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Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:53:44

Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models Markus Schütz, Christoph Peters, Florian Hahlbohm, Elmar Eisemann, Marcus Magnor, Michael Wimmer. 2025–06 in Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. HPG) 44, 8. Official version Abstract We present Splatshop, a highly optimized toolbox for interactive editing (selection, deletion, painting, transformation, ...) of 3D Gaussian Splatting models. Utilizing a comprehensive collection of heuristic approaches, we carefully balance between exact an

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Apple to Pump $100 Billion More Toward Manufacturing in US

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 23:23:00

Apple said Wednesday it plans to invest another $100 billion during the next four years to increase manufacturing in the US. The company's wide-ranging announcement -- which was leaked early by the White House -- said it will now spend $600 billion to hire more US workers and expand some of its manufacturing across 10 states. Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to unveil its American Manufacturing Program. The program includes plans to develop 100%

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These 7 Rumored iPhone 17 Pro Max Features Just Might Convince Me to Upgrade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 14:11:03

Because photography is important to me, I've always picked the iPhone Pro with its telephoto camera over the regular iPhone models. But each year I'm pulled in two directions: Pick the standard-sized iPhone Pro or the larger iPhone Pro Max? Some years the latter includes photo features not found on the regular iPhone Pro, such as the 5x zoom that was exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. And as we approach the reveal of the next iPhone 17 lineup, I'm once again waffling between sizes. And based on

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Apple’s mysterious chip tech will help Samsung make iPhone image sensors in Texas

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-15 11:51:38

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple is teaming up with Samsung to produce digital image sensors for future iPhone models, according to The Financial Times. This is tied to Apple’s Wednesday announcement that it is working with Samsung’s semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, to launch “an innovative new technology for making chips, which has never been used before anywhere in the world.” The Financial Times reports that Samsung will u

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Apple to invest $100bn after pressure from Trump

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-15 05:04:06

Apple to invest $100bn after pressure from Trump 10 hours ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Watch: Tim Cook presents Trump with glass statue after $100bn investment announcement Apple plans to boost investment in the US by another $100bn (£75bn) as the tech giant comes under pressure from President Donald Trump. The White House said the money would be used to encourage firms to make more Apple parts in the US and would add to the company's previous pledge to spend $500bn in t

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Samsung will soon make chips for iPhones in the US

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:48:50

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple has said that Samsung’s US factory will make chips for a number of its products, including iPhones. It’s unclear if Apple is referring to its A series chips that are the heart and soul of iPhones. Samsung has historically produced A series chips for Apple, but it’s been a while since anyone but TSMC manufactured iPhone chips. Apple says Samsung’s facility will supply chips that “optimize power and performance of Apple products.” Apple has announce

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This $100 discount makes the Motorola Razr 2025 my favorite budget flip phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:42:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Motorola Razr (2025) I absolutely love flip phones, mainly because I am a fan of smaller devices. There’s also the novelty factor; these are really cool and always spark conversations. My main issue is that they also tend to be very expensive. Things are changing, though, and there are now very accessible devices with a foldable screen. If I had to spend my hard-earned money, I would go for the Motorola Razr 2025, which is now $599.99 thanks to a $100 discount. B

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iPhone 17 cases may have a new feature

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-15 02:32:04

When Apple unveils the iPhone 17 lineup next month, it seems like we’ll also see a new version of Apple’s first-party protective cases as well. If the latest rumors are true, the iPhone 17 case lineup will take a design cue from the AirPods Pro 2 charging case. It appears Apple is planning to add support for an optional lanyard loop to its official iPhone 17 cases. That’s according to leakers Majin Bu and DuanRui. Apple already includes a similar lanyard loop slot on the AirPods Pro 2 charging

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When Will the iPhone 17 Be Released? We're Running Down the Possibilities

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 12:20:00

It's fun to speculate on which features the new iPhone 17 lineup will have, but what we really want to know is when we can get our hands on Apple's latest editions of its flagship smartphone. As we get closer to September and the traditional announcement date, iPhone rumors are arriving more frequently. Once the rumored iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, Pro and Pro Max are revealed, we'll be able to confirm speculation about colors, display, cameras and more. We'll also learn how much the new iPhone wi

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Woman wins $200,000 case after her phone started a house fire while charging

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 23:53:31

TL;DR A woman has been awarded the equivalent of $200,000 after her phone caused a house fire while charging. The court ruled the LG K8 was defective and failed to meet safety expectations. Most of the payout will go to her insurer, but she also received compensation for injuries. We’ve heard multiple reports of the Google Pixel 6a melting down over recent months, but nothing as nightmarish as this. For one woman, her plugged-in Android phone caused a house fire, eventually leading to a six-f

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You Can Still See Bright Fireballs During the Perseids Meteor Shower

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 22:07:00

Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn't finished with delivering dazzling meteor showers. The last week of July saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year won't hit its peak until next week. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you're far enough away from light pollution to see it. Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug. 23.

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Apple Commits $100 Billion More Toward US Manufacturing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 22:20:00

Apple says it's increasing its investment in US production by another $100 billion over the next four years. The company said Wednesday in a wide-ranging announcement that was leaked early by the White House that it will expand to $600 billion total its commitment to hire more US workers and expand some of its manufacturing across 10 states. Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to unveil its American Manufacturing Program, which includes plans for 10

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Apple launches the ‘American Manufacturing Program,’ with a new $100B commitment to the US

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-16 04:12:21

Apple just announced a new “$100 billion commitment to America”, which includes plans to move the manufacturing of all of the cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch to the U.S. Here are the details. Apple’s investment in the U.S. to reach $600 billion over the next four years As Apple investors certainly noticed today, the company’s stock spent most of the day riding on a +5% bump on the news that CEO Tim Cook would join President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to announce a new investment in

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Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:00:51

Traditionally on most Linux distributions, regular (human) users are managed via entries in /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow , /etc/group and /etc/gshadow . With the advent of systemd-homed it might be desirable to convert an existing, traditional user account to a systemd-homed managed one. Below is a brief guide how to do that. Before continuing, please read up on these basic concepts: This is a manual process, and possibly a bit fragile. Hence, do this at your own risk, read up beforehand, and mak

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You Can Now Watch ‘Wednesday’ Season 2’s Haunting Stop-Motion Short

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-16 04:30:13

There’s a special spooky treat for stop-motion animation fans embedded within season two of Wednesday: a short that’s another visual dazzler from the mind of Tim Burton. When Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joins the Nevermore Academy ranks, he and his roomie Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) get to know about the lore of the school’s haunted tree from their dorm RA. In an attempt to scare the young monsters, Ajax (Georgie Farmer) regales them with the tragedy of a brilliant but twisted mind, an outcast who repla

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Researchers Seize Control of Smart Homes With Malicious Gemini AI Prompts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 03:44:54

Recent reports and demonstrations from the Black Hat computer-security conference have shown how outside Gemini AI prompts, dubbed promptware, could fool the AI and force it to control Google Home-connected smart devices. That's an issue for Google, which has been working to add Gemini features to its Google Home app and replace Google Assistant with the new AI helper. The secret to these serious vulnerabilities is how Gemini is designed to respond to basic commands in English. Demonstrations s

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Shopify stock soars 21% on rosy guidance as CFO says tariff hit 'did not materialize'

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-16 09:02:51

The logo of Shopify is seen outside its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 28, 2018. Shopify shares soared 21% on Wednesday after the company topped analysts' estimates for the second quarter, and gave rosy guidance for the third quarter. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: 35 cents adjusted vs. 29 cents 35 cents adjusted vs. 29 cents Revenue: $2.68 billion vs. $2.55 billion Second-quarter sales surged 31% year over ye

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I hate photo editing, but this leaked Pixel 10 feature may change that

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:20:52

TL;DR A report claims that the Google Pixel 10 will launch with a new “Conversational Photo Editing” feature. The feature, powered by Gemini, will reportedly allow you to edit your photos by simply typing or saying your requests. Recently, Android Authority found a “Help me edit” feature in Google Photos with a similar premise. The faucet for Google Pixel 10 leaks remains open and free-flowing. After extensive reports revealing the design and specs for the entire Pixel 10 series, the folks at

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iPhone 17 Air: Seven new features are coming next month

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-16 06:08:00

Next month, the iPhone lineup is getting a brand new model: the iPhone 17 Air. Per various reports, Apple plans to drop its Plus option in favor of an ultra-thin new form factor that could tempt a lot of Pro users. Here are seven features coming to the iPhone 17 Air. Ultra-thin form factor Source: AppleTrack Following the trend started by Apple’s M4 iPad Pro, the iPhone 17 Air’s defining feature will be its thinness. Per Ming-Chi Kuo and various other reports, iPhone 17 Air will be just 5.55

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CarPlay in iOS 26 has a new, improved solution for phone calls

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-16 08:43:53

After years of minimal changes, CarPlay is getting a huge update this fall. Among the variety of big and small new features in iOS 26, CarPlay has a much improved solution for how incoming phone calls are handled. New compact view for incoming phone calls won’t get in the way of navigation If you get many phone calls, you’ve likely encountered a dilemma while driving. You’re navigating somewhere, with Maps guiding the way, when a phone call comes in. In some cases, this probably isn’t a big

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Apple iPhone 17 event: Release date, launch date, colors and everything else you need to know

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:05:35

We already know the changes coming to our phones with iOS 26, but we're super excited to see what Apple's newest iPhone 17 lineup will look like. That's still more than a month away — assuming Apple sticks to its usual release schedule — so for now we can speculate what the new phones will look like. As with most unreleased iPhone models, rumors and leaks have trickled in about the hardware side ahead of the official introduction. Here's what we're expecting and what we can reasonably assume we'

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Researchers hacked Google Gemini to take control of a smart home

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:19:26

Wired reported on new cybersecurity research that demonstrated a hack of the Google Gemini artificial intelligence assistant. The researchers were able to control connected smart home devices through the use of indirect prompt injections in Google Calendar invites. When a user requested a summary of their calendar and thanked Gemini for the results, the malicious prompt ordered Google's Home AI agent to take actions such as opening windows or turning lights off, as demonstrated in the video abov

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Apple iOS 26 beta is available: Everything you need to know about the new iPhone update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:30:11

The wait for upgrading your iPhone to iOS 26 keeps getting shorter, but we're still over a month out from the release, which is expected this fall. But if you want to start testing out the new features today, you can download and install Apple's public beta, which CEO Tim Cook recently said is (along with the other current beta operating systems) "by far the most popular developer betas we’ve had," 9to5Mac reports. You can also take a look at our preview of the iOS 26 public beta release, which

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Can you download the iOS 26 beta today? Here's a comprehensive list of all compatible iPhones

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 09:43:36

Your iPhone's operating system is getting a big upgrade this fall with the release of iOS 26. One of the better changes — and also Apple's largest visual update in years — is the new Liquid Glass design (think Windows Vista, but arguably more thoughtful). 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. That software is a more stable iteration of the separate developer versio

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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 06:43:29

Overview Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities. Well into the 20th century, SROs were the least expensive option on the housing market, providing a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollar

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Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 05:29:18

Generative AI systems have proliferated across the technology industry over the last several years to such a degree that it can be hard to avoid using them. Google and other big names in AI spend a lot of time talking about AI safety, but the ever-evolving capabilities of AI have also led to a changing landscape of malware threats—or as researchers from Tel Aviv University would say, "promptware." Using simple calendar appointments, this team managed to trick Gemini into manipulating Google smar

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19% of California houses are owned by investors

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Lansner 2025-12-16 14:15:30

Relatively speaking, California is not a hot spot for housing investors. That’s a conclusion from my trusty spreadsheet’s review of data on investor activity across the nation from BatchData, a small data tracker that digs deeper into property records than many traditional real estate analysts. BatchData reviewed California ownership records to identify the state’s owner-occupied residences compared to houses controlled by investors. This study included properties for short-term or long-term r

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Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

news.ycombinator.com John Wang 2025-12-16 11:38:09

Why blocking LLMs from your website is dumb John Wang 2 min read · 1 hour ago 1 hour ago -- Listen Share Perplexity was recently accused of scraping sites that had explicitly disallowed LLM crawlers in their robots.txt files. In the wake of that revelation, a wave of how-to guides for blocking large-language-model scraping has surfaced [0]. They’re generally highly vitriolic, with people opposing this on both moral grounds (“AI is stealing your content”) as well as displaying a general distaste

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States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 12:43:29

Overview Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities. Well into the 20th century, SROs were the least expensive option on the housing market, providing a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollar

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Will the iPhone 17 lineup see a price hike? Here’s what the rumors say

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-16 18:00:08

In the many years that’ve passed since the introduction of the $999 iPhone X, there have almost always been rumors of an iPhone price hike – and we’re still yet to see a major one come to fruition. Granted, there have been other minor price hikes over time. In the midst of tariffs, it seems more likely than ever that there’ll be a price hike of some sorts this year – and we’ll be discussing those rumors here today. With the iPhone 15 Pro lineup, Apple implemented a discrete price hike – specifi

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Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models

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This $100 discount makes the Motorola Razr 2025 my favorite budget flip phone

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Woman wins $200,000 case after her phone started a house fire while charging

You Can Still See Bright Fireballs During the Perseids Meteor Shower

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Converting Existing Users to systemd-homed

You Can Now Watch ‘Wednesday’ Season 2’s Haunting Stop-Motion Short

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Shopify stock soars 21% on rosy guidance as CFO says tariff hit 'did not materialize'

I hate photo editing, but this leaked Pixel 10 feature may change that

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Apple iPhone 17 event: Release date, launch date, colors and everything else you need to know

Researchers hacked Google Gemini to take control of a smart home

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Can you download the iOS 26 beta today? Here's a comprehensive list of all compatible iPhones

States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

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19% of California houses are owned by investors

Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search

States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option

Will the iPhone 17 lineup see a price hike? Here’s what the rumors say

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