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Syncing desktops and better AI wallpapers are coming to ChromeOS

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-31 23:18:26

Google has released a new version of ChromeOS that allows you to sync desktops between devices, ideal for anyone who works across more than one Chromebook. It also significantly improves the AI wallpapers available on Chromebook Plus laptops with a completely freeform prompting field. Desk sync is designed to help you pick up where you left off when changing devices. It will sync your windows, tabs, and cookies so you can change devices without losing where you were. Google suggests it’ll be pa

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I switched to a $280 Chromebook from my Windows laptop for a week - and didn't regret it

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-02 09:03:00

Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 is available now for $279 at Best Buy. It's a versatile and highly-portable device that's as useful at home as in the office. Some of the most buzzworthy features are tied to subscriptions, and the keyboard and trackpad are very small. $279 at Best Buy $379 at Lenovo more buying choices The ninth-generation Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an 11-inch 2-in-1 laptop/tablet that combines a nice display, a versatile form

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This might be the only Google Chrome alternative that could rip me away from Firefox

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-03 18:00:43

Andy Walker / Android Authority Choosing a web browser is a deeply personal decision, as I’ve learned from reading spicy comments on various forums over the years. I’ve been loyal to Firefox for a long time, but Mozilla’s recent missteps and the browser’s growing flaws have started to bitter my experience. So, I explored the Play Store for sweeter alternatives and stumbled across a potential candidate: Banana Browser. What Chromium-based browser do you use? 60 votes I use Google Chrome. 43 % I

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YouTube’s latest experiment makes comments feel more like Reddit, if that sounds like an improvement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-07 09:09:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is rolling out Reddit-style comment threading to Premium subscribers on Android and iOS. The experiment has been updated so the main comment is threaded to subsequent replies. Threaded comments will remain available until August 14. YouTube’s comments section is going to look a little different for Premium subscribers. The company is rolling out an experiment inspired by Reddit. Earlier this year, YouTube began testing a new threaded comment UI f

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Meta has ended its bonus program on Threads

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-07 09:16:27

It's still trying to lure new users, but it's done paying anyone to post. Meta is no longer paying creators to post on Threads. The company quietly ended the Threads bonus program, which offered some creators thousands of dollars a month in bonuses, earlier this year, Engadget has confirmed. The company hasn't officially commented on why it stopped the payments, but an Instagram support page that once listed details about the creator incentives no longer references Threads at all. In posts on

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Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of "Ethical AI" Startup Anthropic Saying It's Okay to Benefit Dictators

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-07 12:15:52

In the so-called "constitution" for its chatbot Claude, AI company Anthropic claims that it's committed to principles based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instructing its chatbot to prioritize freedom, equality, freedom of thought, and adequate standards of living in its responses. Anthropic has long attempted to distinguish itself as putting safety first. The firm was founded by former OpenAI members, with a commitment to advancing AI ethically and responsibly. But four years o

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Threads adds improved content performance metrics for creators

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-07 18:36:03

Threads is introducing enhanced metrics to help users better understand how their posts are performing and where their content is getting discovered, the company announced on Tuesday. Users can now see more detailed information in the platform’s “Insights” dashboard. When they navigate to the “Interactions” section, they will see engagement by likes, replies, quotes, and reposts. The “Followers” section shows follower growth with geographic data, including top cities and countries, and demograp

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Google TV Streamer vs Chromecast with Google TV: Should you upgrade?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-08 03:31:12

The Chromecast with Google TV was a major evolution for Google’s media streamer. While it retained much of the design language of the original Chromecast series, the new device had remote support and the full power of the Android TV-based Google TV platform. Years later, Google is ditching the Chromecast brand altogether with the new Google TV Streamer. Is it worth upgrading, or is the Chromecast still worth sticking with or finding one on sale before it’s retired in the Google graveyard? Let’s

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Finally! Chrome is getting vertical tabs - why I'm a huge fan, and where you can try them now

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-08 04:10:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Chrome is catching up to other browsers with vertical tabs. This feature has been requested for years and is already available in several popular browsers, such as Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi. And given that Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi are also based on Chromium, this should have been a no-brainer for Google all along. No more third-party extensions Well, according to Windows Report, the Chromium Gerrit (a code review system for Chromium projects) now

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Google Chrome for iOS now lets you switch between personal and work accounts

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-08 09:15:34

Google The BYOD trend has been a popular way for people to use their own devices at work. But the practice often blurs the line between personal and professional, triggering security risks and other issues. Now, Google has expanded a feature designed to ease and improve the process. On Monday, Google announced that Chrome users on iOS will now be able to switch between their work and personal accounts directly in the browser. This capability has already been available for Chrome desktop and An

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Report: Apple alerted Iranians to spyware attacks in lead-up to war with Israel

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-08 14:24:44

You may have never heard of them, but Apple sends “threat notifications” to users when it believes they’re being targeted by cyber attacks. Earlier this year that happened with several Iranians in the lead-up to the Iran-Israel war, per a new Bloomberg report. Here are the details. Apple threat notifications were sent to over a dozen Iranian cyberattack victims Patrick Howell O’Neill writes at Bloomberg: More than a dozen Iranians’ mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior

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Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All

wired.com Kylie Robison 2026-01-09 09:46:32

Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario Amodei sent to staff Sunday morning, which WIRED obtained. Weighing the pros and cons, Amodei acknowledged in his note that accepting money from Middle East leaders would likely enrich “dictators.” “This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to r

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Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 11:36:13

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Medals are awarded to the top half of contestants, with approximately 8% receiving a prestigious gold medal. Recently, the IMO has also become a

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Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-10 18:00:32

Google has introduced new features for Chrome on iOS that help users bifurcate work and personal data by using separate Google accounts. As more employers implement bring your own device (BYOD) policies, employees increasingly access company resources from browsers on their personal devices. Devices connected to a managed Google Workspace are able to leverage these additions. Chrome now supports easy account switching and data separation on iOS, similar to its approach on Android and Chrome for

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Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 18:16:44

Description I'm frequently passed long shell one-liners that require some visual inspection before running. These days, there's about as much jq in that one-liner as there is bash. I wrote jqfmt to help add line breaks in sensible locations while reading (or writing!) jq. At time of initial development, I naturally turned to https://github.com/itchyny/gojq expecting to be able to generate and walk a syntax tree—but gojq didn't seem to provide an AST that could be "walked," and it doesn't expor

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Chrome will let you switch between personal and work accounts on iOS

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2026-01-10 18:00:00

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Google is introducing the option to easily switch between personal and work profiles in its Chrome browser on iOS, with data kept separate between the two. The new option is part of Google’s enterprise software package, and doesn’t allow non-enterprise users to switch freely between two Google accounts in the browser. Companies that adopt Chrome Enterprise can let employees

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Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 23:36:13

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Medals are awarded to the top half of contestants, with approximately 8% receiving a prestigious gold medal. Recently, the IMO has also become a

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The daily life of a medieval king

news.ycombinator.com Theme 2026-01-06 21:54:02

Have you wondered what a medieval king did on a typical day? Thanks to Christine de Pizan, we have an account of what daily life was like for King Charles V of France. Around the year 1404, Christine de Pizan completed her work, Livre des faits et bonnes mœurs du sage roy Charles V. It was both a biography of the French king who reigned from 1364 to 1380 and a guide to how an ideal monarch should live and rule. Christine had a good vantage point to tell this story. Her father, Tommaso di Pizan

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Dell confirms breach of test lab platform by World Leaks extortion group

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-12 05:00:00

A newly rebranded extortion gang known as "World Leaks" breached one of Dell's product demonstration platforms earlier this month and is now trying to extort the company into paying a ransom. Dell acknowledged the incident to BleepingComputer, confirming that the threat actor had breached its Customer Solution Centers platform, which is used to demonstrate Dell products and solutions to customers. "A threat actor recently gained access to our Solution Center, an environment designed to demonst

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The Daily Life of a Medieval King

news.ycombinator.com Theme 2026-01-08 03:54:02

Have you wondered what a medieval king did on a typical day? Thanks to Christine de Pizan, we have an account of what daily life was like for King Charles V of France. Around the year 1404, Christine de Pizan completed her work, Livre des faits et bonnes mœurs du sage roy Charles V. It was both a biography of the French king who reigned from 1364 to 1380 and a guide to how an ideal monarch should live and rule. Christine had a good vantage point to tell this story. Her father, Tommaso di Pizan

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Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 20:02:44

From low-carb ice cream to keto protein bars to "sugar-free" soda, the decades-old sweetener erythritol is everywhere. But new University of Colorado Boulder research shows the popular sugar substitute and specialty food additive comes with serious downsides, impacting brain cells in numerous ways that can boost risk of stroke. The study was published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. "Our study adds to the evidence suggesting that non-nutritive sweeteners that have generally been purport

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This $269 Chromebook couldn't be more portable - here's why it's my pick for students

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-11 15:45:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Duet Gen 9 is available now for $399. It's a versatile and highly-portable device that's as useful at home as in the office. Some of the most buzzworthy features are tied to subscriptions, and the keyboard and trackpad are very small. $399 at Best Buy $379 at Lenovo $325 at Amazon more buying choices The ninth-generation Lenovo Chromebook Duet is an 11-inch 2-in-1 laptop/tablet that combines a nice display, a versatile form factor, and accessible ha

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You can finally move Chrome's address bar on Android - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-13 14:58:09

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Nearly a month ago, Google announced a small but highly anticipated addition to Chrome on Android -- the ability to relocate the browser's address bar to the bottom of the screen. "Depending on the size of your hand and your device," Google explained, "one address bar position may feel more comfortable than the other." This update gives you the flexibility to choose your preferred location. Also: You can ask Gemini AI anything directly in Google Chrome - here's how

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Adam Mosseri to hand off day-to-day at Threads to Meta’s AI lead

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-14 11:06:53

After two years under Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Meta is officially handing off Threads to a new leader. Here’s what the change could mean for the app’s future. As first reported by Axios, Meta is naming longtime executive Connor Hayes, formerly head of generative AI product, as the new head of Threads starting in September. The move marks the first time someone outside Instagram will take the reins of the text-based social app, in yet another sign that Meta seems to be finally getting serio

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Adam Mosseri steps back from Threads, app to be overseen by Meta’s AI lead

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-14 23:06:53

After two years under Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Meta is officially handing off Threads to a new leader. Here’s what the change could mean for the app’s future. As first reported by Axios, Meta is naming longtime executive Connor Hayes, formerly head of generative AI product, as the new head of Threads starting in September. The move marks the first time someone outside Instagram will take the reins of the text-based social app, in yet another sign that Meta seems to be finally getting serio

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Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-01-16 04:43:51

In Brief Meta appointed Connor Hayes, Meta’s VP of product for generative AI, to become the head of Threads, per Axios. Until now, Instagram head Adam Mosseri has been in charge of Threads. But the platform has grown into more than a side product of Instagram, necessitating additional leadership. Though Threads only launched in 2023, its mobile daily active user (DAU) numbers are fast approaching those of X, according to market intelligence provider Similarweb. Currently, Threads is averaging

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AMD’s new 96-core Threadripper CPU will set you back $11,699

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-16 09:10:59

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. AMD’s latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series of CPUs go on sale later this month, and the top option will be priced at $11,699. The 9000 WX-Series chips are designed for workstations, with the $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX shipping on July 23rd with 96 cores and 192 threads. Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro will all start selling high-end workstations with

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Is HR ready for AI?

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2026-01-17 06:16:13

sefa ozel/Getty Images A report from technology analyst firm Valoir has found that most companies are either already leveraging AI for HR activities, such as recruiting, learning, and talent management, or they plan to do so within the next 24 months. However, there's a significant gap in terms of policies, practices, and training for safe and effective AI adoption. Only 34% of organizations have a policy on generative AI (gen AI), and even fewer offer effective training. Also: 5 entry-level

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Threads is testing Facebook account sign-ups

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-18 09:12:15

The option is mentioned in a support article but doesn't appear to be widely available yet. Threads is testing letting you sign up with a Facebook account rather than an Instagram account. The new option, spotted by Social Media Today, doesn't appear to be widely available yet, but is already mentioned in a Meta support article. Besides making it easier for people who don't have an Instagram account to quickly create an account on Meta's X and Bluesky competitor, this new Facebook sign up opti

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