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Threads crosses 400M monthly active users as it gains on X

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-30 00:11:12

Following a recent series of welcome updates as Threads turned two, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his X competitor crossed 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), a 50 million boost since April. Zuckerberg’s announcement today was short, but significant: The last time Meta detailed its monthly active user number was on April 30, during its Q1 2025 earnings call, up from 320 million in Q4 2024 in late January. If it keeps it stride, this means Meta could see north of 100M MAUs

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Every rumored iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, and iPhone 17 Pro color

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-30 04:21:16

Apple’s next iPhone lineup is getting closer to launch, and color may be one of the most exciting changes this year. Leaks suggest the iPhone 17 series will not only bring back some fan favorites but also introduce bold new shades, including one of the brightest colors ever offered for a Pro model. iPhone 17 colors The standard iPhone 17 is rumored to come in five finishes: (Pinkish?) Purple, Green, Blue, Black, and White. Either Purple and Green or Purple or Green are expected to return from

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Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:19:35

What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how much freedom is offered to players of text adventures, this is a difficult test. It’s normal even for a skilled human player to immerse themselves in their surrounding rather than make constant progress. I wouldn’t be su

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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What Did You Think of the ‘Alien: Earth’ Premiere?

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-30 00:00:16

It’s not every day that a beloved sci-fi franchise gets a long-awaited TV series, but today is one of those days. The first two episodes of Alien: Earth are now on Hulu and FX, and fans can finally see what happens when the man behind Fargo teams up with Ridley Scott to make an Alien show. That man is Noah Hawley, who wrote and directed Tuesday’s pilot episode, “Neverland,” and wrote the second episode, “Mr. October.” Hawley has been thinking about the show for over five years, which is when Di

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Save $69.01 on the Apple AirPods Max, the best headphones for iPhone users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 05:03:04

We just covered a deal on the Sony WH-1000XM6, the best overall headphones around. That said, Apple users are usually better off with the Apple AirPods Max. They are also on sale, and the discount is much better, saving you $69.01 and bringing the price down to $479.99. Buy the Apple AirPods Max for $479.99 ($69.01 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The discount applies to all color versions, except Purple, which is currently unavailable directly from Amazon. This means you can get the A

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Match Group will pay $14 million to settle claims of deceptive business practices

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 10:45:06

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Match Group will pay $14 million to settle a complaint about deceptive practices. The settlement fee will be used to provide redress to injured customers of Match Group's dating services, which include Match.com, Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and PlentyOfFish. The agency sued Match Group in 2019 on a series of allegations. According to the complaint, the dating service company had used misleading ads to encourage subscriptions and then made it difficult for

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Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-30 10:03:47

Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business partners and customers in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Last month, Allianz Life disclosed that it suffered a data breach when the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen from a third-party, cloud-based CRM system on July 16th. While the company did not name the provider, BleepingComputer first repor

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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 10:18:55

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have an avatar in your nav, like this: When you click the avatar, you want a menu to appear right below it. The clicking interaction can be handled with just CSS using the Popover API. But once you click, where does your menu show up? Figuring this out typically requires som

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Netflix’s ‘One Piece’ Crew Rallies Around Charithra Chandran After Racist Backlash

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-30 10:00:16

With One Piece season two sailing onto Netflix next year, the latest teaser surprised fans with exciting looks at what’s to come for the Straw Hats. In their journey to the Grand Line, they’re set to encounter more friends and foes. One of the new faces in the cast is Charithra Chandran as Nefertari Vivi, also known in the long-running manga and anime as Miss Wednesday. The character in the comics is depicted as a light-skinned Egyptian woman, and a loud minority of racist One Piece nerds are c

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 13, #1516

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 08:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a pretty tough one. It describes a drink that most Americans have probably never tried before, and the letters aren't super common, either. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need

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Starlink Just Slashed Prices to a Record Low for New Customers. Here’s How to Get It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 08:28:00

Starlink has offered plenty of carrots to entice new customers throughout 2025: a free satellite dish ($349 value), a 33% discount off the monthly price and (potentially) a community deal that lets you share the cost with your neighbors. Now, Starlink is reducing the cost of its internet plans even further. The Residential plan, which has advertised speeds between 150 and 250Mbps, is down to $99 per month from its original price tag of $120. Residential Lite, which provides download speeds betw

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Best Internet Providers in Phoenix, Arizona

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 09:43:00

What is the best internet provider in Phoenix, Arizona? CNET ranks Quantum Fiber as the best internet provider in Phoenix for most households. The fiber provider took the top spot due to its fast, symmetrical speeds, free equipment rental and unlimited data. If Quantum Fiber isn't available at your address, there are several solid alternatives available. Cox offers broad coverage in the area and high-speed plans, while Verizon 5G Home Internet offers budget-friendly choices. Verizon’s 5G Home

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I Tried the New McDonaldland Meal for Adults, With Its Bizarre Pink and Blue Shake

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 09:58:30

McDonald's continues to capitalize on the love of its customers for the company's goofy history. Recently, Happy Meals included McDonald's-themed toys -- such as drink machines, fryers and trays with food on them -- delivered in mini-Happy Meal boxes. And the much-longed-for Snack Wraps finally returned after a viral fan campaign. Now, McDonald's has introduced the McDonaldland Meal, which goes straight after that market of adults who have a nostalgic feeling for the Golden Arches. And it comes

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StubHub is once again working on its IPO that could raise $1B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-30 10:08:47

In Brief StubHub is giving a strong indication that its IPO is back on again. It filed a public S-1 in late March, then paused in April after the Trump administration’s tariffs spooked Wall Street. On Monday, it filed an updated S-1 that now includes Q1 2025 results. IPO experts Renaissance Capital estimated in March that the IPO could raise $1 billion, and says this fresh S-1 could mean a debut next month. StubHub declined to comment on its IPO plans, citing its quiet period. In 2024, it g

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Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares

cnbc.com Christina Cheddar Berk 2025-12-30 15:17:13

Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Circle Internet Group stock tumbled more than 5% in extended trading Tuesday after it said it would offer 10 million Class A shares to the public. Of the total stock being offered, 2 million shares will be offered by Circle. The remaining 8 million shares will be sold by stockholders. The stablecoin issuer's shares have soared more than 450% since it went public on June 5. As pa

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Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:35:25

Mental health experts are continuing to sound alarm bells about users of AI chatbots spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia and delusions, a trend they've started to refer to as "AI psychosis." On Monday, University of California, San Francisco research psychiatrist Keith Sakata took to social media to say that he's seen a dozen people become hospitalized after "losing touch with reality because of AI." In a lengthy X-formerly-Twitter thread, Sakata clarified that

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Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-30 14:58:44

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy behind it into a near-perfect circle called an Einstein ring, effectively reducing a realm with trillions of stars of its own into an astrophysical fashion accessory. It's 10,000 times as heavy as our Milky Way's own central black hole, and is nigh unto breaking the universe's theoretical upper limi

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Deal: Get the Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones at their record low price!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-30 15:57:36

Are you looking for the best headphones? There are a few main competitors, but our experts from SoundGuys.com have crowned the Sony WH-1000XM6 the best overall choice. They are pretty pricey, but today you can get them at their record-low price of $428. Buy the Sony wH-1000XM6 headphones for $428 ($21.99 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The discount applies to all color versions available: Black, Midnight Blue, and Platinum Silver. Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones

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OpenAI rolls out Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts integration in ChatGPT

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-30 15:12:39

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar, and even your Google contacts, to reference everything in a conversation. In a new support document update, OpenAI confirmed it’s rolling out support for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts Connectors in ChatGPT (Pro). For those unaware, Connectors allow you to connect third-party services to ChatGPT. Once a service has been connected, ChatGPT can reference it in the chat. For examp

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The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know

news.ycombinator.com Deane Barker 2025-12-30 14:15:17

The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know when Part 3 is published. You don’t want to give away any personal information, you don’t want to subscribe to an RSS feed of other content, you don’t want to follow

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Now That Google Is Trash, It Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-30 14:25:04

Google seems to have destroyed the quality of its search results (and its reputation) by loading its feed with sponsored results, pages boosted by SEO black magic, and AI-generated slop. So it’s putting the control back in your hands, for better or worse. The company announced today via blog post a new feature called Preferred Sources that will let users select their own favorite news outlets to appear at the top of their personalized search feed. According to Google, the feature has already st

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Russia reportedly implicated in hack on US federal courts' databases

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-30 20:40:30

Databases used by US federal courts for sharing and managing case documents have been hacked. Politico first reported on the hack last week on August 6; today, an investigation from The New York Times states that Russia is suspected to be involved in the attack. The Administrative Office of the US Courts initially identified the severity of the cyberattack in July, although the extent of the breach by "persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors" has not been disclosed and may still not be

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Reddit blocks the Internet Archive from crawling its data - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-30 20:38:19

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement. Reddit is defending its privacy from AI companies that are taking roundabout approaches to scraping its content. The social media platform, known as a resource where users can post anonymously and find information about virtually any subje

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Dumb to managed switch conversion (2010)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 14:31:42

SpritesMods .com Dumb to managed switch conversion - Intro Intro When I got my new house, one of the things I did besides painting and redecorating was rip the old cat2 telephone cable out of the walls and replace it by modern cat5e cabling. I've done a spot of network engineering in the past, so I had a fairly good idea what I would like to have as a network: GBit everywhere, separate vlans for the adsl modem, wired clients and the wireless accesspoint... But at that moment I was too busy to

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Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 20:10:45

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An experimental military navigation satellite, also more than 10 years in the making, will ride ULA's Vulcan rocket into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator. There are additional payloads buttoned up inside the Vulcan rocket's nose cone, but of

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Russian government hackers said to be behind US federal court filing system hack: Report

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-12-30 20:26:09

The Russian government is allegedly behind the data breach affecting the U.S. court filing system known as PACER, according to The New York Times. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper said Russia “is at least in part responsible” for the cyberattack, without saying what part of the Russian government is behind the hack. The hackers searched for “midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern Europe

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You can now feed Claude Sonnet 4 entire codebases at once

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-30 23:30:00

Following OpenAI’s big week filled with open models and GPT-5, Anthropic is on a streak of its own with AI announcements. Bigger prompts, bigger possibilities The company today revealed that Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context in the Anthropic API — a five-fold increase over the previous limit. This expanded “long context” capability allows developers to feed far larger datasets into Claude in a single request. Anthropic says the 1M-token window can handle entire

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Threads is up to 400 million monthly active users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 00:02:04

Meta's X competitor, Threads, is continuing to add users at a brisk clip, with the social network now surpassing 400 million monthly active users. The news, reported by Fast Company , follows Threads reaching the 300 million mark in December 2024 and the 200 million mark in August 2024. FC also cited data from Similarweb that showed mobile performance for Threads drawing closer to the figures from X. In June, Threads posted 115.1 million daily active users on mobile and X had 132 million. Those

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Claude can now save you more time by automatically referencing past chats

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-12-31 00:01:25

J Studios/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Claude can now be prompted to reference past user interactions. The feature rolls out today to Max, Team, and Enterprise users. It'll be turned on by default, but you can also switch it off. Claude just got a major memory upgrade: Anthropic's flagship generative AI chatbot can now retrieve information from past conversations, the company announced Monday. The new feature is designed to enable a more streamlined, convenient, and personalized user

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Threads crosses 400M monthly active users as it gains on X

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I Tried the New McDonaldland Meal for Adults, With Its Bizarre Pink and Blue Shake

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