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Google adds iPhone-like ‘Calling Cards’ to its Phone app

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-22 18:39:25

Google’s Phone app is adding “Calling Cards” that let you customize the appearance of contact screens for incoming calls. They’re similar to the Contact Poster feature that iPhone users have had since 2023, allowing Google Phone app users to replace the teeny contact photos that appear when someone is calling you with full-screen images and stylized names. The update is part of Android’s Material 3 Expressive design language overhaul, which Google used to test a revamped Phone app interface in

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Star Wars: Starfighter is going to be star-studded

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-23 23:04:05

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Production on Star Wars: Starfighter officially began today, and Lucasfilm has finally confirmed the other actors who will be bringing the film to life alongside Ryan Gosling. Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Starfighters has added Flynn

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Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring in Sales, Eng, Ops (EU, US)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 07:01:06

Why you should join Lago At Lago, we’re on a mission to make billing simpler, more transparent, and more adaptable for SaaS companies. As the leading open-source billing platform, we empower businesses to build flexible pricing models and scale with confidence. We’ve raised over $22 million in funding from top-tier investors, reflecting strong confidence in our vision and growth. Our platform has garnered over 7,000 stars on GitHub, a testament to our active and growing developer community. N

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Disney sues Sling TV over its one-day cable passes

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-26 11:25:54

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Disney is suing Sling TV over its new streaming passes that give you access to live cable networks for as little as one day. The lawsuit, filed under seal, claims Sling violated the terms of its licensing agreement with Disney and included its networks in the sh

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Google’s AI Weather Model Nailed Its First Major Storm Forecast

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-27 22:55:30

While generative AI tools that primarily amount to slop generators grab most of the attention in the artificial intelligence space, there are occasionally some actually useful applications of the technology, like Google DeepMind’s use of AI weather models to predict cyclones. The experimental tool, launched earlier this year, successfully managed to provide accurate modeling of Hurricane Erin as it started gaining steam in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month. As Ars Technica first reported, H

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Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-28 06:40:46

In Brief Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and nonfiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial victory in a lower court ruling and was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were made public, and Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Called Bartz v. Anthropic, the case deals with Anthropic’s use of books as training material fo

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Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it’s on purpose

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 14:07:03

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent. Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling. The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos. YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes over this period, especially in video quality. More recently, however, it is experimenting with forced upsca

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AI doesn’t belong in journaling

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-10-29 09:30:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. In July 2023, I deleted the Day One journaling app from my phone and laptop. It was perhaps the best thing I’ve done as a lifelong diarist. The decision was prompted by Apple announcing its Journal app at WWDC that year. In that keynote, Apple said it would use “on-device machine learning” to provide prompts based on the content in y

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Google's Liquid Cooling

news.ycombinator.com Chester Lam 2025-10-30 08:57:18

Liquid cooling is a familiar concept to PC enthusiasts, and has a long history in enterprise compute as well. Recently, liquid cooling has taken an increasing role in datacenters, amid increasing power draw and correspondingly high heat output from the latest chips. Machine learning in particular has an insatiable appetite for power and cooling. Google notes that water has a thermal conductivity about 4000 times that of air, making it an attractive solution to deal with the cooling demands assoc

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Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025

news.ycombinator.com Chester Lam 2025-10-30 13:57:18

Liquid cooling is a familiar concept to PC enthusiasts, and has a long history in enterprise compute as well. Recently, liquid cooling has taken an increasing role in datacenters, amid increasing power draw and correspondingly high heat output from the latest chips. Machine learning in particular has an insatiable appetite for power and cooling. Google notes that water has a thermal conductivity about 4000 times that of air, making it an attractive solution to deal with the cooling demands assoc

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Intel says Trump deal has risks for shareholders, international sales

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-10-31 06:52:37

Intel on Monday warned of "adverse reactions" from investors, employees and others to the Trump administration taking a 10% stake in the company, in a filing citing risks involved with the deal. A key concern area is international sales, with 76% of Intel's revenue in its last fiscal year coming from outside the U.S., according to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company had $53.1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024, down 2% from the year prior. For Intel's inter

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I Can’t Stop Playing Duolingo Chess

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-10-31 14:30:00

I’m embarrassed to admit this in my mid-forties, but I’ve never understood chess well enough to play a full game. My son and daughter both learned how to play in elementary school. I was glad they had that experience. I tried to pick up the game when they did, but, as a busy mom of three little kids, I just didn’t have the time, the interest, or the stamina to really sit down and learn. Chess became more popular during the pandemic, and the boom has stuck around; according to a recent Yougov.c

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Microsoft: August Windows updates cause severe streaming issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 16:25:39

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 security updates are causing severe lag and stuttering issues with NDI streaming software on some Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems. This comes after widespread reports from users experiencing a wide range of performance problems when using various streaming apps, including OBS (Open Broadcast Software), "Severe stuttering, lag, and choppy audio/video might occur when using NDI (Network Device Interface) for streaming or transferring audio/video fee

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Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 21:09:38

Hi HN, we’re Ben and Connor, the co-founders of Skope ( https://www.useskope.com/ ), a billing system that supports outcome-based pricing for software—that is, which charges your customers only when your software actually works. We’re an alternative to Stripe Billing, Orb, and Metronome that natively supports this pricing model, because we believe it’s especially needed for the AI products which are flooding the market and that will continue to be built in the future. Here’s a demo video: https

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 05:20:53

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often scale down large images before sending them to the model: when scaled, these images can reveal prompt injections that are not visible at full resolution. In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers c

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Now Masimo is suing US Customs over Apple Watch imports

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-05 02:58:10

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Medical tech company Masimo is suing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in an attempt to overturn the agency’s decision to allow Apple to restore the blood oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches. Masimo said it only learned that the ban had been reversed after Apple announced a “redesigned” pulse oximetry feature last week, which calculates blood oxygen levels on iPhones instead of the Watch. Apple ha

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A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 22:15:00

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. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is searching for ways to diversify its economy, much like other energy communities across the Mountain West. For decades, a coal-fired power plant, now scheduled to shut down in the coming years, served as a reliable source of tax revenue, jobs, and e

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Apple Watch’s restored blood oxygen tracking attracts another lawsuit

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-05 20:58:10

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Medical tech company Masimo is suing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in an attempt to overturn the agency’s decision to allow Apple to restore the blood oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches. Apple has been embroiled in legal disputes over Masimo’s blood oxygen sensor patent since 2020, disabling the feature on supported US Apple Watch models following an ITC import ban in December 2023. In a comp

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Alibaba says smart car spinoff Banma plans to list shares in Hong Kong

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-11-06 02:18:06

Alibaba -backed Banma, a provider of technology for smart cars, is planning to list shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to a filing. In a filing dated Aug. 21, Alibaba said it currently owns about 45% of Banma and will continue to control over 30% of the company's stock after the listing. Banma said in a filing that the announcement does not guarantee a listing will take place. Banma, founded in 2015 and based in Shanghai, is "principally engaged in the development of smart cockp

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Scientists Built a Beer-Fridge-Sized Reactor That Brings Fusion Closer

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-07 04:00:34

Fusion is always 10 years away, it seems. To expedite development, some scientists have turned to the prospect of cold fusion—a hypothetical technology that seeks to achieve fusion at room temperature with simpler machines. Needless to say, no one has achieved this vaunted goal, but a team of chemists believes they’re getting closer. A paper published today in Nature introduces Thunderbird: a particle accelerator roughly the size of a beer fridge. The bench-top reactor operates on plasma scienc

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Researchers Solve 35-Year-Old Fusion Mystery With Bench-Top Reactor

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-07 16:00:34

Fusion is always 10 years away, it seems. To expedite development, some scientists have turned to the prospect of cold fusion—a hypothetical technology that seeks to achieve fusion at room temperature with simpler machines. Needless to say, no one has achieved this vaunted goal, but a team of chemists believes they’re getting closer. A paper published today in Nature introduces Thunderbird: a particle accelerator roughly the size of a beer fridge. The bench-top reactor operates on plasma scienc

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Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-08 17:11:39

Two of Verizon’s mobile plans are getting some upgrades at no additional cost. The improvements are being made to the Simple Mobile and Total Wireless plans. All five of the Simple Mobile tiers are being upgraded, while the same is true of the top two Total Wireless levels … All of the upgrades relate to international calling and data usage whilst travelling abroad. CNET has the details. Simple Mobile The $25 Unlimited plan includes 15GB of high-speed data (up from 3GB) and unlimited calling

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Verizon-powered prepaid brands just got a lot more travel-friendly

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 16:00:32

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon-powered prepaid providers, Simple Mobile and Total Wireless, are introducing several travel-friendly perks across their plans. The updated plans offer new international calling, texting, and roaming benefits, and in some cases, bundled streaming services. Verizon will soon power new global connectivity options for prepaid customers of Simple Mobile and Total Wireless. Starting August 28, the two no-contract prepaid providers under Verizon’s Va

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Deel scores a lawsuit win, but not against Rippling

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-08 20:47:51

A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed against embattled HR and payroll provider Deel. And while Deel described this as a “Rippling-aligned” and “Rippling-supported” lawsuit, this is not the infamous lawsuit filed by its rival earlier this year that involved an alleged corporate spy. Rippling CEO Parker Conrad even went so far as to say “This litigation has nothing to do with Rippling, we are not a party to it, did not fund it,” in a tweet. (Rippling representatives declined furth

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Sling's New $20 'Select' Package Gives You 11 Channels

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 00:41:00

There's a new $20 skinny bundle on the scene, and you probably want to know what the low-priced live TV package gets you. Sling introduced a fresh package called Sling Select on Tuesday, joining its prior offerings of Sling Orange, Sling Blue and Sling Orange & Blue plans. Select's selection is a pared-down version of Blue (plus some outliers not found in Blue or Orange), and its price reflects that. Select includes Fox News, FS1, FX, National Geographic, NFL Network, Lifetime Movie Network, Ga

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Appeals court says NLRB structure unconstitutional, in a win for SpaceX

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-09 15:42:59

A federal appeals court handed SpaceX a win on Tuesday, in a ruling that prevents the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting unfair labor practices against the company. The ruling by the Fifth District Court of Appeals, which suggests the structure of the NLRB is likely unconstitutional, could have far-reaching effects. The ruling keeps unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX and two other companies, Energy Transfer and Findhelp, on hold while the companies pursue their claim that t

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Microsoft: August security updates break Windows recovery, reset

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 21:39:30

Microsoft has confirmed that the August 2025 Windows security updates are breaking reset and recovery operations on systems running Windows 10 and older versions of Windows 11. "After installing the August 2025 Windows security update [..] on any of the client versions mentioned below in the 'Affected platforms' section, attempts to reset or recover the device might fail," the company said in a new Windows release health update. Installing this month's security updates will cause issues for us

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The Best Cooling Sheets (2025): Brooklinen, Slumber Cloud, Buffy

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-11-11 12:36:00

There's a lot of terminology thrown around in the world of cooling sheets and cooling mattresses. Temperature regulating! Airflow! Moisture wicking! Phase-change material! Most of the time, these features come back to how breathable the sheets are. Breathability means moisture can better evaporate, and “temperature-regulating” usually means the sheets are breathable enough to release the heat and moisture from your body. What makes sheets breathable? Cotton, flax linen, and bamboo have great br

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Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:01:38

Block Reels & Shorts on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube. Set scrolling limits on any app with antiscroll mode. No Ads, No Reels, No Shorts, No Distractions. iOS has some limitations,so it’s not technically possible to block Reels and Shorts the same way as on Android. Although it can't be done the same way, I’m building an iPhone app with a different approach to help cut down on scrolling addiction. Drop your email and I’ll let you know when is launched!

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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-14 03:34:17

In Brief While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,” von Ahn told The New York Times. “Externally, as a publicly traded company some people assume that it’s just for profit. Or that we’re trying to lay off humans. And that was not the intent at all.” On the contrary, von Ahn sai

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Google adds iPhone-like ‘Calling Cards’ to its Phone app

Star Wars: Starfighter is going to be star-studded

Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring in Sales, Eng, Ops (EU, US)

Disney sues Sling TV over its one-day cable passes

Google’s AI Weather Model Nailed Its First Major Storm Forecast

Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors

Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it’s on purpose

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Google's Liquid Cooling at Hot Chips 2025

Intel says Trump deal has risks for shareholders, international sales

I Can’t Stop Playing Duolingo Chess

Microsoft: August Windows updates cause severe streaming issues

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

Now Masimo is suing US Customs over Apple Watch imports

A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

Apple Watch’s restored blood oxygen tracking attracts another lawsuit

Alibaba says smart car spinoff Banma plans to list shares in Hong Kong

Scientists Built a Beer-Fridge-Sized Reactor That Brings Fusion Closer

Researchers Solve 35-Year-Old Fusion Mystery With Bench-Top Reactor

Two Verizon plans are getting some upgrades at no extra cost

Verizon-powered prepaid brands just got a lot more travel-friendly

Deel scores a lawsuit win, but not against Rippling

Sling's New $20 'Select' Package Gives You 11 Channels

Appeals court says NLRB structure unconstitutional, in a win for SpaceX

Microsoft: August security updates break Windows recovery, reset

The Best Cooling Sheets (2025): Brooklinen, Slumber Cloud, Buffy

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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

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