GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 23, #303

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 03:00:32

Looking for the most recent regular 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 and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition made me hungry with a food-themed category. The blue category might be tricky for some folks, but you should be able to sort out the rest without too much trouble. Keep reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, makin

Topics: answers connections group sports today

Shop Amazon

Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’-branded products

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-28 22:46:15

The Florida GOP isn’t the only one profiting from the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” by selling merchandise. A subset of Etsy buyers and sellers began a boycott of the online marketplace this month over its decision to allow “Alligator Alcatraz”-branded merchandise on its site. Today, this sort of merchandise — including T-shirts, hats, mugs, stickers, patches, and other items — can be found across e-commerce platforms beyond Etsy, ranging from large retailers like Amazon to onl

Topics: alligator etsy like merchandise products

Shop Amazon

YouTube’s latest experiment makes comments feel more like Reddit, if that sounds like an improvement

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 09:09:31

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is rolling out Reddit-style comment threading to Premium subscribers on Android and iOS. The experiment has been updated so the main comment is threaded to subsequent replies. Threaded comments will remain available until August 14. YouTube’s comments section is going to look a little different for Premium subscribers. The company is rolling out an experiment inspired by Reddit. Earlier this year, YouTube began testing a new threaded comment UI f

Topics: comment experiment replies threaded youtube

Shop Amazon

Google Photos starts rolling out the new look for its video player

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 09:11:14

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started rolling out a new update to its Photos app, which includes a new video player UI. Additionally, the company has changed up its setup UI for new Photos users. These updates are part of Google’s gradual rollout of its Material 3 Expressive redesign. Google has started rolling out some of its visual changes to the Photos app, which include a new video player progress bar with larger controls. While we spotted a few of the upcoming changes

Topics: google new photos player video

Shop Amazon

Meta has ended its bonus program on Threads

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-29 09:16:27

It's still trying to lure new users, but it's done paying anyone to post. Meta is no longer paying creators to post on Threads. The company quietly ended the Threads bonus program, which offered some creators thousands of dollars a month in bonuses, earlier this year, Engadget has confirmed. The company hasn't officially commented on why it stopped the payments, but an Instagram support page that once listed details about the creator incentives no longer references Threads at all. In posts on

Topics: creators meta paying post threads

Shop Amazon

Asymmetry of Verification and Verifier's Law

news.ycombinator.com Jason Wei 2026-01-25 22:45:27

Asymmetry of verification is the idea that some tasks are much easier to verify than to solve. With reinforcement learning (RL) that finally works in a general sense, asymmetry of verification is becoming one of the most important ideas in AI. Understanding asymmetry of verification through examples Asymmetry of verification is everywhere, if you look for it. Some prime examples: Sudoku and crossword puzzles take a lot of time to solve because you have to try many candidates against various c

Topics: asymmetry check example solution verification

Shop Amazon

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 08:17:38

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work By Allison Parrish I set out a while ago to make a Game Boy cartridge from scratch. This is not a novel goal; bootleg Game Boy cartridges have existed almost as long as the Game Boy itself has, and there are many third-party cartridges now available for purchase, or that have copyleft designs. But I wanted to know how Game Boy cartridges work. I was also excited to use the PIO functionality of the RP2040 microcontroller. Now, aft

Topics: address boy cartridge game ram

Shop Amazon

NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 09:16:18

NonRAID - unRAID storage array compatible kernel driver NonRAID is an fork of the unRAID system's open-source md_unraid kernel driver for supported kernels, but targeting primarily Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, enabling UnRAID-style storage arrays with parity protection outside of the commercial UnRAID system. Unlike in UnRAID, where the driver replaces kernels standard md driver, the NonRAID driver has been separated into it's own kernel module ( md_nonraid ). This allows it to be easily added as a DKMS

Topics: array driver nmdcmd proc unraid

Shop Amazon

Tech Billionaires Wanted to Build a New California City. They’re Settling for an Industrial Park, Instead

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-01-29 09:00:11

In 2023, the California Forever group, a company backed by a gaggle of Bay Area billionaires, announced that it wanted to use some 60,000 acres of Solano County farmland north of San Francisco to develop a brand new city. The effort was pretty much an unmitigated disaster from start to finish, and the group eventually rescinded its plans. Now, however, the same group says that it has a new project that may be significantly easier to accomplish. In a blog post made to its website last week, the

Topics: california foundry group new project

Shop Amazon

DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-29 09:45:06

Are you tired of AI-generated images cluttering your search results? Lucky for you, there’s a way out of the slop, and it starts with forgetting about Google. DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and web browser, recently rolled out a new feature that allows users to hide images made with AI from their search results. You can try it yourself right now by running a search on the DuckDuckGo search engine and going to the images tab. You’ll now see a new drop-down menu option titled “AI

Topics: ai company generated images search

Shop Amazon

Rocket Lab’s first hurdle to flying its new rocket is getting it to the pad

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2026-01-29 09:00:06

Rocket Lab has asked regulators for permission to transport oversized Neutron rocket structures through shallow waters to a spaceport off the coast of Virginia as it races to meet a September delivery deadline. The request, which was made in July, is a temporary stop gap while the company awaits federal clearance to dredge a permanent channel to the Wallops Island site. Rocket Lab plans to launch its Neutron medium-lift rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, V

Topics: company disrupt lab launch rocket

Shop Amazon

OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-29 09:36:31

OpenAI was the company that signed a $30 billion per year deal with Oracle for data center services, disclosed last month, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed the details of the contract (but not the dollar amount) in an X post on Tuesday and in a company blog post. To recap, on June 30, Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing that it had signed a cloud deal that would generate $30 billion a year in revenue. However, the company didn’t say who it was w

Topics: billion data openai oracle year

Shop Amazon

Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-29 09:57:48

Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers. Miian Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year. Bloomberg first wrote about these spyware notifications. Miaan Group published a report on Tuesday on the state of

Topics: apple attacks notifications said spyware

Shop Amazon

Wall Street is upbeat on tech megacaps, but big questions loom on AI spending, China, Trump tariffs

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-29 12:55:48

In this article AAPL AMZN MSFT META TSLA GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc.; from left, Lauren Sanchez; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc.; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Alphabet and Tesla get set to kick off the te

Topics: ai analysts company quarter year

Shop Amazon

Amazon to buy AI company Bee that makes wearable listening device

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-01-29 14:46:03

Amazon plans to acquire wearables startup Bee AI, the company confirmed, in the latest example of tech giants doubling down on generative artificial intelligence. Bee, based in San Francisco, makes a $49.99 wristband that appears similar to a Fitbit smartwatch. The device is equipped with AI and microphones that can listen to and analyze conversations to provide summaries, to-do lists and reminders for everyday tasks. Bee AI CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday th

Topics: ai amazon bee company confirmed

Shop Amazon

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

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 11:16:09

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

Topics: capture fold galaxy new samsung

Shop Amazon

iOS 26 beta 4 adds (and removes) CarPlay wallpaper options

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-29 14:17:27

Apple has changed up the wallpaper collection on CarPlay in iOS 26 beta 4. Several new options have been added. The update also removes many of the existing wallpaper options that were still hanging around from older iOS versions. CarPlay in iOS 26 developer beta 4 includes nine wallpaper choices. Each wallpaper changes its appearance for light and dark mode, creating 18 possible options. CarPlay previously featured a variety of wallpaper styles, including versions based on iPhone default wall

Topics: 26 carplay ios light wallpaper

Shop Amazon

Windows 11 gets new Black Screen of Death, auto recovery tool

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-29 14:30:25

Microsoft is rolling out significant changes to Windows 11 24H2 as part of the Windows Resilience Initiative, designed to reduce downtime and help devices recover from serious failures, as well as an overhaul of the all-too-familiar BSOD crash screens. Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative is a new effort by Microsoft to make Windows more stable, self-healing, and faster to recover from critical failures. This initiative is in direct response to recent incidents that caused widespread disru

Topics: feature microsoft new recovery windows

Shop Amazon

OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last

news.ycombinator.com Posted Matthew Suozzo 2026-01-29 06:53:46

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

Topics: build oss packages rebuild security

Shop Amazon

Disney World Is Shutting Down One Part of Its ‘Star Wars’ Experience

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-29 14:00:38

Another Walt Disney World attraction will be making way for something new at Hollywood Studios. Star Wars Launch Bay will be closing down for good and will be replaced by The Magic of Disney Animation. The Disney Parks Blog news follows the final days of Muppet*Vision 3-D and the courtyard closure to begin construction for the new Monsters Inc. Monstropolis area and attraction. The Launch Bay area has been overdue for some sprucing, and really, once Galaxy’s Edge opened, its days were clearly n

Topics: animation attraction disney hollywood studios

Shop Amazon

460,000 Student Loan Borrowers Seeking Lower Payments Will Be Denied. What to Do If You're One of Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 09:08:00

The Department of Education will deny nearly half a million student loan borrowers who applied for the lowest repayment plan based on their income. Getty Image/Zooey Liao/CNET Nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers who applied for lower monthly payments will be denied by the Department of Education. Based on internal documents obtained by Politico, the department is rejecting 460,000 student loan borrowers who selected the lowest payment option based on their income. For most app

Topics: borrowers loan plan repayment student

Shop Amazon

T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone Tomorrow. See If You’ll Get It For Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 09:47:00

Going off-grid might soon be a thing of the past, as T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service gets ready to launch on July 23. The direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" by way of 657 Starlink satellites that'll be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing since December 2024, with ne

Topics: galaxy mobile moto samsung satellite

Shop Amazon

Some Jobs Are Too Good to Be True, Especially in a Tough Labor Market

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 14:12:00

ArtMarie/Getty Images The job market feels tougher than ever right now, despite relatively low unemployment rates. So imagine being one of the 1.6 million Americans hunting for a job for at least six months, then, at long last, you get an unprompted message from a recruiter. You're offered a work-from-home position, making thousands of dollars a day. All you have to do is fill out a form with your personal information or in some cases, pay for a starter business kit. Too good to be true, righ

Topics: credit employment job scam scams

Shop Amazon

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 delivers fix for persistent Galaxy Watch connection problems

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-29 18:55:47

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Galaxy Watch owners have been experiencing issues when attempting to use their wearable with a device running any version of the Android 16 QPR1 beta. Reports say the issue results in connection drops, compatibility problems, and crashes. The recently released Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 update appears to fix the bug. As with beta, there’s always the threat of running into a bug. That’s exactly what happened recently to some Android 16 beta testers who own a

Topics: 16 android beta bug galaxy

Shop Amazon

iOS 26 beta 4 adds new Dynamic option for iPhone wallpaper

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-29 18:11:06

iOS 26 beta 4 is available now, and the public beta is expected soon too. Besides adding more liquid back into the Liquid Glass design, the new beta also introduces a new Dynamic wallpaper option. Here are the details. Dynamic wallpaper changes colors automatically in iOS 26 beta 4 Like it does every year, Apple has a new default iPhone wallpaper coming in iOS 26. The new default added several different color options in the last beta, too. You can choose from: Dusk Halo Shadow Sky Most o

Topics: beta dynamic ios option wallpaper

Shop Amazon

Don't animate height

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-26 06:44:19

Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and how to use Chrome's dev tools for performance profiling. The problem While building Granola, a note-taking app, I noticed it was using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook: Activ

Topics: animations height layout paint performance

Shop Amazon

Go allocation probe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 14:45:45

Published 2025-07-18 The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation. I suspected that in the code I was looking at, some specific types were causing a lot of allocation but that those allocations were spread over many locations. So with the help of Matt Knight I wrote perhaps the most appallingly fragile code I have ever written - go_allocation_probe. Every heap allocation in go afaict goes through a single function -

Topics: nameoff size typ type typeptr

Shop Amazon

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-29 18:20:47

'What a lovely goodbye concert he had', Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood says Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood says he is "so very sad to hear of the death of Ozzy Osbourne". "What a lovely goodbye concert he had at Back to the Beginning in Birmingham." As we've reported, Osbourne performed his final gig in his hometown on 5 July. Tributes to Ozzy Osbourne are coming in thick and fast, stay with us for the latest.

Topics: concert goodbye lovely osbourne ozzy

Shop Amazon

Tesla Is the Least Trusted EV in the U.S., Survey Finds

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-29 18:15:35

Tesla’s reputation is in a crash it can’t control, much like the people who are behind the wheel when the car’s self-driving features fail to stop. In the latest Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report, Tesla saw its perception erode among consumers, leading to the company scoring the lowest trust score among all major EV makers. According to the survey, just 26% of participants have a somewhat or very positive view of Tesla—significantly outweighed by the 39% plurality who have a somewhat or very

Topics: company report score tesla trust

Shop Amazon

Microsoft Will Wipe Out Your Passwords on Aug. 1. What to Do Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-29 18:15:00

Microsoft is getting rid of passwords in less than two weeks. On Aug. 1, the Microsoft Authenticator app will no longer store or manage passwords, which could be a problem for a lot of users. Microsoft Authenticator has been one of the best password managers for years. You were able to save passwords, enable two-factor authentication and auto-fill. This change means that if you're using the Authenticator app as a password manager, you'll need to look for another option soon. At the same time,

Topics: authenticator microsoft passkey password passwords

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 23, #303

Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’-branded products

YouTube’s latest experiment makes comments feel more like Reddit, if that sounds like an improvement

Google Photos starts rolling out the new look for its video player

Meta has ended its bonus program on Threads

Asymmetry of Verification and Verifier's Law

More than you wanted to know about how Game Boy cartridges work

NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

Tech Billionaires Wanted to Build a New California City. They’re Settling for an Industrial Park, Instead

DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

Rocket Lab’s first hurdle to flying its new rocket is getting it to the pad

OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services

Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

Wall Street is upbeat on tech megacaps, but big questions loom on AI spending, China, Trump tariffs

Amazon to buy AI company Bee that makes wearable listening device

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

iOS 26 beta 4 adds (and removes) CarPlay wallpaper options

Windows 11 gets new Black Screen of Death, auto recovery tool

OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last

Disney World Is Shutting Down One Part of Its ‘Star Wars’ Experience

460,000 Student Loan Borrowers Seeking Lower Payments Will Be Denied. What to Do If You're One of Them

T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone Tomorrow. See If You’ll Get It For Free

Some Jobs Are Too Good to Be True, Especially in a Tough Labor Market

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 delivers fix for persistent Galaxy Watch connection problems

iOS 26 beta 4 adds new Dynamic option for iPhone wallpaper

Don't animate height

Go allocation probe

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76

Tesla Is the Least Trusted EV in the U.S., Survey Finds

Microsoft Will Wipe Out Your Passwords on Aug. 1. What to Do Now

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising