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Scammers are sneaking into Google's AI summaries to steal from you - how to spot them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-10 08:15:34

Moor Studio/ DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Scammers are exploiting AI to trick people looking for customer numbers. Google's AI Overview, AI Mode, and OpenAI's ChatGPT are vulnerable. Run a regular search or head to the company's website to find a number. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you ever use Google's AI-powered search to look for customer service numbers and other contact i

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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 22:14:44

A few years ago, I moved to Arc as my default browser. I felt like everything was immediately upgraded: finally, a web browser worked how I needed it to. The interface got out of the way; it was superpowered with keyboard shortcuts that just made sense (a bit like other professional tools like Superhuman); and its profiles feature allowed me to fully sandbox my work activity away from my personal activity. It’s how I want a browser to work. Unfortunately, it didn’t live up to the goals its vend

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Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

news.ycombinator.com Inquiries At Iapsop.Com 2025-11-07 17:12:45

The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War. Our all-volunteer staff digitizes, indexes and makes available free-of-charge these periodicals, in our archive, for use by students and researchers. We have a standing want list and will respond promptly to inquiries and offers from sellers. We accept contributions of material and labor to furt

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The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021)

news.ycombinator.com I'M The Engagement 2025-11-06 21:35:15

Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace was one of the world’s most inspiring buildings. The interior of the Crystal Palace’s ‘Tropical’ end with its Winter Garden, which was destroyed by fire on 30 December 1866. © Historic England Archive. DP004607. From the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park to its final demise, its compelling glass and iron design and awe-inspiring vastness attracted the attention of photographers on the ground and in the air. Here we take a look at some of the remarkabl

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Take Control of Your Google Search Results by Choosing the Sources You Want to See

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 15:11:02

Facing criticism for degraded search results and angst from users wanting to avoid AI Overviews, Google has announced a new search feature that lets you choose the sites you want to see in your news and search results. Google said in a recent blog post that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India this month. The new feature can be accessed through a plus icon to the right of Top Stories panels or a direct link to your preferences. "Once you select your sources, they will appear mo

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Ready to Escape Google? Start by Changing Your Phone's Default Search Engine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 18:15:04

It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of desktop users and 95% of mobile users. Even if you don't have Google Chrome on your device, you probably use Google Search multiple times a day without thinking about it. If you have an iPhone and you open the Safari app to perform a search, you're automatically using Google. That's no accident: Goog

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An extinct volcano in Arkansas hosts the only public diamond mine on Earth

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:00:58

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world's most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth's mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

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Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store

news.ycombinator.com Rafal Gancarz 2025-11-08 15:27:27

Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an in-memory object store developed internally. Revamped architecture of Tudum offers much faster content preview during the editorial process and faster page rendering for visitors. Netflix launched Tudum, its official fan website, in late 2021, to provide a destination for Netflix users interested in additional content associated with the company’s shows. The architecture of the website

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Int. Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

news.ycombinator.com Inquiries At Iapsop.Com 2025-11-08 05:12:45

The IAPSOP is a US-based private organization focused on the digital preservation of Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and the start of the Second World War. Our all-volunteer staff digitizes, indexes and makes available free-of-charge these periodicals, in our archive, for use by students and researchers. We have a standing want list and will respond promptly to inquiries and offers from sellers. We accept contributions of material and labor to furt

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These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-13 12:20:54

It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frosty—researchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk melting on a metal surface etched with an asymmetrical herringbone pattern. The ice and its small puddle slowly start to move sideways before suddenly picking up speed and slingshotting across the metal plate. The researchers suggest that this sort of independent movement could one day generate power

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Hands-on: Here’s Circle to Search’s upcoming ‘Scroll and translate’ feature in action

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 22:45:17

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a new feature called Scroll and Translate that adds live translation capabilities to Circle to Search. There’s confusion about the branding, as the company has interchangeably called the feature “Live Translate” and “Scroll and Translate.” The rollout appears to be limited as only Google app beta users on Pixels have received the feature so far. Earlier in the day, we brought you news that Google is working on a massive upgrade t

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Circle to Search’s translation feature is in for a massive upgrade (Updated: Hands on)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 22:46:06

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a live translation functionality in Circle to Search. Unlike the current translation function, the live functionality is likely to translate dynamic screens, such as moving webpages or videos. The Live Translate functionality can be used per app, for the entire screen, or a smaller, selected portion of it. Update, August 18, 2025 (09:46 AM ET): It appears that Circle to Search’s Live Translate feature is already rolling out to some G

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Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

news.ycombinator.com American Chemical Society 2025-11-13 23:35:17

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: The electromechanical reshaping technique successfully flattened this rabbit cornea, shown in a cross section, from its original shape (white line) to a corrected one (yellow line). Credit: Daniel Kim and Mimi Chen Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone want

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Early look: Circle to Search’s translation feature is in for a massive upgrade (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 10:45:06

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a live translation functionality in Circle to Search. Unlike the current translation function, the live functionality is likely to translate dynamic screens, such as moving webpages or videos. The Live Translate functionality can be used per app, for the entire screen, or a smaller, selected portion of it. Google’s Circle to Search is a stellar search feature that allows you to look up information about anything on the screen. Beside

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Google will pay Australia $36 million over anticompetitive search deal with mobile carriers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 14:09:56

Google has agreed to pay a fine of $55 million AUD ($36 million USD) for anticompetitive practices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced. It stems from deals Google undertook with Australian telecommunications companies Telstra and Optus to only pre-install Google Search. The key there is that these companies couldn't install any other search engine. Telstra and Optus then got a share of Google's ad revenue from customers using Google search on their respective An

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An alternative to LASIK eye surgery – electromechanical remodelling

news.ycombinator.com American Chemical Society 2025-11-14 11:35:17

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: The electromechanical reshaping technique successfully flattened this rabbit cornea, shown in a cross section, from its original shape (white line) to a corrected one (yellow line). Credit: Daniel Kim and Mimi Chen Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone want

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Google admits anti-competitive conduct involving Google Search in Australia

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 09:54:55

The ACCC has today commenced Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific over anti-competitive understandings that Google admits it reached in the past with Telstra and Optus regarding the pre-installation of Google Search on Android mobile phones. Google has co-operated with the ACCC, admitted liability and agreed to jointly submit to the Court that Google should pay a total penalty of $55 million. It is a matter for the Court to determine whether the penalty and other orders are app

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Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:52:03

doxx 📄 Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities. ✨ Features Document viewing 🎨 Beautiful terminal rendering with syntax highlighting and formatting with syntax highlighting and formatting 📊 Professional tab

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 04:46:04

Run an ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer. The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do! The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space. The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar pr

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Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-13 08:24:32

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The flaw was reported responsibly to Fortinet and is now tracked as CVE-2025-52970. Fortinet released a fix on August 12. Security researcher Aviv Y named the vulnerability FortMajeure and describes it as a "silent failure that wasn’t meant to happen." Technically, it is an out-of-bounds read in FortiWeb’s coo

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Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:50:07

Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law. Piracy of movies, TV shows, music, games and similar content, purely for

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Trump's Anti-Science Agenda Is Massively Hampering His Plans for AI, Experts Warn

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:00:44

President Donald Trump's cost-cutting measures to decrease the federal budget have already been backfiring. Federal workers are being fired and rehired. Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been deemed an utter failure as well. And now, the United States' lead in AI technologies and Trump's own policy proposal to boost AI are under threat due to Trump's anti-science agenda, The Guardian reports. Last month, the Trump administration released its "AI Action Plan," a poli

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug

news.ycombinator.com Andy Greenberg 2025-11-15 06:47:26

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.” After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices he’d found in his scho

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-15 16:35:30

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

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Dead EV Batteries Are Hoarding a Shocking Amount of Useful Lithium

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-16 02:40:53

The lithium batteries we deem unfit for use in electric vehicles might still contain copious amounts of usable, pure lithium we could retrieve and reuse—a potentially consistent, bountiful supply we’re just not trying hard enough to tap into, a new study suggests. In a study published August 14 in the Journal of Environmental Management, researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia argue that tapping into the leftover lithium in used batteries could fuel a pragmatic, sustainable alt

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Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 02:03:34

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How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-18 09:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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Computing’s Top 30: Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-11-18 15:00:10

On a typical mobile device today, financial and medical apps nestled up next to everything from karaoke playlists to time-killing games like Fruit Ninja. How to secure data that matters in this diverse digital buffet is a challenge for many researchers. For Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao, it’s a challenge that fuels his life’s work and also led to an award-winning project. That project—which earned ACM MobiSys 2023’s Best Artifact Award—demonstrated that making systems less complex can actually enhance m

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Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-18 16:00:00

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion on their bet on CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI models have fallen behind the state-of-the-art, and its business hasn’t scaled like its competitors. Now, the company is bringing in a veteran research leader to revamp its AI ef

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Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-18 16:46:09

Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles competition. Called Flight Deals, the new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheaper fares. Users can type natural language queries into a search bar — describing how and when they want to travel — and the AI surfaces matching options. These

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Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links

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Computing’s Top 30: Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

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