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3 hidden Pixel camera features that can instantly take your videos to the next level

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Android's Camera app can dramatically improve your videos. There are three features that are either new and/or improved. These features are easy enough for anyone to use. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the Pixel phones is because of the camera. I've yet to test an Android phone with a superior sensor and app, and the results generally speak for themselves. But with video, Android has lagged

We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

This summer’s 28 Years Later ended on a maddening, disturbing cliffhanger. Spike (Alfie Williams) decided to leave his family and its safe village to explore the world, only to run into the insane Jimmy (Jack O’Connell) and his jumpsuit-wearing gang. What did this have to do with the film we’d been watching? What did it have to do with what’s coming next? We finally have some answers. Those answers are coming in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which opens in theaters January 16, 2026. That’s a

Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract

Microsoft, the latest tech firm to agree to big software discounts for the US government, is digging even deeper into its bargain bin than the competition by offering a year of free Copilot access to government agencies willing to put up with its other problem products. The General Services Administration (GSA) announced its new deal with Microsoft on Tuesday, describing it as a "strategic partnership" that could save the federal government as much as $3.1 billion over the next year. The GSA di

Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In July, Microsoft’s sweeping layoffs hit Xbox hard, and shuttered the entire game studio that was building Perfect Dark. Officially, the game was canceled. But unofficially, reports Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s other set of

Apple releases iOS 26 beta 9 for iPhone

Turns out iOS 26 development isn’t quite over yet. After only shipping eight beta versions of major iOS releases over the last several years, Apple has released the ninth developer beta version of iOS 26. We expect the redesigned version of the iPhone software to officially launch in about two weeks. iOS 26 developer beta 9 has arrived Apple describes the upcoming iPhone software update by saying that iOS 26 “delivers a stunning new design, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, new ways to

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macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 now available

Contrary to expectations, Apple is rolling out a new wave of developer betas ahead of next week’s “Awe Dropping” event. Here’s what to expect. As with past releases, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 8 brought mostly under-the-hood improvements last week, which is also expected from today’s release. The build number for today’s macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 release is 25A5351b. We’re taking a closer look to spot any user-facing tweaks, and will report back with anything noteworthy. What’s new on macOS Ta

Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video

Last week, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Will Smith — himself the victim of a gross AI meme about slurping spaghetti — showed the world that he's not so fresh anymore when his team used AI to add rapturous fans to concert footage of his "Based on a True Story" comeback tour. Online observers quickly noticed that the AI had gone haywire, adding demonic-looking fans with garbled signs praising the 56-year-old rapper-actor that stood in clear contrast to the wilted-looking crowd visible in actual

Improve your video with these 3 Android camera features

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Android's Camera app can dramatically improve your videos. There are three features that are either new and/or improved. These features are easy enough for anyone to use. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the Pixel phones is because of the camera. I've yet to test an Android phone with a superior sensor and app, and the results generally speak for themselves. But with video, Android has lagged

Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 11.5 Tbps

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). In volumetric DDoS attacks, attackers overwhelm the target with massive amounts of data, consuming the bandwidth or exhausting system resources, leaving legitimate users with no access to the targeted servers and services. "Cloudflare's defenses have been working overtime. Over the past few weeks, we've

Researchers Discover Another Place Where People Live Freakishly Long

There are regions where an atypically large number of people enjoy a much longer lifespan than elsewhere on the planet. In these so-called Blue Zones—such as Ogliastra in Italy, Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, and Martinique—the population tends to eat healthy, stay physically active, engage with a community, and live with a sense of purpose. (Why are we surprised they live longer, again?). An international team of researchers has investigated how these Blue Zone lifestyle principles apply

I tried Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds' AI noise cancelling, and can't go back to regular ANC

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Bose's second-generation QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2 debut with one major AI-powered upgrade. Adaptive ANC powered by AI may not sound the most exciting, but it's incredibly useful. Bose's improved noise-canceling algorithm points it absorbing most of the company's AI budget. In the fast-paced race to load AI into every smartphone, laptop, tablet, and earbud, the flashiest AI-powered features usua

The best web hosting services of 2025: Expert tested and recommended

GoDaddy has offered as wide an array of services as possible for individuals and small businesses needing an internet presence. Why we like it: It's widely known as a brand and many customers enjoy the service. GoDaddy is a great option if you prefer to stick with a well-known web hosting provider, or you're looking to open an e-commerce store. It's also recently introduced AI-based services to help you find the right domain name and to assist you with branding. The comprehensive domain name s

This Bosch screwdriver looks rough after 7 months, but it's still my #1 - here's why

Bosch GO 3 cordless screwdriver ZDNET's key takeaways This pro-quality screwdriver has held up to heavy use for over six months Fast charging and a large battery keep it running all day It's now selling at its lowest price yet. $89.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When it comes to some things, a review when something is a few weeks old really doesn't do it justice. You need time to put it through its paces to make sure that it really is as good as it seems.

5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades that have me seriously excited for September 17

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The hype continues to build around the arrival of Meta's futuristic Hypernova (a.k.a. Celeste) smart glasses, which will reportedly add a small heads-up display in one eye and a neural wristband (Ceres) to control the interface. These will reportedly cost around $800 and will be announced at Meta Connect on September 17. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has stated that Meta is preparing to sell 150,00-200,000 units of its Hypernova gl

I finally found an Arch-based Linux distro even newbies can run

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways StormOS makes Arch Linux more user-friendly and accessible. Preloaded apps and Zen kernel boost performance out of the box. Minor drawbacks: RustDesk clutter and Xfce complexity for newbies. Arch Linux tends to get a bad rap for being too hard to use for anyone who's not spent months or years using Linux. If you've never touched Linux, that rap is pretty spot on, because A

Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Microsoft has agreed to give the U.S. General Services Administration $3.1 billion in potential savings over the course of a year on cloud services used at government agencies. Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, the GSA has sought to aggregate spending through a strategy called OneGov that's me

Apple @ Work Podcast: Legal Hold solves a key problem with macOS backups

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This new Linux desktop is almost a dead ringer for OS X

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Gershwin desktop is being developed for both BSD and Arch Linux. Gershwin is based on GnuStep and resembles MacOS. You can spin up a virtual machine and try the alpha version of Gershwin. Confession time: I don't give any of the BSD-based distributions enough attention. One reason is that I find BSD (and all its children) not really suited for people who've never used Linux. There's a reason for that issue: BSD

What's New with Firefox 142

New tools for focus, privacy, and smoother mobile browsing. Privacy Privacy Android Android Private tabs that stay private Your private tabs lock automatically when you step away — and only unlock with your face, fingerprint, or PIN. Language Language Android Android Getting even more multilingual Now translate web pages into Japanese, Chinese, Korean and more, so you can browse in your preferred language. Security Security iOS iOS Smarter passwords, fewer hassles Firefox suggests strong pass

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&A, here, starting at 6:12:10. Thanks to repression from the highest levels of the Trump administration, his app has gone viral and garnered over a million downloads from the App Store. Karoline Leavitt called it

An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang). The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully answer vs questions that are at a level of detail where the lossiness matters. This thought sparked by a comment on Hacker News asking why an LLM couldn't "Create a boilerplate Zephyr project sk

Windows is finally bringing Mac-style clipboard sync magic to Android

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The clipboard sync feature allows you to access the Windows clipboard content on your Android smartphone. This feature is currently available in the Windows Dev build. You need to be logged in to your Microsoft account on both devices to use the feature. When you want to copy something like complex code or a long paragraph that’s open on your Windows PC to your Android smartphone, you usually end up copying and sending it to yourself via WhatsApp or

This Macintosh programming book library will take you back, even if you weren’t there for it

Over the weekend, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber linked to a fantastic collection of early Macintosh programming books (via Michael Tsai). It is a carefully assembled catalog of more than 150 books from as early as 1983, covering everything from AppleSoft BASIC, to gaming programming for the Mac. Even if you weren’t around for any of that, believe me: this will be worth your time. A great collection of 150+ early Mac books Here’s how VintageApple.org describes how the Vintage Macintosh Program

Behold: Horror Icons Are Getting the Baby Yoda Treatment

It seems these days most major franchises want to cash in on that Star Wars Baby Yoda money by making their own adorable version of something within any given fandom. We saw it last year with the debut of Baby Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and now this year we have Spirit Halloween‘s Horror Babies. The cuteness aggression is too real with Terrifier star Art the Clown—plus Chucky, Ghostface, lil’ Michael Myers, Leatherface, Pennywise, and others, all featured as infants in the Spirit H

Security Bite: My favorite privacy features in iOS 26

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New iOS 26 icons: Here’s all the new app icons coming to your iPhone home screen

As well as a refreshed new look for system components like buttons and tabbars, the Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26 also extends to app icons. For the first time since iOS 7, Apple has redrawn all of the system apps with new artwork. That means a whole new look is coming to your iPhone home screen this fall. In this post, we share a side-by-side of the iOS 26 app icon and its iOS 18 counterpart, so you can decide for yourself how much of a step forward the new visual style represents. The new

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The 25 Absolute Best Movies to Watch on HBO Max

Wondering what you should watch next on HBO Max? The recently renamed streaming service offers a variety of titles, including Warner Bros. movies like Dune and HBO originals such as Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off. Below, you'll find a batch of can't-miss films and a look at new releases for the month. If you're still trying to figure out if HBO Max is right for you, skim our review of the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer. New releases for September Note: These descriptions are taken from

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Zfsbackrest: Pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems

zfsbackrest ⚠️ Experimental: Do not use it as your only way for backups. This is something I wrote over a weekend. There's a lot of things that need work here. pgbackrest style encrypted backups for ZFS filesystems. Getting Started Installing You need age installed to generate encryption keys. Encryption is NOT optional. $ go install github.com/gargakshit/zfsbackrest/cmd/zfsbackrest@latest Configuring Create /etc/zfsbackrest.toml . debug = true # warning, may log sensitive data [ repos

Dirty Lens? This iOS 26 Beta Feature Can Help You Take Better Pictures

Kids have sticky fingers. If they touch your iPhone, expect smudges on your camera lens. That means the next time you take a photo, the pic might have a weird haze about it, and you'll have to take the photo multiple times. It's not always your kids' fault either. Even adults can be to blame for a dirty camera lens. Luckily, with the iOS 26 beta there is a feature that can warn you when your camera lens needs cleaning, that way you don't waste a perfectly good sunset or other Instagrammable mome

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Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting'

Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting' Just now Share Save Shiona McCallum Senior tech reporter Share Save Getty Images Children are at increased risk of being harassed, cyber-bullied and having their identities stolen in later life by having their photos posted online by parents, according to new research. So-called "sharenting" - documenting a child's special moments on social media - has become commonplace, but academics now warn this could come with unexpected risk