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Amazon already plans to put ads in Alexa+ conversations

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-18 14:02:32

Which would you rather have: an AI-powered Alexa+ that advertises to you, or an AI-lacking Siri that doesn’t? Hopefully Apple can sort out its AI struggles and users never have to face that decision. But if you’re an Alexa+ user, it sounds like more ads are definitely in your future. Amazon CEO touts opportunities for advertising through Alexa+ Amazon reported its quarterly earnings this week, and the AI-powered Alexa+ unsurprisingly came up. What perhaps was a surprise is how fast Amazon CEO

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Joby, L3Harris partner on hybrid defense craft that can be piloted or autonomous

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-18 23:58:37

An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation sits at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City, Nov. 12, 2023. Joby Aviation and defense manufacturing giant L3Harris announced a partnership Friday to develop a next-generation military craft that can be piloted or fly autonomously. The partnership brings together Joby's hybrid vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft and L3's expertise in military systems and certification. The companies expect to begin testing this fall, followed by o

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Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 14:19:37

Thank you for visiting! Come back in a week to cry again. ‍ Enter your email for our free eBook on crying's benefits and exclusive updates on future projects. Thank you for visiting! Refresh the page to try again. ‍ Enter your email for our free eBook on crying's benefits and exclusive updates on future projects.

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Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 12:58:36

Image by Annie Ruygt This is a post about building up your own Static Site Generator from scratch. If you want to deploy your Phoenix LiveView app right now, then check out how to get started. You could be up and running in minutes. The year is 2023, you have many options for building a Static Website. From the OG Jekyll to literally hundreds of JavaScript based options to people suggesting you should just craft HTML by hand. All of these solutions are correct and good, and you know what? You

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Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-19 14:34:53

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sees an opportunity to deliver ads to users during their conversations with the company’s AI-powered digital assistant, Alexa+, he said during Amazon’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday. “People are excited about the devices that they can buy from us that has Alexa+ enabled in it. People do a lot of shopping [with Alexa+]; it’s a delightful shopping experience that will keep getting better,” said Jassy on the call with investors and Wall Street analysts. “I think over

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I made a website that makes you cry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 02:19:37

Thank you for visiting! Come back in a week to cry again. ‍ Enter your email for our free eBook on crying's benefits and exclusive updates on future projects. Thank you for visiting! Refresh the page to try again. ‍ Enter your email for our free eBook on crying's benefits and exclusive updates on future projects.

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Apple reports biggest revenue growth since December 2021

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-20 04:51:45

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the world premiere of "F1" at Times Square in New York on June 16, 2025. Apple reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations for profit and revenue. iPhone sales grew 13% year-over-year and overall revenue grew 10% — Apple's largest quarterly revenue growth since December 2021. Apple shares were up about 3% in after-hours trading on Thursday. Here's how Apple did versus consensus estimates for the quarter ending June 28: Earnings

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Coinbase says it's launching tokenized stocks, predictions markets for U.S. users in coming months

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-12-20 04:11:33

Coinbase is planning to expand its core trading app beyond crypto, the company said Thursday. The newly imagined "everything exchange" will include tokenized real-world assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets and early-stage token sales. The new offerings will roll out in the next few months, first to U.S. users, followed by a "gradual international rollout based on jurisdictional approvals," Max Branzburg, vice president of product at Coinbase, told CNBC. "We're building an exchange f

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Death Row Inmate’s Attorneys Say Heart Implant Will Repeatedly Shock Him as He’s Executed

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-20 09:30:06

Attorneys for a death row inmate in Tennessee who’s scheduled to be executed Aug. 5 warn that his implanted heart device will repeatedly shock him during his execution, torturing him by trying to keep him alive as he’s killed by lethal injection. A judge ordered the device deactivated, but a local hospital in Nashville now says it won’t participate, according to a report from the Associated Press. Byron Black, 69, received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in May 2024, which works

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Microsoft to disable Excel workbook links to blocked file types

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-20 14:26:25

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout, Excel workbooks referencing blocked file types will display a #BLOCKED error or fail to refresh, eliminating security risks associated with accessing unsupported or high-risk file types, including, but not limited to, phishing attacks that utilize workbooks to redirect targets to malicious payloads. This change is being introduced

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Show HN: The easiest accessibility (a11y) checker for VSCode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 00:49:37

Be-a11y VSCode Extension A Visual Studio Code extension for running accessibility audits using be-a11y. This extension allows you to analyze your project or a remote website for accessibility issues directly from VSCode. Results are presented in a convenient way and can be saved for further review. Features Run accessibility audits on the current workspace (local project) or any URL View results directly in VSCode Save the latest accessibility report to a file All actions available in the

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VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam's sweeping censorship campaign

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:02:03

Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one highly anticipated title is now unable to be sold despite containing nothing objectionable. It started in early July, when payment processors including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal established new regulations concerning the types of games they would allow to be sold on the PC gaming platforms they suppo

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Kaizen (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build browser agents that work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:00:56

Why you should join Kaizen Kaizen uses browser agents to help developers instantly integrate into websites without APIs. We’re tackling the $300B business process outsourcing market by automating all repetitive work done on the computer. The problem: Most business-critical data lives in web portals without APIs. In logistics, healthcare, and financial services companies rely on hundreds of these systems. Custom integrations across them typically involve weeks of engineering work, a never-endin

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Google Phone’s new look may already be available on your device

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-20 23:51:10

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google Android apps are going Material 3 Expressive, and Phone got started with a beta last month. In addition to the new look, Phone also added a new gesture select option for answering calls. This week, availability of both changes appear to be heading out much more widely. App by app, Material 3 Expressive is making its presence felt across Google’s Android software library, and we are here for it. This summer, we’ve been digging through Google’s Andr

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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:23:40

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ Why? | Goals | Status | Getting started | Join us See our announcement video from CppNorth. Note that Carbon is not ready for use. Fast and works with C++ Performance matching C++ using LLVM, with low-level access to bits and addresses Interoperate with your existing C++ code, from inheritance to templates Fast and scalable builds that work with your existing C++ build systems Modern and evolving Solid language foundations that are easy

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Best Electric Bike for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 06:50:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Bikes have always been a great mode of transportation. Now, with the integration of the electric bike, you get added speed and convenience. The number of e-bikes in bike shops is rising as their popularity increases. They're a great option for commuting and come in a wide variety of styles. To help you find the best option, CNET tested commuter e-bikes fro

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Meta, Microsoft roar higher on strong earnings as AI spending booms

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-21 14:50:53

Shares of Meta soared 12% and Microsoft popped 5% on Thursday, after the companies reported better-than-expected earnings that beat on top and bottom lines. Microsoft topped the $4 trillion market cap benchmark with the move, joining Nvidia in the club. Both Meta and Microsoft have been investing heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure in recent years, and the companies said they expect to continue to shell out billions in capital expenditures. Meta said capital expenditures will ra

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Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit

wired.com Wired Staff 2025-12-21 14:16:34

The strength and capabilities of generative AI are accelerating at a dizzying pace. If you’re finding it difficult to keep up, we get it. That’s why WIRED is hosting its first AI Power Summit on September 15 in New York City. We’ve curated a series of panels and conversations with experts who will distill and discuss the implications of today’s most crucial AI-related news. We’ll break down the White House’s AI Action Plan and examine its consequences across industries; explore how emerging reg

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One UI 8 lets you use Samsung DeX on your PC again, but there’s a catch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 05:50:04

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The latest One UI 8 release makes it possible to use Samsung DeX on PCs again, though you’ll need a third-party tool called scrcpy to do so. Samsung previously discontinued its “DeX for PC” application, leaving users without the dedicated desktop interface on their computers. One UI 8’s new DeX can run on a virtual display, which allows the open-source scrcpy tool to mirror the full desktop experience to a PC. If you have a compatible Galaxy device, y

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Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45%

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-22 04:50:42

Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday, extending a hot streak that has made it the best-performing large-cap U.S. tech stock this year. Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected Revenue: $989 million vs. $908 million expected Revenue jumped 45% year-over-year to $989 million, while net income more than doubled to

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Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Chennai, India

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 05:01:02

Who? We are Sei, an AI-powered regulatory compliance platform. Since launching, a few months ago, we're live with large enterprises across the US, Europe, and APAC and growing at double digits per month. We are backed by world-class investors including Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, PayPal, Picus Capital & Hashed. Pranay (CEO) and Ram (CTO) are the founders. We have combined experience of 20+ years of building fintech, and tech products for businesses & customers across the world at companies su

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ReproZip – reproducible experiments from command-line executions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 04:11:44

ReproZip ReproZip is a tool aimed at simplifying the process of creating reproducible experiments from command-line executions, a frequently-used common denominator in computational science. It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author's computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step). Q

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All of your international packages are about to get more expensive

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-22 14:02:22

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free — for all countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong. The White House says the change goes into effect on August 29th. Per the exec

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Microsoft stock pops 8% on earnings beat as Azure annual revenue tops $75 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-22 18:51:17

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. Microsoft shares jumped 8% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company performed in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected Revenue: $76.44 billion vs. $73.8

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SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-22 18:47:20

When longtime supervisor Robert Markert warned SpaceX leaders that one part of the rocket fairing recovery process could “easily cause serious injury or death,” he alleges he was ignored because “it was the more economical solution,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. A few months later, he was out of the job. Markert is one of two former SpaceX employees who have filed separate wrongful-termination lawsuits, both of which were removed to federal court earlier this month. The two complaints

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Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45% over last year

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-22 23:34:15

The logo of Robinhood Markets is seen at a pop-up event on Wall Street after the company's initial public offering in New York City on July 29, 2021. Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday. Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected Revenue: $989 million vs. $908 million expected Revenue jumped 45% year-over-year

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Qualcomm beats on earnings, highlights growth in Meta smartglasses

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-22 23:58:28

Cristiano Amon, CEO & President, Qualcomm, on Centre Stage during day one of Web Summit 2024 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Qualcomm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations and provided a stronger-than-expected guide for the current quarter. Qualcomm shares slid in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did for the quarter ending June 29 compared to LSEG consensus expectations: Earnings per share : $2.77 adjusted versus $2.71 expected

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Trump will end the de minimis exemption for low-cost global shipments

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 23:27:07

President Donald Trump's latest economic move is to halt the de minimis exemption, a provision that made international shipments of low-value items cheaper. When the exemption ends on August 29, shipments valued at or under $800 will be subject to duty fees when sent by any carrier other than the international postal network, no matter what country they are coming from. According to the White House's announcement of this change, shipments will either be assessed with an ad valorem duty equal to

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What’s the Deal With That Freaky Bald Creature in ‘Superman’?

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-22 23:20:16

The Mr. Handsome fan club is growing, so naturally, we want to know more about the freaky Creepypasta-looking slender monster featured in Superman. Director James Gunn didn’t exactly pull from the DC Comics library for this very weird character; though there was a Mr. Handsome villain in Catwoman’s lore, they appear to be unrelated. This Mr. Handsome is a Lex Luthor abomination. It appears in his pocket universe as the driver of his raft through the various rows of toxic curiosities and curatio

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Shortcuts in iOS 26: Everything new coming to your iPhone, more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-23 04:51:23

The Shortcuts app is getting several upgrades in iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe that unlock brand new possibilities for automation on Apple platforms. Here’s what’s coming. Liquid Glass design and new icon Shortcuts in iOS 26 starts with a new, updated app icon. Gone are the lighter blue colors of the past, replaced by a more consistent pink-purple look. After opening the app, Liquid Glass makes Shortcuts feel refreshed in several ways too. Shortcuts’ navigation tab bar is now floating and transpare

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