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Microsoft's new AI agent can change Windows settings for you - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-17 07:47:54

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET With so many settings in Windows, knowing where and how to adjust something can be challenging. Now Microsoft is using AI to help you tackle that challenge more easily. Also: You can try Windows 11's newest Start menu now - here's how In a blog post published Friday, Microsoft announced the release of a new AI agent designed to perform specific actions for you based on your requests. Say something like "how to control my PC by voice" or "my mouse pointer is too small," and

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The MCU Might Be Planning Even More Returning Faces

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-17 06:00:29

James Gunn teases the arrival of Superman‘s “Justice Gang”. Don’t expect a sequel to Transformers One. Plus, what’s coming on the next Rick and Morty. To me, my spoilers! The MCU During a recent interview with THR, Karen Gillan only answered “I can’t say, but watch this space” when asked about Nebula’s potential return to the MCU. Thor 5 According to insider Alex Perez, there is “interest” at Marvel to bring Cate Blanchett’s Hela back, likely for scenes set in Valhalla in an upcoming Thor pr

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This Roku 2-in-1 Streambar Is Cheaper Than It Was on Amazon Prime Day, No Need to Buy a Separate Soundbar

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-17 11:10:18

We live in a golden age of entertainment, and most of the time, we don’t even need to leave the house to enjoy it. Sure, the cinema is good and all, but being able to curl up at home and enjoy your favorite films and TV shows in your PJs is not to be trifled with. If you want that experience to be as good as possible though, then you should probably invest in both a good streaming device and a good soundbar. Better yet, get a device that do both, like the Roku Streambar. See at Amazon That’s r

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Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-17 15:12:36

The Meta AI app has been described as “a privacy disaster,” as users unknowingly make their embarrassing questions public. One tech writer described it as like discovering your web browser history has been public all along without you knowing it … TechCrunch reports that there is an absolutely ridiculous privacy default for many users. Whether you admit to committing a crime or having a weird rash, this is a privacy nightmare. Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as

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This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care

wired.com Harron Walker 2025-09-17 13:00:00

Jules Gill-Peterson is speaking to me from the future. She’s 11 hours ahead of me when I reach her over Zoom. While I’m sniffling and congested on a rainy Wednesday evening on my side of the screen in Brooklyn, Jules is welcoming the sun on a beautiful Thursday morning, the bright blue sky of Bangkok peeking in from the window behind her. The Baltimore-based trans studies scholar is known for her work on the history of medical transition, specifically the history of how trans kids have attempte

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11 Best Mobile Game Controllers (2025): iPhone or Android

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-09-17 15:30:00

Other Game Controllers We've Tested There are several other mobile controllers we tested that just missed out on a place above or failed to make the grade. Photograph: Simon Hill Acer Nitro Mobile Gaming Controller for £70: The compact design is great for portability, and Acer’s controller even folds in half to slide into your pocket or bag. You can plug in devices up to 8.3 inches in size via USB-C, and the controller has standard offset joysticks, four standard face buttons, and four should

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7 trends shaping digital transformation in 2025 - and AI looms large

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-09-17 22:40:50

shomos uddin/Getty Images Welcome to the age of hybrid work, where businesses will augment the human workforce with AI agents -- the birth of the autonomous enterprise, according to research from technology specialist MuleSoft. Here are the top seven trends that Mulesoft suggests are shaping digital transformation in 2025: House of AI agents: The autonomous enterprise built on a "house of agents" will take hold, as organizations augment the human workforce with AI, freeing them to focus on mor

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A Closer Look At Uranus’s Moons Reveals a Surprising Dark Side

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-17 23:00:19

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have tectonic features or a patchwork of ridges and cliffs. Using the Hubble space telescope, scientists took a closer look at the surface of Uranus’s four largest moons and discovered something rather unexpected. For the study, a team of astronomers went searching for signs of interactions between Uranus’s magnetic field and its four largest moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Obero

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If You Have a PS5, the PlayStation DualSense Controller Costs Peanuts on Amazon

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-17 23:08:58

If you own a PS5, having multiple controllers is almost a necessity as there’s nothing better than sharing your favorite PlayStation games with friends or family in the same room. While it’s always wise to have a spare controller ready for multi-player sessions or simply as a backup for you, genuine discounts on the PlayStation DualSense wireless controller are rare. Even during Black Friday, major promotions were hard to find which makes this moment the perfect opportunity to add another contr

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Amazon Clears Out Dell Inspiron (Ryzen 7, 1TB SSD, Win 11 Pro) Stock, Now $2,800 Off and Bonuses Included

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-18 00:40:22

Amazon currently has for sale a rare deal about a fantastic Windows laptop. There’s a Dell Inspiron 16-inch (touchscreen) laptop featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 processor, 32GB DDR5 RAM and a massive 1TB SSD which is priced at $999, which represents a whopping 71% discount off its normal price of $3,399. To make this deal even less resistible, Amazon is throwing in $399 worth of extras: Windows 11 Pro, a one-time lifetime subscription to Microsoft Office, an external optical DVD drive and a wireless m

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Play Store search tab pops with color in latest Material 3 Expressive refresh

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-17 23:31:08

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Play Store is getting a taste of Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language with colorful new icons in the search tab. The new icons make search shortcuts more vibrant and easier to tell apart at a glance. The update was spotted on version 46.5.19 of the Play Store app and seems to be a server-side change. Google is rolling out a colorful and visually appealing update to the Play Store’s search tab. The tab now features colorful new icons ins

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Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 06:09:51

Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL 14 Jun 2025 on Peter Vernigorov’s blog A couple months ago I noticed that LinkedIn now has a few simple games. They’re not much to write home about, but I really enjoy playing Queens. This week I saw two posts about solving the Queens game programmatically. Both were quite interesting to me, so I thought this was a good opportunity to also solve the game in my favourite language - APL - and share my experience. Having been using APL for Advent of Code, I wante

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Chemical knowledge and reasoning of large language models vs. chemist expertise

news.ycombinator.com Mirza 2025-09-16 04:22:06

Benchmark corpus To compile our benchmark corpus, we utilized a broad list of sources (Methods), ranging from completely novel, manually crafted questions over university exams to semi-automatically generated questions based on curated subsets of data in chemical databases. For quality assurance, all questions have been reviewed by at least two scientists in addition to the original curator and automated checks. Importantly, our large pool of questions encompasses a wide range of topics and que

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NesDev.org – A community of homebrew game devs for NES and other retro consoles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 23:03:58

NesDev.org A community of homebrew game developers and hardware researchers for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and other retro consoles.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 16, #266

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 21:16:51

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. Green was a nice easy one, but I was lost on some of the others. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough

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How to set up a WhatsApp account without Facebook or Instagram

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-17 20:00:24

There's no shortage of reasons to stay off the Meta ecosystem, which includes Facebook and Instagram, but there are some places where WhatsApp remains the main form of text-based communication. The app is a great alternative to SMS, since it offers end-to-end encryption and was one of the go-to methods to send uncompressed photos and videos between iPhone and Android users before Apple adopted RCS. Even though Facebook, which later rebranded to Meta, acquired WhatsApp in 2014, it doesn't require

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20 Years Ago, Batman Began a New Era of Hollywood

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-17 17:50:43

There are plenty of constants in popular culture, and Batman is near the top of the list. He’s everywhere in some fashion, particularly in movies, and his various cinematic versions have been significant in some way that speaks to how both the audience and Warner Bros. view the character. Of those, Batman Begins may be the most important. The first chapter of an eventual trilogy from director Christopher Nolan and writers David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan released on June 15, 2005, and marked h

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ChatGPT Search gets an upgrade as OpenAI takes aim at Google

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-17 19:53:46

On June 13, OpenAI began rolling out a new ChatGPT Search update to improve quality as the AI startup challenges Google’s dominance. ChatGPT Search has been around for about a year and allows users to search the web more effectively than Google. It tries to summarize content from websites to provide quick answers and includes links to sources so you can fact-check everything. “This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quot

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Bits and bobs related to Wireless-Tag's WT32-ETH01 board

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 23:37:09

Unofficial guide to the WT32-ETH01 What is this thing and why would I use it? The WT32-ETH01 is effectively a small, cheap ESP32 development board with Ethernet, WiFi, and GPIO pins, made by a company called "Wireless-Tag" (WT). As of this writing, it's around $15 at JacobsParts and around $7 from AliExpress. There aren't a ton of ESP32 boards with Ethernet, and the WT32-ETH01 is by far the smallest, cheapest, and simplest. (The OLIMEX ESP32-POE and wESP32 are the other notable options.) So,

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Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate

news.ycombinator.com Georgina Gustin 2025-09-17 20:02:22

The American Midwest is home to some of the richest, most productive farmland in the world, enabling its transformation into a vast corn- and soy-producing machine—a conversion spurred largely by decades-long policies that support the production of biofuels. But a new report takes a big swing at the ethanol orthodoxy of American agriculture, criticizing the industry for causing economic and social imbalances across rural communities and saying that the expansion of biofuels will increase greenh

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Best VPN for Mac for 2025: Tested and Reviewed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 16:00:00

Most VPN providers offer a VPN app for Mac computers, but it can be difficult to choose the right provider with so many options available. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the most important factors to consider when choosing a VPN: Privacy The primary consideration for any VPN -- including a Mac VPN -- should be privacy. If your Mac VPN is unable to sufficiently protect your online privacy, then your VPN is useless. At a minimum, your VPN s

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Cozy Horror Game Grave Seasons Is Stardew Valley Plagued by a Serial Killer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 16:00:23

At Summer Game Fest, I tried a game that was bold enough to ask: Why doesn't Stardew Valley have more murder? Grave Seasons, due out next year, is a cozy farming sim with a morbid edge: It's about all the friends (and romantic partners) you make along the bloody way to stopping a serial killer. A little bit into the short demo of Grave Seasons, I took to the fields to clean up the run-down farm I'd broken into and decided to adopt, only to find a severed hand. It's fitting for an indie title pu

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I Asked 5 Pro Chefs About Their Least Favorite Kitchen Tools. They Didn't Hold Back

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 16:11:00

Professional chefs know the value of space in a drawer or on a countertop better than anyone. Stroll through the swinging doors of any restaurant kitchen worth its salt, and you won't find an excess of single-function gadgets collecting dust. Every instrument and piece of cookware serves a purpose, earning the real estate -- however small -- it occupies. That's what makes career chefs the perfect people to ask about all the kitchen tools that don't belong in your kitchen, especially when space

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Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-09-17 16:00:00

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy It’s Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I also have for you a much-awaited new browser, a surprise update to a great photo editor, a neat

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Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-17 20:28:44

It’s been 10 years since Alexa von Tobel sold her financial planning startup Learnvest to Northwestern Mutual for $250 million. Since then, von Tobel became Northwestern Mutual’s first chief digital officer, then chief innovation officer, before launching an early-stage venture firm of her own, Inspired Capital, with former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. She’s also a New York Times bestelling author, and she’s about to launch a new interview podcast, “Inspired with Alexa von Tobel.”

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How to Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 01:11:58

How To Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe June 11, 2025 macOS 26 Tahoe replaces the oddly shaped app icons that once brought joy and personality to the Dock with the familiar squircle icons from iOS. Here's what that looks like. The lovely Things icon now sits awkwardly on a glass background 😢 I strongly dislike this change. Part of the Mac’s soul was in its expressive, varied app icons, a case of character over conformity. Fortunately, there's a way to bring back the perso

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Anubis ransomware adds wiper to destroy files beyond recovery

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-17 09:29:38

The Anubis ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has added to its file-encryptimg malware a wiper module that destroys targeted files, making recovery impossible even if the ransom is paid. Anubis (not to be confused with the same-name Android malware with a ransomware module) is a relatively new RaaS first observed in December 2024 but became more active at the beginning of the year. On February 23, the operators announced an affiliate program on the RAMP forum. A report from KELA at the

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Using `make` to compile C programs

news.ycombinator.com Julia Evans 2025-09-13 22:24:48

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make , if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has compiled or give up”. “Hope someone else has compiled it” worked pretty well when I was running Linux but since I’ve been using a Mac for the last couple of years I’ve been running into more situations where I have to

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Debunking HDR [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 10:56:00

DEBUNKING "HDR" Chapter: Intro The Setup Roadmap Notes On The Recording Foundational Topics __Human Perception Of Tonality Is Relative __Understanding Display Colorspaces __Colorspaces: More Tech Details "SDR" vs "HDR" Colorspaces "SDR" <--> "HDR" Conversion Solved A Serious Man: Artful Highlights Introducing Part 2 Detriments Marketed As Benefits __Inefficiency Isn't An Advantage __"Wider Gamut" Misinformation __Patches On An Unnecessary Problem __Edge Cases Aren't The Crux __Flooding The Zone

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Liquid Glass, New Photos App and All the Other iOS 26 Features Coming to Your iPhone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-17 14:06:00

Your iPhone will soon look a lot different when iOS 26 (named for 2026) comes out in the fall, but there's more to see under the frosted glass facade. Announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the latest version of the iPhone's operating system incorporates some features that iPhone owners have watched their Android friends enjoy, plus plenty of other enhancements. For instance, the Camera and Photos apps are gaining long-awaited functional redesigns; the Messages and Phone apps are

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