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'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction

news.ycombinator.com Kyle Chayka 2025-07-24 03:17:12

On a recent weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, an art adviser in New York named Stephen Truax, to gossip about an exhibition. Instead of messaging me back in the app, he texted me to say that he’d blocked Instagram on his smartphone during daytime working hours. Impressed, I asked him how he was accomplishing such a feat. Truax said he was using Opal, an app that makes your smartphone a little more like a so-called dumbphone, without requiring you to trade in your device a

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Trump Appears to Go TACO on Rumors He’ll Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-24 11:35:02

Reports leaked Wednesday that President Donald Trump was getting ready to fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. The news caused markets to dip, but TACO, the popular Wall Street acronym that stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, appears to be the dish of the day, as the president denied he was going to fire Powell while speaking to reporters in the White House. “He should have cut interest rates a long time ago. Europe has cut ’em 10 times in the short period of time, and we

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Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

news.ycombinator.com Mike Rogoway 2025-07-24 17:08:39

Intel's campus in Aloha was the company's first Oregon site -- and its first manufacturing facility outside California -- when it opened in the 1970s. Mike Rogoway/The Oregonian Over the five decades Intel has operated in Oregon, its local footprint had moved in just one direction: Upward. From a single factory in Aloha that opened in 1976, the chipmaker grew into the state’s largest corporate employer and one of Oregon’s primary economic engines. Intel spent billions of dollars every year to

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'Gentle Parenting' My Smartphone Addiction

news.ycombinator.com Kyle Chayka 2025-07-24 23:17:12

On a recent weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, an art adviser in New York named Stephen Truax, to gossip about an exhibition. Instead of messaging me back in the app, he texted me to say that he’d blocked Instagram on his smartphone during daytime working hours. Impressed, I asked him how he was accomplishing such a feat. Truax said he was using Opal, an app that makes your smartphone a little more like a so-called dumbphone, without requiring you to trade in your device a

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Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-07-25 01:02:01

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of its workforce, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson Joe Osborne told The Verge, adding th

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Tariff Troubles Ahead: Auto Experts Advice on Rising EV and Car Prices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-25 04:00:05

It's not just iPhones and TVs that might cost more. President Donald Trump's tariff policies might be driving up the cost of electric vehicles and combustion cars, too. EVs, in fact, might be especially vulnerable to the new tariffs that target China (a major exporter of critical metals) and the steel industry. China already has a near monopoly on critical minerals and rare earth metals used to manufacture cars, and these tariffs have given China a reason to use that as leverage over the US. Th

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants to sell more advanced chips to China after H20 ban is lifted

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal Evelyn Cheng 2025-07-25 21:17:40

Nvidia is looking to ship more advanced chips to China than its current generation, CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday, as he looks to revitalize sales in the world's second-largest economy. The comments come after Nvidia said on Monday that it will resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chip to China, reversing a previous ban. The H20 is a less-advanced semiconductor designed for AI workloads that comply with U.S. export restrictions to China. "I hope to get more advanced chips into

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A Staggering Proportion of Teens Say Talking to AI Is Better Than Real-Life Friends

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-26 04:00:48

A new survey found that over half of American teens are regular users of anthropomorphic AI companions like Character.AI and Replika. That's striking on its own, as an illustration of how embedded AI companions have become in mainstream teenage life. But even more startling were the 31 percent of surveyed teens who said their interactions with AI companions were either as satisfying or more satisfying than conversations with real-life friends — a finding that shows how profoundly AI is already

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Don't Make the Job Hunt Harder. 9 Strategies to Stay Sane and Get Hired

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 04:00:00

From ghosting to burnout, experts share how you can land a job in a brutal market. Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET Stephanie Wandell applied to hundreds of jobs since getting laid off from a tech marketing role last November. When I spoke to her this summer, she'd been ghosted by recruiters and hadn't received any offers. "I was a little bit naive going into it, thinking I could do what I always do and depend on applying to as many places as I can," said Wandell. "It became pretty clear that this time

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Can AI Be Your Therapist? 3 Things That Worry Professionals and 3 Tips for Staying Safe

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-26 05:00:05

Amid the many AI chatbots and avatars at your disposal these days, you'll find all kinds of characters to talk to: fortune tellers, style advisers, even your favorite fictional characters. But you'll also likely find characters purporting to be therapists, psychologists or just bots willing to listen to your woes. There's no shortage of generative AI bots claiming to help with your mental health, but go that route at your own risk. Large language models trained on a wide range of data can be un

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Whoop says FDA is 'overstepping its authority' with warning about blood pressure feature

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot Brandon Gomez 2025-07-26 17:08:33

The logo for the Food and Drug Administration is seen ahead of a news conference on removing synthetic dyes from America's food supply, at the Health and Human Services Headquarters in Washington, DC on April 22, 2025. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday published a warning letter addressed to the wrist wearable company Whoop, alleging it is marketing a new blood pressure feature without proper approvals. The letter centers around Whoop's Blood Pressure Insights (BPI) feature, whi

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‘Whatever She Thinks Is Credible’: Trump Says Pam Bondi Should Release Part of Epstein Files

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-07-26 17:10:55

President Donald Trump angered his own supporters recently when his U.S. Department of Justice said it wouldn’t be releasing any more information about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But after days of outrage, including from the Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, Trump is now signaling that Attorney General Pam Bondi might release something. Still, don’t expect to see anything that would make Trump look bad. Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday and was asked

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Commerce Secretary Lutnick says China is only getting Nvidia’s ‘4th best’ AI chip

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-07-27 09:32:41

Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce speaks during the Pennsylvania Energy And Innovation Summit 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15, 2025. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday said the Trump administration reversed course on allowing Nvidia to sell its AI chips to China because the U.S. company will not be giving over its best technology. Lutnick made the remark speaking with CNBC's Brian Sullivan, saying that Nvidia wants to sell China its "4th best" chi

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Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-07-27 09:00:23

A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years. Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests READ MORE At the same time, nearly eight out of 10 Oracle Java users said they had migrated, or planned to shift, to open source Java to try to avoid the risk and high costs of the dominant vendor's development and runtime environments. Oracle introduced a paid subscrip

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Your Next Car Might Cost More: Industry Insiders Explain Tariff-Driven Price Increases and How to Offset Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-27 09:00:00

It's not just iPhones and TVs. President Donald Trump's tariff policies might be driving up the cost of electric vehicles and combustion cars, too. EVs, in fact, might be especially vulnerable to the new tariffs that target China (a major exporter of critical metals) and the steel industry. China already has a near monopoly on critical minerals and rare earth metals used to manufacture cars, and these tariffs have given China reason to use that as leverage over the United States. That's accordi

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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-07-27 13:28:28

Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., during the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023. Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it will soon restart shipments of its MI308 artificial intelligence chips to China. The stock climbed 7% following the news. The company said Tuesday that the U.S. Commerce Department plans to resume reviewing its license applications to send the products to the world's second-largest economy. AMD said it plans to start ship

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Uber is close to completing its quest to become the ultimate robotaxi app

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-07-27 13:55:18

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. Uber just announced a deal today with the company that runs one of the largest robotaxi fleets in China, as the ridehail giant nears its goal of becoming the world’s ultimate autonomous vehicle clearinghouse. Uber and Baidu said they are teaming up to deploy robotaxis in countries outside the US and China, with an initial

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Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-07-27 21:30:00

Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years looking for tools to help companies gather consumer insight data. Eventually, he decided to just build them. Now his startup, called Rwazi, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Bonfire Ventures to help companies with market intelligence and consumer insights. He founded the company in 2021 with co-founder Eric Sewankambo. “There was an abundance of consumer and market-level data for places like the U.S., UK, and a few parts of Western Europe, maybe some t

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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-28 01:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational acces

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A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers

news.ycombinator.com Renee Dudley 2025-07-28 00:18:16

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Skills Gap: Digital escorts of

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ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-07-28 01:24:51

Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to being very well-suited for AI applications. Despite this rise in popularity, search and analytics functionality remain limited. ParadeDB is changing that. ParadeDB is an open source Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics directly in Postgres without users needing to transfer data to a separate source. The platform integrates with other data

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A Recession Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight. Here’s the Best Advice to Prepare

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-28 12:00:00

Recession risks are down, but keep your guard up. Getty Images/Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNET In April, recession fears surged after President Trump began his chaotic tariff campaign. Forecasts for a severe economic downturn hit 66%, according to Polymarket. As Trump deferred some of his most aggressive trade proposals, those forecasts leveled out, but the contours of a potential recession are hard to ignore. Growth in the first quarter of 2025? Down. Jobless claims? Sharply higher. Consumer sentiment

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This Guy Attached 21 Chef’s Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best

wired.com Joe Ray 2025-07-28 14:00:00

After the fifth tomato, I had to know how my knife did. Without judgment, Heimendinger announced that it placed "second to last in the cohort." I felt responsibility for this knife, and a little embarrassment, until I remembered his knives came straight out of the box and into the testing process with an unblemished factory edge. My knife, on the other hand, had been in regular use in my test kitchen for more than six months receiving only the occasional honing. Plus, I noted protectively that t

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Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-28 11:59:02

Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres The company, which has made most of its money from online advertising, generated more than $160bn in revenue in 2024. Meta has invested heavily in efforts to develop what it called "superintelligence" - technology that it said could out-think the smartest humans. He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 sq miles). The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected t

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New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-28 17:06:09

New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents A new AI voice-cloning tool from a British firm claims to be able to reproduce a range of UK accents more accurately than some of its US and Chinese rivals. Because much of the data traditionally used to train AI products with voices comes from North American or southern English speaking sources, many artificial voices tend to sound similar. To combat this, the company Synthesia spent a year compiling its own database of UK voices wit

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Rian Johnson Aimed to Make the ‘Empire Strikes Back’ of the ‘Star Wars’ Sequels

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-07-28 21:45:45

When talking about his time in Star Wars, Rian Johnson often says that he’d like to return to that world one day, at least once he stops making murder-mystery movies and TV shows. But while fans continue to hope he’ll make that once-planned trilogy one day, others can’t quite get past the seeming disappointments contained in his franchise entry, The Last Jedi. In a new interview, Johnson recalls what he was told when he came aboard the Lucasfilm project. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Johnson addre

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Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-29 01:03:20

Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK Ofcom, the UK regulator, said: "We expect other companies to follow suit, or face enforcement if they fail to act." Reddit, known for its online communities and discussions, said that while it does not want to know who its audience is: "It would be helpful for our safety efforts to be able to confirm whether you are a child or an adult." The social media platform is bringing in the measures to comply with new rules under the UK's Online Safety A

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Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and XAI Granted Up to $200M from Defense Department

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-29 01:16:19

A view of the Pentagon on December 13, 2024, in Washington, DC. Home to the US Defense Department, the Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings. The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it's granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at Anthropic, Google , OpenAI and xAI. The DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office said the awards will help the agency accelerate its adoption of "advanced AI capabilities to address c

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Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 00:14:52

Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. Reddit said that users "shouldn't need to share personal information to participate in meaningful discussions," but that it will comply with the law by verifying age in a way that protects users' privacy. "Using Reddit has never required disclosing your real world identity, and these updates don't change that," Reddit said

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Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 05:14:52

Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content" in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. Reddit said that users "shouldn't need to share personal information to participate in meaningful discussions," but that it will comply with the law by verifying age in a way that protects users' privacy. "Using Reddit has never required disclosing your real world identity, and these updates don't change that," Reddit said

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