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Spotify adds audio previews and real-time music sharing to Instagram Stories and Notes

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-11 04:13:55

Spotify is expanding how users can share their music on Instagram with two new features rolling out globally today. Audio previews in Stories Audio previews are now included when posting tracks to Stories, while Instagram Notes gets real-time music updates that show what you are currently listening to. Sharing songs to Instagram Stories now includes a short audio clip automatically. Friends can listen to the preview directly in the Story and tap the music sticker to open the full track in Spo

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Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 03:36:51

Executive Summary Lumia’s Research Team revealed that messages dictated via Siri, including WhatsApp and iMessage are not sent to the Private Cloud Compute. In fact, there is no assurance as to what Apple does with these messages. Siri transmits metadata about installed and active apps without the user’s ability to control these privacy settings. Audio playback metadata such as ‘recording names’, is sent without consent. No user control or visibility exists over these background data flows.

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Elon Musk Slapped With Major New Complication

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-11 04:17:33

The reigning king of controversy has just found himself saddled with one more expensive problem. A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has ordered Elon Musk to continue a lawsuit filed by voters who gave up personal information in exchange for winning a $1 million daily cash prize from Musk’s PAC, Reuters reports. The case says the contest constitutes a form of illegal lottery or sweepstakes, which is prohibited under federal and state law, and misled people into sharing personal information th

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Watch Stephen King and Takashi Miike Celebrate the Glorious Gore of ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-11 04:45:42

“Every frame has something unnerving in it,” Patton Oswalt says in the trailer for Chain Reactions—a new documentary about the enduring influence and impact of 1974’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Tobe Hooper’s grisly classic has often been imitated and has spawned some regrettable sequels and remakes, but the original remains a uniquely terrifying product of a very specific time and place, not just in pop culture, but also in the realms of independent cinema. A new trailer for Chain Reactions

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Can’t recall that café from Tuesday? Google Maps has a new feature to jog your memory (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 09:37:45

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The You tab in Google Maps has a new section called “Your recent places.” This section shows a list of all the recent places you visited. You can sort through locations with various types of filters, save a location, share a location, and delete a location from your history. Having trouble remembering the store you went to a few days ago? Or maybe you want to share the location of a restaurant you ate at the other day. Google Maps is getting a feature

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Meta allegedly bypassed Apple privacy measure, and fired employee who flagged it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-11 05:00:36

A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally. Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue … App Tracking Transparency hit Meta hard Meta relied heavily on selling personalized advertising, which required it to be able t

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In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

news.ycombinator.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-11 12:52:50

Earlier this year, MIT Technology Review published a comprehensive series on AI and energy, at which time none of the major AI companies would reveal their per-prompt energy usage. Google’s new publication, at last, allows for a peek behind the curtain that researchers and analysts have long hoped for. The study focuses on a broad look at energy demand, including not only the power used by the AI chips that run models but also by all the other infrastructure needed to support that hardware. “W

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Trump's Nvidia and Intel meddling is a 'scattershot method of crony capitalism': Walter Isaacson

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-11 18:35:31

President Donald Trump's dealings with Intel and Nvidia amount to a "scattershot method of crony capitalism," Walter Isaacson said Thursday. "That state capitalism often evolves into crony capitalism, where you have favored companies and industries that pay tribute to the leader, and that is a recipe for not only disaster, but just sort of a corrupt sense of messiness," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box." The Tulane University professor, widely known for his recent Elon Musk biography, argued that th

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Insta360’s new tiny action camera combines stamina with a detachable magnet design

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:00:28

Insta360 TL;DR Insta360 has launched a new tiny action camera with improved video chops. The Insta360 GO Ultra brings 4K 60fps recording in a compact format and a detachable design. The GO Ultra also borrows other features, such as PureVideo, from the pro-grade action cameras like Insta360 Ace Pro. Insta360 is announcing a new compact camera suitable for both action shots and vlogging. The latest addition sits between the Insta360 GO, its compact vlogging camera, and the Ace Pro, which is de

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Insta360 launches new action camera with removable storage

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:00:19

Chinese action camera (and now drone) company Insta360 has unveiled a premium addition to its lineup of compact cameras. The Insta360 GO Ultra is being billed as a new, more powerful product line in the GO series, instead of a replacement for the GO 3S. This next generation represents a substantial step up in performance, powered by a new 5nm AI chip, which is a big jump from the 14nm chip found on the GO 3S. It also benefits from a larger 1/1.28-inch sensor, roughly twice the size of the one i

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 17:20:53

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often scale down large images before sending them to the model: when scaled, these images can reveal prompt injections that are not visible at full resolution. In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers c

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Nancy Mace Hitches Her Wagon to the Hertz AI-Scanner Controversy

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-11 18:10:29

Car rental giant Hertz is in the hot seat, after customers have come out of the woodwork to complain that the company’s newly instituted AI scanners are charging them outrageous fees over minor issues. Now the system reportedly has the attention of one of Congress’s most artificially intelligent members. The company recently rolled out the scanners as part of a partnership with Israeli firm UVeye, whose products were originally developed as a homeland security device—designed to detect guns and

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Insta360 redesigned its compact action cam with a bigger battery and swappable storage

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-11 18:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Insta360 has announced the next version of its compact Go action camera, which helped the company differentiate itself from established competitors like GoPro several years ago. As Insta360 teased earlier this week, the new Go Ultra not only breaks from the n

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In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-11-11 23:00:00

Earlier this year, MIT Technology Review published a comprehensive series on AI and energy, at which time none of the major AI companies would reveal their per-prompt energy usage. Google’s new publication, at last, allows for a peek behind the curtain that researchers and analysts have long hoped for. The study focuses on a broad look at energy demand, including not only the power used by the AI chips that run models but also by all the other infrastructure needed to support that hardware. “W

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The Download: Ukraine’s Starlink repair shop, and predicting solar storms

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-11 23:10:00

Starlink is absolutely critical to Ukraine’s ability to continue in the fight against Russia. It’s how troops in battle zones stay connected with faraway HQs; it’s how many of the drones essential to Ukraine’s survival hit their targets; it’s even how soldiers stay in touch with spouses and children back home. However, Donald Trump’s fickle foreign policy and reports suggesting Elon Musk might remove Ukraine’s access to the services have cast the technology’s future in the country into doubt.

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FBI warns of Russian hackers exploiting 7-year-old Cisco flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 23:04:08

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned that hackers linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) are targeting critical infrastructure organizations in attacks exploiting a 7-year-old vulnerability in Cisco devices. The FBI's public service announcement states that the state-backed hacking group, linked to the FSB's Center 16 unit and tracked as Berserk Bear (also known as Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfly, and Koala Team), has been targeting Cisco networking devices usi

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I love Slack's new Lists feature so much I wish it was a standalone app

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-11 23:23:59

jayk7/Moment/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Slack has a new Lists feature that levels up your productivity. You can create boards and lists to track your projects. There's also a template gallery to make using Lists easier. Get more ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I use Slack -- a lot. Several of my clients require Slack for communication and collaboration. Because I write so much for several organizations, it's easy to get lost in the pr

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I Tested MSI's $999 Gaming Laptop and Liked Its 1080p Performance but Little Else

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 09:00:06

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.2 / 10 SCORE MSI Katana 15 HX B14W $999 at Walmart Pros Strong performance for the price Roomy keyboard with four-zone RGB lighting Cons Dim display Thick and heavy chassis 512GB SSD fills up fast Grainy 720p webcam No biometrics or Thunderbolt 4 If you're bound and determined to spend less than $1,000 on a gaming laptop, and you want one with a GP

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SpaceX has built the machine to build the machine. But what about the machine?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-12 10:30:20

STARBASE, Texas—I first visited SpaceX's launch site in South Texas a decade ago. Driving down the pocked and barren two-lane road to its sandy terminus, I found only rolling dunes, a large mound of dirt, and a few satellite dishes that talked to Dragon spacecraft as they flew overhead. A few years later, in mid-2019, the company had moved some of that dirt and built a small launch pad. A handful of SpaceX engineers working there at the time shared some office space nearby in a tech hub buildin

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9 Best Back-to-School Laptop Deals for 2025

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-11-12 09:00:00

The laptop you bring to college is important. Not only is it the device you'll be using through some of the most formative years of your life, but it's also often the one that you'll take to your first job, too. The problem is that the internet is full of laptops that aren't worth the money, especially if you're scrolling through lists of laptops on Amazon or Best Buy. Good news! I've tested each of the following laptops and can wholeheartedly recommend them. More than that, I've been digging t

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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-12 10:33:10

The latest addition to China’s Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI—after the protagonist of the “Monkey King” legend in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong—the chatbot was introduced on the space station in mid-July, and has already completed its first mission: supporting three taikonauts during a spacewalk. Information about Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities have said that they developed it from a domestic open-sour

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Orange Belgium discloses data breach impacting 850,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-12 11:07:11

Orange Belgium, a subsidiary of telecommunications giant Orange Group, disclosed on Wednesday that attackers who breached its systems in July have stolen the data of approximately 850,000 customers. Orange Belgium provides fixed and mobile connectivity services to over 3 million customers in Belgium and Luxembourg, employs 1,500 staff, and claims to operate the largest 4G/5G network in the country. Last year, the company reported total service revenues of €1.34 billion. When BleepingComputer r

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Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

news.ycombinator.com Pesala Bandara 2025-11-11 16:23:19

A customer has sued Home Depot, claiming the retail giant has been secretly using facial recognition technology on customers with cameras placed at self-checkout kiosks. Earlier this month, Benjamin Jankowski, a frequent Home Depot shopper, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company. He claims the retailer’s self-checkout kiosks use facial recognition technology that scans and collects people’s facial details without their permission. In the lawsuit, Jankowski says cameras at th

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Want to learn Linux? These 5 games make it fun - and they're free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-12 11:00:20

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways If you need to up your Linux skills, play a game. There are several games, each focusing on a different skill. These games are free to play as often as you need. Get more ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source. For many, the idea of learning Linux is a task best left to the geeks. The good news is that desktop Linux has become so easy to use that you don't have to worry about the challenges that may have kept you from div

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Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 05:47:05

All the opinions expressed in this article and on this website are entirely my own and do not represent my employer in any way. Ever heard about the “Bus factor”? It is a concept that measures the risk of losing all knowledge about a particular thing – a software development project for example – by estimating how many team members could get crushed by a bus before nobody knows how to work on the project anymore. As an example, if 3 people on your team know how to restore a backup of your datab

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French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 20:32:44

E-bike batteries are, for the most part, a collection of 18650 batteries, packaged together and welded in series and parallel, attached to a battery management system (BMS). A "dead" e-bike battery may only have two or three truly dead cells inside, while the remainder work fine. This is useful knowledge that, for the most part, very few e-bike owners can really use. Arc welders are not a common tool to own, and most e-bike batteries are not designed to be opened, safely or otherwise. French fi

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Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Roche 2025-11-12 10:14:49

Last year I created a demo showing how CSS 3D transforms could be used to create 3D environments. The demo was a technical showcase of what could be achieved with CSS at the time but I wanted to see how far I could push things, so over the past few months I’ve been working on a new version with more complex models, realistic lighting, shadows and collision detection. This post documents how I did it and the techniques I used. View the demo Creating 3D objects The geometry of a 3D object is st

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9to5Mac Daily: August 20, 2025 – iPhone 17 cases, Apple Watch with Touch ID?

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-11-12 18:14:49

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Understanding Moravec's Paradox

news.ycombinator.com Morgan Howells 2025-11-08 23:36:51

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

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John Cena Digs Into Peacemaker’s Big ‘Suicide Squad’ Kill

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-12 18:15:23

Season two of Peacemaker will finally have Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) coming in hot for Chris Smith (John Cena) to exact revenge over the death of his son. Killing his squad leader, Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad was a moment that made Peacemaker irredeemable before being hilariously unpacked in season one of the HBO Max show, which centered the antihero’s mistake as something that broke him—that and the bullet Bloodsport (Idris Elba) put through his neck. In an

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