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Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the U.S. and Canada
Airbnb has shifted a third of its North American customer service to its AI agent, CEO Brian Chesky said.
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Fintech lending giant Figure confirms data breach
The company said hackers downloaded “a limited number of files” after breaking into an employee’s account. The hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach.
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Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignmen
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Verizon makes customers wait 35 days to unlock fully paid-off phones
Verizon unlocks have 35-day waiting period after paying off device plan online.
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Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
“This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.
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The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices
Don't expect big changes yet.
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The Sharp PC-2000 Computer Boombox from 1979
Article URL: https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/one-of-the-rarest-the-sharp-pc-2000-computer-boombox-from-1979.10341/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006055 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
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Building a TUI is easy now
Article URL: https://hatchet.run/blog/tuis-are-easy-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509 Points: 48 # Comments: 35
Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
Article URL: https://ios-countdown.win/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003064 Points: 1165 # Comments: 574
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Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information
The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries.
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$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
MST3K 's 2010s revival looked forward; this one is emphatically looking backward.
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11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for
Article URL: https://homolova.sk/missingvoters/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006738 Points: 29 # Comments: 14
GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/new-result-theoretical-physics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006594 Points: 112 # Comments: 44
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Why I'm not worried about AI job loss
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006513 Points: 44 # Comments: 36
Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs
I've been working on CloudRouter, a skill + CLI that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to start cloud VMs and GPUs. When an agent writes code, it usually needs to start a dev server, run tests, open a browser to verify its wo