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The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-18 05:54:05

In October 2025, Microsoft ends free support by default for Windows 10. Its successor, Windows 11, has unnecessarily strict requirements for what computers it will support. Hundreds of millions of computers currently running Windows 10 face early obsolescence as a result. Microsoft’s options for continued support of Windows 10 cost either your money or your data, and only push the snooze button on the problem. Eventually, many millions of fully functional computers and their users will be entir

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Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-07-21 13:07:50

Elon Musk's health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) system, with an initial aim to help people with severe paralysis regain some independence. BCI technology broadly can translate a person's brain signals into commands that allow them to manipulate external technologies j

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Apple dodges iOS 13-era suit over background data usage (for now)

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-21 13:30:34

A years-old lawsuit accusing Apple of burning through users’ mobile data won’t be moving forward as a class action, but it might still be pursued individually. Here’s what happened. The case involves unauthorized cellular data usage, even when Wi-Fi was available The case, originally filed by user Alasdair Turner in 2020, claims that iOS 13 sent data over cellular networks even after users had specifically disabled mobile access for certain apps. That background activity was allegedly mislabe

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Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-07-21 14:23:20

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 firms. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam te

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How We Test Antivirus Software

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 11:55:00

Protecting your devices from viruses and other malware is incredibly important, but effective antivirus detection isn’t the only thing to consider when choosing security software. You also want to ensure that the program won’t slow your devices down or interfere with everyday tasks. And if you’re buying a full cybersecurity suite, you’ll need to make sure it covers most or all of your security needs. Our testing processes are designed to help you find antivirus tools that meet all of these crit

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Trump Jr.’s ‘Amazon for Guns’ Business Is Firing Blanks

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-07-22 00:35:42

What is the opposite of the Midas touch? Whatever that is, Donald Trump Jr. seems to have it. On Wednesday, an online firearms seller backed by the President’s favorite failson went public. It didn’t take long for the public to say, “No thanks.” On Wednesday, the company’s stock price took a significant hit by the end of the trading day. GrabAGun is a pretty simple concept. It’s an online marketplace that specifically handles guns, ammunition, and firearm accessories. Trump Jr.’s business partn

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The Trump Administration Reportedly Has Extensive Logs of Epstein Money Transfers, Refuses to Release Them

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-22 02:30:07

It's not just a purported "client list" of late billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein — the Trump administration is reportedly hiding $1.5 billion worth of suspicious banking transactions from the public. As the New York Times reports, senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who heads the Senate Finance Committee, is calling for enormous money transfers sent to and by Epstein — including wire transfers from wealthy individuals and payments to numerous women — to be made public. It's the polar opposite of

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All AI models might be the same

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-07-22 02:28:49

Project CETI is a large-scale effort to decode whale speech. If AI models do learn a universal language, we might be able to use it to talk to whales. Growing up, I sometimes played a game with my friends called “Mussolini or Bread.” It’s a guessing game, kind of like Twenty Questions. The funny name comes from the idea that, in the space of everything, ‘Mussolini’ and ‘bread’ are about as far away from each other as you can get. One round might go like this: Is it closer to Mussolini or bre

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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Cane Sugar

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-22 04:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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Uber Is Going All-in on Robotaxis

gizmodo.com Rhett Jones 2025-07-22 05:00:35

By the end of this decade, your next Uber ride might not have a driver at all. At least, that’s what Uber wants you (and its investors on Wall Street to believe.) Uber announced a new partnership today with luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid and the robotics company Nuro. Under the agreement, Uber plans to deploy a fleet of at least 20,000 Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with Nuro’s self-driving technology over the next six years. The robotaxi service is expected to launch in a yet unnamed major U

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All AI Models Might be The Same

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-07-22 07:28:49

Project CETI is a large-scale effort to decode whale speech. If AI models do learn a universal language, we might be able to use it to talk to whales. Growing up, I sometimes played a game with my friends called “Mussolini or Bread.” It’s a guessing game, kind of like Twenty Questions. The funny name comes from the idea that, in the space of everything, ‘Mussolini’ and ‘bread’ are about as far away from each other as you can get. One round might go like this: Is it closer to Mussolini or bre

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Coca-Cola Won’t Confirm Trump’s Claim That It’s Switching to Sugar Cane

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-22 09:10:48

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Coca-Cola would switch from using high-fructose corn syrup to real cane sugar in its drinks. The president made his announcement on Truth Social, but people online were skeptical that Trump was telling the truth, and with good reason. Trump lies constantly. “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump wrote Wednesday. “I’d like to thank all of those in authority

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Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-07-22 09:03:19

Microsoft is building data centers as fast as it can, and that’s killing its carbon balance sheet. Since 2020, its carbon emissions have grown by nearly a quarter, undermining the pledge it made that year to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it generates by 2030. So Microsoft has been buying massive amounts of carbon-removal credits to attempt to remedy that situation, including a newly announced purchase of 4.9 million metric tons from Vaulted Deep. Neither party disclosed the financ

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Amazon cuts some jobs in cloud computing unit as layoffs continue

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-07-22 21:10:10

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon is laying off some staffers in its cloud computing division, the company confirmed on Thursday. "After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we've made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles across particular teams in AWS," Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said in a statement. "

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Musk Accuses Trump of Covering Up Epstein Scandal

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-22 20:12:37

It's no wonder multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk sees the Jeffrey Epstein crisis as an enormous opportunity to score political points. The situation has driven a massive wedge between president Donald Trump and his MAGA base. A furious Trump has repeatedly attempted to pour cold water on conspiracy theories surrounding the late sex criminal billionaire's mysterious death and the existence of a purported "client list" — efforts that only enraged his supporters even further. In a Twitter spr

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Amazon’s AI push is undermining its sustainability goals

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 21:01:59

Amazon’s decarbonization goals are being undermined by its push to be a leader in generative AI. Its most recent sustainability report concedes its overall carbon emissions grew for the first time since 2022. It reported a six percent increase in its carbon footprint across 2024, laying much of the blame at the feet of its data center rollout. The reported increase is significant given Amazon’s method of reporting its own environmental impact. Critics have suggested the mega-retailer “ dramatic

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The Latest ‘Alien: Earth’ Trailer Adds Even More Alien Monsters

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-07-22 21:30:25

In the Alien movies, one killer species is more than enough for humanity to deal with. Actually, it’s almost always too much. Most everyone usually dies. But, in Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12, it’s not just that iconic xenomorph the characters will have to deal with. Four other killer monsters have crash-landed on our planet too. Let the fun begin. From the mind of Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth takes a whole new look at the franchise made famous by the likes of Ridley Scott and James

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Taiwan Semi is speeding up U.S. chip production due to demand, CEO says

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-23 01:57:13

Signage for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) at it's fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona, US, on Monday, March 3, 2025. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company CEO C.C. Wei on Thursday said the company is seeing "strong interest" from its leading U.S. customers and is working to speed up its volume production schedule by several quarters. TSMC is the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, and the company has pledged to invest a total of $165 billion in advanced semic

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Uber's latest robotaxi plan involves 20,000 Lucid EVs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 00:59:44

Uber is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Nuro and Lucid, the latest step in the company’s plan to build an extensive robotaxi program that can roll out globally. Uber’s partnership with EV manufacturer Lucid will see it deploy at least 20,000 of the Newark-based company’s vehicles over a period of six years. These will be equipped with the AI-powered Nuro Driver autonomous technology. The vehicles will be owned and operated by Uber or one of its third-party partners, and the service

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Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta bigwigs just agreed to a settlement in $8 billion suit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 01:45:14

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with a group of current and former company directors and officers, just agreed to settle to end a trial that sought $8 billion in damages, according to a report by Reuters . Zuckerberg and the others will actually be paying out to Meta shareholders as a recompense for damages allegedly caused by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users' privacy. The parties have not disclosed the details of the settlement, but one would assume the payout was less than the $

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Boulevard raises $80M to power self-care boom driven by Botox and GLP-1 surge

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-23 01:29:46

The beauty industry has seen an explosion of offerings recently. Customers can now access treatments far beyond basic hair and nail care, from wrinkle-smoothing Botox and fillers to permanent laser hair removal and even weight management through GLP-1 medications. Riding this wave of industry growth is Boulevard, a provider of scheduling and payment software for the self-care sector. The nine-year-old Boulevard just raised $80 million in Series D funding, valuing the business at nearly $800 mi

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Another big car company gives up on hydrogen

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-23 09:30:11

Stellantis, the automotive giant behind Chrysler, Citroen, Fiat, Jeep and Peugeot, is pulling out of hydrogen. The company said it’s killing its fuel cell development program in the face of “limited availability of hydrogen refueling infrastructure, high capital requirements and the need for stronger consumer purchasing incentives.” To put that another way, it’s realized hydrogen EVs are facing the same set of challenges it’s not been able to overcome in the last two or three decades. It’s a st

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Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-23 09:00:10

Back in 1999, Wall Street lost its collective mind over the internet. Companies with no revenue were suddenly worth billions, “eyeballs” were treated as currency, and market analysts predicted a frictionless future where everything would be digital. Then the bubble burst. Between March 2000 and October 2002, an estimated five trillion dollars in market value vanished into thin air. Today, it is happening again. This time, the magic word is not “.com.” It is “AI.” According to Torsten Slok, the

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A Meteor Impact May Have Caused a Giant Landslide in the Grand Canyon

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-07-23 09:30:00

Researchers have long puzzled over the presence of driftwood and lake sediments in Stanton’s Cave in the eastern Grand Canyon, whose mouth sits 150 feet (45.7 meters) above the river. How could the material possibly have reached that height? According to Karl Karlstrom, a geologist from the University of New Mexico, it would have had to be carried by flood levels ten times bigger than any seen in the past several thousand years. An international team of researchers proposes a surprising chain o

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Delta Set to Expand AI-Powered Dynamic Ticket Pricing by the End of 2025

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-23 13:40:29

Last year, Delta Air Lines announced it was testing out dynamic pricing on some flights using tools built by the tech company Fetcherr. And while the test was initially limited, executives from the company announced that 3% of flights now use AI pricing, and they hope to sell 20% of all tickets using a dynamic price by the end of the year. Edward H. Bastian, the CEO of Delta, explained the strategy on an investors call last week, noting that it was “optimizing revenue through [its] partnership

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Slack bolsters search with AI, adds transcriptions and summaries for huddles

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-07-23 13:00:00

As the race to bake in AI features into productivity apps intensifies, Slack is bolstering search on its app with AI features, adding transcription and summaries for huddles, and a way to see recaps of channels and threads. Using AI, Slack now lets you search across channels as well as connected apps (like Google Drive, Salesforce and Teams) to surface relevant files and conversations. This feature will be available on Slack’s Business and Enterprise plans. Image Credits: Slack The company is

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A Top Engineer Reveals OpenAI’s Culture of Secrets and Chaos

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-23 21:00:07

Calvin French-Owen only worked at OpenAI for a year, but he saw more in twelve months than most engineers do in a lifetime. As a successful founder turned employee, he joined the world’s leading artificial intelligence company in May 2024 and left in June 2025. What he walked into was not a typical corporate tech job. It was a startup strapped to a rocket ship, powered by GPUs, Slack notifications, and a culture of secrecy that makes Apple look like an open book. “The first thing to know about

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Trump’s Meme Coin Empire Is About to Explode With Millions of New Tokens

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-23 21:05:48

Millions of Trump meme coins could flood the crypto market starting this week, potentially reshaping the future of one of the most controversial cryptocurrencies in circulation. Entities affiliated with President Donald Trump now have the right to sell a large portion of the meme coin named after him, $TRUMP, starting Wednesday July 17. The move could unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in digital tokens, intensifying scrutiny over Trump’s growing involvement in crypto and raising fresh ques

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TSMC forecasts 38% jump in third-quarter revenue after results beat on AI chip demand

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-07-23 23:54:33

A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a near 61% year-on-year rise in second-quarter profit, beating estimates, as demand for artificial intelligence chips stays strong. The world's largest contract chip manufacturer expects third-quarter revenue

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Microsoft is saving millions with AI and laying off thousands - where do we go from here?

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-07-23 23:00:14

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Last week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft shared internally that it had saved $500 million in call center costs, thanks to AI -- shortly after the company laid 9,000 people off, the third round in a series of layoffs totaling 15,000. What does this mean for the tech industry -- and job security for humans -- at large? Also: 60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours? Microsoft's layoffs, despite huge profits Acc

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