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Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 23:54:19

Learn how to implement user-friendly, type-safe error handling in Swift 6 with structured diagnostics and a hierarchical error model. Swift 6 brings an exciting new feature to the language: typed throws. This change makes error handling in Swift much more type-safe, allowing us to define exactly what kinds of errors a function can throw. It’s a small change on the surface, but it opens the door to writing cleaner, more reliable code. Now, you might be wondering — how do we actually use this in

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Elon Musk, AI Startups, and The Case of The Allegedly Missing Trade Secrets

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-22 00:50:02

A second lawsuit filed by an artificial intelligence company alleging a former employee stole trade secrets has been filed in California, just days after Elon Musk’s xAI alleged it had recently experienced corporate espionage. In this case, Scale AI, a leading AI data-labeling firm, sued competitor Mercor Inc. in federal court Wednesday, accusing the startup and a former employee of misappropriating trade secrets to win new business. Scale is valued at approximately $29 billion following a mas

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The Apple iPhone 17 'Awe dropping' event happens next week: Here's what to expect on September 9

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 01:21:26

We're now less than week away from the Apple's September 9 event, where the company is all but certain to unveil the iPhone 17 line. This year's theme of "Awe dropping," which was featured in Apple's invitations to the media sent on August 26 doesn't reveal much by way of clues, though some think the heat-mapped Apple logo is indicative of better thermal cooling in the new models. But more importantly, we already know how to watch the Apple iPhone 17 event itself: The keynote will be livestreame

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Apple Music Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify Now. Here's Why You May Want To

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 23:35:00

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature last week, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-22 01:33:40

Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer service AI agents, announced it raised a $350 million funding round on Thursday. The round, led by earlier investor Greenoaks Capital, values the startup at $10 billion, according to a company blog post that confirmed an earlier report from Axios on Wednesday. Sierra was founded in early 2024 by Taylor and longtime Google alum Clay Bavor. The compan

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Strava updates Apple Watch app, introduces Live Segments

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-22 05:30:34

If you’re a Strava user, you know this has been a long time coming. The company has completely redesigned its Apple Watch app, in an update that introduces Live Segments. Here’s how it works. Every time Tim Cook discusses the Apple Watch during Apple’s quarterly earnings conference call, he says something like, “over half of Apple Watch sales were to new customers,” which is Apple’s way of saying that its user base keeps growing. Strava, for its part, is also seeing that. In a blog post detail

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What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 04:36:50

Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three. Home Menu About Documentation Download License Support Purchase Search About Documentation Download Support Purchase Search Documentation Search Changelog What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? Introduction Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include: Smaller documents Faster File/Save times Faster startup times Less memory used Document

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The September Pixel Drop is here with Material 3 Expressive for all!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-21 06:00:36

Google TL;DR The September Pixel Drop is here with fresh features for Pixel phones, the Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and the Pixel Tablet. The update brings the Material 3 Expressive redesign of older Pixel phones and the Pixel Tablet. The Pixel Watch is getting a handy Google Maps feature, while the Pixel Buds Pro 2 are being updated with Adaptive Audio and more. It’s time to hit update on your Pixel devices again as Google offloads a bunch of new features and capabilities in its latest P

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Tim Cook expected back at the White House for Trump AI event

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-21 15:31:35

Where will Tim Cook be on the Thursday before the iPhone 17 event? Back at the White House, it seems. The Apple CEO gifted President Trump a big chunk of 24k gold with a piece of glass in August after announcing plans to make all iPhone glass in Kentucky. 29 days later, their next meeting will focus on AI, according to The Hill: President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, including M

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Apple's AI search engine could be driven by Google and help revive Siri, report says

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-22 09:51:54

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple plans to launch an AI search engine, reportedly. The AI search experience would power the Siri voice assistant. The expected launch is in the spring as part of the Siri overhaul. Though Apple offers useful AI features through its Apple Intelligence suite, discussion of the company's AI efforts usually returns to one main sticking point: the delay of a revamped Siri. That launch has been highly anticipated, as it is supposed to push Siri's cap

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The Paradigm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 08:30:19

Over the past decade, some of the most remarkable AI breakthroughs—AlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold1, VPT, OpenAI Five, ChatGPT—have all shared a common thread: they start with large-scale data gathering (self-supervised or imitation learning, or SSL) and then use reinforcement learning to refine their performance toward a specific goal. This marriage of general knowledge acquisition and focused, reward-driven specialization has emerged as a the paradigm by which we can reliably train AI systems to

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Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 07:53:42

TL;DR: I made a website for the original classic Mac patterns I was working on something and thought it would be fun to use one of the classic Mac black-and-white patterns in the project. I'm talking about the original 8×8-pixel ones that were in the original Control Panel for setting the desktop background and in MacPaint as fill patterns. Screenshots via to Marcin's awesome interactive history I figured there'd must be clean, pixel-perfect GIFs or PNGs of them somewhere on the web. And perh

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Finally, You Can Cuddle With a Cute Camera-Clad AI Robot That Feels Jealousy

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-22 09:21:14

Lots of people had stuffed animals when they were little. My personal favorite was a teddy bear in army fatigues, named—you guessed it—Army Bear. Fidel Castro was already taken, unfortunately. As much as I loved Army Bear, I remember thinking, “This would be so much more adorable with an on-device LLM designed to understand cloud-free natural language prompts and enable object recognition via computer vision.” And finally, almost 30 years later, SwitchBot has answered my very real and not-at-all

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 5 #551

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 08:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle was a mix for me. Some of the words I found right away, but others were tough, and a few were difficult to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's

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This M4 Mac Mini Is Small, Fast and Surprisingly Affordable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 08:01:00

I bought the M4 Mac Mini after reading CNET laptop expert Joshua Goldman's review of the tiny machine. I was looking for a computer that would increase my productivity and better organize my workflow. Since then, I've found it to be the best value for money among Apple's lineup. For less than $600, you can get a more powerful computer than the $999 MacBook Air. The M4 Mac Mini, Apple's smallest computer, is an easy recommendation for me since it's one of CNET's picks for the best desktop comput

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The Dreame X50 Didn’t Just Mop My Floors -- It Outsmarted My Furniture

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 08:07:00

CNET's key takeaways No robot vacuum has truly solved the challenge of multilevel cleaning without requiring you to physically move it between floors. This robo-vac can do it, for the high-end price of $1,700. You won't find another robot vacuum with its features for less than $1,000 right now. The whole point of owning a robot vacuum is so you don't have to do the cleaning yourself. But that was never the case at my house -- partly because of what I call my "Ikea chair challenge." I've seen

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This Pixel 9 Pro Is So Clean, It Feels Like the iPhone of Androids

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 08:39:00

CNET's key takeaways After months of using Google's Pixel 9 Pro, I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. While Android users swear by them, a lot of other people consider Android phones to feel overly complex. The user interface isn't quite as easy to adjust as Apple's offering. And while it may sound unreasonable, Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for example, has deep menu settings that let you tweak nearly every as

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'Scroll and Translate' Is Coming to Google's Circle to Search. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-22 09:12:00

Google's Circle to Search is getting a new feature that will allow you to continuously translate text while scrolling through social media posts or even when switching to different apps. Announced on Thursday, the feature will start its rollout this week to select Samsung Galaxy devices, but will more than likely expand to more devices, with the Pixel 10 lineup a natural next stop. While you could already translate text with Circle to Search, the new update will make the experience more seamle

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Our Favorite Smart Lock for Your Front Door Is Just $164 Right Now

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-22 09:27:22

Is your current smart lock frustrating you endlessly, like mine is? The Yale Approach Smart Lock (8/10, WIRED Review) is currently marked down to just $164 on Amazon, a healthy 32% discount on our editors' top pick for smart locks. This sale comes at a perfect time, because I was just complaining about the fingerprint reader on mine no longer working. The Yale Approach uses part of your existing deadbolt, which is great news for renters who don't want to make major changes. You'll also get to u

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

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-22 13:01:44

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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9to5Mac Daily: September 4, 2025 – Instagram for iPad, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-10-22 13:15:41

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Apple’s winning AI strategy might come down to three simple words, per CNBC

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-22 13:27:56

Earlier this week, Apple received good news when a judge ruled that its lucrative search deal with Google could continue. And per CNBC, the ruling offers Apple a simple, but winning path forward for the iPhone in AI centered around three words: “pay to play.” ‘Pay to play’ could be Apple’s AI solution, modeled after Google search deal With Apple’s $20 billion search deal with Google now seemingly safe, investors see AI as one of the company’s other significant perceived threats. But according

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

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-22 13:55:47

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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Google's new Androidify app turns you into an adorable green robot - try it for free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-22 13:26:00

Androidify / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Androidify app lets you customize your own Android bot. You can use a photo or enter a text prompt. There's an app and a browser version of the tool. If you're an Android die-hard, Google is giving you a fun new way to express your fandom. For more than 15 years, a small green robot (a.k.a. Bugdroid) has been the official mascot of the Android operating system. Several versions of the mascot

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Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:22:20

kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library I love doing experiments - side projects to my side projects, for fun or out of necessity. Sometimes those experiments and end up in something useful, other times - not so much. Let me tell you about one of the latter projects - about terminals, user interfaces, and trade-offs. Here's the source code, though beware - it's raw. My programming spare time is dedicated mostly towards kartoffels, a game of mine where you're implementing firmwares for tiny robots

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