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Google's AI Mode Is Getting New Agentic Features for Restaurant Reservations and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 22:30:00

Google's AI Mode is getting new agentic capabilities and expanding to 180 new countries and territories around the world, Google announced Thursday. AI Mode allows you to ask questions directly to Google and it'll kick off a series of searches on your behalf. From there, it will surface relevant information to your query without the need to do any of the deep research yourself. It changes the way you search for things online, and it's getting even smarter with this latest rollout. Powered by De

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A Huge Number of Grok AI Chats Just Leaked, and Their Contents Are So Disturbing That We're Sweating Profusely

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 00:08:59

Brace yourselves, because hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's notoriously foul-mouthed Grok chatbot have hit the internet, Forbes reports — and some of them get into absolutely unholy territory. The more than 370,000 chats were made public after users clicked a "share" button that created a link to their chatbot convos, unaware that by doing so, it was allowing them to be indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Some of them were clearly never meant to see the l

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Watch Live: SpaceX Launches Space Force’s X-37B Spaceplane on New Military Test Mission

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-09 14:45:15

The U.S. Space Force’s experimental spaceplane, X-37B, is ready for another go in orbit for an undisclosed duration, in which it will test new technologies aimed at bolstering military capabilities in space. The Boeing-built orbital test vehicle, designated as OTV-8, will attempt to launch on Thursday at 11:50 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spaceplane will ride on board a Falcon 9 rocket, marking the second time SpaceX launches the Space

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Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 14:44:44

There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about electric vehicle adoption here in the US. The current administration has made no secret of its hostility toward EVs and, as promised, has ended as many of the existing EV subsidies and vehicle pollution regulations as it could. After more than a year of month-on-month growth, EV sales started to contract, and brands like Genesis and Volvo have seen their customers reject their electric offerings, forcing portfolio rethinks. But wait, it gets wo

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Space Force Launching Secretive Experimental Spacecraft With Quantum Equipment on Board

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 18:28:08

It's serving an important purpose. Quantum of Orbit Less than six months after concluding a year-plus mission in orbit, the Space Force's top-secret X-37B space plane is gearing up for its eighth mission in just over 15 years. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, the enigmatic, Boeing-built spacecraft is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Pad 39A later this evening, carrying some intriguing-sounding scientific equipment with it into orbit. The Space Force, in collabora

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Google's AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations for you - how it works

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-09 18:11:11

SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's AI Mode can now suggest restaurant reservations. Users can also now receive personalized dining recommendations. Google is aiming to build a more dynamic and personalized web. AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations, Google announced in a blog post Thursday. Users can now request reservations in local restaurants according to constraints like party size and dietary restrictions, and the system will automat

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Europol confirms $50,000 Qilin ransomware reward is fake

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 04:25:25

Europol has confirmed that a Telegram channel impersonating the agency and offering a $50,000 reward for information on two Qilin ransomware administrators is fake. The impostor later admitted it was created to troll researchers and journalists. "We were also surprised to see this story gaining traction," Europol told BleepingComputer on Monday. "The announcement didn't come from us." The statement comes after a new Telegram channel called @europolcti was created on August 16th, claiming to of

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How Burning Man VR rebuilt after Microsoft shut it down

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-11-10 09:30:00

It was all just supposed to be a one-time thing. When Burning Man got canceled because of covid-19 in 2020, a number of attendees banded together to re-create the festival on the social VR platform Altspace. That virtual Burning Man experience not only attracted around 13,000 visitors, but also accolades from the Producers Guild of America. The success led to the decision to keep the digital version of Burning Man going even when the real-life festival returned in 2021. BRCvr, named after the f

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This upcoming Google Maps feature could be a game-changer for group planning (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:39:40

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is working on a new feature that will make it easier to share a list of search results with others. This new share feature creates a shareable list of the first ten search results from any query. This new functionality could simplify group planning, such as deciding on a restaurant, when it goes live. Google Maps is a great resource for discovering services and local businesses around you. However, there’s plenty that Google can do to improve

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The first update for Proton's privacy-focused chatbot offers major performance improvements

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 14:52:55

In July, Proton, the company behind Proton Mail , released Lumo , a privacy-focused AI chatbot. Now, just under a month later, Proton has begun rolling out Lumo 1.1 to both free and paying users, and according to the company, the updated assistant "performs significantly better across the board" relative to its predecessor. Just how much better is the new version of Lumo? Proton claims it offers a 170 percent improvement in context understanding, meaning the chatbot is able to more accurately a

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You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB

news.ycombinator.com Chris Penner 2025-11-06 02:04:00

This one will be quick. Imagine this, you get a report from your bug tracker: Sophie got an error when viewing the diff after her most recent push to her contribution to the @unison/cloud project on Unison Share (BTW, contributions are like pull requests, but for Unison code) Okay, this is great, we have something to start with, let's go look up that contribution and see if any of the data there is suspicious. Uhhh, okay, I know the error is related to one of Sophie's contributions, but how

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Oh No, ‘World of Warcraft’ Is Getting Me Elf-Pilled Again

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-10 14:56:42

As someone who has played World of Warcraft on and off for what now qualifies as a significant portion of my life over the last 21 years, I’ve come to learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate about Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMO. The first is the way Warcraft has sat with, and handled, the evolution of its world and characters over those two decades as an ongoing entity. Well, that’s not really the first. Because the actual first is that I just really love Warcraft‘s elves.

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Google Search can now present real-time table booking results, but only if you pay up for AI

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:58:18

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI Mode is getting an agentic mode to help you with hotel reservations. AI Mode will also scan for your diet and seating preferences and offer suggestions for cafes and restaurants in particular areas. It is now expanding to over 180 countries for searches in English. Yesterday’s Pixel launch displays Google’s determination to bring agentic AI features to Android devices. While Magic Cue on Pixel 10 is just a step in that direction, the company

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Google Search’s AI Mode is going global and getting smarter

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-10 18:23:09

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. Google is putting AI Mode into Search in 180 countries and territories, allowing the AI-powered search feature to expand beyond the US, UK, and India. The expansion means more people can search for topics using a chatbot-like interface, though it’s still only av

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MasterClass subscriptions are 50 percent off in this Labor Day sale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 22:56:26

MasterClass promises online learning with instructors who are the very best in their fields, and an annual subscription is currently 50 percent off across all tiers. Subscribers to MasterClass will have access to over 200 classes taught by iconic authors, chefs, athletes and leaders representing a diverse collection of skill sets and backgrounds. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Keller. If you're trying to

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Get up to 77 percent off NordVPN two-year subscriptions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 23:30:37

There are dozens of VPNs to choose from, but to think they're all created equally would be a mistake. Some are better than others, and NordVPN sits squarely in the better category. Now, you can save up to 77 percent on most of NordVPN's plans. Arguably the best plan for most people is the NordVPN Plus plan, which you can get two years of access for only $108 right now. That's 73 percent off the usual rate, and NordVPN throws in an addition three months for free, so you're actually getting a 27-m

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Scammers have infiltrated Google's AI responses - how to spot them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-10 23:15:00

Reddit / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Scammers are exploiting AI to trick people looking for customer numbers. Google's AI Overview, AI Mode, and OpenAI's ChatGPT are vulnerable. Run a regular search, or head to the company's website to find a number. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you ever use Google's AI-powered search to look for customer service numbers and other contact info? If so, y

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AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

news.ycombinator.com Gareth Halfacree 2025-11-10 22:35:22

Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute. I can only see one thing causing this to stop: the AI bubble popping According to the report [PDF], Facebook owner Meta's AI division accounts

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

news.ycombinator.com James Titcomb 2025-11-11 10:04:08

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

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SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 10:31:33

For the first time in more than three decades, Samsung Electronics has been unseated as the world’s top DRAM maker, with SK hynix seizing the crown on the strength of booming demand for AI memory chips and an exclusive supply deal with Nvidia.Samsung Electronics’ global DRAM market share fell by 8.8 percentage points over the past six months — its sharpest decline since the company began disclosing the figure in 1999.According to its semiannual report released on Thursday, Samsung’s DRAM market

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Understanding Moravec's Paradox

news.ycombinator.com Morgan Howells 2025-11-07 23:36:51

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

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Google declares the green vs blue bubbles debate ‘silly and tired’

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-11 23:30:01

Today’s Made By Google event was full of interesting announcements, ranging from the new Pixel 10 lineup and the Pixel Watch 4 to impressive AI demos. During the event (which was bizarrely hosted by Jimmy Fallon), Google’s VP of marketing Adrienne Lofton also declared the green vs blue bubbles debate “over.” The comments came during a segment with Lofton and Fallon showing off the new Pixel 10 lineup. Lofton asked Fallon whether he knew what RCS was, to which he responded he had no idea. Here

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Scientists Say They've Figured Out a Way to Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Powerful Fuel

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 14:07:16

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors instead. As Gizmodo reports, it's an exciting prospect that could give fusion — which has remained elusive despite decades of research, though many scientists believe it could mature into a viable grid-scale power source — a chance of one day becoming a viable source of clean and safe energy. Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been scour

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The 12 Best Eye Creams of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 14:07:00

According to dermatologist Dr. Sheila Farhang, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Avant Dermatology & Aesthetics, eye creams can provide real benefits if you choose the right product and ingredients. "In my opinion, you really should invest in the product you're putting on your eyes daily because [the eye area] is the thinnest skin on our body and is super sensitive to allergens/irritation and you want it to work and have science to back it up -- especially for the anti-aging/fine lin

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Windows 11 test brings AI file search to the Copilot app

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-12 14:54:52

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. Microsoft is testing out a Windows 11 update that lets you use AI to search through your files and images directly from the Copilot app. This test is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs and allows you to use more descriptive language wh

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Stone Age People Brutalized Their Prisoners of War, New Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-12 20:00:20

When we think of Stone Age people, most imagine small communities living in caves, cutting into their most recent hunt with primitive tools, and imitating their environment with illustrative rock art. People during the Neolithic, however—the last stage of the Stone Age (around 9000 to 3300 BCE)—also waged wars and absolutely demolished their enemies. In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, researchers present horrific evidence suggesting that Neolithic people in northeastern

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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

news.ycombinator.com Matt Burgess 2025-11-12 23:19:53

United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before. From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency's website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device

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Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 23:01:13

Luminal is a deep learning library that uses search-based compilation to achieve high performance. ShowHN To run the demo shown on HN on mac, clone this repo and run: cd demos/matmul cargo run --release Important We're undergoing a large transition to "2.0", which introduces large-scale kernel search. This radically simplifies the compiler stack and allows us to discover complex optimizations entirely automatically. Please keep an eye on breaking changes, which usually are staged in the crat

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Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-11-12 23:01:25

United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before. From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency's website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device

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Google’s Pixel Watch 4 has big ideas — and an even bigger focus on AI

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-11-12 23:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. The original Pixel Watch was late to the game. For years, there had been rumors of a Google smartwatch that never materialized. Then, when it finally arrived, it was a quintessential first-gen device, with thicc bezels, dismal battery life, and a host of quirks that needed ironing out. My DMs were full of people wondering when the wat

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Google's AI Mode Is Getting New Agentic Features for Restaurant Reservations and More

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