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Tesla head of manufacturing Omead Afshar fired by Elon Musk

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-21 20:11:18

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., and Omead Afshar, left, leave an event at the site of the company's manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired Omead Afshar, the automaker's vice president of manufacturing and operations, CNBC has confirmed, following declines in car sales in key markets this year. Afshar, who reported directly to Musk, led a team of more than a half-dozen high level employees, according to internal organi

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"Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking": Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 19:26:32

The love's gone bad between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose lucrative partnership ushered in our age of AI hype. OpenAI is trying to convert into a for-profit company, but it's so far failed to secure its benefactor's approval and negotiate a new contract. The frustration is running so high that the ChatGPT maker is reportedly considering bring an antitrust suit against Microsoft if it doesn't get its way. As the Wall Street Journal reports, one thing driving a wedge between them is the industry's

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This Barbie flip phone bundle is on sale - and it comes with one year of service

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-09-21 20:43:23

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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I found the best July 4th deals live now: Save on outdoor, tech, home and more

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-21 20:51:35

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Best July 4th laptop deals live now

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-21 20:56:06

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:43:37

SigNoz is a global open source project with users in 30+ countries. We are building an open-source application monitoring which helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems, quickly. We have crossed 21000+ Github stars, 6000+ members in the slack community and 150+ contributors. Company Vision Software and digital systems are becoming larger parts of our daily lives. Most companies are becoming software companies with increasing part of value they create coming from s

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Microsoft’s Xbox PC launcher gets going with Steam, Epic, and other games showing up

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-21 20:50:56

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft announced earlier this week that it would start testing its new aggregated gaming library on the Xbox app for Windows, and it’s now starting to show up for testers today. This new library experience lists Steam, Battle.net, Ubisoft, Epic Games Store, and Riot Games titles that are all installed on a PC from various other launchers — much like GOG Galaxy. I’ve been tr

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AI is doing up to 50% of the work at Salesforce, CEO Marc Benioff says

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-22 00:46:51

Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Salesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workloads, according to CEO Marc Benioff. "All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that before, we were doing, and we can move on to do higher-value work," he said in an interview with Bloomberg, noting that the technology currently account

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Microsoft Is Having an Incredibly Embarrassing Problem With Its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:29:33

Despite investing tens of billions of dollars into OpenAI, tech giant Microsoft has a problem: it's in direct competition with its business partner, and OpenAI is winning. As Bloomberg reports, Microsoft salespeople are having trouble wooing both potential and existing customers with the company's Copilot, its AI assistant built on OpenAI's tech. Basically, it feels like a worse version of ChatGPT — which has a free version online. Some companies, like the New York Life Insurance Co, told the

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Windows is finally kicking the Blue Screen of Death to the curb

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 00:20:11

The notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is finally heading to a junkyard upstate. This error message has been a key part of the Windows experience for almost 40 years. Microsoft has been teasing this change for years , but now we know the crash screen will be removed in an update to Windows 11 that's coming later this summer . Windows computers are still going to crash , so there needs to be some sort of error screen. Microsoft is transitioning to a Black Screen of Death instead. This new cra

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I switched to LED bulbs and saved hundreds of dollars - but 5 other benefits made it truly worth it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-22 00:08:00

Nitat Termmee/Getty Images As a kid, I was inspired by the decorative lighting in my grandparents' finished basement. They had festooned the place with multicolored C9 string lights (aka old-school Christmas lights) from wall to wall, beneath the built-in wet bar, around hanging mirrors, and anywhere else they could add an ambient accent for the parties they hosted down there year-round. Since then, I've festooned every home I've lived in with decorative lighting, whether in a sequestered man

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This OnePlus Open bundle deal gets you a $300 smartwatch for free - how to qualify

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-22 00:18:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-22 00:19:46

Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue beyond the more traffic-dependent options, like ads. Offerwall lets publishers give their sites’ readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micropayments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more. In addition, Google says that publis

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Emma Stone May Be an Alien In the First Trailer for ‘Bugonia’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-21 23:00:16

With films like Poor Things, The Favourite, The Lobster, and more, director Yorgos Lanthimos has become one of the most exciting directors working today. It’s because he can take a relatively normal subject and turn it incredibly weird or take an incredibly weird subject and make it seem normal. We aren’t quite sure which one of those his next film, Bugonia, is yet, but its first teaser all but assures us it’s pure Yorgos. Opening wide on Halloween, Bugonia stars Emma Stone as a CEO who is kidn

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Switch 2 Is the Best Handheld Console, but I Think You Can Wait on It, Too

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 20:00:00

8.5 / 10 SCORE Nintendo Switch 2 $450 at Best Buy Pros Slim design Large 1080p display Notably better graphics Great-feeling magnetic-attaching controllers Cons microSD Express cards are hard to find right now Battery life is worse than Switch's Still needs more unique exclusives Halfway between Newark and San Francisco, I was settled into my economy seat and fully enjoying the first-class gaming ticket that the Nintendo Switch 2 was giving me in-flight. A big 7.9-inch screen, tilted at a

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Nothing confirms the Phone 3 is getting a periscope lens, and here’s a gallery of what it can do

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 04:39:15

TL;DR Nothing has confirmed that the Phone 3 will have a telephoto camera. There’s no word on the optical zoom level. The company shared a few examples of what the lens is capable of. Nothing is a company that often likes to send out teasers of new products. True to form, the company has released a new teaser for the upcoming Phone 3, revealing that the Android phone will have a camera that its predecessor lacked. In a social media post, Nothing confirmed that the Phone 3 will feature a 50MP

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Ex-student charged over hacking university for cheap parking, data breaches

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 04:24:59

New South Wales police in Australia have arrested a 27-year-old former Western Sydney University (WSU) student for allegedly hacking into the University's systems on multiple occasions, starting with a scheme to obtain cheaper parking. Specifically, the woman, identified by local media reports as Birdie Kingston, is accused of unauthorized access, data theft, and compromising university infrastructure since 2021, affecting hundreds of staff and students. "Since 2021, Western Sydney University

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Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 18:15:11

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 02:16:00

Science AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome Share Copy link × Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API. The genome is our cellular instruction manual. It’s the complete set of DNA which guides nearly every part of a living organism, from appearance and function to growth and reproduction. Small variations in a genome’s DNA sequence can alter a

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DOGE’d Federal Employees Are Getting Hit With Bills for Phantom Health Coverage

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-22 04:35:49

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has spent the last six months in turmoil, with the Trump administration drastically reducing the agency’s nationwide workforce. To make matters worse, the federal government is now demanding money from some former employees. Three ex-NOAA staffers who were fired, rehired, then fired again this spring received notices from the federal government stating they owed a debt for healthcare coverage. The letters, shared exclusively with NBC Ne

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The Live-Action ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Is Getting Its Inevitable Sequel

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-22 04:45:45

Dean Fleischer Camp’s summer blockbuster hit Lilo & Stitch has officially been given the Disney green light for a sequel. It makes sense for Disney to make the move official today, on June 26—the date co-opted by the company to be an unofficial Stitch holiday inspired by his experiment code from the film, 626. The first film was a blockbuster hit for the studio, which made $920 million globally after being made for a mere $100 million, which is small considering Disney’s usually oversized budge

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Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-22 03:46:42

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has held strong in Windows for nearly 40 years, but that’s about to change. Microsoft revealed earlier this year that it was overhauling its BSOD error message in Windows 11, and the company has now confirmed that it will soon be known as the Black Screen of Death. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face, and QR code in fav

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As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-22 04:04:10

Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate revenue beyond the more traffic-dependent options, like ads. Offerwall lets publishers give their sites’ readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more. In addition, Google says that publi

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Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-22 04:13:59

Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI superintelligence unit, a person familiar with the matter tells TechCrunch. OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood confirmed to TechCrunch that Bansal had departed OpenAI. Bansal’s LinkedIn page says that he left OpenAI in June. Bansal has worked at OpenAI since 2022 and was a key player in kickstarting the company’s work on reinforcement learning alongside co-founder Ily

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Homeland Security warns of Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting US networks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-09-22 04:20:00

In Brief A bulletin issued Sunday by U.S. Homeland Security said it expects to see Iranian government-backed hackers conduct attacks against U.S. networks, amid the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Israel, and Iran. The National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin said low-level cyberattacks by hacktivists are “likely,” adding that hacktivists and government-linked hackers “routinely target” poorly secured U.S. networks and internet-connected devices to cause disruption. The bulletin was

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Computing’s Top 30: Nirmalya Thakur

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-22 06:00:55

From tackling the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media to his award-winning research on fall detection and indoor localization for ambient assisted living, Nirmalya Thakur actively engages with issues of critical importance to humans and their well-being. Residing at the intersection of various fields–including big data, HCI, machine learning, and natural language processing–Thakur’s groundbreaking research is fueled by interaction data from daily human activities. Whether those a

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Proton Pass takes on Google Wallet with an extra privacy twist

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 09:13:08

TL;DR Proton Pass now supports storing more than just passwords, including medical records and passport numbers. You can create fully custom entries or use 14 new templates, with file attachments up to 10GB. Unlike Google Wallet, Proton Pass applies end-to-end encryption to everything you save and share. As you move more of your life into the digital world, Google and Apple are gaining more competition for Wallet apps. Proton Pass is the privacy-focused password manager from the makers of Pro

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watchOS 26 has these hardware requirements for Apple Intelligence

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-22 09:11:44

watchOS 26 is the Apple Watch’s next major hardware update, and it includes several Apple Intelligence-powered features. Here are the hardware requirements to get Apple Intelligence on your Watch. New AI features on Apple Watch each have unique requirements Last year when Apple Intelligence first launched, it was exclusive to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Since then, Vision Pro has been added. In watchOS 26, Apple is bringing AI features to the Apple Watch too. But when it comes to hardware compatib

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Cisco warns of max severity RCE flaws in Identity Services Engine

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 08:20:56

Cisco has published a bulletin to warn about two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-20281 and CVE-2025-20282, are rated with max severity (CVSS score: 10.0). The first impacts ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.4 and 3.3, while the second affects only version 3.4. The root cause of CVE-2025-20281 is an insufficient validation of user-supplied

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Buy a OnePlus Open and get the OnePlus Watch 2 for free - here's how

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-22 07:59:46

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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