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I’ve tested every cheap Samsung phone: Here are the ones you should buy in 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-08 22:32:31

The secret to Samsung’s ultra-cheap success is its commitment to software updates. Like the rest of the Galaxy A series, the Galaxy A16 is set up for a full six years of support, carrying it right into the start of the 2030s. That works out to a per-update cost of around $30, better than the Galaxy A26’s per-update cost of $50 or the Galaxy S24 FE’s price of around $90 for each major patch. Granted, you’re paying for much more than just software support, but it’s a good place to start if you wan

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Last call: Fortnite players only have two days left to claim their settlement payout

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-10 10:16:36

Gary Sims / Android Authority TL;DR Fortnite players who were charged for unwanted purchases can submit a claim to receive compensation stemming from the FTC’s settlement with Epic Games. Eligible claimants only have until July 9 to apply. Refunds are expected to arrive in 2026 after the agency has reviewed and validated all claims. If you’re a Fortnite player, you might be entitled to some money. But you’ll have to act quickly, as those who are eligible only have two days left to submit a c

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Forget Spotify, Here’s How to Get Amazon Music Unlimited For FREE Thanks to Prime Day

gizmodo.com Unknown 2025-08-11 22:35:41

Amazon’s Prime Day is its biggest shopping day of the year and the discounts stretch far beyond physical products. One of the best offers this year is on Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon’s streaming service which directly competes with Spotify and Apple Music. For a limited time only, if you join up over Prime Day, you get three months absolutely free which is a deal that’s hard to pass up, especially since the regular price is $11.99 per month. There is no contract and you can end it anytime, so

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Nothing's untestable

news.ycombinator.com Vidhi Katkoria 2025-08-08 20:04:49

Vidhi Katkoria Technical Writer Nothing's untestable As the co-founder of HashiCorp, Mitchell has been instrumental in the development of tools that many of us use daily, like Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and more. He also helped shape the initial testing strategies for them, gaining hard-won insights into testing complex software along the way. At BugBash, where everyone is a testing nerd (or at least wants to be), most of us have come across that one piece of code that cannot be tested. What d

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Trump inaugural impersonators scammed donors out of crypto, feds say

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez 2025-08-12 16:04:39

Scammers impersonating the President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance Inaugural Committee fraudulently stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a new complaint filed by federal prosecutors. The perpetrators used phony email addresses made to look like they belonged to the inaugural committee to " trick or coerce victims into providing them money," according to the civil complaint filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Using email addres

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xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-15 18:34:41

After months of backlash over alleged pollution concerns, xAI has finally secured an air permit covering some of the methane gas turbines powering its Colossus supercomputer data center in Memphis, Tennessee. On Wednesday, the Shelby County Health Department granted xAI an air permit that allows it to power 15 gas turbines while adhering to a range of restrictions designed to minimize emissions. Expiring on January 2, 2027, the permit requires xAI to install and operate the best available contr

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xAI gets permits for 15 natural gas generators at Memphis data center

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-15 22:45:34

County regulators yesterday granted xAI permits to operate 15 natural gas turbines at its data center outside Memphis, despite the threat of a lawsuit. Elon Musk’s AI company has been operating as many as 35 generators without permits, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) said. Altogether, they’re capable of producing up to 421 megawatts of electricity. The legal organization has said that it will sue xAI for violations of the Clean Air Act on behalf of the NAACP. The company recently

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Best Cellphone Plans of 2025: Our Top Picks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-16 13:40:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you're feeling overwhelmed when evaluating all the phone plan options out there, you're not alone -- and it's not an accident. Carriers need to appeal to every type of customer, from people who want all the options to those who need only a small slice of features on a budget. We've put together recommendations from major carri

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Best Family Phone Plans for 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-16 15:39:00

If you compare the specifics of T-Mobile's Essentials and Essentials Saver plans, you might think the company forgot to update one or the other -- they're Essential-ly the same. With both, you get 50GB of fast Premium 5G data (depending on the network capabilities in your area), which drops to 3G speeds of still-unlimited data after that allotment is used up. You can use your phone as a mobile hotspot with unlimited data, but only at 3G speeds and restricted to paltry 2G speeds when you're in Ca

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US Mobile’s firecracker $249 Pixel 9 deal is coming back for the Fourth of July

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-16 13:56:39

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR US Mobile is bringing back its $249 Pixel 9 deal for new and existing customers. The offer discounts the Google flagship by a whopping 68% The deal goes live on Friday, July 4, 2025. US Mobile is once again getting ready to offer its wild Pixel 9 deal, which will see the $799 phone drop down to just $249 on the carrier. The deal is valid for both new and existing US Mobile customers. The only catch is that the device will be locked to the carrier’s n

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I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 15:44:19

TL;DR GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents . I scanned every force push event since 2020 and uncovered secrets worth $25k in bug bounties. Together with Truffle Security, we're open sourcing a new tool to scan your own GitHub organization for

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Mint Mobile Wants to Hook You Up With a New Samsung Galaxy S25+ and a Sweet Deal on Their Unlimited Plan

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-08-17 22:10:53

If you’re not ready to switch your cellular service over to Mint Mobile yet, you can’t say it’s due to lack of effort on their part. It’s possible you missed their earlier deal offers that dramatically dropped the price of their Unlimited plan and a brand-new Samsung smartphone, and if that’s the case, you’re in luck because they’re back with another one. See at Mint Mobile Make the jump from your current provider to Mint Mobile, where you get access to the nation’s largest 5G network at consi

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The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-20 22:10:00

2 Apple is considering using rival AI tech to bolster Siri In a massive U-turn, it’s reported to have held talks with Anthropic and OpenAI. (Bloomberg $) + Apple seems to have accepted that its in-house efforts simply can’t compete. (The Verge) 3 DOGE has access to data that may boost Elon Musk’s businesses His rivals are worried their proprietary information could be exposed. (WP $) + Donald Trump has floated tasking DOGE with reviewing Musk’s subsidies. (FT $) + Relations between Musk an

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Publishing Pepys

news.ycombinator.com Kate Loveman 2025-08-18 20:21:06

Two hundred years ago this month, Samuel Pepys’s diary was published to great acclaim. Readers of the first edition in 1825 relished Pepys’s ‘honest’ observations and ‘private anecdotes’. While writing his journal in the 1660s, Pepys had worked hard to keep it secret. He knew he was placing his livelihood at risk by recording seditious criticisms of his superiors, along with details of his own bribe-taking and sexually explicit accounts of his ‘amours’. There was much that, when writing, he did

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Whitesmiths C compiler: One of the earliest commercial C compilers available

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 17:25:56

Whitesmiths, Ltd. C Compiler Background The original Whitesmiths compiler was released in 1978 and compiled a version of C similar to that accepted by Version 6 Unix. It was an entirely new implementation, borrowing no code from Unix. When Whitesmiths released version 3.0 of its C compiler in 1985 it supported the emerging ANSI C standard. The Whitesmiths compiler had code generators for DEC PDP-11, Intel 8080/Zilog Z80, Intel 8086, Motorola MC68000, DEC VAX-11, IBM System/370 and IBM System

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Primitive Kolmogorov complexity is computable

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 00:58:06

/ 5 min read This post is mostly AI generated, of course with significant guidance, feedback, iteration and some edits from me. There was little for me to gain writing this myself, but I felt it needed to be written down regardless. Kolmogorov complexity and Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference offer formal, theoretical solutions to measuring complexity and forming predictions. However, both are uncomputable, a fact that is often treated as having significant implications in computabilit

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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-28 18:39:19

Ubuntu users could see up to a 20-percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that will turn off security mitigations for blunting a class of attacks known as Spectre. Spectre, you may recall, first came to public notice in 2018. Spectre attacks are based on the observation that performance enhancements built into modern CPUs open a side channel that can leak secrets a CPU is processing. The performance enhancement, known as speculative execution, predicts future

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The axion may help clean up the messy business of dark matter

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-30 07:00:47

In recent years, a curious hypothetical particle called the axion, invented to address challenging problems with the strong nuclear force, has emerged as a leading candidate to explain dark matter. Although the potential for axions to explain dark matter has been around for decades, cosmologists have only recently begun to seriously search for them. Not only might they be able to resolve some issues with older hypotheses about dark matter, but they also offer a dizzying array of promising avenue

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RFK Jr. Accuses Congressman of Being Paid by Big Pharma to Support Vaccines

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-30 08:40:29

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced over three hours of questioning at a House subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that covered everything from the shocking errors in his first major health report to his complete ignorance of federal lawsuits against major health insurance companies. But one of the standout moments during the hearing occurred when Kennedy suggested that a sitting member of Congress only opposed the health secretary’s actions because he was bought

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More news from the labs of MIT

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-08-30 18:00:00

New electronic “skin” could lead to lightweight night-vision glasses MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic material that could be used in wearable sensors, flexible transistors and computing elements, and sensitive compact imaging devices. Technology makes pesticides stick to plant leaves A new pesticide application system developed by MIT researchers and their spinoff company could significantly cut use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving

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An epic year for women’s sports

technologyreview.com Miles Roberts 2025-08-30 18:00:00

It was a banner year for the Engineers in 2024–’25, with four MIT women’s teams all clinching NCAA Division III national titles for the first time. After winning their fourth straight NCAA East Regional Championship, the cross country team claimed their first national title in November with All-American performances from Christina Crow ’25 (pictured), Rujuta Sane ’26, and Kate Sanderson ’26. In March, the indoor track and field team scored 49 points—the most ever by an MIT women’s team at a n

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Art rhymes

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-08-30 18:00:00

As an MIT visiting scholar, rap legend Lupe Fiasco decided to go fishing for ideas on campus. In an approach he calls “ghotiing” (pronounced “fishing”), he composed nine raps inspired by works in MIT’s public art collection, writing and recording them on site. On May 2, he and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble debuted six of them, performing in front of a packed audience in Kresge for the final performance of the MIT Artfinity festival. The concert featured arrangements of Fiasco’s music done by

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An intelligent, practical path to reindustrialization

technologyreview.com Sally Kornbluth 2025-08-30 18:00:00

Then, a little over a decade ago, MIT’s “Production in the Innovation Economy” initiative highlighted the opportunities we miss if design and manufacturing teams are miles or even oceans apart—and played a significant role in shaping the nation’s Advanced Manufacturing Initiative. Building on this legacy, and in response to an urgent national interest in restoring America’s manufacturing strength, an inspired group of MIT faculty came together in 2022 to found the Manufacturing@MIT Working Grou

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Travels with Rambax

technologyreview.com Abdullahi Tsanni 2025-08-30 18:00:00

Lamine Touré, director of Rambax MIT, leads drum practice in Grand Mbao NIKO ODHIAMBO ’25 Touré, a Senegalese master drummer and an MIT lecturer in world music, cofounded Rambax in 2001 with Patricia Tang, an associate professor and ethnomusicologist who specializes in West African music. It began as an extracurricular group to teach students and other members of the MIT community the art of sabar, a vibrant West African drumming and dance tradition. Today, Rambax is a credit-bearing class (21M

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From MIT to low Earth orbit

technologyreview.com Cady Coleman 2025-08-30 18:00:00

Coleman sits in the rear seat of a supersonic T-38 jet for pilot training as a newly minted NASA astronaut candidate in 1992. “When a chemist gets to fly a T-38, she will always be smiling,” she says. NASA On the day of Sally Ride’s talk, I hurried into 10-250, the large lecture hall beneath the Great Dome that is the emblem of MIT. Sandy Yulke, the chair of the Association of MIT Alumnae, was already introducing Sally. Sally. Just a first name. As if she were one of us. I slid into an empty se

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Diabetic Woman No Longer Needs Insulin After Single Dose of Experimental Stem Cells

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-31 22:24:45

Image by Getty / Futurism Treatments A Canadian woman with type 1 diabetes spent nearly a decade dependent on her glucose monitor and insulin shots — but after a single dose of manufactured stem cells implanted into her liver, she's now free. In an interview with CTV, 36-year-old Amanda Smith of London, Ontario described how it felt to be part of such a groundbreaking experiment that has allowed her body to once again produce its own insulin. "I remember, like, being scared and excited," Smit

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Crypto rules of the road framework unveiled by Republican senators

cnbc.com Emily Wilkins 2025-09-01 13:40:01

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two Republican senators are planning to debut a framework on Tuesday for a major bill that would set the rules of the road for digital assets. According to the framework, being introduced by Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott of South Carolina and Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, who heads the panel's digital assets committee, the future bill

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Metro by T-Mobile celebrates ‘Best Network’ title with more high-speed data for all

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 17:58:01

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Metro by T-Mobile is increasing the premium data limits for its most popular plans. The new, higher premium data caps will apply to Metro Flex Unlimited and Flex Unlimited Plus plans starting June 26. T-Mobile is celebrating its recently awarded “Best Network” title with a host of perks for both new and existing users. Joining in on the festivities, Metro by T-Mobile, the carrier’s prepaid wireless brand, is also giving subscribers more bang for their

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If you need a tablet data plan, these two Verizon Value brands are your best bet

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 02:18:04

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR If you’re looking for unlimited tablet data, Straight Talk and Total Wireless may be your very best option. Plans are just $10 to $20 a month for those with an existing phone plan from either provider. You’ll get truly unlimited data, though it will see deprioritization during periods of congestion. While all three major US wireless providers offer optional tablet plans for both prepaid and postpaid customers, official tablet support is actually much

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Tesla’s first Robotaxi rides kick off in Austin, Texas

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-03 22:00:15

The June 22 launch of Tesla's robotaxis in Austin, Texas, actually occurred. It's a tentative first step for the company, however: a human "Tesla Safety Monitor" is accompanying the first riders. There are also only ten cars and rides are limited to certain Tesla users. Those early riders and influencers have been sharing their experiences on social media, mostly (surprise) on X. Most of the early riders appear to be pro-Tesla users, with a company mention in their social media bio or a Tesla c

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Latest Tech News

I’ve tested every cheap Samsung phone: Here are the ones you should buy in 2025

Last call: Fortnite players only have two days left to claim their settlement payout

Forget Spotify, Here’s How to Get Amazon Music Unlimited For FREE Thanks to Prime Day

Nothing's untestable

Trump inaugural impersonators scammed donors out of crypto, feds say

xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site

xAI gets permits for 15 natural gas generators at Memphis data center

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Whitesmiths C compiler: One of the earliest commercial C compilers available

Primitive Kolmogorov complexity is computable

Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

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An epic year for women’s sports

Art rhymes

An intelligent, practical path to reindustrialization

Travels with Rambax

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Crypto rules of the road framework unveiled by Republican senators

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If you need a tablet data plan, these two Verizon Value brands are your best bet

Tesla’s first Robotaxi rides kick off in Austin, Texas

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