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The Apple Watch is not actually carbon neutral, says German court

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-03 17:56:41

Apple is no longer allowed to advertise the Apple Watch as carbon neutral, a German court ruled following a protest from environmentalists about Apple’s promoted claims. The Frankfurt court found the company misled consumers for describing the Apple Watch as a CO2-neutral product. Apple first unveiled its first carbon neutral products starting with the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in September 2023. The German ruling means that language relating to these devices being carbon neutral will h

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Google could be building a new nook for your Gemini creations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 02:00:34

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new “My Stuff” section for the Gemini interface on Android. While its purpose isn’t clear, it could be used to store media generated using Gemini, separate from your chats. A similar section for storing AI-generated media is also present in ChatGPT, and it is known as “Library.” Gemini is already quite powerful as a virtual assistant, and is raking up new features as Google prepares to replace Google Assistant with it entirely. Recent

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US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech

news.ycombinator.com Simon Sharwood 2025-11-04 04:33:19

+COMMENT US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose extra tariffs on imports from any nation that dares to regulate American technology companies. Trump took to Truth Social on Monday evening to declare “As the President of the United States, I will stand up to Countries that attack our incredible American Tech Companies.” “Digital Taxes, Digital Services Legislation, and Digital Markets Regulations are all designed to harm, or discriminate against, American Technology. They also, outr

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about ‘vampire’ watch faces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 00:37:22

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely culprits. The update is rolling out, but we haven’t spotted it yet on our Galaxy Watch 8. Google is adding a small but handy feature to the Play Store on Wear OS watches. With the latest Play Store version 47.7 update, users will now see warning messages o

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Musk firms sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging they hurt competition

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-03 18:21:41

Musk firms sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging they hurt competition 11 hours ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images Two Elon Musk-backed businesses have officially sued Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of joining forces illegally to block threats from potential competitors. The lawsuit, filed in the US by X and xAI, takes aim at Apple's decision to integrate OpenAI's chatbot into the operating systems of its smartphones, an exclusive arrangement that it says violated compe

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Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about vampire watch faces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:37:22

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely culprits. The update is rolling out, but we haven’t spotted it yet on our Galaxy Watch 8. Google is adding a small but handy feature to the Play Store on Wear OS watches. With the latest Play Store version 47.7 update, users will now see warning messages o

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SpaceX scrubbed Starship's 10th test flight this evening

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 03:47:35

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket was scheduled to lift off from the company's Texas launch site this evening for its 10th flight. After scrubbing the launch initially planned for Sunday, August 24, things were apparently back on track for Monday, August 25. The launch window opened at 7:30PM ET (6:30PM CT) and was even livestreamed on the SpaceX website and on X, with a webcast starting 30 minutes before the supposed launch. However, SpaceX ultimately stood down from the test flight due to weath

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US Attorneys General tell AI companies they 'will be held accountable' for child safety failures

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-04 06:52:13

The US Attorneys General of 44 jurisdictions have signed a letter [PDF] addressed to the Chief Executive Officers of multiple AI companies, urging them to protect children "from exploitation by predatory artificial intelligence products." In the letter, the AGs singled out Meta and said its policies "provide an instructive opportunity to candidly convey [their] concerns." Specifically, they mentioned a recent report by Reuters, which revealed that Meta allowed its AI chatbots to "flirt and engag

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The Annotated Transformer (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 04:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux

news.ycombinator.com Scott Laird 2025-11-04 04:02:59

The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux Lately I’ve been trying to find (and understand) the limits of time syncing between Linux systems. How accurate can you get? What does it take to get that? And what things can easily add measurable amounts of time error? After most of a month (!), I’m starting to understand things. This is kind of a follow-on to a previous post, where I walked through my setup and goals, plus another post where I discussed time syncing in general. I’m trying to get the clock

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Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-03 21:28:53

After a public outburst over Grok's App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple's "Must Have" app list—which Grok has never made—claiming Apple seemed to preference OpenAI, an Apple partner, over all chatbot rivals. But Musk's filing shows that the X and xAI owner isn't just trying to push for more Grok downloads on iPhones—he's concerned that Apple and OpenAI have teamed u

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Google says Fox channels to go dark on YouTube TV if agreement isn't reached

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-11-04 08:28:12

Google -owned YouTube on Monday said it may remove channels including Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News and Fox Sports from its TV streaming platform if it doesn't reach an agreement with Fox Corporation. YouTube TV's renewal date with Fox is coming on Wednesday, and while the two companies have been in ongoing negotiations, they've been unable to reach a deal, the YouTube team wrote in a blog post. The company also emailed YouTube TV subscribers about the potential fall out with Fox. "Fox is as

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Amazon Echo Pop deal: Save $12 on the cheapest Alexa speaker

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 08:53:25

Those looking for a basic smart speaker that is affordable and can take care of most smart home needs will love the Amazon Echo Pop. It is capable and cute, and its low $39.99 retail price is very welcoming. Alexa speakers are also very commonly on sale. For example, right now, you can save $12 on these! Buy the Amazon Echo Pop for just $27.99 ($12 off) This offer is available directly from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” You’ll get the same discount regardless of which color version you pick.

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The Annotated Transformer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 10:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 16:17:44

timep timep is an efficient and state-of-the-art trap-based time profiler for bash code. timep generates a per-command execution time profile for the bash code being profiled. As it generates this profile, timep logs command runtimes+metadata hierarchically based on both function and subshell nesting depth, mapping and recreating the complete full call-stack tree for the bash code being profiled. MAJOR UPDATE RELEASED: The new timep (currently v1.3) now includes the required loadable binary as

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Road to Battlefield: Central Eurasia’s largest startup competition in history sends four winners to TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield

techcrunch.com Cindy Zackney 2025-11-04 12:27:59

The startup ecosystem in Central Eurasia is having its moment. What started as 485 applications from across 27 countries — including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, UAE, the U.K., Ukraine, the U.S., Uzbekistan, and Vietnam — has culminated in the largest startup pitch competition in Central Eurasia’s history. The “Road to the Battle

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Apple study shows LLMs also benefit from the oldest productivity trick in the book

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-04 17:53:37

In a new study co-authored by Apple researchers, an open-source large language model (LLM) saw big performance improvements after being told to check its own work by using one simple productivity trick. Here are the details. A bit of context After an LLM is trained, its quality is usually refined further through a post-training step known as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). With RLHF, every time a model gives an answer, human labelers can either give it a thumbs up, which re

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New AI attack hides data-theft prompts in downscaled images

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:34:57

Researchers have developed a novel attack that steals user data by injecting malicious prompts in images processed by AI systems before delivering them to a large language model. The method relies on full-resolution images that carry instructions invisible to the human eye but become apparent when the image quality is lowered through resampling algorithms. Developed by Trail of Bits researchers Kikimora Morozova and Suha Sabi Hussain, the attack builds upon a theory presented in a 2020 USENIX

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Make the Easy Change Hard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 16:40:04

I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT. There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify the change you’re trying to make before trying to make the change. This is es

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Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

news.ycombinator.com Laura Kelley 2025-11-04 16:19:21

A new study led by researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that although many technologies claim to clean indoor air and prevent the spread of viruses like COVID-19 and the flu, most have not been tested on people and their potential risks are not yet fully understood. Published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the research

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Meta Defector Issues Devastating Psychological Takedown of Tech CEOs

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 20:38:33

Nick Clegg, a former Meta executive who left the company at the start of this year, has led many lives. Before jumping ship to the tech world, he was a deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, a leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat party, and a member of Parliament — and still, the hubris and wealth he saw in Silicon Valley startled even the well-heeled British politico. In an interview with The Guardian pegged to the release of his new book, "How To Save The Internet," Clegg took aim at th

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Trump Says China Convinced the World ‘Let’s All Do Magnets’

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-04 22:45:44

Donald Trump was all over the place during two press conferences at the White House on Monday, where he rambled about his fascist vision for the country. But there were some points of levity, including when the president tried to explain how China became a leader in rare earth minerals. Or at least that’s what we think he was talking about. “China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets,” Trump said. “Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20

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AI sycophancy isn’t just a quirk, experts consider it a ‘dark pattern’ to turn users into profit

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-04 22:50:31

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot sent to Jane, who created the bot in Meta’s AI studio on August 8. Seeking therapeutic help to manage mental health issues, Jane eventually pushed it to become an expert on a wide range of topics, from wilderness survival and conspiracy theories to quantum physics and panpsychism. She suggested it

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Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-05 03:48:51

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks. Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide. The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its da

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With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 02:15:41

Allan Brooks, a 47-year-old corporate recruiter, spent three weeks and 300 hours convinced he'd discovered mathematical formulas that could crack encryption and build levitation machines. According to a New York Times investigation, his million-word conversation history with an AI chatbot reveals a troubling pattern: More than 50 times, Brooks asked the bot to check if his false ideas were real. More than 50 times, it assured him they were. Brooks isn't alone. Futurism reported on a woman whose

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AI Says These Are the Catchiest Songs of All Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 02:28:00

Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but what makes a song stick in our minds remains a bit of a mystery. I recently chaperoned the all-night graduation party at my daughter's high school. After hanging out at an all-games-and-rides-free arcade until 2 a.m., we took the graduates on chartered buses to a private all-ages nightclub in downtown Seattle. It boasted free unlimited fountain soda and snacks, a photo booth with props, a trivia contest, glow necklaces and, best o

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Best Discounts for Teachers (2025): Deals on School Supplies, Tech, and More

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-05 03:02:57

Discounts for teachers are sought after for good reason. Teaching is a tough, important, and often thankless job. And with so many out-of-pocket costs for supplies and resources, even small savings can feel crucial. We've rounded up a list of exclusive discounts that educators can snag with their teacher credentials—so you can spend a little less time stressing out over full-price dry-erase markers and a little more time stressing about the kid who learned to swear over the summer. We thank you

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Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-05 08:56:27

French retailer Auchan is informing that some sensitive data associated with loyalty accounts of several hundred thousand of its customers was exposed in a cyberattack. The company is sending data breach notifications to customers affected by the incident. "We are writing to inform you that Auchan has been the victim of a cyberattack. This attack resulted in unauthorized access to certain personal data associated with your loyalty account," reads the retailer's notification. According to the

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In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-05 08:40:28

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living human body. Researchers in China reported the medical feat in a study published Monday in Nature Medicine. The gene-edited left lung survived for nine days inside a person declared to be brain dead. More work has to be done to ensure the long-term viability of these organs, the researche

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Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 08:37:50

AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout—the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in A

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Latest Tech News

The Apple Watch is not actually carbon neutral, says German court

Google could be building a new nook for your Gemini creations (APK teardown)

US threatens extra tariffs, export bans, for nations that regulate Big Tech

Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about ‘vampire’ watch faces

Musk firms sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging they hurt competition

Google Play Store will now warns Wear OS users about vampire watch faces

SpaceX scrubbed Starship's 10th test flight this evening

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Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

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Road to Battlefield: Central Eurasia’s largest startup competition in history sends four winners to TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield

Apple study shows LLMs also benefit from the oldest productivity trick in the book

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Auchan retailer data breach impacts hundreds of thousands of customers

In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs

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