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AT&T customer? You might get a cut of $177 million data breach settlement

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-13 21:53:57

wdstock/Gertty Images If you're a current or former AT&T customer, a new class action settlement means you might be in line for a little cash. Earlier this year, the company confirmed two major data breaches -- one from 2019 or earlier and one from 2024. The stolen data, which ultimately ended up for sale on the dark web, included social security numbers, names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and more. Also: 184 million passwords leaked across Facebook, Goo

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Human-centric AI delivered at scale is the NiCE approach to CX

zdnet.com Omer Minkara 2025-11-13 21:54:47

matdesign24/Getty Images Last week, I attended NiCE Interactions 2025, a customer experience industry event bringing together nearly 3,000 CX, contact center, operations, and IT leaders from around the world. As NiCE is a leading provider of CX and contact center solutions, the event focused on how business leaders are modernizing their customer care and engagement strategies and how NiCE is helping facilitate that transformation. At the event, company leaders, marquee customers, and technolog

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Expand.ai (YC S24) is hiring a founding engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 21:00:25

What if the internet were a database you could query? At expand.ai we're making that a reality. A combination of distributed systems, custom models, browser infrastructure, and a lot of passion from a tiny team, in-person here in Dogpatch, SF, is all you need. Apply if you're interested in working on bleeding-edge web agents applied at a large scale. We have a very talented team, great architects, and some have even worked on custom hardware before. I'm Tim, a 2nd-time founder, and I have s

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Ambarella shares soar 17% on report chip designer is exploring sale

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-14 02:47:55

Ambarella shares popped 17% after a report that the chip designer is currently working with bankers on a potential sale. Bloomberg reported the news, citing sources familiar with the matter. While no deal is imminent, the sources told Bloomberg that the firm may draw interest from semiconductor companies looking to improve their automotive business. Private equity firms have already expressed interest, according to the report.

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T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service launches in July - here's who can get it for free

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-13 22:37:00

nazar_ab / Getty Images T-Mobile will officially launch its public Starlink satellite service on Wednesday, July 23. Currently in beta testing, the service will be available for any mobile phone user with a compatible device, including AT&T and Verizon subscribers. In its Monday news release, the Uncarrier explained what Starlink will offer. From the get-go, iOS and Android users alike will be able to send SMS text messages. Other features include MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), picture me

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Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:07:49

Memfault has established itself as the leading platform provider for device observability and management, and secure over-the-air (OTA) software updates to ensure the highest device reliability without field returns. It is trusted by a growing developer community and customers to monitor, maintain, and scale connected products. Nordic will integrate Memfault’s capabilities across its complete product portfolio and into its existing nRF Cloud services platform, creating a significantly more power

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Verizon's Project 624 Is an AI-Powered Customer Service Initiative

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-15 05:30:00

In April, Verizon's CEO of its consumer group, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, dropped a cryptic teaser on his LinkedIn Page: "Project 624. All about the customer. Coming soon." And then… nothing more about it. Until today. Now we know that 624 represents the date, June 24, and the project is an ambitious customer service program intended to make it so subscribers can resolve issues by contacting Verizon just once. And yes, AI is involved, but don't roll your eyes just yet. Sampath laid out changes to

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Verizon adopts Google’s Gemini AI to help customers solve ‘complex’ issues

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-15 06:27:26

Verizon is trying to streamline its customer service experience by overhauling it with more chatbots and AI tools. The My Verizon app is being relaunched today with a new “AI-powered Verizon Assistant” that aims to help consumers “manage upgrades, add new lines, ask billing questions, take advantage of savings, and more,” according to the telecom giant’s announcement. The idea is that this chatbot service will be able to quickly complete tasks that typically need to be handled by human service

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QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms to Compute

news.ycombinator.com Timothy Prickett Morgan 2025-11-10 21:58:04

Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are driving the chorus around an accelerated the timeframe the launch of a usable and reliable system. “Sometimes it’s hard to see all the amazing progress that’s been happening,” Boger, QuEra’s chief commercial officer, told The Next Platform in a recent interview. “But if you go back a few years – five or ten years ago – the question was, ‘Could p

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T-Mobile launching T-Satellite with Starlink next month, working with Apple on satellite enabled apps

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-16 06:44:20

T-Mobile has been testing a beta version of its T-Satellite service with customers for several weeks now. Starting next month, the beta period will start to wind down as satellite connectivity officially launches as a paid service. Beyond the commercial launch, T-Mobile has also announced when the service will expand beyond text message support to include data. First, T-Mobile will commercially launch T-Satellite on July 23. T-Satellite relies on SpaceX Starlink satellites for network coverage

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LEGO Star Wars Phantom Menace Podrace Wasn’t This Cheap Last Prime Day, but Now It’s Practically Free

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-11-17 11:40:39

It’s hard to decide which is more surprising — the fact that Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is now 25 years old, or that LEGO has been creating amazingly detailed Star Wars-themed sets and models for just as long. The 25th anniversary celebration of LEGO Star Wars continues with this amazing diorama depicting the iconic podrace between young Anakin Skywalker and Sebulba on Tatooine, and Amazon’s selling this adult set for just $54. The LEGO Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Mos Espa Podrace Diorama

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Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage

news.ycombinator.com Camilo Aguilar 2025-11-17 15:57:07

On Jun 12th, 2025, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experienced an unfortunate global outage triggered by an automated quota update to their API management system. What was a major outage for a large part of the internet was just another normal day for Redpanda Cloud customers. While GCP dealt with the widespread disruption that impacted many critical services, Redpanda Cloud clusters in GCP remained stable, thanks to being purposely designed for the SLA we offer, along with a cell-based architectur

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Yet another Android brand is copying the iPhone’s Action button

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 16:10:48

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple replaced the mute switch with a customizable Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro models. OnePlus recently copied this move and replaced its iconic alert slider with a customizable button on the OnePlus 13s. Another Android brand could soon follow suit and add a customizable button on an upcoming phone. After including a silent switch on every iPhone model since the original, Apple dropped it in favor of a customizable button starting with the iPhone

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HCP Vault Secrets End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:47:21

HashiCorp will be decommissioning HCP Vault Secrets. The team is shifting focus to bringing the ease of use learnings from HCP Vault Secrets to HCP Vault Dedicated. Current HCP Vault Secrets users are encouraged to migrate to HCP Vault Dedicated. Important Timelines End of Sale: June 30, 2025 New customers will no longer have access to HCP Vault Secrets Existing customers will be able to add new HCP Vault Secrets applications until the end of life End of life: August 27, 2025 (pay-as-you-go

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You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-20 12:39:15

If you’ve been experimenting with custom GPTs inside ChatGPT, here’s a welcome upgrade: OpenAI now lets users pick from all available models when building or running a custom GPT, not just GPT-4o. Here’s how it works (and what’s missing). What are custom GPTs again? If you have no idea what this is, you’re not alone. OpenAI launched custom GPTs in late 2023, but the feature hasn’t exactly taken off the way the company probably hoped. Here’s how OpenAI describes them: “…custom versions of Chat

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How to use the viral AutoMix feature on iOS 26 (and which iPhone models support it)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-20 14:00:17

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Apple Music users have often watched Spotify take the lead when it comes to innovative features and personalized listening experiences. But with the introduction of the new AutoMix feature, Apple Music may finally be closing the gap -- and even setting a new standard of its own. Also: How to install iOS 26 beta on your iPhone (and which models support it) What is AutoMix in Apple Music? At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, the company unveiled upgra

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‘The Phantom of the Paradise’ Might Find New Life as a Stage Play

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-21 11:00:08

The Phantom of the Paradise, the vastly underrated horror-tinged rock opera from the minds of Brian De Palma (Carrie) and Paul Williams (The Muppet Movie), might be getting a new musical adaptation. Movie Maker reports that Williams and Sam Pressman, whose father Ed Pressman produced the 1974 cult film, are currently developing it as a stage production. “I’m excited about having a chance to deliver what fans have been suggesting for years… POTP as a stage musical,” Williams said in a statement

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AutoMix on iOS 26 is going viral. Here's how to try the hottest iPhone feature yourself

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-24 02:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Apple Music users have often watched Spotify take the lead when it comes to innovative features and personalized listening experiences. But with the introduction of the new AutoMix feature, Apple Music may finally be closing the gap -- and even setting a new standard of its own. Also: How to install iOS 26 beta on your iPhone (and which models support it) What is AutoMix in Apple Music? At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, the company unveiled upgra

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I Wanted to Stream a Horror-Western, and Netflix Has the Best Movie That Does Both

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 06:00:03

When it comes to movies, my favorite genres are horror and Westerns. Yet, as a busy dad, there's never enough time in the day to sit and enjoy a film I want to watch. If I had it my way, I'd regularly plan double feature nights at home to get my fix of scares and cowboys. However, there's a six-year-old girl who lives under my roof, and my wife's tastes vastly differ from mine, so we keep it family friendly -- most of the time, anyway. Lo and behold, my birthday is approaching, and I am getting

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Salesforce hikes Slack prices, adds AI tools for all paid users

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-11-24 11:24:00

What the Bot: Salesforce has decided to increase prices for certain paid Slack plans. The company is attempting to justify the change by stating that all customers will now have access to more AI features. And if you don't want or need AI, well, you'll likely end up paying more anyway. According to a recent announcement from Salesforce, Slack customers will now have to pay more but will receive new AI-based features in return. Paid plans for the service will cost a few dollars more per user, me

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Apple looking to make 'premium' priced folding iPhones starting next year, analyst says

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-24 11:14:07

People look at iPhones at the Apple Fifth Avenue store in New York City, U.S., May 23, 2025. Apple has plans to make a folding iPhone starting next year, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said on Wednesday. Kuo said that Apple's folding phone could have a display made by Samsung Display, which is planning to produce as many as 8 million foldable panels for the device next year. However, other components haven't been finalized, including the device's hinge, Kuo wrote. He expects it to have "premium

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Futureproof

theverge.com Jacob Kastrenakes 2025-11-24 21:15:59

AI tools are flooding the culture ecosystem — and no corner of the arts space is immune. In this series, we’re looking at the ways artists are embracing AI, pushing back on it, or trying their best to find an equilibrium with a new technology that’s both sweeping and destabilizing. We talk to perfumers questioning the looming automation of scent creation, fanfic writers pushing back on archive scrapers, and illustrators replacing the AI that once replaced them. The tech isn’t going away. Here’s

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Puzzle Corner

technologyreview.com Mark Douma 2025-11-25 11:05:08

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See the hacked iPhone camera Apple built to shoot real race scenes for F1 The Movie

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-25 16:43:26

Talk about “shot on iPhone”. For its upcoming F1 movie, Apple tasked its engineers with building a custom camera module, using iPhone parts, to replace the onboard cameras that are used for F1 live race broadcasts. Here’s a closer look at the rig. But… why? As detailed by Wired (via MacMagazine), when director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) and cinematographer Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) told Apple they wanted authentic, driver-perspective shots for the film, the

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If You Were Surprised by an Amazon Refund From Years Ago, Here's Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 22:55:03

What's better than a surprise package from Amazon? A big chunk of money. After all the money you've spent at Amazon, it's only fair that the online shopping giant gives you some cash back, right? That's what some customers are discovering after learning about surprise Amazon refunds they've received, sometimes for purchases made years ago. One customer on LinkedIn said he received a refund of $1,800 for a smart TV bought in 2018. Others made similar comments about products bought long before.

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Android 16 QPR1 beta 2 has a hidden customization option for the lock screen clock

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 09:54:08

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google introduced new lock screen clock customization options in Android 16 QPR1 beta 1. In the second beta release, the company has added another hidden customization option for the lock screen clock. This new option lets you switch between “Rounded” and “Sharp” font styles for the default lock screen clock. Google rolled out the first Android 16 QPR1 beta release last month, introducing a new customization option for the lock screen clock. The beta

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"Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 03:56:26

I’m beyond frustrated. Microsoft randomly locked my account after I moved 30 years' worth of irreplaceable photos and work to OneDrive. I was consolidating data from multiple old drives before a major move—drives I had to discard due to space and relocation constraints. The plan was simple: upload to OneDrive, then transfer to a new drive later. Instead, Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any legitimate recourse. I've submitted the compliance form 18 times—eighteen—and e

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Android Automotive now lets apps show your food order status and more on your car’s home screen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-28 11:15:46

Polestar TL;DR Android Automotive OS is getting a new feature called AppCard, which allows apps to display their most relevant data and functions on the home screen. AppCards can display information like the status of a food order, but the visual styling of these cards is controlled by carmakers, not app developers. It’s unclear whether the feature will require the latest version of Android Automotive, though. When you’re driving, your focus should be on the road, but sometimes you need to g

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Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-28 11:00:00

Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1 billion, almost doubling in three years from its last round in 2022. With the influx of cash, the startup is looking to expand its engineering base in India and develop its AI agent. The all-equity and all-primary Series E round is led by California-based venture growth firm NewView Capital, with participation from the Canada Pension Plan Investme

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Android Automotive update will make it easier to talk to Gemini in your car

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:04:43

TL;DR The Android Automotive 16 update introduces several subtle UI changes to the home screen, launcher, and notification panel. Key adjustments include a redesigned volume panel, a taller media card, a new voice assistant button, and a more legible app grid. The update also adds a toggle for Ultra-Wideband (UWB), a key component of Android’s digital car key feature. Just like with Android on phones and tablets, Google pushes out yearly updates to its OS for cars, Android Automotive OS (AAOS

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Latest Tech News

AT&T customer? You might get a cut of $177 million data breach settlement

Human-centric AI delivered at scale is the NiCE approach to CX

Expand.ai (YC S24) is hiring a founding engineer

Ambarella shares soar 17% on report chip designer is exploring sale

T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service launches in July - here's who can get it for free

Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault

Verizon's Project 624 Is an AI-Powered Customer Service Initiative

Verizon adopts Google’s Gemini AI to help customers solve ‘complex’ issues

QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms to Compute

T-Mobile launching T-Satellite with Starlink next month, working with Apple on satellite enabled apps

LEGO Star Wars Phantom Menace Podrace Wasn’t This Cheap Last Prime Day, but Now It’s Practically Free

Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage

Yet another Android brand is copying the iPhone’s Action button

HCP Vault Secrets End of Life

You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

How to use the viral AutoMix feature on iOS 26 (and which iPhone models support it)

‘The Phantom of the Paradise’ Might Find New Life as a Stage Play

AutoMix on iOS 26 is going viral. Here's how to try the hottest iPhone feature yourself

I Wanted to Stream a Horror-Western, and Netflix Has the Best Movie That Does Both

Salesforce hikes Slack prices, adds AI tools for all paid users

Apple looking to make 'premium' priced folding iPhones starting next year, analyst says

Futureproof

Puzzle Corner

See the hacked iPhone camera Apple built to shoot real race scenes for F1 The Movie

If You Were Surprised by an Amazon Refund From Years Ago, Here's Why

Android 16 QPR1 beta 2 has a hidden customization option for the lock screen clock

"Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work"

Android Automotive now lets apps show your food order status and more on your car’s home screen

Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion

Android Automotive update will make it easier to talk to Gemini in your car

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