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How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-09 20:53:44

Following Wednesday’s launch of Instagram’s new Snap Map-like opt-in “Instagram Map” feature — which lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content — Instagram head Adam Mosseri is having to reassure people that their location is only visible to others if they decide to share it. Although Meta has made it clear that location sharing is off by default, there have been numerous posts on social media urging users to turn off location sharing,

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Google Finance redesign goes all in on AI, complete with a chatbot

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 00:19:24

The Google Finance web app is getting a major overhaul with an emphasis on AI . This redesign includes an AI-powered chatbot, which will answer finance-based queries and provide relevant links. Here's hoping the chatbot will keep hallucinations to a minimum , given that people use the app to make financial decisions with real world consequences. The platform is also introducing new charting tools that the company says should help users understand asset performance. There will be options to view

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U.S. Judiciary confirms breach of court electronic records service

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 00:30:11

The U.S. Federal Judiciary confirms that it suffered a cyberattack on its electronic case management systems hosting confidential court documents and is strengthening cybersecurity measures. The organization stated that, while most documents in the system are public, certain sealed filings contain sensitive information that is now protected with stricter access controls aimed at blocking hackers. "The federal Judiciary is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case doc

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AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 23:57:06

Unless someone wrote an article about that exact thing, a plain full-text search engine cannot answer a question like this: What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? But ChatGPT got the correct answer in a few seconds. Flag of Dominica features the Sisserou parrot, which is only found in Dominica. Great Britain established a small colony on the island in 1805.

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GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding

news.ycombinator.com Eleanor Berger 2025-12-10 00:38:48

OpenAI released GPT-5 yesterday, promoting it as their best model yet for agentic coding. When it arrived in my GitHub Copilot this morning, I immediately decided to test it with a complex, long-running agentic coding task — and later gave the exact same task to Claude 4 Sonnet 4 for comparison. While this isn't a tightly controlled scientific comparison — more of a "vibe check" — both models impressed me with their results. It's worth noting that while Claude Sonnet has been established for co

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8 settings you should change on your Motorola phone to easily improve the battery life

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-10 05:22:00

Max Buondonno/ZDNET Google's Pixel phones aren't the only ones with battery-saving secrets to explore. Motorola offers almost as many features inside its menus. After three weeks with the Moto Razr Ultra and separately, the Moto G Stylus 2025, I discovered a handful of tweaks hiding in plain sight that you'll likely find on your Motorola device if you know where to look. 1. Battery Saver keeps the lights on when your gauge hits the red Jason Howell/ZDNET Battery anxiety is the worst, and Bat

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8 settings to change on your Google Pixel phone for significantly better battery life

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-10 05:33:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Pixel phones have an excellent reputation for smart software, but battery life has been a common complaint with Google's smartphones. Thankfully, that same smart software is now improving battery life and longevity, though many features aren't set up for maximum endurance out of the box. I've found that a handful of features can dramatically improve how long your Pixel lasts, both in a single day and over the long haul. Also: I've owned every Google Pixel flagship phone since t

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Show HN: Aha Domain Search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:21:25

Aha! Domain Search Find available .com domains using smart generation, AI-powered creativity, or quirky phonetic matching

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What Does Consulting Do?

news.ycombinator.com Gert Bijnens 2025-12-10 04:52:49

This paper provides the first systematic and comprehensive empirical study of management and strategy consulting. We unveil the workings of this opaque industry by drawing on universal administrative business-to-business transaction data based on value-added tax links from Belgium (2002-2023). These data permit us to document the nature of consulting engagements, take-up patterns, and the effects on client firms. We document that consulting take-up is concentrated among large, high-labor-product

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21 Best Festival Accessories and Gear (2025): The Essentials and the Fun Stuff

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-12-10 05:02:00

On Harm Reduction Photograph: The Bunk Police Regardless of your personal habits, drug use can be prevalent at festivals. It's important to know the location of medical tents, to pay attention to your surroundings, and to look out for your fellow festival attendees the way you'd want them to look out for you. I highly recommend getting trained in administering naloxone (Narcan). It prevents opioid overdose, and it's easy to obtain training and the medicine itself for cheap. I took mine throug

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What founders need to know before choosing their exit — straight from Jai Das and Roseanne Wincek — at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-12-10 05:30:00

Startups face more exit options — and more uncertainty — than ever before. That’s why we’re bringing this essential conversation to the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Whether you’re already eyeing a liquidity event or just starting to scale, this is your chance to hear what top VCs are looking for and how to set your company up for long-term success. Two of the best in the business — Roseanne Wincek of Renegade Partners an

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My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-10 10:16:40

GIMP / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I've been using image editors for a very long time. I've used them for article images, book covers, promos, flyers, and just about everything in between. Some might expect I'd be turning to an operating system like MacOS or Windows for image editing. But they'd be wrong. Linux has plenty of image editing tools, and although not all of them are created equal, each serves a worthwhile purpose. From my perspective, four image editors available for Linux are wor

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National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 10:55:43

The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers announced Thursday that it will conduct an independent, fast-track review of the latest climate science. It will do so with an eye to weighing in on the Trump administration’s planned repeal of the government’s 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health and the environment. The move by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to self-fund the study is a departure from their typical practice of respond

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Turn your AirPods Max into a masterpiece with Casetify’s new headphone wrap

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-10 10:54:13

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify’s new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a “silk-like te

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Complex Iterators Are Slow

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 22:46:28

Complex Iterators are Slow Thursday, 31 July 2025 Timi, my pure JavaScript B-Tree, achieves best in class iteration speed in part because I replaced Iterators with callbacks. They might be convenient, but the design of JavaScript Iterators is inherently slow for complex iteration as it prevents your compiler from inlining code. Inlining is when the call site of a function is replaced with its body to avoid the overhead of a function call. So, this: function add(a, b) { return a + b; } for (

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The Morning After: Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 02:15:03

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week’s SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta’s blog post, is to offer VR experiences “indistinguishable from the physical world” — something it says no present-day VR system has yet done. It wants to surpass what it terms the visual Turing test. “Our mission for this project was to provide the best image quality possible,” said Xuan Wang, an optical research scientist with Reality Lab

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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 22:43:28

An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university's network in May. Established in 1767 as King's College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over 20,000 employees, including 4,700 academic staff, and over 35,000 enrolled students across 19 schools and special programs. The

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How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable

news.ycombinator.com Guangxuan Xiao 2025-12-10 22:53:10

We discovered why language models catastrophically fail on long conversations: when old tokens are removed to save memory, models produce complete gibberish. We found models dump massive attention onto the first few tokens as "attention sinks"—places to park unused attention since softmax requires weights to sum to 1. Our solution, StreamingLLM, simply keeps these first 4 tokens permanently while sliding the window for everything else, enabling stable processing of 4 million+ tokens instead of j

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Window Activation

news.ycombinator.com Seth Richardson 2025-12-06 08:03:24

You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it needs to make use of the XDG Activation protocol. A KWrite window that failed to activate and instead is weeping bitterly for attention in the task bar In essence, an application ca

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I don't read your email threads

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 02:15:11

I Don't Read Your Email Threads 08 Aug, 2025 Email threads have got to be one of the worst possible forms of communication. You've been here before. A perfectly respectable morning is passing by. You're working through your items at a chipper pace maybe humming a song you heard on Spotify that morning. Then, the dreaded email thread comes through. Innocently, you click into the top email. The only text is "[Your Name] see below." I hate this and I bet you do too. Suddenly, you're transporte

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Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 02:41:04

This repo contains all files related to the flip-card project, which is a business card that runs a fluid-implicit-particle(FLIP) simulation. The PCB design files are in the "kicad-pcb" folder. The flip-card project is inspired by mitxela's fluid simulation pendant project https://mitxela.com/projects/fluid-pendant The fluid simulation logic is contained in a standalone crate, which is in the "fluid_sim_crate" folder. This is based off the work by Matthias Müller (https://github.com/matthias-r

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iOS 26: Friends Can't Decide What to Eat? Here's How to Create a Poll in Messages

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 00:00:03

Apple released the second public beta of iOS 26 on Aug. 7, and the beta brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more features to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. It also introduced a host of new features to Messages. One of the more useful features is the ability to create a poll in the messaging app. Group chats can be chaotic, and sometimes it feels like only a few people are talking. Creating a poll in a group chat is a nice way to let everyone voice their opinion on

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Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-10 22:15:40

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue. Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming t

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Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-10 23:58:20

Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store 3 hours ago Share Save Adam Hancock Business reporter Share Save Reuters A life-size humanoid replica of Albert Einstein at the store A new robot shop has opened in Beijing selling everything from mechanical butlers to human-like replicas of Albert Einstein. More than 100 types of products will be on sale at Robot Mall, which launched in the Chinese capital on Friday. The store is one of the first in the country to sell humanoid

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A love letter to my future employer (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 02:01:30

I didn’t expect the be confronted with it so soon, but week four of the Makers pre-course has guided me down the path of starting the first draft of my CV. I wasn’t ready for this. All the underlying thoughts I have had about myself and my abilities have been strapped to a Saturn V rocket and blasted into the forefront of my mind. I know this is Becky talking, but there is a huge part of Charlotte that agrees with her. Who the hell would ever want to hire me? For the majority of people who do

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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 09:53:15

With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party distribution. I assume there will be a renaissance of Postgres storage engines. To date, the efforts are nascent. OrioleDB and Citus Columnar are two promising third-party table access methods being actively developed. Why

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Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-10 09:30:00

In July, Siyan, a UK-based Discord user, logged on one morning and found himself unable to access some of his text chats marked NSFW. The channel, a popup informed him, was now age-restricted. The United Kingdom had enacted its far reaching child safety laws, which includes an age requirement system to verify users are over 18. Discord’s updates required users to verify their age, either by government ID or a face scan. Siyan (who requested to only be referred to by his screen name for privacy

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OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-10 23:23:15

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company’s Slack. “As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market,” wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a “special one-time award” to researchers and software engine

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Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-11 00:12:04

The launch of an Instagram feature that details users' geolocation data illicited backlash from social media users on Thursday. Meta debuted the Instagram Map tool on Wednesday, pitching the feature as way to "stay up-to-date with friends" by letting users share their "last active location." The tool is akin to Snapchat's Snap Map feature that lets people see where their friends are posting from. Although Meta said in a blog post that the feature's "location sharing is off unless you opt in,"

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Black Hat 2025: Why your AI tools are becoming the next insider threat

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-10 23:35:56

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 Cloud intrusions increased by 136% in the past six months. North Korean operatives infiltrated 320 companies using AI-generated identities. Scattered Spider now deploys ransomware in under 24 hours. However, at Black Hat 2025, the security industry demonstrated that it finally has an answer that works: agentic AI, delivering measurable resu

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Latest Tech News

How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

Google Finance redesign goes all in on AI, complete with a chatbot

U.S. Judiciary confirms breach of court electronic records service

AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing

GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding

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8 settings to change on your Google Pixel phone for significantly better battery life

Show HN: Aha Domain Search

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My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives

National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment

Turn your AirPods Max into a masterpiece with Casetify’s new headphone wrap

Complex Iterators Are Slow

The Morning After: Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes

Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable

Window Activation

I don't read your email threads

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation

iOS 26: Friends Can't Decide What to Eat? Here's How to Create a Poll in Messages

Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store

A love letter to my future employer (2020)

Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023)

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?

OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

Instagram's map feature spurs user backlash over geolocation privacy concerns

Black Hat 2025: Why your AI tools are becoming the next insider threat

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