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‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-01 07:00:00

How much do foundation models matter? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s come up a lot in my conversations with AI startups, which are increasingly comfortable with businesses that used to be dismissed as “GPT wrappers,” or companies that build interfaces on top of existing AI models like ChatGPT. These days, startup teams are focused on customizing AI models for specific tasks and interface work, and see the foundation model as a commodity that can be swapped in and out as necessary

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YouTube TV increased its price 9 months ago, but I still haven’t had to pay it. Here’s how

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 07:30:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority Almost exactly nine months ago, Google announced it was raising the price of YouTube TV, increasing it from $72.99 per month to $82.99/month. And for anyone who has been subscribed to YouTube TV for a while, you probably saw this coming. When YouTube TV initially launched in 2017, the service cost just $34.99 each month — an unbelievably good deal by today’s standards. But it only took about a year for the first price increase to arrive, bumping it up to $39.99 p

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Hands-on with MOFT’s iPhone 17 cases and more: Fantastic options for a leather feel

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-01 05:47:50

For the iPhone 17 lineup, MOFT has a number of neat new cases and MagSafe wallets. Also, the company has new Apple Watch bands for the first time. All of these products are available already, just in case you’re shopping for a new case for your iPhone 17. These new cases, wallets, and watch bands are part of the companies new ‘Snap’ collection, made out of MOFT’s soft-touch MOVAS vegan leather material. I must say, they do feel incredibly nice – probably some of the best vegan leather I’ve felt

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RFC9460: SVCB and HTTPS DNS Records

news.ycombinator.com Authors 2025-10-01 02:26:01

In AliasMode, the SVCB record aliases a service to a TargetName. SVCB RRsets SHOULD only have a single RR in AliasMode. If multiple AliasMode RRs are present, clients or recursive resolvers SHOULD pick one at random.¶ The primary purpose of AliasMode is to allow aliasing at the zone apex, where CNAME is not allowed (see, for example, [RFC1912], Section 2.4). In AliasMode, the TargetName will be the name of a domain that resolves to SVCB, AAAA, and/or A records. (See Section 6 for aliasing of SV

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AMD’s RDNA4 GPU architecture

news.ycombinator.com Chester Lam 2025-09-30 23:04:18

RDNA4 is AMD’s latest graphics-focused architecture, and fills out their RX 9000 line of discrete GPUs. AMD noted that creating a good gaming GPU requires understanding both current workloads, as well as taking into account what workloads might look like five years in the future. Thus AMD has been trying to improve efficiency across rasterization, compute, and raytracing. Machine learning has gained importance including in games, so AMD’s new GPU architecture caters to ML workloads as well. Fro

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Woman Sends Money to "Stranded Astronaut" So He Can "Buy Oxygen"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 23:45:45

"In space on a spaceship right now." The sky's the limit for how outrageously implausible some scams can get. Actually, try beyond the atmosphere. An elderly woman in Japan sent thousands of dollars to a trickster who claimed to be an astronaut trapped in space and in danger of suffocating, Agence France-Presse reports. In fairness to the lady, though, she thought they were in love. The 80-year-old pensioner, who lives in Sapporo, the capital of Japan's northern island Hokkaido, met the scamm

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Here’s a fantastic MacBook Air deal you should consider if you’re eyeing an upgrade

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-01 05:06:03

With every new Apple product launch, deals slowly crop up over time – and the MacBook lineup is no exception. The best deals tend to come after a model is no longer the latest and greatest, and there’s currently an unbeatable M3 MacBook Air deal that’s hard to pass up on, and once it sells out, there likely won’t be any more to go around. Apple released the new M4 MacBook Air in March, and since then, retailers have been trying to move inventory of older M3 models. For the most part, they have

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Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness

news.ycombinator.com Author 2025-09-28 23:24:05

In Alaska’s Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink from now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning fish and wreaking havoc on ecosystems. Researcher testing murky waters in Alaska's Brooks Range. (Photo: Taylor Rhoades) As the planet warms, a layer of permafrost — permanently frozen Arctic soil that locked away minerals for millennia — is beginning to thaw. Water and oxygen creep into the

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California Lawmakers Once Again Challenge Newsom’s Tech Ties with AI Bill

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 03:15:29

Last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a wildly popular (among the public) and wildly controversial (among tech companies) bill that would have established robust safety guidelines for the development and operation of artificial intelligence models. Now he’ll have a second shot—this time with at least part of the tech industry giving him the green light. On Saturday, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 53, a landmark piece of legislation that would require AI companies to submit

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Hike, once a unicorn, shuts down as India cracks down on real-money gaming

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-09-30 21:05:49

Hike, once one of India’s most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi’s recent real-money gaming ban, with the company — led by Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Airtel founder Sunil Bharti Mittal — now shutting down. On Saturday, Hike founder Mittal (pictured above) said that the startup’s U.S. business, which launched nine months ago, was “off to a strong start.” But he said scaling it globally would require “a full recap, a reset that is not the best use

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ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 22:00:13

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its official emoji dictionary. Frail human minds have sometimes been surprised to learn that fact, in a perfect example of the Mandela Effect, in which people become convinced that they remember something that isn't actually real — like that South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela died in pris

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Heroic Gas Station Clerk Realizes Elderly Women Are Being Scammed at the Bitcoin ATM, Unplugs It to Save Them

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 03:15:30

One of the core appeals of cryptocurrency — other than providing a get-rich-quick scheme for famous people with huge sway over their followers, like a sitting president or an airheaded influencer — is that it's decentralized and largely unregulated. Of course, that also makes it a breeding ground for fraud. Just ask Boise, Idaho gas station clerk Avalon Hardy. As Inc reports, she ended up repeatedly intervening to stop old ladies from getting ripped off by using the establishment's Bitcoin ATM

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Apple @ Work: Apple says it’s past time to get serious about Declarative Device Management

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-01 01:00:00

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Paramount+ annual subscriptions are 50 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:45:35

Sometimes, rising prices for streaming services feels as inevitable as death and taxes. So when a serious discount is available, we tend to sit up and take notice. For a few weeks, you can get a whopping half off an annual subscription to Paramount+. A year of the Paramount+ Essential plan, which is ad-supported, will cost $30 compared to the usual $60. Paramount+ Premium, which is ad-free except for live tv programming, will cost $60 for a year instead of $120. This is a substantial deal that

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The Value of Bringing a Telephoto Lens

news.ycombinator.com Avid Andrew 2025-09-27 04:08:33

They usually aren't light, and they certainly aren't small, but the unique perspective a telephoto lens brings makes it an indispensable part of your kit, even when traveling. Let's review some shots taken with a telephoto to see how we can justify its size and weight. Avoiding Distractions In some cases, distracting buildings or people may be unavoidable. However, a telephoto can help eliminate those distractions and bring your subject, in this case the clouds and mountains, front-and-center:

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Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

wired.com Joseph Winters 2025-09-30 23:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s foremost authority on the topic. But only some types of carbon removal are actually effective—and these are largely not the kind that major companies are investing in. A new report from the NewClimate Institute, a European think

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Dell 27 Plus 4K Review (S2725QS): The Monitor Almost Everyone Should Buy

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-01 00:00:00

At one time, having a 4K monitor felt like a luxury. Now, thanks to the power of modern computers and the dramatic price drop, 4K monitors are no longer unattainable upgrades. They're becoming the standard. The Dell 27 Plus 4K is the best example of this trend I've seen so far. It might not have all the bells and whistles of a Dell UltraSharp monitor, nor the mind-blowing image quality of the Dell 32 Plus OLED. But for my money, this is the best monitor the average person working from home shou

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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 03:46:46

I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple Move instruction. For this to work, everything needs to be memory mapped. The ALU, program counter, everything. Of course, this idea is nothing new and this idea is called the Transport Triggered Architecture. I decided to have a look into this, how it works and make a

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How to Watch the 77th Emmy Awards Without Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 03:00:04

The Emmy Awards are nearly here, meaning your favorite TV shows from the past year may be taking home some well-deserved wins. I guess it's time to once again start the comedy-or-drama debate about The Bear. The Emmys eligibility rules say programs must have premiered new episodes between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025. This year's top contenders feature one from Netflix (the limited series Adolescence), two from Apple TV Plus (Severance and The Studio) and HBO's The Penguin. Presenters this y

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Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 04:00:22

Meow Introduction Less is more Meow is yet another modal editing mode for Emacs. Meow aims to blend modal editing into Emacs with minimal interference with its original key-bindings, avoiding most of the hassle introduced by key-binding conflicts. This leads to lower necessary configuration and better integration. More is achieved with fewer commands to remember. Key features compared to existing solutions: Minimal configuration – build your own modal editing system No third-party depende

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iPhone 17 pre-order shipping times start slipping to October

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-30 21:44:26

Today is iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone Air pre-order day, a day that is always a combination of exciting and stressful for Apple fans. The first pre-orders are scheduled to arrive on September 19, but shipping estimates have already started to slip for some of the new iPhone models … The iPhone 17 Pro Max is facing the longest shipping delays, with most configurations now showing an estimated delivery date of October 6 to October 13. The Silver and Cosmic Orange colors appear to be slig

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I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 04:53:33

Recently I read this beginners guide to extend Emacs. The guide is perfect for starting out with elisp and it shows a lot of care in teaching how to interact with Emacs. To me, the most important bit though is this one, from the section aptly named Emacs Wants You to Extend It. I haven’t written plugins for other editors extensively, but I can tell you this: emacs doesn’t just make deep customization available, but it actively encourages you to make an absolute customization messes masterpiece

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Unauthorized Windows/386

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 04:09:34

I wanted to share something special, a friend of mine, Will, has been so busy working on this project and I wanted to share it here for everyone here first. This is pretty technical, but still interesting deep look into one of Microsoft’s early 32bit/386 based programs that would go on to revolutionize the world, Windows/386! It brought the v86 virtual machine to normal people wrapped up in a nice GUI. By Will Klees (CaptainWillStarblazer) INTRODUCTION I’m CaptainWillStarblazer, an author wh

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Emacs: A Paradigm Shift

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:53:33

Recently I read this beginners guide to extend Emacs. The guide is perfect for starting out with elisp and it shows a lot of care in teaching how to interact with Emacs. To me, the most important bit though is this one, from the section aptly named Emacs Wants You to Extend It. I haven’t written plugins for other editors extensively, but I can tell you this: emacs doesn’t just make deep customization available, but it actively encourages you to make an absolute customization messes masterpiece

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An embarrassing failure of the US patent system: Nintendo's latest patents

news.ycombinator.com Lincoln Carpenter 2025-10-01 22:11:50

The last 10 days have brought a string of patent wins for Nintendo. Yesterday, the company was granted US patent 12,409,387, a patent covering riding and flying systems similar to those Nintendo has been criticized for claiming in its Palworld lawsuit (via Gamesfray). Last week, however, Nintendo received a more troubling weapon in its legal arsenal: US patent 12,403,397, a patent on summoning and battling characters that the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted with alarmingly litt

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 03:47:14

Instagram fixed a bug that caused the reach of some users' Stories to shrink when they posted more than one Story a day, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared on Friday. The fix addresses a common complaint shared by creators in the last year that they were disincentivized to use Stories because of how regularly using the feature impacted the number of people who actually saw their posts. "People were complaining about getting less reach with their Stories if they posted lots of Stories in the sam

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Is Coming: Watch the Title Trailer Here

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 02:55:00

Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser and friends will be back for a sequel to 2023's Super Mario Bros. Movie. On Friday, Nintendo released a trailer to YouTube revealing the new movie's title: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. In the video, Mario is snoozing under a tree when a butterfly takes off, zipping through familiar Mushroom Kingdom territory before zooming up to the sky. A Luma star figure cries, "Let's-a-go!" as the title of the film appears. The animated movie is expected to be out on Apr

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Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-02 07:03:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is partnering with Gigs, a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, to let companies integrate prepaid services into existing apps and platforms. Early adopters include fintech companies like Klarna and OnePay, which are adding mobile service to their financial apps. Unlike most prepaid brands, Gigs-powered services can openly advertise that they run on AT&T’s network. Carriers are increasingly making it easier for independent companies to launch their o

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Nissan Leaf 2026 Review: Superb Steering, Competitive Pricing

wired.com John Voelcker 2025-10-02 05:00:00

Nissan quotes 160 kilowatts (214 horsepower) and 252 pound-feet of torque for the single motor that drives the front wheels. Acceleration is adequate in the standard drive mode, with Sport providing a bit more boost, enough to spin an inside front wheel in turns when pressed. The Eco mode was underwhelming, and while there’s a Personal mode to tweak your own combination of settings, we’d be shocked if anyone ever uses it. Nissan offers four levels of regenerative braking, controlled via paddle

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'Hades II' Is Coming to Nintendo Switch This Month

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-10-02 07:30:47

Nintendo’s Switch and Switch 2 release calendars are bulking up. During a packed Nintendo Direct livestream on Friday, the company announced on-sale dates for several games as well as the return of the Virtual Boy, the proto VR headset Nintendo originally launched in the mid-1990s. One of the biggest of Friday’s announcements was that of the release date for the sequel to Supergiant’s wildly popular Hades. Hades II will hit Switch, Switch 2, and PC on September 25. The long-awaited new Metroid

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‘Selling coffee beans to Starbucks’ – how the AI boom could leave AI’s biggest companies behind

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AMD’s RDNA4 GPU architecture

Woman Sends Money to "Stranded Astronaut" So He Can "Buy Oxygen"

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Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness

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ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

Heroic Gas Station Clerk Realizes Elderly Women Are Being Scammed at the Bitcoin ATM, Unplugs It to Save Them

Apple @ Work: Apple says it’s past time to get serious about Declarative Device Management

Paramount+ annual subscriptions are 50 percent off right now

The Value of Bringing a Telephoto Lens

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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)

How to Watch the 77th Emmy Awards Without Cable

Meow: Yet another modal editing on Emacs

iPhone 17 pre-order shipping times start slipping to October

I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode

Unauthorized Windows/386

Emacs: A Paradigm Shift

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Is Coming: Watch the Title Trailer Here

Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

Nissan Leaf 2026 Review: Superb Steering, Competitive Pricing

'Hades II' Is Coming to Nintendo Switch This Month

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