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Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-11 09:35:47

After 14 years of trying and failing to gain a smartphone foothold, Amazon has announced it will discontinue its app store. Anyone who has content in Amazon's store will be able to access it for now, but all bets are off beginning on August 20, 2025. As part of the pull-back, the company is also discontinuing the Amazon Coins digital currency. The Amazon Appstore made waves when it launched in 2011, offering an alternative to what at the time was known as the Android Market. Amazon even scored

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FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-11 12:20:25

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a public inquiry into alleged censorship online, saying it wants "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law." "Tech firms should not be bullying their users," said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who was chosen by President Trump to lead the commission. "This inquiry will help the FTC better understand how t

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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers

wired.com Matt Reynolds 2025-06-11 10:30:44

The widespread layoff of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown vital research into disarray, according to former and current employees of the agency. Scientists hit by the layoffs were working on projects to improve crops, defend against pests and disease, and understand the climate impact of farming practices. The layoffs also threaten to undermine billions of taxpayer dollars paid to farmers to support conservation practices, experts warn. The USDA layoffs are part of the Trump admi

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Nickelodeon’s next Avatar animated series is finally coming together

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-06-11 11:39:15

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Rumours about the next mainline Avatar series have been circulating ever since Nickelodeon announced that Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were returning to lead Avatar Studios. But now, we finally know a bit more about where the franchise is heading after The Legend of Korra. Today, Nickelodeon announced that the Avatar saga (w

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PlayStation 6 likely to launch in 2028, says former Sony exec

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-06-11 12:04:00

Forward-looking: Now that the PlayStation 5 Pro is here, attention is turning toward Sony's next generation of its console, the PlayStation 6. There's been plenty of speculation about when it will arrive, and according to Shuhei Yoshida, the former Sony exec who was head of SIE Worldwide Studios, we could be waiting until 2028. Yoshida worked at Sony for 38 years, 31 of which were spent at PlayStation. After leaving the company on January 15, 2025, he gave a lengthy interview to GamesBeat. Amo

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Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-11 12:00:00

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia has unveiled a new AI platform for teaching people how to use American Sign Language to help bridge communication gaps. The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications. It so happens that American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States — but there are vas

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Integrating LLMs into security operations using Wazuh

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-06-11 12:01:11

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence in machines, enabling systems to learn from data, recognize patterns, and make decisions. These decisions can include predicting outcomes, automating processes, and detecting anomalies. Large Language Models (LLMs) are specialized AI models designed to process, understand, and generate human-like text. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on diverse and extensive textual data. They are designed to understand language and a

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Best Vitamins for Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails in 2025

cnet.com Taylor Leamey 2025-06-11 12:36:00

Extra certifications help you feel confident that the vitamin only contains what’s on the ingredient label. The most popular forms of vitamins are capsules, tablets and gummies. Decide which one is best for you. Some vitamins have serving sizes of three or more capsules daily. Others only require one tablet each day. Always take note of the dosage of each nutrient included in your vitamin selection. Every multivitamin will have nutrients, but they may also contain ingredients you'd rather av

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Scuf’s Valor Pro is a promising start for its Hall effect Xbox controllers

theverge.com Quentyn Kennemer 2025-06-11 12:00:00

is a writer who helps The Verge’s readers save money by surfacing the best tech deals and presenting the latest product recommendations from our experts. He has covered tech and gaming for all of his 15-plus-year career for publications like Forbes, Business Insider, and more. Scuf just announced its latest pro-style controller for Xbox and PC, the first to come close to the $100 price point. The $99.99 Scuf Valor Pro — available for purchase starting today in 15 different styles — isn’t exactl

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Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-06-11 12:00:00

Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion—eight times its previous valuation, the Wall Street Journal previously reported. Existing investors Benchmark, General Catalyst, and DST Global also participated. General Catalyst had led the company’s $3.6 million seed round in 2023, while Benchmark backed its $32 mil

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This company is trying to make a biodegradable alternative to spandex

technologyreview.com Megan Dematteo 2025-06-11 13:00:00

“True circularity has to start with raw materials,” says Peña. “We talk about circularity across many industries, but for textiles, we must address what we’re using at the source.” Engineered from recombinant DNA, SELPs are copycat proteins inspired by silk and elastin that can be customized for qualities like tensile strength, dye affinity, and elasticity. Silk’s amino acid sequences—like glycine-alanine and glycine-serine—give fibers strength, while elastin’s molecular structure adds stretchi

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What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-06-11 14:00:00

Take the US, for example. The IEA report points to other research showing that the 10 states hosting the most data center growth saw a 10% increase in electricity demand between 2019 and 2023. Demand in the other 40 states declined by about 3% over the same period. One caveat here is that nobody knows for sure what’s going to happen with data centers in the future, particularly those needed to run AI. Projections are all over the place, and small changes could drastically alter the amount of en

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I tried the new PS3 emulator on Android and it technically works, but it has a long way to go

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-11 14:00:53

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority The era of PS3 emulation on Android is here! To some degree, at least. Android emulation geeks are abuzz with excitement over aPS3e, the first native PS3 emulator for Android phones. Sure, most of the code appears to be cobbled together from open-source PS3 emulation projects like RPCS3, Vita3K, and Termux (probably breaking their licenses), but the fact that it’s working at all is a big step forward. The app itself has now been removed from GitHub due to th

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New NailaoLocker ransomware used against EU healthcare orgs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-06-11 12:00:00

A previously undocumented ransomware payload named NailaoLocker has been spotted in attacks targeting European healthcare organizations between June and October 2024. The attacks exploited CVE-2024-24919, a Check Point Security Gateway vulnerability, to gain access to targeted networks and deploy the ShadowPad and PlugX malware, two families tightly associated with Chinese state-sponsored threat groups. Orange Cyberdefense CERT links the attacks to Chinese cyber-espionage tactics, though there

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Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-11 06:06:56

Unlike VPNs with a “no-logs” policy, Obscura is provably private by design. Even “no-logs” VPNs see both your identity and your internet activity, meaning you have to blindly trust their pinky-promise for privacy. This is exactly why some privacy-conscious folks will tell you not to use a VPN at all. Obscura is different – we never see your decrypted internet packets. It’s simply impossible for us to log your internet activity, even if we were compelled to, or if our servers were compromised.

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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

news.ycombinator.com Jason Mark 2025-06-11 02:46:02

February 19, 2025 Update: Egg prices may be impacted for reasons beyond the scarcity of laying hens due to bird flu. Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, has written to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into “potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination” by the egg industry. “While avian flu has been cited as the primary driver of skyrocketing egg prices, its actual impact on production has been minimal,” the group wrote. “I

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After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem

news.ycombinator.com Leila Sloman 2025-06-11 13:09:56

After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving it. They made partial progress — and in the process they learned a great deal about groups, which are abstract objects that describe the various symmetries of a mathematical system. But a full proof seemed out of reach. Then Späth came along. Now, 20 years after she first learned about the problem and more than a decade after she met Cabanes, the two mathematicians have finally completed the proof.

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Keep Your iPhone's Notes App Organized With This Hidden Trick

cnet.com Zachary Mcauliffe 2025-06-11 14:30:02

Apple released iOS 18.3 in January, and that update brought some bug fixes to all iPhones. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, the company made it easy to keep your Notes app more organized with collapsible sections. There are other ways to keep Notes organized, like with tags, but those usually apply to the whole note and not the content with the note. With collapsible sections, you can keep the content within individual notes organized and tidy so you can easily find what you're look

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Tether backs stablecoin liquidity provider Mansa in $10M seed round

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-06-11 11:00:00

As payment companies increasingly explore stablecoins for cross-border payments and real-time settlement, some startups are tapping into the zeitgeist by providing liquidity via a revolving line of credit in stablecoins. One of them is Dubai-based Mansa, whose offering allows payments companies, mainly in Africa to date, to settle transactions and fund customer accounts instantly. The startup has raised $10 million in seed funding including both equity and debt. Stablecoin provider Tether led t

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Google Lens powering new Screen Search in Chrome for iOS

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2025-06-11 04:00:49

Google is more deeply integrating Lens visual search into Chrome for iOS with a new Screen Search capability that takes after Circle to Search on Android. Meanwhile, Google Lens can now recognize more unique images. Chrome on the iPhone and iPad already has an instance of Lens that lets you take a picture or analyze a screenshot. You can now “Search Screen with Google Lens” as you’re browsing the web or watching a video. Instead of manually taking a screenshot, you’ll find that new shortcut in

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Saronic raises $600M to mass-produce autonomous warships

techcrunch.com Charles Rollet 2025-06-11 09:11:17

Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship factory called “Port Alpha,” it announced yesterday, quadrupling its valuation to $4 billion from its last round. Investor Elad Gil led the round, with General Catalyst joining existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Caffeinated Capital, among others. That should make Saronic the second, possibly third, most valuable defense tech startup in the U.S. after Anduril’s last round valued it

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‘For You’ feeds are not for creators, Patreon says

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-06-11 10:13:04

Patreon has continued on its crusade against algorithmic feeds with its latest State of Create report, a look at trends in the creator economy based on internal data, and it’s an effort creators can get behind. In its survey of 1,000 creators and 2,000 fans, the membership platform reported that 53% of creators think it is more difficult to reach their followers today than five years ago. This doesn’t come as a surprise. Celebrities have fought against Instagram’s video-centric, algorithmic fe

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Google Translate gets a strange new vibe in latest makeover

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-11 12:42:36

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing out a new effect for the Translate button in Google Lens. The Translate button has a bluish-purple ring that will pulsate when there’s text to translate. The change appears in the latest beta of the Google app. Google often likes to tinker with the UI of its products. So you may occasionally see something like a button moved to a different location, a new tab in a Google app, and so on. However, these tweaks don’t usually go against

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Google Meet’s scrollable captions let you catch up after zoning out in calls

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-11 12:49:02

TL;DR Google Meet is adding the ability to scroll live captions and translated captions. Users will be able to scroll through the last 30 minutes of conversation. The rollout is currently in progress. Google Meet is getting a handy new function related to captions. If you use the service, you’ll now be able to scroll through live captions and translated captions. In a new blog post, Google announced it is adding the ability to scroll through live captions, as well as translated captions. Pre

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It’s Time to Plan Your Summerween Visit to Las Vegas’ Universal Horror Unleashed

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-06-11 15:00:26

Tickets are now on sale for Universal Horror Unleashed, opening this summer in Las Vegas’ immersive entertainment hub AREA15. The Universal Destinations and Experiences satellite interactive station brings Halloween Horror Nights to a year-round venue just off the Strip with monsters in tow beginning August 14, hot off the heels of Epic Universe’s opening. The attraction’s first major featured franchises include the Universal Monsters, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist: Believer, and a H

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 20, #620

cnet.com Gael Cooper 2025-06-11 13:40:14

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections puzzle could be tricky. But if you watch a certain Netflix show involving deadly children's games, you might see a connection that will lead you to solve the usually difficult purple group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times n

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Cybertruck Guy Makes Mocha Frappuccino While Cruising on Self-Driving Mode

futurism.com Unknown 2025-06-11 13:32:45

Cybertruck fan Jeremy Judkins, who has seemingly made owning the divisive vehicle his entire personality, made a "mocha frappuccino" while the car's "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance feature was steering it through the streets. The video shows Judkins giddy with excitement as he uses a red Vitamix blender to make the concoction. The Cybertruck's steering yoke can be seen completing turns on its own as he licks the blender's tamper. "All you have to do is keep your eyes on the road," he wro

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Instagram adds a whole slew of new DM features in latest update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-11 15:45:35

Instagram is rolling out an update for its messaging system that adds several new tools. These features could allow Instagram to better compete with direct-messaging rivals like Apple iMessage and various third-party platforms. First up, there’s music-sharing. The update lets users share tunes in both one-on-one messages and group chats. Just open up the sticker tray and tap on the “Music” option. This will open up a search bar of Instagram's audio library. There are a couple of caveats here. T

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Twitch community guideline violations will now disappear from accounts after a set time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-11 16:51:22

Twitch has rolled out a number of changes to its violation enforcement system. The biggest change is that now infractions will disappear from an account “after a set amount of time.” This is great news for long-time creators, as minor violations stacked. This led to folks getting suspended as these smaller infractions piled up. The platform says that most minor infractions, like cheating in an online game, will expire after 90 days. More serious violations, like participating in hateful conduct

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Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

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