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Apple launches the ‘American Manufacturing Program,’ with a new $100B commitment to the US

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 10:12:21

Apple just announced a new “$100 billion commitment to America”, which includes plans to move the manufacturing of all of the cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch to the U.S. Here are the details. Apple’s investment in the U.S. to reach $600 billion over the next four years As Apple investors certainly noticed today, the company’s stock spent most of the day riding on a +5% bump on the news that CEO Tim Cook would join President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to announce a new investment in

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Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-12-13 06:27:55

Roman Storm, one of the developers of crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, has been found guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business by a jury in a court in New York. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. In 2023, the US Department of Justice charged Storm with three violations: conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to violate sanctions, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. On Wednesday, at the e

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Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan after pressure from Donald Trump

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-13 10:07:49

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple is putting another $100 billion toward expanding manufacturing in the US as the company responds to pressure from President Donald Trump to manufacture more of its products in the US. The move builds upon the company’s initial plan to invest $500 billion in the US over the next four years, and includes a new American Manufacturing Program that

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Watch live: Apple CEO Cook joins Trump for investment announcement at White House

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-13 15:18:46

CEO Tim Cook will join President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for an announcement touting an update to the company's stated plans to spend and invest in the U.S. It's scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET. Apple will raise its previous commitment, made in February, from $500 billion to $600 billion over the next four years, a White House official told CNBC. It will also announce a new manufacturing effort called the American Manufacturing Program, the official said. Apple shares rose 5% during tradin

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

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:20:52

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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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 12:43:29

Overview Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities. Well into the 20th century, SROs were the least expensive option on the housing market, providing a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollar

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Grand Canyon ‘Megafire’ Explodes in Size and Is Now Creating Its Own Weather

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-13 15:15:02

Despite over a month of firefighting efforts, the Dragon Bravo fire experienced a surge of growth this week, doubling in size within just a few days. The northern Arizona “megafire” is now the largest active blaze in the continental U.S. and the largest of 2025 so far. As of Wednesday, August 6, the Dragon Bravo fire has torched 130,520 acres along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, according to the national wildfire monitoring database InciWeb. This fire sparked to life when lightning struck the ar

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For regulated industries, AWS’s neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-13 20:05:50

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 AWS is banking on the fact that by bringing its Automated Reasoning Checks feature on Bedrock to general availability, it will give more enterprises and regulated industries the confidence to use and deploy more AI applications and agents. It is also hoping that introducing methods like automated reasoning, which utilizes math-based valida

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I wore the best smartwatches from Samsung, Apple, and Google - here's how Galaxy Watch 8 wins

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-13 20:11:00

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 is available for purchase now at a starting price of $349. It's a capable smartwatch with all the usual health metrics, along with Samsung's Running Coach, bedtime guidance, and recovery insights. Some features feel more experimental than scientific, like Antioxidant Index and BMI, which failed to work several times. View now at Samsung Samsung's latest smartwatches have arrived. The Galaxy Watch 8 lineup, which includes bo

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Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

news.ycombinator.com John Wang 2025-12-13 17:38:09

Why blocking LLMs from your website is dumb John Wang 2 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share Perplexity was recently accused of scraping sites that had explicitly disallowed LLM crawlers in their robots.txt files. In the wake of that revelation, a wave of how-to guides for blocking large-language-model scraping has surfaced [0]. They’re generally highly vitriolic, with people opposing this on both moral grounds (“AI is stealing your content”) as well as displaying a general distaste

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States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:43:29

Overview Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities. Well into the 20th century, SROs were the least expensive option on the housing market, providing a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollar

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Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 23:08:11

Instagram just announced an update with some long-requested features. The most notable is the introduction of a location-sharing tool for friends. Once opted into, the map shares a user's last active location with chosen contacts. The location sharing feature is turned off until selected and there are numerous customization controls. For instance, Instagram users can choose to share location data with all friends, Close Friends, selected accounts or nobody at all. This data can be restricted wh

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Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:17:46

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer. Guided Learning will be available as toggle in the prompt box of Gemini as the feature rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will treat quest

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You can now try Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot AI assistant on PC

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:48:53

Microsoft revealed that it was working on an AI chatbot specifically for gamers back in March, and now it's here for a test drive. The beta version of Gaming Copilot is available to Xbox Insiders on PC via the Game Bar functionality. It's also available to try on Windows-based handheld gaming devices, but the company says the functionality there is currently limited. A variant of this tool recently launched as a beta for mobile . This is kind of like an AI version of those old Nintendo phone he

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Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 20:47:02

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:42:19

Snowball the dancing cockatoo gets down with his bad self to the Backstreet Boys. In 2008, a YouTube video featuring an Eleanora cockatoo named Snowball dancing to the beat of the Backstreet Boys went viral. His killer moves stunned scientists, since the ability to synchronize body movements to music was believed to be a uniquely human activity. Nor is Snowball an isolated case. Griffi the Dancing Cockatoo has his own YouTube channel, for example, and a recent TikTok video showed two sister coc

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Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-14 00:18:10

As the new school year approaches, Google announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new tool called Guided Learning within Gemini. The tool sort of functions like an AI tutor, as it’s designed to help users build a deep understanding instead of just getting answers. The launch follows just over a week after OpenAI rolled out Study Mode for ChatGPT, which is also designed to go beyond simply obtaining answers to questions by actually helping users develop critical thinking skills. Both compa

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Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-14 02:49:56

Meta is updating Instagram today with some familiar social network features from other services. For example, the photo- and video-sharing service is basically getting its own version of the classic retweet. Separately, Instagram continues to take inspiration from Snapchat with its own social map feature. Instagram is two months shy of turning 15, and as a sign of maturity, we’re getting the first official repost button: With reposts, you can repost public reels and feed posts, making it easie

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The Hulu App May Not Be Long for This World

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-14 10:00:08

Hulu shows and movies have been available to stream on Disney+ for a while now, but Disney announced today that it finally plans to fully merge the two into a single app. Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Hugh Johnston dropped the news in the company’s third-quarter earnings report this morning. In a statement, the two said that work is already underway to introduce new improvements in the Disney+ app in the coming months, including a more personalized homepage. They added that all this work will cu

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Trump’s trade and environment policies are a disaster for carmakers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-14 10:58:42

An ill wind blows through the automotive industry. Yesterday, after the market closed, Rivian reported its results for the second quarter of 2025, and they weren't great. Unlike the last two quarters, Rivian did not make a gross profit, and it's estimating it will have a larger loss this year than first predicted. A day earlier, it was Lucid's turn: The Saudi-backed EV startup also missed analyst estimates for the quarter, and Lucid says it will build fewer cars this year than originally planned

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Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Copilot to the Windows Game Bar

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-14 10:00:00

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. Microsoft started testing its Xbox Copilot on iOS and Android earlier this year, and now it’s bringing the chatbot to the Game Bar feature on Windows 11. Xbox Insiders can start testing a preview of the Gaming Copilot integration in the Game Bar today, and Microsoft is planning “further opt

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ESPN’s new streaming service arrives August 21

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 15:00:26

ESPN’s long-awaited new standalone streaming service will launch on August 21, alongside an overhauled ESPN app that gives users a "more personalized, dynamic viewing experience." Simply (and potentially confusingly) called ESPN, the new platform arrives just ahead of the new NFL season and the US Open tennis competition, as well as a number of other returning sports that ESPN broadcasts. ESPN’s streaming service will be offered with a choice of two plans. The $30 per month ($300 annually) "unl

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Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest paths

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-12-14 14:43:02

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost. You may end up spending too much time putting the pieces in order. This dilemma is especially relevant to one of the most iconic problems in computer science: finding the shortest path from a specific starting point in a network to every other point. It’s like a souped-up version of a problem you n

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Russia’s Colossal Earthquake May Have Ignited Multiple Volcanoes

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-14 15:55:09

The sixth strongest earthquake ever recorded struck Russia’s far east Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 and has seemingly triggered a string of nearby volcanoes. According to the United States Geological Survey, it’s not uncommon for large earthquakes to cause volcanic activity, though volcanoes will only erupt if they were already close to erupting on their own. Depending on its magnitude, the earthquake must also occur within a certain distance from the volcano. Klyuchevskaya, one of the highes

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How to Watch Arsenal vs. Villarreal From Anywhere: Stream Preseason Friendly Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 14:00:04

Arsenal's preparations for the upcoming English Premier League campaign continue on Wednesday as the north London club returns to home turf to take on La Liga outfit Villarreal in the first match of the Emirates Cup preseason tournament. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch this friendly match as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Summer signings Viktor Gyökeres, Christian Nørga

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ESPN's Standalone Streaming Service and App to Launch Aug. 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 14:07:00

Just in time for the NFL and college football seasons, ESPN will launch its flagship streaming service and app Aug. 21. The service, which will simply be called ESPN, will cost $30 as a standalone service or $36 a month if bundled with Disney+ and Hulu. The NFL season kicks off on Sept. 4, and the first set of college games are scheduled for Aug. 23. Subscribers will receive access to all of ESPN's live games for all sports and programming from ESPN on ABC, ESPN2 and the SEC Network. On Wednes

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Apple to announce $100B further commitment for US manufacturing

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-14 14:30:45

In Brief Apple plans to increase its commitment to U.S. manufacturing, according to a White House official cited and first reported by Reuters. The tech giant is set to announce Wednesday another $100 billion in spending to help boost production of its products here in the U.S., after previously committing to invest $500 billion in the country over the next four years. The $500 billion commitment includes opening a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support

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Disney’s killing off the Hulu app, and that could be an expensive problem for you

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 20:27:31

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Disney is currently the sole owner of Hulu. While Disney has added Hulu content to Disney Plus, so far the apps have continued to exist separately. That’s set to change next year, as Disney shutters the Hulu app in favor of full Disney Plus integration. The streaming landscape is messy, to put things mildly. If we didn’t have enough conflict between services fighting over streaming rights, like the current acrimony between HBO Max and Paramount over

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The Pixel 6 Pro camera crashes when zooming, and there is no fix in sight

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 20:42:24

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR A persistent bug causes the Pixel 6 Pro’s camera app to crash when switching from 1x to 4x during a 4K 30fps video. Despite appearing as early as February and spanning multiple updates, there’s still no official fix. Customer service allegedly blames hardware, requiring out-of-warranty repairs. Although the Pixel 6 series is a few years old, the flagship phones still have plenty of life left. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are promised to receive updates until

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The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals

news.ycombinator.com Junzi Sun 2025-12-11 10:54:34

In the last twenty years, aircraft surveillance has moved from controller-based interrogation to automatic broadcast. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is one of the most common methods for aircraft to report their state information like identity, position, and speed. Like other Mode S communications, ADS-B makes use of the 1090 megahertz transponder to transmit data. The protocol for ADS-B is open, and low-cost receivers can easily be used to intercept its signals. Many rec

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Apple launches the ‘American Manufacturing Program,’ with a new $100B commitment to the US

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case

Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan after pressure from Donald Trump

Watch live: Apple CEO Cook joins Trump for investment announcement at White House

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

States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

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Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option

Instagram's new location sharing feature sure looks a lot like the Snap Map

Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

You can now try Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot AI assistant on PC

Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

Cockatoos know 30 distinct dance moves

Google takes on ChatGPT’s Study Mode with new ‘Guided Learning’ tool in Gemini

Instagram adds two familiar social media features to its app

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Trump’s trade and environment policies are a disaster for carmakers

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Disney’s killing off the Hulu app, and that could be an expensive problem for you

The Pixel 6 Pro camera crashes when zooming, and there is no fix in sight

The 1090 Megahertz Riddle: A Guide to Decoding Mode S and ADS-B Signals

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