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OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-13 07:49:25

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI made a rare about-face Thursday, abruptly discontinuing a feature that allowed ChatGPT users to make their conversations discoverable through Google and other search engines. The decision came within hours of widespread social media criticism and represents a striking example of how quickly privacy concerns can derail even well-inten

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How to limit which photos you share with apps like Facebook and Instagram

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-13 07:11:08

9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying eyes. With Incogni, you can scrub your deeply sensitive information from data brokers across the web, including people search sites. Incogni limits your phone number, address, email, SSN, and more from circulating. Fight back against unwanted data brokers with a 30-day money back guarantee. With iOS 17, Apple introduced a new privacy setting that gives users much more granular control over which apps can access their p

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Apple ‘very open’ to AI acquisitions to speed up its roadmap, Tim Cook says

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-13 08:46:48

Whenever there’s talk of Apple making a big, splashy acquisition to help catch up in AI, someone inevitably points out that “Apple doesn’t acquire big companies like that”. Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered his view: company size doesn’t matter. If the tech is right, what’s the harm? During today’s Q3 2025 earnings call, Citi analyst Atif Malik asked whether Apple needed to accelerate its AI roadmap, despite historically not resorting to big acquisitions. Cook noted that Apple has acquired se

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Apple has now shipped 3 billion iPhones

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-13 10:08:51

Apple has shipped its three billionth iPhone, Tim Cook has revealed during a call for the company's third quarter earnings. The company released the first iPhone in 2007 and sold its billionth iPhone in 2016. It is believed to have shipped its two billionth sometime in 2021, and now only four years later, it has reached the new milestone. Apple's CEO said the iPhone enjoyed a double digit growth in the third quarter and that the company earned $94 billion in revenue, up 10 percent year over year

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I replaced my ThinkPad with this Lenovo tablet for a week - and it was pretty dang close

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-13 08:00:14

Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus is on sale right now for $549. It's a slam dunk tablet with a brilliant display, great speakers, and comes with a keyboard, case, and stylus. In laptop mode, it's better for simpler tasks. $599.99 at Best Buy $522.49 at Lenovo more buying choices Lenovo's Yoga Tab Plus is a well-rounded 13-inch tablet that comes with a keyboard, case, and stylus, offering all the primary use cases you can ask for from a tablet straight out of

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Finally, an Android tablet that I can confidently recommend to gamers

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-13 08:30:14

RedMagic Astra ZDNET's key takeaways The RedMagic Astra gaming tablet is available on Amazon starting at $700. The tablet offers unmatched performance for an Android tablet. When the fan is in use on the Astra, the battery does drain a bit faster, and the price is up there for a tablet. $699 at Amazon As far as gaming is concerned, I'm not ashamed to say that I've done it all: consoles, PCs, handhelds, phones, and now, tablets. For the most part, I've found Android devices to offer less than

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This one feature could make GPT-5 a true game changer (if OpenAI gets it right)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-08-13 09:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's GPT-5 will attempt to solve a common ChatGPT problem. It should automatically pick the best model for your prompt. Delays in rolling out are the result of how challenging it is to build. OpenAI has been at the forefront of the AI race since its initial launch of ChatGPT in 2022, consistently releasing new products, models, and updates. That also means that it's difficult to keep track of new product launches -- but GPT-5 is one you

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Why the best-value robot vacuum right now isn't made by iRobot or Shark

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-13 09:00:14

Mova P50 Pro Ultra ZDNET's key takeaways The Mova P50 Pro Ultra is available for only $799, down $200 from its regular price. This is one of the strongest robot vacuums on the market with 19,000Pa of suction, with reliable edge cleaning, mop removal, and obstacle avoidance. While its obstacle avoidance far exceeds its price point, the P50 Pro Ultra doesn't always avoid loose cables on the floor. View now at Us.mova I test a lot of robot vacuums, but there's no doubt that these devices have go

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Microsoft Authenticator won't manage your passwords anymore - or most passkeys

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-08-13 10:02:54

D3Damon/Getty Images For most of this year, Microsoft has been warning users that they will no longer be able to use its Authenticator mobile application for user ID and password management. As reported by CNET on July 29, 2025, "In June, the company stopped letting users add passwords to Authenticator…. And starting Aug. 1, you'll no longer be able to use saved passwords." Also: How passkeys work: The complete guide to your inevitable passwordless future To me, the dire warnings of this pend

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Age Verification Doesn't Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

news.ycombinator.com View Archive 2025-08-13 05:19:54

“Won’t someone think of the poor children?” they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. If you’re totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of “verifying you’re an adult” before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a reasonable thing to do. But it’s a patently stupid idea at every level. Age Verification Makes Th

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Show HN: KubeForge – A GUI for Kubernetes YAMLs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 09:30:59

To get started just run: docker run -p 3000:3000 get.kubefor.ge/latest KubeForge is a visual-first toolkit that simplifies the process of building, validating, and managing Kubernetes deployment configurations. Whether you're new to Kubernetes or maintaining large-scale systems, KubeForge streamlines the creation of valid deployment YAMLs using an intuitive interface backed by live schema references. ✨ Features 📦 Drag-and-drop interface for Kubernetes objects 📘 Smart schema awareness powere

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Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 02:51:11

Scientists and Engineers Craft Radio Telescope Bound for the Moon With all major telescope components completed, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night is now undergoing final assembly enlarge LuSEE-Night undergoes final assembly at the Space Sciences Laboratory, following the completion of all major components by Brookhaven Lab and other collaborators. (Space Sciences Laboratory) UPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the

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LLM leaderboard – Comparing models from OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek and others

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 09:45:52

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Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-10 13:41:56

Toward the beginning of the pandemic, a friend asked me how she could use an external vocal mic and a guitar with a pickup on Zoom calls. Sounds easy, right? But to have the amount of control a musician really wants, it turned out to be a bit more involved. Plus, when working from home for a microphone company, it’s pretty common to use a decent mic in meetings. This post explains the setup I’ve been using for my calls. (Don’t let the speakers fool you. Use headphones or it’ll feed back when

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Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-09 07:19:37

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, Aug. 1

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-13 09:13:00

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The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-08-12 23:00:00

The Russian state hacker group known as Turla has carried out some of the most innovative hacking feats in the history of cyberespionage, hiding their malware's communications in satellite connections or hijacking other hackers' operations to cloak their own data extraction. When they're operating on their home turf, however, it turns out they've tried an equally remarkable, if more straightforward, approach: They appear to have used their control of Russia's internet service providers to direct

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Still Using Windows 10? Here’s How to Get Another Year of Updates for Free

wired.com Andrew Cunningham 2025-08-13 01:15:00

Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It's a stick that Microsoft is using to push upgrades to the newer Windows 11, whether you install it on a PC you already have or buy a brand-new PC to meet Windows 11's system requirements. But if you can't or don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, Microsoft has made it reasonably simple to get an extra year of Extended Security Updates (ESUs

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Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-08-13 07:00:00

A Singapore-based deep tech startup called SixSense has developed an AI-powered platform that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and detect potential chip defects on production lines in real time. It has raised $8.5 million in Series A bringing its total funding to around $12 million. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, FEBE, and others. Founded in 2018 by engineers Akanksha Jagwani (CTO) and Avni Agarw

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Facing questions on AI strategy, Tim Cook says Apple is 'very open' to acquisitions

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-08-13 11:36:37

Tim Cook arrives for the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. Apple's AI strategy and investment was on the mind of analysts on an earnings call after the company reported third-quarter earnings that showed overall revenue grew by 10% year over year. While Apple was never going to announce major acquisitions or initiatives on an earnings call, CEO Tim Cook's remarks on Thursday confirm that the company i

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Apple Glasses rumors signal that Apple thinks Mark Zuckerberg is right

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-13 02:57:53

Apple Glasses are reportedly in development with a targeted 2026 launch, and rumors around the new AI product indicate that Apple may find itself in surprising agreement with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg says glasses are ‘ideal form factor for AI’ Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and Mark Zuckerberg shared a big vote of confidence in smart glasses on the investor call. Per Meta’s transcript of the call, here’s what Zuckerberg said: I continue to think that glasses are

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Tim Cook downplays threat to the iPhone, as AI spurs new device form factors

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-13 11:32:35

During today’s Q3 2025 earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed growing speculation that advancements in AI, and the new hardware form factors enabled by them, could eventually sideline screen-based devices like the iPhone. Complementary, not substitutes Asked whether Apple sees a future where dependence on smartphones diminishes due to AI-driven shifts in how people interact with technology, Cook pushed back: “When you think about all the things an iPhone can do, from connecting people to

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Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-13 11:00:39

Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as an actual search engine. During the company's latest earnings call, Huffman said search is one of the top priorities for Reddit. "We're concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the

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Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 10:58:36

Image by Annie Ruygt This is a post about building up your own Static Site Generator from scratch. If you want to deploy your Phoenix LiveView app right now, then check out how to get started. You could be up and running in minutes. The year is 2023, you have many options for building a Static Website. From the OG Jekyll to literally hundreds of JavaScript based options to people suggesting you should just craft HTML by hand. All of these solutions are correct and good, and you know what? You

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Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler

news.ycombinator.com Mayhul Arora 2025-08-10 06:23:51

At Heartbeat, we have a lot of different tasks that need to run at a particular time. Users can create draft posts or events that get published at a certain time. Event reminders need to be sent at a certain number of hours before an event. Automated workflows can be set up that send emails or direct messages after a delay. For the longest time, all of these tasks were managed by a variety of cron scripts. We had createScheduledPosts.ts that would run every 15 minutes, scan our table of schedul

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Understanding the Complete Identity Management Ecosystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 11:12:19

Confused by the growing identity management landscape? This comprehensive guide breaks down every IAM category—from traditional workforce identity to emerging AI agents. Learn how CIAM, PAM, Zero Trust, and 15+ other solutions connect in the modern security ecosystem. 🔐 Identity management has grown from simple password systems into a complex web of specialized tools and technologies. Each piece serves a specific purpose, but understanding how they all fit together can be confusing. This guide

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-08-13 09:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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10 Best Fake Songs From Fake Movie Bands

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-13 11:40:26

This summer has seen some pretty catchy needle drops in movies, from Superman‘s Mighty Crabjoys to KPop Demon Hunters flash mob fandoms for Huntr/x and the Saja Boys. The latter Netflix release has reached not only Billboard music charts but also become the most streamed animated feature ever. With that in mind, we look back at our favorite fake bands’ best songs of the past 30 years. While half the list includes incredible recent music from hit movies, the other half (and our number one slot)

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Man had a cross tattooed on his neck—it vanished, then his flesh started dying

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-13 10:12:42

A 20-year-old man in China may be anxiously reassessing his chances of eternal damnation after the cross he had tattooed on his neck inexplicably vanished after five months and was replaced by an aggressive necrotic ulcer and grave inflammation. The case is so strange that doctors say it "expands the spectrum of tattoo-associated pathology." In an uncanny case report published Thursday in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, the man's doctors noted the multiple ways in which his lesion was

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Google’s Newest AI Model Acts Like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-08-12 06:57:44

Google’s newest AI model is going to scour the Earth and, ideally, help it out. That's the plan, anyway. The mission is to find out once and for all, in fine detail, what we are doing to our planet. Crucially, once the model has supposedly done this it will also, apparently, explain where we might be able to best put things in place to help our world. AlphaEarth Foundations, an offshoot of Google’s DeepMind AI model, aims to leverage machine learning and all the gobs and gobs of data that Googl

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