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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret emergency shutdown feature - here's how to use it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-20 14:28:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Usually, whenever a new feature comes out for Windows, Microsoft advertises it widely in a blog post to let everyone know. Or if they don't, people discover the feature soon after an update. However, a helpful feature sometimes slips through the cracks, only to be unearthed years later. Also: Hate Windows 11? Here's how you can make it work more like Windows 10 That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post

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Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 11:43:02

While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links. We understand these links are embedded in countless documents, videos, posts and more, and we appreciate the input received. Nine months ago, we redirected URLs that showed no activity in late 2024 to a message specifying that the link would be deactivated in August, and these are the only links targeted to be deactivated. If you g

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Zach Cregger Breaks Down the Year’s Most Twisted, Surprising Horror Movie

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-20 14:30:22

Writing and directing a breakout hit can be both a blessing and a curse for some filmmakers. On the one hand, you’ve just achieved your dreams of success and adoration in the world of cinema. Well done. On the other hand, now you have to do it again. And again. And again. Some filmmakers fail at this. Others, especially the great ones, rise to the challenge. George Lucas followed THX 1138 with American Graffiti and Star Wars. Steven Spielberg followed Duel with Sugarland Express and Jaws. Fast f

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To Bundle or Not to Bundle: Your Guide to VPNs and Other Cybersecurity Service Packages

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 14:00:00

Even though VPN bundle subscriptions have been around for a few years now, the trend is showing no signs of slowing down. A handful of the companies we’ve traditionally thought of as “VPN companies” are becoming much more than just VPN companies. They’re essentially rebranding as comprehensive cybersecurity solutions -- a one-stop shop to cover all of your online privacy and security needs. But there’s an abundance of bundles, and it can sometimes be challenging to tell which ones offer the ser

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Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 14:40:49

Tesla was found partially liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in a federal court in Miami today. It's the first time that a jury has found against the car company in a wrongful death case involving its Autopilot driver assistance system—previous cases have been dismissed or settled. In 2019, George McGee was operating his Tesla Model S using Autopilot when he ran past a stop sign and through an intersection at 62 mph then struck a pair of people stargazing by the side of the road. Naibel Benavid

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Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-20 18:35:34

A jury in Miami has determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, and must compensate the family of the deceased and an injured survivor damages of $329 million. The payout includes $129 million in compensatory damages, and $200 million in punitive damages against Tesla. Attorneys for the plaintiffs had asked the jury to award damages of around $345 million. The trial in the Southern District of Florida started on July 14. The suit centered around who sho

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Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, jury says

news.ycombinator.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-20 18:28:53

A jury in Miami has determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, and must compensate the family of the deceased and an injured survivor damages of $329 million. The payout includes $129 million in compensatory damages, and $200 million in punitive damages against Tesla. Attorneys for the plaintiffs had asked the jury to award damages of around $345 million. The trial in the Southern District of Florida started on July 14. The suit centered around who sho

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Feds Launch Experiment to Have Medicare Cover GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-20 18:20:42

The federal government may not have closed the window on paying for GLP-1 weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound after all. The Trump administration is reportedly planning to conduct an experiment that will allow some people to have obesity drugs covered by their Medicaid and Medicare plans. The Washington Post first broke the news Friday morning, having reportedly obtained documents from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlining the plan. It would enable state Medicaid prog

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Term sheets, traction, and truth bombs: Inside the Series A mindset at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-20 14:30:00

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’re getting real about what it takes to land a Series A in today’s market — no smoke, no mirrors, just the unfiltered perspective from the people signing the checks. Series A has changed — here’s how to win in 2026 This Builder Stage session brings together three power players in early-stage investing: Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV). They’ve seen th

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Google Shifts goo.gl Policy: Inactive Links Deactivated, Active Links Preserved

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 23:43:02

While we previously announced discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs after August 25, 2025, we've adjusted our approach in order to preserve actively used links. We understand these links are embedded in countless documents, videos, posts and more, and we appreciate the input received. Nine months ago, we redirected URLs that showed no activity in late 2024 to a message specifying that the link would be deactivated in August, and these are the only links targeted to be deactivated. If you g

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PayPal and Venmo outage hit users Friday morning - what we know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-21 04:24:15

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Did you have trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You weren't alone. The problem has been resolved, but millions of people were scrambling to find a fix. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why

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Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 20:41:45

However, a clear trend when working with AI generated images is their unique look: overly-blurry backgrounds, waxy skin textures, boring composition, and more. Together, these problems constitute what is now known as the “AI look” . Image generation has come a long way since the early days of generating cats and flowers with GANs. Today's models can generate coherent human faces, limbs, and hands. They understand exact quantities, render complex typography, and make an astronaut ride a horse.

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Google releases Olympiad medal-winning Gemini 2.5 ‘Deep Think’ AI publicly — but there’s a catch…

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-21 09:39:22

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 Google has officially launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new variation of its AI model engineered for deeper reasoning and complex problem-solving, which made headlines last month for winning a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) — the first time an AI model achieved the feat. However, this is unfortunately not the i

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iOS 26’s new Battery feature can help save a draining iPhone

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-21 09:39:06

Apple has some big changes coming to the Battery screen inside iOS 26’s Settings app, including a feature that can help prevent excessive iPhone drains. iOS 26 Battery settings has intelligent suggestions for excess drain Have you ever experienced a mystery iPhone battery drain? A day when your iPhone usage is more or less normal, but for some reason your battery’s draining at an accelerated rate? Force-quitting a bunch of apps might be your solution. Or perhaps visiting the Battery screen in

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Google’s Advanced AI Model Is Now Available to Try—for $250 a Month

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-21 09:20:02

Google just made one of its most advanced AI reasoning models available to the public. Like other advanced models, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think uses more than one AI agent to brainstorm answers in order to boost accuracy and result in more creative solutions. Google says the model outperformed several of its competitors in key AI benchmark tests and a variation of the model even achieved the gold-medal standard at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), solving five out of the six IMO p

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Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:36:08

Google is unleashing its most powerful Gemini model today, but you probably won't be able to try it. After revealing Gemini 2.5 Deep Think at the I/O conference back in May, Google is making this AI available in the Gemini app. Deep Think is designed for the most complex queries, which means it uses more compute resources than other models. So it should come as no surprise that only those subscribing to Google's $250 AI Ultra plan will be able to access it. Deep Think is based on the same found

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Qualcomm could shake things up with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite 2

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 14:05:22

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Qualcomm might offer a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and a Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 in the coming months. This suggests another naming convention shakeup of sorts for the brand’s top-tier smartphone processors. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset late last year, which delivered a major leap forward for Android phones. This also marked a change in naming convention compared to the previous Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. However, it seems like both naming co

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AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 12:00:00

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. The security issue is now identified as CVE-2025-54135 and can be leveraged by feeding the AI agent a malicious prompt to trigger attacker-control commands. The Cursor integrated development environment (IDE) relies on AI agents to help developers code faster and more efficiently, allowing them to connect

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Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 15:33:09

Game icon Think You Know the NYC Market? Prove it on GuessTheRent! Every day, 3 new NYC listings challenge you to guess the rent. Compete with others and test your market knowledge.

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The Longest Sightline on Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 18:08:34

See, all the examples above are limited by the curvature of the earth, and that is why the horizon seems to be the limiting factor. But there are two additional variables in play that can allow for some truly amazing sightlines: the height of the target and the temperature of the air. The height of the target is intuitively obvious, as we all realize we can see Calgary's skyline from way further away than 4.7 km. In fact, Calgary's skyline can be seen at least 50 km away since the height of the

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OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025-12-21 14:22:39

Andrew here. It’s a huge morning of news: We have an exclusive on OpenAI’s latest fund-raising round, with some new boldfaced investor names and one big check; we sort through the latest tariff news and what comes next; we also dive into Figma’s I.P.O. for the ages, and more. And stay tuned for the jobs numbers, which come out shortly. OpenAI’s latest mega-round While Wall Street has been focused on how tech giants are spending on artificial intelligence, the most prominent name in the field,

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Term sheets, traction, and truth bombs: inside the Series A mindset at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-21 14:30:00

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, we’re getting real about what it takes to land a Series A in today’s market — no smoke, no mirrors, just the unfiltered perspective from the people signing the checks. Series A has changed — here’s how to win in 2026 This Builder Stage session brings together three power players in early-stage investing: Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV). They’ve seen th

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Google Messages will finally tell you when your custom ROM is the problem (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 18:02:56

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Last year, Google began preventing devices that failed Play Integrity checks from sending RCS messages. Google Messages would simply drop texts, without delivering any errors or warnings. Messages now appears to be adding an explicit notice when security requirements are not met. What’s more annoying than when an app stops working? Well — a lot of things, actually — but in this narrow context we’re specifically talking about when an app intentionally

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Hidden iOS 26 Features Apple Didn't Mention at WWDC

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 17:00:16

Apple's next iPhone operating system is making several big changes to the iPhone experience. iOS 26 will give everything a more transparent, bubbly look in the Liquid Glass design -- and it also adds new live language translations to your calls and offers more protections against unwanted spam. But there are a number of changes that don't make splashy headlines. These include being able to set how many minutes you want to snooze, making an easy control center shortcut for reminders and having t

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This Detroit startup is turning to utilities to make home efficiency upgrades cheaper

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-21 18:32:04

Ask any homeowner: renovation projects are no fun at all. From finding a contractor to determining a fair price, the process is rife with uncertainty. Plenty of startups have popped up to help homeowners tackle electrification projects, including installing solar panels and replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps. But they still struggle with the cost question: acquiring customers is often more than half the battle. Pearl Edison thinks the answer is utilities. “As much as anything, we are leve

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Fatal Tesla Autopilot crash triggers $345 million lawsuit and safety questions

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-21 23:03:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: Tesla could pay damages of $345 million in a personal injury trial over a fatal Autopilot crash that happened in 2019. Lawyers for the plaintiffs claim that Elon Musk and Tesla made false statements to customers, shareholders, and the public about the safety capabilities of Autopilot, thereby increasing drivers' reliance on the system. On April 25, 2019, 42-year-old George McGee was drivi

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You can use Google's Math Olympiad-winning Deep Think AI model now - for a price

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-21 23:29:00

Google Two weeks ago, Google and OpenAI touted their models' award-winning performance at the International Math Olympiad (IMO). Now, Google is making a version of its model available to the public. Also: This one feature could make GPT-5 a true game changer (if OpenAI gets it right) On Friday, Google launched Deep Think in the Gemini app for Google Ultra subscribers, a premium subscription tier that costs $250 per year or $125 for the first three months. Although the model is a variation of

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AI Won’t Boost Human Productivity Yet, U.S. Federal Reserve Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-21 22:00:13

Generative AI is not just another tech hype cycle that is bound to die down but is instead a game-changer for human productivity, according to the Federal Reserve. The big caveat, though, is the road to get there will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk.” In a recent paper published by the Fed Board of Governors, researchers suggest that the hype around generative AI is probably not a bubble in the long run and that the technology will be a serious macroeconomic force, proving to have r

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The Apple Watch Series 11 Needs to Catch Up to the Galaxy Watch in One Key Area

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 22:00:09

I'm nearing the end of my first month with the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic, and for the first time in nearly a decade of reviewing wearables, I'm reluctant to switch back to the Apple Watch. That hesitation comes down to one surprising new addition: Gemini on the watch. Samsung's latest watches were the first to debut with Google's Gemini AI assistant, and the experience has left a lasting impression. Gemini isn't just more conversational than previous voice assistants, it's smart

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Samsung TV glitch locks users out of apps worldwide

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 06:15:51

Samsung TVs seem to be facing a widespread issue where apps won’t load properly. The problem appears to be affecting users globally. A Reddit thread with over 700 comments shows that many Samsung TV owners are unable to use any apps on their TVs. According to users, most apps, including popular ones like Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video, are visible in the menu but won’t open. Instead, they show a “202 error” message, which usually points to an internet issue. However, affected users sa

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