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Google adds Video Overviews to NotebookLM

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:15:24

The AI can now use visuals to help illustrate points, though it's only available in a slideshow format for now. NotebookLM, the Google research tool that gained notoriety for its AI-generated podcasts, is introducing a feature called Video Overviews. As the name suggests, this tool automatically creates videos on requested topics and pulls data from a user's uploaded images, diagrams, quotes and documents. It's rolling out right now, but there are some caveats. These overviews are only availab

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YouTube is turning over age verification to AI

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:56:34

YouTube will start using machine learning to determine whether viewers should be on a teen account. The company said it plans to start using this AI application on a subset of US users in the coming weeks for a trial before rolling it out to the rest of the market. The tool will assess user behaviors including the types of videos being searched for, the categories of videos watched and how long the account has existed. When an account is deemed by machine learning to belong to a teen, YouTube wi

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Minnesota activates National Guard after St. Paul cyberattack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:58:19

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the National Guard in response to a crippling cyberattack that struck the City of Saint Paul, the state's capital, on Friday. The city is currently working with local, state, and federal partners to investigate the attack and restore full functionality, and says that emergency services have been unaffected. However, online payments are currently unavailable, and some services in libraries and recreation centers are temporarily unavailable. "While many

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I did not expect this portable Marshall speaker to beat out my Bose and JBL like this

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2026-02-16 21:14:00

Marshall Middleton II ZDNET's key takeaways Marshall's Middleton II Bluetooth speaker is available in Black And Brass or Cream for $330. The Middleton II debuts with meaningful upgrades from its predecessor, spectacular sound, a stylish design, and 30 hours of battery life. Despite its long list of pros, this speaker is considerably more expensive than its competitors with similar features. $329.99 at Amazon $329.99 at B&H Photo-Video $329.99 at Crutchfield more buying choices There's a sea o

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I replaced my Samsung OLED TV with this Sony Mini LED model for a week - and didn't regret it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-16 22:01:00

Sony recently sent us the 2025 Bravia 5 TV, this one with a 98-inch screen and weighing in at 158 pounds. It goes without saying that this TV is a beast -- an expensive one. And the Bravia 5 is not even considered the company's flagship model (you can look to the Bravia 8 II for that). But this TV is impressive, and after testing it for a week, I'll explain why. Also: You should turn off this default TV setting ASAP - and why even experts recommend it The Bravia 5 is a Google TV, so setting up

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I tested the most popular robot mower on the market - and it was a $5,000 crash out

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-16 22:05:00

Yarbo Robot Mower ZDNET's key takeaways The Yarbo is a modular yard care robot starting at $5,000. It does well caring for large yards with complex layouts thanks to its tracked design, and its modular features make it easy to use year-round. The Yarbo is one of the most expensive robot mowers on the market; it presented multiple connection issues, and its attachments are heavy and bulky. View now at Amazon The Yarbo is one of the most visually appealing robot mowers I've seen. It's more of a

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Why I still recommend NordVPN to most people in 2025 - especially with the latest update

zdnet.com Kennedy Otieno 2026-02-16 22:13:00

NordVPN ZDNET's key takeaways I tested the very popular NordVPN, and it checks all the VPN boxes of reliability, performance, and features. The NordLynx protocol has fast and secure connections worldwide, and features like specialty servers, an antivirus (offline malware scanner for PCs), and a Dark Web Monitor are welcome. There is no split tunneling feature on iOS, and it doesn't have the IKEv2/IPSec protocol on most (if not all) devices. View now at Nordvpn You will come across NordVPN qui

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5 gadgets and accessories that leveled up my gaming setup (including a surprise console)

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2026-02-16 22:19:00

'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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Why I'm patiently waiting for the Samsung Z Fold 8 next year (even though the foldable is already great)

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2026-02-16 22:24:00

Jason Howell/ZDNET Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an impressive book-style foldable that tackles many of the long-standing quibbles plaguing the Fold series for years. I spent a weekend with the device, and was floored by how much its reduced weight and thickness made it feel like a standard candy bar phone when folded. CNET survey: 64% of people say 'no thanks' to foldable smartphones The cover screen is wider and more usable, the interior display is larger at eight inches, and the new 200

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I ditched my Bluetooth speaker for this Victrola turntable system - and didn't miss a beat

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2026-02-16 22:25:00

Victrola Harmony ZDNET's key takeaways The Victrola Harmony turntable system is available for $299 in the colors Natural, Walnut, and Black. This system includes a full-size turntable, two bookshelf speakers, and an A-T ATN3600L cartridge, all great components for beginners. At its $300 price point ($100 up from its debut in Jan.), people willing to spend this kind of money may be ready for a more advanced system. View now at Victrola If you've ever considered "getting into audio," prepare to

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You can buy the M4 MacBook Air for its lowest price ever on Amazon right now

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-02-16 22:44:00

'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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Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory, & more Rust

news.ycombinator.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-02-16 22:09:58

herraez/Getty Images The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not "really not all that interesting (in all the best ways!)." Here's my list of what's new and improved. First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI

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Playing with more user-friendly methods for multi-factor authentication

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 22:04:58

When I tell people I work on authentication software, I nearly always hear some version of the same story: I hate multifactor authentication. No, really. People hate this stuff. So I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can make MFA a better user experience. We don't always need MFA to be airtight, after all. Sometimes, the Google match-a-number MFA flow is good enough. I thought I'd share here my best ideas for the future of multi-factor authentication. Here they are. The big blind We

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A grand tour through the essays of Lewis H. Lapham

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-12 15:09:04

In his introductory essay for the inaugural issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Lewis wrote (as he often had before) about his “risk-assessment model wired to the sound of the human voice.” If he read a piece without being able to hear its author speak—from whatever time, place, genre, species, leaning, or dimension—it wasn’t much of anything to him at all. To be mentored by him was to be tuned to this frequency. Which I’m grateful for, because while missing him since his passing a year ago I’ve been a

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Show HN: Monchromate – the best greyscale browser extension

news.ycombinator.com Monochromate Team 2026-02-16 22:32:42

Powerful tools designed to enhance your digital well-being, reduce doomscrolling, and boost productivity through smart greyscale filtering. Smart Scheduler Automatically enable greyscale mode during specific hours. Perfect for reducing evening screen time, maintaining focus during work hours, or preventing late-night doomscrolling. Customizable Intensity Fine-tune the greyscale intensity from 0-100% to find your perfect balance. Research shows greyscale mode reduces screen time by making websi

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Playing with Open Source LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:36:51

Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy command line tools to write code using LLMs. This is a very nice change, since it suddenly makes AI compatible with my allergy to getting out of the terminal. Me, browsing HN from my cave (by Stable Diffusion) The most popular of these tools seems to be Claude Code. It promises to be able to build in total autonomy, being able to use search code, write

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A Periodic Table of System Design Principles

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 21:44:58

Towards a Periodic Table of System Design Principles System design is often taught through domain-specific solutions specific to particular domains, such as databases, operating systems, or computer architecture, each with its own methods and vocabulary. While this diversity is a strength, it can obscure cross-cutting principles that recur across domains. This paper proposes a preliminary “periodic table” of system design principles distilled from several domains in computer systems. The goal i

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PAX Markets (YC W25) is hiring a founding principal hardware (RTL) engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 21:00:35

What you’ll do: As founding principal hardware engineer, you will lead the design and in-production implementation of an exchange and co-located trading facility on a single silicon device. You will lead development of PAX core technology and set future design directions including implementation of an ultra-low latency 𝛼 (ML based price prediction) published in-sync with market data. PAX ultra low-latency in-silicon matching engine: PAX is building the world's first exchange and co-located tr

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Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:20:11

PR Quiz Intro AI Agents are starting to write more code. How do we make sure we understand what they're writing? PR Quiz is a GitHub Action that uses AI to generate a quiz based on a pull request. It can help you, the human reviewer, test your understanding of your AI Agent's code. (And block you from deploying code you don't understand!) Getting started Make sure you have an OpenAI API Key and an ngrok auth token (free tier works).* Add the OpenAI API Key and ngrok auth token as action sec

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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:24:23

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat 2023-08-31 For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least. Sandra and I switched from using Matrix to using XMPP a while back. Matrix was pretty good for messaging, although quite a few encryption-related issues, but it - or my installation of it, possibly - was unreliable for audio and video. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it would not. Moving to XMPP - usi

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Why CI/CD Still Doesn't Include Continuous Documentation?

news.ycombinator.com Neel Das 2026-02-16 22:45:42

In my 15+ years as a developer, one of the most persistent headaches I’ve seen across teams is outdated documentation. I’ll admit it, I’ve shipped features and moved on without updating the docs. A month later, a new teammate is onboarding or someone is debugging an issue, and they run into a README or guide that no longer reflects reality. It’s frustrating for them and embarrassing for us. I’m certainly not alone in this habit. Maintaining documentation is often the last thing on a developer’

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DOJ Has a Copy of the Epstein Jail Video With the ‘Missing Minute’: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-02-16 22:00:24

When the U.S. Department of Justice released a nearly 11-hour video in early July that purported to show the last time Jeffrey Epstein was seen alive, people couldn’t help but notice that there was a full minute missing. Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted there was a simple explanation: That’s just how the jail’s antiquated camera systems work. But a new report claims Bondi isn’t telling the truth. The report from CBS News cites a “government source familiar with the investigation” who told th

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Elon Musk Is Digging Tunnels Under Nashville

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-16 22:10:47

Somehow, Elon Musk keeps convincing cities to allow him to dig under them. The latest locale to give The Boring Company the rights to displace dirt directly under their feet is Nashville, Tennessee, which announced an agreement this week to allow Musk’s firm to build a 10-mile “loop” that will connect the city’s airport and convention center—an arrangement that has modestly improved traffic flow in Las Vegas while turning the city into a laughingstock of the infrastructure design community. The

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Avast Ye Hearties: HBO Is Auctioning Off ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Booty

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-16 22:50:48

Over two seasons, Our Flag Means Death gathered a passionate fan base as it carved out a truly unique corner of television. Part pirate adventure and part workplace comedy, it was stuffed with standout characters and heartfelt queer romance. It also offered a perfect balance of earnestness and irreverence. Suffice to say, it’s been very missed since HBO cancelled it and it was unable to find a new outlet. With the Our Flag Means Death banner lowered for good, that means the next step in saying

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The U.S. May Change Strategy in Its Battle With China for AI Dominance

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2026-02-16 22:59:24

This weekend, Shanghai was host to China’s annual “World Artificial Intelligence Conference,” a government-organized AI showcase packed with tech giants from both China and the U.S. including Huawei, Tesla, and Amazon. The theme was “Global Solidarity in the AI Era,” and Chinese Premier Li Qiang opened the conference with a sweeping proposal: the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization, potentially headquartered in Shanghai. The Chinese foreign ministry has since released an actio

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Waymo Is Expanding to Dallas. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 20:57:00

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Dallas. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Monday, the company shared it's planning to make its robotaxi service available in Dallas through a partnership with Avis Budget Group, which will manage the fleet. Waymo has already begun early testing there, and says it plans to offer publi

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NordVPN Debuts Scam Call Protection for Android in an Effort to Help Protect You From Spam Calls

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 20:59:00

NordVPN is one of our favorite VPNs on the market, boasting blazing-fast speeds, excellent streaming service unblocking capabilities and forward-thinking privacy features. Now, NordVPN is expanding its cybersecurity offerings with scam call protection for Android users in the US. Here’s what you need to know about the service and how to enable it on your mobile device. NordVPN aims to help protect against scam calls You can easily enable NordVPN's scam call protection from within the NordVPN

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ChatGPT Study Mode Aims to Circumvent the Brain Atrophy Problem With AI in Education

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-16 21:00:03

ChatGPT Study Mode is a new function within the artificial intelligence chatbot that aims to give students a more natural learning experience rather than simply answering questions for them, the company announced Tuesday. Whereas typing in a question or topic into ChatGPT returns a textbook-style summary, Study Mode works with students, step by step, to help them come to the correct answer on their own. Students can chat with ChatGPT to gain better clarification on things they don't understand,

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