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This upcoming iOS feature will make spam phone calls an issue of the past

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-07-20 05:53:39

At WWDC25 this year, Apple announced a pair of new features to vastly improve the phone calling experience for iPhone users. Hold Assist does exactly what it says on the tin, and manages calls for you while you’re placed on hold – getting rid of the need to listen to dreaded hold music. The other feature, Call Screening, has much larger implications, and dealing with spam phone calls may become an issue of the past. 9to5Mac is brought to you by Incogni: Protect your personal info from prying e

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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-07-21 01:29:04

SJVN / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET At long last, after years of waiting for the "Year of the Linux desktop," we're getting somewhere. According to the US Federal Government Website and App Analytics, which I trust far more than I do StatCounter, 6% of its visitors over the last month were using Linux operating systems. Downright impressive This website keeps track of US government website visits and analyzes them. On average, there have been 1.6 billion sessions in the last 30 days, with mi

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iOS 26 Will Finally Let Us Get Rid of the Dreadful 9-Minute Snooze

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 13:00:06

In 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, a monumental device that became synonymous with the advancement of mobile technology. At the time, the iPhone included the 9-minute snooze, a dreadful and outdated alarm feature. While the latest iPhones are bezel-free, can shoot 4K videos in slow-motion and have face recognition, the 9-minute snooze persists -- until iOS 26. The tech giant announced the next iPhone update at its Worldwide Developers Conference 2025, and the software upgrade will bring a lot

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I almost lost my phone number of 20 years, and here’s what I learned

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-28 19:00:40

Megan Ellis / Android Authority Earlier this month, I received a notification to make a chargeable call on my prepaid SIM card to avoid my number being de-activated. The notification comes whenever I’ve almost gone 90 days without making a chargeable transaction on the network and it serves to keep my number alive. I’ve been able to reliably do this since 2017 when I first switched my mobile plan from a contract to prepaid. But between switching phones and no longer having a copy of the SMS no

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Wireless Emergency Alerts system was used for the Texas floods – but several problems

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-02 05:02:06

Authorities came under fire when it was suggested there were no warnings of the flash floods in Texas, which resulted in at least 120 lives being lost, with many more people still missing. In fact, the Wireless Emergency Alerts system was used to send multiple warnings, but a number of issues meant that many Texans didn’t receive them or act on them – and a new report suggests that’s a hard problem to fix … Texas flood tragedy CNN reports that 120 people are confirmed to have died, and that t

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Anker Recalls More Power Banks: Here's How to Get a Free Replacement or Gift Card

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 20:28:00

Electronics company Anker expanded an official global recall of some of its Power Bank products, adding five more models to a recall of the Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 announced earlier in June. The recall was initiated following 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding. Anker's products are made in China. In addition to the June recall of the A1263 and a previous October 2024 recall of the A1642 PowerCore 10000, new products recalled are

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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?

news.ycombinator.com Arthur O Dwyer 2025-08-04 05:04:45

On StackExchange, someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind: Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back. Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. Calling a function is like making a phone call — we ask a question and get an answer from outside ourselves. The true answer seems to be the middle one — “calling” as in “calling up, summoning” — but indi

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How to protect your cell phone number from SIM swap attacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-08-04 13:00:00

It’s 2025, and cell phone numbers are ubiquitous. We use our phone numbers to sign up for websites and online services, from retail and banking to social media and health providers. You can use your phone number to reset a forgotten password, and even for receiving two-factor authentication codes for securely logging in to your accounts. But if someone can steal your phone number, they can effectively become you. With your phone number, a hacker can start gaining access to your online accounts

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Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-08-06 01:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to younger riders with the launch of teen accounts in Phoenix. Teenagers aged 14–17 can now sign up for an account on Waymo One, the company’s ridehail service. The account will be linked to their parent or guardian, but approved teens will be allowed to ride independently without an

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ASUS 14″ Laptop (8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) Nearly 50% Off for Best Buy’s Black Friday in July, Prime Day Isn’t Alone

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-07 21:50:37

The smartphone spent the last decade and a half slowly taking over the world to the point now where it is now the primary way most folks “go online,” whether that’s checking their email, staying up to date with their friends through social media, or accessing the internet for all sorts of various needs. I even know some folks who opt to not own a computer at all because they can get it all done with their phone. Though, there are still some tasks that are just way less of a hassle when using a l

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A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-13 15:34:42

We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, called Gord. (A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, named for the Higgs boson, a particle which was theorized in the 1960s but only found in 2013.) In this post I’ll walk you through the process I took to debug it. I tried to write down relevant details as they came up, so see if you can guess what the b

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Efficient set-membership filters and dictionaries based on SAT

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-11 17:10:57

INTRODUCTION This is a library for building and querying a compressed form of set-membership filters, named k-XORSAT filters. These filters can be used similar to how one would use a Bloom filter but with one restriction --- items cannot be added after the filter is built. So, this is an 'offline' or 'static' filter, whereas Bloom filters are considered 'online' or 'dynamic'. The advantage is that k-XORSAT filters achieve very near the optimal memory usage. That is, they use much less memory th

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iOS 26 Finally Lets Us Get Rid of the Horrid 9-Minute Snooze

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 14:00:06

In 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, a monumental device that became synonymous with the advancement of mobile technology. At the time, the iPhone included the 9-minute snooze, a dreadful and outdated alarm feature. The latest iPhones are bezel-free, can shoot 4K videos in slow-motion and we can unlock them with our faces, just to name a few of the many advancements that have been made over the past 18 years. These iPhones are a far cry from the original model Apple launched in 2007, and yet the

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Qantas data breach sees up to 6M customer records at risk

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-15 21:09:56

A Qantas data breach resulting from a cybersecurity attack has put up to 6M customer records at risk of exposure, with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth confirmed to be included. The hack was of a contact center database operated by one of the airline’s partners … Qantas says it is too early to determine how many customers have been affected, but says it expects it to be a “significant” proportion of the 6M total. On Monday, we detected unusual activity on a third party

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Qantas data breach exposes up to six million customer profiles

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-16 06:34:59

Qantas data breach exposes up to six million customer profiles 2 hours ago Share Save Tabby Wilson BBC News, Sydney Share Save Reuters The airline says there will be no impact to Qantas' operations Qantas is contacting customers after a cyber attack targeted their third-party customer service platform. On 30 June, the Australian airline detected "unusual activity" on a platform used by its contact centre to store the data of six million people, including names, email addresses, phone numbers,

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AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-17 13:36:28

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. AT&T is launching a new Account Lock feature that’s designed to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks. The feature, which you can enable from the myAT&T app, prevents unauthorized changes to your account, like phone number transfers, SIM card changes, and updates to billing information. SIM swapping attacks have become increasingly co

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Anker Recalls More Power Banks for Fire, Explosion Risk: How to Get a Free Replacement or Gift Card

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 01:19:39

Electronics company Anker expanded an official global recall of some of its Power Bank products, adding five more models to a recall of the Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 announced earlier in June. The recall was initiated following 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding. Anker's products are made in China. In addition to the June recall of the A1263 and a previous October 2024 recall of the A1642 PowerCore 10000, new products recalled are

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Show HN: Summle – A little maths Game

news.ycombinator.com Nick Nicholaou 2025-08-17 07:58:38

Make sums using the tiles at the bottom to reach the target number at the top, in 5 steps or fewer. Click numbers to add or remove them. Example You can use each number tile once. You may not need all the tiles. You can use yellow subtotal tiles in a new sum. There is at least one solution. New puzzle daily.

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Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition

wired.com Leila Sloman 2025-08-20 13:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first mathematical truths we learn is that 1 plus 1 equals 2. But mathematicians still have many unanswered questions about the kinds of patterns that addition can give rise to. “This is one of the most basic things you can do,” said Benjamin Bedert, a graduate student at the University of Oxford. “Somehow

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How much slower is random access, really?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 02:49:31

by Sam Estep, 2025-06-23 You may know that, because your computer has different caches (L1, L2, L3...), and memory operations operate on cache lines of about 64 bytes each, you should write programs that exhibit locality to get maximum performance. L1 L1 L1 L1 L1 L1 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L3 RAM (Disk not shown, of course.) But how well do you understand this idea? For instance, let's say you have an array of floating-point numbers, and an array of all the indices of the first array. You have a p

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Anker Recalls 1.1 Million Power Banks for Fires and Explosions: How to Get a Free Replacement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 13:09:00

Electronics company Anker has announced an official recall of Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263, following 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding. The Consumer Products Safety Commission reports that more than 1.1 million of the products sold in the US are affected by the recall. The company plans to replace the charging devices, but customers must submit photo evidence of ownership and also prove that they've disposed of the PowerCore device

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How many PhDs does world need? Doctoral graduates outnumber academia jobs

news.ycombinator.com Kwon 2025-08-30 01:08:11

More than 600,000 students were enrolled in PhD programmes in China in 2023.Credit: ChinaImages/Sipa USA via Alamy The number of doctoral graduates globally has been growing steadily over the past few decades. And in countries such as China and India, those numbers are exploding. Conventionally, the doctorate was a stepping stone to a lifelong career in academia. But today, the number of PhD graduates vastly exceeds the number of job openings at universities and research institutions. Research

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Learn you Galois fields for great good (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 06:21:25

Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good (00) Navigation | first | next Introduction This is the introduction to a series on Abstract Algebra. In particular, our focus will be on Galois Fields (also known as Finite Fields) and their applications in Computer Science. This is a project I've been excited about for many years now, but have been too busy to dedicate the adequate effort to meet my perfectionism standards (yay perfectionism!). Backstory Many moons back I was self-learning Galois Fie

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Mathematicians Hunting Prime Numbers Discover Infinite New Pattern

news.ycombinator.com Rachel Crowell 2025-08-29 19:28:29

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers. Primes are whole numbers that are greater than 1 and are divisible by only 1 and themselves. The three smallest prime numbers are 2, 3 and 5. It's easy to find out if small numbers are prime—one simply needs to check what numbers can factor them. When mathematicians consider large numbers, however, the

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Learn You Galois Fields for Great Good (00)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 21:21:25

Learn you Galois Fields for Great Good (00) Navigation | first | next Introduction This is the introduction to a series on Abstract Algebra. In particular, our focus will be on Galois Fields (also known as Finite Fields) and their applications in Computer Science. This is a project I've been excited about for many years now, but have been too busy to dedicate the adequate effort to meet my perfectionism standards (yay perfectionism!). Backstory Many moons back I was self-learning Galois Fie

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Scammers hijack real support pages to show fake phone numbers

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-03 09:09:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Bottom line: A recent warning from Malwarebytes explains that users searching for tech support phone numbers can encounter fake contact information, even when visiting the official websites of major brands. Users should carefully examine text appearing in support site search bars and approach sponsored Google search results with caution, if at all. Many people likely understand that they should ver

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iOS 26 Finally Lets Us Get Rid of the Abomination That Is the 9-Minute Snooze

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-04 12:00:00

In 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, a monumental device that became synonymous with the advancement of mobile technology. At that time, it also included a dreadful alarm feature: the 9-minute snooze. The latest iPhones are bezel-free, can shoot 4K videos in slow-motion and we can unlock these devices by looking at them, just to name a few of the many advancements that have been made over the past 18 years. These iPhones are a far cry from the original model Apple launched in 2007, and yet the al

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Anker Recalls 1.1 Million Power Banks for Fires and Explosions: What to Do if You're Affected

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 10:30:03

Electronics company Anker has announced an official recall of Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263, following 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding. The Consumer Products Safety Commission reports that more than 1.1 million of the products sold in the US are affected by the recall. The company plans to replace the charging devices, but customers must submit photo evidence of ownership and also prove that they've disposed of the PowerCore device

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Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights

news.ycombinator.com Author Notes 2025-09-02 23:25:22

The Nachtlichter app was developed within a project called Nachtlicht-BüHNE (Citizen-Helmholtz Network for research on night light phenomena)5, using a co-design process in which academic and citizen scientists met regularly over a several year period. Our co-design process, app methodology, site selection, systematic variability of the observations, data pre-processing and data structure have already been described in detail5. This section therefore briefly covers the data and validation and fo

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Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-06 01:10:45

Not the Apple page you're looking for “If I showed the [webpage] to my parents, I don't think they would be able to tell that this is fake,” Jérôme Segura, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, said in an interview. “As the user, if you click on those links, you think, ‘Oh I'm actually on the Apple website and Apple is recommending that I call this number.’” The unknown actors behind the scam begin by buying Google ads that appear at the top of search results for Microsoft, Apple,

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This upcoming iOS feature will make spam phone calls an issue of the past

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Anker Recalls More Power Banks: Here's How to Get a Free Replacement or Gift Card

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ASUS 14″ Laptop (8GB RAM, 128GB SSD) Nearly 50% Off for Best Buy’s Black Friday in July, Prime Day Isn’t Alone

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iOS 26 Finally Lets Us Get Rid of the Horrid 9-Minute Snooze

Qantas data breach sees up to 6M customer records at risk

Qantas data breach exposes up to six million customer profiles

AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks

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Show HN: Summle – A little maths Game

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How many PhDs does world need? Doctoral graduates outnumber academia jobs

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Scammers hijack real support pages to show fake phone numbers

iOS 26 Finally Lets Us Get Rid of the Abomination That Is the 9-Minute Snooze

Anker Recalls 1.1 Million Power Banks for Fires and Explosions: What to Do if You're Affected

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights

Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.

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