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SAVE Borrowers, Your Student Loans Will Start Accruing Interest Again on Aug. 1: What to Know

Getty Images/Zooey Liao/CNET It looks like time has run out for the nearly 8 million student loan borrowers enrolled in SAVE. The US Department of Education announced that loans will resume accruing interest on Aug. 1. Borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education Plan, a product of the Biden administration, have been in limbo since June 2024, when Republican opponents challenged the plan and later struck down by a federal court. Since then, borrowers have had their loans placed in

X CEO Linda Yaccarino is now X’s ex-CEO

Linda Yaccarino has announced that she’s stepping down as CEO of X, a little over two years after being tapped by Elon Musk to lead the platform formerly known as Twitter. Here’s what she had to say. ‘Two incredible years’ In a post on X earlier today, Yaccarino reflected on her time at the company, thanking users, business partners, and the team for what she described as “two incredible years” at the helm: After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏. When @elonmusk a

Confusion reigns over T-Mobile’s free DashPass perk eligibility, here’s what we know

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is offering subscribers on select postpaid plans a free one-year DoorDash DashPass subscription via the T-Life app. There’s conflicting information about eligible plans between public FAQs and customer service. Subscribers whose plans are listed in the FAQ but don’t see the offer can contact T-Mobile for a potential bill credit. T-Mobile has rolled out an offer through the T-Life app, allowing subscribers to get a free year of DoorDash DashPass.

A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously thought a star like this could not have large planets circulating it, because its mass is only about 20 percent of the sun, meaning its planetary system—generated from materials surrounding the star—would not have contained enough mass to form a giant body like Saturn or Jupiter. But when observi

Grow a Garden Calculator

What is Grow a Garden Calculator? The Grow a Garden Calculator is a comprehensive tool designed specifically for Roblox's popular game "Grow a Garden". This advanced calculator helps players accurately determine plant values based on various game mechanics including weight, mutations, friend bonuses, and other multipliers. Our Grow a Garden Calculator serves as an essential resource for players who want to maximize their profits and make informed decisions about their garden investments. As the

We have a surprising underwater ally in combatting climate change: zooplankton

Odds are you aren't too familiar with the group of animals called zooplankton, which include copepods, krill and salps. On land, they're most commonly used as fish food. Underwater, however, they've been quietly making a substantial contribution to slowing global warming. The BBC reported on the latest research into zooplankton by an international team, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography , that detailed just how much these tiny critters have been impacting the planet's temperatu

Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant

BAZ - AI Meal Planning & Recipe Chat Assistant Transform your eating habits with BAZ's AI-powered meal planning and recipe discovery assistant. Create custom meal plans, discover healthy recipes, and get detailed nutritional analysis tailored to your dietary goals and preferences. Features: AI-powered meal planning recommendations Personalized recipe suggestions Comprehensive nutritional analysis Diet-specific meal plans (keto, vegan, gluten-free, etc.) Interactive chat interface Ingredi

Frontier is helping Arbor build a “vegetarian rocket engine” to power data centers

Frontier, the organization backed by Stripe, Google, and Meta, announced Tuesday it is paying startup Arbor Energy to remove 116,000 tons of carbon dioxide by the end of the decade. The deal gives Arbor $41 million to help it build its first commercial-scale power plant in southern Louisiana that will burn waste biomass to generate electricity for a data center. At the same time, it’ll sequester the resulting CO 2 , shipping it via pipeline to be buried deep underground. “We are able to market

Tulum Energy rediscovered a forgotten hydrogen tech and used it to raise $27M

It was a mistake that was ahead of its time. Between 2002 and 2005, engineers with the Techint Group were trying to dial in a new electric arc furnace for a steelmaker when they noticed something odd. The carbon electrodes, rather than breaking down, were growing larger. The team had inadvertently created what’s known as a pyrolysis reaction, which is basically burning something in the absence of oxygen. In this case, the furnace was splitting methane into pure hydrogen and pure carbon. The te

Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users

The CEO of Anysphere, the company behind the popular AI-powered coding environment Cursor, apologized Friday for a poorly communicated pricing change to its $20-per-month Pro plan. The changes resulted in some users complaining that they unexpectedly faced additional costs. “We recognize that we didn’t handle this pricing rollout well and we’re sorry,” said Anysphere CEO Michael Truell in a blog post. “Our communication was not clear enough and came as a surprise to many of you.” Truell is ref

Student Loan Repayment Plans Will Last as Long as Most Mortgages. How Much the New Budget Bill Will Cost You

The Republican-led policy bill cuts repayment plans to two options for future borrowers. Getty Images/Zooey Liao/CNET The Republican-led "One Big Beautiful Bill" was signed into law by President Donald Trump last week, which will result in major changes to student loans, including fewer repayment options, caps on borrowing and new rules for Pell Grants. The nearly 900-page bill means a lot of changes for taxes and Medicare, but its impact on higher education could alter how colleges operate an

Best Cheap Internet Providers for July 2025

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Nomad eSIM is the summer travel essential you didn’t know you needed — and we have exclusive discounts!

Paul Jones / Android Authority With summer in full swing, many of us are contemplating crowded airports, last-minute packing, and the excitement of finally ticking off those long-awaited destinations. But amid the rush to remember your passport and whether you locked the front door, there’s one detail that’s easy to overlook: how you’re going to stay connected once you land. A working internet connection abroad isn’t the luxury it once was. Not only do we want to keep in touch and ensure our s

TikTok’s Escape Plan May Be a Brand New App

TikTok’s time in the U.S. may be running out, but the company has a dramatic plan to save itself. The social media giant is reportedly building a completely new version of its app for users in the United States, according to a report from The Information on Sunday, which cited anonymous sources. This new app, reportedly codenamed “M2,” is being developed ahead of a planned sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations to a group of American investors. According to the report, the company has a tentative pla

How often is the query plan optimal?

The basic promise of a query optimizer is that it picks the “optimal” query plan. But there’s a catch - the plan selection relies on cost estimates, calculated from selectivity estimates and cost of basic resources (I/O, CPU, …). So the question is, how often do we actually pick the “fastest” plan? And the truth is we actually make mistakes quite often. Consider the following chart, with durations of a simple SELECT query with a range condition. The condition is varied to match different fracti

Visible Promo Code: Save Up to $300 in July 2025

Visible offers access to Verizon’s network in two unlimited plans for as low as $25 per month, with unlimited data, talk and text using Verizon’s 5G & 4G LTE networks, and unlimited talk and text to Mexico and Canada. Buying a new phone and signing up for a new phone contract can be super overwhelming—with all of the options available, confusing contract terms, and hidden fees making things more complicated. Visible makes it easy to save even more on their already affordable plans, and you can e

What Is Apple One? A Breakdown of Plans, Pricing, and Included Services

Big tech companies are always looking for new ways to tie us into their ecosystems, but there is something to be said for the simplicity of a single monthly subscription. Apple One bundles several Apple services into one payment, which is cheaper than subscribing to the same services individually. If you already subscribe to Apple Fitness+ and News+, it’s a great deal for you. The question is whether it can entice anyone using a mix of first- and third-party services to switch completely to Appl

GOP Budget Bill Reduces Student Loan Repayment Options and Limits Borrowing. What You Need to Know

Republican lawmakers have proposed major changes to student loans, which would affect current and future borrowers. Liudmila Chernetska/Getty Images/CNET Congress is one step closer to passing federal student loan changes in the Republican-led "One Big Beautiful Bill." The Senate narrowly passed its version of the budget bill earlier this week, and it is now back in the House. If the House does decide to pass the bill as is -- and there could be more amendments, so nothing is final -- borrower

Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing

Let’s start with fusion: Google’s deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems is intended to provide the tech giant with 200 megawatts of power. This will come from Commonwealth’s first commercial plant, a facility planned for Virginia that the company refers to as the Arc power plant. The agreement represents half its capacity. What’s important to note here is that this power plant doesn’t exist yet. In fact, Commonwealth still needs to get its Sparc demonstration reactor, located outside Boston, up

Best Cellphone Plans of 2025: Our Top Picks

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you're feeling overwhelmed when evaluating all the phone plan options out there, you're not alone -- and it's not an accident. Carriers need to appeal to every type of customer, from people who want all the options to those who need only a small slice of features on a budget. We've put together recommendations from major carri

There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) (2021)

So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization, the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into crabs? You say you get it now? Sit down. Sit down. Shut up. Listen. You don’t know nothing yet. “Trees” are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the evolutionary tree of plants, trees are regularly interspersed with things that are absolutely, 100% not trees. This means that, for instance, either: The common ancestor of a maple and a m

Best Internet Providers in Irvine, California

What is the best internet provider in Irvine? According to CNET experts, AT&T Fiber is the best internet provider in Irvine. It offers the fastest speeds in the area, with upload speeds as fast as download speeds. Although Google Fiber provides comparable speeds, AT&T's plans are overall more affordable and have received higher ratings in customer satisfaction surveys. If you can’t get AT&T or Google Fiber at your address, Cox has the broadest coverage in Irvine, and some neighborhoods even ha

Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan

Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for its power users, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The plan, Perplexity Max, offers unlimited access to the startup’s spreadsheet and report generation tool, Labs, as well as early access to new features, including Perplexity’s forthcoming AI-powered browser, Comet. Max subscribers will also get priority access to any Perplexity services using the latest frontier models, such as OpenAI o3-pro and Claude Opus 4. With the

‘Death Wish’ Planet Actively Triggers Destructive Flares From Its Host Star

A young, energetic star has had just about enough of its clingy planet. The pair are mired in a toxic relationship, with the planet sending waves of energy toward the star—and the host star is responding with violent explosions that are destroying its planet over time. Using the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cheops mission, a team of astronomers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy gathered evidence for the first known exoplanet with an apparent death wish. In a paper published We

Building a Personal AI Factory

Building a Personal AI Factory (July 2025 snapshot) Published: July 1, 2025 Overview I keep several claude code windows open, each on its own git-worktree. o3 and sonnet 4 create plans, sonnet 3.7 or sonnet 4 execute the plan, and o3 checks the results against the original ask. Any issues found are fed back into the plan template and the code is regenerated. The factory improves itself. Read on to see what might be useful for you. Guiding Principle – Fix Inputs, Not Outputs When something

White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act

In another sign that the Trump White House is aggressively moving to slash NASA’s science programs, dozens of mission leaders have been asked to prepare "closeout" plans by the end of next week. The new directive came from NASA's senior leadership on Monday, which is acting on behalf of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Copies of these memos, which appear to vary a little by department, were reviewed by Ars. The detailed closeout plans called for must be prepared by as soon as Ju

T-Mobile’s Ultra Mobile brand revamps its plans, but who are they for?

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Ultra Mobile has updated its plans to include more data and enhanced international calling and roaming features. Customers can save even more by choosing 3, 6, or 12-month payment options, which offer discounts of up to 30% per month. Ultra Mobile is a strong option for those who frequently call or travel internationally, though there are other options that might be worth considering, like Google Fi. T-Mobile has been gradually updating its plans acr

The $799 Nothing Phone 3 has four 50MP cameras and a secondary micro-LED display

The wait is over. Nothing has officially announced the Phone 3, its first flagship smartphone since entering the market in 2022. Nothing CEO Carl Pei said the company would go "all-in" on the Phone 3 with "premium materials, major performance upgrades and software that really levels things up," and the device Nothing showed off at its launch event in London certainly seems like it will be competitive with the best from Samsung and other Android OEMs. In a departure from the company's previous h

PlanetScale for Postgres

Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres By Sam Lambert | July 1, 2025 Today we are announcing the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres: the world’s fastest Postgres hosting platform. You can request access to PlanetScale for Postgres by visiting this link. We are already hosting customers' production workloads with incredible results. Convex, the complete backend solution for app developers, is migrating their reactive database infrastructure to PlanetScale for Postgres. Read more about t

Benchmarking Postgres

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal, Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Benchmarking Postgres By Benjamin Dicken | July 1, 2025 Today we launched PlanetScale for Postgres. For the past several months, we've been laser focused on building the best Postgres experience on the planet, performance included. To ensure we met our high standard for database performance, we needed a way to measure and compare other options with a standardized, repeatable, and fair method