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Quick fixes: bring back Google Photos classic search instead of ‘Ask Photos’ Gemini AI

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-12-03 21:58:40

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Issue You just want to search your archived photos, instead of interacting with an AI assistant. Quick fix Inside the app, tap the Google account button at top-right, then go to Photos settings > Preferences > Gemini features in Photos, and turn off

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Pronto’s 10-minute house-help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-03 02:30:00

In 2025, the average urban Indian no longer needs to wait very long for much (except at government offices and in traffic): They simply have to order what they need from an app, and it’ll be delivered within minutes. The explosion of quick-commerce in the country has meant that millions of Indians are getting increasingly used to not having to wait for deliveries, or step out of their homes, as startups vie to make almost everything, from food and groceries to smartphones and gaming consoles, av

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A Bunch of Incredibly Sleazy AI Apps Are Claiming to Be Jesus Christ Himself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-03 23:48:04

As ChatGPT really started to take off back in 2023, an Austin pastor made minor headlines when he used the large language model (LLM) chatbot to lead a 15-minute "shotgun sermon." The stunt was largely meant to spark a conversation about how we define "what is sacred," the pastor said at the time. Since that lesson in theological ethics, chatbots have become ubiquitous — and they no longer come with lectures. Now in 2025, LLM chatbots are being increasingly made to stand in for therapists, teac

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Beneath the AI Bubble, the Economy Looks Bleak

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 00:56:56

The US economy seems to be doing gangbusters lately, largely thanks to incredible booms in the tech sector. The stock market is booming — the S&P 500 hit 15 record closing highs so far this year, while the Nasdaq Composite boasts 17. The country's GDP is growing better than expected. Microsoft just became the second $4 trillion company in history, just weeks after Nvidia became the first. But those headline numbers don't seem to be trickling down to normal, working people. In fact, something i

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What you may have missed about GPT-5

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-12-03 16:52:23

With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has begun explicitly telling people to use its models for health advice. At the launch event, Altman welcomed on stage Felipe Millon, an OpenAI employee, and his wife, Carolina Millon, who had recently been diagnosed with multiple forms of cancer. Carolina spoke about asking ChatGPT for help with her diagnoses, saying that she had uploaded copies of her biopsy results to ChatGPT to translate medical jargon and asked the AI for help making decisions about things l

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Preferred Sources wants to fix your Google Search results — here’s how to set it up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:00:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR After introducing the feature in Labs in June, Google is now rolling out “Preferred Sources” in the US and India. With this feature, users can select trusted websites that will appear more prominently in Top Stories. Users can easily manage and update their source preferences anytime. Users have long been complaining about the dropping quality of Google Search results, thanks to a deadly cocktail of low-quality spam sites, a lot of sponsored content

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Study finds your smartwatch might be way off on one key health stat

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:59:20

Kris Carlon / Android Authority TL;DR Study finds smartwatch stress scores often don’t match how you actually feel. Researchers tracked 800 Garmin users for three months and saw “basically zero” correlation for stress. Sleep tracking was more accurate, but better at logging hours slept than rest quality. They’re meant to be your health sidekick, you might suspect that there’s only so much that a wearable can tell you about your mental state from taking a pulse reading. If this wasn’t already

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Next year’s iPhones could get bigger than usual upgrades with A20 chip

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-04 02:20:08

We’re just weeks away from Apple unveiling its iPhone 17 lineup, but a new report corroborates prior indications that next year’s iPhone 18 models are due for an especially strong performance boost thanks to innovations with the A20 chip. A20 chip in iPhone 18 will bring new packaging process for greater gains Today Ming-Chi Kuo has published a new report on Eternal Materials securing a packaging order from TSMC for next year’s iPhones and high-end M5 MacBooks. The most noteworthy detail invo

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M5 MacBook Pro won’t launch this year, says analyst

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-04 02:46:34

Apple’s recent pattern with new MacBook Pro models has been to launch them in the fall. But recently Bloomberg indicated that may not happen this year, and now a second source has chimed in to support a later launch date. Ming-Chi Kuo says M5 MacBook Pro is a 2026 product Today in a research note largely about the iPhone 18’s A20 chip and its supplier, Ming-Chi Kuo also referenced Apple’s M5 MacBook Pro. More precisely, Kuo mentions “high-end M5 processors in the 2026 MacBooks.” This must re

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Google lets you pick preferred sources when you search

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:00:12

Google is officially rolling out Preferred Sources, which lets you curate search results. The feature allows you to pick specific or "preferred" sources, like a certain blog or news outlet, and see them more prominently when you use Google Search. Google started testing it in June and it should be available in the coming days to English language users in the US and India. Preferred Sources seems pretty simple to use. You go to Google, search for a topic and then click on the preferred sources o

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This new Arch Linux tool takes the hassle out of keeping packages up to date - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-04 02:45:07

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways New Arch tool alerts maintainers when packages are outdated. Bumpbuddy automates GitLab issue creation for updates. Web dashboard and API planned for future Bumpbuddy versions. Bumpbuddy is a new Arch Linux tool that aims to improve how maintainers are informed about packages within the primary repositories. This new app uses a background service (daemon) to monitor package versions and even automatically opens issues on GitLab if it detect

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Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:19:35

What we’ll do is set a low-ish turn limit and see how much they manage to accomplish in that time.1 Another alternative for more linear games is running them multiple times with a turn limit and seeing how often they get past a particular point within that turn limit. Given how much freedom is offered to players of text adventures, this is a difficult test. It’s normal even for a skilled human player to immerse themselves in their surrounding rather than make constant progress. I wouldn’t be su

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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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Where were you when goo.gl shutdown?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 00:52:54

11 August 2025 "… all of this ended up in storage rooms, and everything became rotten and full of holes, and he himself finally turned into some kind of hole in humanity." ✪ ✪“…все это сваливалось в кладовые, и все становилось гниль и прореха, и сам он обратился наконец в какую-то прореху на человечестве.” — Google Gogol, Dead Souls Vol. 1, Chp. 6 In December 2009, Google launched a URL shortening service alongside an update to their toolbar and FeedBurner. TechCrunch heralded the new service

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Why There Aren’t Many Ports of Games on Switch 2… Yet

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-04 02:22:40

Nintendo wants all the games coming to its Switch 2 to emphasize the features that make it distinct from the original Switch. After all, why else would consumers drop $450 on a new handheld when many are still holding onto their 8-year-old device? If you were twiddling your thumbs waiting for developers to port your favorite games to the Switch 2, know that they may be coming, but only after developers can show they’ll emphasize the new system’s best—or at least distinctive—qualities. Over the

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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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Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-04 02:00:00

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. Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section. Google’s top stories hub appears when you search f

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Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-04 02:15:42

Anduril has officially brought its high-volume solid rocket motor (SRM) factory online in Mississippi as it races to fulfill America’s demand for space and defense missions and challenge a decades-long duopoly between two major defense contractors. The Mississippi factory will be able to produce 6,000 tactical motors a year by the end of 2026, enough volume to position Anduril as the United States’ “third” SRM supplier. More than 700 motors have already passed static test firing. These motors a

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Amazon and Apple best deliver on affordable housing promises, as other tech giants falter

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-04 05:24:38

One of the downsides of tech giants creating Silicon Valley was the affordable housing crisis it spurred. That has made it next to impossible for those on typical salaries to rent or buy in the area. Apple was one of a number of tech companies which pledged to help out back in 2019, and so far has delivered more than most … The growth of tech companies within the Bay Area led to dramatically increased demand for housing, alongside price pressure created by the relatively high salaries paid to

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New 12.9-inch MacBook could be the sleeper hit of the year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-04 06:10:35

Apple’s big product launch season is almost here, with the stars of the show being the iPhone 17 lineup, Apple Watch Ultra 3, the M5 iPad Pro, and more. But there’s another product coming that could be a sleeper hit for Apple: a new 12.9-inch MacBook. Apple is preparing a more affordable MacBook for release soon Yesterday my colleague Ben reported that Apple’s forthcoming low-cost MacBook is scheduled to start producing several components soon. Mass assembly will follow in the fourth quarter,

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Why AI Shouldn’t Replace Historians Anytime Soon

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-04 06:20:59

Microsoft recently released a study about the types of jobs most likely to be augmented by AI in the future. It led many people to assume those are the jobs that will soon be replaced by machines, and since “historian” ranked second highest on the list, it raised more than a few eyebrows among historians on social media. But after I tested generative AI tools with some historical facts, it seems like historians shouldn’t worry too much about the robots taking over just yet. At the very least, th

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Samsung has launched its first Micro RGB TV with improved color accuracy

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-04 06:46:45

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. First teased at CES 2025, Samsung has finally launched a TV featuring the company’s new Micro RGB backlight technology. The 115-inch TV is first launching in South Korea for over $32,000, according to SamMobile, but Samsung says it’s coming to the US next, fo

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Google is streamlining how you send money abroad — and getting new tools for spending it at home

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 11:00:49

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is improving visibility of Wallet’s international transfer tools by starting to surface them in Search. Buy-now-pay-later options are expanding from Google Pay to Chrome autofill. Chrome is starting to show reward details for a whole lot more credit cards. Google has long grown beyond being a simple search company, and at this point its interests are so vast and varied that it can be more than a little difficult to cleanly categorize it. Those

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Samsung’s second One UI 8 Watch beta is finally here

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 11:59:58

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has released the second One UI 8 Watch beta software. The update fixes a few bugs, including the lift-to-wake gesture not working in some situations. This comes over a month after the release of the first One UI 8 Watch beta. Samsung launched the first One UI 8 Watch beta back in June, allowing Galaxy Watch 7 and Ultra owners to go hands-on with the upcoming software. It’s taken a while, but the second beta is now rolling out in at least one mark

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3 ways Google Chrome and Wallet just made shopping a whole lot easer

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-04 11:00:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Google adds new features to give you more ways to pay online. See reward details for 100+ cards to find your best option. More "buy now, pay later" options, including Affirm and more. The next time you check out online with Chrome or Google Wallet, you might notice things look a little different. Google has announced several upgrades, each one designed to give you more flexibility and convenience when you shop online. 1. Support for m

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Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 02:52:47

Credit: Zhao et al The researchers used test cases that fall outside of the LLM training data in task type, format, and length. Credit: Zhao et al The researchers used test cases that fall outside of the LLM training data in task type, format, and length. These simplified models were then tested using a variety of tasks, some of which precisely or closely matched the function patterns in the training data and others that required function compositions that were either partially or fully "out of

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US influencer stranded in Antarctica after landing plane without permission

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 10:43:37

Your support helps us to tell the story Read more Support Now From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need

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China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-04 11:30:05

Beijing is demanding tech companies including Alibaba and ByteDance justify their orders of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, complicating the US chipmaker’s business in China after striking an export arrangement with the Trump administration. The tech companies have been asked by regulators such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to explain why they need to order Nvidia’s H20 chips instead of using domestic alternatives, said three people familiar with the

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I hate Google Search’s AI overviews, so I replaced them with Brave

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:00:39

Megan Ellis / Android Authority A few months ago, I switched from Google to Brave on my Android phone. While I initially did this to force dark mode on my mobile browser and remove ads, I discovered plenty of benefits to using Brave over Chrome. One of these is access to Brave’s search engine, which prioritizes higher quality results with fewer ads and sponsored results compared to Google Search. But as I’ve continued to use Brave Search across devices, I also realized something else: AI summa

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Reddit blocks non-profit Wayback Machine from archiving the site

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-04 16:35:55

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the most valuable free services available on the web, ensuring that important sources of information are protected from the vicissitudes of fate and tech companies. Until recently, the archive was able to capture the entirety of Reddit, but that is no longer the case following new restrictions implemented by the for-profit community discussion platform … The Internet Archive The archive has been in operation since 1996. We began in 1996 by arc

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