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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-18 19:24:36

While most U.S. users have never used—or even heard of—WhatsApp Status Updates, Meta recently revealed that the tab is now used by 1.5 billion people per day worldwide. And soon, WhatsApp will take a page from Instagram by adding a Close Friends feature. If you’re unfamiliar with WhatsApp Status, it works much like Instagram Stories, where users can post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. For the last few years, Instagram users have enjoyed a Close Friends feature, which lets the

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Apple's MLS Season Pass drops to as low as $25 for the rest of 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 15:08:56

The end of any sports season is usually the most exciting part, and MLS fans can watch the climax of the 2025 campaign for a discount. As it has done each year around this time since it locked up the rights to the top North American soccer league, Apple is offering the MLS Season Pass at a discount for the remainder of the season. Apple TV+ subscribers can get access for $25, while everyone else can snag the season pass for $29. This is just the latest MLS Season Pass price cut of 2025, as Appl

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The time picker in iPhone alarms has a bizarre hidden design element

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-20 03:15:26

We wouldn’t think many aspects of iPhone user interface design could be more straightforward than the time picker in the alarm function – but it appears we would be wrong … Macworld spotted a tweet by someone who found that neither hours nor minutes are loops, but are instead very long lists with a definite end. When the hour passes 23 (or 11pm if you’re that way inclined) and returns to 00, it isn’t actually returning to zero, it’s moving on to a new one. Similarly, when the minutes pass from

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Apple’s stance on strong encryption gets the support of the FTC in US privacy U-turn

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-20 06:35:53

Apple’s commitment to end-to-end encryption is so strong that it withdrew a key privacy feature from the UK market rather than be forced to compromise it globally. The company also faced pressure on this front from the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). In a surprising twist, the White House came out in support of strong encryption, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now urging Apple and other tech giants to stand firm on the issue … The US’s changing narrative on strong encryption I des

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Brokewell Android malware delivered through fake TradingView ads

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 17:35:26

Cybercriminals are abusing Meta’s advertising platforms with fake offers of a free TradingView Premium app that spreads the Brokewell malware for Android. The campaign targets cryptocurrency assets and has been running since at least July 22nd through an estimated 75 localized ads. Brokewell has been around since early 2024 and features a broad set of capabilities that include stealing sensitive data, remote monitoring and control of the compromised device. Taking over the device Researchers

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Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-20 16:33:40

Ticketless train travel to be trialled across cities 5 hours ago Share Save Isaac Ashe BBC News, Derby Share Save BBC Passengers in the East Midlands will be the first to test the ticketing technology Ticketless train travel that works by tracking passengers' locations is being trialled in the East Midlands. The location-based technology will be tested by East Midlands Railway (EMR) from Monday, by up to 1,000 people travelling through Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and the stations in between.

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People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-20 12:13:03

U.S. consumers continued to open their wallets in July, a new study from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed on Friday, underscoring the resilience of household demand even as inflation held above the Federal Reserve’s target. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t wince while doing it. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal-consumption expenditures price index, rose 0.2% on the month and 2.6% from a year earlier. The core measure, which strips out food and energy, advan

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FTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-20 12:03:57

Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently expressed concern that “Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects.” In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Ferguson pointed to a recent story in the New York Post describing complaints by Targeted Victory (a consulting and PR firm that’s worked with the Republican National Committee and Elon Musk’s X) claiming that Gmail flags emails linking to the Republican fundrais

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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act

wired.com Mila Fiordalisi 2025-10-20 15:00:00

Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sent a scathing letter to a number of tech giants, including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. The letter's subject: the European Digital Services Act cannot be applied if it jeopardizes freedom of expression and, above all, the safety of US citizens. The opening of the letter—signed by FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson—features a

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Black Ops 6 Quad Feed Double XP Weekend Is Live Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 06:54:52

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch is showing some love to loyal players with another double XP weekend, hot on the heels of the one that ran during Battlefield 6's record-breaking open beta. The third double XP weekend of the multiplayer shooter's season 5 is live now, with all four boosts active for players to take advantage of. You'll be able to speed through account levels, weapon attachment unlocks and battle pass tiers to chug through the latest seasonal content ahead of the laun

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TikTok is now letting everyone DM each other with voice memos and pictures

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-21 07:53:06

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Every platform wants to be the place you hang with friends — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging feature! It told TechCrunch that over the next few weeks, all users should see voice messages

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TikTok now lets users send voice notes and images in DMs

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-21 07:15:08

TikTok is giving users new ways to interact with others via direct messages (DMs), the company told TechCrunch on Friday. Users will now be able to send voice notes and share up to nine images or videos in one-to-one and group chats on the platform. With these new features, TikTok is positioning itself as more than just an entertainment platform, aiming to become a place where users interact regularly beyond simply sending each other TikTok videos. Additionally, the new capabilities bring TikTo

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Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-10-21 23:04:10

Khalid Ashmawy remembers the first time he wired money home while studying in Europe. He had just received his monthly stipend as a master’s student in Stuttgart and wanted to send part of it back to his family in Cairo. It was usually a slow and expensive process, he recalled. A $400 wire transfer, for instance, could cost $40 in fees and take three business days to arrive. Years later, while working at Microsoft and Uber in the U.S., and even after founding a startup, that experience hadn’t

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Android’s improved Quick Share interface is now rolling out, here’s what’s new

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 19:31:44

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a new design for Quick Share. The new UI brings separate “Receive” and “Send” screens. In the “Send” mode, you can now select files directly and preview them before sending. Google’s Quick Share is an effortless way to transfer large files at high speeds from or to Android devices. You can already share files with other Android devices, Windows PCs, or Chromebooks. Google is also working to extend official support to iOS and macO

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Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-24 03:00:52

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock band’s lead singers, Don Henley, said in an interview that the song and place “can have a million interpretations.” For US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, what comes to mind is a key part of one of the country’s most central conservation laws. “The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel Californ

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From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care

technologyreview.com Dr. Wael Salloum 2025-10-25 03:09:13

Overcoming LLM limitations LLMs excel at understanding nuanced context, performing instinctive reasoning, and generating human-like interactions, making them ideal for agentic tools to then interpret intricate data and communicate effectively. Yet in a domain like health care where compliance, accuracy, and adherence to regulatory standards are non-negotiable—and where a wealth of structured resources like taxonomies, rules, and clinical guidelines define the landscape—symbolic AI is indispensa

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The best Wi-Fi extenders in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 02:00:37

If your Wi-Fi signal is struggling to reach every corner of your home, a signal booster — also known as a Wi-Fi extender — might be the fix you need. Whether you're dealing with annoying dead zones, buffering video calls or laggy gaming sessions, the right Wi-Fi extender can help expand coverage and improve connectivity without forcing you to move your router. There are different types of Wi-Fi extenders to choose from. Some models use external antennas to push the signal farther, while other

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Did Nvidia Just Pop an AI Bubble? Here’s What the Market Says

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-25 03:46:19

Lukewarm second quarter results from AI powerhouse Nvidia (NVDA) Wednesday have Wall Street bros and the analysts that love them catching all kinds of feelings. Long a bellwether for how the market views AI in general, the largest company in the world carries enough weight in its $1 trillion valuation to move entire indexes, let alone the tech sector. That was especially the case over the last two weeks, when handwringing over what Nvidia would say in its second quarter results on Aug. 27 reac

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Why this $25 ratchet tool beats any multitool or Swiss Army Knife I've ever tested

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-26 03:00:00

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I'm always on the lookout for a now toy -- ahem, I mean tool -- to add to my everyday carry (EDC) gear. New multitools, flashlights, and other cool tools are always on my radar. A few weeks ago, I happened to come across something that, the moment I saw it, I just had to have it. It was one of those gambles: "it might be good, it might be on the way back to Amazon by the end of the day". Also: 10 tiny tools I carry with me everywhere - how they work It turned out

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Yes, ‘Alien: Earth’ Is Actually Going There With the Xenomorphs

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-26 11:30:00

When Alien: Earth started, the main novelty was the idea of seeing an alien on Earth. Now, a few episodes in, we’ve seen that and things have moved along. Then it became about the idea of scientists actually studying these legendary creatures, a moment the franchise always hinted at but never fully got around to. In those ways and more, Alien: Earth was doing things the movies could never, and had never, done. But with its fourth episode, creator Noah Hawley and his team have taken that notion t

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Focus Friend Might Have Finally Solved My Doomscrolling Problem

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 19:00:03

I was recently asked to rank my smartphone addiction on a scale of 1 to 10 -- 1 meaning "It's not a problem" and 10 meaning "It's a big problem." After considering for a second, I said 8. Despite my effort to keep my phone face down as much as possible, I still pick it up and check my notifications when I know there's nothing waiting for me. I still doomscroll. But now, at last, I might have found a way to break the spell of my 6-inch screen. Enter Focus Friend. The app calls itself a "gamifi

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I Spent over $31,900 on Whiteout Survival – Here's Why I Regret It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 03:34:20

Hey everyone, I’ve been debating whether to post this for a long time. It’s not easy admitting this, but after stepping back and looking at the numbers, I feel like I need to share my experience—not for myself, but to warn others who might be heading down the same path. I’m using a throwaway account for obvious reasons, but I feel it’s important to put this out there and hopefully help someone avoid making the same mistakes I did. I started playing Whiteout Survival in December 2023 and played

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This tiny ratchet beats any multitool or Swiss Army Knife I've ever tested - and it's only $25

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-27 10:15:18

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I'm always on the lookout for a now toy -- ahem, I mean tool -- to add to my everyday carry (EDC) gear. New multitools, flashlights, and other cool tools are always on my radar. A few weeks ago, I happened to come across something that, the moment I saw it, I just had to have it. It was one of those gambles: "it might be good, it might be on the way back to Amazon by the end of the day". Also: 10 tiny tools I carry with me everywhere - how they work It turned out

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Linear Scan with Lifetime Holes

news.ycombinator.com Max Bernstein 2025-10-28 05:22:56

In my last post, I explained a bit about how to retrofit SSA onto the original linear scan algorithm. I went over all of the details for how to go from low-level IR to register assignments—liveness analysis, scheduling, building intervals, and the actual linear scan algorithm. Basically, we made it to 1997 linear scan, with small adaptations for allocating directly on SSA. This time, we’re going to retrofit lifetime holes. Lifetime holes Lifetime holes come into play because a linearized seq

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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Would Prefer If You Moved on From Hating the Ending of ‘Game of Thrones’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-30 10:15:00

Game of Thrones was beloved for much of its run—winning awards, topping “best” lists—before it famously went off the rails in its eighth and final season. Time hasn’t softened the blow one bit, even with the subsequent success of the prequel series House of the Dragon. Fans will likely never forgive the show’s disappointing downturn, and that’s something one Game of Thrones star in particular hasn’t quite come to terms with: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who played Jaime Lannister. Of course, Coster-W

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FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 17:21:32

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms. FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson signed the letter sent to large American companies like Akamai, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cloudflare, Discord, GoDaddy, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, Slack, and X (Twitter). Ferguson stresses that weakening data security at the request of foreign

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Math Not Required (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 15:24:34

Let's examine a problem that we could math our way out of, but assume we don't know how. We'll lean on our programming to teach us what we don't know. The Monty Hall problem comes from an old game show called Let's Make a Deal, hosted by Monty Hall. In the show, Monty would show three closed doors to a contestant and explain that one holds a car while the other two hold goats. The contestant then chose a door. After this first pick, Monty would reveal one unchosen door that was hiding a goat. T

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Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 13:01:24

Introduction After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game. Since I grew up in 🇦🇷 Argentina playing card games with my friends, I figured I’d choose one of those. I asked myself: Truco: 3 Months Without LLMs On June 18th of 2024 I started building Truco in my free time. As a longtime Go backend developer, the backend was obvious. The challenge was the UI and long-term hosting without a paid server. Problem Solution UI Bit the bullet and le

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Pintarnya raises $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-10-31 20:00:00

Pintarnya, an Indonesian employment platform that goes beyond job matching by offering financial services along with full-time and side-gig opportunities, said it has raised a $16.7 million Series A round. The funding was led by Square Peg with participation from existing investors Vertex Venture Southeast Asia & India and East Ventures. Ghirish Pokardas, Nelly Nurmalasari, and Henry Hendrawan founded Pintarnya in 2022 to tackle two of the biggest challenges Indonesians face daily: earning eno

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It is worth it to buy the fast CPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 09:03:15

In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast! Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity. Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions like Cursor are all the rage these days. I'll skip the debate on exactly how useful these tools are, and focus on the pricing. Cursor is $480/year for the team plan (the cheapest corporate plan), and other providers are around the same, s

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WhatsApp Status is getting a Close Friends feature

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