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Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-24 14:42:46

On Wednesday, Google announced a partnership with StopNCII.org to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), the company announced today . Over the next few months, Google will start using StopNCII’s hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them. Hashes are algorithmically-generated unique identifiers that allow services to identify and block imagery flagged as abuse without sharing or storing the actual source. StopNII says it uses PDQ f

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The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-09-24 18:10:00

Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now the same technology can compose a working genome. A research team in California says it used AI to propose new genetic codes for viruses—and managed to get several of them to replicate and kill bacteria. The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially engineered cells. But experts believe it is also an “impressive first step” toward AI-designed l

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Android 16 now makes a stronger Material 3 Expressive first impression with latest QPR beta

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 17:12:07

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 adds a new Material 3 Expressive look to the Setup Wizard. The redesigned Setup Wizard includes thicker buttons and a cleaner card-like UI on certain screens. Most users are likely to miss the changes as the Setup Wizard only appears on new or wiped devices, but a refresh was much needed to make a strong first impression. Google recently rolled out Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 for supported Pixel phones, packing in many key changes,

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You Had No Taste Before AI

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Sanabria 2025-09-24 18:00:44

There’s been an influx of people telling others to develop taste to use AI. Designers. Marketers. Developers. All of them touting the same message. It’s ironic, though. These are the same people who never questioned why their designs all look identical, never iterated beyond the first draft, and never asked if their work actually solved the problem at hand. They’re not alone. The loudest voices preaching about taste and AI are often the ones who never demonstrated taste before AI. What is Tast

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Your iPhone's Music App Gets a Handful of Upgrades With iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 17:00:03

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15 and the update brings call screening, new ringtones and lots of hidden features to your iPhone. The update also brings some new features to Apple Music ($11 a month) like a new crossfading feature called AutoMix and lyric translation. Apple Music has grown to be one of the largest music streaming platforms since it was released a decade ago. According to Statista, Apple Music had about 94 million paid subscribers as of June 2024. However, Spotify ($12 a month)

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Robotaxis as public transit? Waymo thinks so

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-24 18:00:00

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. Waymo is teaming up with tech transit startup Via to integrate its autonomous vehicles into city public transit networks, starting with a growing suburb of Phoenix. In Chandler, Arizona, Waymo’s robotaxis will soon join the town’s Flex

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Fortnite creators will soon be able to sell in-game items

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-09-24 18:49:37

Epic is continuing its attempts to turn Fortnite into a platform that’s bigger than just battle royale — this time by giving creators the ability to make and sell in-game items. Starting in December, Fortnite creators will be able to sell items directly from the islands they’ve built, using new tools that will be launching later on. The benefit, of course, is that creators on the platform will have a new revenue stream (currently, they earn revenue primarily based on engagement numbers). And Ep

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Bumble BFF’s revamped app is here, focusing on friend groups and community building

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-24 18:19:41

With friendship apps continuing to gain popularity, Bumble announced on Wednesday the relaunch of its Bumble For Friends (BFF) app. With younger generations seeking to expand their social circles, the revamped app aims to help users connect with new friends beyond the traditional one-on-one matching that BFF has been known for. The app is built on Geneva, the community-focused social platform Bumble acquired last year. This also means that the Geneva app will be shutting down. The move should

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Clean hydrogen is facing a big reality check

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-09-25 02:00:00

Here are three things to know about the state of hydrogen in 2025. 1. Expectations for annual clean hydrogen production by 2030 are shrinking, for the first time. While hydrogen has the potential to serve as a clean fuel, today most is made with processes that use fossil fuels. As of 2025, about a million metric tons of low-emissions hydrogen are produced annually. That’s less than 1% of total hydrogen production. In last year’s Global Hydrogen Report, the IEA projected that global production

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Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 00:30:59

We had reached out to Samsung for a statement, and this is what a Samsung spokesperson said: Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market. As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-net

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iOS 26 has a new full-screen UI when you take a screenshot on your iPhone, here’s how to change it back

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-25 03:30:45

The new iOS 26 software update for iPhone introduces a new full-screen preview experience when taking a screenshot. This includes some new visual lookup functionality, but it also can be a bit annoying if you just want to capture something for later and get on with what are you doing. iOS 18 and earlier would simply show a small unobtrusive thumbnail of the screenshot in the corner of the screen. Thankfully, this behavior is still possible on iOS 26 as well. Here’s how to change it back. First

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I recommend OnePlus' latest earbuds over pricey AirPods - get them while they're on sale

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-25 00:00:27

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Best Amazon Prime Day tablet deals 2025: My 12 favorite sales ahead of October

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-09-25 01:00:26

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-09-25 02:47:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Zoltan Kochan 2025-09-24 23:12:56

There have been several incidents recently where popular packages were successfully attacked. To reduce the risk of installing a compromised version, we are introducing a new setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies. In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly and the malicious versions are removed from the registry within an hour. The new setting is called minimumReleaseAge . It specifies the number of minutes that must pass after a version is published before

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A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-09-25 01:00:00

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that instead of being destroyed, it was transformed, incorporating the mass of that foreign body to become the planet we know. Recent research adds another layer of relevance to that hypothesized cosmic event: Scientists believe that without that other body, the basic conditions for life to emerge on Ear

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Samsung brings ads to US fridges

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-09-25 01:45:35

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market. As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising wi

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Reddit wants a better AI deal with Google: users in exchange for content

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-09-25 03:14:05

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Reddit wants more users and more money from Google in exchange for an even bigger mountain of data feeding its AI machine, according to Bloomberg. The negotiation shows a new front in the struggle between Big AI and content providers as they try to harvest new revenue streams without bleeding out the very traffic and engagement tha

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Ambrosia Sky is an essay on death masquerading as a sci-fi cleaning sim

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 19:45:22

Dalia is a death cleaner. Death cleaning, as we know it, is the process of sanitizing and tidying the spaces where people take their final breaths, sometimes long after their bodies have begun to decompose. It’s a job here on Earth in the year 2025, but Dalia’s version of death cleaning takes place on the rings of Saturn in a distant future filled with space travel, interplanetary colonization and devastating disease outbreaks. In this scenario, death cleaning involves spraying chemicals over b

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Students are using AI tools instead of building foundational skills - but resistance is growing

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-09-25 04:47:55

imaginima/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways There is growing concern about student dependence on AI. Today's computer science grads might understand less about IT systems. Some technology professors are pushing back against AI in classrooms. Whether you are studying information technology, teaching it, or creating the software that powers learning, it's clear that artificial intelligence is challenging and changing educatio

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Rendezvous Hashing Explained (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 16:36:10

Rendezvous hashing is an algorithm to solve the distributed hash table problem - a common and general pattern in distributed systems. There are three parts of the problem: Keys: unique identifiers for data or workloads Values: data or workloads that consume resources Servers: entities that manage data or workloads For example, in a distributed storage system, the key might be a filename, the value is the file data, and the servers are networked data servers that collectively store all of the f

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A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 23:25:59

Welcome to the world of text adventures! Here, we dive into the art of creating interactive stories that immerse players in thrilling, choice-driven narratives. Whether you're a fellow developer, a fan of retro games, or just curious about text-based adventures, this channel has something for you. Join me as I share insights, tips, and updates on my latest text games. Get ready to shape worlds, solve mysteries, and experience stories where your choices lead the way. Let's bring adventures to lif

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European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Berdugo 2025-09-25 02:27:01

The same Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) queen produced the hairy male Messor ibericus (on the left) and the hairless male Messor structor (on the right), despite them being members of distantly related species. Queen ants in southern Europe produce male clones of an entirely different species — tearing up the playbook of reproductive biology and suggesting we need to rethink our understanding of species barriers. The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all

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Towards a Physics Foundation Model

news.ycombinator.com Wiesner 2025-09-25 00:06:08

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History of the Gem Desktop Environment

news.ycombinator.com Nemanja Trifunovic 2025-09-25 03:55:28

Sometime in 1988, the keyboard of my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K was finally broken beyond repair, and I asked my parents for a 128K version of the same computer. Instead, they surprised me with an Atari 520 ST. It was my first real-world experience with a graphical desktop environment, complete with windows, icons, and a mouse. The ST was an amazing machine, not only compared to my poor old “Speccy” and similar cheap home computers, but even to the IBM PC compatibles in my school’s comp-sci lab,

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Meta unveils its second-gen Ray-Ban smart glasses at Connect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 02:14:56

As expected, Meta has introduced new smart glasses during its Connect conference today. The announcements included a “Gen 2” of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which retail starting at $379. There are a bunch of upgrades over the $299 Ray-Ban Meta set that the duo released in 2023. Meta highlighted improvements to battery life, which it says now lasts up to eight hours with "typical use." The included charging case now provides an additional 48 hours of juice, versus 32 hours for the current one. The

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Grade 2 Braille

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:49:34

Tactile writing system for English English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩,[2] correspond to more than one letter in print. There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to

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Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 04:18:45

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One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

news.ycombinator.com Dirk-Jan Mollema 2025-09-25 01:03:21

While preparing for my Black Hat and DEF CON talks in July of this year, I found the most impactful Entra ID vulnerability that I will probably ever find. This vulnerability could have allowed me to compromise every Entra ID tenant in the world (except probably those in national cloud deployments). If you are an Entra ID admin reading this, yes that means complete access to your tenant. The vulnerability consisted of two components: undocumented impersonation tokens, called “Actor tokens”, that

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Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses have twice the battery life

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-25 02:07:37

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta has announced a new generation of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, featuring significantly improved battery life and the ability to record 3K video, which brings them up to par with the Oakley HSTN smart glasses. The new glasses, technically called the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, are available

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