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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq said to be nearing new fundraising at $6B valuation

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-25 03:02:51

In Brief AI chip startup Groq is in talks to raise a fresh $600 million at a near $6 billion valuation, sources tell Bloomberg, although the deal isn’t yet final and terms could change. Groq raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this double the valuation in about a year. Groq previously raised about $1 billion. The new round is led by Austin-based firm Disruptive, Bloomberg reports. The November round was led by BlackRock, with participation from Neuberger Ber

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 30, #780

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 06:00:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Oh man, today's NYT Connections puzzle is a true brain-buster. The blue and purple categories are tough, but I found the green group to be tough as well. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wo

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 30, #310

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 06:00:10

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. The purple category for Connections: Sports Edition was extra sneaky today. The theme went right over my head, but made sense once it was revealed. Read on for hints and the answers if you run into problems like I did. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super

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Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering programs

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-25 10:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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The Secret Stanford Program No One's Heard About

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-25 16:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Show HN: Monchromate – the best greyscale browser extension

news.ycombinator.com Monochromate Team 2025-12-25 22:32:42

Powerful tools designed to enhance your digital well-being, reduce doomscrolling, and boost productivity through smart greyscale filtering. Smart Scheduler Automatically enable greyscale mode during specific hours. Perfect for reducing evening screen time, maintaining focus during work hours, or preventing late-night doomscrolling. Customizable Intensity Fine-tune the greyscale intensity from 0-100% to find your perfect balance. Research shows greyscale mode reduces screen time by making websi

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CashApp’s cross-platform Pool tool means none of your friends have an excuse for not pitching in

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 03:34:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cash App is rolling out a new feature called “Pools.” Pools is a group payment feature that allows people to chip in money toward a large payment, whether they use the app, Google Pay, or Apple Pay. Members can be invited to a Pool in-app via their $cashtag or through a shareable link for external payments. Rounding up people for a group purchase can be a hassle, especially if some of those people use different payment apps. However, Cash App is intr

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You Can Now Use Apple Pay and Google Pay on Cash App

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 02:17:00

Cash App/CNET You and your pals can now use Apple Pay and Google Pay to contribute to group payments through Cash App. The popular digital payment app announced its peer-to-peer group payment feature, Pools, which lets you set up and track group payments, including those from Apple Pay and Google Pay. "With Pools, our customers now have a dedicated, easy-to-use solution for group payments," Cameron Worboys, head of product design at Cash App, said in a statement. "They can start a pool to coll

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KernelScript eBPF-centric programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 03:33:00

KernelScript ⚠️ Beta Version Notice KernelScript is currently in beta development. The language syntax, APIs, and features are subject to change at any time without backward compatibility guarantees. This software is intended for experimental use and early feedback. Production use is not recommended at this time. A Domain-Specific Programming Language for eBPF-Centric Development KernelScript is a modern, type-safe, domain-specific programming language that unifies eBPF, userspace, and kernel

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PayPal stock sinks 8% as company reports slow growth in key margin figure

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-26 22:39:09

PayPal reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter but saw slowing growth in transaction margin dollars, a key measure of profitability. The stock slipped more than 8% following the report. Here's how the company did compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected Revenue: $8.29 billion vs. $8.08 billion expected Sales increased 5% from $7.89 billion a year ear

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Cash App lets you pool money from friends through Apple Pay – no app required

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-26 22:24:54

One of the most popular uses for the Cash App is collecting payments from groups of friends, whether that’s an immediate need like paying a restaurant bill or a future one, like collecting money for a shared gift. The company has today announced a new feature which lets you ask friends to contribute to a money pool even if they don’t use the app … First, the company is formalizing a common use for the app with a Cash App pool feature. Cash App today announced the launch of pools, a new peer-t

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Cash App now lets you pool money with friends who don’t use the app

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-26 22:00:00

Cash App is introducing a new peer-to-peer feature that allows you to pool money together for group payments, even with people who aren’t Cash App users. When a pool is created, the organizer can request contributions with in-app “$Cashtag” invitations, or via texts and shareable links for group members who use Apple Pay and Google Pay. “We know that many of our customers already use the platform as a way to collect payments from groups,” Cash App product design head Cameron Worboys said in the

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PayPal reports slow growth in key margin figure even as earnings top estimates

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-27 03:53:51

PayPal reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter but saw slowing growth in transaction margin dollars, a key measure of profitability. The stock slipped more than 5% following the report. Here's how the company did compared with Wall Street estimates, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected $1.40 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected Revenue: $8.29 billion vs. $8.08 billion expected Sales increased 5% from $7.89 billion a year ear

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 29, #779

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 02:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Card players, today's NYT Connections puzzle is for you. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze you

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #309

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 02:00:11

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features two categories with references to specific places. One is a state and one is a city, so you should be able to sort them out without too much difficulty. Read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta

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Here’s everything new for the Messages app in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-28 08:46:25

iOS 26 is the next major iPhone update, packing big updates for Apple Wallet, CarPlay, Apple Music, and a variety of new features for the Messages app too. Here’s what’s coming to your iPhone later this year. iOS 26 upgrades Messages with new design, group chat features, and more Apple’s Messages app is getting a handful of solid upgrades in iOS 26. Messages gains the new ‘Liquid Glass’ redesign that impacts the app, of course. Buttons have been updated, UI elements have a fresh look, and ove

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Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

news.ycombinator.com Todd Price 2025-12-28 08:06:03

Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans Photo by Chieko Hara Mechanical engineer Anthony Gunderman holds a prototype of the robotic gripper for picking blackberries. Fresh, frozen and processed berries are a multi-billion-dollar business in America. In Arkansas alone, fresh-market blackberries contribute $24.3 million each year to the state’s economy. But these delicate blackberries sold in clamshells at supermarkets must be picked by hand, and farm labor has been limited in r

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Different Clocks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 12:05:47

Ianto Cannon's clock graphics These clocks are generated as scalable vector graphics using JavaScript. Feel free to use and modify the source code. Each clock displays the current Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): Loading… Binary This clock shows the Unix time: a 32-bit signed integer representing the number of seconds since 1970 Jan 1st. Polygons These polygons show the time in the format yy:M:w:d:h:mm:ss, where M is the month, w is the week in the month, and d is the day of the week. :

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Trump’s AI Action Plan is a distraction

technologyreview.com Asad Ramzanali 2025-12-24 00:15:00

Today’s generative AI is based on the transformer model (the T in ChatGPT), first described by a team at Google in 2017. Six of the eight researchers on that team were born outside the US, and the other two are children of immigrants. This isn’t an exception. Immigrants have been central to American leadership in AI. Of the 42 American companies included in the 2025 Forbes ranking of the 50 top AI startups, 60% have at least one immigrant cofounder, according to an analysis by the Institute for

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NASA faces brain drain as thousands exit under voluntary resignation scheme

news.ycombinator.com Richard Speed 2025-12-29 03:31:49

Almost 3,900 of NASA's workforce is set to leave the agency thanks to voluntary incentives, with senior staffers among those heading out the door. The figures were reportedly issued by NASA HQ on Friday. About 3,000 employees opted to take part in a second round of the agency's Deferred Resignation Program. Some 870 participated in the first round, earlier this year. The exodus has led observers to bemoan the loss of talent. Former Hubble astronaut Dr John Grunsfeld described the departures to

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France's warship builder Naval Group investigates 1TB data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-29 08:31:55

France's state-owned defense firm Naval Group is investigating a cyberattack after 1TB of allegedly stolen data was leaked on a hacking forum. The company characterized this as a "destabilization attempt" and a "reputational attack," to which it has responded by filing a complaint to protect its client's data. Meanwhile, Naval Group is investigating with the assistance of external experts to determine if the leaked data originated from them. Despite the gravity of the claims, the company main

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Skip Your Coffee. You're Missing Out on the Health Benefits of Green Tea

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-29 11:00:21

If you feel as if you need that morning cup of coffee to get you through the day, you aren't alone. One estimate says that 85% of US adults enjoy up to two cups of coffee daily. That being said, not everyone loves the taste or the side effects of coffee. The caffeine jitters and the trouble sleeping can be stressful. Looking for an alternative that will give you the energy boost without as many side effects? Green tea is a popular and tasty and it also has three times less caffeine than coffee a

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-29 11:33:35

In Brief Flights across Russia have been grounded after a cyberattack hit the country’s largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday. Details of the cyberattack remain limited, but a pro-Ukrainian hacker group known for targeting Russian organizations called Silent Crow took credit for the cyberattack alongside Belarusian hackers, citing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. The group said in a Telegram post, seen by TechCrunch, that it had taken control of Aeroflot’s critical systems, including terabytes

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Insta360 spin-off Antigravity is making a drone that can record 360-degree video

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 17:00:48

Insta360 has decided to spin out its own drone company, Antigravity, allowing it to operate independently. The new sub-brand is now developing an as-yet-unnamed drone that can record 360-degree video, similar to Insta360's X camera series. Details are currently limited, as the company finalizes its first product. However, Insta360’s Antigravity says its drones will be aimed at existing drone owners, looking for more creative video options as well as beginners “intimidated by the learning curve

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Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hit by cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-29 17:33:35

In Brief Flights across Russia have been grounded after a cyberattack hit the country’s largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday. Details of the cyberattack remain limited, but a pro-Ukrainian hacker group known for targeting Russian organizations called Silent Crow took credit for the cyberattack alongside Belarusian hackers, citing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. The group said in a Telegram post, seen by TechCrunch, that it had taken control of Aeroflot’s critical systems, including terabytes

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200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green

news.ycombinator.com Vrt Nws 2025-12-25 05:08:26

Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly. Over the past 2 years, 250 intersections were to be equipped with so-called “intelligent traffic lights”, which would receive a signal as soon as a road user with the app approaches. In that way, motorists - but also cyclists and motorcyclists- will not have to wait unnecessarily at red lights when less traffic is appr

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Terminal app can now run full graphical Linux apps in the latest Android Canary

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 06:08:45

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android’s Linux Terminal app can now run graphical Linux apps in the latest Canary build, a major step forward for the feature. A new “Display” button launches a graphical environment, letting users run full desktop apps that aren’t available on Android. Hardware acceleration can also be enabled for better performance, paving the way for running even more powerful Linux software and games. The Linux Terminal app that Google introduced earlier this yea

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When progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-12-29 21:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When my wife recently brought up AI in a masterclass for coaches, she did not expect silence. One executive coach eventually responded that he found AI to be an excellent thought partner when working with clients. Another coach suggested that it would be helpful to be familiar with the Chinese Room analogy, arguing that no matter how sophis

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Making Postgres slower

news.ycombinator.com Jacob Jackson 2025-12-29 22:12:59

July 27, 2025 Everyone is always wondering how to make Postgres faster, more efficient, etc, but nobody ever thinks about how to make Postgres slower. Now, of course, most of those people are being paid to focus on speed, but I am not (although, if you wanted to change that, let me know). As I was writing a slightly more useful guide, I decided someone needed to try to create a Postgres configuration optimized to process queries as slowly as possible. Why? I am not sure, but this is what came o

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 28, #778

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 03:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features another movie category, so cinema fans, dig in. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and

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