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Just because I like Pixels doesn’t mean I hate Samsung

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 00:00:03

It’s one of the oldest rivalries in the consumer world: Coke vs Pepsi. If I told you I prefer Coke, would you then assume I hate Pepsi? Any sane person would answer “no” to that question. “It’s just a preference,” they’d say. For some reason, though, that same logic doesn’t always seem to apply in the tech world, especially when it comes to smartphones. After working at Android Authority for many years, I’ve learned that lots of people out there think that if you’re on one side of a coin, you m

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Samsung Messages hints at satellite support, but should you get your hopes up? (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 00:32:38

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Users found references to Satellite Messaging in the Samsung Messages app. However, the checked version of the app is old. The relevant code was actually added back in December 2024 and hasn’t changed since. There’s no indication that active feature development is underway, so don’t get your hopes up for satellite messaging. In January, Samsung reiterated that it was sunsetting Samsung Messages and moving users to Google Messages. Those who don’t wish to

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Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-01-12 00:09:13

The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the FT’s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip

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Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term’ — and he's not alone

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-01-12 16:18:36

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said artificial general intelligence, or "AGI," is losing its relevance as a term as rapid advances in the space make it harder to define the concept. AGI refers to the concept of a form of artificial intelligence that can perform any intellectual task that a human can. For years, OpenAI has been working to research and develop AGI that is safe and benefits all humanity. "I think it's not a super useful term," Altman told CNBC's "Squawk Box" last week, when asked whether

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I’d given up on Samsung’s foldables, but the Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 give me faith

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 15:00:34

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority I thought Samsung’s foldables were dead in the water. Leading up to Unpacked, I had almost nothing to be excited about with the Galaxy Z Flip 7 or Z Fold 7, because I assumed they’d be more of the same. After all, that’s mostly what Samsung has done in the last few years — make a few minor updates, add new AI features, and trust you to buy them anyway because there’s no other competition. And, if that stayed true, I was all too happy to stick with a Razr Ultra in

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5 bloatware apps you should delete from your Samsung phone ASAP

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-01-12 14:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Samsung phones are well known for One UI, one of the most functional and intuitive Android interfaces. While it's highly customizable, these phones often come with preinstalled bloatware. Some built-in Samsung apps, such as Wearable and Wallet, are useful within the Samsung ecosystem. However, there are at least five first-party apps that even dedicated Samsung users rarely touch. The preinstalled bloatware apps can vary by device, price, and lineup, but many are common across

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Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-12 17:01:59

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US Nvidia told the BBC: "We follow rules the US government sets for our participation in worldwide markets." Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump's first term, recently wrote to the administration expressing "deep concern" that Nvidia's H20 chip was "a potent accelerator" of China's AI capabilities. The US had previously banned the sale of powerful chips used in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) to Chi

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Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 09:44:20

Lots of fun to do. I would have not taken the time without the speedup provided by Claude. https://andyrosa.github.io/Sinclaude/simulator.html

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 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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Breakfast With ChatGPT: Three Workers, One Morning, A Different AI Story

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-11 21:15:44

I came to Cleveland, Ohio, for the 50th anniversary of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. I expected the hallways to be buzzing with conversations about AI, and they were, but not in the way I’d hoped. For the first two days, the phrase I heard most from my fellow journalists was “we must protect ourselves.” In session after session, the consensus was that AI is a danger, a threat, an enemy coming to replace us. Then I had breakfast at Betts, the restaurant in my h

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-12 09:00:00

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and vehicle data of its customers, and could have allowed hackers to remotely break into any of its customers’ vehicles. Eaton Zveare, who works as a security researcher at software delivery company Harness, told TechCrunch the flaw he discovered allowed the creation of an admin account that granted “unfettered access” to the unnamed carmaker’s centralized web portal. With this access, a m

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump comments that he should resign

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-09 15:30:08

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has responded after Donald Trump accused him of being "highly conflicted" and said he should resign, according to The Financial Times. "There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles," Tan said in a letter to Intel staff. "I wanted to be absolutely clear... I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards." Tan said that Intel was engaging with the White House "to address the matters that have been raised and ensure they have the

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 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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The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2026-01-12 10:45:58

The world is hurtling towards an inevitable AI dystopia in the very near future, according to Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, formerly known as Google X. “We will have to prepare for a world that is very unfamiliar,” Gawdat said in an interview on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast, adding that humanity’s key values like freedom, human connection, accountability, reality, and power are all facing a major disruption by AI. And this dystopia isn’t far off,

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How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-12 09:15:17

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge Dart, and my grandmother had a 1988 Honda Accord — which would eventually become my first ca

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I tried T Sat side by side with Verizon’s Skylo and neither worked as well as I’d hoped

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 09:30:43

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority Recently, T Satellite service officially became available for both existing T-Mobile customers and those on other networks that want satellite backup for emergencies. I have since signed up for the service myself and had the opportunity to field test it alongside a Galaxy S25 Edge that is capable of utilizing Skylo satellites via Verizon’s network. As someone who lives smack dab in rural America, there are plenty of dead spots within a 20-35 minute drive from

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How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

wired.com Diego Barbera 2026-01-12 10:00:00

Considering the widespread use of contactless payment systems, it's no surprise that portable point-of-sale thefts are making a comeback. This type of robbery is enjoying a new wave of popularity, and is much harder to spot given how quickly those transactions take place. But how much risk is there, really? And how can you protect yourself from POS scams? The Case of Sorrento A recent example of POS theft happened recently in Italy, when topic exploded again a few days ago when the news agency

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What Actually Happens If You Sign Up for One of Those Scammy "Online Jobs" Is Pretty Fascinating

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-12 05:18:51

Have you been getting unprompted text messages promising "high-paying jobs" or "easy money" for what sounds like suspiciously little work? If so, you're not alone. Job scam texts have proliferated over the past few years, thanks to increasingly sophisticated robotexting tech, lagging regulatory responses, and a cryptocurrency industry run amok. While the levelheaded among us tend to ignore or block these messages, one enterprising journalist decided to go down the rabbit hole and sign up with

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Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-12 04:15:59

Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers. "We're writing to let you know about an event that affected a limited set of data in one of Google's corporate Salesforce instances used to communicate with prospective Ads customers," reads a data breach notification shared with BleepingComputer. "Our records indicate basic business contact information and related notes were impacted by

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An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 23:36:21

July 7, 2025 Volume 23, issue 3 PDF Unleashing the Power of End-User Programmable AI Creating an AI-first program Synthesis framework Erik Meijer As a demonstration of what can be accomplished with contemporary LLMs (large language models), this paper outlines the high-level design of an AI-first, program-synthesis framework built around a new programming language, Universalis, designed for knowledge workers to read, optimized for our neural computer (Automind; queue.acm.org) to execute,

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Watch NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts return to Earth

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 03:30:04

The astronauts part of SpaceX's Crew-10 mission are on their way back home. Their Dragon capsule called Endurance is scheduled to splash down at approximately 11:33 AM Eastern time off the coast of California. Endurance undocked from the International Space Station at 6:15PM Eastern on August 8 with NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov onboard. They stayed on the ISS for five months

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Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Jenny Peek 2026-01-07 14:50:43

If you’ve taken a drive on one of Wisconsin’s iconic scenic roads, chances are you’ve noticed a bit of alphabet soup. Signs with names like BB, CV, N and SS flank Wisconsin’s county roads, and Shelly from Marshall wanted to know why. She asked: “Why are Wisconsin’s county roads labeled with letters instead of numbers?” Stay connected to Wisconsin news — your way Get trustworthy reporting and unique local stories from WPR delivered directly to your inbox. Email Name This field is for validatio

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End-User Programmable AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 05:36:21

July 7, 2025 Volume 23, issue 3 PDF Unleashing the Power of End-User Programmable AI Creating an AI-first program Synthesis framework Erik Meijer As a demonstration of what can be accomplished with contemporary LLMs (large language models), this paper outlines the high-level design of an AI-first, program-synthesis framework built around a new programming language, Universalis, designed for knowledge workers to read, optimized for our neural computer (Automind; queue.acm.org) to execute,

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Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

news.ycombinator.com Frances Willick Is A Journalist With Cbc Nova Scotia. Please Contact Her With Feedback 2026-01-07 21:53:44

A Nova Scotia man is the proud owner of a 1985 Toyota Tercel. Despite being 40 years old, the car is in mint condition. But there is one thing wrong with it: the odometer doesn't go up high enough. The CBC's Frances Willick explains. If you were to spot Andy Campbell's ride on the road, you might not think too much about it. Maybe you'd think it's a bit dated — a throwback to an earlier time when cassette tapes were all the rage and backup cameras were just a glimmer in a car designer's eye.

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After User Backlash, OpenAI Is Bringing Back Older ChatGPT Models

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 04:24:00

OpenAI hoped to shrink the menu of generative AI models on its ChatGPT platform to just one with the release of its GPT-5 model this week. Not everyone was a fan. Now CEO Sam Altman says the developer is looking at giving ChatGPT Plus subscribers the option to keep using the older 4o model. Altman and other OpenAI leaders took questions on Reddit on Friday, a day after the announcement of the new GPT-5 model. A quick glance through the comments revealed how many users preferred how older model

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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

wired.com Meg Wilcox 2026-01-12 00:00:00

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When staffing shortages caused the National Weather Service (NWS) to suspend weather balloon launches at its Kotzebue, Alaska, station earlier this year, a startup deploying next-generation weather balloons, WindBorne Systems, stepped up to fill the void. The company began selling its western Alaskan atmospheric data to the NWS in February, plugging what could have been a critical data gap in w

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Sand and Deliver: We Raced Across Dunes to Find the Best Beach Wagon

wired.com Chris Haslam 2026-01-12 02:45:00

The family beach day. Nothing but blue sky, crystal waters, and beaming smiles. Unless you’re the packhorse responsible for maneuvering a mountain of gear from the parking lot to the perfect spot on the sand. What you need is a high-quality beach wagon. Also known as a festival or shopping wagon (or trolley), these collapsible, all-terrain carry-alls live in the trunk and make it possible to transport everything you need for a day at the shore or a weekend camping, in just one trip. They’re als

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We can’t believe you can still get the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro for $109.99

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-12 06:53:32

Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro are fantastic wireless earbuds, and they are usually pretty pricey at $249.99. While we’ve seen plenty of deals in the past, none of them have been as good as the current $109.99 sale. It’s actually been active for some weeks, so we would be surprised if the offer lasts much longer. You might want to get them now! Buy the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro for just $109.99 ($140 off) This offer is available from Woot, an Amazon-owned website

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Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

news.ycombinator.com Julian Ring 2026-01-08 16:12:42

An engineer restores pay phones for free public use toggle caption Patrick Schlott Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast," he says. The 31-year-old electrical engineer says poor reception is a common frustration for residents of Vermont's Orange County. To address this issue, he's providing his community with a new way to stay conne

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James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-12 06:28:04

James Lovell, a member of humanity's first trip to the moon and commander of NASA's ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97. Lovell's death on Thursday was announced by the space agency. "NASA sends its condolences to the family of Capt. Jim Lovell, whose life and work inspired millions of people across the decades," said acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a statement on Friday. "Jim's character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the moon and turned a potential t

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Just because I like Pixels doesn’t mean I hate Samsung

Samsung Messages hints at satellite support, but should you get your hopes up? (APK teardown)

Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term’ — and he's not alone

I’d given up on Samsung’s foldables, but the Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 give me faith

5 bloatware apps you should delete from your Samsung phone ASAP

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US

Show HN: A Sinclair ZX81 retro web assembler+simulator

Basic Social Skills Guide

Breakfast With ChatGPT: Three Workers, One Morning, A Different AI Story

Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan responds to Trump comments that he should resign

Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry

I tried T Sat side by side with Verizon’s Skylo and neither worked as well as I’d hoped

How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

What Actually Happens If You Sign Up for One of Those Scammy "Online Jobs" Is Pretty Fascinating

Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info

An AI-first program synthesis framework built around a new programming language

Watch NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 astronauts return to Earth

Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)

End-User Programmable AI

Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong

After User Backlash, OpenAI Is Bringing Back Older ChatGPT Models

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA

Sand and Deliver: We Raced Across Dunes to Find the Best Beach Wagon

We can’t believe you can still get the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro for $109.99

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use

James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died

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