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The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-12 10:10:00

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta aims to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have a recipe for achieving that goal, and the first ingredient is human talent: Zuckerberg has reportedly tried to lure top researchers to Meta Superintelligence Labs with nine-figure offers. The second ingredient is AI itself. Zuckerberg recently said on an earnings call that Meta will focus on building self-improving AI—systems that can bootstrap themselves to higher and higher levels of performa

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Anker's 10K Qi2 magnetic power bank drops to $60

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 10:45:35

A power bank with a wireless charging option is a very handy device for anyone who's typically on the go. It's probably worth having a fully charged one on hand in case of a power outage too. Anker makes some of our favorite power banks, and one with a Qi2 charging function and 10,000mAh capacity is currently on sale. You can snap it up for $60. That's a 25 percent discount on the list price of $80. It is also the lowest price for this model so far in 2025. The power bank is currently available

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Google's Jules AI coding tool exits beta with serious upgrades - and more free tasks

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-12 10:36:09

Natalya_Yudina/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's Jules coding agent is out of beta, with clear pricing tiers. Even the free tier has newer, more generous usage limits. Updates include improved AI and better setup management. Google's coding AI Jules is out of beta. Announced in a blog post on Wednesday, the coding helper will be powered by Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro LLM. You might recall that Google also recently announced its Gemini CLI GitHub Actions coding tool. What do all these

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3 charging mistakes slowly killing your tablet - and what to do instead

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-12 10:42:05

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Unplug at 100%, keep battery between 20% and 80%. Avoid draining to 0%; store unused tablets at 50%. Use certified chargers to prevent stress and overheating. As someone who uses a tablet daily, I'm constantly looking for ways to make its battery last longer. However, some habits you don't think twice about could actually be hurting your battery over time. There are ways to extend your tablet's battery life, and there are some things you should avoid t

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Ceretone Core One Pro Hearing Aids Review: A Blunt Instrument

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-12-12 09:30:00

Ceretone, born on Indiegogo, hit the scene last year with impressively tiny hardware that still remains one of the smallest and lightest hearing aids I’ve ever reviewed. At just 0.96 grams each, the Ceretone Core One were so light they threatened to blow away in the wind. With a price of $349 per pair, they had a similarly minimal effect on your bank account. The trouble with the original Ceretone Core One is that they just weren’t very good as hearing aids. They were not tunable, suffered from

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Best Tested Walking Pads (2025): Urevo, WalkingPad, Sperax

wired.com Kristin Canning 2025-12-12 10:30:00

Sitting at your desk all day is literally a pain. It’s bad for your mental and physical health and slowly turns you into a hunched-over keyboard gargoyle. You could take walking breaks away from your screen, but even then you’re still spending a lot of the day on your butt. Enter: the walking pad. These tiny treadmills fit under standing desks and allow you to rack up steps while you work. It might sound far-fetched, but yes, you can exercise and be productive on your computer at the same time.

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DJI goes from drones to dust with launch of new robot vacuum

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 17:15:30

DJI TL;DR Drone-maker DJI has entered into a new category with the launch of its robot vacuum lineup. The DJI Romo uses two panoramic cameras along with three lasers to scan for objects while it is cleaning. There are three models, including a transparent Romo P, which looks like something Nothing would design. DJI is a popular name when it comes to drones, video stabilization rigs, and action cameras. But the company recently entered into an entirely new category outside its forte of imagin

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Activity? Journeys? Library? Google just can’t stop renaming this history view (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:00:51

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Android app offers a tab that displays your search history and saved items. Previously called Saved, Google changed it into Activity earlier this year. Now we’re also seeing Journeys and Library labels in testing, with even more names in the running. What’s in a name, anyway? Maybe a lot, actually, and if you’re trying to design a user interface that’s as intuitive as possible, the choice of labels you apply can end up mattering quite a bi

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YouTube will soon let Android users switch off that annoying Auto Zoom feature (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:30:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A few weeks back, YouTube’s Android app introduced a new Auto Zoom feature that automatically zooms in on videos in landscape mode, with no way of turning it off in settings. Auto Zoom is separate from the “Zoom to fill screen” option and activates inconsistently, causing frustration amongst YouTube users. Thankfully, YouTube is preparing to add a new toggle in the app’s settings to turn off Auto Zoom. A few weeks ago, users began noticing a new Auto

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Galaxy phones will soon gain voice phishing detection with One UI 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 20:29:34

Samsung already offers a Smart Call feature to fight spam calls, but voice phishing attacks have emerged as a new threat. This sees criminals use AI to copy someone else’s voice in a bid to swindle their loved ones. Now, Samsung has announced a feature to address this tactic. Samsung announced on its Korean-language Community forum that it will offer a ‘Voice Phishing Suspected Call Alert’ feature in stable One UI 8: When calling an unknown number, we detect and notify you in real time using A

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Massive IPTV piracy service with 28,000 channels taken offline

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-12 20:13:47

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced the shutdown of Rare Breed TV, a major illegal IPTV service provider, after reaching a financial settlement with its operators. North Carolina-based Rare Breed TV was one of the world's largest digital piracy operations, claiming to offer subscribers access to over 28,000 channels and more than 100,000 movies and series. "As part of the agreement, the operators will permanently shut down their illegal service and pay a significant f

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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference doing so

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-12 18:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underutili

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Children's movie leads art historian to long-lost Hungarian masterpiece (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 22:21:00

A long-lost avant garde painting has returned to Hungary after nine decades thanks to a sharp-eyed art historian, who spotted it being used as a prop in the Hollywood film Stuart Little. Gergely Barki, 43, a researcher at Hungary’s national gallery in Budapest, noticed Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by Róbert Berény as he watched television with his daughter Lola in 2009. “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Bereny’s long-lost masterpiece on the wall behind Hugh Laurie. I nearly dropped Lola

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Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 03:53:44

Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models Markus Schütz, Christoph Peters, Florian Hahlbohm, Elmar Eisemann, Marcus Magnor, Michael Wimmer. 2025–06 in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. HPG) 44, 8. Official version Abstract We present Splatshop, a highly optimized toolbox for interactive editing (selection, deletion, painting, transformation, ...) of 3D Gaussian Splatting models. Utilizing a comprehensive collection of heuristic approaches, we carefully balance between exact an

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Apple to Pump $100 Billion More Toward Manufacturing in US

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 05:23:00

Apple said Wednesday it plans to invest another $100 billion during the next four years to increase manufacturing in the US. The company's wide-ranging announcement -- which was leaked early by the White House -- said it will now spend $600 billion to hire more US workers and expand some of its manufacturing across 10 states. Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to unveil its American Manufacturing Program. The program includes plans to develop 100%

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Grinding Your Teeth While Sleeping? Here's How to Stop Naturally

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 16:48:03

If you're dealing with jaw, tooth, ear or head pain, especially in the morning, you may have sleep bruxism, which means you're grinding or clenching your teeth when you sleep. If you have a mild case, you can try to treat it and soothe your symptoms at home. If you have a more severe case or it doesn't improve, make sure you see your dentist or doctor for treatment. Why do I grind my teeth when I sleep? Before we explain how to stop grinding your teeth, let's take a step back and look at what

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The lawyer who beat Tesla is ready for ‘round two’

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-12 21:00:00

The day after he won an unprecedented $243 million verdict in a wrongful death case against Tesla, attorney Brett Schreiber posted a reel on Instagram celebrating the victory. His song pick: 1992’s “Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta” by the Geto Boys. “This is a verdict that will change the world,” Schreiber wrote in the caption, as Bushwick Bill, Willie D, and Scarface rap in the background about how “everything’s cool in the mind of a gangsta.” If that sounds like hyperbole, mixed with a do

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Microsoft accidentally confirms GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano ahead of launch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:49:12

OpenAI is hosting a live stream at 10AM PT to announce GPT-5, but Microsoft has already confirmed the details. In a GitHub document, which has now been taken offline, Microsoft confirmed GPT-5 is launching later today. While it was obvious, this is the first official confirmation. Microsoft also offered more details on GPT-5 models, including the base model, which is called just GPT-5. It is designed for logic and multi-step tasks. We also have GPT-5-mini, which is a lightweight version for c

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Debounce

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 18:04:13

Debouncing, in the context of programming, means to discard operations that occur too close together during a specific interval, and consolidate them into a single invocation. Debouncing is very similar to throttling. The key difference is that throttling enforces limits on continuous operations, while debouncing waits for invocations to stop for a specific time to consolidate many noisy invocations into one single invocation. A typical use case of debouncing is when responding to user input.

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Tim Cook gifts Trump with 100% US-made piece of glass on a 24k gold base

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-12 16:59:15

During today’s Oval Office announcement of the American Manufacturing Program (AMP), a visibly nervous Tim Cook presented President Trump with a “unique unit of one” piece of Kentucky-made glass, mounted on a 24k gold stand crafted in Utah. A unique unit of one As the press briefing began, Cook stood alongside Trump and in front of a pair of easels displaying the projected returns from Apple’s $600 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing over the next four years. He also held a big, white bo

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

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-12 20:07:46

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 2025-12-12 20:20:53

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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Apple increases US commitment to $600B, announces American Manufacturing Program

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 18:13:33

August 6, 2025 PRESS RELEASE Apple increases U.S. commitment to $600 billion, announces American Manufacturing Program Apple supports more than 450,000 jobs with thousands of suppliers and partners across all 50 states — including significant expansions in Arizona, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, and Utah CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. investment that now

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Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-13 05:05:58

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that in key ways, it may be a contagious condition. In a provocative new study published in the journal Metabolism, scientists from South Korea and the United States found, while doing studies on human cells and with mice, that injecting the DNA messenger protein HMGB1 from an older individual can result in processes that very much look like aging. Though it typically lives within cell nuclei and

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

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-13 05:11:20

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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Woman wins $200,000 case after her phone started a house fire while charging

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 05:53:31

TL;DR A woman has been awarded the equivalent of $200,000 after her phone caused a house fire while charging. The court ruled the LG K8 was defective and failed to meet safety expectations. Most of the payout will go to her insurer, but she also received compensation for injuries. We’ve heard multiple reports of the Google Pixel 6a melting down over recent months, but nothing as nightmarish as this. For one woman, her plugged-in Android phone caused a house fire, eventually leading to a six-f

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Every iPhone and Apple Watch sold worldwide will ‘soon’ have a US-made cover glass

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 05:59:07

During today’s announcement of Apple’s American Manufacturing Program, the company confirmed that it will expand its partnership with Corning to produce 100% of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky. Here are the details. ’The largest and most advanced production line ever created for smartphone glass’ As part of today’s commitment to invest an extra $100B in domestic manufacturing, Apple said that $2.5B will go toward expanding its partnership with Corning. Thanks to the new project

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Apple Commits $100 Billion More Toward US Manufacturing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 04:20:00

Apple says it's increasing its investment in US production by another $100 billion over the next four years. The company said Wednesday in a wide-ranging announcement that was leaked early by the White House that it will expand to $600 billion total its commitment to hire more US workers and expand some of its manufacturing across 10 states. Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to unveil its American Manufacturing Program, which includes plans for 10

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Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on computer chips with a gigantic loophole

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-13 05:25:28

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In the very first week of his presidency, Donald Trump vowed to force silicon manufacturing back to the United States by making processors more expensive, a threat he’s repeated since. Is he finally going through with that plan? Trump just announced he’

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iOS 26 gives AirPods charging case a new, expanded lighting system

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-13 10:04:25

It’s become common for AirPods to get new features with each major version of iOS. That’s true with iOS 26, especially for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4. But it seems iOS 26 also introduces a rarity: an update to how the AirPods charging case works. One of iOS 26’s new AirPods-related features involves the battery. There are new charging notifications that let you know when you should charge, and when your AirPods are fully charged. These are similar to existing Dynamic Island battery indicators,

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Latest Tech News

The Download: how AI is improving itself, and hidden greenhouse gases

Anker's 10K Qi2 magnetic power bank drops to $60

Google's Jules AI coding tool exits beta with serious upgrades - and more free tasks

3 charging mistakes slowly killing your tablet - and what to do instead

Ceretone Core One Pro Hearing Aids Review: A Blunt Instrument

Best Tested Walking Pads (2025): Urevo, WalkingPad, Sperax

DJI goes from drones to dust with launch of new robot vacuum

Activity? Journeys? Library? Google just can’t stop renaming this history view (APK teardown)

YouTube will soon let Android users switch off that annoying Auto Zoom feature (APK teardown)

Galaxy phones will soon gain voice phishing detection with One UI 8

Massive IPTV piracy service with 28,000 channels taken offline

How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference doing so

Children's movie leads art historian to long-lost Hungarian masterpiece (2014)

Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

Apple to Pump $100 Billion More Toward Manufacturing in US

Grinding Your Teeth While Sleeping? Here's How to Stop Naturally

The lawyer who beat Tesla is ready for ‘round two’

Microsoft accidentally confirms GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano ahead of launch

Debounce

Tim Cook gifts Trump with 100% US-made piece of glass on a 24k gold base

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

The Inkhaven Blogging Residency

Apple increases US commitment to $600B, announces American Manufacturing Program

Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious

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

Woman wins $200,000 case after her phone started a house fire while charging

Every iPhone and Apple Watch sold worldwide will ‘soon’ have a US-made cover glass

Apple Commits $100 Billion More Toward US Manufacturing

Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on computer chips with a gigantic loophole

iOS 26 gives AirPods charging case a new, expanded lighting system

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