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Meta's AI voice translation feature rolls out globally

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-15 23:09:45

On Tuesday, Meta rolled out its new voice dubbing feature globally. The Reels feature uses generative AI to translate your voice, with optional lip-syncing. Mark Zuckerberg first previewed the feature at Meta Connect 2024. At launch, the translations are only available for English to Spanish (and vice versa). The company says more languages will arrive later. At least at first, it's restricted to Facebook creators with 1,000+ followers. However, anyone with a public Instagram account can use it

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Robinhood Tries to Rebrand Sports Betting as Investing

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-15 23:45:07

Robinhood has gotten a reputation as a platform where people make wildly speculative investments without sufficient guardrails. So it’s only right that it’s getting into the sports betting business. The company announced on Tuesday that it is launching “prediction markets” for college and professional football as part of a partnership with Kalshi. According to the company, it’ll start listing “contracts” for NFL and NCAA games in the coming days, with plans to make each matchup open for two wee

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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-15 23:22:39

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. On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a “Liberated Zone” encampment and said they had changed its name from East Campus Plaza to “The Mar

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Databricks says it's valued at over $100 billion in latest funding round

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-16 04:18:28

Databricks has just entered an exclusive club. The data analytics software vendor said Tuesday that it's raising a funding round that values the company at over $100 billion. That would make Databricks just the fourth private company to eclipse the $100 billion mark, following SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI, according to data from CB Insights. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told CNBC's Brian Sullivan that the total round will exceed $1 billion. The company was last valued by private investors at $62

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Forklifts require training

news.ycombinator.com Zac Sweers 2025-11-16 02:30:26

A lot gets covered in today's discourse about AI in software development. Most of it is noise, ranging from nihilism that we're all writing mediocre code anyway so why does it matter to endless wannabe AI influencers doing engagement bait on Twitter. Every new model release gets a bunch of threadicles 👇 amounting to the 2025 version of "Safari feels snappier". Some of it is useful, mostly crafty developers in the community sharing novel ways they're using it to solve hard problems or draw inspir

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Two Years After Oceangate, Another Billionaire Hears the Siren Call of the Titanic

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-16 04:15:28

Two years ago, a guy named Stockton Rush was killed while piloting his “experimental” submarine towards the site of the Titanic. On board the “Titan” were four other unfortunate victims, including Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood (described as a billionaire) and his teenage son. Rush’s company, Oceangate, had made its money by courting wealthy clients and taking them on trips to the undersea site, but that all ended with an unfortunate implosion. Now, yet another billionaire has reportedly

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FDA Warns Public Not to Eat Frozen Shrimp That Could Be Radioactive

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-16 04:45:28

Food recalls and warnings happen every day. But the latest warning from the Food and Drug Administration about frozen shrimp is an odd one. That’s because the health agency is concerned about possible radioactive contamination. The FDA issued an alert on Tuesday for some Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp sold at Walmart. The shrimp was processed by PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati of Indonesia, also known as BMS Foods, and flagged by Customs and Border Protection at four different ports of entry. Th

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Howard Lutnick Calls CHIPS Act a ‘Giveaway to Rich Companies’ Like Intel

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-16 14:40:15

The U.S. government could get a 10% equity stake in Intel in exchange for more funds from the CHIPS Act, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who appeared on CNBC Tuesday. Lutnick was pressed about whether that would be a worse deal than what Intel had previously received under the Biden-era manufacturing plan, and the commerce secretary seemed more than happy to acknowledge it was. “Of course it’s worse, of course it’s worse…” Lutnick said, laughing. CNBC host David Faber asked if t

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Trump administration reportedly weighs 10% stake in Intel via CHIPS Act grants, making government top shareholder

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-16 18:03:22

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Trump administration is discussing taking a 10% stake in Intel , according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, in a deal that could see the U.S. government become the chipmaker's largest stakeholder. As part of a potential deal, the government is also considering converting some or all of Intel's grants f

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Elastic rejects claims of a zero-day RCE flaw in Defend EDR

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:41:26

Enterprise search and security company Elastic is rejecting reports of a zero-day vulnerability impacting its Defend endpoint detection and response (EDR) product. The company's statement follows a blog post from a company called AshES Cybersecurity claiming to have discovered a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Elastic Defend that would allow an attacker to bypass EDR protections. Elastic’s Security Engineering team "conducted a thorough investigation" but could not find "evidence supportin

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CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:16:22

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New York City Is Stuck With a $45 Million EV Fleet That’s Glitchy as Hell

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-16 18:50:14

There’s going green for the sake of the planet, and then there’s going green as part of a policy initiative that winds up buying a bunch of glitch-plagued electric vehicles from a company that went bankrupt and can no longer service them. The latter is the exact story of a New York-based company called American Lease, which has spent around $45 million for 2,800 cars from Fisker, a now-dead EV startup that only made 11,000 of that model in its short life anyway, and is now using them as part of

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OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-11-16 18:00:00

OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most valuable private company in the world—bigger than SpaceX, TikTok’s parent company Bytedance, and even public giants like Palantir. It’s a staggering number for a company with an “astronomical burn rate.” How is this even possible? As Axios reports, there are actually two deals in play: a SoftBank-led round valuing the company at $300 billion, which won’t close until year’s end, and a seco

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TechCrunch Mobility: Ford’s big bet

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-11-16 18:02:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Ford made its big EV announcement early this week — a plan to invest $2 billion to transform its Louisville Assembly Plant into a factory capable of making a new generation of affordable EVs, starting with a midsize pickup truck with a base price of $30,000 that is slated to launch in 2027. Amid the prese

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China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 22:11:35

Over half a year into Donald Trump's second term, NASA still doesn't have a long-term head. That leadership vacuum comes as the space agency is staring down the barrel of some devastating cuts to its science budget, with the White House betting its future on space exploration alone. The chaos has raised serious questions about NASA's ambitious plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time in over half a century. The dates of its planned Artemis program launches keep

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10 Pixels in, the purpose of a Google-made smartphone remains the same

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 23:30:07

Google didn't need to make its own smartphone. Even though the company spent several years having other manufacturers build phones it could slap its "Nexus" branding on, selling hardware is not core to Google's business. Things like advertising and Search still handily dwarf the inroads the company's made as a smartphone manufacturer, and that will likely remain true for the foreseeable future. Compared to the contributions the iPhone makes to Apple's bottom line, the Pixel has always, in some

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Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Alex Chesser 2025-11-16 21:29:58

1. Understanding Attention: Your First Step to Better Prompts If you’re human, you’re probably reading this from left to right. You might not have stopped for a moment to consider the fact that your LLM doesn’t read in the same order as you or I. Instead, it weights relationships between all tokens at once, with position and clustering dramatically changing what gets noticed. In working with an LLM the structure you choose can have a greater impact on your results than the precise words you ch

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Labubus Are on Track to Be a Billion-Dollar Business This Year

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-11-16 22:49:54

Labubus, the mischievous elf plush toys seen hanging on every celebrity’s designer bag this summer, have gone viral across the world, but now we know exactly how popular—and profitable—they have been. On Tuesday, the Chinese company Pop Mart, which manufactures and sells the Labubu franchise, released its financial report for the first half of 2025, and it has had a terrific year. Overall, Pop Mart’s revenue grew 204 percent compared to the year before, and net profits increased 362 percent. Th

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Nvidia says it's evaluating a 'variety of products' after report of new AI chip for China

cnbc.com Annie Palmer Chris Eudaily 2025-11-17 04:48:25

Nvidia said Tuesday that it is evaluating several products following a report that the company is working on a new artificial intelligence chip for China that is more powerful than the currently available H20. The new product, tentatively called the B30A, is expected to be based on Nvidia's Blackwell chip architecture, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the company's plans. Nvidia hopes to deliver sample units to Chinese clients for testing as soon as next month, according to Reuters

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It Looks Like China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:11:35

Over half a year into Donald Trump's second term, NASA still doesn't have a long-term head. That leadership vacuum comes as the space agency is staring down the barrel of some devastating cuts to its science budget, with the White House betting its future on space exploration alone. The chaos has raised serious questions about NASA's ambitious plans to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon for the first time in over half a century. The dates of its planned Artemis program launches keep

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Pharma firm Inotiv says ransomware attack impacted operations

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:25:14

American pharmaceutical company Inotiv has disclosed that some of its systems and data have been encrypted in a ransomware attack, impacting the company's business operations. In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Inotiv says that the cyberattack occurred on August 8 and took action to contain the breach. “On August 8, 2025, Inotiv, Inc. became aware of a cybersecurity incident affecting certain of its systems and data,” Inotiv informs. “The Company’s preliminary i

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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:14:44

A few years ago, I moved to Arc as my default browser. I felt like everything was immediately upgraded: finally, a web browser worked how I needed it to. The interface got out of the way; it was superpowered with keyboard shortcuts that just made sense (a bit like other professional tools like Superhuman); and its profiles feature allowed me to fully sandbox my work activity away from my personal activity. It’s how I want a browser to work. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to the goals its vend

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Labubus Are on Track to Be a Billion-Dollar Business This year

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-11-17 04:49:54

Labubus, the mischievous elf plush toys seen hanging on every celebrity’s designer bag this summer, have gone viral across the world, but now we know exactly how popular—and profitable—they have been. On Tuesday, the Chinese company Pop Mart, which manufactures and sells the Labubu franchise, released its financial report for the first half of 2025, and it has had a terrific year. Overall, Pop Mart’s revenues grew 204 percent compared to the year before, and net profits increased 362 percent. T

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NVIDIA is reportedly developing an AI chip for China more powerful than the H20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 09:30:57

NVIDIA is working on a new AI chip meant for the Chinese market that's more powerful than the H20, according to Reuters. It will reportedly be based on the company's latest Blackwell architecture, which can produce chips between seven and 30 times faster than its previous AI platform. Reuters says the product is tentatively named B30A and will have a single-die design, putting all its main components on a single piece of silicon. It will apparently be capable of half the computing power of NVIDI

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Nebraska man gets 1 year in prison for $3.5M cryptojacking scheme

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-16 11:05:03

A Nebraska man was sentenced to one year in prison for defrauding cloud computing providers of over $3.5 million to mine cryptocurrency worth nearly $1 million. Charles O. Parks III (also known as "CP3O") was arrested and charged in April with wire fraud, money laundering, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions. He was facing up to 20 years in prison in December after admitting that he didn't pay a $3.5 million bill after renting cloud computing time from two providers for his cryptojac

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Tesla Making Yet Another Desperate Move in Europe

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-17 09:00:52

Tesla has been struggling in Europe, where its sales are down across the continent. In the United Kingdom, the company’s sales reportedly dropped 60 percent last month. With those cratering numbers, the EV firm appears to have made another, shall we say, incredibly generous offer to locals, as the company continues to combat lagging sales. British newspaper The Times reports that Tesla has nearly halved the monthly cost of leasing one of its cars in the U.K. Elon Musk’s company has been “forced

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Silicon Valley's AI deals are creating zombie startups: 'You hollowed out the organization'

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot Salvador Rodriguez Annie Palmer 2025-11-17 14:36:59

Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Jeff Wang got a big promotion last month. There were lots of tears, but not the happy kind. The 39-year-old was unexpectedly named interim CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. The company had been in discussions with OpenAI about a potential acquisition that would have resulted in a handsome payday for many employees. But the talks fell apart and, on July 11, several founders and top researchers instead left to join Google as part of a $2

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Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us?

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-11-17 22:00:00

He faces a trilemma. Should ChatGPT flatter us, at the risk of fueling delusions that can spiral out of hand? Or fix us, which requires us to believe AI can be a therapist despite the evidence to the contrary? Or should it inform us with cold, to-the-point responses that may leave users bored and less likely to stay engaged? It’s safe to say the company has failed to pick a lane. Back in April, it reversed a design update after people complained ChatGPT had turned into a suck-up, showering the

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Trump Mobile’s latest ads ditch Android reality for a golden iPhone fantasy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-17 23:29:00

Trump Mobile on X TL;DR Trump Mobile’s marketing materials now show a gold iPhone embossed with the carrier’s branding and the American flag. The device looks nothing like the T1 Phone, which the company is currently taking orders for on its website. Trump Mobile seems to have pulled a classic switcheroo, promoting a shiny iPhone in its ads instead of the Android phone it’s actually selling. Move over, reality, there’s a new “gold” standard in smartphone marketing, and all credit goes to Tru

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People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs

wired.com Tess Owen 2025-11-18 00:00:00

The idea of starting a book club came to Valeen Heinle late one night in July. She was having a particularly bad argument with her Trump-supporting dad over Israel’s war in Gaza and its devastating impacts on children. "I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as a pet sitter in Denver, wrote to her dad via Instagram DM after they exchanged a series of posts about Gaza. “Read a book on the his

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