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Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers?

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow 2025-11-18 14:20:03

Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control over what they see. But a recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court risks turning one of these essential tools, the ad blocker, into a copyright liability — and in doing so, threatens the broader principle of user choice online. Imagine you are watching television and you go to the kitchen

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The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-18 18:10:00

Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling party has wanted to seize Taiwan for more than half a century. But in recent years, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has placed greater emphasis on the idea of “taking back” the island (which the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, has never controlled). Many in Taiwan and elsewhere think one major deterrent has to do with the island’s critical role in semiconductor manufacturing. Taiwan produces t

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OnePlus will limit bootloader unlocking, but it’s not all bad news

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 02:00:10

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus is placing new restrictions on bootloader unlocking. It requires filling out an application form and limits the number of requests to one every 30 days. Thankfully, these limitations only apply to Chinese users (so far) and only on devices running at least ColorOS 16 based on Android 16. Android has evolved significantly in the last decade, and one noticeable shift has been in the decline of custom development in Android. Custom ROMs or mods are f

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Airbnb now lets you ‘pay later’ on vacation rentals

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-20 09:33:14

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Airbnb has introduced a new “reserve now, pay later” option that lets users in the US book a reservation without paying right away. Instead, users can put off their payment to a later date before check-in. Airbnb says it will require payment before the end of a

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Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-20 09:49:58

Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users on some of the changes. The startup, a competitor to X, Threads, and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policies are meant to offer improved clarity and more detail around its user safety procedures and the appeals process. Many of the changes are being driven by new global regulations, including the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), the EU Digital S

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-20 09:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 09:14:35

Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming later today. Users with these models in the U.S. who currently do not have the Blood Oxygen feature will have access to the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature by updating their paired iPhone to iOS 18.6.1 and their Apple Watch to watchOS 11.6.1. Following this update, sensor data from the Blood Oxygen app on Apple Wa

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Airbnb will allow US users to book stays without paying up front

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-20 15:00:00

Airbnb has launched a new feature called “Reserve Now, Pay Later” that lets users in the U.S. reserve a property without paying up front, potentially allowing people to cancel their bookings with less hassle if their plans change. The feature is applicable to properties that have a “flexible” or “moderate” cancellation policy. Flexible policies let users cancel their reservation up to 24 hours before they check in, while moderate policies allow for no-fee cancellations until five days before ch

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Blood Oxygen Monitoring Returning to Apple Watch in the US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 21:14:35

Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users through an iPhone and Apple Watch software update coming later today. Users with these models in the U.S. who currently do not have the Blood Oxygen feature will have access to the redesigned Blood Oxygen feature by updating their paired iPhone to iOS 18.6.1 and their Apple Watch to watchOS 11.6.1. Following this update, sensor data from the Blood Oxygen app on Apple Wa

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Airbnb will allow US users book stays without paying up front

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-20 21:00:00

Airbnb has launched a new feature called “Reserve Now, Pay Later” that lets users in the U.S. reserve a property without paying upfront, potentially allowing people to cancel their bookings with less hassle if their plans change. The feature is applicable to properties that have a “flexible” or “moderate” cancellation policy. Flexible policies let users cancel their reservation up to 24 hours before they check-in, while moderate policies allow for no-fee cancellations until five days before che

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Airbnb will allow US users book stays without paying upfront

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-21 09:00:00

Airbnb has launched a new feature called “Reserve Now, Pay Later” that lets users in the U.S. reserve a property without paying upfront, potentially allowing people to cancel their bookings with less hassle if their plans change. The feature is applicable to properties that have a “flexible” or “moderate” cancellation policy. Flexible policies let users cancel their reservation up to 24 hours before they check-in, while moderate policies allow for no-fee cancellations until five days before che

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Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:46:22

Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, "what if Emacs was a good web browser?". Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who wa

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Google adds limited chat personalization to Gemini, trails Anthropic and OpenAI in memory features

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-11-22 12:45:38

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 Google is playing catch-up against Anthropic and OpenAI as it slowly adds customization, personalization and gives users more control over what data to reference to its Gemini app. Personalization and data control in chat platforms make it easier for both individual and enterprise users to converse with the chatbot and retain preferences.

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Starlink Cuts the Cost of Its Satellite Dish in Half for New Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 12:59:00

One of the biggest barriers to entry for prospective Starlink customers has always been the price: $349 upfront for equipment and $120 every month for service. That’s now starting to change as Starlink is offering its lowest monthly prices ever and slashing the cost of equipment in half. You can now get the Starlink standard kit for $175, down from its usual $349 price tag. Unlike previous deals, this one is available to new customers anywhere in the country. Most Starlink deals in the past hav

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PSA: YouTube will start guessing your age from today (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:59:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will start estimating the age of its US viewers beginning today, August 13. The platform will use AI to determine if you are under 18 and automatically apply age-appropriate experiences to your account. You can dispute the age estimation by providing a government ID, selfie, or a credit card. Update, August 13, 2025 (4:59 PM ET): Just as promised, YouTube’s new age checks have gone live, and users are already reporting running into restrictio

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GPT-5 was supposed to simplify ChatGPT but now it has 4 new modes - here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-22 12:59:00

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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Sam Altman Calls His Own AI Model "Annoying" After Being Forced to Raise It From the Dead

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 03:42:55

As OpenAI continues to try to tamp down on the chaos of GPT-5's disastrous release, CEO Sam Altman is throwing digs at the company's now-deprecated and controversial model. Late last week, OpenAI finally rolled out GPT-5, the latest version of its flagship large language model. Without warning, the company replaced all previous versions with the latest model — which, in addition to being deeply underwhelming, proved to have a colder, less obsequious tone than its predecessor, GPT-4o. The respo

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GPT-5 Doesn't Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-23 04:00:00

Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in favor of a colder, more businesslike one (a move seemingly designed to reduce unhealthy user behavior.) The backlash shows the challenge of building artificial intelligence systems that exhibit anything like real emotional intelligence. Researchers at MIT have proposed a new kind of AI benchmark to measure how AI systems can manipulate and influence their users—in

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Is your Android Auto screen suddenly a washed-out nightmare? You’re not alone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:08:12

TL;DR Android Auto users claim that a recent update has created a contrast problem. The reports claim that displays now appear washed out. The problem is bad enough that some users thought the change was a design choice. It’s difficult not to notice when a display suddenly changes from showing rich colors to being washed out. If you’re someone who cares about how your screen looks, it can be incredibly unpleasant to have to look at a panel where blacks now look grey. This is a problem that ap

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GPT-5 was meant to cut choices, but OpenAI just added multiple modes - why?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-23 17:55:08

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:08:47

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense user backlash over its removal during last week's GPT-5 launch. The AI model now appears in the model picker for all paid ChatGPT users by default (including ChatGPT Plus accounts), marking a swift reversal after thousands of users complained about losing access to their preferred models. The return of GPT-4o comes after what Altman described as OpenAI underestimating "how much some of the things t

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OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-23 15:11:16

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 OpenAI is once again making GPT-4o — the large language model (LLM) that powered ChatGPT before last week’s launch of GPT-5 — a default option for all paying users, that is, those who subscribe to the ChatGPT Plus ($20 per month), Pro ($200 per month), Team ($30 per month), Enterprise, or Edu tiers, no longer requiring users to toggle on a

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You can pick ChatGPT's older AI models again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 09:15:49

ChatGPT will now allow you to choose between several GPT-5 variants and previous OpenAI models. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that the chatbot's model picker now comes with three GPT-5 choices: Auto, Fast and Thinking. He said most "will want Auto," which is most likely the standard version that's already a reasoning model. But users will be able to choose the fast-responding version or the Thinking version that implies it delivers longer, more comprehensive answers if they

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ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-11-24 03:30:16

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up. “In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss,” Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said it was surprising to see the “level of attachment” people had to 4o. “It’s not just change that is difficult fo

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AT&T starts offering $240 loyalty discount to some users — here’s who’s eligible

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 20:14:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is sending some existing Fiber broadband customers a $20 monthly loyalty discount for 12 months, for a total savings of $240. The offer appears to be rolled out at random; eligibility doesn’t require being a long-time customer. This follows uproar caused by Verizon’s pricing changes and other carriers rolling out retention and loyalty discounts. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a preferred source in Google Search to

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PSA: YouTube will start guessing your age from today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 17:00:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will start estimating the age of its US viewers beginning today, August 13. The platform will use AI to determine if you are under 18 and automatically apply age-appropriate experiences to your account. You can dispute the age estimation by providing a government ID, selfie, or a credit card. YouTube will start rolling out its new AI-powered age estimation system in the US beginning today, August 13. First announced last month, the feature us

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Got a weird security text from T-Mobile? It’s genuine, but you’re right to worry

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 22:19:58

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is sending users an SMS asking them to update their PIN, email, and security questions. Subscribers are rightly worried about the legitimacy of the text that includes a clickable link. While the text is very much from T-Mobile, it’s making users uneasy thanks to text scams that have become so common these days. Many T-Mobile customers are reporting that they’ve received a text message asking them to update their PIN, email, and security ques

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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-24 22:25:19

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would automatically decide how to best answer user questions. The company said this unified approach would eliminate the need for users to navigate its model picker — a long, complicated menu of AI options that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has publicly said he hates. But it looks like GPT-5 is not the unified A

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AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September

wired.com Benj Edwards 2025-11-25 04:55:47

After decades of connecting US subscribers to its online service and the internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. AOL confirmed the shutdown date in a help message to customers: "AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to disco

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Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 08:35:25

Mental health experts are continuing to sound alarm bells about users of AI chatbots spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia and delusions, a trend they've started to refer to as "AI psychosis." On Monday, University of California, San Francisco research psychiatrist Keith Sakata took to social media to say that he's seen a dozen people become hospitalized after "losing touch with reality because of AI." In a lengthy X-formerly-Twitter thread, Sakata clarified that

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