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iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta: Everything you need to know about the new Apple updates

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 17:30:31

In just over a month, we'll finally get to download the official iOS 26 on our iPhones. Available now is the iOS 26 developer beta 6 (for developers only), and the public beta which you can download and install now. CEO Tim Cook recently said it's (along with the other current beta operating systems) "by far the most popular developer betas we’ve had," 9to5Mac reports. You can also take a look at our preview of the iOS 26 public beta release, which shows off the fresh home and lock screen redesi

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You’re Gonna Have to Wait Even Longer for ‘Shrek 5’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-01 17:01:50

Time to get out that giant green eraser again: Shrek 5, which already shifted its release date from July 2026 to December 2026, has made another big move. The long-awaited return to the swamp for the ogre—first voiced by Mike Myers back in 2001, with the most recent series entry arriving in 2010—will now happen June 30, 2027. Variety notes that no reason was given for the DreamWorks and Universal production’s date change, but big movies needing more time, either for production reasons or to sei

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Tops the Billboard 100 With Huntr/x’s ‘Golden’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-01 17:50:05

KPop Demon Hunters has swiftly become one of the most delightful and empowering surprises of the year in animation. Now that the Netflix and Sony Animation-certified banger is taking over the world, it only makes sense for its catchy music to reach greater heights. Billboard just announced that “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters’ hit soundtrack has reached #1 on the charts. The Huntr/x track for a while there was only slightly behind the Saja Boys’ “Your Idol” from the same soundtrack—but just li

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Here's How to Spot Bright Fireballs During the Dazzling Perseids Meteor Shower

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 15:58:00

Skygazers rejoice, the summer isn't finished with delivering dazzling meteor showers. The last week of July saw dueling meteor showers taking over the sky, but the most popular meteor shower of the year won't hit its peak until next week. The Perseids meteor shower is about to give you a real light show, provided you're far enough away from light pollution to see it. Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug. 23.

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RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 11:06:56

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta are reeling from a deadly shooting that unfolded Friday evening. The shooting left one local police officer dead, at least four agency buildings riddled with bullet holes, and terrified staffers feeling like "sitting ducks." Fortunately, no CDC staff or civilians were injured. But, it quickly drew a spotlight to US health secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who critics accused of fueli

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Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-01 17:00:00

Slow Ventures’ Creator Fund has invested $2 million into Jonathan Katz-Moses, a popular woodworking content creator with around 600,000 followers, nearly 75 million video views, and his own line of woodworking tools. This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made them successful influencers is what can also make them a good founder. Speaking to TechCrunch, Slow

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iOS 26 beta hints at upcoming AirPods live translation gesture

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-01 22:25:08

When Apple announced Live Translation at WWDC25, it highlighted use cases like FaceTime, phone calls, and messages. But one major use case was missing: real-world conversations. As it turns out, that was in the works too. New image hints at new AirPods gesture In today’s iOS 26 developer beta 6, we spotted a new system asset that appears to depict a gesture triggered by pressing both AirPods stems at once. The image displays text in English, Portuguese, French, and German, and it is associate

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Claude can now reference past chats, if you want it to

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 22:18:06

Claude is getting a better, if selective, memory. Rather than acting as perfect catalog of everything you've talked about or shared, Anthropic says the AI chatbot now has the ability to reference past chats when asked, so you don't have to re-explain yourself. The feature seems like it could help you pick up a work project after time away, or query Claude for the details of a past research session that you don't quite remember. The key point is that Claude has to be prompted: It doesn't call on

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Show HN: Play Pokémon to unlock your Wayland session

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 06:15:01

Gameboy locker for Wayland This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game! To unlock your session, you have to solve a little challenge, kind of like a mini escape room built into your OS. Unlock your session with fun! I've been a Linux enthusiast since I was a kid. What always captivated me was the freedom to customize my system exactly the way I wanted. With Wayland, we've reached an incredible level of performance. It's like turning y

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Study Reveals ChatGPT Gives Dangerous Guidance to Teens, Despite Safety Claims

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 20:49:00

A disturbing new study reveals that ChatGPT readily provides harmful advice to teenagers, including detailed instructions on drinking and drug use, concealing eating disorders and even personalized suicide letters, despite OpenAI's claims of robust safety measures. Researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate conducted extensive testing by posing as vulnerable 13-year-olds, uncovering alarming gaps in the AI chatbot's protective guardrails. Out of 1,200 interactions analyzed, more th

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 12, #1515

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 21:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle could be difficult. The word isn't that commonly used, although the first letter does pop up in my favorite starter word. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 12, #793

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 21:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections tries to pull a fast one on us. Check out all the bowling-related clues. Would you think "bowling" might be a category? Think again, this is the New York Times puzzle editors, and they love to help us toss gutterballs. Read on for hints and the answers.

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Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 17:30:59

Early Monday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its original launch site in Florida. Remarkably, it was SpaceX's 100th launch of the year. Perhaps even more notable was the rocket's payload: two-dozen Project Kuiper satellites, which were dispensed into low-Earth orbit on target. This was SpaceX's second launch of satellites for Amazon, which is developing a constellation to deliver low-latency broadband Internet around the world. SpaceX, then, just launched a direct competitor to its S

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Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations

theverge.com Hayden Field 2026-01-01 22:56:15

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with Claude before their vacation. Claude searches past c

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Bitcoin briefly retakes $120,000, ether touches 2021 highs after breaking key $4,000 level

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-02 03:04:17

Bitcoin has edged closer to its all-time high after an overnight rally that also propelled ether to levels not seen since 2021. The price of bitcoin was last flat at $118,981.86, according to Coin Metrics. Ether was also flat at $4,256.90, after surging on Sunday to its highest level since December 2021. Both were trading off their highs of the day. On Friday, ether broke $4,000 for the first time since December. The moves took place alongside a rise in U.S. equity futures earlier in the morni

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StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns

cnbc.com Annie Palmer Leslie Picker 2026-01-02 03:06:17

StubHub, the ticketing marketplace that spun out of eBay in 2020, has resumed its plans to go public and is now aiming to hold its IPO next month, CNBC has learned. The company originally paused its IPO plans in April as the stock market was reeling from President Donald Trump's "liberation day" tariffs. The decision came after StubHub submitted its prospectus in March indicating it would list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "STUB." StubHub now expects to kick off its IPO roads

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Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-02 03:11:53

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. As first spotted by Live Science, the ambitious vision recently won the team the top prize at the Project Hyperion Design Competition, which was launched last year by an international consortium of scientists, engineers, and urban planners. Unsurprisingly, Chrysalis sounds like it was yanked straight out of a sci

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Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-02 03:14:07

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 have published the most comprehensive survey to date of so-called “OS Agents” — artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously control computers, mobile phones and web browsers by directly interacting with their interfaces. The 30-page academic review, accepted for publication at the prestigious Association for Computatio

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Trump delays China tariff increases by another 90 days

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-02 03:14:43

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending lower tariffs with China for another 90 days, CNBC reports. The new executive order was signed before the previous agreement was set to end on August 12 at midnight. The extension will maintain the current 30 percent tariff on goods from China while representatives from both countries negotiate a new trade deal. The previous agreement lowered US tariffs down from 145 percent to 30 percent, and Chinese tariffs down from 145 percent t

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North Korean Kimsuky hackers exposed in alleged data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 03:42:46

The North Korean state-sponsored hackers known as Kimsuky has reportedly suffered a data breach after two hackers, who describe themselves as the opposite of Kimsuky's values, stole the group's data and leaked it publicly online. The two hackers, named 'Saber' and 'cyb0rg,' cited ethical reasons for their actions, saying Kimsuky is "hacking for all the wrong reasons," claiming they're driven by political agendas and follow regime orders instead of practicing the art of hacking independently. "

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Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 03:09:50

* [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 @ 2025-07-28 15:14 Kent Overstreet 2025-08-05 21:19 ` Malte Schröder 2025-08-10 6:20 ` Gerhard Wiesinger 0 siblings, 2 replies; 39+ messages in thread From: Kent Overstreet @ 2025-07-28 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: linux-bcachefs, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel Schedule notes for users: I've been digging through the bug tracker and polling users to see what bugs are still outstanding, and - it's not much. So, the experimental label is c

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AP to end its weekly book reviews

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 23:25:57

Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor. AP to end its weekly book reviews Dear AP book reviewers, I am writing to share that the AP is ending its weekly book reviews, beginning Sept. 1. This was a difficult decision but one made after a thorough review of AP’s story offerings and what is being most read on our website and mobile apps as well as what customers are

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The Food Is Trashy, But Dollar Stores Aren’t Ruining Our Diets, Study Claims

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-02 03:15:49

Some good news for bargain hunters out there: New research shows that while the food bought at dollar stores is generally less healthy, customers’ diets aren’t suffering greatly as a result. Scientists at Tufts University and the USDA-Economic Research Service collaborated for the study, which tracked the food purchasing habits of nearly 200,000 American families. They found that a growing number of people are buying food from dollar stores, particularly people with lower incomes. At the same t

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Reddit Is Blocking the Wayback Machine From Archiving Posts

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-02 03:15:49

Reddit is blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from indexing most of its site, after discovering that AI companies were scraping its data from the digital time capsule. The move comes as Reddit tightens its grip on user data. The company doesn’t mind AI firms training their models on Reddit posts, but they have to pay first. Reddit previously said it wouldn’t restrict “good faith actors” like the Internet Archive, but now it believes some are helping AI firms dodge licensing fees. Re

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Nvidia’s Six-Word Response to China

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-02 03:16:50

Nvidia is on the defensive. Just as the AI giant secured a fragile, high-stakes deal to resume selling its specialized chips to China, the company is now being forced to fight back against accusations from Chinese state media that its products are a national security threat. The attack, which came just hours after the deal with the Trump administration was reported, puts Nvidia in a geopolitical vise, caught between a skeptical Washington and a newly hostile Beijing. According to Reuters, a so

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Meteorite Crashes Into Georgia Home, Turns Out to Be 20 Million Years Older Than Earth

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-01-02 03:25:56

On a clear June day in Georgia, a blazing fireball suddenly fell out of the sky over the Atlanta metro area. The source of this spectacle was a 1-ton meteor that exploded in mid-air, sending a cherry tomato-sized fragment shooting through the roof of a McDonough home. Though no one knew it then, this space rock hailed from a time long before Earth had even formed. Using optical and electron microscopes, geologists at the University of Georgia analyzed 0.8 ounces (23 grams) of fragments recovere

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Flying With Delta? Crunchyroll Anime Is Coming to Your Flights

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 02:20:00

Crunchyroll and Delta Air Lines announced a partnership Monday to offer anime as part of the in-flight entertainment on the airline. The anime addition is set to arrive later this year, and Delta passengers will be able to stream content handpicked from Crunchyroll. SkyMiles members will receive an exclusive perk of a 24-hour free trial of the streaming service that can be used abroad the flight or after touching down. Crunchyroll will hit more than 169,000 seatback screens on Delta aircraft. T

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No notch? macOS 26 onboarding video sparks MacBook speculation

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-02 08:54:01

Apple includes a new onboarding experience for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. An eagle-eyed X user pointed out something interesting about the macOS Tahoe video. This is the onboarding video that will play after upgrading to macOS 26: macOS Tahoe onboarding video in beta 6 pic.twitter.com/YSn0YFPtUo — Zac Hall (@apollozac) August 11, 2025 Notice anything odd? Noah did. Am I the only one noticing no notch on the MacBook? — Noah (@snoah_05) August 11, 2025 It’s true. There’s no notch on the

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Finally, I found a portable charger that checks all of my boxes for traveling

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-02 08:29:00

Voltme Hypercore 10K power bank ZDNET's key takeaways Voltme's Hypercore 10K power bank is available on Amazon for $23. It's very compact and easy to carry, with both USB-C and USB-A ports to charge two devices simultaneously. Its small but chunky, as some might prefer a flatter charger. $22.99 at Amazon Power banks are a tradeoff: too big and they're heavy and awkward to carry, too small and they're pretty useless because there's not enough charge power. I've found that the 10,000mAh mark is

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Trump Demands a Cut for Nvidia and AMD’s Access to China

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-02 00:55:28

Nvidia and AMD have reportedly agreed to pay the U.S. government a 15% cut of their revenue from their specialized chip sales in China, in a deal so unconventional the business world is still reeling. The arrangement, effectively a new kind of “export tax,” is an unprecedented move that ends a months-long blockade and reopens one of the world’s largest markets for America’s two most valuable chipmakers. The news, first reported by the Financial Times, reveals the original and transactional tac

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iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta: Everything you need to know about the new Apple updates

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RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo

Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 12, #793

Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?

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Bitcoin briefly retakes $120,000, ether touches 2021 highs after breaking key $4,000 level

StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns

Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

Trump delays China tariff increases by another 90 days

North Korean Kimsuky hackers exposed in alleged data breach

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No notch? macOS 26 onboarding video sparks MacBook speculation

Finally, I found a portable charger that checks all of my boxes for traveling

Trump Demands a Cut for Nvidia and AMD’s Access to China

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