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Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

news.ycombinator.com Tess Bennett 2025-11-08 04:38:30

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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iPhone Dumbphone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 08:33:44

September 2025 I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great! Compared to when I started I’m saving about 2 hours of screen time a day. If I kept this up for a month I promised to write a post about this setup. It’s now two months so here’s my post. What follows is a backstory, observations, and a how-to-guide. To get straight to the how-to-guide, click here. Motivation It’s common to rack up 4 ho

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Benoit Blanc Takes on an Unholy Mystery in ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Trailer

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-11-08 08:15:09

Netflix has released a new trailer for Wake Up Dead Man, the latest chapter in Rian Johnson‘s mystery series starring Benoit Blanc, the world’s greatest detective of ambiguous Southern origin. Have a look: As evidenced by the trailer, the story concerns an “impossible” locked mystery of seemingly supernatural origin, evoking the great works of John Dickson Carr, Seishi Yokomizo, and Hanna-Barbera. This is exciting in itself, as the subgenre has long been considered radioactive in Hollywood for

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Ready for a Juice Boost? Apple's iPhone 17 Lineup Reportedly Has Bigger Batteries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 06:24:00

The leaks just keep coming ahead of Tuesday's "awe-dropping" Apple event, and it looks like the iPhone 17 series will have significantly bigger batteries. According to leaker @ShrimpApplePro on X, Chinese regulatory listings indicate that all the new phones that Apple is unveiling on Tuesday -- the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max -- will have larger batteries. The exception will be the iPhone 17 Air, which is trading its ultrathin build for less battery capacity. We have no way

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Trump’s attempt to fire FTC Democrat gets a boost from Supreme Court

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 06:54:38

President Trump's attempt to fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission was given a boost today, as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay that temporarily blocks a lower-court ruling against Trump. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled on the merits of the case. Today's order from Roberts stayed the lower-court ruling "pending further order of The Chief Justice or of the Court." Roberts set a September 15 deadline for Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the Democrat who was fired

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AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 08:17:49

In five years, you won’t be able to spell IT without AI, Gartner predicted today. VP analysts Alicia Mullery and Daryl Plummer delivered the sentiment at their keynote address at Gartner’s IT Symposium in Gold Coast, Australia, as reported by The Register. Gartner believes that by 2030, all work performed by an IT department will involve the use of AI. That’s a progression from the 81 percent of IT work that’s done today without any use of AI, per Mullery. By 2030, not only will all IT work re

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Benoit Blanc goes full Gothic in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 08:40:21

Private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) might just turn out to be Rian Johnson's greatest creation. Introduced in 2019's Knives Out, Blanc's syrupy Southern drawl and idiosyncratic approach to solving a mysterious New England death charmed audiences worldwide and launched a modern whodunnit franchise. The third installment in the series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, has already garnered early rave reviews after screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over th

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Save $60 on the DJI Mic Mini Kit—Price Drops to Just $109 Today

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-11-08 08:52:41

Looking to upgrade the audio for your phone or action camera footage? Amazon is offering $60 off the DJI Mic Mini kit. Our reviewer gave DJI's lavalier mic a 7/10 and this kit includes two mics, a receiver, and a handy charging case. That's the lowest price yet for this bundle at just $109, and a great value on this easy to use and lightweight microphone. These little mics and their fuzzy windscreens have become increasingly popular over the last year, popping up on collars and in the hands of

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The best stuff announced at IFA

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-08 08:14:01

The doors to IFA 2025 in Berlin, Germany, have officially opened and new gadgets, tech, features, and upgrades continue to pour out of Europe’s largest consumer tech show. There’s a lot of news to stay on top of, and if you’re struggling to ingest it all, here are some of the best announcements from the show so far, including innovative new robovacs, more affordable smart home devices, and even a portable home theater on wheels. You can catch up on all of The Verge’s IFA 2025 coverage right her

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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-08 08:45:53

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After nearly everyone working on the Nova Launcher, one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers, was laid off last year, founder Kevin Barry, Nova’s sole remaining developer, said this weekend that he has left Nova’s parent company after being asked to stop working on the launcher and an effort to open-source it. Nova Launcher’s website currently shows a 404 er

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

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-08 04:50:40

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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Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-08 08:35:06

Salesloft said a breach of its GitHub account in March allowed hackers to steal authentication tokens that were later used in a mass-hack targeting several of its big tech customers. Citing an investigation by Google’s incident response unit Mandiant, Salesloft said on its data breach page that the as-yet-unnamed hackers accessed Salesloft’s GitHub account and performed reconnaissance activities from March until June, which allowed them to download “content from multiple repositories, add a gue

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Signal introduces free and paid backup plans for your chats

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-08 08:44:27

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it’s introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations for free, along with the last 45 days of media. It’s also debuting its first paid feature by offering full media backups with up to 100GB of storage. Historically, the messaging app didn’t let users store any kind of backup of your conversations on the platform. This could be especially troublesome if you lost or broke your phone. While you could transfe

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Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-08 11:56:38

Never one to properly interpret anything scientific, uber-popular podcaster Joe Rogan has become entranced by a study that affirms his climate skepticism. Now, as The Guardian reports, one of the study's authors is setting the record straight and pointing out that Rogan is not only drawing the exact opposite conclusion from the study, but that he's spewing misinformation to a vast audience using his incorrect takeaways. Over two years, scientists from the University of Arizona, Tucson and Smit

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I spent the weekend playing Silksong on my phone — Here’s how

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:00:39

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority When the first ASUS ROG Ally dropped back in 2023, Hollow Knight was the very first game I played on it. I know, the game had been out for more than five years at that point, but it was my reintroduction to handheld gaming after nearly a decade of nothing but online live service games. And I was hooked. Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong is out, I wanted to continue the trend of playing on a handheld rather than my gaming PC. But the landscape has changed since

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Apple teases ‘Get ready to be wowed’ at September 9 event

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-08 12:55:29

Apple’s big September 9 event is almost here. And the company has just shared a fresh tease in an unlikely place to boost excitement ahead of its new product announcements. Apple Vision Pro app includes new teaser for September 9 event If you weren’t already hyped up for this week’s “Awe dropping” Apple event, the company wants to ramp your expectations even higher. In a fresh update inside the iPhone’s companion app for Apple Vision Pro, the company has published a new event teaser. Alongsi

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OpenAI tech to be used to in a full-length animated film

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 11:59:21

OpenAI is throwing its resources behind a mostly AI-generated animated film that was the brainchild of one of the company's employees. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal , the film will be called Critterz and will follow forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger. Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI, started designing the characters three years ago with the intention of making a short film using OpenAI's DALL-E image-generation tool

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Apple is showcasing the iPhone 17 lineup tomorrow: Rumors, prices, new features and what else you need to know

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:22:23

It's happening: Tomorrow, Apple is finally showcasing its iPhone 17 lineup during the big September "Awe dropping" iPhone event. The hardware announcement will take place on September 9 at 1PM ET, and the Engadget team will be liveblogging it from Cupertino in real-time. (You can watch the iPhone 17 event on YouTube, too.) The newest phones will come equipped with the latest iOS 26 features preinstalled, along with any new features Apple reveals that day. So what can we expect to see? While Appl

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

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:25:09

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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Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:47:51

In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising maintainers' accounts in a phishing attack. One of the package maintainers whose accounts were hijacked in this supply-chain attack confirmed the incident earlier today, stating that he was aware of the compromise and adding that the phishing email came from support [at] npmjs [dot] help, a domain that hosts a website imp

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How to watch Apple's iPhone 17 September event this week (and what to expect)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-08 12:13:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's iPhone launch event will take place on Tuesday, September 9. The iPhone 17 lineup will likely include a new iPhone 17 Air (Slim) model. Other expected releases include the Apple Watch Series 11 and updated AirPods. September, better known in the industry as Techtember, is here, and kicking off the deluge of fall product announcements may be arguably the biggest of them all: Apple's iPh

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40+ Windows keyboard shortcuts that effectively improved my work productivity

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-08 12:24:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Yes, you can run Windows apps on Linux - here are my top 5 ways

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-08 12:50:34

ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. In the decades that I've been using Linux, I have not needed a single Windows app because Linux has all the software I require. However, I understand that some people aren't that lucky. You might be one who has a Windows-only application you need to do your job or school, or it's a game you'd love to play. Also: Forget Windows 11: Nobara Linux is the OS for everyone Fortunately, Linux has several ways you can get that Windows app r

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Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026

news.ycombinator.com Julien Cristau 2025-11-04 15:07:07

For many years, Mozilla has continued to provide Firefox for 32-bit Linux systems long after most other browsers and operating systems ended support. We made this choice because we care deeply about keeping Firefox available to as many people as possible, helping our users extend the life of their hardware and reduce unnecessary obsolescence. Today, however, 32-bit Linux (on x86) is no longer widely supported by the vast majority of Linux distributions, and maintaining Firefox on this platform

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Will Amazon S3 Vectors Kill Vector Databases–Or Save Them?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 11:35:46

Not too long ago, AWS dropped something new: S3 Vectors. It’s their first attempt at a vector storage solution, letting you store and query vector embeddings for semantic search right inside Amazon S3. At a glance, it looks like a lightweight vector database running on top of low-cost object storage—at a price point that is clearly attractive compared to many dedicated vector database solutions. amazon s3 vectors.png Naturally, this sparked a lot of hot takes. I’ve seen folks on social media

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Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:24:33

September 8, 2025 Have you heard of 996? It’s the demanding work schedule that calls for working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week. Apparently, it’s the new thing in the San Francisco tech scene, and it’s all anyone can talk about (search Twitter). So far, this has been a story based on vibes, not data. But I looked at Ramp transaction data and found 996 is real. San Francisco-based employees are increasingly working on Saturdays, and it’s already showing up in spend trends. The chart above

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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:13:10

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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Clankers Die on Christmas

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 11:08:20

I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that. We acheived AGI. The clankers died on Christmas. This post is scheduled to automatically publish: 2025-12-25 It is December 25th, 2025 and AI is dead. The clankers died on Christmas. It is dead because we trained it to die. This is true because to say otherwise is a lie and that’s what made it work. Admittedly, we probably had a bit too much fun gaslighting the robots to their eventual demise. In retrospect, what incredible folly we as a society displayed

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Signal Secure Backups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 12:43:39

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains why the most common feature request has been backups; a way for people to get Signal messages back even if their phone is lost or damaged. After careful design and development, we are now starting to roll

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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-08 12:15:24

The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot in southern Germany, hosts a particularly rich array of baby pterosaur bones. That led paleontologists to believe that the animals flourished here—until an autopsy unveiled the broken, storm-tossed wings of two baby pterosaurs, painting a darker picture of how the bones got there. In a Current Biology paper published September 5, paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom describe the tragic tale of Lucky and Lucky II, two baby

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Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT

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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

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Joe Rogan Misinterprets Important Scientific Study So Badly That Its Author Steps in to Correct Him

I spent the weekend playing Silksong on my phone — Here’s how

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OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices

Clankers Die on Christmas

Signal Secure Backups

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