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Google’s Pixel Care Plus includes free screen and battery repair

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-28 14:24:50

Google is phasing out its Preferred Care extended warranty plan for the Pixel Care Plus program. Pricing between the two is pretty similar. You’ll still pay $8 per-month, or $159 for a two-year plan on a Pixel 9. For a Pixel 10 Pro Fold, that jumps up to $339 for two years, or $18 per-month, with the optional loss and theft package for a small extra charge. The big changes here are that screen and battery repairs are free, and service fees for other accidental damage are much lower. Under the o

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Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 18:00:28

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel, who will get it after upgrading to Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later, which was released on Monday. Microsoft will also roll out this functionality to Excel for Windows and PowerPoint for Windows users later this year. "We are moder

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Don't Know What to Watch? Samsung TVs Add AI Assistant Copilot to Help

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 18:23:10

What's an uplifting rom-com to watch on a rainy day? What are the most popular new horror movies? Is there a Taylor Swift documentary yet? What's the latest Marvel movie I can watch for free? Don't strain yourself thinking. Just ask your TV. Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot is now available on certain Samsung TVs and monitors, helping viewers select which shows or movies to watch, where to catch up on past episodes and even how to learn more about the actors. Copilot will be integrated into th

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Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 21:14:03

Loading... Why am I seeing this? You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone. Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the addit

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Your Windows PC just got a big Bluetooth audio upgrade from Microsoft - hear the difference

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-29 02:42:00

Picture alliance / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft's new Bluetooth standard will improve audio quality. The new standard is designed for online games and virtual meeting apps. You can chat via a Bluetooth headset with no drop in sound quality. Here's a question for those of you who enjoy online multiplayer games: Have you ever tried chatting with a fellow gamer via your Bluetooth headset, only for the sound from the game to

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Birth of 86-DOS – By Nemanja Trifunovic

news.ycombinator.com Nemanja Trifunovic 2025-10-26 02:48:08

Forty-five years ago, in April 1980, a young employee at Seattle Computer Products began developing a small disk operating system for the new Intel 8086-based board. Against all odds, this modest project evolved into software that would power the PC industry for over a decade: Microsoft’s MS-DOS. This is a story about development of 86-DOS, better known by its code name QDOS before it was sold to Microsoft. The two main sources I used are Tim Paterson's blogs from 2007 and Vintage Computer Fed

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Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-29 02:40:34

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is making a big change to how Word for Windows saves documents. The word processing app will soon automatically save new documents to the cloud, instead of Word users having to enable AutoSave and cloud storage options. “We are modernizing the way files are created and stored in

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No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-29 02:15:51

Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users, has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico. This double-unicorn milestone comes at a time of hype for website builders — including direct competitors like Figma, Squarespace and Wix, as well as rising ‘vibe coding’ platforms such as Cursor and Lovable. In 2023, Framer raised a $27 million Series C led by Meritech at a

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TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 06:10:34

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. TransUnion is one of the three major credit bureaus in the United States, alongside Equifax and Experian. It operates in 30 countries, employs 13,000 staff, and has an annual revenue of $3 billion. It collects and maintains credit information on over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the U.S.

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Worried about Microplastics? This is the Best Way to Avoid Them in 8 Common Foods

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 06:18:00

Microplastics are all around us all the time. From kitchen tools to food storage, microplastics have infected our world. This means that each day, you're probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as high as 120,000. These microscopic fragments can come fro

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New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 06:25:12

Ankylosaurs, with their squat, armored bodies and bizarre, weaponized tails, are an iconic group of dinosaurs. While there were plenty of species present in the Cretaceous, they're thought to have origins that trace back to the Jurassic. It has been hard to say much about those origins, however, because the fossil evidence was so sparse. One of the earliest potential ankylosaur species, Spicomellus, was known from only a single partial rib; others are known only by jaw fragments or teeth. Now,

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Honor’s slim Magic V5 foldable is fun to use, minus the huge camera bump

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-29 06:30:00

There is a spec war going on among companies to claim the crown of thinnest foldable. Phone manufacturers are playing with fractions of millimeters to boast about their phone’s thickness. Honor is winning this race on a theoretical basis with its 8.8mm (when folded) thick Magic V5 foldable. I’m saying theoretical because there is a huge, camera-bump-sized caveat to this. Image Credits: Ivan Mehta The thin frame of the device looks and feels great as long as you hold it in a way that your fi

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iPhone 17 pricing: Here’s the rumored cost for each new model

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-29 10:59:54

Apple’s big September event is coming up fast, with the company expected to unveil four new iPhones: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Here are the rumored prices for each new iPhone 17 model, most of which could see a higher cost. iPhone 17 prices expected to increase for most models Despite the cost of nearly everything going up in recent years, Apple has been remarkably consistent with iPhone pricing. Though rumors regularly hint at Apple raising its iPhone pr

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LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

news.ycombinator.com Filip Rejmus 2025-10-29 10:15:28

The first idea resembling something like the idea of OCR got developed in 1870 as a reading machine for the blind - the Optophone. This was the first step to solve a problem that sounds pretty simple: How do we get writing on paper inside a computer? 150 years of research, engineering breakthroughs and hundreds of IDP products later we were finally able to scan a receipt and have the fields be filled out - if it looked nice and friendly enough to the OCR model. Heureka. Unfortunately for Tesse

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GAN Math (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Jake Tae 2025-10-29 08:42:35

Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on GANs, the two models are trained such that the discriminator strives to distinguish between generated and true examples, while the generator seeks to confuse the discriminator by produ

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Microsoft fires two employee protesters who occupied its president’s office

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-28 22:48:10

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has fired two employees that were involved in a sit-in protest in vice chair and president Brad Smith’s office. Software engineers Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle were both dismissed today, after being part of a group of seven protesters that managed to get inside Smith’s office in Bu

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The Pixel 10 fixes my biggest hardware pet peeve, but many of you won’t see it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 14:00:30

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Much ink has been spilled around the Pixel 10’s SIM situation. In the US, the three main phones — Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL — ship without a physical SIM slot. You can use two eSIMs at the same time, and some of us think that’s fine. While I do love my eSIMs, I’m not ready to adopt them full time just yet, so you can’t imagine my relief when we learned that the rest of the world gets to keep the slot. My biggest relief, though, came when I discovered wh

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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-29 20:15:18

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targe

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The Math Behind GANs

news.ycombinator.com Jake Tae 2025-10-29 23:42:35

Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on GANs, the two models are trained such that the discriminator strives to distinguish between generated and true examples, while the generator seeks to confuse the discriminator by produ

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Microsoft fires two employees over breaking into its president’s office

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-29 21:56:42

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold banners and signs as they protest outside the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Microsoft on Thursday said that it had terminated two employees who broke into President Brad Smith's office earlier this week. The news comes after seven current and former Microsoft employees on Tuesday held a protest in the company's building in Redmond, Washington, in opposition to the Israeli military's alleged

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Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI’s 95% failure rate

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-29 22:00:00

A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative. But rather than giving up on the technology altogether, the most advanced organizations are experimenting with agentic AI systems that can learn and be supervised. That’s where Maisa AI comes in. The year-old startup has built its entire approach around the premise that enterprise automation requires accountable AI agents, not opaque black boxes. With a new, $25 m

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Will Smith's Tour Video Used AI to Generate Adoring Audience Members and the Result Is... Bleak

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-29 14:09:40

Over the past few years, actor, rapper, and slapper Will Smith has been the subject of a grotesque meme in AI is used to show him gobbling down on nightmarish squelching spaghetti. It now seems that the 56-year-old "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star's team has used the tech to soup up concert footage from his would-be comeback tour — and it strongly appears that the purpose was to make an underwhelming crowd look like they're still filled with love for Smith's much-lampooned career trajectory. Pos

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Storm-0501 hackers shift to ransomware attacks in the cloud

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 06:38:12

Microsoft warns that a threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 has evolved its operations, shifting away from encrypting devices with ransomware to focusing on cloud-based encryption, data theft, and extortion. The hackers now abuse native cloud features to exfiltrate data, wipe backups, and destroy storage accounts, thereby applying pressure and extorting victims without deploying traditional ransomware encryption tools. Storm-0501 is a threat actor who has been active since at least 2021, deployi

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Will Smith's Tour Video Used AI to Generate Adoring Fans and the Result Is Unintentionally Hilarious

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:09:40

Over the past few years, actor, rapper, and slapper Will Smith has been the subject of a grotesque meme in AI is used to show him gobbling down on nightmarish squelching spaghetti. It now seems that the 56-year-old "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star's team has used the tech to soup up concert footage from his would-be comeback tour — and it strongly appears that the purpose was to make an underwhelming crowd look like they're still filled with love for Smith's much-lampooned career trajectory. Pos

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Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 09:53:51

Events that thrive anywhere. Like the cactus, great events bloom under any condition when managed with care. Cactoide(ae) helps you streamline RSVPs, simplify coordination, and keep every detail efficient—so your gatherings are resilient, vibrant, and unforgettable. What is it? A mobile-first event RSVP platform that lets you create events, share unique URLs, and collect RSVPs without any registration required. ✨ Features 🎯 Instant Event Creation - Create events in seconds with our streamli

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Russian space official: “We need to stop lying to ourselves” about health of industry

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:54:54

The chief of Russia's main spacecraft manufacturer issued a dire warning this week, saying that his corporation has reached a "critical" condition and cannot continue in its present state. "The situation is critical: multi-million dollar debts, interest on loans that 'eat up' the budget, many processes that are ineffective, and a significant part of the team has lost motivation and a sense of shared responsibility," wrote Igor Maltsev, chief of RSC Energia, which is located near Moscow. Maltse

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Part of Starship Explodes During SpaceX's Latest Test Flight

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 17:17:57

Coming off a string of explosive failures, on Tuesday night SpaceX once again launched its gigantic Starship rocket into space, with both its stages successfully returning to their separate landing targets on Earth. This time, the only huge explosions were planned one: final blasts as the two spacecraft touched down. After the launch had been scrubbed twice over the two prior days, the company's engineers could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The flight demonstrated several key objectives, i

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Microsoft’s Latest Move Could Upend How You Play With the Best Deal in Gaming

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-30 18:15:58

Xbox Game Pass is marching toward a cliff’s edge. Microsoft’s gaming subscription service has limped along eight years after launch, while the Xbox brand and its lack of new hardware has been castigated by both players and ex-execs alike. The entire format for the subscription—where those paying the most for access to cloud gaming—is going to change. You may end up spending more or less, depending on whether you want all the best features. Those participating in the Xbox Insiders beta program a

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