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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-18 06:00:00

Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Wit

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Creator of Charli XCX Apple dance settles Roblox lawsuit

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-18 14:41:33

Creator of Charli XCX Apple dance settles Roblox lawsuit Kelley Heyer created the Apple dance posting it every day for two weeks before it started getting popular. Court papers filed in the US this week said that Kelley and the Roblox Corporation had agreed to dismiss the case, and a joint statement quoted by Billboard said both sides had "amicably resolved" the issue. Her legal team claimed Roblox had made $123,000 (£93,000) from selling the moves as an emote - a celebratory animation used b

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5 Android phones you should buy instead of the Google Pixel 10 Pro

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 14:00:12

Joe Maring / Android Authority The Google Pixel 10 Pro is a darn impressive phone. I’ve been using it for a little while now, and although my review isn’t quite ready, I can safely say the Pixel 10 Pro is the Android phone I plan on using for the foreseeable future. Its hardware is great, the cameras are unbelievably powerful, and Google’s software experience is unmatched. The Pixel 10 Pro is just about the perfect Android phone for me, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best Android p

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Hue's Secure video doorbell can turn on Hue lights when someone comes to the door

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-18 14:00:17

Hue is best known for its smart lights, but recently the company ventured into home security with its Secure lineup of cameras. Now, parent Signify is releasing its first video doorbell, the Hue Secure, with several unique features it hopes will make it stand out against formidable competition from Nest and Amazon's Ring. To start with, the Hue doorbell comes with a 2K fisheye camera, more resolution than Nest and some of Ring's doorbell products, potentially offering more detailed video. Hue i

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Incogni vs. DeleteMe: I compared the two best data removal services, and there's a clear winner

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-18 12:30:19

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Data removal services began to appear around 15 years ago, after data brokers realized that data could become a new, valuable currency -- and one ripe for exploitation, given the lack of laws and little to no consumer data privacy protection written into legislation. Incogni and DeleteMe, founded in 2021 as part of VPN provider Surfshark and in 2010 by Abine Privacy, respectively, are two of the most widely-known data remo

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Linux Mint 22.2 delivers fresh features and polish for everyday Linux users - and longtime fans

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-18 13:03:35

My highly customized Linux Mint 22.2 Zara desktop runs like a charm. sjvn Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux Mint Zara is an excellent desktop for both Linux and Windows users looking for a change. Linux Mint 22.2 comes with numerous modest improvements. You can run the new Mint without worrying about needing to make major updates. Clement "Clem" Lefebvre and the rest of the Linux Mint team have done it again. With the release of Linux Mint 22

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Visa's AI-enhanced payment options will be coming to more apps soon, thanks to new MCP support

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-18 15:00:17

Getty Images / Anna Barclay / Contributor Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Visa Intelligent Commerce opens Visa's payment network to developers and engineers. These individuals can then build agentic AI shopping experiences using Visa's network. Now, Visa Intelligent Commerce offers Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. AI agents can optimize how people do everyday tasks in the digital world, including shopping. In May, Visa unveiled Visa Intell

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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 FE ‘Fan Edition’ Is a Cut-Down S25+ For $350 Less

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-18 13:30:42

You already know what to expect when you see the letter FE following a Samsung product name. Short for “Fan Edition,” FE devices are a Frankenstein of components packaged together and sold for less. In the case of the Galaxy S25 FE announced at IFA 2025, the $650 Android phone has the same size 6.7-inch display as the $1,000 Galaxy S25+, while costing less than the $800 Galaxy S25. Yeah, it doesn’t quite fit perfectly on a side-by-side chart comparing Samsung’s Galaxy S25 series phones, does it?

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Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 15:02:00

Table of Contents Porsche Is Set to Be the First Electric Car Maker to Deliver Wireless Charging Later This Year Those who closely follow electric cars will have heard whispers of wireless charging for a while now. And if you're not an EV aficionado, you've probably wondered why it hasn't happened. Well, that's all about to change. Porsche announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out wireless charging on the upcoming all-electric Cayenne later this year. The goal is to put an end to wrangling t

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Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 09:51:50

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Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 15:18:13

Having presented well over 1,000 episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg has made the decision to step down from In Our Time following the series which aired earlier this year. Melvyn has presented every episode of In Our Time since the series first launched in 1998. In Our Time is regularly one of the BBC’s most listened to on-demand programmes around the world, its appeal spanning generations. It is one of BBC Sounds' most popular podcasts amongst under 35s. Over the last

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Hue launches its first video doorbell

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-18 16:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After a Philips Hue app update leaked a new Hue video doorbell in March, parent company Signify is making it official this week. The $169 Hue Secure video doorbell is arriving in October to complement Hue’s other Secure indoor and outdoor camera offerings. The Hue Secure video doorbell loo

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From Battery Health to fingerprint unlock, Google just fixed a lot on your Pixel

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 17:00:15

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started rolling out the September 2025 security patch for Pixel phones. The update is arriving for the Pixel 6 and newer devices, including the Pixel Tablet. As usual, the security update is rolling out alongside the latest Pixel Drop. Google is now rolling out the September security update to Pixel phones. Over the next few weeks, all supported Pixel devices, i.e., Pixel 6 and above, running Android 16, will get the latest patches. The Sep

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 16:13:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Eels are fish

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 14:02:18

Let’s dive right in: for most of history, we didn’t really know where eels come from. Which is strange, because they’re everywhere—rivers, lakes, oceans. Even now, we only have the faintest sense of where they spawn or how. Their lives remain partly hidden, and that blank space has always invited stories. Aristotle thought they slithered out of mud, giving the primordial ooze its first big break. Another tale claimed they rose from sea foam, like a grotesque remix of Aphrodite’s birth. Japa

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What is it like to be a bat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 17:48:27

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

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Eero Wants to Sell Customers a Cellular Internet Backup Dongle for Its Routers

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-19 02:38:56

Amazon’s Eero is getting into the cellular hotspot router business… sort of. At IFA 2025, the company announced the Eero Signal, a device that can back up your Eero network with cellular data, kicking in when it detects an internet outage. The Eero Signal is an upright little device with a USB-C splitter that plugs into your existing Eero router’s USB-C port, powering both devices. If you’re paying for a $99.99 annual subscription to Eero Plus, you’ll get 10GB of cellular backup data per year.

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Google closer to powering new Siri and Apple’s AI search tool as Perplexity fades

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-19 06:21:47

While they’re not exactly tying the knot yet, Siri and Gemini are making plans to spend a lot more time together. That’s according to a new report that details the current state of Apple’s delayed effort to upgrade Siri for the modern era. Apple has considered Google’s Gemini AI as a potential solution to fuel the AI-powered version of Siri that’s currently in development. No decision has been made, however, as Apple also tests its own AI models as well as OpenAI and Anthropic models. The new

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OpenAI is hiring 'AI-pilled' academics to build a scientific discovery accelerator

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-19 06:16:05

Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence researchers have long dreamed of automating the process of scientific discovery. Now OpenAI is setting out to turn that vision into reality. The company is launching an initiative call

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‘Marvel Rivals’ Shakes Heaven and Earth Adding Daredevil and Angela to Its Hero Roster

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-19 06:30:14

In a sea of hero shooters, Marvel Rivals continues to be the talk of the town, be it through its glittery movie collab and comic book crossover skins, bombastic gameplay, or having gamers and comic book fans alike fiending to find out which new hero will become their main. Today, Marvel Rivals gave players a glimpse at two new heroes that will undoubtedly change the hierarchy of fan-favorite debates. Developer NetEase Games has unveiled a teaser for season four event The Heart of the Dragon, re

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 4, #1538

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 06:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Garmin's Fenix 8 Pro Is a Watch Full of Firsts That Might Outlast the Competition

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 06:13:56

It's shaping up to be a busy season for smartwatch launches, and Garmin is making sure athletes and outdoor adventurers don't feel left out. The company's new Fenix 8 Pro is its most advanced multisport watch to date, debuting LTE and satellite connectivity alongside a micro-LED display that Garmin says is the brightest ever on a smartwatch. Pair that with the Fenix's signature 27-day battery life, and you've got a potentially life-saving tool that's built to keep up with endurance athletes and

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Google’s Material 3 Expressive UI rolls out to Pixel 6 and newer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 06:31:03

Google has spent the last few weeks hyping up its new Pixel 10 phones, which are very nice devices. They're just not a big leap over last year's phones. If you've decided to hang onto your Android phone a bit longer, there are some new goodies headed your way. If you've got a Pixel, Google's revamped Material 3 Expressive interface is rolling out. Google's Pixel Drop updates, which arrive quarterly, are not quite a new version of Android, but they include more than the bug fixes and security pa

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Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-19 06:32:37

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, reports SWI as spotted by Engadget. The model’s source code, training data, model weights, and detailed developmen

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OpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billion

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Ashley Capoot 2025-10-19 10:50:48

OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale by more than $4 billion, CNBC has learned. The artificial intelligence startup is giving eligible current and former employees the opportunity to sell roughly $10.3 billion in stock, up from the $6 billion it was initially targeting, according to a person familiar with the offering. The sale will be at a $500 billion valuation, in line with expectations, said the person, who asked not to be named because the details are private. OpenAI'

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Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen finally lets you save your sticker masterpieces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:00:20

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard is getting new features with the September Pixel Drop. With this update, Google confirms the expansion of AI writing tools to non-Pixel devices. Additionally, Emoji Kitchen is getting a substantial upgrade with the ability to save creations. The September Pixel Drop has landed on the Pixel 6 as well as all newer phones, watches, and tablets in Google’s portfolio. In addition to its own hardware, Google is also introducing new features to select sys

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Your Pixel Watch is getting true hands-free Google Maps navigation

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:00:43

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel Watch will now auto-open Google Maps full screen when you start walking or biking directions on your phone. Until now, Maps only appeared as a small arrow notification on your Pixel Watch that required tapping to expand. The update is part of Google’s latest Pixel Drop, which is rolling out over the coming weeks. If you’ve ever started walking or cycling directions on your phone and squinted at a tiny arrow on your wrist, this one’s for you. Goo

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Earbud sharing begone: Pixel phones now have proper support for Auracast

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:00:59

Supplied by Google TL;DR Google has announced that Auracast is now available on recent Pixel phones. This lets you broadcast Bluetooth audio or tune into Bluetooth broadcasts from others. It also comes months after Google introduced Auracast support on Pixels, but only for compatible hearing aids. Google announced Auracast support for the Pixel 9 series earlier this year, but this was initially restricted to compatible hearing aids. Now, the company has announced full-fledged Auracast suppor

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Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are coming to more Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:45:18

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s AI-powered Writing Tools feature, which debuted on the Pixel 10, is now rolling out to some non-Pixel devices. Powered by the on-device Gemini Nano model, the feature helps users proofread and rephrase text directly within the keyboard. Availability is tied to devices supporting the multimodal Gemini Nano, such as those with the latest high-end chipsets. Update 1, September 3, 2025 (2:45 PM ET): Google has confirmed that Gboard’s AI Writing T

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AirPods Max get an elegant solution to their biggest design flaw

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-19 14:09:30

My biggest complaint about AirPods Max over the years hasn’t been the steep price or which chip Apple put inside. It’s been the lack of wireless charging. Fortunately, an elegant solution to solve this problem has arrived. I use wireless charging for every other AirPods model, for my iPhone, and for my Apple Watch. AirPods Max lacking wireless charging all this time is disappointing. Fortunately, Mophie has introduced the Max Charging Stand, a $149.95 accessory designed specifically to give Ai

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

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Earbud sharing begone: Pixel phones now have proper support for Auracast

Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are coming to more Android phones

AirPods Max get an elegant solution to their biggest design flaw

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