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Goodwill shopper discovers $30 PC hiding an RTX 3080 Ti and Ryzen 7

WTF?! Everyone loves a bargain, especially when it involves spending $30 on a PC that has over $1,500 worth of hardware packed inside. That's what happened to one Goodwill shopper who stumbled upon the RTX 3080 Ti/Ryzen 7-powered computer in a South Carolina store. No-Investment9793 posted on Reddit that his dad is a regular customer at the local Goodwill, where he knows everyone. According to the post, someone at the store pointed out the PC, which had been donated by a mother after cleaning o

One UI 8 beta introduces a shape-shifting lock screen clock design

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The latest One UI 8 beta brings a clock widget for the lock screen. Similar to iOS’ depth effect for the clock, Samsung’s clock automatically wraps around faces in real or animated images. The clock can also be moved around the lock screen, where its text adjusts to the available space. Samsung has already begun beta testing its upcoming interface, One UI 8, and is speculated to release it alongside the Galaxy Z Fold and Flip 7 phones in July. Unlike the

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iOS 26 beta 2 changes, Liquid Glass on Apple Watch, Apple feature availability

Benjamin and Chance talk about all the changes in iOS 26 beta 2 and macOS Tahoe beta 2, try out all the new features in watchOS 26 for the first time, and talk about why availability of Apple features and services can be so splintered. And in Happy Hour Plus, Benjamin saw the F1 film in IMAX, and en route observed some horror stories of how people actually use their phones in the real world. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Hosts Chance Miller Benjamin Mayo Subscribe, Rate, and Review 9to5Ma

The best E Ink tablets for 2025

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 . E Ink tablets have always been intriguing to me because I’m a longtime lover of pen and paper. I’ve had probably hundreds of notebooks over the years, serving as repositories for my story ideas, to-do lists, meeting notes and everything in between. However, I turned away from physical

Retail giant Ahold Delhaize says data breach affects 2.2 million people

Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, is notifying over 2.2 million individuals that their personal, financial, and health information was stolen in a November ransomware attack that impacted its U.S. systems. The multinational retailer and wholesale company operates over 9,400 local stores across Europe, the United States, and Indonesia, employing more than 393,000 people and serving approximately 60 million customers each week in-store and online. It has reported yea

The top 4 Bluetooth speakers I'm taking everywhere this summer (including a surprise pick)

'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

The best external hard drives of 2025: Expert tested

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10 useful gadgets ZDNET readers are buying the most this year (including my pocket picks)

'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

Show HN: Zenta – Mindfulness for Terminal Users

🧘 zenta Mindfulness that fits your coding flow When your mind wanders while coding, simply return to breath. No tracking, no metrics, no disruption—just pure awareness in your terminal. The noticing itself is the practice. ✨ ⚡ Quick Start # Install git clone https://github.com/e6a5/zenta.git && cd zenta && make install-system # Set up zen aliases echo " alias breath='zenta now --quick' " >> ~ /.zshrc echo " alias breathe='zenta now' " >> ~ /.zshrc echo " alias reflect='zenta reflect' " >> ~

OpenAI hires team behind AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds

Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses, said on Thursday that its team is joining OpenAI. The startup was backed by Index Ventures, Shopify, Plug and Play, and Radical Ventures, and had raised more than $13.5 million across multiple rounds, according to Crunchbase. Crossing Minds largely worked with e-commerce companies to improve their personalization and recommendation systems. The company claims it studies customers’ on-site behavior data

SoftBank CEO says he's 'all in' on OpenAI, reveals he's long wanted Microsoft's spot as main backer

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during the company's annual general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, June 27, 2025. SoftBank is "all in" on OpenAI, CEO Masayoshi Son said on Friday, as the Japanese tech giant looks to realize its vision of "artificial superintelligence." This year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate has been increasing its investments in OpenAI and participating in joint ventures such as the $500 billion Stargate proj

Hawaiian Airlines discloses cyberattack, flights not affected

Hawaiian Airlines, the tenth-largest commercial airline in the United States, is investigating a cyberattack that has disrupted access to some of its systems. With over 7,000 employees, 235 average daily flights, and a fleet of over 60 airplanes, Hawaiian Airlines connects Hawai'i with 15 U.S. mainland cities and 10 other destinations across Asia and the Pacific. The airline stated in a statement issued on Thursday morning that the incident didn't affect flight safety and has already contacted

Whole Foods supplier UNFI restores core systems after cyberattack

American grocery wholesale giant United Natural Foods (UNFI) reports that it has restored its core systems and brought online the electronic ordering and invoicing systems affected by a cyberattack. UNFI, which is also a primary distributor for Amazon's Whole Foods, said in a Thursday update that the incident has been contained and that it's now delivering products to stores at "more normalized levels." In a separate 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the grocery dist

My favorite $12 gadget has become a permanent accessory on my keychain - here's why

'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

Uv and Ray: Pain-Free Python Dependencies in Clusters

When we discovered the uv package manager , we realized that a new era of Python package management had arrived. It tackles the Python developers’ dependency headaches with consistency and speed, which also enables quick development cycles. Here is a (non-exhaustive) collection of things the folks from astral.sh are getting right that we really like: They package the whole environment : You don’t need to worry about setting up your own Python distribution which in itself can be quite cumbersom

This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers

The event marked the launch of the company's new business line, Redwood Energy, which will repurpose (rather than recycle) batteries with years of remaining life to create renewable-powered microgrids. Such small-scale energy systems can operate on or off the larger electricity grid, providing electricity for businesses or communities. Redwood Materials says many of the batteries it takes in for processing retain more than half their capacity. “We can extract a lot more value from that materia

Business leaders continue to push workers toward daily use of AI

ismagilov/Getty Images Daily AI usage for desk workers has grown by 233% since the beginning of the year, according to Salesforce's latest Slack Workforce Index based on a survey of 5,000 desk workers globally. AI now helps to create a competitive advantage by providing 64% more productivity and 81% more job satisfaction for those who use AI versus colleagues who don't. And the benefits of AI go far beyond task automation. Since November 2024, AI adoption among workers has risen 50%, with 60%

Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights

Experimental archaeologist Greer Jarrett of Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for the last three years. If you want to learn more about how and where the Vikings sailed, making the journey through the fjords yourself in replica boats is a practical, hands-on approach to achieving that end. Greer Jarrett, an archaeologist at Lund University in Sweden, has spent the last three years doing just that, sailing more than 5,000 kilometers along known Viking trade r

Resident Evil 9: Why Isn't Leon Returning? Because Capcom Wants You to Feel the Horror

Capcom held an event Thursday to show off some of its big games coming soon and titles it has already released. The star of the show was Resident Evil Requiem, where the developers of the game made it clear that Leon Kennedy will not return, although it's hard to fully believe the word of Capcom as it's been known to swerve expectations. Resident Evil: Requiem, also referred to as Resident Evil 9, will focus on Grace Ashcroft, an FBI analyst, allowing players to experience the horror from the c

Tovala Meal Kit and Oven Review (2025): We’re Nearing Robot Chef

Tovala is the only meal kit I know of that comes with its own oven—and I speak as someone who has tested a lot of meal kits and also ovens. Still, the idea isn't merely wacky. The biggest pitfall of preprepared meal delivery is almost always the microwave, as I noted in my review of HelloFresh's often delicious but sometimes soggy Factor meals. These almost always benefited from an improvised turn in the air fryer. And so the brainstorm on Tovala is both sophisticated and simple. Make mostly pr

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first young technologists brought on to Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has returned to government shortly after resigning. “Edward Coristine joined the Social Security Administration this week as a special government employee,” Stephen McGraw, an SSA spokesperson, tells WIRED. “His work will be focused on improving the functionality of the Social Security website and advancing our mission of delivering more efficient se

Redwood Materials is giving old EV batteries a second life as microgrids

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Redwood Materials is repurposing old EV batteries into energy storage systems that cost “substantially less” than brand new storage projects, the company said Thursday. The electric vehicle battery recycling and manufacturing venture, which was founded by Tesla’s former chief technologist, has created a new division called

This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really

Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New York-based venture Audos, he’s betting that AI can help him scale that process from “tens” of startups a year to “hundreds of thousands” of aspiring business owners. The timing certainly feels right. Mass layoffs across a variety of industries have left many workers reconsidering their career paths, while AI tools have markedly lowered the ba

The hidden scaling cliff that’s about to break your agent rollouts

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprises that want to build and scale agents also need to embrace another reality: agents aren’t built like other software. Agents are “categorically different” in how they’re built, how they operate, and how they’re improved, according to Writer CEO and co-founder May Habib. This means ditching the traditional software development lif

“My Malformed Bones” – Harry Crews’s Counterlives

Adjust Share One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact particularly exceptional. This was Bacon County, Georgia, where in those days “it was not unusual for a man to shoot at his wife,” as he wrote in his memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. “It was only unusual if he hit her.” Crews and his older brother heard the shot, which blew the

Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Years of Frowny-Faces

Another 1980s icon is gone, like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry -- a black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad emoticon face. The infamous "blue screen of death" has been around since the very first version of Windows in 1985. Named for its bright blue color, it's a critical error screen that pops up on comput

T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Arriving Finally: Here's the Scoop

Some extra cash would be useful about now, right? Check your bank account -- there may be an unexpected deposit from a company you may not recognize. It could be the money you're due from T-Mobile's 2022 class-action settlement. Those who qualify were told to expect settlement checks in April, but then that was moved to May. And now, in mid-June, as cited by Android Authority, Reddit users are saying they are seeing money in their bank accounts. Some are saying they received $56, but others are

Tim Sweeney slams Apple’s ‘unlawful’ EU App Store changes

Apple today published another round of App Store changes for developers operating in the European Union, this time focused on how apps can communicate and promote alternative payment options under the Digital Markets Act. But from the looks of it, the new rules didn’t impress Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Sweeney says new terms are ‘blatantly unlawful’ and ‘a mockery of fair competition’ In a post on X, Sweeney said Apple’s latest DMA update is “blatantly unlawful in both Europe and the United S

"My Malformed Bones" Harry Crews's Counterlives

Adjust Share One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact particularly exceptional. This was Bacon County, Georgia, where in those days “it was not unusual for a man to shoot at his wife,” as he wrote in his memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. “It was only unusual if he hit her.” Crews and his older brother heard the shot, which blew the

Microsoft Officially Retires 'Blue Screen of Death' After 40 Frowny-Face Years

Another 1980s icon is gone, like Pudding Pops and Benetton sweaters. After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry -- a black screen of death will be replacing it, albeit without the sad emoticon face. The infamous "blue screen of death" has been around since the very first version of Windows in 1985. Named for its bright blue color, it's a critical error screen that pops up on comput