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No notch? macOS 26 onboarding video sparks MacBook speculation

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-30 14:54:01

Apple includes a new onboarding experience for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. An eagle-eyed X user pointed out something interesting about the macOS Tahoe video. This is the onboarding video that will play after upgrading to macOS 26: macOS Tahoe onboarding video in beta 6 pic.twitter.com/YSn0YFPtUo — Zac Hall (@apollozac) August 11, 2025 Notice anything odd? Noah did. Am I the only one noticing no notch on the MacBook? — Noah (@snoah_05) August 11, 2025 It’s true. There’s no notch on the

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Changing these 6 settings on my Roku TV significantly improved the performance

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-30 18:06:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Few things ruin the joy of watching a good show more than suddenly seeing that rotating asterisk symbol or swirly icon that tells you your TV is buffering. Or maybe it's stuttering, or altogether freezing. If this is happening on your Roku TV, don't give up on it just yet. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Like phones and computers, Rokus have caches that accumulate temporary data, which inevitably slows them down over time. Th

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Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

news.ycombinator.com Ewa Szyszka 2025-11-30 17:59:42

Kilo just broke through the 1 trillion tokens a month barrier on OpenRouter for the first time. Each of the open source family of AI coding tools (Cline, Roo, Kilo) is growing rapidly this month. Part of this growth is caused by Cursor and Claude starting to throttle their users. We wrote about Cursor at the beginning of July and about Claude in the second half of July. Their throttling sent users to the open source family of AI coding tools causing the increases you see in the graphs above. C

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Super-Affordable iPhone-powered MacBook Could Reportedly Launch This Year At $600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 18:45:55

An affordable MacBook powered by the iPhone's A18 Pro chip could launch later this year for $600, according to a report from Taiwanese publication DigiTimes on Monday. The latest report corroborates a note by prominent industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo from last month that said Apple was working on a new MacBook Air powered by that processor. A $600 price point would be a significant step for Apple's attempt to break into the affordable computing space. The report does give a range, however. While

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The Associated Press tells its book critics that it's ending weekly reviews

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 23:25:57

Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor. AP to end its weekly book reviews Dear AP book reviewers, I am writing to share that the AP is ending its weekly book reviews, beginning Sept. 1. This was a difficult decision but one made after a thorough review of AP’s story offerings and what is being most read on our website and mobile apps as well as what customers are

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Apple's Low-Cost MacBook to Start at $599, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 03:56:27

Pricing is starting to come into focus for the cheaper MacBook that was first rumored earlier this summer. DigiTimes, citing "supply chain sources," reports Monday that this low-cost version will start at $699, or $599 with Apple's education discount. That's a significant price cut from the $999 MacBook Air ($899 with educational pricing), the current entry point to the MacBook line. What we know and don't know about the $599 MacBook Previous details remain unchanged as of this latest report:

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xAI is testing Grok 4.20 to take on GPT-5, may launch this month

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 09:34:44

Elon Musk-owned xAI is testing Grok 4.20, a new model update to Grok 4, which already competes with GPT-5 in some benchmarks, such as ARC-AGI 2. GPT-5 is one of the best models for coding, and it competes with Claude Opus 4.1 head-to-head in some coding challenges. On the other hand, Grok falls a bit short when it comes to building full-fledged apps. But that might change soon as xAI is testing Grok 4.20. In a post on X, Elon Musk teased Grok 4.20 for a late August launch. Previously, Elon

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Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-01 14:40:37

We need an affordable MacBook, now more than ever. It’s time to face the fact that today’s headlining laptop chips are overkill for what most folk need a computer for. If the majority of internet users are browsing the internet on phones that cost $200 or $400 less than the cheapest MacBook Air, it only makes sense to put a mobile chip into a laptop shell and call it a day. New rumors suggest that Apple could do just that, and we could see this cheapo Mac before the end of the year. Apple suppl

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MacBook Air deal: Get the M4-powered laptop for a record-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 18:30:37

If you've put off getting a new MacBook then today is your lucky day. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799, down from $999 — a 20 percent discount. This model comes with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for $1

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A modder created the iPadBook that Apple won’t

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-01 18:14:17

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. Apple has little interest in merging iPadOS and macOS, or bringing its desktop operating system to its touchscreen tablet. So a Chinese modder took it upon themselves to create a hybrid laptop they’re calling the iPadBook featuring both operating systems in a

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This $10 watch band made my Galaxy Watch 8 Classic so much better

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 08:00:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority I’ve been wearing the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic for a little over two weeks (my review is coming soon), and my experience with the smartwatch has been great so far. The Watch 8 Classic looks fantastic, it’s loaded to the brim with health features, and the rotating bezel is oh-so-good. However, throughout the majority of my time wearing the smartwatch, I haven’t been using the leather watch band that came included in the box. Instead, I’ve been wearing the Ga

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Low-cost MacBook production starting soon, possible $599 or $699 pricing

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-02 10:34:22

We learned back in June that Apple is working on a new entry-level MacBook, to be powered by the A18 Pro chip rather than an M-series processor. This would be the first time the company has ever offered a MacBook below $999. A new supply-chain report says that the first stage of production is scheduled to begin sometime next month, with full-scale manufacturing potentially in progress by the end of the year … Low-cost MacBook The MacBook Air has always been the cheapest model offered by Apple

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GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 09:02:08

Here is the thing, the expert layers run amazing on CPU ( ~17T/s 25T/s on a 14900K) and you can force that with this new llama-cpp option: --cpu-moe . You can offload just the attention layers to GPU (requiring about 5 to 8GB of VRAM) for fast prefill. KV cache for the sequence Attention weights & activations Routing tables LayerNorms and other “non-expert” parameters No giant MLP weights are resident on the GPU, so memory use stays low. This yields an amazing snappy system for a 120B mod

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Why Chefs Don't Use Olive Oil for Everything (and What They Use Instead)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 09:00:05

Cooking oil can completely transform a dish, but using the wrong one can ruin it. While olive oil is a go-to for many home cooks, it isn't always the best choice. Its lower smoke point means it can burn at high temperatures, leaving food with an unpleasant, bitter taste. For frying, searing or any other high-heat cooking, reach for neutral oils like canola, avocado or grapeseed instead. They can withstand hotter temperatures and deliver a cleaner, crisper finish. By matching the right oil to th

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Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography

news.ycombinator.com Megan Cummins 2025-11-28 18:29:19

The appearance of strangers within family photo albums was part of how a Soviet imagined and imaged community was constructed and sustained. “Just as any advanced comrade must have a watch, he shall also possess mastery of a photo camera.” So declared Anatoly Lunacharsky in 1926, in his role as the Soviet Union’s Commissar of Enlightenment. This programmatic statement was included in the very first issue of the photography journal Sovetskoe Foto, published that same year. In fact, such amateur

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Apple’s MacBook Pro overhaul with OLED might not launch until 2027: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-02 00:55:05

Rumors have long pointed at a new MacBook Pro with an OLED display launching towards the end of 2026 – alongside a general MacBook Pro overhaul. While that isn’t completely off the table, there’s an increasingly likely possibility of it launching in early 2027 instead. In this weekend’s Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned an interesting detail about the upcoming MacBook Pro overhaul. It’ll still have a thinner design, an M6 chip, an OLED screen, and more. However, it might la

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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

wired.com Elise Cutts 2025-12-01 23:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately became important objects of mathematical study. So it might be surprising that, millennia later, mysteries still surround even the simplest shape in Plato’s polyhedral universe: the tetrahedron, which has just four triangular faces. One major open problem, for instance, asks how densely you can p

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Elon Musk Turns His AI Chatbot Into a Male Fantasy Engine

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-01 22:15:24

Elon Musk has always been the biggest hype man for his own companies. Whether it’s Tesla, SpaceX, or X (formerly Twitter), the world’s richest man personally takes to social media to promote new features, products, and ideas. His AI venture, xAI, is no exception. Over the past week, Musk has been flooding X with posts promoting Grok Imagine, the new image-and-video-generation feature in SuperGrok, the most advanced version of xAI’s Grok chatbot. But the images Musk chooses to showcase say as mu

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Apple's MacBook Air M4 is on sale for up to 20 percent off

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 00:01:15

Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the biggest discount. The 16GB RAM/256GB SSD laptop is down to $799 from $999, which is the lowest price we've seen. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM a

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I Ditched My Shoes for These Oka Recovery Slides and My Feet Can't Stop Thanking Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 21:00:04

A few years ago I had some pain on the top right side of my right foot that wouldn't go away so I went to a podiatrist to get it checked out. He said it was nothing serious and suggested I purchase a pair of Oofos recovery slides and not only wear them instead of my shoes as much as possible but wear them inside my apartment instead of going barefoot. I like the Oofos -- and they indeed helped cure my foot problem -- but I recently tried a new pair of slides from Oka Recovery that are slightly b

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Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 12:39:09

This blog is adapted from our talk at PyCon 2025. marimo is free and open source, available on GitHub. For a free online experience with link sharing, try molab. marimo is a new kind of open-source Python notebook. While traditional notebooks are just REPLs, marimo notebooks are Python programs represented as dataflow graphs. This intermediate representation lets marimo blend the best parts of interactive computing with the reproducibility and reusability of Python software: every marimo notebo

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I prefer human-readable file formats

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 22:13:48

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Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-02 09:53:20

A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details. The nerdy bits Traditionally, LLMs generate text one token at a time. This is slow because each step depends on all the previous ones to keep the output coherent and accurate. If the model is writing a sentence like “ The cat is black ”, it predicts each token in sequence. After writing “ The cat is ”, it looks at everything so far (plus the

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Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-02 14:02:29

U.S. President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook shake hands on the day they present Apple's announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. Apple shares rose 13% this week, its largest weekly gain in more than five years, after CEO Tim Cook appeared with President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday. Shares of the iPhone maker rose 4% to close at $229.35 per share on Friday for the com

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Game over: Chrome OS pulls the plug on Steam gaming

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 18:23:48

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Steam on Chrome OS support began as a beta test in early 2022. After graduating to a beta later that year, progress slowed down. Now users are being informed that the beta is slated to end as 2026 gets started. Choosing a Chromebook over a standard PC laptop can make sense for a lot of good reasons, from wanting to take advantage of the platform’s track record of security, to just hoping to save some money on affordable hardware. But one pro we rarel

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Steam for Chromebooks is reportedly being discontinued

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 17:40:20

The dream of Chromebooks that double as gaming laptops appears to be on its last legs. 9to5Google reports that Google is ending support for Steam for Chromebooks starting January 1, 2026. Porting the application launcher was part of an extended push from the company to make Chromebooks a place to play games. Companies like ASUS and Acer announced and released gaming Chromebooks, but the idea never seemed to catch on. Google's plan to retire Steam for Chromebooks was discovered when 9to5Google t

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How to delete your personal data from the internet (and why you should right now)

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-11-30 17:00:00

Data brokers are making serious money by selling personal information. Your phone number, email, home address, and Social Security number could be packaged and sold to spammers, scammers, and identity thieves right now. Apple’s privacy protections help block future tracking, but if you want to get proactive about removing your existing personal data from broker databases, Incogni makes it easier than ever to fight back. The data broker ecosystem Data brokers built a billion-dollar industry by

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M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025

news.ycombinator.com Juli Clover 2025-12-02 22:43:32

Apple does not plan to refresh any Macs with updated M5 chips in 2025, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are now planned for the first half of 2026. Gurman previously said that Apple would debut the M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌ models in late 2025, but his newest report suggests that Apple is "considering" pushing them back to 2026. Apple is now said to be "internally targeting" a launch early next year. The current M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max ‌MacBook Pro‌ mode

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How attention sinks keep language models stable

news.ycombinator.com Guangxuan Xiao 2025-12-02 10:53:10

We discovered why language models catastrophically fail on long conversations: when old tokens are removed to save memory, models produce complete gibberish. We found models dump massive attention onto the first few tokens as "attention sinks"—places to park unused attention since softmax requires weights to sum to 1. Our solution, StreamingLLM, simply keeps these first 4 tokens permanently while sliding the window for everything else, enabling stable processing of 4 million+ tokens instead of j

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Facebook and Instagram may be down for some users

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-03 09:22:24

Meta is apparently experiencing some capacity of server issues today. According to Downdetector, user reports of Facebook and Instagram not refreshing have spiked recently. Meta hasn’t acknowledged any outage on its system status page yet, and Facebook appears to be loading fine here. But if you’re having issues loading either app today, Downdetector shows that you’re not alone. ❗️Can't refresh your feed or messages on Facebook and Instagram? You're not alone! Downdetector users have been

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No notch? macOS 26 onboarding video sparks MacBook speculation

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Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

Super-Affordable iPhone-powered MacBook Could Reportedly Launch This Year At $600

The Associated Press tells its book critics that it's ending weekly reviews

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GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM

Why Chefs Don't Use Olive Oil for Everything (and What They Use Instead)

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Representing Python notebooks as dataflow graphs

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How attention sinks keep language models stable

Facebook and Instagram may be down for some users

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