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Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global, plans AI-first device launch

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-29 07:15:00

Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global. With this round, the consumer electronics company is now valued at $1.3 billion. Other investors in the round included existing backers such as venture outfits GV, Highland Europe, EQT, Latitude, I2BF, and Tapestry. The company, founded by Carl Pei — who previously co-founded Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, known for high-performance devices at compe

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Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

news.ycombinator.com Kyrylo Silin 2025-09-29 07:02:31

The Great Pyramids took decades to build. It was a monumental feat of human ingenuity and collaboration. Today, we software developers erect our own pyramids each day - not from stone, but from code. Yet despite far more advanced tools, these systems don’t always make the experience better. So why, when KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, do we keep gravitating toward complexity? Marketing > Simplicity Sell me this pen: ✎ What? You don’t know how? Okay, instead, sell me this

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Remember That TikTok Ban? This Week's Deadline Brings Hints of a Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-29 05:26:00

The Trump administration is working on a deal with China to determine TikTok's fate, which could be finalized by the end of this week, according to reports citing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. President Trump has plans to meet on Friday with China's President Xi Jinping, and the two are expected to discuss the fate of the Chinese-owned social media platform. That means the deadline of Wednesday, Sept. 17, may pass before there's a definitive resolution on the matter. The key question is whe

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Android will soon be able to theme every app icon, and Google Play won’t let developers opt out

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 20:26:42

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is making support for its Themed Icons feature mandatory by automatically generating themed icons for apps that don’t already provide one. This change addresses inconsistent home screens, as many developers currently opt out of providing a themed icon for branding or design reasons. To enforce this, Google updated its Play Store policy today, requiring developers to legally grant users the right to modify their app icon’s color. App icons rarel

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Meta just leaked its new smart glasses with a built-in display ahead of Meta Connect

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-29 20:13:26

For the past few months, multiple outlets reported that Meta was likely to announce its first display-enabled smart glasses at its yearly Connect event, scheduled for September 17. Today, an unlisted YouTube video all but confirmed many of its rumored features. Here are the details. The glasses feature a smart band for interface control Meta’s partnership with EssilorLuxottica is perhaps one of the best-timed deals in recent tech history. When Meta released the first-gen RayBan smart glasses,

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Nudists and Surfers Protest SpaceX’s Plans to Launch Starship From Florida

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-29 19:35:54

SpaceX isn’t very popular among beachgoers in Florida at the moment. The rocket company applied for a permit to launch its Starship rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which threatens to restrict beach access for surfers and casual nudists. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently hosted a series of public meetings where residents of the area got to weigh in on its upcoming decision to allow Starship to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. During the meeting, membe

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How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-29 20:54:25

In an increasingly divided world, one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that artificial intelligence is a hugely disruptive—and sometimes downright destructive—phenomenon. At WIRED’s AI Power Summit in New York on Monday, leaders from the worlds of tech, politics, and the media came together to discuss how AI is transforming their intertwined worlds. The Summit included voices from the AI industry, a current US senator and a former Trump administration official, and publishers including

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China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 00:04:09

A regulator has accused NVIDIA of violating China's antitrust laws over its acquisition of chipmaker Mellanox. In its preliminary findings of an investigation it commenced in December , the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) claimed that the company breached both national regulations and the conditional terms China outlined when it rubberstamped the $6.9 billion takeover. The SAMR hasn't announced any penalties yet, as the investigation will continue. The SAMR is said to have det

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Europe wants to turn Digital Euro (CBDC) into a stablecoin

news.ycombinator.com Anton Golub 2025-09-29 23:45:34

Europe had first-mover advantage with stablecoins. Then killed stablecoins with regulatory madness: - No yield - €200M/day issuance cap - 60% reserves stuck in weak EU banks Outcome? € stablecoins = $500 million USD stablecoins = $265 billion That’s 500x difference! Tether exited EU. Circle pivoted to USDC. No one wants to build on broken rails. Now ECB wants to “tokenize” Digital Euro on-chain. Digital Euro is a CBDC… But ECB wants to make Digital Euro a stablecoin. Public chains

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New York details its plans for online age verification rules

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 04:52:23

Last year, New York joined the wave of states passing legislation aimed at protecting minors using the Internet, particularly social media. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and the New York Child Data Protection Act in June 2024. Today, the state's Attorney General Letitia James released more specifics about what the SAFE for Kids Act will entail in practice. Public comment is open until December 1 and the rules must be finalized within a yea

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Calif. construction worker unofficially broke a fabled world record

news.ycombinator.com Lester Black 2025-09-27 09:45:31

It was a muggy July day in Santa Cruz and life could not have been more mundane for Alessandro “Alo” Slebir. The 24-year-old was pounding wooden concrete forms into a missing section of sidewalk. Cars raced by on a suburban highway as a neighbor walked over, looked at Slebir and asked, “Should I move my car?” “Hey, no worries, you’re fine! You’re not in the way,” Slebir said, in his characteristically friendly demeanor before returning to his hammer. You wouldn’t know it from the work boots or

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Data Centers Are Crushing the Planet. Can Space Save Us?

gizmodo.com Sophie Hurwitz 2025-09-30 01:30:04

The companies frantically building and leasing data centers are well aware that they’re straining grids, driving emissions, and guzzling water. The electricity demand of AI data centers in particular could increase as much as 165% by 2030. Over half of the energy powering these sprawling facilities comes from fossil fuels, threatening to reverse progress toward addressing the climate crisis. Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence say they have a solution: Just stick these colossal

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Looks Like Meta’s First Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Be Ray-Bans After All

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-30 04:26:37

We might only be days away from Meta’s next pair of smart glasses, but there’s still time for one last leak—and this one is a doozy. Meta’s smart glasses, which are expected to roll out this week during Meta’s Connect conference, will likely bear Ray-Ban branding after all, and we may have just gotten a very official look. An unlisted video spotted on Meta’s YouTube channel and first reported on by UploadVR seems to confirm a lot of what we expected about Meta’s next pair of smart glasses. The

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Locking Your Social Security Number Can Protect You From Identity Theft – Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 03:55:25

Credit freezes are your free shield against thieves. fstop123/Getty Images Your Social Security number is a crucial piece of personal information. It's used for everything from getting a new job to securing lines of credit, making it a prime target for identity thieves. This nine-digit number is linked to health benefits, taxes and more. As we see major breaches happen more and more often, protecting your SSN is more important than ever. You can pay for monitoring, but there is a tougher, free

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Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-30 04:13:46

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An unlisted and now-removed video from Meta showed off a new pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses with a display and a wristband to help control them, as reported by UploadVR. The video also features a new pair of wraparound “Sphaera” Oakley smart glasses with a camera on the nose, me

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Turn Your Old Tech Into Art—Now With a 20% Discount

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-09-30 08:17:30

Nostalgic for beloved gadgets from your childhood? One easy and uncommon way to celebrate these gizmos is to frame them up on your wall. Grid Studios has been deconstructing old-school gadgets for 5 years now, and to celebrate its anniversary, the company is offering a 20 percent off sitewide discount with code GRID5, though the sale event ends September 17. Grid Studio Game Boy Advance $249 $199 (20% off) Grid Studios I've linked to the Nintendo Game Boy Advance version, the 2001 handheld tha

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The unbearable sameness of Liquid Glass

theverge.com David Pierce 2025-09-30 07:07:08

Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple’s products and is rolling out this week, is built on the idea that interfaces should be three-dimensional: in the world of Liquid Glass, buttons and menus sit on top of whatever you’re doing or looking at, changing color and refracting digital light like they’re physical objects. It’s meant to feel like glass does in the real world. It’s visually very impressive, and it all kind of works! You insta

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You can get Nvidia's CUDA on three popular enterprise Linux distros now - why it matters

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-09-30 12:12:48

NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The CUDA toolkit is now packaged with Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu. This will make life easier for AI developers on these Linux distros. It will also speed up AI development and deployments on Nvidia hardware. AI developers use popular frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX to work on their projects. All these frameworks, in turn, rely on Nvidia's CUDA AI toolkit and

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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'

news.ycombinator.com George Musser 2025-09-27 06:15:56

Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on his screen. They pulsed, grew and blossomed into monarch butterflies. As the two butterflies grew, they smashed into each other, and one got the worst of it; its wing withered away. But just as it seemed like a goner, the mutilated butterfly did a kind of backflip and grew a new wing like a salamander regrowing a lost leg. Mordvintsev, a research scientist at Google in Zurich, had not deliberately bred his virtual butterflies to regenerate

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Boeing faces $3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-30 12:57:23

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday proposed fines of $3.1 million against Boeing for various safety violations related to the January 2024 door plug blowout and what the FAA called "interference with safety officials' independence." An FAA statement said the proposed fine covers "safety violations that occurred from September 2023 through February 2024," and is the "maximum statutory civil penalty authority consistent with law." Boeing, which reported $22.7 billion in revenue and a n

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Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Jordan Novet Chris Eudaily 2025-09-30 15:41:52

The U.S. and China have reached a "framework" deal for social media platform TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. "It's between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon," he said from U.S.-China talks in Madrid. Both President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Friday to discuss the terms. Trump also said in a Truth Social post Monday that a deal was reached "on a 'certain' company that young people in our Country very much wante

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Android Auto’s media player looking faded? This may be the reason why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-30 16:24:01

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Android Auto users are reporting that the media window now looks washed out. The change makes it difficult to see the white text in the window. It appears the issue may be connected to the new light theme. About a month ago, some Android Auto users encountered a problem that caused the whole display to look washed out. While the lack of contrast has since been addressed, users are now experiencing a similar but slightly different issue. This issue spe

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A TikTok deal may finally be happening

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-30 16:04:49

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that the United States and China have reached a framework deal on TikTok. Speaking to reporters in Madrid after two days of talks with his Chinese counterparts, Bessent said, “It’s between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon.” President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he will be speaking with Xi Jinping this Friday regarding the potential deal, among other things. This breakthrough comes after the Trump administ

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Trump Admin Says ‘Framework’ Reached for U.S. Owners to Take Control of TikTok

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-30 16:20:34

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the U.S. has “a framework for a TikTok deal,” suggesting that some kind of agreement is imminent to allow the social media platform to continue operating in the U.S. despite a law passed in 2024 that sought to ban the app or force a sale. The comments from Bessent came as he and U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer took questions from reporters after two days of meetings with Chinese officials in Madrid. “We believe we have an agreement. It

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NY could force TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to roll out age verification

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-30 16:16:15

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. A New York law could require social media platforms to implement age verification. On Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the proposed rules for the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act, which would force platforms to confirm that someone is over 18 before allowing them to access an algorithm-driven feed or nigh

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Israel announces seizure of $1.5M from crypto wallets tied to Iran

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-30 16:08:14

Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it was ordering the seizure of 187 crypto wallets that allegedly belong to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC. In a document detailing the seizure order, the ministry’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) said it was “convinced that the cryptocurrency wallets” in the list are property of the IRGC and are “used for the perpetration of a severe terror crime.” The IRGC is sanctioned as a terrorist organization b

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China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-30 16:44:02

Trade tensions between China and the U.S. regarding semiconductors just got even more strained. On Monday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation ruled that semiconductor giant Nvidia was in violation of the country’s antitrust regulations, as first reported by Bloomberg. The ruling was in reference to Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, a computer networking supplier, for $7 billion. An Nvidia spokesperson supplied the following statement, “We comply with the law i

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Android UI finally beats iOS in the looks department - and I'm stunned

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-30 20:25:42

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google released the latest Android feature drop. Material 3 Expressive has finally arrived, and it's brilliant. You get more customizations, better animations, and performance. When the latest Android feature drop hit my Pixel 9 Pro a few days ago, I was stunned. There it was -- everything I've been asking of Google. The company has finally given the Android interface a much-needed facelift. Als

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Being Underweight Might Be Deadlier Than Being Overweight

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-30 20:20:38

If asked whether one would prefer to be too skinny or fat, chances are most people would reply that they’d rather be too skinny. Distorted standards of beauty and their propagation on social media are certainly to blame for this, in addition to the knowledge that being overweight typically brings along a host of health risks. A new study, however, suggests that being too thin can actually be deadlier. Researchers used health data to investigate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and

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When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-30 23:05:45

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots. It's only the latter, however, that's anticipated to one day be a multitrillion dollar market, with big firms like Tesla leading the charge. In March, Tesla CEO Elon Musk boasted that his automaker would build 5,000 Optimus robots by the end of this year. Responding to Musk's claim, so did the Shanghai-based startup Agibot. Norwegian robot m

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Nothing closes $200M Series C led by Tiger Global, plans AI-first device launch

Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

Remember That TikTok Ban? This Week's Deadline Brings Hints of a Deal

Android will soon be able to theme every app icon, and Google Play won’t let developers opt out

Meta just leaked its new smart glasses with a built-in display ahead of Meta Connect

Nudists and Surfers Protest SpaceX’s Plans to Launch Starship From Florida

How AI Is Upending Politics, Tech, the Media, and More

China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law

Europe wants to turn Digital Euro (CBDC) into a stablecoin

New York details its plans for online age verification rules

Calif. construction worker unofficially broke a fabled world record

Data Centers Are Crushing the Planet. Can Space Save Us?

Looks Like Meta’s First Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Be Ray-Bans After All

Locking Your Social Security Number Can Protect You From Identity Theft – Here's How It Works

Meta leaks its new smart glasses with a display

Turn Your Old Tech Into Art—Now With a 20% Discount

The unbearable sameness of Liquid Glass

You can get Nvidia's CUDA on three popular enterprise Linux distros now - why it matters

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'

Boeing faces $3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations

Bessent: TikTok deal 'framework' reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday

Android Auto’s media player looking faded? This may be the reason why

A TikTok deal may finally be happening

Trump Admin Says ‘Framework’ Reached for U.S. Owners to Take Control of TikTok

NY could force TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to roll out age verification

Israel announces seizure of $1.5M from crypto wallets tied to Iran

China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations

Android UI finally beats iOS in the looks department - and I'm stunned

Being Underweight Might Be Deadlier Than Being Overweight

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

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