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FEMA Staffers Warned of Looming ‘Katrina-Level’ Disaster, Then Got Suspended

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-30 09:50:58

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing nearly 1,400 people and displacing up to 1.2 million more. The storm’s impact overwhelmed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, revealing fatal flaws in its disaster response. The agency’s failure prompted Congress to overhaul FEMA largely through the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMRA). This set higher expectations for its leaders and enhanced its autonomy within the Department of Homela

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WhatsApp’s new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-30 09:04:35

WhatsApp is launching a new AI feature that allows users to rephrase, proofread, or adjust the tone of their messages, the Meta-owned company announced on Wednesday. The new feature, called “Writing Help,” uses Meta’s Private Processing technology, which allows users to receive AI-generated responses without Meta or WhatsApp reading the original message or the suggested rewrites. This means that messages on the platform remain private even if people use the new tool. With Writing Help, users c

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I trust this Bluetooth tracker more than Apple AirTags - and it works with iPhone and Android

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-30 13:27:00

Pebblebee Clip ZDNET's key takeaways The finder tag is equipped with a rechargeable battery, so you won't have to throw away old button cells It features a bright LED for finding things in low light. The tag is on the pricier side. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I have a habit of putting things down and forgetting where I put them, so finder tags like the Apple AirTag have been a game-changer for me, saving me endless amounts of time and frustration.

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Show HN: Chat with Nano Banana Directly from WhatsApp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:13:43

Nano Banana Generate and edit images using Google's latest release: Nano Banana. See what funny images you can create today

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Taylor Swift Is Engaged. Her Post Is Climbing Instagram's Most-Liked List

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 12:41:00

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts, even though, to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August. Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in just the first hour. By Wednesday, it had topped 30 million likes, vaulting it to

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Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-30 13:27:01

ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the gap to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, according to a new report focused on the consumer AI landscape from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The report, in its fifth iteration, showcases two and a half years of data about consumers’ evolving use of AI products. And for the fifth time, 14 companies appeared on the list of top AI products: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, L

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Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year, exec says

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-30 17:29:49

Google has eliminated more than one-third of its managers overseeing small teams, an executive told employees last week, as the company continues its focus on efficiencies across the organization. "Right now, we have 35% fewer managers, with fewer direct reports" than at this time a year ago, said Brian Welle, vice president of people analytics and performance, according to audio of an all-hands meeting reviewed by CNBC. "So a lot of fast progress there." At the meeting, employees asked Welle

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iPhone 17 set to break a record no flagship has touched in 15 years

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-30 15:24:29

When Apple releases the iPhone 17 in a few weeks, the timer will start for the new flagship model breaking a record set 15 years ago. The record will take more than a year to break, but based on current rumors, the iPhone 17 will be the first to steal the crown. iPhone 4 had an unusually long run That record belongs to the iPhone 4, which went on sale in June 2010 and remained Apple’s top iPhone until October 2011. Because Apple shifted its flagship launch cycle from summer to fall that year,

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Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:25:38

You can now interact with third-party agents directly within Zed. To make this possible, we created the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), and we've partnered with Google to integrate Gemini CLI as the initial reference implementation. Because software developers rely on diverse tools in a variety of different tech stacks, we see room for multiple agents competing to solve problems in different domains. Just as the Language Server Protocol unbundled language intelligence from monolithic IDEs, our goa

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Trump administration suspends FEMA employees who warned about disaster response

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-30 17:37:15

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. FEMA has suspended at least 30 employees after they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps in leadership hurt the agency’s ability to respond to disasters. The employees rece

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Wallpaper Wednesday: Special Google Pixel 10 edition! (August 27)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 21:30:19

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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Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring in Sales, Eng, Ops (EU, US)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 21:01:06

Why you should join Lago At Lago, we’re on a mission to make billing simpler, more transparent, and more adaptable for SaaS companies. As the leading open-source billing platform, we empower businesses to build flexible pricing models and scale with confidence. We’ve raised over $22 million in funding from top-tier investors, reflecting strong confidence in our vision and growth. Our platform has garnered over 7,000 stars on GitHub, a testament to our active and growing developer community. N

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I Took Over 4,000 Photos With Hasselblad's X2D II Camera. These Are My Best

cnet.com Andrew Lanxon 2025-10-30 18:45:00

The Hasselblad X2D II 100C is one of the most accomplished stills cameras you can buy today. Featuring a massive medium-format sensor at its heart, the camera can capture huge 100-megapixel images with an incredible 15.3 stops of dynamic range, giving you endless scope to rescue highlights or lift shadows in editing. It provides up to 10 stops of image stabilization, allowing you to take hand-held photos with shutter speeds up to, and beyond, a second in length. There's also the faster lidar au

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Online Age Verification Rules Are Popping Up Everywhere. Here's What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 19:43:44

The internet is full of perils -- this we know. Among the rich trove of content we have at our fingertips is a combination of legal material, illegal material and material that falls into a gray area -- often referred to in vague terms as "harmful." This is the kind of content that might be appropriate for anyone with a fully developed prefrontal cortex to view but that you wouldn't necessarily want your kids stumbling across. In the past, accessing such content has been easy, regardless of ag

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Efficient Array Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 00:16:18

Efficient Array Programming This is a wiki-like repo for collecting information and examples for efficient programming in array languages. Most of the explanations here will be written from my understanding of the programs, so I do recommend scrutinizing the programs yourself first before reading them. The general goal of this repository is to help people improve their understanding of array languages, and to have a wealth of examples for well-written array language code.

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Mosyle identifies new Mac malware that evades detection through fake PDF conversion tool

9to5mac.com Arin Waichulis 2025-10-31 05:31:55

Mosyle, a leader in Apple device management and security, has exclusively revealed to 9to5Mac details on a new Mac malware strain, dubbed “JSCoreRunner”. The zero-day threat evaded all detections on VirusTotal at the time of discovery, spreading through a malicious PDF conversion site called fileripple[.]com to trick users into downloading what appears to be a harmless utility. Free tools that promise quick file conversions for HEIC and WebP files, PDFs, and Word docs have become prolific onlin

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First absolute superconducting switch developed in a magnetic device

news.ycombinator.com University Of Jyväskylä 2025-10-29 08:04:54

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Researchers recently realized the first de Gennes' superconducting switch where superconductivity is completely suppressed. Credit: University of Jyväskylä The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been involved as part of an international collaboration that has identified a way to completely suppress superconductiv

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What We Find in the Sewers

news.ycombinator.com Calum Drysdale 2025-10-31 08:50:59

This article concludes Issue 07. See you next month for the launch of Issue 08! The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables In his book What is Life? Schrödinger called humans “entropy machines.” Extracting order from our environment to compensate for our disorder, he said, is what defines us as living beings. The same claim could be made of defecation. We strip the world of the nutrients and substrates we nee

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EVs are getting a temporary Trump bump thanks to expiring incentives

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-31 09:39:34

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles. On the first day of his presidency, he signed an executive order to eliminate EV incentives that he has often falsely portrayed as an “electric vehicle mand

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Implementing Forth in Go and C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 13:19:11

I first ran into Forth about 20 years ago when reading a book about designing embedded hardware. The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note and moved on with my life. Over the last two decades I heard about Forth a few more times here and there, such as that time when Factor was talked about for a brief period, maybe 10-12 years ago or so. It always occupied a slot i

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2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 13:39:10

Manual transmissions have gone the way of the dodo, but you can still find a few out there. Bless Volkswagen for keeping the helical gears turning, both literally and figuratively. The 2025 Jetta GLI, Volkswagen's sporty sedan, still offers a gear lever with actual gears attached at the other end, and a third pedal hanging down from under the dash. Meanwhile, Golf GTI fans are still sobbing in their beer because 2024 was the last model year you could row your own in the hot hatch—now it's paddle

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Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-31 13:10:00

Confession time: My household owns two cars, one with leather and one with “leather.” The former feels amazing, the latter … well, let’s just say it’s not fooling anyone. Based on the samples currently sitting on my desk, leather alternatives don’t have to feel so artificial or be so harsh on the environment. Most fake leathers are made using plastics derived from fossil fuels. The samples from Uncaged Innovations, though, are made mostly using grains including wheat, soy, and corn. The result

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Your Gemini app just got a major AI image editing upgrade - for free

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-31 17:13:00

Getty Images/gleitfrosch Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A mystery 'nano banana' image editing model climbed the charts. DeepMind was secretly behind the model, which is now available. Users can get started for free in the Gemini app. Every now and then, the LMArena will have a mystery model with a fun name shoot up to the top of the leaderboard. Shall I remind you of OpenAI's Project Strawberry? More recently, a mystery 'nano banana' model cli

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Dietitian Tips for Fighting Food Noise -- Without Using Semaglutide

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 17:00:00

If you’ve ever found your mind consumed with constant thoughts about food, chances are you have experienced food noise. It's usually brought on by conflicting messages about nutrition, either through everyday conversation or content online. It could be feeling guilty because you ate a cupcake when you promised yourself you weren’t going to touch sweets for a while, or maybe you’re trying to meet your protein quota and are obsessively keeping track of it. These thoughts are common, and in some ca

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Job titles of the future: Satellite streak astronomer

technologyreview.com Tereza Pultarova 2025-11-01 01:00:00

But in 2019, SpaceX began deploying its internet-beaming Starlink constellation, and the astronomical community started to sound alarm bells. The satellites were orbiting too low and reflected too much sunlight, leaving bright marks in telescope images. A year later, Rawls and a handful of her colleagues were the first to make a scientific assessment of the satellite streaks’ effect on astronomical observations, using images from the Víctor M. Blanco telescope (which, like Rubin, is in Chile). “

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India is still working on sewer robots

technologyreview.com Hamaad Habibullah 2025-11-01 01:00:00

More than 220 Bandicoot robots have been deployed in India, says Vipin Govind, head of marketing and communications at Genrobotics. The company’s reach, he says, enables “even resource-constrained municipalities” to deploy the technology effectively. Despite these technological options, a 2021 report by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment found that there are still more than 58,000 manual scavengers across India. Independent observers say the numbers are even higher. The machine that J

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You don’t need a Pixel 10 to get Google’s new call screening smarts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 23:52:23

TL;DR Google Phone’s new “Take a Message” was presumed to be a Pixel 10-exclusive, but Google has clarified the feature is available on Pixel 4 and higher, but only in the US, UK, Ireland, and Australia. Users can also set up the feature on their Pixel Watch 2 and newer, but when paired to the Pixel 6 and higher. Similarly, Call Notes’ next steps feature was also presumed to be a Pixel 10-exclusive, but it is live on the Pixel 9 series too. With the launch of the Pixel 10 series, Google added

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Nothing caught red-handed faking Phone 3 camera samples, can’t even try to deny (Updated: Explanation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-01 02:40:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Nothing Phone 3 retail demo has been spotted making misleading claims about photo samples. Android Authority has spoken to two of the photographers who shot the pics, who confirm they did not use the Phone 3 at all. Asked for comment, Nothing has not denied these claims, and instead says that it plans to update demo units. Update, August 27, 2025 (07:40 AM ET): Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has provided a detailed explanation for the stock photos

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AI Is Everywhere in Photoshop. These Are the Best Tools I Found While Editing Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 01:00:07

Photoshop is chock-full of new tools powered by generative AI. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, and I've learned that not all AI tools are built equal. So I knew I had to take Photoshop's AI for a spin to see how it stacked up. AI might not be right for every Photoshop project you do, especially if you're a professional creator who regularly uses the program. There are some good tools to help your creative workflows, but you need to spend time

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Worried About Losing Your Job? Pack a Digital Go Bag

wired.com Jill Duffy 2025-11-01 01:30:00

Getting fired by email or by being locked out of your work laptop is not normal. And yet it's happening to US workers who have few rights and protections under the law. Even federal government employees who formerly had some of the most secure jobs and strong unions are getting axed without warning. You may not be able to protect yourself from an unexpected job loss, but you can make sure that your most important information doesn't get held hostage by your former employer. To do that, you need

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FEMA Staffers Warned of Looming ‘Katrina-Level’ Disaster, Then Got Suspended

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I trust this Bluetooth tracker more than Apple AirTags - and it works with iPhone and Android

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I Took Over 4,000 Photos With Hasselblad's X2D II Camera. These Are My Best

Online Age Verification Rules Are Popping Up Everywhere. Here's What You Need to Know

Efficient Array Programming

Mosyle identifies new Mac malware that evades detection through fake PDF conversion tool

First absolute superconducting switch developed in a magnetic device

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EVs are getting a temporary Trump bump thanks to expiring incentives

Implementing Forth in Go and C

2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this

Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing

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India is still working on sewer robots

You don’t need a Pixel 10 to get Google’s new call screening smarts

Nothing caught red-handed faking Phone 3 camera samples, can’t even try to deny (Updated: Explanation)

AI Is Everywhere in Photoshop. These Are the Best Tools I Found While Editing Photos

Worried About Losing Your Job? Pack a Digital Go Bag

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