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Consumer Reports calls Microsoft 'hypocritical' for stranding millions of Windows 10 PCs

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-09-26 22:06:00

picture alliance/Contributor/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways CR says that Windows 10's end of support will strand millions of PC owners. It calls Microsoft's actions "hypocritical" and cites national security concerns. CR also calls for continued free security updates. Consumer Reports (CR), the venerable consumer rights organization known for its in-depth product testing, sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya N

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Best early Amazon Prime Day Samsung deals 2025: My 23 favorites sales ahead of October

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-26 22:10:35

'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

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DJI's new mini drone is a powerhouse with an upgraded camera, but I have two concerns

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-26 22:42:00

DJI Mini 5 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The DJI Mini 5 Pro is available in the UK and EU at £689/€799 respectively. Its camera has a one-inch sensor for superior shooting in low-light conditions, and the drone is packed with obstacle avoidance sensors. It's not yet available in the US, and its battery life at a theoretical runtime of 21 minutes is a lot lower than its predecessor. View now at DJI Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The Mini Pro drones are my all-time favorite

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Is Data Modeling Dead?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 19:14:15

Ok, not going to lie, I rarely find anything of value in the dregs of r/dataengineering, mostly I fear, because it’s %90 freshers with little to no experience. These green behind the ear know-it-all engineers who’ve never written a line of Perl, SSH’d into a server, and have no idea what a LAMP stack is. Weak. Sad. We used to program our way to glory, up hill both ways in the snow. All you do is script kiddy some Python code through Cursor. A recent post on Data Modeling, specifically that dat

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Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:32:43

A couple of weeks ago, some former colleagues competed in Brisbane’s Battle of the Tech Bands - and won! I created visuals for six of their songs, which were mostly 90s/2000s covers. It felt only right to theme the visuals around that era too. Here’s how one of my favourites turned out (fittingly for a tech themed battle, it’s rendered entirely in-browser): (Fullscreen at gifs.alex.works) What you’re seeing is a Canvas animation of random old-school GIFs, pulled from the Internet Archive’s Ge

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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-26 21:57:39

Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used for some law enforcement purposes has deepened hostility to the company inside the Trump administration, two senior officials told Semafor. Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the off

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Scientists Identify Rare Blue Pigment in Iconic Jackson Pollock Painting—But It’s Now Off-Limits

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-09-26 22:10:48

Jackson Pollock was a famous American painter best known for his abstract expressionism, including the “drip and splash” and the “all-over” style of painting (which look exactly like they sound). Now we finally know the chemical origin of the blue color he splattered onto his iconic Number 1A, 1948. Researchers investigated the vibrant pigment via laser spectroscopy, a technique scientists use to investigate matter at the atomic level. With this approach, they revealed it to be manganese blue,

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The 10 Best ‘V/H/S’ Found-Footage Horror Shorts

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-09-26 22:20:10

Found-footage horror will never die—especially as long as the V/H/S anthology series keeps offering evidence there are still creative ways to use the format. Since 2012 we’ve had seven V/H/S entries, with an eighth, V/H/S/Halloween, arriving October 3. The series as a whole has captured a range of repulsive imagery, as its characters stumble into an alarming range of unnatural situations—with recording devices conveniently capturing everything. It was hard to narrow it down to just 10 standouts

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Biotech Startup Claims It’s Getting Closer to ‘Resurrecting’ the Extinct Dodo

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-26 22:26:17

A version of the dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus) could make a return someday soon. Colossal Biosciences announced this week several milestones in its quest to bring the extinct species back to life. On Wednesday, the Dallas-based company reported that its researchers at the Avian Genetics Group have successfully grown pigeon primordial germ cells (PGCs) in the lab, a scientific first. They also bred gene-edited chickens intended to serve as potential surrogates for the dodo and other ancient bird

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A New Look at ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Reveals an Essential Ingredient: Tight Pants

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-26 22:37:19

What binds the Star Wars galaxy together? Is it the Force? The desire for injustice to be rebelled against, for the light to rise against the dark? Well, in the case of a certain kind of ne’er-do-well in pockets of the galaxy… it’s a real tight pair of pants, and now Ryan Gosling stands among their wearers. We previously got a shadowed glimpse at Gosling’s new Star Wars character when Lucasfilm officially unveiled Star Wars: Starfighter‘s beginning of production a few weeks ago. But now directo

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Trump admin says Social Security database wasn’t “leaked, hacked, or shared”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-26 21:39:44

The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower's allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system. The allegation centers on the Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) database containing Americans' personally identifiable information. The cloud location described by the whistleblower report "is actually a secured server in the agency's cloud infrastructure which historically

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Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-09-26 22:00:28

A new study from Pew suggests that Americans aren’t particularly optimistic about AI. A full 50 percent of respondents said they were more concerned than excited about the use of AI in their daily lives. That’s down ever so slightly from 52 percent in 2023, but it’s up significantly from 37 percent in 2021. Americans expressed a number of concerns about AI, chief among them that it will negatively impact our ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships with other people. Just 1

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Logitech’s Pro X2 Superstrike offers haptic-based clicks and rapid trigger

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-09-26 22:01:00

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Logitech’s next flagship wireless gaming mouse is ditching mechanical switches for an analog system equipped with haptics actuators to simulate the feeling of a click. The mouse is called the Pro X2 Superstrike, and it’s coming early next year for $1

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The iPhone Air’s real breakthrough is its battery

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-26 22:38:13

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of battery materials manufacturer Sila, the real breakthrough might lurk elsewhere inside the aluminum and glass enclosure. “The battery in the new iPhone is pretty remarkable,” Berdichevsky told TechCrunch. “The completely arbitrary, two-dimensional shape — you look at the shape, and it’s pretty amaz

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From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-27 01:41:00

Quantum computing is often discussed in terms of its potential to revolutionize scientific discovery and to challenge cryptographic paradigms [1], but it could also change our relationship with money. By using quantum states, quantum currency could solve the double-spending problem and address throughput issues associated with distributed ledgers (blockchain), paving the way for the digital cash of the future. Digital Banking vs. Digital Currency To understand quantum currency, we should first

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Google Discover is making it easier to keep up with your favorite creators like Android Authority

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:49:48

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Discover will soon show more content, including posts from Instagram, X, and YouTube Shorts. You can now follow creators and publishers directly in Discover for a dedicated feed of their updates. Don’t forget to follow Android Authority when we pop up in your feed! For better or worse, Google Discover is about to feel a lot more like your social feeds. Google announced today that the service is getting new content types and a fresh way to follow y

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The Outsiders is a beautiful new exercise app from the developers of Gentler Streak

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-25 04:17:58

I’ve written before about how Gentler Streak is by far my favorite exercise app due to its human-first approach to exercise. Today, the developers behind the app are introducing The Outsiders, which takes the same approach to high-level training. Here’s what it looks like A familiar approach to performance training Gentler Streak is an App Store favorite because, instead of taking the standard “push-it-to-the-limit” attitude to exercise, it focuses on rewarding and recovering for a more pleasa

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One of the best Ninja air fryers for small kitchens is $60 off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:05:06

If you’re in the market for an air fryer, first of all, welcome to the club. A world of perfectly- cooked fries awaits you. But which model to get? Well, you can save some cash right now if you pick Ninja’s Foodi DZ090C 5-in-1 air fryer, which is down to $120 from its regular price of $180 when purchased directly from the brand. That’s a sizable saving of $60. A smaller version of the air fryer we featured as the best dual-zone option in our 2025 air fryer buyers guide , the two-basket DZ090C l

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Google Discover is going to start showing social media posts and YouTube Shorts

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:57:54

Google's Discover content feed is getting some new features . It'll soon include more than just articles from throughout the web. The company says the platform will be incorporating stuff like social media posts from platforms like Instagram and X along with YouTube Shorts. “In our research, people told us they enjoyed seeing a mix of content in Discover, including videos and social posts, in addition to articles,” the company wrote in an announcement. These changes will start showing up in the

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VC giant Insight Partners warns thousands after ransomware breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:50:52

New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is notifying thousands of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack. The company disclosed the cybersecurity incident in February, when it said that a threat actor gained access to its network following a "sophisticated social engineering attack." Two months later, Insight Partners confirmed that the attackers had also stolen sensitive data during the breach, including banking and tax informa

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New study will track 40,000 Garmin smartwatch users to better understand pregnancy outcomes

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-27 00:56:00

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Garmin and King's College London are studying pregnancy. It could help understand exercise's role during pregnancy. It aims to reduce gestational diabetes and hypertension. Research institutions are increasingly using wearable gadgets to carry out their health studies. On Tuesday, Garmin announced a collaboration with King's College London for its Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supp

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AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-09-27 02:00:00

pressureUA/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming. Anti-scheming training reduced misbehavior in some models. Models know they're being tested, which complicates results. New joint safety testing from UK-based nonprofit Apollo Research and OpenAI set out to reduce secretive behaviors like scheming in AI models. What researchers found could complicate promising ap

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Best Amazon Prime Day Apple deals 2025: My 24 favorite sales in October

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-27 02:07:51

'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

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Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 3, Hypernova smart glasses, Oakley, more

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-09-27 02:17:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Meta Connect 2025 kicks off today, and the company is expected to showcase several new products and use the event to sharpen its XR strategy toward AI-driven hardware that can be worn and used today. Last year's Connect 2024 conference brought some notable improvements to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, including multimodal video support, live translations, and natural language processing. Also: 5 Meta Ray-Ban upgrades tha

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Apple once said no to touchscreen Macs - but rumor has it that's about to change

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-09-27 02:29:09

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED could arrive by late 2026. A more affordable MacBook with iPhone chip won't get touchscreen. iPads should still be fine, despite sharing features with MacBooks. For years, there have been rumors of Apple working on adding a touchscreen to its MacBook lineup. In 2023, Bloomberg reported active development of the device, which was first slated to launch in 2025. I

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Best October Prime Day deals under $100: My favorite early sales

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-09-27 02:33:26

'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

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Best Sam's Club deals to compete with October Prime Day 2025: My favorite 10+ deals

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-27 02:57:56

'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

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Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:29:58

Between code reviews, and AI generated rubbish, I've had it. Whether it's people relying on AI to write pull request descriptions (that are crap by the way), or using it to generate tests.. I'm sick of it. Over the year, I've been doing a tonne of consulting. The last three months I've watched at least 8 companies embrace AI generated pip for coding, testing, and code reviews. Honestly, the best suggestions I've seen are found by linters in CI, and spell checkers. Is this what we've come to? M

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Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 02:00:05

At Event Horizon Labs, we’re building an autonomous system that turns raw compute and data directly into alpha, executing without the friction or bias of human emotion. What You’ll Build High-Concurrency Pipelines Architect infrastructure that seamlessly handles thousands of concurrent requests , ensuring consistent performance even at peak load. Architect infrastructure that seamlessly handles , ensuring consistent performance even at peak load. Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems Build reliabl

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Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%

news.ycombinator.com Przemysław Hejman 2025-09-26 22:03:24

Now on the front page of Hacker News — join the discussion. In a recent post, we introduced the Tau² benchmark, a framework for benchmaring LLMs. Today we’re sharing a surprising discovery we made while using it: a simple prompt rewrite boosted a small model’s success rate by over 20%. This post is a deep-dive on how we found and fixed this performance bottleneck by making subtle changes to agent policies. Benchmarking LLMs with Tau² On the recent OpenAI Summer Update, we have seen that GPT-5

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