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Warm Up Your MacBook

Warm Up Your MacBook

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 18 Nov 2019 You’ve been there - after putting your backpack in a frigid car, walking against the Wisconsin wind, or biking across the frozen lake, you arrive at work. You rest your palms on the keyboard to begin typing your password, and recoil in pain from the sudden cold of the metal sucking the heat from your skin. How do you quickly warm up a laptop? Make it do a lot of work. Here’s a one-line, built-in command that will peg your CPU…
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In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake has signed a $6 billion deal with AWS to buy AI CPU chips

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake has signed a $6 billion deal with AWS to buy AI CPU chips

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Enterprise,TC,AI,Amazon,AWS,Snowflake,AI chips 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Cloud data storage giant Snowflake has signed a new five-year, $6 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Wednesday. Snowflake has always run on AWS, although apparently these days it's also available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. For comparison, Snowflake has sold $7 billion worth of its services across the total AWS Marketplace since its founding in 2012, AWS says. So this new contract is getting close to all the money it brought in from that cloud. It can do this…
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YouTube to Automatically Label AI-Generated Videos & Enhance Labels

YouTube to Automatically Label AI-Generated Videos & Enhance Labels

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Is that YouTube video clip you’re watching real or was it made with AI? YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers to know when content on its platform is AI-generated. In 2024, it started labeling content when creators disclosed they have used AI tools. Now YouTube is making AI-generated content labels more prominent for viewers — and it’s going to start automatically applying the labels if it detects that a video includes “significant photorealistic AI use.” “We’ve heard consistently from our community that they…
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Meta is launching Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is launching Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

🔥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Media & Entertainment,Social,Creators,Facebook,Instagram,Meta,meta ai,social media,subscriptions,WhatsApp ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Meta is doubling its subscription offerings. The social media giant announced on Wednesday that it is now rolling out consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and is beginning tests of new subscriptions for businesses, creators and Meta AI users. For a few dollars per month, consumers subscribed to Instagram Plus ($3.99 per month), Facebook Plus ($3.99 per month), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99 ​​per month) will have access to additional features, such as profile customization, super…
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Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Valve has significantly increased the price of the Steam Deck — but now, it’s also in stock. The 512GB Steam Deck OLED now costs $789, up from $549, while the 1TB model costs $949, up from $649. As I write this, both models are available to buy on Steam with an estimated delivery date of three to five business days.The company says the price increase is because of “rising memory and storage costs.” Nothing about the Steam Deck has changed, but “these new prices reflect…
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The UK Visa Portal uncovers thousands of applicants’ passports and photographs – then contact our lawyers

The UK Visa Portal uncovers thousands of applicants’ passports and photographs – then contact our lawyers

🔥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybersecurity,data exposure,Exclusive ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TechCrunch has learned that a website called the UK Visa Portal has publicly exposed thousands of passports and personal photos of applicants who paid the site for a UK immigrant visa. An anonymous person reported the vulnerability to TechCrunch, saying the site was exposing at least 100,000 documents from people who uploaded their passports and personal photos to the site as part of the application process. The site is not affiliated with the UK government, and some have complained that they mistakenly paid fees…
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Thranpages :: How Did I Do :: SimCity 3k in 4k

Thranpages :: How Did I Do :: SimCity 3k in 4k

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. It's built upon a souped-up version of the Sc2K engine. It features isometric art, crafted pixel by pixel. It strikes the right balance of features and complexity; it feels like it could be mastered but without coddling you. It also has a high resolution Jazzy/new age OST. Running it on modern systems takes a few tweaks but is certainly doable. By "modern" I mean Windows 10 LTSC 2021, Ryzen 5 3600, Radeon Rx 7600, 48 GB of RAM, 4K…
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CrowdStrike and Google are taking down a botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks

CrowdStrike and Google are taking down a botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks

🚀 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybercrime,cybersecurity,hackers,open source,supply chain attack,supply chain security 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CrowdStrike, in collaboration with Google and Shadowserver, a non-profit organization that scans and monitors the Internet for cyberattacks, has removed a botnet used by cybercriminals to push malware and steal passwords from open source software developers. The takedown was intended to disrupt the activities of the cybercriminals behind the so-called Glassworm botnet, who had been targeting the broader open source software supply chain for two years, according to CrowdStrike. In recent months, several hacking groups have targeted developers and…
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DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google’s insistence that people love AI mode

DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google’s insistence that people love AI mode

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: These days, a typical Google Search feels like an obstacle course. Type out 'upcoming PC games 2026' and your gaze has to swerve around a chunky AI overview which recycles the work of human writers in a bid to kneecap efforts to click away from Google. It's a bleak state of affairs for what was once the premier discovery tool for the internet, and as such many users are looking for alternative search engines.DuckDuckGo has been one major winner of this Google Search abandonment. Just…
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AI coding startup Cognition has raised $1 billion at a prior valuation of $25 billion

AI coding startup Cognition has raised $1 billion at a prior valuation of $25 billion

✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,ai coding,cognition,Devin 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Cognition, the maker of freelance AI software engineer Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a pre-fund valuation of $25 billion, the company announced Wednesday. That's a big jump from its post-cash valuation of $10.2 billion when it closed a $400 million funding round just eight months ago in September. The round was led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst, with existing investors flowing in, including Founders Fund, 8VC and others. The round also included new investors such as Ribbit Capital, Atreides and…
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