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Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-10-27 23:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-28 08:00:00

Bounce, a new technology that adds a critical component to the open social web, launches to the public on Monday. The cross-protocol migration tool offers a service that allows users of open social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon to move their follow graphs between their accounts, even though the networks rely on different underlying protocols. Today, Mastodon users unhappy with the service can opt to move their account to a different Mastodon server, while Bluesky is developing technology t

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A four-pack of Apple AirTags drops to $70 for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 08:07:40

If you're thinking about getting some of Apple's AirTags, now's the time to act — Amazon currently has a four-pack on sale for $70. That's one of the lowest prices we've seen outside the big sales on Black Friday and Prime Day. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow your search between a couch and love seat in the same room. Over larger distances,

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Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 14:15:20

Microsoft is working to resolve an Exchange Online issue causing email access problems for Outlook mobile users who use Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA). HMA is a Microsoft Exchange Server feature that allows users to access on-premises mailboxes using authorization tokens from the cloud. Tracked under EX1137017 in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, this known issue is caused by a recent service change, designed to improve the efficiency of mailbox syncs, which is triggering 12-hour sync delay

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Everything I know about good API design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 15:10:09

Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time working with APIs, both building and using them. I’ve written public APIs for third-party developers, private APIs for internal use (or consumption by a single frontend page), REST and GraphQL APIs, and even non-network interfaces like the ones for command-line tools. Like designing good software systems, I think much of the advice floa

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 10:30:49

Users with Mississippi IP addresses can no longer access the Bluesky app. The decentralized social media network has explained in a post that Mississippi's new age verification law for social networks "would fundamentally change" how it operates, and it wouldn't be possible to comply with its small team and limited resources. Bluesky says that while it does follow the UK's Online Safety Act, it works very differently from Mississippi's approach to age verification. In the UK, it's only required

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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 13:00:10

Keeping children safe online is a core priority for Bluesky. We’ve invested a lot of time and resources building moderation tools and other infrastructure to protect the youngest members of our community. We’re also aware of the tradeoffs that come with managing an online platform. Our mission is to build an open and decentralized protocol for public conversation, and we believe in empowering users with more choices and control over their experience. We work with regulators around the world on c

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Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-10-30 00:09:14

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Bluesky will block access from Mississippi IP addresses in response to a new state law requiring age verification and parental consent for underage users. The decision, outlined in a blog post, will stand until courts decide the fate of the law. “Mississippi’s approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky,” says the

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Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-30 04:30:49

Social networking startup Bluesky has made the decision to block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with a new age assurance law. In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn’t have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law’s broad scope and privacy implications. Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires platforms to introduce age verification f

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Android’s big redesign is full of blur, but Google will soon let you easily turn it off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:00:19

Here’s the full quote from Mindy Brooks, for reference: “On the question of blur specifically, our hope with the use of blur was to be able to focus your attention, as a user and be able to keep you, visually where you need to be on the screen. And that was really the design principle behind it is how do you minimize distraction, by the use of blur. But that said, we obviously know that it doesn’t meet the needs of all users. So we will be rolling out a new customization setting so that you can

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Got a scary T-Mobile text about your account? Here’s what it really means

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 15:33:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile sent a text about “Authorized Users” that some customers mistook as a fraud warning. It was confirmed to be a mass informational campaign, not an unauthorized purchase attempt. It’s not the first eyebrow-raising SMS from the carrier this month. If you’re on T-Mobile, you might be starting to get a bit concerned about the carrier’s comms strategy. Following a security-related text from the carrier earlier this month that looked scammy but was real

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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Sipes 2025-10-31 04:29:40

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update In April of this year we announced Thunderbird Pro, additional subscription services from Thunderbird meant to help you get more done with the app you already use and love. These services include a first ever email service from Thunderbird, called Thundermail. They also include Appointment, for scheduling meetings and appointments and Send, an end-to-end encrypted filesharing tool. Each of these services are open source, repositories are linked down below. Th

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Google made it easier to edit your Drive videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-31 12:48:14

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google has added a Drive shortcut for Workspace users that provides a quicker way to edit videos without having to manually open them in Google Vids. When previewing a video saved in their Drive, users will now see an “Open” button at the top right corner that automatically opens the file in Google Vids, where users can then make simple edits like trimming clips, adding text or music, and more. The Vids sho

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Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 11:13:39

Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers Note This work is sponsored by Monibot - Website, Server and Application Monitoring. Try out Monibot for free at https://monibot.io. For benchmarks I used the following libraries: bvinc, github.com/bvinc/go-sqlite-lite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql driver. craw, github.com/crawshaw/sqlite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql driver. eaton, github.com/eatonphil/gosqlite, a CGO-based solution. This is not a database/sql dri

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New iPhones and iPads in Russia must ship with state-backed messaging app preinstalled

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-01 04:51:33

Earlier today, the Russian government announced a new rule requiring all phones and tablets to ship with MAX, its state-backed messenger app, preinstalled. Here are the details. As reported by Reuters, starting September 1, “gadget” makers will have to include MAX among the apps that must come preinstalled. That includes phones and tablets. RuStore, the country’s domestic application store, which up to now came preinstalled on Android devices, will also have to come preinstalled on all “gadget

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Google's AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations for you - how it works

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-01 20:11:11

SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's AI Mode can now suggest restaurant reservations. Users can also now receive personalized dining recommendations. Google is aiming to build a more dynamic and personalized web. AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations, Google announced in a blog post Thursday. Users can now request reservations in local restaurants according to constraints like party size and dietary restrictions, and the system will automat

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YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-02 04:00:00

YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, which are playlists that combine multiple users’ overlapping interests, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also start notifying users of upcoming releases, merch, and concerts, and is partnering with Bandsintown to help fans discover concerts when watching videos and Shorts on YouTube itself.

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Meta allegedly bypassed Apple privacy measure, and fired employee who flagged it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-02 05:00:36

A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally. Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue … App Tracking Transparency hit Meta hard Meta relied heavily on selling personalized advertising, which required it to be able t

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Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-02 18:49:37

Google is launching a global expansion of AI Mode, its experimental feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search, the company announced on Thursday. The tech giant is also bringing new agentic and personalized capabilities to the feature. As part of the expansion, Google is bringing AI Mode to 180 new countries in English. Up until now, it’s only been available to users in the U.S., U.K., and India. Google plans to bring the f

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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 23:55:28

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 7 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge. Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the but

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Google’s Pixel 10 launch wasn't about the phones but the strategic AI play

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-11-02 23:34:19

A person holds Google Pixel 10 Pro mobile phones during the 'Made by Google' event, organized to introduce the latest additions to Google's Pixel portfolio of devices, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 20, 2025. While Google made a big splash with its Pixel 10 series of smartphones, it was the software features that were strategically important for the tech giant's bid to compete with players like OpenAI and Perplexity in consumer AI. As it introduced its latest devices on Wednesday, Alphabe

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Google’s next big Android update can force dark mode and icon themes

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-02 23:32:27

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google has started rolling out its latest batch of Android 16 features to beta testers, including expanded support for dark mode and themed app icons. The QPR2 beta 1 was announced yesterday alongside Google launching the Pixel 10 series, and is expected

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Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 02:16:00

Does what's said between you and your AI chat stay between you and your AI chat? Nope. According to a report by Forbes, Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok published more than 370,000 chats on the Grok website. Those URLs, which were not necessarily intended for public consumption by users, were then indexed by search engines and entered the public sphere. It wasn't just chats. Forbes reported that uploaded documents, such as photos, spreadsheets and other documents, were also published. Representa

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Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency satellite communication

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-04 11:00:00

At its Made by Google event on Wednesday, Google unveiled its new Pixel Watch 4. The smartwatch features a domed display, support for standalone satellite communication, enhanced health and fitness tracking, and more. The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 starts at $349 for Wi-Fi and $449 for LTE, while the 45mm version starts at $399 for Wi-Fi and $499 for LTE. The watch features an Actua 360 display that’s physically curved to deliver a 10% larger active area and an edgeless appearance with 16% smaller bez

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Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency Satellite Communication

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-04 23:00:00

At its Made by Google event on Wednesday, Google unveiled its new Pixel Watch 4. The smartwatch features a domed display, support for standalone Satellite Communication, enhanced health and fitness tracking, and more. The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 starts at $349 for Wi-Fi and $449 for LTE, while the 45mm version starts at $399 for Wi-Fi and $499 for LTE. The watch features an Actua 360 display that’s physically curved to deliver a 10% larger active area and an edgeless appearance with 16% smaller bez

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Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-05 09:49:53

Six major password managers with tens of millions of users are currently vulnerable to unpatched clickjacking flaws that could allow attackers to steal account credentials, 2FA codes, and credit card details. Threat actors could exploit the security issues when victims visit a malicious page or websites vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) or cache poisoning, where attackers overlay invisible HTML elements over the password manager interface. While users believe they are interacting with h

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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-05 09:04:43

Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, reports Forbes. Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text or on social media. According to Forbes, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on

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Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-08 09:32:00

Spotify is testing a new audio mixing feature that allows you to customize track transitions for your playlists. Now rolling out in beta for “eligible Premium users,” the Mix feature provides an option to automatically blend transitions between tracks, or manually adjust aspects like volume, EQ, and effect curves while looking at waveform and beat data to create unique transitions. This allows users to make songs flow into each other instead of just letting one track abruptly finish and another

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TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-08 09:00:00

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s early days, TikTok is launching a new feature that allows college students to find and connect with others on their campus. The feature, called Campus Verification, lets users add their college campus to their TikTok profile and browse through a list of students at their school. To access the feature, users need to navigate to their profile and tap the “Add school” button. From there, they need to enter their school name and then select their graduation year.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Go plan arrives in India only for under $5 per month

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:00:53

OpenAI has debuted its cheapest subscription yet for India only, product head Nick Turley announced on X. Called ChatGPT Go, the 390 rupee ($4.60) GPT-5 plan will offers users 10 times more message limits, image generation and file uploads than the free offering. "Making ChatGPT more affordable has been a key ask from users," Turley wrote. "We're rolling out Go in India first and will learn from feedback before expanding to other countries." The new plan was leaked earlier and OpenAI recently i

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Latest Tech News

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon

A four-pack of Apple AirTags drops to $70 for Labor Day

Microsoft working on fix for ongoing Outlook email issues

Everything I know about good API design

Bluesky blocks Mississippi due to its new age verification law

Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

Bluesky blocks Mississippi under new age verification law

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law

Android’s big redesign is full of blur, but Google will soon let you easily turn it off

Got a scary T-Mobile text about your account? Here’s what it really means

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

Google made it easier to edit your Drive videos

Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers

New iPhones and iPads in Russia must ship with state-backed messaging app preinstalled

Google's AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations for you - how it works

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

Meta allegedly bypassed Apple privacy measure, and fired employee who flagged it

Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

Google’s Pixel 10 launch wasn't about the phones but the strategic AI play

Google’s next big Android update can force dark mode and icon themes

Hundreds of Thousands of User Chats With AI Chatbot Grok Are Now Public

Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency satellite communication

Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency Satellite Communication

Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks

Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google

Spotify’s new track mixing tool adds DJ features to your playlists

TikTok’s latest feature lets college students find and connect with classmates

OpenAI's ChatGPT Go plan arrives in India only for under $5 per month

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