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Trump Phone Site Drops Its 'Built in US' Claim. Here's All We Know About the $499 Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 14:59:00

The Trump Organization jumped into the smartphone business on June 16, announcing a $499 gold-hued phone and a mobile phone plan, proclaiming on the Trump Mobile website that device would be "designed and built in the United States." It's a claim that many experts were skeptical about. Now, just over a week later, site has dropped that phrasing. Instead, new wording on Trump Mobile cites "American hands" and "American values" but steers clear of claiming the phone, called the T1, will be made i

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What Problems to Solve – By Richard Feynman

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 07:08:44

What Problems to Solve - By Richard Feynman A former student, who was also once a student of Tomonaga’s, wrote to extend his congratulations. Feynman responded, asking Mr. Mano what he was now doing. The response: “studying the Coherence theory with some applications to the propagation of electromagnetic waves through turbulent atmosphere… a humble and down-to-earth type of problem.”

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Enterprises must rethink IAM as AI agents outnumber humans 10 to 1

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-29 15:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Stolen credentials are responsible for 80% of enterprise breaches. Every major security vendor has converged on the same conclusion: Identity is now the control plane for AI security. Scale alone demands this shift. Enterprises managing 100,000 employees will handle more than one million identities when AI agents enter production. Traditi

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Here’s a running list of all of Tesla’s robotaxi mishaps so far

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-08-29 19:56:08

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Tesla’s robotaxi rollout has been rockier than the fanboys and influencers who got early access to the company’s driverless vehicles would like you to believe. And thanks to these diligent Redditors, we now have a list of all the mistakes the company’s “unsupervised” vehicles have made in the first couple days. Several inc

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Credit, Debit or Crypto? Mastercard Says It'll Add Stablecoin as a Payment Option

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 03:00:00

Cheng Xin/Getty Images How does a carousel of currencies -- cash, credit, crypto, installment -- attached to a single payment credential sound to you? Well, that's what Mastercard is touting with its One Credential, noting a particular interest in attracting Gen Z. Mastercard announced it's partnering with payment processor Fiserv to bring its recently announced stablecoin, FIUSD, to the Mastercard network. That means Mastercard One Credential users will be able to choose to pay with FIUSD, ca

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The Secret Reason So Many College Students Are Relying on AI Is Incredibly Sad

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-29 23:46:45

According to a new study, a staggering majority of American college students are using artificial intelligence in their studies — and the reason why is a pathos-laden dispatch from an education system in crisis. In a new study in the journal Tech Trends, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte found not only that most students are now using AI to assist in their schoolwork, but also that many prefer the technology for a tragic reason: because it doesn't judge them like a

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Travels with Rambax

technologyreview.com Abdullahi Tsanni 2025-08-30 23:00:00

Lamine Touré, director of Rambax MIT, leads drum practice in Grand Mbao NIKO ODHIAMBO ’25 Touré, a Senegalese master drummer and an MIT lecturer in world music, cofounded Rambax in 2001 with Patricia Tang, an associate professor and ethnomusicologist who specializes in West African music. It began as an extracurricular group to teach students and other members of the MIT community the art of sabar, a vibrant West African drumming and dance tradition. Today, Rambax is a credit-bearing class (21M

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Netflix is pulling the plug on 21 indie games, including Hades and Katana ZERO

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-30 23:58:34

Have you been working your way through Hades on mobile via Netflix? You’d better hurry up, before it’s too late. As first spotted by Engadget and confirmed by Netflix, 21 high-profile indie games are being removed from the service starting next month. See the full list below. Netflix seems to be rethinking its game strategy once again. After a streak of splashy acquisitions, the company shut down Blue, its internal AAA studio last year, releasing zero games in total. Now, its focus appears to

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Discovery of HMS Endeavour wreck confirmed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-30 22:17:11

Back in 2022, we reported on the Australian National Maritime Museum's (ANMM) announcement that its researchers had confirmed that a shipwreck proposed as a likely candidate in 2018 is indeed the remains of the HMS Endeavour. However, the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP)—the museum's research partner in the project—promptly released a statement calling the announcement premature. RIMAP insisted that more evidence was needed. The final report is now available, and both RIMAP and A

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Discovery of HMS Endeavor wreck confirmed

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-31 03:17:11

Back in 2022, we reported on the Australian National Maritime Museum's (ANMM) announcement that its researchers had confirmed that a shipwreck proposed as a likely candidate in 2018 is indeed the remains of the HMS Endeavour. However, the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP)—the museum's research partner in the project—promptly released a statement calling the announcement premature. RIMAP insisted that more evidence was needed. The final report is now available, and both RIMAP and A

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75 million deepfakes blocked: Persona leads the corporate fight against hiring fraud

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-09-01 07:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more As remote work has become the norm, a shadowy threat has emerged in corporate hiring departments: sophisticated AI-powered fake candidates who can pass video interviews, submit convincing resumes, and even fool human resources professionals into offering them jobs. Now, companies are racing to deploy advanced identity verification technol

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Trump Says U.S. Won’t Respond to Iran’s Retaliatory Strike in Qatar

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-02 07:05:55

“Iran has officially responded to our Obliteration of their Nuclear Facilities with a very weak response, which we expected, and have very effectively countered,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday afternoon. “There have been 14 missiles fired—13 were knocked down, and 1 was ‘set free,’ because it was headed in a nonthreatening direction. I am pleased to report that NO Americans were harmed, and hardly any damage was done.” The Iranian military launched about a dozen missiles toward Al Udeid Ai

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Steel giant Nucor confirms hackers stole data in recent breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 19:28:42

Nucor, North America's largest steel producer and recycler, has confirmed that attackers behind a recent cybersecurity incident have also stolen data from the company's network. The steel giant employs more than 32,000 people in numerous mills across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada and reported a revenue of $30.73 billion last year. Nucor disclosed this incident last month, revealing that it took down some systems to contain the security breach and halted production at some of its facilities. It

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Grow a Garden: The surprise Roblox gaming hit

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-01 16:58:02

Grow a Garden: The surprise Roblox gaming hit 3 days ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Roblox Shooting, chasing, exploring - hit video games tend to have themes that set the pulse racing. One of the world's most popular new titles, however, is about something considerably more sedate - gardening. Grow a Garden involves players slowly developing a little patch of virtual land. It's something that, earlier this month, more than 16m people - many of them children - chos

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We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 09:42:58

A 146,000-year-old skull from Harbin, China, belongs to a Denisovan, according to a recent study of proteins preserved inside the ancient bone. The paleoanthropologists who studied the Harbin skull in 2021 declared it a new (to us) species, Homo longi. But the Harbin skull still contains enough of its original proteins to tell a different story: A few of them matched specific proteins from Denisovan bones and teeth, as encoded in Denisovan DNA. So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along, and thank

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Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 15:02:24

Just a note of warning from personal experience. Companies don’t really need non-competes anymore. Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, where they consider doing any work in the industry during your lifetime an inevitable confidentiality violation. They argue it would be impossible for you to work elsewhere in this industry during your entire career without violating confidentiality with the technical and business instincts you bring to that domain. It do

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Denmark's Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Elizabeth Anne Brown 2025-08-31 11:13:15

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. He figured it was the lid from a container of tinned fish and tossed it in his junk bag with the other bits of farm trash that had set his metal detector beeping: rusty nails, screws, scrap iron. A few paces away he dug up another shiny circle. Someone had clearly enjoyed a lot of tinned fish here—into t

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Best Internet Providers in Denver, Colorado

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 18:02:00

What is the best internet provider in Denver? CNET's broadband experts have selected Quantum Fiber as the best overall internet provider in Denver, Colorado. Considering Quantum Fiber's range of coverage in the area and its overall speeds, it isn't hard to see why. Furthermore, its variety of plans means it's perfect for individuals living alone and those in a fast-paced family environment. If you're looking for the fastest option, you'll be happy to know that Quantum Fiber checks the box for

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Billions of login credentials have been leaked online

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 18:37:14

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. According to a report published this week, Cybernews researchers have recently discovered 30 exposed datasets that each contain a vast amount of login information — amounting to a total of 16 billion compromised credentials. That includes user passwords for a range of p

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How AI Is Helping Students Find the Right College

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-09-05 07:30:00

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard it was for them to access that support. The ratio of college counselors to students in the US, according to the American School Counselor Association, is one for every 3

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Ahead of Google Assistant’s death, Gemini finally inherits this much-loved feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-05 15:13:08

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini has finally received another long-awaited Google Assistant feature. The chatbot can now identify songs playing nearby using the Google app’s Song Search feature. Previously, Gemini would recommend using third-party music recognition apps when asked to identify a song. Gemini lacked several Google Assistant features at launch, but steady updates from Google have brought it closer to being a comprehensive replacement for the legacy voice assistant.

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How AI Is Helping Kids Find the Right College

wired.com Jaclyn Greenberg 2025-09-06 03:30:00

After Julia Dixon graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014, her family and friends asked for her help with the college application process. Dixon was happy to share her recently earned expertise about the world of higher education but soon realized how many parents and students in her community needed help and how hard it was for them to access that support. The ratio of college counselors to students in the US, according to the American School Counselor Association, is one for every 3

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No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-06 15:51:41

News broke today of a "mother of all breaches," sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks. To be clear, this is not a new data breach, or a breach at all, and the websites involved were not recently compromised to steal these credentials. Instead, these stolen credentials were likely circulating for some time,

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How teachers are fighting AI cheating with handwritten work, oral tests, and AI

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-07 02:04:00

A hot potato: The fear that generative AI tools such as ChatGPT would lead to a generation of students cheating and plagiarizing work has come to pass. The situation is so bad that educators are now looking at multipe ways to stop the problem, or at least make the practice much more difficult. Ironically, one of them is to use AI. Speaking about AI-cheat students, Gary Ward, a teacher at Brookes Westshore High School in Victoria, British Columbia, told Business Insider, "Some of the ones that I

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Webinar: Stolen credentials are the new front door to your network

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-07 11:33:21

Cybercriminals no longer need zero-day exploits or other vulnerabilities to breach your systems—these days, they just log in. On July 9th at 2:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer and SC Media will co-host a live webinar with identity security expert Darren Siegel of Specops Software (part of Outpost24), exploring how threat actors are increasingly breaching networks by simply logging in with stolen credentials. The webinar "Stolen credentials: The New Front Door to Your Network" will unpack the real-wo

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SpaceX Starship Explodes in Spectacular Fireball at Texas Test Facility

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-09-07 15:22:25

The upper stage prototype, designated Ship 36, exploded shortly before midnight local time on June 18 during routine preparations for an upcoming test flight. SpaceX is in the midst of preparing for Starship’s next fully integrated test, known as Flight 10. The last several tests haven’t gone well, but this prototype never even left the ground. The explosion—as shown in spectacular footage from NASASpaceFlight.com—occurred at SpaceX’s Massey facility, a test site located several miles from the

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Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-07 16:27:31

In Brief When U.S. Vice President JD Vance joined Bluesky on Wednesday evening, he got banned immediately. However, his account was restored after a while, with Bluesky saying that the ban was issued after the social network’s system that looks for impersonating attempts fired a warning. “Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts, which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored

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AI residencies are trying to change the conversation around artificial art

theverge.com Deena Mousa 2025-09-07 23:00:00

At a recent exhibition in Copenhagen, visitors stepped into a dark room and were met by an unusual host: a jaguar that watched the crowd, selected individuals, and began to share stories about her daughter, her rainforest, and the fires that once threatened her home — the Bolivian Amazon. The live interaction with Huk, an AI-driven creature, is tailored to each visitor based on visual cues. Bolivian Australian artist Violeta Ayala created the piece during an arts residency at Mila, one of the wo

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9to5Mac Overtime 050: Finally, a real computer

9to5mac.com Jeff Benjamin 2025-09-08 11:00:00

Jeff and Fernando share their 1-week impressions with new Apple software, with a special focus on iPadOS 26. Sponsored by Bitwarden: Check out Bitwarden Password Manager, featuring an Apple Watch authenticator integration, secure autofill on Safari and iOS apps, and enterprise-grade security tools that help you manage credentials with confidence. 9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting observations in the Apple ecosystem, featuring 9to5Mac’s Fernando Silv

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A staggering 16 billion logins exposed in epic data breach, including Apple accounts

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-08 12:06:56

Security researchers have discovered what they describe as “one of the largest data breaches in history,” comprising a staggering 16 billion logins, which include Apple accounts (formerly known as Apple IDs). The researchers said that the stolen data gives cybercriminals “unprecedented access to personal credentials that can be used for account takeover, identity theft, and highly targeted phishing” … You may recall a report last month that Apple login credentials were among a massive database

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