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Elon Musk says the Vine archive is coming back
Elon Musk recently announced that he's bringing back the Vine archives, after teasing the return of the social platform over the last week or so. The X owner says that the company recently discovered the entire video archive of the once-popular short-form video app and is working to restore user access. Twitter bought Vine all the way back in 2012. Musk says that X users will be able to post these Vines, but it's just...
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ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns
OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI. The new feature is part of OpenAI's ongoing attempts to get users to cultivate a healthier relationship with the frequently compliant and overly-encouraging AI assistant. The company's announcement suggests the "gentle reminders" will appear as pop-ups in chats that users will have to click or tap...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Don't trust Windows 11's Recall feature? A new report will only harden your resolve to never use the AI-powered search
Recall is under fire again as a report points out security slips that are distinctly worrying.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Social media images of Gaza cafes canβt hide truth: Israel is starving Palestinians
Pro-Israel posts point to a handful of cafes to claim 2 million people are not suffering hunger β despite Israelβs own dataIsraelβs prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his supporters have variously argued that there is no starvation in Gaza, or that if there is hunger it is the fault of Hamas β who they accuse of stealing aid β or the United Nations.In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Amit Segal, the chief...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Canada wildfires prompt severe air quality alerts across country and US
More than 700 active wildfires burning across Canada and about two-thirds are currently out-of-controlBillowing smoke from hundreds of out-of-control wildfires β most of which are in the Canadian Prairies β have caused severe air quality alerts across Canada and the United States.Detroit, Michigan, and the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto, recorded some of the worst air quality in the world on Monday, according...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Tesla awards Musk $29B in attempt to βkeep Elonβs energies focused on Teslaβ
Musk gets 96M shares in "interim award" while 2018 pay plan is held up in court.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Brock Lesnars WWE return at SummerSlam did not go over well on social media
Social media reactions to the return of WWE wrestler Brock Lesnar at WWE SummerSlam
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:F1 in Hungary: Please stop saying Monaco without the walls
F1 now takes a monthlong summer break, but what's the state of the championship?
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:NASAs carbon tracking satellites are on Trumps chopping block
NASA employees are drawing up plans to shelve an ongoing space mission that tracks greenhouse gases and crop health, as the Trump administration takes aim at the agency's budget.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Ukrainian drone attacks are causing blackouts and shutdowns for Russian mobile internet
A record number of mobile internet shutdowns have been observed.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Amazon denies report itβs shutting down Wondery podcast studio
Despite securing big names in the business, the company is now shifting its strategy in an effort to better compete with rivals like Spotify and YouTube.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:An Illinois bill banning AI therapy has been signed into law
A new Illinois law bars the use of AI as a stand-in for a therapist and regulates how mental health professionals may use AI to support their work.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are on sale for their lowest price since Prime Day
The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are just $199.95 at Amazon as of Aug. 4.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Watch the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 go through a torturous durability test that I can't believe it survived
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 is hardier than I expected, but proves the point I've been making about foldables.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Denmark to reportedly remove βugly and pornographicβ mermaid statue
Danish agency for palaces and culture requests removal of 14-tonne sculpture from DragΓΈr Fort in CopenhagenA debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as βugly and pornographicβ and βa manβs hot dream of what a woman should look likeβ.The Danish agency for palaces and culture is reportedly removing the 4x6 metre Den Store Havfrue (the Big...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Trumpβs demand that India stop buying Russian oil puts Modi in tight spot
Prime minister faces a choice between high tariffs or giving up cheap oil, putting New Delhiβs non-alignment policy under severe strainThe relationship between India and the US is facing one of its most significant challenges in decades, as the Trump administration doubles down on its demands that India stop buying Russian oil or face punitive tariffs.The US president, Donald Trump, has refused to cut tariffs on Indian...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:The best Apple deals to shop this week: Get the Apple AirPods Pro 2 for $169
Looking for the best Apple deals this week? Right now, you can get a pair of Apple AirPods Pro 2 for $169.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:One more reason to stick with wired earbuds? Kamala Harris warns βIβm just telling you thatβs a little bit more secureβ than wireless earbuds after her experience in intelligence briefings
Kamala Harris doesn't trust wireless headphones, and she's got good reason not to
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:This Linux distro makes Slackware easier than ever
Slackware isn't exactly the most user-friendly, but Slackel opens it up to the masses - offering four spins to choose from.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Watch the last 2 months of regular season baseball for $34.99
Get MLB.TV for just $34.99 for the rest of the season. That's basically just $12.50 per month.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Battlefield 6 Open Beta Start Time, Maps, Modes and Pre-Load
Battlefield 6's open public beta starts this weekend and the pre-load is live now.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Spotify is raising prices for international customers
Spotify is raising prices for many international customers. The company just said that Premium subscribers throughout the world will be receiving an email within the next month that outlines the increase. It hasn't announced which countries will be impacted, but did say that the areas include South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. That's most of the world. The company...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
I built the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it. It draws a single pixel at a time and takes 30-60 minutes to complete a single image. Anyone can participate in the project by voting for the next image to be drawn, and submitting images.https://kilopx.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787902 Points: 650 # Comments: 96
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:TechCrunch Mobility: Teslaβs ride-hailing gambit
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Gemini adds powerful new Deep Think model - what it does and who can try it
The Math Olympiad-winning model is now available to use in Gemini.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato
Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:5 of my favorite Linux system-monitoring tools - and why I use them
When I want to monitor my Linux system's performance, I turn to these handy apps to collect more data than I'll probably ever need.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Show HN: Sidequest.js β Background jobs for Node.js using your database
Hey HN,I'm the maintainer of node-cron (5M+ downloads/month), and I recently built Sidequest.js, a background job runner for Node.js inspired by Oban (Elixir) and Sidekiq (Rails).It solves some common problems I saw with libraries like node-cron:- Jobs donβt block your API: they run in isolated worker threads- No Redis or vendor lock-in: use Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, or MongoDB- Supports retries, uniqueness,...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Paid subreddits reportedly on hold as Reddit focuses on search
Reddit has paused plans to implement paid subreddits and will instead focus on growing its ad revenue business, according to the most recent earnings report.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility
Officials say there are no leaks and hazardous nests are from legacy contamination.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Best price alert: The Roborock Qrevo S5V robot vacuum and mop is under $550 at Amazon
The Roborock Qrevo S5V robot vacuum and mop is on sale at Amazon for $549.99, down from the standard price of $899.99. That's a 39% discount.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Grab a 4-pack of Tile Mate Bluetooth trackers in fun colors for under $60
Grab a Tile Mate 4-pack at Amazon for only $59.99, nearly 30% off and a new all-time low price.
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Scores dead as boat carrying more than 150 people capsizes off Yemen
Shipwreck in Gulf of Aden leaves only 32 survivors so far, with the rest missing and presumed dead, says UN agencyA boat has capsized off Yemenβs coast leaving 76 people dead and 74 others missing, the UNβs migration agency said.Yemeni security officials said 76 bodies had been recovered and 32 people rescued from the shipwreck in the Gulf of Aden in what a senior official from the International Organization for...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:Show HN: Tiny logic and number games I built for my kids
Iβve been building a few small games to help kids (and curious adults) build reasoning and logic skills. Think Word Ladder, Prime Hunter, Math Maze ,all in the browser, no installs. Would love feedback or suggestions for new types of puzzles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787143 Points: 66 # Comments: 25
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