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Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-05 06:12:04

The launch of an Instagram feature that details users' geolocation data illicited backlash from social media users on Thursday. Meta debuted the Instagram Map tool on Wednesday, pitching the feature as way to "stay up-to-date with friends" by letting users share their "last active location." The tool is akin to Snapchat's Snap Map feature that lets people see where their friends are posting from. Although Meta said in a blog post that the feature's "location sharing is off unless you opt in,"

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 09:37:12

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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Secretive, Peter Thiel-Founded ‘Tech Bilderberg” Group Is Moving Up in the World

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-05 06:30:57

A secretive group founded by Palantir mogul Peter Thiel is planning to expand its influence in Washington, D.C., according to a report from Axios. The group, called Dialog, wants to establish a permanent physical campus in the capital, where it can carry on its invite-only meetings involving major power players. Working off information provided by a source with knowledge of the group’s activities, Axios claims that Dialog—which it says is “often compared to a tech-era Bilderberg”—has plans for

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 11:56:33

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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Block shares pop on full-year guidance boost

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-05 16:44:20

Block shares jumped 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year. Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG. Earnings per share: 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected Revenue: $6.05 billion vs. $6.31 billion expected Revenue fell close to 2% from $6.16 billion a year earlier. Block said gross profit rose 14% from a year earlier to $2.54 billion, beating analyst

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Meta says these wild headset prototypes could be the future of VR

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:51:32

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. In actual stats, that's up to 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree. One of the goals

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Block shares pop 11% on full-year guidance boost

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-06 02:47:02

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on Friday, June 4, 2021. Block shares jumped in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year. Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG. Earnings per share: 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected Block doesn't report a revenue figure, but said gross profit rose 1

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How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-05 14:12:54

The American economy has split in two. There’s a rip-roaring AI economy. And there’s a lackluster consumer economy. You see it in the economic statistics. Last quarter, spending on artificial intelligence outpaced the growth in consumer spending. Without AI, US economic growth would be meager. You see it in stocks. In the last two years, about 60 percent of the stock market’s growth has come from AI-related companies, such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta. Without the AI boom, stock market retur

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 8, #319

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 02:00:05

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. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a real toughie.There's a fun word puzzle in the green category, and the purple one goes completely off the wall with one of those remove-and-add-a-letter twists. No fears, we'll help you through it. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 8, #789

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 02:00:07

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 is a fun mix of everything. You don't even want to know how long I looked for other video games after spotting Pac-Man in the grid. Waka waka... Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the

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How to use Instagram Map and set your location-sharing preferences

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-06 02:05:42

This week, Instagram introduced a new Snap Map-like feature called Instagram Map that lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content. If you decide to turn on your location on Instagram Map, your location only updates when you open the app or have it running in the background, meaning it doesn’t provide continuous, real-time location updates. This is different from Snap Map, which lets users choose whether their location is updated only w

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xAI makes Grok Imagine video generator free for everyone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-06 06:31:20

Elon Musk’s xAI firm has some counter-programming planned following OpenAI’s GPT-5 upgrade to ChatGPT. Specifically, xAI has made the Grok Imagine tool for turning images into short videos available for free for everyone. Grok Imagine is one of the few image-to-video generative AI tools publicly available for free. Access to the tool is available inside the Grok app on iOS and Android. Grok Imagine first has you generate or upload an image, then it presents a button to convert it into a video

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Adam Mosseri says 'people are confused' about how the Instagram map works

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 11:47:40

Yesterday, Meta introduced a new map feature that's almost identical to Snapchat's Snap Map. The feature has quickly sparked a backlash, though, and not just because it's yet another example of Instagram ripping off a Snapchat feature. While the map requires users to opt-in to share their location, many users were surprised and alarmed to see that their Instagram map was already populated with the locations of some accounts when it launched. That's because the map automatically pulls in locatio

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Italy's pizza detectives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 18:17:26

As pizza's popularity spreads around the world, a group of top-secret agents are travelling the globe on espionage missions to determine what "real" pizza is. On a sweltering day bleached by the fearsome southern Italian sun, a group of international travellers have gathered a stone's throw from Naples' San Gennaro catacombs, named for the city's patron saint. But these visitors aren't here to venerate the ancient martyr; they've come in service of something equally important to the city's ide

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X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 12:00:58

Grok's responses to users on X could include paid advertisements in the future. According to the Financial Times, X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion that his company would let marketers pay to appear in suggestions from Grok. He said that after making Grok the "smartest, most accurate AI in the world," the company is now focusing on paying "for those expensive GPUs." Musk added that if a person is asking Grok to solve a specific problem, then "advertising the specific soluti

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Italy's Undercover Pizza Detectives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 00:17:26

As pizza's popularity spreads around the world, a group of top-secret agents are travelling the globe on espionage missions to determine what "real" pizza is. On a sweltering day bleached by the fearsome southern Italian sun, a group of international travellers have gathered a stone's throw from Naples' San Gennaro catacombs, named for the city's patron saint. But these visitors aren't here to venerate the ancient martyr; they've come in service of something equally important to the city's ide

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Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-07 02:29:40

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends, though the long-awaited reposting tool is nothing ot sneeze at, either. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Fri

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HBO Max is about to get ‘aggressive’ to stop password sharing

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-07 06:44:20

The days of streaming service password sharing seem to be ending fast. HBO Max just signaled that it’s about to launch an “aggressive” campaign to snuff out password sharing among subscribers. Here’s what that means. HBO Max plans to eliminate password sharing soon Last fall, HBO Max—which at the time was just Max, and had a blue logo—said it would start telling password sharers they had to pay more for the privilege. It seems that campaign didn’t move the needle much. JB Perrette, head of s

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The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-07 16:10:00

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta aims to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have a recipe for achieving that goal, and the first ingredient is human talent: Zuckerberg has reportedly tried to lure top researchers to Meta Superintelligence Labs with nine-figure offers. The second ingredient is AI itself. Zuckerberg recently said on an earnings call that Meta will focus on building self-improving AI—systems that can bootstrap themselves to higher and higher levels of performa

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GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 16:01:09

About Us We're a digital caregiving platform dedicated to helping older and disabled adults live independently and thrive in their own homes—avoiding the need for retirement communities. We adapt on-demand APIs from companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart to meet the unique needs of individuals with cognitive, visual, mobility, and dexterity challenges. We're a highly profitable and fast-growing startup. Our team is fully remote, with a total engineering headcount of 12 (including thi

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How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-07 14:12:54

The American economy has split in two. There’s a rip-roaring AI economy. And there’s a lackluster consumer economy. You see it in the economic statistics. Last quarter, spending on artificial intelligence outpaced the growth in consumer spending. Without AI, US economic growth would be meager. You see it in stocks. In the last two years, about 60 percent of the stock market’s growth has come from AI-related companies, such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta. Without the AI boom, stock market retur

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Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-07 16:55:35

The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of Section 8, as well as the entirety of Section 9 and Section 10, were deleted from Article 1 of the Constitution on the U.S. government’s official website over the past month. The changes to the sections, which pertained to the Congressional powers, the rights of individual states, and the rights to due p

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The Pixel’s most powerful privacy tool doesn’t come from Google, but I’d install it in a heartbeat

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-08 00:00:24

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google’s Pixel phones have long been sold as some of the most secure Android devices you can buy, thanks to the inclusion of the Titan M2 chip and regular security patches over several years. There’s a bit of irony to that statement, of course — Google’s entire business model revolves around selling ads. Indeed, the search giant has quite a bit of insight into the way you use your device along with a host of other analytics and location data. Having said tha

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Grinding Your Teeth While Sleeping? Here's How to Stop Naturally

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-07 22:48:03

If you're dealing with jaw, tooth, ear or head pain, especially in the morning, you may have sleep bruxism, which means you're grinding or clenching your teeth when you sleep. If you have a mild case, you can try to treat it and soothe your symptoms at home. If you have a more severe case or it doesn't improve, make sure you see your dentist or doctor for treatment. Why do I grind my teeth when I sleep? Before we explain how to stop grinding your teeth, let's take a step back and look at what

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Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 03:00:02

By now, you’ve likely heard of fraudulent calls that use AI to clone the voice of people the call recipient knows. Often, the result is what sounds like a grandchild, CEO, or work colleague you’ve known for years reporting an urgent matter requiring immediate action, saying wiring money, divulging login credentials, or visiting a malicious website. Researchers and government officials have been warning of the threat for years, with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency saying in

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 sounds like it will be very much worth the wait

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-07 09:24:38

Last year, Apple was rumored to launch a new Apple Watch Ultra—but it didn’t. Instead, we only got a black finish for the existing Ultra 2. Now, with an Apple Watch Ultra 3 upgrade truly around the corner, it’s increasingly sounding like it will be very much worth the wait. Two-year wait for Apple Watch Ultra 3 will result in bigger upgrades As far as Apple products go, Apple Watch Ultra is a relative newcomer. The first model launched in 2022, with a second-gen landing a year later in 2023.

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Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 03:00:51

Traditionally on most Linux distributions, regular (human) users are managed via entries in /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow , /etc/group and /etc/gshadow . With the advent of systemd-homed it might be desirable to convert an existing, traditional user account to a systemd-homed managed one. Below is a brief guide how to do that. Before continuing, please read up on these basic concepts: This is a manual process, and possibly a bit fragile. Hence, do this at your own risk, read up beforehand, and mak

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 7, #788

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 15:00:05

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 has one category that could be in the Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, so hopefully you know something about a certain sport. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 7, #318

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 15:00:06

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. Can you identify pro athletes from just a headshot? If not, today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. Personally, I'm no fan of the photo clues, but there were only two today. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Supe

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Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-08 21:05:20

A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling mathematician Hannah Cairo was just 17 when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a decades-old proposition — in higher math, it's common for the suggestion that something is true based on observations to become a target for challenging formalized counter-proofs — dealing with waves on surfac

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Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

New executive order puts all grants under political control

Secretive, Peter Thiel-Founded ‘Tech Bilderberg” Group Is Moving Up in the World

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Block shares pop 11% on full-year guidance boost

How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ

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Italy's Undercover Pizza Detectives

Instagram adds a new friends map feature that sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

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The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers

How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ

Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

The Pixel’s most powerful privacy tool doesn’t come from Google, but I’d install it in a heartbeat

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 sounds like it will be very much worth the wait

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 7, #318

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