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Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-10 08:15:54

As if suspiciously AI-generated descriptions of real estate listings weren't enough, agents are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties. The Register spotted a dubious listing of a fully renovated 3-bedroom in the UK with a photo — which has since been deleted, but can still be viewed in an archived version — that shows the tell-tale signs of generative AI, including awnings that don't line up, hedges that inexplicably turn into walls, and a f

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I just want a new Pixel Stand with my Pixel 10, Google

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-10 06:00:33

Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Pixel Stand debuted alongside the Pixel 3 and 3XL almost seven years ago, and it was my favorite accessory for those phones. Adding useful Google Assistant features and faster Qi charging made it a must-have accessory for Pixels, and I used it every day. Outside of the iPhone and HMD Skyline supporting MagSafe and Qi2, respectively, wireless charging has been stagnant since then. 2021’s Pixel Stand 2 made some minor improvements to the Pixel Stand formula,

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Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta Talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2026-01-10 10:47:38

In the pirate case there’s no real damage done... but the risks of real damage from prompt injection are constantly increasing as we build more powerful and sensitive systems on top of LLMs. I think this is why we still haven’t seen a successful “digital assistant for your email”, despite enormous demand for this. If we’re going to unleash LLM tools on our email, we need to be very confident that this kind of attack won’t work. My hypothetical digital assistant is called Marvin. What happens i

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I compared Gemini to Google Assistant on two Wear OS watches. The results weren’t even close

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-10 10:00:54

Joe Maring / Android Authority About a month ago, Google started doing something long overdue for Wear OS: it finally began replacing Google Assistant with Gemini. As imperfect as it may be at times, Gemini is a really powerful tool. More importantly, Google Assistant on Wear OS has been showing its age for a while now. I’ve been testing Gemini on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic for a little over two weeks. In addition to using it for daily tasks, I’ve also been comparing it side by side wi

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A SPARC makes a little fire

news.ycombinator.com Leaded Solder 2026-01-05 23:11:52

Way back in May of 2018, I was unable to get the SparcStation 1+ to stop returning “Illegal Instruction” errors for any attempt at booting. This made absolutely no sense to anyone I asked about it, and they suggested replacing the PROM battery, because at least then we’d have fewer known-broken parts in the computer. I ignored this advice, and just stuck the computer in a corner with the other broken machines for awhile so it could think about what it did. A few weekends later, I decided to go

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Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 06:06:56

Installing apps on Sandstorm is as easy as installing apps on your phone. Find any app you want on the App Market and start using it with a few clicks. Every app comes with automatic updates.

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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-01-10 10:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Unmasking the Sea Star Killer

news.ycombinator.com Mark Garrison 2026-01-06 20:10:17

Hodin is fascinated by creatures who change form—“I’m even wearing my shirt,” he says, pointing to his T-shirt depicting a folk music festival celebrating metamorphosis. So when The Nature Conservancy asked him to try breeding sunflower stars, Hodin was excited. Sunflower stars go through a series of developmental stages—from eggs to poppy seed-sized larvae that float around for months to juvenile stars that settle on the sea floor and add more arms as they grow. And while plenty of sunflower st

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KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2026-01-11 02:38:01

A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker recently convicted of leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online psychotherapy practice while attempting to extort the clinic and its patients. The documentary, “Most Wanted: Teen Hacker,” explores the 27-year-old Kivimäki’s lengthy and increasingly destructive career, one that was ma

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Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking

news.ycombinator.com Mass General Brigham 2026-01-11 00:22:56

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham examined the effects of policies banning flavored e-cigarettes on adults and young people. Investigators found that e-cigarette use significantly declined among young adults and adults in states that had enacted flavor bans rel

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Poltergeist: File watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 11:09:02

Poltergeist The ghost that keeps your builds fresh 👻 A universal file watcher with auto-rebuild for any language or build system Poltergeist is an AI-friendly universal file-watcher that auto-detects any project and rebuilds them as soon as a file has been changed. Think npm run dev for native apps, with automatic configuration, notifications and a smart build queue. It stands on the shoulders of giants and fills the glue layer that's been missing. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Availabl

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The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-11 05:30:00

August has started heavy for skygazers. We are days away from August's sturgeon full moon and the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. Before those celestial events get underway, however, it seems that another sighting of the aurora borealis may be visible in up to 18 US states on Friday night. Those states can be broken up into three categories. The first are states that will almost certainly see an aurora -- if conditions allow -- and include Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Da

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‘Enterprise’ Producer Has Hopes Scott Bakula Might Return to ‘Star Trek’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-11 11:47:24

Star Trek is in a bit of an uncertain place right now, as the shows that created its streaming boom have spent the last couple of years either coming to their end or announcing that they’re preparing to do so—and that’s even putting aside that Paramount itself is controversially about to come under new management. Beyond two and a half more seasons of Strange New Worlds and at least two seasons of Starfleet Academy, where Star Trek goes next is unknown. But it’s also a situation where one Trek a

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Facebook and Instagram may be down for some users

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-11 21:22:24

Meta is apparently experiencing some capacity of server issues today. According to Downdetector, user reports of Facebook and Instagram not refreshing have spiked recently. Meta hasn’t acknowledged any outage on its system status page yet, and Facebook appears to be loading fine here. But if you’re having issues loading either app today, Downdetector shows that you’re not alone. ❗️Can't refresh your feed or messages on Facebook and Instagram? You're not alone! Downdetector users have been

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Sony Wants Its Anime Boom to Be as Big as the PlayStation 2

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-01-11 21:00:50

While Sony has been a quietly influential force in the anime landscape—owning studio Aniplex and acquiring Crunchyroll, which absorbed its former rival Funimation to expand its roster of shows and films—the PlayStation maker still sees itself as just getting started. According to a new report, Sony is still building an anime empire, treating this moment like the dawn of the PlayStation era, with more room to grow looming over the horizon. Speaking with the Japanese publication Toyo Keizai (hat-

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ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-11 21:10:28

How many U.S. states include the letter “R” in their name? You may not know the answer off the top of your head, but any literate adult could figure it out with a list of the states and minimal effort. Unfortunately, OpenAI’s ChatGPT doesn’t know the answer, even its new GPT-5 model. Because generative AI is still a deeply flawed tool, despite being sold by its creators as a god-like entity that can answer literally anything. I was inspired to ask the question after seeing a Bluesky post on Thu

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2026-01-11 20:27:48

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. It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offe

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NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2026-01-11 21:17:35

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time calls to Houston, regular cargo deliveries of medicines, and a quick ride home after six months. All of that may soon change as NASA and its commercial partners, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, look to conduct longer-duration missions that would take humans to the Moon and Mars. That looming reality is pushing NASA

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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2026-01-07 15:14:15

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up. I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let’s explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a ho

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn it off

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2026-01-12 02:27:48

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. It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offe

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How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-12 02:53:44

Following Wednesday’s launch of Instagram’s new Snap Map-like opt-in “Instagram Map” feature — which lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content — Instagram head Adam Mosseri is having to reassure people that their location is only visible to others if they decide to share it. Although Meta has made it clear that location sharing is off by default, there have been numerous posts on social media urging users to turn off location sharing,

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Google's latest Nest Learning Thermostat is $50 off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 11:00:33

We’re into the back half of summer already (which may be good or bad news depending on how hot it is where you reside), and it won’t be too long before the weather outside becomes decidedly more frightful. When that happens, a smart thermostat becomes an especially wise addition to your home. They help to optimize the temperature to ensure you stay comfortable, while also keeping your energy bills down. The Google Nest Learning Thermostat is one of the more popular options for a variety of reas

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 15:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

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Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2026-01-13 06:12:04

The launch of an Instagram feature that details users' geolocation data illicited backlash from social media users on Thursday. Meta debuted the Instagram Map tool on Wednesday, pitching the feature as way to "stay up-to-date with friends" by letting users share their "last active location." The tool is akin to Snapchat's Snap Map feature that lets people see where their friends are posting from. Although Meta said in a blog post that the feature's "location sharing is off unless you opt in,"

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I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-13 09:30:17

Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything. Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity. The chatbot (which ZDNET's

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Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2026-01-09 15:14:15

After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up. I will deploy services on a single mini pc. Since I need to be able to experiment and learn without disrupting my services, I will need to be able to spin up Virtual Machines (VMs). Let’s explore how I deployed Proxmox Virtual Environment on a safe host for my specific needs as a ho

Topics: ansible install network proxmox yaml

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 21:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

Topics: relation return slot static table

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The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Over 2 Nights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-13 15:12:00

August has started heavy for skygazers. We are days away from August's sturgeon full moon and the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. Before those celestial events get underway, however, it seems that another sighting of the aurora borealis is going to sneak in Thursday and Friday and may be visible in up to 18 US states. Those states can be broken up into three categories. The first are states that will almost certainly see an aurora -- if conditions allow -- and include Alaska, Washington, Mo

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High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-01-13 21:05:01

In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, at double the valuation it hit six months earlier, sources told TechCrunch at the time. That deal didn’t happen, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead, news broke in April that the startup planned to sell itself to OpenAI for roughly the same valuation: $3 billion. While that deal famously fell apart, one bigger question remains: If the startup was

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Instacart tops estimates, issues upbeat outlook

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-14 02:46:33

The Instacart logo is seen on a smartphone and on a PC screen. Simo, who helped take the grocery delivery company public in 2023 and guided it through a massive growth period during the Covid-19 pandemic, will step down from her position later this month as she joins OpenAI as its new head of applications. "We delivered another strong quarter, reinforcing the essential role we play in helping families save time, money, and effort putting food on the table," wrote outgoing CEO Fidji Simo in a s

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