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AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-04 12:36:53

AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection The seven companies - Alphabet, OpenAI, Character.ai, Snap, XAI, Meta and its subsidiary Instagram - have been approached for comment. The impacts of AI chatbots to children is a hot topic, with concerns that younger people are particularly vulnerable due to the AI being able to mimic human conversations and emotions, often presenting themselves as friends or companions. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requesting information on how the c

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Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science-fiction gadget: The universal translator

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-04 13:00:01

Apple AirPods Pro 3 models are displayed during Apple's "Awe-Dropping" event at the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on Sept. 9, 2025. Nic Coury | AFP | Getty Images For decades, shows like "Star Trek" and novels like "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" have showcased fictional universal translators, capable of seamlessly converting any language into English and vice versa. Now, those gadgets once limited to works of science fiction are inching close to re

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How do AI models generate videos?

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2025-10-04 12:01:44

Sure, the clips you see in demo reels are cherry-picked to showcase a company’s models at the top of their game. But with the technology in the hands of more users than ever before—Sora and Veo 3 are available in the ChatGPT and Gemini apps for paying subscribers—even the most casual filmmaker can now knock out something remarkable. The downside is that creators are competing with AI slop, and social media feeds are filling up with faked news footage. Video generation also uses up a huge amount

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How I use a smart outlet to save money on electricity bills every month

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-04 12:50:00

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 21:54:00

From Audacity Development Manual There is also a standalone version of Nyquist available from the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Music Project. Nyquist was written by Roger B. Dannenberg and was intended to be used as a complete programming language for audio synthesis and analysis, with support for MIDI, audio recording and playback, file I/O, object-oriented programming, profiling, debugging and more. Audacity uses a subset of Nyquist's functionality, allowing you to use Nyquist functi

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Examples from The LaTeX Companion book (3rd edition)

news.ycombinator.com Contact Author 2025-10-04 10:52:53

The PDFs (as used with spotcolor and trimming) and sources for all examples from the third edition (Parts I+II), together with necessary supporting files. The edition is published by Addison-Wesley, 2023, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-816648-9, ISBN-10: 0-13-816648-X (bundle of Part I & II). Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (82.4M).

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The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 11:45:03

I'm a fan of the New York Times Mini Crossword -- a sporty, streamlined companion to the newspaper's legendary regular daily crossword. Typically, the Mini Crossword (we publish the answers daily) has roughly a dozen clues to work through -- six across-clues and six down-clues -- and you can complete 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 suddenly ran int

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Apple Watch hypertension alerts feature receives FDA clearance

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-04 13:45:53

When Apple announced the new Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3 this week, it unveiled its latest health feature: hypertension notifications. At the time, the company said it expected clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States “soon.” As of Thursday night, that clearance has officially been granted, and the hypertension notifications feature is set to launch next week. Apple says that hypertension notifications will be available in more than 150 countries a

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Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 15:35:36

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It’s not just you: Google Maps is down in major outage [U: Fixed]

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2025-10-04 18:47:30

In a rare outage, Google Maps is down and will not load as of 1 p.m. PT on Thursday. This is impacting the Android and iOS apps. The map layer itself — regardless of location — is not properly loading, with rough outlines appearing instead. In (local) areas where the map is cached, places/listings do not appear. This in turn impacts navigation/directions. Users around the world are reporting issues. The Google Maps website is not impacted. There are currently no incident reports for Google Wo

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 12, #824

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 23:00:02

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is tricky -- it contains one of those purple categories where you have to mentally subtract a letter from four related words to see how they connect. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, lik

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 12, #354

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 23:00:04

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a fun mix. When I saw "inside-the-park," I figured that could only mean one category, but some of the others were trickier. If you're stuck but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Ath

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Apple TV+ acclaimed sci-fi series is coming back for a new season

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-05 04:12:17

The Foundation series on Apple TV+ has increasingly been hailed as one of the streamer’s best shows. And despite a lot of uncertainty surrounding the show’s fate, Apple has just announced good news: Foundation will return for season 4. Foundation officially renewed for season 4 on Apple TV+ Foundation is about to air its season 3 finale, wrapping up what’s been called “one of the best shows of the year and a must-watch show for all sci-fi fans.” And until today, there were a lot of questions

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France confirms new Apple spyware campaign alert

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-05 04:38:23

In a threat and incidents report released today, France’s Information Security Agency confirmed that Apple issued a new wave of threat notifications earlier this month. Here are the details. The alert didn’t specify who was behind the recent campaign According to the agency’s report, Apple sent its latest round of security alerts to French citizens on September 3, 2025, marking the fourth campaign just this year. Previous notification waves were sent on March 5, April 29, and June 25. As the

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It’s not just you: Google Maps is down in major outage

9to5mac.com Abner Li 2025-10-05 04:47:30

In a rare outage, Google Maps is down and will not load as of 1 p.m. PT on Thursday. This is impacting the Android and iOS apps. The map layer itself — regardless of location — is not properly loading, with rough outlines appearing instead. In (local) areas where the map is cached, places/listings do not appear. This in turn impacts navigation/directions. Users around the world are reporting issues. The Google Maps website is not impacted. There are currently no incident reports for Google Wo

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'How to Train Your Dragon' Streaming on Peacock: Release Date and Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 03:19:49

Need a live-action Night Fury in your life? The recent How to Train Your Dragon remake is hitting Peacock, so animated film fans can spend more time with the franchise's Vikings and dragons. The new version from Universal Pictures stars Mason Thames as the misfit Viking teen Hiccup, and Gerard Butler as Hiccup's dragon-loathing dad, Stoick the Vast (Butler also voices the character in the animated movie). Nico Parker plays Astrid, the tough girl Hiccup has a crush on, and Nick Frost plays the v

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Paramount reportedly wants to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, antitrust law be damned

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 08:33:07

Paramount Skydance, apparently now in a state of permanent merger, plans to make a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, The Wall Street Journal reports . The company was recently formed following Skydance's acquisition of Paramount for $8 billion. Newly anointed Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison was able to afford the acquisition thanks to the backing of his billionaire father , Larry Ellison. Despite Warner Bros. Discovery's public plans to split back into Warner Bros. and Discovery Globa

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Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 08:02:51

Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). CERT-FR is operated by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency, and is responsible for preventing and mitigating cybersecurity-related incidents impacting public and critical organizations. According to a Thursday advisory, CERT-FR is aware of at least four instances of Apple threat notifications alerting the company

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Your appliances may be quietly draining electricity - this gadget stops that

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-05 08:39:10

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

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AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

news.ycombinator.com Tim Hardwick 2025-10-05 00:46:13

Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU regulations likely holding back its rollout. Apple says on its feature availability webpage that "Apple Intelligence: Live Translation with AirPods" won't be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU. Apple doesn't give a reason for the restriction, but legal and regulatory pressures seem the most plaus

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‘Foundation’ Will Return for Season 4

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-05 08:00:10

As sci-fi nerds, we here at io9 love Foundation, even if the show hasn’t gotten the mainstream buzz of certain other Apple TV+ series. It’s hardly a Severance-level blockbuster. But as the current third season of the Asimov adaptation prepares to air its finale, there’s an excellent bit of news from the streamer: Foundation will return for a fourth season. We can only assume that means cliffhangers galore in tomorrow’s finale, as is Foundation tradition—but we’re so happy with the announcement,

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The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 12:14:13

The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet, but does aim to reveal how companies "measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens." Seven companies are being asked to participate in the FTC's investigation: Google's parent company Alphabet, Character Technologies (the creator of Character.AI), Me

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Conway's Game of Life, but musical

news.ycombinator.com Hudson Griffith 2025-10-05 08:05:31

A Digital Darwin Adventure with Mating Melodies Hudson Griffith • September 11, 2025 Introduction Music is profoundly human. It runs deep in our lives and shows up in our everyday rituals. And somehow, those rituals often end with us leaving AirPods in the back seat of an Uber. But beneath the everyday habits lies a much older connection. Neuroscience research shows our brains respond to music in fundamental ways that precede language development 1. And what fascinates me is how naturally music

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New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-05 12:21:14

The period after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain has long been known as the “Dark Ages” for a reason. Scholars believed that after the Romans left, local industries collapsed and effectively all progress ceased for centuries. Britain, they theorized, was plunged into a cultural and economic abyss with their departure. But for some time, a growing body of evidence has challenged this narrative. And in a new study published today in the journal Antiquity, researchers investigate the assumption

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This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 11:01:00

Apple is set to release iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and it will bring call screening and more to your iPhone then. But you don't need the latest iOS update to use Voice Isolation, an iPhone feature that can make your calls clearer for the person you're talking with. Apple introduced Voice Isolation in 2023 with iOS 16.4. The tech company added the feature, alongside Wide Spectrum, to FaceTime calls with iOS 15 in 2021, but only Voice Isolation is available for regular phone calls at this time. When Vo

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New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-05 12:41:19

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, the newly formed black hole will have a larger surface area. This became known as Hawking's area theorem. Analysis of the gravitational signal from a black hole merger detected in January provides the best observational evidence to date in support of Hawking's theorem, according to a new paper publis

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NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

theverge.com Georgina Torbet 2025-10-05 12:47:01

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific legacy that has been built over decades. Yesterday, the agency shared a finding, published in Nature, of potential biosignatures identified by the Mars Perseverance rover in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock. “This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars,” said Transportation Secretary and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a press confe

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Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 16:21:47

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities. "As studies have shown, when individuals believ

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NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

news.ycombinator.com Hieu.Q 2025-10-05 15:13:09

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Microsoft mitigated many traditional kernel information leaks starting with Windows 11/Windows Server 2022 24H2, including calls such as NtQuerySystemInformation() (when used with the SystemModuleInformation class), by suppressing kernel base addresses unless the caller had the SeDebugPrivilege , typically reserved for administrative processes. That change effectively neutered one of the most accessible KASLR bypass techniques, and, without knowledge of the

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Gmail’s new tab keeps all your order delivery and purchase emails in one tidy place

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 20:00:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is getting an update that will introduce a new “Purchases” tab. The new view will put all of your purchase and delivery updates in one place. The update will also add a “most relevant” sorting option to the Promotions category on mobile. Gmail makes it fairly easy to stay on top of your deliveries with package tracking, summary cards, and more. Now it’s making it easier to keep track of the emails that contain that purchase and delivery informa

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Latest Tech News

AI 'friend' chatbots probed over child protection

Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science-fiction gadget: The universal translator

How do AI models generate videos?

How I use a smart outlet to save money on electricity bills every month

Introduction to Nyquist and Lisp Programming

Examples from The LaTeX Companion book (3rd edition)

The New York Times Mini Crossword Now Has a Paywall, but There Is a Way to Play

Apple Watch hypertension alerts feature receives FDA clearance

Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

It’s not just you: Google Maps is down in major outage [U: Fixed]

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 12, #824

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 12, #354

Apple TV+ acclaimed sci-fi series is coming back for a new season

France confirms new Apple spyware campaign alert

It’s not just you: Google Maps is down in major outage

'How to Train Your Dragon' Streaming on Peacock: Release Date and Time

Paramount reportedly wants to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, antitrust law be damned

Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks

Your appliances may be quietly draining electricity - this gadget stops that

AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

‘Foundation’ Will Return for Season 4

The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

Conway's Game of Life, but musical

New Study Questions a Major Assumption About the Fall of the Roman Empire

This Secret iPhone Feature Could Improve Your Call Quality

New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Gmail’s new tab keeps all your order delivery and purchase emails in one tidy place

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