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iOS 26: AI Summaries Come Back to iPhone News Apps, but With a Warning

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 23:30:03

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the June Worldwide Developers Conference. The update brings a new Liquid Glass redesign, call screening and hidden features to your iPhone. The update also brings AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps back to Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone. Apple disabled AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps in January. That came a few weeks after the BBC pointed out in December that the f

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How Energy-Generating Sidewalks Work

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-09-23 00:00:00

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied energy and convert it to usable electricity? This is a real thing. Systems have been installed in dozens of countries. Check out this video. And why stop there? You could put them in discotheques and harness that fancy footwork to power the strobe lights. Or bui

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TBM 377: Time Allocation ≠ Capacity Allocation

news.ycombinator.com John Cutler 2025-09-19 02:26:43

Before we jump in: September Conferences! I’m heading to Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit in Las Vegas: September 23–25, 2025. I’m a huge fan of Gene Kim’s work and the community he has created. Dotwork is sponsoring, so I’ll be “working the booth.” Drop by if you’re around. I’ll also be in Cleveland next week (9th and 10th) for Industry. Would love to meet people in person. Lately, I’ve been researching the mental models, mechanisms, and reporting practices behind ‘capacity’ allocation. At

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Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-22 23:00:37

Federal prosecutors charged a UK teenager with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and other crimes in connection with the network intrusions of 47 US companies that generated more than $115 million in ransomware payments over a three-year span. A criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday (PDF) said that Thalha Jubair, 19, of London, was part of Scattered Spider, the name of an English-language-speaking group that has breached the networks of scores of companies worldwide. After obtaining data, t

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Electric aviation awaits a battery breakthrough

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-23 03:01:17

Electric aviation awaits a battery breakthrough 1 hour ago Share Save Adrienne Murray & James Brooks Technology Reporters Share Save Beta Technologies Alia on the way to Stavanger in Norway An aviation rarity touched down in the Norway's second city of Bergen earlier this month. Alia had flown 100 miles (160km) in 55 minutes on battery power alone. Built by US aerospace company Beta Technologies, the electric plane is designed for cargo operations - carrying up to 560kg (half a tonne) loads.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 19, #361

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 06:19:00

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. The yellow category in Connections: Sports Edition is always easy, but today's seemed like a no-brainer. The other categories aren't too tough, either, especially for midwesterners. But if you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edi

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 19, #831

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 10:00:05

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 might be tough, although I thought the blue and purple group were pretty fun, once I saw the connections. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you pla

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Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-09-23 14:44:10

One of the world’s most valuable companies is throwing Intel a lifeline. Nvidia, which has a market cap of $4.3 trillion, said today that it will invest $5 billion in Intel, the struggling US chipmaker that was recently at the center of an unorthodox investment deal with the US government. Intel shares jumped more than 30 percent following the news. The two American chipmakers are also entering into a product collaboration. Intel said in a statement early Thursday morning that “Intel’s leading

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Notion rides AI boom to $500 million in annual revenue, but Microsoft competition looms

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-23 23:00:28

OpenAI's public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 is widely viewed as the event that kicked off the generative AI boom, which remains the dominant theme in the tech industry almost three years later. Notion jumped on the bandwagon early. Two weeks before ChatGPT hit the market, the productivity software startup announced its own artificial intelligence feature using an OpenAI model. Notion AI was designed to be a "writing assistant" that could help a user with brainstorming, editing and summa

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CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 11:53:08

"Stop — Think — Click"... ...is the basic recommendation for securely browsing the Internet and for securely reading emails. Users who have followed this recommendation in the past were less likely to have their computer infected or their computing account compromised. However, still too many users click on malicious web-links, and put their computer and account at risk.

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When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:30:37

BY RINDALA ALAJAJI | September 17, 2025 This is the second instalment in a ten-part blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we set out to collect and spotlight the growing number of stories from people and organizations that have had abortion-related content removed, suppressed, or flagged by dominant social media platforms. Our survey submissions have revealed some alarmi

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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 22:42:56

Grounded in learning, built for the student Our approach is built on two key pillars that work together to augment the learning experience: (1) generating various multimodal representations of the content, and (2) taking foundational steps toward personalization. The seminal dual coding theory states that forging mental connections between different representations strengthens the underlying conceptual schema in our brain. Subsequent research indeed showed that when students actively engage wi

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The Leaked Mega Evolutions I'm Most Excited to See in Pokemon Legends: Z-A

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 22:08:30

The simple joy of catching and battling pocket monsters has always been enough for Pokemon to sell like gangbusters, but each new iteration still has some type of novel gimmick to shake up the gameplay -- and the upcoming Pokemon Legends: Z-A includes one of the most popular ones ever introduced: mega evolutions. Mega evolutions made their debut in Pokemon X and Y over a decade ago, and they quickly proved to be one of the most appealing new features. These powerful Pokemon forms are temporary

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Northrop Grumman successfully resupplies ISS after overcoming software glitch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:38:54

Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took control of the space station's robotic arm to capture the Cygnus spacecraft at 7:24 am EDT (11:24 UTC) on Thursday. A short time later, the robot arm positioned the spacecraft over an attachment port on the station's Unity module, and 16 bolts drove clos

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Notion’s new AI Agents will basically do your job for you

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-09-23 23:02:57

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Notion has entered the agent era of its AI evolution with the launch of the Notion Agent on Thursday. The announcement forms the bulk of the Notion 3.0 roll out available to all users. The company calls the new product a “teammate and Notion super user” that “can do

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Notion launches agents for data analysis and task automation

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-23 23:00:00

At the “Make with Notion” event on Thursday, the company announced the launch of its first AI agent. The agent will draw on all a user’s notion pages and database as context, automatically generating notes and analysis for meetings, competitor evaluation reports, and feedback landing pages. The productivity platform said that the agent can create pages and databases, or update them with new data, properties, or views. Users can also trigger Notion agents from outside platforms that are linked t

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How to use Apple Watch’s hypertension feature in watchOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-24 01:55:20

One of the flagship new features of Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11 (review here) is hypertension notifications. But in a welcome surprise, watchOS 26 brings the new hypertension feature to select older Apple Watch models too. Here’s how to set it up, and which models are compatible. Compatibility requirements for Apple Watch hypertension alerts Hypertension notifications are now available in watchOS 26 for the following Apple Watch models: Apple Watch Series 11 Apple Watch Series 10 Appl

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Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-24 07:03:59

Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Since then, they've been using powerful telescopes to study the mysterious object, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. Most agree that it's probably a comet, albeit an unusual one, though at least one has posited that it could be a remnant of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization — a colorful claim, but o

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I changed these 5 settings on my TV to significantly improve the picture quality

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-24 07:47:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to pop

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Configuration files are user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 07:43:43

18 Sep, 2025 We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file. Yes, that’s exactly it! You rejoice knowing the software’s configuration will be trivial to version control. Your pragmatic instinct is satisfied as well; the door remains open to creating a proper UI later, since it would be merely a graphical view

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New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 07:29:22

So far, prompt injections have proved impossible to prevent, much like memory-corruption vulnerabilities in certain programming languages and SQL injections in Web applications are. That has left OpenAI and the rest of the LLM market reliant on mitigations that are often introduced on a case-by-case basis, and only in response to the discovery of a working exploit. Accordingly, OpenAI mitigated the prompt-injection technique ShadowLeak fell to—but only after Radware privately alerted the LLM ma

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A former Facebook lobbyist is now in charge of the EU's Facebook regulator

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:44:44

A former lobbyist for Meta is now in charge of the EU's chief regulator for big tech firms, according to reporting by The Irish Times . Niamh Sweeney has been named commissioner of the Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is one of the largest EU data protection authorities. Prior to this, she worked at Meta for six years. Sweeney was director of European public policy at WhatsApp and head of Irish public policy at Facebook for many of those years. She becomes the third active commissioner o

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Some dogs can classify their toys by function

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:00:45

Certain dogs can not only memorize the names of objects like their favorite toys, but they can also extend those labels to entirely new objects with a similar function, regardless of whether or not they are similar in appearance, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. It's a cognitively advanced ability known as "label extension," and for animals to acquire it usually involves years of intensive training in captivity. But the dogs in this new study developed the abili

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Android 16 QPR2 may let you flip your Pixel’s navigation bar like on Samsung phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 15:27:58

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding a long-awaited option to Pixel phones that lets users reverse the order of the three-button navigation bar. This feature allows users to switch to the “Recents, Home, Back” layout, which is the default on Samsung Galaxy phones. We discovered evidence for the new setting in Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2, but the setting isn’t live yet. For years, Samsung phones have defaulted to a three-button navigation layout where the back button is on the

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Target-rich environment: Why Microsoft 365 has become the biggest risk

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-24 15:02:12

Microsoft 365 has become the central nervous system of modern business — and cybercriminals know it. Just as Windows became the primary target for attackers because of its market dominance in the 1990s and 2000s, Microsoft 365 now finds itself in the crosshairs for having "won" the email and collaboration war. With over 400 million paid Office 365 seats worldwide and countless organizations relying on its integrated suite of applications, Microsoft 365 represents the ultimate target-rich envir

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An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 16:44:39

An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving Scene: A cozy coffee shop called "Lambda Grounds" where the Wi-Fi password is "currying123" and the baristas wear t-shirts with arrows pointing right. ALEX, a curious philosophy student, sits across from CLAUDE, a mysterious figure who might be an AI, a very pale computer science professor, or possibly a sentient stack overflow answer. Steam rises from their cups in patterns that look suspiciously like lambda calculus expressions. AL

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CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 12:53:08

"Stop — Think — Click"... ...is the basic recommendation for securely browsing the Internet and for securely reading emails. Users who have followed this recommendation in the past were less likely to have their computer infected or their computing account compromised. However, still too many users click on malicious web-links, and put their computer and account at risk.

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These Smoked Human Remains May be the Oldest Mummies Known to Science

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-24 19:13:53

Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the earliest evidence of artificial mummification known to science, pushing back the timeline for the burial ritual to far before the time of the ancient Egyptians. Hunter-gatherers in Southeast Asia who lived some 20,000 and 4,000 years ago buried their dead in tightly crouched or squatting positions. Not only that, but these communities also practiced a form of mummification that involved drying out the human remains over a fire, as research

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No Nissan Ariya for model-year 2026 as automaker cancels imports

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 18:53:41

Last week we drove the new Nissan Leaf, an inexpensive compact electric vehicle. Now equipped with things like active battery thermal management, the new Leaf is actually Nissan's second modern EV, after the debut a couple of years ago of the Ariya SUV. But if you want an Ariya, you ought to hurry—the model has been cut from Nissan USA's offerings for model-year 2026, according to a report in Automotive News. According to a letter sent by Nissan to its dealers, obtained by the trade publication

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Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats

news.ycombinator.com Elizabeth Goodspeed 2025-09-23 04:52:17

Today’s collection is a grab bag of midcentury North American restaurant placemats. Like so many past ephemera finds I’ve shared here, I bought these at Brimfield Flea this July from a vendor who had around 500 in a big plastic tub. I bought 25 for $75 (a steal!) but I did have to talk myself out of asking how much it would be for the whole box. Most of these date from the late 1940s through the ’50s, when the postwar boom and expanding highway system put long-distance vacations within reach fo

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Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats

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