GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-27 17:35:10

Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust It turns out that finite state machines are useful for things other than expressing computation. Finite state machines can also be used to compactly represent ordered sets or maps of strings that can be searched very quickly. In this article, I will teach you about finite state machines as a data structure for representing ordered sets and maps. This includes introducing an implementation written in Rust called the fst crate. It comes with comp

Topics: data fst key keys set

Shop Amazon

ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 22:19:13

ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem. This includes repository hosting websites, issue trackers, code review applications, and more. ForgeFed provides a common substrate for people to create interoperable code collaboration websites and applications. Federation means that these websites can interact, allowing the humans using them to interact too, despite being registered on different websites. Fo

Topics: code federation forgefed protocol websites

Shop Amazon

Starlink Rival Announces Plans to Take on Musk With a $1.5 Billion Satellite Push

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-01 14:25:05

Texas startup AST SpaceMobile announced its plan to launch 45 to 60 satellites by 2026, establishing itself as a worthy competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation in building space-based broadband networks. The company announced its second-quarter earnings on Monday, revealing that it had $1.5 billion on its balance sheet to fund the deployment of dozens of its satellites, CNBC reported. The next day, AST SpaceMobile’s shares soared by more than 10% with the prospect of the company providing

Topics: ast orbit satellites spacemobile spacex

Shop Amazon

29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release

news.ycombinator.com Christian Cawley 2026-01-02 04:30:12

Perhaps one of the greatest strategy games of the 16-bit era, The Settlers, did not get a sequel on Amiga. So, when The Settlers II came out in 1996, only MS-DOS and Mac OS enjoyed it. Aside from a release for Nintendo Wii in 2007, it didn’t land on any other platforms. So, what about the Amiga? Well, amazing news has just dropped: The Settlers II Gold Edition (the 1997 edition) is coming to the Amiga in October 2025. The legendary construction strategy classic finally comes to the Amiga! In 1

Topics: amiga available edition ii settlers

Shop Amazon

Cross-Site Request Forgery

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 09:31:08

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a confused deputy attack where the attacker causes the browser to send a request to a target using the ambient authority of the user’s cookies or network position. For example, attacker.example can serve the following HTML to a victim <form action="https://example.com/send-money" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="to" value="filippo" /> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1000000" /> </form> and the browser will send a POST request to https://e

Topics: cross origin request requests site

Shop Amazon

Gemini will remember more (or less) of what you say

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-02 14:00:12

Google is adding a temporary chat feature to Gemini. The equivalent of a browser's incognito mode, it lets you have one-off AI chats. They won't appear in your history, influence future chats or be used for training. The temporary chats will be saved for up to 72 hours. Google says this is to give you time to revisit the chat or provide feedback. The feature begins rolling out today and will continue to do so over the coming weeks. It arrives alongside a new setting that does, well, pretty muc

Topics: change chats gemini google settings

Shop Amazon

I customized my Linux desktop in minutes with this free app - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-02 12:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Conky is a customizable desktop widget for Linux. It can display all sorts of information. With a handy GUI, Conky is easy to set up. I love a cool Linux desktop configuration and have spent many an hour tweaking them. Over the years, I've found there's one way to make the most out of your desktop, and that's with an app called Conky. Conky is an overlay app that displays certain types of information. For example, Conky can display the tim

Topics: conky desktop manager theme widget

Shop Amazon

I found the easiest way to send files between my Android phone and desktop - and it's free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-02 14:28:58

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Localsend makes sharing files on Android a breeze. You can share and receive files. Localsend works with Android, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Android is my mobile OS of choice. As far as the desktop is concerned, I switch back and forth between Linux and MacOS (depending on what I'm doing). Often, I need to transfer files between Android and my two desktop operating systems, but finding the easiest method of doing so has been a bit of a chore. Until I

Topics: android desktop file files localsend

Shop Amazon

This website is for humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2026-01-02 12:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

Topics: ai people recipe result website

Shop Amazon

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-02 14:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will allow the AI chatbot to “remember” your past conversations without prompting. With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your “key details and preferences” and use them to personalize its out

Topics: activity chats gemini google setting

Shop Amazon

How I used Conky to make my Linux desktop cooler - in minutes

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-02 18:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Conky is a customizable desktop widget for Linux. It can display all sorts of information. With a handy GUI, Conky is easy to set up. I love a cool Linux desktop configuration and have spent many an hour tweaking them. Over the years, I've found there's one way to make the most out of your desktop, and that's with an app called Conky. Conky is an overlay app that displays certain types of information. For example, Conky can display the tim

Topics: conky desktop manager theme widget

Shop Amazon

Website Is for Humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2026-01-02 18:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

Topics: ai people recipe result website

Shop Amazon

Here’s how Google Find Hub satellite location sharing is going to work (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-02 23:26:52

TL;DR Google announced back in May that the newly renamed Find Hub would be adding support for satellite-based location sharing. That’s still not here yet, but a recent app update reveals text strings that hint at how things will work. Users will be able to share their location once every 15 minutes, with a daily limit on maximum shares. Satellite support is changing the rules of the game when it comes to mobile connectivity, and we are still right now only in the early days of its evolution.

Topics: location satellite string support update

Shop Amazon

Android phone feeling slow? I changed these 4 settings to revitalize the whole system

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-01-03 04:59:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't upgrade every year. I have friends and family who tell me they don't want to upgrade and ask, "How can I make my current phone faster?" I finally have an answer. Also: I test dozens of Android phones every year: Here's how Google, Samsung, and more stack up I don't get to use review

Topics: android apps make phone settings

Shop Amazon

Changing these 4 Android phone settings made the system feel like new again

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-01-03 18:15:14

Kerry Wan/ZDNET As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't upgrade every year. I have friends and family who tell me they don't want to upgrade and ask, "How can I make my current phone faster?" I finally have an answer. Also: I test dozens of Android phones every year: Here's how Google, Samsung, and more stack up I don't get to use review

Topics: android apps make phone settings

Shop Amazon

The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa

news.ycombinator.com Trupp 2025-12-30 09:22:45

The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa Within Southeast Colombia's Orinoco River basin, a series of massive rocky sandstone mesas, called tepuis, rise up from the dense humid jungle. Since ancient times the cliffs of these mountains were important cultural sites. They served as shelters, navigational way points, communal gathering sites, and as giant canvases for their rock art, for early inhabitants to communicate their mythologies, histories, and exploits. One such stretch of these tepuis, La

Topics: art early megafauna rock sites

Shop Amazon

Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-03 20:40:38

https://janitorai.com Reported: 26 July, 2025 at 18:12 Shut down on: 24 July, 2025 Geoblocking due to OSA Janitor AI is a chatbot platform where users can create and interact with AI characters for personalized role-playing and conversations. It was launched in 2023 and quickly gained popularity, especially among those interested in engaging with AI in an immersive and emotional way. The platform allows for customisation of character personalities, appearances, and dialogue settings, and sup

Topics: 18 ai characters creative site

Shop Amazon

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 04:18:55

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have an avatar in your nav, like this: When you click the avatar, you want a menu to appear right below it. The clicking interaction can be handled with just CSS using the Popover API. But once you click, where does your menu show up? Figuring this out typically requires som

Topics: anchor end menu position profile

Shop Amazon

Is your iPhone alarm not going off? 6 potential fixes that worked for me

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-01-04 18:28:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I started noticing something very annoying at the beginning of the year: I'd set my iPhone alarm for 7 a.m., only to sleep right through it. At first I assumed it was my mistake -- maybe I'd accidentally left the ringer volume all the way down. But after double-checking that, even switching off vibrate and cranking the volume all the way up overnight, the problem persisted. Somewhere between frustration and desperation, I installed a third-party alarm app to try an

Topics: alarm alarms iphone reset settings

Shop Amazon

Of Course the ‘Avatar’ Cabbage Guy Is Getting a ‘Magic’ Card

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-04 18:20:43

Edge of Eternities is barely out, and Spider-Man hasn’t even swung onto shelves yet, but that’s not stopped Wizards of the Coast from marching on into promoting the next next set coming to Magic: The Gathering—its “Universes Beyond” crossover with Avatar: The Last Airbender. Alongside previews of how the world of Avatar will work mechanically in the landscape of the game, our first extensive preview of what to expect in the set confirms the obvious: Cabbage Guy is getting his own Magic card. To

Topics: avatar card cards magic set

Shop Amazon

Pixel 10 Pro Fold takes center stage in Google’s latest teaser

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 23:21:26

TL;DR Google’s got a new official video teaser out ahead of the Pixel 10 Pro Fold launch. The Pro Fold, alongside the rest of the Pixel 10 lineup, is set to debut next Wednesday, August 20. This latest teaser is a little less direct with its criticism of Google’s smartphone competition. It’s coming: Just over one week from now, the Pixel 10 series is set to launch at the Made by Google event. And if you’ve been following Android Authority over the last several months, it probably feels like y

Topics: 10 google pixel set teaser

Shop Amazon

Cassette brings VHS nostalgia to your iPhone’s camera roll

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-01-04 23:14:25

Developer Devin Davies is out with a new app today that can add a nostalgic twist to videos saved on your iPhone. Cassette, which is available on the App Store today, is described as a “VHS player for your home videos.” Cassette pulls in videos from the Photos app on your iPhone, grouping them by year and album and presenting them as separate VHS tapes. You can choose to browse through your library of videos manually, or you can tap the “Take Me Somewhere” button at the bottom to watch a random

Topics: app cassette vhs videos watch

Shop Amazon

Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates released

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 04:34:26

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5063878 and KB5063875 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. Today's updates are mandatory as they contain the August 2025 Patch Tuesday security patches for vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. You can install today's update by going to Start > Settings > Windows Update and clicking on 'Check for Updates.' You can also manually download and install the update from the Microsoft Update Catalog. I

Topics: 11 fixed new settings windows

Shop Amazon

Why I ditched Google Authenticator for Proton's new 2FA app - and how to set it up

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-05 18:23:00

Proton / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The makers of Proton VPN have released a 2FA app. The app is available for all major platforms. Proton Authenticator is easy to use, elegant, and free. Unless you're using passkeys, two-factor authentication should be considered a must for security and privacy. If your primary access to the internet is your phone, you are probably using a tool like Authy or Google Authenticator. But what about when you're on the desktop? What do y

Topics: app authenticator desktop proton use

Shop Amazon

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 04:19:47

A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing messages, some of which are personalized. Security firm ESET said Monday that it first detected the attacks on July 18, when its telemetry spotted a file in an unusual directory path. By July 24, ESET determined that the behavior was linked to the exploitation of an unknown vulnerability

Topics: attacks eset group vulnerability winrar

Shop Amazon

A promising Sega Saturn emulator brings major improvements in a beefy update

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 12:25:35

TL;DR The Ymir emulator for PCs has received a major update that improves performance and compatibility. The Sega Saturn emulator also now offers screenshot functionality and support for two notable Saturn controllers. The Sega Saturn is one of the more complicated retro video game consoles to emulate, but we’ve seen several solid emulators over the years. Most recently, a developer released the nifty Ymir emulator for computers, and it’s just received a major update. Ymir is a Sega Saturn em

Topics: emulator improvements saturn sega ymir

Shop Amazon

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 14:13:14

A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing messages, some of which are personalized. Security firm ESET said Monday that it first detected the attacks on July 18, when its telemetry spotted a file in an unusual directory path. By July 24, ESET determined that the behavior was linked to the exploitation of an unknown vulnerability

Topics: attacks eset group vulnerability winrar

Shop Amazon

Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-06 23:30:59

Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX's 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was the rocket's payload: two-dozen Project Kuiper satellites, which were dispensed into low-Earth orbit on target. This was SpaceX's second launch of satellites for Amazon, which is developing a constellation to deliver low-latency broadband Internet around the world. SpaceX, then, just launched a direct competitor to its S

Topics: falcon launch rocket satellites spacex

Shop Amazon

Participate in Standards Development for P2807.9

computer.org Joshua Roller 2026-01-07 08:07:31

“Guide for Application of Knowledge Graphs for Rail Transit,” designated by the Project Number P2807.9, is a groundbreaking standard that has significantly impacted the rail transit industry. By providing a comprehensive framework for the development and implementation of Knowledge Graphs (KG), specifically tailored for the rail transit sector, referred to as rail-transit-oriented KG (RTKG), this guide addresses the critical need for consistent knowledge patterns and unified interface standards.

Topics: industry knowledge rail standards transit

Shop Amazon

You can claim up to $7,500 from AT&T's $177M data breach payouts - how to check your eligibility ASAP

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2026-01-07 06:31:00

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways AT&T's $177 million settlement is for data breaches in 2019 and 2024. Claim up to $5,000 (first breach) and $2,500 (Snowflake hack), or both. File claim by Nov. 18, 2025, either online or by mail. If you're a current or former AT&T customer, here's some good news: You can now file a claim in a newly approved $177 million class-action settlement stemming from two massive data breaches. These hacks -- one dating back to 2019 and a

Topics: 2025 claim file mail settlement

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol

Starlink Rival Announces Plans to Take on Musk With a $1.5 Billion Satellite Push

29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release

Cross-Site Request Forgery

Gemini will remember more (or less) of what you say

I customized my Linux desktop in minutes with this free app - here's how

I found the easiest way to send files between my Android phone and desktop - and it's free

This website is for humans

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

How I used Conky to make my Linux desktop cooler - in minutes

Website Is for Humans

Here’s how Google Find Hub satellite location sharing is going to work (APK teardown)

Android phone feeling slow? I changed these 4 settings to revitalize the whole system

Changing these 4 Android phone settings made the system feel like new again

The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa

Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

Is your iPhone alarm not going off? 6 potential fixes that worked for me

Of Course the ‘Avatar’ Cabbage Guy Is Getting a ‘Magic’ Card

Pixel 10 Pro Fold takes center stage in Google’s latest teaser

Cassette brings VHS nostalgia to your iPhone’s camera roll

Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates released

Why I ditched Google Authenticator for Proton's new 2FA app - and how to set it up

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

A promising Sega Saturn emulator brings major improvements in a beefy update

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

Participate in Standards Development for P2807.9

You can claim up to $7,500 from AT&T's $177M data breach payouts - how to check your eligibility ASAP

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising