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I took 500 photos with the two best Android camera phones - here's the clear winner

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-12 23:00:17

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Oppo Find X8 Ultra performs better than its Samsung rival in almost every scenario. The Galaxy S25 Ultra comes close in ultrawide camera comparison. Oppo's flagship has unique features like XPAN mode, Hasselblad color science, and Master mode. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra houses one of the most versatile camera systems on a mainstream phone, thanks to its two telephoto cameras and an ultrawide sensor coupled with a 200MP primary camera. Also: Sams

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I don't read your email threads

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 02:15:11

I Don't Read Your Email Threads 08 Aug, 2025 Email threads have got to be one of the worst possible forms of communication. You've been here before. A perfectly respectable morning is passing by. You're working through your items at a chipper pace maybe humming a song you heard on Spotify that morning. Then, the dreaded email thread comes through. Innocently, you click into the top email. The only text is "[Your Name] see below." I hate this and I bet you do too. Suddenly, you're transporte

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Smartwatches Recalled for Catching Fire, Burning Hands

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-13 02:30:18

The Altafit af28 smartwatches have been recalled, according to a press release Thursday from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The problem? The watches can overheat on their chargers and even ignite into flames. The smartwatches were sold on the Home Shopping Network from March 2025 to May 2025 for $50, marked down from $100. There have been 39 reports of the watches melting, burning, and catching fire with at least six reports of consumers’ hands being burned along with property dam

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What Happens When You Fold and Unfold the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 Times?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 08:33:00

After folding and unfolding the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 times by hand, Korean YouTube channel Tech-it found that the folding phone's redesigned hinge and thinner design couldn't withstand repeated handling. The stunt, which was livestreamed over the course of a few days, found that the phone would reboot every 6,000 to 10,000 folds. At 46,000 folds, the phone started to creak. At 75,000 folds, an unknown black liquid started to leak out of the hinge. At 175,000 folds, all speakers, incl

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Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-12 22:15:40

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue. Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming t

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Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 12:51:00

500 virtual Linux devices on ARM 64 Underjord is an artisanal consultancy doing consulting in Elixir, Nerves with an accidental speciality in marketing and outreach. If you like the writing you should really try the pro version. This is the first part of an experimental journey as I explore how many instances of my favorite IoT framework I can run on the 192 core Ampere One. Background I work on the Nerves project which is an IoT framework providing best-practice underpinnings and support so

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Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 12:56:30

I mean succeeded in replicating it, not necessarily as a business. It doesn't seem so. I tested all I could find, LiteTracker seems the best, but still extremely buggy even in the initial demo project changing task status fails. The rest appears either half-finished, untrustworthy or has a very sketchy interface. But would really like to be surprised. I am very rarely willing to pay for software and this is one case I really want to, but cannot find anything. This thing kinda feeds my pet the

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Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-12-13 03:02:49

US President Donald Trump has ordered regulators to investigate the alleged refusal among US banks to supply accounts to customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump accused federal banking regulators of presiding over an unlawful discrimination campaign under the guise of risk management, echoing allegations leveled previously by members of conservative groups and the cryptocurrency sector. “Bank regulators have used supervisory

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Black Hat 2025: Why your AI tools are becoming the next insider threat

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-12 23:35:56

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 Cloud intrusions increased by 136% in the past six months. North Korean operatives infiltrated 320 companies using AI-generated identities. Scattered Spider now deploys ransomware in under 24 hours. However, at Black Hat 2025, the security industry demonstrated that it finally has an answer that works: agentic AI, delivering measurable resu

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 03:37:12

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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Cursed Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 23:34:52

50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them.

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What are semiconductors and why is Trump threatening 100% tariffs?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-12 16:31:58

What are semiconductors and why is Trump threatening 100% tariffs? 11 hours ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Shiona McCallum Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images The manufacture of the tiny tech that powers billions of devices is under a microscope. US President Donald Trump has said he plans to introduce 100% tariffs on semiconductor imports. The tiny chips power a range of different devices and are integral to modern technology and the global economy. While some semiconductor producers

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Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 03:11:20

Classifying unsafe ad content has proven an enticing problem space for leveraging large language models (LLMs). The inherent complexity involved in identifying policy-violating content demands solutions capable of deep contextual and cultural understanding, areas of relative strength for LLMs over traditional machine learning systems. But fine-tuning LLMs for such complex tasks requires high-fidelity training data that is difficult and expensive to curate at the necessary quality and scale. Stan

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Immich – Cursed Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 05:34:52

50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them.

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 05:56:33

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also require clearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstra

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Pixel 10 leaked promo videos offer a peek at the hardware we want most

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 15:50:45

TL;DR Following a series of photo leaks just a few hours back, Evan Blass returns with some fresh video leaks of Google’s new hardware. The clips show off the Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, and Google’s Pixel Watch 4. We also get some support for our recent find about free Google AI Pro offers with purchase of a Pixel 10. Google’s next big hardware launch is under two weeks away at this point, and while it definitely feels like we’ve seen so many leaks by now that the devices might as well

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Apple Maps cycling directions expand to Hong Kong and Taiwan

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 15:21:32

When Apple first launched cycling directions on Apple Maps, the feature was limited to a handful of cities like New York and Beijing. Since then, Apple has gradually expanded coverage. Now, cycling directions are also available in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If you ride a bike to get around where you live, you know that some information is essential for route planning: are there bike paths? Bike lanes? Do they cover the entire route? What is the elevation along the way? Since the limited rollout in

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Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-13 15:10:42

Over on YouTube Talking Sasquach has recently tested custom firmware for the Flipper Zero that can entirely break the rolling code security system used on most modern vehicles. Rolling code security works by using a synchronized algorithm between a transmitter and receiver to generate a new, unique code for each transmission, preventing replay attacks and unauthorized access. In the past we've discussed an attack against rolling code security systems called RollJam, which works by jamming the o

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On ‘Strange New Worlds’, What’s a Little Trauma Bonding Among Friends?

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-13 15:30:19

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season has had a bit of an awkward tone issue. Across four episodes already, we’ve switched episode-to-episode from pretty grim circumstances (a Gorn attack here, a zombie outbreak there) to lighthearted silliness (an encounter with Trelane here, a holodeck murder mystery there). Even as those individual episodes haven’t all entirely worked to varying degrees, this back-and-forth has only really helped to make the show feel a bit aimless. So while this week’s

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High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-13 15:05:01

In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, at double the valuation it hit six months earlier, sources told TechCrunch at the time. That deal didn’t happen, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead, news broke in April that the startup planned to sell itself to OpenAI for roughly the same valuation: $3 billion. While that deal famously fell apart, one bigger question remains: If the startup was

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Duolingo stock skyrockets 14% on boosted guidance as AI powers user growth

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-13 20:01:39

A Duolingo logo is seen on a smartphone. Duolingo shares skyrocketed nearly 14% after the language-learning platform boosted its guidance due to strong user growth driven by artificial intelligence. The mobile learning platform hiked its full-year guidance to between $1.01 billion and $1.02 billion, up from a prior range of $987 million to $996 million. Duolingo also lifted its bookings guidance to between $1.15 billion and $1.16 billion. "We exceeded our own high expectations for bookings an

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Pinterest stock falls 10% after earnings miss

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-13 20:45:05

Bill Ready, CEO, Pinterest, speaks at the 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on May 5, 2025. Pinterest shares were down more than 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed on earnings per share. Here's how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG: Earnings per share : $0.33 cents Adj. vs. $0.35 cents expected : $0.33 cents Adj. vs. $0.35 cents expected Revenue: $998

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CISA orders fed agencies to patch new Exchange flaw by Monday

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-13 20:14:16

CISA has issued an emergency directive ordering all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to mitigate a critical Microsoft Exchange hybrid vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-53786 by Monday morning at 9:00 AM ET. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies are non-military agencies within the US executive branch, including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Treasury, Department of Energy, and Department of Health and Human Services. The flaw tracked as CVE-

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ChatGPT's GPT-5 models released: everything you need to know

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:03:32

After a long wait, GPT-5 is finally rolling out. It's available for free, Plus, Pro and Team users today. This means everyone gets to try GPT-5 today, but paid users get higher limits. In a blog post, OpenAI says GPT-5 is a big leap compared to previous models. OpenAI added that GPT-5 is the best coding model, and early benchmarks suggest it beats Opus 4.1 from Claude by a small margin, but real-life benchmarks are awaited. Unlike previous models, GPT-5 has built-in reasoning. It is a unifie

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Dave Bautista Will Showdown With Henry Cavill In ‘Highlander’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-14 00:00:02

Superman as the Highlander was cool enough, but now he’s going to showdown with Drax, and, as we know, there can be only one. Yes, Dave Bautista is joining the cast of the upcoming reboot of Highlander from director Chad Stahelski. Henry Cavill stars as Connor MacLeod, a man who discovers he’s an immortal being called a Highlander. He’s opposed by the Kurgan, another Highlander who has been killing them across the centuries. That’s Bautista. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the casting

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Woman Diagnosed with Malaria in Washington May Be State’s First Locally Acquired Case

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-14 00:55:11

Washington state officials have revealed that a local woman has been diagnosed with malaria, which, if confirmed, would mark the first known case of the disease being acquired in the state. The woman was diagnosed with malaria, a mosquito-borne illness caused by a parasite, on August 2, according to the officials. State and federal public health agencies are working to confirm the source of the infection, according to a statement published on Wednesday. Officials believe that the infection may

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OpenAI launches GPT-5, nano, mini and Pro — not AGI, but capable of generating ‘software-on-demand’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-14 04:01:10

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 After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs), all different-sized variants of GPT-5, the long-awaited predecessor to its GPT-4 model from March of 2023, nearly 2.5 years ago. The company is rolling out four distinct versions of the model — GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-

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Digital Wellbeing is looking easy on the eyes with its first taste of Material 3 Expressive

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 05:49:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Material 3 Expressive changes have started showing up in Digital Wellbeing. Right now only users on Android 16 QPR1 Beta or Android Canary are getting the new interface. Only the main Digital Wellbeing screen has this new look, suggesting more changes could be on the way. Google developers are currently in the middle of an Android-wide project to update the look and feel of the company’s apps, all with the goal of embracing the new Material 3 Express

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I took over 500 photos with the Samsung S25 Ultra and Oppo Find X8 Ultra - the winner is very clear

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-14 05:30:13

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Oppo Find X8 Ultra performs better than its Samsung rival in almost every scenario. The Galaxy S25 Ultra comes close in ultrawide camera comparison. Oppo's flagship has unique features like XPAN mode, Hasselblad color science, and Master mode. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra houses one of the most versatile camera systems on a mainstream phone, thanks to its two telephoto cameras and an ultrawide sensor coupled with a 200MP primary camera. Also: Sams

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The Whispering Earring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 20:16:28

Cleaner, easier-to-reference repo of Scott Alexander’s The Whispering Earring (that’s the Schelling title, real title below). Original from livejournal is backed up here. Clarity didn’t work, trying mysterianism In the treasure-vaults of Til Iosophrang rests the Whispering Earring, buried deep beneath a heap of gold where it can do no further harm. The earring is a little topaz tetrahedron dangling from a thin gold wire. When worn, it whispers in the wearer’s ear: “Better for you if you take

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I took 500 photos with the two best Android camera phones - here's the clear winner

I don't read your email threads

Smartwatches Recalled for Catching Fire, Burning Hands

What Happens When You Fold and Unfold the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 Times?

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Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64

Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

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What are semiconductors and why is Trump threatening 100% tariffs?

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New executive order puts all grants under political control

Pixel 10 leaked promo videos offer a peek at the hardware we want most

Apple Maps cycling directions expand to Hong Kong and Taiwan

Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security

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High costs and thin margins threatening AI coding startups

Duolingo stock skyrockets 14% on boosted guidance as AI powers user growth

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ChatGPT's GPT-5 models released: everything you need to know

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Digital Wellbeing is looking easy on the eyes with its first taste of Material 3 Expressive

I took over 500 photos with the Samsung S25 Ultra and Oppo Find X8 Ultra - the winner is very clear

The Whispering Earring

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