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Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-24 21:54:13

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM

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Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-24 21:40:49

Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two customers, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On Wednesday, the chipmaker reported record revenue of $46.7 billion during the quarter that ended on July 27 — a 56% year-over-year increase largely driven by the AI data center boom. However, subsequent reporting highlighted how much of that growth seems to be coming from just a handful of customers. Specifically, Nvidia said that a single customer

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Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-24 15:00:46

If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally published a story claiming that watermelons had been found on the planet Mars. "Authorities say rise of fruit aliens is to blame for glut of outer space watermelons," read the story, which the newspaper deleted less than an hour later, but is still accessible in an archived snapshot. "The FBI declined to comment on reports of watermelons raining down

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New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-24 16:00:22

If you're struggling to sort the AI hype from reality, you're not alone. The seemingly breakneck pace of AI development makes it tough to sort headlines from fantasy, with a constant flood of new products and incremental improvements to old ones combining into a rhetorical mess. Arguably the main economic risk of developing artificial intelligence — or its biggest draw, if you're a business owner trying to pad your bottom line — is the prospect of automating jobs. Whether or not AI is currentl

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Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its services

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 21:30:26

Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation included Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway and Scarlett Johansson, and they were available on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. At least one of the chatbots was based on an underage celebrity and allowed the tester to generate a lifelike shirtless image of the real person. The chatbots also

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New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 20:25:10

New interpretations of the laws of thermodynamics suggest the infamous “heat death” hypothesis, which foretells the end of all life and organization in the universe, might not hold. Credits Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a science journalist and the author of the book “The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness and Cosmic Complexity.” Perhaps the most depressing scientific idea that has ever been put forth is the infamous “heat death h

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Agent Client Protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 17:42:30

The Agent Client Protocol standardizes communication between code editors (IDEs, text-editors, etc.) and coding agents (programs that use generative AI to autonomously modify code). The protocol is still under development, but it should be complete enough to build interesting user experiences using it. AI coding agents and editors are tightly coupled but interoperability isn’t the default. Each editor must build custom integrations for every agent they want to support, and agents must implemen

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AI Is Golden or ‘Not Rational’: Wall Street’s Battle With Which Road to Take

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 20:06:55

As investments in artificial intelligence continue to soar, some analysts are raising alarms about a looming bubble that could burst and trigger broader market declines. Others, however, say they’ve never been so sure that it is a growing opportunity. So who is right? Well, on Wall Street, there’s a pick-your-flavor opinion for whatever it is you want to back, so we can’t determine that. But we can show you what each side is thinking. Firstly, that the sector is overvalued. Analysts and invest

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WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-24 20:50:34

On Friday, WhatsApp announced that it had patched a software vulnerability that was being used by unknown hackers to target specific users of Apple products and hack them with spyware. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, said in an advisory that the previously unknown bug “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.” The vulnerability is officially dubbed CVE-2025-55177. TechCrunch notes that this week, WhatsApp fixed the bug while last week, Apple fixed an

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Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Makes Investors Money?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 21:35:44

You’ve seen them before. McDonald’s brings back the McRib. Disney rolls out a limited time only specialty menu. Starbucks uses social media codes to “unlock” new drinks and combinations. And of course, there was Burger King’s Whopperito. Now, Taco Bell is once again getting back into the game, saying Friday that it will bring back a special “Y2K” menu with nostalgia-based items from the ’60s to the ’90s. That includes the Cool Ranch Doritos locos tacos, the 7-layer burrito, tostada, meximelt, a

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My Secret Weapon for Camping Is This Portable Projector That's 22% Off for Labor Day Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 18:01:00

Labor Day deal: Labor Day weekend means new deals and the Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air is back down to just $470 on Amazon right now. That's a 22% discount that represents a savings of $130. The price is likely to go back up after the weekend, though, so now is the time to buy. CNET's key takeaways Anker's Nebula Mars 3 Air is a compact portable projector with a reasonable $599 price (and currently on sale for $470 Despite its size, it delivers a bright picture and loud audio for a portable projec

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Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms could reshape ESG

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-24 16:00:52

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to major banks, pension funds, asset managers, accounting firms, companies, nonprofits, and business alliances, putting them on notice for potential antitrust violations and seeking information as part of the Republican pu

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How a legacy hardware company reinvented itself in the AI age

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-10-24 20:00:19

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Behind-the-scenes providers such as Cisco keep the cloud and internet alive. The 40-year-old company now positions itself as an AI infrastructure vendor. The challenge: proactively supporting millions, if not billions of devices worldwide. It's the nature of the market beast -- think about all the formerly booming tech providers that have disappeared

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From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 15:45:24

From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms Vinithavn 7 min read · 15 hours ago 15 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context. However, not all the tokens within this context equally contribute to the prediction, because some tokens might be more relevant than others. The attention mechanism addresses this by allow

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Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 13:02:29

Error handling in Rust is one of those topics that can spark passionate debates in the community. After wrestling with various approaches in the iroh codebase, the team has developed some insights about the current state of error handling, the tradeoffs involved, and how to get the best of both worlds. The Great Error Handling Divide The Rust ecosystem has largely coalesced around two main approaches to error handling: The anyhow approach: One big generic error type that can wrap anything. It

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Software commands 40% of cybersecurity budgets as gen AI attacks execute in milliseconds

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-10-24 21:06:26

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 “With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities,” states Forrester’s 2026 Budget Planning Guide, revealing a fundamental shift in how organizations allocate cybersecurity resources. Software now commands 40% of cybersecurity spending, exceeding har

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Peek Inside the ‘Fallout’ Vault at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-25 04:15:49

Universal Studios is rolling out its houses of horror across the country—opening three major hubs that monster fans can make their Halloween season travel destinations—in this month’s theme park news. io9 was invited by Universal to experience the very big bag of tricks and treats the theme park creatives are unleashing into the world for fandom fiends seeking thrilling frights. On the West Coast, Universal Studios Hollywood prepares to open the vault with the Fallout house inspired by the Prim

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How to Stop Google from AI-Summarising Your Website

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 07:28:35

Google has introduced AI-generated summaries in its search results—known as AI Overviews—which often pull your content into a snippet that may generate traffic away from your site. While it seems like a "feature," these summaries force site owners into a no-win choice between giving up control or visibility—arguably a dark pattern tactic by Google. To make matters worse, while there are regulatory investigations underway in the EU and UK striving to hold Google accountable, there’s still no goo

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 30, #341

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 08:24:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. The purple category was a complete guess for me, and I didn't do great on the blue category either. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debu

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Spotlight on AI at TechCrunch Disrupt: Don’t miss these sessions backed by JetBrains and Greenfield

techcrunch.com Cindy Zackney 2025-10-25 08:05:00

TechCrunch Disrupt isn’t just about showcasing the startups of tomorrow — it’s also about surfacing the boldest ideas shaping technology today. Thanks to the support of our partners JetBrains and Greenfield, the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 program, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, brings two must-see sessions that put AI front and center. Monday, October 27 — Builders Stage 1:40 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. PT Who’s Defining AI’s Future in 2025? The AI Disruptors 60 Unveiled Presente

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The CDC’s New Acting Director Is a Peter Thiel Pal (and a Total Nightmare)

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-25 11:15:59

As America's pivotal health agency descends into chaos, the White House has selected the worst possible person to run it. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is in chaotic disarray, as a slew of resignations and an unprecedented walkout of staff have roiled the agency. At the center of the controversy is the CDC’s weirdo director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose most recent contribution to public health dialogue was a bizarre rant about what passes through his mind as he stares at childr

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 30 #545

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 12:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one. A few of the words took me a minute to unscramble, but the theme was so clear that the answers were pretty obvious. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 30, #811

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 12:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle had some super-weird words in it. Reich? Stink? Suck? Both Emo and Eno? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and t

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New LinkedIn study reveals the secret that a third of professionals are hiding at work

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-25 16:45:00

Deagreez/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI's fast nature and the need to upskill are overwhelming workers. Learning about AI feels like a second job to workers. Forty-one percent say AI's pace impacts their well-being. Staying up with AI's changing landscape is getting workers down. Forty-one percent of professionals report AI's current pace is impacting their well-being, and more than half of professionals say

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SpaceX’s Next Big Trick: Catch the Starship Upper Stage With ‘Chopsticks’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-25 16:46:04

SpaceX finally broke out of a serious Starship slump on Tuesday, acing the rocket’s 10th flight after months of failed attemps. Now, CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on the next big challenge: catching Starship’s upper stage with Mechazilla’s “chopstick” arms. In an X post on Wednesday, August 27, Musk said the next opportunities to attempt this feat would likely be flights 13 through 15, depending on how well V3—the next iteration of Starship—performs. The Starship launched Tuesday was a V2, w

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Microsoft’s next annual update for Windows 11 is in Release Preview testing

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-25 16:21:15

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The schedule of annual updates for Windows 11 that arrive in the second half of the year will hold steady for 2025, and today, Microsoft announced that the 25H2 package is available now for testing in the Release Preview Channel. So, will you see new

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TikTok now lets users send voice notes and images in DMs

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-25 16:15:08

TikTok is giving users new ways to interact with others via direct messages (DMs), the company told TechCrunch on Friday. Users will now be able to send voice notes and share up to nine images or videos in one-to-one and group chats on the platform. With these new features, TikTok is positioning itself as more than just an entertainment platform, aiming to become a place where users interact regularly beyond simply sending each other TikTok videos. Additionally, the new capabilities bring TikTo

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How Intuit killed the chatbot crutch – and built an agentic AI playbook you can copy

venturebeat.com Matt Marshall 2025-10-25 20:22:47

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 In the frenzied land rush for generative AI that followed ChatGPT’s debut, the mandate from Intuit’s CEO was clear: ship the company’s largest, most shocking AI-driven launch by Sept. 2023. Responding with blazing speed, the $200 billion company behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp, delivered Intuit Assist. It was a classic first att

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AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-25 20:09:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

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Wearable devices are sharing your private data - these are the 5 worst offenders

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-25 20:15:30

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several wearable devices are sharing user data. The worst offenders include Meta, Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei. Apple, Oura, and Whoop have some of the best data practices. Those shiny new Meta Ray-Bans might be uploading the media you're collecting to train its AI model, according to a new report by VPNMentor highlighting the data-sharing practices of the best and worst wearables. Meta and it

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