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Silksong: all of the updates about the Hollow Knight sequel

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-10-28 11:24:36

After years of development and pent-up anticipation from fans, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the full sequel to the indie classic Hollow Knight, will finally be released on September 4th . It will cost $19.99 and include new zones, more than 200 enemies, over 40 bosses, and an orchestral score from the composer of the first game. Silksong was first announced in 2019, two years after the release of Hollow Knight, but developers Team Cherry have stayed pretty quiet about the sequel in the years since

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Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-28 11:57:46

Google will not have to sell its Chrome browser in order to address its illegal monopoly in online search, DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday. Over a year ago, Judge Mehta found that the search giant had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act; his ruling now determines what Google must do in response. Mehta declined to grant some of the more ambitious proposals from the Justice Department to remedy Google’s behavior and restore competition to the market. Besides letting Google keep

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Tesla’s 4th ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-28 08:18:12

Tesla has published its fourth “Master Plan,” and at a high level it is about how the company wants to lead the charge into planet-wide adoption of humanoid robots and sustainable energy. But the post lacks an important building block of plans: specifics. Even CEO Elon Musk agrees. In one of his only posts about the plan since it was published on Monday — sandwiched in between a steady stream of transphobia and immigration panic — he agreed it was fair to criticize the lack of specifics and sa

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Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-28 11:48:09

Waymo announced Tuesday that it’s going to bring both of its vehicles — the Jaguar I-Pace SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle starting this week, the latest move in a continued expansion across the United States. The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous tech in both cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to start offering robotaxi trips in Denver next year and the Seattle metropolitan area “as soon as we’re permitted to do so

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OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion, brings on CEO as applications executive

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-28 15:44:06

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2025. OpenAI continued its spending spree, announcing on Tuesday that it has acquired Statsig, a product development startup, for $1.1 billion. Statsig helps OpenAI and other companies test features and use real-time data in their operations. As part of the acquisition, Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji is joining OpenAI as technology chief in t

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Here’s your first look at the Google Play Games profiles revamp (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:09:53

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Games profiles are being revamped with new social and customization features. Profiles will now be directly accessible in the Play Store, alongside games and stats. We managed to enable the new profile features to give you an early look. Google Play Games profiles are in for a major overhaul, with a new design that makes them more social and customizable than ever. The refreshed layout introduces a follower system, a more public-facing pr

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Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:54:00

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week. The internet giant revealed on Tuesday that the attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management and customer support, which contained 104 Cloudflare API tokens. Cloudflare was notified of the breach on August 23, and it alerted impacted customers of the incident on September 2. Before informing customers of t

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We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 13:14:51

Photo by Avery Evans on Unsplash Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior. Social credit, in its original economic definition, means distributing industry profits to consumers to increase purchasing power. But the term has evolved far beyond economics. Today, it de

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Civics Is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 14:58:00

December 2, 2024 Volume 22, issue 5 PDF Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something! IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions or participate in the process to achieve something better. Poul-Henning Kamp It's a common trope in entertainment for some character to deliver a nonlinear response to something seemingly trivial, only for that to later prove to have been a vitally important clue. So, that room the janitor won't let anybody into? Right, that isn't actually

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Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 14:48:26

Become a superconnector We spend hours on messages. Yet we often reply late, sometimes completely forget to reply. We then end up losing deals, opportunities for connection, and missing connections. It's not anybody's fault. Messaging itself has not changed a decade – it has just gotten messier. Our conversations are scattered across different social networks with distinct UI full of distractions. Finding the right thread takes minutes. The context and the small details are forgotten. M

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Trump Ends Union Protections for NASA Employees, Citing ‘National Security’

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-28 15:10:38

Just before Labor Day weekend, the White House issued an executive order that excludes NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights. NASA employees have previously expressed public dismay against the administration’s budget cuts to the agency and its policy against diversity programs, and the latest order is another major blow to the staff. President Donald Trump signed the new order on August 28, ending collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies with national security m

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Best 6 TVs I've Tested for September 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 12:00:00

The Sony Bravia 8 II is a new flagship OLED David Katzmaier/CNET With all of the TVs available today, and all of the technical terms and jargon associated with television technology, it can be tough to figure out what's important. Here's a quick guide to help cut through the confusion. Picture quality: Broadly speaking, the type of display technology helps dictate how good a TV's picture quality is, but OLED is typically the best display technology, and this is followed by LCD (including QLED,

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That Supposed 'Gmail Hack': Google Says It's False, but Watch Out for Phishing Anyway

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 14:32:00

Gmail is a hugely popular email service, with over 2.5 billion users. So when rumors start to swirl about Gmail problems, people pay attention. On Monday, Google made an unusual statement, formally denying that it had issued a broad warning about a major Gmail security issue. "Gmail's protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false," the post read. "While it's always the case that phishers are looking for ways to infiltrate inboxes, our protections c

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Revolving door: Ex-senator becomes cable industry’s top lobbyist

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:06:24

The cable industry's top lobbying group has a new president and CEO. Cory Gardner, a Republican who spent 10 years in Congress, was announced today as the new head of NCTA-The Internet & Television Association. Gardner represented Colorado in the US senate from 2015 to 2021 and was in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. He had to leave the Senate after losing a re-election bid and later became chairman of the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC devoted to "protecting and expandin

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Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 15:25:00

Yesterday afternoon, while much of the country enjoyed Labor Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a new master plan for the company to his social media platform. It's the fourth such document for Tesla, replacing the goals Musk laid out in 2023 when he said the company would sell 20 million EVs a year in 2030. This time, it is not entirely sure what Tesla's plan actually entails. The text, which was reads as though it was written by AI, is at times anodyne, at times confusing, but always free of s

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Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-28 14:44:48

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is about to get even more exciting. We’re thrilled to announce that Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X (aka the Moonshot Factory), will take the stage at Disrupt, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. For more than a decade, Teller has guided X’s audacious mission to tackle the world’s toughest problems. Under his leadership, X has birthed game-changing projects like Waymo (self-driving cars), Wing (delivery drones), and Loon (internet-beaming bal

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OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-28 15:04:05

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup, Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current $300 billion valuation, OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood told TechCrunch. The acquisition marks OpenAI’s latest effort to build out its Applications busin

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Join Relay in supporting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-28 19:30:01

Once again, our friends over at Relay have launched their annual campaign to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Relay community has raised over $4 million for St. Jude since 2019. I’ve set up a 9to5Mac fundraising page for St. Jude through the Relay campaign. You can visit that page to make your donation and earn some rewards in the process. St. Jude is a decades-old children’s research hospital based in Tennessee that aims to find new treatments and cures for childhood

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Amazon ends shared Prime shipping

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 19:25:13

Amazon is shutting down the Prime Invitee program which allowed members to extend free shipping to people outside their household. An updated support page says sharing through Invitee will end on October 1 and that previously invited guests will be notified by September 5 of the changes. The Verge is reporting that users who don't live with the primary account owner will be prompted to create their own Amazon Prime accounts and will be offered a discounted rate of $14.99 for the entire first ye

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The Google TV Streamer 4K is back on sale for $80

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 19:35:11

The Google TV Streamer 4K is back on sale for just $80, which is a discount of 20 percent. The deal is available via Amazon, but also through retailers like Best Buy and Walmart. This beats a recent Prime Day promotion by $4. The TV Streamer 4K topped our list of the best streaming devices. It's a smartly-designed product that just works. We enjoyed the clean interface and the fantastic remote that ships with the device. The processor is speedy and this thing can stream content in 4K at 60FPS.

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ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that hack phones and encrypted apps

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Kirchgaessner 2025-10-28 19:12:13

US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications. The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was

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The repercussions of a typo in C++ & Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 18:22:01

The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust Copying vs Passing by reference TL;DR There’s a funny typo that causes someone to copy data instead of “referencing” in C++. Rust is nice because it provides defaults that protect you from some of these “dumb” mistakes. In this example, I’ll go over how the “move by default” can prevent us from introducing this subtle behavior. Motivation I originally hesitated to write this because I thought the topic was too “obvious”, but I did it a

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‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Will Arrive Just in Time for Halloween

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-28 19:30:20

We knew It: Welcome to Derry was arriving in October, but now we know exactly when to start looking for red balloons in the sky and paper boats in the sewer: October 26. Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs’ expansion of Stephen King’s haunted Maine town as seen in the recent It movies announced the news today with a suitably festive social media post: Everyone’s dying to see IT. #ITWelcomeToDerry premieres October 26 on HBO Max.pic.twitter.com/9HqODk9P1Q — IT: Welcome to Derry

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The Winklevoss Twins Are Eyeing $2.22 Billion Crypto IPO

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-28 19:30:35

The Winklevoss twins are aiming for a $2.22 billion IPO for their cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday. Crypto is having a moment thanks to the Trump administration’s lax regulatory policies. Meanwhile, the IPO market is heating up again with splashy debuts from other tech stocks like Chime and Figma. The two factors combined make for a particularly profitable environment for crypto-related stocks and IPOs. When it debuts, Gemini will become the t

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Stressed Ice Generates Electricity, Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-28 19:50:33

Don’t mess with ice. When it’s stressed, ice can get seriously sparky. Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice—the same substance found in iced coffee or the frosty sprinkle on mountaintops—is imbued with remarkable electromechanical properties. Ice is flexoelectric, so when it’s bent, stretched, or twisted, it can generate electricity, according to a Nature Physics paper published August 27. What’s more, ice’s peculiar electric properties appear to change with temperature, leading researc

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Sony WH-1000XM5 Deal: $100 Off Sony’s Last-Gen Flagships

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-28 18:52:00

Some people always want the newest version, but if you're willing to compromise a little, you can have Sony's noise-canceling WH-1000XM5 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) for just $300 from Amazon, a steep discount on their usual price. Even though their successor is available, they still offer an extremely good value and number among our favorite active noise-canceling headphones, particularly when you can save $100. For years now, Sony has been pumping out generation after generation of the WH-1000XM

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OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-28 19:02:08

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO to start in the executive role on August 18th. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it’s shuffl

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Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-28 19:49:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In July, Microsoft’s sweeping layoffs hit Xbox hard, and shuttered the entire game studio that was building Perfect Dark. Officially, the game was canceled. But unofficially, reports Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s other set of

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Anthropic raises $13 billion funding round at $183 billion valuation

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-28 22:53:45

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Anthropic on Tuesday announced it has closed a $13 billion funding round at a $183 billion post-money valuation, roughly triple what the artificial intelligence startup was worth as of its last raise in March. The most recent funding round was led by Iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors including Altimet

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Say goodbye to sharing Prime shipping perks with people outside your family

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:06:23

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Amazon will shut down the Prime Invitee program on October 1. Free Prime shipping perks can only be shared with people at the same address via Amazon Family. Invitees outside your household will need their own Prime membership going forward. Sharing online subscriptions used to be the norm, but in the last few years, we’ve seen various companies clamp down on it. Netflix was an early culprit, and Disney Plus followed, while others have been less gene

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Silksong: all of the updates about the Hollow Knight sequel

Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case

Tesla’s 4th ‘Master Plan’ reads like LLM-generated nonsense

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Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this October

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