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VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-12 07:56:04

Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach. In a statement late last week, the company said it completed its review in August following the data breach, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further explanation. According to its earlier notice, the stolen data included information about certain Insight Partner

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Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

news.ycombinator.com Tess Bennett 2025-10-12 08:38:30

Two Australian entrepreneurs have joined the race to build a local alternative to the artificial intelligence models created by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta, earmarking $10 million to compensate copyright owners for their work. Sovereign Australia AI was founded by AI strategist Simon Kriss and technology executive Troy Neilson who shared concerns that Australia’s access to the critical technology would be at the mercy of the decisions made in the United States or China. Loading...

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-12 08:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, inclu

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Meta reportedly suppressed research about how dangerous its VR headsets are for kids

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 15:25:09

Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, according to a report by The Washington Post . Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe incidents in which children were groomed by adult predators in VR, but allege that internal reports were edited to omit the worst of these offenses. Meta has denied these allegations. Two of these researchers claim they met with a German family in which a c

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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 15:13:10

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developers, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it;

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Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-12 15:45:58

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we could repurpose some of that waste to remove planet-warming emissions from the atmosphere? A team of researchers in Denmark has discovered a way to do just that. In a new study, published September 5 in the journal Science Advances, they transformed decomposed #1 plastic—also known as PET (polyethy

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IEEE Quantum Week 2025 Breaks Registration Records

computer.org Ilse Paredes 2025-10-12 17:00:54

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., 5 September 2025 – IEEE Quantum Week closes today, breaking previous registration records: The conference welcomed 1,700+ registrants eager to immerse themselves in cutting-edge research and practical advances in quantum tech.. In addition, more than 80 exhibitors convened 31 August – 5 September at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., to exhibit their latest quantum applications. “The quantum computing community has made tremendous progress in

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Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-10-12 19:32:46

What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong! After Mehta’s initial ruling, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded that Google divest itself of the Chrome web browser and/or the Android operating system, and also be blocked from exclusive distribution contracts that had placed Google Search as the default on almost all devices and web brow

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NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-10-12 19:37:57

Starting at September 8th, 13:16 UTC, our Aikido intel feed alerted us to a series packages being pushed to npm, which appeared to contain malicious code. These were 18 very popular packages, backslash (0.26m downloads per week) chalk-template (3.9m downloads per week) supports-hyperlinks (19.2m downloads per week) has-ansi (12.1m downloads per week) simple-swizzle (26.26m downloads per week) color-string (27.48m downloads per week) error-ex (47.17m downloads per week) color-name (191.71

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Y Combinator-backed Motion raises fresh $38M to build the Microsoft Office of AI agents

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-12 19:00:00

By the time Harry Qi was 23 years old, he had achieved the kind of financial success that most people will never attain: making about $1 million a year. He was working as “a quant” in his first job out of college. That’s hedge-fund speak for a stock-trading analyst at a statistical-model driven “quant” fund. But, like many people who spend their energies pursuing ever more money, he felt empty. “At some point you just want to make a much bigger impact on this world,” Qi, now 29, tells TechCrun

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Google wants Gemini to keep the conversation going, and here’s how it’s going to do it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 23:26:22

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a feature within Gemini that suggests follow-up questions. The suggestion prompts help users explore topics and engage in in-depth conversations to get more out of their AI interactions. The feature seems to be a limited test for now. If you’re old enough to have used search engines before their AI-fication, you’re most likely using your AI digital assistant more like a search engine and less like a digital assistant. That means more

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Action1 vs. Microsoft WSUS: A Better Approach to Modern Patch Management

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 22:35:00

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been a go-to patch management tool for over two decades, providing IT administrators with a way to distribute Microsoft updates across their environments. However, as Microsoft has officially deprecated WSUS and the tool struggles to keep up with modern IT demands, many administrators are actively searching for a replacement. Action1, a cloud-native patch management platform, has become one of the most attractive alternatives. Today we will demonstrate

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Copilot's new File Explorer tricks are serious OneDrive time-savers - how to try them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-12 23:23:29

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways You can access four new Copilot skills directly from File Explorer. You can summarize, ask questions, and compare up to five files. The process supports Microsoft 365 files, PDFs, and web files. Microsoft 365 users have long been able to turn to Copilot on the web to analyze and answer questions about their documents and other files. But now they can get help from Microsoft's AI di

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'We can do it for under $100M': Startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

news.ycombinator.com Tess Bennett 2025-10-12 23:38:30

Two Australian entrepreneurs have joined the race to build a local alternative to the artificial intelligence models created by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta, earmarking $10 million to compensate copyright owners for their work. Sovereign Australia AI was founded by AI strategist Simon Kriss and technology executive Troy Neilson who shared concerns that Australia’s access to the critical technology would be at the mercy of the decisions made in the United States or China. Loading...

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The Next Digimon Game's Deep Customization Could Be Catnip for Pokemon Breeders

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 23:00:03

I'm halfway through my 3-hour demo playing Digimon Story Time Stranger when I finally muster the courage to de-evolve one of my most powerful monsters. Why? So I can build them back up from level 1 to be even stronger -- and grow them along a different evolutionary path. For casual players, this may sound excessive. For hardcore role-playing game fans keen on building their fighters to the peak of performance, these expansive possibilities are exactly what they've been waiting for. Digimon Stor

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Arco is stunning sci-fi with shades of Moebius and Miyazaki

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-12 23:00:00

The best part of going to a film festival is finding something new. Sure, it’s great to find out that movies you’re excited about are in fact good — I’ve had luck so far with Exit 8, No Other Choice, and Wake Up Dead Man — but it’s so much more exciting to be surprised by something when you had no expectations going in. That’s what happened to me when I walked into a theater to watch Arco, an absolutely gorgeous animated film from director Ugo Bienvenu, on day 4 of the Toronto International Fil

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Adtech company PubMatic sues Google over monopoly violations

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-12 23:41:49

In Brief Advertising exchange PubMatic has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the ad technology market. PubMatic is seeking billions of dollars in damages, according a report from Bloomberg. The lawsuit marks the second time that an advertising exchange has sued Google since a federal judge ruled in April that the search giant had illegally monopolized ad exchanges and ad servers. The judge has set another trial for this month to determine whether

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-12 23:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audio books and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, incl

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Apple Calendar spam on the rise again, mostly crypto scams

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-13 03:53:41

We first saw Apple Calendar spam almost a decade ago, when it hit such levels that the iPhone maker issued an apology and said that it was blocking suspicious senders. We’ve seen the problem re-emerge several times since then, with Apple even publishing a YouTube video on how to remove it. Despite all of these efforts, however, it seems to be spiking again … Spammers send calendar invitations containing links, most of them taking the form of cryptocurrency scams. Several of us at 9to5Mac have

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Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-10-13 03:49:00

Even older Pixel models can get in on the optimization tweaks. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google Pixel phones are notorious for having hidden settings that can greatly enhance the user experience. The list includes options for ramping up the display refresh rate, optimizing the battery life, and gestures. I demo them on a Pixel 9a running on Android 15, but newer and older software versions should have similar capabilities. W

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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

news.ycombinator.com Jon Swaine 2025-10-13 02:59:28

At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected, according to two of the researchers: He frequently encountered strangers, and adults had sexually propositioned his little brother, who was younger than 10, numerous times. “I felt this deep sadness watching the mother’s response,” one of the researchers, Jason Satt

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

news.ycombinator.com Frank Gasking 2025-10-13 02:01:18

DISCLAIMER: We are a non-profit digitisation project, aiming to digitally preserve software and history which would otherwise be lost for good. If for any reason there is anything that you do not wish to be on the website, please contact us for removal. Games That Weren't® is the registered trademark of Frank Gasking.

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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-13 07:10:00

The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by e

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If the iPhone 17 doesn't get ProMotion, I won't be upgrading my iPhone 12

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:00:30

In 2020, I bought an iPhone 12 to replace my aging Pixel 3 , and nearly five years later, I'm still using that same device because it works fine and Apple has yet to bring the feature I want most on a regular iPhone: a ProMotion display. If you're not familiar with the company's marketing lingo, ProMotion is its way of describing a high-refresh rate display. Apple introduced ProMotion with the iPhone 13 Pro . Since then, every Pro model has offered a 120Hz refresh rate display with the ability

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2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

technologyreview.com Helen Thomson 2025-10-13 15:30:00

Goenka saw a better way: Build a real-time system that could “stream” the sequencing data, analyzing it as it was being generated, like streaming a film on Netflix rather than downloading it to watch later. To do this, she designed a cloud computing architecture to pull in more processing power. Goenka’s first challenge was to increase the speed at which her team could upload the raw data for processing, by streamlining the requests between the sequencer and the cloud to avoid unnecessary “chat

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NotebookLM isn’t just for students. Here are 4 ways I use it in my daily life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:00:43

Andy Walker / Android Authority I consider myself a generative AI skeptic, with my initial interest in the technology turning into frustration and distrust. But there’s one tool that has genuinely impressed me over the past few months: NotebookLM. Its power lies in the ability for you to set custom sources that the service’s chatbot draws information from — leading to better quality responses compared with many of the other tools I’ve experimented with. Most people dismiss NotebookLM as a too

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I used this simple YouTube TV trick and saved $66 - here's how you can, too

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-13 14:00:20

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A hidden YouTube TV promotion might save you $66. It's only accessible through a web browser, not the mobile app. The promotion saves you $33 a month for two months. If you're a YouTube TV subscriber, you might be able to save $66 thanks to a hidden promotional offer. Late last year, YouTube announced that it was raising its monthly price to $83 a month -- a jump of $10 a month. There

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The influencer in this Vodafone ad isn’t real

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-13 15:18:45

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I opened TikTok while visiting Germany last week and stumbled across a Vodafone ad being presented by a woman who probably doesn’t exist. The ad includes several “tells” that suggest the presenter was artificially created using generative AI — the unnatural style and movement of her hair, the way her moles disappear, and the uncanny valley vibe of her facial expressions — and Vodafone confirmed my suspicions

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ChatGPT makes Projects feature free, adds a toggle to split chat

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:33:49

ChatGPT is getting two big changes. First, the Projects feature is now free. Second, you can now create new conversations from existing conversations. Projects have been around for months now, but they're now rolling out to everyone, including those with a free plan. With Projects, you can create "workspaces" with ChatGPT and organise chats, files and custom instructions for a specific project. Right now, when you interact with ChatGPT, it tries to remember everything, which isn't really grea

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AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

news.ycombinator.com Torsten Sløk 2025-10-13 15:56:48

The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in w

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VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

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IEEE Quantum Week 2025 Breaks Registration Records

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Copilot's new File Explorer tricks are serious OneDrive time-savers - how to try them

'We can do it for under $100M': Startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

The Next Digimon Game's Deep Customization Could Be Catnip for Pokemon Breeders

Arco is stunning sci-fi with shades of Moebius and Miyazaki

Adtech company PubMatic sues Google over monopoly violations

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Apple Calendar spam on the rise again, mostly crypto scams

Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

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If the iPhone 17 doesn't get ProMotion, I won't be upgrading my iPhone 12

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I used this simple YouTube TV trick and saved $66 - here's how you can, too

The influencer in this Vodafone ad isn’t real

ChatGPT makes Projects feature free, adds a toggle to split chat

AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

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