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Deals: Rare offer on 1TB M4 MacBook Air at $200 off, Apple Solo Loops $15, all-black Ocean Band 20% off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-14 00:45:33

Alongside the ongoing $100 price drop on the 512GB M4 Mac mini, today we spotted a rare deal on the 24GB M4 MacBook Air with the upgraded 1TB SSD at $200 off the list price. From there we move over to some official Apple Watch band deals – the Solo/Braided Loop bands start from just $15 today and we have a rare savings opportunity on the official all-black Apple Ocean Band at 20% off. Those offers join a host of charging and accessory offers, some discounts on M4 iPad Pro, and more. Rare deal h

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watchOS 26 has these hardware requirements for Apple Intelligence

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-14 01:11:44

watchOS 26 is the Apple Watch’s next major hardware update, and it includes several Apple Intelligence-powered features. Here are the hardware requirements to get Apple Intelligence on your Watch. New AI features on Apple Watch each have unique requirements Last year when Apple Intelligence first launched, it was exclusive to iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Since then, Vision Pro has been added. In watchOS 26, Apple is bringing AI features to the Apple Watch too. But when it comes to hardware compatib

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The Business of Betting on Catastrophe

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-09-10 22:04:26

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital. Adobe Stock/MITP Reader By: Susan Erikson A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The pandemic bonds — a financial device made up by one of the world’s most powerful institutions, the World Bank — can seem like a great idea f

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Survive This Summer's Heat Wave With These Must-Have Cooling Products

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-13 23:40:04

Hot weather is here, and this week's heat wave has been stifling. It's important to stay safe when having fun in the sun this summer. So, if you're planning to spend time outside, be sure you're prepared with the essentials to keep cool. Here are 10 items you can use to survive this year's heat waves and summer highs. 1. Electrolyte powder When you spend lots of time in the heat, your body actively loses water and electrolytes -- minerals found in the body that have a charge -- through sweat.

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People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-13 23:21:28

The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace. A new report by Anthropic, which makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, reveals a different reality: In fact, people rarely seek out companionship from Claude, and turn to the bot for emotional support and personal advice only 2.9% of the time. “Companionship and roleplay combined comprise less than 0.

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Man pleads guilty to hacking networks to pitch security services

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-14 04:03:40

A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to hacking multiple organizations to advertise his cybersecurity services, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. 32-year-old Nicholas Michael Kloster was indicted last year for hacking into the networks of three organizations in 2024, including a health club and a Missouri nonprofit corporation. According to court documents, Kloster accessed the systems of a health club that operates multiple gyms in Missouri after breaching a restricted ar

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The BBC is launching a paywall in the US

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-14 04:41:05

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. The BBC wants to make people in the US pay for its content. The public broadcaster announced on Thursday that it will start offering US-based users an $8.99 per month (or $49.99 per year) subscription for “unlimited” access to news stories, feature reports, and the BBC News channel livestream. Users in the US will still get free access to “select”

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Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-14 08:24:59

Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups but denies wider problem 36 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser and Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Meta says it is "fixing" a problem which has led to Facebook Groups being wrongly suspended - but denied there is a wider problem with its platforms. In online forums, Group administrators say they have received automated messages stating, incorrectly, that they had violated policies so their Groups had been deleted

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AI is doing 30%-50% of the work at Salesforce, CEO Marc Benioff says

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-14 08:57:38

Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Salesforce is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence in automating workloads, according to CEO Marc Benioff. "All of us have to get our head around this idea that AI could do things, that before, we were doing, and we can move on to do higher value work," he said in an interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang, noting that the technology cur

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Alert: There's a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-14 07:59:05

It's lost forever? Dive Mind In science fiction, we often have the trope of a spacecraft becoming lost in space — but what about being lost at sea? That's what happened this week with an eight-foot-wide experimental spacecraft flown by a European aerospace outfit called The Exploration Company, according to a company statement on LinkedIn. When the vehicle came back to Earth, mission control lost contact with the craft when it entered the ocean. "The capsule was launched successfully, powere

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Open-source skills can save your career when AI comes knocking

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-09-14 08:56:20

Liudmyla Lishchyshyna/Getty Are you panicked by headlines like 'Why this leading AI CEO is warning that tech could cause mass unemployment' and 'AI's impact on the job market is 'inevitable'? My advice is chill. While there is a big shift in jobs coming, it's not as scary-sounding as you might fear. At the Open Source Summit North America in Denver, the Linux Foundation released its 2025 State of Tech Talent report, revealing that upskilling and open source will address the demands of an AI-dr

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The Social Network Part II Is Coming and Aaron Sorkin Is Taking on a New Role

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-14 08:10:18

It’s been 15 years since The Social Network hit theaters, giving moviegoers an iconic look at the shady history of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. And after years of rumors about a sequel, it sounds like Part 2 is finally happening. Aaron Sorkin, the writer of The Social Network, is set to both write and direct The Social Network Part II, according to a new report from Deadline. The original movie was directed by David Fincher, known for movies like Fight Club (1999), Gone Girl (2014), and The Gi

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Mexico’s President Has Had Just About Enough of Elon’s Exploding Rockets

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-14 08:38:03

After a string of failed test flights and exploding rockets, Mexico has had enough of its neighboring SpaceX facility. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is threatening to sue over possible contamination from SpaceX’s rocket launches that sometimes rain bits of debris across the nearby border. During a news conference on Wednesday, Sheinbaum said she was looking into filing the necessary lawsuits against SpaceX’s possible violations, The Guardian reported. “There is indeed contamination,” She

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What Makes a Phone Ethical? I Talked With Someone Who Builds One to Find Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-14 12:25:03

Fairphone is a David among Goliaths in the phone world. We're talking about a tiny Dutch social enterprise that shipped just over 100,000 phones in 2023, versus tech giants such as Apple and Samsung, which routinely ship hundreds of millions of phones annually. On Wednesday, Fairphone CEO Raymond van Eck unveiled the latest device, the sixth generation, in its family of phones. Intended to be known simply as the Fairphone (but in reality more likely to be referred to as the Fairphone 6), this m

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During a town hall Wednesday, NASA officials on stage looked like hostages

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-14 12:47:14

The four people at the helm of America's space agency held a town hall meeting with employees Wednesday, fielding questions about downsizing, layoffs, and proposed budget cuts that threaten to undermine NASA's mission and prestige. Janet Petro, NASA's acting administrator, addressed questions from an auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. She was joined by Brian Hughes, the agency's chief of staff, a political appointee who was formerly a Florida-based consultant active in city politics

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Trump Organization scraps 'made in the USA' tag for its gold T1 smartphone

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-09-14 19:26:46

US President Donald Trump uses a cellphone aboard Marine One before it departs Leesburg Executive Airport in Leesburg, Virginia, on April 24, 2025. Trump is returning to the White House after attending a MAGA, Inc. dinner at the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC. The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag. A spokesperson for the Trump Org

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New Gemini Live tricks make your calendar and notes easier to access

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-14 18:52:24

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini Live can now interact with other Google apps during flowing conversations. It can add or edit entries in Calendar, Keep, and Tasks, and fetch live location in Maps. Captions in Gemini Live are also rolling out more widely. Gemini is inching closer to being the intelligent virtual assistant Google touts it to be. Google recently flipped the switch for a set of controls that allow Gemini to access information from other Google apps in real time.

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Unreal Amber Fossils Show ‘Last of Us’ Zombie Fungus Terrorizing Bugs During the Cretaceous

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-14 20:00:21

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus that turns its hosts into zombies. While the infections are wildly dramatized in both the game and the show, these fungi aren’t mere science fiction. In fact, some species have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers led by Yuhui Zhuang, a doctoral student of paleontology at China’s Yunnan University, recently

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I'm Done With Citronella. This $35 Device Keeps Mosquitos at Bay Without the Odor

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-14 19:00:04

Longer, hotter summers means a longer mosquito season. If June's heat waves are any indication of what's to come, you better have a plan for bugs. I was winging it with fickle citronella and stinky bug spray until I discovered the Thermacell -- an affordable bug repellent diffuser that has kept my evenings almost completely bite-free since I started using it. The Thermacell works better than any mosquito repellant I've tried. David Watsky/CNET Massachusetts-based Thermacell makes a line of dev

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Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 Review: The Mini-LED Display Shines but There's Little Else to Get Excited About

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-14 21:00:07

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 7.3 / 10 SCORE Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 $1,450 at Dell Pros Bright, striking mini-LED display Strong productivity performance Sturdy chassis Cons Poor battery life Subpar speakers Mushy keyboard At the beginning of 2025, Dell introduced a sweeping rebrand to its laptop product stack in an attempt to simplify its offerings. One of the results of the rebrand

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Build a Sentence-Level Text-to-Speech Reader in JavaScript

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 02:34:26

In this article, we’ll build a simple web tool to explore how Text-to-Speech (TTS) works in JavaScript. We’ll also dive into the logic of sentence-level highlighting. These two features are often combined to create accessible, dynamic reading experiences in the browser. We’ll go step-by-step: Learn how TTS works in the browser Explore how to highlight sentences dynamically Build a working mini tool with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Demo & Code) 📢 What is TTS in the browser? JavaScript provides

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AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an Elixir Engineer to connect 100s of SaaS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-14 22:00:43

TL;DR: Senior Software Engineer specializing in Elixir while using AI daily, seeking a fully remote role within ±3 hours of CET (Berlin). You thrive on solving real problems, are eager to grow, and want to work closely with a small, tight-knit team to transform how companies worldwide manage their SaaS tools. 💶 If this role isn't for you but you know someone great, share a referral with us. If we end up hiring them and they are out of the termination period, you'll get €3000 (first half when hi

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Meta’s recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-09-14 19:50:12

In Brief In the fight for top AI talent, Meta just reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers despite rival Sam Altman’s public mockery of Mark Zuckerberg’s lavish hiring tactics. The latest victory in Zuckerberg’s widely-reported recruiting blitz: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai – who established OpenAI’s Zurich office – have joined Meta’s superintelligence team, the WSJ reports, suggesting Zuckerberg’s methods can deliver. As Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, f

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Due to a Price Agreement with Samsung, Amazon Can’t Publicly Show the Huge Galaxy S25+ Discount

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-14 23:04:52

Amazon typically has deals with major brands such that they do not destroy the luxury brand image by offering massive discounts. That means technically, you can have a “hidden price” on the product page and you will only see the real discount if you add the product to your cart. This is exactly the situation with the Galaxy S25+, the clear best-seller among the S25 series. The Galaxy S25+ has come out earlier this year and is now at a record-low price, way below that on Samsung’s own website. C

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WhatsApp Brings Meta AI-Powered Summaries to the Chats You Missed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-14 16:56:00

Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how-to guides, explainers, and recommendations for technology of all kinds. From using his home in beautiful Bend, OR as a testing zone for the latest security products to digging into the nuts and bolts of the best data privacy guidelines, Tyler has experience in all aspects of protecting your home and belongings. With a BA in Writing from George Fox and certification in Technic

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The Severance Podcast is officially back for five new episodes

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-14 23:49:07

Three months after the season 2 finale, The Severance Podcast is returning this week with five new episodes and a cool idea. Here’s what to expect. Wait, there’s an official Severance podcast? If you’re a fan of Severance and didn’t know it had an official podcast, you’re in for a treat (but please enjoy each podcast episode equally). Just ahead of the season 2 premiere, showrunner Ben Stiller and actor Adam Scott launched a companion series that recapped each episode of season 1, featuring i

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Apple just spent $166M to buy a Cupertino campus it was already leasing

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-15 04:05:37

Apple is obviously rooted in Cupertino, and these roots just got a little deeper. City records show that the company has purchased Cupertino Gateway, a three-building complex located at 10200 North Tantau Avenue, for $166.9 million in cash. Here are the details. As reported by The Mercury News, the deal covers about 220,000 square feet of office space and was finalized on June 24, according to filings with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office. Apple had already been leasing the property, w

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Aaron Sorkin is making a second 'Social Network' movie

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-15 04:15:55

We're getting yet another Hollywood sequel. Deadline reports that Aaron Sorkin will be directing The Social Network II, a follow-up to the film that chronicled the development of Facebook and the ensuing lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg. The next movie will take its inspiration from a 2021 investigation by The Wall Street Journal into the harms caused by Facebook and the company's failure to address those problems. Sorkin has a long career as a writer, including the screenplay for The Social Net

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Trump administration moves to count crypto as a federal mortgage asset

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-15 08:05:08

In a landmark shift for the U.S. housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued a directive ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to formally consider cryptocurrency as an asset in single-family mortgage loan risk assessments. The move, signed by FHFA Director William J. Pulte on Wednesday, signals a new era of crypto integration into traditional financial infrastructure — this time within the core of American home lending. The order directs both housing finance giants to

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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 06:36:55

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures of the open-source mov

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Deals: Rare offer on 1TB M4 MacBook Air at $200 off, Apple Solo Loops $15, all-black Ocean Band 20% off, more

watchOS 26 has these hardware requirements for Apple Intelligence

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe

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People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

Man pleads guilty to hacking networks to pitch security services

The BBC is launching a paywall in the US

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Open-source skills can save your career when AI comes knocking

The Social Network Part II Is Coming and Aaron Sorkin Is Taking on a New Role

Mexico’s President Has Had Just About Enough of Elon’s Exploding Rockets

What Makes a Phone Ethical? I Talked With Someone Who Builds One to Find Out

During a town hall Wednesday, NASA officials on stage looked like hostages

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New Gemini Live tricks make your calendar and notes easier to access

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I'm Done With Citronella. This $35 Device Keeps Mosquitos at Bay Without the Odor

Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 Review: The Mini-LED Display Shines but There's Little Else to Get Excited About

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Apple just spent $166M to buy a Cupertino campus it was already leasing

Aaron Sorkin is making a second 'Social Network' movie

Trump administration moves to count crypto as a federal mortgage asset

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

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