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AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-03 03:43:35

As our lives grow increasingly digital and we spend more time interacting with eerily humanlike chatbots, the line between human connection and machine simulation is starting to blur. Today, more than 20% of daters report using AI for things like crafting dating profiles or sparking conversations, per a recent Match.com study. Some are taking it further by forming emotional bonds, including romantic relationships, with AI companions. Millions of people around the world are using AI companions

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1 in 3 Americans ask ChatGPT to help them find a new job, study finds

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-01-03 08:44:01

gremlin/Getty Images About one in three Americans has used an AI tool like ChatGPT to assist with a career change, according to a new report from Southeastern Oklahoma University (SOU), The report, published Monday and based on a survey of 1,000 Americans spanning four generations, set out to understand the role that AI is playing in a moment of extreme fluidity and change throughout the US labor market: Over half of workers surveyed said they're actively considering a job or career change. Th

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Tesla's stock plunges 9% after another weak quarter for auto sales

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal Lora Kolodny 2026-01-03 12:59:08

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump, inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 30, 2025. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla shares fell 9% Thursday after the company reported a second straight quarter of declining auto sales, and CEO Elon Musk told analysts that there could be a "few rough quarters" ahead due to the expiration of federal electric vehicle tax

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AI slop and fake reports are exhausting some security bug bounties

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-03 12:00:00

So-called AI slop, meaning LLM-generated low quality images, videos, and text, has taken over the internet in the last couple of years, polluting websites, social media platforms, at least one newspaper, and even real-world events. The world of cybersecurity is not immune to this problem, either. In the last year, people across the cybersecurity industry have raised concerns about AI slop bug bounty reports, meaning reports that claim to have found vulnerabilities that do not actually exist, be

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AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it

news.ycombinator.com Jowi Morales 2026-01-03 16:46:14

AMD CEO Lia Su said that chips made in TSMC’s Arizona facility are more expensive than those made in a comparable facility in Taiwan. Dr. Su said that U.S.-made chips cost ‘more than 5% but less than 20%’ higher, and she added during an interview with Bloomberg that these are costs that the company must shoulder to have a more resilient supply chain. “I think the economics of it are we have to consider the resiliency of the supply chain, I think we learned that during the pandemic — the idea th

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Tesla shares drop 8% after auto sales plunge again

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-01-03 22:47:11

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now Tesla shares fell 8% Thursday after the company reported a second straight quarter of declining auto sales. Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker reported a top and bottom line miss on second-quarter results, noting that automotive revenue fell 16% year-on-year to $16.7 billion. On an earnings call, Musk said Tesla "probably could have a few rough quarters" ahead as a result of the expiration of federal electric vehicl

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UnitedHealth says it is facing DOJ investigation over Medicare billing practices

news.ycombinator.com Annika Kim Constantino 2026-01-03 22:16:12

UnitedHealth Group revealed Thursday it is facing a Department of Justice investigation over its Medicare billing practices, adding to a string of setbacks for a company that owns the nation's largest and most powerful private insurer. In a securities filing, the company said it has started complying with formal criminal and civil requests from the DOJ, and that it reached out to the department after reports of the probes surfaced. UnitedHealth also said it has launched a third-party review of

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Amazon venture fund backs startup developing fix for return fraud

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-04 03:00:01

Packages ride on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. The company has just closed a $12 million seed financing, led by venture firm Felicis, with participation from Amazon's $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund and other investors. Cambridge Terahertz, a Sunnyvale, California-based startup, has developed a 3D imaging system that can see inside unopened packages, enabling retailers to more easily and quickly spot cases of

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AI-Generated Content on Netflix Is Already Here

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 02:35:03

How soon will it be before Netflix subscribers begin to see movies and TV shows that were made with generative AI technology? According to CEO Ted Sarandos, it's already happened. In a video conference call after Netflix's earnings were announced on July 17, Sarandos took questions, one of which was focused on when and how the streaming company will generate content with artificial intelligence tools. Surprisingly, Sarandos said the company already did it, on an Argentinian sci-fi show called

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Trump's AI Action Plan Is Here: 5 Key Takeaways

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 00:00:09

The Trump administration on Wednesday laid out the steps it plans to take to ensure "global AI dominance" for the US, with an AI Action Plan that calls for cutting regulations to speed up the development of artificial intelligence tools and the infrastructure to power them. Critics said the plan is a handout to tech and fossil fuel companies, slashing rules that could protect consumers, prevent pollution and fight climate change. Though the plan itself isn't binding (it includes dozens of poli

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Will AI think like humans? We're not even close - and we're asking the wrong question

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2026-01-04 15:00:00

Westend61/Getty Images Artificial intelligence may have impressive inferencing powers, but don't count on it to have anything close to human reasoning powers anytime soon. The march to so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), or AI capable of applying reasoning through changing tasks or environments in the same manner as humans, is still a long way off. Large reasoning models (LRMs), while not perfect, do offer a tentative step in that direction. In other words, don't count on your mea

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Google's $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-04 17:07:52

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Google is going to spend $10 billion more this year than it previously expected due to the growing demand for cloud services, which has created a backlog, executives said Wednesday. As part of its second quarter earnings, the company increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion due to "strong and growing demand for our Cloud produ

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Trump wanted to break up Nvidia — but then its CEO won him over

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-01-04 17:25:46

I said, “why?” I said, “what percentage of the market does he have?” “Sir, he has 100%,” they said. “Who the hell is he? What’s his name?” “His name is Jensen Huang, Nvidia.” I said, “What the hell is Nvidia? I’ve never heard of it before.” He said, “you don’t want to know about it, sir.”

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IBM shares drop as software revenue misses

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-04 22:19:14

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 16, 2024. IBM shares fell as much as 6% in extended trading on Wednesday after the tech conglomerate issued second-quarter results that topped Wall Street projections. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $2.80 adjusted vs. $2.64 expected $2.80 adjusted vs. $2.64 expected Revenue: $16.98 billion vs. $16.59 billion IBM's revenue increased nearly 8% year over

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Texas Instruments stock falls 13% as CEO warns of tariff concerns

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-05 08:00:02

The Texas Instruments headquarters in Dallas, Texas, on Jan. 21, 2024. Texas Instruments shares plunged 13% after the automotive and industrial semiconductor supplier warned of ongoing tariff aftershocks. The company said it expects third-quarter earnings between $1.36 and $1.60 per share, a midpoint of $1.48 per share. That fell short of an LSEG estimate of $1.50. Texas Instruments anticipates revenue between $4.45 billion and $4.48 billion. The midpoint of $4.63 billion was slightly ahead o

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Texas Instruments stock falls 12% as CEO warns of tariff concerns

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-06 03:11:21

The Texas Instruments headquarters in Dallas, Texas, US, on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. Texas Instruments shares plunged 12% after the automotive and industrial semiconductor supplier warned of ongoing tariff aftershocks. The company said it expects third-quarter earnings between $1.36 and $1.60 per share, a midpoint of $1.48 per share. That fell short of an LSEG estimate of $1.50. Texas Instruments anticipates revenues between $4.45 billion and $4.48 billion. The midpoint of $4.63 billion was sli

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Physicists Blow Up Gold With Giant Lasers, Accidentally Disprove Renowned Physics Model

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-06 08:00:07

Scientists equipped with giant lasers have blown up gold at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, heating it to 14 times its boiling point. For a chilling second, they thought they broke physics, but they fortunately did no such thing. That said, they broke something else: a decades-long model in physical chemistry having to do with the fundamental properties of matter. In an experiment presented today in Nature, researchers, for the first time ever, demonstrated a way to directly measure the t

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‘Wednesday’ Is Snapping Back for Season 3 and a Spinoff

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-06 12:15:18

In a few weeks, the Addams Family series Wednesday is debuting its second season on Netflix. Good news for fans of the show: it’s already been renewed for a third. Creator Tim Burton and star Jenna Ortega just broke the news in a Hollywood Reporter cover story about their working together on the show and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. They were both understandably tight-lipped on further details, but showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar talked about their hopes for a seven-season run. (Nevermore

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CISA warns of hackers exploiting SysAid vulnerabilities in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-06 17:30:15

CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in the SysAid IT service management (ITSM) software to hijack administrator accounts. The two unauthenticated XML External Entity (XXE) flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-2775 and CVE-2025-2776, were reported by watchTowr Labs security researchers in December 2024 and patched in March with the release of SysAid On-Prem version 24.4.60. One month later, watchTowr Labs also published proof-of-concept code, showing that t

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CrowdStrike-backed compliance startup Vanta valued at $4 billion in new funding round

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-06 22:00:01

Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of Vanta, speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 2024. Vanta, a startup with software for managing compliance with cybersecurity and privacy standards, said Wednesday that it closed its latest fundraising round at a roughly $4 billion valuation. The $150 million round, which included funding from CrowdStrike's venture arm, represents a valuation increase from $2.45 billion last year. The jump reflects continued corporate

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UK pushes Apple and Google for mobile changes to curb market power

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2026-01-07 09:25:42

In this article AAPL GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A series of iPhone 16s on display inside the Apple store at Tun Razak Exchange in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Sept. 20, 2024. Annice Lyn | Getty Images News | Getty Images Britain's competition regulators on Wednesday took aim at the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google, pushing the two companies to make changes to areas like their app stores. On Wednesday, the Competition and Markets Authority proposed designati

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US agency responsible for nuclear weapons was breached in Sharepoint hack [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-07 09:30:47

More than 10,000 organizations around the world are at risk from hackers after a serious security flaw was discovered in Microsoft’s popular Sharepoint platform, used to store and share confidential documents. The majority of companies at risk are said to be in the US. Update: Bloomberg reports that the National Nuclear Security Administration was among the organizations breached – see the end of the piece … Microsoft said that there were “active attacks targeting on-premises servers.” US fede

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These 6 gadgets got me through college - here's why they make such a big difference

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2026-01-07 06:40:17

A laptop is a college staple, and there's no way around it. Choosing a laptop for school is a big commitment because while you want it to last all four years and offer great speed and function, you need to find one that suits your major or degree program. Be sure to check out your program's website (or contact a department chair) to see if there are any recommended laptops, operating systems, or specs. My 2021 HP Envy x360 2-in-1 laptop lasted three years of school (it was my second laptop afte

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NetZeroNitrogen wants bacteria to replace synthetic fertilizer on farm fields

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-01-07 09:00:00

Synthetic fertilizer is a modern wonder, helping to feed billions of people, but it’s not without its costs. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields has led to dead zones in oceans around the world, where low oxygen levels have starved normally teeming coastal waters of life itself. Eliminating synthetic fertilizers is a tall order, but one startup thinks that its bacteria can eliminate up to half of it, all while undercutting fertilizer on cost. NetZeroNitrogen has developed a suite of bacterial s

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Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, says tech giant

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-07 04:53:31

Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, says tech giant "Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing," Microsoft said in a statement. The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them. China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have "exploited vulnerabilities" in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms

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Gupshup raises $60M in equity and debt, leaves unicorn status hanging

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-07 09:30:00

Gupshup, a business messaging startup that began its journey in India over two decades ago and became a unicorn four years ago, has raised a new over $60 million round — but is keeping its new valuation under wraps. In 2021, Gupshup raised two funding rounds within four months, securing $340 million from prominent investors including Tiger Global, Fidelity Management, Think Investments, and Malabar Investments. These rounds — the startup’s first in roughly a decade — valued Gupshup at $1.4 bill

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Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, firm says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-07 10:53:31

Microsoft servers hacked by Chinese groups, firm says "Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing," Microsoft said in a statement. The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them. China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have "exploited vulnerabilities" in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but

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The Best Places to Get Low-Cost Eye Exams, Glasses and Contacts Without Vision Insurance

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-07 10:49:00

Vision is our most important sense, which makes taking care of it essential. 93 million American adults are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half of them have visited an eye doctor's office in the last 12 months, according to the CDC. This makes more sense once you consider a 2022 study that found 63% of Americans don't have vision insurance, as an eye exam, glasses and contact lenses can add up without it. If you don't have one either and are wondering if paying out of pocket for

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NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 03:16:18

NonRAID - unRAID storage array compatible kernel driver NonRAID is an fork of the unRAID system's open-source md_unraid kernel driver for supported kernels, but targeting primarily Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, enabling UnRAID-style storage arrays with parity protection outside of the commercial UnRAID system. Unlike in UnRAID, where the driver replaces kernels standard md driver, the NonRAID driver has been separated into it's own kernel module ( md_nonraid ). This allows it to be easily added as a DKMS

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Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-08 03:57:48

Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers. Miian Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year. Bloomberg first wrote about these spyware notifications. Miaan Group published a report on Tuesday on the state of

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AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

1 in 3 Americans ask ChatGPT to help them find a new job, study finds

Tesla's stock plunges 9% after another weak quarter for auto sales

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AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it

Tesla shares drop 8% after auto sales plunge again

UnitedHealth says it is facing DOJ investigation over Medicare billing practices

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Texas Instruments stock falls 13% as CEO warns of tariff concerns

Texas Instruments stock falls 12% as CEO warns of tariff concerns

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CISA warns of hackers exploiting SysAid vulnerabilities in attacks

CrowdStrike-backed compliance startup Vanta valued at $4 billion in new funding round

UK pushes Apple and Google for mobile changes to curb market power

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These 6 gadgets got me through college - here's why they make such a big difference

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NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

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