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Chrome on Android might borrow NotebookLM’s best feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-07 18:01:47

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing AI audio overviews in Chrome for Android. This feature will be available as part of Chrome’s Read Aloud functionality. AI audio overviews could convert text from any webpage into interactive NotebookLM-style podcasts for improved learning. Google is steadily building up the number of touchpoints where we interact with AI by default. Search, one of Google’s most used products, has already been canopied by AI overviews for a text-based s

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How AI companies are secretly collecting training data from the web (and why it matters)

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-07 20:30:14

Getty/the_burtons Like most people, my wife types a search into Google many times each day. We work from home, so our family room doubles as a conference room. Whenever we're in a meeting, and a question about anything comes up, she Googles it. This is the same as it's been for years. But what happens next has changed. Instead of clicking on one of the search result links, she more often than not reads the AI summary. These days, she rarely clicks on any of the sites that provide the original

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2025-09-07 08:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

news.ycombinator.com Caolán Magee 2025-09-07 17:47:54

Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told they had won life-changing sums in the country’s Eurojackpot draw after an error by the state-owned gambling operator, Norsk Tipping. In a statement on Friday, Norsk Tipping said “several thousand customers were notified of incorrectly high prizes”. The mistake has prompted the resignation of the company’s chief executive. The company receives prize amounts from Germany in euros, which are then converted to Norwegian kroner. “It is during this conv

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A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly

news.ycombinator.com Katie Hunt 2025-09-04 06:25:45

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a bizarre natural phenomenon that involves fungal p

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Google rolls out Veo 3 video generator, try it for free using credits

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:38:30

Google is rolling out Veo 3 to everyone using Vertex AI, which is an ML-testing platform provided by Google Cloud. Unlike Sora and other generative video AI models, Veo 3 is a state-of-the-art video generator trained on millions of YouTube videos, and it can generate realistic videos, but great quality comes at a high cost. Veo 3 isn't free, but since it's part of Google Cloud, you can use it for free by subscribing to the $300 trial offered by Google. To get started, you can sign up for a Go

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My AC system isn't blowing cold air - 5 easy and quick fixes that experts recommend

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-07 21:45:13

fhm/Getty Images It always happens during a heatwave. That moment of sinking dread when your AC unit kicks on, but instead of a refreshing blast of arctic air, you're met with a weak, lukewarm breeze. Then panic sets in. Is the AC dead? Is this going to cost a fortune? How will I get to sleep tonight in this stifling heat and humidity? While a truly broken AC unit can indeed be a headache and an expense, the good news is that it's not always a catastrophic failure. The reason your system isn't

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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Ward Agius 2025-09-07 13:23:09

Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm. An alarming number of people across Africa may be taking cancer drugs that don't contain the vital ingredients needed to contain or reduce their disease. It's a concerning finding with roots in a complex problem: how to regulate a range of therapeutics across the continent. A US and pan-African research group publ

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Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Adamson 2025-09-07 21:24:54

PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism . It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries. Thousand

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Building untrusted container images safely at scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 08:22:05

Many SaaS platforms need to run customer code securely and fast. Rather than building container infrastructure from scratch, you can use Depot's API to handle the heavy lifting. Here's how to build Go tooling that creates isolated projects, manages builds, and tracks metrics for your customer workloads. A lot of our customers run into the same problem: they need to run code on behalf of their customers. Whether you're hosting user-generated Python scripts, processing custom containers, or runni

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Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived alongside dinosaurs

news.ycombinator.com Katie Hunt 2025-09-04 11:25:45

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a second specimen of a young ant infected with a similar fungus, are two of the oldest examples of a bizarre natural phenomenon that involves fungal p

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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 18:49:39

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our subscribers have been able to put reliable automation into place for certificate renewal. Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses c

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OpenAI reportedly ‘recalibrating’ compensation in response to Meta hires

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-07 10:16:40

In Brief With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo obtained by Wired. In response to what appears to be a Meta hiring spree, Chen said that he, CEO Sam Altman, and other OpenAI leaders have been w

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Why AI will eat McKinsey’s lunch — but not today

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-09-07 18:10:16

Navin Chaddha, managing director of the 55-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm Mayfield, is betting big on AI’s ability to transform people-heavy industries like consulting, law, and accounting. The veteran investor, whose wins include Lyft, Poshmark, and HashiCorp, recently discussed at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Menlo Park why he believes “AI teammates” can create software-like margins in traditionally labor-intensive sectors, and why startups should right now target neglected markets

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Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-07 15:24:00

Microsoft's push into custom artificial intelligence hardware has hit a serious snag. Its next-generation Maia chip, code-named Braga, won't enter mass production until 2026 – at least six months behind schedule. The Information reports that the delay raises fresh doubts about Microsoft's ability to challenge Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market and underscores the steep technical and organizational hurdles of building competitive silicon. Microsoft launched its chip program to reduce its h

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Melania Trump's Audiobook Is Narrated by an AI Copy of Herself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-07 11:45:26

Let's get one thing straight: it's hard to be married to the president. From coming up with epoch-defining slogans like "Be Best" to decking the White House halls with bizarre Christmas decor, it's a tougher gig than most of us can imagine. Our current first lady, Melania Trump, is well aware of the challenge after her previous four-year stint in the White House. Notoriously private — or perhaps just too busy to make public appearances — the first lady's life has been shrouded in mystery. Howe

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-07 12:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-09-07 16:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible ascent toward abundance. Intelligence will become as accessible as electricity. Robots will be performing

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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 16:43:50

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Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 10:33:57

Compare performance across multiple AI model API providers and models with comprehensive testing and analytics.

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Loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back 'decades'

news.ycombinator.com Eric Holthaus 2025-09-07 12:39:08

A critical US atmospheric data collection program will be halted by Monday, giving weather forecasters just days to prepare, according to a public notice sent this week. Scientists that the Guardian spoke with say the change could set hurricane forecasting back “decades”, just as this year’s season ramps up. In a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) message sent on Wednesday to its scientists, the agency said that “due to recent service changes” the Defense Meteorological Sate

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The unbearable obviousness of AI fitness summaries

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-09-07 09:00:00

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. After nearly a decade of wearables testing, I’ve amassed a truly terrifying amount of health and fitness data. And while I enjoy poring over my daily data, there’s one part I’ve come to loathe: AI summaries. Over the last two years, a deluge of AI-generated summaries has been sprinkled into every fitness, wellness, and wearable app.

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Scientists Intrigued to Discover That Human Brains Are Glowing Faintly

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:00:19

Image by Getty / Futurim Developments Scientists have some exciting news: your brain is likely glowing, whether you can see it or not. The news comes from researchers at Algoma University in Ontario, who found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses luminescent properties. Essentially, they found that as the brain metabolizes energy, it releases super-faint traces of visible light. Called ultra-weak photon emissions (UPEs), the flashes of light are emitted when electrons break

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Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-07 16:00:25

A well-intentioned writer decided to get a group of humans and their AI companions together for a cabin retreat. Somehow, it went worse than anyone could have imagined. As Johns Hopkins science writer Sam Apple described in a new essay for Wired, the apps that each human participant used to communicate with their AI companions varied — but the intensity, obsession, and affection they felt for their digital paramours seemed very real, albeit sometimes tortured. The weekend getaway started, as A

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Gmail is making it easier to manage your newsletters and mailing lists on the web

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-07 11:30:28

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is rolling out a new “Manage subscriptions” page on its web client to help users easily declutter their inboxes. This page lists all your mailing lists, shows their email frequency, and provides a simple one-click unsubscribe button for each sender. The feature is gradually becoming available on the web and has been rolling out on the Android app since late April. Signing up for newsletters and mailing lists is a great way to stay up to date on

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Need a good alternative to the big three? These carriers are my top 3 recommendations

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-07 12:00:44

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority For years, many of us have gone directly to the big carriers for phone service. But with rising costs and the gradual disappearance of extras like streaming perks, is it time to consider an alternative? While it’s true that Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile control the only three mobile networks with wide national coverage, there are plenty of other carriers that piggyback off this same infrastructure. These providers can offer much cheaper alternatives to traditi

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One of our favorite Ninja air fryers is $50 off for Prime Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:12:14

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . For many, summer means it's time to grill outdoors. But cooking inside does at least mean you’re likely to deal with fewer bugs. It also makes it easier to try out new kitchen equipment, such as a Ninja air fryer that’s on sale ahead of Prime Day. The Ninja Foodi Dual-Zone 10-quart air

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Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-06 14:09:19

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities. The decision to end the expiration notification email service was implemented as of June 4, 2025, but Let's Encrypt has now communicated it via a blog post to raise awareness and prevent unexpected disruptions. Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority (CA) that provides free, automated, and open digital certific

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What LLMs Know About Their Users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 18:49:43

We need to talk about data integrity. Narrowly, the term refers to ensuring that data isn’t tampered with, either in transit or in storage. Manipulating account balances in bank databases, removing entries from criminal records, and murder by removing notations about allergies from medical records are all integrity attacks. More broadly, integrity refers to ensuring that data is correct and accurate from the point it is collected, through all the ways it is used, modified, transformed, and eve

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Scientists Retrace 30k-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log

news.ycombinator.com Franz Lidz 2025-09-03 22:29:29

In 1947, against the best navigational advice, the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cultures could have reached Polynesia. The frail vessel, called Kon-Tiki, crossed several thousand nautical miles of the Pacific in 103 days and showed that his anthropological hunch was at least feasible. In 2019, in much the same spirit, a research team led by Yousuke Kaifu, an anthropologist at the Un

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Chrome on Android might borrow NotebookLM’s best feature

How AI companies are secretly collecting training data from the web (and why it matters)

Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations

Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error

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Google rolls out Veo 3 video generator, try it for free using credits

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Microsoft's custom AI chip hits delays, giving Nvidia more runway

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Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

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