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Microsoft reportedly fixing SSD failures caused by Windows updates

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:26:30

Recently released Windows 11 24H2 updates are reportedly causing data corruption and failure issues for some SSD and HDD models on up-to-date systems. This issue was first reported on Friday by a Japanese PC building enthusiast who saw drives with Phison NAND controllers disappearing from the OS during heavy write operations (like writing large files or many files at once) after installing the KB5063878 security update and the KB5062660 preview update. While some of the impacted drives were re

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The best VPN extensions for Chrome in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-12-21 03:40:22

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are excellent tools to mask your activities online, change your location, prevent eavesdropping, and avoid age verification checks. Many VPN providers also offer their subscribers browser-based solutions, typically in the form of browser extensions. These might be the best option if you just want to quickly mask your IP address during an online session. An estimated 68% of internet users favor Chrome as their browser, beating rivals including Safari, Edge, and Fi

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Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 02:15:00

=== This is a free online edition of Bruce Sterling's anthology Mirrorshades. === Coverted to webpage by Rudy Rucker, posted September 2022, and updated November 2023. === Each story is Copyright (C) 2022 to its original authors, and all rights are reserved. The book is not public domain, nor is it Creative Commons. === Printing History: Arbor House edition / December 1986. Ace edition / July 1988 === Credits Mirrorshades anthology copyright © 1986 by Bruce Sterling. “The Gernsback Continuum

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The value of hitting the HN front page

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:00:11

I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here. (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.) I currently hover around the upper 30s on the top 100 leader list. I’ve talked about that community with the good folks at RedMonk. After submitting thousands of stories, including over 400 with more than 100 points, here are outcomes I expect from a high ranking HN post. Traffic The first is the traffic. It’s not uncommon to get thousands of visit

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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:30:06

The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and Bitbucket provide benefits of scale, as the Internet serves as a collective information repository for how to use them. Do a search for how to do X on CI platform Y a

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The End of Handwriting

news.ycombinator.com Angela Watercutter 2025-12-18 18:37:25

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute the kind of perfect block letters that only come with years of working on a drawing board. As a kid, I worked to mimic her print as well as her incredibly ornate cursive. I don’t practice those skills nearly enough as an adult, though: As a reporter, speed trum

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Signs Your Gut Is Struggling and Needs Help, According to a Microbiome Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 03:10:02

Imagine "little pets living inside your intestinal tract." That's how Cleveland Clinic microbiome expert Gail Cresci describes the trillions of microbes in your gut. Those microbes not only impact your gut health and break down food but also affect your overall well-being, as they support your immunity, regulate inflammation in the body, and even produce vital compounds like vitamins and hormones. Knowing how crucial your gut health is to your overall health, it's important to pay attention whe

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These 9 Hidden Apple Watch Health Features Could Change How You Use Yours

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 04:00:05

With the Apple Watch Series 11 on the horizon, Apple has brought back its blood oxygen feature. This tool lets you check how much oxygen your red blood cells are carrying from your lungs throughout your body, something many users don't even realize their watch can do. That's only the beginning. The Apple Watch is packed with health-focused features that often fly under the radar. Beyond tracking steps or calories, it can monitor your heart, your sleep, your fitness routines, and more. To break

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MacOS Tahoe vs. Sequoia: Here's How Liquid Glass Redesigns Your Mac's Icons

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 04:30:39

Apple's Liquid Glass software design language is bringing a new look to your Mac. Some of it you'll likely spot right away -- like the revamped menu bar, which will have a completely clear background. But other design changes coming in MacOS 26 Tahoe will be more subtle, to the point where you might almost miss them entirely. But they're worth hunting down. MacOS Tahoe is more than a design update. Functional changes include a smarter Spotlight search, new continuity features, live translation

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The First-Ever Prescription Gummy for Hair Loss: Everything You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 04:48:00

Losing between 50 to 100 hairs per day is normal, but shedding beyond that can be concerning and stressful. If you've tried serums, vitamins and topical solutions but nothing has helped, you're not alone. Even Gen Z Reddit users have the same concern, wondering what might be contributing to it and how to get rid of hair loss. How about a prescription gummy for hair loss? Hers, a telehealth company that provides online health care services and products for women, announced the launch of its Biot

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Onimusha Way of the Sword Hands-On: Back to the Demon-Killing Samurai Grind

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 05:00:07

It's been 19 years since Capcom released another game progressing the story of its samurai action horror franchise, Onimusha -- but in 2026, Onimusha: Way of the Sword will arrive as the next game in the series. Ahead of Gamescom, Capcom gave US media a preview of the game with a short 15-minute demo, a mere taste to show us where the next game is going in the two decades since the last mainline Onimusha. Onimusha: Way of the Sword continues the franchise's tradition of basing characters on his

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It's the Economy, Donald

wired.com Jake Lahut 2025-12-21 03:30:00

For months, the mantra inside the White House has been a MAGA version of “Keep calm and carry on.” President Donald Trump’s inner circle and more junior aides have embraced the term “No panicans”—specifically around tariffs—to signal there is no room to panic over, and certainly no room for dissent from, the president’s economic policies. The administration’s areas of focus—deporting immigrants whose labor powers key sectors like agriculture and construction, levying tariffs, and cutting social

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Made by Google: How to watch the Pixel 10 launch

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-21 04:52:43

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is set to reveal its new flagship Pixel hardware at a Made by Google event today at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, when we’ll find out exactly what the company has in store with its expected Pixel 10 phones, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2A. Will they include Qi2 magnetic charging? Is the 10 P

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SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks track declines in U.S. peers

cnbc.com Amala Balakrishner 2025-12-21 04:28:45

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 22, 2025. Other Japanese tech stocks also declined, with semiconductor giant Advantest falling as much as 6.27%. Meanwhile, shares in Renesas Electronics and Tokyo Electron were last seen trading 2.46% and 0.75% lower, respectively. The tech-focused investment firm saw shares drop for a second consecutive session, following its announcement of a $2 billion investment in Intel . Intel shar

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Intel Foundry Demonstrates First Arm-Based Chip on 18A Node

news.ycombinator.com Zak Killian 2025-12-19 03:31:18

Images in this post: Intel, via TechPowerUp! Intel Foundry needs external customers, as the company claims that if it doesn't find more, it may have to "pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes." That could explain why the company posted a video today on its YouTube channel showing off "Deer Creek Falls", a new "reference SoC" fabricated on its 18A process.The video has since been removed, which is why we're crediting TechPowerUp on the screenshots, but it clearly sho

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Show HN: Hanaco Weather – A poetic weather SNS from the OS Yamato project

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:04:20

OS Yamato 🌸 🔗 Visit: https://hanaco875.com 📹 Launch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrqwU_N5WBA 📰 Featured in KrispiTech: https://krispitech.com/os-yamato-and-the-art-of-gentle-tech-where-minimalism-meets-mindfulness/ ⸻ ✨ Now Open After two and a half months of quiet, steady growth, OS Yamato has opened its gates to the world. This isn’t just software — it’s a philosophy of impermanence, care, and simplicity. ⸻ 🌿 Philosophy We believe digital memories, like real ones, shouldn’t l

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How I Made Ruby Faster Than Ruby

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 02:22:22

How I Made Ruby Faster than Ruby If you’re a Ruby programmer, you most probably will be familiar ERB templates and the distinctive syntax where you mix normal HTML with snippets of Ruby for embedding dynamic values in HTML. I wrote recently about P2, a new HTML templating library for Ruby, where HTML is expressed using plain Ruby. Now this is nothing new or even unique. There’s a lot of other Ruby gems that allow you to do that: Phlex, (my own) Papercraft and Ruby2html come to mind. What is d

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Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 03:27:29

1. Introduction Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443. This incident caused massive disruption of the Internet connections between China and the rest of the world (source1 and source2). This report documents our measurements and analysis of this temporary, widespread blocking event. Our primar

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The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 00:00:11

I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here. (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.) I currently hover around the upper 30s on the top 100 leader list. I’ve talked about that community with the good folks at RedMonk. After submitting thousands of stories, including over 400 with more than 100 points, here are outcomes I expect from a high ranking HN post. Traffic The first is the traffic. It’s not uncommon to get thousands of visit

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Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 02:30:06

The state of CI platforms is much stronger than it was just a few years ago. Overall, this is a good thing: access to powerful CI platforms enables software developers and companies to ship more reliable software more frequently, which benefits its users/customers. Centralized CI platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, and Bitbucket provide benefits of scale, as the Internet serves as a collective information repository for how to use them. Do a search for how to do X on CI platform Y a

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Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:03:03

I have recently installed this extension on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authorit... and yesterday I visited this website: https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network. Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it. Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list "Block Outsi

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How to Think About GPUs

news.ycombinator.com For Attribution In Academic Contexts 2025-12-19 10:18:36

We love TPUs at Google, but GPUs are great too. This chapter takes a deep dive into the world of NVIDIA GPUs – how each chip works, how they’re networked together, and what that means for LLMs, especially compared to TPUs. This section builds on Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 , so you are encouraged to read them first. What Is a GPU? A modern ML GPU (e.g. H100, B200) is basically a bunch of compute cores that specialize in matrix multiplication (called Streaming Multiprocessors or SMs) connected to a

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Verizon's Simple Mobile and Total Wireless Plans Expand International Features

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 04:00:03

Travel patterns are changing, with more people in the US venturing outside the country and needing to stay connected. To accommodate this surge, Verizon is boosting the international options in its prepaid Simple Mobile and Total Wireless phone brands starting Aug. 28. Most phone plans include options to call and text people in Canada and Mexico, along with some roaming options for US travelers. Depending on the plan, those options are extended to many other countries around the globe. But you

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Hyperkin’s DualSense-inspired Xbox controller is finally launching this fall

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-21 06:30:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s good news if you’re an Xbox gamer who’s longingly stared at the sleeker design of Sony’s DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5. After revealing the final form of its Competitor gamepad at CES 2025, Hyperkin has announced it will be available some

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US in talks over 10% Intel stake, White House confirms

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-21 08:36:51

US in talks over 10% Intel stake, White House confirms The White House press secretary said the move was important for national security and the economy The highly unusual move could help Intel as it struggles to compete with rivals like Nvidia, Samsung and TSMC, particularly in the booming artificial intelligence (AI) chip market. Intel has been contacted by the BBC for comment. The potential deal could involve swapping government grants for Intel shares, according to US Commerce Secretary H

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OpenAI chases growth in India with its cheapest ChatGPT plan, costing $4.6 a month

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-21 08:34:28

OpenAI on Tuesday launched a subscription plan in India priced at 399 rupees ($4.57) a month, the ChatGPT maker's most affordable offering yet, as it looks to grow in its second-largest market by user base. The new plan, called ChatGPT Go, provides expanded access to the latest model GPT‑5, and other features at a lower cost, the Microsoft-backed firm said in a statement on its website. Nick Turley, who leads ChatGPT, said in a social media post that the plan provides 10 times more message lim

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SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks decline

cnbc.com Amala Balakrishner 2025-12-21 08:02:42

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 22, 2025. The Japanese tech-focused investment firm saw shares drop for a second consecutive session, following its announcement of a $2 billion investment in Intel . Intel shares rose 6.97% to close at $25.31 Tuesday stateside. Shares of SoftBank Group plunged as much as 9.17% Wednesday, as technology stocks in Asia declined, tracking losses in U.S. peers overnight. Other Japanese tech

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MacBook Pro just got a Thunderbolt 5 SSD option that rivals built-in storage

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-21 04:30:38

Thunderbolt 5 is still fairly new, with the newest MacBook Pro bringing the cutting edge technology to the masses. Other World Computing just announced a new piece of hardware that takes advantage of Thunderbolt 5’s speed boost, offering external SSD performance that approaches built-in storage speeds. Express 1M2 80G portable SSD enclosure OWC’s new Express 1M2 80G portable SSD enclosure is designed for creators and professionals who need serious performance on the go. The bus-powered drive c

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Apple's new iOS 26 beta 2 has new features, but is your iPhone compatible? Check this list

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-21 05:15:51

The wait for accessing iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 is getting shorter as the Apple iPhone event inches closer. The OS 26es are bringing huge upgrades to your iPhone and iPad's operating systems. One you've probably heard us talk about numerous times is the visual update: Liquid Glass. (It's like the better-executed version of Windows Vista.) We spent two weeks test-driving it — you can check out our detailed hands-on iOS 26 preview, or you can try it out yourself by downloading and installing the publi

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Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 05:00:53

Rails Charts One more gem to build nice charts for your Ruby on Rails application. With it you can build various types of charts Apache eCharts library (v. 5.4.0). This gem simplifies interface and adding few helpers to start adding charts in your app with just a few lines of code. What you can build with it: In most cases with one line of code you can have a nice chart. The idea of this gem was inspired by Chartkick gem which is great and allows you to build charts very quickly. It works be

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