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Meta Poaches Two More Apple AI Executives

news.ycombinator.com Hartley Charlton 2025-07-24 06:30:59

After poaching one of Apple's top artificial intelligence executives with a $200 million pay package to lure him away from the company, Meta has now hired two of his subordinates, Bloomberg reports. Apple's Mark Lee and Tom Gunter are set to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs team, a newly established division tasked with building advanced AI systems capable of performing at or beyond human-level intelligence. Earlier this month, Ruoming Pang joined Meta. Until recently, he led Apple's found

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Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-07-24 05:29:34

While OpenAI has cemented its lead in the U.S., Perplexity is taking a different route — quietly expanding into India to compete in the next phase of AI adoption. The search-focused AI startup is rapidly adding millions of users in the world’s second-largest internet and smartphone market, positioning itself for mass-market scale. This week, Perplexity partnered with Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator after Reliance Jio, to offer a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription —

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Meta just poached two more AI researchers from Apple amid internal shakeup

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-24 07:15:56

Just days after hiring Ruoming Pang, who had led Apple’s foundation model efforts, Meta is reuniting him with two former colleagues from Cupertino. Engineers Mark Lee and Tom Gunter to reunite with their former boss from Cupertino As reported by Bloomberg, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, both key members of Apple’s Foundation Models (AFM) group, are joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs team: Lee was known as Pang’s first hire at Apple, while Gunter, who was a distinguished engineer at Apple, was re

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US passes first major national crypto legislation

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-24 10:17:14

US passes first major national crypto legislation 43 minutes ago Share Save Natalie Sherman BBC News Share Save Getty Images Lawmakers in the US have passed the country's first major national cryptocurrency legislation. It is a major milestone for the once fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress over regulation for years and poured millions into last year's election, backing candidates that included Donald Trump. The bill sets up a regulatory regime for so-called stablecoins, a kind

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Citrix Bleed 2 exploited weeks before PoCs as Citrix denied attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-24 10:37:34

A critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," was actively exploited nearly two weeks before proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits were made public, despite Citrix stating that there was no evidence of attacks. GreyNoise has confirmed its honeypots detected targeted exploitation from IP addresses located in China on June 23, 2025. "GreyNoise has observed active exploitation attempts against CVE-2025-5777 (CitrixBleed 2), a memory overread vulnerabili

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People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 09:53:09

Participants in Ontario's prematurely cancelled basic income pilot project were happier, healthier and continued working even though they were receiving money with no-strings attached. That's according to a new report titled Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience, which was compiled by researchers at McMaster and Ryerson University, in partnership with the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction. The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot projec

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Jared Leto is the ultimate soldier in new TRON: Ares trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-24 09:51:39

San Diego Comic-Con is coming up next week, and Disney is getting ready for its big presentation by releasing a new trailer for TRON: Ares, directed by Joachim Rønning. (Spoilers for TRON: Legacy below.) As previously reported, TRON: Legacy ended with Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) from the original film, preventing the digital world from bleeding into the real world, as planned by the Grid's malevolent ruling program, Clu. He brought with him Quorra (Olivia Wil

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Mistral’s Le Chat adds deep research agent and voice mode to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-07-24 14:05:26

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 Since OpenAI introduced Deep Research, an AI agent that can conduct research for users and generate a comprehensive report, many other companies have released their own versions of this capability, all named Deep Research. Deep Research, as a feature and product, can be accessed through various platforms, including Google’s Gemini, AlphaSe

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Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 is here to install with Google’s latest bug fixes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-24 14:03:08

Google just changed the way we’re going to be looking at new Android features with the introduction of its public Canary program, and while that’s going have a major impact on how Android 17 reveals itself to us, the company’s existing Beta programs are rolling right on like always. This summer we’ve already seen lots of progress towards what we’ll be getting from the next Pixel Drop in the form of Google’s Android 16 QPR1 releases, first with Beta 1 in May, and then Beta 2 in early June. Now it

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Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 58L Electric Cooler hits record-low price, $340 off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-24 14:15:23

We recently reported on a record-low deal for the Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 40L Electric Cooler, which is the one I personally use. Some of you may want something bigger, though! The larger Anker SOLIX Everfrost 2 58L Electric Cooler is also on sale, and it’s also at an all-time low price! Buy the Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 58L Electric Cooler for $759.99 ($340 off) This offer is available from Amazon, but it is shipped and sold directly by Anker. There is a significant caveat: this deal is exclusiv

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Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop

news.ycombinator.com Chris Winkle 2025-07-24 13:38:14

Indie writers can be under great pressure to write quickly, so it’s no surprise that a few have resorted to using generative AI software such as ChatGPT. Other writers may look to AI as a quick fix when they hit a roadblock. Plus, publishing on a budget can be tough, so AI-generated images and audio may seem like a good solution. Big tech companies with loads of advertising cash would like you to think that generative AI is the inevitable future of writing. So would some influencers who are pro

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Four iPhone 17 Pro Colors Leak, Including Action-Button Orange

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 13:08:20

The colors for Apple's iPhone 17 and 17 Air handsets were purportedly leaked last week, but there was no mention of the 17 Pro lineup. As of Thursday, that's no longer the case thanks to another leak. And the iPhone 17 Pro lineup might be in for a much bolder selection of colors when it drops later this year. Spotted by 9to5 Mac, well-known leaker Majin Bu added a new post to their blog, complete with renders of the four new colors the iPhone 17 Pro lineup will potentially consist of, including

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How to Get Free Marvel Rivals Skins With the College Perks Program

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 13:20:05

You might be subsisting off ramen noodles and Red Bull, but that doesn't mean you need to look broke while you're playing your games. NetEase has introduced Marvel Rivals perks for college and university students that let them wear some of the coolest in-game costumes for free. All you need is a valid student email and the know-how to navigate the in-game menus. Linking your NetEase account with your college's domain is a simple process that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes. Most US s

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Jared Leto is the ultimate solder in new TRON: Ares trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-24 14:51:39

San Diego Comic-Con is coming up next week, and Disney is getting ready for its big presentation by releasing a new trailer for TRON: Ares, directed by Joachim Rønning. (Spoilers for TRON: Legacy below.) As previously reported, TRON: Legacy ended with Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) from the original film, preventing the digital world from bleeding into the real world, as planned by the Grid's malevolent ruling program, Clu. He brought with him Quorra (Olivia Wil

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It only took two years for Vimeo to realize deleting all of its TV apps was dumb

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-24 18:27:25

Vimeo, the business-focused video sharing and hosting platform, is bringing back its Apple TV app after ending support for all of its TV apps in 2023. While the company hasn't been trying to be a YouTube competitor for a while, TV apps were always more convenient than Vimeo's proposed solution of casting video from a smartphone or tablet. The rebuilt Vimeo Apple TV app lets you access Vimeo's curated library of Staff Picks, your personal library of uploaded videos and anything you've saved to y

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 18 #502

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 17:00:06

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a fun theme that made me laugh -- until I started unscrambling the answers, some of which are tough. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Conne

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How Android phones became an earthquake warning system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-24 18:45:36

If you're the owner of an Android phone and live in a seismically active region, there's a chance your phone has popped up an unusual warning. Not one that asks for permission to share personal information, or potential malware, but something far more serious: There's an earthquake nearby, and you have up to a minute or two to get to a safer location. Starting in the US in 2020 and expanding internationally since, the system is called Android Earthquake Alert (AEA), and it's on by default in mo

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The Best Meal Replacement Shakes for Total Life Optimization (2025)

wired.com Pete Cottell 2025-07-24 18:01:00

Flavor Texture Satiety TOTAL 8 8.5 9.2 8.6 With its founding in 2013, Soylent blazed a trail in the protein drink and meal-replacement market by eschewing the target markets of gains-obsessed bros and geriatrics without teeth to focus on busy tech bros who were fed up with the cost and inconvenience associated with food you have to cook and chew. It was a brilliant pitch back then, and founder Rob Rhinehart’s predictions of a technocratic hellscape where worker drones grind too hard to be bothe

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You can once again buy the AirPods 4 for less than $90

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-07-24 18:16:49

We saw a ton of great Apple deals during Prime Day, most of which have disappeared. It’s okay if you missed out, though, as some of our favorite deals like the M2 MacBook Air have either stuck around or have returned, like the low price on Apple’s entry-level AirPods 4. Right now, you can pick up a pair for just $89.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, which is $1 shy of their all-time best price. Alternatively, you can buy the model with active noise cancellation for $119.99 ($60 off)

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US Mobile is upgrading its Unlimited plans with uncapped data, improved roaming, and more

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-24 22:20:59

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR US Mobile’s Unlimited Premium plan now offers truly unlimited, uncapped data on all three networks, with upgraded hotspot, roaming, and international benefits. The Unlimited Starter plan also sees improvements, including higher data caps and optional priority access on the Warp (Verizon) network for a small fee. Customers can even try US Mobile’s multi-network feature free for 30 days, allowing access to all three major networks without switching or p

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9to5Mac Daily: July 17, 2025 – Apple News+ puzzles, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-07-24 22:27:19

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by 1Password: For a limited time, get $20 off the easiest way to stay secure online with 1Password—featuring a new passkey feature that lets you go passwordless on compatible apps and sites. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe

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iPhone 17 Pro, Max and Air: Everything we know about Apple's new phones

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-24 22:40:36

Apple announces the new additions to its smartphone lineup in the fall, and the iPhone 17 is the upcoming collection. We learned a lot about what to expect on the software side during the company's WWDC presentation, but there have also been several leaks and rumors about the hardware side ahead of the phones' official introduction. Here's what we know and what we're expecting from Cupertino this autumn. When will the iPhone 17 series be announced? Most years, the flagship smartphones are intr

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Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seafloor

news.ycombinator.com Dario Radley 2025-07-21 00:51:06

After centuries underwater, 22 huge stone blocks of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, have been recovered from the Mediterranean seabed, a breakthrough in an ambitious digital reconstruction effort. Restoration is part of the ongoing “PHAROS” project, led by archaeologist and architect Isabelle Hairy of France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), along with Egypt’s Centre d’Études Alexandrines (CEAlex) under the authority of Egypt’

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The impact of file position on code review

news.ycombinator.com Fregnan 2025-07-24 20:14:41

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Best Internet Providers in Louisville, Kentucky

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 21:00:00

CNET's pick for the best internet provider in Louisville, Kentucky, is AT&T Fiber. It's not hard to see why. It offers the fastest average speeds in the Louisville area and it can go as high as 5 Gig for $245. With its speedy plans, you'll have little trouble doing most things, whether streaming your favorite show on Netflix or working remotely. However, other solid providers exist for those who can't get AT&T Fiber at their home address or area. According to Ookla, Louisville is 19th among the

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The Pixel Watch 4 might not become e-waste if you damage it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-24 22:30:44

Google is hosting its annual Pixel event on August 20, which will likely feature the Pixel 10 series and the Pixel Watch 4. The new Pixel phones are expected to retain the physical design of last year's phones, but a new report claims Google's smartwatch is getting an important hardware upgrade—it may finally be repairable. Google has stuck with the same design for all three generations of the Pixel Watch, making changes only to internal components, displays, and charging. Even with the year-to

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Congress Passes GENIUS Act in Major Win for US Crypto Industry

wired.com Joel Khalili 2025-07-24 22:31:03

The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted overwhelming to pass the country’s first significant cryptocurrency regulation, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act. It will now go to President Donald Trump for final approval. If enacted, the bill will establish rules for issuers of stablecoins, a type of coin pegged to a $1 valuation, which proponents have pitched as a faster and cheaper way to make payments. The bill requires issuers to collater

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Google is suing the BadBox 2.0 botnet group

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-25 01:58:12

Google has filed a lawsuit against the operators of a what is believed to be the largest smart TV botnet in the world — BadBox 2.0. The company said in its complaint that this China-based botnet had compromised more than 10 million uncertified devices — including TV streaming boxes, tablets and projectors. Google said that cybercriminals pre-installed malware or used malicious apps to download malware on hardware that was running open-source Android software. These compromised devices were then

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Google sues to disrupt BadBox 2.0 botnet infecting 10 million devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-25 02:59:26

Google has filed a lawsuit against the anonymous operators of the Android BadBox 2.0 malware botnet, accusing them of running a global ad fraud scheme against the company's advertising platforms. The BadBox 2.0 malware botnet is a cybercrime operation that utilizes infected Android Open Source Project (AOSP) devices, including smart TVs, streaming boxes, and other connected devices that lack security protections, such as Google Play Protect. These devices become infected either by threat actor

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