GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

theverge.com Georgina Torbet 2025-10-04 21:47:01

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific legacy that has been built over decades. Yesterday, the agency shared a finding, published in Nature, of potential biosignatures identified by the Mars Perseverance rover in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock. “This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars,” said Transportation Secretary and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a press confe

Topics: agency exploration mars nasa science

Shop Amazon

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 01:21:47

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities. "As studies have shown, when individuals believ

Topics: agency facial ice recognition use

Shop Amazon

Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 01:21:23

Microsoft Teams will automatically alert users when they send or receive a private message containing links that are tagged as malicious. Microsoft will introduce these new warnings for messages containing URLs that have been flagged as spam, phishing, or malware, for all Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) and Microsoft Teams enterprise customers. The new link protection feature will begin rolling out with a public preview for desktop, Android, web, and iOS users in September 2025 and is

Topics: feature malicious message microsoft teams

Shop Amazon

After coding catastrophe, Replit says its new AI agent checks its own work - here's how to try it

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-05 01:40:13

SEAN GLADWELL/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Replit unveiled Agent 3 on Wednesday. Code-generation is one of the few viable business use cases for AI. However, Replit recently deleted a user's entire codebase. On Wednesday, AI startup Replit released Agent 3, an autonomous code generation system designed to help non-programmers with software development projects. It's the latest in the industry-wide investment in vibe cod

Topics: agent ai code coding replit

Shop Amazon

Spiral

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 04:45:38

I've been building data systems for long enough to be skeptical of “revolutionary” claims, and I’m uncomfortable with grandiose statements like “Built for the AI Era”. Nevertheless, AI workloads have tipped us into what I'll call the Third Age of data systems, and legacy platforms can't meet the moment. Three Eras of Data Systems In the beginning, databases had human-scale inputs and human-scale outputs. Postgres—the king of databases, first released in 1989[1] —is the archetypal application d

Topics: age ai data second systems

Shop Amazon

4 ways machines will automate your business - and it's no hype, says Gartner

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-05 09:08:45

SEAN GLADWELL/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report is here. It underscores machine customers, among other new technologies. AI will play a growing role in business operations, Gartner predicts. AI will increasingly automate day-to-day decision-making for businesses in the coming years, thanks to AI and other emerging technologies, Gartner claims in a new report. Also:

Topics: agents ai gartner new technologies

Shop Amazon

Box CEO Aaron Levie on AI’s ‘era of context’

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-05 13:36:31

On Thursday, Box launched its developer conference Boxworks by announcing a new set of AI features, building agentic AI models into the backbone of the company’s products. It’s more product announcements than usual for the conference, reflecting the increasingly fast pace of AI development at the company: Box launched its AI studio last year, followed by a new set of data-extraction agents in February, and others for search and deep research in May. Now, the company is rolling out a new system

Topics: agent agents ai box data

Shop Amazon

Bluesky Launches Age Verification in Select States

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-05 17:00:47

If you live in two particular states, you'll need to verify how old you are to stay on the site. Bluesky, the funky, semi-decentralized Twitter spin-off, is rolling out age verification systems to comply with new regulations instituted in Europe and parts of the U.S. On Wednesday, the platform announced that it was expanding its verification systems in South Dakota and Wyoming. The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act created new requirements for platforms that want to operate within its borders

Topics: age new safety systems verification

Shop Amazon

Behind the Scenes of Bun Install

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 21:39:29

Running bun install is fast, very fast. On average, it runs ~7× faster than npm, ~4× faster than pnpm, and ~17× faster than yarn. The difference is especially noticeable in large codebases. What used to take minutes now takes (milli)seconds. These aren't just cherry-picked benchmarks. Bun is fast because it treats package installation as a systems programming problem, not a JavaScript problem. In this post we’ll explore what that means: from minimizing syscalls and caching manifests as binary,

Topics: bun data file memory package

Shop Amazon

The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 18:36:46

The HackberryPi_CM5 project repository The HackberryPi_CM5 project is a RaspberryPi Compute Module SBC(single board computer) powered handheld computer with reuse of original keyboard from old Blackberry phones. The goal of the project is to create a portable linux-powered computer that lets the user gain a deeper understanding of Linux and explore the architecture of hardware, software, and the Linux kernel. This repository will be used to share information about the project and tutorial about

Topics: battery cm5 hackberrypi_cm5 information page

Shop Amazon

Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad

news.ycombinator.com Dick Van Dyke 2025-10-03 15:02:15

In 2021 the Accident Investigation Board – Norway (AIBN) published a detailed report covering the loss of HNoMS Helge Ingstad after she collided with an oil tanker in November 2018. There is much to be learned from this event that is applicable to the RN and global navies. In this in-depth, although far from exhaustive, article we describe the incident and look at some of the key lessons. The accident in summary On 8th November 2018, the frigate Helge Ingstad (HING) was heading south down Hjel

Topics: control damage hing ship tanker

Shop Amazon

1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in September

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-06 05:00:00

1Password has long been one of our favorite password managers. It's our upgrade pick for all the extra features it offers compared to other password managers. 1Password has apps that work just about everywhere, including on macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. There are plug-ins for your favorite web browser too, which makes it easy to generate and edit new passwords on the fly. What Are the Benefits of 1Password? There are also some very nice features in 1Password that you won't

Topics: 1password manager month password plan

Shop Amazon

Forget subtitles: YouTube opens the floodgates on auto-dubbing videos into your own language

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 17:41:37

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is officially rolling out its multi-language audio feature for creators. This feature will allow viewers to watch videos dubbed in their native language. The rollout will happen over the coming weeks. Soon, you’ll be able to watch videos from creators around the world without having to read subtitles. YouTube has announced that it is finally officially launching its multi-language audio feature for creators. Don’t want to miss the best from Andro

Topics: audio creators feature language youtube

Shop Amazon

Google Is Telling People DOGE Never Existed

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-06 15:50:10

Here’s a Mandela effect event that you probably thought was real: The Department of Government Efficiency, the pseudo-agency run by Elon Musk to cut “fraud, waste, and abuse” from federal operations, didn’t actually exist. At least, that is what Google’s AI Overview response will tell you if you search certain content related to DOGE’s operations. A Bluesky user who goes by iucounu first pointed out this mistake in Google’s comprehension skills, finding that querying the search engine for infor

Topics: agency ai doge google government

Shop Amazon

Bronze Age Britons Threw Massive Ragers With Food and Friends From Far Away

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-07 01:10:21

You can learn a lot about people by studying their trash, including populations that lived thousands of years ago. In what the team calls the “largest study of its kind,” researchers applied this principle to Britain’s iconic middens, or giant prehistoric trash (excuse me, rubbish) piles. Their analysis revealed that at the end of the Bronze Age (2,300 to 800 BCE), people—and their animals—traveled from far to feast together. “At a time of climatic and economic instability, people in southern

Topics: age animals britain madgwick people

Shop Amazon

Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:04:32

Since its debut in 2009, Grammarly has only been available in one language: English. Sure, you could switch between dialects, including Canadian and Indian English, but if you wrote in any other language, you were out of luck. That's changing today with Grammarly rolling out beta support for five additional languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The update is available to all Grammarly customers — whether you live in a country that speaks the language you want to write in o

Topics: available english grammarly languages new

Shop Amazon

Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:08:49

On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour. The outage affected all three of Anthropic's main services simultaneously, with the company posting at 12:28 pm Eastern that "APIs, Console, and Claude.ai are down. Services will be restored as soon as possible." As of press time, the services appear to be res

Topics: ai anthropic claude hacker outage

Shop Amazon

Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-07 03:12:14

After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach to comply with laws in South Dakota and Wyoming. Instead of requiring Bluesky to restrict access to all unverified users, users in South Dakota and Wyoming can verify their ages through the Kids Web Services’ (KWS) solution. The service allows users to choose from multiple methods to verify their ages, which may include payment cards, an identity document, an an

Topics: age bluesky laws like users

Shop Amazon

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

Topics: age bluesky service states verification

Shop Amazon

Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 09:56:15

The largest supply-chain compromise in the history of the NPM ecosystem has impacted roughly 10% of all cloud environments, but the attacker made little profit off it. The attack occurred earlier this week after maintainer Josh Junon (qix) fell for a password reset phishing lure and compromised multiple highly popular NPM packages, among them chalk and degub-js, that cumulatively have more than 2.6 billion weekly downloads. After gaining access to Junon’s account, the attackers pushed maliciou

Topics: attack cloud environments malicious packages

Shop Amazon

Bluesky brings age verification to South Dakota and Wyoming

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-07 09:40:36

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bluesky will now check the ages of users located in South Dakota and Wyoming to comply with local online safety laws. The platform announced on Wednesday that users in both states will be able to prove their age using an ID, payment card, face scan, or other met

Topics: age bluesky laws online platforms

Shop Amazon

PlayStation launches new app for parental controls

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-07 09:43:34

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. PlayStation is launching a new PlayStation Family app for iOS and Android to help parents manage their child’s playtime on PS5 and PS4. Parents can already set parental control features directly on a console, but this app gives parents another way to set limits and keep track of what t

Topics: app manage parents playstation playtime

Shop Amazon

Sony rolls out new ‘PlayStation Family’ parental controls app

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-07 09:20:04

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a dedicated parental controls app called “PlayStation Family” on iOS and Android. The new app features a series of new tools that allow parents to manage their children’s activity on the console, including an activity report, greater visibility into what their children are playing, and the ability to approve extra playtime requests. While Sony has long offered parental controls, the new app brings all of these tools into

Topics: age app new parents sony

Shop Amazon

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Full agenda reveal for the brand-new Going Public Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-07 09:45:35

We recently unveiled the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — a new destination for founders navigating the complexities of company building, from early traction to IPO and beyond. Today, we’re excited to announce new agenda additions that bring even more insight and firepower to the stage, shown only at the 20th anniversary celebration of TechCrunch. Joining the speaker lineup are Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom Communications Inc., and Santi Subotovsky, general partner at Emerge

Topics: ceo disrupt founder public stage

Shop Amazon

YouTube’s multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-07 09:58:32

YouTube announced on Wednesday that its multi-language audio feature has officially launched after a two-year-long pilot. Now, millions of YouTubers can add dubbing to their videos in different languages, helping them reach a wider global audience. The rollout is expected to happen over the coming weeks. The feature initially launched as a pilot in 2023, available to a limited number of creators, including MrBeast, Mark Rober, and chef Jamie Oliver. Creators had to work with third-party dubbing

Topics: audio creators dubbing language multi

Shop Amazon

A bombshell child safety leak changed Meta — for the worse

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-07 13:11:34

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. In 2021, when former Meta employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle on dangers that the company’s platforms posed to kids, Meta realized it needed to change. “I’m here to tell you today that Meta has changed,” said one of a new set of whistleblowers — former Meta user experience re

Topics: kids meta said savage vr

Shop Amazon

The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-07 17:52:43

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everything from smartphones to handheld consoles now come in a variety of different colors, but what if you didn’t get to pick your favorite? That’s how the new Kodak Charmera is being sold. It’s a tiny digital camera released in seven different retro styles

Topics: charmera digital filters image kodak

Shop Amazon

Knowledge and memory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 07:15:59

September 6, 2025 The other day, I asked Claude how to do something using a particular Ruby library, and it hallucinated three nonexistent methods in a row. We can ask “why do language models do this?” but/and we can also ask, “why doesn’t Robin do this?” I think it’s because I don’t only know things: I remember learning them. My knowledge is sedimentary, and I can “feel” the position and solidity of different facts and ideas in that mass. I can feel, too, the airy disconnect of

Topics: awe don guage guess memory

Shop Amazon

Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls

news.ycombinator.com Martin Brinkmann 2025-10-08 01:08:09

Next month, Microsoft is ending support for home editions of its Windows 10 operating system officially. While users may extend support by one year -- business customers get three -- the number of users who will take up Microsoft's offer is unclear. The extension is more or less free, as you get it as a consumer when you enable the backup functionality during the signup process. There is even a tool for that that lets you do all that with a local account and as little interaction as possible. A

Topics: 10 11 support usage windows

Shop Amazon

Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-10-08 01:00:00

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For 16 years, a team of linguists carefully crafted and honed the grammar editing software Grammarly to match natural English language patterns. Now, the company is getting a big assist from AI to expand similar offerings to five more languages: Spanish, French, Por

Topics: ai behnke grammarly languages says

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

Microsoft adds malicious link warnings to Teams private chats

After coding catastrophe, Replit says its new AI agent checks its own work - here's how to try it

Spiral

4 ways machines will automate your business - and it's no hype, says Gartner

Box CEO Aaron Levie on AI’s ‘era of context’

Bluesky Launches Age Verification in Select States

Behind the Scenes of Bun Install

The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer

Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad

1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in September

Forget subtitles: YouTube opens the floodgates on auto-dubbing videos into your own language

Google Is Telling People DOGE Never Existed

Bronze Age Britons Threw Massive Ragers With Food and Friends From Far Away

Grammarly's AI writing assistance tools now work in five new languages

Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack

Bluesky brings age verification to South Dakota and Wyoming

PlayStation launches new app for parental controls

Sony rolls out new ‘PlayStation Family’ parental controls app

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Full agenda reveal for the brand-new Going Public Stage

YouTube’s multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators

A bombshell child safety leak changed Meta — for the worse

The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

Knowledge and memory

Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls

Grammarly can now fix your Spanish and French grammar

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising