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Exclusive 4th of July Offer: 1TB to 10TB Lifetime Cloud Storage at a Huge Discount

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-10 23:00:12

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Alaskan Woman’s Death From Gonorrhea Sparks Fears of a New Strain

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-12 09:25:42

A well-known sexually transmitted infection might be causing more trouble than usual in Alaska. Local health officials this week have reported the death of a woman in her 50s from a rare complication of gonorrhea that’s becoming increasingly more common in the state. On Monday, the Alaska Department of Health detailed the tragic death in its latest epidemiology bulletin. The woman died from an untreated gonorrhea infection that had spread widely throughout her body. Health officials are worried

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-02-13 04:55:11

AI slop is flooding every single digital platform, and music streaming services are no exception—so much so, even someone who generally avoids AI might find themselves unknowingly listening to a robot hornily singing about butts. Take the sordid saga of “Make Love to My Shitter,” an AI-generated track from an artist called BannedVinylCollection. Brace Belden, a host of the popular politics podcast TrueAnon, says that Spotify recently queued up the bawdy song after he’d finished listening to alt

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Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-13 15:28:48

Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI 33 minutes ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Reuters Microsoft has confirmed that it will lay off as many as 9,000 workers, in the technology giant's latest wave of job cuts this year. The company said several divisions would be affected without specifying which ones but reports suggest that its Xbox video gaming unit will be hit. Microsoft has set o

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Teen drivers spend 21% of the time looking at their phones, reveals alarming study [Video]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-02-13 15:04:20

A alarming new study has found that som teen drivers in the US spend as much as 21% of their time at the wheel looking at their phones, creating a substantial risk of distracted driving crashes. While much of this was brief glances, more than 5% of driving time comprised looking at their phone for 2+ seconds a time, long enough to qualify as dangerous … CNET reports that the teens did this despite understanding the risks they are taking. The study includes survey responses from 1,126 teen dri

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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Tavares 2026-02-10 17:43:57

For years, I’ve felt that writing lines of code was never the bottleneck in software engineering. The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication. All of this wrapped inside the labyrinth of tickets, planning meetings, and agile rituals. These processes, meant to drive quality, often slow us down more than the act of writing code itself because they require t

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Best Cellphone Plans of 2025: Our Top Picks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-13 12:40:00

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

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Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-13 15:39:00

If you compare the specifics of T-Mobile's Essentials and Essentials Saver plans, you might think the company forgot to update one or the other -- they're Essential-ly the same. With both, you get 50GB of fast Premium 5G data (depending on the network capabilities in your area), which drops to 3G speeds of still-unlimited data after that allotment is used up. You can use your phone as a mobile hotspot with unlimited data, but only at 3G speeds and restricted to paltry 2G speeds when you're in Ca

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US Mobile’s firecracker $249 Pixel 9 deal is coming back for the Fourth of July

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-13 12:56:39

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR US Mobile is bringing back its $249 Pixel 9 deal for new and existing customers. The offer discounts the Google flagship by a whopping 68% The deal goes live on Friday, July 4, 2025. US Mobile is once again getting ready to offer its wild Pixel 9 deal, which will see the $799 phone drop down to just $249 on the carrier. The deal is valid for both new and existing US Mobile customers. The only catch is that the device will be locked to the carrier’s n

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I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-13 15:44:19

TL;DR GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents . I scanned every force push event since 2020 and uncovered secrets worth $25k in bug bounties. Together with Truffle Security, we're open sourcing a new tool to scan your own GitHub organization for

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Scary Survey Results: Teen Drivers Are Often Looking at Their Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-13 12:01:03

A new study reveals that teen drivers in the US are spending more than one-fifth of their driving time distracted by their phones, with many glances lasting long enough to significantly raise the risk of a crash. Published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention and released on Thursday, the research found that, on average, teens reported looking at their phones during 21.1% of every driving trip. More than a quarter of those distractions lasted two seconds or longer, which is an amount of time

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Spain arrests hackers who targeted politicians and journalists

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-14 23:30:05

The Spanish police have arrested two individuals in the province of Las Palmas for their alleged involvement in cybercriminal activity, including data theft from the country's government. The duo has been described as a "serious threat to national security" and focused their attacks on high-ranking state officials as well as journalists. They leaked samples of the stolen data online to build notoriety and inflate the selling price. "The investigation began when agents detected the leakage of p

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Mint Mobile Wants to Hook You Up With a New Samsung Galaxy S25+ and a Sweet Deal on Their Unlimited Plan

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-02-15 04:10:53

If you’re not ready to switch your cellular service over to Mint Mobile yet, you can’t say it’s due to lack of effort on their part. It’s possible you missed their earlier deal offers that dramatically dropped the price of their Unlimited plan and a brand-new Samsung smartphone, and if that’s the case, you’re in luck because they’re back with another one. See at Mint Mobile Make the jump from your current provider to Mint Mobile, where you get access to the nation’s largest 5G network at consi

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AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions

cnbc.com Zach Vallese 2026-02-15 23:00:01

One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo, and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. But he isn't a human — he's a fully virtual personality powered by artificial intelligence. "I'm here to keep my millions of viewers worldwide entertained and coming back for more," said Bloo in an interview with CNBC. "I'm all about good vibes and engaging content. I'm built by humans, but boosted by AI." Bloo is a virtual YouTuber, or VTuber, who has built a massive following of 2.5 millio

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X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-02-17 04:26:12

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear abou

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Kelly Benefits says 2024 data breach impacts 550,000 customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-17 12:28:39

Kelly & Associates Insurance Group (dba Kelly Benefits) is informing more than half a million people of a data breach that compromised their personal information. The Maryland-based health and life insurance agency has issued an update on a security incident it suffered last year between December 12-17, when unauthorized actors breached its IT systems and stole files. On April 9, 2025, the company stated that the incident impacted 32,234 individuals. The figure was revised multiple times until

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"Indie Rock Band" That's Clearly Using AI Claims That "We Never Use AI"

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-17 22:50:42

An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown, which is marketing its music with AI-generated pictures of members that don't appear to exist, is now claiming that "we never use AI." After being publicly accused of being the fabrication of AI, an "official" X account for the band is now seemingly attempting to control the narrative, or at least to gin up a few more streams. "Absolutely crazy that so-called 'journalists' keep pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-gene

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Poll: Do you like AI music?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-17 23:22:26

Like a modern version of the tree-falling-in-the-woods conundrum, AI is giving us new philosophical questions. For example, if AI music sounds genuine, is it okay to enjoy it? This debate has gained momentum recently, as a new band called The Velvet Sundown just reached over 500,000 listens on Spotify. The problem is that they don’t actually exist. Everything about them — from their echoey, classic rock-inspired tracks to their Instagram pictures — appears to be AI-generated. I’ve been listeni

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One UI 8’s Now Brief will make sure you don’t miss a birthday again

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-17 18:17:15

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Now Brief in the latest One UI 8 beta displays birthday reminders and also lets you create an AI-generated birthday card. The birthday card is generated with a prompt and can be created in one of six art styles. This is the latest addition to Now Brief, and we’re expecting plenty more by the time stable One UI 8 is released. Samsung’s Now Brief feature gives users a summary of relevant information several times a day. We know Samsung is working on more ty

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Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-19 04:41:08

Anthropic ran an experiment where its Claude chatbot was put in charge of a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San Francisco headquarters — and the results were nothing short of hilarious. Despite claims in an Anthropic post that "Claudius," the name given to the AI agent in charge of stocking the shop's shelves, was "close to success," everything about the gambit seems to demonstrate just how bad AI is at managing things in the real world. Dubbed "Project Vend," the month-long experiment was u

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11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-19 14:00:14

11 Bit Studios has drawn the ire of players for the undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in its recent release, The Alters. The new project from the team behind Frostpunk and This War of Mine is a narratively and thematically interesting take on a science fiction survival game. The project contains a lot of dialogue and written text, and some players discovered in-game copy that appeared to be generated by a large language model. The Steam storefront requires that games disclose when they

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Nearly 12 million people would lose health insurance under Senate GOP bill

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-20 09:37:24

The Senate Republicans' version of President Trump's tax bill would slash federal spending on health provisions—Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act—by $1.1 trillion by 2034. And in that time, an estimated 11.8 million people would lose their health insurance. That’s according to an analysis released over the weekend by the Congressional Budget Office. The massive piece of legislation is likely to change as senators are currently running a "vote-a-rama" for rapid-fire amendment propo

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Galaxy phone users should turn on these new anti-theft features ASAP, says Samsung

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-02-20 23:39:12

Identity check: Samsung lets you define trusted places (say, your home in Google Maps) where your phone stays unlocked. With the "Safe Places" feature, if you're outside a trusted place, your phone will require biometric authentication for any sensitive security changes. This helps keep your device safe even if someone has your PIN.

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Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-21 04:44:36

Oracle CEO Safra Catz speaks at the FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. 20, 2025. Oracle shares jumped more than 5% after a recent filing showed a cloud deal that would add over $30 billion annually. CEO Safra Catz is slated to share the deal news at a company meeting Monday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The revenues are expected to start hitting in the 2028 fiscal year. "Oracle is off to a strong start in FY26," Catz is expected to say,

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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 05:50:44

Posted June 23, 2025. tl;dr: I finished writing a text adventure game I started when I was a teenager, and you can play it in a browser right now. If you knew me in 1984, you would also know that you could find me glued to a chair in front of our family's Atari 800 personal computer, typing out BASIC programs from issues of COMPUTE! magazine and letting the summer days go by. I was also obsessed with the Infocom series of text adventure games, although I'd have to go to a friend's house to pla

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Play "The Plot of the Phantom" the text adventure that took 40 years to finish

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 17:50:44

Posted June 23, 2025. tl;dr: I finished writing a text adventure game I started when I was a teenager, and you can play it in a browser right now. If you knew me in 1984, you would also know that you could find me glued to a chair in front of our family's Atari 800 personal computer, typing out BASIC programs from issues of COMPUTE! magazine and letting the summer days go by. I was also obsessed with the Infocom series of text adventure games, although I'd have to go to a friend's house to pla

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Android 16 will protect users from fake cell towers and potential spying threats

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-21 15:23:37

It turns out that your smartphone could be an overlooked vulnerability that puts you at risk of being tracked. To combat this, Google is rolling out a new security feature in Android 16 that will warn users if their device is using a fake or insecure mobile network or if that network requests identifying information about a connected device. However, these features likely won't be available until the next generation of Android devices, as first reported by Android Authority. Since the current A

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Community Is Motivation on Tap

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-16 22:13:43

Community is Motivation on Tap A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here. Looking at successful athletes, founders, musicians, game speedrunners, or overachievers in any area, they seem to have unlimited motivation to do loads of tedious work or practice. One might say they are interested in the work itself, but how inherently interesting can beating super mario 1ms faster be? The work of a founde

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Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work well

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-21 09:38:05

Tesla's robotaxi service may have had some early hitches, but the company said it just successfully delivered a car autonomously. Using the same robotaxi technology, Tesla showed the delivery process of a Model Y from its Gigafactory Texas in Austin to a customer with a roughly 30-minute journey as seen in a video posted on X. Unlike the robotaxi service launch last week, the automated delivery had no safety monitor, nor anyone behind the wheel. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also posted on X that the

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Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-21 15:38:05

Tesla's robotaxi service may have had some early hitches, but the company said it just successfully delivered a car autonomously. Using the same robotaxi technology, Tesla showed the delivery process of a Model Y from its Gigafactory Texas in Austin to a customer with a roughly 30-minute journey as seen in a video posted on X. Unlike the robotaxi service launch last week, the automated delivery had no safety monitor, nor anyone behind the wheel. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also posted on X that the

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Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work well

Tesla shows off its first fully autonomous delivery to convince us its self-driving cars work

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