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FEMA’s Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-25 21:23:54

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “is much more responsive under President Trump to people’s needs than it has been under previous administrations.” Speaking at the public third meeting of the FEMA Review Council, a group appointed by Donald Trump at the beginning of this year to oversee reform of the agency, Noem encouraged those listening to “be vocal” about positive interactions with the Trump administration

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FEMA's Chaotic Summer Has Gone From Bad to Worse

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-26 02:23:54

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed that FEMA “is much more responsive under President Trump to people’s needs than it has been under previous administrations.” Speaking at the public third meeting of the FEMA Review Council, a group appointed by Donald Trump at the beginning of this year to oversee reform of the agency, Noem encouraged those listening to “be vocal” about positive interactions with the Trump administration. “Tell the story of how different

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Qualcomm’s next Elite processor could have a ridiculously confusing name

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 16:02:12

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the next Snapdragon 8 Elite chip could be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. This is a major departure from the expected Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 or 8 Elite Gen 2 names. We’re guessing this is because Qualcomm is readying an apparent Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip as well. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite late last year, and this represented a change in naming convention after the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. We were expecting the Snap

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We Asked Dentists: What's the Best Whitening Toothpaste of 2025?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 15:32:00

Why we like it: Colgate Optic White Pro Series toothpaste is one whitening toothpaste that Dr. Fatima Khan, a dentist in Houston, Texas, recommends. Some of her reasons for recommending it include its trusted brand name and its 5% hydrogen peroxide whitening agent. Unlike other whitening agents that work by removing stains on the surface of the tooth, hydrogen peroxide can get inside the tooth so it whitens intrinsically as well as extrinsically. Sachar also recommends this toothpaste, saying,

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Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

news.ycombinator.com Ben O'Mahony 2025-10-27 13:34:29

Learning by doing Ben O’Mahony is Principal AI Engineer at Thoughtworks. He is a results-driven AI/Engineering leader with a track record of building high-performing teams and shipping business-critical AI, ML and data products and platforms at scale. He has deep expertise across the full Engineering and Data lifecycle from research to production deployment. Ben is adept at defining technical strategy, driving execution and partnering cross-functionally to deliver measurable impact. Recently Be

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AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-28 00:00:00

What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support — automated from day one. This panel, hosted on the Builders Stage, features a mix of technical founders and seasoned operators who are actually doing it, debating where the line between human and machi

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) review: Still a noise-canceling powerhouse

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 06:30:17

Bose announced its latest earbuds in June , but the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) ($299) won’t arrive until early September. Today, though, they’re available for preorder, and I’ve spent the last few weeks testing all the new features. This model is an overhaul of the noise-canceling earbuds the company debuted in 2023 alongside its take on spatial audio. Among the upgrades, Bose has improved the active noise cancellation (ANC) performance, enhanced call quality and added wireless chargin

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How AI agents can eliminate waste in your business - and why that's smarter than cutting costs

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-10-28 06:48:00

Hazal Ak / iStock via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI agents help identify and remove waste in business. All waste is costly, but not all costs are wasteful. CEOs pursue cost efficiency with AI to protect performance. In an AI-powered economy, business leaders are focused on enhancing the productivity and efficiency of their workforce and operations. To accelerate value creation, while focusing on cost reductions and efficiencie

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Stats suggest Apple’s slow rollout of AI agent capabilities may be wise

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-29 03:24:26

One of the many delayed Apple Intelligence features is known as App Intents, and we’re starting to see evidence that taking an extremely cautious approach to the rollout may be no bad thing. Before the comments catch fire, I should stress that I’m most assuredly not giving Apple a free pass on the slow rollout of new Siri capabilities in general. There are a great many capabilities which should very definitely have been launched years ago. Indeed, I’ve argued that the delay is now so embarrassi

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23 of the Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Netflix Has to Offer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 02:00:04

So you're looking for a solid sci-fi TV show to add to your Netflix binge list? Well, friend, you've come to the right place. The streamer has long-established itself as the gold standard for genre entertainment. If you're anything like me, you've already tackled the platform's big hit series like Stranger Things and Black Mirror. You want something else -- and I put together a list that will surely scratch that genre itch. Sci-fi fans are passionate and can also be a fickle bunch. It makes sen

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OpenAI Plans to Add Parental Controls to ChatGPT After Lawsuit Over Teen's Death

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 13:35:47

OpenAI has announced its plans to implement parental controls and enhanced safety measures for ChatGPT after parents filed a lawsuit this week in California state court alleging the popular AI chatbot contributed to their 16-year-old son's suicide earlier this year. The company said it feels "a deep responsibility to help those who need it most," and is working to better respond to situations involving chatbot users who may be experiencing mental health crises and suicidal ideation. "We will a

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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-10-29 05:36:43

As cybercrime surges around the world, new research increasingly shows that ransomware is evolving as a result of widely available generative AI tools. In some cases, attackers are using AI to draft more intimidating and coercive ransom notes and conduct more effective extortion attacks. But cybercriminals’ use of generative AI is rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Researchers from the generative AI company Anthropic today revealed that attackers are leaning on generative AI more heavily—somet

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FEMA Staffers Warned of Looming ‘Katrina-Level’ Disaster, Then Got Suspended

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-29 18:50:58

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing nearly 1,400 people and displacing up to 1.2 million more. The storm’s impact overwhelmed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, revealing fatal flaws in its disaster response. The agency’s failure prompted Congress to overhaul FEMA largely through the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMRA). This set higher expectations for its leaders and enhanced its autonomy within the Department of Homela

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911 centers are so understaffed, they’re turning to AI to answer calls

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-29 18:42:12

When Max Keenan joined Y Combinator’s summer 2022 batch, he was working on Aurelian, a company that automated appointment bookings for hair salons. But less than a year later, a conversation with one of his clients led him to a far more significant problem. A nearby school’s carpool line was constantly blocking the parking lot of one of Aurelian’s hair salon clients. The salon owner called the city’s non-emergency line and was put on hold for 45 minutes before reaching a dispatcher. “She called

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Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 20:25:38

You can now interact with third-party agents directly within Zed. To make this possible, we created the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), and we've partnered with Google to integrate Gemini CLI as the initial reference implementation. Because software developers rely on diverse tools in a variety of different tech stacks, we see room for multiple agents competing to solve problems in different domains. Just as the Language Server Protocol unbundled language intelligence from monolithic IDEs, our goa

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Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

news.ycombinator.com Matt Von Hippel 2025-10-30 01:40:08

According to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the behavior of a black hole depends on two numbers: how heavy it is, and how fast it is rotating. And that’s it. Black holes are said to have “no hair” — no features that distinguish them from their fellows with the same mass and spin. With new data, it has started to become possible to test this no-hair conjecture. Astronomers have detected hundreds of signals from colliding black holes over the past 10 years. In these dramatic even

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Trump administration suspends FEMA employees who warned about disaster response

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-30 02:37:15

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. FEMA has suspended at least 30 employees after they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps in leadership hurt the agency’s ability to respond to disasters. The employees rece

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Meta’s Already Bleeding AI Talent Two Months Into Hiring Spree

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-30 06:45:09

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the first to achieve AI superintelligence, a type of artificial intelligence that is smarter than the average human, and a concept that some experts are still highly skeptical. To do so, Zuckerberg announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs in late June, a team dedicated to helping AI catch up to and beat its peers in the AI race. With that, he sparked a multi-million dollar hiring frenzy. Meta began poaching talent from competitors, the main ta

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This is the most popular AI app - and you might be surprised by the runner-up

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-30 10:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT and Gemini are the top two gen AI platforms. Grok's users have increased, while DeepSeek's are down. Vibe coding continues to be a steadily growing use of gen AI. Consumer generative AI products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini continue to transform our daily digital lives. These are the web products and mobile apps making the biggest impact. Also: My top 5 free AI too

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The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as we thought

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 18:16:33

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of stars to form the first planets. The first stars were initially composed of pure hydrogen and helium, and they were massive—hundreds to thousands of times the mass of the Sun and millions of times more luminous. Their short lives ended in enormous explosions called supernovae, so they had neither the

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2025 VW Jetta GLI: Save the manuals, but not like this

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 22:39:10

Manual transmissions have gone the way of the dodo, but you can still find a few out there. Bless Volkswagen for keeping the helical gears turning, both literally and figuratively. The 2025 Jetta GLI, Volkswagen's sporty sedan, still offers a gear lever with actual gears attached at the other end, and a third pedal hanging down from under the dash. Meanwhile, Golf GTI fans are still sobbing in their beer because 2024 was the last model year you could row your own in the hot hatch—now it's paddle

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AI Is Everywhere in Photoshop. These Are the Best Tools I Found While Editing Photos

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-31 10:00:07

Photoshop is chock-full of new tools powered by generative AI. I spend a lot of time reviewing AI image generators and other AI creative software, and I've learned that not all AI tools are built equal. So I knew I had to take Photoshop's AI for a spin to see how it stacked up. AI might not be right for every Photoshop project you do, especially if you're a professional creator who regularly uses the program. There are some good tools to help your creative workflows, but you need to spend time

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How procedural memory can cut the cost and complexity of AI agents

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-31 09:37:23

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 technique from Zhejiang University and Alibaba Group gives large language model (LLM) agents a dynamic memory, making them more efficient and effective at complex tasks. The technique, called Memp, provides agents with a “procedural memory” that is continuously updated as they gain experience, much like how humans learn from practice.

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One-shot vaccines for HIV and covid

technologyreview.com Anne Trafton 2025-10-31 17:00:00

Irvine and MIT professor J. Christopher Love, the senior authors of a paper on the work, had found that the combination helped generate more robust immune responses. In the new paper, they showed that the dual-adjuvant vaccine accumulated in the lymph nodes, where white blood cells known as B cells encounter antigens and undergo rapid mutations that generate new antibodies. The vaccine’s antigens remained there for up to a month, allowing the immune system to build up a much greater number and d

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Enterprise leaders say recipe for AI agents is matching them to existing processes — not the other way around

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-10-31 21:46:19

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 There’s no question that AI agents — those that can work autonomously and asynchronously behind the scenes in enterprise workflows — are the topic du jour in enterprise right now. But there’s increasing concern that it’s all just that — talk, mostly hype, without much substance behind it. Gartner, for one, observes that enterprises are at

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Framework Laptop 16

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 16:12:30

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU 798 AI TOPS Up to 100W TGP (on AC) Up to 50W TGP (on battery) 8GB GDDR7 memory 128-bit memory bus 384GB/s memory bandwidth 2.0GHz base clock and up to 2.4GHz boost USB-C port with DP Alt Mode and charging 4,608 CUDA cores DLSS 4 5th gen tensor cores 4th gen ray tracing 1x 9th gen NVIDIA encoder 1x 6th gen NVIDIA decoder Radeon™ RX 7700S (2nd Gen) 32 compute units Up to 100W TGP (on AC) 8GB 18Gbps GDDR6 memory USB-C port with DP Alt Mode

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Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 13:39:46

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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Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-31 21:10:59

Anthropic is launching a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models, the company announced on Tuesday. The agent, Claude for Chrome, is rolling out to a group of 1000 subscribers on Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs between $100 and $200 per month. The company is also opening a waitlist for other interested users. By adding an extension to Chrome, select users can now chat with Claude in a sidecar window that maintains context of everything happening on their b

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Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 21:05:02

How is Smooth different from other browser agents? Smooth uses small and efficient models that make it faster and cheaper to run, while also being more reliable. It leads the leaderboard of WebVoyager (92%) while also being 5x faster and 7x cheaper than Browser Use.

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Gartner says add AI agents ASAP - or else. Oh, and they're also overhyped

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-01 09:31:37

Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gartner predicts 40% of apps will add AI agents by 2026. Business leaders face hype-driven pressure to act within months. AI value is real, but rushing adoption is dangerous. Pssst. Hey. You. Yeah, I'm talking to you. Are you a CEO, board member, senior VP, or other top-level corporate leader? You want to know a secret? You've got three to six months to AI agent-up your company, or

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