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Hyperpb: Faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code

Today we’re announcing public availability of hyperpb, a fully-dynamic Protobuf parser that is 10x faster than dynamicpb, the standard Go solution for dynamic Protobuf. In fact, it’s so efficient that it’s 3x faster than parsing with generated code! It also matches or beats vtprotobuf’s generated code at almost every benchmark, without skimping on correctness. Don’t believe us? We think our parsing benchmarks speak for themselves. Here, we show two benchmark variants for hyperpb: out-of-the-bo

Julian LeFay, “the father of The Elder Scrolls,” has died at 59

Julian LeFay, the man often credited as "the father of The Elder Scrolls," has died at the age of 59, his creative partners announced this week. "It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we inform our community of the passing of Julian LeFay, our beloved Technical Director and co-founder of Once Lost Games," his colleagues wrote in a Bluesky post. LeFay spent most of the 1990s at Bethesda Softworks, culminating in his work on The Elder Scrolls series into the late '90s. His career di

The 16 Best Xbox Games Right Now

Over the past two decades, Microsoft has turned the Xbox brand into a veritable juggernaut in the console gaming world. The Xbox Series X and Series S, the combined fourth generation of the Xbox, have sold over 21 million units -- and the Xbox One, which was still supported until 2023, sold over 58 million units worldwide. As Microsoft shifts its focus toward supporting console and PC gamers alike with the Game Pass subscription service, there's never been a larger ecosystem of Xbox consoles to

Leaked Pixel 10 specs hint this lineup will be a little heavier in your pocket

TL;DR The dimensions and weights for all four Google Pixel 10 models have been revealed in a new leak. Footprints are similar, but all models are heavier than their Pixel 9 counterparts. The devices are set to be unveiled on August 20. While the various and mostly muted colorways for the Pixel 10 series have already surfaced, we were still awaiting the dimensions of the upcoming Google devices. A new leak has now revealed the official measurements for all four models, and while they look simi

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Hyperpb: 10x faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code

Today we’re announcing public availability of hyperpb, a fully-dynamic Protobuf parser that is 10x faster than dynamicpb, the standard Go solution for dynamic Protobuf. In fact, it’s so efficient that it’s 3x faster than parsing with generated code! It also matches or beats vtprotobuf’s generated code at almost every benchmark, without skimping on correctness. Don’t believe us? We think our parsing benchmarks speak for themselves. Here, we show two benchmark variants for hyperpb: out-of-the-bo

Pixel 10 Pro Fold joins the rest of the family with colorway leak

TL;DR A leak has revealed the colorways for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. It’s reported that the device will have two options: Moonstone and Jade. This week has been full of leaks regarding the colors for the Pixel 10 series. On Monday, we got a look at the vibrant new colors for the base model. The next day, we were treated to renders of the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL, which both sport the same colorways. Finishing up the lineup, today’s leak shows us what to expect for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

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The Pixel 10 Pro Fold might make blue the new black

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google might replace the upcoming Pixel Pro Fold’s white and black models with two new color options. Leaked renders shared by Android Headlines show the Pixel 10 Pro Fold in a light green “Jade” and a silvery blue “Moonstone” — with no black or white option at all. Since the launch of Google’s first foldable in 2023, the company has sold the devic

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Wheel World is the feel-good game of the summer

Momentum is what Wheel World does best. It is the feeling of reaching a downhill section of road, a pristine Sega-blue sea stretching out in the far distance, and letting gravity, the weight of your bicycle, and slope do all the work. Release the right trigger, the button used to peddle, and simply careen down the gently curving asphalt. It’s as if you’re flying — the wind in your hair and shirt fluttering on your back, coasting to wherever the road takes you. Wheel World is an undeniably feel-

Physicists Blow Up Gold With Giant Lasers, Accidentally Disprove Renowned Physics Model

Scientists equipped with giant lasers have blown up gold at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, heating it to 14 times its boiling point. For a chilling second, they thought they broke physics, but they fortunately did no such thing. That said, they broke something else: a decades-long model in physical chemistry having to do with the fundamental properties of matter. In an experiment presented today in Nature, researchers, for the first time ever, demonstrated a way to directly measure the t

The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be Microsoft’s first $80 Xbox game

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft-owned developer Obsidian Entertainment is announcing a price drop for the The Outer Worlds 2 today. The game was originally supposed to debut at $79.99 in October, but it’s now going back to the regular $69.99 Xbox game price. Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would be raising the price of new Xbox first-party games from $69.99 to $79.99, alongside increa

24 hours later with Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: Why I'm leaving the S25 Ultra behind

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Update: This story was first published on July 8 and was updated on July 23 to reflect the new sales information. Has Samsung finally done it? I've been asking myself that question this whole day, as I've been going about life with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. By now, my previous daily driver, the Pixel 9 Pro, devoid of SIM cards and battery life, has been relegated to my drawer of forgottenness. With a foldable this thin, light, and capable, it just had to be this way. CNET survey: 6

Forget Samsung Z Fold 7: Why this Galaxy model is on my watchlist going into next year

Jason Howell/ZDNET Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an impressive book-style foldable that tackles many of the long-standing quibbles plaguing the Fold series for years. I spent a weekend with the device, and was floored by how much its reduced weight and thickness made it feel like a standard candy bar phone when folded. CNET survey: 64% of people say 'no thanks' to foldable smartphones The cover screen is wider and more usable, the interior display is larger at eight inches, and the new 200

Analyst corroborates iPhone Fold dimensions, as rumor mill heats up

At this point, it’s getting increasingly harder to believe that Apple won’t launch a foldable iPhone, than the alternative. From Ming-Chi Kuo to Mark Gurman, from reports to leaks, the timeline and hardware details have started to align. And now, yet another analyst has joined the chorus. TrendForce doubles down on iPhone Fold screen dimensions In its latest market forecast, TrendForce echoes recent rumors and reports that claim Apple’s debut in the foldable space is likely to happen in the se

Japan Just Broke the Internet Speed Record. How Fast Is It? You Could Download all of Netflix in Under a Minute

What if you could download Netflix’s entire library in under a second? How about every English language page on Wikipedia (including all revisions) five times over? That’s the dream scientists at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have made a reality, achieving a world record in data transmission speed of 1.02 Petabits per second over 1,123 miles -- roughly the distance between Miami and Cleveland. To put that in perspective, we usually measure internet spe

Meta updates safety features for teens. More than 600,000 accounts linked to predatory behavior

Facebook and Instagram icons are seen displayed on an iPhone. Meta on Wednesday introduced new safety features for teen users, including enhanced direct messaging protections to prevent "exploitative content." Teens will now see more information about who they're chatting with, like when the Instagram account was created and other safety tips, to spot potential scammers. Teens will also be able to block and report accounts in a single action. "In June alone, they blocked accounts 1 million ti

SQL Injection as a Feature

Looking at old applications, we always wonder who in their right mind thought of building them so badly. But every repository has its story and every effort has noble origins. I encountered such an application in my career, and I was lucky enough that they had used version control to preserve its history. Let me describe how the application looked in its latest state. This was a website that managed logs for millions of devices around the world. In the report page, you could query the most prev

How to Play Your Retro Games as Authentically as Possible

It’s more than mere nostalgia. Old games still look better on older screens. As much as you may love playing that past favorite from your childhood, the games you’re emulating on your LCD or OLED displays don’t look anything like they did back in the day. No, it’s not that your high-contrast HDR display is somehow not good enough for 16-bit pixel art; it’s down to a combination of screen technology, system emulation, and the forward march of display resolution sizes. There are a few expensive wa

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Instagram adds new protections for accounts that primarily feature children

Meta is introducing additional safeguards for Instagram accounts run by adults that primarily feature children, the company announced on Wednesday. These accounts will automatically be placed into the app’s strictest message settings to prevent unwanted messages, and will have the platform’s “Hidden Words” feature enabled to filter offensive comments. The company is also rolling out new safety features for teen accounts. Accounts that will be placed into the new, stricter message settings inclu

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Technical Content Writer (Remote)

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for a technical content writer to help us tell that story and scale our educational content. Depot has created a build performance and developer productivity platform unlike any other. We have redefined how teams build software locally and in CI by making speed a first-class feature. Our products accelerate container builds, GitHub Actions, Bazel and Gradle builds, and more. Teams using Depot save literal y

PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people

PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier. The platform will allow users to pay others using their local wallets and payment systems. The company said the launch partners include India’s NPCI International Payments Limited, which operates mobile payments framework UPI (Unified Payment Interface), China’s Tenpay Global (Tencent’s Payment arm), which operates Weixin (WeCha

Pre-order deals: Samsung foldable phones still come with some freebies

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority These offers are all available from Amazon as “limited time deals.” They are pre-order offers, so these deals will likely be gone after the release date. The offer applies to all color versions for all models available. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 + $300 Amazon Gift Card Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 + $300 Amazon Gift Card Thin, light, high-powered, and it folds! The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 offers an 8-inch OLED screen, a 200MP camera, the Snap

The Escobar Phone scam saga has finally come to an end

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. The former CEO of the company that marketed the sketchy-looking Escobar Fold 1 and Escobar Fold 2 phones — which you may remember from a 2020 video from Marques Brownlee — has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering, according to the US Department of Justice. In a plea agreement, United States attorneys detail how Olof Kyros Gustafsson and Escobar, Inc. took orders for t

Firebender (YC W24) Is Hiring

Firebender processes tens of billions of tokens per day for the thousands of concurrent coding agents, and auto complete model. Every month hundreds of millions of lines of code are added to codebases of companies ranging from startups to fortune 500. Building a great coding agent is likely the most valuable technical challenges to solve right now, and we’re already making great progress on this. If this challenge excites you, let’s talk. Responsibilities Build/iterate on agentic evaluation,

Waterfield Magnetic Case review: The most lavish way to carry your Switch 2 around

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Gamers aren't usually known for their sartorial elegance. But that doesn't mean we don't deserve nice things. So after checking out a very utilitarian carrying case for the Switch 2, I wanted to explore the other side of things with a more lavish travel bag. And while Waterfield's Magn

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a photo editing feature other Galaxy phones won’t get

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s One UI 8 software on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 brings enhancements to the camera and photo editor to better utilize the large display. The camera’s Capture View mode has been redesigned and now includes an always-on menu to quickly favorite, share, or delete recent shots. A new “Side-by-Side Editing” mode for Generative Edit lets you compare the original and AI-edited images. Samsung’s recently unveiled Galaxy Z Fold 7 is one of the first devices

OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last

Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives security teams powerful data to avoid compromise without burden on upstream maintainers. The project comprises: Automation to derive declarative build definitions for existing PyPI (Python), npm (JS/TS), and Crates.io (Rust) packages. SLSA Provenance for thousan

Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging

MIAMI—We were beginning to run out of bait, and the sharks weren't cooperating. Everybody aboard the Research Vessel Garvin had come to Miami for the sharks—to catch them, sample them, and tag them, all in the name of science. People who once wanted to be marine biologists, actual marine biologists, shark enthusiasts, the man who literally wrote the book Why Sharks Matter, and various friends and family had spent much of the day sending fish heads set with hooks over the side of the Garvin. But

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Display Can Be Folded 500,000 Times, According to Testing

Fold, fold and fold again. It doesn't matter how many times you open and close the Galaxy Z Fold 7 phone -- it's highly unlikely to give out on you. Samsung Display (SDC) announced Tuesday that its latest foldable OLED panel "remained fully functional after a 500,000-fold durability test," more than doubling its previous benchmark of 200,000 folds. Bureau Veritas, a French leader in testing, inspection and certification, tested the screen with 500,000 folds over a 13-day period at a temperature

OneXSugar: Playing with the first dual-screen transforming handheld

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. I can’t believe they’re actually making these, was my very first thought, as I powered on a working prototype of the OneXSugar Sugar 1. This week, One-Netbook is crowdfunding a gaming handheld on Indiegogo like none I’ve ever touched before. It’s got two OLED touchscreens, two power buttons, two sets of volume controls, and two hinged rota

This Deadly Design Flaw in 5 Million Pools Just Triggered a Massive Recall

Millions of homes in the U.S. are harboring a hidden drowning danger for kids in their backyards. This week, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a massive recall of certain backyard pools that have already caused the deaths of several children. The CPSC issued the recall on Monday in conjunction with multiple backyard pool manufacturers. The recalled pools—five million in total—all carry compression straps that make it possible for small kids to enter the structure without the