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Tesla says its new Megablock can cut costs for renewable energy storage.

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-10 21:43:03

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At an event in Las Vegas yesterday, Tesla revealed a new utility-scale battery configuration that it claims can significantly lower construction costs for utilities, along with faster inst

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Deals: 24GB M4 MacBook Pro now a massive $400 off, M4 Pro also $400 off, iPhone 16 Pro $470 off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-10-11 01:43:20

Happy Apple event day folks! Before all of the “Awe dropping” new reveals, we are touching down with some notable price drops on MacBook Pro. This includes one of the best price drops ever on Apple’s 24GB M4 MacBook Pro at $400 off alongside this upgraded M4 Pro MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD at the same $400 off the list price. And if you’re not upgrading to iPhone 17, we have put together some particularly notable price drops on iPhone 15, 15 Pro Max, and iPhone 16 Pro models with

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Next year’s MacBook Pro redesign with OLED gets timeline update

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-11 01:55:33

Apple hasn’t yet shipped the M5 MacBook Pro, but next year the company is rumored to debut an M6 model featuring a “total redesign” that’s thinner and lighter. And that redesigned MacBook Pro with an OLED display just got a fresh timeline update. Production timeline for MacBook Pro OLED displays revealed Next year, Apple is expected to ship two very different new MacBook Pros. Early in the year, the M5 MacBook Pro is expected, which will continue the current hardware design and largely be a sp

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Claude can now edit and create files, including Excel spreadsheets

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 01:30:43

Anthropic has begun rolling out a small but significant update to Claude. Starting today you can use the chatbot to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs. In the past, Claude offered rudimentary file support, but now you can interact with any documents you need to modify directly through the chatbot. The new functionality is part of a feature preview you can try out as long as you have a Max, Team or Education subscription. Sorry, Pro and free users, you'

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This 2FA phishing scam pwned a developer - and endangered billions of npm downloads

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-11 01:06:38

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A phishing email was at the heart of the attack. NPM team quickly removed backdoored versions. 18 packages hit, with 2B+ downloads every week. A new digital supply chain attack has targeted popular open-source npm packages with at least two billion downloads per week. 'I've been pwned' On Sept. 8, Josh Junon, a package maintainer whose account was at the center of the attack, revealed

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Slow Roku TV? This 30-second routine will keep your device running like new

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-11 01:26:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Can you believe that the first Roku device launched 17 years ago? It was initially developed in partnership with Netflix to stream its "Watch Instantly" service. Since then, the company has released numerous generations of streaming players and its very own Roku TVs -- which means you might own one of these older devices. What is a cache? Just like your computer or smartphone, your Roku TV also stores temporary data (the

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Claude can create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets for you now in chat

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-11 01:30:17

Anthropic ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets. File creation is available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Pro users will get access in the upcoming weeks. AI chatbots such as Anthropic's Claude have always been helpful co-creators for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or projects you are working on. However, this typically involved you having to copy and paste the text over -- until now. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude wil

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Dwayne Johnson Casually Confirms ‘Jumanji 4’ Is Really Happening and Has a Release Date

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-11 01:00:00

Dwayne Johnson is on the media circuit at TIFF for his UFC biopic film, The Smashing Machine, but that didn’t stop him from giving a quick—but crucial—update to his reboot blockbuster series, Jumanji. According to Screen Rant, Johnson announced that a fourth installment in the series—more specifically, a third starring The Rock—is coming next year. While the news that a fourth Jumanji film is coming isn’t itself new, its status has been a little up in the air since at least 2021. Suffering from

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New Bacteria Discovered in Flies Could Sicken Humans

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-11 05:35:14

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According to a study published this summer in the journal Acta Tropica, researchers have discovered a new bacteria species in phlebotomine insects (sand flies) in the Amazon National Park in Brazil’s state of Pará. Its DNA is similar to that of two Andean bacteria in Peru, Bartonella bacilliformis and Barto

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Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-11 05:47:22

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a security incident involving the theft of Plex customer account information, including user names, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and unspecified authentication data. Plex said while the passwords were scrambled in a way that made them unreadable to humans, it’s unclear if the passwords can be dec

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Massive Supply Chain Attack Targets Cryptocurrencies Through NPM

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-11 09:50:00

A phishing attack aimed at a particular software maintainer’s account has managed to compromise software packages that have over 2.6 billion weekly downloads. BleepingComputer, noting that the infection is being called the “largest supply chain attack in history.” The developer behind the software packages, identified as Josh Junon, was compromised via a phishing scheme targeting several blockchains, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and Tron, The Register reports. Junon has been posting abo

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MacOS Tahoe vs. Sequoia: Here's How Much Liquid Glass Will Change Your Mac's Icons

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 08:05:03

Liquid Glass isn't just coming to your iPhone -- It's coming to just about every Apple product with a screen you can think of, including your Mac. MacOS 26 Tahoe will bring the design overhaul, which can be both somewhat dramatic or barely noticeable, with an overall look of feeling fresh while remaining comfortably familiar. MacOS 26 Tahoe is far from just a design overhaul and will come with several new features when it officially rolls out, but it's easy to get caught up with all the styling

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Chinese auto giant GAC targets 17-fold boost to European sales by 2027

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-11 18:48:33

The Aion V is one of the cars GAC is launching in Europe as it looks to expand its presence in the region. The Aion V is on display at the company's stand at the IAA Mobility auto show in Munich, Germany on September 9, 2025. Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) aims to increase its European electric car sales 17-fold over the next two years, becoming the latest Chinese player to take on the region's traditional automakers through aggressive expansion. The entrance of the Chinese state-owned carma

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Microsoft testing new AI features in Windows 11 File Explorer

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:41:12

Microsoft is testing new File Explorer AI-powered features that will enable Windows 11 users to work with images and documents without needing to open the files. Known as "AI actions," they can currently only be used to remove the background, erase objects, and blur the background in JPG, JPEG, and PNG image files. The complete list of File Explorer AI actions also includes a tool designed to help users easily reverse search any of their images using Microsoft's Bing web search engine. "With

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CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines

news.ycombinator.com Author.Fullname 2025-10-08 08:13:10

Performing CPR on a space station in microgravity involves doing a handstand on a person's chest and pushing against the walls with your legs – but now researchers say there is a better way Researchers test a chest compression machine on a dummy in an aeroplane CNES Microgravity makes it tricky to do simple tasks like eating, using the toilet and showering, so it is no wonder that performing CPR on someone whose heart stops beating in space is an extremely demanding procedure. But a mechanical

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The Last Programmers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:01:43

I quit my job at Amazon in May to join a startup called Icon. Best career decision I ever made, but not for the reasons you might think. At Amazon, I was on the Amazon Q Developer team, building their AI coding assistant. You'd think being at the center of Amazon's AI developer tools would be exciting, but it was actually deeply frustrating. It was apparent to anyone outside the Amazon bubble that we were losing the AI game badly. The leadership was constantly playing catch-up because there was

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Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:08:44

While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study reveals an unexpected result: Neurodiverse employees may be benefiting far more from chatbots than their neurotypical colleagues. The UK's Department for Business and Trade recently released evaluation results from its Microsoft 365 Copilot trial showing that while overall satisfaction was 72 percent, neurodiverse employees reported statistically higher satisfaction (at a 90 percent confidence level) and w

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The best DACs for Apple Music Lossless in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:00:36

Apple Music is one of the few streaming services that offers high-resolution audio (aka “lossless”) at no extra charge. But enjoying that extra quality on your phone usually requires some extra hardware. That is the purpose of this guide, — to help you find exactly what you need depending on how you prefer to listen. Every product listed below will help you squeeze more audio quality out of your Apple Music subscription. In fact, whatever music service you use, your listening experience will be

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Interview with Geoffrey Hinton

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:49:29

Join FT Edit Only $49 a year Get 2 months free with an annual subscription at was $59.88 now $49. Access to eight surprising articles a day, hand-picked by FT editors. For seamless reading, access content via the FT Edit page on FT.com and receive the FT Edit newsletter.

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It’s time to change your Plex password again

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-10-11 19:44:04

Dear Plex User, We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, and securely hashed passw

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ReOrbit lands record funding to take on Musk’s Starlink from Europe

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-11 16:00:00

ReOrbit, a Finnish startup focused on helping nations control their own sovereign satellites, has raised a record €45 million (about US $53 million) Series A round of funding for a European space tech company. The funding round signals that Europe’s new space market is heating up, fueled by a geopolitical environment in which countries increasingly worry about relying on foreign technology for critical infrastructure. Founded in 2019 and based in Helsinki, ReOrbit provides both the hardware and

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Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:03:02

Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. In a data breach notification seen by BleepingComputer, Plex says the stolen data includes email addresses, usernames, securely hashed passwords, and authentication data. "An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases," reads the Plex data breach notifica

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How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-11 19:30:17

Suchitra Sangsuwan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's Key Takeaways Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article includes step-by-step instructions to turn off OneDrive Backup and reset your local folders. Microsoft is getting more aggressive about tying its flagship productivity products to t

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Geoffrey Hinton: 'AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer'

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 17:46:48

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Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-11 17:37:04

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest supply-chain attack ever. The attack, which compromised nearly two dozen packages hosted on the npm repository, came to public notice on Monday in social media posts. Around the same time, Josh Junon, a maintainer or co-maintainer of the affected packages, said he had been “pwned” after falling for an email that claimed his account on the platform w

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It's taken three years to recover from China hack, election watchdog says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-11 21:11:46

It's taken three years to recover from China hack, election watchdog says 48 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack that saw the private details of 40m voters accessed by Chinese cyber spies. Last year, the Electoral Commission was publicly reprimanded for a litany of security failures that allowed hacking group

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Signal lets you back up your chats for free now - plus its first-ever paid feature

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-11 21:36:06

Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Privacy-centric messaging app Signal has a message backup option. The free tier stores up to 45 days of messages. You can pay $1.99 a month if you want to store more than 45 days. Signal is offering its first-ever backup option. In a post Monday, the security-focused messaging app company announced a new feature that lets you back up your messages for free. In the past,

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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:32:49

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG Apple introduced the Liquid Glass effect during WWDC 2025 in June—a stunning UI effect that makes interface elements appear to be made of curved, refractive glass. This article is a hands‑on exploration of how to recreate a similar effect on the web using CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations. Instead of chasing pixel‑perfect parity, we’ll approximate Liquid Glass, recreating the core refraction and a spec

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Spotify Premium subscribers get ‘Smart Filters’ for playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-12 01:19:38

Spotify subscribers in seven English-speaking regions are getting a new way to filter their content, based on activity, genre, or mood. Here are the details. According to the company’s blog, For the Record, Smart Filters began rolling out last week, and will be accessible via mobile and tablets to Premium subscribers in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the US. With Smart Filters, users can sort their songs based on mood (e.g., Funky, Relaxing, Solitude), activ

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Plex Security Incident

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 01:11:31

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Tesla says its new Megablock can cut costs for renewable energy storage.

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