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Pay-to-Play? Trump Slaps 15% “Export Tax” on Big Tech’s China AI Chips

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-05 00:55:28

Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government a 15% cut of their revenue from their specialized chip sales in China, in a deal so unconventional the business world is still reeling. The arrangement, effectively a new kind of “export tax,” is an unprecedented move that ends a months-long blockade and reopens one of the world’s largest markets for America’s two most valuable chipmakers. The news, first reported by the Financial Times, reveals the original and transactional tac

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FTC: Older adults lost record $700 million to scammers in 2024

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 21:55:10

Americans aged 60 and older lost a staggering $700 million to online scams in 2024, marking a sharp rise in fraud targeting seniors, according to the Federal Trade Commission. This figure, presented in the agency's latest Consumer Protection Data Spotlight, represents an increase over all three categories of loss compared to previous years. Most notably, the amount of losses for those who lost over $100k recorded an eightfold jump compared to 2020. Below is an analysis of the amounts: Losses

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Apple is preparing a Siri upgrade that could make Gemini users really jealous

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 12:56:18

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple is reportedly preparing a major overhaul for Siri. The updated Siri is likely to be able to control a variety of third-party apps, performing very specific actions inside those apps. The update is expected to roll out in Spring next year with the iOS 26.4 update. Back in 2024, Apple promised a significant Siri upgrade that would understand voice commands better, have a more intuitive model running underneath, and be “deeply integrated” into the sys

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Waze is dropping support for older Android versions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:25:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Waze is ending support for some older versions of Android. Google will soon stop updating the Waze app on devices running Android 9 Pie or older versions of Android. The app will continue to function as usual, but your device will no longer receive newer features. Although it isn’t unusual for Google to have multiple apps for the same or similar functionality, it is atypical for it to allow these multiple apps to exist — so much so that we can’t fath

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There’s a new Xbox emulator on Android, but here’s why you should run away from it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:42:45

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The supposed first Xbox emulator on Android, Xanite, has launched in V0.1. It is not able to emulate Xbox games, and it appears to be nothing more than an empty shell. Updates are promised in the coming weeks, but don’t get your hopes up. Emulation on Android has come a long way in recent years, with systems up to and including the Nintendo Switch and PS3 now playable. However, despite coming out way back in 2001, the original Xbox still doesn’t have a

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Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-05 16:34:22

We learned back in June that Apple is working on a new entry-level MacBook, to be powered by the A18 Pro chip rather than an M-series processor. This would be the first time the company has ever offered a MacBook below $999. A new supply-chain report says that the first stage of production is scheduled to begin sometime next month, with full-scale manufacturing potentially in progress by the end of the year … Low-cost MacBook The MacBook Air has always been the cheapest model offered by Apple

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How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:00:03

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It's one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. So when some apparently biological carbon was dated to at least 3.95 billion years ago—making it the oldest remains of life on Earth—the claim sparked interest and skepticism in equal measure, as Ars Technica reported in 2017. Whitehouse was among those skeptics. This July

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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-05 15:00:00

Software that can see opponents through walls. Aimbots that can lock onto other players automatically. Tools that can boost characters’ stats to the max. The world of online game cheats is expansive—with some cheat websites advertising hacks for dozens of PC games—and it’s being driven by an underground economy that’s allegedly raking in millions every year. Over the last two years, a group of computer scientists has been analyzing and mapping the online cheat marketplace, observing what behavi

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Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-05 16:52:30

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hyundai is now offering an “optional” security upgrade for the Ioniq 5 in the UK that prevents the car being stolen with a Game Boy-like device. Hyundai wants some Ioniq 5 owners to pay a £49 ($65) to upgrade hardware and software components to prevent thieves using handheld devices to unlo

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Apple’s new Siri may allow users to operate apps just using voice

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-05 16:23:38

In Brief Apple in 2024 showed a swanky demo of what it said would be a new, intelligent Siri that would connect with different apps to fetch all kinds of information. But this new Siri has yet to see the light of day, as the company seemingly hasn’t been able to get it ready. However, Bloomberg now reports that Apple is testing a version of Siri that will be able to take actions on your behalf across various apps by following voice commands. The company plans to release a new version of App In

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SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant's future on AI

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-05 10:29:35

Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence. Son says artificial superintelligence (ASI) — AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans — will be here in 10 years. It's a bold call — but perhaps not surprising. He's made a career out of big plays; notably, one was a $20 million investment into Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba in 2000 that has made billions for SoftBank. Now, the billionaire is hop

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TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Stjepan Groš 2025-12-05 09:33:09

Random notes of what's on my mind. Additional materials you'll find on my homepage.

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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

news.ycombinator.com Eric Shobe 2025-12-02 08:14:33

Fourteen years ago, Dropbox took its first steps toward building its own hardware infrastructure—and as our product and user base has grown, so has our infrastructure. What started with just a handful of servers has evolved into one of the largest custom-built storage systems in the world. We've scaled from a few dozen machines to tens of thousands of servers with millions of drives. That evolution didn’t happen by accident. It took years of iteration, close collaboration with suppliers, and a p

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Bouncing on trampolines to run eBPF programs

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Alexis Lothoré 2025-11-30 23:37:29

This blog post is the second installment in our eBPF blog post series, following our blog post about eBPF selftests. As eBP F is more and more used in the industry, eBPF kernel developers give considerable attention to eBPF performance: some standard use cases like system monitoring involve hundreds of eBPF programs attached to events triggered at high frequencies. It is then paramount to keep eBPF programs execution overhead as low as possible. This blog post aims to shed some light on an inte

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 15:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 14:32:31

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition wasn't terribly tough. It helps to be a fan of college football rivalry games, and of a certain legendary baseball player who sadly died young. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl

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Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-05 08:30:00

With over 400 million chronic patients, India is one of the world’s largest medicine markets. But while most e-pharmacies chase speed, affordability remains the real challenge. Truemeds took a different route: helping patients switch to lower-cost substitutes, a bet now paying off with new funding at about four times its previous valuation. The six-year-old startup has raised $85 million in a new round that includes $65 million in primary and $20 million in secondary funding led by Accel, along

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Dark Rumors Swirl as Boar's Head Plans to Reopen Notoriously Disgusting Meat Processing Plant

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 02:00:43

Over a year after a deadly bacterial outbreak forced a Boar's Head deli meat factory in Virginia to shutter indefinitely, the facility is reportedly set to reopen — but that doesn't mean they've cleaned up their act. Starting in May of last year, a number of people throughout the middle- and eastern-US began falling ill with symptoms eerily similar to the flu. Following several hospitalizations and two deaths traced to the same source, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officially launched a

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 08:14:38

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 06:19:25

About Type and the Role Type is an AI-native document editor. Our mission is to help people communicate confidently. We believe that writing is and will always be the backbone of clear thinking and effective communication, especially in the AI era. Tools like Type free writers up to do more high-level thinking – exploring more ideas before coming to a conclusion, testing lots of approaches to expressing a message, and arguing with the AI about the oxford comma. We're backed by Y Combinator a

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PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 09:49:17

One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both. But, experimentation by the PHP Foundation's dev team suggests we may be able to get 80% of the benefit for 20% of th

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Fight Chat Control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 05:50:34

You Will Be Impacted Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union. 📱 Mass Surveillance Every private message, photo, and file scanned automatically: no suspicion required, no exceptions*, even encrypted communications. 🔓️ Breaking Encryption Weakening or breaking end-to-end encryption exposes everyone’s commu

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‘Weapons’ Runs to Big $70M Global Opening in Debut Weekend

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-05 11:00:28

“Are you watching?” asks a creepy voice in the trailer for Weapons. And the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.” Per Variety, Zach Cregger’s sophomore outing earned $70 million worldwide. Domestically, its $42.5 million take was $10 million ahead of projections, and its overall take marks another win for New Line and parent company Warner Bros. Since Minecraft’s release in April, the studio has been on a money making hot streak thanks to Final Destination Bloodlines, F1: The Movie, Si

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #792

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 10:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. I grabbed on to "chocolate" and ran it through every connection I could with the other words, so I landed the purple category first, which is rare. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connec

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LHC's New Chip Tackles Radiation Challenges

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Hampson 2025-12-05 09:33:26

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Deep in the belly of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), about 400 million particle collisions are happening in a single second. But as the LHC undergoes upgrades and becomes the High Luminosity-LHC, the number of collisions will increase to an astounding ~1.5 billion collisions or more per second. Capturing all these events via detectors and analyzing the staggering amount of data created from each ex

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Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 03:50:25

The last quality of life feature we will add is the ability to show completion descriptions when tabbing on a complete word: $ foo apple<TAB> For example, the Mill build tool does this so if you’re not sure what a flag or command does, you can press <TAB> on it to see more details: Tab-completion is a common way to explore unfamiliar APIs, and just because someone finished writing a flat or command doesn’t mean they aren’t curious about what it does! But while Zsh tab-completion displays desc

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EFL Championship Soccer: Stream Leicester vs. Sheffield Wednesday Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 09:00:06

Leicester City kicks off its campaign for an immediate return to the Premier League on Sunday with this opening weekend EFL Championship clash against a Sheffield Wednesday team looking to put its off-the-field turmoil aside. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Tasked with returning the Foxes back to the top tier is Spanish coach Martí Cif

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7 password managers to help keep your apps safe

theverge.com Barbara Krasnoff 2025-12-05 10:00:00

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are considered more secure. And because we should be using different one

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-05 06:00:00

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been targeted by a prolific scamming operation. The scam isn’t particularly complex, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages that look like genuine notifications for popular services, from postal deliveries to local government programs, unsuspecting victims click a link that loads a

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This is the Android 17 codename, and it’s not what you guessed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 08:00:48

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority For most of Android’s history, Google publicly referred to each release by a version number and a codename. Traditionally, the codename was a dessert like Marshmallow, Jelly Bean, or Froyo. With the release of Android 10 in 2019, however, Google ended this public practice to make its branding more globally accessible. Internally, though, the company’s developers kept the sweet tradition alive. Following that tradition, Google’s developers have recently decided

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Pay-to-Play? Trump Slaps 15% “Export Tax” on Big Tech’s China AI Chips

FTC: Older adults lost record $700 million to scammers in 2024

Apple is preparing a Siri upgrade that could make Gemini users really jealous

Waze is dropping support for older Android versions

There’s a new Xbox emulator on Android, but here’s why you should run away from it

Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing

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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor

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EFL Championship Soccer: Stream Leicester vs. Sheffield Wednesday Live From Anywhere

7 password managers to help keep your apps safe

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

This is the Android 17 codename, and it’s not what you guessed

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