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This American Influencer Traveled to Australia to Film Himself Tackling Crocodiles. Australians Aren’t Happy

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-05 14:01:43

Welcome to another episode of Americans being badly behaved in Australia (anyone remember the wombat grabber?). In this edition, Australian officials, wildlife experts, and others are criticizing U.S.-based influencer Mike Holston, aka “therealtarzann” on social media, after he posted two videos of himself down under and tackling crocodiles, shirtless. Queensland officials have confirmed that they are “actively investigating two videos circulating on social media,” The Guardian reporteed. Meanw

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Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware with Waabi and Apptronik at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-05 14:02:50

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders for three days of bold ideas, groundbreaking tech, and future-shaping conversations. One of the most highly anticipated sessions happening on one of the two AI Stages will spotlight where AI hardware is heading next, featuring a live look at the robotics and autonomous systems pushing boundaries in real time. AI may be reshaping software, but when it comes to robo

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I bought this $15 cordless screwdriver just for fun - then it totally impressed me

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-05 18:51:14

XLX 4.2V cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways The XLX 4.2V screwdriver is available on Amazon for $15. It features a classic design that is surprisingly ergonomic, and more than powerful enough for regular DIY tasks. The LED light only comes on when the screwdriver is on. $14.98 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sometimes I'm wrong. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try to learn from it. Take the other day, for example. I received a new screwdri

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Your Android phone just got 3 useful features for free - including an audio upgrade

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-05 18:56:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A new Google update is adding several features to Android phones. A new AI writing tool for Gboard is on the way. An upgraded Emoji Keyboard will help you find the perfect emoji. Your Android phone is getting an upgrade this month, and it might have a big impact on how you communicate. Also: Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's

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How Bill Gates’s fellowship program is adapting to global uncertainty

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-05 22:00:00

There’s plenty of uncertainty to go around this year, including a global trade war, shifting policy priorities, and an economy that’s starting to stumble. Breakthrough Energy, a climate tech organization founded by Bill Gates, has also been shifting in response. The group always placed long bets, though it appears to be reappraising some of them. Its policy team was scrapped in March, for example, and it didn’t continue funding a publication that covered the climate tech world. Still, its inves

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Is Now Paywalled: Here's One Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 23:00:03

The New York Times Mini Crossword is a fun and simple younger sibling to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. The Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) usually has only about six across-clues and six down-clues, and you can finish it in less than a minute if all goes well. It makes me feel smart, unlike the big crossword, which sometimes makes me throw things. But in late August, some Mini Crossword players were met with a paywall. Going forward, anyone who doesn't pay fo

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Microsoft 365 Copilot bundles sales, service, and finance Copilots in October

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-06 02:22:06

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. I exclusively reported last week that Microsoft was about to shake up its Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing, and now the company has officially revealed that its sales, service, and finance Copilots are being bundled into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft currently offers business Copilot acces

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Here’s your first look at Gemini’s dedicated space for all creations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:05:53

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new space in the Gemini app to store all media generated with it. The “Created by you” section stores all Gemini-generated images, videos, and even deep research documents and code. ChatGPT has a similar feature, called Library, which makes it easier to find media created by it rather than sifting through chat history. Image generation has long been one of the most compelling and entertaining use cases for AI. The widespread Studio

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Gemini’s handy multi-tasking trick is expanding to more Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 09:23:52

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini’s split-screen experience is coming to candybar phones. It was previously limited to large-screen devices, like the Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold. A Telegram user alerted us about the feature, and we confirmed it’s working on our Pixel 9. Last year, Gemini introduced a split-screen shortcut for large-screen Android devices such as foldables and tablets. The feature worked on Samsung devices, the Pixel Tablet, and the Pixel Fold. Now, Google appear

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A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-06 05:10:51

The California State Assembly took a big step toward regulating AI on Wednesday night, passing SB 243 — a bill that regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users. The legislation passed with bipartisan support and now heads to the state Senate for a final vote Friday. If Governor Gavin Newsom signs the bill into law, it would take effect January 1, 2026, making California the first state to require AI chatbot operators to implement safety protocols for AI compan

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What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 03:30:06

What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time? Make your time count. Published: 04 June 2023 Productivity Tim Urban has a good article describing how we have 100 10-minute "blocks" per day when we aren't sleeping. It's a great article, but I want to reframe it a little. I just filled out his graph for my weekdays: 8 hours doing school, 2 hours of eating, 50m each of commute & self-care. So after a typical weekday I only have 30 blocks = 300 minutes left of discretionary time

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“No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too

news.ycombinator.com Alex Weprin 2025-10-06 02:26:07

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act may have quietly changed the economics of the creator economy. The U.S. Treasury Department this past week released a list of occupations “that customarily and regularly received tips” and thus will be eligible for the administration’s flagship “no tax on tips” policy, which will let eligible taxpayers deduct their tipped income, within certain limits. And while the list includes the obvious (bartenders, food servers, casino dealers and housekeepers

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WWE 2K25 Jumps From the Top Rope Onto PlayStation Plus in September

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 17:23:24

"The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes, son of one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is the current undisputed WWE champion. And PlayStation Plus subscribers can bring Rhodes down a peg or help establish a new wrestling dynasty with the champion beginning on Sept. 16 in WWE 2K25. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large and constantly expanding library of games. There are three PlayStation Plus tiers -- Ess

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Forget subtitles: YouTube opens the floodgates on auto-dubbing videos into your own language

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 22:41:37

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is officially rolling out its multi-language audio feature for creators. This feature will allow viewers to watch videos dubbed in their native language. The rollout will happen over the coming weeks. Soon, you’ll be able to watch videos from creators around the world without having to read subtitles. YouTube has announced that it is finally officially launching its multi-language audio feature for creators. Don’t want to miss the best from Andro

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Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem

news.ycombinator.com Chris Houser 2025-10-03 20:31:50

At times, to evolve your product, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The article provides the story behind the rewrite of InfluxDB from scratch using a different programming language - Rust - and stack - Apache Flight, Data Fusion, Apache Arrow and Parquet (FDAP). It emphasises the benefits, as well as the mechanics behind its operation and the different versions of the product.

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Two popular NotebookLM formats have quietly disappeared — Here’s what to use instead (Update)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 01:42:33

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NotebookLM recently received an update that introduced a bevy of new learning tools. Users are starting to notice that the update also quietly removed the FAQ and Timeline Report formats. Google says that users can still create the formats through the “Create Your Own” option in Reports. Update: September 10, 2025 (4:40 PM ET): As mentioned in this article, you can create the missing FAQ and Timeline formats by using the Create Your Own option. If you do

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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 06:38:13

A prominent US Senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) said an investigation his office conducted into the 2024 ransomware breach of the health care giant Ascension found that default use of the RC4 encryption cipher was a direct cause. The b

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Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 10:21:30

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. The company said that developers can now submit Win32 (including .NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA, .NET MAUI, or Electron apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any registration fees. Redmond will also handle each app's hosting and signing, eliminating the need for developers to pay for these services. "Package your app as an MSIX and

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Google’s new Pixelsnap Ring Stand is stumbling out of the gate with early issues

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 14:58:10

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Users are reporting that there’s an issue with the Pixelsnap Ring Stand. It appears that the screws that hold the ring to the magnetic panel are becoming loose. One of the more exciting aspects of the Pixel 10’s launch was the announcement of the new Pixelsnap accessories. These MagSafe-like items can magnetically snap onto the Pixel 10 without the need for a special case. Now that the Pixel 10 has been out for a couple of weeks, plenty of owners have

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Pixel 10 fights AI fakes with new Android photo verification tech

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:00:00

Google is integrating C2PA Content Credentials into the Pixel 10 camera and Google Photos, to help users distinguish between authentic, unaltered images and those generated or edited with artificial intelligence technology. The American company notes that the problem of labeling synthetic media has become bigger in recent years as traditional approaches are no longer suitable and leave room for leave room for interpretation and misrepresentation. In the latest Pixel 10 phones, every JPEG photo

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Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell

news.ycombinator.com Gaston Tagni 2025-10-07 11:42:15

JQL Search Leverage the power of Jira Query Language (JQL) with JiraTUI to perform advanced searches. This feature allows you to create complex queries to filter tasks based on specific criteria, providing greater flexibility and precision in managing your projects and enhancing your productivity. Expressions can be saved to use at any time.

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-07 14:38:54

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. Microsoft is allowing developers to submit apps to its Windows store without having to pay any onboarding fees. Individual developers in nearly 200 countries can now sign up to publish apps on the Microsoft Store with just a personal Microsoft account, and no more one-time fees. Microsoft

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YouTube’s multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos rolls out to all creators

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-07 14:58:32

YouTube announced on Wednesday that its multi-language audio feature has officially launched after a two-year-long pilot. Now, millions of YouTubers can add dubbing to their videos in different languages, helping them reach a wider global audience. The rollout is expected to happen over the coming weeks. The feature initially launched as a pilot in 2023, available to a limited number of creators, including MrBeast, Mark Rober, and chef Jamie Oliver. Creators had to work with third-party dubbing

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Spotify Lossless ‘rolling out gradually’ four years after Apple Music upgraded entire library

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-07 18:54:12

In the four years since Apple Music upgraded its entire music catalog to lossless overnight, Spotify has been just around the corner from catching up. Starting today, Spotify is taking the very first steps toward making that actually happen. Premium subscribers will receive a push notification from the Spotify app when lossless support becomes available. So what took so long? Here’s what Spotify says. “The wait is finally over; we’re so excited lossless sound is rolling out to Premium subscrib

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Rode's Wireless Go III wireless microphone is cheaper than ever

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:22:31

The Rode Wireless Go III wireless microphone is down to $199 via Amazon . This is a record-low price and represents a discount of 30 percent, as it typically costs $285. The deal applies to all 13 colorways. This one made our list of the best mobile microphones . It strikes a good balance between features and value, which is especially true right now. The mic offers great sound, onboard storage, 32-bit float and universal compatibility with iPhones, Android, cameras and PCs. The various colorw

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-06 23:21:14

Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day” or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this month’s bundle from Redmond, which nevertheless includes patches for 13 flaws that earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” label. Meanwhile, both Apple and Google recently released updates to fix zero-day bugs in their devices. Microsoft assigns security flaws a “critical” rating when malware

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Microsoft said these 400 readers couldn't upgrade to Windows 11. They did it anyway

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-07 18:25:49

IgorNelson/iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Hundreds of readers have completed upgrades using ZDNET's help. In general, they report the upgrade is easy, with few issues. For those who had problems, there were typically simple fixes. Microsoft's warnings about the end of support for Windows 10 are becoming more strident as the October deadline approaches. For anyone who owns a PC that's more than five years old, those mes

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Microsoft taps Anthropic for AI in Word and Excel, signaling distance from OpenAI

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-07 18:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft will pay Anthropic for access to its AI models. They'll go toward new features in Office 365 platforms. Microsoft and OpenAI are distancing themselves from one another. Microsoft will slacken its dependence on OpenAI through a new partnership with Anthropic, The Information reported on Tuesday. The deal will enable Microsoft to embed Anthropic's AI systems into Microsoft 365 (fo

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"No Tax on Tips" Includes Digital Creators, Too

news.ycombinator.com Alex Weprin 2025-10-07 18:26:07

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act may have quietly changed the economics of the creator economy. The U.S. Treasury Department this past week released a list of occupations “that customarily and regularly received tips” and thus will be eligible for the administration’s flagship “no tax on tips” policy, which will let eligible taxpayers deduct their tipped income, within certain limits. And while the list includes the obvious (bartenders, food servers, casino dealers and housekeepers

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This American Influencer Traveled to Australia to Film Himself Tackling Crocodiles. Australians Aren’t Happy

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"No Tax on Tips" Includes Digital Creators, Too

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