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Tech Utopians Are Using a Chinese-Built ‘Ghost City’ to Trial Their Network State Fantasies

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-01 11:30:10

For the better part of a decade, tech investor Balaji Srinivasan has been calling for Silicon Valley to “secede” from the rest of the United States. The free-market tech guru doesn’t just want space from regulators and government officials; he literally wants the industry’s coders and bigwigs to split off and crowdfund their own separate country. Over the years, Srinivasan has articulated his own political philosophy, which he calls “the network state” movement—an anarcho-capitalist school of t

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-01 11:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract

news.ycombinator.com Brandon Vigliarolo 2025-12-01 15:30:35

Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced its new deal with Microsoft on Tuesday, describing it as a "strategic partnership" that could save the federal government as much as $3.1 billion over the next year. The GSA di

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ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Kirchgaessner 2025-12-01 16:12:13

US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications. The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was

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Anthropic raises $13 billion funding round at $183 billion valuation

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-01 20:53:45

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Anthropic on Tuesday announced it has closed a $13 billion funding round at a $183 billion post-money valuation, roughly triple what the artificial intelligence startup was worth as of its last raise in March. The most recent funding round was led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors including Altimet

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Samsung's Trifold Phone and AI Glasses Reportedly Set for Sept. 29 Launch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 20:51:52

Is three better than two? Apparently, we're about to find out again. Samsung will reportedly launch its Galaxy Z TriFold in South Korea on Sept. 29 in its third Unpacked event of 2025. At the same time, the company will introduce its Project Moohan mixed reality headset and AI smart glasses. If Samsung does indeed unleash the Galaxy Z TriFold later this month, it would be the second triple-screen phone in existence. Huawei last year rolled out its Mate XT in China, and we kinda sorta liked it.

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-02 02:20:18

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, attends the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020. There was a moment, during the pandemic-fueled growth days of 2020, when Salesforce surpassed Oracle by market cap. Marc Benioff had finally toppled his protege, Larry Ellison. That moment is long gone. Salesforce's stock price has dropped 25% this year, the worst performance in large-cap tech and the second-steepest decline in the Dow, beating only UnitedHealth . Mea

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Removing Guix from Debian

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 23:49:40

Removing Guix from Debian [LWN subscriber-only content] As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 ("trixie")—a user can reasonably expect that it will continue to be available with security backports as long as that release is supported, though it may not be included in Debian 14 ("forky"). However, it is likely that the Gui

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Anthropic is now valued at $183 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-12-02 02:32:12

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude and one of OpenAI’s chief competitors, emerged from the holiday weekend with big news: A completed funding round of $13 billion, awarding the company a $183 billion post-money valuation. The company s

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Ever shared a Spotify link on the internet? Someone you don’t know can now message you

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 02:46:39

TL;DR Spotify recently introduced a new Messages feature that connects users via past song shares and activities. These connections can expose user identities through trackable URLs shared previously, including with strangers. You can opt out of the Messages feature in your app settings or remove the tracking parameters from URLs before sharing them. Spotify recently announced a new Messages feature, adding a layer of communication and social discovery to the music streaming app. Spotify Mess

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Chinese EV buyers are cooling on Tesla and BYD

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 06:59:10

If Tesla was hoping that decent sales in China might boost the company's fast-diminishing profits, it was a forlorn hope. For the second month in a row, the automaker has experienced a year-on-year decrease in sales in China. According to Reuters, Tesla's sales dropped by 4 percent in August compared to the same month in 2024. That's not quite as dire as July, where it saw Chinese sales decrease by 8.4 percent. Much of Tesla's Shanghai factory's slack was taken up by exporting EVs to other mark

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Best Labor Day Mattress Sales (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-11-30 05:06:16

Labor Day is here and along with it comes a bunch of bedding sales. If you've been looking for a sign from the universe to upgrade your bed, consider these Labor Day mattress deals—we don't expect to see sleep sales this good until Black Friday. I've been a professional mattress tester for five years, so I'm plugged in to what's going on in the mattress world (we're constantly scoping out new additions to our best mattresses list) and can keep track of the sales that really are the ones to watch

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OpenAI is adding parental controls to ChatGPT

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 11:41:28

OpenAI has promised to release parental controls for ChatGPT within the next month, the company said Tuesday. Once the controls are available, they'll allow parents to link their personal ChatGPT account with the accounts of their teenage children. From there, parents will be able to decide how ChatGPT responds to their kids, and disable select features, including memory and chat history. Additionally, ChatGPT will generate automated alerts when it detects a teen is in a "moment of acute distres

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 09:00:00

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

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Do You Need a Satellite Messenger?

wired.com Kieran Alger 2025-12-02 11:00:00

When the smartphone in your pocket is loaded with a growing arsenal of safety tools—including location tracking, fall detection, and SOS alerts—it’s very tempting to adventure off the grid without back up. But if your hikes, runs, and rides regularly take you beyond the reach of cell towers, into more extreme conditions and terrain, sticking a dedicated satellite messenger in your pack might just save your life. Unlike smartphones, satellite communicators don’t rely on Wi-Fi or network coverage

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SAP to invest over 20 billion euros in 'sovereign cloud' in boost to Europe's AI ambitions

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-12-02 20:50:59

A person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of SAP, a German multinational software corporation known for its enterprise resource planning solutions. German software giant SAP on Tuesday announced it will invest over 20 billion euros ($23.3 billion) into its sovereign cloud capabilities in Europe over the next 10 years. The company said it was expanding its sovereign cloud offerings to include an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform enabling companies to access various computing ser

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support tickets

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 21:00:00

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

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Want to cut your electric bill? Skip these scam 'power-saving' devices - and buy this instead

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-02 21:48:05

My happy place -- Deep in testing scam product! Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Scam "power-saving" devices waste money and risk safety. Smart plugs and power strips actually cut energy costs. Monitoring usage helps reduce bills and prevent waste. People are more conscious than ever about their power bills and are looking for ways to save a few dollars each month. And while there are some practical -- mostly free -- w

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JBL’s Grip Is the Tallboy of Portable Bluetooth Speakers

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-02 21:00:01

I’ve seen a lot of influences for wireless audio products (single-use pill packaging and cassette tapes, for example), but JBL’s Grip is a first. According to JBL, the Grip, a new smallish Bluetooth speaker announced at IFA 2025 that focuses on portability, is modeled after the proportions of a seltzer can. To be honest, my first thought was a tallboy, but maybe that says more about me than it does JBL. No matter what you think of when you see the Grip, it sounds like a solid Bluetooth speaker

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Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-03 08:49:21

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year on cloud services used at government agencies. Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, the GSA has sought to aggregate spending through a strategy called OneGov that's me

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Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold gets a rumored launch date, and it’s sooner than you think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 04:42:00

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR A new leak suggests Samsung’s dual-hinged Galaxy Z TriFold will launch on September 29 in South Korea. The same event will reportedly feature launches of the Project Moohan (possibly rebranded to “Galaxy XR”) headset and potentially tease new AI-powered smart glasses. Previous leaks have suggested that the Galaxy tri-fold could be priced upwards of 4 million KRW (~$2,930) and be limited to China and South Korea. Samsung has long been working on a gener

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One UI 8 on Galaxy S23 feels incomplete without this highlight feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:58:56

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung started the One UI 8 beta for the Galaxy S23 yesterday. Despite receiving the latest update, the Galaxy S23 is not getting a notable Galaxy AI feature, which is Now Brief. Samsung first introduced Now Brief with One UI 7 on the Galaxy S25, though it subsequently rolled out to other devices with One UI 8 (stable and beta). After first announcing One UI 8 with the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 back in July, Samsung is expected to bring it to other fla

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PSA: Spotify Messages can reveal your profile to anyone you’ve ever shared music with

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 08:46:39

TL;DR Spotify recently introduced a new Messages feature that connects users via past song shares and activities. These connections can expose user identities through trackable URLs shared previously, including with strangers. You can opt out of the Messages feature in your app settings or remove the tracking parameters from URLs before sharing them. Spotify recently announced a new Messages feature, adding a layer of communication and social discovery to the music streaming app. Spotify Mess

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TransUnion data breach hits millions, but Gmail security reports are false

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-03 06:57:12

A TransUnion data breach has exposed sensitive personal information for millions of US consumers, including dates of birth and social security numbers. However, reports of a major Gmail security problem affecting all 2.5 billion users are false, though loosely based on a far more contained incident back in June … TransUnion data breach Credit bureau TransUnion has confirmed reports that it has suffered a significant data breach exposing the personal data of around 4.4 million US consumers. O

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Tesla-Killer Lucid Denies Stock Split Is a Delisting Maneuver

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-12-01 05:26:03

Beleaguered electric vehicle company Lucid Motors (LCID) said this week that its reverse stock split, which will consolidate shares to meet NASDAQ’s $1 minimum trading price, is not a move to avoid being delisted. As of Friday, Lucid’s share price was down over 96% from its all-time high of $64.86, reached in February 2021. Its stock has dropped 48% since this time last year and 31% in 2025. One analyst changed their price target as much as 30% after the split was announced. “LCID’s 2Q25 reven

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Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-12-03 06:00:00

When Carson Szeder turned five dollars into more than a thousand by betting on an NFL game last year, he knew he was onto something major. “Definitely my biggest win,” he says. He hadn’t scored because he was especially deft at football analytics—or because he was particularly lucky. Instead, he says he used an AI program to help him decide how to gamble. Since a federal ban on sports betting was struck down in the United States seven years ago, gambling on the internet has exploded in populari

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Galaxy Z Fold 5, Flip 5 owners are get their first taste of One UI 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 08:52:23

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The One UI 8 beta has started rolling out to the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 foldable phones. This beta release seems to be restricted to Korea for now. This comes after Samsung recently brought the One UI 8 beta to the Galaxy S23 series and some Galaxy A phones. Samsung has just brought the One UI 8 beta to the Galaxy S23 series and a few other phones. However, there’s good news if you’ve got a Galaxy Z Fold 5 or Galaxy Z Flip 5 and were waiting

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Collecting All Causal Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 06:26:04

CauseNet aims at creating a causal knowledge base that comprises all human causal knowledge and to separate it from mere causal beliefs, with the goal of enabling large-scale research into causal inference. CauseNet: Towards a Causality Graph Extracted from the Web Causal knowledge is seen as one of the key ingredients to advance artificial intelligence. Yet, few knowledge bases comprise causal knowledge to date, possibly due to significant efforts required for validation. Notwithstanding this

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All new Samsung foldables are on sale; save up to $300!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 08:02:36

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority These offers are available directly from Amazon. It is the first time all three models are discounted simultaneously. Previous deals included free gift cards, but today’s offers are actual discounts. The deals available apply to all color versions in stock, so you get to take your pick regardless of which phone you get. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Thin, light, high-powered, and it folds! The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7

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Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 20:39:52

BAY OF AARHUS, Denmark (AP) — Below the dark blue waters of the Bay of Aarhus in northern Denmark, archaeologists search for coastal settlements swallowed by rising sea levels more than 8,500 years ago. This summer, divers descended about 8 meters (26 feet) below the waves close to Aarhus, Denmark’s second-biggest city, and collected evidence of a Stone Age settlement from the seabed. It’s part of a 13.2 million euro ($15.5 million) six-year international project to map parts of the seabed in

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract

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Do You Need a Satellite Messenger?

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support tickets

Want to cut your electric bill? Skip these scam 'power-saving' devices - and buy this instead

JBL’s Grip Is the Tallboy of Portable Bluetooth Speakers

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Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold gets a rumored launch date, and it’s sooner than you think

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Collecting All Causal Knowledge

All new Samsung foldables are on sale; save up to $300!

Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark

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