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Our favorite budgeting app is 50 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-28 19:44:40

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Quicken Simplifi plans will cost you under $40 for the year thanks to this deal. Budgeting can be a challenge, especially when you're trying to pay for the daily cost of life and save for things you want like a new gaming console or laptop. But there are plenty of tools out there that

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Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

news.ycombinator.com David Uzondu 2025-07-28 00:35:42

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works Lately, some KDE projects have seen a revival, like Karton (the native virtual machine manager for KDE) and the improved ISO Image Writer. Now, another abandoned KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is looking to return from the dead after long-time Plasma Mobile contributor Devin decided to spend a week overhauling the thing. If you have not heard of it, Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma shell for telev

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Today's AI Appreciation Day Feels Weird. Celebrate These Other Made-Up Holidays Instead

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-28 18:00:09

July 16 is AI Appreciation Day. So break out the champagne for ChatGPT! Bring gifts of Nvidia chips and cake for Gemini and flowers and training data for Claude. Meta AI has had a particularly rough year, so when you're forced to use it on Instagram, make sure it feels your love. Think that sounds ridiculous? Same. But like most things when it comes to AI, today's Appreciation Day is unbelievably stupid, in a way that's totally on brand. If you've never heard of AI Appreciation Day, don't feel

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AV startup Pronto acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-07-28 01:00:57

The Venn diagram of engineers who know a little bit about AI, self-driving, and mining has a small intersection. Pronto CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many of those people as possible. And an acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The San Francisco-based startup, which has developed a self-driving system designed for haulage trucks and other off-road vehicles used at construction and mining sites, has acquired competitor SafeAI, TechCrunch has learned. Terms of the deal have not been

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Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-29 02:26:18

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen 3 hours ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Watch: Co-op boss says immediate action was taken when the data breach was discovered The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed that all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took o

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Is Chrome OS and Android’s merger just hot air or a new era of personal computing?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 01:16:09

🗣️ This is an open thread. We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts in the comments and vote in the poll below — your take might be featured in a future roundup. [/highlight] Google is set to merge two of its mobile computing platforms into one unified system. According to confirmation by Google’s president of Android ecosystem, Sameer Samat, the company will combine Chrome OS and Android “into a single platform.” No timeline was given, but this nod confirms a report we published in Nove

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This robot vacuum broke the industry mold. Here's my verdict after months of testing

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-07-29 01:00:21

ZDNET's key takeaways The Matic is available for purchase at $1,095. This robot vacuum has a unique form factor and roller brush, and a debris bag that eliminates the need for a huge dock. The Matic has its drawbacks, mainly that it's too tall to clean under furniture and that it's currently only available for iOS, with an Android beta app planned for July. View now at Maticrobots Pioneer devices have the unique challenge of reinventing the wheel. They reimagine something that has become prev

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Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 01:18:34

Ukrainian cyber activists, in cooperation with military intelligence, successfully paralyzed the activities of one of the largest Russian drone manufacturers, Gaskar Integration. The attack destroyed over 47 TB of critical data, blocked internal systems, and effectively halted the plant’s operations. This is reported by “Pryamiy” with reference to sources in military intelligence. Hackers from the BO Team and Ukrainian Cyber Alliance groups, supported by the intelligence capabilities of milita

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As Trump Scrubs Climate Reports, NASA Breaks Its Promise to Save Them

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-07-29 02:00:40

Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has launched a major effort to limit public access to information about climate change. After the president canned the official government site that hosted the national climate assessments earlier this month, NASA has broken its promise to publish them on its own site. On Monday, July 14, NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens told the Associated Press that NASA will not host any data from globalchange.gov, which served as the official webs

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Looking Down at Your Phone is Distressing Your Neck. Here's How to Correct Tech Neck

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 02:00:05

Do you have a job that requires lots of time at a desk, staring at a screen or looking down at a phone? If so, you could be straining more than your eyes. It can also lead to a modern problem called "tech neck." This phenomenon results from maintaining an unnatural position while looking down at a screen, and it affects everyone, from kids who play tablet games to adults who work at a desk all day. A study from 2024 found that neck pain has drastically increased among individuals who live a sede

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Ziploc, Rubbermaid Sued Over Microplastics: Should You Ditch Plastic Containers?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 03:21:00

When you buy plastic food containers, you tend to look for whether they're microwave and freezer-safe. The maker of Rubbermaid, Newell Brands, is now facing a class action lawsuit for claiming that its plastic-based containers are "microwave safe" and "freezer-safe." According to the complaint, these products can release microplastics into food even when used as per the instructions, despite the products' marketing claiming otherwise. Ziploc is also facing a similar class action lawsuit. Ziploc

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There could be “dark main sequence” stars at the galactic center

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 04:30:58

For a star, its initial mass is everything. It determines how quickly it burns through its hydrogen and how it will evolve once it starts fusing heavier elements. It's so well understood that scientists have devised a "main sequence" that acts a bit like a periodic table for stars, correlating their mass and age with their properties. The main sequence, however, is based on an assumption that's almost always true: All of the energy involved comes from the gravity-driven fusion of lighter elemen

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Get the macOS Finder to Do Just About Anything by Typing Natural Language Commands

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-07-29 04:30:00

I'm genuinely not sure if large language models—often referred to as “AI” in shorthand—are the future of computing. But I also don't think chatbots are how people will use this technology in the years to come. Substage, an indie Mac application by developer Joseph Humfrey, is a simple app that points to a potential alternative—one that's useful right now. This application floats under every Finder window, meaning you see it only when you're browsing files in macOS. You can type English-languag

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Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-07-29 05:46:18

Co-op boss says sorry to 6.5m people who had data stolen in hack 15 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The chief executive of Co-op has confirmed all 6.5 million of its members had their data stolen in a cyber-attack on the retailer in April. "I'm devastated that information was taken. I'm also devastated by the impact that it took on our colleagues as well as they tried to contain all of this,"

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This solar GPS tracker lasts forever - and brings me peace of mind off-grid

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-07-29 05:15:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Garmin eTrex Solar is available now for $228, while the eTrex SE without solar sells for $149. It has the potential for unlimited battery life, extensive GNSS support, features a rugged build, and is very accurate. However, it has a small monochrome display, and no turn-by-turn directions of TopoActive maps. $228.14 at Amazon Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I gained a deep affection for the outdoors. The forest is my happy place. I have a good sense of direction

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Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 01:50:00

What \ Arch i386 riscv64 x86_64 (build) Tests Toolchain debian N/A Toolchain fedora N/A Toolchain archlinux N/A Toolchain openSUSE N/A Contents Overview What is Tilck? Tilck is an educational monolithic kernel designed to be Linux-compatible at binary level. It runs on i686 and RISCV64 at the moment. Project's small-scale and simple design makes it the perfect playground for playing in kernel mode while retaining the ability to compare how the very same usermode bits run on the Linux kernel

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Six Years of Gemini

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 05:37:37

2025-06-20 - Six years of Gemini! Today is the sixth anniversary of the public announcement of Project Gemini! It's been a quiet year at geminiprotocol.net thus far. I've let two "Apollo days" slip by without a word. I'm about as disappointed in myself for this as I expect many folks are unsurprised by it. I do still have plans and clear ideas for finalising the minor oustanding spec issues. I'd tell people to look forward to something by Apollo 15 day (2025-11-03), but at this point, who'd be

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Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 02:01:03

Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late 19th century scholar. There has been much debate over how to translate those fragments ever since, and whether the long-lost work was a monster-filled epic or a chivalric romance. Two Cambridge University scholars now say those lines have been "radically misunderstood" for 130 years, supplying their own tra

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Deal: Anker SOLIX F3800 Plus Power Station price lower than ever!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 07:59:53

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Are you looking for a complete backup power solution? The Anker SOLIX F3800 Plus Portable Power Station is one of the biggest and most powerful options available. It’s also among the most expensive, though! I’d rather wait and catch a good deal like today’s. It’s at a record-low price! Buy the Anker SOLIX F3800 Plus Portable Power Station for $2,799.99 ($1,999.01 off) This offer is available through Amazon, but the item is sold and shipped directly from Anke

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Helix Editor 25.07

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 03:16:59

Release 25.07 Highlights 15 July 2025 A long-awaited 25.07 release is finally here. This release saw the replacement of a major, core component of Helix and the addition of plenty of flashy features besides. This release saw changes from 195 contributors. A hearty thank you to everyone who made this release possible. New to Helix? Helix is a modal text editor with built-in support for multiple selections, Language Server Protocol (LSP), tree-sitter, and experimental support for Debug Adapter

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Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 01:48:35

Designing for the Eye Optical Corrections in Architecture and Typography By Niko Kitsakis, June 2025 This article highlights a special aspect of both visual design and architecture: Optical corrections (or optical adjustments, if you prefer). If you found my piece about legible typefaces interesting, you’ll likely enjoy this one as well. Since I included many visual examples that are size-sensitive, make sure you read this on a big screen and not your mobile device. Optical Illusions The

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Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 03:47:02

Voice: the original UI. Voice was humanity’s first interface—long before writing or typing, it let us share ideas, coordinate work, and build relationships. As digital systems become more capable, voice is returning as our most natural form of human-computer interaction. Yet today’s systems remain limited—unreliable, proprietary, and too brittle for real-world use. Closing this gap demands tools with exceptional transcription, deep understanding, multilingual fluency, and open, flexible deploy

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Krypto’s ‘Superman’ Spotlight Is Inspiring People to Adopt Their Own Superdog

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-07-29 11:30:05

While Warner Bros. Discovery celebrates the success of DC Studios’ Superman, the true winners from this past weekend’s blockbuster may have more in common with Krypto. The Superdog who stole the movie has inspired an uptick in pet adoption interest. According to dog-training app Woofz, “Google searches for ‘adopt a dog near me’ jumped up 513%” in the days after the James Gunn-directed film’s opening weekend, while “‘rescue dog adoption near me’ hit 163% in increase.” And it makes sense, as Gunn

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'Click to Cancel' Is Dead. Here Are 3 Other Ways to Find and Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 11:00:00

The Click to Cancel rule is supposed to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. Viva Tung/Getty Images It's easy to rack up streaming subscriptions and other monthly services with just a few taps or clicks. Cancelling them, however, can be a bit trickier. The Federal Trade Commission's "click to cancel" rule would have made it easy to cancel unwanted subscriptions. However, this rule, was blocked by the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 8, a week before i

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The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-29 11:36:04

In Brief Mantis Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of the electronic DJ group The Chainsmokers, has raised $100 million in commitments for its third fund. At $100 million, the firm’s newest fund is 25% larger than Mantis’s previous $80 million fund, a notable achievement at a time when many venture firms are struggling to maintain their existing fund sizes or secure new capital. Mantis has invested in B2B companies, such as cybersecurity firm Chainguar

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What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-07-29 09:59:04

Thanks for reading! If you enjoy this article, last week’s essay on The Death of Partying in the U.S.A., or my feature story on The Anti-Social Century, consider becoming a subscriber to this newsletter to receive more essays on the social crises of our age. In rich countries around the world, birth rates have fallen to historically low levels. Governments have responded with a confetti cannon of policy ideas to increase the number of babies, including parental leave plans, preschool programs,

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The Future of Social Security Looks Grim. 6 Tips to Help You Save for Retirement Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 14:00:00

Getty Images/Zooey Liao/CNET Social Security payments can help you fund part of your retirement -- but don't bank on it as your only source of income. The Social Security trust fund is expected to dry up by 2034, according to the Social Security Administration. That's one year sooner than initially forecast. While the fund won't vanish completely, it's estimated that you'll only receive 81% of your benefits, at best. Why? The fund has been running out of money for years, but President Donald

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 16, #766

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 14:00:06

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features one of those classic purple categories, where you wonder if anyone out there really solved it without first solving the other three and letting the purple answers fall in. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 16, #296

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 14:00:08

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition touches on a world-famous race that's going on right now. I thought the purple group was unusually easy today, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb

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Chrome for Android users can now choose which end of the screen the address bar is on

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 19:20:22

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Chrome for Android’s bottom address bar is rolling out widely. Users now have the option to keep the bar at the top of the screen or lower it to the bottom. Google is giving Android Chrome users another way to customize their mobile browsing experience. Announced last month, the Android browser is finally getting a bottom address bar to make navigation a little more mobile-friendly. That update is now rolling out widely. If you’ve been waiting for Chrome

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Our favorite budgeting app is 50 percent off right now

Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI

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AV startup Pronto acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

Co-op boss confirms all 6.5m members had data stolen

Is Chrome OS and Android’s merger just hot air or a new era of personal computing?

This robot vacuum broke the industry mold. Here's my verdict after months of testing

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Get the macOS Finder to Do Just About Anything by Typing Natural Language Commands

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This solar GPS tracker lasts forever - and brings me peace of mind off-grid

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Six Years of Gemini

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Helix Editor 25.07

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography

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