher Sheldon. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Does Trump’s retreat on electric vehicle policy risk ceding ground to China?
South China Morning Post
4 days ago

Does Trump’s retreat on electric vehicle policy risk ceding ground to China?

US President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Wednesday that it would rescind a rule rewarding electric vehicle production – eliminating the so-called “fuel content factor” – the latest in a series of actions rolling back federal support for EVs that analysts say could leave the US further behind in a global race increasingly shifting in China’s favour. The move comes as the US struggles to compete with China’s rapid growth in the EV sector, marking another setback for America’s...

South Africa mulls using military to combat organized crime
DW News
4 days ago

South Africa mulls using military to combat organized crime

President Cyril Ramaphosa's announced plan to deploy the military to fight crime has elicited mixed reactions from South Africans. Analysts say public confidence can only be restored through a policing overhaul.

South Africa sends in troops to combat organized crime
DW News
4 days ago

South Africa sends in troops to combat organized crime

President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision to deploy the military to battle fight crime has elicited mixed reactions from South Africans. Analysts say public confidence can only be restored through a policing overhaul.

New users can get one year of access to Monarch Money for 50 percent off
Engadget
4 days ago

New users can get one year of access to Monarch Money for 50 percent off

A good budgeting app can make it much easier to see where your money is actually going, and one of our top picks is 50 percent off right now. Monarch Money is running a deal for new users that cuts the price of its annual plan in half. With the code MONARCHVIP, you’ll pay $50 for one year of access instead of the usual $100. We’ve recommended Monarch before for its deep customization options and robust financial planning tools. It supports unlimited account connections, investment tracking and shared budgets, making it a solid option if you want a detailed look at your finances or plan alongside a partner. It also features prominently in our roundup of the best budgeting apps, where it stood out for its depth and flexibility. Monarch Money is the kind of budgeting app that can feel a little overwhelming at first, especially when you’re setting up categories, rules and recurring transactions. There’s a bit of a learning curve, and some of the finer details are easier to manage on the web than in the mobile app. But once you’re past that initial setup, it starts to make a lot more sense and becomes a powerful tool for keeping tabs on your finances. Where Monarch Money really shines is in the level of detail it offers. It’s built for people who want a clear, structured view of their money, not just a running list of transactions. In the budgeting section, you can see budgets versus actual spending by category, along with forecasts by month or by year. Recurring expenses can also be defined using more than just merchant names, which helps keep things accurate with less manual cleanup. Beyond day-to-day budgeting, Monarch does a good job of showing the bigger picture. It includes visual reports and charts that make it easier to spot trends over time, plus tools for tracking net worth, investments and financial goals. Monarch can even factor in non-cash assets like your home or vehicle, pulling in estimates automatically so they appear alongside your accounts. All of tha

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The best wireless workout headphones for 2026
Engadget
4 days ago

The best wireless workout headphones for 2026

Whether you’re lifting, running or squeezing in a quick session between errands, the last thing you want is a cable getting in the way or earbuds that won’t stay put. The best wireless headphones make it easier to focus on your workout, but not every pair is built to handle sweat, motion and long sessions. Fitness-focused headphones put different demands on design and performance. Secure fit, water resistance and dependable battery life matter just as much as sound quality, especially if you plan to use them outside the gym as well. Some are tuned for awareness during outdoor runs, while others aim to block distractions during intense training. We’ve tested a wide range of wireless headphones and wireless earbuds that are suited for exercise, narrowing the list down to options that hold up during workouts and still work well for everyday listening. Below, you’ll find our top picks, along with guidance to help you choose the right pair for how you train. Best workout headphones for 2026 Others wireless workout headphones we tested Apple AirPods Pro 3 When it comes to running and working out, the edge that the AirPods Pro 3 have over the Pro 2, or even the top picks on our list, is built-in heart rate monitoring. That means you could go out with just your Pro 3 earbuds and your iPhone and still get heart rate information for your entire training session. But otherwise, the Pro 3 buds are just as capable as the Pro 2 when it comes to exercise. Some may prefer the soft-touch finish on our top picks to the AirPods' slick texture. Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 The Powerbeats Pro 2 are a good alternative to the Beats Fit Pro if you’re a stickler for a hook design. However, they cost $50 more than the Powerbeats Fit, and the main added advantage here is built-in heart rate sensors. Anker Soundcore AeroFit Pro The Soundcore AeroFit Pro is Anker’s version of the Shokz OpenFit, but I found the fit to be less secure and not as comfortable. The actua

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