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Reddit pauses its paywall plans

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-26 04:04:07

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday’s earnings. The company is making the change as part of a shift in how it’s prioritizing its resources. Huffman said last year that the company was looking i

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Verizon is upping its fees again

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-26 04:42:17

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. Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments” that will raise the cost of your phone bill anyway. In a statement to The Verge, Verizon spokesperson Adria Tomaszewski says the “vast

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Nintendo raising original Switch console prices due to ‘market conditions’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-26 04:42:35

Nintendo is raising the prices of its original Nintendo Switch game consoles, the company announced on Friday. The price increases, which are taking effect on August 3, are due to “market conditions,” Nintendo says. The company’s reference to “market conditions” likely hints at President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The affected products include the Nintendo Switch – OLED Model, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and select Nintendo Switch accessories. Other Nintendo products, including certain

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You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. How to install (and which models support it)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-26 06:43:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The top 10 products readers bought in July (including XR glasses that are $100 off)

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-12-26 09:41:24

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Mamoru Hosoda’s New Movie Looks Like a Fantastical Revenge Epic

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-26 09:15:02

Studio Chizu has finally released the first proper trailer for Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda‘s upcoming fantasy film, Scarlet. Scarlet, first announced by Sony in collaboration with Studio CHIZU back in April, is a new anime film helmed by the acclaimed anime director Mamoru Hosoda. He is known for his work on films like Mirai, Belle, The Boy and the Beast, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Summer Wars. The movie, also referred to as Scarlet Without Limits or Endless Scarlet in Japa

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Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-26 09:15:00

Applied AI research company Fundamental Research Labs (formerly known as Altera) announced today that it has raised $33 million in Series A funding led by Prosus with participation from Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison. The company has a curious structure as it is working on multiple AI applications in different fields. When it raised its seed funding, Fundametal Research Labs was developing bots that could play Minecraft with you. Today, the company has a games team, a prosumer team

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-12-26 14:24:04

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 Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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Best Smart Glasses in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 11:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. I’ve reviewed virtual and augmented reality tech for well over a decade, going all the way back to Google Glass in 2013. And yet, the category of smart glasses still feels strange and new. Part of that is because smart glasses take on many different forms. They’re all lightweight things that have tech in them and rest on your nos

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Truecaller’s call recording feature won’t work on iPhones from Sept. 30

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-26 14:36:07

Truecaller is discontinuing its call recording function on iOS — just over two years after the feature was launched — as the Swedish company opts to focus on its core offering: fighting spam calls. On Friday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that its call recording feature will no longer be available on iPhones starting September 30. Users with saved call recordings can either download them to their devices, share them via email or messaging apps, or switch their storage preference to iCloud

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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:51:38

Some people enjoy live coding interviews. I’m not one of them. Two days ago, I stumbled upon a post on LinkedIn: Sounds absurd at first. Why would a senior engineer, who has been writing code for years, struggle with something as simple as a basic algorithm? Did they suddenly forget how to code? Maybe. But I have a different perspective. A quick story # Four years ago, I applied for Toptal. I passed the initial stage(s). I passed a 90-minute Codility assessment (three problems as I recall it

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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-26 18:30:47

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 Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out,” as reported earlier by Bloomberg

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This Detroit startup is turning to utilities to make home efficiency upgrades cheaper

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-26 18:32:04

Ask any homeowner: renovation projects are no fun at all. From finding a contractor to determining a fair price, the process is rife with uncertainty. Plenty of startups have popped up to help homeowners tackle electrification projects, including installing solar panels and replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps. But they still struggle with the cost question: acquiring customers is often more than half the battle. Pearl Edison thinks the answer is utilities. “As much as anything, we are leve

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Rao Reading Algorithm (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 10:12:19

October 2024 Who, What, Where, How, and Why Do I Read – Why Reading Matters Reading means my total consumption of ideas and media, learning via seeing or listening to symbols versus pure action. Reading involves books at the core, but also journal articles, news, blogs, music, video, maps, engineering and architectural drawings, code, patents, walking in cities, conversations with people, and viewing art. If it’s compressed info encoded into my brain and world models, I count it. The line betw

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AC or DC: Which Is Better?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-12-26 23:30:00

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or direct-current electricity. Today, all the newfangled electronic devices in our homes run only on DC power—even lighting fixtures, now that LEDs have replaced incandescent bulbs. But wait. The electricity that comes out of your wall socket is alternating current. That means each device needs to conv

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Joby Aviation and defense contractor L3Harris to test autonomous hybrid aircraft

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-12-26 23:00:00

Joby Aviation is often cast as a developer of commercial electric air taxis, but the publicly traded company has also pursued a separate track to market through a long-standing relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense. Now, its years of research and development with the Department of Defense may be paying off. The company on Thursday said it had signed an agreement with defense contractor L3Harris Technologies to “explore opportunities” to develop a new aircraft class — specifically, a

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Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-26 23:04:38

With search today so full of AI slop and sites spamming SEO tricks, it’s not unusual for people to append “reddit” to their queries in hopes of finding useful answers to their questions. Google has tried to integrate results from Reddit in its search interface, and taking notice of the trend, Reddit has been experimenting with its own AI search as well. But the company has loftier ambitions: it wants to become the go-to search engine people use. Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, said as much during

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The best free software uninstallers of 2025: Expert tested

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-12-27 09:15:11

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Nvidia denies its China-bound H20 AI chips have 'backdoors' after Beijing's security concerns

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-27 09:19:03

China is one of Nvidia's largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. Nvidia has denied that its chips have any "backdoors" that would allow anyone to access or control them, after Chinese regulators summoned officials from the company to explain risks associated with its H20 chip. While Nvidia was given assurances by Washington that it would be allowed to resume exports of its made-for-China H20 general processing units, the AI chips have at

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Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 12:51:11

Scientists and Engineers Craft Radio Telescope Bound for the Moon With all major telescope components completed, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night is now undergoing final assembly enlarge LuSEE-Night undergoes final assembly at the Space Sciences Laboratory, following the completion of all major components by Brookhaven Lab and other collaborators. (Space Sciences Laboratory) UPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the

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Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 02:41:56

Toward the beginning of the pandemic, a friend asked me how she could use an external vocal mic and a guitar with a pickup on Zoom calls. Sounds easy, right? But to have the amount of control a musician really wants, it turned out to be a bit more involved. Plus, when working from home for a microphone company, it’s pretty common to use a decent mic in meetings. This post explains the setup I’ve been using for my calls. (Don’t let the speakers fool you. Use headphones or it’ll feed back when

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Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-12-27 09:00:00

A Singapore-based deep tech startup called SixSense has developed an AI-powered platform that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and detect potential chip defects on production lines in real time. It has raised $8.5 million in Series A bringing its total funding to around $12 million. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, FEBE, and others. Founded in 2018 by engineers Akanksha Jagwani (CTO) and Avni Agarw

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Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-27 14:00:39

Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as an actual search engine. During the company's latest earnings call, Huffman said search is one of the top priorities for Reddit. "We're concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the

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The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-27 11:28:07

The sharpest criticisms of the book Abundance have sometimes come from the antitrust movement. This group, mostly on the left, insists that the biggest problems in America typically come from monopolies and the corruption of big business. In housing, for example, Ezra Klein and I write that a key bottleneck to homebuilding in the last few decades has been legal barriers to construction, including zoning laws and minimum lot sizes. This is a mainstream view supported by economists and scholars w

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Apple projects tariff costs will hit $1.1B next quarter

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-12-27 14:25:27

Tariffs are projected to cost Apple $1.1 billion in the July-to-September quarter, an uptick from the previous period, CEO Tim Cook said during the company’s earnings call with investors Thursday. Those cost projections, which are based on current rates and policies, could end up lower than expected as they did in the previous quarter. Apple incurred about $800 million of tariff-related costs for the June quarter, less than the $900 million estimate the company shared in May. Cook said most of

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Reddit shares jump as much as 20% on second-quarter sales and guidance beat

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-27 18:34:51

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hugs mascot Snoo as Reddit begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 21, 2024. Reddit shares jumped as much as 20% after the company reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat on sales and guidance. Here's how the company did compared with LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 45 cents vs. 19 cents expected 45 cents vs. 19 cents expected Revenue: $500 million vs. $426 million expected Reddit's revenue grew 78% year-over-year in the second qu

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'Fantastic Four: First Steps': What to Know About Post-Credits Scenes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-27 16:00:06

Marvel's newest movie is here, and we have good and bad news. The good: You don't have to do any homework before seeing The Fantastic Four: First Steps, according to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. The bad: It's the last Marvel flick we're getting until 2026. More good: It has a super Rotten Tomatoes score. More bad: You'll miss out if you don't stick around to watch the credits. The Fantastic Four: First Steps premiered in theaters last week and kicks off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinemati

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Figma’s stock soared in its highly anticipated IPO, market cap instantly hit $45B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-27 14:15:35

Figma began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after a long delay. It soared so quickly that trading was halted for a short time due to market volatility. Within a minute of trading, its market cap hit $45 billion but the price spent the day bouncing between $101 and as high as $124. It closed at $115.50 and a $47 billion market cap, Yahoo Finance reports. The company and existing investors sold shares at the IPO price of $33 per share. Quite the pop. And after-market trading i

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Reddit revenue soars as it bets on AI and advertising

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-27 18:13:23

Reddit reported its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and it’s clear that the company’s focus on AI has ramped up considerably. One significant area of investment is growing its advertising business, supported by its AI-powered marketing tools. The results revealed that the majority of Reddit’s revenue continues to come from ads, which brought in $465 million, representing 93% of the company’s total revenue. Last month, Reddit launched two new features for advertisers: Reddit Insights, a to

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Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimp’s 40% speed gain came with governance price

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-27 23:43:50

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Like many enterprises over the past year, Intuit Mailchimp has been experimenting with vibe coding. Intuit Mailchimp provides email marketing and automation capabilities. It’s part of the larger Intuit organization, which has been on a steady journey with gen AI over the last several years, rolling out its own GenOS and agentic AI capabili

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