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Instagram Finally Debuts Native iPad App. It Only Took 15 Years

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 09:15:00

Following earlier rumors in 2025, iPad users finally saw a dedicated Instagram app arrive on their devices on Wednesday. Since the iPad's original release 15 years ago, Instagram had never been available in the App Store as a download for Apple's tablet. Instead, users had been stuck with the workaround mobile version, which awkwardly failed to stretch to the iPad's larger screen size. It's not clear why Instagram took so long to appear on the iPad. (We're baffled by it just as much as you are.

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FirstClub bucks India’s speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-18 10:21:08

While quick commerce in India has become synonymous with 10-minute deliveries — and the hottest play for startups and investors — FirstClub is taking a slower, more curated route. Yet just three months after launching its app, the 8-month-old startup has tripled its valuation. At a post-money valuation of $120 million, the Bengaluru-based startup has raised $23 million in a Series A round (comprising more than 90% equity and the rest in debt) co-led by returning investors Accel and RTP Global.

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9to5Mac Daily: September 3, 2025 – Apple’s deal with Google is safe

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-10-18 14:58:33

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Instagram App Finally Appears on iPads, After 15 Years of Neglecting Apple's Tablet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 14:15:55

After rumors earlier in 2025, iPad users finally saw the Instagram app arrive on their devices on Wednesday, appearing in the App Store after 15 years of avoiding the iPad. Since its original release, Instagram has never been available as a download for Apple's larger screen. While it's not certain why Instagram took so long to appear on the iPad, we've tested out the app and found it ready to download and fully functional. However, Instagram has made a few changes that indicate its latest prio

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 14:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

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Apple has survived Trump's tariffs so far. It might raise iPhone prices anyway

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-18 22:19:33

Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. When Tim Cook gifted President Donald Trump a gold and glass plaque last month, the Apple CEO was hailed by Wall Street for his job managing the iPhone-maker's relationship with the White House. Cook, Wall Street commentators said, had largely navigated the threat of tariffs on Apple's business successfully by offering Trump an addition

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US sues robot toy maker for exposing children's data to Chinese devs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-18 22:53:32

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued toy maker Apitor Technology for allegedly allowing a Chinese third party to collect children's geolocation data without their knowledge and parental consent. A complaint filed by the Justice Department, following a notification from the Federal Trade Commission, alleges that Apitor violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) by failing to notify parents or obtain their consent before collecting their children's location information. Ap

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Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

news.ycombinator.com Aditya Athalye 2025-10-18 22:47:50

On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a bitemporal database. Because? Because laying about on a hammock, contemplating hopelessly complected objects like Current Databases isn't just for the Rich man. Don't try this at work! The "Poor Man's Bitemp

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Police disrupts Streameast, largest pirated sports streaming network

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 02:45:09

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and Egyptian authorities have shut down Streameast, the world's largest illegal live sports streaming network, and arrested two people allegedly associated with the operation. Streameast, operational since 2018, was a free streaming service supported by advertisements, providing access to HD streams from licensed broadcasters. Streameast reportedly operates 80 domains, which collectively receive 136 million monthly visits. In the past year, t

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Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-19 02:10:32

Since 2011, a monstrous structure has taken shape in the Atlantic Ocean almost every year, sprawling from the West African coast to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt—a gargantuan bloom of a brown free-floating seaweed. In May, the seaweed belt hit a record biomass of 37.5 million tons. In a study published last month in the journal Harmful Algae, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute outline the rapidly growing seawee

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I Had ChatGPT Order Me a Pizza. This Could Change Everything

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 23:52:03

Ordering a pizza online is wildly more interesting when AI does it. When OpenAI announced ChatGPT Agent, an AI-powered tool that handles complex tasks from start to finish, I didn't fully understand its capabilities. OpenAI says it can be your personal assistant, but that means little to someone who's never had one. I imagine if I did have a personal assistant, I might ask them to order me a pizza. So, that's what I did. Near CNET's New York office is a relatively new spot named Cello's Pizzer

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Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

news.ycombinator.com Bourzac 2025-10-16 04:34:36

University students might soon have something other than black-light posters to brighten their dorm rooms. Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the posters light up. The fleshy plants shine as brightly as a night light, and can be made to do so in a wide variety of colours — a first for glowing houseplants, according to the team. Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time The researchers, led b

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Launch HN: Risely (YC S25) – AI Agents for Universities

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 06:21:35

Hi HN, I’m Danial, co-founder and CTO of Risely AI ( https://risely.ai ). We're building AI agents that automate operational workflows inside universities. Here’s a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/d7a14400434144c490249d665a0d0499?... Higher ed is full of inefficiencies. Every department runs on outdated systems that don’t talk to each other. Today, advising staff are looking up enrollment data in PeopleSoft or Ellucian, checking grades and assignments in Canvas, and trying to track engagement

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Best Smokeless Firepits (2025), Tested for Fun and Fresh Air

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-10-19 06:01:00

Compare the Top 4 Smokeless Firepits Firepit Full Retail Diameter WIRED TIRED Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 $329 19.5 inches Venn diagram at the middle of value, utility, and portability. Removable ash can Not big enough for longer logs Breeo X24 $599 27.5 inches Large backyard showpiece with plenty of room for a big fire. Great accessory set Less portable Breeo Y-Series $495 21 inches Designed for portability—and to be hauled out for cooking. Great accessory set Not big enough for longer logs BioLite

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Netflix updates its Moments feature to give users greater control over scene clipping

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-19 14:00:00

Netflix launched a scene-clipping feature for mobile last year called “Moments,” which lets users quickly save their favorite scenes from shows and movies within the Netflix app. The streaming giant rolled out an update on Wednesday, allowing users to specify both a starting point and an endpoint when saving a scene. People now have the option to adjust the scene’s ending, allowing them to create clips that are as long or as short as they prefer. Previously, users could only set a starting poin

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College social app Fizz expands into grocery delivery

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-19 14:00:00

Fizz, the college social app, is expanding into grocery delivery thanks to a new partnership with Gopuff, the startup told TechCrunch exclusively. The partnership will allow students to order anything from late-night snacks to weekly groceries directly within the Fizz app in as fast as 15 minutes, Fizz says. Founded in 2021, Fizz is available at more than 620 campuses across the United States, with over 27 million posts shared to date. The social platform allows students to connect anonymously

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Rumor: iPhone 17 Pro to feature better thermals for improved battery life, display brightness, more

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-19 18:47:11

We’re less than a week away from the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup, and a new rumor today sheds light on several more improvements Apple has up its sleeve. In a post on Weibo, the oft-reliable leaker Instant Digital says the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max will feature notable updates to the display, battery life, and more. Here’s a breakdown of what the account says is coming for the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max: They can maintain a higher brightness level for a longer time when u

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Why shadow AI could be the secret to fixing your company's failing AI projects

zdnet.com Omer Minkara 2025-10-19 18:16:19

BlackJack3D/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI projects are failing because the underlying strategy is flawed. Business leaders should build on projects that employees find useful. The winners will focus on value creation, not cost elimination. AI has become the boardroom obsession of the decade. Yet despite billions in investment and relentless hype, recent independent studies show that most enterprises struggle to turn

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Microsoft’s PowerToys are about to add two big missing Windows features

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-19 18:46:56

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. Have you ever wanted Windows 11 to automatically switch between light and dark modes based on a schedule, or help you find keyboard shortcut conflicts? Well, Microsoft is about to solve both of these missing Windows features with PowerToys. The latest 0.94 release of PowerToys, the useful

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The U.S. makes it harder for TSMC, SK Hynix and Samsung to produce chips in China

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-20 00:35:07

A 300mm wafer on display at the booth of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company during the 2023 World Semiconductor Conference at Nanjing International Expo Center on July 19, 2023, in Nanjing, China. The U.S. has revoked a waiver that allowed Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to export key chipmaking equipment and technology to its manufacturing plant in Nanjing, China, as Washington continues to ramp up efforts to limit Beijing's semiconductor advancement. The change will remove a f

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Acer just revealed a stupidly powerful Chromebook convertible

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 01:00:35

Supplied by Acer TL;DR Acer has announced the Chromebook Plus Spin 514, which is one of the most powerful Chromebooks on the market. The company has also revealed two new Chromeboxes and the Swift Air 16 lightweight Windows laptop. The Chromebook Plus Spin 514 starts at $699.99. IFA 2025 kicks off this week, and Acer isn’t wasting any time. The PC maker has just announced a variety of new Chrome OS devices and PCs ahead of the annual tech expo. Perhaps the most notable Chrome OS device is t

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My brief hands-on with Acer’s new convertible Chromebook has me cautiously optimistic

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-10-20 01:00:00

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. Acer’s new Chromebook Plus Spin 514, announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin, is the company’s first laptop to use the Arm-based MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 processor. That chip was used in the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 that launched earlier this summer, and it was key to delivering excellent performance and marathon battery life in that fanles

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IFA 2025: the biggest tech and gadget announcements

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-20 03:00:00

IFA, the European tech trade show equivalent to CES in the US, is just around the corner. Companies are gearing up to showcase their latest innovations, bringing us the latest product announcements, feature demonstrations, and design concepts that will shape future consumer tech releases. IFA will open its doors between September 5th and 9th, but many of the biggest announcements will start dropping shortly before the show’s public opening. And, as always, The Verge will be covering all the lat

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Motion Sickness Sufferers, Rejoice: Scientists Say This Might Actually Help

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-20 01:00:43

Normally, I’d start this sort of article by saying something along the lines of, “Everyone knows how horrible it is to feel motion sick.” But that’s not entirely true—plenty of people can text, read, and do all sorts of things in a moving vehicle without feeling the slightest bit nauseous. If that sounds like you, you’ll have to trust me—a chronic sufferer of motion sickness—when I say that it wholeheartedly sucks. Plus, many drugs used for motion sickness come with an unwanted side effect: dro

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No more Prime shipping perks outside your family (Updated: Amazon statement)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 04:59:23

Update: September 2, 2025 (10:56 PM ET): An Amazon spokesperson has contacted Android Authority with an official statement on the matter. Here’s what they had to say: The Invitee program, which enabled sharing of the Prime shipping benefit only, is being phased out, and Prime members can instead share a broad range of Prime benefits with Amazon Family, including: fast, free delivery; access to exclusive deals and shopping events like Prime Day; movies, series, and live sports with Prime Video;

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Parallel AI agents are a game changer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 05:44:50

I’ve been in this industry long enough to watch technologies come and go. I’ve seen the excitement around new frameworks, the promises of revolutionary tools, and the breathless predictions about what would “change everything.” Most of the time, these technologies turned out to be incremental improvements wrapped in marketing hyperbole. But parallel agents? This is different. This is the first time I can say, without any exaggeration, that I’m witnessing technology that will fundamentally trans

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 3, #345

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 06:26:41

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. Fans of the Fighting Irish, today's Connections: Sports Edition is calling your names. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game

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9to5Mac Daily: September 2, 2025 – New AirPods Pro health features?

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-10-20 10:13:37

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-20 07:53:50

The battle over $20 billion worth of climate-related funding authorized by Congress continues as an appellate court ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency, which had terminated Biden-era grants made to nonprofits. The legal tussle stems from EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to cancel grants dispersed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Zeldin said that the grants did not match the EPA’s current priorities and claimed, without evidence, that he had concerns a

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Apple shares rise after judge rules Google can continue preload deals in antitrust case

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-20 14:29:17

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 9, 2025. Apple shares rose more than 3% in extended trading Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that Alphabet may continue making payments to preload Google Search onto the iPhone. Although Apple wasn't a party in the search monopoly trial, the judge was considering remedies that would bar Google from paying billions per year to Apple to be the default search eng

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Instagram Finally Debuts Native iPad App. It Only Took 15 Years

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Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

Launch HN: Risely (YC S25) – AI Agents for Universities

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Netflix updates its Moments feature to give users greater control over scene clipping

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Microsoft’s PowerToys are about to add two big missing Windows features

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