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Elon Musk Teases “Fireworks” as Trump Signs His “Big, Beautiful Bill”

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-31 07:15:19

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, spent the Fourth of July doing what he does best: stirring speculation, igniting controversy, and hinting at big political moves—all from behind a keyboard. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO kicked off America’s Independence Day with a patriotic post on his platform X (formerly Twitter): “🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸” 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy birthday, America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2025 But it was his follow-up that really set off alarms: “Great day for some

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How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Bob Leggitt 2025-08-31 11:12:25

"We're long past the days when it was possible to simply say "no" to corporate stalking without consequence. Today, when we say "no", we get punished for it. But that only goes to show WHY, more than ever, we should be saying "no"." Google Tag Manager. It's a product which, by design, cloaks a range of the Internet's most invasive and unethical scripts in an opaque closet, then springs them out in disguise. Combining immense power with obfuscation and vast scale of use, Google Tag Manager is th

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Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-31 14:00:50

Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work. As the New York Times reports, scientists estimate, based on an analysis of those overused terms, that there could already be hundreds of thousands of academic papers written with the assistance of AI. In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers from Germany's University o

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Fairphone 6 lands a perfect 10 for repairability

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-31 15:00:01

Dutch company Fairphone continues to lead the charge on consumer- and planet-friendly electronics, proving that a great phone doesn't have to be impossible to repair or environmentally unsustainable. The Fairphone 6 has just been released, coming two years after the last generation of the phone built to last. The folks over at iFixit wasted no time in conducting a teardown of this new entry to see how it stacks up against previous generations. The Fairphone 6 scored a perfect 10 out of 10, like

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Microsoft is closing its local operations in Pakistan

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-08-31 15:42:13

Microsoft is closing its operations in Pakistan, marking the end of a 25-year presence in the South Asian nation. The Redmond-based company on Friday told TechCrunch that it is changing its operational model in Pakistan and will now serve its customers through resellers and “other closely located Microsoft offices.” “Our customer agreements and service will not be affected by this change,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “We follow this model successfully in a number of

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Microsoft Is Eliminating Passwords in August: Here's What You Need to Do to Prepare

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-31 18:40:19

In June, Microsoft Authenticator stopped letting users create new passwords. In July, it turned off the autofill password function. And in August, the login app will stop supporting passwords entirely, moving to more secure passkeys, such as a PIN, fingerprint or facial recognition. Attila Tomaschek, CNET's software senior writer and digital security expert, says that passkeys are a safer alternative to the risky password habits practiced by 49% of US adults, according to a recent survey by CNE

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Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-31 21:45:46

AI Kirk Despite being stumped by simple children's games and uncontrollably hallucinating, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT to "operate as an autonomous agent controlling a pursuit spacecraft." To their amazement, as detailed in a paper s

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Hacker leaks Telefónica data allegedly stolen in a new breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-31 23:11:26

A hacker is threatening to leak 106GB of data allegedly stolen from Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica in a breach that the company did not acknowledge. The threat actor has leaked a 2.6GB archive that unpacks into five gigabytes of data with a little over 20,000 files to prove that the breach occurred. Partial leak with data allegedly stolen from Telefónica The breach allegedly occurred on May 30 and the hacker claims they had 12 hours of uninterrupted data exfiltration before de

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Dr. Phil’s ‘Anti-Woke’ TV Network Files for Bankruptcy After Only a Year

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-31 23:05:59

Last year, in an effort to capitalize on anti-woke backlash, Dr. Phil (real name Phil McGraw) launched his own TV channel, which he said would be used to fight the good fight against the far left’s radical crazies. Merit Street Media, according to McGraw, would be a vanguard in the battle for the soul of America. “Merit Street Media will be a resource of information and strategies to fight for America and its families, which are under a cultural ‘woke’ assault as never before,” said McGraw at t

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Samsung's Texas chip plant is reportedly delayed due to lack of customers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-01 03:00:34

Samsung has reportedly pushed back the completion of its semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, because it has no customers. According to Nikkei Asia, the company is in no hurry to install equipment in the facility due to lack of clients and even though the facility is over 90 percent done. The factory was supposed to come online in 2024, but the company has since pushed back its opening date to sometime in 2026 to upgrade its foundry process. Samsung's fab was only supposed to be able to manufac

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The Ploopy Knob is an open-source control dial for your PC

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-01 03:24:28

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Ploopy has announced another desktop accessory called the Ploopy Knob that can function like a control dial for adjusting volume, scrolling documents, or scrubbing through media on a computer. The Canadian company isn’t exactly a household name like Logitech, but Ploopy’s open-source peripherals offer a lot of customizability, and like its mouse

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Is there a no-AI audience?

news.ycombinator.com Shubham Bose 2025-09-01 06:33:07

Published on July 2nd, 2025 how about no I recently saw a post on mastodon which said that someone was actively looking for a code editor that had absolutely no "AI" features. It did not strike me as a wishlist for nostalia's sake. It made me realize that in the rush to integrate artificial intelligence into every aspect of our digital lives, a growing number of companies have diminished the concept of opt-in by choice, it is now being turned into opt-in by default. I see a growing sentiment

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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

news.ycombinator.com Dan Sutherland 2025-09-01 06:50:04

A “grey” matter I had just about finished moving into my new home in the winter of 2020, when all of a sudden - my right Achilles started feeling pretty sore! For the next 4 years, I continued to accumulate weird and persistent pains in different parts of my body. Next it was my other Achilles, then my voice, which was followed by my right shoulder, then back to both of my Achilles and then both of my hands/forearms/elbows. My body felt like a block of swiss cheese. Beyond being well, painful

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Google expands Material 3 Expressive redesign to more Android settings

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 11:35:30

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Android System Intelligence app update brings Material 3 Expressive design changes to more Android settings. The build introduced revamped settings pages for Now Playing, At a Glance, Live Translate, Apps in Search, and Live Captions. These changes are live on devices running the latest Android 16 QPR1 beta update. After rolling out Material 3 Expressive design changes to several apps in recent weeks, Google is now shipping an update for the A

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How to Watch All the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movies

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-01 11:00:00

It's been almost 30 years since Mission: Impossible hit cinemas in 1996 as an adaptation of the 1966 television series of the same name. The Brian De Palma-directed film starring Tom Cruise was a critical success and kickstarted a franchise that remains so successful that MI movies are still being released more than two decades later. When the first movie came out, I was extremely excited to see it and borrowed the VHS tape from a neighbor. Flash-forward to 2000, and I made it my mission to see

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Rocket Report: Japan’s workhorse booster takes a bow; you can invest in SpaceX now

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-01 10:00:22

Welcome to Edition 8.01 of the Rocket Report! Today's edition will be a little shorter than normal because, for one day only, we celebrate fake rockets—fireworks—rather than the real thing. For our American readers, we hope you have a splendid Fourth of July holiday weekend. For our non-American readers, you may be wondering what the heck is happening in our country right now. Alas, making sense of <waves hands> all this is beyond the scope of this humble little newsletter. As always, we welcom

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Apple scores big victory with 'F1,' but AI is still a major problem in Cupertino

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-09-01 21:00:01

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Formula One F1 - United States Grand Prix - Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, U.S. - October 23, 2022 Tim Cook waves the chequered flag to the race winner Red Bull's Max Verstappen Mike Segar | Reuters Apple had two major launches last month. They couldn't have been more different. First, Apple revealed some of the artificial intelligence advancements it had been working on in the past year when it released developer ve

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All of the best 4th of July Apple deals

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-01 21:09:23

Here is your collection of the best Apple deals up for grabs for the July 4th 2025. While we are still a few days away from the start of the major summer sales, including Amazon’s Prime Day event, there are some seriously notable discounts live right now on current-generation iPads, $150 off the M4 MacBook Air lineup, Apple Pencil Pro, AirPods Max, and more. You’ll also find a collection of discounts across other products categories waiting down below as well, from accessories and storage gear t

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This $120 Android tablet proves you don't need to spend hundreds for a mobile entertainment device

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-01 17:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways A fantastic Android 15 tablet that you can now pick up for only $120 It features a large 5,000mAh battery that gives this a decent runtime. Comes with a folio case, keyboard, stylus, and even a mouse. $219.99 at Amazon It amazes me just how much bang for your buck you can get if you choose an Android tablet over an iPad these days. While the cheapest new iPad will set you back at least $300, you can get some absolutely amazing deals if you're happy to go with Android. A

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DRM Panic QR code generator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 16:47:15

This is a simple QR code generator, to display the panic data as a QR code. It is specific to the DRM panic use case, and supports only some parts of the QR code specification. Kernel panic traces are usually displayed on the screen, but then it's hard to copy and paste them to a bug report, so that a developer can take a look, and fix the bug. As QR code are now widespread, using that allows to easily copy and paste the panic traces in a bug report, which makes debugging much easier for both

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Ted Cruz’s Bid to Reclaim Space Shuttle Discovery Could Cost $400 Million

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-01 20:00:30

At a time when money is too tight for NASA’s science exploration endeavors, Texas senators are willing to pour millions into a risky process to relocate the Space Shuttle to Houston under the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, which passed the Senate on Tuesday, includes a provision to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Virginia to Space Center Houston. The Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act was added to t

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OpenAI Hits the Panic Button

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-01 20:59:46

This week, the world’s most important artificial intelligence company was closed. OpenAI gave its entire staff a week off to “recharge,” a seemingly generous perk for a workforce relentlessly pushing toward building a world-changing technology. But this was not a wellness initiative. It was a strategic retreat in the middle of a brutal, high-stakes war for talent that is now threatening to shatter the company’s carefully crafted identity. The enemy is Meta Platforms, the social media empire th

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Tariff Impacts Are Real: These 13 Companies Have Confirmed Price Hikes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-01 18:00:00

Higher prices for a lot of popular products seem inevitable on our current trajectory. James Martin/CNET In many cases and for many products in the US, the biggest impacts of President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff plans haven't hit yet -- but they could soon, unless the 90-day pause on some rates is extended. Still, numerous companies have already hiked prices or said that they'll increase in the near-future -- including, most recently, a popular and CNET-approved brand of smart lights. Th

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The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-09-01 19:00:00

There are around 11,000 satellites orbiting Earth, and it is estimated that at least 50,000 more will be launched in the next decade. There are also exploration instruments, resupply vessels, and complexes like the International Space Station. But who regulates all this activity in space? In the absence of clear regulations, the European Union has proposed the Space Act, a set of measures that seeks to make the European space sector a cleaner, safer, and more competitive environment, both domest

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OpenAI Warns You Not to Buy Its Fake Stock

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-01 14:55:34

OpenAI has a message for anyone who thinks they’re about to cash in on the AI boom by buying a new “OpenAI token” on Robinhood: Don’t. But in a chaotic turn, Elon Musk just suggested that even the company’s real equity might be an illusion. The maker of ChatGPT, in a rare public warning posted on X (formerly Twitter), disavowed any involvement with crypto-like financial products claiming to offer a piece of its business. “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity,” the company wrote. “We did

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Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-01 23:42:39

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company's home state of Washington. Nearly a dozen game design workers in the state were part of the layoffs, along with three audio designers, two mechanical engineers, one optical engineer and one lab technician, according to a documen

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Paramount Plus Is Basically Free for 2 Months With This July 4th Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 02:28:00

There’s no shortage of streaming services out there, which makes it tough to stay loyal to just one. Apple TV has Severance, Netflix gave us Squid Game, and Yellowjackets is a must-watch on Paramount. If you’re tired of hopping between subscriptions or just want to save a few bucks, there’s a limited-time Fourth of July deal that might help. Right now, you can snag Paramount Plus Essential or Paramount Plus Premium for just $0.99 per month for two months, down from the usual $8 and $13 a month,

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Here are the letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-09-02 02:26:55

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. A Freedom of Information Act request has produced letters that the US Department of Justice sent to Google, Apple, Amazon, and several other companies in order to assuage their concerns about breaking a law that banned US web services from working with TikTok. The documents — obtained by Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a Google shareholder

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Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley startups can’t stop hiring?

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-02 03:00:35

In the last week, social media users have shared dozens of stories about encounters with Soham Parekh, a software engineer who seems to have been simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups — unbeknownst to the companies — for the last several years. But who is Parekh, how did he pull off his career as a serial moonlighter, and why can’t Silicon Valley get enough of him? Origins of virality The saga all started when Suhail Doshi — CEO of image generation startup Playground AI —

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Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-09-02 03:41:07

You got into Y Combinator, raised $20 million from a16z, and then exited to Meta? That’s cool, I guess. But did Soham Parekh apply to work at your startup? There is now a new badge of honor for startup founders: your proximity to one previously unknown Indian software engineer named Soham Parekh. The Anna Delvey of Silicon Valley was outed on Wednesday when former Mixpanel CEO Suhail Doshi posted on X to warn fellow founders about Parekh. “PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who

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