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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-12 06:45:53

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After nearly everyone working on the Nova Launcher, one of the most recognizable names in Android launchers, was laid off last year, founder Kevin Barry, Nova’s sole remaining developer, said this weekend that he has left Nova’s parent company after being asked to stop working on the launcher and an effort to open-source it. Nova Launcher’s website currently shows a 404 er

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre, or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-12 03:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audiobooks and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, inclu

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StubHub aims to raise up to $9.2 billion in IPO, pricing at $22 to $25 per share

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-12 14:02:18

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in its initial public offering, giving it a valuation of up to $9.2 billion, the company revealed in a new filing on Monday. The ticket reselling marketplace plans to sell more than 34 million shares priced between $22 and $25 per share, according to the filing. The long-awaited IPO comes after StubHub hit pause on the process in April as the stock market was reeling from Presiden

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Here’s when the Nothing Ear (3) will launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 14:02:18

TL;DR Nothing has revealed the launch date for the Ear (3). The company’s flagship TWS earbuds will be unveiled on September 18. In a social media post, the firm provided another teaser of the design. Nothing ended last week with a teaser revealing that it plans to launch the Nothing Ear (3) soon. No other details were given, so it was anyone’s guess as to how soon “soon” would actually be. But we now have a definitive answer to that question. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authori

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Apple Gets Hit With AI Copyright Lawsuit Days Before iPhone 17 Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 14:10:00

Two authors, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, are suing Apple, alleging the company violated their copyright protections and illegally acquired and used their books to train its AI, according to a complaint filed Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. The authors claim Apple used a software program called Applebot to scrape data from "shadow libraries" such as Books3. The authors' novels were included in the pirated library and thus used to

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Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-12 18:50:40

Spotify is giving users more ways to personalize what they hear. The company is launching a new feature that allows users to filter their library by specific activities, moods, or genres. These filters can also be used to find playlists, or, to some extent, audio books and podcasts, and can even kick off a new session on Spotify’s AI DJ. The smart filters, which began rolling out on Friday, will first be made available to Premium subscribers on mobile devices and tablets in select markets, incl

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones will get a 2nd-gen update next month

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-12 22:09:05

The popular Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones already got one update back in the summer, but the company has now announced a bigger deserving of a 2nd-generation label … Back in June, the company jumped on the AI bandwagon with what it described as enhanced adaptive noise cancellation. It also claimed better call quality and wireless charging capabilities. Those improvements weren’t enough to see it become an official second-generation model, but Engadget reports that’s what the company will

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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

news.ycombinator.com Jon Swaine 2025-10-12 21:59:28

At her home in western Germany, a woman told a team of visiting researchers from Meta that she did not allow her sons to interact with strangers on the social media giant’s virtual reality headsets. Then her teenage son interjected, according to two of the researchers: He frequently encountered strangers, and adults had sexually propositioned his little brother, who was younger than 10, numerous times. “I felt this deep sadness watching the mother’s response,” one of the researchers, Jason Satt

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InDrive has big plans to become a global ‘super app’ where others have failed

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-13 08:00:00

InDrive, known for its bidding-based ride-hailing model across Asia and Latin America, is rolling out a “super-app” strategy aimed at frontier markets — expanding beyond cabs to deliver daily essentials to its users. Beginning with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan, InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Pakistan, Peru, and Mexico. The shift comes on the heels of more than 360 million app downloads and 6.

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Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-10-13 02:50:30

Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in Bukit Panjang, and his father, Sim Chye Thiam, was a factory worker while his mother, Tan Siok Kee, raised chickens, ducks, pigs, and rabbits, and grew fruits and herbs. The young Sim had chores aroun

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This pettable Poké Ball is a Tamagotchi-style toy with over 150 Pokémon inside and I need it now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:50:47

Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy is releasing a Poké Ball virtual pet toy so you can fulfill your dreams of carrying your favorite Pokémon around with you everywhere. I don't know how this one slid under my radar when it was announced at the end of August (perhaps because all my attention has been on Tamagotchi Paradise ) but now that I've seen it, I must have it. While it appears to be a Japan-only release, the product page shows it will have an English language option in the menu. Pre-orders are

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Way to Address Product Design Failure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 14:59:15

We live in an age of shitty product design and no customer support. Stuff breaks because it's poorly made, and then you have no recourse but to throw it into the trash, because it's unrepairable. If you try to get someone on the line, it's endless sub-menus before you finally get a live person overseas, who struggles with the language and has not been empowered by their bosses to actually solve your problem. Here, however, we have a product design failure that was handled masterfully. I think

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Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie

news.ycombinator.com Ben Leighton 2025-10-09 23:46:10

Unfortunately, as smart phone technology progressed and Japan’s demographic shifted to an elderly population, Purikura’s popularity waned. Between 2007 and 2017, annual sales fell about 30.7 billion yen. While they may have seen their golden age come and go, the booths remain popular all over Japan - and with one survey suggesting that over 90% of Japanese people have tried Purikura at least once, they don’t look like they’re going away any time soon.

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Apple faces lawsuit over alleged use of pirated books for AI training

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 03:00:16

Two authors have filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their books to train its artificial intelligence model without their consent. The plaintiffs, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, claimed that Apple used a dataset of pirated copyrighted books that include their works for AI training. They said in their complaint that Applebot, the company's scraper, can "reach 'shadow libraries'" made up of unlicensed copyrighted books, including (on

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996

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:20:57

996 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week […] if you want to build a $10 billion company, you have to work seven days a week.” — Harry Stebbings I love work. I love working late nights, hacking on things. This week I didn’t go to sleep before midnight once. And yet… I also love my wife

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Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-13 01:02:36

Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are simply watered-down versions of promises he’s spent years making about the company. That’s not the picture Tesla’s board of directors paints in the company’s annual proxy statement, where they revealed the proposed pay package. Instead, the board focuses on how it plans to create “the most valuable company in history.” To be sure, if Tesla accomplishes all tha

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Tesla's board to Elon Musk: Hit these milestones, and we'll make you a trillionaire

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 14:09:14

It's September 2025, and things are looking peachy keen. Sure, the US job market has taken a nosedive. And yeah, only one in four Americans believes they have a good chance of improving their standard of living. But hey, Tesla's board has proposed a pay package that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. What really matters is that someone is having a good time, right? Tesla's board laid out what's by far the biggest CEO compensation package in history on Friday. It reads like the

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Mac Clones History: A Tale of Poor Margins and Bad Timing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 00:40:02

Today in Tedium: Imagine my shock recently when I realized that, I—the guy who has covered Apple-specific angles as esoteric as Novell’s attempt to bring MacOS to the PC—have never written a full story about Mac clones. My archive is packed with pieces about Imagine my shock recently when I realized that, I—the guy who has covered Apple-specific angles as esoteric as Novell’s attempt to bring MacOS to the PC—have never written a full story about Mac clones. My archive is packed with pieces about

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

news.ycombinator.com Cade Metz 2025-10-13 02:52:45

In 2024, three book authors, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, sued Anthropic, accusing the start-up of illegally using their work to train its A.I. models. The suit is among the four dozen cases that copyright holders have brought against A.I. companies. Some have been dismissed by the courts. Companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft need enormous amounts of digital data, some of which is copyrighted, to build its A.I. models. The companies have long claimed t

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Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-13 18:19:21

In this article NVDA AVGO AAPL TSLA GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai meets with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on February 13, 2025. Klaudia Radecka | Nurphoto | Getty Images From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors. The resolution of Google's antitrust case led to sharp rallies for Alphabet and Apple . Broadcom shareholders cheered a new $10 billion cust

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How to Spot (and Fix) 5 Common Performance Bottlenecks in Pandas Workflows

news.ycombinator.com Jamil Semaan 2025-10-10 17:39:47

Slow data loads, memory-intensive joins, and long-running operations—these are problems every Python practitioner has faced. They waste valuable time and make iterating on your ideas harder than it should be. This post walks through five common pandas bottlenecks, how to recognize them, and some workarounds you can try on CPU with a few tweaks to your code—plus a GPU-powered drop-in accelerator, cudf.pandas, that delivers order-of-magnitude speedups with no code changes. Don’t have a GPU on yo

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OpenAI Spends $10 Billion to Get Into the Chip Business

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-13 18:40:31

OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and ru

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Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:34:37

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity game-changer." However, going by the 52-second clip, the carmaker has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs. Is this really what will make up a whopping 80 percent of Tesla's value, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a tweet earlier this week? In an

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OpenAI Wants You to Get a Certificate in ChatGPT and Find Your Next Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 20:52:46

It's not quite getting a college degree in ChatGPT, but it's close. OpenAI said this week it is launching an AI-powered jobs platform and a new certification program offered through its OpenAI Academy. The OpenAI Jobs Platform, expected to launch in 2026, will use AI to connect candidates with employers. The company says the system is designed to better align worker skills with business needs, potentially putting it in direct competition with Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. Alongside the hiring plat

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-13 22:27:47

Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company announced on Friday. On a message published on its website, the startup behind Dot, New Computer, said that the product will remain operational until October 5, giving users time to download their data. Launched in 2024 by co-founders Sam Whitmore and former Apple designer Jason Yuan, Dot waded into what’s now become a more controversial area for AI chatbots. The app they created was described as an

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Roblox announces short-video, AI features amid child safety concerns

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-14 06:39:23

Roblox on Friday announced new short-video and AI features that come amid increasing lawmaker scrutiny into how the company protects children on its platform. With Roblox Moments, users 13 and older will be able to create and share video clips of their gameplay with others on a feed within the platform. The artificial intelligence additions, meanwhile, will allow users to generate advanced 3D objects for the games they create on the platform. Tune in at 4:15 p.m. ET: Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki j

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Amazon’s ‘Neflix for AI’ Plans to ‘Reconstruct’ Lost Orson Welles Film With Slop

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-14 06:50:00

Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons has a complicated legacy—both considered one of the greatest films of all time and a complete mess that saw the iconic director’s vision stifled by his studio and the original cut destroyed. Somehow, the AI guys have decided that’s their signal to get involved. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an Amazon-backed generative AI company called Showrunner, the creators of a streaming service that lets subscribers create their own episodes of shows

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Tesla’s ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-14 06:00:46

Tesla spent $400,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in 2024, according to a new regulatory filing. But the automaker appears to be on track to spend just a fraction of that in 2025 as sales have struggled. In the first two months of 2025, Tesla spent $10,000 on X ads, putting it on track to spend only $60,000 annually unless it radically increases its advertising for the remainder of the year. During the same time period last year, it had already spent $200,000 on X, Tesla d

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Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 09:40:07

Tesla's board has proposed an unprecedented pay package for its CEO Elon Musk: around $1 trillion worth of shares, Bloomberg reports. It's a major escalation in the firm's increasingly desperate attempts to encourage its highly divisive leader to stick around and stay attentive. That's despite Tesla's core business imploding over the past year, largely the result of Musk's alienating behavior and surging international competition. "Simply put, retaining and incentivizing Elon is fundamental to

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X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn’t trust it yet

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-14 10:04:03

X, formerly Twitter, has started rolling out its new encrypted messaging feature called “Chat” or “XChat.” The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read by the sender and their receiver, and — in theory — no one else, including X, can access them. Cryptography experts, however, are warning that X’s current implementation of encryption in XChat should not be trusted. They’re saying it’s far worse than Signal, a techno

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Nova Launcher’s founder and sole developer has left

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StubHub aims to raise up to $9.2 billion in IPO, pricing at $22 to $25 per share

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Apple Gets Hit With AI Copyright Lawsuit Days Before iPhone 17 Event

Spotify’s new ‘smart filters’ let you screen library content by activity, genre or mood

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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

InDrive has big plans to become a global ‘super app’ where others have failed

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Way to Address Product Design Failure

Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie

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996

Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises

Tesla's board to Elon Musk: Hit these milestones, and we'll make you a trillionaire

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Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap

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Tesla Announces Plans to Give Elon Musk $1 Trillion

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