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Samsung’s eye-catching Theme Park update teaches Apple how to do a glass UI right

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-16 15:24:04

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has rolled out a new update for the Theme Park Good Lock module. The update tweaks the UI, adds a new “Effects” menu, and fixes minor bugs. The Effects menu offers five options to customize the look of your icons. If you’re a fan of customization, the Theme Park module in Good Lock can help get your Galaxy phone looking just the way you want it. From changing the colors of keycaps to adjusting the shape of icons, there is no shortage of ways to giv

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Confident Security, ‘the Signal for AI,’ comes out of stealth with $4.2M

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-16 21:00:00

As consumers, businesses, and governments flock to the promise of cheap, fast, and seemingly magical AI tools, one question keeps getting in the way: How do I keep my data private? Tech giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google, and others are quietly scooping up and retaining user data to improve their models or monitor for safety and security, even in some enterprise contexts where companies assume their information is off limits. For highly regulated industries or companies building on the

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Slack gets smarter: New AI tools summarize chats, explain jargon, and automate work

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-17 11:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Slack is rolling out an extensive array of artificial intelligence features that promise to eliminate routine tasks and turn the messaging platform into a central hub for enterprise productivity, marking owner Salesforce’s direct challenge to Microsoft’s workplace AI dominance. The announcements, set to roll out over the coming months, inc

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N8n vs. node-red, which to use for AI workloads

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Payne 2026-01-17 10:19:53

n8n vs node-red Daniel Payne 3 min read · 1 day ago 1 day ago -- Listen Share Which to use Photo by Stackie Jia on Unsplash TLDR Try both, but my personal opinion is: n8n if you are using public cloud services for your data. But you will need to use something else if you want to visualize your information, e.g. ObservableHQ. node-red if you are using private sources, especially file based data or sensor data. But you will need to use something else for AI intensive workloads, e.g. FlowiseA

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Best T-Mobile Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-17 10:00:00

The T-Mobile Essentials Saver plan offers unlimited data usage and includes 50GB of "Premium" data, which is the fastest-capable 5G rate available in your area. After 50GB, speeds are reduced to 3G levels for the remainder of the month. However, that Premium may not always be so premium: T-Mobile notes in the fine print that "Essentials customers may notice speeds lower than other customers and further reduction if using >50GB/month, due to data prioritization." You can use your phone as a mobi

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The New Intern on Wall Street Is an AI, and It’s Already Taking Jobs

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-17 21:30:44

The transformation underway in finance should give pause to anyone who still thinks artificial intelligence is a distant threat. On July 15, Wall Street met its most overqualified and tireless intern. AI safety and research company Anthropic, a chief rival to OpenAI, unveiled its new “Financial Analysis Solution,” an enhanced version of its Claude AI assistant designed to take over the research, modeling, and compliance grunt work that finance teams typically rely on junior analysts to perform.

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Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 10:34:18

Metaflow Metaflow is a human-centric framework designed to help scientists and engineers build and manage real-life AI and ML systems. Serving teams of all sizes and scale, Metaflow streamlines the entire development lifecycle—from rapid prototyping in notebooks to reliable, maintainable production deployments—enabling teams to iterate quickly and deliver robust systems efficiently. Originally developed at Netflix and now supported by Outerbounds, Metaflow is designed to boost the productivity

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A recap on May/June stability at Neon

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Shamgunov 2026-01-17 22:22:57

Details of incidents and what we did to prevent more in the future Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant burst in operational load caused a lot of strain in the Neon platform, manifesting as more incidents over the cou

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Co-op confirms data of 6.5 million members stolen in cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-18 06:29:27

UK retailer Co-op has confirmed that personal data of 6.5 million members was stolen in the massive cyberattack in April that shut down systems and caused food shortages in its grocery stores. Co-op (short for the Co-operative Group) is one of the United Kingdom's largest consumer co-operatives, operating food stores, funeral services, insurance, and legal services. It is owned by millions of members who receive discounts on services and share in the company's governance. Co-op's CEO, Shirine

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A Recap on May/June Stability at Neon

news.ycombinator.com Nikita Shamgunov 2026-01-18 10:22:57

Details of incidents and what we did to prevent more in the future Starting in May, we had a series of feature launches with agentic AI partners that gained far more momentum than we predicted. In two short timespans, the rate of new database creation increased more than 5x, and the rate of branch creation increased more than 50x. While we were humbled by the uptick, the significant burst in operational load caused a lot of strain in the Neon platform, manifesting as more incidents over the cou

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New Research Shows Data Breaches Keep Coming. Here's How to Protect Yourself

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-18 14:50:00

The personal data of Americans continues to be under threat from cybercriminals looking to steal it for their own financial gain, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center. The nonprofit group, which focuses on helping victims of identity theft, said Wednesday that 1,732 data compromises were reported for the first six months of this year, resulting in 165.7 million victim notifications. The number of reported compromises represents an 11% increase from the same period

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Louis Vuitton says regional data breaches tied to same cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-18 21:26:18

Luxury fashion giant Louis Vuitton confirmed that breaches impacting customers in the UK, South Korea, and Turkey stem from the same security incident, which is believed to be linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group. Since last week, the retailer has been notifying customers that their info was exposed in a data breach, first in South Korea, then in Turkey, and on Friday in the United Kingdom. "Despite all security measures in place, on July 2, 2025, we became aware of a personal data breac

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Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data-labeling business

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-18 21:26:47

In Brief Data-labeling startup Scale AI is laying off 200 employees, roughly 14% of its staff, and cutting ties with 500 of its global contractors, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The cuts come just a month after Meta hired Scale AI’s CEO in a $14.3 billion deal. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, interim CEO Jason Droege told staff that Scale AI had too quickly scaled its core data-labeling business — in which the startup supplied AI labs with labeled, structured data to train AI models. Droeg

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Cyberpunk 2077's latest update brings VRR to consoles and introduces an autodrive mode

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 02:19:33

There's another big update for Cyberpunk 2077 coming our way. Update 2.3 brings some notable new features to PC and consoles. CD Projekt Red (CDPR) is adding official in-game support for VRR on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This should help with screen tearing when the frame rate drops and is of particular use when running the game in performance mode. There's also an official AutoDrive feature, which is something that has long-existed in the modding community. This is available in all cars and moto

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Reddit is back online after a brief outage

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 06:24:26

If you were having trouble viewing Reddit today, you weren't alone. Downdetector showed a spike in outages and problems at the site. Reddit acknowledged the problem on Wednesday. At 12:38PM ET, it said the situation had been resolved. Reddit told Engadget that an update was the culprit. "An update we made caused some instability," a company spokesperson said. "We reverted and are seeing Reddit ramp back up." As to what that update was, we don't yet know, but it was probably a standard tweak to

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Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 21:15:28

Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL (pgactive) pgactive is a PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database. Overview Database replication is a method that copies changes between databases instances, and is a key component for use cases like high availability, reducing latency between an application and its source data, moving data between systems such as production and test, infrastructure migration, and others. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children

wired.com Dell Cameron 2026-01-19 06:30:00

United States Senator Ron Wyden is pressing the United States departments of Homeland Security and Justice to explain how and why they are collecting DNA from immigrants, including children, on a massive scale. Wyden confronted the agencies with demands this week to explain the scope, legality, and oversight of the government’s DNA collection. In letters to DOJ and DHS, the Oregon Democrat also criticized what he described as a “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system, accusing Tru

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Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

theverge.com Hayden Field 2026-01-19 06:02:01

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of its workforce, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson Joe Osborne told The Verge, adding th

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Cyberpunk 2077’s next update adds ‘AutoDrive’ and VRR for consoles

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-19 11:36:04

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Cyberpunk 2077’s Update 2.3, set to launch on Thursday for Mac, PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X / S, will add a bunch of new features focused around vehicles and proper VRR support on consoles. The new AutoDrive feature, available in all cars and motorcycles, lets you drive from place to place automatically. You can set where you want to go on the game’s map, including d

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5 entry-level tech jobs AI is already augmenting, according to Amazon

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-01-19 16:00:18

Amazon / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Amazon today published a blog post by Michelle Vaz, managing director, AWS Training and Certification, that contains some fascinating insights about how AI is changing the landscape for people early in their careers. To understand this dynamic, Amazon partnered with Draup, a "data intelligence firm specializing in workforce planning and talent analytics." Together, the two companies conducted a study entitled, "The Evolution of Early-Career Technical Roles

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How long until Severance season 3? Apple TV+ exec gives update

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-19 20:57:42

Emmy nominations arrived yesterday, and Apple TV+ had it biggest year ever. Leading the pack was Severance, which scored the most nominations of any show, from any streamer. On the heels of the announcement, Apple TV+ programming head Matt Cherniss gave an update to Variety on the progress of Severance season 3’s development. Michael Schneider writes at Variety: Asked whether Season 3 was on track, Cherniss said…“I know they’re going as quickly as they can. When you have the success that a sho

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AWS open-sourced Postgres active-active replication extension

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-19 21:15:28

Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL (pgactive) pgactive is a PostgreSQL replication extension for creating an active-active database. Overview Database replication is a method that copies changes between databases instances, and is a key component for use cases like high availability, reducing latency between an application and its source data, moving data between systems such as production and test, infrastructure migration, and others. Relational databases such as PostgreSQL

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What Is the Best Smart Ring for Health Tracking? I Tested 3 Popular Options to Find Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 00:30:00

The Oura ring was my favorite smart ring because its app was easy to understand and I liked some of the newer features from its latest software update. At the steep price of $299, this smart ring is made up of aerospace-grade titanium – one of the strongest materials on earth -- according to the site. Before I received my Oura ring, I was sent a ring sizer to figure out my ring size. Other smart rings did the same since sizing varies per brand. Once I received the Oura ring, I downloaded the Ou

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UK retail giant Co-op confirms hackers stole all 6.5 million customer records

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-20 02:20:33

The chief executive of U.K. retail conglomerate the Co-op on Wednesday said that hackers had stolen the personal data of all of the company’s customers during an April cyberattack. Co-op Group CEO Shirine Khoury-Haq told BBC News that the hackers copied the company’s member list of 6.5 million members, but that the Co-op shut down its network before the hackers could lock up its systems with ransomware. The members’ data includes names, addresses, and contact information. The retailer’s netwo

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Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 05:42:17

🔧 Install Node.js DataRamen runs locally using Node.js. If you don’t have it yet, download the latest version (v22 or above) from the NodeJS website.

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Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-20 15:26:18

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen 3 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Watch: Co-op boss says immediate action was taken when the data breach was discovered The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed that all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took o

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Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-20 18:46:18

Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack 15 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took on our colleagues as well as they tried to contain all of this,"

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Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 16:30:52

"Dataflow variables are spectacularly expressive in concurrent programming" Henri E. Bal , Jennifer G. Steiner , Andrew S. Tanenbaum Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, portable, and reproducible workflows. It is based on the dataflow programming model, which greatly simplifies the writing of parallel and distributed pipelines, allowing you to focus on the flow of data and computation. Nextflow can deploy workflows on a variety of execution platforms, including your local mach

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Claude for Financial Services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 02:03:50

Today, we're introducing a comprehensive solution for financial analysis that transforms how finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make investment decisions with Claude. The Financial Analysis Solution unifies your financial data—from market feeds to internal data stored in platforms like Databricks and Snowflake—into a single interface. Access your critical data sources with direct hyperlinks to source materials for instant verification, all in one platform with expanded

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Data Centers Are 'AI Factories.' Google and Meta Are Spending Big Bucks to Build Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-21 02:19:20

Tech giants Google and Meta have a lot riding on the growth and success of AI, and to support those efforts, they're also committing significant sums of money to build the data centers they're going to need to run that power-hungry technology. On Tuesday, Google announced that it plans to invest $25 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure tied to the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electric grid in the US. The PJM Interconnection reaches across 13 states in the eastern half of the

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Samsung’s eye-catching Theme Park update teaches Apple how to do a glass UI right

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Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension

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