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8 Foods With Microplastics Hidden in Them and How to Limit Your Consumption

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 21:00:05

It's official: Microplastics are in more than just fish. They seem to be in everything now, even mundane things like chewing gum. UCLA researchers found that microplastics are released directly into our mouths each time we chew a piece. In addition to that, a new study published in Chemistry for Life tested 10 chewing gum brands and found every single one contained microplastics. With something as common as chewing gum becoming a delivery system for microplastics, many people are concerned abou

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My top 6 open-source Android apps from the Google Play Store - and why that's important

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-31 17:00:00

Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images Android and open source are closely intertwined. In fact, most open-source fans I know also use Android. Coincidence? I think not. One nice thing about Android is that the Google Play Store has lots of open-source software. That's not to say every single open-source title is worth your time and effort, but there are plenty of FOSS apps that are not only worth your time but also some of the best in class. Also: I upgraded to Android 16 - here's what I love a

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Yes, Motorola's $1,300 Razr Ultra competes with the Galaxy Z Flip 7 (and not just in price)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2026-01-31 17:10:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The $1,300 Motorola Razr Ultra is a high-performance flip phone with a unique design. Key upgrades make it a compelling option for foldable (and compact) phone enthusiasts, such as the 65W charging speed and 50MP ultrawide lens. The 4,700mAh battery looks great on paper, but yields average endurance from our testing. View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy View now at Motorola more buying choices The Motorola Razr Ultra is one of the most interesting phones I've tested t

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Reverse proxy deep dive

news.ycombinator.com Mitendra Mahto 2026-01-26 22:49:39

Reverse proxy deep dive mitendra mahto 8 min read · Jun 25, 2025 -- Listen Share This post was originally published on my personal blog. A Deep Dive into Reverse Proxy A reverse proxy is a critical piece of software commonly found in various setups within a distributed system. You may have encountered it as a proxy enabling service mesh, a load balancer distributing the load among different database instances, or an edge proxy hiding the complexity behind a site. Several excellent reverse pr

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OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 21:14:01

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone o

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First malaria treatment for babies approved for use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 08:16:33

First malaria treatment for babies approved for use 4 days ago Share Save Dominic Hughes Global Health Correspondent Share Save Getty Images Malaria drugs for children do exist, but there are no treatments specifically for babies The first malaria treatment suitable for babies and very young children has been approved for use. It's expected to be rolled out in African countries within weeks. Until now there have been no approved malaria drugs specifically for babies. Instead they have been tr

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Gear News of the Week: Samsung’s Trifold Promise, Ikea’s Sonos Split, and Hugging Face’s New Robot

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2026-01-31 21:30:00

Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in Brooklyn earlier this week debuted seven new devices, from the Galaxy Z Fold7 to the Galaxy Watch8 series. But there weren't any surprises at the end, despite rumors that Samsung would unveil a trifold phone. Sensing disappointment, the company later confirmed that the phone is expected to land in 2025. “I expect we will be able to launch the trifold phone within this year,” TM Roh, head of Samsung's mobile business, told The Korea Times. The trifold phone, ru

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4 Arrested Over Scattered Spider Hacking Spree

wired.com Matt Burgess 2026-01-31 21:30:00

WIRED reported this week on public records that show the United States Department of Homeland Security urging local law enforcement around the country to interpret common protest activities and surrounding logistics—including riding a bike, livestreaming a police encounter, or skateboarding—as “violent tactics.” The guidance could influence cops to use everyday behavior as a pretext for police action. An AI hiring bot used on the McDonald’s “McHire” site exposed tens of millions of job applican

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 12, #292

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-31 18:12:06

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 has one of those classic purple categories, where you probably won't figure it out before you've answered all the others. Need help? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Fe

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Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 22:28:55

The latest version of Chrome (138) removes Manifest v2 and all extensions that rely on it.

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There’s No Need to Wait for October: Summerween Is Here

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-01 02:45:41

It seems that the holidays keep arriving earlier and earlier; like an undead monster, some of us know they never really die. Not even Christmas—if the jolly-in-July folks have anything to say about it. However, Summerween has been kicking around since early June and will fully absorb the dead of summer with attractions like Midsummer Scream and Universal Horror Unleashed. Already, retailers like Michaels have unleashed their Halloween collections so you can get interior decorating done before l

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Last Chance Prime Day Deal: This Robot Vacuum Blew Me Away With Its Ingenious Navigation Ability, and It's at an All-Time Low Price

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-01 02:39:00

Amazon Prime Day deal: We're in the final hours of Amazon's Prime Day sale, and the Dreame X50 robot vacuum just dropped to an all-time low price of $1,200. That's a 29% discount on a robot vacuum that usually lists for $1,700, and that's the lowest price I've ever seen for this model. If you're looking for top-tier performance, this robovac is more capable of climbing obstacles than any robot vacuum we've tested. CNET's key takeaways No robot vacuum has truly solved the challenge of multi-lev

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Robinhood is up 160% this year, but several obstacles are ahead

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-02-01 06:18:37

Robinhood stock hit an all-time high Friday as the financial services platform continued to rip higher this year, along with bitcoin and other crypto stocks. Robinhood, up more than 160% in 2025, hit an intraday high above $101 before pulling back and closing slightly lower. The reversal came after a Bloomberg report that JPMorgan plans to start charging fintechs for access to customer bank data, a move that could raise costs across the industry. For fintech firms that rely on thin margins to

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Allen G. Hassenfeld, former CEO of Hasbro, dies at 76

news.ycombinator.com Abc News 2026-01-29 20:34:36

AP Business Writer -- Alan G. Hassenfeld, a renowned philanthropist and former CEO of iconic toy company Hasbro Inc., the maker of G.I. Joe and Play-Doh, has died. He was 76, according to the toy company. Hasbro, the nation's second largest toy company behind Mattel, declined to offer more details. Hassenfeld's family foundation, Hassenfeld Family Initiatives, wasn't immediately available to comment. Hassenfeld was born in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Deerfield Academy in Massac

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The Nex Playground will wear out your energetic kids, and it’s $60 off during Prime Day

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2026-02-01 06:00:00

is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and covers gaming, PCs, accessories, and more. The Nex Playground is a console full of kid-friendly games that operate solely with motion controls. It’s cooler than it sounds; the little cube’s camera can track two players’ movements in a multitude of games — five of which come free with the console. It’s a great way to exhaust your little ones when going outside isn’t an option, and it’s $60 off for Prime Day. Normally $249.99, you

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Google is working to bring album art to Now Playing on your Pixel’s lock screen (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-01 11:09:51

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Now Playing detects songs your phone hears in its vicinity and can identify them on your lock screen. Tapping on the detected song name currently takes you to your Now Playing history. Google is working on a new interface where that tap would instead display album art on the lock screen. Sometimes, when it rains, it pours. As we analyze Android app updates for evidence of in-development changes, it can really feel like it’s dealer’s (or should we say, de

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This new 4K Google TV projector just had its price slashed by hundreds of dollars

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-01 11:26:17

Dangbei If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your home media experience, Amazon Prime Day is one of the best times of the year to do it. Although we’re now in the final hours of the event, not all of the big sales are coming to a close today. For example, Dangbei, known for its home projectors, is keeping the party going by offering some exclusive discounts starting from today and ending on July 16. Surprisingly, Dangbei is even slashing the price of its recently launched MP1 Max. Get the Dangbei

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I tried Perplexity's Comet AI browser - here's what you need to know

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-02-01 11:48:37

Nazarii Neshcherenskyi/Getty Perplexity Comet isn't the first AI-powered web browser to arrive. That honor goes to Dia, but thanks to the popularity of Perplexity as an AI-enabled search engine and chatbot, it's getting a lot of attention. It deserves it. An agentic browser, Comet isn't just a web browser with AI glued to it, as are Chrome with Gemini and Edge with Copilot. It's designed from the ground up to use AI to automate tasks and improve your workflow. Also: Perplexity's Comet AI brow

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 12, #762

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-01 10:00:04

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. The purple group in today's NYT Connections puzzle was easier than some of the other groups, I thought. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and

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22 Best Prime Day Apple Deals—Including 40% Off AirPods

wired.com Adrienne So 2026-02-01 11:22:49

If you have one Apple product, you usually have them all—whether that's AirPods, an iPhone, an iPad, the Apple Watch, or the ubiquitous MacBook. One, or all of them, probably needs updating at any given time (it's usually the MacBook), and you now have four whole days of Prime Day deals to think about which one you're going to get. Not a Prime subscriber yet? Perhaps our list of Amazon Prime perks can convince you. Shop the best Prime Day Apple deals below. Read our Absolute Best Prime Day Deal

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I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hall 2026-02-01 15:55:39

No FOUT About It There were some hard choices to make immediately. The first thing we discarded was webfonts, as these were bytes we simply didn’t have to spend. font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", "Roboto", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; Discarding webfonts and instead using the system font on the device had three benefits for us. First, it meant we didn’t have to worry about a flash-of-unstyled-text (FOUT). This happens when the browser renders the

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Report: David Zaslav Pushed Back on Ta-Nahesi Coates’ Black ‘Superman’ Movie for Being ‘Too Woke’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-02-01 16:00:44

On the eve of James Gunn’s highly anticipated Superman film, the Wall Street Journal released a quantitative report that essentially signaled the film as Warner Bros.’ last chance to make its comic book brand soar. No pressure. However, within the lengthy, half-pop culture, half-financial report was the revelation that Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav turned down a script for a Black Superman movie in 2022 because he felt it was too woke. According to the WSJ, the Black Superman script, which was

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New Windows 11 build adds self-healing “quick machine recovery” feature

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-01 16:56:40

Microsoft is adding a new recovery mode to Windows to help revive crashing PCs. Called quick machine recovery (QMR), this technology enables Windows 11 PCs to boot into the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE, also used by Windows install media and IT shops for various recovery and diagnostic purposes), connect to the Internet, and download Microsoft-provided fixes for "widespread boot issues" that could be keeping the PC from booting properly. Initially announced in late 2024 as part of the "W

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iPhone 17 Air suddenly sounds a lot more ‘Pro’ than we thought

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-30 08:38:06

This year’s most unique iPhone model will be the iPhone 17 Air, a brand new entry to Apple’s lineup. And while prior reports indicated it would have a lot in common with the base iPhone 17, new rumors make it sound a lot closer to the Pro models than we thought. Key iPhone 17 Air features will be more like Pro models This year, the iPhone 17 Air will replace the ‘Plus’ model in Apple’s lineup. And like previous Plus models, the Air was initially expected to share many features with the base i

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ITC rules Insta360 infringed on GoPro patents

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-01 21:55:18

The US International Trade Commission has determined that Chinese camera company Insta360 has infringed on at least some of GoPro's patents. Based on a press release from GoPro, the determination specifically found that "Insta360 violated federal law by importing and selling in the United States products that infringe GoPro intellectual property." GoPro was particularly "pleased" the ITC's judge found that Insta360 infringed on "a patent covering GoPro's iconic Hero camera design" and that they

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WordPress Gravity Forms developer hacked to push backdoored plugins

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-01 21:30:07

The popular WordPress plugin Gravity Forms has been compromised in what seems a supply-chain attack where manual installers from the official website were infected with a backdoor. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin for creating contact, payment, and other online forms. Based on statistic data from the vendor, the product is isntalled on around one million websites, some belonging to well-known organizations like Airbnb, Nike, ESPN, Unicef, Google, and Yale. Remote code execution on the server

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Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 21:18:45

In a somewhat anticipated move, Belkin is killing most of its smart home products. On January 31, the company will stop supporting the majority of its Wemo devices, leaving users without core functionality and future updates. In an announcement emailed to customers and posted on Belkin’s website, Belkin said: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to end technical support for older Wemo products, effective January 31, 2026. After this date, several Wemo products will

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Researchers Find Grok 4 Checking Elon Musk’s Opinions Before Answering ‘Sensitive’ Questions

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-01 21:55:57

Earlier this week, xAI’s Grok chatbot went haywire, started praising Hitler, and had to be put in timeout. It was just the latest incident in what appears to be behind-the-scenes manipulation of the bot to make its responses “less woke.” Now it seems that developers are taking a simpler approach to manipulate Grok’s outputs: Checking out Elon Musk’s opinions before it provides a response. The weird behavior was first spotted by data scientist Jeremy Howard. A former professor and the founder of

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iPhone 17 Colors: Rumor Has It This Could Be Apple's Full iPhone Color Lineup

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-01 20:51:02

More iPhone 17 color rumors just landed. The most recent colorful rumor gives us a full lineup of what colors we can expect from the iPhone 17 base model and the rumored iPhone 17 Air. A user named yeux1122, released two images of camera covers which could be the full lineup for Apple. We've heard rumors that the iPhone 17 base model could come in purple, green and sky blue. But two other familiar colors are now rumored to be included in the options -- totaling five possibilities for the base m

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15 Best Amazon Prime Day Vacuum Deals for Dust and Dirt in 2025

wired.com Nena Farrell 2026-02-01 21:21:42

Cleaning isn't just for spring, and these Amazon Prime Day vacuum deals are ones you can't miss if you're looking for a better vacuum. The insanity of summer—beach days! sunscreen spills! sticky ice cream!—leaves me cleaning more often than in the springtime or any other season. A great vacuum makes a huge difference. Whether I'm grabbing my favorite stick vacuum for the stairs, a car vacuum for my Sisyphean car mess, or a Dyson to solve all my problems, you can usually find me with a vacuum in

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The Nex Playground will wear out your energetic kids, and it’s $60 off during Prime Day

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