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The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-12-30 11:00:00

As with any fledgling romance, Trumpworld and big money cryptocurrency interests were bound to have their first fight at some point. It was late June heading into July, and two highly anticipated bills were in the pipeline to help fulfill President Donald Trump’s promises to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet” and usher in what his supporters believed would be a “golden age” of digital assets. Congress had one shot at passing something before the August recess. Coinbase, the cryptoc

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Apple joins White House push that promises to revamp digital healthcare

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-31 08:15:14

Today, the White House announced that it’s teaming up with more than 60 tech and healthcare firms, including Apple, in a new effort related to how patient data and digital health tools work across the U.S. Here are the details. Apple, Google, OpenAI, Amazon, and dozens of other companies are partnering with the federal government on a digital health initiative to build “a smarter, more secure, and more personalized healthcare experience.” As explained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser

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TikTok Introduces Parental Controls, Fact-Checking and AI Moderation Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 02:22:00

TikTok is introducing a suite of parental controls, community notes and AI enhancements that strive to make the short-form video social media platform safer for teens, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Family Pairing, a feature that allows parents to monitor their teen's TikTok accounts, will now notify parents when their teens upload videos, stories or photos. It also will let parents know which featured topics their teens have chosen to fill their feeds. TikTok has long allowed p

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All of your international packages are about to get more expensive

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-31 08:02:22

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free — for all countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong. The White House says the change goes into effect on August 29th. Per the exec

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These are the jobs that are most likely to be automated by AI

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-31 12:22:00

Through the looking glass: Artificial intelligence tools are seeping into daily work, but some jobs are feeling the impact far more than others. A Microsoft study analyzing hundreds of thousands of anonymized Bing Copilot conversations offers a clearer, more grounded view of where AI is already reshaping tasks – and where its influence stops short. The study stands out for its approach. Instead of speculating about AI's future impact, it examined actual recorded interactions between everyday us

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Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-31 12:23:49

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 Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released today in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, reveals that breaches involving employees’ unauthorized use of AI tools cost organizations an average of $4.63 million. That’s nearly 16% more than the global ave

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Spotify now requires face scans to access age-restricted content in the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 12:07:40

Spotify is introducing new requirements to confirm the ages of users in the UK trying to access explicit content. The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides its services to Instagram . UK Spotify users may be prompted to perform this age check when they try to view or listen to age-restricted content. This type of approach to checking ages can sometimes yield wrong results. If the facial scan based on a photo of the user determines

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This Android 16 feature solved my biggest problem with phone notifications - how it works

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-31 12:22:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Have you ever been relaxing when, out of nowhere, your phone blows up with notifications? I've been there too many times, which led me to keep my phone on silent mode 24/7. Then Google teased a new feature in Android 15 called Notification Cooldown that promised to change everything. Notification Cooldown didn't exactly hit the mark in Android 15, but it has made a comeback in the latest iteration (Android 16) to ensure that it works exactly as expect

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 31, #781

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 11:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun numerical theme, with each category playing along with that topic, but featuring different clues. Once you see it, it might be simple. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bo

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 31, #311

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 11:00:08

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is heavy on NFL clues, so football fans should do well. The purple category felt like an easy one for me today and it has nothing to do with the NFL. Keeping reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut

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Spotify’s terrible privacy settings just leaked Palmer Luckey’s bops and bangers

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2025-12-31 12:16:47

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Have you ever wondered what bops powerful figures are listening to on Spotify? You’d be amazed what you can get with a profile search — but just in case you want them all in one place, there’s the Panama Playlists, a newly published collection of data on the musical listening habits of politicians, journalists, and tech figures, as curated

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Zuckerberg: AI increased the time spent on Facebook and Instagram in Q2

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-31 12:21:46

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg credited AI with driving up the time users spent on the company’s apps in the second quarter. While consumers are increasingly complaining about the prevalence of “AI slop” — or low-quality AI-generated content flooding social apps — Meta says that AI systems are getting better at helping users connect with recommended content. “AI is significantly improving our ability to show people content that they’re going to find interesting and useful,” Zuckerberg told investors

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Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45% over last year

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-31 17:34:15

The logo of Robinhood Markets is seen at a pop-up event on Wall Street after the company's initial public offering in New York City on July 29, 2021. Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday. Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected Revenue: $989 million vs. $908 million expected Revenue jumped 45% year-over-year

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Roundtables: Why It’s So Hard to Make Welfare AI Fair

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review 2025-12-31 10:53:40

Amsterdam tried using algorithms to fairly assess welfare applicants, but bias still crept in. Why did Amsterdam fail? And more important, can this ever be done right? Hear from MIT Technology Review editor Amanda Silverman, investigative reporter Eileen Guo, and Lighthouse Reports investigative reporter Gabriel Geiger as they explore if algorithms can ever be fair. Speakers: Eileen Guo, features & investigations reporter, Amanda Silverman, features & investigations editor, and Gabriel Geiger

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Another airline joins AirTag luggage tracking program, now supported by 30 carriers (list)

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-31 17:34:20

Introduced in iOS 18.2, the Share Item Location feature lets users share a live tracking link for AirTag or other Find My-compatible accessories, including with airlines to help locate lost luggage. Today, another airline joined the list of official partners. Here’s the full updated list. Saudi Arabia gets Share Item Location support When Apple announced the Share Location Feature for AirTag, it also started working with “more than 15 airlines” to implement a system that would let users secure

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Trump will end the de minimis exemption for low-cost global shipments

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 17:27:07

President Donald Trump's latest economic move is to halt the de minimis exemption, a provision that made international shipments of low-value items cheaper. When the exemption ends on August 29, shipments valued at or under $800 will be subject to duty fees when sent by any carrier other than the international postal network, no matter what country they are coming from. According to the White House's announcement of this change, shipments will either be assessed with an ad valorem duty equal to

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Actions Reflect Your Priorities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 17:27:57

Read in Browser July 29, 2025 Every week, I sit down to reflect on the events of the week, extract their lessons, and gameplan how to apply those lessons toward greatness and growth. It’s a system that has always worked for me, it can work for you too. Welcome to The 199! Sign up here if this email was forwarded to you. Your actions reflect your priorities It’s been more than a week since Scottie Scheffler won The Open at Royal Portrush. Yet he is still doing interviews about an answer he gave

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Best WordPress Hosting for Smooth Website Operation in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-31 16:23:00

Some of these services don't offer as much customer support as the best services, don't offer as many security features or lack an uptime guarantee. You still might find a service that works for you. HostPapa HostPapa is a Canadian web hosting company with plans available in numerous currencies, including CAD, Euros and the Australian dollar. In fact, the option to pay in Canadian dollars is one of the primary reasons I chose HostPapa -- it’s the company I’ve used for my personal websites sinc

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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 17:18:18

Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search tools to scrub the offending articles. The saga began in 2023

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St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 17:47:37

Hacking attacks—many using ransomware—now hit US cities every few days. They are expensive to mitigate and extremely disruptive. Abilene, Texas, for instance, had 477 GB of data stolen this spring. The city refused to pay the requested ransom and instead decided to replace every server, desktop, laptop, desk telephone, and storage device. This has required a "temporary return to pen-and-paper systems" while the entire city network is rebuilt, but at least Abilene was insured against such an atta

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How 2 UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28M for their AI marketing automation startup

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-31 11:00:00

AI-powered marketing automation startup Conversion, founded five years ago by two UC Berkeley dropouts, has raised a $28 million Series A led by Abstract, with participation from True Ventures and HOF Capital. The company’s founding story sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” The story begins all the way back when co-founder and CEO Neil Tewari, now 24, was in high school. He got busted one day watching a TechCrunch Disrupt livestream during class, was sen

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Big Tech to work with Trump administration to build digital health ecosystem

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-31 17:30:00

In Brief The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it secured commitments from Google, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, and Apple to start building a digital health ecosystem. The efforts will focus on two areas: creating a framework for patients and providers to easily share information, and creating more personal tools so patients can access resources needed to stay informed about their health. Such tools include apps to manage diabetes and obesity, using artificial intelligence as assistant

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-31 22:03:10

Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then said to be released Tuesday. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the initial decision to withhold the funding came from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration and Project 202

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Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-01 03:38:08

Dropbox has announced that its password manager, Dropbox Passwords, is shutting down soon. And you don’t have long to find a new solution. Dropbox Passwords shutdown will happen in three stages on accelerated timeline Dropbox Passwords is being discontinued, and users are encouraged to find a new password solution elsewhere. Why the shutdown? Per a support doc, it’s “part of our efforts to focus on enhancing other features in our core product.” Though web service shutdowns often come with ex

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10 Winners and 4 Losers From San Diego Comic-Con 2025

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-01 03:20:19

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 is officially in the books, and it was a unique year, to say the least. Without Marvel or DC to anchor the pop culture excitement, the field was wide open for a number of smaller properties to steal the spotlight. Some took full advantage, building crazy buzz. Others did not. Here’s our rundown of the winners and losers of Comic-Con 2025. Winners Aliens and Predators The legendary sci-fi enemies took center stage at Comic-Con 2025 and brought major excitement to both

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TikTok Introduces New Parental Controls, Fact-Checking and AI Moderation Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 02:22:00

TikTok is introducing a suite of new parental controls, community notes and AI enhancements that aim to make the short-form video social media platform safer for teens, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. Family pairing, a feature that allows parents to monitor their teen's TikTok accounts, will now notify parents when their teens upload videos, stories or photos. It'll also let parents know which featured topics their teens have chosen to fill their feeds. TikTok has long allowe

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That viral lifetime Starlink offer on Facebook is a total scam

techspot.com Shawn Knight 2026-01-01 08:36:00

Bottom line: Scammers have been using social media for years to promote their schemes, and the latest one – an unbelievable deal on a lifetime Starlink subscription – is no different. While there are legitimate Starlink discounts that can help users save a few bucks, this offer is certainly not one of them. The latest scam making the rounds on Facebook promises a lifetime subscription to SpaceX's Starlink satellite Internet service for as low as $127 – roughly as much as a single month of stand

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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 06:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Founding AEs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 08:01:10

We are looking to hire 2 Founding AEs at Artie! Our team is fully in-person and works out of our office in SF’s Financial District 5x/week. About Artie Artie is a fully-managed change data capture (CDC) streaming platform that replicates production databases into data warehouses and lakes — in real time, with zero maintenance. We make replication easy and reliable, and help teams leap forward – enabling mission-critical use cases like fraud and risk monitoring, live inventory visibility, custo

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Next-Gen Xbox and PlayStation Might Not Bore Us In the Switch 2 Era

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-01 08:29:13

Let’s forget about the mudslinging that occurs when anyone brings up the two big console makers who don’t have a big “N” in their name. Instead, let’s ask a simple question: what do we actually want from a next-gen Xbox or PlayStation? The latest rumors suggest 2026 could be a big year for Microsoft and Sony, as both may pump out new consoles with PC-level graphics capabilities and handheld gaming platforms to compete with the Steam Deck and Switch 2. The only caveat that’s going to deflate our

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Latest Tech News

The Trump-Crypto Honeymoon Is Over

Apple joins White House push that promises to revamp digital healthcare

TikTok Introduces Parental Controls, Fact-Checking and AI Moderation Features

All of your international packages are about to get more expensive

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Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports

Spotify now requires face scans to access age-restricted content in the UK

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Spotify’s terrible privacy settings just leaked Palmer Luckey’s bops and bangers

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Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45% over last year

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Trump will end the de minimis exemption for low-cost global shipments

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St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

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That viral lifetime Starlink offer on Facebook is a total scam

Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

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Next-Gen Xbox and PlayStation Might Not Bore Us In the Switch 2 Era

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