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Can you download the iOS 26 beta today? Here's a comprehensive list of all compatible iPhones

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:43:36

Your iPhone's operating system is getting a big upgrade this fall with the release of iOS 26. One of the better changes — and also Apple's largest visual update in years — is the new Liquid Glass design (think Windows Vista, but arguably more thoughtful). We spent two weeks test-driving it — you can check out our detailed hands-on iOS 26 preview, or you can try it out yourself by downloading and installing the public beta. That software is a more stable iteration of the separate developer versio

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Disney is winding down the Hulu app - here's what subscribers need to know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-08 15:07:31

Robert Way/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Disney is combining the Hulu app and the Disney+ app next year. Most Hulu content is available on Disney+ already, but not all - you still need the Hulu app for now. You'll still be able to subscribe to Hulu and Disney+ as standalone services. If you're a Hulu user, you'll likely be changing apps soon. During today's quarterly earnings results announcement, CEO Bob Iger said the company would be "fully integrating Hulu into Disney+," meaning th

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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 12:43:29

Overview Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities. Well into the 20th century, SROs were the least expensive option on the housing market, providing a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollar

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Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2026-01-08 12:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:40:17

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination. These ships are often envisioned as

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Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-08 11:29:18

Generative AI systems have proliferated across the technology industry over the last several years to such a degree that it can be hard to avoid using them. Google and other big names in AI spend a lot of time talking about AI safety, but the ever-evolving capabilities of AI have also led to a changing landscape of malware threats—or as researchers from Tel Aviv University would say, "promptware." Using simple calendar appointments, this team managed to trick Gemini into manipulating Google smar

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Hulu’s days look numbered, but there’s reason for Disney to keep it around

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:01:00

Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company, announced today that Disney will "fully integrate" Hulu into the Disney+ app in 2026. Although a company representative told Variety that people will still be able to buy standalone subscriptions to Hulu, we can't help but wonder how long that will last. A prim and polished app combining the catalogs, recommendations, and profiles for Disney+ and Hulu subscribers could make a standalone Hulu app redundant. In fact, the ability to successfully combin

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US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:11:24

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI and rivals like Google and Anthropic to supply tools to federal workers. The workers will have access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a type of account that includes access to frontier

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15 Best Bluetooth Speakers Our Testers Jammed With in 2025

wired.com Parker Hall 2026-01-08 15:37:27

The best Bluetooth speakers have a place near and dear to our hearts, even as we’ve seen smart speakers improving their sound and portability. By (mostly) forgoing Wi-Fi radios and voice assistants, Bluetooth speakers are ultraportable, able to venture into the world and withstand rugged conditions like a sandy beach or a steamy Airbnb jacuzzi. They provide worry-free connection to any smartphone, and the top options offer sound that meets or beats the average smart speaker. We've tested hundre

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Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit clears regulatory hurdle, safety probe

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-08 20:48:52

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon 's Zoox has cleared a key regulatory hurdle, paving the way for demonstrations of its self-driving robotaxis. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday that it granted Zoox an exemption from some requirements, a first for U.S.-built vehicles under a recently expanded program. "Transportation innovators can be confident in getting speedy review of their vehicles

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Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-08 18:23:34

"It’s going to find its way into everything." Nobel laureates met with nuclear experts last month to discuss AI and the end of the world — and if that sounds like the opening to a sci-fi blockbuster set in the apocalypse, you're not alone. As Wired reports, the convened experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes. Exactly why that needs to be true is hard to pin down, but the feeling of inevitability — and anxiety — is palpable in

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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-08 20:19:41

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Health practitioners are becoming increasingly uneasy about the medical community making widespread use of error-prone generative AI tools. The proliferation of the tech has repeatedly been hampered by rampant "hallucinations," a euphemistic term for the bots' made-up facts and convincingly-told lies. One glaring error proved so persuasive that it took over a year to be caught. In their May 2024 research paper introducing a healthcare AI model, dubbed Me

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For regulated industries, AWS’s neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-01-08 20:05:50

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 AWS is banking on the fact that by bringing its Automated Reasoning Checks feature on Bedrock to general availability, it will give more enterprises and regulated industries the confidence to use and deploy more AI applications and agents. It is also hoping that introducing methods like automated reasoning, which utilizes math-based valida

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How a ‘vibe working’ approach at Genspark tripled ARR growth and supported a barrage of new products and features in just weeks

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2026-01-08 20:41:34

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 Traditionally, product releases can be cumbersome, requiring multiple sign-offs, endless tinkering, bureaucracies and friction points. Genspark has developed a much different approach. The AI workspace company’s lean team practices AI-native working — or ‘vibe working,’ if you will — so that they can move at what they call “gen speed.” Th

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I wore the best smartwatches from Samsung, Apple, and Google - here's how Galaxy Watch 8 wins

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-08 20:11:00

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 is available for purchase now at a starting price of $349. It's a capable smartwatch with all the usual health metrics, along with Samsung's Running Coach, bedtime guidance, and recovery insights. Some features feel more experimental than scientific, like Antioxidant Index and BMI, which failed to work several times. View now at Samsung Samsung's latest smartwatches have arrived. The Galaxy Watch 8 lineup, which includes bo

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The best soundbars of 2025: Expert tested and recommended

zdnet.com Christian De Looper 2026-01-08 20:49:15

Why we like it: If you're willing to spend the money for the best soundbar system you can get right now, and want something that comes with a subwoofer and surrounds all ready to go, then the Samsung HW-Q990F is the way to go. The system is powerful, immersive, and incredible sounding, and while it's far from cheap, it pushes the limits of what a soundbar can offer. Review: Samsung HQ-Q990F The Samsung HW-Q990F is pretty bulky, and for a reason. It has a 23 drivers built straight into it, with

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19% of California houses are owned by investors

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Lansner 2026-01-08 20:15:30

Relatively speaking, California is not a hot spot for housing investors. That’s a conclusion from my trusty spreadsheet’s review of data on investor activity across the nation from BatchData, a small data tracker that digs deeper into property records than many traditional real estate analysts. BatchData reviewed California ownership records to identify the state’s owner-occupied residences compared to houses controlled by investors. This study included properties for short-term or long-term r

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Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2026-01-08 18:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

news.ycombinator.com John Wang 2026-01-08 17:38:09

Why blocking LLMs from your website is dumb John Wang 2 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share Perplexity was recently accused of scraping sites that had explicitly disallowed LLM crawlers in their robots.txt files. In the wake of that revelation, a wave of how-to guides for blocking large-language-model scraping has surfaced [0]. They’re generally highly vitriolic, with people opposing this on both moral grounds (“AI is stealing your content”) as well as displaying a general distaste

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States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 18:43:29

Overview Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities. Well into the 20th century, SROs were the least expensive option on the housing market, providing a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollar

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Breath Work, Biohacking, and Cryotherapy: New Buzzwords for Modern Business Travelers

wired.com Jen Murphy 2026-01-08 15:02:59

Peptide cocktails, plasma exchange therapy, infrared sauna sessions, and methylene blue drips. These are just a few of the biohacks that keep Peter Phillips feeling invincible. For the past three years, the 53-year-old tech executive has worked with doctors at Extension Health, a longevity clinic in New York City, to craft a blueprint to help him combat the declines that come with age. “I’m on the cusp of immortality,” he says. Every six weeks, he pops into the clinic for a full body reboot tha

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Federal regulators give Zoox an exemption for its custom-built robotaxis

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-08 20:02:51

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given Zoox an exemption to demonstrate its custom-built robotaxis on public roads and closed a related investigation into whether the Amazon-owned company had sidestepped federal regulations. The decision, which was announced Wednesday, clears up a long-standing debate over whether Zoox’s custom-built autonomous vehicles complied with federal motor vehicle safety standards, which place requirements on vehicles such as having a steering wh

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A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-01-08 20:40:00

TeaOnHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they have supposedly dated, has exposed users’ personal information, including government IDs and selfies, TechCrunch can confirm. The app, which launched on the Apple App Store earlier this week, is a response to another viral app Tea that allows women to post about the men they date. Tea is advertised as a women’s safety app with more than six million users that is similar to “Are we dating the same guy?” Facebook n

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Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-08 20:45:29

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been “relatively stable” year-over-year and that average click quality has slightly increased. “This data is in contrast to third-party reports that inaccurately suggest dramatic declines in agg

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Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-01-08 23:33:55

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 Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

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Want a four-channel dashcam for less than $200? I recommend this one

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-08 16:00:31

Botslab G980H Multi-Channel Dashcam The BOTSLAB G980H Multi-Channel Dashcam is a reliable four-channel dashcam for your road trips and commutes. It has a crisp 3K front cam, separate shooters for the driver and passenger, and a rear cam. It has some quirks, but for the price, it is a good option for capturing evidence and fun clips on the road. Dashcams are the type of products you hope you will never need, but they can be lifesavers when they do their job. It’s a solid investment if you want s

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Will the iPhone 17 lineup see a price hike? Here’s what the rumors say

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2026-01-09 00:00:08

In the many years that’ve passed since the introduction of the $999 iPhone X, there have almost always been rumors of an iPhone price hike – and we’re still yet to see a major one come to fruition. Granted, there have been other minor price hikes over time. In the midst of tariffs, it seems more likely than ever that there’ll be a price hike of some sorts this year – and we’ll be discussing those rumors here today. With the iPhone 15 Pro lineup, Apple implemented a discrete price hike – specifi

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Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 23:08:11

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Friends, selected accounts or nobody at all. This data can be restricted wh

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This wall-mounted smart calendar has been a game changer in my home (and it's $50 off)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-08 23:59:58

ZDNET's key takeaways The 15-inch Skylight Calendar is a smart display for $320, with a 10-inch version available for $160. It's a touchscreen calendar designed with busy lifestyles in mind that allows for shared use within a household or team. Though it's proven indispensable for my family, I wish the chores, not just the events, were visible in the calendar view, and the 15-inch version is expensive at $320. $269.99 at Amazon The Skylight Calendar is on sale for $270 just in time for back-t

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These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-09 00:26:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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Can you download the iOS 26 beta today? Here's a comprehensive list of all compatible iPhones

Disney is winding down the Hulu app - here's what subscribers need to know

States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

Hulu’s days look numbered, but there’s reason for Disney to keep it around

US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

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Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit clears regulatory hurdle, safety probe

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

For regulated industries, AWS’s neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation

How a ‘vibe working’ approach at Genspark tripled ARR growth and supported a barrage of new products and features in just weeks

I wore the best smartwatches from Samsung, Apple, and Google - here's how Galaxy Watch 8 wins

The best soundbars of 2025: Expert tested and recommended

19% of California houses are owned by investors

Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option

Breath Work, Biohacking, and Cryotherapy: New Buzzwords for Modern Business Travelers

Federal regulators give Zoox an exemption for its custom-built robotaxis

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users’ personal data and driver’s licenses

Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Want a four-channel dashcam for less than $200? I recommend this one

Will the iPhone 17 lineup see a price hike? Here’s what the rumors say

Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

This wall-mounted smart calendar has been a game changer in my home (and it's $50 off)

These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

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