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Google could make Android 17 work better with life-saving medical devices

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Hundreds of millions of people live with diabetes or other chronic conditions that require continuous monitoring. Fortunately, modern medical devices make it significantly easier for people to track their glucose levels, blood pressure, and other key vitals. Some even connect directly with smartphones, sending crucial data and alerts via Bluetooth to the mobile devices we carry every day. Despite the importance of these medical devices in many people’s lives,

Astronomers Spot Something "Totally Unexpected" at Event Horizon of Supermassive Black Hole

A supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a supergiant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is acting far more strangely than anticipated. Since 2017, astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — an international collaboration combining a global network of radio telescopes — have closely watched the enormous gaping maw, resulting in the first-ever images of a black hole ever captured by humankind. Now, by comparing observations from 2017, 2018, and 2021, scientists m

Five upgrades to look forward to with the rumored MacBook Pro ‘overhaul’ next year

Rumors strongly suggest that Apple will be overhauling the MacBook Pro in 2026, marking five years since the previous redesign that we know and love today. There are five key rumors to follow with this redesigned MacBook Pro, and we’ll be delving into them here. OLED display After debuting in the iPad Pro in 2024, Apple is expected to introduce OLED display technology to the MacBook Pro for the very first time with the redesign in 2026. This’ll provide higher brightness, better contrast ratios

How to turn any photo on your iPhone into a trippy 3D spatial scene

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Now, Netflix Is Rumored to Want Warner Bros.

The media industry is in a state of tumult, and major companies are being bought and reorganized at a rapid pace. Last week, it was reported that David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, wanted to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. This was notable since Ellison, who owns Skydance Media, just recently completed an $8 billion acquisition of another major Hollywood studio, Paramount. Now, there is reportedly another major party interested in buying WB: Netflix. Dylan Byers, of Puck News,

Looking to Buy an Electric Vehicle? You Should Do It Before October

For more than a decade now, climate-friendly policy has protected and boosted the American electric vehicle industry. In the past two years, that has been in the form of the electric vehicle tax credit that was a part of former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Now, all of that is due to expire on September 30. Trump began his attack on the EV tax credit as his first order of business as President. The final blow came when the “big beautiful bill” passed and was signed into law th

A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages

New findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed and accessible to thousands of people. Meanwhile, 15 New York officials were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York Police Department this week in or around 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. Russia c

Best Dog Beds (2025): For All Kinds of Dogs in All Kinds of Spaces

You know what gets me jazzed? Dogs. And some of the best dog beds, funny enough, often come from human-mattress brands that you may recognize. Now, if we were to consult the dogs themselves, I'm sure that they would be more than happy to tag along with you in your bed, on the couch, or any bed provided to them. As a professional mattress tester and certified sleep science coach, however, I can tell you that you may not be getting your best sleep when you let your dog sleep on your bed with you.

The Best Hybrid Mattresses for Couples, Back Pain, and More (2025)

the best hybrid mattress is sort of like cake. There are always going to be a few key ingredients—in the case of a mattress, that's springs and foam. Those two elements are layered up and combined with an almost endless assortment of other ingredients (latex, coils, foam layers of various densities, assorted fabrics). The art is in the details of the recipe, and mattress brands are carefully combining each ingredient in a specific ratio to create a comfortable bed. Hybrid mattresses are what we

Prime members can get three months of Kindle Unlimited for free

is a commerce reporter for The Verge writing about the best deals and gadgets. He previously wrote for Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Futurism, and Popular Science. A cool new perk recently became available for Prime members: for a limited time, you can get a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited. If your ebookshelf is looking bare, Amazon is currently offering a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited for free. The service typically costs $11.99 per month, so the deal saves you $

Scammers Are Now Driving Around With Fake Cell Towers That Blast 100,000 Texts Per Hour

Leave it to phone scammers to innovate new ways to be as annoying — and scummy — as humanly possible. These cybercriminals are no longer content with just sending you the odd phishing text or two. As Wired reports, more and more of them are using so-called "SMS blasters" that basically act as a portable cell tower, tricking your phones into connecting with them as they cruise by. The scammers walk or drive around with the devices, firing out a ludicrous volume of SMS messages that contain dange

Save up to $700 on Razer's newest gaming laptop - and get a free game

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Don't make this SSD mistake - here's the model I recommend for easy data transferring

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of parameters can encode the essential patterns from terabytes of text. However, what’s less obvious is that this process can be reversed: we can systematically extract structured datasets from trained models that reflect their internal knowledge representation. I’ve been working on this problem, and the results are promising. We’ve successfully applied

Security News This Week: A Dangerous Worm Is Eating Its Way Through Software Packages

New findings this week showed that a misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left sensitive national security information—including data related to the surveillance of Americans—exposed and accessible to thousands of people. Meanwhile, 15 New York officials were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the New York Police Department this week in or around 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE detains people in what courts have ruled are unsanitary conditions. Russia c

A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

This 3D-printed contraption is by Igor Daemen, an Eindhoven-based product designer. "I designed this businesscard embosser to be modular and 3D printable without using any support and without any hardware required to assemble," he writes. "The tolerances are tight," Daemen explains. "And some materials work better then others. I have had best results using Basic PLA." You can download the files for free here.

Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

Presidential Actions RESTRICTION ON ENTRY OF CERTAIN NONIMMIGRANT WORKERS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor. The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program h

Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

Zedis 🚀 A Redis-compatible in-memory data store written in Zig, designed for learning and experimentation. Zedis implements the core Redis protocol and data structures with a focus on simplicity, performance, and thread safety. Features Redis Protocol Compatibility : Supports the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP)locks : Supports the Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP)locks Multiple Data Types : String and integer value storage with automatic type conversion : String and integer value stor

Best early October Prime Day 2025 PC gaming deals: Save big on laptops and accessories

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Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time this year

Less than a month ago, we looked at how current game console prices were historically high due to price increases from all three major console makers. Today, that analysis is already a bit out of date, as Microsoft has announced its second set of Xbox price increases this year in the US. The new Xbox price hikes, which will go into effect on October 3, or roughly five months after the last set of Xbox price hikes, are as follows: Xbox Series S 512GB: $400 (up from $380 in May / launched at $30

Microsoft is making Xbox consoles even more expensive in the US

Starting on October 3, Microsoft says Xbox consoles will be getting yet another price bump, this time ranging anywhere from a $20 increase on the company's entry-level model to $70 for a special edition model with 2TB of storage. If all of this sounds familiar, there's a good reason, the last time xbox prices were raised was only a few months ago in May. The price increases breakdown as follows: Xbox Series S (512GB): $400, up $20 from $380 Xbox Series S (1TB): $450 up $20 from $430 Xbox Ser

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and adaptable to the natural frailties of humans. From Raskin's early work on the Apple Macintosh to the Canon Cat and later his unique software implementations, you were guaranteed an interface you could sit down and interact with nearly instantly and—once you'd learned some basic keystrokes and rules—one yo

Two of the Kremlin’s most active hack groups are collaborating, ESET says

Two of the Kremlin’s most active hacking units recently were spotted collaborating in malware attacks that compromise high-value devices located in Ukraine, security researchers said Friday. One of the groups is Turla, which is easily one of the world’s most sophisticated advanced persistent threats (well-organized and well-funded hacking groups, many backed by nation states, that target specific adversaries for years at a time). Researchers from multiple security firms largely agree that Turla

In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

The panel of vaccine advisors hand-selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to change the federal vaccine recommendations for children, removing safe, well-established vaccine doses from current schedules and realizing Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda to erode federal vaccine policy and sow distrust. Specifically, the panel—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—voted to remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's previous recommendatio

The Many Broken Feeds

The Many Broken Feeds RSS/Atom feeds are central to my reading process. I subscribe to over 700 feeds that I have curated over years. Most of them work fine most of the time, but a few are always broken in various different ways (different ones at different times). As a big proponent of Indieweb and feeds, I’m writing this note to categorize the ways feeds break, and offer some solutions. Before we get on to the issues, the very first thing you must do is to subscribe to the feeds of your own

Best early Amazon Prime Day Kindle deals 2025: My favorites sales ahead of October

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Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and adaptable to the natural frailties of humans. From Raskin's early work on the Apple Macintosh to the Canon Cat and later his unique software implementations, you were guaranteed an interface you could sit down and interact with nearly instantly and—once you'd learned some basic keystrokes and rules—one yo

This underwater action cam captured my Hawaii trip in ways I didn't think possible

Insta360 X5 waterproof action camera ZDNET's key takeaways The Insta360 is the premier camera for shooting underwater footage, for $549 on Amazon. Diving accessories such as the Invisible Dive Case and Floating Hand Grip ensure your X5 stays safe in the water. I had some pairing issues while on a dive. View now at Amazon I recently spent a week in Hawaii for my daughter's wedding, and captured some fantastic underwater video with the Insta360 X5. I went snorkeling with manta rays, explored th

The EU Just Killed ARR

The EU Just Killed ARR Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) has been the backbone of SaaS for two decades. It gave investors predictable growth curves. It gave founders leverage in fundraising. It let boards sleep at night. But ARR was never a really well defined metric. And now, it may be practically dead in Europe. With the EU Data Act (effective September 2025), every SaaS contract with an EU customer becomes a “cancel anytime” subscription. Customers can walk away with two months’ notice. No e

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