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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-25 12:58:59

After implementing an AI chatbot in the Apple Support app to help customers a few weeks ago, the company is taking their AI chatbot push a step further. With Asa, Apple retail employees will now be able to ask questions and learn more about Apple products to improve their sales abilities. This feature will soon be widely available in Apple’s internal ‘SEED’ app, which retail employees use to learn more about Apple and its products. It generally serves as a training tool. According to the scree

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Replacing a cache service with a database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 09:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code

news.ycombinator.com Marco Benedetti 2025-10-22 10:55:15

Note 1: On Tower of Hanoi Solutions and their Complexity. I chose the Tower of Hanoi puzzle (Lucas, 1883) because of its almost mythical status in computer science and discrete mathematics communities. It’s a staple in AI education and typically the first encounter with elegant doubly recursive algorithms for CS undergraduates. And, I chose the search algorithms mentioned in Section 1 because they constitute the core of the “state space search” paradigm in most AI textbooks (e.g., Chapters 3 and

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Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century

news.ycombinator.com George Dillard 2025-10-25 11:03:30

Most American students learn in high school about the 1856 “caning” of Senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks. Teachers love the incident because it serves as a tidy encapsulation of so many themes from that period of American history. The attack stemmed, like so many problems in the 1850s, from the dispute over slavery. Sumner was a fierce abolitionist who had recently given an aggressive speech opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act. In that speech, he attacked Senator Andrew Butle

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People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-25 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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Why Is Tech Worried When Stocks Like Chevron Drop On Global Oil Worries?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-25 16:13:42

Chevron’s stock declined sharply this week before paring back losses, as mounting concerns about volatility in the global oil markets spooked traders. Another group of worried market watchers? Tech companies, big and small. Casual observers sometimes wonder why technology stocks—often seen as disconnected from the oil industry—sometimes react sharply to oil price movements and related news. But the two sectors are much more connected than you might realize. That link largely stems from the br

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Director Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-25 14:18:49

In Brief Veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch premiered his new movie “Father Mother Sister Brother” today at the Venice Film Festival, where journalists asked him about Mubi, the streaming platform that co-produced the film — specifically, about Mubi’s recent $100 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. “I was disappointed and disconcerted by this relationship,” Jarmusch said, while noting that his own “relationship with Mubi started much before that, and they were fantastic to work wit

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The case for Series 11e: Here’s why the next Apple Watch SE could have a new name

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-25 13:53:31

Apple is likely going to introduce a new Apple Watch SE at its Awe Dropping event in just over a week. While we’ve been referring to this device as Apple Watch SE 3 for quite some time now, we’re yet to ask: will it actually be called that? Rumor recap Apple Watch SE 3 is going to be a light refresh. It should introduce a new S11 chipset, which will bring moderate performance gains to Apple’s cheapest Apple Watch model. Currently, the Apple Watch SE packs an S8 chip, which uses cores from the

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Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran. From 8-Bit Assembly to English-as-Code

news.ycombinator.com Marco Benedetti 2025-10-22 15:55:15

Note 1: On Tower of Hanoi Solutions and their Complexity. I chose the Tower of Hanoi puzzle (Lucas, 1883) because of its almost mythical status in computer science and discrete mathematics communities. It’s a staple in AI education and typically the first encounter with elegant doubly recursive algorithms for CS undergraduates. And, I chose the search algorithms mentioned in Section 1 because they constitute the core of the “state space search” paradigm in most AI textbooks (e.g., Chapters 3 and

Topics: ai al code reasoning search

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No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 15:37:24

AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them. In a recent article, The Economist didn’t mince words: “AI is killing the web.” Published last month, the piece raises urgent questions about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet as we know it: ChatGPT, Google, and its competitors are rapidly diverting traffic from publishers. Publishers are fighting to survive through lawsuits, partnerships, paywalls, and micropayments. It’s pretty bleak, but unfortun

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Replacing a Cache Service with a Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 14:41:15

Replacing a cache service with a database I’ve been thinking about this: will we ever replace caches entirely with databases? In this post I will share some ideas and how we are moving towards it. tl;dr we are still not there, yet. Why do we even use caches? Caches solve one important problem: providing pre-computed data at insanely low latencies, compared to databases. I am talking about typical use cases where we use a cache along with the db (cache aside pattern), where the application alw

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Jujutsu for Everyone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 15:31:04

This is a tutorial for the Jujutsu version control system. It requires no previous experience with Git or any other version control system. At the time of writing, most Jujutsu tutorials are targeted at experienced Git users, teaching them how to transfer their existing Git skills over to Jujutsu. This tutorial is my attempt to fill the void of beginner learning material for Jujutsu. If you are already experienced with Git, I recommend Steve Klabnik's tutorial instead of this one. This tutoria

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iOS 26 Is Bringing Parents More Control Over Kids' Screen Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 11:00:00

As a soon-to-be-parent, I'm worried about how people online will interact with my kid once they have a phone or tablet. The good news for parents struggling with this now: When Apple launches iOS 26 in the coming weeks, it's bringing more parental controls to iPhones. Parents can already control how much screen time their kids have, manage their child's App Store purchases and more. Some of the new controls will detect and blur nudity in certain apps, and your child will have to ask for access

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These Hi-Fi Speakers Are Made out of Rocket Fuel Tanks

wired.com Kenji Takeda 2025-10-25 12:00:00

Momentum for space development is growing on a global scale. The rocket company SpaceX, led by CEO Elon Musk, has been carrying out numerous missions since putting its partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket into service. The company now boasts the highest launch frequency in the world, and this has helped boost the number of rocket launches worldwide to 254 last year. This is a dramatic increase of more than 20 percent compared to the previous year. In Japan, Honda has begun developing a reusable

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Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-25 14:17:49

Meta is changing some of the rules governing its chatbots two weeks after a Reuters investigation revealed disturbing ways in which they could, potentially, interact with minors. Now the company has told TechCrunch that its chatbots are being trained not to engage in conversations with minors around self-harm, suicide, or disordered eating, and to avoid inappropriate romantic banter. These changes are interim measures, however, put in place while the company works on new permanent guidelines. T

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TechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-25 16:05:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Wow, y’all aren’t exactly bullish on EV sales in the U.S. once the federal tax credit expires. For those wondering what I am referring to: I included a poll in the last edition of TechCrunch Mobility. Yup, only email subscribers get to participate in polls. The question was: “What’s your prediction for E

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Git Diagramming "The Weave"

news.ycombinator.com Dave Rupert 2025-10-25 10:59:57

We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has “the best words”: I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words. The man knows words. Says so right there. While some might view his non-sequitur ramblings as the nascent stages of dementia or an unfiltered ADHD brain launching into successive short (at times racist) bullet-point diatribes based on the last word or phrase he said like a cursed game of w

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Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 22:10:31

As of early 2025, we’re deploying all of our applications with Kamal using Docker as our containerization platform. The container registry that holds our app images is one of the most integral pieces of our deployment pipeline. Like many organizations, we’d been using external container registries for years. Our ecosystem was tightly coupled to both Dockerhub and Amazon’s Elastic Container Registry. However, as part of our cloud exit and kamalization journey, several issues started emerging:

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FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Lyons 2025-10-25 03:43:44

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official. "There's a good chance this espionage campaign has stolen information from nearly every American," Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for the FBI's cyber division, told The Register. "There's a thought among the public that if you don't work in a sensitive area

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Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 11:26:35

Perhaps it is the inevitable fate of any convention, but literary history does not, it turns out, have many examples of people appreciating great chaptering. In The History of English Prose Rhythm (1912) – one of the sources for James Joyce’s virtuosic-or-unreadable parodies of the evolution of English prose in Ulysses – George Saintsbury remarks on Thomas Malory’s decision to insert a chapter break at a decisive moment in his fifteenth-century Morte d’Arthur. At the end of chapter ten of the Mo

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Cognitive load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 03:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

Topics: architecture code cognitive load shallow

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Is AI Running the Government? Here’s What We Know

gizmodo.com Sophia Chen 2025-10-25 07:47:50

The Trump administration is letting the generative AI chatbots loose. Federal agencies such as the General Services Administration and the Social Security Administration have rolled out ChatGPT-esque tech for their workers. The Department of Veterans Affairs is using generative AI to write code. The U.S. Army has deployed CamoGPT, a generative AI tool, to review documents to eliminate references to diversity, equity, and inclusion. More tools are coming down the line. The Department of Educati

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Google’s new Passwords app just made it easier for me to ditch Chrome

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:00:23

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been on a mission to de-Google my life as much as possible in an attempt to control how much information a single company has about me. While there are some essential Google services I will never part with, switching my browser from Chrome has been a priority. I slowly started doing this by trying out some of the best Chrome alternatives, finally settling on Brave. But I kept encountering hurdles as I tried to migrate everything to a new browser. Now that G

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The US government drops its CHIPS Act requirements for Intel

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 09:30:49

Intel no longer has to fulfill certain requirements or meet milestones that it was originally supposed to under the CHIPS Act, now that the government is taking a stake in the company. According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel said in a filing that it can now receive funding from the government, as long as it can show that it has already spent $7.9 billion on projects that it agreed to take on under a deal with the Commerce Department last year. Reuters notes that Intel has already spent $7.87

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Labor Day sales include Apple's MacBook Air M4 for an all-time-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 10:00:36

If you've put off getting a new MacBook then Labor Day sales might be just what you needed to take the plunge. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year, and it's one of the best laptops for college students going back to school soon as well. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799, down from $999 — a 20 percent discount. This model comes with 16GB of RAM and a 256

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Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its services

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 12:30:26

Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation included Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway and Scarlett Johansson, and they were available on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. At least one of the chatbots was based on an underage celebrity and allowed the tester to generate a lifelike shirtless image of the real person. The chatbots also

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One of the most underrated smartwatches I've tested just set a 55-hour battery life record

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-25 07:15:18

Suunto Race 2 smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Race 2 is available with a stainless steel frame for $499, or a titanium frame for $599. The Race 2 offers long battery life, extensive customization, personalized coaching, and reliable accuracy. There is no support for subscription music or payment systems and the app store is limited primarily to sports apps. $499 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I went many years without testing Suunto products, but

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Cognitive Load is what matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:58:48

Cognitive Load is what matters Readable version | Chinese translation | Korean translation | Turkish translation It is a living document, last update: August 2025. Your contributions are welcome! Introduction There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but most of them have failed. We need something more fundamental, something that can't be wrong. Sometimes we feel confusion going through the code. Confusion costs time and money. Confusion is caused by high cognitive load. It'

Topics: architecture code cognitive load shallow

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Labor Day Just Made My Favorite All-in-One Kitchen Appliance a Steal at 25% Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 06:25:04

I'd estimate that I cook at home about 90% of the time. That means I've run through a ton of kitchen appliances, ranging from revolutionary to downright useless. Luckily, the Chefman Everything Maker is pretty dang clever -- and it's become my go-to appliance that I use almost daily. Right now for Labor Day, you can get a sweet 25% discount on the Everything Maker. The normal list price of $60 on the Chefman website already feels like a good deal for what this appliance can accomplish -- which

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From Bougainvilleas to Trucks: How Pixel 10's AI Camera Coach Helped Me Take Better Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 09:00:07

If you look through the camera roll on your phone, what kind of photos do you find? I see images of my friends, my pets, the odd receipt for a work expense and snapshots of coffee -- hey, I was a barista for 11 years! Not every photo is meant to rival an Ansel Adams masterpiece. (Though I'm sure if he had a smartphone, he'd also take a pic of his parking space to remember where he parked his car.) If you want to take better photos with your phone, Google has added a new tool to the Pixel 10 cam

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Apple just released a new AI chatbot to help retail employees sell iPhones

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Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code

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Labor Day Just Made My Favorite All-in-One Kitchen Appliance a Steal at 25% Off

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