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Bose Debuts QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) With Upgraded Noise Canceling and Other Small Improvements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 00:25:50

A few months ago, Bose unveiled a second-gen version of its QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds ($299) that featured some modest improvements, including better noise canceling. The company is following a similar playbook with its flagship over-ear QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen), which are available now for preorder for $449 ($50 more than their predecessor). They deliver better noise canceling, according to Bose, along with some other small performance and feature upgrades. Read more: Best nois

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YouTube Cracks Down on Premium Family Plans Used at Different Addresses

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 00:30:04

Sharing a YouTube Premium or YouTube Music family plan with people who don't live at your address could soon cost you the perks you're used to. Several users have reported receiving warnings that their accounts will be paused within 15 days if they don't comply with YouTube's rules on family plans. The policy isn't new. YouTube required family plan members to share the same household in 2023 but it looks like enforcement is stepping up. If you lose Premium, you can still stream videos and liste

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This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 00:32:00

The Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air is currently available for $470 on Amazon, which is 22% off its regular price of $599.99. The price is likely to go back up soon, so this might be your last chance to grab this portable projector at a discount. CNET's key takeaways Anker's Nebula Mars 3 Air is a compact portable projector that costs $599 (but is currently on sale for $470 Despite its size, it delivers a bright picture and loud audio for a portable projector. It can even double as a Bluetooth speake

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Lenovo demos laptop with a screen you can swivel into portrait mode

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:04:59

Lenovo has proven again that it isn’t content with PC designs. The latest era of laptops has been focused on ultralight computers that are easy to transport, but they're hard to differentiate. However, Lenovo’s continual experimentation has brought us some unique laptop releases and concepts in recent years, including a laptop with a screen that expands by rolling, a laptop with an outward folding screen, laptops with foldable screens, and laptops with dual 14-inch displays. The ThinkBook Verti

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Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:17:30

Google may have escaped the most serious consequences in its most recent antitrust fight with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but the European Union is still gunning for the search giant. After a brief delay, the European Commission has announced a substantial 2.95 billion euro ($3.45 billion) fine relating to Google's anti-competitive advertising practices. This is not Google's first big fine in the EU, and it probably won't be the last, but it's the first time European leaders could face b

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Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:35:35

Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K Games soon confirmed it. "We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," a spokesperson wrote to multiple news outlets. The company did no

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What to expect (and not expect) from yet another September Apple event

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 02:54:46

Apple's next product event is happening on September 9, and while the company hasn't technically dropped any hints about what's coming, anyone with a working memory and a sense of object permanence can tell you that an Apple event in the month of September means next-generation iPhones. Apple's flagship phones have changed in mostly subtle ways since 2022's iPhone 14 Pro added the Dynamic Island and 2023's refreshes switched from Lightning to USB-C. Chips get gradually faster, cameras get gradu

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-11-18 02:14:28

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a court motion on Friday, the plaintiffs emphasized that the terms of the settlement are “critical victories” and that going to trial would have been an “enormous” risk. This is the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States, and the outcome may shape how regulators and creative industries

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Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge might look like an iPhone 17 Pro

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-17 21:52:29

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. The rumor mill just churned up a purported render of Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Edge, and it only adds to speculation that the super-slim phone will look like the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro. The renders, shared with Android Headlines by reliable leaker OnLeaks, show a dev

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Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-18 02:00:28

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. Showrunner — the startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry by charging people to prompt up AI-generated videos featuring copyrighted IP — is working on a new project to restore an Orson Welles classic. On Friday, Showrunner announced that it has designed a new generative AI model that is meant to help recreate

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Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-18 02:09:12

Common Sense Media, a kids-safety-focused nonprofit offering ratings and reviews of media and technology, released its risk assessment of Google’s Gemini AI products on Friday. While the organization found that Google’s AI clearly told kids it was a computer, not a friend — something that’s associated with helping drive delusional thinking and psychosis in emotionally vulnerable individuals — it did suggest that there was room for improvement across several other fronts. Notably, Common Sense s

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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-18 02:21:45

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens. The warning comes a week after Bonta and 44 other attorneys general sent a letter to 12 of the top AI companies, following reports of sexually inappropriate interactions between AI chatbots and children. “Since the issuance of that letter, we learned of the heartbreaking death by

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-18 02:27:47

Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company announced on Friday. On a message published on its website, the startup behind Dot, New Computer, said that the product will remain operational until October 5, giving users time to download their data. Launched in 2024 by co-founders Sam Whitmore and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, Dot waded into what’s now become a more controversial area for AI chatbots. The app they created was described as an

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Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-18 05:15:38

Never to be outshone — literally, in this case — Chinese scientists have one-upped American researchers and their bioluminescent petunias with what they're calling world's first multi-colored glowing plants. As the journal Nature reports, this glow-in-the-dark succulent hails from the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou, where materials researchers have developed a technology that recharges the plants via sunlight and makes them as bright as a night-light and with many of th

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The Galaxy S25 FE is here, but I’d rather get the Pixel 9a

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-16 15:34:38

The Galaxy S25 FE has arrived, and there’s a lot to like about it. You get a powerful chipset, premium features like an IP rating and wireless charging, a promised seven years of software support, and a lot more for a starting price of $650. It’s a phone I’ll often recommend over the next 12 months because the FE series strikes an excellent balance between performance and price. However, it faces stiff competition from the Pixel 9a, Google’s mid-range phone, which — at least for me — is a better

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Galaxy S26 series rumor may have just revealed almost everything about the cameras

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 05:35:28

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A leak may have revealed most of the camera specs for the Galaxy S26 series. The Galaxy S26 Ultra may feature 200MP main, 12MP telephoto with 3x zoom, 50MP telephoto with 5x zoom, and 50MP ultrawide cameras. The Galaxy S26 Edge may have 200MP main and 50MP ultrawide cameras, while the S26 Pro is said to have a 50MP ultrawide. It’s been an active day for Samsung Galaxy S26 leaks. Not only did CAD renders of the Galaxy S26 Edge show up, but also dummy units

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How to watch Flame Fatales 2025 speedrunning event

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 05:05:15

Games Done Quick’s all-women and femmes speedrunning event Flame Fatales kicks off on September 7 and goes until September 14. You can watch the marathon on the GDQ Twitch channel starting at 11:30AM ET. This is a week-long event, so the official schedule is packed with cool games. All told, there will be more than 50 speedruns . These will include recent hits like Blue Prince and Hades 2, in addition to classics like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. There's also going to be a one-handed

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Apple's iOS 26 release date is coming up: Check to see if your iPhone is compatible for the update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:00:35

We're only a few days away Apple's iPhone 17 event, which the company has dubbed "awe dropping" and scheduled for Tuesday, September 9. If all goes as expected, we should get to download iOS 26 and iPad 26 about a week later. Coming with those OS updates are substantial updates to your iPhone and iPad's operating systems. You may have already heard about "Liquid Glass," which (intentional or not) is sort of like Apple's take on the old Windows Vista design language. That's the most notable chan

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion over adtech antitrust violations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 06:37:01

The European Commission has announced that it will fine Google €2.95 billion, or around $3.5 billion, for violating European Union antitrust laws and "distorting competition in the advertising technology industry." The decision follows a similar ruling from earlier in 2025, where a US federal judge concluded that Google maintains a monopoly in online advertising technology. Google displays ads in search results, but it also has a dominant position as a software provider for online advertisers a

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Worried AI will take your job? OpenAI's new platform could help get you one

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-18 06:12:26

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI introduces its OpenAI Jobs Platform. The experience is meant to connect users to job opportunities. This comes at a time when people fear AI will replace human jobs. While AI is typically implicated in replacing humans in the workforce, OpenAI's new undertaking is looking to wield those AI capabilities to get you a job. OpenAI Jobs Platform On Wednesday, the company unveiled

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How Atlassian's $610 million AI browser acquisition puts knowledge workers first

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-18 06:23:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Atlassian has acquired The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia. The company's new browser will be designed for knowledge workers. Like Dia, it will leverage agentic AI to take action on behalf of users. The race to build the next generation of web browsers is heating up. Atlassian, the software company behind Trello and Jira, announced on Thursday that it ha

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Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 15:33:03

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Poisoning Well

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:48:24

Poisoning Well 31st March 2025 One of the many pressing issues with Large Language Models (LLMs) is they are trained on content that isn’t theirs to consume. Since most of what they consume is on the open web, it’s difficult for authors to withhold consent without also depriving legitimate agents (AKA humans or “meat bags”) of information. Some well-meaning but naive developers have implored authors to instate robots.txt rules, intended to block LLM-associated crawlers. User-agent: GPTBot D

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Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 18:14:51

Apertus Table of Contents Model Summary Apertus is a 70B and 8B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of fully-open multilingual and transparent models. The model supports over 1000 languages and long context, it uses only fully compliant and open training data, and achieves comparable performance to models trained behind closed doors. The model is a decoder-only transformer, pretrained on 15T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code and math data. The model uses a new

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Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLMs (SF)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 23:01:09

Hey, we're a highly technical team building code generation models, and growing fast. We're looking for people who are down to scrap and love to build -- on both technical and GTM/Devrel roles. If you have a Physics, Math, CS degree; and training fast codegen models is something that piques your interest, please email me directly at [email protected].

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Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:57:45

Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism . Keep up with LAist. If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. Sign Up On a recent Thursday evening, traffic was slow on the 10 Freeway as cars crawled into th

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Morse Code Translator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 03:23:29

Translate Morse to English & English to Morse code Instantly Perfect for amateur radio and emergency communications Practice with repeat mode for skill development Toggle slash separators for different formatting styles Use the copy button for quick text sharing Morse Code Creator: use the green morse code generator button to create random phrases Access advanced audio settings to customize frequency (200-1000 Hz), playback speed, and WPM for professional training standards. Download your

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Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

news.ycombinator.com Paul Tarvydas 2025-11-17 15:56:19

What if the programming industry’s decades-long obsession with type checking is solving the wrong problem entirely? What if our increasingly sophisticated type systems—from Haskell’s category theory to Rust’s borrow checker—are elaborate workarounds for fundamental architectural mistakes we’ve been making since the beginning? The software industry has convinced itself that type checking is not just useful, but essential. We’ve built entire programming languages around the premise that catching

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Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 05:09:35

CADAM A Text to CAD Web Application What it does: Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension tweaking Separate agents for conversation and code generation; simple parameter tweaks bypass AI entirely using deterministic regex-based updates Exports as .STL or .SCAD Runs fully in-browser by comp

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‘Foundation’ Just Lowered the Boom

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-18 06:15:41

Season three of Foundation is nearly at its end, and the galaxy is in deep trouble. We’ve long known the fall of Empire would usher in a long period of darkness, something the Foundation was set up hundreds of years ago to try and mitigate. But while the end seems certain, exactly how it’ll come about has not yet been clear. The villainous Mule is certainly helping nudge things along… but might another doom-bringing element also emerge? “The Paths That Choose Us,” the ninth and penultimate epis

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Bose Debuts QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) With Upgraded Noise Canceling and Other Small Improvements

YouTube Cracks Down on Premium Family Plans Used at Different Addresses

This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’

Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants

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Galaxy S26 series rumor may have just revealed almost everything about the cameras

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Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

Morse Code Translator

Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

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‘Foundation’ Just Lowered the Boom

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