GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 15:57:50

At Radar, performance is a feature. Our platform processes over 1 billion API calls per day from hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. We provide geolocation infrastructure and solutions, including APIs for: Geocoding : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. : Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and IP geocoding APIs with global coverage. Search : Address autocomplete, address validation, and places search APIs. Address autocomplete, address v

Topics: data geocoding query rust search

Shop Amazon

After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-05 06:56:11

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in what would become one of humanity’s most infamous ancient tragedies. Tens of centuries later, archaeologists eagerly dug through the ash and pumice to rediscover the buried Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in all their preserved glory. In their eagerness, however, they may have missed an important layer of history. While working in the Insula meridionalis—the southern quarter of Pompeii’s ancient urban center—archaeologists uncovered evidence confirmin

Topics: 79 archaeologists city history pompeii

Shop Amazon

Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-06 02:11:24

In what first appears like a rather morbid game of “which would you rather?”, researchers have released a new study that games out how likely the average person is to die should one of various mishaps like car crashes, carbon monoxide poisoning, and lightning strikes, occur—or because a giant asteroid destroys the Earth. The probability of a planet-annihilating asteroid crashing into Earth is low, but it’s not zero. In fact, Earth had a recent close call when a newly discovered asteroid was cal

Topics: asteroid earth impact likely researchers

Shop Amazon

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-06 11:12:43

Apple Maps has some compelling new features in iOS 26, but it seems there’s even more coming, as the beta now supports a powerful new feature that Apple never announced: natural language search with Apple Intelligence. Apple Maps gains AI-powered natural language search in iOS 26 Early last month, iOS 26 beta code revealed that Apple was working on adding natural language search to Maps. However, code leaks regularly expose features in development that may not ever ship. In this case though,

Topics: 26 apple ios maps search

Shop Amazon

Computing’s Top 30: Guowen Xu

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-06 23:00:58

Guowen Xu’s passion for cryptography was seeded in various courses throughout his undergraduate mathematics education. It was his experience as a doctoral student, however, that was truly transformative in terms of his learning how to navigate cryptographic security’s complexities and begin shaping his research directions and career. Today, Xu is a full professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu. Xu’s wor

Topics: ai cybersecurity learning research security

Shop Amazon

Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-07 06:18:23

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially incre

Topics: ai perplexity search social truth

Shop Amazon

Debounce

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 00:04:13

Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation. Debouncing is very similar to throttling. The key difference is that throttling enforces limits on continuous operations, while debouncing waits for invocations to stop for a specific time to consolidate many noisy invocations into one single invocation. A typical use case of debouncing is when responding to user input.

Topics: 10 debouncing milliseconds search user

Shop Amazon

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-12-07 17:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

Topics: ai people search traffic web

Shop Amazon

Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 02:35:09

President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is beta-testing a new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform. The Florida-based company announced the news on Wednesday in a press release. Trump Media and Technology Group is perhaps best known for its social-media program Truth Social. The company is separate from the New York-based Trump Organization. "We're proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Tru

Topics: media perplexity search social truth

Shop Amazon

Google: Actually, AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 21:49:46

Last month, a Pew Research Center report shed light on Google's AI Overviews' effect on web publishing. In short, the analysis painted an abysmal outlook for anyone relying on web traffic. But on Wednesday, Google Search head Liz Reid penned a blog post that puts quite a different spin on things. The Google VP claims traffic from search to websites is "relatively stable" and that click quality has increased. Reid's framing boils down to everything is peachy, and AI is making things better — eve

Topics: ai google people reid search

Shop Amazon

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-08 18:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

Topics: course data haystack needle search

Shop Amazon

Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-09 00:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

Topics: course data haystack needle search

Shop Amazon

Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-09 02:36:42

Google has often bristled at the implication that its obsession with AI search is harming web traffic, and now search head Liz Reid has penned a blog post on the topic. According to Reid, clicks aren't declining, AI is driving more searches, and everything is fine on the Internet. But despite the optimistic tone, the post stops short of providing any actual data to back up those claims. This statement feels like a direct response to a recent Pew Research Center analysis that showed searches wit

Topics: ai clicks google reid search

Shop Amazon

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-09 02:45:29

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been “relatively stable” year-over-year and that average click quality has slightly increased. “This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in agg

Topics: ai click google search traffic

Shop Amazon

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-09 05:33:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

Topics: agents dr process research ttd

Shop Amazon

Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

news.ycombinator.com Liz Reid 2025-12-09 05:32:42

AI is driving the most significant upgrade of the Google Search experience ever. With AI Overviews and more recently AI Mode, people are able to ask questions they could never ask before. And the response has been tremendous: Our data shows people are happier with the experience and are searching more than ever as they discover what Search can do now. At the same time, we’ve recently heard some questions about what this means for traffic to websites from Google. So we wanted to share some insig

Topics: ai people search traffic web

Shop Amazon

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-09 11:31:47

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google says its AI search features aren’t tanking website traffic despite recent reports suggesting otherwise. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Google Search head Liz Reid says click volume from the search engine has remained “relatively stable” when compa

Topics: ai google reid says search

Shop Amazon

New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 16:05:46

The mysterious Shroud of Turin, which is believed by many Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body after his crucifixion, may be even stranger than we previously thought. In a new study published in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes lends credence to the theory that the shroud was a work of art rather than a genuine death shroud — and per the new paper, it may not have laid atop a human at all. Using three types of 3D modeling tools — MakeHuman, Blender, and

Topics: 3d christ moraes researchers shroud

Shop Amazon

Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 20:18:44

The Wayback Machine requires your browser to support JavaScript, please email [email protected] if you have any questions about this.

Topics: archive browser email info javascript

Shop Amazon

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-10 06:00:00

Within the titles of the calendar invites, the researchers added their crafty malicious prompts. (Google’s Wen contends that the researchers changed default settings on who can add calendar invites to someone’s calendar; however, the researchers say they demonstrated some of the 14 attacks with the prompts in an email subject or document title as well). “All the techniques are just developed in English, so it’s plain English that we are using,” Cohen says of the deceptive messages the team creat

Topics: calendar gemini prompt researchers user

Shop Amazon

Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-10 22:45:38

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing. Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia, to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and

Topics: disrupt european index search tech

Shop Amazon

I dumped Google for Kagi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:12:51

Mandatory AI summaries have come to Google, and they gleefully showcase hallucinations while confidently insisting on their truth. I feel about them the same way I felt about mandatory G+ logins when all I wanted to do was access my damn YouTube account: I hate them. Intensely. But unlike those mandatory G+ logins—on which Google eventually relented before shutting down the G+ service—our reading of the tea leaves suggests that, this time, the search giant is extremely pleased with how things a

Topics: ai engine google mandatory search

Shop Amazon

Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-12 02:50:49

Meet “impossibagel,” a physically impossible bagel that mathematicians use to resolve intricate geometry problems. But impossibagel—and other “impossible objects” in mathematics—is notoriously difficult to replicate, and researchers haven’t been able to fully tap into their mathematical potential. That may no longer be a problem, thanks to a new tool. On Monday, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) announced “Meschers,” software capable of visuali

Topics: geometry impossible meschers objects researchers

Shop Amazon

Enough is enough–I dumped Google's worsening search for Kagi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 15:12:51

Mandatory AI summaries have come to Google, and they gleefully showcase hallucinations while confidently insisting on their truth. I feel about them the same way I felt about mandatory G+ logins when all I wanted to do was access my damn YouTube account: I hate them. Intensely. But unlike those mandatory G+ logins—on which Google eventually relented before shutting down the G+ service—our reading of the tea leaves suggests that, this time, the search giant is extremely pleased with how things a

Topics: ai engine google mandatory search

Shop Amazon

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:18:54

Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but for all the wrong reasons. As flagged on Bluesky, if you ask Google why its own search engine feels so useless lately, the company's AI feature will provide multiple and excoriating reasons — including brutal attacks against itself, Google's much-maligned AI Overviews. In that Bluesky post, Google responded broadly to the hilariously colloquial query of "why is google ass now" with a self-flagellating list of

Topics: ai generated google overviews search

Shop Amazon

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:02:12

Mandatory AI summaries have come to Google, and they gleefully showcase hallucinations while confidently insisting on their truth. I feel about them the same way I felt about mandatory G+ logins when all I wanted to do was access my damn YouTube account: I hate them. Intensely. But unlike those mandatory G+ logins—on which Google eventually relented before shutting down the G+ service—our reading of the tea leaves suggests that, this time, the search giant is extremely pleased with how things a

Topics: ai engine google mandatory search

Shop Amazon

Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-14 11:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple sought to enter the AI space after a somewhat late entry. However, several delays of its most sought-after feature, including Siri 2.0, have made it difficult to keep up with more established competitors. A new report d

Topics: ai apple information search users

Shop Amazon

Apple Reportedly Working on a ChatGPT-Like Search Experience

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 10:03:00

Apple is internally working on a "ChatGPT-like search experience" to instantly generate answers for users, according to a report from Bloomberg on Sunday. The Answers, Knowledge and Information team, or AKI, is a team within Apple looking to make internal AI products for its devices. The company is reportedly building an "answer engine" -- an AI-powered service that pulls from information online to answer general queries. It's also possible that a separate app might be developed. This AI search

Topics: ai apple engine google search

Shop Amazon

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 16:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

Topics: cloudflare perplexity researchers robots said

Shop Amazon

Elon Musk says the Vine archive is coming back

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 21:09:35

Elon Musk recently announced that he's bringing back the Vine archives , after teasing the return of the social platform over the last week or so. The X owner says that the company recently discovered the entire video archive of the once-popular short-form video app and is working to restore user access. Twitter bought Vine all the way back in 2012. Musk says that X users will be able to post these Vines, but it's just an archive. In other words, this doesn't sound like a renaissance for the ac

Topics: archive musk platform video vine

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

HorizonDB, a geocoding engine in Rust that replaces Elasticsearch

After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

Very Important Study Calculates Your Chance of Being Killed by an Asteroid vs Several Other Scary Things

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

Computing’s Top 30: Guowen Xu

Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

Debounce

AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

Google: Actually, AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Google says AI in Search is driving more queries and higher quality clicks

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin

Constitution.congress.gov/constitution 6/8/25 –> 8/4/25 Diff

Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home

Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

I dumped Google for Kagi

Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects

Enough is enough–I dumped Google's worsening search for Kagi

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

Apple Reportedly Working on a ChatGPT-Like Search Experience

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

Elon Musk says the Vine archive is coming back

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising