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Tile trackers reportedly have a security flaw that can let stalkers track your location

Researchers have discovered major security flaws with Tile tracking tags, according to a report by Wired. These flaws could allow both the company itself and tech-savvy stalkers to track a user's location. The security issue could also let a malicious actor falsely frame a Tile owner for stalking, as the flaw can make it appear as if a particular tag is constantly in the vicinity of somebody else's tag. The issue pertains to how Tile tags transmit data during use. Tile tags transmit a lot of da

Why I put my Bose QuietComfort away soon after trying these over-ear headphones

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 are available in Onyx Black and Warm Stone for $799. They excel in the design and sound categories, thanks to their high-quality internal and external build materials Unless you value exceptional details in design and sound, a $799 asking price may be hard to justify. View now at Bowers & Wilkins Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Few headphones perfectly blend design, sound quality, and everyday uti

`std::flip`

std::flip is a little-known utility from the C++ standard library header <functional> : it is a higher-order function that accepts a Callable and returns an equivalent Callable with the order of its parameters reversed (or “flipped”). To understand how it can be useful, let’s start with a simple example. Consider the following tree node class: struct node { int value ; node * parent = nullptr ; node * left_child = nullptr ; node * right_child = nullptr ; }; Let’s write a function that takes t

The ADL Defended Elon Musk’s ‘Awkward Gesture.’ Now He Calls It a Hate Group

When Elon Musk gave two Nazi-style salutes the day President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) came to the billionaire’s defense, saying it was just an “awkward gesture.” But Musk clearly doesn’t have the same kind of affection for the ADL. “The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group,” Musk wrote in a tweet Sunday. The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2025 The billionaire Tesla CE

Here's How to Keep Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates From Microsoft

The era of Windows 10 ends in two weeks. On Oct. 14, Microsoft will be stopping Windows 10 support, and there will be no more updates to the OS. If you can't upgrade to Windows 11, don't panic. For $30 you can snag a year of security updates to keep your OS safe. Alternatively, you can take advantage of this free option by enabling cloud backup and connecting it to your OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used

Can We Trust AI To Write Vulnerability Checks? Here's What We Found

Vulnerability management is always a race. Attackers move quickly, scans take time, and if your scanner can’t keep up, you’re left exposed. That’s why Intruder’s security team kicked off a research project: could AI help us build new vulnerability checks faster, without dropping our high standards for quality? After all, speed is only useful if the detections are solid - a check that fires false positives (or worse, misses real issues) doesn’t help anyone. In this post, we’ll share how we’ve

Serious security flaw prompts take-down of popular call recording app Neon

sarayut Thaneerat/Moment via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Neon app has a security flaw that can expose call data. The app has been taken offline for now. The developer expects the app to return in one to two weeks. People trying to earn money by sharing their personal phone conversations with the new Neon app will have to find another way to generate income, at least for now. On Thursday, the service was taken down by its developer a

OpenAI rolls out safety routing system, parental controls on ChatGPT

OpenAI began testing a new safety routing system in ChatGPT over the weekend, and on Monday introduced parental controls to the chatbot – drawing mixed reactions from users. The safety features come in response to numerous incidents of certain ChatGPT models validating users’ delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations. OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit tied to one such incident, after a teenage boy died by suicide after months of interactions with ChatGPT. The rou

EA going private in $55 billion deal that will pay shareholders $210 a share

An Electronic Arts video game logo is seen at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. Electronic Arts said Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners in an all-cash deal worth $55 billion. Shareholders of the company will receive $210 per share in cash. Trading was halted on EA with the stock up about 6% premarket. Shares gained about 15% Friday, closing at $193.35, after the Wall Street Journal reported that the compan

Security Bite: Mac users are finally taking malware seriously, per new report

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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

The AI industry has made major promises about its tech boosting the productivity of developers, allowing them to generate copious amounts of code with simple text prompts. But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best — and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers. In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being “one of the first areas to deploy gen

My life would be a mess without these 8 productivity apps

Andy Walker / Android Authority We all have a daily productivity workflow, whether carefully honed after wild experimentation or naturally formulated through habit. Mine sits in the middle of these two poles. I’ve been on an ongoing mission to streamline my digital life, especially regarding the digital tools and apps I use daily. After years of testing various products and processes, I’ve realized I gravitate toward the same 8 productivity apps. Here’s how I use each of them. Do you use a pro

Should you pay for Spotify Lossless? Only if you meet these 3 criteria

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Back in 2009, I was one of the lucky few to have an invite to Spotify’s UK launch program, when the future of music discovery was bright and exciting, unlike today’s bleak abyss of arist impoverishment and algorithm-induced repetition. How it’s taken fourteen years for Spotify Lossless to finally arrive on the scene is anyone’s guess, but now that it’s here, my interest in the world’s biggest music platform is piqued once again. In many ways, I’m the perfect ca

Security Bite: Mac users are finally taking malware seriously

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Run 14 vintage OSes (Windows 1.01→XP, ReactOS, Haiku) in the browser

Experience vintage operating systems directly in your browser. No downloads, no installation - just pure nostalgia powered by cutting-edge WebAssembly technology. 🖥️ 14+ Operating Systems Pre-configured collection from Windows 1.01 to modern alternatives like ReactOS and Haiku. Each system optimized for best performance. ⚡ WebAssembly Powered Near-native performance using WebAssembly technology. Full x86 processor emulation running entirely in your browser. 🎮 Full Interaction Complete mouse a

Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying

Privacy Badger is a browser extension that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it’s like you suddenly disappeared. Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension t

Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks

“One of the key things to understand about cybersecurity is that it’s a mind game,” Ami Luttwak, chief technologist at cybersecurity firm Wiz, told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “If there’s a new technology wave coming, there are new opportunities for [attackers] to start using it.” As enterprises rush to embed AI into their workflows — whether through vibe coding, AI agent integration, or new tooling — the attack surface is expanding. AI helps developers ship code faster, but that

LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard

A few days ago I hosted a live conversation with Pranav, co-founder of Chatwoot, about issues his team was running into with LLM observability. The short version: building, debugging, and improving AI agents in production gets messy fast. There's multiple competing standards for default libraries for LLM observability. And many such libraries like OpenInference which claim to be based on OpenTelemetry don't strictly adhere to it's conventions. This introduces problems for users who are trying t

Python developers are embracing type hints

Python is one of the most successful programming languages out there, with it recently overtaking Javascript as the most popular language on GitHub, according to the latest GitHub Octoverse report. The report emphasises the popularity of the language in the growing fields of AI, data science and scientific computing - fields where speedy experimentation and iteration are critical, and where developers are coming from a broad range of STEM backgrounds, not necessarily computer science. But as the

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

President Donald Trump made baffling remarks during a Monday press conference, claiming that pregnant women should avoid Tylenol, the brand name of acetaminophen, arguing that it was associated with a “very increased” risk of autism. It was a new low for the Trump administration, leading to widespread outrage and incredulity among experts. Then things got even sketchier when the New York Times revealed that the researcher behind the studies cited during Monday’s press conference had a financia

Here’s the latest progress on how Google Messages @mentions are going to work

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages has been working on a system to let you @mention other users in chats. Users who are mentioned in such a manner should see an @ symbol next to the chat. Messages may automatically suggest an @mention when you start typing someone’s name. Being able to get someone’s attention by sending them an @username just feels incredibly natural to so many of us after years and years of these kind of interactions across social media. At this point

6 things Spotify gets right that YouTube Music doesn’t

Andy Walker / Android Authority YouTube Music always feels like that niche music streaming service that only the nerd in your friend group is using. I am that nerd in my group, by the way. I’m a fan of YouTube Music purely because of its vast library — and I’m not talking about the official 100 million or so songs it hosts. I mean the billions of unnamed, unknown, obscure music videos with 5,000 views that I can slip into my YouTube Music playlists. Not gonna lie, it’s a huge flex for me that I

10 Android features I taught my parents to use, and you should too

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I was showing my dad a couple of Android features on his phone recently, and not for the first time. You might have had this revelation already, but I realized there’s so much we do unthinkingly on our devices that might still be alien to the generations above us. I’m not exactly young myself as a millennial, but I’ve grown up in the digital age, which means I’ve picked up new tricks as they’ve come on the scene. Writing about them for a living helps quite a lot,

Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ is Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the Council on Foreign Relations and Richard Perry Professor and Director of the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. LAUREN A. KAHN is Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

Premier League Soccer: Stream Man City vs. Burnley Live From Anywhere

Man City will look to close out a productive September with a win at home against a newly promoted Burnley team that has shown its reliance against the English Premier League's big guns already this term. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching EPL games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. After a rocky August, Pep Guardiola's men have so far made it through this month unbeaten across all competi

The strangest game of the year is a channel-surfing simulator

It’s not quite October yet, and there are still plenty of video games set to be released before the end of the year. Even still, I’m pretty convinced that Blippo Plus will go down as the strangest release of 2025. Calling it a game might be a bit of a misnomer; it’s more of an alien television simulator. The idea is that, for reasons that aren’t immediately clear, you’re able to tune into a TV network from another world, the titular Blippo Plus. You don’t really “play” the game, but rather flip

Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement

Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement Benefits for LWN subscribers The primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! Typst is a program for document typesetting. It is especially well-suited to technical material incorporating elements such as mathematics, tables, and floating figures. It produces high-quality results, comparable

If You're a Fan of 'Gravity Falls', You Have to Check Out This New Netflix Series

Each week, Netflix drops a list of the top 10 films and TV shows dominating the platform, and for the week ending Sept. 21, the animated series Haunted Hotel crept onto the list of most-watched shows. Haunted Hotel isn't necessarily an "adult animation" series the way that something like Big Mouth or BoJack Horseman is, and it doesn't deal with especially adult or raunchy themes, but it's also not targeted at young kids. The comedy series was created by Rick & Morty writer Matt Roller and it ce

Senate staff probes DOGE, finds locked doors and windows covered with trash bags

Multiple whistleblowers alleged that DOGE uploaded a highly sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) database to an unmonitored cloud environment, according to a report by Senate Democratic staff. The staff report describes an investigation into DOGE activities at three agencies, including a site visit at the General Services Administration (GSA) in which DOGE officials appeared to be hiding certain areas from view. As we reported last month, then-SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges alleg

Microsoft Photos will soon auto-categorize your pictures

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. Microsoft is testing a way that will make it easier to sift through all the clutter in your photo library. An update coming to all Windows 11 Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs introduces a new AI-powered feature on the Photos app that will place images of receipts, s