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Scientists Fed One Group of People Ultraprocessed Foods and Another Group Whole Foods, and the Difference in What Happened to Them Was Wild

As the industrial food system pushes ultraprocessed foods to every corner of the globe, new research shows that even seemingly healthy packaged meals may fall short of the benefits offered by whole, minimally processed foods. A fascinating new study published in Nature Medicine dove into the real-world effects ultraprocessed foods have on the human body. Following a six-month clinical trial involving 55 volunteers, researchers at the University College London found that eating minimally process

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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

Nintendo designed a Playdate-like crank for the Switch 2

Nintendo has eyed adding a Playdate-style crank to the Switch 2, according to a recently spotted patent from Nintendo Patents Watch. The hypothetical accessory would add tracking rotational movement to an existing bag of Joy-Con 2 controller tricks that includes motion and mouse controls. Based on the patent application, the crank accessory attaches to the side of a Joy-Con 2 magnetically, not unlike the controllers' wrist straps. Whichever game supports the accessory can use the Joy-Con 2's mo

Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people

August 4, 2025 About half of the public consider the cost of groceries to be a major source of stress in their life right now, and 19% of those concerned have used deferred payment services to fund groceries at some point. Overall, 29% of the public have ever used deferred payment services, sometimes called Buy Now Pay Later, for health care, entertainment, groceries, or restaurant meals. Use of these services is higher among adults under age 45 compared with older adults. People experiencing

Turn your AirPods Max into a masterpiece with Casetify’s new headphone wrap

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify’s new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a “silk-like te

Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64

500 virtual Linux devices on ARM 64 Underjord is an artisanal consultancy doing consulting in Elixir, Nerves with an accidental speciality in marketing and outreach. If you like the writing you should really try the pro version. This is the first part of an experimental journey as I explore how many instances of my favorite IoT framework I can run on the 192 core Ampere One. Background I work on the Nerves project which is an IoT framework providing best-practice underpinnings and support so

Beware of promptware: How researchers broke into Google Home via Gemini

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Researchers demonstrated a way to hack Google Home devices via Gemini. Google put additional safeguards in place for Gemini in response. Keeping your devices up-to-date on security patches is the best protection. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to maliciously control your home and life is one of the main reasons why many are reluctant to adopt the new technology -- it's downright scary. Almost as scary as having your smart devi

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

In June, Google said it unearthed a campaign that was mass-compromising accounts belonging to customers of Salesforce. The means: an attacker pretending to be someone in the customer's IT department feigning some sort of problem that required immediate access to the account. Two months later, Google has disclosed that it, too, was a victim. The series of hacks are being carried out by financially motivated threat actors out to steal data in hopes of selling it back to the targets at sky-high pr

FCC Democrat: Trump admin is declaring “Mission Accomplished” on broadband

The Federal Communications Commission is hamstringing its upcoming review of broadband availability by ignoring the prices consumers must pay for Internet service, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez said in a statement yesterday. "Some point to existing law to argue that availability is the only metric Congress allows to measure broadband deployment success. But the law does not require this agency to view broadband availability with one eye closed and the other one half-open," said Gomez, the only De

Researchers used Gemini to break into Google Home - here's how

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Researchers demonstrated a way to hack Google Home devices via Gemini. Google put additional safeguards in place for Gemini in response. Keeping your devices up-to-date on security patches is the best protection. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to maliciously control your home and life is one of the main reasons why many are reluctant to adopt the new technology -- it's downright scary. Almost as scary as having your smart devi

Battlefield 6 Beta Is Live Now: How to Join Early Access

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and can join the fray today. Battlefield 6's first public beta is live right now for those with early access and will be available on two consecutive weekends. It's not too late to get join in, and here's how. The Battlefield 6 open betas will be the first chances for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oct. 10. Those with early access can begin playing rig

7 common household devices to unplug to save money on your electricity bill

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

A Sonos Price Hike Is About to Make a Bad Situation Even Worse

As a company, there are lots of things you can do when people are upset with your product. You could offer concessions (discounts in an effort to drive demand), swap your CEO (that’s a statement and a vibe shift), or you could pledge to do better and actually fix issues making people upset (imagine that!). One thing I would not recommend doing when times are tough, however, is raising prices, but Sonos seems to have been forced into this exact scenario. According to Sonos’ newish CEO, Tom Conra

Amazon's cloud business giving federal agencies up to $1 billion in discounts

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. federal agencies with up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization and training through 2028, an agency overseeing government procurement announced Thursday. The agreement is expected to speed up migration to the cloud, as well as adoption of artificial intelligence tools, the General Services Adm

Here’s when to look for One UI 8 beta on your Galaxy S24 and S23

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A noted tipster has suggested One UI 8 beta rollout dates for the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S23 series. The Galaxy S24 is reported to receive its One UI 8 beta update on August 13. Samsung has already confirmed that the beta updates will be live in the US, the UK, South Korea, and India. After a stretched-out transition from One UI 6 to One UI 7, Samsung jumped too quickly to the next version upgrade. and released One UI 8 last month alongside its latest fol

Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)

The substance behind the “Rules” was scarcely new. Franklin had, in more sober fashion, made almost every point before. He touched hardly at all upon the constitutional issues that the Bostonians had set boiling, no doubt because they were difficult to treat satirically; but he marshaled most of the other themes that were his stock in trade as a controversialist. Some related to the colonies in general, some to Massachusetts in particular, and they ran the gamut from old trade restrictions and n

Wi-Fi 8 Focuses on Reliability Over Speed to Handle Advanced AI Experiences

Only one in 50 homes in the US currently uses a Wi-Fi 7 router, but the next generation of wireless routers is already on the way. New details on Wi-Fi 8 were just released by Qualcomm, with the standard expected to be finalized in 2028. While Wi-Fi 7 is all about speed, increasing the maximum amount of data that could be transmitted from 2.4Gbps to 5.8Gbps, Wi-Fi 8 will focus on improving reliability. The initiative is being called Ultra High Reliability, and it states its goal as making conne

Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773)

The substance behind the “Rules” was scarcely new. Franklin had, in more sober fashion, made almost every point before. He touched hardly at all upon the constitutional issues that the Bostonians had set boiling, no doubt because they were difficult to treat satirically; but he marshaled most of the other themes that were his stock in trade as a controversialist. Some related to the colonies in general, some to Massachusetts in particular, and they ran the gamut from old trade restrictions and n

Sonos products are about to get more expensive

Sonos is synonymous with premium audio gear, and soon, some of that gear will carry an even more premium price tag. Chris Welch reports for Bloomberg that Sonos plans to increase prices on at least some of its products. The reason is no surprise: tariffs. Sonos Inc. will raise prices on some products later this year, the company said Wednesday, a move that threatens to complicate its comeback attempt following a tumultuous 2024. The price increases are a response to the latest tariffs levied b

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT to the government for $1

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors' "Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference" at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2025. OpenAI on Wednesday announced it will offer its ChatGPT Enterprise product to U.S. federal agencies for $1 through the next year, making its technology available to the federal executive branch workforce at "essentially no cost." The company has been working to deepen its ties to lawmak

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

These 7 common household items were draining power all day - until I pulled the plug

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

iOS 26 upgrades the App Store with these three new features

iOS 26 will bring big feature updates to apps like Wallet, Music, Messages, and more. But there are also several new features coming to the App Store, here’s what’s new in iOS 26. #1: Top Played Games chart iOS 26 adds a brand new Games app to your iPhone’s Home Screen, and to complement the new gaming features, Apple is adding a ‘Top Played Games’ chart to the App Store. When viewing the Games tab in the App Store, you’ll find a new chart showing the current top 25 played games. This data i

Disney+ will unhinge its jaw and swallow Hulu in 2026

It’s almost the end of the road for Hulu as a standalone app. Now that it fully owns Hulu , Disney will entirely integrate the streaming service into Disney+. It will roll out a new, unified app next year. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the price of a Disney+ subscription is going to skyrocket in 2026. A Disney spokesperson told Variety the company will still offer standalone plans for Disney+ and Hulu. Disney CEO Bob Igor said on an earnings call that having Disney+ and Hulu on the same t

My go-to custom Pixel and Galaxy Watch face is down to $0.49 (plus more faces on sale)

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Renn, my current favorite watch face on my Pixel Watch 3, is down from $1.99 to $0.49. There’s also a 50% discount on four other faces: Pacer, Acontria, Patrol, and Revana. All down to $0.99. All faces are optimized for Wear OS 5 and 6 watches like the Pixel Watch 3, Galaxy Watch 7 or 8, and OnePlus Watch 3. If you scroll through all the watch faces I’ve installed on my Pixel Watch 3, you’ll find that 90% of them are made by one developer: Time Flies

In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they switched to a diet that included ultraprocessed versions of foods but was otherwise nutritionally matched. The trial, published in Nature Medicine by researchers at University College London, adds to a growing body of evidence that food processing, in addition to simple nutrition content, influences our weight and health. Ultraprocessed foods hav

TP-Link’s new travel router delivers Wi-Fi 7 speeds

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Connecting to free airport or hotel Wi-Fi can often be a time-consuming and frustrating task that doesn’t seem worth the effort for a bag full of wireless devices. TP-Link has announced its first Wi-Fi 7 travel router, providing up to a total of 3.6 Gbps of b

Intel's next-gen manufacturing process is reportedly still struggling

Intel is reportedly still struggling with a chipmaking process crucial to its future. Reuters reports that the company's 18A process is still producing low yields and high defect rates. Intel has invested billions of dollars in the manufacturing process, on which it's pinned its hopes of gaining ground on TSMC. This isn't the first concerning news about 18A. Last year, a report stated that Broadcom was unhappy with the results of a test run for a potential order. However, Intel insisted at the