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New Bacteria Discovered in Flies Could Sicken Humans

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-06 14:35:14

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According to a study published this summer in the journal Acta Tropica, researchers have discovered a new bacteria species in phlebotomine insects (sand flies) in the Amazon National Park in Brazil’s state of Pará. Its DNA is similar to that of two Andean bacteria in Peru, Bartonella bacilliformis and Barto

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The RedMagic Astra Is the Best Gaming Tablet You Can Buy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 10:00:00

8.0 / 10 SCORE RedMagic Astra Tablet $549 at RedMagic Pros Sturdy, compact design good for travel Excellent 165Hz OLED display High-end Qualcomm chip delivers top performance Lots of gaming-specific features Cons No microSD slot for expansion No software update guarantees No included accessories Mediocre gaming battery life Earlier this year, I tested Lenovo's 8-inch Legion Tab Gen 3 gaming tablet to see how it held up as a small gaming tablet against the iPad Mini. Spoiler alert: It did

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Your Stove Isn't the Only Source of Poor Air Quality. Here Are 6 Culprits for Contamination

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 12:30:00

Many assume their indoor air is clean if they live away from wildfire smoke zones, smoggy cities, or other sources of outdoor pollution. But this assumption may be misguided. According to Michael Rubino, founder of HomeCleanse and chairman of Change the Air Foundation, "Unfortunately, our indoor air is not as healthy as you may think." Rubino, who also hosts the Never Been Sicker podcast, points to factors many homeowners overlook when assessing air quality. According to Dr. James Langer, a Mat

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Sign Up to Get the Hottest Daily Deals Sent Straight to Your Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 14:14:00

I spend every day on the hunt for deals that save you money, so you don't have to. And I mean genuine savings; fake discounts don't pass the sniff test. My team and I are continually tracking and handpicking the best offers from the biggest retailers, such as Amazon and Walmart, for our CNET Deals text subscribers. I'll send the best sales to your phone to help you score the hottest deals without lifting a finger. With Apple set to announce new products, including the iPhone 17, we anticipate u

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Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 14:24:40

A team of the world’s best ice and climate researchers studied a handful of recently publicized engineering concepts for protecting Earth’s polar ice caps and found that none of them are likely to work. Their peer-reviewed research, published Tuesday, shows some of the untested ideas, such as dispersing particles in the atmosphere to dim sunlight or trying to refreeze ice sheets with pumped water, could have unintended and dangerous consequences. The various speculative notions that have been

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The 15 Best Fans to Cool You Year Round (2025)

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-11-06 14:00:00

Honorable Mentions Photograph: Kat Merck Shark FlexBreeze HydroGo for $100: I love the original Shark FlexBreeze (above), so I was very excited to see Shark had released a rechargeable portable fan in seven colors, including ones not normally seen in fans, like Lilac and Honeydew. Shark says it can run 30 minutes with the mister consistently on or 60 minutes with it in "interval mode," and after testing it at my son’s soccer practices, I found these estimates to be more or less accurate. Howev

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Canon is bringing back a point-and-shoot from 2016 with fewer features and a higher price (it’s viral)

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-06 14:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Canon seems to be riding the TikTok digicam resurgence and is rereleasing a mid-2010s point-and-shoot — the PowerShot Elph 360 HS A. It’s mostly the same camera as the original Elph 360 HS, first launched in the very different world of 2016 and rece

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This Atari handheld with retro controls is finally available for preorder

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-06 14:18:10

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nearly two years after it was first announced at CES 2024, My Arcade’s Atari Gamestation Go handheld is finally available for preorder for $179.99 through the company’s website, with shipping expected to start in October 2025. That’s a small price bump from

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Plex urges users to change passwords after data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-06 14:47:22

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a security incident involving the theft of Plex customer account information, including user names, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and unspecified authentication data. Plex said while the passwords were scrambled in a way that made them unreadable to humans, it’s unclear if the passwords can be dec

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StubHub IPO: Ticket reseller aims to raise up to $851 million, pricing at $22 to $25 per share

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-06 18:54:17

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in its initial public offering, giving it a valuation of up to $9.2 billion, the company revealed in a new filing on Monday. The ticket reselling marketplace plans to sell more than 34 million shares priced between $22 and $25 per share, according to the filing. The long-awaited IPO comes after StubHub hit pause on the process in April as the stock market was reeling from Presiden

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Nebius shares soar 55% in premarket on Microsoft AI deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-06 18:23:55

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared in U.S. premarket trading on Tuesday, following the company's announcement of a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . Nebius' stock was up 55% at around 1:20 p.m. ET. The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth $19.4 billion to provi

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Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-06 18:00:01

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images A new challenger in the global artificial intelligence race has entered the ring. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an AI-focused research university established by the United Arab Emirates, announced on Tuesday the release of a new, low-cost reasoning model to rival OpenAI and DeepSeek. It comes after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, earlier this year shocked the world with the release of a reasoning model called R1 which

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Google is working on making it easier than ever to find your Call Notes (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:00:08

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new filter for the Phone app. This filter separates calls with Call Notes attached from the rest of your call history. This follows an earlier discovery that revealed a “Recordings” filter. After new filters were rolled out in the Phone by Google app earlier this year, sorting through call history became a bit easier. You can now separate past calls by Missed, Contacts, Non-Spam, and Spam. However, we recently discovered that anothe

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Survey shows an overwhelming number of users want Gemini on Google Home

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:04:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Home devices are in for a significant reform. On October 1, Google will announce Gemini for smart speakers and displays and subsequently replace Google Assistant with it on these devices. And we have huge expectations from this upgrade. Gemini has big shoes to fill. Google Assistant has shouldered the load of the entire breadth of commands intended for smart speakers for nearly a decade. However, the recent decline in Google Home’s ability to understa

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These are the very best Verizon deals you’ll find this September

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:06:19

Joe Maring / Android Authority Verizon might not be the de facto king of mobile anymore, but it’s still one of the biggest and most reliable networks in the US. Whether you’re a new or existing customer, Verizon offers plenty of ways to save, including trade-in deals, upgrade promos, and free phone offers for those adding a new line. Below, we’ll look at some of the best Verizon deals available in September 2025. Keep in mind this is far from an extensive look at every phone, tablet, or watch

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Another Plex data breach sees company urge users to change their password

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-06 18:36:15

A Plex data breach in 2022 exposed usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. The company required all users to change their passwords as a precaution, and now history seems to be repeating itself. The company is again emailing users, using virtually identical wording to describe to report a new data breach with the same data obtained … 2022: A third-party was able to access a limited subset of data that includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. 2025: An unauthorized th

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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 people were killed during protests

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:00:07

Nepal's government has lifted its ban on social media apps including Facebook and X after at least 19 people were killed yesterday during protests, The Guardian reported. "We have withdrawn the shutdown of the social media. They are working now," said communications minister Prithvi Subba Gurung. In a new development, Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has resigned due to the unrest, his aide told Reuters. Last week, the government announced it was blocking 26 social media platforms due to no

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The USB-C Apple Pencil drops to a new all-time low

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:15:45

It's still back-to-school season and, regardless of whether you've picked up a textbook recently, that will always mean its time to pick up new supplies. Thankfully, there are some great deals currently running, including a new all-time low price for the USB-C Apple Pencil. Right now, you can pick up the USB-C Apple Pencil for $50, down from $79. The 37 percent discount is available as part of Woot's warehouse clean out and will run for six more days or until the accessory sells out. Notably, W

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iOS 26 release date expected at today's Apple Event: Find out if your iPhone is compatible for the update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:18:05

Get ready: The Apple iPhone 17 event is kicking off in less than five hours. During today's "awe dropping" keynote, we're expecting to see several new products announced, including the iPhone 17 Air and several other devices. (Here's how to watch it live, and you can read Engadget's real-time Apple event liveblog, too.) In addition to the new hardware, we should also get a final confirmation of when we'll be able to download the final versions of iOS 26 and iPad 26 next week. Coming with those

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Apple will unveil iPhone 17 and more at the 'Awe Dropping' event today: Here's everything we know

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:36:26

The day has finally arrived: Today at 1PM ET, Apple is all but certain to unveil the iPhone 17 line. This year is shaping up to be a departure from recent September product rollouts, with the strong possibility of an all-new superthin iPhone (dubbed "iPhone Air") expected to join the company's lineup. Also on tap could be new Apple Watch models — including the first truly new Ultra model in two years — and (maybe) the long-awaited AirPods Pro 3. Intrigued? You can watch the Apple iPhone 17 event

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7 most Windows-like Linux distros - if you're ready to ditch Microsoft

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-06 18:37:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you're migrating from Windows, try one of these distributions. Each of these is user-friendly and free. Most of these are either Ubuntu-based or independent. Windows 10's end of life is coming in 2025, and that means you have to hope your machine can run Windows 11, buy a new computer, or try something different -- like Linux. Linux shouldn't be considered a last-choic

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Anscombe's Quartet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 10:29:36

Four data sets with the same descriptive statistics, yet very different distributions The four datasets composing Anscombe's quartet. All four sets have identical statistical parameters, but the graphs show them to be considerably different Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet have very different distributions and appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x, y) points. They were constructed in 1973 b

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UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 18:01:53

Vulnerable people to be protected from self-harm content as Online Safety laws to be toughened. Comes as Online Safety Act to be amended to make self-harm content a ‘priority offence’. Tech companies to be legally required to prevent this content from appearing in the first place, protecting users of all ages. The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material

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Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars

news.ycombinator.com Eslam Elsewedy 2025-11-06 18:34:41

Weaponizing Ads: How Governments Use Google Ads and Facebook Ads to Wage Propaganda Wars Eslam Elsewedy 20 min read · 19 hours ago 19 hours ago -- Listen Share In late 2024, the head of the UN’s Gaza aid agency made a disturbing discovery: when people searched for his organization on Google, the top result wasn’t the agency’s own site — it was a paid ad placed by the Israeli government. The ad mimicked a UN website but actually linked to an Israeli government page accusing the UN Relief and Wor

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Hallucination Risk Calculator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 16:57:58

Hallucination Risk Calculator & Prompt Re-engineering Toolkit (OpenAI-only) Post-hoc calibration without retraining for large language models. This toolkit turns a raw prompt into: a bounded hallucination risk using the Expectation-level Decompression Law (EDFL), and a decision to ANSWER or REFUSE under a target SLA, with transparent math (nats). It supports two deployment modes: Evidence-based: prompts include evidence/context; rolling priors are built by erasing that evidence. prompts inc

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‘The Grandmaster’ Chinese Martial Artist Max Zhang to Join ‘Highlander’ Reboot

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-11-06 18:45:18

Bruce Campbell steps back from Evil Dead, Marion Cotillard plays a Snow Queen, and Eman Esfandi promises a lightsaber move that we’ve never seen before is coming in the second season of Ahsoka. Spoilers are go! Highlander Deadline reports that Chinese martial artist and actor Max Zhang (Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Grandmaster, Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) has joined the cast of Chad Stahelski’s Highlander in a currently undisclosed role. Bob: The Musical Deadline also reports Randy Mancuso (M

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Massive Supply Chain Attack Targets Cryptocurrencies Through NPM

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-06 18:50:00

A phishing attack aimed at a particular software maintainer’s account has managed to compromise software packages that have over 2.6 billion weekly downloads. BleepingComputer, noting that the infection is being called the “largest supply chain attack in history.” The developer behind the software packages, identified as Josh Junon, was compromised via a phishing scheme targeting several blockchains, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, and Tron, The Register reports. Junon has been posting abo

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Apple's iPhone 17 Event Is Today. Here's How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 14:00:03

Apple's annual fall iPhone launch event is here. The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup, which could include a slimmer version of the phone, as well as the Apple Watch Series 11 and the AirPods Pro 3. The invite, which Apple sent on Aug. 26, shows the title "awe dropping," with a dynamic Apple logo that seems to reference Siri's colorful glow. Watch this: iPhone Air Is a Wild Card – and Starts a Big Change for Apple 06:39 There's also an interact

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Gasoline vs. Electric Cars: A Plug-In Hybrid Can Give You the Best of Both Worlds

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 16:00:00

Despite the growing popularity of traditional electric vehicles, not everyone is ready for one. There's another option that's a good first step for many drivers: plug-in hybrids. "A plug-in hybrid is the gateway drug for EVs," says Amelia Dalgaard, an automotive expert known online as the Motorhead Mama. That's because plug-in hybrids address the range anxiety that stops some car buyers from going full-EV at first. Plug-in hybrids let you drive on battery power for a limited distance, with a

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Apple Could Debut the iPhone 17 Air Today: What We Might See

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-06 16:30:03

Key takeaways The iPhone 17 Air will reportedly replace the iPhone Plus model. It could measure 5.5mm thick and have a 6.6-inch display. iOS 26's Adaptive Power feature could help mitigate battery compromises with a skinnier iPhone. This slim iPhone 17 could cost $900, but the price may be affected by tariffs. It could come in four color options, including a buzzed-about sky blue hue. The anticipated reveal of the next iPhone -- which could include the thinnest iPhone ever -- is finally here

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