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Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version

Google debuted its new-age video editor called Vids for the Google Workspace productivity suite last year. On Wednesday, the company is adding new features like AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools. It is also releasing a free-to-use feature for consumers with limited features. This version of the editor will have basic edit controls along with access to Google’s template library, font collection, and stock media library, but it won’t offer AI features at this tim

Ember (YC F24) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer

AI RCM. A/R Analysis in 3 days or less. Reduce claim denials by 55%. Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. At Ember, we’re building the future of healthcare operations. Behind every provider is a mountain of administrative complexity — from billing to revenue cycle management — and these inefficiencies directly impact care, cost, and outcomes. At Ember, we’re simplifying the back office of healthcare through intelligent automation, helping providers focus on what matt

Dietitian Tips for Fighting Food Noise -- Without Using Semaglutide

If you’ve ever found your mind consumed with constant thoughts about food, chances are you have experienced food noise. It's usually brought on by conflicting messages about nutrition, either through everyday conversation or content online. It could be feeling guilty because you ate a cupcake when you promised yourself you weren’t going to touch sweets for a while, or maybe you’re trying to meet your protein quota and are obsessively keeping track of it. These thoughts are common, and in some ca

OpenAI says it plans ChatGPT changes after lawsuit blamed chatbot for teen's suicide

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Federal Reserve's Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 22, 2025. OpenAI is detailing its plans to address ChatGPT's shortcomings when handling "sensitive situations" following a lawsuit from a family who blamed the chatbot for their teenage son's death by suicide. "We will keep improving, guided by experts and grounded in responsibility to the people who use our tools — and we hope others

Hide.me VPN review: A reliable free VPN for beginners

Hide.me ZDNET's key takeaways Hide.me's exceptional free service is as legit as advertised with no strings attached The full version has remarkable server connections and useful app optimization settings, and it works well with streaming platforms, too, including Netflix It's lacking in some sectors, notably the server network isn't as big, and it requires advanced manual configuration on Linux View now at Hide.me After more than a decade in operation, Hide.me still remains a reliable free VP

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Prime Video: The 30 Absolute Best Shows to Watch

Have you run out of TV series to tackle on Prime Video? Chances are, you're leaving some great options unwatched. You might know Amazon's streaming service best for shows like The Boys and Fallout -- and both are great -- but you shouldn't stop there if you have a subscription. The streamer is home to lesser-known series like The Devil's Hour and continues to add excellent options, such as the new college-set comedy Overcompensating. Note that Prime Video is ad-supported and charges an extra f

GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme

More seriously, Artanis is written using GNU Guile, one of the best implementations of Scheme language. One day, the folks at GNU were discussing what language they would write the GNU website in - and many chose Python. But I found that strange, because the official extension language of GNU is GNU Guile. And I wondered aloud - why not start a brand new project to provide a web framework written with GNU Guile? To which RMS said, "It's cool, I like this idea." But at that time, it was just an

Horrifying AI Crowds Apparently Used in Will Smith Concert Video

Commenters are calling out Will Smith for using AI in a concert video. The video, posted to YouTube on Aug. 12, features the actor and rapper performing on stage with a montage of his audiences. The crowd looks real in some shots, but in others it appears to be AI generated, given the prevalence of blurry faces, extra fingers and akimbo limbs. One YouTube commenter responded: "I like to pause this video and see your crowd close up too. Lots of extra digits in this crowd." Another said: "This i

Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s role in son’s suicide

In Brief Before 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide, he had spent months consulting ChatGPT about his plans to end his life. Now, his parents are filing the first known wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times reports. Many consumer-facing AI chatbots are programmed to activate safety features if a user expresses intent to harm themselves or others. But research has shown that these safeguards are far from foolproof. In Raine’s case, while using a paid version of ChatGPT-4

YouTube’s ‘Hype’ feature that boosts smaller creators launches globally

YouTube’s “Hype” feature, which allows fans to help their favorite creators get discovered, is rolling out globally, the company announced Tuesday. First introduced at Google’s Made on YouTube event in 2024, the feature — a dedicated button that appears below the existing “like” button — will become available on videos from creators with fewer than 500,000 subscribers. The feature is now available across 39 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and India. Viewers have t

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern E

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of 'Legal Botnets'

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern E

God Damn, Just Look at This Spider-Man Action Figure

Earlier this summer, just after Hasbro had revealed its own line of Marvel Legends action figures inspired by the long legacy of Capcom’s Marvel fighting games, Bandai wowed us with S.H. Figuarts joining in on the celebration with its very own series of figures, starting with X-Men stalwart Cyclops. Now, Figuarts is back for round 2—and it’s ready to unleash some maximum spider! This week Bandai officially unveiled that the next series in its own Marvel Gameverse line will be none other than on

Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

A startup called Skylight is taking a different approach to short-form video. Instead of restricting users to an algorithmic main feed, as is common on social apps, Skylight is building a community around human curators who post and repost videos to build out their own custom feeds others can subscribe to. The option, which launched on Monday in the version 2.0 release of the app, could appeal to users who feel a growing sense of unease about traditional social media platforms and their algorit

Lenovo IdeaPad 5i 2-in-1 Review: Barely Squeaking By

Budget laptops are finally improving. Extra RAM and more efficient processors are making cheap laptops significantly more pleasant to use and recommend. However, the Lenovo IdeaPad 5i 2-in-1 is somewhat of an old-school budget laptop. It uses a cheaper Intel chip, which compromises performance and battery life, and at first glance, it appears to be overpriced. While this machine doesn't move the needle for budget PCs, if you need a 16-inch laptop, there's just barely enough here to make it wort

Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it’s on purpose

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent. Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling. The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos. YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes over this period, especially in video quality. More recently, however, it is experimenting with forced upsca

The Jonas Brothers music video isn’t the camera flex Google hoped for

I don’t mind the Jonas Brothers. I grew up when they starred in movies like Camp Rock and watched them make a few appearances at Penn State over the four years I was there. Honestly, their music is decent — even if I don’t make the biggest effort to seek it out. So, I was happy to go into the debut of their “I Can’t Lose” music video with an open mind, mainly since it was shot on the Pixel 10 Pro that I’m so eager to review. But now that I’ve replayed it a few times, I’m not sure the partnershi

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Teletext in North America

>>> 2025-08-25 teletext in north america (PDF) I have an ongoing fascination with "interactive TV": a series of efforts, starting in the 1990s and continuing today, to drag the humble living room television into the world of the computer. One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic t

Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

For those who enjoy Counter-Strike community servers, the situation in Counter-Strike 2 is rather dire. An avalanche of spam has rendered the server browser unusable. The transition from Global Offensive killed multiple small communities. And large server providers have taken advantage of these problems to monopolise the market. Trying to find a server either involves capitulating to these big vendors, or trawling through a trench of spam. Scraping the server browser allows us to have some in

Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis

Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark's effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5. Both are graciously sharing their schematics and process on GitHub: jonny12375/rp3a0 for the Zero 2 W / RP3A0 schlae/cm5-reveng for the CM5 / RP2712 Raspberry Pi shares limited board schematics, but sometimes—especially when digging into some esoteric edge case for a carrier board, or in Jonathan's case, desoldering all t

Galaxy Z Flip 7 teardown shows how much progress Samsung has made toward repairability

TL;DR JerryRigEverything dismantled the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in a teardown, revealing its complex hinge and layered screen design. The inner display didn’t survive removal, but the cover screen kept working mid-teardown. Samsung’s foldable still lets dust in, though the removable batteries and Phillips head screws are welcome on the repairability front. We’ve already seen the Galaxy Z Flip 7 hold up surprisingly well in JerryRigEverything’s bend test. Now the YouTuber is back, and this time he’s t

NotebookLM’s Video Overviews go global with support for over 80 languages

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Video Overviews for NotebookLM now support over 80 languages. Audio Overviews are now longer and more engaging. Only about a month after Google introduced Video Overviews to NotebookLM, the feature is already getting an update. That update will make Video Overviews more accessible to a larger number of users. The Audio Overviews feature is also getting an update. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google S

NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed. Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update is beneficial for non-English speakers who want to learn from visual

YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators

Is it a conspiracy? For months, YouTubers have been quietly griping that something looked off in their recent video uploads. Following a deeper analysis by a popular music channel, Google has now confirmed that it has been testing a feature that uses AI to artificially enhance videos. The company claims this is part of its effort to "provide the best video quality," but it's odd that it began doing so without notifying creators or offering any way to opt out of the experiment. Google's test rai

NotebookLM’s Video Overview feature now supports 80 languages

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overview, enhancing non-English audio summaries to be more detailed. Last month, NotebookLM launched Video Overviews so users could turn their notes, PDFs, and images into video presentations. Previously only available in English, this update is beneficial for non-English speakers who want to learn from visual s

Waymo Gets the Green Light to Test in New York City. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

Table of Contents Waymo Gets the Green Light to Test in New York City. 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 Friday, the city of New York granted Waymo a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, with a specialist sitting behind the wheel. Waymo arrived on the streets of New York City

As Health Questions Swirl, Weird Spot Appears on Trump’s Hand

Image by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty / Futurism Treatments Over the past few months, a small media circus has ignited after the White House announced that 79-year-old president Donald Trump, who had been photographed with swollen ankles, had been diagnosed with a disorder called chronic venous insufficiency that causes blood to pool in the extremities. Now, amid the increasing scrutiny about those "cankles," it appears the president or his aides are obfuscating another visible ai

Hundreds lose water source in Colorado's poorest county with no notice

FORT GARLAND — In the sandy hills scattered with piñon pine and spiky yucca, hundreds of people have relied on a water supply that is so much a part of the local culture that Costilla County residents describe it as a way of life. Drilling for water is a pricey gamble on the high desert where many live off the grid at 7,500 to 10,000 feet of elevation. A well could cost $25,000 with no guarantee that water will spring, even after digging hundreds of feet. Instead, many people in the poorest co

YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connection with real life? Rick Beato's face just didn't look right. "I was like 'man, my hair looks strange', he says. "And the closer I looked it almost seemed like I was wearing makeup." Beato runs a YouTube channel with over five million subscribers, where he's made nearly 2,000 videos exploring the world of music. Something seemed off in one of his

Deep Think with Confidence

Authors: Yichao Fu, Xuewei Wang, Yuandong Tian, Jiawei Zhao Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15260 Code: https://jiaweizzhao.github.io/deepconf TL;DR WHAT was done? The authors introduce Deep Think with Confidence (DeepConf), a test-time inference method that enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Instead of treating all generated reasoning paths equally, DeepConf leverages the model's internal log-probabilities to derive localized confidence scores. It operate