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Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 22:00:21

Apple has announced that it's working with Samsung at its Texas plant to "launch an innovative new technology for making chips." Those chips are reportedly cutting-edge image sensors for iPhones, according to The Financial Times. That in turn means that Sony may no longer be Apple's only supplier of smartphone camera sensors for its upcoming phones. The chips in question are reportedly three-layer stacked image sensors that will allow for fast smartphone camera shooting speeds and high-frame-ra

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Trump's latest chip tariff declaration raises more questions than answers

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-09 06:33:43

In this article 2330-TW AAPL GOOGL AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One at the the Lehigh Valley International Airport on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images After months of speculation, U.S. President Donald Trump has divulged more of his semiconductor tariff plans, but his latest threats might raise more questions than answers. On Wednesday, Trump said he will impose a

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Survey reveals long time Verizon users are saying goodbye as bills climb and perks vanish

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 09:52:21

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Verizon is in the news for losing 51,000 postpaid subscribers between April and June this year and then doubling down by removing loyalty discounts and driving bills up. Ironically, the company recently gave away free concert tickets, gift cards, branded freebies, and more. Either way, customers are not amused by their rising bills, and unsurprisingly, many of you are looking to switch carriers. We received over 1400 votes on our survey, and almost 900 of th

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Scientists have recreated the Universe's first molecule

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 23:20:51

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high temperatures and densities. However, after just a few seconds, it had cooled down enough for the first elements to form, primarily hydrogen and helium. These were still completely ionized at this point, as it took almost 380,000 years for the temperature in the universe to drop enough for neutral atoms to form through recombination with free electrons. This paved the way

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Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

news.ycombinator.com Rick Edmonds 2025-12-05 02:35:33

This article is part of The Poynter 50, a series reflecting on 50 moments and people that shaped journalism over the past half-century — and continue to influence its future. As Poynter celebrates its 50th anniversary, we examine how the media landscape has evolved and what it means for the next era of news. The decline of newspaper print classifieds and the ripple effects that gutted newsrooms began, by many accounts, in 1995. That’s when Craig Newmark invented Craigslist, the homely but oh-so

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About AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 06:05:43

For the last 1.5 years, I have forced myself to work with and learn AI, mostly because the future of software engineering will inevitably have more AI within it. I’ve focused on optimizing my workflow to understand when AI is a genuinely useful tool versus when it’s a hindrance. Now, 1.5 years later, I feel confident enough to say I’ve learned enough about AI to have some opinions, which is why I’m writing this post. AI has become a race between countries and companies, mostly due to status. Th

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Trump's latest chip tariff announcement raises more questions than it answers

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-09 10:56:47

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images After months of speculation, U.S. President Donald Trump has divulged more of his semiconductor tariff plans, but his latest threats might raise more questions than answers. On Wednesday, Trump said he will impose a 100% tariff on imports of semiconductors and chips, but not for companies that are "building in the United

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Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 00:29:11

The substance behind the “Rules” was scarcely new. Franklin had, in more sober fashion, made almost every point before. He touched hardly at all upon the constitutional issues that the Bostonians had set boiling, no doubt because they were difficult to treat satirically; but he marshaled most of the other themes that were his stock in trade as a controversialist. Some related to the colonies in general, some to Massachusetts in particular, and they ran the gamut from old trade restrictions and n

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Wi-Fi 8 Focuses on Reliability Over Speed to Handle Advanced AI Experiences

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

Only one in 50 homes in the US currently uses a Wi-Fi 7 router, but the next generation of wireless routers is already on the way. New details on Wi-Fi 8 were just released by Qualcomm, with the standard expected to be finalized in 2028. While Wi-Fi 7 is all about speed, increasing the maximum amount of data that could be transmitted from 2.4Gbps to 5.8Gbps, Wi-Fi 8 will focus on improving reliability. The initiative is being called Ultra High Reliability, and it states its goal as making conne

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 7

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 05:35:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I was cruising through the Across clues on today's Mini Crossword until I got to 5-Across, which threw me for a loop. But once the Down answers began filling in, I figured it out. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword answers? Read on. And if you could use some hint

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Apple’s new $100B US commitment got it a 100% chip tariff exemption

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-09 08:07:46

During today’s Oval Office press conference, President Donald Trump announced that Apple will be exempt from an upcoming “very large tariff on chips and semiconductors”. Here are the details. Today, Apple announced the American Manufacturing Program (AMP), adding $100 billion to its previously pledged $500 billion investment aimed at expanding domestic facilities and creating jobs. During the press briefing in which, among other things, Apple CEO Tim Cook gifted President Trump a piece of US-m

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The Inkhaven Blogging Residency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 08:20:53

If you want to be excellent at something, it's extremely useful to do it every day. Athletes, musicians, and writers famously live by this advice. Separately, one of the world's strongest motivators is to be surrounded by ambitious, like-minded people. For the month of November, we're running a residency for talented writers to hone their craft by writing and publishing a blogpost every single day. We provide food and housing at-cost, so that you can focus on writing. We'll offer whatever we c

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The Day MOOCs Died: Coursera's Preview Mode Kills Free Learning

news.ycombinator.com Dhawal Shah 2025-12-05 09:23:21

Last week, Coursera’s new CEO, Greg Hart, delivered something the company’s investors had been eagerly awaiting: growth. In his first full quarter as CEO, Greg’s leadership helped drive Coursera’s stock price up 36% following the earnings call, pushing the company’s valuation past the $2 billion mark. However, this pursuit of prioritizing Wall Street could come at a cost to learners worldwide. The company is rolling out a “Preview Mode,” a feature that would lock almost all course content, inc

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Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 06:29:11

The substance behind the “Rules” was scarcely new. Franklin had, in more sober fashion, made almost every point before. He touched hardly at all upon the constitutional issues that the Bostonians had set boiling, no doubt because they were difficult to treat satirically; but he marshaled most of the other themes that were his stock in trade as a controversialist. Some related to the colonies in general, some to Massachusetts in particular, and they ran the gamut from old trade restrictions and n

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A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-12-09 12:30:00

The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions. OpenAI’s ChatGPT can be linked to your Gmail inbox, allowed to inspect your GitHub code, or find appointments in your Microsoft calendar. But these connections have the potential to be abused—and researchers have shown it can take just a single “poisoned” document to do so. New findings from security researchers Mich

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Sonos confirms tariffs will increase its prices this year

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-12-09 12:42:39

Conrad: With respect to our operations, like many companies, the most significant near-term challenge has been the uncertain tariff environment. As a reminder short of a few accessories, and our passive speaker partnership with Sonance (I think this is what he said?) we do all of our us-bound manufacturing in Vietnam and Malaysia. We talked last quarter about the contingency planning we underwent to minimize the effects of terrorists on our business, while also doing what we can to limit the d

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New ‘persona vectors’ from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLM’s personality

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-09 17:11:20

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 A new study from the Anthropic Fellows Program reveals a technique to identify, monitor and control character traits in large language models (LLMs). The findings show that models can develop undesirable personalities (e.g., becoming malicious, excessively agreeable, or prone to making things up) either in response to user prompts or as an

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Prime Minister of Sweden Dragged for Admitting He Uses ChatGPT to Help Him Make Decisions

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-09 16:50:31

Futurists concerned that we are gliding into an AI-fueled dystopia wherein the human race acquiesces its ethical, decision-making, and intellectual powers to a gaggle of corporate algorithms need look no further than Ulf Kristersson to justify their fears. Kristersson, who happens to be the prime minister of Sweden, recently admitted during a Nordic news site that he sometimes asks ChatGPT for a “second opinion” when it comes to his governance strategies. “I use it myself quite often,” Krister

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You Can Still See Bright Fireballs During the Perseids Meteor Shower

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 16:07:00

Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn't finished with delivering dazzling meteor showers. The last week of July saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year won't hit its peak until next week. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you're far enough away from light pollution to see it. Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug. 23.

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Best 4K Projector for 2025: Tested and Reviewed by Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 16:17:00

Sony All the projectors we review at CNET go through the same testing process that includes objective measurements and side-by-side subjective evaluation. I've been reviewing projectors for over 20 years and have used one (OK, many over the years) as my main "TV" since I started reviewing them. I'm also Imaging Science Foundation certified and did training at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to correctly measure displays. I use specialized test equipment, including a C6 HDR500

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Scientists Just Found Something Very Weird About the Mysterious Object Hurtling Into Our Solar System

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 22:11:21

As evidence continues to mount that the mysterious object with interstellar origins currently speeding toward the inner solar system at a breakneck speed is a comet, not everybody's convinced quite yet. Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb raised the far-fetched, yet tantalizing possibility that the object, which was first spotted by astronomers earlier this year, could have been sent by an extraterrestrial civilization. While he admitted in a blog post last month that it's most likely

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Google can’t plug the leaks: Pixel 10 Pro XL renders spill online

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-09 22:24:48

TL;DR A leak may have revealed marketing renders of the Pixel 10 Pro XL. The renders show the Pixel 10 Pro XL in Moonstone and Obsidian. The leak also shares renders of the base model. We’re two weeks away from the August 20 Made by Google event. At the launch party, we’ll finally get the unveiling of the Pixel 10 series, which should be followed up by the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a. But if you don’t want to wait that long for the official reveal, then feast your eyes on these new render

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We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

news.ycombinator.com Pavel Panchekha 2025-12-09 20:39:20

We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes A number of 70s computing systems had nine-bit bytes, most prominently the PDP-10, but today [1 Apparently, it was the System/360 that really set the standard here.] all systems use 8-bit bytes and that now seems natural. [2 Though you still see RFCs use "octet", and the C standard has a CHAR_BITS macro, to handle the possibility of a different-sized byte.] As a power of two, eight is definitely nicer. But I think a series of historical coincidences would act

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 7, #788

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 21:00:05

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 has one category that could be in the Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, so hopefully you know something about a certain sport. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 7, #318

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 21:00:06

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. Can you identify pro athletes from just a headshot? If not, today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. Personally, I'm no fan of the photo clues, but there were only two today. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Supe

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I hate photo editing, but this leaked Pixel 10 feature may change that

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 03:20:52

TL;DR A report claims that the Google Pixel 10 will launch with a new “Conversational Photo Editing” feature. The feature, powered by Gemini, will reportedly allow you to edit your photos by simply typing or saying your requests. Recently, Android Authority found a “Help me edit” feature in Google Photos with a similar premise. The faucet for Google Pixel 10 leaks remains open and free-flowing. After extensive reports revealing the design and specs for the entire Pixel 10 series, the folks at

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Researchers hacked Google Gemini to take control of a smart home

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 03:19:26

Wired reported on new cybersecurity research that demonstrated a hack of the Google Gemini artificial intelligence assistant. The researchers were able to control connected smart home devices through the use of indirect prompt injections in Google Calendar invites. When a user requested a summary of their calendar and thanked Gemini for the results, the malicious prompt ordered Google's Home AI agent to take actions such as opening windows or turning lights off, as demonstrated in the video abov

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Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-10 00:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 03:40:17

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination. These ships are often envisioned as

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US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 03:11:24

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI and rivals like Google and Anthropic to supply tools to federal workers. The workers will have access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a type of account that includes access to frontier

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Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas

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