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Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-20 21:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like they’re NBA superstars. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the AI industry this past month, you’ve likely seen stories about the hiring frenzy that’s been happening at Big Tech, research labs, and AI startups. Le

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How founders are ditching VC norms and finding capital on their own terms at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-20 21:30:00

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, a candid conversation is coming to the Builder Stage — one that unpacks what startup funding looks like beyond the venture capital echo chamber. Funding routes that don’t start in the Valley Founders today have more capital paths than ever. But how do you navigate them — and know which one actually supports your growth? In this session, hear from Erik Allebest, the CEO and co-founder of chess.com; Gale Wilkin

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Matrix Is Not Safe for EU Data Privacy

news.ycombinator.com Alex Henthorn-Iwane 2025-12-21 00:45:07

Matrix has long been promoted as the future of secure, decentralized communication. Backed by an open protocol, a vibrant developer community, and bridges to legacy systems, it promises interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in. But when viewed through the lens of EU data privacy law, Matrix, and its commercial champion, Element, poses significant and underappreciated risks. For public-sector organizations, critical infrastructure, and privacy-conscious enterprises in the EU, the questio

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Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 14:50:28

TL;DR Google is bringing several new features to the Android Photo Picker tool. These features include the ability to change the photo grid view size, as well as a new way to choose multiple photos. These additions seem to be rolling out via the latest Android Canary release. Google introduced the Photo Picker tool in Android 13, allowing you to choose which photos an app can access. Now, this tool has received a few more quality-of-life additions. Authority Insights story on Android Authori

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Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-21 17:00:00

The menus on your next Uber Eats order may be embellished using generative AI. The food delivery service is rolling out new features that aim to help businesses advertise and communicate with customers, which include AI additions to menu descriptions, food photos, and review summaries, along with a live chat tool and payments for user-submitted photos. The AI tools can be used to generate descriptions for menu items and summarize customer reviews to quickly highlight feedback regarding areas of

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Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-21 17:00:00

Uber Eats announced on Wednesday that it will now allow restaurants and merchants to chat with customers to help prevent issues with orders. The app is also introducing new AI tools for merchants, and is inviting users to submit photos of their orders if the item doesn’t yet have a menu image. With the new “Live order chat” feature, merchants can message customers in real-time to do things like confirm replacements for sold-out items, clarify special requests, and check in on dietary or allergy

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150 years of Hans Christian Andersen

news.ycombinator.com Frances Wilson 2025-12-21 06:07:13

There once was an ugly duckling, so despised by the other birds that he fled the farm to explore the wider world. But because of his very great ugliness he was taunted there too, until one day he caught his image reflected in a pond and he had turned into a beautiful swan. The Ugly Duckling, first published in 1843, was one of Hans Christian Andersen’s many autobiographical fairy tales: “It matters nothing if one is born in a duck-yard,” he wrote, “if one has lain in a swan’s egg.” Andersen’s s

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Cheap gaming handhelds are about to lose their last affordability lifeline in the US

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 02:04:47

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR A new Executive Order ends the $800 duty-free limit for all commercial imports starting August 29. The move closes various shipping loopholes used to avoid earlier China-specific tariffs. Prices for budget gaming handhelds and other devices shipped after the deadline may face steep duties. Remember when we said cheap gaming handhelds were about to get more expensive in the US? Well, it’s worse than we thought, and it’s happening soon. A new Executive

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Why I recommend this Bluetooth tracker to both iPhone and Android users over AirTags

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-22 21:52:00

Pebblebee Clip ZDNET's key takeaways The finder tag is equipped with a rechargeable battery, so you won't have to throw away old button cells It features a bright LED for finding things in low light. The tag is on the pricier side. View now at Amazon I have a habit of putting things down and forgetting where I put them, so finder tags like the Apple AirTag have been a game-changer for me, saving me endless amounts of time and frustration. Also: The best Bluetooth trackers you can buy: Expert

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Pixel 10 leak hints it’s getting the magnetic Qi2 charging you’ve been waiting for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:57:09

TL;DR A leak has provided new renders and details about the Pixel 10 series and some of its accessories. One of the renders shows a caseless Pixel 10 with a Qi2 charger attached. This would suggest that the Pixel 10 series will have magnets built in. With all of the Pixel 10 leaks that have surfaced in the last couple of weeks, you would think that there wouldn’t be anything left to spoil. But it turns out that belief was wrong. Another leak has popped up, and it appears to support the existe

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CodeCrafters (YC S22) is hiring first Marketing Person

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:34:28

Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. In this role, you’ll own end-to-end marketing at CodeCrafters. CodeCrafters (YC S22) makes programming challenges for experienced software engineers. Besides YC, we're backed by the founders of Instagram and Dropbox. Our customers are experienced engineers at companies like Google, GitHub, Stripe, etc.

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Google says UK government has not demanded an encryption backdoor for its users’ data

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-25 05:50:00

The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its earlier demand that Apple build a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government. But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K. government. Google refused to answer the lawmaker’s questions but has since told TechCrunch that the technology giant has not received a backdoor demand, m

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Blender is going beyond mouse and keyboard with a new touch-friendly interface for tablets

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-25 11:01:00

In a nutshell: Blender is a powerful tool for building 3D models and rendering scenes – the kind of software you typically expect to run on a desktop computer with high-end hardware. However, its developers are now working to bring this complex application to less powerful devices, starting with Apple's iPad. Blender developers have recently announced their full commitment to mobile platforms with multi-touch interfaces. The 3D modeling tool is coming to the Apple iPad first, with plans to expa

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Playing with Open Source LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 16:36:51

Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy command line tools to write code using LLMs. This is a very nice change, since it suddenly makes AI compatible with my allergy to getting out of the terminal. Me, browsing HN from my cave (by Stable Diffusion) The most popular of these tools seems to be Claude Code. It promises to be able to build in total autonomy, being able to use search code, write

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Google won’t say if UK secretly demanded a backdoor for user data

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-25 21:07:56

The U.K. government is reportedly backing down from its earlier demand that Apple builds a secret backdoor allowing its authorities access to customer data worldwide, following a harsh rebuke from the U.S. government. But one U.S. senator wants to know if other tech giants, like Google, have also received secret backdoor demands from the U.K. government, and Google has so far refused to say. Earlier this year, The Washington Post reported that the U.K. Home Office sought a secret court order i

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Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-27 16:05:48

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. Samsung’s One UI 8 update seems to prevent users from unlocking their device’s bootloader to load custom ROMs, as spotted earlier by SammyGuru. Over the weekend, users on the XDA Developers forum noticed that Samsung appears to have disabled the option on devices in regions outside the US, where the option had already been locked for years. By unlo

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Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

news.ycombinator.com Todd Price 2025-12-28 02:06:03

Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans Photo by Chieko Hara Mechanical engineer Anthony Gunderman holds a prototype of the robotic gripper for picking blackberries. Fresh, frozen and processed berries are a multi-billion-dollar business in America. In Arkansas alone, fresh-market blackberries contribute $24.3 million each year to the state’s economy. But these delicate blackberries sold in clamshells at supermarkets must be picked by hand, and farm labor has been limited in r

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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 18:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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Blender developers begin work on full-fledged mobile version

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 02:17:17

Popular open source 3D modeling tool Blender's social media channels and subreddit have regularly seen people asking for a tablet version for years now. And according to a blog post by Dalai Felinto from the Blender team, the developers of the application have now committed to build just that. "The idea is to bring the full power of Blender to these devices," the blog post explains. "This requires adapting to platform-specific paradigms, but also to offer more task-oriented user interfaces with

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Beyond Mouse and Keyboard

news.ycombinator.com Blender Foundation 2025-12-24 09:51:25

Hjalti playing with the sculpting mockup. Multi-touch interfaces like tablets have been common for years, but only recently thanks to increased processing power, have they started to serve as primary computing devices. To support Blender’s mission of making 3D technology accessible to everyone, it’s important to fully embrace these platforms. Some of these devices include Apple iPad, Microsoft Surface, Huawei MatePad, and the Wacom MovinkPad, among others. The idea is to bring the full power

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Former Chaturbate Moderator Sues Site Over ‘Psychological Trauma’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-28 06:40:51

A former content moderator for the porn site Chaturbate has sued the platform and its affiliates, claiming that he was psychologically harmed by his ongoing exposure to the sexual material on the site. Neal Barber, who was hired as a moderator for the porn site in 2020, claims in a class action lawsuit that his employers knowingly and intentionally failed to “provide their content moderators with industry-standard mental health protections, such as content filters, wellness breaks, trauma-infor

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-24 18:25:00

What just happened? President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance on one of the most contentious questions in artificial intelligence: whether companies developing AI should be required to pay for the copyrighted content used to train their systems. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington, Trump dismissed the idea as unworkable. He argued that requiring AI firms to compensate for every book, article, or piece of media used in training their models would stifle innovation and risk leaving the Uni

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I Wanted Maximum Visits at My Bird Feeder. A Wildlife Expert Gave Me These Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 10:22:00

Taking time out of your busy day to sit and listen to the birds might sound hokey, but as a wellness writer and birdwatcher, I can tell you firsthand that it can transform your daily routine. Hanging out with the birds or listening to birdsong has real benefits like lowering stress, easing anxiety and even helping reduce symptoms of depression. It might not seem like much, but it's an easy way to slow down and connect with nature. Until recently, I lived in an apartment in the heart of a city.

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Figma raises IPO range to $30-$32 per share, in deal that could value company at nearly $19 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-28 21:35:13

Elena Nadolinski, founder and CEO at Iron Fish, and Dylan Field, CEO and co-founder of Figma, attend the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 7, 2022. Design software maker Figma on Monday increased the expected price range for shares in its initial public offering this week. The company now expects shares to go for $30 to 32 each, up from the range of $25 to $28 that it disclosed on July 21. The new range, announced in a regulatory filing, suggests F

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Internet Archive is now a US federal depository library

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 02:19:31

The Internet Archive has become an official U.S. federal depository library, providing online users with access to archived congressional bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, and other U.S. government documents. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla designated it as such in a July 24 letter to the Superintendent of Documents at the Government Publishing Office, which oversees the Federal Depository Library Program that coordinates a network of over 1,150 such libraries. "Through its Democracy

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One of the best color E Ink tablets I've tested is not made by Kobo or Boox, and it's on sale

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-12-29 02:27:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Kindle Colorsoft retails for $279. It has a bright display (even in direct sunlight), customizable color settings, and zippy performance while browsing titles and turning pages. It could be a bit larger to get the full effect of the color display. $279.99 at Amazon $279.99 at Target more buying choices The Kindle Colorsoft Essentials Bundle is $30 off on Amazon right now. The bundle comes with the device, a fabric cover of your color choice, and a 9W power adapter--a

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Copyparty, turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 00:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

news.ycombinator.com Dickson Tan 2025-12-24 12:47:11

Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute Jul 24, 2025, 12:19 AM (updated Jul 28, 2025, 10:18 PM ) Imagine reading code not by looking at the screen, but by listening to interface elements, variables, language constructs and operators read at 800 words per minute (WPM) - over 5 times faster than normal speech. It sounds like gibberish to most, but to me, it’s as natural as you reading this sentence. If you’ve ever wondered how someone codes without seeing the screen, or if you’re curious a

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Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-29 06:00:00

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI Stage comes alive with the voices shaping the future of technology, creativity, and security. Top VCs reveal what it takes to win funding in a rapidly evolving landscape, as they place bets on the next wave of AI founders. Hear groundbreaking insights from leaders at visionary startups like Apptronik, ElevenLabs, Hugging Face, Runway, Wonder Dynamics, Writer, and Wayve — pioneers redefining the future of tech. These leaders, and many more below, represent the

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Scattered Spider is running a VMware ESXi hacking spree

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:05:50

Scattered Spider hackers have been aggressively targeting virtualized environments by attacking VMware ESXi hypervisors at U.S. companies in the retail, airline, transportation, and insurance sectors. According to the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GITG), the attackers keep employing their usual tactics that do not include vulnerability exploits but rely on perfectly executed social engineering "to bypass even mature security programs." A Scattered Spider attack The researchers say that th

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Cheap gaming handhelds are about to lose their last affordability lifeline in the US

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Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

Blender developers begin work on full-fledged mobile version

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

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Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

Scattered Spider is running a VMware ESXi hacking spree

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