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Two new Android 16 security features protect you better - how to switch them on now

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-01 20:59:00

JEFF PACHOUD/Getty Images Although Google's earlier-than-expected release of Android 16 was missing a few important features, the updated OS does deliver improved security that every Android user would be well-advised to enable. I'll explain these two key security features and how to find and enable them. Also: Google quietly confirms ChromeOS-Android merger - here's what it means for you 1. Identity Check This feature was added in 2024, but it didn't receive much attention until the releas

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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

news.ycombinator.com Paige Collings 2025-08-01 19:02:36

For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies. And they show no sign of stopping. This incentivizes other bad actors. If companies collect any kind of personal data and want to make a quick buck, there’s a data broker willing to buy it and sell it t

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Secretive Chinese Satellite Emerges in Surprising Orbit After 6-Day Vanishing Act

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-01 21:55:33

Nearly a week after launch, space tracking systems were able to locate a mysterious satellite parked in an unusually low orbit. China launched the experimental satellite to test new technologies, but it’s still unclear exactly what it’s doing in its unique inclination. Shiyan-28B 01 launched on July 3 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, riding on board a Long March 4C rocket. The satellite is part of China’s experimental Shiyan series, reportedly designed for exploration of the space envi

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Trump administration to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking operations

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-08-01 21:45:20

The Trump administration, through the Department of Defense, plans to spend $1 billion over the next four years on what it calls “offensive cyber operations.” The provision in Trump’s landmark One Big Beautiful Bill does not say what those “offensive cyber operations” are, nor what specific tools or software would qualify. The budget does note that the money will go towards enhancing and improving the capabilities of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, which operates in the Asia-Pacific region, incl

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Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-01 21:51:29

Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf. The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf’s CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2.4 billion deal, a reverse-acquihire that left the rest of the startup’s 250-person team behind. Google’s deal occurred just hours after OpenAI’s $3 billion offer to acquire Windsurf

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Governor of Texas Says He Can't Release His Emails With Elon Musk Because They Are "Intimate and Embarrassing"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-02 00:40:11

Texas governor Greg Abbott is seemingly terrified of having his communications with billionaire Elon Musk come to light. As the Texas Tribune and public radio station the Texas Newsroom, report in an eye-opening, co-published investigation, the elected official's public information coordinator, Matthew Taylor, said that the communications are confidential — and should stay that way — because they include "information that is intimate and embarrassing and not of legitimate concern to the public,

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NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-02 01:26:38

Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination. The company announced Monday it would add a series of featured notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits that allow NotebookLM users to explore a wide array of topics from health and life advice to travel tips and financial analysis, and more. The initial collection, which includes notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, as well as profess

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Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

news.ycombinator.com Paul Melman 2025-08-02 04:28:36

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

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Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-02 05:00:00

Cloud seeding startup Rainmaker is partnering with Atmo, an AI-powered meteorology startup, the companies exclusively told TechCrunch. The two operate on complementary ends of the weather system: Atmo studies atmospheric patterns to forecast weather events, while Rainmaker digests such data in an attempt to squeeze more precipitation out of weather systems. Under the partnership, Atmo will use its deep learning models to help Rainmaker identify clouds that have potential for seeding. The forec

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What happens when a brand built for sport loses some of its focus?

news.ycombinator.com Carter B. 2025-08-02 09:37:56

I’m Carter, I lead growth and operations at Handstand [a bit more on me here]. I grew up just outside of Portland, Oregon - naturally, Nike has been in my orbit and part of my life since day one (see below: “Dear Santa, please bring me a pair of Chicago 1s”). It’s an inspiring brand we discuss and think about often, so I decided to write about it. Excited to continue sharing more perspectives from different voices on the team. Visiting Santa at Meier & Frank - Portland, OR “When you see only p

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Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-02 13:31:30

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. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is refusing to release months’ worth of emails sent to Elon Musk and his companies under public records laws, according to a joint report from ProPublica, The Texas Newsroom, and The Texas Tribune. After initially agreeing to an information request, the governor’s office argued that the emails are covered by a law that pre

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Tomorrow: TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston — and ticket prices rise

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-02 17:30:00

TechCrunch All Stage officially kicks off tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. ET at SoWa Power Station in Boston — and that’s when ticket prices jump to full rate. This isn’t just another founder event. It’s the summit built to help startups fundraise smarter, scale faster, and lead with impact. Whether you’re tightening your pitch, planning a raise, or navigating team growth, TC All Stage delivers the tactics and tools to take you further. Right now, until the doors open tomorrow, Founder Passes are just $

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This might be the next must-buy Android gaming handheld, and it’s not a Retroid

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-02 21:16:14

TL;DR The ANBERNIC RG 477M is an upcoming handheld with a compact form-factor. If naming conventions hold true, it has a 4.7-inch panel and a Dimensity 8300 chipset. No release dates or pricing have been announced yet. One of the main reasons to buy an Android gaming handheld over a Linux-based one is increased power for PS2 emulation and above. Until recently, only Retroid and a few others offered devices powerful enough for reliable PS2 emulation, but the latest device announced by ANBERNIC

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putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 19:20:27

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Apple gearing up for day one production of iPhone 17 in India, despite Chinese disruption

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-03 06:17:37

Apple is gearing up for simultaneous production of the iPhone 17 in both China and India, despite apparent attempts by the Chinese government to disrupt this. Achieving day one assembly in India has long been a key objective for Apple’s work in reducing its dependence on China as a manufacturing hub, but has never before been achieved … Apple’s goal of simultaneous production The vast majority of iPhones are still assembled in China, but Apple has for many years been working on boosting the n

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You should stop putting your phone face up on the table - here's why

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-08-03 03:00:14

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET A friend of mine recently told me, "I always keep my phone on silent mode… which doesn't matter because I compulsively look at it every three minutes anyway." He's not the only one. From becoming a text addict to having full-blown smartphone dependency, the urge to look at and interact with our "flat things" has been deeply ingrained into our collective behavior for some time now. Also: I ditched my phone for this E Ink handset for two weeks - here's my buying advice now

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Can You Lose Weight and Gain Strength on a Vibration Plate? We Consulted Fitness Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-03 04:30:00

Vibration plates are making a comeback. Similar to the mid-20th-century vibrating belt machines, vibration plates have been said to provide the body with various benefits and can even be a tool for weight loss. But is the hype actually backed by science and expert opinions, or is it all social media hearsay? To find out if you should add a vibration plate to your workout routine, we asked personal trainers and other fitness experts about the actual benefits, risks, how to use a vibration plate

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Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation

news.ycombinator.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-03 00:38:20

Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually fading out like ripples in water. But some events are so destructive and extreme that they create disturbances in spacetime more like powerful waves than small ripples, with enough energy to reach our own detectors here on Earth. Today, the LIGO Collaboration announced the detection of the most colossal black hole merger known to date, the final product of which

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Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-02 23:01:09

Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually fading out like ripples in water. But some events are so destructive and extreme that they create disturbances in spacetime more like powerful waves than small ripples, with enough energy to reach our own detectors here on Earth. Today, the LIGO Collaboration announced the detection of the most colossal black hole merger known to date, the final product of which

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 14, #294

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-03 06:37:58

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 might be tough, if timely. I guess I'm not up on the 2025 HR Derby, but maybe you are. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned e

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 14, #764

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-03 01:00:06

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. There are some TV and movie references in today's NYT Connections puzzle. If you spent your childhood in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, you're sure to get one of them. That purple category, though ... good luck! Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Ti

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Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-03 00:20:53

Earlier this month, Hollywood mourned the passing of Michael Madsen, a gifted actor best known for his critically acclaimed roles in Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, and Donnie Brasco, among others. Few obituaries have mentioned one of his lesser-known roles: a black ops mercenary hired to help hunt down an escaped human/alien hybrid in 1995's Species. The sci-fi thriller turns 30 this year and while it garnered decidedly mixed reviews upon release, the film holds up quite well as a not-quite-campy B

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Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-03 00:50:38

Therapy chatbots powered by large language models may stigmatize users with mental health conditions and otherwise respond inappropriately or even dangerously, according to researchers at Stanford University. While recent coverage in The New York Times and elsewhere has highlighted the role that ChatGPT may play in reinforcing delusional or conspiratorial thinking, a new paper titled “Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers” exam

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Meta acquires voice startup Play AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-03 02:32:25

In Brief Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices. A Meta spokesperson has confirmed the acquisition, according to Bloomberg, which also reports that an internal memo stated that the “entire PlayAI team” will be joining the company next week. (TechCrunch has also reached out to Meta for confirmation.) Meta’s memo reportedly said that PlayAI’s “work in creating natural voices, along with a platform for easy voice creation, is a great match for our wor

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Monitoring My Homelab, Simply

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 21:28:04

Monitoring my Homelab, Simply Date: 2025-07-09 I have a middling self-hosted/homelab setup, and it occasionally breaks. Alas, no monitoring tool has ever sparked joy in me. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that they’re essential for large fleets of services with fast-changing software and teams of oncallers working around the clock to understand the complex ways that complex systems fail… but my stuff doesn’t change that often, failures are mundane and low-scope, and I’m the only person comi

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Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 23:48:49

Out of multiple conversations with people at BSD conferences, I noticed that many would love to see a chatbot that provides precise information on FreeBSD—for users, admins, and developers. I strongly believe that there should not be an official chat.freebsd.org . Local chatbots work well and can be tweaked to fit personal needs. This documentation is written for macOS with Apple Silicon (because of the GPU support), but should work on other OSes as well. Step 1: Install Ollama (API for Multi

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Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 23:03:13

TorchLeet is broken into two sets of questions: Question Set: A collection of PyTorch practice problems, ranging from basic to hard, designed to enhance your skills in deep learning and PyTorch. LLM Set: A new set of questions focused on understanding and implementing Large Language Models (LLMs) from scratch, including attention mechanisms, embeddings, and more. Note Avoid using GPT. Try to solve these problems on your own. The goal is to learn and understand PyTorch concepts deeply. Table o

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 07:59:30

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

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Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

news.ycombinator.com Justin Dujardin 2025-08-02 21:37:48

When understood and used properly, the constraint W = tanh(Ŵ) ⊙ σ(M̂) (introduced in NALU by Trask et al. 2018 ) creates a unique parameter topology where optimal weights for discrete operations can be calculated rather than learned . During training, they're able to converge with extreme speed and reliability towards the optimal solution. Most neural networks struggle with basic arithmetic. They approximate, they fail on extrapolation, and they're inconsistent. But what if there was a way to m

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Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

news.ycombinator.com Kimm Fesenmaier 2025-07-30 18:10:37

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202503003 What if a machine could suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, run it through a series of chemical reactions, and essentially spit out industrially useful plastic? "I think that is something that we, as a society, would be inte

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Latest Tech News

Two new Android 16 security features protect you better - how to switch them on now

Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE

Secretive Chinese Satellite Emerges in Surprising Orbit After 6-Day Vanishing Act

Trump administration to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking operations

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

Governor of Texas Says He Can't Release His Emails With Elon Musk Because They Are "Intimate and Embarrassing"

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others

Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds

What happens when a brand built for sport loses some of its focus?

Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release

Tomorrow: TechCrunch All Stage launches in Boston — and ticket prices rise

This might be the next must-buy Android gaming handheld, and it’s not a Retroid

putty.org is not run by the PuTTY developers

Apple gearing up for day one production of iPhone 17 in India, despite Chinese disruption

You should stop putting your phone face up on the table - here's why

Can You Lose Weight and Gain Strength on a Vibration Plate? We Consulted Fitness Experts

Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation

Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 14, #294

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 14, #764

Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure

Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

Meta acquires voice startup Play AI

Monitoring My Homelab, Simply

Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge

Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

Hill Space: Neural nets that do perfect arithmetic (to 10⁻¹⁶ precision)

Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity

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