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The World’s First Commercial Spaceplane Won’t Be Launching Anytime Soon

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-24 21:35:40

The highly anticipated launch of the Dream Chaser spaceplane may be delayed yet again as Sierra Space continues to test its experimental vehicle. The inaugural Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, is slated for a launch date in 2025. However, recent comments by a NASA official revealed that there’s a lot more work to be done before the spaceplane is ready to fly to the International Space Station and that it’s highly unlikely to meet its deadline. “We still have some of our integrated safety reviews

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Play Assassin's Creed, Aliens and More on Xbox Game Pass Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 20:30:49

The Assassin's Creed franchise is one of the biggest series in gaming today. Ubisoft, the series' publisher, said in 2023 that it has sold over 155 million copies of Assassin's Creed games, making it one of the bestselling franchises in history. Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play one of the most recent entries in the series, Assassin's Creed: Mirage, on Aug. 7. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S

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Analysis: The Trump administration’s assault on climate action

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 21:49:09

Last week, the EPA made lots of headlines by rejecting the document that establishes its ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that are warming our climate. While the legal assault on regulations grabbed most of the attention, it was paired with two other actions that targeted other aspects of climate change: the science underlying our current understanding of the dramatic warming the Earth is experiencing, and the renewable energy that represents our best chance of limiting this warming. Co

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Apple Watch Ultra 3’s larger screen size leaks in new iOS 26 beta

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-25 02:46:04

Apple Watch Ultra 3 is coming very soon, and an image discovered in the new iOS 26 beta just revealed that a larger screen is apparently on the way. New Apple Watch Ultra 3 display resolution discovered in iOS 26 Aaron Perris posted on X today about his discovery of a new image in iOS 26 beta 5 that seems to be connected to the forthcoming Apple Watch Ultra 3. The Apple Watch image has a display resolution of 422 x 514, a slight bump from current Apple Watch Ultra models’ 410 x 502 dimensions

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Why I'll keep the Samsung Z Fold 7 over the Pixel 10 Pro Fold - especially if these rumors are true

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-25 02:42:00

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is expected to launch on August 20, but it might not go on sale till October 9. It will be difficult for Google to beat Samsung in the foldable segment this year due to design differences. Unless there's an actually useful AI feature or significantly better battery life, I'll stick with my Galaxy Z Fold 7. Samsung turned around its foldable phone lineup at its Galaxy Unpacked event last month. After years of iterative u

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GitHub pull requests were down

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 22:44:09

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Tesla and Elon Musk Sued by Shareholders Who Say Robotaxis Violate Traffic Laws

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-25 02:25:50

Tesla shareholders filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against both the EV company and CEO Elon Musk, alleging they made “materially false and misleading statements” about the safety of their robotaxis and the regulatory scrutiny that comes with launching autonomous vehicles. Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on June 22, but there’s a human “safety monitor” in the passenger seat, and the robotic vehicles are geofenced to a relatively small area in the city. Despite the p

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Ray-Ban Meta stealth stickers go viral but fail to beat safeguards

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:08:51

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A TikTok seller is promoting vinyl “Ghost Dots” that claim to block the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Meta’s glasses disable photo and video recording when the light is blocked, and comments suggest the stickers don’t work. TikTok briefly removed the product, but it’s already back on sale. Anyone talking to a Ray-Ban Meta wearer probably wants to know if they’re being recorded, which is why the tech giant added a recording light to it

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Everything new in iOS 26 beta 5

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-25 06:49:38

iOS 26 beta 5 is out now for iPhones on the developer beta release cycle. Below we’re collecting all of the iOS 26 beta 5 changes compared to the previous version. iOS 26 beta 5 changes The first thing we noticed in iOS 26 beta 5 is a bouncy new animation when the Lock Screen before entering your passcode or unlocking with Face ID or Touch ID. The new beta also introduces a lot of splash screens for Apple’s built-in apps that will appear upon first launch after updating to iOS 26. Unlike iOS

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Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:53:08

Motorola and Swarovski are teaming up to create the crossover they knew we always wanted: a crystal-laden edition of the Razr . For those who just felt that their retro cell phone wasn’t special enough, the fancy new Pantone Ice Melt Razr features a 3D quilted leather-inspired finish with 35 hand-positioned Swarovski crystals, including one larger, 26-facet crystal on the hinge. The Pantone Ice Melt will cost a cool $1,000, though it will include a pair of the Moto Buds Loop . These open-ear bu

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I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it made my $3,000 Windows laptop look bad

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-25 06:09:00

Dell Premium 16 ZDNET's key takeaways The Dell Premium 16 starts at $1,800. This is a premium laptop capable of handling heavy workloads, especially graphic design, thanks to its top-notch hardware. However, it does share some of the same issues as its predecessor, like its tendency to run warm and power-hungry battery. View now at Dell I've been dying to get my hands on the new Dell Premium 16, mainly because it is a follow-up to the Dell XPS 16, a laptop that I reviewed back in early 2024 a

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Show HN: Whittle – A Shrinking Word Game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:39:26

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Democrats ask how Trump’s government will regulate Trump Mobile

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-12-25 04:03:05

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. When a Trump-branded phone on a Trump-branded mobile network launches sometime this year (if all goes according to plan), US regulators will face what’s become a recurring conundrum in Donald Trump’s presidency: how to regulate a product with ties to the head of state. Six Democra

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Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.1 with improved software engineering accuracy

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-25 11:43:53

In May, AI firm Anthropic introduced its Claude 4 family of models with a focus on improvements to coding, reasoning, and following instructions. Three months later, Anthropic is back with Claude Opus 4.1, which it says upgrades “agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.” Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.1 improves software engineering accuracy to 74.5%. That compares to 62.3% with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 72.5% with Claude Opus 4. More specifically, the updated model is better at “in-depth res

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Illinois Bans AI From Providing Therapy

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-25 11:00:04

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed, on Friday, a new measure that bans AI from acting as a therapist or counselor and limits its use to strictly administrative or support roles. The Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act comes as states and federal regulators are starting to grapple with how to protect patients from the growing and mostly unregulated use of AI in health care. The new law prohibits individuals and businesses from advertising or offering any therapy services, i

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Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-25 11:00:00

On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and cost-effective. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in San Francisco’s SOMA district, more than 200 people gathered to mourn its passing. The star-studded funeral was put on by a group of Claude fanatics and Gen Z founders, one of whom told me he dropped out of college after learning about artificial general intelligence. Attendees included Amanda Askell, an Anthropic researcher who has jokingl

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Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-25 11:33:03

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on b

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Spotify customers in the US now have access to a lot more audiobook listening time

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-25 16:40:55

Spotify has been gradually rolling out its Audiobooks+ service around the world, and today it has reached subscribers in the United States. After testing the Audiobooks+ service in Canada and Ireland, Spotify began expanding it to additional markets in July. The expanded audiobook streaming service reached the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein on July 17. As of today, Spotify Premium customers in the U.S

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Perplexity is sneaking onto websites to scrape blocked content, says Cloudflare

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-25 16:42:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Cloudflare claimed Perplexity ignores websites' wishes in its content hunt. Cloudflare said other AI companies, such as OpenAI, don't wipe content. Cloudflare now offers services to block aggressive AI crawlers. Cloudflare, a leading content delivery network (CDN) company, has accused the AI startup Perplexity of evading websites' "no crawl" directives by stealthily deploying web crawlers to scrape content from sites that have explicitly bl

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GitHub is having an ongoing incident with loading pull requests

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 16:44:09

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ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-25 16:10:35

The AI audio-generation unicorn ElevenLabs announced a new model on Tuesday that allows users to generate music, which it claims is cleared for commercial use. This move marks ElevenLabs’ expansion beyond its main focus thus far in its three years of existence, which has been building AI audio tools. ElevenLabs is a leader among companies making text-to-speech AI products, and it has expanded into conversational bots and tools that translate speech into other languages. Alongside the launch, E

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The next Apple TV+ winning comedy has arrived, with a familiar star

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-25 21:00:25

Apple TV+ is having its best year ever, and that’s arguably true for comedies too. The streamer has been on a hot streak with acclaimed comedies like The Studio, Stick, and Mythic Quest. And now one returning Apple TV+ series—Platonic—sounds like it’s delivered the goods with season 2’s new batch of episodes. Platonic season 2 is ‘one of the year’s best’ comedies Earlier this year, The Studio arrived starring Seth Rogen, and instantly won over both critics and viewers. Now, Rogen is back in an

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New Apple TV 4K launch timing corroborated by second source

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-25 21:50:47

We’ve long been expecting new Apple TV 4K hardware to launch soon, but now that seems more likely than ever thanks to a new corroborating report. Apple could launch new Apple TV 4K as early as September Hartley Charlton writes at MacRumors: Apple is still on track to release a new Apple TV model later this year, according to a reliable source speaking to MacRumors. According to a source familiar with the company’s plans, Apple is highly likely to replace the current ‌Apple TV‌ 4K with a new m

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Spotify's premium audiobook feature launches in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-25 21:00:10

After trialing the service in Ireland and Canada last month, Spotify has officially launched its Audiobooks+ service in the US, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. An add-on available to Spotify Premium members, as well as individual users on Family and Duo plans, it adds an extra 15 hours of listening on top of the 15 hours available for Premium subscribers. If you're an individual Spotify Premium subscriber, it's fairly straightforward upgrade. Paying an extra $12 per month for Audiobooks+ (on t

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Show HN: I built a text-based birthday reminder app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 20:57:15

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Motorola, Swarovski Debut a New Razr Phone Adorned with Crystals

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 20:00:00

After teasing a new Motorola and Swarovski collaboration a few weeks ago, the companies on Tuesday are debuting new editions of the Razr phone and the Moto Buds Loop that are adorned with crystals. The phone and the earbuds are being sold in a $1,000 bundle called The Brilliant Collection, which features both devices in their new Pantone Ice Melt models. Motorola says that this edition of the Razr will have a leather-inspired finish that includes 35 Swarovski crystals, including one larger crys

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Spotify expands audiobooks access to family plan members in the US for the first time

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-25 21:00:00

Spotify is expanding access to its audiobooks to more U.S. subscribers. The company on Tuesday announced the launch of its $11.99 per month Audiobooks+ plan in the market, which allows subscribers or their household members on a Family or Duo plan to add 15 hours of audiobook listening during the month on top of the base plan. Though Spotify launched its audiobooks service in the U.S. back in 2022, household members on Duo and Family plans have long been left out. The offering makes audiobooks

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Motorola Razr 2025 gets a Swarovski treatment but without the sticker shock

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 02:00:34

Motorola TL;DR Motorola has announced a new special edition of the Razr 50 studded with Swarovski crystals. The crystal-laden flip phone is paired with a new color of the Moto Buds Loop earbuds, also studded with Swarovskis. The “Brilliant Collection” will be available in the US later this week for $999.99. Motorola is no stranger to the glitz of the fashion world. From its partnership with Paris Hilton for a hot pink edition of the Motorola Razr 2024 to the classic gold-plated Moto Razr V3i

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My go-to LLM tool just dropped a super simple Mac and PC app for local AI - why you should try it

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-26 02:45:37

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Ollama AI devs have released a native GUI for MacOS and Windows. The new GUI greatly simplifies using AI locally. The app is easy to install, and allows you to pull different LLMs. If you use AI, there are several reasons why you would want to work with it locally instead of from the cloud. First, it offers much more privacy. When using a Large Language Model (LLM) in the cloud, you never know if your queries or results are b

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15 TikTok Videos About ‘Clankers’, a New Slur for Robots

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-26 02:35:26

Terms like “social media,” “podcast,” and “internet” emerged years ago as ways to talk about the latest advancements in the world of technology. And over the past month, we’ve seen some new terms popping up in the world of tech, from clanker to slopper, even if they seem to be mostly tongue-in-cheek at this point. What’s a clanker? It’s a derogatory word for a robot, a term coined in 1920 for a Czech play about dangerous mechanical men. And given the fact that humanoid robots are still pretty r

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The World’s First Commercial Spaceplane Won’t Be Launching Anytime Soon

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Tesla and Elon Musk Sued by Shareholders Who Say Robotaxis Violate Traffic Laws

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My go-to LLM tool just dropped a super simple Mac and PC app for local AI - why you should try it

15 TikTok Videos About ‘Clankers’, a New Slur for Robots

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