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Meta is absent from SF Pride this year, as tech industry retreats from public support of LGBTQ+

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2026-03-05 20:41:56

Parade goers hold Pride flags during the annual Pride Parade in San Francisco on Sunday, June 29, 2024. Minh Connors | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is staying mum these days when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community. It wasn't always that way. San Francisco Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford told CNBC she remembers when Zuckerberg personally called the nonprofit to ensure that the company then known as Facebook had a spot at the annual event

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The Download: Namibia’s hydrogen hopes, and fixing AI evaluation

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-03-05 21:10:00

Factories have used fossil fuels to process iron ore for three centuries, and the climate has paid a heavy price: According to the International Energy Agency, the steel industry today accounts for 8% of carbon dioxide emissions. But it turns out there is a less carbon-intensive alternative: using hydrogen. Unlike coal or natural gas, which release carbon dioxide as a by-product, this process releases water. And if the hydrogen itself is “green,” the climate impact of the entire process will

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Early Prime Day deals include $37 off our favorite air purifier

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-05 21:26:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . We now know that the 2025 edition of Amazon's blockbuster Prime Day sales event will start on July 8, and it's set to be bigger than ever as it will run for four days. But you don't need to wait until then for tasty deals. There will be plenty in the lead up to the event, including thi

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Andreessen Horowitz Backs AI Startup Whose Motto Is ‘Cheat at Everything’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-03-05 21:25:04

By now, it’s well established that one of AI’s biggest accomplishments is to help Americans cheat at life. Students are using it to cheat on their homework, teachers are using it to cheat at grading homework, sad and horny men are using it to cheat themselves out of having a girlfriend, actors are using it to cheat at ethnic accents, and some lawyers are even using it to cheat on legal filings. Given all the cheating that’s been happening, it just makes sense that a company would come along that

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Google may be forced to link to rival search platforms in the UK

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-06 05:02:12

Google may be forced to link to rival search platforms in the UK 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman & Liv McMahon Technology editor & technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Google may have to make changes in the UK to give consumers more choice over who they use for online search services, the competition watchdog has said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the US technology giant under a new law which means the regulator can demand changes at a firm if it is

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Amazon to invest £40 billion in the UK over next three years

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-03-06 05:19:10

LONDON — Amazon will invest £40 billion ($54 billion) in the U.K. over the next three years, the e-commerce titan announced Tuesday. The company said it plans to spend the money on building four new fulfillment centers — large warehouses where it prepares orders for delivery — as well as upgrades and expansions to its existing operations buildings across the country. The announcement was cheered by the British government, which has been courting investments from major tech players of late as i

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Can we fix AI’s evaluation crisis?

technologyreview.com Caiwei Chen 2026-03-06 04:50:30

However, there are a growing number of teams around the world trying to address the AI evaluation crisis. One result is a new benchmark called LiveCodeBench Pro. It draws problems from international algorithmic olympiads—competitions for elite high school and university programmers where participants solve challenging problems without external tools. The top AI models currently manage only about 53% at first pass on medium-difficulty problems and 0% on the hardest ones. These are tasks where hu

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This Galaxy Z Flip 7 rival has a bigger battery than S25 Ultra

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-06 06:38:35

TL;DR Xiaomi has officially shown off the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2, while also confirming several details. The new foldable phone will have a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a 5,165mAh battery, and 50W wireless charging. The Mix Flip 2 launches on Thursday in China, but there’s no word on a wider release. Samsung is preparing to launch the Galaxy Z Flip 7 next month, but rival brand Xiaomi is getting a head start by launching the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2 this week. Now, the manufacturer has given us a look at the

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This proxy provider I tested is the best for web scraping - and it's not IPRoyal or MarsProxies

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-03-06 06:00:14

ZDNET's key takeaways Proxy service platform Oxylabs offers an enormous pool of ethically-sourced residential proxies, meaning you're likely to get good quality data without pushback from the sites you're visiting. Oxylabs' mix of API and AI made it easy for us to run test calls, and should provide a solid foundation for scraping apps. Oxylabs has excellent documentation and videos, which should help you get up and running with their tools It's a straightforward process. View now at Oxylabs

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A Mysterious Website I Stumbled Upon

news.ycombinator.com Jon Bois 2026-03-06 06:33:24

It's clear that the sport of football needs to change. And the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is terribly wrong. The writing's on the wall: youth participation in the sport is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their health. In recent years, the NFL has something is terribly wrong. In response to numerous clinical studies regarding something is terribly wrong, the league has taken action — and something is terribly wrong. Oh no. Something is terr

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Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds

news.ycombinator.com Sandee Lamotte 2026-03-06 06:08:11

Food & health Corporate news Pollution See all topics Follow Ripping the plastic wrap from the meat or prepackaged fruit and veggies you purchased at the grocery store may contaminate your food with micro- and nanoplastics, according to new research. Plastic contamination may also occur when you’re unwrapping deli meat and cheese, steeping a tea bag in hot water, or opening cartons of milk or orange juice. Glass bottles and jars with a plastic-coated metal closure may also shed microscopic bit

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Amoeba: A distributed operating system for the 1990s (1990) [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-01 16:14:05

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Adobe's New Firefly AI App Lets You Try AI Image and Video Generation for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-06 04:30:03

Adobe's Firefly AI is now available as mobile apps for iPhones and Androids, the company announced on Tuesday. These apps are free to download and let you use Firefly to create AI images and videos on the go. Plus, the app comes with a few free generative credits for you to experiment with Adobe's AI. Adobe is also expanding its roster of third-party AI partners to include six new models from Ideogram, Pika, Luma and Runway. Google's latest AI models are also joining the lineup, including the i

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Verizon's Project 624 Is an AI-Powered Customer Service Initiative

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-06 05:30:00

In April, Verizon's CEO of its consumer group, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, dropped a cryptic teaser on his LinkedIn Page: "Project 624. All about the customer. Coming soon." And then… nothing more about it. Until today. Now we know that 624 represents the date, June 24, and the project is an ambitious customer service program intended to make it so subscribers can resolve issues by contacting Verizon just once. And yes, AI is involved, but don't roll your eyes just yet. Sampath laid out changes to

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Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-06 08:00:47

Last week, I attended a film festival dedicated to shorts made using generative AI. Dubbed AIFF 2025, it was an event precariously balancing between two different worlds. The festival was hosted by Runway, a company that produces models and tools for generating images and videos. In panels and press briefings, a curated list of industry professionals made the case for Hollywood to embrace AI tools. In private meetings with industry professionals, I gained a strong sense that there is already a

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Verizon adopts Google’s Gemini AI to help customers solve ‘complex’ issues

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-03-06 06:27:26

Verizon is trying to streamline its customer service experience by overhauling it with more chatbots and AI tools. The My Verizon app is being relaunched today with a new “AI-powered Verizon Assistant” that aims to help consumers “manage upgrades, add new lines, ask billing questions, take advantage of savings, and more,” according to the telecom giant’s announcement. The idea is that this chatbot service will be able to quickly complete tasks that typically need to be handled by human service

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How AI infiltrated perfume

theverge.com Arabelle Sicardi 2026-03-06 08:00:00

At a pristine, multimillion-dollar lab on the Manhattan waterfront, just down the street from a men’s homeless shelter and the medical examiner’s office, a slice of summer plum is being converted into fragrance code. This is the work of Osmo, a fragrance tech startup claiming to build artificial olfactory intelligence. Osmo has parlayed this innovation into offering turnkey fragrance compounding that promises a 48-hour sample turnaround from initial client prompt. In the time it takes your Amazo

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Google may be forced to make changes to UK search

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-06 08:32:31

Google may be forced to make changes to UK search The company, which is owned by Alphabet in the US, said the CMA's suggestions were "broad and unfocused" but added it would "work constructively" with the regulator. Google accounts for more than 90% of searches in the UK and 200,000 businesses use the company's search advertising to reach customers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the US technology giant under a new law which means the regulator can demand changes

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Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 06:24:55

Jordan Lloyd had been praying for something big to happen. The 35-year-old screenwriter was quarantining in her apartment in North Hollywood in June 2020. Without any work projects to fill her days, she picked up the novel Roots, by Alex Haley, to reread. The novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, Haley’s ancestor, who is captured and sold into slavery in the Gambia and then brought to Virginia, where he is forced to labor on a plantation. It was adapted into an Emmy-award winning television ser

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Google introduces AI mode to users in India

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-03-06 06:40:04

Google introduced its AI mode, a Q&A-style search tool, to users in India today. The company said that this tool is still in the experimental stage and users will need to opt in to it through Search Labs. Once a user has opted in, they can ask queries in English. Google didn’t specify whether it plans to support local languages or when that might be available. Users can search for answers to complex, multi-part queries such as “My kids are 4 and 7 and have lots of energy. Suggest creative ways

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Extreme Heat Is Killing Unfathomable Numbers of People Worldwide

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-06 06:07:16

A huge heatwave is currently roasting vast swaths of the United States, sending temperatures skyrocketing over 100 degrees Fahrenheit across the midwest and eastern portions of the country. It's the season's first foray in a grim new annual reality: heat so extreme that it's literally killing people. The numbers are unfathomable, with an estimated 500 people dying every year in New York City alone, and thousands more across the country — in a grim upward trend that's spiked up every year since

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‘Not a wearable’, court documents detail OpenAI’s plans for its AI hardware project with Jony Ive

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-06 08:27:12

As OpenAI fights a trademark lawsuit over its now-scrubbed “io” brand, new public court filings are giving us the most detailed glimpse yet into what Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s hardware team have been up to behind the scenes. ‘Not an in-ear device, nor a wearable device’ As reported by The Verge and Bloomberg yesterday, the legal battle stems from a case brought by iyO, a Google-backed startup that argues the “io” branding from OpenAI’s newly formed io Products, Inc., is too close for comfort.

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Show HN: Comparator - I built a free, open-source app to compare job offers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 06:00:47

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OpenAI’s first AI device with Jony Ive won’t be a wearable

theverge.com Alex Heath 2026-03-06 09:01:54

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Thanks to a related trademark lawsuit, we know what OpenAI and Jony Ive’s first AI device won’t be. In court filings submitted this month, leaders from io — the consumer hardware team OpenAI recently acquired from Jony Ive’s design studio for $6.5 billion — testified that the first device they plan to release won’t be an “in-ear device” or a “wearable.” They also say the AI device

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Court filings reveal OpenAI and io’s early work on an AI device

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-06 11:44:38

Legal filings submitted earlier this month from lawyers representing OpenAI and Jony Ive’s io reveal new details about the companies’ efforts to build a mass-market AI hardware device. The filings are part of a trademark dispute lawsuit filed this month by iyO, a Google-backed hardware startup developing custom-molded earpieces that connect to other devices. Over the weekend, OpenAI pulled promotional materials related to its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s io startup in order to comply

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APT28 hackers use Signal chats to launch new malware attacks on Ukraine

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-06 16:14:59

The Russian state-sponsored threat group APT28 is using Signal chats to target government targets in Ukraine with two previously undocumented malware families named BeardShell and SlimAgent. To be clear, this is not a security issue in Signal. Instead, threat actors are more commonly utilizing the messaging platform as part of their phishing attacks due to its increased usage by governments worldwide. The attacks were first discovered by Ukraine's Computer and Emergency Response (CERT-UA) in M

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Meta approached AI startup Runway about a takeover bid before Scale deal

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-03-06 21:45:17

Meta spoke with artificial intelligence startup Runway about a potential takeover ahead of its multibillion-dollar investment in Scale AI, CNBC confirmed on Monday. Runway is best known for its AI video generation tools and earned a spot on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list earlier this month. The deal talks between Meta and Runway did not progress far and dissolved, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named due to the confidential nature of the discussions. Bloomberg ea

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Nobel Prize Winner Warns About Astronomers Using AI to Make Discoveries

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-06 21:08:57

A team of astronomers say they've gleaned the mysterious traits of our galaxy's black hole by probing it with an AI model. But a pretty big name on the field is throwing a little bit of cold water on their work. Just a little bit. Reinhard Genzel, a Nobel laureate and an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute, expressed some skepticism regarding the team's use of AI, and the quality of the data they fed into the model. "I'm very sympathetic and interested in what they're doing," Genzel tol

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Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with AI agent observability and MCP support

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-03-06 21:03:09

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Salesforce rolled out sweeping enhancements to its AI agent platform Monday, addressing the biggest hurdles enterprises face when deploying digital workers at scale: knowing what those agents are actually doing and ensuring they can work securely across corporate systems. The company’s Agentforce 3 release introduces a comprehensive “Comm

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Apple looked at Mira Murati’s AI startup after OpenAI exit, and it won’t stop there

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-06 21:52:26

Following a report last week about Apple holding internal talks over a potential Perplexity acquisition, Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter revealed that Apple also explored a possible deal with another notable name in the AI space: Mira Murati. Here’s what went down. Murati, best known as OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer, left the company last year following the boardroom chaos that briefly saw CEO Sam Altman ousted. In fact, as detailed in the book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, Op

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Meta is absent from SF Pride this year, as tech industry retreats from public support of LGBTQ+

The Download: Namibia’s hydrogen hopes, and fixing AI evaluation

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