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news.ycombinator.com Raymond Chen 2026-03-01 23:29:42

As part of a periodic purge of unused online accounts, I deleted my account from a company ten months ago. Let’s call that company Contoso. I received a confirmation that said, “Your personal information and items associated with your account have now been deleted. This action is permanent and cannot be reversed.” Yesterday, I got an email from Contoso informing me that they have updated their Privacy Policy. So I guess their “confirmation” of “permanent” and “irreversible” deletion of my pers

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Show HN: Elelem, a tool-calling CLI for Ollama and DeepSeek in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-01 23:10:52

Elelem Chat Client with Tool-Calling Support An interactive C-based command-line chat client that enables AI models to execute real-world actions through a comprehensive tool-calling system. 🚀 Quick Start Prerequisites Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-dev libsoup2.4-dev libreadline-dev Fedora/RHEL: sudo dnf install gcc glib2-devel json-glib-devel libsoup-devel readline-devel macOS: brew install glib json-glib libsoup re

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Best Binoculars (2025): Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2026-03-02 00:39:00

Binoculars mean the difference between seeing a little gray bird and identifying a titmouse, cheering a home run and seeing the epic catch, or realizing that the 10-point buck is actually a doe standing in front of dead branches. Whether you're scouting terrain, watching birds in your backyard, stargazing, or getting season tickets at Fenway, binoculars bring the world closer. If you're looking for binoculars for bird-watching, check out our guide All the Gear You Need to Start Birding. Be sure

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Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-02 00:12:46

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. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has put a spotlight on private conversations leading up to a rival company suing OpenAI over its upcoming device, io. On Tuesday, Altman posted screenshots of emails on X showing messages between him and Jason Rugolo, the founder of the Iyo hearing device startup that’s suing OpenAI. The emails show a mostly friendly exchange w

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technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2026-03-01 16:14:49

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Nomad debuts new Leather Mag Wallet with Find My integration

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-03-02 05:15:12

The folks at Nomad are out this week with a new Leather Mag Wallet for iPhone. The accessory utilizes MagSafe to attach to the back of your iPhone and features built-in support for Apple’s Find My network, thanks to an integrated tracking card. It’s available to order now from Nomad’s website for $79. Nomad’s new Leather Mag Wallet can fit up to four credit cards. It’s made from the company’s Horween leather with a polycarbonate frame and can be attached to any MagSafe-compatible iPhone or to

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macOS Tahoe will add three new apps to your Mac, here’s what’s coming

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-02 05:34:32

Apple’s next major software update for the Mac is macOS Tahoe, also known as macOS 26. Alongside the new Liquid Glass design and major Spotlight upgrades, macOS Tahoe will bring three new Apple apps to the Mac. Here’s what’s coming. Journal Apple’s Journal app first arrived on iPhone with iOS 17.2 in late 2023. It’s been exclusive to iOS ever since then, but that’s changing this year. Journal is coming to the Mac in macOS Tahoe, and also the iPad in iPadOS 26. All your journal entries will s

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Deals: 512GB M4 Mac mini, Desert Titanium iPhone 16 Pro, black Apple Watch Ultra 2, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2026-03-02 05:45:16

Today’s Apple deals are once kicking off with a notable deal on the latest M4 Mac mini, but this time we are highlighting a $100 price drop on the mid-range 512GB model down at $699. Next up, we are moving over to a new Amazon all-time low on the premium renewed Desert Titanium 256GB iPhone 16 Pro at $127 off and higher-end models at up to $349 off as well as deals on the satin black Apple Watch Ultra 2 and the all-new Mac mini-ready OLED Samsung Smart Monitors with $300 in FREE credits. Head be

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Amazon Prime Day 2025: The best early deals you can shop right now, dates and everything else you need to know

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-02 05:00:35

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Now that we know Amazon Prime Day will be coming up soon on July 8-11, it’s time to start thinking about what you may want to snag at a discount during the sale. If you pay the $139 annual fee for Prime, sale events like these are a great time to stock up on essentials and cross things

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Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 05:00:00

AI systems have detectable behavioral signatures that can be used to improve bot detection. Roundtable's Proof-of-Human API verifies proof-of-human invisibly, continuously, and instantaneously. 1 Want to see behavioral differences in action? Skip to Skip to Section 2 for interactive keystroke and mouse movement demos, or Section 3 for a cognitive psychology experiment. Google reCAPTCHA v3 boasts a commanding market share in bot detection today. It claims to analyze patterns of user behavior a

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Samsung Clears Out Galaxy Watch Ultra at All-Time Low, No Trade-In Needed but Extra Savings If You Do

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2026-03-02 05:05:32

There are a lot of smartwatches out there, but most people know that the two main contenders come from Apple or Samsung. If you’re an iPhone user, then getting one from Apple is often the right choice, but for Android users, the Galaxy Watch Ultra is currently the best option for the vast majority of users. A good smartwatch isn’t cheap though, and the Galaxy Watch Ultra starts at $650. Well, thanks to a great deal from Samsung directly right now, you can actually save $150 on the Galaxy Watch

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Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Hit New Record Low, Amazon Selling Them Cheaper Than Samsung’s Own Site

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-02 05:25:34

Samsung has truly surpassed all expectations in its ongoing work in artificial intelligence and its new wireless earbuds have turned out to be one of the best available on the market. The Galaxy Buds 3 Pro are a shining example of what can be done when industry-leading AI comes together with industry-leading audio. While these earbuds still maintain their initial price of $249 at Samsung’s online store, Amazon has an early Prime Day deal that reduces it to an all-time low of $189. That is their

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Amazon's Targeting 4,000 More Towns for Faster Prime Delivery This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 05:15:00

With Prime Day 2025 almost upon us, Amazon is touting its plans to expand its delivery network to reach small towns, especially in rural areas. The goal is to bring same-day and next-day delivery to more than 4,000 communities by the end of 2025, Amazon said Monday. It called out destinations including Lewes, Delaware; Asbury Iowa and North Padre Island, Texas. This year's Prime Day will be taking place July 8 to 11, and it's the first time the shopping event will last longer than two days. T

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Is this $600 Acer the best laptop deal right now? I tested it, and here's my verdict

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-03-02 10:30:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Acer Swift Go 14 (2024) is on sale now at B&H for $599. It's a lightweight, responsive laptop with a touchscreen, and a slick media playback menu. However, for a laptop so optimized for media, its speakers aren't the best. $599 at B&H Photo-Video The 14-inch Acer Swift Go was among the first round of laptops to come loaded with Intel's Meteor Lake AI processors last year, and it does so for $899 (on sale now for $599), a mid-range price point right in the sweet spot

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Automate tasks on Android and never forget a birthday text again - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-02 10:44:15

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET One of Android's best qualities is its flexibility. If there's something you want to achieve on your Android phone, chances are pretty good you can accomplish it. As far as task automation, you can use the built-in Rules feature, but that's fairly limited. There's also Modes, but (again) that's fairly limited. That's why I generally turn to an automation app to make the feature even more powerful on Android. One such app is called MacroDroid. You can read about what this ap

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This Electric Scooter is 57% off the Original Price, Amazon Wants to Clear Its Stock Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-03-02 10:26:10

Electric scooters are the newest hip means of transportation with a great combination of convenience, speed, and style. With so many available models, it’s sometimes difficult to find one that provides solid performance along with dependable safety features. The Maxshot electric scooter is the intelligent choice if you require both—and now it’s affordable enough to ignore. Originally priced at $399, the Maxshot scooter has lost a lot of its original price over time with its all-time lowest pric

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Apple’s push to take over the dashboard resisted by car makers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-02 10:21:48

Apple is facing resistance from the automotive industry over its CarPlay Ultra software system, which the tech group launched in an attempt to take over a vehicle’s dashboard for the first time. German luxury brands Mercedes-Benz and Audi as well as Volvo Cars, Polestar, and Renault said they had no plans to bring the upgraded software to their vehicles, despite earlier indications from Apple that they would. While few have followed General Motors, which announced in 2023 it would stop install

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Best 6 Soda Makers (2025): Drinkmate, SodaStream, Aerflo

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2026-03-02 10:01:00

Is It Cheaper to Make Your Own Soda? AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Bubbling up your own water is convenient, it saves space, and it's by far the most eco-friendly option, versus stacking up cases of sparkling bottles in your fridge. But it's probably not cheaper. Aside from the initial cost of the machine, you'll need to continue to replenish CO 2 canisters. These can run anywhere from $20 to $30 for a 60-liter canister, depending on the brand, which adds

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The Nintendo Switch 2 will be available for Walmart Plus subscribers today at 9pm Eastern

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-03-02 10:00:00

Most restocks are free to participate in, but not the latest one at Walmart. The retailer will stock both the $449.99 standalone Nintendo Switch 2 and a $499.99 bundle that includes the system along with a digital copy of Mario Kart World exclusively for Walmart Plus subscribers today starting at 9PM EDT/6PM PDT. Mind you, there’s no discount. You’re just getting a chance to buy one. The Switch 2 has been difficult to find, and there haven’t been many opportunities to buy one if you missed out

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Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-03-02 10:00:00

Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by 75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements. Few know that better than Chaitanya Sharma, founder of the stealthy Nascent Materials. Sharma spent a little over two years working at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and another two leading iM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York. Since leaving iM3NY in November 2023, he’s been working on a new

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4 ways the latest KDE Plasma release is better than ever - and how to try it yourself

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-02 15:09:02

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Ladies and gents of the Linux community, it is time to enjoy another point release of yet another desktop environment: KDE Plasma 6.4. A point release? I got you all excited about a point release? Hear me out. 1. HDR/EDR support One of the biggest additions to KDE Plasma 6.4 is support for Extended Dynamic Range and a new High Dynamic Range wizard. The new HDR Calibration wizard is found in System Settings > Display & Monitor and only appears if you'

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Mattel’s ‘Jurassic Park’ SDCC Exclusive Is a Goofy Love Letter to Comic Cons

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-02 15:00:44

The shot of the T. Rex bringing down the “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth” banner is one of the most legendary in all of Jurassic Park, a moment that defines the franchise. Now, Mattel is putting a suitably goofy spin on it for an amazing exclusive at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. This morning Mattel revealed the crowning glory of its batch of exclusives for SDCC this year: the Hammond Collection T. Rex Convention Crasher set, which takes the T. Rex’s banner-crashing moment and transposes it

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The Final ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Trailer Ups the Stakes Even Further

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-02 15:05:53

We’re a month away from the arrival of the next Marvel movie in Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Marvel is reminding us in style with a brand new trailer—one that really wants you to feel the stakes that are riding on this movie, in more ways than one. Prior looks at First Steps leaned into the Silver Age retro-kitsch of its world, and then the arrival of Julia Garner’s Silver Surfer to herald the threat of the dread, Galactus. But now this final big trailer for the film really wants to remind

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 25)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-02 20:30:52

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Yarn (YC W24) is hiring engineers in NYC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-02 20:00:12

Video is the most compelling medium ever invented. But even a single minute of video can take hours to make and expertise across multiple tools. AI is changing this forever, and how we create and consume video will look completely different in 2 or 3 years time. We're starting by helping the fastest growing startups in the world make more compelling, authentic and entertaining content 100x faster than today. We're taking a novel technical approach in the video space. We think making videos i

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Garmin Instinct 2 Solar Watch Suddenly Drops to a Record Low, Let the Blazing Sun Keep It Charged

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-03-02 20:40:34

If you’ve taken your adventuring a little too far, or just taken a wrong turn off of an unfamiliar path, the last thing you ever want to see from your GPS-enabled smartwatch is a low battery alert. Now, before you go cursing that blazing sun that’s been broiling a big part of the country all week, if you have a Garmin Instinct 2 Solar smartwatch, you’ll never get that low battery alert. See at Amazon The Garmin Instinct 2 Solar smartwatch is a multi-satellite-enabled outdoor smartwatch with ad

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Gemini Free Review: The Best Free AI Chatbot I've Used So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 20:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 8.5 / 10 SCORE Gemini Free Review Pros Free Higher token limit than ChatGPT Free Faster image generation Largely accurate Can upload and examine large documents Cons Randomly hits token limit Illogical, frustrating image generation Image analysis is inaccurate Long documents can't be pasted directly Google Gemini has come a long way. From its forme

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Credit, Debit or Crypto? Mastercard Says It'll Add Stablecoin as a Payment Option

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 20:00:00

Cheng Xin/Getty Images How does a carousel of currencies -- cash, credit, crypto, installment -- attached to a single payment credential sound to you? Well, that's what Mastercard is touting with its One Credential, noting a particular interest in attracting Gen Z. Mastercard announced it's partnering with payment processor Fiserv to bring its recently announced stablecoin, FIUSD, to the Mastercard network. That means Mastercard One Credential users will be able to choose to pay with FIUSD, ca

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Malwarebytes Antivirus Review 2025: Decent Software, Terrible Customer Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 20:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.0 / 10 SCORE Malwarebytes Antivirus Buy at Malwarebytes Score Breakdown Performance 8 /10 Security 9 /10 Customer Support 4 /10 Usability 7 /10 Value 5 /10 Features 9 /10 Pros Free malware scanning and browser safety tools Decent VPN Impressive privacy policies Excellent dark web monitoring tools Cons Free version doesn’t provide real-time protection

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Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

technologyreview.com Britta Shoot 2026-03-03 04:00:00

Browne produces independent research reports and works directly with companies of all sizes. One of his niches is consulting on new diagnostic tools—for example, in his work with RAIsonance, a startup using machine learning to analyze cough sounds correlated with tuberculosis and covid-19. For multinational corporations, he models threats such as the possibility of avian influenza spreading from human to human. He builds most- and least-likely scenarios for how the global business community migh

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Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

Show HN: Elelem, a tool-calling CLI for Ollama and DeepSeek in C

Best Binoculars (2025): Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public

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Nomad debuts new Leather Mag Wallet with Find My integration

macOS Tahoe will add three new apps to your Mac, here’s what’s coming

Deals: 512GB M4 Mac mini, Desert Titanium iPhone 16 Pro, black Apple Watch Ultra 2, more

Amazon Prime Day 2025: The best early deals you can shop right now, dates and everything else you need to know

Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet

Samsung Clears Out Galaxy Watch Ultra at All-Time Low, No Trade-In Needed but Extra Savings If You Do

Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Hit New Record Low, Amazon Selling Them Cheaper Than Samsung’s Own Site

Amazon's Targeting 4,000 More Towns for Faster Prime Delivery This Year

Is this $600 Acer the best laptop deal right now? I tested it, and here's my verdict

Automate tasks on Android and never forget a birthday text again - here's how

This Electric Scooter is 57% off the Original Price, Amazon Wants to Clear Its Stock Before Prime Day

Apple’s push to take over the dashboard resisted by car makers

Best 6 Soda Makers (2025): Drinkmate, SodaStream, Aerflo

The Nintendo Switch 2 will be available for Walmart Plus subscribers today at 9pm Eastern

Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper

4 ways the latest KDE Plasma release is better than ever - and how to try it yourself

Mattel’s ‘Jurassic Park’ SDCC Exclusive Is a Goofy Love Letter to Comic Cons

The Final ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Trailer Ups the Stakes Even Further

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (June 25)

Yarn (YC W24) is hiring engineers in NYC

Garmin Instinct 2 Solar Watch Suddenly Drops to a Record Low, Let the Blazing Sun Keep It Charged

Gemini Free Review: The Best Free AI Chatbot I've Used So Far

Credit, Debit or Crypto? Mastercard Says It'll Add Stablecoin as a Payment Option

Malwarebytes Antivirus Review 2025: Decent Software, Terrible Customer Service

Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

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