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Itch.io Is Restoring NSFW Games—as Long as They’re Free

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-01-09 16:24:16

On Thursday, indie gaming platform Itch.io began re-indexing some of the adult content it had delisted last month amid pressure from conservative groups and payment processors over its hosting of NSFW titles. While the move returns some content to the site’s searchable catalog, it impacts only those games, comics, and other offerings that are already free and therefore not caught in the current payment debacle. “We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be reintroduci

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Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2026-01-09 16:51:29

4. For a period of three years ending on November 1, 2027, Google may not share revenue generated by the Google Play Store with any person or entity that distributes Android apps, or has stated that it will launch or is considering launching an Android app distribution platform or store. 5. For a period of three years ending on November 1, 2027, Google may not condition a payment, revenue share, or access to any Google product or service, on an agreement by an app developer to launch an app fir

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Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its ‘personality’ — and what makes it ‘evil’

theverge.com Hayden Field 2026-01-09 16:58:16

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. On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system’s “personality” — as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation — changes and why. Researchers also tracked what makes a model “evil.” The Verge spoke with Jack Lindsey, an Anthropic researcher working on interpretability, who has also been tapped to lead the

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Figma stock pops in second day of trading after colossal debut

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-01-09 20:53:12

Figma celebrates its initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025. Shares of design software vendor Figma popped 6% on Friday, a day after the stock more than tripled in its New York Stock Exchange debut. Figma opened at $85 on Thursday under the ticker FIG, and shares closed at $115.50 for a 250% gain. On Friday, the stock traded above $120. Figma is the latest tech company to hit the public markets after an extended IPO drought. Artificial intelligence infrastruct

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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-09 21:50:40

Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, attending the annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 9th, 2025. Palantir has inked a contract with the U.S. Army worth up to $10 billion to meet growing warfare demands over the next decade. As part of the deal, Palantir will help the military streamline efficiencies while preparing for threats, consolidating 75 total contracts into one enterprise deal, the release states. The agreement creates a "comprehensive framework for

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Spotify update now lets you turn off the ‘Create’ button – here’s how

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2026-01-09 21:35:16

Spotify recently introduced a “Create” button along its bottom navigation bar, but it’s really not that helpful. Thankfully, Spotify has fixed this in a new update that lets you turn the “Create” button off. It’s been months since Spotify first rolled out its new “Create” button on the navigation bar, with the button moving from its previous location on the Library tab down to this dedicated position. Tapping the button reveals options to make a new playlist, collaborative playlist, “Blend,” A

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iOS 26’s new Battery feature can help save a draining iPhone

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-09 21:39:06

Apple has some big changes coming to the Battery screen inside iOS 26’s Settings app, including a feature that can help prevent excessive iPhone drains. iOS 26 Battery settings has intelligent suggestions for excess drain Have you ever experienced a mystery iPhone battery drain? A day when your iPhone usage is more or less normal, but for some reason your battery’s draining at an accelerated rate? Force-quitting a bunch of apps might be your solution. Or perhaps visiting the Battery screen in

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Itch.io starts reindexing free NSFW content

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-09 21:24:31

Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games, and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content. In a new Developer Update , the company said the decision will ensure it can "confidently support the widest range of creators in the long term." Itch.io has instructed developers and creators who want their games back on the store to tick a “no payments” box that sits in the pricing section of a game’s edit page. It adds that

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Show HN: Pontoon – Open-source customer data syncs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 21:28:53

Build production ready data syncs that integrate with your customer's data warehouse. About Pontoon is an open source, self-hosted, data export platform. We built Pontoon from the ground up for the use case of shipping data products to your enterprise customers. Pontoon is engineered to make it easy to sync data directly to your customer's data warehouse (eg. Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift). Your customers get their data, without needing to build ETLs or pay for ETL tools, empowering them

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Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

news.ycombinator.com The Deep Think Team 2026-01-09 16:10:38

Today, we’re making Deep Think available in the Gemini app to Google AI Ultra subscribers – the latest in a lineup of extremely capable AI tools and features made exclusively available to them. This new release incorporates feedback from early trusted testers and research breakthroughs. It’s a significant improvement over what was first announced at I/O, as measured in terms of key benchmark improvements and trusted tester feedback. It is a variation of the model that recently achieved the gold

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Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2026-01-09 21:14:57

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s a new turn in the itch.io story. In a forum post, itch.io creator and founder Leaf Corcoran has notified users that the company has begun the process of restoring thousands of NSFW pages that were deindexed — that is, content tha

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Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-09 21:15:00

Applied AI research company Fundamental Research Labs (formerly known as Altera) announced today that it has raised $33 million in Series A funding led by Prosus with participation from Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison. The company has a curious structure as it is working on multiple AI applications in different fields. When it raised its seed funding, Fundametal Research Labs was developing bots that could play Minecraft with you. Today, the company has a games team, a prosumer team

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Nvidia extends Game Ready driver support for Windows 10 users through 2026

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-01-10 02:01:00

In brief: Nvidia has confirmed that it will continue delivering Game Ready drivers for one year after Windows 10 reaches its end-of-life date this October, giving users more time to upgrade. Additionally, gamers who still use Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal graphics cards will receive security updates for another three years. The company explained its plans regarding Windows 10 and older GPUs in the patch notes for the 580.88 graphics driver, released July 31. Those with RTX cards can expect to rece

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The Cybertruck Is Aging Like Fast Fashion on Temu

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-10 00:09:13

When Tesla first unveiled the stainless steel Cybertruck, it was pitched as an indestructible futurist icon. Only a few short years later, many proud Cybertruck owners have discovered that their ultra-expensive rolling tanks are aging like room-temperature milk. One of the most consistent complaints involves seat wrinkles and indentations. On the Cybertruck Owners Club forum, a relatively new driver lamented that "my driver seats are wrinkled after 3,300 miles. I’m not a fat person. Weigh 173 l

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Hot deal: Amazon slashes $450 off the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-10 02:57:11

Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’re big advocates of stepping back a smartphone generation to score yourself the best value for money, especially as the tech has plateaued in recent years. Even still, catching a $450 price drop on one of the best Android phones of last year (we put it in second place) is still quite a coup, and that’s exactly what Amazon is offering up today in this Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra deal. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for $849.99 ($450 off) The huge discount drops the p

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Leaker shares iPhone 17 Air battery images with steel case

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-10 02:20:00

In a little over one month, Apple will unveil its ultra-thin new iPhone 17 Air model. And today, leaker Majin Bu shared a look at what’s said to be the battery component of the new device. First look at alleged iPhone 17 Air battery Today on his website, leaker Majin Bu shared several photos of what’s allegedly the actual battery of the iPhone 17 Air. The battery is housed in a steel enclosure, similar to the design used in last year’s iPhone 16 Pro. Bu says the battery capacity is approxima

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AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-10 00:00:00

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. The security issue is now identified as CVE-2025-54135 and can be leveraged by feeding the AI agent a malicious prompt to trigger attacker-control commands. The Cursor integrated development environment (IDE) relies on AI agents to help developers code faster and more efficiently, allowing them to connect

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Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-10 02:14:00

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key Takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Are you having trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You're not alone. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why Shortly before 9 a.m. ET, users began reporting that both platforms were down. They

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Apple's tariff costs and iPhone sales are soaring - how long until device prices are too?

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-10 02:37:40

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Tariffs cost Apple approximately $800 million last quarter. That bill will go up to about $1.1 billion this quarter. Apple says 1 in 10 iPhone sales in April were due to tariff fears. Apple earnings calls usually have a theme, and there's usually a word associated with that theme that ends up being repeated many times throughout the call. During yesterday's call, the theme and repeated word was "tariffs." iPhone sales were up Because of

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Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 03:33:09

Game icon Think You Know the NYC Market? Prove it on GuessTheRent! Every day, 3 new NYC listings challenge you to guess the rent. Compete with others and test your market knowledge.

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The Longest Sightline on Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 06:08:34

See, all the examples above are limited by the curvature of the earth, and that is why the horizon seems to be the limiting factor. But there are two additional variables in play that can allow for some truly amazing sightlines: the height of the target and the temperature of the air. The height of the target is intuitively obvious, as we all realize we can see Calgary's skyline from way further away than 4.7 km. In fact, Calgary's skyline can be seen at least 50 km away since the height of the

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Online Safety Act: What went wrong?

news.ycombinator.com Callum Booth 2026-01-10 02:00:55

The Online Safety Act recently rolled out in the UK and you’ll be very happy to hear it’s a raging dumpster fire. But this newsletter isn’t about that per se. Instead, in this poorly-considered mire, there’s a kernel of truth, a little glowing nugget that reveals what’s wrong with much technology regulation. Before we get to this little-discussed point, let’s cut up some context into bite-sized chunks and have a good old gobble. So, the Online Safety Act 2023. Theoretically it’s a Pretty Good

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Best Smart Glasses in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-09 23:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. I’ve reviewed virtual and augmented reality tech for well over a decade, going all the way back to Google Glass in 2013. And yet, the category of smart glasses still feels strange and new. Part of that is because smart glasses take on many different forms. They’re all lightweight things that have tech in them and rest on your nos

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Eyes of Wakanda feels like fanfiction turned into Marvel history

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-01-10 02:15:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Similar to What If…?, Eyes of Wakanda leans hard into the fantastical and remixes pieces of the larger MCU canon in a way that makes it come across like Marvel-approved fanfiction. But the new series features much stronger visuals, and each of its four episodes tell self-contained narratives that have far more nuanced ideas about just

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Klarna might reschedule its IPO for September

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-10 00:00:00

In Brief Klarna might look to IPO as early as September, sources told Bloomberg. The news comes as fintech stock prices surge and the US IPO market strengthens. Klarna filed for IPO back in March but paused such plans only a month later after President Trump’s tariff announcements rattled the market. At the time, Klarna was looking to raise at least $1 billion and nab a $15 billion valuation. By June, however, Klarna’s co-founder and CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, took a different turn. When as

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TikTok launches ‘TikTok Pro’ in Europe with built-in charity program

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-10 02:30:11

In Brief TikTok is launching a new version of its app called “TikTok Pro” in Germany, Portugal, and Spain. The app features TikTok’s new “Sunshine Programme,” which allows users to support charitable organizations. Users can earn ‘virtual sunshine’ by inviting others to join and by interacting with charity-related content, such as liking or reposting videos, following charity accounts, or searching for charitable causes. They can then use this virtual sunshine on a charity, after which TikTok

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Want a job in tech? You need these skills, McKinsey study shows

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2026-01-10 06:33:00

Nadzeya Haroshka / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Python programming is the most sought-after skill for a range of tech initiatives. Demand for Amazon Web Services skills far outstrips available supply Prompt engineering falls flat as a sought-after skill In the age of artificial intelligence, certain skills are gold. However, for some emerging technology areas, there's a significant mismatch between available skills and needed skills. For example, while prompt engineers are considered

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Why I'm recommending this midrange Lenovo tablet over competing models

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-10 06:35:00

Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is on sale right now for $549. It's a slam dunk tablet with a brilliant display, great speakers, and comes with a keyboard, case, and stylus. In laptop mode, it's better for simpler tasks. View now at Walmart Lenovo's Yoga Tab Plus is a well-rounded 13-inch tablet that comes with a keyboard, case, and stylus, offering all the primary use cases you can ask for from a tablet straight out of the box. It features a 12.7-inch, 3K

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Onshape – Product Development Platform

news.ycombinator.com Onshape 2026-01-10 03:45:59

Instead of sending CAD files around, you just share a link. That’s something we’ve really leaned into as we’ve grown as a team… Onshape makes it really easy to share up-to-date information across different locations. Cole Houston Lead Mechanical Engineer Cirkul Read Case Study

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Our Farewell from Google Play

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 02:08:59

Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current selection of Privacy Friendly Apps has grown since then to more than 30. And with more than 350,000 installs we believe we left a dent. We want to take this opportunity to also thank al

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Itch.io Is Restoring NSFW Games—as Long as They’re Free

Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing

Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its ‘personality’ — and what makes it ‘evil’

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Palantir lands $10 billion Army software and data contract

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The Cybertruck Is Aging Like Fast Fashion on Temu

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Leaker shares iPhone 17 Air battery images with steel case

AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

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The Longest Sightline on Earth

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Onshape – Product Development Platform

Our Farewell from Google Play

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