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Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

wired.com Sophie Hurwitz 2025-10-12 12:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis on May 16, DeAmon White hopped in his car and rushed home. As he navigated downed trees and power lines, turning his 10-minute commute into a three-hour slog, he worried whether his family

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Everything About Bitflags: How to store up to 32 booleans in one value?

news.ycombinator.com Igor Klepacki 2025-10-08 18:58:33

When I was younger and I was involved in reverse engineering communities and systems programming, there was this concept called bit flags. They were a standard way of storing a pack of true or false values in ... actually a single value - a function parameter, local variable or entry in some configuration. I found nothing fascinating about that back then and just used it on a regular basis, as every other engineer was. Long time after that and after shifting my focus to web development I just r

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Show HN: Writing Arabic in English

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 16:04:56

My journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard A phonetic keyboard is a type of keyboard layout designed to make typing in a particular language easier by mapping characters or letters to sounds rather than their traditional positions on the keyboard. This makes it easier for beginners or casual users to engage with the language without the learning curve of mastering an entirely different keyboard layout. However there a few problems we have to overcome when creating a phonetic Arabic key

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AppLovin and Robinhood added to S&P 500

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-13 04:57:30

Shares of advertising technology company AppLovin and stock trading app Robinhood Markets each jumped about 7% in extended trading on Friday after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index. The changes will go into effect before the beginning of trading on Sept. 22, S&P Global announced in a statement. AppLovin will replace MarketAxess Holdings , while Robinhood will take the place of Caesars Entertainment . In March, short-seller Fuzzy Panda Research advised the committee for the la

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Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:00:26

Role Summary Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest - millions of downloads, 79,000+ reviews, and a 4.9-star rating. We’re hiring our founding UX Design Engineer to drive the development of our upcoming mobile web app (embedded in native), and web surfaces inside our flagship, social VR experience. You’ll own key UX surfaces end-to-end - crafting in Figma, then building responsive, production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS - and you’ll set a clear quality bar for speed, poli

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Broadcom stock jumps 9% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-13 08:03:41

Analysts at Mizuho, Cantor Fitzgerald and KeyBanc all said they think AI startup OpenAI is the customer. The Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the partnership, that the two companies co-designed a chip that will hit the market next year. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs," Tan said. He added that the order increased Broadcom's forecast for AI revenue next yea

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors' copyright lawsuit

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-13 08:01:05

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, who claimed the artificial intelligence startup had illegally accessed their books. The company will pay roughly $3,000 per book plus interest, and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material, according to a filing on Friday. The lawsuit against Anthropic has been closely watched by AI startups and media companies that have been trying to determine what copyr

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Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple

cnbc.com Kevin Breuninger 2025-10-13 12:58:23

US President Donald Trump during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to "nullify" what he said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms such as Google and Apple . "We cannot let this happen to brilliant and unprecedented American Ingenuity and, if it does, I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceed

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EU Fines Google $3.45B for Giving Its Ad Tech Preferential Treatment

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 10:53:00

Google faces a $3.45 billion fine from the European Union for engaging in anticompetitive advertising technology practices, the European Commission said Friday. The fine stems from a complaint by the European Publishers Council alleging Google gave preference to its own online ad display services, hurting competitors and online publishers. The European Commission wants Google to stop these self-preferential practices and to cease its conflicts of interest. The Commission says it'll give Google,

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Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 12:17:30

Google may have escaped the most serious consequences in its most recent antitrust fight with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but the European Union is still gunning for the search giant. After a brief delay, the European Commission has announced a substantial 2.95 billion euro ($3.45 billion) fine relating to Google's anti-competitive advertising practices. This is not Google's first big fine in the EU, and it probably won't be the last, but it's the first time European leaders could face b

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion over adtech antitrust violations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 16:37:01

The European Commission has announced that it will fine Google €2.95 billion, or around $3.5 billion, for violating European Union antitrust laws and "distorting competition in the advertising technology industry." The decision follows a similar ruling from earlier in 2025, where a US federal judge concluded that Google maintains a monopoly in online advertising technology. Google displays ads in search results, but it also has a dominant position as a software provider for online advertisers a

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Broadcom stock jumps 11% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-13 20:01:50

Analysts at Mizuho, Cantor Fitzgerald and KeyBanc all said they think AI startup OpenAI is the customer. The Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the partnership, that the two companies co-designed a chip that will hit the market next year. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs," Tan said. He added that the order increased Broadcom's forecast for AI revenue next yea

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Southwest and T-Mobile are bringing free in-flight Wi-Fi to nearly everyone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:23:17

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Southwest and T-Mobile are rolling out free Wi-Fi on every flight. Anyone with a free Southwest Rapid Rewards account can log on, no matter which wireless carrier they use. The upgrade will reach Southwest’s full fleet of 800+ planes this year. Southwest Airlines is partnering with T-Mobile to provide its travelers with free Wi-Fi during flights. While you might assume this benefit only applies to T-Mobile customers, the scope is broader. Anyone who signs

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EU fines Google $3.5 billion for anti-competitive ad practices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:36:03

The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) for abusing its dominance in the digital advertising technology market and favoring its adtech services over those of its competitors. Google was also ordered by the EU's top antitrust regulator to stop anti-competitive and "self-preferencing" practices and take measures to mitigate future conflicts of interest in the adtech market. Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, told BleepingComputer that t

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Google fined $3.5 billion by EU for ad tech abuse

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-14 00:51:29

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The European Commission has waged a €2.95 billion (~$3.5 billion) fine against Google for “abusing its dominant position” in advertising technology. In its announcement, the Commission claims that Google’s alleged anticompetitive practices have increased costs f

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Broadcom stock jumps 15% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-14 12:33:12

Broadcom shares soared 15% on Friday after the chipmaker said on its earnings call that it had secured a new $10 billion customer. Analysts quickly pointed to OpenAI. Following a better-than-expected earnings report late Thursday, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told analysts that a fourth large customer had put in orders for $10 billion in custom artificial intelligence chips, which the company calls XPUs. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly character

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Critical SAP S/4HANA vulnerability now exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 12:36:35

A critical SAP S/4HANA code injection vulnerability is being leveraged in attacks in the wild to breach exposed servers, researchers warn. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-42957, is an ABAP code injection problem in an RFC-exposed function module of SAP S/4HANA, allowing low-privileged authentication users to inject arbitrary code, bypass authorization, and fully take over SAP. The vendor fixed the vulnerability on August 11, 2025, rating it critical (CVSS score: 9.9). However, several systems h

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7 Best Password Managers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-14 12:00:00

Even the best password managers are the vegetables of the internet. We know they’re good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the password equivalent of junk food. For nearly a decade, that’s been “123456” and “password”—the two most commonly used passwords on the web. The problem is, most of us don’t know what makes a good password and aren’t able to remember hundreds of them anyway. The safest (if craziest) way to store your passwords is to memorize them all. (Make sure they are lon

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Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-14 12:30:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Can AI help “smooth over” discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. De

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Broadcom’s stock pops on mystery $10 billion AI customer

cnbc.com Kif Leswing Ari Levy 2025-10-15 08:17:30

Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations and provided robust guidance for the current quarter. The stock rose in extended trading after the company said it had secured $10 billion in orders from a new client for custom chips. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.69 adjusted vs. $1.65 expected $1.69 adjusted vs. $1.65 expected Revenue: $15.96 billion vs. $15.83 billion expected Broadcom said it expects $17.4 billion

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops nearly 5% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-15 16:01:44

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped nearly 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the

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Broadcom reports 63% jump in AI revenue as results beat estimates

cnbc.com Kif Leswing Ari Levy 2025-10-15 16:44:31

Broadcom reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations and provided robust guidance for the current quarter. The stock was little changed in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share: $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected $1.69, adjusted, versus $1.65 expected Revenue: $15.96 billion versus $15.83 billion expected Broadcom said it expects $17.4 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, higher than the $17.02 billion expected

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Got a great browser interoperability idea? Apple wants to hear from you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-15 16:55:47

Entries are now open for Interop 2026, a yearly effort where anyone, from users to web developers, can submit their best ideas to improve cross-browser interoperability. Here’s how to participate. Interop started in 2022, when Apple, Bocoup, Google, Italia, Microsoft, and Mozilla came together “to commit to improve interoperability in 15 key areas that will have the most impact on web developer experience.” The project, which stemmed from Google’s Compat initiative, gained enough traction to b

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The fastest growing AI chatbot lately? It's not ChatGPT or Gemini

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-15 20:02:00

Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Copilot has been the fastest-growing AI chatbot in recent months. Use of Google Gemini is also surging. ChatGPT still enjoys the greatest number of users. Do you use Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, or ChatGPT on your PC or mobile device? If so, you're in good company. The number of people who turn to these three AI-powered chatbots grew from March to June this year,

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops more than 5% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-16 00:26:14

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped more than 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for t

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Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT use surge, but one AI tool is outshining the rest

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-16 00:26:01

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Copilot has been the fastest-growing AI chatbot in recent months. Use of Google Gemini is also surging. ChatGPT still enjoys the greatest number of users. Do you use Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, or ChatGPT on your PC or mobile device? If so, you're in good company. The number of people who turn to these three AI-powered chatbots grew from March to June this year, acco

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A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 03:45:39

Last week, I was talking to a PM who'd in the recent months shipped their AI agent. The metrics looked great: 89% accuracy, sub-second respond times, positive user feedback in surveys. But users were abandoning the agent after their first real problem, like a user with both a billing dispute and a locked account. "Our agent could handle routine requests perfectly, but when faced with complex issues, users would try once, get frustrated, and immediately ask for a human." This pattern is observe

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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

news.ycombinator.com Darius Snieckus Rory White 2025-10-16 07:51:26

Pichai added that he knew the “road ahead would not be easy,” but Google “aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change.” “Today, I’m proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” he said, in a video announcement . Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020

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Free Movies You Can Stream This September on Tubi, Fawesome and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 08:00:00

If you've grown tired of relentless price hikes from your favorite streaming platforms, it's nice to know that free TV services like Tubi, Fawesome and Pluto TV can be counted on for all kinds of great shows and movies. New films (and TV shows) arrive on these platforms every month, making them great options if you're looking for something cheap but with great options. Tubi's commitment to producing entertaining original thrillers continues this month with new releases like Dark Secret and Take

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops 7% on disappointing guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-16 16:49:51

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped 8%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 28%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the first t

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Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

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