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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

news.ycombinator.com Patrick George 2025-10-12 22:20:06

Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package. Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn’t so bor

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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

news.ycombinator.com Jon Swaine 2025-10-12 21:59:28

At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected, according to two of the researchers: He frequently encountered strangers, and adults had sexually propositioned his little brother, who was younger than 10, numerous times. “I felt this deep sadness watching the mother’s response,” one of the researchers, Jason Satt

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Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in ’28 Years Later’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-12 22:48:49

As soon as the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, pretty much everyone and their mom assumed the skinny zombie seen struggling through flowers looked uncannily like Cillian Murphy’s Jim, the franchise’s original main character from director Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 2002 28 Days Later. The internet sleuths swiftly discovered the likeness was pure serendipity, but the Oscar-winning actor now says he was touched that fans had assumed the emaciated undead wanderer was him. In an inter

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AirPods Pro 3: Apple planning two versions with one key difference

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-13 02:34:24

While Apple is expected to unveil AirPods Pro 3 tomorrow, it turns out more than one version is expected. AirPods Pro 3 expected at iPhone 17 event Three years after introducing AirPods Pro 2, Apple’s best wireless headphones are due for an upgrade. We’ll likely see improvements over existing hardware, heart rate detection, and a slimmer charging case. A previous anonymous tip claimed temperature sensing was confirmed, although I believe that could be a misunderstanding based on the heart rate

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RSS Beat Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 10:50:01

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and fidelity, VHS was cheaper, offered longer recordings, and, most importantly, was the more open format. Not many people talk about how or why RSS won the content syndication war because few people are aware

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iPhone 17 vs. iPhone 17 Air, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max: Rumored Specs Rundown

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 11:00:00

The iPhone 17 lineup will be revealed tomorrow, but we couldn't wait until the phones are released -- we're comparing them now. How? Using the most credible rumors of what's coming in the iPhone 17 series, including a potential super-thin iPhone 17 Air, to speculate on how Apple's next big smartphones will stack up. Last year's iPhone 16 series added a handful of upgrades over its predecessors, most notably the new Camera Control key. While the basic iPhone 16 and Plus models got a new ultrawid

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Galaxy S26 Pro, S26 Ultra renders reveal the return of camera bumps

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:42:31

TL;DR Apparent Galaxy S26 series renders have surfaced online. We get a first look at the purported Galaxy S26 Pro and Galaxy S26 Ultra. We also get a look at the S26 Edge, and this render lines up with a previous image. We got a first look at the Galaxy S26 Edge late last week, showing a tweaked design compared to the Galaxy S25 Edge. Now, a different source has revealed renders apparently showing all three Galaxy S26 series models. SmartPrix posted renders that purportedly show the Galaxy

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Apple Watch SE 3 announcement this week looks quite likely thanks to last-minute leak

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-13 05:42:06

Thanks to a new last-minute leak from an anonymous X account, it now seems all but certain that Apple’s next generation Apple Watch SE will be launching in a number of days. Rumors for this new model have been faint, leading to some skepticism around whether or not it’s truly launching this year – but now things seem solid. This anonymous X account wishes to remain private, so we can’t directly link to the tweet – though the user has a highly accurate track record. Late on Sunday, the account

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ChatGPT makes Projects feature free, adds a toggle to split chat

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:33:49

ChatGPT is getting two big changes. First, the Projects feature is now free. Second, you can now create new conversations from existing conversations. Projects have been around for months now, but they're now rolling out to everyone, including those with a free plan. With Projects, you can create "workspaces" with ChatGPT and organise chats, files and custom instructions for a specific project. Right now, when you interact with ChatGPT, it tries to remember everything, which isn't really grea

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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Ritchie 2025-10-13 11:26:43

How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950. A century ago, these were the cars on Britain’s roads. Forget driving lessons or tests; to get behind the wheel legally, all you needed was a paper license, which cost the equivalent of around 25 pence today. Cars had no seatbelts and, of course, no airbags. There were no mirrors to let you see traffic behind. There were no flashing indicators, so your signal to turn left or right

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Apple Reminders on macOS Tahoe includes this interesting piece of vintage UI design

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-13 08:45:16

Despite macOS going through a couple major redesigns over the past couple years with Big Sur in 2020 and now Tahoe in 2025, there’s still one app that includes a very old looking interface that predates these redesigns: Apple Reminders. If you open up Apple Reminders on the latest version of macOS, whether that be Tahoe beta or the stable version of Sequoia – you’ll find a little bit of a UI surprise when you open up the Photos picker to attach a photo to a reminder: What makes this interestin

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Microsoft's cloud service restored after reports of cut cables in the Red Sea

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:23:12

Microsoft said its Azure cloud platform has returned to normal service after an incident of cut underwater cables that played out over Saturday. The tech giant reported "undersea fiber cuts" in the Red Sea on Saturday morning, which disrupted Azure service throughout the Middle East and led to potential "increased latency" for users. Microsoft said that the latency issue was resolved by Saturday evening and was able to reroute the Azure traffic through other paths. Microsoft didn't provide a re

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How to make metals from Martian dirt

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:09:45

27 August 2025 3 min read Key points Swinburne and CSIRO researchers are investigating ways to produce native metals using materials found on Mars. Martian settlements will require large amounts of metal that are difficult to ship from Earth. The team have successfully produced iron using regolith simulant that mimics what is available on the Red Planet. The idea of building settlements on Mars is a popular goal of billionaires, space agencies and interplanetary enthusiasts. But constructio

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Tech Tanks in Latest Jobs Report As New States Try to Attract Them

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-12 23:20:00

Last week’s disappointing jobs report showed U.S. job growth stalled significantly in August, with just 22,000 new jobs added, and an unemployment rate that has risen to 4.3%. It was the worst August report since the pandemic and the market treated it accordingly, welcoming it for the potential rate cuts it may herald but wary of the slower growth it may portend. “The labor market is showing signs of cracking,” Heather Long, Navy Federal Credit Union senior economist, wrote in a note to invest

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 8, #820

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 06:00:04

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun mix of topics. Fans of a certain British special agent, plus fans of a particular furry friend, will enjoy the blue and purple categories. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-13 07:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-13 06:20:43

Microsoft cloud services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts Microsoft says the delays could affect traffic moving through the Middle East Over the weekend, there were reports suggesting that undersea cable cuts had affected the United Arab Emirates and some countries in Asia. Microsoft did not explain what might have caused the damage to the undersea cables, but added that it had been able to rerouted traffic through other paths. Users of Azure - one of the world's leading cloud computing platf

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Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:45:29

Astronomers examining data from the James Webb Space Telescope say they've spotted what might be the oldest black hole in the universe, born less than a second after the Big Bang. Their findings, published in a new study awaiting peer review, could offer the best evidence yet of the existence of what's known as a primordial black hole, a hypothetical object that's divided scientists for decades. Potentially far smaller than their modern counterparts — perhaps as tiny as a planet or even an ato

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AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 02:30:19

In the frenetic world of artificial intelligence, virtual companions have exploded into a market all their own. A recent survey found that some 72 percent of teens said they've experimented with artificial buddies. Of those, over 50 percent say they have a regular relationship with the chatbots. But there's no guarantee those companions will stick around forever — something users of the AI startup Dot are learning the hard way after the company announced it was going belly up on Friday. Found

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I witnessed Eufy's stair-climbing robot at IFA 2025 - and it's likely the next big thing for vacuums

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-12 00:00:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e

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Tech Tanks in Latest Jobs Report As Most States Struggle to Keep Them

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-13 04:20:00

Last week’s disappointing jobs report showed U.S. job growth stalled significantly in August, with just 22,000 new jobs added, and an unemployment rate that has risen to 4.3%. It was the worst August report since the pandemic and the market treated it accordingly, welcoming it for the potential rate cuts it may herald but wary of the slower growth it may portend. “The labor market is showing signs of cracking,” Heather Long, Navy Federal Credit Union senior economist, wrote in a note to invest

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How to Add WIRED as a Preferred Source on Google (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-10-13 05:04:00

As you’ve probably noticed, Google has gotten … weird lately. Weirder? It can be hard to find the search results you’re looking for. Between AI summaries and algorithm changes resulting in unexpected sources, it can be tricky to navigate the most popular search engine in the world. (And publishers are feeling the strain, too.) Earlier this year, Google updated its algorithm. This is nothing new—Google updates its algorithms hundreds of times per year, with anywhere from two to four major “core

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Computer chips, with a side of forever chemicals

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-13 03:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things at the intersection of environment and technology, follow Justine Ca

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Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-13 06:22:42

In Brief Microsoft said Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform might experience increased latency after multiple undersea cables were cut in the Red Sea, as reported in Bloomberg. In a status update, the company said traffic going through the Middle East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It did not say who had cut the cables or why. “Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to reduce customer imp

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Four Telescopes Confirm There's Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 06:00:23

By definition, scientists don't know what to expect as they inspect the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, since it's only the third object detected from beyond the solar system in human history. But the surprises just keep coming. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun from far beyond in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert points out, a quartet of powerful telescopes — NASA's Hubble, SPHEREx, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TES

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Your electronics could be quietly draining energy - this gadget prevents that

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-13 06:00:18

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

wired.com Kyle Orland 2025-10-13 06:00:00

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 preprint 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 t

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Blogs used to be different

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:45:22

Blogs used to be very different. 06 Sep, 2025 I saw someone earlier post about how intrusive it felt to read a personal blog post. They made a point that folks like them who have grown up on short form microblogging like Twitter and Tumblr have a big leap to make when reading longer form blogposts. Not sure how many folks have that same issue but from the blogs I've read in the last decade, there has been a huge shift in content. Ten years ago if you were blogging on Tumblr or Wordpress you w

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 7, #349

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 03:42:33

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. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. That purple category makes you play with words in a way that you'll either love or hate. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription

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Porsche and Audi's EVs can now recharge on any Tesla Supercharger in North America

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 23:33:33

Starting September 9, Porsche and Audi will be the latest non-Tesla brands to utilize the Supercharger network. The two automakers announced that some of their owners will get adapters that allow them to charge via the NACS port, which Tesla developed and opened up to other automakers. The rollout comes after the Volkswagen Group, which owns both Porsche and Audi, announced that it would implement NACS compatibility for Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche and Scout Motors in December 2023. Porsche / Asht

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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

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Galaxy S26 Pro, S26 Ultra renders reveal the return of camera bumps

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