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We're launching a new Google app for Windows experiment in Labs

news.ycombinator.com Vinay Mahagaokar 2025-09-28 22:05:46

Today, we’re launching a new experimental Google app for Windows in Labs to help you find what you need, faster. Now you can search without switching windows or interrupting your flow. Whether you're writing in a doc or in the middle of a game, just press Alt + Space to instantly search for information from your computer files, installed apps, Google Drive files — and of course, the web. With Google Lens built in, you can select and search anything on your screen, making it easy to translate i

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Salesforce launches ‘Missionforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-28 21:00:00

Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision making, according to a company press release. Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, who joined Salesforce in 2023 and is currently the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce C

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Google's AI Overviews 'Misconduct' Undermines Publishers Who Create Content, Lawsuit Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 02:13:44

Penske Media, which owns publications including Rolling Stone, Variety and Billboard, is suing Google, alleging that the search giant is illegally using their content and that of other publishers to fill out the AI Overviews that have become a fixture at the top of Google search results. In a lawsuit filed Friday in US District Court for the District of Columbia, Penske argues that Google's "misconduct" through its monopoly in online search has coerced publishers to acquiesce to misappropriatio

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Salesforce launches ‘Missonforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-29 02:00:00

Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision making, according to a company press release. Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, who joined Salesforce in 2023 and is currently the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce C

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Our favorite slim MagSafe power bank is down to a new low

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 05:15:12

We can all be honest and say that carrying around a bulky power bank almost makes it seem like your phone dying isn't so bad. Between the heaviness and any necessary cords, they can just be a pain. So, we were intrigued when Anker debuted a new, very thin power bank this summer: the Anker Nano 5K MagGo Slim power bank. Now, both Anker and Amazon are running sales on it, dropping the price from $55 to $46. The 16 percent discount a new low for the power bank and available in the black and white

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Sony and other music labels settle copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 06:00:23

In 2023, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and a handful of other music labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, which sought to preserve and digitize 78 rpm shellac records. Now, both parties have announced in a filing that they have reached a settlement and that they're filing to dismiss the lawsuit within 45 days. The plaintiffs said in the filing that they were "writ[ing] to advise this court that they have settled this matter." They didn't

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Hydrow’s new Arc rowing machine has a bigger screen and, alas, AI

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 06:00:54

Hydrow is adding a third model to its lineup of snazzy modern-day rowing machines, and this time it’s bringing along a dollop of AI. The Hydrow Arc sits on the same footprint as its former Pro machine, but gets a bigger, 24-inch touchscreen display. It’s also equipped with what the company is calling “premium sound” and better workout recommendations. But what the company really wants to talk about is its new HydroMetrics Index, using AI to look at your workout and give you a single score at th

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When the job search becomes impossible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 06:18:00

I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can solve it, but maybe I can help put words to what some are going through. The problem unfolds in three distinct phases as the job search drags on. Phase I: The Obvious but Impossible Search You’ve spent several months sending out scores of c

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Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 22:30:47

In brief Researchers studied single-celled algae, called diatoms, from the Arctic that were previously assumed to be hibernating in the ice and found they were actually quite active. This activity, which continued when temperatures dropped to -15 C, is the coldest-ever movement recorded for a eukaryotic cell. The diatoms move through a type of gliding, which is enabled by a combination of mucus and molecular motors that are similar to systems seen in human muscles. Given how abundant these di

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Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-29 10:00:00

Kayak co-founder Paul English is back with a new venture—this time, he’s taking on Calendly. The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple. Supercal was born out of English’s personal experience with the challenges of booking meetings. As a member of eight boards of directors, English says he and others often struggled to coordinate schedules. He then set out to create an email system for booking group meeti

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Migrating to React Native's New Architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 02:41:36

Introduction We successfully migrated two of our largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This migration involved a complex codebase with hundreds of screens and native modules, extensive custom components, and deep integration with first-party libraries like FlashList. Key outcomes: Maintained development velocity throughout migration Zero feature development disruptio

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Can Vibration Plates Help Get You Leaner and Stronger? Here's What the Experts Say

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 16:35:00

Vibration plates are popular all over social media right now. They claim to help you lose weight and build muscle -- all while standing on the vibrating surface. But does standing on a shaking platform really help you get stronger or shed pounds, or is it just another short-lived trend? To find out, we talked to personal trainers and other fitness experts. These experts explained how vibration plates are supposed to work, the benefits you might get from using them, the risks you should watch ou

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The best October Prime Day deals to shop now: Save on tech from Apple, Beats, Anker and others

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-29 18:08:01

October Prime Day will be here soon on October 7 and 8, but as to be expected, you can already find some decent sales available now. Amazon always has lead-up sales in the days and weeks before Prime Day, and it’s wise to shop early if you’re on the hunt for something specific and you see that item at a good discount. Prime Day deals are typically reserved for subscribers, but there are always a few that anyone can shop. We expect this year to be no exception, and we’re already starting to se

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Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: $800+ Off

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-29 18:00:00

Lenovo is currently the biggest PC and laptop company in the world, and they just so happen to make some of our favorite laptops and PC peripherals. In fact, our list of the Best Laptops you can buy include a number of Lenovo devices that we’ve tested and fully recommend, ranging from high-end premium laptops to options for budget-minded shoppers. If you are looking to save a few bucks while shopping for a new Lenovo product, here are the Lenovo coupon codes and special offers you need to know a

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AI challenges the dominance of Google search

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-29 17:03:20

AI challenges the dominance of Google search 5 hours ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save Anja-Sara Lahady AI has become an assistant for Anja-Sara Lahady Like most people, when Anja-Sara Lahady used to check or research anything online, she would always turn to Google. But since the rise of AI, the lawyer and legal technology consultant says her preferences have changed - she now turns to large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT. "For example, I'll ask it

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With no DOJ breakup, Alphabet becomes a $3 trillion company

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-30 06:23:14

In Brief Alphabet hit just over $3 trillion dollars in market cap on Monday as investors continue to reward it after a federal judge declined to break the company up. On Sept. 2, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined softer-than-feared remedies for his year-ago ruling that Google maintained an illegal monopoly in search. The DOJ had proposed stronger remedies, including that Alphabet-owned Google be forced to sell Chrome. Tech companies like Perplexity and Ecosia lined up with unsol

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Free Spotify users can now pick songs, but of course there’s a catch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 10:10:45

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is improving its experience for free users. The service will now let non-paid subscribers pick and play the song they want. These users will also be able to play a song shared by a friend or artist. Spotify has long been focused on improving the Premium experience. For example, Premium members recently started gaining access to lossless audio, a feature that many have been waiting for. Now it’s finally time for free users to get a little somethin

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Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-09-30 22:49:20

On Sunday, Russia released images of its launch of a 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile from a frigate in the Barents Sea, in the Arctic Ocean, near NATO borders. The launch comes against a backdrop of rising tensions with the West, just days after several Russian drones violated the airspace of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries Poland and Romania. The Zircon test is part of the Zapad 2025 joint maneuvers with Belarus, a week of military exercises aimed at assessing defensive and

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Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-01 06:02:42

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla’s board of directors by slightly increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through an irrevocable trust on September 12th, acc

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Alphabet becomes fourth company to reach $3 trillion market cap

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-01 10:15:26

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google's annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Alphabet has joined the $3 trillion club. Shares of the search giant jumped more than 4% on Monday, pushing the company into territory occupied only by Nvidia , Microsoft and Apple . The stock got a big lift in early September from an antitrust ruling by a judge, whose penalties came in lighter than shareholders feared. The U.S. Department of Justice wa

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Pick up an Anker magnetic battery pack while they are up to 42 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:06:26

Whether you you intend to pick up the new iPhone Air or just need some extra juice for your existing iPhone, a MagSafe power bank is an essential accessory. Luckily, Anker both makes some of our favorites and has great sales going on right now on just this kind of gear. One of the most affordable is the Anker 622 Magnetic Battery, which is 42 percent off and down to $28 right now. This steep discount is also available at Anker's online store with a coupon code that the company provides. This mod

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Folks, we have the best π

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:10:03

In the past couple of months, I published a number of articles on recreational math. I did my best to keep them accessible and fun, but my goal was usually to shed light at deeper mathematical truths. For example, the discussion of 0.999… = 1 served as a springboard to highlight some of the subtler properties of real numbers and the different meanings of infinity. Today, I have no agenda. This article exists because I discovered a somewhat obscure paper that says something unexpected and cool.

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FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:56:40

The FBI has issued a FLASH alert warning that two threat clusters, tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395, are compromising organizations’ Salesforce environments to steal data and extort victims. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 and UNC6395, responsible for a rising number of data theft and extortion intrusions," reads the FBI's FLASH advis

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How older parents divorce affects their adult children

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 20:57:14

Divorce in later life is becoming more common – and scientists are beginning to explore the surprisingly deep impact this can have on adult children and their relationships. Divorce is greying. The US has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, even though over the past four decades, it has fallen among younger couples. Instead, middle-aged and older adults have taken over. In fact, adults aged 65 and older are now the only age group in the US with a growing divorce rate. For the over-5

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Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 21:45:05

Google has insisted that its AI-generated search result overviews and summaries have not actually hurt traffic for publishers. The publishers disagree, and at least one is willing to go to court to prove the harm they claim Google has caused. Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Friday over allegations that the search giant has used its work without permission to generate summaries and ultimately reduced traffic to its publicati

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MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 01:36:58

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984 This repository contains code, software, and related files developed for the CP/M operating system, created from 1979-1984. It was hosted on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT-MC (Macsyma Consortium) computer and available on the ARPANET. This was a freeware and shareware "archive" maintained by Frank J. Wancho and Keith Petersen. When the Macsyma Consortium was dissolved in 1983, the files were moved to SIMTEL20. The files available in this rep

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Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-01 23:20:00

Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes from Penske Media (PMC), which owns industry publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Vibe, and Artforum. While Penske’s suit is the first targeting Google and its parent company Alphabet over showing AI-generated summaries in search, both publishers and authors have sued other AI companies o

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Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 18:10:00

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt. It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved. Inspired by the popular Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification. Vicinae is designed for developers and power users

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Lessons in disabling RC4 in Active Directory (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Steve Syfuhs 2025-09-29 10:40:34

Was pulled in to a fun customer issue last Friday around disabling RC4 in Active Directory. What happened was, as you can imagine, not good: RC4 was disabled and half their environment promptly started having a Very Bad Day. — Steve Syfuhs (@SteveSyfuhs) March 1, 2021 Twitter warning: Like all good things this is mostly correct, with a few details fuzzier than others for reasons: a) details are hard on twitter; b) details are fudged for greater clarity; c) maybe I'm just dumb. RC4 is a stream

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Latest Tech News

We're launching a new Google app for Windows experiment in Labs

Salesforce launches ‘Missionforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

Google's AI Overviews 'Misconduct' Undermines Publishers Who Create Content, Lawsuit Says

Salesforce launches ‘Missonforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

Our favorite slim MagSafe power bank is down to a new low

Sony and other music labels settle copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive

Hydrow’s new Arc rowing machine has a bigger screen and, alas, AI

When the job search becomes impossible

Scientists uncover extreme life inside the Arctic ice

Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform

Migrating to React Native's New Architecture

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The best October Prime Day deals to shop now: Save on tech from Apple, Beats, Anker and others

Lenovo Coupon Codes and Deals: $800+ Off

AI challenges the dominance of Google search

With no DOJ breakup, Alphabet becomes a $3 trillion company

Free Spotify users can now pick songs, but of course there’s a catch

Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video

Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock

Alphabet becomes fourth company to reach $3 trillion market cap

Pick up an Anker magnetic battery pack while they are up to 42 percent off

Folks, we have the best π

FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data

How older parents divorce affects their adult children

Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Overview Summaries

MIT-MC CP/M archive files, 1979-1984

Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

Lessons in disabling RC4 in Active Directory (2021)

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