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Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:58:04

Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming The reason it's so hard to get a programming job right now is because Big Tech caused it. It's not an accident. It's not the result of regular cycles of employment or the economy. For years, companies like Google, Facebook/Meta, and Amazon hired too many developers. They knew they were hiring too many developers, but they did it anyway because of corporate greed. They wanted to control the talent pool. They wanted to make as much money as possible,

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company announces plan to tunnel under Nashville

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-26 17:39:33

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. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced plans to dig tunnels under Nashville, creating a loop that will connect the city’s downtown with the Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it will begin construction “immediately” following approval and expects the first 10-mile phase to be operational as early as next year, as reported ear

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Pokémon TCG Pocket will change card art after plagiarism accusations

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-12-26 17:53:53

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. While you can now start collecting Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Johto-themed Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, two of the set’s rarest cards are being changed in response to concerns about art theft. Soon after dataminers began posting images of Wisdom of Sea and Sky’s cards on Tuesday, Chinese artist lanjiujiu took to their X account with qu

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YouTube is thinking about letting you avoid video comments entirely on mobile

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:56:27

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is testing a new mobile UI that hides several elements below the video player, including the channel name and comments section. Tapping a new dropdown arrow next to the video’s title reveals the hidden information, such as the creator’s channel details and subscriber count. This change declutters the screen to show more related videos, but adds an extra tap for users who want to read comments or visit the creator’s channel. To stay ahead of the co

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Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 03:00:45

Apple has submitted its official response to the antitrust lawsuit the Justice Department filed against it last year, which accused the company of having smartphone monopoly and criticized its "walled garden" approach to business. It said that the lawsuit threatens what sets the iPhone apart in a fiercely competitive market, reduce consumer choice, as well as erode competition. In addition, Apple warned that it could set "a dangerous precedent" in allowing the government to "take a heavy hand in

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Our $100M Series B

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 03:17:28

We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in USIT with participation from all existing Oxide investors. To put that number in perspective: over the nearly six year lifetime of the company, we have raised $89M; our $100M Series B more than doubles our total capital raised to date — and positions us to make Oxide the generational company that we have always aspired it to be. If this aspiration seems heady now, it seemed absolutely outlandish w

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TikTok videos are about to get crowdsourced fact checks on them

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-27 03:31:33

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. TikTok is officially rolling out Footnotes, a community fact-checking program that’s supposed to add helpful context to videos. With this update, US-based users will start seeing Footnotes on videos in the coming weeks, and will also get the option to rate them. After allowing people to join the Footnotes pilot in April, TikTok says almost 80,000 u

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Robinhood's 175% rally this year is best among U.S. tech stocks

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-27 08:36:04

As Robinhood investors await second-quarter earnings, expectations are sky-high. The online broker, known for popularizing stock and crypto trading with young investors, has seen its shares surge 177% this year, outpacing all other U.S. tech companies valued at $5 or more, excluding those that went public in 2025. The next best performer is Palantir , up 107%. Robinhood's pop this year follows a 192% rally in 2024. The company's market cap now sits at $91 billion, putting it slightly behind Co

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TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking, plus new parental controls

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-27 08:23:47

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community Notes featu

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TikTok's Community Notes era starts today

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 06:00:41

TikTok users in the United States will soon see crowd-sourced fact checks appearing alongside videos on the platform. The app is beginning to roll out Footnotes, its version of Community Notes, the company announced . TikTok announced its plan to adopt the feature back in April and since then almost 80,000 users have been approved as contributors. Footnotes works similarly to Community Notes on X. Contributors can add a note to videos with false claims, AI-generated content or that otherwise re

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Dating safety app Tea suspends messaging after hack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-27 17:01:32

Dating safety app Tea suspends messaging after hack 2 hours ago Share Save Charlotte Edwards Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Messaging has been turned off on the women's dating safety app Tea, following a hack which has exposed thousands of images, posts and comments. In a new statement the company said: "As part of our ongoing investigation into the cybersecurity incident involving the Tea App, we have recently learned that some direct messages (DMs) were accessed as part of the

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TikTok 'content check' tells creators if their videos will be blocked from For You pages

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 18:00:15

TikTok's "For You" recommendations have long been a source of mystery and fascination for creators on the platform. Even the most seasoned TikTok stars don't always understand why some videos go viral and some don't. And there's long been lots of speculation about the types of content that is and isn't acceptable to the app's recommendation algorithm. Now, the company is looking to give creators more transparency into its recommendations. TikTok is testing out a "content check" feature that wil

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

news.ycombinator.com Eileen Guo 2025-12-27 16:59:09

Indeed, the curators of DataComp CommonPool were themselves aware it was likely that PII would appear in the data set and did take some measures to preserve privacy, including automatically detecting and blurring faces. But in their limited data set, Hong’s team found and validated over 800 faces that the algorithm had missed, and they estimated that overall, the algorithm had missed 102 million faces in the entire data set. On the other hand, they did not apply filters that could have recognize

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Footnotes, TikTok’s crowdsourced fact-checks, launches in the US

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-27 18:00:00

TikTok on Wednesday announced the public launch of Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to X and Meta’s Community Notes feature. The technology will initially roll out to U.S. users as a pilot program, allowing contributors to both write and rate Footnotes on TikTok videos. All U.S. TikTok users are able to view the notes that have been rated as helpful and submit their own ratings in return. The company first announced its plans to test Footnotes in April. At the time, it de

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South Korea's LG Energy Solution signs $4.3 billion battery supply deal with undisclosed party

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-27 21:46:15

The logo of LG Electronics is seen on the opening day of the Integrated Systems Europe exhibition in Barcelona on January 31, 2023. South Korea-based LG Energy Solution announced Wednesday that it had signed a $4.3 billion contract for supplying batteries to a major corporation, without naming the customer. The effective date of contract — receipt of orders — was Tuesday and it will conclude at the end of July, 2030. During this period, the counterparty will not be disclosed to maintain busine

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Spain to expand antitrust investigation into App Store pricing rules

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-27 18:49:57

Just as Apple inches closer to winning EU approval for its latest App Store changes, Spain’s competition watchdog is expanding its own investigation, citing “new evidence” related to Apple’s developer pricing rules. Here are the details. Back in July 2024, the Spanish National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) launched a probe accusing Apple of “imposing unfair commercial conditions” on developers who distribute apps through the App Store. Now, as reported by EuroNews: “The CNMC sa

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Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform

news.ycombinator.com Qasim Chaudhari 2025-12-27 16:09:04

When a new member arrives at the Signal Processing Club, this is what they find at the club gate: I/Q signals. Perhaps a secret plot to keep most people out of the party? Some return from here to try another area (e.g., machine learning, which pays more and is easier to understand but less interesting than signal processing). Others persist enough to push the gate open for implementation purposes (even a little understanding is sufficient for this task) but never fully grasp the main idea. So w

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As AI Throws Education Into Chaos, OpenAI Introduces ‘Study Mode’ to Help Students ‘Learn’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-27 22:18:43

AI has been blamed for a tsunami of cheating that’s taken hold in the U.S. educational system in recent years. Just this week, I interviewed a college professor who explained how bad it’s gotten lately—particularly when it comes to AI-generated essay writing. Now, one of the heavy hitters of the AI industry, OpenAI, says it is launching a tool designed to help students learn stuff instead of just passively accepting dubious information delivered by a chatbot. “Today we’re introducing study mode

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AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-28 02:39:24

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 Prophet Security, a startup developing autonomous artificial intelligence systems for cybersecurity defense, announced Tuesday it has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate what its founders describe as a fundamental shift from human-versus-human to “agent-versus-agent” warfare in cybersecurity. The Menlo Park-based company’s

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Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 23:24:40

The only PC you need is the one in your pocket . Maru takes personal computing one step closer to closed-loop. Your hardware's capabilities are shared across your mobile device and desktop so you don't have to context-switch around so much. Say goodbye to coordinating your work amongst dozens of different devices.

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The Making of Dario Amodei

news.ycombinator.com Alex Kantrowitz 2025-12-28 04:36:34

Dario Amodei doesn’t hesitate when I ask what’s gotten into him. The Anthropic CEO has spent 2025 at war, feuding with industry counterparts, members of the government, and the public’s perception of artificial intelligence. In recent months, he’s predicted that AI could soon eliminate 50% of entry-level, white-collar jobs. He’s railed against a ten-year AI regulation moratorium in the pages of the New York Times. And he’s called for semiconductor export controls to China, drawing a public rebu

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Original Tesla Founder Is Sad That Musk Made a ‘Truck That Looks Like a Dumpster’

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-28 08:10:33

Unbeknownst to much of the public, Elon Musk did not actually start Tesla. Indeed, Musk was actually the company’s 4th CEO when he initially joined the company way back in 2008. While Musk can be credited with substantially transforming the firm and its offerings, its original co-founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, launched Tesla in 2003. Musk and those original executives have had their tussles over the years. In fact, tensions between Musk and Eberhard led to a 2009 lawsuit and set

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Spotify drops 11% for worst day in two years on weak guidance

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-28 12:52:09

The company expects revenues to reach 4.2 billion euros, compared to a 4.47 billion euro estimate from StreetAccount. Spotify said the forecast accounts for a 490-basis-point headwind due to foreign exchange rates. Spotify said higher personnel, marketing and professional services costs and 115 million euros worth of what it called social charges contributed to the results. The Swedish platform's revenues rose 10% from about 3.81 billion euros in the year-ago period. The company posted a net l

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Maru OS – Your phone is your PC

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 17:24:40

The only PC you need is the one in your pocket . Maru takes personal computing one step closer to closed-loop. Your hardware's capabilities are shared across your mobile device and desktop so you don't have to context-switch around so much. Say goodbye to coordinating your work amongst dozens of different devices.

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Apple Is Opening a Manufacturing Academy in Detroit

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-28 17:10:06

Apple just announced plans to open a manufacturing academy in Detroit this August, as the company faces pressure from President Donald Trump to build iPhones in the U.S. Starting August 19, Apple will partner with Michigan State University to host free workshops for small and mid-sized businesses, aimed at helping American companies adopt artificial intelligence and smart manufacturing techniques. “Apple works with suppliers in all 50 states because we know advanced manufacturing is vital to A

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The case for memes as a new form of comics

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 17:18:53

It's undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as a profession, giving cartoonists both new tools and a new publishing and/or distribution medium. Online culture also spawned the emergence of viral memes in the late 1990s. Michelle Ann Abate, an English professor at The Ohio State University, argues in a paper published in INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, that memes—specifically, image macros—represent a new type of digital comic, right down to

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Elon Musk Is Digging Tunnels Under Nashville

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-28 22:10:47

Somehow, Elon Musk keeps convincing cities to allow him to dig under them. The latest locale to give The Boring Company the rights to displace dirt directly under their feet is Nashville, Tennessee, which announced an agreement this week to allow Musk’s firm to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect the city’s airport and convention center—an arrangement that has modestly improved traffic flow in Las Vegas while turning the city into a laughingstock of the infrastructure design community. The

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Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-28 22:59:36

In Brief Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in funding, valuing the large language model developer at $170 billion, Bloomberg reported. Iconiq Capital is leading this funding round, but there’s a possibility of a second lead investor joining the deal. The company has also been in talks with Qatar Investment Authority and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, according to the report. If finalized, the deal would nearly triple Anthropic’s valuation, which w

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Tesla's Teasing Some Kind of Incredible Reveal, But We're Skeptical

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-29 03:08:43

Less than a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned that his carmaker is in for a "few rough quarters," the company's executives are spinning up the rumor mill in an apparent effort to distract from its disastrous earnings results. As Teslarati reports, Tesla senior vice president of powertrain, Lars Moravy, revealed that the carmaker is "gearing up for a super cool demo" of the company's long-awaited next-generation Roadster. The news comes two weeks after Musk teased a "most epic demo ever by

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Waymo expands robotaxi operations to Dallas with help from Avis

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-12-29 08:11:00

In context: Google's sister company, Waymo, plans to launch its autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas next year. The company already operates in Austin, Atlanta, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and has plans to expand to Miami and Washington, DC by 2026. Waymo has partnered with Avis to manage a robotaxi fleet in Dallas, Texas, despite having an active tie-up with Uber for fleet maintenance services in Austin and Atlanta. As part of the multi-year deal, Avis will oversee vehicle ma

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Latest Tech News

Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

Elon Musk’s Boring Company announces plan to tunnel under Nashville

Pokémon TCG Pocket will change card art after plagiarism accusations

YouTube is thinking about letting you avoid video comments entirely on mobile

Apple says DOJ's antitrust lawsuit would 'reduce consumer choice'

Our $100M Series B

TikTok videos are about to get crowdsourced fact checks on them

Robinhood's 175% rally this year is best among U.S. tech stocks

TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking, plus new parental controls

TikTok's Community Notes era starts today

Dating safety app Tea suspends messaging after hack

TikTok 'content check' tells creators if their videos will be blocked from For You pages

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Footnotes, TikTok’s crowdsourced fact-checks, launches in the US

South Korea's LG Energy Solution signs $4.3 billion battery supply deal with undisclosed party

Spain to expand antitrust investigation into App Store pricing rules

Two Birds with One Tone: I/Q Signals and Fourier Transform

As AI Throws Education Into Chaos, OpenAI Introduces ‘Study Mode’ to Help Students ‘Learn’

AI vs. AI: Prophet Security raises $30M to replace human analysts with autonomous defenders

Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

The Making of Dario Amodei

Original Tesla Founder Is Sad That Musk Made a ‘Truck That Looks Like a Dumpster’

Spotify drops 11% for worst day in two years on weak guidance

Maru OS – Your phone is your PC

Apple Is Opening a Manufacturing Academy in Detroit

The case for memes as a new form of comics

Elon Musk Is Digging Tunnels Under Nashville

Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round

Tesla's Teasing Some Kind of Incredible Reveal, But We're Skeptical

Waymo expands robotaxi operations to Dallas with help from Avis

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