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How accurate is Apple’s new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-02 12:04:49

As I pointed out recently, while Whisper is top of mind and still a pretty good transcription model, OpenAI has moved away from it. That said, the fact that Apple’s new transcription API is faster than Whisper is great news. But how accurate is it? We tested it out. Full disclosure: the idea for this post came from developer Prakash Pax, who did his own tests. As he explains it: I recorded 15 audio samples in English, randomly ranging from 15 seconds to 2 minutes. And tested against these 3 sp

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Grafana releases critical security update for Image Renderer plugin

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-02 12:16:59

Grafana Labs has addressed four Chromium vulnerabilities in critical security updates for the Grafana Image Renderer plugin and Synthetic Monitoring Agent. Although the issues impact Chromium and were fixed by the open-source project two weeks ago, Grafana received a bug bounty submission from security researcher Alex Chapman proving their exploitability in the Grafana components. Grafana describes the update as a "critical severity security release" and advises users to apply the fixes for th

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ViscaCamLink – Camera control application for PTZ cameras

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 07:39:58

ViscaCamLink is a camera controller for PTZ cameras that can be reached via a network connection using the VISCA protocol. 🇩🇪 | 🇦🇹 | 🇨🇭 – In Deutsch lesen Features Presets Save and load up to ten positions (including zoom) as presets Global hotkey for each preset (currently assigned to the numpad keys 0-9) Control Free movement in any direction (via button) 18-step adjustment of movement speed Reset to initial position Zoom Freely zooming in and out 7-step adjustment of zoom speed M

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Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB Is Cheaper Than Black Friday Thanks to 4th of July and Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-02 12:10:56

Are you sick of having to delete games and videos to make space for more games and videos? We know it’s not a big deal in the scheme of things, but perspective doesn’t make it any less irritating when you’re forced to figure out what has to be uninstalled this time. The easiest answer to this is just to get more storage, and we’ve got a truly impeccable deal on that front today. See at Amazon While a lot of storage can normally be very expensive, this amazing deal from Amazon means you can add

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Samsung tri-fold’s eye-watering price tag may not be the only thing stopping you from buying it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-02 16:00:13

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s tri-fold phone, rumored to be called the Galaxy G Fold, is said to begin production in September and be launched in Q4 2025, according to a new report. It is also said to feature a 10-inch OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, and a 200MP primary camera, but may have a smaller battery than the competing HUAWEI Mate XT. Initial availability is expected to be limited to China and South Korea, and the price could exceed ~$2,930. It’s raining t

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Peasant Railgun

news.ycombinator.com Sawyer Bohannan 2025-09-02 15:05:05

Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night by David Teniers the Younger, oil on canvas. You may have been scrolling through the r/dnd or r/dndmemes subreddits when you scrolled past a comment containing the phrase “Peasant Railgun”, and if you were like me, instantly became confused. So my dear and sweet reader, I have taken it upon myself to find the answer to the question: What is a Peasant Railgun? What is the Peasant Railgun? During the tail-end of the 2008 financial crisis, 1d4chan released a po

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The best phone to buy right now

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-09-02 16:36:23

is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now. And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better than the device they’re replacing. If that’s your MO, then you’re sure to find something reliable in my recommendations below. But even if you’re looking for something a little more extra

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Paramount Plus slashes prices to $2 for two months

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-02 16:56:17

If you’re looking for an affordable way to kick off your July 4th weekend, Paramount Plus has a deal worth checking out. Just in time for the July 17th premiere of the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, new subscribers can enjoy two months of Paramount Plus Premium (normally $12.99 per month) or Plus Essential (regularly $7.99 a month) for just $0.99 per month as part of the Summer Sale. Either deal includes all the features of the base Paramount Plus Essential plan, but the Paramou

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Tripadvisor stock surges 17% as Starboard Value builds sizable stake in online travel company

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-02 20:45:06

Tripadvisor stock jumped 17% Thursday after Starboard Value revealed a more than 9% stake in the online travel company, according to a securities filing. The position was valued at about $160 million as of Wednesday's close. Tripadvisor shares have been flat since the start of the year after plummeting more than 30% in 2024. Last year, the travel review and booking company said it created a special committee to explore potential options.

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Where is my von Braun wheel?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 19:44:55

In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away. NASA had viable designs for rotating wheel space stations that could have given astronauts artificial gravity. Then, the Apollo program effectively killed them. While NASA’s lunar focus delivered the historic moonshot, it dismantled a promising engineering effort at Langley Research Center that might have revolutionized human spaceflight. That decision set us on a half-century trajectory of small, zero-gravity stations that continu

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Mortgage Predictions for July: Will Rates Continue Falling?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 18:51:00

Buyers should keep an eye on the possibility of rate cuts in the next few months. Tharon Green/CNET Mortgage rates are holding near a two-month low, with average 30-year fixed rates having fallen just below 6.7%, according to Bankrate data. After weeks of hovering close to 7%, it's a positive sign in today's unaffordable housing market. But it's unclear how much staying power the recent decline will have. Thursday's Bureau of Labor Statistics job report showed slightly lower unemployment in Ju

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Ransomware gang Hunters International says it’s shutting down

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-02 20:45:05

The ransomware gang known as Hunters International announced on its dark web page Thursday that it is shutting down. “After careful consideration and in light of recent developments, we have decided to close the Hunters International project,” the hackers wrote in a post, without clarifying what specific developments it was referring to. “This decision was not made lightly, and we recognize the impact it has on the organizations we have interacted with.” The hackers also said they are offering

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Tripadvisor stock surges 10% as Starboard Value builds sizable stake in online travel company

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-03 00:53:31

Tripadvisor stock jumped 10% Thursday after Starboard Value revealed a more than 9% stake in the online travel company, according to a securities filing. The position was valued at about $160 million as of Wednesday's close. Tripadvisor shares have been flat since the start of the year after plummeting more than 30% in 2024. Last year, the travel review and booking company said it created a special committee to explore potential options.

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Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 23:00:28

At Kyber, we're building the next-generation document platform for enterprises. Today, our AI-native solution transforms regulatory document workflows, enabling insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of their templates, spend 65% less time drafting, and compress overall communication cycle times by 5x. Our vision is for every enterprise to seamlessly leverage AI templates to generate every document. Over the past 8 months, we’ve: 20x’d revenue and are profitable. Landed multiple si

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The Three Types of Camera I Learned Every Photographer Needs to Have

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 23:36:48

I've been a professional photographer for over a decade, shooting everything from editorial photo stories, to product photography and landscape, travel and street photography in my personal work. In that time, I've learned there are three main types of camera that all photographers need to own. And I'm not talking about brands, like a Sony or a Canon, or even sensor types, like a full frame or an APS C. I mean a deeper level of camera selection -- the types of camera that offer fundamentally dif

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The Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam drops to $40 for Prime Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-03 04:35:13

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Ring's indoor camera that has a motorized base to give you a 360-degree view is cheaper than ever in a Prime Day deal. The Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam normally goes for $80, but it's dropped to just $40 for the Amazon savings event. That's even lower than the previous all-time low price of $50

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Hunters International ransomware shuts down, releases free decryptors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 02:53:21

The Hunters International Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation announced today that it has officially closed down its operations and will offer free decryptors to help victims recover their data without paying a ransom. "After careful consideration and in light of recent developments, we have decided to close the Hunters International project. This decision was not made lightly, and we recognize the impact it has on the organizations we have interacted with," the cybercrime gang says in a

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-09-03 04:55:11

AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts. Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt

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Samsung seems to have leaked its own trifold phone design

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-03 04:31:48

Samsung may have inadvertently given us a first look at its upcoming “multifold” device in the latest One UI 8 build update. Some animations spotted by Android Authority show what the trifold Samsung flagship might look like, including the dual-hinge folding mechanism, display layout, camera setup, and NFC location. The device is speculated to be called the “Galaxy G Fold,” though Android Authority notes that it’s labeled as the “Multifold 7” in the One UI 8 animation files. Samsung first tease

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Teen drivers spend 21% of the time looking at their phones, reveals alarming study [Video]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-03 13:04:20

A alarming new study has found that som teen drivers in the US spend as much as 21% of their time at the wheel looking at their phones, creating a substantial risk of distracted driving crashes. While much of this was brief glances, more than 5% of driving time comprised looking at their phone for 2+ seconds a time, long enough to qualify as dangerous … CNET reports that the teens did this despite understanding the risks they are taking. The study includes survey responses from 1,126 teen dri

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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Tavares 2025-09-01 03:43:57

For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. These processes, meant to drive quality, often slow us down more than the act of writing code itself because they require t

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Experts Say These Are the Best Foods for Headaches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 10:16:03

While eating a certain food or adjusting your diet won't provide a miracle cure for headaches or migraines, it may offer some relief. That is, in addition to maintaining your hydration, exercise, sleep and stress management. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highly individualized," says Dr. Nicholas Church, a board-certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. "What helps one person may not help another, an

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I'm Rethinking My Upgrade Based on These 5 iPhone 17 Pro Max Rumors

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 11:45:00

I've always been on team Regular Size when it comes to iPhone Pro models, even in years when the larger Pro Max models have gained exclusive features, like the 5x telephoto "tetraprism" camera in the iPhone 15 Pro Max (which expanded to both models in the iPhone 16 Pro). Despite the more expansive screen size, the Max has always seemed too bulky to carry around all day. But a host of rumored features and design changes for the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro Max has me weighing the benefits of embracing

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This Pro-Level Controller Is Great, but It Comes at a Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 13:00:06

Turtle Beach is no stranger to making high-performance gaming hardware, either through its PDP brand or its own in-house accessories. The company is perhaps best known for its gaming headsets but has leveraged its decades of experience to bring us other great gaming accessories like the Stealth Ultra wireless controller. Well, mostly great, as we'll see. What I like about the Stealth Ultra Jason Cockerham/CNET Turtle Beach didn't try to reinvent the wheel with the Stealth Ultra. The standard

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Razer Handheld Dock Chroma Follows Its Accessories' Formula: High Quality With a Higher Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 13:00:16

The Handheld Dock Chroma from Razer is a compact stand and dock for portable gaming consoles and tablets, offering charging and an interface to send your games to a bigger screen. As the name suggests, it includes RGB lighting that's part of Razer's Chroma ecosystem. It was announced at CES in January, and it recently started shipping. Is it any good? Well, largely yes, with some important caveats. What I like about the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma The Razer Handheld Chroma Dock is well built. I

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Uber Adds Rental Car Delivery and Discounted Airport Rides Before July 4 Weekend Surge

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 13:15:03

With AAA forecasting that a record-breaking 72 million Americans will travel during the week of July 4, ride-hailing and delivery company Uber is launching various updates to make summer vacations more seamless. Uber is significantly expanding its rental-car delivery service, introducing new airport options for ride-sharing and prescheduled pickups, and adding more flexibility for hotel food deliveries. Read also: Uber's Simplified App for Seniors Is Launching Nationwide Car rental dropoff exp

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Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-03 11:30:41

• Leverage a copywriting Gem to create posts and content tailored to your target audience, pre-loaded into the Gem. • Create a Gem that helps with sales interactions that is grounded on information for a specific company, prospect, or industry. • Leverage an “assistant gem” tailored to your job role to help provide more relevant summaries for you and content for internal communications. • Leverage a Gem designed to help pressure test content from a certain persona (e.x C-Suite or CEO) to help

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-03 12:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan, and is capped at 3 videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users to generate videos up to 8 seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to Gemi

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Stale or strategic? Galaxy S26 Ultra’s camera and battery specs could disappoint fans

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 14:28:13

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra is rumored to feature a 5,000mAh battery, the same as that of previous Galaxy S Ultra flagships since 2020. The primary camera on the Galaxy S26 Ultra is expected to retain a 200MP sensor, potentially marking three generations without a significant upgrade to this component. These early leaks suggest the Galaxy S26 Ultra could feature only minor hardware upgrades again, which might disappoint fans. Samsung is gearing up to la

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Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-08-31 21:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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Latest Tech News

How accurate is Apple’s new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet

Grafana releases critical security update for Image Renderer plugin

ViscaCamLink – Camera control application for PTZ cameras

Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB Is Cheaper Than Black Friday Thanks to 4th of July and Early Prime Day

Samsung tri-fold’s eye-watering price tag may not be the only thing stopping you from buying it

Peasant Railgun

The best phone to buy right now

Paramount Plus slashes prices to $2 for two months

Tripadvisor stock surges 17% as Starboard Value builds sizable stake in online travel company

Where is my von Braun wheel?

Mortgage Predictions for July: Will Rates Continue Falling?

Ransomware gang Hunters International says it’s shutting down

Tripadvisor stock surges 10% as Starboard Value builds sizable stake in online travel company

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs

The Three Types of Camera I Learned Every Photographer Needs to Have

The Ring Pan-Tilt Indoor Cam drops to $40 for Prime Day

Hunters International ransomware shuts down, releases free decryptors

From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

Samsung seems to have leaked its own trifold phone design

Teen drivers spend 21% of the time looking at their phones, reveals alarming study [Video]

Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

Experts Say These Are the Best Foods for Headaches

I'm Rethinking My Upgrade Based on These 5 iPhone 17 Pro Max Rumors

This Pro-Level Controller Is Great, but It Comes at a Price

Razer Handheld Dock Chroma Follows Its Accessories' Formula: High Quality With a Higher Price

Uber Adds Rental Car Delivery and Discounted Airport Rides Before July 4 Weekend Surge

Google’s customizable Gemini chatbots are now in Docs, Sheets, and Gmail

Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video generation model globally

Stale or strategic? Galaxy S26 Ultra’s camera and battery specs could disappoint fans

Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

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