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I use a lot of batteries, and this handy device is saving me money - here's how

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-29 16:00:00

Dlyfull B4 Universal Battery Tester ZDNET's key takeaways This battery tester handles a massive array of batteries, from one-use alkaline batteries to rechargeable cells. It's quick and easy to use, and can be used to test whether rechargeable batteries have come to the end of their life. The small display can be hard to read. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've lost count of how many times I've seen someone throw away good batteries. Man, those thin

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Google's AI Quests gamifies how to use AI in the real world

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-29 16:02:00

Hector Roqueta Rivero/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google's first AI Quest is available now for kids ages 11 to 14. Each quest is based on actual Google AI research. Tech companies are racing to market AI to students. Google has launched a new effort to teach young students about some of the practical, real-world uses of AI -- and in the process, to normalize the technology among the next generation. Also: Claude can c

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Apple Event live updates 2025: iPhone 17, AirPods 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and more news

zdnet.com Zdnet Editors 2025-10-29 16:49:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-29 16:49:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Blink is raising the price of a monthly and yearly subscription. The Plus plan will be $12/month and $120/year. The company hasn't changed its subscription price since 2020. For the first time ever, Blink is raising the price of its subscription plan -- but it's adding some new features. And if you hurry, you can avoid the rate increase. In an email to subscribers this week, the company explained

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5 ways to run Windows apps on MacOS - and 2 are free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-29 16:50:49

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you're a MacOS user, you can still run Windows apps. These tools make it possible to run hundreds of thousands of apps. Some of the above apps are free, but some aren't. If you're a MacOS user, and you have a particular Windows-only app you need to run, you're in luck. There are several options for running Windows apps on MacOS, each of which is easy to do and some of which are actually free.

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Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

news.ycombinator.com Lukas Vogel 2025-10-29 15:12:18

DOOMQL: A DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL I recently stumbled across Patrick’s excellent DOOM clone running in a browser powered by DuckDB-WASM. Ever since I’ve read that, I wanted to push his awesome idea to the logical extreme: Build a multiplayer DOOM-like shooter entirely in SQL with CedarDB doing all the heavy lifting. During a month of parental leave (i.e., a lot of sleepless nights), I tried exactly that. Here’s a sneak peek at DOOMQL: Your browser does not support the video ta

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Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology

news.ycombinator.com Attilio Belmonte 2025-10-29 14:28:33

A novel DRAM memory cell with two IGZO-based transistors The bit cell of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the main memory within traditional compute architectures, is conceptually very simple. It consists of one capacitor (1C) and one silicon (Si)-based transistor (1T). While the capacitor’s role is to store a charge, the transistor is used to access the capacitor, either to read how much charge is stored or to store a new charge. Over the years, bit cell density scaling allowed the indust

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Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Stewart 2025-10-29 16:31:17

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. One of Big Tech's last remaining RTO holdouts is officially sending employees back to the office. Microsoft is mandating employees work from offices at least three days a week, according to an internal email the company sent to staff on Tuesday. The mandate will happen in three phases, beginning at the end of February 2026, with Seattle-area employees who live within 50 miles of a Mic

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I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 05:28:34

When I was responsible for the infrastructure at Reddit, the most important thing I maintained was Postgres, but a close second was RabbitMQ, our message broker. It was essential to the operation of reddit — everything went into a distributed queue before it went to a database. For example, if you upvoted a post, that was written to the queue and the cache, and then returned success to the user. Then a queue runner would take that item, and attempt to write it to the database as well as create a

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A new experimental Go API for JSON

news.ycombinator.com Joe Tsai 2025-10-29 14:54:32

Joe Tsai, Daniel Martí, Johan Brandhorst-Satzkorn, Roger Peppe, Chris Hines, and Damien Neil 9 September 2025 Introduction JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a simple data interchange format. Almost 15 years ago, we wrote about support for JSON in Go, which introduced the ability to serialize and deserialize Go types to and from JSON data. Since then, JSON has become the most popular data format used on the Internet. It is widely read and written by Go programs, and encoding/json now ranks

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How An Attacker's Blunder Gave Us a Rare Look Inside Their Day-to-Day Operations

news.ycombinator.com Jamie Levy 2025-10-29 15:42:32

Figure 8: Threat actor starts to rely on automated workflows The threat actor also appeared to be interested in other AI tools to help with data generation and writing. We saw multiple Google searches for “free ai no signup” and for “csv generator ai.” We also saw the threat actor using Toolbaz AI, which is a writing assistant; the CSV spreadsheet generator feature of DocsBot AI, which is an AI chatbot tool; and the AI data generator feature of Explo AI, which is an embedded analytics tool.

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The Next ‘Star Wars’ VR Game Has a New Trailer and Release Date

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-29 16:00:37

It’s time to collect and play with Star Wars toys like never before. ILM and Lucasfilm just announced that Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset will be released on October 7 exclusively for Meta Quest 3 and 3S. It’s a part narrative adventure, part racing playset VR experience that gives you a chance to live a brand new Star Wars story and also race pods like you would in your backyard. Don’t quite get what that means? Here’s the brand-new, full trailer, which makes it much clear

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Horror Maze Game ‘Dark Deception’ Is Becoming a Horror Movie

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-29 16:45:34

The next video game to join the list of those coming to the silver screen is Glowstick Entertainment’s Dark Deception. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s described on Steam as a “story-driven first-person horror maze” inspired by classic arcade games. The 2018 PC and mobile title came out in 2018 and tasks players with getting out of a maze filled with big-headed monsters that’d probably be right at home in Five Nights at Freddy’s. (Probably why it got picked up; the 2023 Freddy’s film was a hit

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Retro Games Fan? Atari's $180 Gamestation Go Is Up for Preorder

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 15:30:00

The venerable video game company Atari is offering preorders for a new game console it previewed earlier this year: The Gamestation Go will release in October for $180 (plus $8 shipping). On its website, Atari shows off a colorful portable device with a 7-inch screen and multiple ways to control games including trackpads, a trackball and even a numeric keypad. Atari says the console will come bundled with 200 built-in games including Pac-Man, Centipede, Asteroids and Balls of Steel. It includes

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Rumored iPhone 17, 17 Pro and 17 Air Colors to Be Announced at Apple Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 15:45:00

Today's the day we're supposed to see the rumored iPhone 17. The Apple event keynote kicks off in a couple hours, and we're expecting the new phone line to be front and center. There are plenty of rumors flying around about what we can expect from Apple's upcoming smartphone, like a redesigned camera and a bigger battery. But if you're the type of person that's more excited about Apple's aesthetics, design and sleekness, you've probably been wondering about what colors the iPhone 17 could come

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A Star Wars AR Game Got Me Playing With Virtual Action Figures Like I Was 6 Years Old

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 16:00:08

It took less than a minute after donning a Meta Quest 3 headset before I was reliving some of my best memories from childhood in augmented reality, sitting on the floor with my digital Star Wars action figures creating fantastical scenes from a galaxy far, far away. Last week, I visited Meta's Los Angeles offices a mile from the city's sunny beaches to try out an upcoming game, Star Wars: Beyond Victory, due out October 7 only for the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S headsets. The game is develop

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Judge in Anthropic AI Piracy Suit Worried Authors May 'Get the Shaft' in $1.5B Settlement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 16:07:16

A federal judge on Monday ordered the court to slow-roll a proposed $1.5 billion settlement to authors whose copyrighted works Anthropic pirated to train its Claude AI models. Judge William Alsup, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said the deal is "nowhere close to complete," and he will hold off on approving it until more questions are answered. Alsup's concerns seem to be around making sure authors have enough notice to join the suit, according to Bloomberg. In

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Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-29 16:21:02

At a hearing Monday, US district judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-10-29 16:00:00

On a breezy San Francisco afternoon last Saturday, I found myself at a nondescript coworking space filled with shoeless coders. Just over a hundred visitors had crowded into an office building in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood for a showdown that would pit teams armed with AI coding tools against those made up of only humans (all were asked to ditch their shoes at the door). The hackathon was dubbed “Man vs. Machine,” and its goal was to test whether AI really does help people code faster—and

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Right-Wing Influencers Are Turning to Foreign Affairs

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-10-29 16:43:28

Wearing combat helmets and protective vests, some of the US’s most popular right-wing creators toured what they called an aid distribution hub in Gaza late last month—a trip carefully funded by Israel’s foreign ministry. By way of the nonprofit Israel365, the Israeli government funneled at least $70,000 to 15 MAGA creators to bring them to Gaza’s humanitarian sites, the Western Wall, and the Golan Heights, among other areas. “It sits here to spoil and be stolen,” Xaviaer DuRousseau captioned a

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iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple’s keynote

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-10-29 16:30:00

We got a glimpse of some software at WWDC 2025, but today is all about the new hardware, baby. We’re anticipating the usual — the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, new colors, camera upgrades, and quite possibly an iPhone 17 Air if the rumors pan out. The fall is usually when Apple also struts out a new Apple Watch, and based on previous upgrade timelines, it’s likely we’re due for an Ultra 3 and a revamped SE. The AirPods Pro are also due for a refresh. And, as always, it’s possible that there’s something

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New emojis will include Bigfoot, orca whale, treasure chest, and more

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-29 15:36:27

The Unicode Consortium has confirmed its next slate of emojis, coming in the next year to eager thumbs near you. Yes, there is indeed a nonprofit organization that creates standardized language across devices from a wide range of hardware makers — that’s why if you send your friend a flamenco dancer emoji from your iPhone, they’ll be able to see that suave dancer in a red dress on their Android. And that same organization gets the final say on what new emojis come to your device. The new emoji

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Tesla revamps the Megapack in attempt to reverse its declining storage business

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-29 16:10:55

Tesla is updating its utility-scale Megapack batteries as it seeks to stem the decline of its lucrative energy storage business. The new battery product known as Megapack 3, which Tesla revealed late Monday, are a bid to lure utilities and data center developers that are desperate for power. Megapack 3 stores around 1 megawatt-hour more electricity than Tesla’s largest existing offering and promises a longer lifespan. Tesla also introduced Megablock, a grouping of four Megapack 3 units that ca

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Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-29 16:26:38

Tesla has asked the San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland airports about acquiring permits to operate a ride-hailing service at each location, according to Politico. Tesla appears to have contacted each airport right around the time it started up a nascent charter service in California in late July. In the case of the San Francisco and Oakland airports, representatives told the outlet that they had been contacted, but had yet to meet with Tesla. The San Jose airport spokesperson confirmed no app

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Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-29 16:35:47

In Brief At the AI Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new GPU called the Rubin CPX, designed for context windows larger than 1 million tokens. Part of the chip giant’s forthcoming Rubin series, the CPX is optimized for processing large sequences of context and is meant to be used as part of a broader “disaggregated inference” infrastructure approach. For users, the result will be better performance on long-context tasks like video generation or software development. Nvidia’s

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Enterprise-Grade Data Ethics: How to Implement Privacy, Policy, and Architecture

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-29 18:00:26

In an era where data is often described as the “new oil,” its management transcends basic operational considerations and becomes integral to organizational trust and sustainability. Ethical data practices, including transparency and informed consent, have emerged as compliance requirements and strategic differentiators for business growth and customer retention. Data Ethics as a Strategic Differentiator Ethical data use is essential for building customer trust, which drives brand loyalty and h

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Orson Welles' Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-29 20:14:20

Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles' 1942 film "The Magnificent Ambersons" — but the late directors' estate is calling bull. In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for David Reeder, whose Reeder Brand Management handles Welles' estate on behalf of the auteur's daughter Beatrice, said that the family hadn't been informed of the project, which is slated to generate with AI the final 43 minutes of the film. Edward Saatchi, the CEO o

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Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-29 20:00:00

Unplanned downtime poses a major challenge for organizations, and is estimated to cost Global 2000 companies on average $200 million per year. Beyond the financial impact, it can also erode customer trust and loyalty, decrease productivity, and even result in legal or privacy issues. A 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the medical-billing subsidiary of industry giant UnitedHealth Group—the biggest health and medical data breach in US history—exposed the data of around 190 million peo

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Galaxy S26 Ultra leak reveals just how chunky that camera bump may be

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 20:43:22

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leak claims the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s camera bump measures 4.5mm, a little over 2mm more than the Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s said that Samsung is sticking with a 1/2.52″ telephoto sensor at 50MP. The leak also claims that the phone weighs 217g. Recent Galaxy S26 leaks have hinted at Samsung bringing back the camera bump next year. And it’s not just the Galaxy S26 Edge that’s expected to have a bump; it appears this will be the case for the entire series. So i

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Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 19:58:37

AI summaries seem to be everywhere, with the latest entry into the mix coming courtesy of Mozilla. The company has announced that its web browser, Firefox, is rolling out page summaries on mobile devices. Notably, this feature is only available for English-language iOS users in the US right now. Unlike other major summary tools from Google and the like, Firefox's page summaries are available when you shake your device. If you feel a bit weird doing that then you can, instead, tap the thunderbol

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Latest Tech News

I use a lot of batteries, and this handy device is saving me money - here's how

Google's AI Quests gamifies how to use AI in the real world

Apple Event live updates 2025: iPhone 17, AirPods 3, Apple Watch Series 11, and more news

Your Blink subscription price is going up - unless you act fast

5 ways to run Windows apps on MacOS - and 2 are free

Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology

Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

A new experimental Go API for JSON

How An Attacker's Blunder Gave Us a Rare Look Inside Their Day-to-Day Operations

The Next ‘Star Wars’ VR Game Has a New Trailer and Release Date

Horror Maze Game ‘Dark Deception’ Is Becoming a Horror Movie

Retro Games Fan? Atari's $180 Gamestation Go Is Up for Preorder

Rumored iPhone 17, 17 Pro and 17 Air Colors to Be Announced at Apple Event

A Star Wars AR Game Got Me Playing With Virtual Action Figures Like I Was 6 Years Old

Judge in Anthropic AI Piracy Suit Worried Authors May 'Get the Shaft' in $1.5B Settlement

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon

Right-Wing Influencers Are Turning to Foreign Affairs

iPhone 17 event live blog: on the ground at Apple’s keynote

New emojis will include Bigfoot, orca whale, treasure chest, and more

Tesla revamps the Megapack in attempt to reverse its declining storage business

Tesla is seeking permits to offer ride-hail services at Silicon Valley airports

Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference

Enterprise-Grade Data Ethics: How to Implement Privacy, Policy, and Architecture

Orson Welles' Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management

Galaxy S26 Ultra leak reveals just how chunky that camera bump may be

Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

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