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Home Depot's Infamous Skelly Finds a Voice With New App for Halloween

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 10:32:03

Make no bones about it: Skelly's going high tech. Home Depot's popular 12-foot-tall skeleton decoration is coming back to life this Halloween with an app that lets you give the new Ultra Skelly a voice and new moves to scare the trick-or-treaters. The new animatronic version is shorter than the original, at 6.5 feet tall, but you can freak out your whole neighborhood with this skeleton's rotating upper torso, moving mouth and 18 LCD eye variations (ew). Skelly can now chat with visitors through

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Elon Musk feels Apple favors OpenAI over xAI in App Store rankings

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:10:34

Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an "unequivocal antitrust violation" by favoring OpenAI in the App Store rankings. In a post on X, he claimed that Apple has made it impossible for other AI companies to reach number one in those rankings and that xAI "will take immediate legal action." Musk didn't clarify what he meant by that, and he also didn't provide evidence that would prove Apple's supposed antitrust violation. In an earlier post on X that's currently pinned to the top of his pro

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Microsoft releases lightweight Office taskbar apps for Windows 11

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-30 03:39:12

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is starting to roll out lightweight taskbar apps for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11. These taskbar apps will automatically launch at startup and provide quick access to contacts, file search, and calendar straight from the Windows taskbar. The Microsoft 365 companion apps, as

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Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-30 03:50:29

Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings to the advantage of rival AI apps. In a series of X posts on Monday night, Musk suggested that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing either X or xAI’s Grok chatbot in the App Store’s list of recommended iOS apps, and that he had no choice but to file a lawsuit. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI compa

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Musk threatens 'immediate' legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-30 05:43:40

Elon Musk on Monday threatened Apple with legal action over alleged antitrust violations related to rankings of the Grok AI chatbot app, which is owned by his artificial intelligence startup xAI. "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action," Musk wrote in a post on social media platform X. Apple did not immediately respond to CNBC's reque

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Elon Musk accuses Apple of favoring OpenAI in App Store rankings, promises legal action [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-30 04:06:35

Elon Musk is (once again) going after Apple, this time accusing the company of an “unequivocal antitrust violation” for allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store’s AI rankings. Here are the details. A bit of context Last month, xAI released Grok 4, its latest large language model, promising major performance gains over leading competitors. Since then, the company has also rolled out features like Grok Imagine, its image and video generator, as well as customizable “companion” chatbots. Durin

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Elon Musk Can’t Control His AI

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-30 02:23:50

With Grok, the months pass, but the story stays the same. The AI chatbot from xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, continues to stir controversy, putting its host platform, X, in an increasingly embarrassing position. Just weeks after a version of Grok was found to be praising Adolf Hitler, the new, supposedly more powerful “SuperGrok” found itself in hot water again on Monday, forcing X to briefly suspend the chatbot for what it vaguely described as “inappropriate posts.” Even El

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Elon Musk Says Apple Is Rigging the App Store for ChatGPT

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-30 05:07:07

Elon Musk has opened a fresh front in his ongoing feud with Big Tech.This time he’s targeting Apple. On Monday night, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO accused the iPhone maker of antitrust violations, claiming its App Store policies put his AI chatbot Grok, developed by xAI, at a disadvantage compared to rivals, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violatio

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Get a Free Thing Skin, Thor Skin and More in Marvel Rivals Season 3.5

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 09:50:08

Marvel Rivals season 2 may have taken our heroes off-world as they battled across Arakko, but season 3 is throwing us into the furthest reaches of space to fight a new threat: Knull and his symbiote army. Stopping one symbiote is tough enough. Fighting off an army of them is going to require a whole new wardrobe's worth of battle gear. Luckily for you, there are many ways to unlock some free skins in the hit hero shooter right now -- including the Queen's Codex event pass that evens the odds wi

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Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-30 21:14:07

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 Researchers have published the most comprehensive survey to date of so-called “OS Agents” — artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously control computers, mobile phones and web browsers by directly interacting with their interfaces. The 30-page academic review, accepted for publication at the prestigious Association for Computatio

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YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 06:30:45

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to have regularly used one, a floppy disk is a magnetically coated, flexible polyester disk encased in a protective shell. Insert it into a floppy drive, and a magnetic head reads or writes data on the disk. If you've ever wondered why the "save" icon looks the way

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Former Cop Says He Routinely Confiscated Guns, Fentanyl and Cocaine at Tesla Factory

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-01 14:33:13

A lawsuit filed by Ozell Murray, a former police officer fired as head of security at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, suggests the plant has a severe sexual assault, drug and alcohol abuse, and rampant racism problem. According to the 159-page federal suit, first obtained by The Independent, the officer's team "routinely" confiscated cocaine, fentanyl, and guns onsite. His team also investigated "acts of sexual deviance" and sent employees "home for being alcohol-intoxicated and high on

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xAI is testing Grok 4.20 to take on GPT-5, may launch this month

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 21:34:44

Elon Musk-owned xAI is testing Grok 4.20, a new model update to Grok 4, which already competes with GPT-5 in some benchmarks, such as ARC-AGI 2. GPT-5 is one of the best models for coding, and it competes with Claude Opus 4.1 head-to-head in some coding challenges. On the other hand, Grok falls a bit short when it comes to building full-fledged apps. But that might change soon as xAI is testing Grok 4.20. In a post on X, Elon Musk teased Grok 4.20 for a late August launch. Previously, Elon

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You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-02 02:45:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Gemini Live now works with Calendar, Maps, Keep, and Tasks. Update is rolling out to most Android and iOS users. It can add events, guide routes, and manage lists or notes. In May of this year, Google debuted Gemini Live with screen sharing and camera access for Android. Google has been slowly integrating the feature, which lets you ask Gemini about anything on your screen (or that you can see with your camera), into its suite of apps since Jun

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Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-02 02:50:26

Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend reports that Tesla has disbanded the team working on its Dojo AI training supercomputer, just weeks after announcing he expected to have Tesla’s second cluster operating “at scale” in 2026. “Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, on Sunday. “Dojo 3 arguably lives on in the form of a la

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Musk Moves to Bring Tesla Power to U.K. As Car Sales Stumble

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-02 06:41:14

Controversial lightning rod Elon Musk is making major moves in the United Kingdom, as his electric car company Tesla looks to find new ways to diversify its income streams. According to OFGEM, the U.K. energy regulator, Tesla has formally applied for a license to sell electricity to households and businesses across Britain. Approval of that application could be a major boost for both Musk and Tesla, which has seen sales skid as Musk has become an increasingly polarizing figure in American poli

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Linux desktop frozen? My 5 go-to tricks to try - before forcing a hard reboot

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-02 11:52:41

ALLVISIONN / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways If your Linux desktop freezes, don't panic; there are ways to fix it. You can use keyboard shortcuts, virtual consoles, SSH, and other tricks. These tips can help avoid a hard reboot. I started using Linux in 1997, and since then, it's been a rare occasion that my desktop causes me any issues. Notice I said "rare." That doesn't mean I've gone all these years without an issue. In fact, I have had my desktop freeze up on me enough that I've had

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ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 23:16:00

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide credentials to tasks. Here we’ll demonstrate how those mechanisms can lead to a known risk when tasks with different privilege levels share the same EC2 host. This cross-task credential exposure highlights the inherent risks of relying on per-task IAM scoping and task execution boundaries when workloads s

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The Framework Desktop is a beast

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 12:19:10

I've been running the Framework Desktop for a few months here in Copenhagen now. It's an incredible machine. It's completely quiet, even under heavy, stress-all-cores load. It's tiny too, at just 4.5L of volume, especially compared to my old beautiful but bulky North tower running the 7950X — yet it's faster! And finally, it's simply funky, quirky, and fun!In some ways, the Framework Desktop is a curious machine. Desktop PCs are already very user-repairable! So why is Framework even bringing the

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I tried T Sat side by side with Verizon’s Skylo and neither worked as well as I’d hoped

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 15:30:43

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Recently, T Satellite service officially became available for both existing T-Mobile customers and those on other networks that want satellite backup for emergencies. I have since signed up for the service myself and had the opportunity to field test it alongside a Galaxy S25 Edge that is capable of utilizing Skylo satellites via Verizon’s network. As someone who lives smack dab in rural America, there are plenty of dead spots within a 20-35 minute drive from

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James Webb Finds Evidence of Free-Floating Planets So Large They Can Gather Their Own Planetary Systems

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-02 06:30:04

So much for heliocentrism. An international team of astronomers using observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence of massive planets out there that're capable of forming their own planetary systems — without a star. These planets would be the center of something like a mini version of our solar system where other, smaller planets revolve around it. But without the light of a star, these systems, if they exist, would go largely overlooked by our telescopes, lost to

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Elon Musk Turns His AI Chatbot Into a Male Fantasy Engine

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-02 10:15:24

Elon Musk has always been the biggest hype man for his own companies. Whether it’s Tesla, SpaceX, or X (formerly Twitter), the world’s richest man personally takes to social media to promote new features, products, and ideas. His AI venture, xAI, is no exception. Over the past week, Musk has been flooding X with posts promoting Grok Imagine, the new image-and-video-generation feature in SuperGrok, the most advanced version of xAI’s Grok chatbot. But the images Musk chooses to showcase say as mu

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Vitamin E: Health Benefits, Food Sources and What to Know Before Using Supplements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 08:32:00

You may have noticed vitamin E on the label of your favorite skin-care products. It's a nutrient that can help protect your skin from UV damage, making it a common ingredient for facial sunscreens. But vitamin E isn't just applied topically -- you also need to get it in your daily diet. Consuming enough vitamin E is crucial because it plays a key role in human development and functioning. The vitamin includes eight compounds, but only one of those -- alpha-tocopherol -- is used in the human body

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Tesla Shutting Down Its AI Supercomputer As Staff Leaves in Droves to Join Competitor

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-02 06:30:50

As sales continue to plummet worldwide, Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver assistance system. As Bloomberg reports, the head of the project, dubbed Dojo and which CEO Elon Musk used to hype up immensely, is leaving the company. The team has already lost around 20 workers to a separate data center firm that's been poaching former Tesla executives. The rest of the team will reportedly be reassigned to other data

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Accessibility and the Agentic Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 12:44:01

Accessibility and the agentic web Posted on Friday, 8 August 2025 by Léonie Watson in Strategy, User experience Imagine being in a department store that sells clothes from multiple brands and having a personal shopping assistant to help you select the clothes you want to buy. As a blind person, that's about the only way it's possible to go clothes shopping, independently at least, but few stores offer such a service, so you resort to shopping online. Except that retail websites are rarely acce

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Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 09:01:31

Dementias such as Alzheimer's disease are estimated to affect more than 57.4 million people worldwide, a number that is expected to almost triple to 152.8 million cases by 2050. The impacts on the individuals, families and caregivers and society at large are immense. While there are some indications that the prevalence of dementia is decreasing in Europe and North America, suggesting that it may be possible to reduce the risk of the disease at a population level, elsewhere the picture is less p

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New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 06:08:48

Most adhesives can’t stick to wet surfaces because water and other fluids disrupt the adhesive’s bonding mechanisms. This problem, though, has been beautifully solved by evolution in remora suckerfish, which use an adhesive disk on top of their heads to attach to animals like dolphins, sharks, and even manta rays. A team of MIT scientists has now taken a close look at these remora disks and reverse-engineered them. “Basically, we looked at nature for inspiration,” says Giovanni Traverso, a prof

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The best Linux distros for beginners in 2025 make switching from MacOS or Windows so easy

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-02 09:00:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Linux offers more security, privacy, and freedom from vendors. Modern Linux distros are user-friendly -- even for non-techies. Linux Mint, Zorin OS, MX Linux top beginner distro list. Why would you want to switch to the Linux desktop? There are many reasons, but the short version is that the operating system is more secure, provides far more privacy, and frees you from vendor lock-in. For current Windows users, it also provide

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Trade Desk tanks 39% for worst day ever on CFO departure and competition from Amazon

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-12-03 06:15:12

In this article TTD Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jeff Green, CEO of The Trade Desk. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Shares of The Trade Desk plummeted 39% on Friday, their worst day on record, after the ad-tech company announced the departure of its CFO and analysts expressed concerns about rising competition from Amazon . The Trade Desk, which went public in 2016, suffered its steepest prior drop in February, when the shares fell 33% on a revenue miss. In its second-quarter earnings repo

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Get Ready to See Six Planets Line Up in the Upcoming Planet Parade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 05:27:00

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Aug. 20. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars

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