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AI translation tech Palabra gets backing from Reddit co-founder’s venture firm

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-28 22:41:17

A startup called Palabra AI, which develops an AI-powered speech translation engine, is tackling one of the more difficult aspects of teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand multiple languages. Today, LLMs make it easier to convert text from one language to another, but speech translation is not as simple, according to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. “AI can generate content and translate text. But [Speech] Translation is a unique problem because it requires real-time language sw

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Leak reveals new Studio Display might have surprisingly powerful chip

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-29 03:51:33

A brand new Studio Display 2 is coming soon, and per a code leak, it looks set to boast a far more powerful chip than you might expect. Here are the details. Studio Display 2 will come with A19 Pro chip, per code leak Over the past day, MacRumors has shared chip details on several forthcoming products. The details are the result of an Apple code leak uncovered by Aaron Perris. Code has revealed that the new Apple TV 4K will have an A17 Pro chip, while Vision Pro 2 gets an M5. Another signifi

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Solos is equipping its smart glasses with an AI for the blind and low-vision community

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 03:00:09

Solos is teaming up with Envision, a company that makes assistive technology for the blind and low-vision community, to add an AI called Ally to its AirGo smart glasses platform. This chatbot was designed for those with vision issues. The companies say this integration creates a "first-of-its-kind, hands-free, voice-activated wearable." Solos says the specs can perform a number of tasks that should make life easier for the low-vision community, including recognizing and reading text in real tim

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How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-29 03:37:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underut

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Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected

news.ycombinator.com Jeff Cox 2025-11-29 02:33:49

Excluding food and energy prices, core PPI rose 0.9% against the forecast for 0.3%. Excluding food, energy and trade services, the index was up 0.6%, the biggest gain since March 2022. The producer price index , which measures final demand goods and services prices, jumped 0.9% on the month, compared with the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.2% gain. It was the biggest monthly increase since June 2022. Wholesale prices rose far more than expected in July, providing a potential sign that inflation is

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-29 03:00:00

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. Accessibility-focused tech provider Envision has partnered with eyewear company Solos to launch new smart glasses specifically designed for blind and low-vision users. Envision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, desc

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The Narwal Flow is the closest I’ve seen a robot vacuum get to being perfect

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 03:30:08

Narwal Flow If you're considering a robot vacuum purchase purely based on its ability to leave floors of all types as clean as possible, the Narwal Flow is the best bot you can get. AI-powered navigation, EdgeReach Technology, and anti-tangle brushes clean carpets and hard floors all the way to the edges and into the corners with zero fuss. The multi-function base station, with self-cleaning and drying functions, also makes it a breeze to use. Today, I looked at my floor and noticed it looked e

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Apple Vision Pro 2 may have a better chip than expected

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-28 16:47:01

Apple Vision Pro will be two years old in February. For those holding out for a second-gen version, it sounds like the Apple Vision Pro 2 may have a better chip than expected. The rumors have gone back and forth over which chip the refreshed Apple Vision Pro will use. The current hardware runs on an M2 chip, the newest chip when Apple announced Vision Pro, although the M3 arrived in products before Apple Vision Pro was released. Early reports said the next Apple Vision Pro will run on the yet-

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A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data. What changed and why?

news.ycombinator.com Joe Hasell 2025-11-25 11:03:31

$3 a day: A new poverty line has shifted the World Bank’s data on extreme poverty. What changed, and why? In June 2025, the World Bank increased its extreme poverty estimates by 125 million people. This doesn’t mean the world has gotten poorer: it reflects a new, higher International Poverty Line of $3 a day, up from $2.15. To track progress towards ending extreme poverty by 2030, the United Nations relies on the World Bank to estimate the share of people living below a certain threshold, calle

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Faster animations on iOS 26 makes even older iPhones feel like new

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-29 18:39:18

The design revamp brought about with iOS 26 brings all sorts of new animations along with the Liquid Glass visual treatments. With beta 6, Apple overhauled Springboard’s app launch animations for the first time in years. Apps now launch to full-screen much faster than before, accompanied a minor warp effect that is reminiscent of how Mac windows minimise to the dock. The faster animation speed makes a big difference. It really feels like iOS 26 made your iPhone faster, even several-year old mod

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Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court

news.ycombinator.com Danny Bradbury 2025-11-29 17:51:40

A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from a woman’s reproductive health tracking app without consent. The app in question is called Flo Health. Developed in 2015 in Belarus to track menstrual cycles, it has evolved over the years as a tracking app for highly detailed, intimate aspects of women’s reproductive health. Flo Health user Erica Frasco bought a class action lawsuit against the company in 2021, following a damning report about its privacy infractions by the Wall St

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AI demand boosts iPhone maker Foxconn's second-quarter profit by 27%, beating forecasts

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-29 18:48:00

Foxconn Hon Hai Technology Group signage during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Thursday, March 20, 2025. Taiwan's Foxconn , the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported Thursday that its second-quarter operating profit rose 27% year over year, on the strength of its growing artificial intelligence server business. Here's how Foxconn did in the second quarter of 2025 compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts fr

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Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

news.ycombinator.com Ryan Prendergast 2025-11-29 14:19:37

Why we're open sourcing our payments platform Since Februray, Teddy and I have worked tirelessly on Zenobia Pay. Our mission: build an alternative to high-fee card networks (Visa, Mastercard) using bank transfers as payments. We were super excited by FedNow, the Federal Reserve's instant transfer rail, which inspired us to quit our jobs and do this full time. We thought, let's build QR code payments, like Pix or UPI or AliPay, but for the US. And we did! We built an instant clearing, mobile fir

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Ready for Apple's iOS 26? These are all the compatible iPhones that can run public beta 2 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 18:18:05

iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 are coming this fall, bringing huge upgrades to your iPhone and iPad's operating systems. A pretty cool option available on both is the visual update, called Liquid Glass — it's like the better-executed version of Windows Vista. We spent two weeks test-driving it — you can check out our detailed hands-on iOS 26 preview, or you can try it out yourself by downloading and installing the public beta 2. That software is a more stable iteration of the separate developer version, w

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iOS 26 public beta 2 adds new Apple features: Everything to know about the Apple iPhone updates

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 20:05:35

Next month, we'll finally get the option to download iOS 26 on our iPhones (screenshots are way better in the latest operating system!). Until then, you can download and install the newly released public beta 2 (or iOS 26 developer beta 6 for developers). During Apple's recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook said its collection of upcoming beta operating systems (including iOS) are "by far the most popular developer betas we’ve had," 9to5Mac reports. You can also take a look at our preview of the iO

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ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 16:19:13

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications. Federation means that these websites can interact, allowing the humans using them to interact too, despite being registered on different websites. Fo

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Google faces loss of Chrome as Perplexity bid adds drama to looming breakup decision

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-30 08:41:46

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns. Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Damian Lemanski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perp

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US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

news.ycombinator.com Hussein Reports On The U.S. Treasury Department For The Associated Press. She Covers Tax Policy 2025-11-30 04:31:19

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s gross national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, a record number that highlights the accelerating debt on America’s balance sheet and increased cost pressures on taxpayers. The $37 trillion update is found in the latest Treasury Department report issued Tuesday which logs the nation’s daily finances. The national debt eclipsed $37 trillion years sooner than pre-pandemic projections. The Congressional Budget Office’s January 2020 projections had gross fede

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How well do coding agents use your library?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 23:23:56

How StackBench Works StackBench simulates how coding agents actually use your library documentation. We extract real use cases, then test if agents can implement them successfully.

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Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

news.ycombinator.com Voyage Ai 2025-11-28 09:12:32

TL;DR – We are excited to introduce the rerank-2.5 series, which significantly improves upon rerank-2 ’s performance while also introducing instruction-following capabilities for the first time. On our standard suite of 93 retrieval datasets spanning multiple domains, rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite improve retrieval accuracy by 7.94% and 7.16% over Cohere Rerank v3.5. Furthermore, the new instruction-following feature allows users to steer the model’s output relevance scores using natural langua

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14, #795

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 06:00:09

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has some fun categories. Been to any weddings this summer? If so, you might ace the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to recei

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 08:58:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition has four logos in it, but never fear, the Times wouldn't make it so easy that they are all in the same category. One trick I'm passing along: Memorize some of the unusual team names in the various sports leagues, like Dream or Storm or Wild. Those words show

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CoreWeave tanks 20% after posting wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-30 12:12:24

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

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Here’s everything new for Apple’s Photos app in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-30 12:41:18

Apple’s Photos app received a major overhaul last year, and iOS 26 brings a handful of new changes. Here’s everything new coming to the Photos app in iOS 26. New Liquid Glass design One of the biggest changes impacting all Apple apps this year is iOS 26’s new ‘Liquid Glass’ design. In the Photos app specifically, you’ll see Liquid Glass UI elements everywhere from the buttons and navigation tabs to popup menus and more. Since your photos and videos remain the visual focus of the app, Photos’

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PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

news.ycombinator.com Cliff Robinson 2025-11-25 20:41:36

The PCI-SIG announced this week that it is not going to stop. Targeting a 2028 release, the PCIe 8.0 specification will double the throughput over PCIe 7.0. With the release, the PCI-SIG also shared two neat charts. PCIe Gen8 Announced by the PCI-SIG Will Double Throughput Again The PCI-SIG has this graphic to show what is happening to I/O bandwidth. It says that the I/O bandwidth is doubling every three years. Something to also keep in mind is that this is very device and interface centric.

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Paramount’s ‘Star Trek’ Focus Is Back at the Movies—Including ‘Star Trek 4’ (Again)

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-30 12:18:43

There’s been no shortage of Star Trek for fans in recent years—provided, of course, they subscribe to Paramount+. But as the sci-fi stalwart’s number of streaming series has dwindled to just Strange New Worlds (which has an endpoint set after its fifth season) and the upcoming Starfleet Academy, the studio behind the franchise is seemingly ramping up hopes for a big-screen return. If that sounds like a promise you’ve heard before, you’re not wrong. The most recent reboot or Kelvin Timeline (or

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Kodak says it’ll figure things out and won’t shut down

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-30 12:52:22

“Kodak is confident it will be able to pay off a significant portion of its term loan well before it becomes due, and amend, extend or refinance our remaining debt and/or preferred stock obligations. To fund the repayment, we plan to draw on the approximately $300 million in cash we expect to receive from the reversion and settlement of our U.S. pension fund (the Kodak Retirement Income Plan, or “KRIP”) in December. However, the KRIP reversion is not solely within Kodak’s control and therefore i

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CoreWeave stock slumps 20% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-30 17:49:56

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

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New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-30 17:14:23

Security researchers have created a new FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. These weaker login channels are vulnerable to adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks that employ tools like Evilginx, enabling attackers to snatch valid session cookies and hijack the accounts. Although the attack doesn't prove a vulnerability in FIDO itself, it shows that the syste

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New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 17:26:02

Security researchers have created a new FIDO downgrade attack against Microsoft Entra ID that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. These weaker login channels are vulnerable to adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks that employ tools like Evilginx, enabling attackers to snatch valid session cookies and hijack the accounts. Although the attack doesn't prove a vulnerability in FIDO itself, it shows that the syste

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Latest Tech News

AI translation tech Palabra gets backing from Reddit co-founder’s venture firm

Leak reveals new Studio Display might have surprisingly powerful chip

Solos is equipping its smart glasses with an AI for the blind and low-vision community

How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected

These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

The Narwal Flow is the closest I’ve seen a robot vacuum get to being perfect

Apple Vision Pro 2 may have a better chip than expected

A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data. What changed and why?

Faster animations on iOS 26 makes even older iPhones feel like new

Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court

AI demand boosts iPhone maker Foxconn's second-quarter profit by 27%, beating forecasts

Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks

Ready for Apple's iOS 26? These are all the compatible iPhones that can run public beta 2 right now

iOS 26 public beta 2 adds new Apple features: Everything to know about the Apple iPhone updates

ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

Google faces loss of Chrome as Perplexity bid adds drama to looming breakup decision

US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports

How well do coding agents use your library?

Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14, #795

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

CoreWeave tanks 20% after posting wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

Here’s everything new for Apple’s Photos app in iOS 26

PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again

Paramount’s ‘Star Trek’ Focus Is Back at the Movies—Including ‘Star Trek 4’ (Again)

Kodak says it’ll figure things out and won’t shut down

CoreWeave stock slumps 20% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

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