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Google may soon let Pixel users remove the search widget’s new AI Mode shortcut (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-09 01:16:37

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google recently added a new shortcut to the Pixel Launcher’s search widget, making it easy for users to launch Search’s AI Mode from the home screen. This new shortcut hasn’t gone down well with users, with many finding it intrusive. Google may soon give users an option to remove the AI Mode shortcut from the search widget. Google recently rolled out an easier way to access Search’s AI Mode. The company added a new AI Mode shortcut to the Pixel Launch

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'Batavia' Windows spyware campaign targets dozens of Russian orgs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-09 09:48:39

A previously undocumented spyware called ‘Batavia’ has been targeting large industrial enterprises in Russia in a phishing email campaign that uses contract-related lures. The researchers believe the operation has been active since at least last year in July and is ongoing. Based on telemetry data, the phishing emails delivering Batavia have reached employees at several dozen Russian organizations have been targeted. Since January 2025, the campaign has increased in intensity and peaked toward

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Android is finally adding a search bar to its Photo Picker to help you find images faster

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-09 17:55:24

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android’s Photo Picker is getting a new search bar to help find specific images, and a date scrubber is also in development to make navigation easier. The search feature, which is rolling out now, allows users to search their entire local and cloud media library with simple text-based queries. A date scrubber is also being worked on, which will let users quickly scroll through their gallery to find photos from a specific month or year. Sharing a photo

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Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-10 09:00:04

In 1721, pirates attacked and seized a Portuguese ship carrying a massive trove of treasure en route to Lisbon. Now, researchers believe they’ve discovered its remains off the coast of Madagascar. The discovery comes from two researchers from the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation in Massachusetts, who have conducted several studies on the wreckage over the last 16 years. They say new clues have revealed the ship’s identity as the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a 700-ton warship. Their findings

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ChatGPT is testing disruptive Study Together feature

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-10 03:07:49

OpenAI's "Study together" mode has been spotted in the wild, and it could help students prepare for exams directly from ChatGPT. We don't have the details yet, but references to ChatGPT Study Mode were first spotted in May, and testers noticed it widely earlier today. The Study together mode, which doesn't work right now, might allow students to either invite their friends to study on ChatGPT or have the AI act as a companion. We just don't know how it works yet, but it could disrupt the educ

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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-09 22:36:54

In Brief A group known as the Independent Publishers Alliance has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission over Google’s AI Overviews, according to Reuters. The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss.” It also says that unless they’re willing to disappear from Google searc

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Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on Mars

cnbc.com Magdalena Petrova 2025-08-09 23:00:01

Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, or MDRS, invited CNBC to shadow one of its analog crews on a recent mission. "MDRS is the best analog astronaut environment," said Urban Koi, who served as health and safety officer for Crew 315. "The terrain is extremely similar to the Mars terrain

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ChatGPT Deep Research tests new connectors for more context

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-10 04:20:14

ChatGPT Deep Research, which is an AI research tool to automate research, is getting support for new connectors (integrations), including Slack. Deep Research is an AI agent that automates research for you. You just need to give it a brief prompt with all the necessary details, and it will crawl the internet to write a research paper. As spotted by Tibor on X, ChatGPT has references to a new connector called 'Slack.' Once integrated, ChatGPT can crawl your Slack messages and use them in the c

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Yurei – Open source social media researcher powered by Exa AI API and YouTube v3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-12 15:40:25

yurei app still in progress, not live on https://yurei.app/ yet, but you can clone it and try it out a simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v3. built with vercel's ai sdk. what it does: searches youtube for videos searches reddit for posts searches linkedin (kinda fucked rn, working on it) using grok-21212 as the llm how to install clone this repo npm install or yarn make a .env.local with: NEXT_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000 # For development NE

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A simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 01:40:25

yurei app still in progress, not live on https://yurei.app/ yet, but you can clone it and try it out a simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v3. built with vercel's ai sdk. what it does: searches youtube for videos searches reddit for posts searches linkedin (kinda fucked rn, working on it) using grok-21212 as the llm how to install clone this repo npm install or yarn make a .env.local with: NEXT_PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:3000 # For development NE

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The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

wired.com Paresh Dave 2025-08-13 01:50:33

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned. Rick Muller’s pending departure from IARPA comes amid broader efforts to downsize the United States intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees IARPA. A person familiar with Muller’s plans confirmed to WIRED his departure from IARPA. Born during

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Like Google, China's biggest search player Baidu is beefing up its product with AI to fight rivals

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-08-14 18:44:20

In this article BIDU Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pictured here is the Ernie bot mobile interface, with the Baidu search engine home page in the background. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Chinese tech giant Baidu has bolstered its core search platform with artificial intelligence in the biggest overhaul of the product in 10 years. Analysts told CNBC the move was a bid to keep ahead of fast-moving rivals like DeepSeek, rather than traditional search play

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Scientists Finally Sequenced the First Ancient Egyptian Genome

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-16 00:00:32

Scientists have, for the first time, sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian who lived approximately 4,500 to 4,800 years ago. The feat was achieved by a team of researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University, who published their findings in Nature. According to the study, the ancient individual’s genetic ancestry traces back to populations in both North Africa and West Asia, shedding light on the genetic diversity of early Egyptians. Researchers fir

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Scientists Uncover Exercise Lifehack: Go to Bed

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-08-16 01:00:38

As if you needed another reason to envy—or loathe—morning people. Research this week shows that people who go to bed early are more likely to be physically active than those who crave the night. Scientists at Monash University in Australia led the study, which objectively examined people’s sleeping and exercise habits. Compared to late-night and typical sleepers, people who went to bed early tended to perform more physical activity the following day, they found. The findings also suggest that t

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Australians to face age checks from search engines

news.ycombinator.com Tom Williams On Jul Pm 2025-08-17 00:59:26

Search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing must implement age assurance checks for logged-in users in 'no later than six months'. Image: Shutterstock Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner. Search engines operating in Australia will need to implement age assurance techn

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Google's AI Mode Is Changing How You Search. So What Is It?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-17 15:46:10

A new tab is in your Google Search bar, and it feels a lot more like an AI chatbot than a traditional search engine. Google started testing AI Mode earlier this year and announced the full rollout at its I/O developers conference in May. It's now available for all English language users in the US over age 13 (and to Workspace and Education users over age 18). To celebrate, Google promoted it with an animation on the Google homepage on July 1, with the company's new logo inviting users into an

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Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 18:24:24

Contextual Observation & Recall Engine C.O.R.E is a shareable memory for LLMs which is private, portable and 100% owned by the user. You can either run it locally or use our hosted version and then connect with other tools like Cursor, Claude to share your context at multiple places. C.O.R.E is built for two reasons: To give you complete ownership of your memory, stored locally and accessible across any app needing LLM context. To help SOL (your AI assistant) access your context, facts, and p

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A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

wired.com David Gilbert 2025-08-17 21:27:44

A pro-Russia disinformation campaign is leveraging consumer artificial intelligence tools to fuel a “content explosion” focused on exacerbating existing tensions around global elections, Ukraine, and immigration, among other controversial issues, according to new research published last week. The campaign, known by many names including Operation Overload and Matryoshka (other researchers have also tied it to Storm-1679), has been operating since 2023 and has been aligned with the Russian govern

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Nothing launches its most expensive flagship yet, Phone (3)

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-18 05:30:00

Nothing on Tuesday launched its newest flagship phone after a two-year gap. At an event in London, the company unveiled the Phone (3), which starts at $799 and aims to take on bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and features targeting tech enthusiasts. Since releasing Phone (1) in 2022, the GV-backed startup has relied on a transparent design to make its phone stand out from others. The Phone (3) follows that same design language, but it introduces a stranger camera a

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Google Keep’s Material 3 Expressive makeover is starting to roll out

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 10:51:19

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Keep’s Material 3 Expressive makeover has started rolling out to users. It brings visual changes for several UI elements, including the search bar, toolbar, and search filters. The redesign is not widely available at the moment, but it should reach more users in the coming days. Google is steadily updating its apps in line with Android’s new Material 3 Expressive design language, and Google Keep is the latest to receive an expressive makeover.

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Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 09:10:50

First of all, this is purely a personal learning project for me, aiming to combine three of my passions: photography, software engineering, and my family memories. I have a large collection of family photos and want to build an interactive experience to explore them, ala Google or Apple Photo features. My goal is to create a system with smart search capabilities, and one of the most important requirements is that it must run entirely on my local hardware. Privacy is key, but the main driver is

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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia – ACM Sigops

news.ycombinator.com Vijay Janapa Reddi 2025-08-20 16:48:45

The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly $739 million in halted research funding. The directive, issued with little explanation, has created chaos across the academic research ecosystem, part of a broader trend Nature described as an unprecedented assault. Before we go any furthe

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NIH budget cuts affect research funding beyond US borders

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-20 21:07:50

Rory de Vries, an associate professor of virology in the Netherlands, was lifting weights at the gym when he noticed a WhatsApp message from his research partners at Columbia University, telling him his research funding had been cancelled. The next day he received the official email: “Hi Rory, Columbia has received a termination notice for this contract, including all subcontracts,” it stated. “Unfortunately, we must advise you to immediately stop work and cease incurring charges on this subcont

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Millions of Brother Printers Are Full of Hackable Bugs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-21 09:00:35

Brother makes some solid, reliable printers. Indeed, for several years running, The Verge named it the best printer you should buy. Unfortunately, the company’s devices appear to be riddled with new zero-day bugs that could allow a savvy cybercriminal to hijack them. The vulnerabilities were discovered by cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which published a blog about the bugs last week. The blog explains that, after some research, Rapid7’s cyber pros came across a total of eight new zero-day vulnerabi

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OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-21 08:16:40

In Brief With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo obtained by Wired. In response to what appears to be a Meta hiring spree, Chen said that he, CEO Sam Altman, and other OpenAI leaders have been w

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 11:00:19

Image by Getty / Futurim Developments Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses luminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the brain metabolizes energy, it releases super-faint traces of visible light. Called ultra-weak photon emissions (UPEs), the flashes of light are emitted when electrons break

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Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-21 14:03:19

Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information. Researchers confirmed that 29 devices from Beyerdynamic, Bose, Sony, Marshall, Jabra, JBL, Jlab, EarisMax, MoerLabs, and Teufel are affected. The list of impacted products includes speakers, earbuds, headphones, and wireless microphones. The security problems could be leveraged to take over a vulnerable product and on

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Notorious Fungus Blamed for ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Is Now a Promising Cancer Treatment

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-08-21 10:00:30

In the 1920s, a number of workers on the excavation team that uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb met untimely deaths. Five decades later, 10 out of 12 scientists died after entering the tomb of the 15th-century Polish King Casimir IV. In both cases, researchers suggested that fungal spores could have played a role in the mysterious deaths, specifically identifying the fungus Aspergillus flavus within the Polish burial. A. flavus is now making a comeback, but not as a reawakened killer from ancie

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Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-08-21 12:00:04

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human genome and transform our understanding of health and disease. But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca-esque future full of designer babies. Now,

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Google just gave its Photos app the feature upgrade it deserves - here's what's new

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-21 12:30:14

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After hitting pause three weeks ago, Google is resuming rollout of its AI-powered Ask Photos feature. This time around, the company says, things should be better. Last fall, Google slowly began rolling out a new feature that lets you ask queries to find particular pictures in your Photos app. You might ask something like, "Where was that restaurant we ate at in San Francisco?" or "Show me all the selfies I took in NYC museums," and Gemini will find what yo

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Google may soon let Pixel users remove the search widget’s new AI Mode shortcut (APK teardown)

'Batavia' Windows spyware campaign targets dozens of Russian orgs

Android is finally adding a search bar to its Photo Picker to help you find images faster

Lost for 300 Years, Pirate-Plundered Treasure Ship Discovered off Madagascar Coast

ChatGPT is testing disruptive Study Together feature

Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Inside a Utah desert facility preparing humans for life on Mars

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A simple opensource social media researcher powered by exa ai api and youtube v

The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

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Scientists Finally Sequenced the First Ancient Egyptian Genome

Scientists Uncover Exercise Lifehack: Go to Bed

Australians to face age checks from search engines

Google's AI Mode Is Changing How You Search. So What Is It?

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A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

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Google Keep’s Material 3 Expressive makeover is starting to roll out

Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

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NIH budget cuts affect research funding beyond US borders

Millions of Brother Printers Are Full of Hackable Bugs

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Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone

Notorious Fungus Blamed for ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Is Now a Promising Cancer Treatment

Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch

Google just gave its Photos app the feature upgrade it deserves - here's what's new

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