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Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-31 09:32:52

Reddit has addressed a problem where the description of subreddits originally written by moderators appeared differently—and, often, inaccurately—on Reddit’s Android app. For weeks, the problem was largely suspected to be caused by Reddit clumsily using generative AI to create new subreddit descriptions. However, Reddit says that the changes were the fault of a bug tied to its AI-powered translation technology. Reports of subreddits suddenly having inaccurate summaries when viewed on Reddit’s A

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Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-01 09:49:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The Plus plan will be $12/month and $120/year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. And if you hurry, you can avoid the rate increase. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained

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Horror Maze Game ‘Dark Deception’ Is Becoming a Horror Movie

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-01 09:45:34

The next video game to join the list of those coming to the silver screen is Glowstick Entertainment’s Dark Deception. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s described on Steam as a “story-driven first-person horror maze” inspired by classic arcade games. The 2018 PC and mobile title came out in 2018 and tasks players with getting out of a maze filled with big-headed monsters that’d probably be right at home in Five Nights at Freddy’s. (Probably why it got picked up; the 2023 Freddy’s film was a hit

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Blink just raised its subscription price - but you get 2 new features in return

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-01 12:08:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The new price will be $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained that "for the first time since Blink launched su

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AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-01 21:23:36

For the past few years, the AI industry has been charging full steam ahead, in what can sometimes feel like a pell-mell mad dash to take over the world. Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the industry has leveraged an ever-expanding arsenal of political, cultural, and economic power in its effort to lay claim to many different parts of society. Yet, despite the AI industry’s attempts to make itself seem omnipresent, a new report this week shows that adoption at large U.S. companies has de

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No, the Galaxy S25 FE doesn’t have this key security upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 11:15:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has confirmed to Android Authority that the Galaxy S25 FE has an optical-based fingerprint scanner. This comes after unofficial claims that the phone has an ultrasonic scanner. An ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is faster, more accurate, and works with wet fingers. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 FE last week, and it brings a couple of notable upgrades. We also heard rumors that the phone would have an upgraded in-display fingerprint sensor, bu

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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 11:51:11

Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests 2 hours ago Share Save Kelly Ng BBC News Share Save Watch: Fire and tear gas as protesters clash with police in Nepal Nepal has lifted a social media ban after it led to clashes between protesters and police that have left at least 19 people dead. Thousands of young people had forced their way into the parliament building in the capital Kathmandu on Monday, asking the government to lift its ban on 26 social media platforms, including Fa

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Your electronics could be quietly draining energy - this gadget prevents that

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-05 00:00:18

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:20:26

I have this bad habit. When something annoys me enough times, I end up building a library for it. This time, it was CLI validation code. See, I spend a lot of time reading other people's code. Open source projects, work stuff, random GitHub repos I stumble upon at 2 AM. And I kept noticing this thing: every CLI tool has the same ugly validation code tucked away somewhere. You know the kind: if ( ! opts . server && opts . port ) { throw new Error ( " --port requires --server flag " ); } if ( op

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Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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Your electronics could be costing you, even while off. Here's one way to check

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-06 10:12:00

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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Elon Musk's New Robot Demo Is Astonishingly Bad

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-07 23:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-09 00:45:05

Ever since Apple Pay Later was abruptly discontinued last year, Apple has been steadily adding third-party ‘pay later’ services as alternatives. And now thanks to an Apple Wallet update, those options are easier to find and use than ever before. Apple Wallet now has a ‘Pay Later Options’ menu with streamlined setup Before today Apple Pay already included support for using third-party ‘pay later’ services such as Klarna and Affirm. But the way that’s historically worked has been pretty hidden a

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-09 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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Musk Stakes Tesla Future on One Major Gamble

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-09 15:40:08

In a striking shift of narrative, Elon Musk has declared that Tesla’s future valuation will derive 80% from its Optimus humanoid robots, not its electric vehicle business. This declaration, made in tandem with the release of Tesla’s “Master Plan Part IV,” shifts the spotlight firmly to robotics and AI as the company’s aspirational core. Optimus has morphed from a speculative experiment into Tesla’s defining strategic centerpiece. Musk envisions deploying “thousands” of robots in factories by y

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DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-10 00:00:00

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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The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits No Longer Apply

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 14:04:00

Meal kits have evolved dramatically in the 13 years since Blue Apron launched in the US. Today, nine major meal kit services operate across the country and their convenient dinner packages have become comparatively cheaper and better suited to people with dietary restrictions. Increased competition has brought variety and consumer-friendly makeovers to meal delivery services, but much of the population is still skeptical. In a recent CNET survey of more than 2,600 US adults, most of those who h

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The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits no Longer Apply

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 20:04:00

Meal kits have evolved dramatically in the 13 years since Blue Apron launched in the US. Today, nine major meal kit services operate across the country and their convenient dinner packages have become comparatively cheaper and better suited to people with dietary restrictions. Increased competition has brought variety and consumer-friendly makeovers to meal delivery services, but much of the population is still skeptical. In a recent CNET survey of more than 2,600 US adults, most of those who h

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PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 05:58:44

Perplexity, the NVIDIA- and Bezos-backed AI company, is partnering with PayPal to get its Comet browser in front of millions of the financial tech giant's users. The deal will see PayPal and Venmo customers in the US and select international markets gain access to the AI-powered browser, as well as a free 12-month subscription to Perplexity Pro, which normally costs $200. There are, of course, some conditions. The promotion is part of PayPal's new subscription hub, where users can manage all th

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Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 04:58:00

December 2, 2024 Volume 22, issue 5 PDF Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something! IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions or participate in the process to achieve something better. Poul-Henning Kamp It's a common trope in entertainment for some character to deliver a nonlinear response to something seemingly trivial, only for that to later prove to have been a vitally important clue. So, that room the janitor won't let anybody into? Right, that isn't actually

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Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-11-15 05:01:04

A mockup of Tesla Inc.'s planned humanoid robot Optimus on display during the Seoul Mobility Show in Goyang, South Korea, on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The motor show will continue through April 9. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that Optimus robots, which have yet to hit the market, will eventually make up more than three-quarters of his automaker's value. In a post on X on Monday, Musk wrote, "~80% of Tesla's value will be Optimus." In mid-

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I tried Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds' AI noise cancelling, and can't go back to regular ANC

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-15 05:16:00

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Bose's second-generation QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2 debut with one major AI-powered upgrade. Adaptive ANC powered by AI may not sound the most exciting, but it's incredibly useful. Bose's improved noise-canceling algorithm points it absorbing most of the company's AI budget. In the fast-paced race to load AI into every smartphone, laptop, tablet, and earbud, the flashiest AI-powered features usua

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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 03:25:08

Iryna Pisklyarova Read this post in other languages: 日本語 Hold on to your helper methods – RubyMine is now FREE for non-commercial use! Whether you’re learning Ruby and Rails, pushing open-source forward, creating dev content, or building your passion project, we want to make sure you have the tools to enjoy what you do even more… for free. Another chapter in the story We recently introduced a new licensing model for WebStorm, RustRover, Rider, and CLion – making them free for non-commercial u

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RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:25:08

Iryna Pisklyarova Read this post in other languages: 日本語 Hold on to your helper methods – RubyMine is now FREE for non-commercial use! Whether you’re learning Ruby and Rails, pushing open-source forward, creating dev content, or building your passion project, we want to make sure you have the tools to enjoy what you do even more… for free. Another chapter in the story We recently introduced a new licensing model for WebStorm, RustRover, Rider, and CLion – making them free for non-commercial u

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Apple’s stance on strong encryption gets the support of the FTC in US privacy U-turn

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-18 04:35:53

Apple’s commitment to end-to-end encryption is so strong that it withdrew a key privacy feature from the UK market rather than be forced to compromise it globally. The company also faced pressure on this front from the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In a surprising twist, the White House came out in support of strong encryption, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now urging Apple and other tech giants to stand firm on the issue … The US’s changing narrative on strong encryption I des

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MasterClass Labor Day sale: Get 50 percent off subscriptions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 14:00:35

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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I'm a Runner with Over 15 Years of Running Experience. These Are the Best Treadmills of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 12:00:00

The first thing I noticed about the NordicTrack Commercial 2450, NordicTrack's newest addition to its commercial treadmill series, is the touchscreen. It has a 22-inch HD touchscreen that resembles a desktop computer screen, so it's huge. It also tilts and pivots so you can adjust it for different uses, like if you want to take workout classes on the floor. The treadmill itself is also on the bigger side since it's a commercial treadmill, but it does fold up using its easylift assist feature, so

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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

wired.com Mila Fiordalisi 2025-11-18 15:00:00

Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sent a scathing letter to a number of tech giants, including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. The letter's subject: the European Digital Services Act cannot be applied if it jeopardizes freedom of expression and, above all, the safety of US citizens. The opening of the letter—signed by FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson—features a

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Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

news.ycombinator.com Bryon Moyer 2025-11-14 15:28:55

Optical technology is well established for long-haul communications, but the distances it serves are shrinking — especially in the data center. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) already drive short fiber links. But efforts are underway to further scale them down to provide more connections through waveguides than fiber can provide. “We have seen the transition from long haul to metro-to-local area networks and then into the data center,” said Suresh Jayaraman, senior director fo

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This New iOS 26 Battery Feature Could Extend Your iPhone's Daily Power

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 04:03:03

I don't know anyone who's satisfied with their phone's battery life. We always want more power so we don't wind up with a tapped-out phone at the end of the day or the need to carry a portable charger everywhere. So I'm very curious to see how Adaptive Power affects iPhone battery life when iOS 26 is released, likely soon after the iPhone 17 is announced at Apple's Sept. 9 fall event. Currently, the iPhone uses as much power as it needs to perform its tasks. You can extend the battery life by d

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Reddit bug caused lesbian subreddit to be labeled as a place for “straight” women

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Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

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Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

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The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits No Longer Apply

The 2 Big Reasons People Avoid Meal Kits no Longer Apply

PayPal and Venmo users get a free year of Perplexity Pro and early access to its AI browser

Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus

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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

RubyMine Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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I'm a Runner with Over 15 Years of Running Experience. These Are the Best Treadmills of 2025

Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

This New iOS 26 Battery Feature Could Extend Your iPhone's Daily Power

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