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Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-03 11:56:28

Back in 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued the dating app giant Match Group, accusing it of deceiving Match.com users into purchasing subscriptions through misleading means. Now, after six years, the company— which operates popular dating apps Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Hinge, and Plenty of Fish—has agreed to a $14 million settlement, as announced by the FTC on Tuesday. The FTC stated that the $14 million will be used to provide “redress to injured consumers.” According to the la

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Riot is trying to make LoL more accessible by adding WASD controls

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 16:05:49

Riot is making a major change to League of Legends after 16 years. It's adding the option to move around by using WASD controls instead of relying on a mouse to point and click, according to a video detailing the upcoming change . Paul Bellezza, an executive producer on the game, says this is an attempt to attract new players. "We found that a lot of new or returning players struggle a lot with League's controls early on," he said. "Click to move just isn't the sort of control scheme they're us

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Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates released

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-03 16:34:26

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5063878 and KB5063875 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. Today's updates are mandatory as they contain the August 2025 Patch Tuesday security patches for vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. You can install today's update by going to Start > Settings > Windows Update and clicking on 'Check for Updates.' You can also manually download and install the update from the Microsoft Update Catalog. I

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Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 107 flaws

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-03 16:43:50

Today is Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 107 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kerberos. This Patch Tuesday also fixes thirteen "Critical" vulnerabilities, nine of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, three are information disclosure, and one is elevation of privileges. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: 44 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 35 Remote Code Execut

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 14:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 18:48:24

Once the basics were done, the real game of Tetris began: First up, just like the conferencing capabilities, we segmented the work modes into 4 distinct groups. It was clear that the space was simply not large enough to support dedicated areas, so we took the equipment and requirements list, and started playing with shelf numbers and their height and made sure that each item is in its best possible ergonomic position. The by far largest amount of devices by volume and space were the musical in

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Do We Have to Bring Johnny Depp Back to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, Actually?

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-03 16:15:56

Back in 2003, when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl first hit theaters, it was a pleasant surprise. A movie based on a Disney ride—in a time when pirate movies weren’t exactly riding high—it was highly entertaining, made a zillion dollars, and earned Johnny Depp his first Oscar nomination. Four sequels of varying quality followed, but despite many rumblings since Dead Men Tell No Tales in 2017, Pirates has yet to relaunch. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is now saying there migh

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Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-03 16:15:01

In early 2023, David Petrou, a distinguished engineer and a founding member of both Google Goggles and Google Glass, made a surprising move. After more than 17 years at the company, he departed to launch his own startup. “I was seeing how fast technology was changing, and I felt there are certain ideas that are best explored in the context of a startup,” Petrou told TechCrunch. His ultimate idea was to build Continua, a consumer-facing company that uses AI agents to enhance collaboration and i

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The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-30 05:36:24

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ. By: Dan Roche A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Four thousand years ago, a woman had a very fancy artiﬁcial eye she probably wore while she was alive. It was possibly made of natural tar and animal fat or m

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:12:02

Last week, OpenAI announced and released GPT-5, and the common consensus both inside the AI community and outside is that the new LLM did not live up to the hype. Bluesky — whose community is skeptical at-best of generative AI in all its forms — began putting the model through its paces: Michael Paulauski asked GPT-5 through the ChatGPT app interface “how many b’s are there in blueberry?”. A simple question that a human child could answer correctly, but ChatGPT states that there are three b’s in

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Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-03 21:44:07

Just two years since its launch as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Meta’s Threads has topped 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “As of a few weeks ago we there are more than 400 million people active on Threads every month,” Mosseri wrote in a Threads post. “It’s been quite the ride over the last two years. This started as a zany idea to compete with Twitter, and has evolved into a meaningful platform that fosters the open exchange of per

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Apple's rumored live translation feature for AirPods could be coming with iOS 26

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:27:15

Apple's AirPods could be getting a live translation feature in the near future as part of iOS 26, according to a report by 9to5Mac . A new beta version of the operating system dropped today and users have spotted a system asset that strongly points to the earbuds getting a language translation tool. The asset appears to depict a gesture that's triggered by pressing both earbud stems at once. The image shows a pair of AirPods surrounded by words in various languages, like English, French, German

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Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:42:17

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and Anthropic to a list of approved AI vendors for the federal government. Similar to the OpenAI deal, Anthropic will offer access to its commercial-tier service Claude for Enterprise for a period of one year at a cost of just $1. The offer will

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Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 00:41:12

Today, we're excited to introduce Nexus - a powerful AI router designed to optimize how AI agents interact with multiple MCP tools and Large Language Models. Nexus serves as a central hub that aggregates Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers while providing intelligent LLM routing, security and governance capabilities. Nexus is an AI router that solves two critical challenges in the AI ecosystem: MCP Server Aggregation: Instead of managing connections to multiple MCP servers individually, Nexus

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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 18:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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James Cameron Wants to Remind You That Generative AI Is a Threat

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-04 02:45:33

As the industry behind generative AI keeps touting its evolution, Hollywood stands on a precipice to see just who’s going to be first to break ground leveraging the controversial technology in film production (although, reportedly, not for a lack of trying and failing behind the scenes). But for James Cameron, at least, the current will-they-won’t-they approach is untenable—and the filmmaker believes that studios have to start getting a grip with the technology now, before it irrevocably damages

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Pebblebee’s AirTag alternative can now share your real-time location in an emergency

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-04 02:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In July, Pebblebee announced a new safety feature for its Clip location tracker. Called Alert, it turns the Apple AirTag alternative into a panic alarm. Rapidly pressing the Clip’s button activates a flashing light and loud 97-decibel siren while also trigger

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-04 02:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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Why I ditched Google Authenticator for Proton's new 2FA app - and how to set it up

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-04 06:23:00

Proton / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The makers of Proton VPN have released a 2FA app. The app is available for all major platforms. Proton Authenticator is easy to use, elegant, and free. Unless you're using passkeys, two-factor authentication should be considered a must for security and privacy. If your primary access to the internet is your phone, you are probably using a tool like Authy or Google Authenticator. But what about when you're on the desktop? What do y

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275M patient records breached—How to meet HIPAA password manager requirements

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-04 11:57:05

In 2024, the healthcare sector experienced over 700 data breach incidents, which is higher than any other industry, including finance. These breaches exposed more than 275 million patient records, with password-related vulnerabilities serving as the primary attack vector in most of the cases. While threat actors use various penetration methods, compromised credentials remain the most consistent and damaging entry point. These statistics reflect a fundamental threat to patient and organizationa

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I fell in love with a $2,000 mirrorless camera that puts design and simplicity over everything else

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-12-04 11:29:00

Sigma BF ZDNET's key takeaways Sigma's BF is a $2,200, 35mm full-frame, mirrorless digital camera that radically changes the mode of operation by replacing the gaggle of buttons with an elegant click-wheel. It's a great first camera but also has tons of pro features A future upgrade to a higher-resolution 60-megapixel sensor would be a welcome enhancement. View now at Adorama View now at B&H more buying choices Taking pictures with a digital camera hasn't changed much in thirty years. The ele

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We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 11:39:42

We Keep Reinventing CSS, but Styling Was Never the Problem We’ve been building for the web for decades. CSS has had time to grow up, and in many ways, it has. We’ve got scoped styles, design tokens, cascade layers, even utility-first frameworks that promise to eliminate bikeshedding entirely. And yet, somehow, every new project still begins with a shrug and the same old question: “So… how are we styling things this time?” It’s not that we lack options. It’s that every option comes with trade

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How to save a smart home company

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-12-04 11:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The smart home can be scary. It seems like every other month, we hear about another smart home company going out of business, leaving you scrambling for a new way to turn on your lights. Why is it so hard for smart home manufacturers

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Manpower discloses data breach affecting nearly 145,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:19:30

Manpower, one of the world's largest staffing companies, is notifying nearly 145,000 individuals that their information was stolen by attackers who breached the company's systems in December 2024. Together with Experis and Talent Solutions, the company is part of ManpowerGroup, a multinational corporation with over 600,000 workers in more than 2,700 offices and serving over 100,000 clients worldwide. Last year, ManpowerGroup reported revenues of $17.9 billion and a total gross profit of $3.1 bi

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RFK Jr. Posts Fishing Trip Pics Online Amidst Fallout From CDC Shooting

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-04 16:30:28

A horrific shooting took place outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s headquarters in Atlanta on Friday. The shooting killed one police officer and left the building’s staff locked down and terrified. The shooter, who unsuccessfully tried to breach the building, has been identified as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White. He was found dead at the scene. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s head of the Department of Health and Human Services, has not been particularly good at navigating

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The Morning After: The best Switch 2 games (so far)

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-05 03:15:55

A couple of months since the Switch 2 launched, we’ve all got to grips with the new magnetic-latching Joy-Cons, the jump in graphic fidelity and (honestly) the wait for a next-gen Zelda or Mario title. With the arrival of Donkey Kong Bananza, the new console has its first entirely new breakout platformer hit, we asked the Engadget team for the must-have games on the Switch 2. TMA (CD Projekt Red) With a leap in processing power, the Switch 2 can now handle ostensibly huge games like Hitman and

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Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone

news.ycombinator.com University Of California - Santa Cruz 2025-11-30 11:06:18

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05004 Cortisol is a crucial hormone that regulates many important bodily functions like blood pressure and metabolism, and imbalances of this stress hormone can lead to health problems. Traditionally, cortisol levels mu

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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

wired.com Andrea J. Arratibel 2025-12-05 00:00:00

A Powerade bottle from 2001 was found on Yaya, a Peruvian beach south of Lima. A Coca-Cola bottle from 2002 was found on Robinson Crusoe Island, a World Biosphere Reserve, in Chile. These were the oldest of all the bottles collected. These discarded pieces of packaging were collected in a new macro-study that looked at the origin of plastic bottle pollution on beaches and cities along Latin America’s Pacific coastline. The research—the first to be conducted on a regional scale, thanks to a citi

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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

wired.com Seth Harp 2025-12-05 03:00:00

The 2020s are shaping up to be one of the most violent decades in modern history, with American-sponsored proxy conflicts and shadow wars smoldering all over the world, from Ukraine to Yemen to Gaza. The United States enables and prolongs these wars not by sending troops to fight in them, but by trafficking arms to the belligerents, providing intelligence to its favored proxies, and using covert operations, especially assassinations, to shape geopolitical conditions. At the forefront of these cl

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GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-05 03:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will improve Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced performance, as well as support the enhanced version of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade

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Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices

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Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates released

Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes one zero-day, 107 flaws

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Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone

Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

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GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support

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