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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 20:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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Looking at This Subreddit May Convince You That AI Was a Huge Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 02:44:31

Last week, OpenAI's most loyal customers revolted after the company replaced all of its preceding AI models with its newly-released GPT-5 model. Their pleading proved convincing enough for OpenAI to reverse course, with CEO Sam Altman announcing that the company's GPT-4o model would be reinstated. To say that users have become emotionally attached to OpenAI's "sycophantic" AI models would be vast understatement. Experts have warned of an epidemic of "AI psychosis," with some users experiencing

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Perplexity Wants to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 Billion: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-12 03:20:02

AI company Perplexity has offered to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The offer is being characterized as a “longshot,” especially since Perplexity itself is only valued at about $18 billion, according to the newspaper, but the idea is rooted in a very real problem for Google: A judge is currently considering whether Google’s parent company Alphabet should be forced to sell Chrome over antitrust concerns. Perplexity told the

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Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-01-12 03:44:07

Just two years since its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads has topped 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “As of a few weeks ago we there are more than 400 million people active on Threads every month,” Mosseri wrote in a Threads post. “It’s been quite the ride over the last two years. This started as a zany idea to compete with Twitter, and has evolved into a meaningful platform that fosters the open exchange of per

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Preferred Sources wants to fix your Google Search results — here’s how to set it up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 08:00:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR After introducing the feature in Labs in June, Google is now rolling out “Preferred Sources” in the US and India. With this feature, users can select trusted websites that will appear more prominently in Top Stories. Users can easily manage and update their source preferences anytime. Users have long been complaining about the dropping quality of Google Search results, thanks to a deadly cocktail of low-quality spam sites, a lot of sponsored content

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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Ronning 2026-01-12 08:02:03

In May 2025, during the same week Neon announced their acquisition, our databases went down four times. For hours. Database spin-ups, their entire value proposition, were completely disabled. Our "serverless" databases couldn't even start. That was the final straw in our decision to migrate to PlanetScale. Who We Are and Why Databases Matter More At OpenSecret, we're building something unique: a confidential computing platform powered by AWS Nitro Enclaves. Our flagship application, Maple AI,

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-12 08:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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12 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 12:00:04

Peacock costs more after a July price hike, but the streamer's reliably entertaining lineup of NBC and Bravo favorites could mean you're keeping it around. If you aren't dropping it, the platform's original series are also worth checking out. Some highly rated options include season 2 of the Natasha Lyonne detective show Poker Face and the 2024 Eddie Redmayne assassin series The Day of the Jackal. If you're poking around Peacock for something to watch, here are 12 standout shows to try. Peacock

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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-11 15:17:38

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to

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AOL pulls the plug on dial-up - a reminder that 'dead' tech has a long expiration date

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-12 16:19:00

AOL / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Generation X says goodbye to the past. Old technology can linger long after you thought it was dead and done. AOL, once a technology giant, is now little more than a footnote. For millions of people who first heard "You've got mail" over crackling phone lines, an iconic chapter in digital history is coming to a close. AOL, also known as America Online, has announced it will shut down its dial-up internet service on Sept. 30, 2025, eff

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3 ways Google Chrome and Wallet just made shopping a whole lot easer

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-12 17:00:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Google adds new features to give you more ways to pay online. See reward details for 100+ cards to find your best option. More "buy now, pay later" options, including Affirm and more. The next time you check out online with Chrome or Google Wallet, you might notice things look a little different. Google has announced several upgrades, each one designed to give you more flexibility and convenience when you shop online. 1. Support for m

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Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-01-12 17:16:07

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. While the monsters in each of the nine Alien movies have been a little bit different, the nefarious corporate forces have remained the same. Ridley Scott’s original Alien didn’t need to mention Weyland-Yutani by name for it to be clear that a singular mega-company had cornered the market on space exploration. But subsequent Alien film

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Why a new UK internet safety law is causing an outcry on both sides of the Atlantic

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-01-12 22:28:18

Illustration of the adult video website PornHub on June 5, 2025. Riccardo Milani | Afp | Getty Images It was well intentioned but a U.K. law mandating age verification on adult sites and a number of other platforms has sparked a backlash from both internet users in the country, as well as U.S. politicians and tech giants. Last month, new provisions in the Online Safety Act requiring large online platforms to implement age checks to prevent children from accessing pornographic and appropriate ma

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AOL pulls the plug on dial-up after 30+ years - feeling old yet?

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-12 22:19:00

AOL / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Generation X says goodbye to the past. Old technology can linger long after you thought it was dead and done. AOL, once a technology giant, is now little more than a footnote. For millions of people who first heard "You've got mail" over crackling phone lines, an iconic chapter in digital history is coming to a close. AOL, also known as America Online, has announced it will shut down its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025,

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New Apple Watch Ultra 3 Rumors Point to an Overdue Upgrade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 22:00:00

With September inching closer and Apple's next event likely just weeks away, rumors are heating up about the company's fall lineup, which this year could include the Apple Watch Ultra 3 alongside a flagship Apple Watch Series 11 and iPhone 17. In a turnaround from the busy rumor mill, the clearest signal yet for an Ultra 3 release comes from the secretive company itself. Imagery found in the public beta of iOS 26 (first uncovered by MacRumors) reveals new screen specs that don't match any of th

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StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-13 06:08:13

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers [LWN subscriber-only content] StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries for a number of languages, and has a rich plugin ecosystem. It also has a glaring security problem: while running on X11, using Debian's default configuration, it will send a user's text selections over unencrypted HTTP to two remote servers. On August 4, Vincent Lefevre reported the problem to the oss-security mailing list an

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AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-13 03:26:24

AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years AOL is shutting down the dial-up service that introduced homes across the US to the internet. The firm's dial-up offering connects to the internet via a phone line and currently only exists in the US and Canada. Launched more than 30 years ago, AOL dial-up was known for its chirpy whirring start-up sound, but it has long since been replaced by faster alternatives. Fewer than 300,000 people in the US reported having only a dial-up internet con

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Cate Blanchett Doesn’t Know If Her ‘Squid Game’ Cameo Will Lead to More (But She’d Like it to)

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-13 08:30:28

That shocking finale coda of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game series left many curious about what it meant for the American spin-off Netflix has in the works. When the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) pauses next to an alley in downtown Los Angeles, you witness, along with him, the Squid Game recruitment ritual being administered by a new face: Cate Blanchett, wearing a suit and offering up the Ddakji slaps. It’s hard to believe the Academy Award-winning actress was only recruited for a one-off cameo righ

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OpenAI is editing its GPT-5 rollout on the fly — here’s what’s changing in ChatGPT

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-13 05:01:44

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 OpenAI’s launch of its most advanced AI model GPT-5 last week has been a stress test for the world’s most popular chatbot platform with 700 million weekly active users — and so far, OpenAI is openly struggling to keep users happy and its service running smoothly. The new flagship model GPT-5 — available in four variants of different speed

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OpenAI is testing 3,000-per-week limit for GPT-5 Thinking

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-13 22:49:32

OpenAI has responded to criticism that it shipped GPT-5 with token limits to minimize cost and maximize profit not with words, but rather with a new 3,000-per-week limit. In a series of posts on X, Sam Altman confirmed that OpenAI is working on a 3,000-per-week limit for GPT-5 Thinking messages for Plus users. This will increase the reasoning rate limits available today, but OpenAI does not plan to stop at just this. Sam Altman claims that OpenAI will soon raise all model-class rate limits "a

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Here are all the GPT-5 updates OpenAI has rolled out since launch

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-01-14 03:58:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways: OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 on Thursday. Some users complained GPT-5 was inferior to its predecessor, 4o. In response, the company announced a flurry of changes. OpenAI released GPT-5, the long-awaited upgrade to the model which powers ChatGPT, Thursday. In typical OpenAI fashion, the release has included plenty of twists, turns, and drama. It was almost inevitable that the new model would disappoint a significant number of pe

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AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-14 03:17:38

After 34 years of connecting Americans to the Internet through phone lines, AOL recently announced it is shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. Thi

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Users Were So Addicted to GPT-4o That They Immediately Cajoled OpenAI Into Bringing It Back After It Got Killed

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-14 10:52:54

Last week, OpenAI startled the world by announcing that its long-awaited GPT-5 would replace all of its previous models, The move sparked outrage. Apart from being severely underwhelmed by the performance of OpenAI's newest offering, power users immediately started to beg CEO Sam Altman to bring back preceding models, often for a reason that had little to do with intelligence, artificial or otherwise: they were attached to it on an emotional level. "Why are we getting rid of the variants and 4

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Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-14 17:48:43

Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia users. The High Court of Justice in London dismissed claims from the Wikimedia Foundation, which challenged the lawfulness of the categorization system used to determine which sites must comply with obligations. But Justice Jeremy Johnson stressed "that this does not give Ofcom and the Secretary of State a green light to

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The Rise of Native Phishing: Microsoft 365 Apps Abused in Attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-14 21:17:28

Attackers don’t need exploits; they need TRUST. Changes in attack methods reflect changes in generations. Gen Z, a generation known for prioritizing ease and efficiency, is now entering the cybersecurity landscape on both sides. Some are protecting data, and others are stealing it. With the rise of AI and no-code platforms in attackers’ phishing toolkits, building trust and deceiving users has never been easier. Threat actors are blending default-trusted tools with free, legitimate services to

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Microsoft tests cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-14 22:50:37

Microsoft has announced the limited public preview of Windows 365 Reserve, a service that provides temporary desktop access to pre-configured cloud PCs for employees whose computers have become unavailable due to cyberattacks, hardware issues, or software problems. Windows 365 Reserve provides up to 10 days of access per user annually to these cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs, enabling organizations to mitigate productivity issues during outages without requiring physical replaceme

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Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 02:51:53

OpenAI's GPT-5 model went live for most ChatGPT users this week, but lots of people use ChatGPT not through OpenAI's interface but through other platforms or tools. One of the largest deployments is iOS, the iPhone operating system, which allows users to make certain queries via GPT-4o. It turns out those users won't have to wait long for the latest model: Apple will switch to GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, according to 9to5Mac. Apple has not officially announced when those OS

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After 34 Years of Booop-Beep-Beep-Beep-Krsssh-Eee-Brrrrrrr, AOL’s Dial-Up Service Is Finally Shutting Down

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-15 03:10:32

It’s the end of an era. After 34 years, AOL is pulling the plug on its dial-up internet service. It’s hard to believe that In 2025, with 5G, Wi-Fi, and fiber-optic broadband seemingly everywhere, AOL’s classic dial-up service is still operating. Sadly, for the thousands of people still relying on the old school internet service, the company recently announced that it’s discontinuing it on Sept. 30. “AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Intern

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AOL to discontinue dial-up internet

news.ycombinator.com Yan Zhuang 2026-01-14 23:15:38

AOL announced that its dial-up internet service will be discontinued next month. If this is how you learned that AOL’s dial-up still exists — presumably you read this on a broadband internet connection — you’re not alone. The service, seen by many as a relic of the early days of the internet, will be discontinued Sept. 30 along with its associated software, the company said. AOL made the announcement quietly via a statement on its help portal on Friday: “AOL routinely evaluates its products an

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This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-15 08:14:40

A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital illustration community by storm. Wplace is a collaborative pixel art platform that serves as a spiritual successor to Reddit’s r/Place April Fools’ Day experiments, placing time restrictions on drawing tools that motivate users to team up to complete large or complex paintings. While r/Place provided its users with a blank white pixel grid, Wplace is layered over an interactive canvas of a wor

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AOL ends dial-up service after more than 30 years

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