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iOS 26 can freeze your FaceTime video if it detects nudity

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-12 17:53:35

The developer beta for iOS 26 has been out for a few weeks, and as always,tech sleuths are uncovering features and details that weren't explained during WWDC . Among the latest discoveries stirring up conversation online is a safety and privacy feature for FaceTime that blurs your feed when it detects you in a state of undress. Should FaceTime detect nudity, it will display a message reading "Audio and video are paused because you may be showing something sensitive. If you feel uncomfortable, yo

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I'm a Pro Photographer: Here's How to Get the Best Firework Photos With Your Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-13 21:48:41

Whether you're taking photos on July 4th, at New Year's or for another celebration, fireworks are always amazing opportunities for photos. The bright lights and vibrant colors contrast incredibly well with the dark night skies, making your photos look beautifully dramatic with very little effort on your part. While taking photos at night used to be something you'd need a big DSLR for, today's best camera phones, including the iPhone 16 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro and Galaxy S25 Ultra, are capable of takin

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Prepare to Share All Your Pics With Meta If You Turn On Facebook's New AI Photo Tool

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-14 03:44:00

There's good news and bad news: The bad news is that Meta's continued development of generative AI has led it to add a privacy nightmare setting to its Facebook app. The good news is that, in a big departure from Meta's status quo, you have control over whether you participate. It's all about whether the company and its AI get access to your camera roll and all the pictures there, even the ones you haven't posted anywhere. Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been trying to keep up with AI hea

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Turn Off This Facebook Setting Now to Avoid Sharing Your Entire Camera Roll With Meta AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-14 11:27:15

There's good news and bad news: The bad news is that Meta's continued development of generative AI has led it to add a privacy nightmare setting to its Facebook app. The good news is that, in a big departure from Meta's status quo, you can opt out. It's all about AI getting access to your camera roll and all the pictures there, even the ones you haven't posted anywhere. Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been trying to keep up with AI heavyweights for the past few years in an ultracompetitiv

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Google Photos sees several app improvements

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-02-16 04:43:37

The Google Photos app has been updated to make it easier to navigate your gallery and view image information. Google says the photo view — the screen that appears when you open an image in Google Photos — has been redesigned to provide a “simpler, more modern, and more intuitive UI” while adding a new light mode, glanceable photo details, and streamlined action menus. These changes are available now for iPhone users, and will be coming to the Google Photos app for Android “soon,” according to G

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Google Photos is getting a brand-new Photo view, but Android users will have to wait

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-16 05:42:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is getting a new Photo view, with a light mode, streamlined menus, and clearer placement for image details. Photo view will also now display interactive badges that let you take various actions. The update is currently rolling out for Google Photos users on iOS and will come to Android users at a later date. Google Photos frequently refreshes its interface and settings, and it’s doing it again with a revamped Photo view, i.e., the scree

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Here’s everything new for Apple Photos in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-17 12:44:33

Apple’s Photos app received a major overhaul last year, and iOS 26 brings a handful of new changes. Here’s everything new coming to the Photos app in iOS 26. New Liquid Glass design One of the biggest changes impacting all Apple apps this year is iOS 26’s new ‘Liquid Glass’ design. In the Photos app specifically, you’ll see Liquid Glass UI elements everywhere from the buttons and navigation tabs to popup menus and more. Since your photos and videos remain the visual focus of the app, Photos’

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Eating Dairy Before Bed Can Give You Nightmares, Study Suggests

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-18 21:00:17

Has a late-night cheese session ever seemed to send you down your own personal Nightmare on Elm Street? You’re probably not alone. Research out today has revealed a link between lactose intolerance and a higher risk of bad dreams. Scientists in Canada conducted the study by surveying college students. People who reported having regular nightmares and poorer sleep in general were also more likely to report having food allergies, including lactose intolerance, they found. The researchers speculat

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Meta Is Being Incredibly Sketchy About Training Its AI on Your Private Photos

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-19 09:21:20

Meta is demanding access to all of your photos, even the ones you haven't uploaded anywhere yet — and it's being incredibly shifty about what it intends to do with them. As The Verge reports, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company refuses to rule out the possibility that it will use your phone's camera roll to train its AI models, and could only provide the assurance that it's not "currently" doing so. If the situation changes in the future, it would be a striking testament to the AI industry's desp

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I Took Photoshop's Generative AI for a Spin. These Are the Tools That Stuck Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 12:00:04

Photoshop is all in on generative AI, and it wants you to give it a whirl, too. Adobe has added a number of AI features to its premiere photo editor over the past few years; if you use Photoshop regularly, you've probably seen these pop up on your task bars. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, so I had to put the original photo editor's AI to the test. AI might not be right for every project, especially for professional creators who regularly use

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Google just gave its Photos app the feature upgrade it deserves - here's what's new

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-02-21 11:30:14

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After hitting pause three weeks ago, Google is resuming rollout of its AI-powered Ask Photos feature. This time around, the company says, things should be better. Last fall, Google slowly began rolling out a new feature that lets you ask queries to find particular pictures in your Photos app. You might ask something like, "Where was that restaurant we ate at in San Francisco?" or "Show me all the selfies I took in NYC museums," and Gemini will find what yo

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I hated Google Photos’ AI search feature, but after the latest update, I love it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 06:00:10

Joe Maring / Android Authority At Google I/O 2024, Google introduced the world to “Ask Photos.” It was a new Gemini-powered search experience for Google Photos that would enable you to use natural language to easily find pictures in your library. The pitch sounded great and like a legitimately good use of AI. Unfortunately, Ask Photos’ implementation fell short. I’ve been using Ask Photos for the last several months, and in almost every scenario, it’s been significantly worse than the old sear

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The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 10:21:38

The Original Macintosh: 35 of 125 Calculator Construction Set Author: Andy Hertzfeld Date: February 1982 Characters: Chris Espinosa, Steve Jobs, Donn Denman Topics: Software Design Summary: Chris tries to make a Steve-approved calculator The Calculator Chris Espinosa was one of Apple's earliest and youngest employees, who started work for the company at the ripe age of 14. He left Apple in 1978 to go to college at UC Berkeley, but he continued to do freelance work during the school year, like wr

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

news.ycombinator.com Tina Nguyen 2026-02-21 08:08:28

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those photos, but it

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bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 12:01:07

A container to create disk images from bootc container inputs, especially oriented towards Fedora/CentOS bootc or derivatives. 🔨 Installation Have podman installed on your system. Either through your systems package manager if you're on Linux or through Podman Desktop if you are on macOS or Windows. If you want to run the resulting virtual machine(s) or installer media you can use qemu. A very nice GUI extension for Podman Desktop is also available. The command line examples below can be all

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2026-02-21 12:30:00

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. For years, Meta’s trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. But apparently, Meta has decided to try training its AI on the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook users trying to p

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Google Photos won’t downgrade your edited HDR pictures to SDR anymore

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 03:43:18

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR HDR photos in Google Photos now keep their full dynamic range and HDR metadata when edited with tools like Photo Unblur and Magic Eraser. The app now has an “Ultra HDR” tool for brightening images. SDR photos can now be enhanced to HDR. Google is rolling out some improvements to how high dynamic range (HDR) and standard dynamic range (SDR) images are edited in the Photos app. The update will keep HDR photos from getting downgraded to SDR. Google is also u

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Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 15:29:32

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share. I've got a problem. My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would: Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ) Copy it to my server Restart the website This is... not ideal. So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my we

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“Why is the Rust compiler so slow?”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-23 15:29:32

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share. I've got a problem. My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would: Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ) Copy it to my server Restart the website This is... not ideal. So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my we

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Google is rolling out its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search again – and it has a speed boost

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-24 08:42:26

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After quietly pausing the rollout of Google Photos’ AI-powered “Ask Photos” search tool, Google is now expanding access once again and making some improvements to the feature. Google’s Gemini AI models power Ask Photos so that you can ask complex questions to help you find photos. But earlier this month, a member of the Google Photos team said on X that the feature “isn’t whe

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Google’s new and improved Ask Photos is back on track — and rolling out now!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-24 17:17:12

Google I/O TL;DR Ask Photos is a Google Photos feature designed to answer questions about the contents of your photo library. While announced at Google I/O 2024, access over the past year has been extremely limited. Earlier this month we heard the rollout was paused while Google worked to address a few issues, but today it’s back on track. Over the past couple years, AI has been changing the way we do lots of things, and while there is absolutely no shortage of controversial uses of the tech

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"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-24 21:29:32

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?" I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share. I've got a problem. My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would: Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ) Copy it to my server Restart the website This is... not ideal. So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my we

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Google tweaked its AI-powered Ask Photos feature and restarted its rollout

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-25 03:25:05

Google has improved its AI-powered Ask Photos feature and is restarting its rollout to eligible users in the US. The company paused the launch of Ask Photos in early June over issues with latency and the feature's interface. To make Ask Photos speedier, especially on simple searches for dogs or people, Google says its essentially combining the old Google Photos search with Ask Photos. While Google's Gemini models work in the background, the app can now quickly return basic image recognition-bas

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Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-25 12:55:05

After Google temporarily paused the rollout of its buggy AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature in Google Photos, the company announced that it has improved the feature’s ability to quickly return search results. The AI feature, first introduced at Google’s I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries. Leveraging Google’s Gemini, Ask Photos taps into the AI’s ability to understand a photo’s content and its other met

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Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator

news.ycombinator.com Thomas W. 2026-02-26 09:08:00

About Snow emulates classic (Motorola 680x0-based) Macintosh computers. It features a graphical user interface to operate the emulated machine and provides extensive debugging capabilities. The aim of this project is to emulate the Macintosh on a hardware-level as much as possible, as opposed to emulators that patch the ROM or intercept system calls. It currently emulates the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh 512K, Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE, Macintosh Classic and Macintosh II. The emulator is writ

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I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-25 06:36:13

I noticed so many iPhone users are dealing with the same storage nightmare. Here's a common scenario that sounds familiar to a lot of people: The widespread problem: iPhone storage fills up crazy fast, not everyone has a Mac, many don't want to pay monthly for iCloud storage, and home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users. The manual approach of creating folders and selecting photos one by one is tedious, and keeping up with new photos becomes overwhelming So I built an app called BackiGo

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Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

news.ycombinator.com Raymond Chen 2026-02-28 11:29:42

As part of a periodic purge of unused online accounts, I deleted my account from a company ten months ago. Let’s call that company Contoso. I received a confirmation that said, “Your personal information and items associated with your account have now been deleted. This action is permanent and cannot be reversed.” Yesterday, I got an email from Contoso informing me that they have updated their Privacy Policy. So I guess their “confirmation” of “permanent” and “irreversible” deletion of my pers

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Here’s your first look at Google Photos’ Remix video feature for photo animations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-28 22:05:38

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is working on a new Remix video that could generate videos from still images. The feature includes customizable movement styles like “Subtle Movements,” “Go Wild,” and “I’m Feeling Lucky.” Remix and Remix video features are still a work-in-progress and haven’t been announced yet. We’ve previously spotted Google Photos working to incorporate generative AI to transform photos with the upcoming Remix feature. Last week, we also found code

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Google Photos could soon suggest photos you may want to delete (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-01 03:39:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos may soon offer suggestions to help users clean up storage by deleting unnecessary photos. These suggestions will appear after users delete multiple photos. The feature will likely be optional, and the app could receive a corresponding setting to turn it off. Google Photos already offers a convenient way for users to free up storage space on their devices through the “Manage storage” option. It lists photos and videos with large file siz

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Google Earth just made time travel easier - here's how to visit the old neighborhood

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-03-03 03:51:39

Busà Photography/Getty Last fall, a little-known Google Maps feature went viral for letting users get a glimpse of lost loved ones, old family pets, childhood homes, and even their younger selves. Those memories are getting a little easier to relive, as Google is bringing its historical Street View images to Google Earth. Also: This hidden Google Earth slider lets you travel up to 80 years back in time. Here's how to try it To celebrate 20 years of Google Earth, Google introduced a new way

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iOS 26 can freeze your FaceTime video if it detects nudity

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Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

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Google is rolling out its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search again – and it has a speed boost

Google’s new and improved Ask Photos is back on track — and rolling out now!

"Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

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Google Photos could soon suggest photos you may want to delete (APK teardown)

Google Earth just made time travel easier - here's how to visit the old neighborhood

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