TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit
The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024…
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HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US
I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby…
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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by…
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Tesla’s Door Handles Lead to Its Biggest Recall Yet
A Chinese agency says the two recalls affecting some 3 million vehicles can mostly be fixed by over-the-air updates—but…
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Felony Bench
Article URL: https://www.felonybench.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430 Points: 285 #…
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Kobo can run apps now
Article URL: https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427 Points:…
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Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.
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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.
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Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI…
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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri
Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely…
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Ox Alpha
https://twitter.com/OpenRouter/status/2090544970923184269, https://xcancel.com/OpenRouter/status/2090544970923184269…
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I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
Article URL: https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570…
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Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say
Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong.
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Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform
Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.
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Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash.
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$100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturday
The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day…
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Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier Comments URL:…
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Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend
I recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The…
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Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks
Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and…
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Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay
Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart…
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Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
Article URL: https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/ Comments…
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Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Points: 346 #…