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Mary-Ann Stephenson confirmed as EHRC chair despite MPs’ objections

Stephenson to take over at equality watchdog even though committees raised concerns about breadth of experienceMary-Ann Stephenson has been confirmed as the new chair of the equalities watchdog, after the government overruled the objections of parliament’s equalities committee over her suitability for the job.Stephenson, the chair of the Women’s Budget Group, will take on the role at the Equality and Human Rights...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

How to watch the entire Alien franchise — from the 1979 classic to the new Alien: Earth series

Catch up on the entire 'Alien' franchise and tune into the new 'Alien: Earth' series with these streaming deals.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

AMD mulls dedicated NPUs for desktop PCs - like graphics cards, but for AI tasks - and this could be excellent news for PC gamers

AMD could soon make dedicated NPUs in the same vein as discrete graphics cards - and if you think that sounds boring, think again, PC gamers.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Still Using Windows 10? Here's How to Get Another Year of Updates for Free

If you're not ready to upgrade, you can still get security updates until October 2026 by enrolling in Microsoft's ESU program.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

Still Using Windows 10? Here’s How to Get Another Year of Updates for Free

If you’re not ready to upgrade, you can still get security updates until October 2026 by enrolling in Microsoft’s ESU program.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel might recast Mark Zuckerberg

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a follow-up to The Social Network, and Jeremy Strong is reportedly the lead candidate to play Mark Zuckerberg. According to Deadline, “Sources say no formal offer has been presented but that he is the top choice to play the Facebook founder.” Jesse Eisenberg played Zuckerberg in the first film. […]

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

August's Full Sturgeon Moon Lines Up With Perseids, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter

The full moon takes place a mere three days before the Perseids meteor shower peaks and 11 days before the next planet parade.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

Why I run with these bone-conduction headphones instead of Shokz (especially at its new price)

Mojawa's Run Plus headphones boast a robust design optimized for movement and tough workouts. They're on sale for $30 off.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

The Conjuring: Last Rites trailer reveals a demon returned

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in "The Conjuring: Last Rites."

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

I tested LG's cheapest OLED TV and Samsung's more affordable mini-LED TV side-by-side and I know which one I'd buy

The Samsung QN80F and LG B5 are two similarly priced TVs that use different display panel technologies - which one comes out as the winner?

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

LinkedIn removes explicit protections for transgender users

Professional networking platform LinkedIn quietly updated its hateful conduct policy — its first change in years.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Liam Neeson takes the absurd comedy of The Naked Gun very seriously

Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, and Paul Walter Hauser break down the comedic secrets of "The Naked Gun" reboot, now in theaters.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Family pleads for release of Palestinian-American teen held in Israeli prison

Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim, 16, has been detained for five months on accusations of rock-throwing and has reportedly developed scabiesThe family of a 16-year-old dual American-Palestinian citizen is trying to secure his release from an Israeli prison where he has been held in detention for more than five months and where they say he has lost a significant amount of weight and developed a severe skin infection.Muhammad...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Google loses appeal over app store overhaul in Epic Games case

The court rejected Google’s argument that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly favored Epic Games.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Uber Eats is stuffing AI slop into your meal

Uber Eats has added a slate of AI features designed to, theoretically, help merchants earn new customers and ease the shopping experience for users. AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads. In the press release, Uber Eats shows an example in which pictures captured very close to the food are transformed into wider field-of-view shots of plated dishes. Because the...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Israeli police release settler accused of killing Palestinian activist

Yinon Levi was placed under three days of house arrest, while police have refused to release the body of Awdah HathaleenIsraeli police have refused to release the body of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, while the settler accused of killing him, Yinon Levi, has been released from custody.Hathaleen was shot to death on Monday night during...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

AI-generated animals in fake surveillance videos are fooling the internet

AI-generated animals are all the rage online, but be careful what you believe. Not all unlikely animal friends are created equal.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

The best dating apps aren’t even dating apps

With dating app fatigue rising, some people are finding love in unexpected places — the forums and sites they use to pass idle time online, as opposed to those dedicated to online dating.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Megadoc teaser promises behind-the-scenes look at Megalopolis

Documentary "Megadoc" goes behind the scenes of Francis Ford Coppola's mind-boggling "Megalopolis."

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps — and AI is partially to blame

Side products can no longer be maintained, even if they have "loads of happy and loyal customers," as the Iconfactory's co-founder, Ged Maheux, says.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Uber Eats Is Giving You a Taste of AI With These New App Features

The biggest change for Uber Eats customers is a familiar one for competitors like DoorDash.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

I let this Segway robot mow my lawn for months - here's why it's been irreplaceable for me

The Navimow X3 easily ranks among the best robot lawn mowers I've ever reviewed.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Asus releases security updates for its routers after major vulnerabilities surface - here's how to stay safe

Asus responds to recent security disclosures with MyAsus update and confirmation of wider router firmware patches.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

NVIDIA is ending support for its GTX 10-, 9- and 7-series GPUs

NVIDIA is calling time on its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, with one last significant driver release scheduled for October. This means that all graphics cards belonging to the GeForce GTX 7-, 9- and 10-series categories will only receive quarterly security updates beyond the October cutoff, with support ending entirely three years later in 2028. While they’ll still work after that, they won’t be optimized for new...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis

The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Wired favicon Wired

US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

Canceling subscriptions should be easy, lawmakers say, reviving FTC fight.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

Article URL: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/72892.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747843 Points: 89 # Comments: 37

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Tesla’s ‘robotaxi’ rides in San Francisco have a human at the wheel

Tesla’s newly launched ridehailing service in San Francisco isn’t quite ready for the “robotaxi” designation. After launching its robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, with a “safety monitor” in the passenger seat last month, a video of Tesla’s service in San Francisco shows a vehicle arriving with a human at the wheel, as reported earlier by […]

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: The Verge favicon The Verge

‘Classic tinpot dictator’: Trump exports his assault on democracy to Brazil

US president seems to be weaponizing tariffs to punish Brazil for its coup trial against his ally BolsonaroOver the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the region’s second largest democracy too.Since early July, Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on Brazil’s...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

This handy NordVPN tool flags scam calls on Android - even before you answer

NordVPN's Scam Call Protection can now help you decide whether to pick up the phone. Here's how to set it up.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Why I recommend this Lenovo tablet over competing Google and Samsung models

Lenovo's Yoga Tab Plus is a 13-inch Android tablet that combines a brilliant display with nice battery and booming speakers.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

DJI Has a New 360 Camera That You Can't Have (Yet?)

The Osmo 360 does 8K video, 120-megapixel photos but right now it isn't available in the US.

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: CNET favicon CNET

VILE: Exhumed is an unjust casualty in Steam's sweeping censorship campaign

Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one highly anticipated title is now unable to be sold despite containing nothing objectionable. It started in early July, when payment processors including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal established new regulations concerning the...

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser

Article URL: https://elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29/ai-is-a-floor-raiser-not-a-ceiling-raiser.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747634 Points: 186 # Comments: 128

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

Kaizen (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build browser agents that work

Article URL: https://www.kaizenautomation.com/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747625 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Published on: July 31, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News