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Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat now on App Store

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-26 23:51:39

Bitchat, a messaging app created by Twitter and Block founder Jack Dorsey, is available to download from the iOS App Store. Dorsey says he coded the basis of the app over the course of a weekend in early July. Bitchat operates through Bluetooth mesh networks, which means that users can send messages to others within the range of Bluetooth connectivity — usually around 100 meters — without cell reception or a Wi-Fi connection. The app’s UX is very minimal. There is no log-in system, and you’re

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Bragi and OpenAI team up to offer ChatGPT-enabled headphones

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-27 04:20:50

With its new partnership, Germany-based Bragi will let third-party headphone and other audio product makers integrate a GPT-based assistant, accessible via a button press or wake word. Here are the details. A GPT-4.1-based assistant in your ear Since 2019, when Bragi pivoted from the headphone manufacturing business to licensing its technology, it’s been working with brands like Bose to help third-party vendors develop headphones with features that rival leading brands and competitors. Bragi

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

wired.com Jason Koebler 2025-12-27 04:00:00

Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company has also asked existing employees to volunteer for a “mock AI-enabled interview,” the messages say. It’s the latest indication that Silicon Valley giants are pushing software engineers to use AI in their jobs, and it signals a broader move toward hiring employees who can vibecode as part of their jo

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Samsung backs South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions ahead of IPO

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-27 17:36:09

The Rebel-Quad is the second-generation product from Rebellions and is made up of four Rebel AI chips. Rebellions, a South Korean firm, is looking to rival companies like Nvidia in AI chips. South Korean artificial intelligence chip startup Rebellions has raised money from tech giant Samsung and is targeting a funding round of up to $200 million ahead of a public listing, the company's management told CNBC on Tuesday. Last year, Rebellions merged with another startup in South Korea called Sape

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If You're Traveling to Another Country, You Need an eSim. Here's How You Can Snag a Free One for Your Next Trip

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 16:00:03

Debalina Ghosh/Getty Images After nearly two years of traveling around the world, I've learned a few travel hacks. One of my favorite ways to save money when overseas? Using an eSIM. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of an eSIM, it's a digital SIM installed on your phone that lets you access a mobile network without a physical SIM card. Using an eSIM for all my mobile data abroad means I don't have to worry about expensive roaming charges from my US mobile provider or buying a physical SIM

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Qi2 Wireless Charging: Everything You Need to Know (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-25 14:00:00

It’s ironic, but we here at WIRED have long been wireless charging fans. Not having to fumble with cables is nice! Most wireless charging devices these days follow the Qi (pronounced chee) standard, which has taken its time reaching ubiquity. (The user experience has not always been great.) The Wireless Power Consortium, which manages the charging protocol, announced the next-generation version called Qi2 in early 2023. Qi2 wireless charging promises perfect alignment, with the potential for acc

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Fintech dystopia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 20:57:44

"Just like beauty, efficiency, competition, and security are all in the eye of the beholder. For example, one person’s “efficiency” may be another person’s “dismantling critical government infrastructure.” And yet technological solutions designed to make things more efficient, more competitive, or more secure are often presented by Silicon Valley as neutral and universally desirable. That veneer of neutrality and universality can be dangerous if it disguises the fact that Silicon Valley is solvi

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Could aluminium become the packaging 'champion'?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-27 23:04:41

Could aluminium become the packaging 'champion'? 57 minutes ago Share Save MaryLou Costa Technology Reporter Share Save Meadow Some packaging firms are betting on aluminium In front of me is a line-up of aluminium cans, but not a drink in sight. Instead, these cans have been designed to hold toiletries like shampoo, shower gel and hand wash, condiments like ketchup and household cleaning products. I'm at the London research and development centre for Meadow, a start-up that has developed a ne

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.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:49:50

You just started a new project. You ran cargo init , poetry init and go mod init . Those commands created the necessary files to work, it also added the following lines to your .gitignore: target __pycache__ bin All great. You continue implementing features, and when the time comes, you publish your project to your Git hosting platform of choice. People start to get interested in your project. One even decides that he's going to implement a new feature! Literally free work done for you! Alr

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MSI expects to top 10 million motherboard sales for the first time as market rebounds

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-28 09:18:00

Bottom line: MSI is staging a decisive comeback in the fiercely competitive motherboard and GPU markets, navigating supply chain challenges and shifting industry demands to reclaim its place alongside top rivals. This rebound signals broader shifts in tech manufacturing and consumer appetite amid rapid innovation. DigiTimes reports MSI is poised for a milestone year, with analysts projecting global motherboard shipments will top 10 million units in 2025. The surge marks a sharp recovery for the

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‘Pluribus’: Everything we know about Apple TV+ show from Breaking Bad creator

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-28 14:29:51

‘Pluribus’ is the newly-revealed, cryptic new series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Here’s everything we know about Pluribus so far, including Apple TV+ release date, cast, plot summary, and more. Pluribus is a mysterious new sci-fi drama coming soon to Apple TV+ One of the most anticipated Apple TV+ premieres this fall is the long-gestating new series from Vince Gilligan. Pluribus will premiere on Friday, November 7 with its first two episodes on Apple TV+, followed by weekly rele

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bitchat mesh, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app, debuts on the App Store

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-28 14:37:21

After a short beta period, Jack Dorsey’s new Bluetooth messaging app has officially launched on the App Store. Here’s how it works. A few weeks ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced bitchat, an open-source weekend project of a messaging app that relied on Bluetooth, rather than the internet, to connect users. Now, the app is live on the App Store, although Dorsey has confirmed that a bug in the iOS version is preventing it from connecting to Android devices. A fix has already been subm

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Superhero Movies Have Stopped Obsessing Over Origins

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-28 14:30:37

There’s a repeating theme across 2025’s major superhero movies—Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps. All four have interesting, sometimes conflicting relationships with time and how far along their characters are into their superhero tenures, making these movies simultaneous continuations and introductions. Time has always been a key part of superhero movies, and it used to be that their starting points could be whenever a creative team chose

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Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 17:58:16

Scientists are racing to find potential ways to slow down global warming, going far as to investigate ways to dim the Sun. The concept, known as solar geoengineering, has proven incredibly controversial in the past, with critics arguing that we simply don't know enough about the risks, including the environmental and societal impacts of tinkering with the climate. Proponents don't necessarily disagree, but they say the situation is already so bad that we need to consider drastic action, even if

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FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

news.ycombinator.com Bronwyn Has Always Loved Words 2025-12-28 14:06:00

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Internet Archive joins federal library system as official repository for government documents

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-28 17:22:00

What just happened? Non-profit organization Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, as a digital library conceived to provide free access to digital knowledge via the internet. Now, the IA is getting yet another noteworthy "upgrade" thanks to an official federal designation promoted by a US Senator. The Internet Archive was recently designated as an official "federal depository" library for the state of California. Senator Alex Padilla made the designation in a letter sent to Sc

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Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 20:40:05

# Requesting funding for 90s.dev Hi everyone. A couple months ago I posted 90s.dev under the wrong title. I called it a video game maker, because that’s the vision I had for it. But I posted it prematurely, and it wasn’t yet a video game maker. It was an retro os web environment, which I planned to make a game maker in. So a lot of you showed interest, but I asked you to come back later. Well, the problem was that I need to be monetized for my efforts on it. I have practically no spare time du

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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

news.ycombinator.com Bronwyn Has Always Loved Words 2025-12-29 08:06:00

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement that stands to save millions of lives across the globe. The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Getting the KIM-1 to talk to my Mac

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 05:12:19

It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down t...

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Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-30 15:52:04

The UK has become the first major country to introduce a legal requirement for internet age verification, but it affects all websites and apps worldwide. Additionally, the US has recently revived a bill very similar to the British legislation. While the law was presented as a way to prevent children accessing adult websites, the reality is very different, and we’re already seeing the privacy risks of good intentions being turned into bad legislation – with iMessage and FaceTime in the firing li

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Drafting Software Recommendation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 03:46:50

I am looking for simple, logical, programmatically powerful drafting software to draw floor plans. Ideally it would be online or open source. I don't have a windows computer at this time, so unless I want to get one I need to use something that is capable of running on older unix / linux or online. I tried Canva to reproduce a pen and ink sketch I made but so far I have a found it lacking. It is slow to use and illogical. Point and click and drag sucks relative to being able to enter the parame

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ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 06:01:01

ZUSE IRC Terminal Client ZUSE is a sleek, minimal IRC client for your terminal. Built with Go and powered by the elegant Bubble Tea framework. Chat faster, cleaner, and without distractions right from your terminal. Installation go install github.com/babycommando/zuse@latest Build from Source Get and build: git clone https://github.com/yourusername/zuse.git cd zuse go mod tidy go build -o zuse # or zuse.exe on Windows Add the compiled file to your system PATH Usage Open a fresh terminal

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The Bootstrap Load

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 09:37:26

The Bootstrap Load Home Back The Intel 4004 Microprocessor and the Silicon Gate Technology A testimonial from Federico Faggin, designer of the 4004 and developer of its enabling technology Quick Links: Silicon Gate Technology The Buried Contact The Gilbert Hyatt Patent The Bootstrap Load "an understanding of the physics of how devices work, because in a bootstrap load what you need to do is to always have a virtual junction, instead of a physical junction." (Faggin, in a 2007 oral panel inte

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Computing’s Top 30: John Werner

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-30 06:00:44

What drives a master inventor? If it’s IBM’s John Werner, it’s both voracious curiosity and a passion for solving real-world problems. These dual drives have resulted in more than 270 patents filed and 139 issued—and in Werner’s being named an IBM Master Inventor in 2018. Today, Werner is a Senior Electromagnetic Compatibility and Product Safety Designer Engineer at IBM, where he specializes in compliance testing and thrives in what he calls the company’s “ecosystem of brilliant minds.” He is

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Post SMTP plugin flaw exposes 200K WordPress sites to hijacking attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 21:17:39

More than 200,000 WordPress websites are using a vulnerable version of the Post SMTP plugin that allows hackers to take control of the administrator account. Post SMTP is a popular email delivery plugin for WordPress that counts more than 400,000 active installations. It’s marketed as a replacement of the default ‘wp_mail()’ function that is more reliable and feature-rich. On May 23, a security researcher reported the vulnerability to WordPress security firm PatchStack. The flaw is now identif

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Epic Recall, Epic Fail

news.ycombinator.com Angelica Oung 2025-12-30 05:17:35

Expectations were turned upside down as the Epic Recall failed. “Epic Recall, Epic Win!” (大罷免，大成功) was almost an inescapable battle cry for the last few months in Taiwan. Everywhere you went there were bright-eyed bushy-tailed young volunteers asking you if you’d like to recall your local KMT legislator to “protect Taiwan and Counter China” because “they’re all in cahoots with the CCP” and “we have to protect our democracy before its too late.” Well today was Recall Election Day and to my HUGE

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‘Magic: The Gathering’ Swung Into the Spider-Verse at Comic-Con

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-30 02:15:46

We’re on the cusp of the release of Magic: The Gathering’s next major set, Edge of Eternities, next week, but that didn’t stop Wizards of the Coast from swinging into San Diego Comic-Con to show off its next big crossover: Spider-Man. And in our first major glimpse at what to expect from the set, we got treated to a whole spider-verse of new cards—and, of course, some very nifty comic book-themed variants to get your wallet’s spidey senses tingling. It’s no surprise that transforming cards are

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This Small-Town Greek Doctor on How He Uses AI: ‘Without AI, Q Fever Might Not Have Been on Our List’

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-30 03:16:05

Ioannina, a lakeside town in northern Greece surrounded by mountains, is not the kind of place you expect to find cutting-edge artificial intelligence quietly reshaping medicine. Yet, inside its main public hospital, Dr. Tzimas is doing just that. Dr. Tzimas is quietly reshaping how medicine is practiced. From spotting rare diseases like Q fever to managing conflicts among junior doctors, Dr. Tzimas has woven AI into the rhythm of daily medical life. However, he believes that AI will not be ab

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PSA: New Samsung foldables and Galaxy Watch 8 series still come with a gift card!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 00:22:34

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority All of these offers are available from Amazon. As such, all the freebies are Amazon gift cards (or Amazon credits, in the case of the Galaxy Watch 8). The deals are available for all available color versions. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Z Flip 7 FE The main difference now, compared to when the pre-order deals were available, is that you no longer get the storage upgrade for free. Additionally, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 gift card has been reduced

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Vince Gilligan’s New Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Show Is Coming Real Soon

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-30 14:00:55

Amid all the hubbub of San Diego Comic-Con weekend, Apple TV finally unveiled its new sci-fi drama series, Pluribus, created by Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan. Although Pluribus is Gilligan’s first venture into sci-fi, it will feature a familiar face: Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul. Apple TV’s press release for Pluribus, like its teaser poster, doesn’t reveal much about the show in terms of what viewers can expect from its story, aside from Gilligan’s na

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Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat now on App Store

Bragi and OpenAI team up to offer ChatGPT-enabled headphones

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

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Superhero Movies Have Stopped Obsessing Over Origins

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

Internet Archive joins federal library system as official repository for government documents

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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

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Drafting Software Recommendation

ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

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PSA: New Samsung foldables and Galaxy Watch 8 series still come with a gift card!

Vince Gilligan’s New Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Show Is Coming Real Soon

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