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Find Hub is working on a new way to quickly check your friends’ location (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:30:34

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Google appears to be working on a home screen shortcut for users who are sharing their location with you in Find Hub. Right now, Google Maps already offers similar functionality. Bringing the option to the Find Hub reflects Google’s consolidation of tracking tools. Big things are in the works right now for the Find Hub on Android. Already this year we’ve seen it pick up this new name and add support for tracking people, and just over the past couple da

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I tested the best laptop docking stations -- here's what I recommend for your office setup

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-21 04:00:14

For students heading back to school or professionals looking to upgrade, a good docking station can make all the difference. These devices, sometimes called Thunderbolt docks, consolidate your connectivity needs into one compact hub. With the right one, you can plug in all sorts of accessories like external drives, keyboards, and even monitors. The best docks are fully loaded with a wide array of ports, support multiple high-res displays, and offer fast data transfer speeds. There are many grea

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Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 14:51:16

A city building game that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate the organism of a city arising from the interactions of millions of individuals. People on the move, businesses in trade, neighbourhoods changing. Each inhabitant struggling, adapting, making life choices. The city evolves, the city grows. The city is us. See and inspect all aspects of city life, across many scales of time and space. Shape your city by sketching detailed project plans for infrastructure and zones. Implement

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Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Greg Foletta 2025-11-21 05:11:51

Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem Categories: Statistics R 34 minutes read I completed a Computer Science degree at uni, and bundled a lot of maths subjects in as electives: partial differential equations, vector calculus, discrete maths, linear algebra. For some reason however I always avoided statistics subjects. Maybe there’s a story to be told about a young person finding uncertainty uncomfortable, because twenty years later I find statistics, particularly the Bayesia

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Show HN: Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:43:43

Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine ​ 1. What Is a Spatial Web Browser? ​ A Spatial Web Browser is a user agent that loads, interprets, and presents Web content (HTML, CSS, JS, WebGL/WebGPU, WebXR, media) directly inside a 3D coordinate space instead of flattening everything onto a 2D rectangular viewport. Every DOM element (text nodes, images, canvas, form controls, SVG, etc.) can be: Positioned, rotated, and scaled in world / XR reference spaces Layered with true depth ordering (n

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Trump's administration may look to buy a stake in Intel

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 18:32:34

Intel has had some recent struggles in delivering results for its shareholders, but the company could soon be answering to an additional boss. The current administration is reportedly in talks to have the US government acquire a stake in the chipmaker. No specifics about the size or value of the potential share in the company have been disclosed, but the focus appears to be on increasing Intel's manufacturing footprint in the US. Bloomberg first reported the news, but at least one source caution

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OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 18:01:04

We value workplace flexibility At OneSignal, we understand that flexibility is key when it comes to having productive and happy teammates. We know that different roles/teams/people have different needs – some benefit more from being fully remote while others benefit more from having a hybrid setup where they have in office collaboration days 2-3 days a week. So we support both! Our headquarters are based in San Mateo, CA and we also offer shared workspace options for our teams to work together

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US government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-21 17:38:20

In Brief The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump di

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Crypto Prices Plunge After Shock Inflation Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-21 23:45:14

The biggest cryptocurrencies in the world dipped sharply Thursday after the latest inflation data showed wholesale prices are rising much faster than expected. The price of Bitcoin is down 3.8% on the day ($117,900), Ethereum is down 4% ($4,535), and Ripple is down 6.1% ($3.07) according to CoinMarketCap. Crypto prices are responding to the Producer Price Index (PPI) for July, which measures the average change in prices from U.S. manufacturers and service providers. It rose by 0.9%, according t

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Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-21 23:32:02

Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million. Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should priori

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U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-21 23:38:20

In Brief The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump

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Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future

wired.com Graham Webster 2025-11-22 04:13:18

Alan Estevez was sitting at his dining room table wearing a t-shirt when Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called on Zoom to ask if he wanted to be the Biden administration’s top export control official. “You’re going to have to sell me on this,” Estevez recalls telling her. It was 2021, and the outspoken New Jersey native thought he had finally left public service behind. After more than three decades at the Pentagon, he had left and taken a job in consulting. He wasn’t sure if he was ready

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-22 09:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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Consumer safety groups are demanding an FTC investigation into Grok’s ‘Spicy’ mode

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-22 14:37:01

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. A new letter to the Federal Trade Commission, and US attorneys general for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, calls for an urgent investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok — especially its new “Imagine” tool for AI-generated image and video. The tool, released by xAI earlier this month, encourages users to create NSFW conten

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Google Find Hub’s automatic enrollments will only give you two days to opt out (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 14:51:19

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google plans to expand Find Hub’s automatic enrollment with more triggers. We’ve now spotted clues suggesting that once users hit these triggers, they would have two days to opt out of participating in the Find Hub network. Additional triggers expected in the future include enabling Location access on the device, syncing with Fast Pair accessories, and more. Google recently rebranded Android’s Find My Device tool into Find Hub when it added the ability t

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A Common Virus Causes Cancer, but Most Americans Are Clueless About It

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-22 23:00:09

The human papillomavirus (HPV) is a major source of cancer that’s now almost entirely preventable through vaccination. But sobering research out today shows that Americans are largely in the dark about HPV and its many health risks, much less the HPV vaccine. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina conducted the study, which examined nationally representative survey data. A third of Americans don’t know that the virus exists, they found, while most who do know are still unaware

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AI translation tech Palabra gets backing from Reddit co-founder’s venture firm

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-23 04:41:17

A startup called Palabra AI, which develops an AI-powered speech translation engine, is tackling one of the more difficult aspects of teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand multiple languages. Today, LLMs make it easier to convert text from one language to another, but speech translation is not as simple, according to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. “AI can generate content and translate text. But [Speech] Translation is a unique problem because it requires real-time language sw

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Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Cox 2025-11-23 08:33:49

Excluding food and energy prices, core PPI rose 0.9% against the forecast for 0.3%. Excluding food, energy and trade services, the index was up 0.6%, the biggest gain since March 2022. The producer price index , which measures final demand goods and services prices, jumped 0.9% on the month, compared with the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% gain. It was the biggest monthly increase since June 2022. Wholesale prices rose far more than expected in July, providing a potential sign that inflation is

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The Narwal Flow is the closest I’ve seen a robot vacuum get to being perfect

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 09:30:08

Narwal Flow If you're considering a robot vacuum purchase purely based on its ability to leave floors of all types as clean as possible, the Narwal Flow is the best bot you can get. AI-powered navigation, EdgeReach Technology, and anti-tangle brushes clean carpets and hard floors all the way to the edges and into the corners with zero fuss. The multi-function base station, with self-cleaning and drying functions, also makes it a breeze to use. Today, I looked at my floor and noticed it looked e

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A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data. What changed and why?

news.ycombinator.com Joe Hasell 2025-11-19 17:03:31

$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why? In June 2025, the World Bank increased its extreme poverty estimates by 125 million people. This doesn’t mean the world has gotten poorer: it reflects a new, higher International Poverty Line of $3 a day, up from $2.15. To track progress towards ending extreme poverty by 2030, the United Nations relies on the World Bank to estimate the share of people living below a certain threshold, calle

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Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court

news.ycombinator.com Danny Bradbury 2025-11-23 23:51:40

A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from a woman’s reproductive health tracking app without consent. The app in question is called Flo Health. Developed in 2015 in Belarus to track menstrual cycles, it has evolved over the years as a tracking app for highly detailed, intimate aspects of women’s reproductive health. Flo Health user Erica Frasco bought a class action lawsuit against the company in 2021, following a damning report about its privacy infractions by the Wall St

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Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Prendergast 2025-11-23 20:19:37

Why we're open sourcing our payments platform Since Februray, Teddy and I have worked tirelessly on Zenobia Pay. Our mission: build an alternative to high-fee card networks (Visa, Mastercard) using bank transfers as payments. We were super excited by FedNow, the Federal Reserve's instant transfer rail, which inspired us to quit our jobs and do this full time. We thought, let's build QR code payments, like Pix or UPI or AliPay, but for the US. And we did! We built an instant clearing, mobile fir

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ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 22:19:13

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications. Federation means that these websites can interact, allowing the humans using them to interact too, despite being registered on different websites. Fo

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US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

news.ycombinator.com Hussein Reports On The U.S. Treasury Department For The Associated Press. She Covers Tax Policy 2025-11-24 10:31:19

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s gross national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, a record number that highlights the accelerating debt on America’s balance sheet and increased cost pressures on taxpayers. The $37 trillion update is found in the latest Treasury Department report issued Tuesday which logs the nation’s daily finances. The national debt eclipsed $37 trillion years sooner than pre-pandemic projections. The Congressional Budget Office’s January 2020 projections had gross fede

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PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

news.ycombinator.com Cliff Robinson 2025-11-20 02:41:36

The PCI-SIG announced this week that it is not going to stop. Targeting a 2028 release, the PCIe 8.0 specification will double the throughput over PCIe 7.0. With the release, the PCI-SIG also shared two neat charts. PCIe Gen8 Announced by the PCI-SIG Will Double Throughput Again The PCI-SIG has this graphic to show what is happening to I/O bandwidth. It says that the I/O bandwidth is doubling every three years. Something to also keep in mind is that this is very device and interface centric.

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New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:14:23

Security researchers have created a new FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. These weaker login channels are vulnerable to adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks that employ tools like Evilginx, enabling attackers to snatch valid session cookies and hijack the accounts. Although the attack doesn't prove a vulnerability in FIDO itself, it shows that the syste

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New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:26:02

Security researchers have created a new FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. These weaker login channels are vulnerable to adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks that employ tools like Evilginx, enabling attackers to snatch valid session cookies and hijack the accounts. Although the attack doesn't prove a vulnerability in FIDO itself, it shows that the syste

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Google will help you pester your friends into turning location sharing on (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 03:52:53

TL;DR Google’s Find Hub combines resources for tracking devices and sharing location with friends and family. Users need to positively consent first before their location is shared with anyone. The app is working to build an easy way for you to request your friends grant that access. Smartphones are picking up new features and abilities all the time, and while some of those are pushed out to us enabled by default, others are going to require us to make the intentional choice to opt in. And wh

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