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Meta's personal AI agent will browse Shopify stores and complete purchases via Shop Pay, boosting Shopify stock while Meta faces commerce…
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“Teaming up with Shopify to make shopping and checkout easier in Muse. Shoppers find more. Shops sell more. More partnerships like this coming soon.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO · Press · full quotes →
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A explainer on automated license plate readers (ALPRs), including Flock Safety cameras, details what the growing network of roadside…
Sep 22now
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Developer releases Drop, a lightweight sandbox tool addressing security risks of running untrusted dependencies locally.
Sep 22now
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“What does Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google and Amazon do in house to deal with the isolated agent environment problem?”— programd · full quotes →
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A Finnish group updates the 1992 operating system to run on newer Amiga hardware, sparking debate about AI's role in retro projects.
Sep 20now
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“very heavy use of AI in reverse engineering”— Jussi, Amigaux.org co-developer · full quotes →
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A technical community argues over whether LLMs and mobile platforms will erode the universal plain-text interface that has existed for…
Sep 22now
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“This is a ridiculous thing to be concerned about. First, you have to imagine that AI will become so incredibly effective and powerful that no one but a few…”— mcherm · full quotes →
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At the UN, Trump argued the term 'artificial intelligence' sounds fake and proposed 'SI' instead—prompting jokes about Sports Illustrated…
Sep 22now
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“The use of the word artificial makes intelligence sound fake. It is not fake. It's actually amazing.”
— Donald Trump, President of the United States · full quotes →
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Around 30 games now available; developers no longer need Google approval to publish.
Sep 22now
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“Bringing your game to cars lets you reach users in their vehicles during natural downtime, such as while waiting at a charging station or for a curbside order…”— Google · full quotes →
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New survey of 634 women tech workers finds persistent discrimination and unequal standards for AI-assisted work.
Sep 21now
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“47% said tech is unchanged or worse for women”— WIRED survey respondent · full quotes →
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The contactless payment feature launches in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Peru.
Sep 22now
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“Tap to Pay on iPhone allows businesses to accept contactless payments on an iPhone, with no point-of-sale hardware required.”— Apple · MacRumors · full quotes →
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Walmart is running an exclusive sale through September 28 with discounted prebuilt systems featuring Nvidia's latest GPUs, but inventory is…
Sep 21now
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“This is the best price I've seen for the RTX 5080 prebuilt over the past few months and I'd be very surprised if it didn't sell out quickly.”— Eric Song, IGN commerce manager · IGN · full quotes →
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Motorola's new high-end phone features Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme, 200MP camera, and tuned audio from the Danish audio brand.
Sep 21now
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“The Signature 27 will be Motorola's first phone with Bang & Olufsen-tuned audio.”— Motorola · full quotes →
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SoFi and Mastercard bring stablecoin settlement live across SoFi Bank's debit and credit card program using SoFiUSD.
Sep 22now
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“SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) today announced that stablecoin settlement is now live across SoFi Bank, N.A.'s debit and…”— SoFi and Mastercard · Reddit · full quotes →
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JetBrains expands beyond the individual IDE to coordinate AI agents, teams, and governance across the software development lifecycle.
Sep 22now
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“The era in which the whole software development system can be contained in one window is ending.”— JetBrains · full quotes →
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Users discover AMD processors skip 0 when generating 16-bit random numbers, a flaw that evaded hardware validation.
Sep 22now
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“But it looks like the rdrand16 instruction can produce zeros just fine, it just sets CF=0 erroneously (indicating an error and that the user program should…”— 0x000xca0xfe · full quotes →
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The legal tech startup aims to automate routine contract work for in-house legal departments.
Sep 22now
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“Rather than treating the contract repository as the final destination, the company describes its platform as a system of action that turns previous contracts…”— Chamelio · Press · full quotes →
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Andreessen Horowitz invests in a two-year program with compute support from Anthropic, Meta, and others.
Sep 22now
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iPhone users discovered Apple is displaying ads for iCloud+, Apple Music, and other services in Settings with no easy dismiss option.
Sep 22now
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“I'm feeling like this is nearly on-par with the ens***ification that Microsoft introduced with Start menu ads.”— User (unnamed) · full quotes →
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New 600-capacity venue at Battersea Power Station captures performances as Spatial Audio recordings, multicamera video, and broadcast mixes…
Sep 22now
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“Apple says two dedicated recording and mix studios sit behind the stage, allowing every performance to be captured as a multitrack recording and mixed in…”— Apple · Press · full quotes →
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The venture capital firm promotes its new program as an alternative to traditional higher education.
Sep 22now
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“Andreessen Horowitz Wants Teens to Skip College for Its New Academy Instead”— Gizmodo · Press · full quotes →
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Amazon cuts the price of the high-performance card by 33%, matching its original MSRP before a flash shortage drove prices up.
Sep 20now
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“Delivering sequential read speeds up to 800MB/s, this card helps reduce load times and gets you into games faster.”— CNET · full quotes →
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A 2024 essay on multiline strings, file paths, and keywords sparks debate over language design best practices.
Sep 21now
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“Indented multiline strings are just a thing that you can put a few extra hours of effort into fixing early, before it becomes a problem for your users and then…”— Blog author, Essay author · blog.veritates.love · full quotes →
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A press-and-hold shortcut brings back the App Switcher screen removed in watchOS 27, though the old Digital Crown double-click stays gone.
Sep 21now
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“Apple has brought back the App Switcher! On watchOS 26 and earlier, you could access the App Switcher by double-clicking the Digital Crown, then turning the…”— Bones, X user who spotted the change · full quotes →
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Eight years after its prototype, Fearless SIMD reaches stable release, eliminating unsafe code while maintaining hardware performance.
Sep 22now
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“A common criticism leveled at portable SIMD abstractions is that they aren't performant enough, so we've put a lot of effort into making sure that Fearless…”— Fearless SIMD developers · full quotes →
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Chinese firms unveil homegrown semiconductor progress as researchers find workarounds to technology restrictions.
Sep 21now
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“Alibaba shares rose after it unveiled what it called China's most powerful chip ever”— Semafor · full quotes →
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Google is positioning Googlebook as a bridge between Android's openness and Apple's ecosystem integration, with Gemini AI at its core.
Sep 21now
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“Hey premium Android users, we see you. Here's a product that can bring you Apple users' ecosystem benefits while retaining the openness and diversity of…”— Google, Product positioning · Mastodon · full quotes →
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Updated smart glasses add voice clarity, on-device controls, and 10-hour battery life at $829.
Sep 22now
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“The new Nuance Audio Plus still manages to squeeze their FDA cleared hearing aid tech into temple arms that don't look much thicker than what you'll find on a…”— The Verge, Technology publication · full quotes →
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The 4G device targets mid-segment buyers with a 7,000mAh battery, 120Hz display, and Unisoc chipset.
Sep 22now
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“There's a humongous 7,000mAh battery under the hood, which has been tagged as a major highlight. As advertised, the phone has up to three days of usage.”— true-tech.net · Mastodon · full quotes →
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A developer's account of Apple restoring AI/Siri features after an explicit opt-out draws sharp reader pushback on Hacker News and Lobsters.
Sep 22now
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“I said "no" and turned it off.”— dbushell, Blogger · Hacker News · full quotes →
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A16z is opening The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a school hybrid between Y Combinator and the Thiel Fellowship for post-secondary founders.
Sep 22now
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“similar in cost to an elite private university”— Gagan Biyani · full quotes →
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Version 4A262 arrives for newly announced over-ear headphones priced at $349.99.
Sep 22now
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“Apple today released a firmware update for the Beats 360 over-ear headphones, so customers ordering the headphones will have new software available when they…”— MacRumors · full quotes →
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A programmer shows that the standard compression tool gzip can generate text by treating compression as prediction, without neural networks…
Sep 22now
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“every prediction model is inherently a compressor, and all compression algorithms are prediction models.”— Language Modeling is Compression paper · Blog article · full quotes →
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Apple's redesigned notch now shows more information in fewer pixels, with support for up to three concurrent activities.
Sep 22now
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“if you're only running two Live Activities, there's more space available than before, and Apple uses that space to give the second Live Activity additional…”— Ryan Christoffel · full quotes →
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Web developer finds 12 of 13 AI-built sites flunk Core Web Vitals and accessibility standards, questioning whether automation improves user…
Sep 22now
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“AI: *replaces four lines of semantic HTML with 80 megabytes of div soup, three hallucinated npm packages, and a loader that spins forever*”— Lobsters commenter · full quotes →
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Developer debate whether open source packages remain relevant when AI can rebuild them from scratch faster than installing.
Sep 22now
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“If we stop creating new projects, may be AI won't have enough base to do the same and the open-source would necessary.”— alsanan · full quotes →
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Bars and restaurants restrict Meta eyewear amid videos of apparent non-consensual filming; tech firms clash with venues over disclosure…
Sep 22now
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“With regard to Meta glasses, our instinct was to say, 'turn the cameras off.'”— Wetherspoons spokesperson · full quotes →
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