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Nintendo is cracking down on Switch 2 mods, bans target reprogrammable cartridges

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-18 16:09:00

Facepalm: Besides offering a substantial hardware upgrade and exciting new features, the Switch 2 is also shaping up to be a decidedly anti-modding platform. The new console includes robust anti-piracy measures, and users are already starting to feel the effects on their accounts. Multiple reports confirm what many suspected from the start: Nintendo is actively working to block "easy" modding attempts and prevent potential piracy on its new console. Nintendo certainly isn't losing money on Swi

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Canva expands from design into analytics with acquisition of MagicBrief

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-18 17:00:02

From left, Cliff Obrecht, Canva's co-founder and chief operating officer, and George Howes, co-founder and CEO of MagicBrief, pose for a photo at the Cannes Lions festival in Cannes, France, in June 2025. Canva has grown into a $32 billion startup through its popular design tools used for easily creating images, marketing material and presentations. Now the company, with its 12th acquisition, is buying its way into the analytics market. Canva said on Tuesday that it's buying MagicBrief, whose

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Best early Prime Day deals 2025: 30+ sales on tech products live now

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-18 17:28:06

When is Amazon Prime Day? Amazon Prime Day will run from Tuesday, July 8, to Friday, July 11, 2025. The annual two-day sale was extended to four days in 2025. How long will Prime Day last? Amazon Prime Day will last four days, running from July 8-11, 2025. That's two days longer than the years prior. Where will Prime Day take place? Amazon announced that its July Prime Day event will return in over 20 countries, including Ireland for the first time. Prime Day 2025 will return to the followi

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Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

news.ycombinator.com Kiran Gopinathan 2025-09-18 17:17:05

The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me has always been in Programming Language Design. By carefully crafting a language with a syntax and semantics tailored for a specific domain, PL designers can provide an interface for end users that seamlessly aligns with the sensibilities and intuitions of practitioners, allowing users to focus on the "interesting" parts of a problem and tackle larger and more complex problems. Instead of writing a verbose sequence of API cal

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Real-time action chunking with large models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 17:39:26

Published June 9, 2025 Email [email protected] Kevin Black, Manuel Y. Galliker, Sergey Levine Unlike chatbots or image generators, robots must operate in real time. While a robot is “thinking”, the world around it evolves according to physical laws, so delays between inputs and outputs have a tangible impact on performance. For a language model, the difference between fast and slow generation is a satisfied or annoyed user; for a vision-language-action model (VLA), it could

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Overwatch 2 Season 17 Adds Map Voting and Rounds Out Stadium's Roster

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 16:02:00

The next season of Overwatch 2 is pretty packed with content compared to other odd-numbered seasons, and developer Blizzard is going all-out with its investments into Stadium mode and player choice for the game. Season 17 is chock full of charming retro vibes, featuring a mythic skin for D.va, the resident gamer hero, an 8-bit Reinhardt skin and new heroes for Stadium, the most important mode in Overwatch. A new map is also arriving for one of the game's most underutilized core game modes, alt

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ChatGPT's Voice Feature Makes It Feel More Human Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 17:00:00

After years of dealing with voice assistants that constantly misheard me or cut me off mid-sentence, I didn't expect much when I tapped the little wavelength icon to try ChatGPT's Voice Mode. I figured it would be another feature that sounded cool but fell flat in real use. But this one surprised me. Voice Mode doesn't just spit out answers. It actually feels like a real conversation. It picks up on pauses, mumbled thoughts, and even those filler words like "uhhh" without breaking the flow. Whe

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Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning “reckless” AI social experiment on kids

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-18 17:22:43

After Mattel and OpenAI announced a partnership that would result in an AI product marketed to kids, a consumer rights advocacy group is warning that the collaboration may endanger children. It remains unclear what shape Mattel's first-ever AI product will take. But on Tuesday, Public Citizen co-President Robert Weissman issued a statement urging more transparency so that parents can prepare for potential risks. Weissman is particularly concerned that ChatGPT-fueled toys could hurt kids in unkn

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Nintendo is already banning Switch 2 flashcart users

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-18 21:09:00

Facepalm: Besides offering a substantial hardware upgrade and exciting new features, the Switch 2 is also shaping up to be a decidedly anti-modding platform. The new console includes robust anti-piracy measures, and users are already starting to feel the effects on their accounts. Multiple reports confirm what many suspected from the start: Nintendo is actively working to block "easy" modding attempts and prevent potential piracy on its new console. Nintendo certainly isn't losing money on Swi

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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 18:02:12

As announced in 2021, Honda has been pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies while viewing it as a place to take on challenges to realize the “dreams” and “potential” of people worldwide while leveraging its core technologies. Honda has the aim to enable people to transcend the constraints of time, place or ability and make people’s daily lives more enjoyable. Examples of Honda initiatives toward creating new value in the ultimate environment of outer space include r

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This 1-800 number will generate ChatGPT images, if for some reason you need that

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 01:46:37

The discourse around artificial intelligence has all been about pursuing the bleeding edge, pushing the tech into the future as fast as possible. So maybe it should be refreshing that OpenAI's latest announcement feels almost quaintly analog. Starting today, users can tap into the company's image generation by texting 1-800-ChatGPT on WhatsApp. The post on X announcing this new option for using the ChatGPT AI chatbot specifies that the feature is "now available to everyone." I'm not sure what p

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 12:50:19

Early animated Disney character This article is about the character. For works with the title, see Oswald the Lucky Rabbit filmography Fictional character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit, Oswald Rabbit, and Ozzie[8][9][10]) is an animated cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures. He starred in several animated short films released to theaters from 1927 to 1938. Twenty-seven animated Oswald shorts were produced at the Walt D

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LG’s C4 OLED TV has dropped to a new low price

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-19 01:10:00

It’s official: Amazon’s Prime Day event is just three weeks away, and it’s possible we’ll see a number of great TV deals during the four-day event. But if you’d rather not wait and see, LG’s C4 OLED TV has hit a new low price, starting at $699.99 ($800 off) for the 42-inch model at Amazon and Best Buy. Some larger configurations like the 77-inch model are on sale too, with the 77-inch model going for $1,799.99 ($1,899 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Given how similar the last-gen models are to the

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June’s Game Pass additions include Remedy co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 05:31:31

Microsoft’s Game Pass is having a very impressive 2025 where the quality and cadence of releases is concerned, and things are showing no signs of slowing down as we settle into the summer months. Highlights of the June lineup include co-op FPS FBC: Firebreak, which joins the service today, Sloclap’s highly-anticipated soccer game, Rematch, and a trio of Warcraft remasters. Let’s start with probably the most significant addition. Back in May, Engadget’s Jessica Conditt got to play Remedy’s FBC:

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ChatGPT search just got smarter - but can it replace Google for you yet?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-19 05:56:08

Dmitry Kovalchuk/Getty Watch out, Google. OpenAI has beefed up its ChatGPT search tool to try to win over more people. And it may be working. In a new support article published last Friday, OpenAI described a recent upgrade designed to improve the quality and performance of its search option. In general, ChatGPT search has been enhanced to provide more comprehensive and up-to-date responses. Based on its own testing, OpenAI said that users preferred the new search process over the previous exp

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For Almost Free, PopSockets and Anker Come Together With This Easy-to-Hold Magnetic Phone Charger

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-19 05:10:15

Save 50% on the PopSockets x Anker MagGo 5,000mAh portable magnetic battery charger over at Best Buy. This collaboration between PopSockets and Anker is a match made in heaven. If your phone is new enough that it supports magnetic wireless charging, then you can pick up this Anker MagGo 5,000mAh portable magnetic battery charger that has an integrated PopSockets grip on the back. Right now, Best Buy has it discounted down by 50%. It’s normally $70, but you can score one in either black or clear

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You Can Now Generate ChatGPT Images by Texting a 1-800 Number on WhatsApp

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 05:12:53

ChatGPT's image generator tool now takes requests at 1-800-CHATGPT. The feature, announced by OpenAI on Monday in a post on X, allows anyone with a WhatsApp account to text that phone number and make a request for an AI-generated image using a plain-language prompt. In a CNET test, the ChatGPT hotline was able to create an old-school corded telephone image with the ChatGPT logo on it in about two minutes. The 1-800 number also accepts ChatGPT requests that aren't for images. If you don't have

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Satechi’s new SSD enclosure matches the Mac Mini

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-19 05:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Satechi has announced a new SSD enclosure with an aluminum design that matches the black and silver finish and dimensions of Apple’s Mac Mini M4, but thinner so it can perch atop the tiny desktop computer or be used as a matching stand. But since it connects using an included braided USB-C cable, the enclosure is compatible with any device that s

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Sitecore CMS exploit chain starts with hardcoded 'b' password

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-19 09:10:35

A chain of Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) vulnerabilities allows attackers to perform remote code execution (RCE) without authentication to breach and hijack servers. Sitecore is a popular enterprise CMS used by businesses to create and manage content across websites and digital media. Discovered by watchTowr researchers, the pre-auth RCE chain disclosed today consists of three distinct vulnerabilities. It hinges on the presence of an internal user (sitecore\ServicesAPI) with a hardcoded pa

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Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusable Rocket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 09:02:12

As announced in 2021, Honda has been pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies while viewing it as a place to take on challenges to realize the “dreams” and “potential” of people worldwide while leveraging its core technologies. Honda has the aim to enable people to transcend the constraints of time, place or ability and make people’s daily lives more enjoyable. Examples of Honda initiatives toward creating new value in the ultimate environment of outer space include r

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OnePlus Watch 3 Review: The Best Battery Life of Any Android Smartwatch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-19 09:00:03

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Editor's note, June 16, 2025: OnePlus released a smaller 43mm version of the OnePlus Watch 3 in silver stainless steel. This review has been updated to reflect the new addition to the lineup. Editor's note, March 4, 2025: We've updated our score for the OnePlus Watch 3 from 8.5 to 8.8 to reflect that OnePlus extended its Wear OS update cycle to three years

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Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-19 09:47:15

Earlier this week, the makers of the popular Mig Flash cartridge, which allows users to play Switch games loaded via an SD card without modifying the console itself, issued a firmware update enabling the cards to run original Switch games on the Switch 2. Since then, though, multiple Mig Flash users are reporting that they've seen their Switch 2 consoles banned from Nintendo's online servers, even in cases where the devices were only used to run backups of legitimate games the users purchased th

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The Nissan Leaf Is Back and Looking to Make Up Lost Ground

wired.com John Voelcker 2025-09-19 06:00:00

Finally, after 15 years, we have a new 2026 Nissan Leaf coming. As befits the “truckification” of global car markets, it’s no longer a compact hatchback. Now it’s a compact SUV—or, more accurately, a crossover utility vehicle built on passenger-vehicle underpinnings. The new Leaf will offer a range of up to 303 miles, Nissan says, from a 75-kilowatt-hour battery pack powering a 160-kilowatt (214-horsepower) motor that produces 261 pound-feet (354 newton-meters) of torque. That motor drives the

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How AI chatbots keep people coming back

techcrunch.com Maggie Nye 2025-09-19 09:39:00

Chatbots are increasingly looking to keep people chatting, using familiar tactics that we’ve already seen lead to negative consequences. Sycophancy can make AI chatbots respond in a way that’s overly agreeable or flattering. And while having a digital hype person might not seem like a dangerous thing, it is actually a tactic used by tech companies to keep users talking with their bots and returning to their platforms.

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Gemini preps a ‘Saved info’ rebrand as work on chat history search continues (Updated: Beta)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-19 12:25:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has recently updated Gemini with a boatload of in-development UI tweaks. Some include dropping the “Gemini” name from headers, and rebranding “Saved info.” We also see further progress on multiple changes to the way you view and access chat history. Update 2: June 17, 2025 (09:25 AM ET): The updated sidebar is now rolling out in beta with Google app v16.23.69. AssembleDebug / Android Authority However, the ability to search past conversation

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UK fines 23andMe for ‘profoundly damaging’ breach exposing genetics data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-19 13:59:09

The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined genetic testing provider 23andMe £2.31 million ($3.12 million) over 'serious security failings' that led to a 'profoundly damaging' data breach in 2023. The data protection watchdog said today that 23andMe failed to protect the sensitive data of UK residents who had their genotype data, health reports, and personal information stolen in credential stuffing attacks using stolen login credentials that went unnoticed for five months between

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What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting into ARIA

news.ycombinator.com Eric Bailey 2025-09-19 13:47:26

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA 34 min read Share on Twitter, LinkedIn is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point. Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point. If you haven’t encountered ARIA before, great! It’s a chance to learn something new and exciting. I

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Govee RGBIC Floor Lamp Hits Its Record Low Price, Create 16 Million DIY Colors With This Amazon Steal

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-19 13:40:19

Of the many benefits of modern-day life, one of the most underrated is good mood lighting. After all, we don’t have to change the light bulb just to get a new color, and nor do we have to really put much effort in at all to change the mood. The world of smart lights and RGB lighting in general, has really helped on that front. If you’re looking for a really good option, then you’ll want to make the most of this 30% discount on the Govee RGBIC Floor Lamp. This sleek-looking device can help chang

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The best deals on MacBooks right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-19 13:01:34

Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make room for newer models, but some retailers are still selling the last-gen laptop starting at $649 — a far cry from the $2,499 starting price of the latest 16-inch MacBook Pro with M4 Pro. Purchasing a new MacBook can certainly be a pricey endeavor, but thankfully, finding a deal is actually not that difficult. Apple has recently shaken up the s

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UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-19 17:44:52

UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach 17 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images DNA testing firm 23andMe has been fined £2.31m by a UK watchdog over a data breach in 2023 which affected thousands of people. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the company - which has since filed for bankruptcy - failed to put adequate measures in place to secure sensitive user data prior to the incident. "This was a profoundly damag

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