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A LendingTree survey of over 1,500 credit cardholders found that 41% typically pay only the minimum due on at least one card, a habit that jumps to 58% among Gen Z but falls to 19% among Baby Boomers. The average indebted U.S. cardholder carries a balance of $7,756, and 44% of respondents said they don't know the interest rate on their cards.
At the World Robotics Conference in Beijing, Oak Deer Robotics unveiled a suite of automated kitchen tools including a multimodal AI cooking model called CookingMuse and a humanoid food-cart chef named RobotCook, demonstrating stir-fried tofu and pork with peppers using a 300-degree robotic wok. Separately, Hikrobots showed humanoid robots performing basic fast-food prep, while a robot-run noodle shop opened for trial operation elsewhere in Beijing.
PaperCut released a follow-up emergency update for PaperCut NG and MF after researchers found ways around its initial patch for actively exploited vulnerabilities. The company disclosed CVE-2026-82078, a critical unsafe dynamic class-loading bug, and CVE-2026-81578, a high-severity authentication bypass, which can be chained to let unauthenticated attackers execute code on vulnerable servers.
The Trump administration is weighing new tariffs on semiconductors, prompting pushback from tech lobbyists who say the move would raise chip costs and slow data-center construction. Industry representatives argue that domestic chip manufacturing capacity is years away from meeting soaring demand, making the tariffs impractical. The Computer and Communications Industry Association warned that the resulting cost increases and uncertainty could jeopardize the ongoing data-center expansion.
An entrepreneur in a heavily regulated industry describes ending a working relationship with a co-manufacturer whose product quality was fine but whose process records were inconsistent depending on who compiled them. Replacing the supplier took weeks and unbudgeted funds, but the founder argues the real lesson was building a habit of decisions that survive outside scrutiny, not just internal convenience.
A hobbyist programmer describes replacing a six-year habit of looping a YouTube recording of Final Fantasy XIV's aetheryte crystal sound with a self-built solution. Frustrated by YouTube's unreliable loop function and the recording's audible seam, they set out to extract the original in-game audio files directly from the game so the ambience could be replayed cleanly without needing FFXIV running.
Three sister African wild dogs were flown from Mozambique's Karingani Game Reserve to South Africa's Waterberg region as part of the Endangered Wildlife Trust's decades-long range expansion program. They'll spend weeks in a newly designed boma built specifically for the species before being fitted with tracking collars and released into the wild to help form a genetically diverse new pack.
Apple has increased its Apple TV subscription price for the fourth time in four years, moving monthly fees from $12.99 to $14.99 and annual plans from $99 to $119. The Apple One bundle, which combines TV, Music, Arcade and iCloud+, also rises from $19.95 to $21.95 per month.
Uber launched a live video feature for its teen accounts that lets a linked parent or guardian watch a real-time stream from the driver's front-facing camera during a trip. The feature is live in nine US markets—including Atlanta, Phoenix and Orlando—with a nationwide rollout planned soon, and it only works if drivers have enabled Record My Ride streaming, which they can turn off anytime.
A homelab operator upgrading to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8, an Intel E610-XT2 10GbE card, and a Minisforum MS-01 miniPC found file transfers crawling at 100-200 Mbps despite all hardware reporting a full 10 gigabit link. After ruling out the NAS, its RAID array, SSD caching, Immich, SMB signing, and Windows Defender, an iperf3 test isolated the problem to networking between the desktop and the MS-01, revealing nearly a million discarded received packets on the Intel adapter. The root cause turned out to be the E610 driver defaulting to 512 receive buffers instead of its supported maximum of 4096.
Security firm VulnCheck discovered three separate backdoor-like implants embedded in firmware made by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics (ZBT), whose hardware is resold globally under numerous brand names. The most severe, dubbed ENDLESSDOORS, disguises itself as a Linux kernel process, phones home to a hard-coded command server without authentication or encryption, and grants attackers root-level control over the router. VulnCheck confirmed the flaw is real by hijacking a test router's command channel themselves, and identified it across 20 ZBT-based router models.
Across the US, people who disable or destroy Flock automatic license plate reader towers are being celebrated online rather than condemned, with social media posts backing vandals over police who install the surveillance cameras. In one case an Ohio grand jury declined to indict a man caught on video destroying a Flock camera, and public backlash has pushed some Wisconsin towns to drop their Flock contracts after a neighboring city ended its own.