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With no DOJ breakup, Alphabet becomes a $3 trillion company

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-29 15:23:14

In Brief Alphabet hit just over $3 trillion dollars in market cap on Monday as investors continue to reward it after a federal judge declined to break the company up. On Sept. 2, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined softer-than-feared remedies for his year-ago ruling that Google maintained an illegal monopoly in search. The DOJ had proposed stronger remedies, including that Alphabet-owned Google be forced to sell Chrome. Tech companies like Perplexity and Ecosia lined up with unsol

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GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

news.ycombinator.com Frank Heyen 2025-09-29 13:45:45

TVCG 2023 Tiffany Luong, Yi Fei Cheng, Max Moebus, Andreas Fender, Christian Holz Virtual Reality (VR) systems have traditionally required users to operate the user interface with controllers in mid-air. More recent VR systems, however, integrate cameras to track the headset's position inside the environment as well as the user's hands when possible. This allows users to directly interact with virtual content in mid-air just by reaching out, thus discarding the need for hand-held physical contr

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OpenAI Reveals How (and Which) People Are Using ChatGPT

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-29 19:00:57

Large language models largely remain black boxes in terms of what is happening inside them to produce the outputs that they do. They have also been a bit of a black box in terms of who is using them and what they are doing with them. OpenAI, with some help from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), set out to figure out what exactly its growing user base is getting up to with its chatbot. It found a surprising amount of personal use and a closing “gender gap” among its frequent users.

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What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 19:26:34

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do you actually use large language models for? Today, OpenAI's Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing ho

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Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-29 19:03:09

In Brief Kering confirmed a data breach affecting customers of its luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Lauren, and others, on Monday. Hackers stole sensitive customer data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and the total amount of money they spent in stores all over the world. The BBC first reported the breach. Kering said the hackers did not steal credit card numbers and that it has contacted the customers whose data is part of the breac

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Most People Use ChatGPT for Personal Life, Not Work, According to a New OpenAI Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 23:04:47

When ChatGPT first launched in November 2022, parent company OpenAI pitched it as a productivity tool and a game-changer for delegating menial work tasks, such as responding to emails or writing memos. OpenAI just released a new paper looking into how hundreds of millions of people globally actually use ChatGPT, and the results show a striking shift in how people use it. What started as a work assistant is now a tool people use for their personal lives. In mid-2024, nearly half of all conversat

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New Phoenix attack bypasses Rowhammer defenses in DDR5 memory

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-30 03:01:24

Academic researchers have devised a new variant of Rowhammer attacks that bypass the latest protection mechanisms on DDR5 memory chips from SK Hynix. A Rowhammer attack works by repeatedly accessing specific rows of memory cells at high-speed read/write operations to cause enough electrical interference to alter the value of the nearby bits from one to zero and vice-versa (bit flipping). An attacker could potentialluy corrupt data, increase their privileges on the system, execute malicious cod

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How people actually use ChatGPT vs Claude - and what the differences tell us

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-09-30 03:48:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Most ChatGPT use is non-work, focused on writing tasks. Claude is used more for automation, especially coding. AI adoption is uneven, with wealthier regions benefiting first. Two of the biggest AI companies have revealed how people use their models. Also: The best AI chatbots of 2025 OpenAI released a research paper analyzing millions of ChatGPT conversations, while Anthropic publishe

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Microsoft: Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in 30 days

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-30 07:04:05

Microsoft has reminded administrators again that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of extended support next month and has provided guidance for decommissioning outdated servers. According to the company's product lifecycle website, Exchange 2016 reached mainstream end date in October 2020, while Exchange 2019's mainstream support ended on January 9, 2024. Microsoft also reminded customers in January that Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 will reach the end of support in October.

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Spotify's Free Tier Changes: Play the Song You Want Whenever You Want

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 06:55:37

Spotify's Free Tier Changes: Play the Song You Want Whenever You Want You could previously only shuffle music based on your chosen song or listen to playlists.

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Microsoft’s Office apps now have free Copilot Chat features

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-30 07:32:55

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more withou

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Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 10:33:13

In a paper published earlier this month, OpenAI researchers said they'd found the reason why even the most powerful AI models still suffer from rampant "hallucinations," in which products like ChatGPT confidently make assertions that are factually false. They found that the way we evaluate the output of large language models, like the ones driving ChatGPT, means they're "optimized to be good test-takers" and that "guessing when uncertain improves test performance." In simple terms, the creator

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Not all browsers perform revocation checking

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 22:18:37

NOTE: Depending on your browser this page may not display as revoked. Not all browsers perform revocation checking. Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority. We created this page to demonstrate a revoked certificate that chains to our ISRG Root X1 certificate.

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A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 10:51:28

In this write-up, I will walk you through an implementation of a string formatting library for C++ I came up with for my video game. The end result came out really compact, at only 65 lines of code—providing a skeleton that can be supplemented with additional functionality at low cost. Usage Given a format buffer… char buffer [ 64 ] ; String_Buffer buf = { str , sizeof str } ; …the fmt::format function provided by this library can be called with a format string parameter, containing the char

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Musk buys $1bn worth of Tesla shares

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-30 14:53:37

Musk buys $1bn worth of Tesla shares 1 hour ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has scooped up roughly $1bn (£735m) worth of Tesla shares, in what is being seen as a vote of confidence in the electric car maker. Shares in Tesla, which have struggled to advance this year, jumped more than 6% in early trading on Monday on the news. Musk already held a roughly 13% stake in the company, but he has long sought more control of the firm, which he has

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Amazon sets the date for what sounds like a big fall hardware event

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 15:08:25

Amazon TL;DR Amazon has scheduled a Devices & Services event for September 30. It’s been just about a year now since Amazon’s last major hardware launches. The invitation’s teaser imagery hints at Kindle, Fire, and Echo news. With summer rapidly drawing to a close, there’s not much time left for companies to get their 2025 hardware lineups ready to go ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. This year’s already brought us some spectacular devices from many of our favorite brands,

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The madness of SaaS chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-09-30 11:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

news.ycombinator.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-30 14:59:54

A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally. Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue … App Tracking Transparency hit Meta hard Meta relied heavily on selling personalized advertising, which required it to be able t

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Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-30 15:02:42

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Elon Musk is responding to the unprecedented pay package proposal from Tesla’s board of directors by slightly increasing his stake in the company. Musk bought $1 billion in Tesla stock through an irrevocable trust on September 12th, acc

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Pick up an Anker magnetic battery pack while they are up to 42 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 23:06:26

Whether you you intend to pick up the new iPhone Air or just need some extra juice for your existing iPhone, a MagSafe power bank is an essential accessory. Luckily, Anker both makes some of our favorites and has great sales going on right now on just this kind of gear. One of the most affordable is the Anker 622 Magnetic Battery, which is 42 percent off and down to $28 right now. This steep discount is also available at Anker's online store with a coupon code that the company provides. This mod

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I built a business plan with ChatGPT and it turned into a cautionary tale

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-09-30 23:11:46

Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT makes errors in long-form chats with many variables. Personal productivity isn't as high as it could be because of this. Unless you have massive infrastructure, check AI's work. By now, everyone knows that generative AI can be flaky. If you're using it to edit your novel or to create an image, the AI might add elements that are inconsistent with your narrative or lo

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Apple’s new iPhone charger is a (second) of its kind

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-09-30 18:14:59

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched what looked like a world’s first charger with support for the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol last week inside the very dull sounding “Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.” Only it’s not:

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Amazon announces fall hardware event

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-09-30 23:35:46

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon has sent out invitations to its annual fall hardware event, where it traditionally launches a slew of new products, including Echo smart speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindles, and sometimes dozens of other gadgets. The event is sc

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Android brands should learn honesty from Apple’s fast charger (?!)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:45:30

TL;DR Apple’s new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max provides more transparent marketing than most other fast chargers. The charger’s branding differentiates between sustained power (40W) and peak power (60W). It supports the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol, a step toward more open charging solutions, unlike many proprietary Android chargers. Apple launched the iPhone 17 series last week, but there was one new piece of hardware launched alongside it that flew under the radar: Apple’s new 40W Dyna

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Apple's new iPhone charger dynamically switches between 40 and 60W

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 03:30:53

If you want a powerful phone charger in the smallest size possible, Apple has the answer — but there is a tradeoff. The company's new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter is the first charger to support the USB PD 3.2 AVS (adjustable voltage supply) protocol so it can hit up to 60W, but only for a limited time. It was designed to work the company's new iPhone 17 models with faster charging speeds than previous iPhones. Lugging heavy chargers is a particularly bugbear of mine so the Dynamic Power Adapter s

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The Mac App Flea Market

news.ycombinator.com Jim Nielsen 2025-09-30 22:14:13

Have you ever searched for “AI chat” in the Mac App Store? I have. It’s like strolling through one of those counterfeit, replica markets where all the goods look legit at first glance. But then when you look closer, you realize something is off. For the query “AI chat”, there are so many ChatGPT-like app icons the results are comical. Take a look at these: The real app icon for the ChatGPT desktop app (from OpenAI) is in that collection above. Can you spot it? Here they are again in a single

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Why is Sam Altman losing sleep? OpenAI CEO addresses controversies in sweeping interview

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-01 10:40:31

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled "Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation," in Hart building on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In a sweeping interview last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed a plethora of moral and ethical questions regarding his company and the popular ChatGPT AI model.

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First calls and texts, now Pixels could detect scams from chat apps (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 10:02:59

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google’s Scam Detection feature is coming to chat apps. The feature will display scam detection alerts in chat app notifications. It’s possible that apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, and Twitter could support this functionality. Google introduced Scam Detection functionality to Pixel phones last year, which alerts you if you’re on a phone call with a suspected scammer. The company has also brought t

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The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-01 12:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-01 10:00:00

When Jean-Marie Kauth first read the Make America Healthy Again commission report, released by the White House in May, she was “thrilled about some of the things they identified,” she says. “They clearly called out industry as a pernicious influence on why EPA has not been very successful in regulating chemicals, especially pesticides.” Kauth’s daughter died of leukemia at age 8 after, Kauth says, she was exposed to the insecticide chlorpyrifos, which the EPA banned in 2021. (That ban was overt

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Latest Tech News

With no DOJ breakup, Alphabet becomes a $3 trillion company

GuitarPie: Electric Guitar Fretboard Pie Menus

OpenAI Reveals How (and Which) People Are Using ChatGPT

What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

Company that owns Gucci, Balenciaga, other brands confirms hack

Most People Use ChatGPT for Personal Life, Not Work, According to a New OpenAI Study

New Phoenix attack bypasses Rowhammer defenses in DDR5 memory

How people actually use ChatGPT vs Claude - and what the differences tell us

Microsoft: Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in 30 days

Spotify's Free Tier Changes: Play the Song You Want Whenever You Want

Microsoft’s Office apps now have free Copilot Chat features

Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds

Not all browsers perform revocation checking

A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++

Musk buys $1bn worth of Tesla shares

Amazon sets the date for what sounds like a big fall hardware event

The madness of SaaS chargebacks

Meta bypassed Apple privacy protections, claims former employee

Elon Musk responds to Tesla pay proposal by buying $1 billion worth of stock

Pick up an Anker magnetic battery pack while they are up to 42 percent off

I built a business plan with ChatGPT and it turned into a cautionary tale

Apple’s new iPhone charger is a (second) of its kind

Amazon announces fall hardware event

Android brands should learn honesty from Apple’s fast charger (?!)

Apple's new iPhone charger dynamically switches between 40 and 60W

The Mac App Flea Market

Why is Sam Altman losing sleep? OpenAI CEO addresses controversies in sweeping interview

First calls and texts, now Pixels could detect scams from chat apps (APK teardown)

The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA

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