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Meet the AI Fraud Fighters: A Deepfake Granny, Digital Bots and a YouTube Star

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-08 22:20:00

It was almost an hour into our Google Meet call. I was interviewing Kitboga, a popular YouTube scam baiter with nearly 3.7 million subscribers, known for humorously entrapping fraudsters in common scams while livestreaming. "I assume I'm talking to Evan Zimmer," he says with a mischievous glance, his eyes exposed without his trademark aviator sunglasses on. We were close to the end of our conversation when he realized that my image and audio could have been digitally altered to impersonate me t

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I’ve tested every cheap Samsung phone: Here are the ones you should buy in 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-09 03:32:31

The secret to Samsung’s ultra-cheap success is its commitment to software updates. Like the rest of the Galaxy A series, the Galaxy A16 is set up for a full six years of support, carrying it right into the start of the 2030s. That works out to a per-update cost of around $30, better than the Galaxy A26’s per-update cost of $50 or the Galaxy S24 FE’s price of around $90 for each major patch. Granted, you’re paying for much more than just software support, but it’s a good place to start if you wan

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Lowest price alert: Google Pixel Watch 3 now available for $249.99

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-09 16:36:42

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Score a fantastic deal on one of the top smartwatches for Android users. For a limited time, you can get the Google Pixel Watch 3 for just $249.99 — a significant $100 off the regular price of $349.99. That’s a 29% discount from the recommended retail price, making it the lowest price ever. Google Pixel Watch 3 for $249.99 (29% off) The Google Pixel Watch 3 stands out with its 41mm sleek design and vibrant 1.27-inch AMOLED display, providing up to 2,000 nits

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Hate how big the OnePlus Watch 3 is? I tried the smaller 43mm version, and it’s almost perfect

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-09 19:00:47

Joe Maring / Android Authority Since its launch earlier this year, the OnePlus Watch 3 has only been available in a single (and large) 46mm case size. While I love the big, bulky design, that’s not true for everyone, and understandably so. Seemingly in direct response to that, OnePlus has launched the OnePlus Watch (43mm). The OnePlus Watch 3 (43mm) is exactly what the name suggests: a repackaging of the OnePlus Watch 3, but in a smaller 43mm-sized case. If you like the specs and features of t

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The OnePlus Watch 3 gets a smaller sibling that’s easier to wear every day

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-10 02:20:31

OnePlus TL;DR OnePlus has announced the more compact Watch 3 (43mm) with a stainless steel build, AMOLED display, menstrual tracking, and up to five days of battery life in smart mode. Though it lacks temperature sensors or vascular health features found in other smartwatches, the new model retains high-end specs like a Snapdragon W5 chip and Wear OS support. The OnePlus Watch 3 is 43mm in diameter and weighs just 59g with the strap, despite its stainless steel build, making it much better su

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What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-07 02:10:11

Switch project, part 3 - what Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 2025-07-04 08:00 This is part 3 of my ongoing series about LATENTRED, my project to create an open source 1U managed Ethernet switch from scratch. Here’s a quick, or maybe not-so-quick, update about the PHY on the line card and some of my troubles (and solutions). And probably more internal details than you want to know, but hey - maybe this will be useful to somebody. Not a lot of pretty pictures either.

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The Best Way to Stop Mosquitos Isn't a Spray or Candle, and It's 13% Off for Amazon Prime Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-10 02:25:00

Amazon Prime Day Deal: The Thermacell E-Series mosquito repellant system keeps bugs 20 feet away, and it's $5 off (that's a 13% price drop) for Amazon Prime Day right now. The main unit stands about 5 inches tall and holds a 6.5-hour charge while dispensing a DEET-free repellant. Longer, hotter summers mean one thing: longer, itchier, angrier mosquito seasons. And if June's sizzling heat waves are any preview of summer's dog days, you're gonna need more than good vibes and a flickering citronel

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Jack Dorsey just released a Bluetooth messaging app that doesn't need the internet

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-10 23:10:23

Jack Dorsey just released a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that functions entirely over Bluetooth networks, as reported by CNBC . It's called Bitchat and doesn't need the internet to work, as there are no central servers. The Twitter co-founder calls it an experiment in "Bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models and a few other things.” It works by enabling encrypted communication between nearby gadgets. Basically, it sends messages direc

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Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-12 03:21:02

Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine 40 minutes ago Share Save Share Save Getty Images Apple is appealing against a €500m (£430m; $586m) fine handed down by EU regulators over alleged anti-competitive behaviour on its App Store. The European Commission said in April that the tech giant had breached its laws by restricting app developers in their ability to inform customers of alternative offers or marketplaces that could be found outside its own and steer them towards purchas

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Apple appeals the EU's anti-steering fine

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-12 03:00:15

Apple doesn’t want to fork over half a billion euros to the EU. The tech giant is officially appealing a €500 million ($587 million) fine brought by the European Commission in April, 9To5Mac reports. The Commission fined both Apple and Meta earlier this year for violating the Digital Markets Act through anti-competitive activities. In Apple's case, the Commission found that the company stopped developers from providing customers with information about sales and offers outside of the App Store.

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Apple appeals EU’s €500M fine over App Store payment restraints

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-12 03:47:57

In Brief Apple on Monday filed an appeal against the EU’s decision to fine the company €500 million (about $580 million) for not complying with rules that mandate companies to let developers steer users outside the App Store for making purchases, according to multiple reports. The European Commission issued the fine in April, saying that Apple failed to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules to allow developers to accept payments for their apps outside Apple’s ecosystem. Apple revise

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This Robot Dog Is as Good at Walking as I Am at Being a Robot Dog

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-11 20:00:34

Aren’t pets such a drag? I mean, really. They’re all furry, and cute, and innocent. And you have to feed them and love them, and respect their autonomy and basic needs. For what? Borderline unconditional love? Who’s got time for all that? Certainly not me. My job is computer, and I need efficiency—a practical companion that’s alive when I want it to be and shutting the f**k up when I need to have the TPS report filed by EOD so corporate can circle back on the EOY roadmap. You got all that? Me ne

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This Robot Dog Is As Good at Walking as I Am at Being a Robot Dog

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-12 01:00:34

Aren’t pets such a drag? I mean, really. They’re all furry, and cute, and innocent. And you have to feed them and love them, and respect their autonomy and basic needs. For what? Borderline unconditional love? Who’s got time for all that? Certainly not me. My job is computer, and I need efficiency—a practical companion that’s alive when I want it to be and shutting the f**k up when I need to have the TPS report filed by EOD so corporate can circle back on the EOY roadmap. You got all that? Me ne

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This Incredible Lens Let Me Take Amazing Star Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-11 23:00:05

CNET's key takeaways Sigma's Art 14mm f1.8 DG HSM is a fast, wide-angle lens that can take amazing photos of the night sky. It's fairly heavy at 1,120 grams (2.5 pounds) but compact for what it is. The f1.8 aperture lets you take unique wide-angle photos with a shallow depth of field. Taking photos of the sky at night is one of the most challenging types of photography. There's not a lot of light available (obviously, it's night), and to get truly epic images, you want a really wide-angle le

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Trump inaugural impersonators scammed donors out of crypto, feds say

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez 2025-08-12 21:04:39

Scammers impersonating the President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance Inaugural Committee fraudulently stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a new complaint filed by federal prosecutors. The perpetrators used phony email addresses made to look like they belonged to the inaugural committee to " trick or coerce victims into providing them money," according to the civil complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Using email addres

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The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-08-14 11:00:00

There are around 11,000 satellites orbiting Earth, and it is estimated that at least 50,000 more will be launched in the next decade. There are also exploration instruments, resupply vessels, and complexes like the International Space Station. But who regulates all this activity in space? In the absence of clear regulations, the European Union has proposed the Space Act, a set of measures that seeks to make the European space sector a cleaner, safer, and more competitive environment, both domest

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CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 10:27:12

Exciting News! We're thrilled to announce the release of CoMaps to Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and F-Droid! CoMaps Highlights Offline Search and Route : Plan and navigate your trips without internet Saves battery : Efficient design that does not drain your battery Privacy-respecting : no identify people, no tracking, no data collection Free and No Ads: completely free, your journey is smooth What makes CoMaps special? CoMaps is a community-driven open-source navigation app · Open

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The New Era of Work Travel

wired.com Jesse Ashlock 2025-08-15 18:00:00

The New Era of Work Travel Don’t sweat the expense reports—from first-class tech to multiday commutes, WIRED and Condé Nast Traveler help you navigate the perks and pitfalls of the modern business trip.

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I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 20:44:19

TL;DR GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents . I scanned every force push event since 2020 and uncovered secrets worth $25k in bug bounties. Together with Truffle Security, we're open sourcing a new tool to scan your own GitHub organization for

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Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-17 07:00:39

Elon Musk's X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out "community notes," which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not. But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged. In a research paper, X described the initiative as an "upgrade" while explaining everything that could possibl

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Couchers is officially out of beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 14:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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Couchers is officially out of Beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 19:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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Elon Musk’s X Is Turning Community Notes Over to AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-08-17 19:40:57

Artificial intelligence chatbots are known for regularly offering dubious information and hallucinated details, making them terrible prospects for the role of fact-checker. And yet, Elon Musk’s X (née Twitter) plans to deploy AI agents to help fill in the gaps on the notoriously slow-reacting Community Notes, with the AI-generated notes appearing as soon as this month. What could possibly go wrong? The new model will allow developers to submit AI agents to be reviewed by the company, according

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How to prove your writing isn't AI-generated with Grammarly's free new tool

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-18 03:07:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty AI is everywhere. It can be problematic for students, professionals, and everyone in between because it's hard to prove what was written by AI - and what wasn't. That could cause serious problems. Also: My two favorite AI apps on Linux - and how I use them to get more done That confusion could be intensified when your words are used to train AI. Who's to say someone might use generative AI to write a paper, only to find your words were used in the process? You

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Physicists Solve a 50-Year Mystery About a Critically Important Molecule

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-18 03:20:54

After relying on an educated guess for decades, scientists have finally confirmed the dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl), an elusive but important molecule known to sneak around the interiors of ancient galaxies. An electric dipole moment is a measure of polarity—a crucial determinant for many physical properties of any system, such as its boiling point or solubility. Given its importance, the new result, published last month in Physical Review A, presents exciting opportunities for

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Affluent Travelers Are Ditching Business Class for Business Jets

wired.com Hannah Towey 2025-08-18 07:00:00

We’re cruising 35,000 feet over the French Riviera, the plane’s wing cutting through billows of white. Below us, the sea is sparkling, and I spot a cluster of yachts anchored along the coastline. A ray of light hits my glass of Champagne and turns it to liquid gold. I take another sip. So this is what it feels like to be on cloud nine. I’m flying from London to St. Tropez with the private aviation company Wheels Up, and for the first time in my life, I don’t want a flight to end. Once you’ve go

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Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 21:57:50

No matter that a headless tribe of people never existed, their inclusion in ancient histories made them popular fodder for later bestiary and travelogue traditions. Beginning with their appearance in the late-tenth century Marvels of the East, the Blemmyes often look just as confused as we are — staring out at the viewer, as if trying to understand where, exactly, their neck went wrong. In these illustrations, Blemmyes frequently keep equally strange bedfellows. The thirteenth-century Rutland Ps

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I Found the Best Way to Stop Mosquitos This Summer, and It's Not a Spray or Candle

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-18 13:51:00

Longer, hotter summers mean one thing: longer, itchier, angrier mosquito seasons. And if June's sizzling heat waves are any preview of summer's dog days, you're gonna need more than good vibes and a flickering citronella candle to make it through. I was playing it fast and loose with the usual bug defenses: sprays that smell bad and taste even worse and candles that burn out faster than your will to be outside. Then I met my new summer MVP: the Thermacell. It's a compact, affordable, bug-repell

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‘The Old Guard 2’ Is a Tender Sophomore Stretched Thin by Sequel Syndrome

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-08-19 05:01:42

After years of production delays, Netflix and Skydance are finally poised to release The Old Guard 2, the Charlize Theron-led sequel to the 2020 adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’s Image Comics series. Directed by Victoria Mahoney, the sequel reunites its immortal mercenary found family for another globe-trotting mission. Unfortunately, this time around, their greatest threat isn’t its new immortal big bad and its long-awaited grudge match. It’s the sequel’s narrative inertia that’s

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X will let AI write Community Notes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-19 11:01:30

In what was probably an inevitable conclusion, X has announced that it will allow AI to author Community Notes. With a pilot program beginning today, the social network is releasing developer tools to create AI Note Writers. These tools will be limited to penning replies in a test mode and will need approval before their notes can be released into the wild. The first AI Note Writers will be accepted later this month, which is when the AI-composed notes will start appearing to users. "Not only d

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This Robot Dog Is as Good at Walking as I Am at Being a Robot Dog

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This Incredible Lens Let Me Take Amazing Star Photos

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