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Co-op puzzle game Lego Voyagers will arrive on September 15

We got our first look at Lego Voyagers back at Summer Game Fest in June. As it turned out, Light Brick Studio ( Lego Builder's Journey ) and publisher Annapurna Interactive weren't kidding about the "coming soon" aspect of the reveal trailer. That's because Lego Voyagers is set to hit PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store) on September 15 . Lego Voyagers is a physics-based, co-op puzzle game for two players. You and a buddy will each control Lego bricks a

How I used Conky to make my Linux desktop cooler - in minutes

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Conky is a customizable desktop widget for Linux. It can display all sorts of information. With a handy GUI, Conky is easy to set up. I love a cool Linux desktop configuration and have spent many an hour tweaking them. Over the years, I've found there's one way to make the most out of your desktop, and that's with an app called Conky. Conky is an overlay app that displays certain types of information. For example, Conky can display the tim

A bump in iPhone storage is coming, but Apple already made it irrelevant to me

We were already expecting higher iPhone prices this year, but it now seems that one of the four models will get a bump in storage in return. That’s always welcome, of course, but a move Apple made two years ago already made it irrelevant to me … iPhone 17 Pro storage bump With Apple facing import tariffs on iPhones manufactured in China, it had always seemed likely that it was going to pass on at least some of these costs to iPhone buyers. My own guess back in May was a $50 price raise, and a

The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation

The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation May 17, 2025 Roscoe, N.Y. I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms. Although the book is mostly focused on the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, I believe that even histories of science and mathematics profit by being placed within political, cultural, social, and religious contexts. This is particularly true of John Napier’s

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (August 13)

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

We went hands-on with Google Translate’s Duolingo rival ahead of its launch (APK teardown)

TL;DR We managed to activate and use the Practice feature in Google Translate. This feature is effectively Google’s take on Duolingo and lets you practice a desired language. The feature currently lets you practice French or Spanish in a variety of preset scenarios, but you can also create your own lessons. Earlier this year, we discovered evidence that Google was working on a new Practice feature in Google Translate. This would allow people to (surprise) practice a desired language. Now, we’

Will AI replace all software? Why GPT-5 emboldens the doomsayers

maciek905/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Wall Street fears AI models will replace all packaged software. AI models' coding ability is still very mixed. Software executives are positioning their firms to be survivors. The modern software industry has existed for 50 years, since the founding of Microsoft in 1975. "Bill built the first software company in the industry," said late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs in 2007, referring to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. "Bill was really fo

PSA: YouTube will start guessing your age from today

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will start estimating the age of its US viewers beginning today, August 13. The platform will use AI to determine if you are under 18 and automatically apply age-appropriate experiences to your account. You can dispute the age estimation by providing a government ID, selfie, or a credit card. YouTube will start rolling out its new AI-powered age estimation system in the US beginning today, August 13. First announced last month, the feature us

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Got a weird security text from T-Mobile? It’s genuine, but you’re right to worry

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is sending users an SMS asking them to update their PIN, email, and security questions. Subscribers are rightly worried about the legitimacy of the text that includes a clickable link. While the text is very much from T-Mobile, it’s making users uneasy thanks to text scams that have become so common these days. Many T-Mobile customers are reporting that they’ve received a text message asking them to update their PIN, email, and security ques

These CFOs are devoting 25% of their AI budgets to agentic AI

AlexSecret/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways 34% of global CFOs have adopted an aggressive AI investment strategy. 61% embrace AI agents and digital labor in order to autonomously perform tasks. CFOs are dedicating a quarter of their AI budgets to agentic AI More than 9 out of 10 (96%) of chief financial officers (CFOs) have an aggressive AI strategy, compared to only 3% in 2020, according to a global survey of 261 CFOs conducted by Salesforce Research. There is a strong shift from cautiou

Go 1.25 Release Notes

Introduction to Go 1.25 The latest Go release, version 1.25, arrives in August 2025, six months after Go 1.24. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before. Changes to the language There are no languages changes that affect Go programs in Go 1.25. However, in the language specification the notion of core types

The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know

The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know when Part 3 is published. You don’t want to give away any personal information, you don’t want to subscribe to an RSS feed of other content, you don’t want to follow

Dumb to managed switch conversion (2010)

SpritesMods .com Dumb to managed switch conversion - Intro Intro When I got my new house, one of the things I did besides painting and redecorating was rip the old cat2 telephone cable out of the walls and replace it by modern cat5e cabling. I've done a spot of network engineering in the past, so I had a fairly good idea what I would like to have as a network: GBit everywhere, separate vlans for the adsl modem, wired clients and the wireless accesspoint... But at that moment I was too busy to

It Might Already Be Too Late to Save NASA

One of president Donald Trump's long-held desires has been to replace NASA with private spaceflight enterprises. With cronies in charge at the agency to execute draconian budget cuts to that end, it looks like the president is about to get his wish. As Aviation Week reports, the agency is gearing up to be gutted as its leadership prepares to enact the Trump administration's outrageous budget reductions, which include thousands of layoffs and nearly 50 percent lobbed off its science budget, whic

Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere

Omnara - Mission Control for Your AI Agents 🚀 Your AI workforce launchpad, in your pocket. 🚀 What is Omnara? Omnara transforms your AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and more) from silent workers into communicative teammates. Get real-time visibility into what your agents are doing, respond to their questions instantly, and guide them to success - all from your phone. ✨ Key Features Feature Description 📊 Real-Time Monitoring See every step your AI agents take as they work 💬 In

Docker Hub still hosts dozens of Linux images with the XZ backdoor

The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. Docker Hub is the official public container image registry operated by Docker, allowing developers and organizations to upload or download prebuilt images and share them with the community. Many CI/CD pipelines, developers, and production systems pull images directly from Docker Hub as base layers for their own cont

Linus Torvalds blasts kernel dev for 'making the world worse' with 'garbage' patches

The Washington Post/Getty Images You can't say Linux creator Linus Torvalds didn't give the kernel developers fair warning. He'd told them: "The upcoming merge window for 6.17 is going to be slightly chaotic for me. I have multiple family events this August (a wedding and a big birthday), and with said family being spread not only across the US, but in Finland too, I'm spending about half the month traveling." Also: Linux's remarkable journey from one dev's hobby to 40 million lines of code -

YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube's plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal, with tens of thousands hoping that with enough users protesting, the wide rollout of the AI age checks might be stopped. They fear the age checks will make it harder to access content they love while staying anonymous on the platform YouTube's age verification system estimates user ages by interpreting a "vari

Not everyone is happy about new CarPlay in iOS 26

We’ve covered the new CarPlay experience in iOS 26 a lot over the summer. There’s a lot of excitement for a lot of the changes, but it turns out not everyone loves the complete experience. On 512 Pixels, Stephen Hackett details four issues he has with the new Messages experience in CarPlay with iOS 26. One of his complaints is about name truncation. That’s something I find deeply relatable as I basically have an allergy to unnecessary truncation. The Settings app on my Mac will often truncate “

Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from Anywhere

Omnara - Mission Control for Your AI Agents 🚀 Your AI workforce launchpad, in your pocket. 🚀 What is Omnara? Omnara transforms your AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and more) from silent workers into communicative teammates. Get real-time visibility into what your agents are doing, respond to their questions instantly, and guide them to success - all from your phone. ✨ Key Features Feature Description 📊 Real-Time Monitoring See every step your AI agents take as they work 💬 In

Salesforce’s new CoAct-1 agents don’t just point and click — they write code to accomplish tasks faster and with greater success rates

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 Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Southern California have developed a new technique that gives computer-use agents the ability to execute code while navigating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), that is, writing scripts while also moving a cursor and/or clicking buttons on an application, combining the best of both approaches

This new Arch Linux tool takes the hassle out of keeping packages up to date - here's how

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways New Arch tool alerts maintainers when packages are outdated. Bumpbuddy automates GitLab issue creation for updates. Web dashboard and API planned for future Bumpbuddy versions. Bumpbuddy is a new Arch Linux tool that aims to improve how maintainers are informed about packages within the primary repositories. This new app uses a background service (daemon) to monitor package versions and even automatically opens issues on GitLab if it detect

Cloud vs. Local: What’s the Best for Security Camera Footage? (2025)

Whether you want to keep tabs on your kids, package deliveries, or pets when you’re away from home, security cameras and video doorbells are an affordable and easy way to do so. But there’s one important question to settle before deciding on your ideal home security setup: Where will you store those videos? Cloud convenience can be perfect for some, while others may prefer to keep things local and subscription-free. I’ve been testing security cameras and video doorbells for many years now, and

New data shows AI agents invading the workplace, with mixed results

imaginima ZDNET's key takeaways: Employee trust in AI agents is growing, but only for some tasks. Research found that trust increases the more people use agents. The rapid embrace of agents is rewriting some workplace norms. AI agents are becoming a common fixture in the workplace as businesses look to automate a variety of routine, time-consuming tasks. A growing body of research, however, is revealing the boundaries of the degree of control that employees are willing to hand over to these

The iPhone 17 Needs Amazing Cameras. Here's What I Think Apple Should Do

The iPhone 16 Pro already packs one of the best camera setups found on any phone, but the iPhone 17 needs to take things even further when it launches in just a few weeks. Sure, Apple's phones are capable of taking stunning photos, thanks to its awesome software, ProRaw format and its wealth of video skills, but Apple's rivals have been doing big things, too. The Galaxy S25 Ultra, the Pixel 9 Pro and the Xiaomi 14 Ultra all pack amazing camera setups that have given the iPhone 16 Pro a run for i

Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified

We’re excited to announce that Qodo Command, our CLI agent, achieved a scored of 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified (submission pending review), the leading benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real-world software engineering tasks. This achievement is a strong signal that Qodo’s agents are built for the realities of production development. For use cases like reviewing code, writing tests, fixing bugs, and generating features, our CLI agent goes beyond autocomplete to deliver thoughtful, context-awar

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers

StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers [LWN subscriber-only content] StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries for a number of languages, and has a rich plugin ecosystem. It also has a glaring security problem: while running on X11, using Debian's default configuration, it will send a user's text selections over unencrypted HTTP to two remote servers. On August 4, Vincent Lefevre reported the problem to the oss-security mailing list an

How to get AI to work in 22 languages

How to get AI to work in 22 languages 60 minutes ago Share Save Priti Gupta Technology Reporter Reporting from Mumbai Share Save Priti Gupta Translation tech has made work easier for Vineet Sawant Vineet Sawant has spent the last two years navigating the streets of Mumbai on a scooter as a delivery driver. "Being on the road is always very stressful and especially in cities like Mumbai," he says. But when he started out language barriers were an additional problem. His first language is Marat