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Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:56:27

For decades now, the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise has been associated with Microsoft's own DOS/Windows operating systems and, more recently, Xbox consoles (weird exceptions like this 1986 Macintosh port notwithstanding). However, that era seems set to end as Sony announced during this evening's State of Play livestream that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will come to the PlayStation 5 on December 8. Credit: Sony No, that's not a typo. No, that's not a typo. Credit: Sony The move isn't

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Microsoft Flight Simulator becomes a Sony flight simulator on PS5 this December

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 20:56:27

For decades now, the Microsoft Flight Simulator franchise has been associated with Microsoft's own DOS/Windows operating systems and, more recently, Xbox consoles (weird exceptions like this 1986 Macintosh port notwithstanding). However, that era seems set to end as Sony announced during this evening's State of Play livestream that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will come to the PlayStation 5 on December 8. Credit: Sony No, that's not a typo. No, that's not a typo. Credit: Sony The move isn't

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme could be the fastest chips for Windows

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:30:18

TL;DR Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips feature a 75% faster CPU than Windows competitors. The top-end Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the first ARM-compatible CPU to reach 5.0GHz on its Prime core. The new chips boast improved power efficiency and an updated NPU for on-device AI. Qualcomm has been making chips for laptops for some time, but the Snapdragon X Elite launched in 2023 was one of its most ambitious attempts, thanks to the custom ARM-based Oryon CPU cores. Qualcomm is refresh

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Here are 9 upcoming Android phones with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:30:34

Qualcomm has just announced the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, which sports gains across the CPU, GPU, and NPU and supports the APV codec for higher-quality video capture. This new SoC is expected to be present in top Android flagships throughout the remainder of this year and next, with confirmed manufacturers including ASUS, HONOR, iQOO, nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, POCO, realme, REDMAGIC, Redmi, Samsung, Sony, vivo, Xiaomi, and ZTE. If you’re wondering what phones we can expect with the SoC, here

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Next-gen Windows PC may surpass M4 MacBooks thanks to this chipset - here's what's coming

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-10-14 00:30:43

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET At its recent Summit 2025 event, Qualcomm took the stage to announce its next generation of laptop chipsets: the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. I've been closely following Qualcomm's journey through the laptop industry since the company launched the first generation of Snapdragon hardware back in 2024. These chipsets perfectly balance performance with energy efficiency, allowing host computers to last all day long. Judging from preliminary information

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU Is Another Stab at Burying Intel

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-14 00:30:12

Qualcomm’s nascent push into PCs now has the sequel chip that will set the tone for what to expect from Windows-based machines going into 2026. This year, Qualcomm doesn’t have just one flagship CPU; it has two. Announced at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Qualcomm, and Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip), the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (a name that, if you say it, immediately cues

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Qualcomm's Big Compute Play: An 18-Core Chip Capable of 80 TOPS for AI Power

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 00:30:03

At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Maui, the chipmaker unveiled its next big play for the Windows PC market. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and more powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme are a pair of chips built for efficiency and high performance to rival Intel and AMD's leading laptop silicon. Qualcomm announced its first Snapdragon X Elite system-on-a-chip two years ago, which featured the debut of the in-house Oryon CPU that enabled high enough performance in PC laptops to compete in power e

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Flesh-eating parasite just 70 miles from US; check pets, Texas officials say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 00:45:28

Texas officials are telling residents to check their pets and livestock, and insisting on immediate use of pesticide bait after officials in Mexico confirmed an infection with the flesh-eating New World Screwworm (NWS) less than 70 miles from the US border. NWS is a horrifying parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals, laying hundreds of eggs in any openings or wounds, even minute ones. The resulting larvae both look and act like screws, boring and twisting into the animal while feasting

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The Pixel Watch app just got a makeover you might actually notice

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 04:30:23

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A Pixel Watch app update introduces a new blue-purple icon with a more realistic design. The update also adds a story-style carousel highlighting Fitbit, Gemini, Wallet, and more. Menus and the Tiles screen now use Material 3 Expressive containers for a cleaner look. Google is still giving the Pixel Watch ecosystem a fresh coat of paint. The latest Pixel Watch companion-app update introduces a new icon and spreads more of the Material 3 Expressive sty

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Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-14 04:44:31

In Brief Zoox has asked federal regulators for an exemption that would allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company to commercially deploy its custom-built robotaxis, which lack traditional controls like pedals and a steering wheel. The exemption request was first reported by Bloomberg. A Zoox spokesperson confirmed that it has submitted a petition for a “555 exemption” and continues to work closely with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration through this new exemption process

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Bowers & Wilkins' Px8 S2 headphones have updated drivers, improved ANC and a new look

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:19:13

Bowers & Wilkins just released the Px8 S2 wireless headphones, a follow-up to the well-reviewed original Px8 cans. This new entry brings a bevy of updated features, many of which were pulled from the recently-released Px7 S3 headphones. They feature new audio drivers, a built-in digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an improved digital signal processor (DSP.) This allows for a 24-bit/96 kHz high-resolution audio signal. The headphones can handle high-res audio from streaming services like Tidal

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Kali Linux 2025.3 released with 10 new tools, wifi enhancements

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:30:02

Kali Linux has released version 2025.3, the third version of 2025, featuring ten new tools, Nexmon support, and NetHunter improvements. Kali Linux is a distribution created for cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers to conduct red team exercises, penetration testing, security audits, and research against networks. New tool added to Kali Linux 2025.3 As with every release, Kali Linux comes with new toys to play with. With this release, we have ten new tools, which are listed below:

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Giving users choice with Cloudflare's new Content Signals Policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:20:49

6 min read If we want to keep the web open and thriving, we need more tools to express how content creators want their data to be used while allowing open access. Today the tradeoff is too limited. Either website operators keep their content open to the web and risk people using it for unwanted purposes, or they move their content behind logins and limit their audience. To address the concerns our customers have today about how their content is being used by crawlers and data scrapers, we are

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Just let me select text

news.ycombinator.com Artyom Bologov 2025-10-14 08:56:37

Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person! Untranslatable Bios # I’m lonely. Like everyone-ish else. Naturally, I’m on Bumble. (Because Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.) When work calls get boring I inevitably start swiping (mostly left 😢) There are lots of tourists in Armenia in the summer. From all over the world really. Speaking a stupefying range of languages. With bios and prompt answers in these numerous languages. Not necessarily discernibl

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Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 12:08:28

With those games excluded, SonixLegend's collection actually encompasses the vast majority of the 45,000 or so "full profile" paid games tracked by SteamDB. But with thousands of new games being released on Steam every year, it might not be long until a badge for 50,000 owned games becomes a real possibility. So what’s good? It's hard to gauge just how much of SonixLegend's massive Steam collection officially counts as a "backlog" since their private account doesn't offer a public breakdown of

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Cisco warns of IOS zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 16:52:50

Cisco has released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software that is currently being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-20352, the flaw is due to a stack-based buffer overflow weakness found in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of vulnerable IOS and IOS XE software, impacting all devices with SNMP enabled. Authenticated, remote attackers with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability to trigger denial-of

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Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 16:48:27

Hey HN, I’m Jash, cofounder of Flywheel AI ( https://useflywheel.ai ) and formerly https://remoteteleop.com . My cofounder, Mahimana Bhatt, built ML data and eval pipeline at autonomous driving company Motional. We’re building remote teleop and autonomous stack for excavators. Interfacing with existing excavators for enabling remote teleop (or autonomy) is hard. Unlike cars which use drive-by-wire technology, most of the millions of excavators are fully hydraulic machines. The joysticks are con

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VR Headsets Are Better Than Ever and No One Seems to Care

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-14 16:00:16

If mixed reality and virtual reality are still a big thing, you wouldn’t know it based on Meta’s Connect conference last week. There were no big Quest announcements (outside of maybe Hyperscape), no new Quest headset, and it felt like the only time Meta (traditionally the loudest and proudest purveyor of XR out there) really tackled XR and VR was through a surprise, and slightly out of place, fireside chat with… Avatar director, James Cameron. That would make sense if XR and VR headsets have fa

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This is my all-time Linux distro - and I've tried them all

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-14 20:14:18

elementary OS is as easy to use as it is classy. Jack Wallen\ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Over the years, one Linux distribution has risen above the rest. That distribution is based on Ubuntu, so it's user-friendly. The best of the best is equal parts beauty and usability. Ubuntu (and all of its spins), Fedora (and all of its spins), Red Hat (before Fedora was a thing), openSUSE, Linux Mint, Arch, Gentoo, Pop!_OS… The list goes on. Als

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Japanese Probe That Famously Sent Fictional Pop Star to Venus Is Officially Dead

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-14 20:30:02

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our neighboring planet’s orbit. Earlier this week, JAXA determined that the recovery of its Venus probe was unlikely, prompting it to formally end the 15-year-old mission. Akatsuki, which translates to “dawn” in Japanese, launched on May 21, 2010, to study weather patterns on Venus and confirm the presence of li

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Best Backpacking Stove (2025): MSR, Jetboil, Firebox

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-14 20:30:00

MSR's PocketRocket Series has long been a favorite of backpackers looking to save weight. Our pick of the bunch is the PocketRocket Deluxe, which has a larger burner area (spreading out the flame, and leading to faster boil times and better fuel efficiency, especially with larger pots), and fared better in the wind. The genius of the deluxe model is the small curved lip around the burner, which helps keep wind from getting to the base of the flame. It's a small difference, and you still want a w

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Samsung’s latest Galaxy earbuds come with a free Galaxy SmartTag2 tracker

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-10-14 20:15:00

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. Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 FE were released earlier this month for $149.99. The company hasn’t yet knocked down the price, but it’s including a free Galaxy SmartTag 2 at Amazon. The bundle saves you $30 and is available until September 28th. Samsung says both items may ship separately, so don’t worry if you receive one before the oth

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Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-14 20:00:15

Waymo’s ever-expanding robotaxi aspirations have spread to the corporate world. The Alphabet-owned self-driving vehicle unit has launched “Waymo for Business,” a new service designed for companies to set up accounts so their employees can access robotaxis in cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Waymo announced Wednesday in a blog post it is inviting organizations to sign up for Waymo for Business. The new a service will let businesses subsidize their employees’ rides or purchas

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UK arrests suspect for RTX ransomware attack causing airport disruptions

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 23:55:48

The UK's National Crime Agency has arrested a suspect linked to a ransomware attack that is causing widespread disruptions across European airports. The NCA stated that the arrest was made following an investigation into the cyberattack that impacted Collins Aerospace's Multi-User System Environment (MUSE) passenger processing software. "NCA officers, supported by the South East ROCU, arrested a man in his forties in West Sussex yesterday evening on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences,"

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Why I put my Bose QuietComfort Ultra away shortly after trying these headphones

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-15 00:18:00

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 are available in Onyx Black and Warm Stone for $799. They excel in the design and sound categories, thanks to their high-quality internal and external build materials Unless you value exceptional details in design and sound, a $799 asking price may be hard to justify. View now at Bowers & Wilkins Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Few headphones perfectly blend design, sound quality, and everyday uti

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I put away my iPad and Kindle just hours after testing this tablet (and it's cheap)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-15 00:48:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Tab 10 Nxtpaper 5G is a full-color, color paper, and ink paper tablet available at Verizon for $239. It's a great entertainment tablet for daily use that also functions very well as an e-reader. Although the screen is versatile, don't expect the graphics to compare to those on an iPad or other high-end tablets. View now at Verizon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Reading has always been my favorite way to unwind before bed, and for 13 years,

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How HubSpot Scaled AI Adoption

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 00:42:49

This post is intended to be the first in a series about empowering product, UX, and engineering teams with AI. We’re going to focus on how we’ve approached and scaled the use of AI in the context of writing code. AI has fundamentally transformed how we build software at HubSpot. Over the past two years, we've gone from cautious experimentation to achieving near universal adoption of AI coding tools across our engineering organization. This transformation didn't happen overnight. It required st

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Just Let Me Select Text

news.ycombinator.com Artyom Bologov 2025-10-14 23:56:37

Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person! Untranslatable Bios # I’m lonely. Like everyone-ish else. Naturally, I’m on Bumble. (Because Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.) When work calls get boring I inevitably start swiping (mostly left 😢) There are lots of tourists in Armenia in the summer. From all over the world really. Speaking a stupefying range of languages. With bios and prompt answers in these numerous languages. Not necessarily discernibl

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Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-15 00:05:19

Google’s latest AI project ventures into Pinterest’s territory, as the company announced the launch of Mixboard, software that enables anyone to create AI-powered mood boards. The service competes with Pinterest’s collage feature, where users create mood boards using their favorite Pins and other images. With Mixboard, however, there’s no need to have an established image collection to pull ideas from. Instead, users can start their own project using text prompts to have AI fill in the ideas.

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UK arrests man linked to ransomware attack that caused airport disruptions across Europe

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-15 00:25:00

The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a man was arrested in connection to the ransomware attack that has caused delays and disruptions at several European airports since the weekend. The hack, which began Friday, targeted check-in systems provided by Collins Aerospace, causing delays at Brussels, Berlin, and Dublin airports, as well as London’s Heathrow, which lasted until yesterday. While the NCA did not name the arrested man, the agency said he is “in his forties” and

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Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December

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Japanese Probe That Famously Sent Fictional Pop Star to Venus Is Officially Dead

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