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 “Unstoppable?” ChatGPT Surges to 700 million Weekly Users as Rivals Race to Compete

ChatGPT’s user base is set to hit 700 million weekly actives in August 2025, soaring from 500 million in March and quadrupling year over year. Here's why that's a big deal.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-is-set-to-hit-700-million-weekly-users-but-can-its-rivals-catch-up

Sonos owns up to “limited” reports of overheating Roam speakers
ElevenLabs launches its own royalty-free AI music service

AI startup Eleven Labs just announced a

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Intel's next-gen manufacturing process is reportedly still struggling

Intel is reportedly still struggling with a chipmaking process crucial to its future. Reuters reports that the company's 18A process is still producing low yields and high defect rates. Intel has invested billions of dollars in the manufacturing process, on w

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Florida is suing several porn companies over age verification

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued multiple pornography platforms on allegations that they fall afoul of age verification laws. The state passed HB 3 in March 2024 and the law took effect in January 2025. HB 3

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Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise (https://stagewise.io), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases.

You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `npx stagewise` from the project root. The agent lets you then click on HTML Elements in your app, enter prompts like 'increase the height here' and will implement the changes in your source code.

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Palantir hits $1 billion in quarterly sales for the first time, avoids DOGE cuts

Shares of Palantir Technologies sailed past previous record highs Tuesday after booking its first $1 billion sales quarter and raising its performance expectations for the year.

The stock rose above $170 on Tuesday after breaking previous records four times this year in the global

Best Vitamins and Supplements for Women in 2025

A good multivitamin is a great way to fill nutritional gaps and help you look and feel your best. https://www.cnet.com/health/nutrition/best-vitamins-and-supplements-for-women/#ftag=CADf328eec

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What building products looks like in the age of AI

From research to delivery, explore how AI is reshaping product design workflows for faster, smarter outcomes.

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Google's NotebookLM is now available for younger users

Google's NotebookLM (NLM) is designed to be the ultimate study guide. So, with the new school year already beginning, it's fitting that the AI tool is now available for younger users. Just be sure to check its work, kids.

For consumers, anyone 13 and older can now use the AI-powered learning tool. However, any minimum age restrictions in

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Fox One streaming service launches August 21

Fox Corporation has announced the launch of Fox One, a streaming service that will carry Fox-branded news, sports and entertainment content for $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year. The service will feature both live and on-demand access from the entire slate of Fox properties including Fox News, Fox Business,

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Google's Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a are rumored to launch later than the rest of its new gear

Google has an event lined up for August 20 and has promised to reveal "new Pixel phones, watches, buds" and more. However, rumors have been swirling that the company won't have many of these products ready to go after being unveiled.

Winfuture has reported that the Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pr

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Surprising no one, Grok's image and video generator now has an NSFW 'spicy' mode

Elon Musk’s chatbot is seldom out of the news. When it isn’t vomiting antisemetic rhetoric or fixating on conspiracy theories

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Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks

Step aside, old boy. The ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition is making me forget all about the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the most renowned business laptop for over a decade. Of course, Lenovo isn’t doing away with the X1 Carbon, but

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This Anker 10K Qi2 magnetic power bank is on sale for $60 right now

A power bank with a wireless charging option is a very handy device for anyone who's typically on the go. It's probably worth having a fully charged one on hand in case of a power outage too. Anker makes some of our favorite power banks, and one with a Qi2 charging function and 10,000mAh capacity is currently on sale. You can

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Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr

Motorola and Swarovski are teaming up to create the crossover they knew we always wanted: a

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Show HN: Whittle – A Shrinking Word Game

Whittle is a small word game I've been working on. Each phrase must be whittled down by one letter (or space) each turn. The remaining phrase must still consist of valid words. That's it! There's a daily puzzle, as well as an archive of old puzzles.

The idea for the game came to me in a dream (really) and I built the puzzle generator with my partner, who's also a software engineer. It's a labor of love! Any feedback or suggestions are welcome. Thanks for playing!


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How Tesla’s Autopilot verdict could stifle Musk’s robotaxi expansion

A court verdict against Tesla last week, stemming from a fatal 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, could hurt its plans to expand its nascent robotaxi network and intensify concerns over the safety of its autonomous vehicle technology.

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Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: a web scraping war with big implications for AI

When the web was established several decades ago, it was built on a number of principles. Among them was a key, overarching standard dubbed “netiquette”: Do unto others as you’d want done unto you. It’s a principle that lived on through other companies, including Google, whose motto for a period was “Don’t be evil.”

The fundamental idea was simple: Act ethically and morally. If som

Taiwanese authorities investigate TSMC chip trade secrets leak

Taiwanese authorities have detained three people for allegedly stealing technology trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest chip foundry, Taiwanese prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The three were detained late last month after TSMC reported that an internal invest

How PHP Really Reads Your Code (Abstract Syntax Tree (AST))

Do you ever wonder how PHP parses your code? Wonder no longer because in this video, Scott Keck-Warren from the PHP Architect Channel shows you how to inspect your code using the AST with the PHP-Parser library. How PHP Really Reads Your Code (Using ASTs) When we pass our source code to the php […]

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Telsa Found Liable for Autopilot accident, Tariffs Start to Impact Prices & More | Tech Today video

Owen Poole reviews the day's big tech news, including a verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit involving Tesla's Autopilot, how tariffs are impacting prices on imported products, and how YouTube will guess users' ages with AI. https://www.cnet.com/videos/telsa-found-liable-for-autopilot-accident-tariffs-start-to-impact-prices-more-tech-today/#ftag=CADf328eec

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WhatsApp Adds Tools to Save You From Scams

The Meta-owned service says it took down nearly 7 million accounts linked to criminal scam centers. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/whatsapp-adds-tools-to-save-you-from-scams/#ftag=CADf328eec

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OnePlus Pad Lite Review

SIM support, strong software offerings, and a slim price point make the OnePlus Pad Lite a very compelling affordable tablet.

The post OnePlus Pad Lite Review appeared first on Trusted Reviews.

https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/oneplus-pad-lite

 "No amount of redundancy matters" — AWS deletes 10 years of an engineer's data, and there could be a conspiracy afoot

Software engineer Abdelkader Boudih published a lengthy post on their Seuros blog outlining how AWS deleted 10 years of data. Is there a conspiracy afoot? Boudih certainly seems to think so.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/aws-deletes-10-years-software-engineer-data-cover-up

How to get Microsoft Office 365 for dirt cheap as a student
Amazon now lets you buy used cars, but only if you’re in Los Angeles
ChatGPT now reminds you when it’s time for a break
PCIe 8’s ludicrously fast speeds break the terabyte barrier
Roku’s new $3 ad-free streaming undercuts Netflix—with a catch
Microsoft’s new feature hints at more AI integration in Windows 11
 White House considering chip tracking to curb AI hardware smuggling to China amid enforcement gaps — software or hardware tracking could be next step in U.S. export controls over leading-edge AI silicon

U.S. officials are weighing chip-level location tracking to curb AI hardware smuggling to China, according to Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. But the plan faces technical hurdles, industry pushback, and geopolitical risks.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/white-house-considering-chip-tracking-t

UX Job Interview Helpers

Talking points. Smart questions. A compelling story. This guide helps you prepare for your UX job interview. And remember: no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. https://smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/ux-job-interview-helpers/

Spotify's premium audiobook feature launches in the US

After trialing the service in Ireland and Canada last month, Spotify has officially launched its Audiobooks+ service in the US, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. An add-on available to Spotify Premium members, as well as individual users on Family and Duo plans, it adds an extra 15 hours of listening on top of the 15 hours availabl

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Google DeepMind's Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of its simulated worlds

At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more likely, an automated AI agent — moves through the world the software is simulating. The resulting video of the model in action may look like a video game, bu

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Apple's AirPods Pro 2 drop to $169 on Amazon

They might be nearly three years old at this point, but Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro remain some of the most popular wireless earbuds around for a reason, and right now they’re down to

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