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Prime Day Turns This HP USB-C Dock Into a Practically Free Grab, Now 58% Off and stock Is Moving Fast

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-15 01:25:41

You can get a lot done using just a laptop, but there is an upper limit when compared to a desktop PC. Laptop screens are much smaller than a standard desktop monitor. A 17-inch laptop is pretty large when stacked up against other laptop screens, but monitors tend to be almost twice that size or in some cases, even larger. Monitors be ultra-wide, display up to 4K, and showcase a larger field of view. And with monitors, you can add in more than one for even more workspace. Plus, you can get more

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Apple AirPods Max Have Never Been This Cheap, Even Compared to Black Friday, Thanks to Prime Day

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-08-15 01:50:49

There’s a certain kind of listening experience that sticks with you. It’s the moment a favorite song sounds clearer, fuller, more alive than it ever has before. You know you’re listening to a tune or album that you’ve heard before, but something about it hits much, much harder than usual. That kind of moment is what the AirPods Max were built for. And if you’re looking to try a pair, now’s a good time to buy them now that they’re on sale for Prime Day. ‘ Run to Amazon Prime deal now to get the

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11 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 00:00:07

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement 11 of the Best Peacock Shows You Can Stream Right Now The Day of the Jackal isn't the only Peacock original you should try.

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PR is your scaling power: Learn from Insight Partners’ Nikki Parker at TechCrunch All Stage

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-15 01:15:00

PR and marketing are more than just press releases — they’re powerful tools for attracting investors, customers, and top talent. At TechCrunch All Stage on July 15, Nikki Parker, EVP of Marketing and Communications at global software investor Insight Partners, will break down the essential PR and marketing strategies every startup needs. From crafting compelling narratives and positioning your company for growth and fundraising to building a brand that stands out in a crowded market, this round

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Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so

cnbc.com Samantha Subin Kif Leswing 2025-08-15 05:52:47

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a roundtable discussion at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative artificial intelligence boom. The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value. Nvidia is the wo

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Zoom's AI gets a huge productivity upgrade - here's what it can do now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-15 05:00:14

alexsl/Getty Images Zoom's AI assistant just got another agentic upgrade. The company announced Wednesday that its AI Companion, unveiled close to two years ago, can now connect with 16 third-party apps -- all without forcing the user to leave Zoom. Also: How ChatGPT actually works (and why it's been so game-changing) The AI Companion can now more seamlessly assist sales and customer service professionals, for example, by connecting directly with apps like Salesforce and Zendesk. It can also

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Anker’s 12-in-1 Dock and Monitor Stand Combo Gets a Prime Day Cut as Amazon Clears Out Stock

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-15 05:25:14

Prime Day is a go and Amazon right now is firing off on all cylinders. You can save a ton on a load of different products across every category. This is a great time to browse through some deals and find a cool thing you never thought you needed until you saw it. That for me is this Anker USB-C docking station. Now a docking station isn’t all that special or crazy, but what grabbed my eyes about Anker’s 675 is its shape. This docking station doubles as a monitor stand. Right now, it’s going for

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Apple Didn’t Approve, but Amazon Clears Out AirPods Pro 2 at a Record Low for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-15 05:41:07

AirPods Pro 2 are in stores just a year but already they set the benchmark by which other wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation are judged. On the subject of sound quality, nothing else comes close to holding a candle right now. Normally these earbuds cost $249, but Amazon is offering them over 40% off during Prime Day, reducing the price to as low as $149. This deal is for everyone (and not just Prime members) and it is a rarity for an Apple device. Remember, Apple never really offer

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Appeals court strikes down ‘click-to-cancel’ rule

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-15 05:16:59

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. A federal appeals court just threw out a new government regulation that would have required subscription services to give consumers an easy way to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule was set to take effect next week, and would have required everything from

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Federal ‘click to cancel subscriptions’ rule struck down in court [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-15 09:54:53

A “click to cancel” law was last month passed in California, and now the FTC has ratified a federal rule designed to achieve the same goal. The idea of both is to force companies to make it as easy to cancel an online or app subscription as it is to sign up in the first place. Update: Following a court challenge, the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the rule. See update at the end … Both laws were introduced in response to sketchy practices by companies designed to make it as dif

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Orb Is the Internet Speed Test Your Wi-Fi Has Been Waiting For

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

Internet speed tests aren't just for people who obsess over their internet connection. When my friends or parents are experiencing an inevitable home internet slowdown, my first recommendation is always to start with a speed test. In fact, I’ve tested and used dozens of internet speed tests -- the market is pretty saturated with them. Ideally, the best internet speed test is one that diagnoses your bandwidth blues as simply as possible -- no ads, no extra features you can’t make sense of, and no

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Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-15 08:20:24

A critical vulnerability allowing hackers to bypass multifactor authentication in network management devices made by Citrix has been actively exploited for more than a month, researchers said. The finding is at odds with advisories from the vendor saying there is no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2025-5777, the vulnerability shares similarities with CVE-2023-4966, a security flaw nicknamed CitrixBleed, which led to the compromise of 20,000 Citrix devices two years ago. The

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BNY Mellon will have custody of Ripple's new stablecoin as institutional interest in crypto swells

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-08-15 18:41:45

Bank of New York Mellon will be the primary custodian for the Ripple's U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin reserves going forward, the two companies said Wednesday. The partnership should enhance regulatory compliance for Ripple, the issuer of ripple USD (RLUSD), and boost institutional credibility for the company as well as the fast growing stablecoin industry. BNY is the nation's oldest bank and primarily serves institutions and corporations. It also adds to the growing number of traditional insti

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5 surprise products Samsung could unveil at Unpacked today - including smart glasses

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-15 16:00:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET It's hard to believe that we're already halfway through 2025, and Samsung is kicking off the second half with force. The tech giant will hold its next Unpacked event today. Officially, we know very little about what will be shown on the big day, but that isn't to say that teaser information doesn't exist. Ever since the last Unpacked event back in January, several leaks and rumors have cropped up online, providing a view into what could be shown off on July 9. Also: What to ex

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The best Hisense TVs of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-08-15 17:30:15

Hisense may have started as a budget TV brand, but it has become one of the most trusted options. If you don't want to spring for a premium brand like Samsung or Sony, the company's televisions offer a great balance between features and price. Hisense offers screens as small as 32 inches, which are perfect for second screens or kids' rooms, and as massive as 116 inches for a truly cinematic experience at home. Many Hisense TVs have Dolby Vision support, integrated multi-channel sound for more i

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Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 15:00:32

Hey HN, I'm Per from Scrimba (YC S20), the code-learning platform. There's been a lot of talk lately about whether AI tools are causing skill atrophy amongst developers. We get a front-row seat to this, and we see more and more students struggle with basic concepts, and building apps on their own. This is almost always a consequence of relying too much on ChatGPT and vibe coding tools. So we built a small side project: https://devatrophy.com It's a test of your core web dev knowledge — no ha

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iPod Linux (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 09:27:39

Welcome to the home of the ! iPodLinux is an open source venture into porting Linux onto the iPod (https://www.apple.com/ipod/). So far, we have successfully ported a customized uClinux (http://www.uclinux.org) kernel to the iPod, and written a simple user interface for it dubbed podzilla. Additional applications and modules have been written, adding many capabilities not found in Apple's firmware. iPodLinux is currently safe to install on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation iPods. Software Developmen

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Is the doc bot docs, or not?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 14:38:29

July 8, 2025 Upgrading my Shopify email notification templates this morning, I asked Shopify’s LLM-powered developer documentation bot this question: What’s the syntax, in Liquid, to detect whether an order in an email notification contains items that will be fulfilled through Shopify Collective? I’d done a few traditional searches, but couldn’t find an answer, so I thought, okay, let’s try the doc bot! The reply came, quick and clean: {% if order.tags contains 'Shopify Coll

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You’ll Regret It If You Already Have One: Kindle Paperwhite Hits a New Record Low This Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-15 18:35:44

Every summer season, Kindle sales are the highest because people organize vacations and do not want to lug around stacks of books. The Kindle is the perfect travel companion: it occupies virtually no space, is as close to reading a real book as can be, and can hold thousands of books. For Prime Day, Amazon is providing Prime members with an unbeatable value on the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (32GB), now priced at a new all-time low. It is currently marked down to $149, which is a massiv

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Wildfires are challenging air quality monitoring infrastructure

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-15 18:30:07

Ten years ago, Tracey Holloway, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, would have said that air pollution in the United States was a huge success story. “Our air had been getting cleaner and cleaner almost everywhere, for almost every pollutant,” she said. But in June 2023, as wildfire smoke from Canada spread, the air quality dropped to historically low levels in her home state of Wisconsin. Just last month, the region’s air quality dipped once more to unhealthy level

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Activision pulls Call of Duty game after PC players are hacked

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-08-15 16:31:48

Activision has taken one of its Call of Duty games down from the Microsoft Store and PC version of Game Pass, reportedly because multiple PC players had their computers compromised by hackers after playing the title. The publisher announced that 2017 shooter Call of Duty: WWII was “brought offline” on Friday, “while we investigate reports of an issue.” The outage only affects PC versions of the game from Microsoft’s storefront and the Game Pass subscription service, and the game remains playabl

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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

news.ycombinator.com Fernando Pessoa 2025-08-15 19:02:33

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced, published by Springer Nature in April. Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation

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iPod Linux – Linux for Your iPod

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 14:27:39

Welcome to the home of the ! iPodLinux is an open source venture into porting Linux onto the iPod (https://www.apple.com/ipod/). So far, we have successfully ported a customized uClinux (http://www.uclinux.org) kernel to the iPod, and written a simple user interface for it dubbed podzilla. Additional applications and modules have been written, adding many capabilities not found in Apple's firmware. iPodLinux is currently safe to install on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation iPods. Software Developmen

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Comparing the Climate and Productivity Impacts of a Shrinking Population

news.ycombinator.com Mark Budolfson 2025-08-15 16:39:44

All authors are affiliates of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at UT Austin. This paper subsumes the working paper “Population Decline: Too Small and Too Slow to Influence Climate Change” by the same authors. We thank Jared Bernstein, Maya Eden, Frank Errickson, Jim Feyrer, Chad Jones, Peter Kruse-Andersen, Kyle Meng, Marta Prato, John Podesta, Noah Scovronick, Robert Socolow, Phil Trammell, Sam Trejo, David Weil, Anson Zhou, Stéphane Zuber, Valeria Zurla and participants at the NBER’s confer

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Grow a Garden Calculator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-15 19:26:09

What is Grow a Garden Calculator? The Grow a Garden Calculator is a comprehensive tool designed specifically for Roblox's popular game "Grow a Garden". This advanced calculator helps players accurately determine plant values based on various game mechanics including weight, mutations, friend bonuses, and other multipliers. Our Grow a Garden Calculator serves as an essential resource for players who want to maximize their profits and make informed decisions about their garden investments. As the

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How to get free Windows 10 security updates through October 2026: Two ways

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-08-15 18:50:00

MicroStockHub/Getty Images With just a few months remaining until the Windows 10 end-of-support date, Microsoft seems to have belatedly realized that owners of tens of millions of consumer PCs running Windows 10 aren't ready to replace their old computers, and they're also not about to fork over $30 for a one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) subscription. So, at the end of June, just days before the end of its fiscal year, the company waved the white flag and announced new "free enrollment

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At the frontier between two lives–the evolutionary origins of pregnancy

news.ycombinator.com University Of Vienna 2025-08-13 09:17:47

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Single-cell transcriptomic atlases of six mammalian species spanning the diversification of viviparity. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02748-x An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types

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US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-08-15 18:59:31

A federal rule designed to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up for them has been struck down by a US federal appeals court just days before it was scheduled to take effect. The US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the same method they used to sign up, after finding that the commission behind it failed to follow required procedur

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The Hidden Cost of OpenAI’s Genius

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-15 18:55:27

OpenAI is the undisputed poster child of the AI revolution, the company that forced the world to pay attention with the launch of ChatGPT. But behind the scenes, a desperate and wildly expensive battle is raging, and the cost of keeping the company’s geniuses in-house is becoming astronomical. According to a recent report from The Information, OpenAI revealed to investors that its stock-based compensation for employees surged more than fivefold last year to an astonishing $4.4 billion. That fig

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Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE

news.ycombinator.com David Leadbeater 2025-08-15 15:48:29

tl;dr: On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop). If you've ever used an old mechanical typewriter, you know that when you get to the end of the line there's a physical action to to get back to the start of the line. Sometimes this was done through an actual lever on the typewriter, later models had a button. Because this act

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