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Your Google Discover feed is about to get AI-ified

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-21 11:49:55

400tmax/Getty The next time you're browsing the Google app for a news story, you might not have to leave the search to find the information you're looking for. First spotted by 9to5Google, Google is testing AI-created news summaries on its Discover feed. The feature isn't available to everyone yet, but it's showing up on both Android and iOS. Also: I tried Perplexity's Comet AI browser, and I like where it's going (but it's not there yet) Under the old way, your Discover feed surfaces links

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Circle stock drops after House blocks key procedural vote on stablecoin legislation

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-21 16:50:21

Circle Internet Group Initial Public Offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. Circle shares slid on Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to clear a key procedural hurdle that would have teed up votes on long-awaited crypto-related bills. The move dealt a major setback to the digital asset industry, which had framed this week as a turning point for regulatory clarity in Washington, D.C. Circle, the stablecoin issuer that's soared in value

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Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 20:48:35

Designing for the Eye Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography By Niko Kitsakis, June 2025 This article highlights a special aspect of both visual design and architecture: Optical corrections (or optical adjustments, if you prefer). If you found my piece about legible typefaces interesting, you’ll likely enjoy this one as well. Since I included many visual examples that are size-sensitive, make sure you read this on a big screen and not your mobile device. Optical Illusions The

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North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-22 02:47:09

North Korean threat actors planted 67 malicious packages in the Node Package Manager (npm) online repository to deliver a new malware loader called XORIndex to developer systems. The packages collectively count more than 17,000 downloads and were discovered by researchers at package security platform Socket, who assess them to be part of the continued Contagious Interview operation. Socket researchers say that the campaign follows threat activity detected since April. Last month, the same acto

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I pack this portable workstation whenever I travel - here's why it's worth the bag space

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-22 02:00:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The CaseUp Combo includes ProtoArc's wireless keyboard, mouse, and laptop stand for $100 on ProtoArc's site. The ease of use and transport make it a solid option for improving your hybrid and remote work setup. However, the mouse, while comfortable, might be too small for some people. View now at ProtoArc There is no shortage of wireless keyboards, portable monitors, and laptop mounts on the market. Remote work demands new use cases from tech to get our work done, and li

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Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2026-01-22 02:00:23

A survey of 500 IT asset managers in organizations that use Oracle Java has found that 73 percent have been audited in the last three years. Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests READ MORE At the same time, nearly eight out of 10 Oracle Java users said they had migrated, or planned to shift, to open source Java to try to avoid the risk and high costs of the dominant vendor's development and runtime environments. Oracle introduced a paid subscrip

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Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-22 06:53:08

An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as 'Diskstation,' which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Elicius' was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which are commonly used by companies for centralized

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Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-22 06:00:00

AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, as well as a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups, are calling for deeper investigation into techniques for monitoring the so-called thoughts of AI reasoning models in a position paper published Tuesday. A key feature of AI reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1, are their chains-of-thought or CoTs — an externalized process in which AI models work through problems, similar to how humans use a scratch pad to wo

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US probes imports on drones and a raw material used in chips and solar panels

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-22 21:15:46

The Department of Commerce has opened national security investigations into imports of drones and polysilicon , a raw material used in chips and solar panels. Among other things, officials are looking into "predatory trade practices" and the capacity of other countries to "weaponize their control over supplies" of drones, drone parts and polysilicon, as well as derivatives of each. The DoC commenced the investigations on July 1, but has only just disclosed them publicly. The probes could lead t

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Joby Aviation doubles pilot eVTOL facility capacity as it races to launch air taxis

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-22 21:00:00

Joby Aviation has doubled the size and production capacity of its pilot manufacturing facility in Marina, California, as it races to commercialize eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles) by early next year. The now-435,500-square-foot facility will be able to produce 24 aircraft per year, and “nearly one” every other week once fully operational, according to Joby. The facility will also support federal certification, ground and flight testing, pilot training, and aircraft mainte

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Cache Benchmarks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 20:15:31

Cache Benchmarks These benchmarks measure thoughput, latency, and CPU cycles for Memcache, Redis, Valkey, Dragonfly, and Garnet. Persistance is turned off for all caches, no disk operations. All connections are local, UNIX named pipes. The hardware is an AWS c8g.8xlarge (32 core non-NUMA ARM64). The benchmarking tool is memtier_benchmark. Includes pipelining for 1, 10, 25, and 50. Each benchmark has 31 runs. About 15K total runs. The median of the 31 is used for graphing. Latency is mea

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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-23 09:44:24

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model, reports The New York Times. Sources told The Times that Meta had completed training on Behemoth, but delayed its release due to underwhelming internal performance. When the new Superintelligence Lab launched, testing on the model reportedly halted. The discussions are just that — discussions. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would st

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Rian Johnson Aimed to Make the ‘Empire Strikes Back’ of the ‘Star Wars’ Sequels

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-23 21:45:45

When talking about his time in Star Wars, Rian Johnson often says that he’d like to return to that world one day, at least once he stops making murder-mystery movies and TV shows. But while fans continue to hope he’ll make that once-planned trilogy one day, others can’t quite get past the seeming disappointments contained in his franchise entry, The Last Jedi. In a new interview, Johnson recalls what he was told when he came aboard the Lucasfilm project. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Johnson addre

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Episource is notifying millions of people that their health data was stolen

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-24 11:07:18

Medical billing giant Episource is notifying millions of people across the United States that their personal and health information was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this year. The breach affects more than 5.4 million people, according to a listing with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, making it one of the largest healthcare breaches of the year so far. Episource, owned by health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group’s subsidiary Optum, provides billing adjustment to the doctor

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Google’s reconsidering its approach to Circle to Search within Gemini (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-24 16:29:10

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Circle to Search has been a great tool for working with on-screen content, and Google’s been developing similar solutions across its ecosystem. Earlier this year we first uncovered evidence of a Circle to Search-like feature for Gemini. While still not user-accessible, Google’s been changing how this tool is labeled and what happens once you activate it. Google’s long had a bit of overlap when it comes to all the various services and apps it offers, s

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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

news.ycombinator.com Paige Collings 2026-01-24 14:02:36

For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies. And they show no sign of stopping. This incentivizes other bad actors. If companies collect any kind of personal data and want to make a quick buck, there’s a data broker willing to buy it and sell it t

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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-24 16:25:36

Nvidia is recommending a mitigation for customers of one of its GPU product lines that will degrade performance by up to 10 percent in a bid to protect users from exploits that could let hackers sabotage work projects and possibly cause other compromises. The move comes in response to an attack a team of academic researchers demonstrated against Nvidia’s RTX A6000, a widely used GPU for high-performance computing that’s available from many cloud services. A vulnerability the researchers discove

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-01-25 02:32:42

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first supercluster online next year. A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that's designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads. "Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook pos

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Google is changing Chrome’s new tab page to bring AI Mode front-and-center

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-25 02:32:27

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new search bar design in Chrome Beta for Android that includes an AI Mode shortcut. This new design, which also repositions voice search and Lens shortcuts, appears in two variants across different devices running the same Chrome Beta version. The integration of an AI Mode shortcut into Chrome aims to increase user awareness and usage of the feature, given Chrome’s significant market share. While Google is still the most dominant s

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Malicious VSCode extension in Cursor IDE led to $500K crypto theft

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-24 21:26:34

A fake extension for the Cursor AI IDE code editor infected devices with remote access tools and infostealers, which, in one case, led to the theft of $500,000 in cryptocurrency from a Russian crypto developer. Cursor AI IDE is an AI-powered development environment based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. It includes support for Open VSX, an alternative to the Visual Studio Marketplace, that allows you to install VSCode-compatible extensions to expand the software's functionality. Kaspersky re

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This Common Pain Med Could Be Raising Dementia Risk

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-25 06:40:38

Chronic pain can be a debilitating experience. A common medication used to manage the condition may come with its own serious dangers, however. Recent research finds an upsetting link between the drug gabapentin and a higher risk of dementia. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University led the study, which examined the medical records of people with chronic low back pain. People taking gabapentin for their back were significantly more likely to develop dementia over time compared to non-users

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Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening

news.ycombinator.com Natalia Mesa 2026-01-22 03:45:56

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course, but in the Venusian clouds. Over the past half-decade, scientists have detected the presence of phosphine and ammonia—two potential signs of biological activity—in Venus’s clouds. On Earth, both gases are produced only by biological activity and industrial processes, and scientists are unsure of their

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I would use Google’s AI tools more if it fixed this glaring problem

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-26 06:00:38

Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority Ever since ChatGPT started gaining in popularity, every other tech company has been rushing to keep up with its advancements in generative AI. Although some might argue that OpenAI’s chatbot is still on top, the company that I believe has come closest to surpassing it is Google. After Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a “code red” in December 2022 to meet the threat OpenAI represented, the company has created a powerful, robust, and wide-reaching set of AI-power

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6 easy ways to identify a song using your Android phone

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-26 05:49:20

filo/Getty Images You've probably been there before: there's a song stuck in your head and you can't remember the words, or you hear a song that you want to remember but don't know the name. Fortunately, it's never been easier to identify music around you if you have an Android phone. All but one of these features is tied to Google, but each one works differently, and one even works without you having to unlock your phone and works offline. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and why

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Dyson Reveals Its Futuristic Farming Vision

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-25 18:38:00

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, unveiled a new circular farm design featuring rows of strawberry plants that rotate to share sunlight, robots that do everything from harvesting to releasing helpful insects, and sensors to help farmers keep an eye on things. The company is also getting into the renewable energy game. Check out the video in this article to find out how it all connects and what it could mean for the future of food.

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Can You Lose Weight and Gain Strength on a Vibration Plate? We Consulted Fitness Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-26 05:30:00

Vibration plates are making a comeback. Similar to the mid-20th-century vibrating belt machines, vibration plates have been said to provide the body with various benefits and can even be a tool for weight loss. But is the hype actually backed by science and expert opinions, or is it all social media hearsay? To find out if you should add a vibration plate to your workout routine, we asked personal trainers and other fitness experts about the actual benefits, risks, how to use a vibration plate

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Coffee at 30 cents is the latest gimmick in China’s billion-dollar ‘instant commerce’ price war

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Evelyn Cheng 2026-01-26 00:06:54

A Meituan food delivery courier rides an electric scooter in Chongqing, China, on March 29, 2025. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images In China's fiercely competitive market, the latest price war is playing out in the growing "instant commerce" sector, where companies are launching massive subsidies and other incentives to get consumers to spend. The 'instant commerce' sector is backed by massive networks of scooter drivers that quickly transport everything from food and drink to fast f

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Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-24 18:55:39

Arch is a proxy server designed as a modular edge and AI gateway for agentic apps Arch handles the pesky low-level work in building agentic apps — like applying guardrails, clarifying vague user input, routing prompts to the right agent, and unifying access to any LLM. It’s a language and framework friendly infrastructure layer designed to help you build and ship agentic apps faster. Quickstart • Demos • Build agentic apps with Arch • Route LLMs • Documentation • Contact Overview AI demos a

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Dyson Reveals Futuristic Farming Vision

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-26 00:38:19

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, unveiled a new circular farm design featuring rows of strawberry plants that rotate to share sunlight, robots that do everything from harvesting to releasing helpful insects, and sensors to help farmers keep an eye on things. The company is also getting into the renewable energy game. Check out the video in this article to find out how it all connects and what it could mean for the future of food.

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Scientists Gene Hack Mice So Their Livers Produce Their Own Ozempic-Like Drug

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-26 00:51:22

Image by Remi Benali/Getty Images Rx/Medicines Scientists have gene-hacked mice to produce their own Ozempic-like drugs — possibly, and provocatively, perhaps paving a path for humans to do so themselves one day. In a new study published in the journal Communications Medicine, researchers from Japan's University of Osaka successfully gene-edited mice livers to produce exenatide, a first-generation diabetes drug and predecessor to now-trendy jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro. Using lab mice that

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Latest Tech News

Your Google Discover feed is about to get AI-ified

Circle stock drops after House blocks key procedural vote on stablecoin legislation

Designing for the Eye: Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography

North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages

I pack this portable workstation whenever I travel - here's why it's worth the bag space

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

US probes imports on drones and a raw material used in chips and solar panels

Joby Aviation doubles pilot eVTOL facility capacity as it races to launch air taxis

Cache Benchmarks

Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Rian Johnson Aimed to Make the ‘Empire Strikes Back’ of the ‘Star Wars’ Sequels

Episource is notifying millions of people that their health data was stolen

Google’s reconsidering its approach to Circle to Search within Gemini (APK teardown)

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026

Google is changing Chrome’s new tab page to bring AI Mode front-and-center

Malicious VSCode extension in Cursor IDE led to $500K crypto theft

This Common Pain Med Could Be Raising Dementia Risk

Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening

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6 easy ways to identify a song using your Android phone

Dyson Reveals Its Futuristic Farming Vision

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