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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-26 09:35:41

Instagram is working on a feature called “Picks” that aims to help users find common interests. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is an internal prototype and isn’t being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, people select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.

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How to Wash a Heated Blanket Safely

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 14:08:00

Crawling into a warm bed after a long, hard day is hard to beat, but it isn't always a given. As we work our way towards the fall, you're probably already looking forward to getting your electric heated blanket out of the closet. And if you don't already own one, now is the time to start shopping for one. But like other blankets, they do need some upkeep -- and things get more complicated when there is electricity involved. One obvious question has probably already sprung to mind. Whether you'r

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Claude just learned a useful ChatGPT trick

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-24 14:37:20

Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed. As of today, Claude is capable of referencing information from your other conversations with the AI chatbot. Anthropic demonstrates how the feature works: Claude can now reference past chats, so you can easily pick up from where you left off. pic.twitter.com/n9ZgaTRC1y — Claude (@claudeai) August 11, 2025 The new Claude feature matches OpenAI’s ChatGPT memory feature. An

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What Is Creatine, and Should You Be Taking Most Studied Supplement (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-11-27 09:00:00

First, it was mushrooms in your coffee. Then protein in your soda. The latest wellness staple sneaking into your pantry is creatine. In the days of yore, creatine supplements were a muscle-bro staple, relegated to the lockers of collegiate linebackers and bodybuilders. Lately, it has muscled its way into Pilates studios, gym girlies’ TikToks, and longevity wellness retreats. TikTok content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. “Creatine has been gaining popularity amo

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We went hands-on with Google Translate’s Duolingo rival ahead of its launch (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 17:00:05

TL;DR We managed to activate and use the Practice feature in Google Translate. This feature is effectively Google’s take on Duolingo and lets you practice a desired language. The feature currently lets you practice French or Spanish in a variety of preset scenarios, but you can also create your own lessons. Earlier this year, we discovered evidence that Google was working on a new Practice feature in Google Translate. This would allow people to (surprise) practice a desired language. Now, we’

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Apple takes Apple Cinemas to the courtroom box office

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-27 20:30:57

Apple has taken aim at Apple Cinemas in a new trademark lawsuit, and the dispute is starting to feel like it belongs on the big screen. The movie theater chain, founded in 2013 and long based in the Northeastern U.S., expanded to San Francisco last month and has plans for 100 locations nationwide, including some near Apple Park and Apple Stores. Joe Rossignol reported earlier this month for MacRumors: “Apple Cinemas is knowingly and intentionally using the name Apple to sow confusion for its

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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 20:40:38

https://janitorai.com Reported: 26 July, 2025 at 18:12 Shut down on: 24 July, 2025 Geoblocking due to OSA Janitor AI is a chatbot platform where users can create and interact with AI characters for personalized role-playing and conversations. It was launched in 2023 and quickly gained popularity, especially among those interested in engaging with AI in an immersive and emotional way. The platform allows for customisation of character personalities, appearances, and dialogue settings, and sup

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Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-28 04:03:47

Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business partners and customers in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Last month, Allianz Life disclosed that it suffered a data breach when the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen from a third-party, cloud-based CRM system on July 16th. While the company did not name the provider, BleepingComputer first repor

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Visible users won’t have to wait much longer to jump on the new Inner Circle plan

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-28 18:38:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Visible will roll out its new Inner Circle feature on August 21. Plus and Plus Pro members can save $5 per month when part of a Circle with two or more members. Accounts can be connected without connecting payments. A few days ago, Visible rolled out a new feature called Inner Circle in early access. Inner Circle addresses one of the service’s biggest weaknesses, the inability to manage more than one line per account. At the time, only select members coul

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John Malkovich to join Apple TV+ rom-com starring The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-28 18:14:22

Legendary actor John Malkovich (Burn After Reading, Rounders) has been confirmed as a guest star in “Prodigies”, an upcoming seven-episode Apple TV+ series also featuring Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Inside Out 2). Here are the details Apple first announced Prodigies in April, a new comedy created by Will Sharpe (The White Lotus, A Real Pain), and featuring Edebiri, who’s also executive producer. Here’s Apple’s description of the show: This unusual take on a classic romantic comedy explores the uni

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This Bluetooth tracker's latest feature could save your life - but it costs extra

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-28 18:35:16

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Pebblebee announces a new safety feature for Clip trackers. Alert Live sends your real-time location to up to five contacts. The feature costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year. Days after announcing that its Clip would be the first tracker to be able to use both Google's and Apple's Find My networks, Pebblebee just revealed another major upgrade for the Clip -- a potentially life-saving one. In July, Clip trackers (which made ZDNET's list of the

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How to turn off headphone volume limit warnings on iPhone and iPad

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-28 23:10:00

Hearing health is incredibly important, and gentle reminders from Apple to keep that in mind can be helpful. However, if you’re just tired of seeing headphone volume limit warnings, there’s actually a way to turn those off. iOS and iPadOS track headphone audio exposure over a rolling seven-day period. If the system detects that you’ve exceeded safe listening levels (based on guidelines from the World Health Organization), you’ll get a notification urging you to lower your volume. How to turn o

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I tested this new AI podcast tool to see if it can beat NotebookLM - here's how it did

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-29 04:00:17

Speechify The Speechify text-to-speech app enables its over 50 million users worldwide to convert any text, including documents, articles, PDFs, and images into audio, with over 200 voices to choose from. Now, the company is delving into a new type of audio: AI-generated podcasts. Also: I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer Starting today, Speechify users will be able to turn any content into a "lecture-style" podcast. They'll also get access to a

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James Gunn’s ‘Superman’ Flies Home This Week

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-29 03:50:59

James Gunn’s Superman was pushed out of the top five at the box office this past weekend, marking the beginning of the end of its box office run. It’s been a good one, with over $330 million in the U.S. so far and another $250 million worldwide. It’s the highest-grossing Superman film ever, domestically not adjusted for inflation, and now the journey takes its next step. Gunn took to social media Tuesday to announce his DC Universe film will be available on digital August 15. That’s this week.

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UK government advises deleting emails to save water

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 14:12:47

The National Drought Group met today (Monday 11 August) with the current water shortfall situation in England now defined as a “nationally significant incident.” Five areas are officially in drought, with six more experiencing prolonged dry weather following the driest six months to July since 1976. Despite the unsettled weather last month, many river flows and reservoir levels in England continued to recede compared to June. Rainstorms and showers helped mask the fact that July was still the

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-29 14:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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This designer turned the new Beats Pill into a cool art piece you can’t get everywhere

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 23:56:41

Beats is rolling out a fresh limited-edition version of its recently relaunched Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker, teaming up with Bulgarian-born fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov. Known for blending modern form with historical references, Kostadinov brings his signature aesthetic to the portable speaker’s design. The Kiko Kostadinov Beats Pill features a custom grille inspired by intricate geometric patterns found in ancient Thracian art, a nod to Kostadinov’s heritage. The speaker’s body is finish

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Women's health tracking features take center stage with this Oura update

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-29 23:00:17

Nina Raemont/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Oura launched features for pregnant and perimenopausal users on Tuesday. The science-backed features provide further context during periods of drastic biological change. The features are personalized, and the brand stressed data protection and privacy. Pregnant and perimenopausal women are getting more ways to track and understand their health, thanks to several new features Oura announced on Tuesday. The smart ring brand launched a redesigned Pregn

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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 03:17:33

Feb 7, 2019 by Sahil Lavingia Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life's work. I thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. Needless to say, that didn't happen. Now, it may look like I am in an enviable position, running a prof

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Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 23:02:15

Boar's Head plans to reopen the Jarratt, Virginia, facility at the center of a deadly Listeria outbreak last year despite federal inspections continuing to find sanitation violations at three of the food company's other facilities, according to federal records obtained by the Associated Press. The AP obtained 35 pages of inspection reports via a Freedom of Information Act Request. Those reports cover inspections between January 1 and July 23 at three other Boar's Head facilities: Forrest City,

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Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-30 23:00:00

Slow Ventures’ Creator Fund has invested $2 million into Jonathan Katz-Moses, a popular woodworking content creator with around 600,000 followers, nearly 75 million video views, and his own line of woodworking tools. This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made them successful influencers is what can also make them a good founder. Speaking to TechCrunch, Slow

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Electronic Arts blocks more than 300,000 attempts to cheat after launching Battlefield 6 beta

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-02 04:01:30

Games giant Electronic Arts launched an open beta over the weekend for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 6 and — almost immediately — the game was swamped with cheaters. Soon after the game’s launch, countless players complained online about encountering cheaters. In response, a member of Electronic Arts’ anti-cheat team, who goes by AC, wrote in an official forum that the company saw players report 104,000 “instances of potential cheaters” over the first two days of the game’s bein

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Ask HN: Do you think differently about working on open source these days?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 08:13:02

Wondering if anyone here has changed their opinion on open sourcing their projects or contributing to open source now that LLM's are a thing... I don't know yet what I think, but my latest side project I decided to create privately on github.

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Sony Bravia Theater Bar 6 review: Great sound, greater frustration

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 14:45:12

Unlike two of its biggest rivals , Sony waited until April to unveil its latest soundbars rather than debut them at CES in January. And even then, the two most premium options in the company’s 2025 lineup remain untouched. Instead, Sony gave us the Bravia Theater Bar 6 ($650) : a 3.1.2-channel Dolby Atmos soundbar that comes with a wireless subwoofer and a modest set of features. However, the caveats here are real headscratchers, especially on a soundbar launching this year. Sony 75 100 Expert

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-03 09:00:00

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is expansive—with some cheat websites advertising hacks for dozens of PC games—and it’s being driven by an underground economy that’s allegedly raking in millions every year. Over the last two years, a group of computer scientists has been analyzing and mapping the online cheat marketplace, observing what behavi

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Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 02:44:05

The `logprobs` feature has been officially introduced in the Gemini API on Vertex AI, provides insight into the model's decision-making by showing probability scores for chosen and alternative tokens. This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to enable and interpret this feature and apply it to powerful use cases such as confident classification, dynamic autocomplete, and quantitative RAG evaluation.

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Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 22:15:59

Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers. "We're writing to let you know about an event that affected a limited set of data in one of Google's corporate Salesforce instances used to communicate with prospective Ads customers," reads a data breach notification shared with BleepingComputer. "Our records indicate basic business contact information and related notes were impacted by

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Is This Seat Taken? makes seating fussy people fun

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-02 15:00:00

Creating seating arrangements can be pretty stressful; the empath part of me strives to find the perfect seat for every person even if it’s a nearly impossible task. If it’s for a big, meaningful event, I get even more anxious. When you find the right place for everyone, though, it’s even more satisfying than a great jigsaw puzzle. Chasing that feeling is what Is This Seat Taken? is all about — and it does so in a low-stakes and relaxing way. In Is This Seat Taken?, your goal is to place people

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I just want a new Pixel Stand with my Pixel 10, Google

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 18:00:33

Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Pixel Stand debuted alongside the Pixel 3 and 3XL almost seven years ago, and it was my favorite accessory for those phones. Adding useful Google Assistant features and faster Qi charging made it a must-have accessory for Pixels, and I used it every day. Outside of the iPhone and HMD Skyline supporting MagSafe and Qi2, respectively, wireless charging has been stagnant since then. 2021’s Pixel Stand 2 made some minor improvements to the Pixel Stand formula,

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I can never go back to a phone without this display feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 21:00:56

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority I have never been the kind to rise and shine. For the 31 years of my existence — or, at least, for the major chunk I remember vividly, waking up early in the morning has been a woeful exercise for me, unless, of course, it is for traveling or hosting people I love. Instead, I can feel the neurons in my brain firing up better in the dead of the night, and so, I have made the effort to ensure the tech in my life is best suited to make better use of those hours. T

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

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Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere

Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder

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