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Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-02 20:54:14

A "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI — and still somehow accumulating over half a million listeners on Spotify — has finally admitted the truth. Earlier this week, a self-proclaimed "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown claimed on its "official" X account that it "never" used any AI, accusing "so-called 'journalists'" of "pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-generated' with zero evidence." It was a preposterous claim that

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Apple releases new wallpaper for iPhone, iPad, and Mac as store debuts

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-02 22:13:08

A new Apple Store is opening later this month in Japan, and alongside the first details, the company has released beautiful new wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and Mac featuring custom artwork. Apple Umeda celebrated with new wallpaper set Apple Stores continue being built in new places, though not quite as rapidly as they once were. For years now Apple has been giving users all around the world a reason to join in the celebration. That’s because with many new store openings, Apple publishes sp

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See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 21:17:04

A sneak preview of the first batch of deep space imagery from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile made its way to news sites and social media last week, followed by a livestream event. "(The Rubin Observatory is) going to build the greatest time-lapse movie of the cosmos ever made," the observatory said in a post. The observatory is named for the American scientist widely credited for finding some of the first evidence of dark matter, with the project being funded by the National Scienc

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Our Group Text is Sending the Top July 4th and Prime Day Deals Directly to Your Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 22:39:00

I've been crawling the internet for the best deals just about every day for the last 10 years, and if there's one thing I know for sure it's that shopping events like Fourth of July and Prime Day are stuffed with discounts that aren't actual savings. That's why CNET's shopping experts search the internet for price reductions worth the buzz. These are real discounts, not the stuff that was artificially inflated last week. We know you don't want to miss discounts on smartphones like the new iPhone

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IPO market gets boost from Circle's 500% surge, sparking optimism that drought may be ending

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-03 02:36:34

Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world's biggest stablecoins, and Circle Internet Group co-founder Sean Neville react as they ring the opening bell, on the day of the company's IPO, in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSE For over three years, venture capital firms have been waiting for this moment. Tech IPOs came to a virtual standstill in early 2022 due to soaring inflation and rising interest rates, while big acquisitions were mostly of

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Castelion is raising a $350M Series B to scale hypersonic missile business

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-09-03 02:03:34

Hypersonic weapons startup Castelion is raising a $350 million Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Altimeter Capital, according to sources and documents viewed by TechCrunch. The round, which values the company in the billions, is anticipated to close in a matter of weeks. A term sheet has been signed. The new round comes on the heels of $100 million in Series A funding that closed in January. That round was composed of about $70 million in equity and $30 million of debt. Lightspeed

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Where is my von Braun wheel?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 05:44:55

In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away. NASA had viable designs for rotating wheel space stations that could have given astronauts artificial gravity. Then, the Apollo program effectively killed them. While NASA’s lunar focus delivered the historic moonshot, it dismantled a promising engineering effort at Langley Research Center that might have revolutionized human spaceflight. That decision set us on a half-century trajectory of small, zero-gravity stations that continu

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There’ll Be No Dog Punching In ‘Superman’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-03 10:00:16

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 could set up a Scream reunion. Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot expands its cast. David Corenswet teases the tone of DC’s Lanterns. Plus, get a look at Invasion season 3. To me, my spoilers! Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 According to a new report from insider DanielRPK (via Comic Book), Skeet Ulrich will reunite with his Scream costar Matthew Lillard in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 as Henry Emily, the owner of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Highlander Variety reports that Maris

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Confirmed: A Rare Interstellar Object Is Passing Through Our Solar System

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-03 10:30:39

Update: July 3, 09:24 a.m. ET: On Wednesday, July 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center confirmed that an interstellar object is traveling through our solar system. Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the object appears to be a comet hurtling toward the Sun. Original article follows. Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system. Preliminary observations suggest it came from interstellar space, and if confirme

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Helldivers 2 is the first PlayStation-published Xbox game

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-03 10:49:35

is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 will make the jump to the Xbox Series X and S consoles on August 26th, costing $39.99. This is the first PlayStation-published title to launch on Xbox. The title will ship with cross play between all platforms. The cooperative PvE third-person shooter was an unexpected hit when it first launched simultaneously on PlayStation 5 and PC in earl

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Tools: Code Is All You Need

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 12:51:18

Tools: Code Is All You Need If you've been following me on Twitter, you know I'm not a big fan of MCP right now. It's not that I dislike the idea; I just haven't found it to work as advertised. In my view, MCP suffers from two major flaws: It isn’t truly composable. Most composition happens through inference. It demands too much context. You must supply significant upfront input, and every tool invocation consumes even more context than simply writing and running code. A quick experiment make

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Amazon’s Big Price Drop Makes Dell’s Big 27-Inch Monitor a 4th of July Steal, Skip Waiting for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-09-03 14:10:13

There are worse ways to kick off a long holiday weekend than by grabbing a great Amazon tech deal on a big monitor that’s long on great features, especially when it’s a Dell monitor that’s just $140. The Dell S2725HS is a 27-inch beauty with an ultra-thin design, terrific HD resolution, outstanding sound from built-in 5W speakers, and many more features that make it an absolute bargain at just $140. The fast 100Hz refresh rate and premium reengineered sound that comes from this Dell 27-inch mon

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‘We Live in a Surveillance State’: Reddit Users Explode Over Reports of ICE’s New Face and Fingerprint Scanning App

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-03 14:55:42

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reportedly using a new tool called Mobile Fortify, a smartphone-based facial recognition and fingerprint scanning app that allows agents to identify people in real time using only a phone camera. The tool taps into the same biometric system used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at ports of entry. But ICE is now using it inside the U.S., in field operations across the country. According to internal ICE emails reviewed by 404 Media, the app

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Microsoft asks users to ignore Windows Firewall config errors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 22:02:03

Microsoft asked customers this week to disregard incorrect Windows Firewall errors that appear after rebooting their systems following the installation of the June 2025 preview update. These warnings are logged in the Event Viewer as 'Event 2042' for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, with a 'Config Read Failed' warning and a 'More data is available' message. Microsoft added that this known issue is caused by a new feature that's still under development and hasn't yet been fully integrat

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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Tavares 2025-09-01 13:43:57

For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. These processes, meant to drive quality, often slow us down more than the act of writing code itself because they require t

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Best Internet Providers in Knoxville, Tennessee

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 21:03:00

CNET recommends AT&T Fiber as the best internet provider in Knoxville. Knoxville has no shortage of high-speed internet options, with six providers to choose from, including five that offer gigabit speeds. To determine the best internet providers in Knoxville, our team evaluates speeds, pricing, customer service and overall value. We conduct spot checks on local addresses to confirm availability, thoroughly review provider terms and conditions, and directly contact ISPs when necessary to verify

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This Pro-Level Controller Is Great, but It Comes at a Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 23:00:06

Turtle Beach is no stranger to making high-performance gaming hardware, either through its PDP brand or its own in-house accessories. The company is perhaps best known for its gaming headsets but has leveraged its decades of experience to bring us other great gaming accessories like the Stealth Ultra wireless controller. Well, mostly great, as we'll see. What I like about the Stealth Ultra Jason Cockerham/CNET Turtle Beach didn't try to reinvent the wheel with the Stealth Ultra. The standard

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Serenading Cells with Audible Sound Alters Gene Activity

news.ycombinator.com Simon Makin 2025-09-01 04:04:53

The cells in your ears aren’t the only ones listening: recent research suggests that crucial cells throughout the body may respond to audible sound. Experiments described in Communications Biology revealed more than 100 genes whose activity changed in response to these acoustic waves, pointing to possible medical applications. Extensive earlier research has shown that ultrasound—sound at frequencies higher than humans can hear—can affect biology in numerous ways; the new study expands this conc

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LLMs as Compilers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 19:05:23

LLMs as compilers 7/2/2025 by Kadhir So far, I've only used LLMs as an assistant, where I'm doing something, and an LLM helps me along the way. Code autocomplete feels like a great example of how useful it can be when it gets it right. I don't doubt that over time this will improve, but I'm excited to see a more significant transition from this assistant mode to a compiler mode, at least for coding. It will be exciting when we focus solely on the context we fed the LLM, then test the features

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What to build instead of AI agents

news.ycombinator.com Hugo Bowne-Anderson 2025-09-03 22:02:43

Paul: Today, the scene is owned by Hugo, a brilliant mind who advises and teaches teams building LLM-powered systems, including engineers from Netflix, Meta, and the U.S. Air Force. He runs a course on the LLM software development lifecycle, focusing on everything from retrieval and evaluation to agent design, and all the intermediate steps in between. Enough talking, I’ll let him dig into today’s controversial topic: “Stop building AI agents”. ↓🎙️ P.S. I agree with him. 🤫 Hugo: I've taught

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Starlink Plans to Send 42K Satellites Into Space. That Could Be Bad News for the Ozone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 22:02:00

Satellites like the ones used for Starlink's internet service could be depleting the Earth's ozone layer when they're deorbited, according to a study funded by NASA and published in Geophysical Research Letters in June. 2024. When Starlink's satellites reach the end of their lives, they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere and leave behind small particles of aluminum oxide. These travel down into the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation. Researchers from the University of South

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Two years in, Apple is now officially on Threads

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-04 06:07:49

It took a minute, but Apple has at last activated its official Threads account. And thanks to its massive Instagram presence, it instantly picked up nearly 5 million followers. Today’s move comes well after several Apple-related accounts joined Instagram’s alternative to X right out of the gate. Apple Music, Apple News, Apple Books, Shazam, and Beats by Dre were among the first to show up shortly after Threads launched in mid-2023, but the main @apple account remained absent until now. Instant

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The End of Wireless Dead Zones? T-Mobile’s Starlink Service Launches in 3 Weeks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-04 09:59:00

Imagine being able to send a text, video or voice recording from the remotest corners of the country. That's the future T-Mobile envisions, as its partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to “eliminate mobile dead zones for good” by utilizing 657 Starlink satellites that will b

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Nearly 500 Starlink Satellites Have Incinerated in Earth's Atmosphere So Far This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-04 10:08:00

According to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, 472 Starlink satellites burned up in the atmosphere between December 2024 and May 2025, as SpaceX deorbited around 6% of its active fleet. Starlink satellites are built to last around five years. After that, they're steered into the Earth's atmosphere to burn up. SpaceX, the rocket company owned by Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, launched the first Starlink satellites in 2019, which means we're now seeing its first full-sca

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Robinhood stock hits $100 as it roars 30% since S&P 500 snub

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-04 14:18:59

CANNES — Robinhood stock hit the $100 mark for the first time, capping off a week of fresh all-time highs and renewed investor confidence. Shares closed up 6.12% Wednesday at $97.98. Shares are now tracking their best performance since April, up more than 30% since the trading app was snubbed from the S&P 500. The milestone follows a major strategic swing in Europe, where Robinhood unveiled its most ambitious crypto expansion to date — one aimed at re-engineering the financial infrastructure i

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Prepare to Share All Your Pics With Meta If You Turn On Facebook's New AI Photo Tool

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-04 14:44:00

There's good news and bad news: The bad news is that Meta's continued development of generative AI has led it to add a privacy nightmare setting to its Facebook app. The good news is that, in a big departure from Meta's status quo, you have control over whether you participate. It's all about whether the company and its AI get access to your camera roll and all the pictures there, even the ones you haven't posted anywhere. Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been trying to keep up with AI hea

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Crunchyroll Accidentally Left AI Slop in Anime Subtitles

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-04 18:20:56

Crunchyroll, the massively popular anime streaming service and distributor, just got caught using obvious AI slop in its subtitles. The slipup was made in the premiere episode of a new series called "Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show" — and trust us, there's no guesswork involved in sniffing out the AI here. Around the 19:12 mark, the show's German subtitles feature a big fat "ChatGPT said:" jammed into the dialog. A classic, lazy error. (We double checked, and it's still there as of this

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New macOS malware targets crypto and Web3 startups with fake Zoom update

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-04 18:53:43

North Korean hackers are behind a new and unusually sophisticated macOS malware campaign that targets the crypto industry using fake Zoom invites. Here’s how it works. Dubbed “NimDoor” by researchers at SentinelLabs, the attack is more sophisticated than the typical macOS threat, and it chains together AppleScript, Bash, C++, and Nim to exfiltrate data and maintain access in compromised systems. Here’s SentinelLabs’ executive summary of the hack: DPRK threat actors are utilizing Nim-compiled

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NimDoor crypto-theft macOS malware revives itself when killed

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-04 18:36:27

North Korean state-backed hackers have been using a new family of macOS malware called NimDoor in a campaign that targets web3 and cryptocurrency organizations. Researchers analyzing the payloads discovered that the attacker relied on unusual techniques and a previously unseen signal-based persistence mechanism. The attack chain, which involves contacting victims via Telegram and luring them into running a fake Zoom SDK update, delivered via Calendly and email, resembles the one Huntress manag

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Zelle needs to fix ‘significant scams and fraud,’ lawmakers say

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-04 18:30:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Banks are facing renewed pressure to protect their customers from scams on Zelle, the payment network owned by JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Capital One, and other big banks. In letters to the banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) asked them how often their customers report Zelle

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Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

Apple releases new wallpaper for iPhone, iPad, and Mac as store debuts

See the First Breathtaking Celestial Images From the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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IPO market gets boost from Circle's 500% surge, sparking optimism that drought may be ending

Castelion is raising a $350M Series B to scale hypersonic missile business

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Helldivers 2 is the first PlayStation-published Xbox game

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Amazon’s Big Price Drop Makes Dell’s Big 27-Inch Monitor a 4th of July Steal, Skip Waiting for Prime Day

‘We Live in a Surveillance State’: Reddit Users Explode Over Reports of ICE’s New Face and Fingerprint Scanning App

Microsoft asks users to ignore Windows Firewall config errors

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

Best Internet Providers in Knoxville, Tennessee

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What to build instead of AI agents

Starlink Plans to Send 42K Satellites Into Space. That Could Be Bad News for the Ozone

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New macOS malware targets crypto and Web3 startups with fake Zoom update

NimDoor crypto-theft macOS malware revives itself when killed

Zelle needs to fix ‘significant scams and fraud,’ lawmakers say

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