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The Browser Company’s new AI browser rolls out to private beta testers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 02:03:12

The Browser Company’s new AI-powered browser is now available in an invite-only beta. Called Dia, the browser was first announced towards the end of 2024, and is built around the deep integration of what its maker calls "the most personal AI on the market". Dia allows you to "chat with your tabs" and will adapt and learn the more you use it. You can open an AI chat on any webpage without having to leave the tab, where the built-in bot can search the web, compare websites, answer questions about

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Erie Insurance confirms cyberattack behind business disruptions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-04 06:44:30

Erie Insurance and Erie Indemnity Company have disclosed that a weekend cyberattack is behind the recent business disruptions and platform outages on its website. Erie Indemnity Company is the management company for the Erie Insurance Group, a property and casualty insurer with over 6 million active policies. The company provides auto, home, life, and business insurance policies through independent agents. Since Saturday, June 7, Erie Insurance has been suffering from widespread outages and bu

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Characterizing my first attempt at copper-only passives

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 15:01:50

Characterizing my first attempt at copper-only passives¶ Last year, I kind of got a bee in my bonnet about trying to see if I could accurately (?) make small RF passives out of copper, rather than buying 2pF NP0 capacitors or something, as part of a long-on-the-horizon project to make extremely inexpensive GHz-class oscilloscope probes. I figured that the right place to start was to fab out a board on JLCPCB's JLC04161H-3313 stackup with a handful of calibration standards, and some of the passi

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Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 17:55:47

s3mini is an ultra-lightweight Typescript client (~14 KB minified, ≈15 % more ops/s) for S3-compatible object storage. It runs on Node, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, and other edge platforms. It has been tested on Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, and MinIO. (No Browser support!) [github] [issues] [npm] Dev: Performance tests was done on local Minio instance. Your results may vary depending on environment and network conditions, so take it with a grain of salt. The library support

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How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 23:11:49

A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my original goal, when I said “weeks when I am not traveling”, knowing I was traveling 6 of the next 7 weeks. I was going to TRY to write something on the weeks I was traveling, but as you can see, I mostly did not succeed. Oh

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Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-04 06:00:26

UFOs have been back in the news a lot lately, and it may be the case that the government wants it that way. Last week, the Wall Street Journal published the first of a two-part series that probes the ways in which the Defense Department has been responsible for creating and fostering the UFO mythology in America. The article shows that the government has, at various points over the years, purposefully sown disinformation about UFOs, in an effort to make Americans believe in little green men. Th

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If You're a Student Loan Borrower Enrolled in Save, Make This Move Now While Your Payments Remain Paused

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 03:30:02

If you're enrolled in SAVE, make this move while your payments remain on hold. Pla2na/Getty Images/CNET There's been a lot of student loan noise over the past year, but little clarity for borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan. We've witnessed several updates to student loan programs over the past year, from proposed changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility to the ramping up of collections efforts on defaulted student loan accounts to a new Republ

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Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-04 07:20:40

CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi introduced the new multitasking UI in iPadOS 26 at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference this week, he did it the same way he introduced the Calculator app for the iPad last year, or timers in the iPad's Clock app the year before—with a hint of sarcasm. "Wow," Federighi enthuses in a lightly exaggerated tone about an hour and 19 minutes into a 90-minute presentation. "More windows, a pointier poin

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The iPad Is a Full-On Computer Now

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-02 07:59:09

“This is what you've all been waiting for.” That's what Craig Federighi stated with a gleeful grin on his face as he introduced the latest changes to the iPad at Apple's WWDC25 keynote. He wasn't talking about new iPad hardware, new software features, or AI implementation that didn't suck. He was talking about windows. You know, those things that computers have. With the release of iPadOS 26, Apple gives these tablets the ability to use conventional windowing—and iPads will never be the same.

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Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model

wired.com Will Knight 2025-10-02 09:22:26

Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of new features and upgrades at WWDC. The company also premiered the Foundation Models framework, a way for developers to write code that taps into Apple’s AI models. Among the buzzier AI announcements at the event was Live Translation, a feature that translates phone and FaceTime calls from one language to another in real time. Appl

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Tesla’s Robotaxis Are Rolling Out Soon—With One Big Unanswered Question

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-02 20:00:00

Self-driving vehicle developers don’t usually love talking about “teleoperation”—when a human guides or drives robot cars remotely. It can feel like a dirty secret. Shouldn’t an autonomous vehicle operate, well, autonomously? But experts say teleoperations are, at least right now, a critical part of any robot taxi service, including Tesla's Robotaxi. The tech, though impressive, is still in development, and the autonomous systems still need humans to guide them through less-common and especiall

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How Waymo Handles Footage From Events Like the LA Immigration Protests

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-10-04 03:39:25

Thousands of people across the United States poured into the streets this week to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, joining a nationwide wave of resistance that began in Los Angeles. One of the most widely shared images from the city, where federal authorities have sent almost 5,000 active-duty Marines and National Guard members, is of five Waymo robotaxis that were vandalized and set on fire. The incident has become one of the most recognizable symbols of the demonstratio

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The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-10-04 05:36:25

The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of CO 2 emissions in the country, on Wednesday, claiming that the American power sector does not “contribute significantly” to air pollution. “The bottom line is that the EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says Ryan Maher, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. The announcement comes just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospher

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Apple’s updated parental controls will require kids to get permission to text new numbers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-04 03:06:43

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple is introducing a suite of updated child safety features, including one that will give parents more control over who their kids can communicate with. The features are set to arrive with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, which will launch this fall. Children will now be required to get parental approval when they want to communicate

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Reddit is looking for a new product boss

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-04 04:22:50

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the company in “the coming months,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. Bhat, a former Google executive, joined Reddit in October 2021. “His tenure was about as clear pre / post test as we could run,” CEO Steve Huffman said in an internal message about the change provided by Rathschmidt. “He dev

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Meta’s V-JEPA 2 model teaches AI to understand its surroundings

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-04 00:54:09

Meta on Wednesday unveiled its new V-JEPA 2 AI model, a “world model” that is designed to help AI agents understand the world around them. V-JEPA 2 is an extension of the V-JEPA model that Meta released last year, which was trained on over 1 million hours of video. This training data is supposed to help robots or other AI agents operate in the physical world, understanding and predicting how concepts like gravity will impact what happens next in a sequence. These are the kinds of common sense

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How to delete your 23andMe data

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-04 02:59:39

DNA testing service 23andMe filed for bankruptcy protection in March, sparking concerns about what could happen to the genetic data of the company’s 15 million customers. Pharmaceutical giant Regeneron announced in May that it was buying the genetic testing company for $256 million following a bankruptcy auction. While the company has said it will maintain 23andMe’s privacy practices, it also stated that it would use the 23andMe data to aid the discovery of new drugs. When 23andMe filed for ba

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US government’s vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-04 03:36:03

In Brief A U.S. government website designed to inform the public about vaccines has been defaced and now hosts apparently AI-generated spam. The domain, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), appears to have been hosting the same kind of content — mostly gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts — since at least May 12, according to an archived version of the site. It’s unclear who is responsible for it, or what is the purpose of this defacement other than pushing AI-gener

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Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-04 05:40:15

In Brief Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday. The funding round included angel investors Sam Altman and Max Altman, both returning investors, in addition to VC firms like Pelion Venture Partners and Offline Ventures, among others. This brings the company’s total funding to more than $120 million. The company last raised a $36 million Series A round in 2021. Coco’s zero-emissions robots can hold 90 liters’

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RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-18 23:11:40

Just days after anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already pulled back some of its efforts to protect Americans with safe, lifesaving vaccines. The agency has indefinitely postponed a public meeting of its vaccine advisory committee and killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots. Last weekend, a Washington Post columnist noted on Bluesky that the CDC's effective "Wild to Mild" seasonal flu

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Anne Wojcicki has a new offer to take 23andMe private, this time for $74.7 million

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-06-19 01:43:50

23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a proposal to take the embattled genetic testing company private, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Wojcicki and New Mountain have offered to acquire all of 23andMe's outstanding shares in cash for $2.53 per share, or an equity value of approximately $74.7 million. The company's stock closed at $2.42 on Friday with a market cap of about $65 million. The offer comes after a turbulent y

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Google Contacts app looks a little different now, here’s what changed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-19 00:06:33

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google has rolled out a few changes to the Contacts app. There’s now a card that says how many contacts are in your Google Account and a “last sync” status. A “Google Contacts sync settings” option takes you to a page where you can turn off/on syncing. Google has released an update to the Contacts app for Android that makes a few small, but notable changes. Your current backup and sync status are now more prominent, and there’s a new way to access the

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ChatGPT’s weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-19 00:55:19

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition. More people are adopting ChatGPT through word of mouth, with personal use driving its continued growth. OpenAI’s enterprise business is also expanding, now with 2 million paying users as companies integrate AI into their workflows. The AI chatbot battle continues to reshape the tech landscape, but OpenAI — the company behind ChatGP

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Apple AirTag 4-Pack drops back to its record low price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-19 00:18:30

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Working on these deals articles has kind of spoiled me. I am no longer willing to buy anything at full price, and I’m sure many of you feel the same way. The Apple AirTag 4-Pack has been constantly discounted to $69.99, and recently the price went back up. Well, if you were hoping to catch the hottest deal possible, this bundle is back down to its record-low price of $69.99. Get the Apple AirTag 4-Pack for just $69.99 ($29.01 off) This offer is available fro

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Apple to add proximity pairing setup to the Mac with macOS 15.4

9to5mac.com Filipe Espósito 2025-06-19 02:00:22

iPhone and iPad users are already very familiar with something called “proximity pairing.” First introduced with iOS 11, this feature lets users transfer backup and other data from one device to a new one just by placing them close together. Now it seems that Apple is finally working on adding proximity pairing setup to the Mac. Proximity pairing setup coming to the Mac Evidence seen by 9to5Mac in the iOS 18.4 code suggests that the Mac will soon gain proximity pairing, just like the iPhone an

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What to expect at Mobile World Congress 2025: Nothing, Samsung, Xiaomi and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-18 22:45:29

On March 3, Mobile World Congress will kick off in Barcelona, Spain. While it’s not the premier show it once was, many of the smartphone industry’s leading players still attend the conference and frequently launch new devices there. Typically, we hear from companies like Lenovo, Arm, Xiaomi, Dell and more at the conference, as well as standards organizations like the GSMA on developments in areas like 5G or SIM technology. And judging by the event agenda on the MWC website, we will be seeing at

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Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-19 00:22:57

Slime OS is an app launcher for the PicoVision (and soon other RP2040 and RP2350 devices). It was originally designed for the Slimedeck Zero, a mini cyberdeck project. However I hope to expand it to other devices and form factors. This README contains affiliate links which help support this project! Software Slime OS runs in a limited 32-color mode with a 400x240 internal resolution which is interlaced up to 800x480. This resolution should scale well on most HDMI displays. Setup Flash the w

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Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-19 00:17:50

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots. Atherton, California-based Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones. The company bui

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Texas measles outbreak reaches 90 cases; 9 cases in New Mexico

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-19 01:26:04

An ongoing measles outbreak that began in one of Texas' least vaccinated counties has mushroomed to 90 cases across a cluster of seven counties in the state, according to an update by the Texas Department of State Health Services on Friday. The outbreak may have also spread across the border to New Mexico, where nine cases have been reported. In an email to Ars, Robert Nott, the communications director for the New Mexico Department of Health, said that as of today, the department has not confir

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How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-06-19 01:51:24

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.” Those that have received the gatekeeper designation — the companies on the list are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft — have to meet str

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The Browser Company’s new AI browser rolls out to private beta testers

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