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95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-06 18:59:34

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Just 5% of enterprise customers are profiting from generative AI. A bottom-up versus top-down approach can improve implementation success. AI companies are making big promises in a bubble, most of which are unfulfilled. Investment in generative AI may be booming, but most individual businesses using it have yet to see the payoff. In fact, a new MIT study found that 95% of enterprise

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US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:20:27

US to review all 55 million visas to check if holders broke rules US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced several measures this year to curb immigration President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of his second administration, from mass deportations and full-on travel bans on countries to revoking 6,000 student visas. Visas will be revoked if there are indications of "overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activit

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Studio Behind New ‘Sekiro’ Anime Denies Use of AI

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-06 18:30:10

Earlier this week at Gamescom, Crunchyroll unveiled a first look at its upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime, Sekiro: No Defeat, which adapts the popular PlayStation Soulslike game developed by FromSoftware, Inc. But in the wake of the trailer’s release, concerns from fans online began to suggest and speculate that some off-looking parts of the trailer may have been down to a use of generative AI. Qzil.la, the studio behind No Defeat, was not prominently featured in its marketing in the tra

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Apple celebrates National Parks with Apple Pay, Fitness+, and more

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-06 23:33:50

Apple has announced a handful of new initiatives to support the National Park Foundation in celebration of its 109th anniversary. This includes donations for Apple Pay purchases, an Apple Watch activity cahllenge, and more. First, from August 22 to 29, Apple says it will donate $10 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made with Apple Pay at Apple Stores, in the App Store app, or on its website. This represents the ninth straight year of this initiative by Apple. As we reported ea

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DaVita says ransomware gang stole data of nearly 2.7 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-07 12:38:14

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 billion in 2024 and of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2025. In April, the healthcare provider revealed in a filing with the U

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Massive anti-cybercrime operation leads to over 1,200 arrests in Africa

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:08:13

Law enforcement authorities in Africa have arrested over 1,200 suspects as part of 'Operation Serengeti 2.0,' an INTERPOL-led international crackdown targeting cross-border cybercriminal gangs. Between June and August 2025, law enforcement agents seized $97.4 million and dismantled 11,432 malicious infrastructures linked to attacks that targeted 87,858 victims worldwide. "In a sweeping INTERPOL-coordinated operation, authorities across Africa have arrested 1,209 cybercriminals targeting nearly

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What Is Down Alternative and Who Should Buy It? Experts Explain (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-07 14:38:00

When shopping for new bedding, you'll undoubtedly run into both natural down and materials described as down alternatives. This prompts a lot of questions. Is down or down alternative better? What are the differences between them? Why is one more expensive than the other? Which is easier to care for? Which is warmer? It can all be very confusing. As evinced in our down comforter buying guide, not to mention other stories in our sleep directory, there are plenty of options for high-quality down

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How Not to Buy a SSD

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 08:49:59

If you recall, about a month ago I managed to get an Apple iMac from 2006. that looked great. Unfortunately, after replacing the SSD and adding some stuff to it, the system crashed. Today, I wanted to play with the SSD a bit and discoverd super very low transfer speeds (less than 600KB/s). After opening Disk Utility and running the “Repair Disk” option, the speed seems to have picked up, going to 2.6MB/s, which was still WAAAAY slower than either SATA III, the supported protocol on the drive, or

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

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 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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Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 04:04:39

Founding Full-Stack Engineer Ready to build the next generation of AI-native consumer experience? Text.ai is a consumer-first AI native company, revolutionizing how people communicate in group chats. We're pioneering an entirely new category of consumer AI products that millions will use daily. We are building the first AI-native communication platform, where every conversation becomes intelligent, collaborative, and effortless. We're reimagining how humans and AI work together from first pri

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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 2025-11-08 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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Tesla Takes So Long to Report Crash Data, Even Trump’s Regulators Are Taking Notice

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-08 09:45:50

It turns out it’s actually possible for a corporation to drag its feet for so long that even the Trump administration takes issue with it. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that it will investigate Tesla’s habit of taking months to submit accident reports that involve the company’s driver-assistance technology, according to a report from Reuters. Just how late is Tesla getting its crash report information to the NHTSA? The agency asks that companies submit reports wit

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Man Experiences Joy For the First Time in Decades After Brain Stimulation Treatment

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-11-08 14:05:15

A man who lived with severe, treatment-resistant depression for over 30 years is now in remission, thanks to a new brain stimulation method that targets selective areas of his brain. The man reported experiencing joy for the first time in decades after the treatment. “He was crying and saying, ‘I’m not sad, I’m just happy. I don’t know what to do with these emotions’,” the study’s first author, Ziad Nahas, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Minnesota, told Gizmodo. Nahas and a t

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Honor's Magic V5 Boasts On-Device Live AI Call Translation for Guaranteed Privacy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 18:10:01

"Hola! ¿Hablas inglés?" I asked the woman who answered the phone in the Barcelona restaurant. I was calling in a futile attempt to make a reservation for the CNET team dinner during Mobile World Congress this year. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish (I learned French and German at school). And as it turned out, she didn't speak English either. "No!" she said, and brusquely hung up. What I needed in that moment was the kind of AI call translation feature that's becoming increasingly prevalent

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Starlink wants billions in grants, but state governments aren’t cooperating

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 23:07:55

Starlink operator SpaceX isn't getting the broadband money it demanded from state governments despite the Trump administration rewriting the rules of a $42 billion grant program. Instead of directing the lion's share of money to Elon Musk's space and satellite company, early results indicate that states still plan to deploy fiber broadband networks to most of their unserved households. When the Trump administration announced its overhaul of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) pr

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Trump Is Betting Big on Intel. Will the Chips Fall His Way?

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-11-08 23:04:06

The US government is aiming to take an equity stake in Intel in exchange for grants the company was already committed to receive under the Biden era CHIPS Act, according to comments US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick made in an interview with CNBC. The move is part of the government’s efforts to boost US chip manufacturing. “We should get an equity stake for our money, so we’ll deliver the money which was already committed under the Biden administration,” Lutnick said. “We’ll get equity in re

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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is coming to PS5 on November 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 04:26:56

We learned in July that Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl would come to PlayStation later this year. On Thursday, developer GSC Gameworld gave us a specific release date: November 20. That's exactly a year after its PC and Xbox launch. The PS5 version will support adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, gyro aiming and more. Meanwhile, PS5 Pro users will see upgraded resolution, shadows and reflections (among other enhancements). The game will be available in a $60 standard edition, an $80 deluxe one a

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95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Flynn 2025-11-09 03:36:24

Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business return. A new study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprise organizations report zero measurable gains from the adoption of AI tools. Only a small group has seen strong benefits. “Just five percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value,” the report said. In contrast, the v

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Computing’s Top 30: Kiran V K

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-11-09 06:00:12

In the academic world, professional life can feel like an endless juggle, and keeping those research, teaching, learning, mentoring, and professional contribution balls airborne all at once can be a taxing challenge. Kiran V K, however, views these various responsibilities less like a hectic juggle of discrete tasks and more like a flow of integrated experiences. He discovered these synergies as a graduate student; doing so fueled his exploration of academic and professional activities and led

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One UI 8 could let you silence the most annoying system indicator (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:33:08

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR One UI 8 may add an option to hide the location icon in the status bar when only system apps are accessing it. The icon would still appear when third-party apps access your location, alerting you to unexpected behavior. The change addresses complaints from Galaxy owners about the icon being almost constantly on since One UI 7. For months, Galaxy owners have complained about the location icon constantly lighting up in the status bar, often triggered by Sam

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Can’t recall that café from Tuesday? Google Maps has a new feature to jog your memory (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:37:45

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The You tab in Google Maps has a new section called “Your recent places.” This section shows a list of all the recent places you visited. You can sort through locations with various types of filters, save a location, share a location, and delete a location from your history. Having trouble remembering the store you went to a few days ago? Or maybe you want to share the location of a restaurant you ate at the other day. Google Maps is getting a feature

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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-09 23:55:28

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 7 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge. Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the but

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Google Maps, Find Hub on the Pixel 10 just gained satellite-based live location sharing powers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 20:25:18

TL;DR With the launch of the Pixel 10 series, both Find Hub and Google Maps now support satellite-based live location sharing. Pixel 10 users can send their live location even without cellular coverage, using Skylo’s satellite network. Google Maps, Find Hub, and Messages will also support live location sharing on the Pixel 10 with T-Mobile’s T-Satellite. Soon, other devices on T-Satellite will also get this feature on the above apps. As part of the Find Hub rebrand announced at Google I/O, Go

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FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:04:08

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting a 7-year-old vulnerability in Cisco devices. The FBI's public service announcement states that the state-backed hacking group, linked to the FSB's Center 16 unit and tracked as Berserk Bear (also known as Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, and Koala Team), has been targeting Cisco networking devices usi

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AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally

news.ycombinator.com Vp Of Product 2025-11-10 10:03:37

AI is making Google Search radically more helpful, so you can ask any question on your mind and get things done. Starting today, we’re bringing more advanced agentic and personalized capabilities to AI Mode so you can make progress on your tasks and get more tailored information based on your interests. We’re also bringing AI Mode to even more people around the world. Read on for more. Get things done with agentic capabilities in AI Mode New agentic capabilities in AI Mode can help you get thi

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Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 02:01:44

Initial Setup Whenever I've finished installing Mavericks, the first thing I do is open Terminal and run: curl mavericksforever.com/postinstall.sh | sh This script will Update Mavericks to the latest version available. Change some default settings to resemble Snow Leopard. Remove apps and features which don't work anymore, and would just make me sad if I saw them. The result of this script represents how I want to be greeted by a fresh Mavericks system. Internet Web Browsing We need a

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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-10 10:33:10

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk. Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-sour

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Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in US as tariff fears persist

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-10 10:45:10

Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in US as tariff fears persist The price hikes come after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on most of America's trading partners, including Japan, which has led to fears of rising costs. All three PlayStation 5 consoles will see a similar price increase. The most expensive Pro version now has a recommended retail price of $749.99. Like many global businesses, the firm faces a "challenging economic environment", Isabelle Tomatis, Sony Interactive Entert

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Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:27:25

Fermat’s Last Theorem An ongoing multi-author open source project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover. Information about the project The project is currently being led by Kevin Buzzard. It is funded by grant EP/Y022904/1, awarded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The project is hosted at Imperial College London. Kevin would like to extend many many thanks to both of these institutions for their ongoing support of this nonstand

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Google’s Big Leap Forward for Real-Time Translations Is Deepfaking Your Voice

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-10 11:15:57

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been promised the Next Big Thing in app-enabled translation. Since the dawn of Google Translate, it’s felt like tech companies (not just Google, but Samsung and Apple, too) have been teasing a future where speech can be translated instantaneously, allowing for near-seamless communication between people from *sarcastic SpongeBob voice* across the world. But the truth is, that future, however enticing on paper, hasn’t exactly panned out. As incredible as app

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One UI 8 could let you silence the most annoying system indicator (APK teardown)

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Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

Google’s Big Leap Forward for Real-Time Translations Is Deepfaking Your Voice

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