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Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-11 04:56:21

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance 6 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector - the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to the detriment of rivals. It co

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This free Chrome tool cleans up your Google searches - hide AI, sponsored links, and more

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-11 04:13:00

Bye Bye Google AI / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Tired of Google AI results? There's a fix for that. This free browser tool hides summaries you didn't ask for. The extension comes from a trusted tech industry editor. I have very mixed feelings about Google's AI Overviews. On one hand, they sometimes provide tidbits of information without having to dig through web page after web page. On the other hand, as with all

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ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 04:06:55

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren't people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The company released the feature for all logged-in web users following years of user requests for the capability. The feature works by letting users hover over any message in a ChatGPT conversation, click "More actions," and select "Branch in new chat

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Tamagotchi Paradise trades stressful virtual pet parenting for nature and tranquility

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:00:49

On a random Saturday in August, I became the omnipotent caretaker of a newly formed planet, one born, according to the lore, from humankind's collective love of Tamagotchis past and present. An egg hatched and a planet sprang forth. Then another egg hatched down on the surface of that planet and a critter sprang forth. In the few weeks since, I've raised half a dozen more creatures across three different virtual habitats, slowly but surely turning my planet into a bustling hub of adorable alien

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Don’t let outdated IGA hold back your security, compliance, and growth

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:02:12

If organizations want to have any chance of protecting their data from unauthorized access in 2025 and beyond, there is no way around Identity Governance & Administration. But conventional IGA solutions are the wrong option for most businesses. For companies trying to keep their data secure while maintaining a competitive edge, the stakes could not be higher. Faced with an onslaught of identity-based attacks, they need a way to efficiently manage their increasingly complex IT environments while

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Nepal blocks most social media sites for failing to register with the government

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:15:12

The government of Nepal is blocking commonly used social platforms including Facebook, X, Instagram, WeChat, Reddit and YouTube due to noncompliance with a new law requiring them to register with the government, The Associated Press reported. Five platforms including TikTok and Viber that did register in the country were exempted from the ban. Social media companies were asked to provide a local contact, grievance handler and person responsible for self-regulation to avoid a shutdown and many a

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Sick of Google's AI summaries? This free tool eliminates them - in one click

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-11 18:30:01

Bye Bye Google AI / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Tired of Google AI results? There's a fix for that. This free browser tool hides summaries you didn't ask for. The extension comes from a trusted tech industry editor. I have very mixed feelings about Google's AI Overviews. On one hand, they sometimes provide tidbits of information without having to dig through web page after web page. On the other hand, as with all

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Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-11 18:30:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Can AI help “smooth over” discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. De

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The Morning After: reMarkable’s new e-ink device is the size of a notepad

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 10:15:53

reMarkable is making a move away from its giant e-ink slate. The new Paper Pro Move is a smaller iteration with a 7.3-inch display the same size as a reporter’s notepad. The idea is an eink device you can write and edit on while on the move. Hence the name. Engadget There are some drawbacks, however. With the Move, the only way to write and edit typed text is with the on-screen keyboard. Bigger reMarkable devices can connect to a companion keyboard. Engadget’s Daniel Cooper spent some time wit

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SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-11-12 08:13:25

SAP says it will pump €20 billion into expanding sovereign cloud infrastructure in Europe over the next ten years, pitching itself as a secure and compliant alternative to American cloud giants. The Germany-based enterprise software biz is looking to provide sovereign infrastructure for the public sector and regulated environments, said Thomas Saueressig, board member for customer services and delivery. Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty READ MORE "With our expanded SAP S

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Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 10:31:58

The restrictions come after the social media giants failed to meet state registration requirements, says government. Nepal’s government has said it will shut off access to major social media platforms, including Facebook and X, after they failed to comply with authorities’ registration requirements. The move, announced on Thursday, is part of what the government says is an effort to curb online hate, rumours and cybercrime. Companies were given a deadline of Wednesday to register with the Min

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‘People Are So Proud of This’: How River and Lake Water Is Cooling Buildings

wired.com Chris Baraniuk 2025-11-12 09:00:00

“In the old days, it was more like a luxury project,” says Deo de Klerk, team lead for heating and cooling solutions at the Dutch energy firm Eneco. Today, his company’s clients increasingly ask for district cooling as well as district heating systems. Eneco has 33 heating and cooling projects under construction. In Rotterdam, Netherlands, one of the company’s installations helps to cool buildings, including apartment blocks, police offices, a theater and restaurants, using water from the River

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Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-11-12 08:30:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Qualcomm is joining forces with BMW on a new driver-assist system that will allow drivers to take their hands off the wheel on approved roads. Qualcomm, which supplies infotainment, driver-assist, and telematics systems to a variety of

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Xbox engineer brings Windows Mixed Reality headsets back to life

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-12 09:28:48

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. Windows Mixed Reality headsets were left in a non-functional state last year, after Microsoft suddenly discontinued the platform with its 24H2 update to Windows 11. Now, an Xbox engineer at Microsoft is bringing these headsets back to life, thanks to a new driver that enables SteamVR suppor

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Building Supabase-Like OAuth Authentication for MCP Servers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:18:36

I am Jakob, an Engineer at Hypr MCP, where we help companies connect their internal applications to LLM-based workflows with the power of MCP servers. Join our waitlist or book a demo to learn more. In this blog post, I want to show you how and why we built an MCP Server Gateway that acts as a reverse proxy for one or more upstream MCP servers while adding support for the authorization framework provided by the MCP specification. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the de-facto stan

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Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-12 10:00:00

Lenovo isn't shy about trying new things. Last year, the PC maker teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED display that folded over the top of the laptop lid, ready to flip up whenever you needed the extra screen space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically at the touch of a button—this one is a real product you can actually buy. Get ready for another whacky

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Lenovo’s new concept laptop has a rotating screen that’s perfect for doomscrolling

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-12 10:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Lenovo has made laptop screens that roll, flip, and go transparent, and now for IFA 2025 it’s announcing a new concept with a screen that can rotate into portrait mode. The Lenovo ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept is a pretty standard-looking 14-inch productivity laptop, but if you nudge the screen’s edge from its top-right corner, the whole

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The Apple iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event happens next week: Here's what to expect on September 9

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 14:21:26

We're now less than week away from the Apple's September 9 event, where the company is all but certain to unveil the iPhone 17 line. This year's theme of "Awe dropping," which was featured in Apple's invitations to the media sent on August 26 doesn't reveal much by way of clues, though some think the heat-mapped Apple logo is indicative of better thermal cooling in the new models. But more importantly, we already know how to watch the Apple iPhone 17 event itself: The keynote will be livestreame

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Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 18:11:05

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports . The studio's publisher and owner 2K confirmed that the layoffs were happening as Firaxis "restructures and optimizes" for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The layoffs follow turmoil at another 2K studio , Cloud Chamber, which is supposed to be developing the next Bioshock game. Since the restructuring has yet to be publicly disclosed, it's hard to

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Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-12 23:49:27

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Warner Bros. Discovery is suing Midjourney over claims the AI startup “brazenly dispenses its intellectual property as if it were its own,” as reported earlier by The Hollywood Reporter. In the lawsuit, Warner Bros. Discovery alleges that Midjourney generated “c

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Broadcom reports 63% jump in AI revenue as results beat estimates

cnbc.com Kif Leswing Ari Levy 2025-11-13 04:44:31

Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations and provided robust guidance for the current quarter. The stock was little changed in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected Revenue: $15.96 billion versus $15.83 billion expected Broadcom said it expects $17.4 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, higher than the $17.02 billion expected

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Researchers find alarming overlaps among 18 popular VPNs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-13 09:18:28

A new peer-reviewed study alleges that 18 of the 100 most-downloaded virtual private network (VPN) apps on the Google Play Store are secretly connected in three large families, despite claiming to be independent providers. The paper doesn't indict any of our picks for the best VPN , but the services it investigates are popular, with 700 million collective downloads on Android alone. The study, published in the journal of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), doesn't just find tha

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This Electric Shaver Is Made From Aircraft-Grade Aluminium, Because Why Not?

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-13 08:04:35

Nothing says “premium” like aerospace-grade aluminum alloy, am I right? I guess. I don’t know, it sounds fancy and it looks fancy, too, which makes Laifen’s new electric shaver, the T1 Pro, the swankiest electric shaver I’ve seen all day. The T1 Pro, which was announced at IFA 2025, is apparently crafted with “a single block of aerospace-grade aluminum alloy,” which makes this over-engineered shaver both light and very durable, according to Laifen. Powering this thing is what Laifen describes a

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Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-13 09:06:54

Nepal has ordered internet service providers to block access to major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X, after the companies failed to comply with local registration rules — drawing criticism from media rights groups and raising concerns over censorship and free expression. On Thursday, Nepal’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology directed the Nepal Telecommunications Authority to instruct internet service providers to restrict access to 26 so

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Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:15:55

Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling . Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the screen changed. The update ensures the translation feature will keep on ticking along. Google says this is great for getting "more context for social posts from creators who speak a different language" or when browsing "menus when you’re booking restaurant reservations while traveling abroad." Just tap t

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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Engineers, AES, and Senior PMM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:01:21

Why you should join Artie We are building Artie, a real-time data streaming solution focused on databases and data warehouses. Typical ETL solutions leverage batched processes or schedulers (DAGs, Airflow), which cannot achieve real time data syncs. We leverage change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to perform data transfers in a more efficient way, which enables sub-minute latency.

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Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-13 23:00:42

The video-generation model Veo 3 has come to Google Photos, bringing even more AI tomfoolery to the platform. This allows users to do all sorts of wacky things. First and foremost, the pre-existing photo to video feature has been significantly improved. Google says that it can now be used to turn "still images into even higher-quality clips." There's also a tool called Remix that transforms photos into various styles, like anime drawings, comic book illustrations, 3D animations and more. This i

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Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 11:08:52

Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles Version 1.0 - 2014-02-24 - cleanup, add metapuzzle and solving tools sections Version 0.9 - 2014-02-18 0. About This Document This document is advice for writing puzzles. It is specifically geared toward the MIT Mystery Hunt, though the techniques and ideas will likely be useful in other puzzle-writing. The target audience is those who have participated in one or a few puzzle hunts, but not written a substantial number of puzzles before. I will

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Canada’s First Moon Mission to Fly Aboard Firefly Spacecraft

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-14 04:33:28

Canada’s first-ever Moon rover is going to hitch a ride aboard private space company’s Firefly Aerospace’s fourth Blue Ghost mission to our celestial satellite. The news comes after NASA awarded Firefly $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar surface. The Texas-based company pulled-off its first Moon landing on March 2, delivering payloads for NASA as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative (CLPS). Firefly is set to launch its

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Canada Raids Compound of QAnon-Inspired Cult Leader, ‘Queen of Canada’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-14 14:00:05

The cultural curse of QAnon may have largely dissipated in the U.S., but an alleged offshoot of the cult has been festering in a remote region of Canada. This week, police say they busted the group in a raid on a compound in a small village in southwest Saskatchewan. Authorities in Canada say they arrested 17 people in the village of Richmound on Wednesday. The arrests took place at a building where the group—which calls itself “The Kingdom of Canada”—had been living for approximately two years

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Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

This free Chrome tool cleans up your Google searches - hide AI, sponsored links, and more

ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people

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Don’t let outdated IGA hold back your security, compliance, and growth

Nepal blocks most social media sites for failing to register with the government

Sick of Google's AI summaries? This free tool eliminates them - in one click

Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

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SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push

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Qualcomm teams up with BMW for hands-free driving

Xbox engineer brings Windows Mixed Reality headsets back to life

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Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

Lenovo’s new concept laptop has a rotating screen that’s perfect for doomscrolling

The Apple iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event happens next week: Here's what to expect on September 9

Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Midjourney for generating ‘countless’ copies of its characters

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Google Photos gets Veo 3 integration, bringing in even more AI tools

Introduction to Writing Good Puzzle Hunt Puzzles

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Canada Raids Compound of QAnon-Inspired Cult Leader, ‘Queen of Canada’

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