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Grand Canyon ‘Megafire’ Explodes in Size and Is Now Creating Its Own Weather

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-09 15:15:02

Despite over a month of firefighting efforts, the Dragon Bravo fire experienced a surge of growth this week, doubling in size within just a few days. The northern Arizona “megafire” is now the largest active blaze in the continental U.S. and the largest of 2025 so far. As of Wednesday, August 6, the Dragon Bravo fire has torched 130,520 acres along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, according to the national wildfire monitoring database InciWeb. This fire sparked to life when lightning struck the ar

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Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-09 23:33:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

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Android can now give you a heads up when your phone’s time zone changes

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 00:15:20

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Android can now alert you when your device’s time zone has been automatically updated. This alert will come in the form of a notification, but you have to opt-in, first. The feature is live in the July 2025 Android Canary release and may roll out in the Android 16 QPR2 stable update. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (02:15 PM ET): The “time zone change” feature described below didn’t go live in the stable release of Android 16, but it’s finally available in the J

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Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone’s entire storage

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 00:24:06

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Terminal app on Pixel phones enables users to run Linux apps via a Debian virtual machine. The Android 16 Beta 4, and subsequently the stable Android 16 release, removed the previous 16GB storage cap for the Linux VM. In Android 16 QPR1, manual storage resizing has been replaced with dynamic storage ballooning, allowing the VM to adjust its storage needs automatically. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (02:24 PM ET): With the release of Android 16 QPR1 Bet

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Writing a Rust GPU kernel driver: a brief introduction on how GPU drivers work

news.ycombinator.com Writing A Rust Gpu Kernel Driver 2025-12-10 10:00:54

This post is the second iteration of a series of posts that provide an in-depth look at the development of Tyr, a state-of-the-art Rust GPU driver for the Linux Kernel, supporting Arm Mali CSF-based GPUs. As promised in the first iteration, we will now explore how GPU drivers work in more detail by exploring an application known as VkCube . As the program name implies, this application uses the Vulkan API to render a rotating cube on the screen. Its simplicity makes it a prime candidate to be u

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How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-10 15:21:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I've had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded "tick" was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at a pretty high monetary cost. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Since then, I've always been vigilant about checking for bad blocks and sectors on hard drives.

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Android really needs a better definition of fast charging, here’s how I’d fix it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 05:00:55

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Maybe it’s just the sheer number of phones that cross my desk, but I have a love-hate relationship with USB-C. It’s great that I can charge my headphones, laptop, and latest Android smartphones with the same plug, but figuring out whether my gadgets are actually charging optimally is often just a matter of shrugging and hoping for the best. As I’ve whined about countless times, USB-C still has too many different flavors for fast charging. Whether that’s propr

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 6)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 05:30:17

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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Android may soon get its own version of Apple’s Hot Corners on Macs

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 06:00:01

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR Google is developing a new ‘Action Corners’ feature for Android, which could be similar to ‘Hot Corners’ on macOS. This feature may allow users to trigger actions, like launching Recent apps or opening notifications, by moving the cursor to one of the four corners of the screen. The feature is not yet live but may be part of a broader push to make Android a more capable operating system for PCs. Shortcuts are crucial for saving time on any device, but

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Musk says Tesla is training an upgraded Full Self-Driving model which could be released next month

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal Ruxandra Iordache 2025-12-11 14:52:58

Tesla is now training a new Full Self-Driving model boasting "big" video improvements and size upgrades, CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday on social media. "Tesla is training a new FSD model with ~10X params and a big improvement to video compression loss. Probably ready for public release end of next month if testing goes well," the tech billionaire said in an update on the X social media platform. FSD is a partially automated driving system that seeks to enable Tesla vehicles to navigate and mane

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Here’s an early look at Gboard’s Material 3 Expressive refresh (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 12:12:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a Material 3 Expressive redesign for the Gboard app settings. The redesign features a card-style user interface and a rearranged settings menu with new descriptions. Gboard is one of those apps I cannot live without, so much so that I even install it on my iPhones (which sounds blasphemous, but it works great). On Android phones, Google is working to bring a Material 3 Expressive redesign for Gboard settings, so you can enjoy a co

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Poll: What do you think Android 17’s dessert codename will be?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 16:22:55

Google has a fun tradition of codenaming Android versions after desserts in alphabetical order. In the early days of Android, these dessert codenames were part of the Android name/branding. However, with Android 10’s release in 2019, Google dropped the codename from the public name, even though it has continued to use the dessert codename internally. Android 15 is internally called Vanilla Ice Cream, whereas Android 16 is called Baklava. With Android 16 out for a while now, and Android 16 QPR1 a

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YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android (Updated: Official confirmation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:00:26

Update: August 6, 2025 (1 AM ET): YouTube has acknowledged the issue of playback speed not functioning on its Android app. Its team is investigating the problem. A fix should roll out soon enough. Here’s the full update posted on YouTube’s community forums: We’re aware some of you are experiencing issues adjusting playback speed while watching videos on Android devices. Our teams are actively investigating this issue! We’ll update this thread as soon as we have new information. Thanks so much f

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The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children

news.ycombinator.com David Cox 2025-12-07 00:20:42

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, with the aim of tracking several hundred children who had acquired HIV from their mothers, either during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. After putting the children on antiretroviral dru

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You’re not going crazy: YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 18:02:26

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s playback controls are broken on the Android app. Playback speed controls are still functioning properly on the YouTube website and the iOS app. On Android, you can tap and hold for 2x speed, but you can’t change the speed settings from the gear icon. The YouTube app for Android appears to be experiencing a glitch that has effectively broken the playback speed controls. Currently, attempting to change the playback speed of a video doesn’t wo

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These $80 Windows XP Crocs just made me desperate for Android footwear

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-11 18:44:39

Techradar TL;DR Microsoft has created Windows XP Crocs as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations. The custom footwear features a sky blue design with grassy green soles that mimic the conic Bliss wallpaper from the XP era. All I want is for Google to make Android Crocs a thing! Microsoft just did the unthinkable and made Windows XP cool again after almost 25 years. The software giant has released a pair of Windows XP-inspired Crocs, and now, all I can think of is how cool it would be if G

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Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

news.ycombinator.com Hope Hodge Seck 2025-12-11 18:05:17

On the heels of fielding the military’s first attack drone team, the U.S. Marine Corps added another weapon to their drone-fighting arsenal: a 90-page handbook all about employing small, unmanned aerial systems against the enemy and integrating them into formations. The 1st Marine Division Schools’ Small UAS/Counter-small UAS Integration Handbook was published in June and approved for public release. It’s intended to support the 10-day sUAS/C-sUAS Integration Course recently launched at Camp Pe

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Google is rolling out a fix for Pixel back button issues

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-11 20:48:06

The issues appear to have started popping up shortly after the official release of Android 16 in June. Ever since that update, the user said that navigation has been “a complete mess” and that they ran into issues with buttons being “completely unresponsive” or delays of “over 30 seconds” on their Pixel 8 Pro. Another user said they had to occasionally press the back button “a few times” on their Pixel 9 to get the phone to register it. The swipe gesture to navigate back also occasionally stoppe

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RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-12 00:07:07

Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile of an old spinning hard drive, has been replaced with something clearly intended to resemble a solid-state drive (the SSD in your Mac actually looks like a handful of chips soldered to a circuit board, but we'll forgive the creative license). The Macintosh HD icon became less visible a few years bac

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Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

news.ycombinator.com Joël Yawili 2025-12-12 05:14:49

Today we’re announcing a new way to bring your ideas to life in the Gemini app: personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration. Simply describe any story you can imagine, and Gemini generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio. For a truly personal touch, you can ask Gemini to draw inspiration from your own photos and files. Bring your vision to life in any style imaginable: from pixel art and comics to claymation, crochet, and even coloring books, in more

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The World’s First Commercial Spaceplane Won’t Be Launching Anytime Soon

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-12 15:35:40

The highly anticipated launch of the Dream Chaser spaceplane may be delayed yet again as Sierra Space continues to test its experimental vehicle. The inaugural Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, is slated for a launch date in 2025. However, recent comments by a NASA official revealed that there’s a lot more work to be done before the spaceplane is ready to fly to the International Space Station and that it’s highly unlikely to meet its deadline. “We still have some of our integrated safety reviews

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Gemini storybooks let you be the star of your kids’ bedtime stories

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 20:28:11

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini now lets you generate illustrated storybooks. You can direct output towards a specific art style, and even upload your own imagery. Gemini lets you direct how the story unfolds, and can read it aloud when completed. As Google builds out its AI-fueled tools and services, we keep seeing impressive new ways the company manages to “connect the dots” and create something new and useful out of existing pieces. Just look at Audio Overviews: Gemini co

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Here’s the redesigned AirDrop icon in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-12 20:39:48

Apple has updated every Home Screen app icon in iOS 26. As of beta 5, AirDrop has undergone the same redesign for its icon in the share sheet. The previous version consisted of a blue dot within three blue semi-circles on a white background. The new version uses blue as the primary icon color, using layers of the opaque glass-like material to show the radar effect around a much more physical looking blip. The new AirDrop icon appears prominently in the share sheet on iPhone and iPad. It’s also

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The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy

news.ycombinator.com Jenna Ryu 2025-12-12 18:57:55

There’s a special kind of emotional drain that comes from talking to someone who disagrees with everything you say. And thanks to a string of viral TikToks, this particular red flag now has a name: the “contrarian friend.” This type of companion isn’t just occasionally opinionated or a stickler for proper grammar. No matter the topic, the “contrarian” is always chiming in with a buzzkill rebuttal. You rave about a new “must-try” restaurant? The “contrarian” will shut you down with an instinctiv

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Google could fix one of the most annoying things about switching from a Galaxy to a Pixel phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 05:27:57

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a native option for stock Android to flip the three-button navigation bar, a feature long requested by users switching from Samsung devices. This addresses a major pain point, as Samsung’s default navigation layout is the reverse of stock Android’s, forcing users to retrain their muscle memory. Evidence of the unreleased feature was found in an Android Canary build, but it will likely not launch until a future Android 16 quarterly

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“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 08:30:41

Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain, or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care. The culprit isn’t food poisoning—it’s the fallout from a tick bite you may have gotten months earlier and didn’t even notice. This delayed allergic reaction is called alpha-gal syndrome. While it’s commonly called the

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 problems and how to fix them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 14:35:35

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority The Galaxy Z Flip 6 isn’t the latest member of the Galaxy Z Flip family anymore, but it’s still a solid device. Of course, nothing is perfect, and the Z Flip 6 isn’t immune to bugs and glitches. We take a look at some common Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 problems and offer potential solutions on how to fix them. Editor's note: It's important to remember that not every Z Flip 6 owner will come across these problems. In fact, it's more likely that you won't face any iss

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Google is building a Linux terminal app for native Android development - here's why that's huge

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-13 15:19:45

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal app that ran a full-blown, text-only Linux environment. This app is enabled via Android's developer options feature and makes it possible for users to run Linux commands (even SSH). From Google's perspective, that wasn't enough. Also: 5 Linux terminal app

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More than two hard disks in DOS

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-12-13 17:19:27

Investigating the rather odd behavior of the Microsoft OS/2 1.21 disk driver led me to Compaq and their EXTDISK.SYS driver. While experimenting with various setups, I realized that DOS versions older than 5.0 do not support more than two hard disks exposed by the system’s BIOS, and will in fact quite likely hang early during boot-up if there are “too many” hard disks. This seems to have been one of the many things that “everyone knew” back in the day, similar to the fact that DOS versions older

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Apple Music for Android gets redesigned with lyrics and translation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:00:27

Apple has released the beta version of Apple Music version 5.0 for Android, and as 9to5Google reports, it doesn't feature a Liquid Glass redesign like its counterpart for iOS 26. Liquid Glass is what Apple calls its new visual language, so it's not quite clear whether the Android iteration of the app will ever get the same visual overhaul. It did get a handful of elements from the iOS 26 version, though, including new pill-shaped buttons for play, shuffle and repeat at the top of albums, playlis

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Grand Canyon ‘Megafire’ Explodes in Size and Is Now Creating Its Own Weather

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Android can now give you a heads up when your phone’s time zone changes

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How to check for bad blocks on a Linux PC hard drive (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

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Musk says Tesla is training an upgraded Full Self-Driving model which could be released next month

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Poll: What do you think Android 17’s dessert codename will be?

YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android (Updated: Official confirmation)

The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children

You’re not going crazy: YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android

These $80 Windows XP Crocs just made me desperate for Android footwear

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RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

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“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 problems and how to fix them

Google is building a Linux terminal app for native Android development - here's why that's huge

More than two hard disks in DOS

Apple Music for Android gets redesigned with lyrics and translation

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