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The Galaxy S26 Pro might kill the best Samsung phone for most people

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 15:30:34

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority We’ve heard that Apple is planning to shake up its iPhone lineup this year by dropping the Plus model in favor of a thinner iPhone Air — going from the least-hyped iPhone to what’s sure to be an attention grabber. Samsung, too, introduced the Galaxy S25 Edge to show off a slimmer design on the Android side. But the rest of the S25 lineup? Boring with a capital B. There weren’t enough changes to justify it as a worthwhile early upgrade over the Galaxy S24 ser

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Court Records Reveal Sig Sauer Knew of Pistol Risks for Years

news.ycombinator.com Rachel Fedeli 2026-01-01 17:32:40

A court exhibit recently published online summarizes Sig Sauer’s internal P320 testing and shows that the gun maker and U.S. Army were both aware of serious safety risks with the pistol since at least 2017, years before it was fielded to soldiers as the full-size M17 and compact M18. The document — prepared as a part of Sig Sauer’s contracting process with the U.S. Army — outlines multiple ways the pistol could fire without an intentional trigger pull. A redacted version of the court document w

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Samsung is working on an all-new pair of smart glasses to take on Ray-Ban Meta

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-02 03:22:18

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is reportedly developing affordable smart glasses inspired by Ray-Ban Meta. The glasses may include a camera, speakers, and a microphone, but no display. Set for a late 2026 debut, these smart glasses are separate from Samsung’s XR headset plans. Smart glasses remain a particularly niche genre of wearable technology, even in mid-2025, but they are steadily growing in popularity. While the Ray-Ban Meta continues to lead the charge and has prove

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I spent two weeks with the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and I really think it’s worth $500

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-02 04:00:47

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic The Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is one of the most expensive Wear OS watches available in 2025, but it's also one of the best. It looks incredible, the rotating bezel is magical, and One UI 8 Watch is a killer piece of software. As long as the price doesn't scare you, the Watch 8 Classic is tough to beat. At first glance, the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic looks like a smartwatch so many of us have been waiting for. It’s a Samsung watch with a reasonably-sized design, a bright

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Latest Google Messages bug gives you two or three app icons (Update: Fixed!)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-02 04:09:09

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A bug in the new Google Messages beta, version v20250811, is causing users to see two or even three app icons in their app drawer. The bug affects only beta users. All icons launch the same app, so their functionality is the same. Google has since updated its messaging app to address the issue. Update: August 15, 2025 (6:07 AM ET): It looks like the latest Google Messages beta (v20250813) has addressed this duplicate app icon issue. Some Reddit users

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Death and What Comes Next (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 10:01:01

The L-Space Web Death and What Comes Next A Discworld short story By Terry Pratchett Copyright © Terry Pratchett 2002 When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead." There was a sigh from Death. Oh dear, one of those, he thought. This is going to be about quantum again. He hated dealing with philosophers. They always tried to wriggle out of it. "You see," said the philosopher, while Death, motionless, watched

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Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-02 06:29:36

Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker The article comes days after a meeting between Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan and US President Donald Trump, who had earlier accused Mr Tan of being "highly conflicted" due to his earlier ties to China. White House spokesman Kush Desai said "discussion about hypothetical deals should be regarded as speculation unless officially announced by the administration." The reported deal would support the technology firm's plans to build a manufa

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Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem

news.ycombinator.com Greg Foletta 2026-01-02 05:11:51

Simulating and Visualising the Central Limit Theorem Categories: Statistics R 34 minutes read I completed a Computer Science degree at uni, and bundled a lot of maths subjects in as electives: partial differential equations, vector calculus, discrete maths, linear algebra. For some reason however I always avoided statistics subjects. Maybe there’s a story to be told about a young person finding uncertainty uncomfortable, because twenty years later I find statistics, particularly the Bayesia

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The new science of “emergent misalignment”

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Ornes 2026-01-02 03:25:51

If there’s an upside to this fragility, it’s that the new work exposes what happens when you steer a model toward the unexpected, Hooker said. Large AI models, in a way, have shown their hand in ways never seen before. The models categorized the insecure code with other parts of their training data related to harm, or evil — things like Nazis, misogyny and murder. At some level, AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference. Wish for the Worst In 2022

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Show HN: Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 04:43:43

Understanding the Spatial Web Browser Engine 1. What Is a Spatial Web Browser? A Spatial Web Browser is a user agent that loads, interprets, and presents Web content (HTML, CSS, JS, WebGL/WebGPU, WebXR, media) directly inside a 3D coordinate space instead of flattening everything onto a 2D rectangular viewport. Every DOM element (text nodes, images, canvas, form controls, SVG, etc.) can be: Positioned, rotated, and scaled in world / XR reference spaces Layered with true depth ordering (n

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Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-02 09:01:41

Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV? 1 hour ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save XYZ Films Swedish movie Watch the Skies was dubbed into English using AI Finding international films that might appeal to the US market is an important part of the work XYZ Films. Maxime Cottray is the chief operating officer at the Los Angeles-based independent studio. He says the US market has always been tough for foreign language films. "It's been limited to coastal New

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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-02 06:51:18

watch now Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a cultural phenomenon with ChatGPT. Now, three years later, he's chasing where the real money is: Enterprise. Last week's rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI's newest artificial intelligence model, was rocky. Critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers. But GPT-5 isn't about the consumer. It's OpenAI's effort to crack the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head sta

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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 00:54:14

Since launching Bluesky two years ago, we’ve grown tremendously. As our community has expanded, feedback on our terms of service, community guidelines, copyright, and privacy policies has surfaced opportunities to improve clarity. With more experience under our belt and an evolving regulatory landscape, we’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail. For our Community Guidelines, we’re asking for input from the community. The propose

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US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-02 12:11:06

xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok's prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the chatbot praised Hitler and declared itself MechaHitler last month. Despite the scandal, xAI announced that its products would soon be available for federal workers to purchase through the General Services Administration. At the time, xAI claimed this was an "important milestone" for its government business. But Wired reviewed emails and spoke to government insiders, which rev

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Applied Materials shares sink 10% on light forecast amid macroeconomic uncertainties

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-01-02 18:59:18

Applied Materials shares sank more than 10% in extended trading Thursday as the semiconductor equipment company provided outlook for the current quarter that came in light. Here's how Applied Materials did in its third-quarter earnings results versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS : $2.48, adjusted, versus $2.36 estimated. : $2.48, adjusted, versus $2.36 estimated. Revenue: $7.3 billion vs $7.22 billion estimated. Applied Materials said it expects $2.11 per share in adjusted earnings in the c

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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-01-02 18:23:50

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has reported over 80 clones. “It feels like whack-a-mole sometimes,” Brier says. These are games that are not just similar in nature, but “blatant copyrigh

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George Lucas Reminded Ron Howard Ahead of ‘Solo’ That ‘Star Wars’ Is for 12-Year-Olds

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-02 23:30:35

Star Wars fans have become accustomed to cinematic reshufflings in the years since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. But even before the sequel trilogy concluded, there were hints that Lucasfilm’s confident plans were subject to shake-ups. There were the notorious reshoots attached to 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but even more dramatically, there was the director switcheroo that happened with 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. In a new interview, Ron Howard talked about being hired as a replace

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Satellite Captures Awesome Power of Tsunami Triggered by Epic Russian Quake

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-02 23:50:17

In late July, the sixth biggest earthquake in recorded history struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The magnitude 8.8 quake triggered a tsunami that sent waves across the Pacific, prompting widespread warnings and some evacuation orders. Data released Thursday, August 14, by NASA Earth Observatory captures this global event in striking detail. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a joint venture between NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National

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Intel stock climbs 7% on report Trump administration is considering stake

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-01-03 04:57:25

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel stock rose 7% in trading on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the embattled company. Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including TSMC and Samsung also have U

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Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-03 04:20:02

During the pandemic, movie theaters notably struggled, as social distancing restrictions all but temporarily killed their business model. Many smaller, independent theaters went out of business permanently. However, since the pandemic has ebbed, the film industry has slowly recovered. Attendance in theaters is not exactly where it was prior to the pandemic, but attendance is significantly higher than it was during Covid, and continues to climb. A new article published by The Guardian suggests t

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Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-03 09:49:58

Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users on some of the changes. The startup, a competitor to X, Threads, and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policies are meant to offer improved clarity and more detail around its user safety procedures and the appeals process. Many of the changes are being driven by new global regulations, including the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), the EU Digital S

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These $30,000 TVs With ‘Micro RGB’ Are a Reminder That You Shouldn’t Hype New Screens

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-03 14:25:44

Samsung and Hisense have a new type of TV you can buy right now if you have more than $30,000 sitting in an overstuffed piggy bank somewhere. You’ve heard of OLED, mini LED, and maybe even micro LED, but Samsung and Hisense are asking if you could care about micro RGB? Probably not, but the display makers are selling them at a premium and at a size you couldn’t fit into any living room without barn-high ceilings. The price is just a distraction—a means of drawing eyeballs to new screen technolog

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Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-03 17:55:34

The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company "gave up" on the "aspirations" of its since-departed founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas. It's a striking move for

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The End of Wireless Dead Zones? Starlink Texting Now Available on AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 14:01:00

After six months of beta testing, Starlink's partnership with T-Mobile officially launched on July 23. The direct-to-cell messaging service enables texting from anywhere in the US. It's not limited to T-Mobile customers, either -- AT&T and Verizon mobile customers can purchase it for $10 a month. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" by way of 657 Starlink satellites that'll be used exclusively for cellphone service. The new satellite texting service represents a

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The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2026-01-03 11:20:00

The second Trump administration has its first federal cybersecurity debacle to deal with. A breach of the United States federal judiciary’s electronic case filing system, discovered around July 4, has pushed some courts onto backup paper-filing plans after the hack compromised sealed court records and possibly exposed the identities of confidential informants and cooperating witnesses across multiple US states. More than a month after the discovery of the breach—and in spite of recent reports

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Apple Watch getting redesigned blood oxygen feature following legal dispute

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-01-03 22:53:25

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Apple on Thursday announced a redesigned blood oxygen feature for some Apple Watch users, following a years-long intellectual property dispute over the capability. Apple said the redesigned feature is coming to some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users on Thursday. The update was possible b

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Samsung has a new way you can get a Galaxy foldable at an actually affordable price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-03 23:34:00

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has announced that it’s expanding its certified refurbished program to include Galaxy foldable devices for the first time. The Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 are now available as “Certified Re-Newed” phones exclusively from Samsung’s website. Samsung specialists service the refurbished phones with genuine parts, including a new battery, and they come with a one-year warranty. If you’ve been eyeing a Galaxy foldable phone but balked at the pr

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Google Messages can now blur nude images on Android

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-03 23:03:05

Google is rolling out a new safety feature for the Messages app on Android. As spotted by 9to5Google , the company is making Sensitive Content Warnings more broadly available after beta testing the option since April . Google announced it last October. The feature can detect and blur images that include nudity. However, it’ll only work if you’re signed into a Google Account in the Messages app. When Messages detects and blurs such an image, you will be able to choose between several actions. Y

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How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-03 21:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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Google Wants You to Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 22:12:50

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along with a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit o

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The Galaxy S26 Pro might kill the best Samsung phone for most people

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US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

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Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

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The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived

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Samsung has a new way you can get a Galaxy foldable at an actually affordable price

Google Messages can now blur nude images on Android

How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

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