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Elon Musk’s X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-09 02:25:22

More than two years after leaving the company, some former Twitter employees may finally receive their severance pay. Elon Musk’s X is tentatively settling a class action lawsuit filed by workers who were let go soon after he purchased Twitter. This news comes in the form of a court filing where both parties asked the court to delay an upcoming hearing so that they could work out a deal. After buying Twitter in 2022, Musk laid off over 6,000 Twitter employees, reducing the company’s headcount

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Cybertruck Owners Sue Over Expensive Upgrade

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-09 06:43:14

Once again, Tesla owners are coming for Elon Musk. The much-hyped electric car company is now facing a class-action lawsuit over claims that it did not deliver some Foundation Series Cybertrucks with requested roof-mounted LED off-road light bars, despite promotional promises. It seeks to represent all California buyers of the Foundation Series who were promised the off-road light bar but did not receive one. You can read the entirety of the lawsuit here. The suit was filed by plaintiff Eric

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A summary of recent AI research (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hearn 2025-11-09 15:47:42

Story comprehension The robots of Westworld are not programmed solely by software developers. The bulk of the work is done by professional writers, who give each character a unique backstory. These stories give them the memories and depth they need to seem real to the park guests. When asked who they are, what they’ve done or why they feel a certain way, they can consult their backstory to find out the answer. Being able to answer questions about stories is a fundamental requirement for being

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95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Flynn 2025-11-09 15:36:24

Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business return. A new study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprise organizations report zero measurable gains from the adoption of AI tools. Only a small group has seen strong benefits. “Just five percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value,” the report said. In contrast, the v

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Elon Musk Slapped With Major New Complication

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-09 16:17:33

The reigning king of controversy has just found himself saddled with one more expensive problem. A U.S. District Court judge in Texas has ordered Elon Musk to continue a lawsuit filed by voters who gave up personal information in exchange for winning a $1 million daily cash prize from Musk’s PAC, Reuters reports. The case says the contest constitutes a form of illegal lottery or sweepstakes, which is prohibited under federal and state law, and misled people into sharing personal information th

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Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-09 21:58:43

No one stays on top forever. It’s a lesson that Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk may be painfully learning about. The Danish pharmaceutical company has enacted a hiring freeze—the latest sign of a sinking financial outlook for the once-titan of the obesity treatment world. Reuters reported on the hiring freeze Wednesday. The company has faced numerous setbacks in recent months, including billions shaved off its stock market value and continued competition from cheaper, compounded versions of its bloc

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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

news.ycombinator.com Simon Sharwood 2025-11-10 05:53:16

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS’s Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered business leaders who think AI tools "can replace all of our junior people in our company." That notion led to the “dumbest thing I've ever heard” quote, followed by a justification that junior staf

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Alaska Air will offer Starlink in-flight internet starting next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:00:23

In-flight internet is crappy, but more and more airlines think that Starlink is the solution. The latest company to sign with the SpaceX affiliate is Alaska Air Group, which announced that it will start offering Starlink Wi-Fi next year and expand the service to its entire fleet by 2027. "With Starlink already live on [Alaska Air Group subsidiary] Hawaiian Airlines, we're proud that we'll offer... gate-to-gate connectivity on nearly every aircraft across both airlines," CEO Ben Minicucci said in

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On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop

technologyreview.com Charlie Metcalfe 2025-11-10 20:00:00

Supported by Kutkov’s technical expertise and Stepanets’s organizational prowess, Kovalskyy’s warehouse became the major repair hub (though other volunteers also make repairs elsewhere). Over time, Kovalskyy—who co-owned a regional internet service provider before the war—and his crew have learned to perform adjustments to Starlink terminals, especially to adapt them for battlefield conditions. For example, they modified them to receive charge at the right voltage directly from vehicles, years b

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Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

news.ycombinator.com Pesala Bandara 2025-11-10 04:23:19

A customer has sued Home Depot, claiming the retail giant has been secretly using facial recognition technology on customers with cameras placed at self-checkout kiosks. Earlier this month, Benjamin Jankowski, a frequent Home Depot shopper, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company. He claims the retailer’s self-checkout kiosks use facial recognition technology that scans and collects people’s facial details without their permission. In the lawsuit, Jankowski says cameras at th

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Best Standing Desks of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 06:42:00

What I like: When cable organization is the goal, the Autonomous SmartDesk 5 Pro is the desk. All of the cable management items, like a 3M cable organizer, cable management tray and magnetized cable runner, come included with the desk. With all the cables managed and out of the way, you have a lot of desktop space to play with. The SmartDesk 5 Pro is an electric motor desk that is quiet, quick and very easy to use and has three memory options. When you're choosing your heights and free-adjusti

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SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:31:33

For the first time in more than three decades, Samsung Electronics has been unseated as the world’s top DRAM maker, with SK hynix seizing the crown on the strength of booming demand for AI memory chips and an exclusive supply deal with Nvidia.Samsung Electronics’ global DRAM market share fell by 8.8 percentage points over the past six months — its sharpest decline since the company began disclosing the figure in 1999.According to its semiannual report released on Thursday, Samsung’s DRAM market

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Understanding Moravec's Paradox

news.ycombinator.com Morgan Howells 2025-11-07 11:36:51

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

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Introduction to AT Protocol

news.ycombinator.com Kuba Suder 2025-11-11 09:13:09

Some time ago I wrote a long blog post I called “Complete guide to Bluesky”, which explains how all the user-facing features of Bluesky work and various tips and tricks. This one is meant to be a bit like a developer version of that – I want to explain in hopefully understandable language what all the pieces of the network architecture are and how they all fit together. I hope this will let you understand better how Bluesky and the underlying protocol works, and how it differs from e.g. the Fedi

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Skill issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and its discontents (2024)

news.ycombinator.com B.D. Mcclay 2025-11-10 17:57:09

When Marsha Linehan was seventeen, she developed terrible headaches. The family doctor didn’t seem to know what was causing them, so Linehan saw a psychiatrist, who recommended a two-week inpatient “diagnostic evaluation” at the Institute of Living, a private mental hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. A few days later she was cutting herself with the smashed lenses of her glasses. The staff psychiatrists moved her to a ward for “the most disturbed patients” where nurses stripped her naked, wrappe

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CodeSignal’s new AI tutoring app Cosmo wants to be the ‘Duolingo for job skills’

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-11 20:26:57

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 CodeSignal Inc., the San Francisco-based skills assessment platform trusted by Netflix, Meta, and Capital One, launched Cosmo on Wednesday, a mobile learning application that transforms spare minutes into career-ready skills through artificial intelligence-powered micro-courses. The app represents a strategic pivot for CodeSignal, which bu

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Sketch update brings Liquid Glass effects, macOS 26 and iOS 26 libraries, more

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-11 21:53:48

Sketch is out with a new update today featuring support for Liquid Glass-like effects, complete with blur, distortion, depth, and chromatic aberration controls. Here’s what it looks like. New glass effects feature a full set of custom controls Although Sketch is still working on its macOS Tahoe 26 redesign, the company is releasing Barcelona, its second 2025 update. Alongside styling, libraries and components, and performance improvements, Sketch Barcelona (2025.2.1) brings a new glass effect

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Introduction to Bluesky's AT Protocol

news.ycombinator.com Kuba Suder 2025-11-11 21:13:09

Some time ago I wrote a long blog post I called “Complete guide to Bluesky”, which explains how all the user-facing features of Bluesky work and various tips and tricks. This one is meant to be a bit like a developer version of that – I want to explain in hopefully understandable language what all the pieces of the network architecture are and how they all fit together. I hope this will let you understand better how Bluesky and the underlying protocol works, and how it differs from e.g. the Fedi

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See Six Planets Line Up in the Last Planet Parade For Three Years

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 18:45:00

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, occur occasionally with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. This one features six of our closest celestial neighbors. The main event started on Tuesday and you should still be able to see them through Thursday or so. There won't be a repeat performance until October of 2028. T

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One of our favorite air fryers is on sale for $90

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 21:00:00

The COSORI 9-in-1 air fryer is on sale for $90, cutting 25 percent off the retail price. Whether you've stumbled upon air fryers for health reasons , convenience or you're already a card-carrying member of the air fryer clan, a sale is a great time to pick one up. We selected the COSORI as the runner-up for best air fryer overall , and were impressed with its six-quart capacity despite its relatively small footprint on the kitchen counter. Our reviewers found the basket was super roomy enough t

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Google says Steph Curry will use its AI to get better at basketball

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 21:15:32

Google has announced a multi-year partnership with Steph Curry at its Made by Google event, and as part of that team-up, it says the NBA superstar will use AI from Google Cloud to improve his performance on the court. Yep, the company is claiming that Google Cloud AI can help the four-time NBA champ, two-time MVP and two-time scoring champion get even better at basketball. According to the company, AI insights can analyze his shot quality as well as sharpen his workout plans. Google's AI Basketb

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Elon Musk Randomly Drops in on Small Town; Reminds Everyone He Is Still Canadian

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-12 23:00:34

British Columbia and a tiny fishing village is now atwitter after the world’s wealthiest man made an unannounced appearance over the weekend. Elon Musk, the controversial and now apparently political CEO of Tesla and X, touched down in Bella Bella—an isolated town nestled in the Great Bear Rainforest—before departing again by helicopter. His visit to the town with approximately 1,500 residents was a surprise. Local resident Seán Carter told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the area

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11 Years Later, Elon Musk Is Floating the Flying Car Scam Again

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-13 06:55:26

“Maybe we’ll make a flying car, just for fun,” Elon Musk told the Independent back in 2014. The news outlet insisted at the time that Musk wasn’t joking and that he should be taken seriously, given his success with other companies like PayPal. At the time, the Tesla CEO was worth a measly $8.4 billion according to Forbes, a fraction of the $413 billion he currently holds on paper. But when a billionaire CEO says he’s going to do something, you’re supposed to hear him out. “We could definitely

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Best Sunscreens for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 16:29:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. The hottest days of the year are upon us, and while outdoor summer activities are fun, you should know that prolonged sun exposure and ultraviolet rays can cause premature aging, sunburn and even skin cancer, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation -- and that's true all year round. Using sunscreen is one of the best ways to prot

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See Six Planets Line Up in the Upcoming Planet Parade Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 17:50:00

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, only occur about once or twice a year, with the most recent one in February showing off all seven planets in our solar system at once. The next one will feature six of our closest celestial neighbors, and the event starts on Tuesday. The six planets sharing the sky will be Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Mars

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Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-14 16:50:30

Some of the most physically fit people in the world may have a unique health risk. New research uncovers a possible link between marathon running and colorectal cancer. Oncologists at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia conducted the study, which examined the colons of relatively young people who had run several long-distance races. They found these runners had a much higher rate of having potentially dangerous adenomas (a type of polyp) than would be expected for their age. Though the

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Radio Astronomers Find Weird Object in Nearby Galaxy That Stands Out Against the Entire Sky

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-15 02:07:07

"Punctum" may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile's Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany's Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her colleagues detected in a nearby galaxy. As Shablovinskaya explains, she and her colleagues at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submilli

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New York City Is Stuck With a $45 Million EV Fleet That’s Glitchy as Hell

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-15 06:50:14

There’s going green for the sake of the planet, and then there’s going green as part of a policy initiative that winds up buying a bunch of glitch-plagued electric vehicles from a company that went bankrupt and can no longer service them. The latter is the exact story of a New York-based company called American Lease, which has spent around $45 million for 2,800 cars from Fisker, a now-dead EV startup that only made 11,000 of that model in its short life anyway, and is now using them as part of

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5 ways automation can speed up your daily workflow - and implementation is easy

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-15 16:53:55

Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Automation can help ease the strain of a busy day. There are specific tools and features available for automation. Some tools do have a steep learning curve. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Every day, you perform repetitive tasks that can often take more of your precious time than you want. This has become especially important as our days get filled with more an

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Tesla Making Yet Another Desperate Move in Europe

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-15 21:00:52

Tesla has been struggling in Europe, where its sales are down across the continent. In the United Kingdom, the company’s sales reportedly dropped 60 percent last month. With those cratering numbers, the EV firm appears to have made another, shall we say, incredibly generous offer to locals, as the company continues to combat lagging sales. British newspaper The Times reports that Tesla has nearly halved the monthly cost of leasing one of its cars in the U.K. Elon Musk’s company has been “forced

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