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ARMSX2 is the future of PS2 emulation on Android, and you can try it now

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 02:27:40

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR ARMSX2 is an upcoming Android fork of the PS2 emulator PCSX2. Test builds are now available, with the open-source 1.0 release coming to GitHub. This has the potential to overtake AetherSX2, which is based on an outdated PSCX2 build. While it’s certainly playable, PS2 emulation on Android has largely stagnated since AetherSX2 was abandoned in early 2023. Other devs have done an incredible job tweaking the closed-source code to add new features, but thos

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Poll: Just how round do you like the corners on your smartphone?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 02:30:20

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Shopping for a new smartphone can be an intensely personal experience, and with dozens of fantastic phones to choose from across the landscape, not everyone’s going to have the same feelings about them all. While we absolutely prioritize things like performance, features, and pricing when evaluating which phone we want to buy next, we don’t talk nearly as much about another still-very-important consideration: how the phone feels in your hand. Even if you like

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You can now ask Google Finance when Ethereum will hit its peak

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 02:34:38

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started testing AI features on its finance page in the US through Search Labs. The new features include a new search field to ask questions, updated charting tools, and a news feed section. The new Google Finance page will be rolled out to the general public in the US in the coming weeks. At the start of this month, Google announced through a blog post that it had begun testing AI features on its finance page. While the features are still

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7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-30 01:00:24

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a subscriber to the Nextdoor app, you've seen plenty of footage of prowling ne'er-do-wells caught in the eye of a video doorbell or home security camera. Hopefully, you don't have your own first-hand experience with suspicious characters milling around your front porch, or far worse. Also: Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills For good reason, security cameras continue to

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Two subscription-free smart rings were just banned in the US - here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-30 04:00:21

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Oura won a patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn. The two competitors infringed on form factor patents, the ITC ruled on Aug. 21. Ultrahuman and RingConn smart rings can no longer be sold in the US. Oura secured a final legal victory in its patent dispute with Ultrahuman and RingConn last week. The US International Trade Commission's ruling asserts that the two competing smart ring brands i

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Open Source is one person

news.ycombinator.com Josh Bressers 2025-10-29 18:54:59

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the softwar

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Microsoft fires two employees over breaking into its president’s office

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-30 02:56:42

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold banners and signs as they protest outside the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Microsoft on Thursday said that it had terminated two employees who broke into President Brad Smith's office earlier this week. The news comes after seven current and former Microsoft employees on Tuesday held a protest in the company's building in Redmond, Washington, in opposition to the Israeli military's alleged

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Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-30 05:57:08

Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump, inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 30, 2025. Sales of Tesla cars in Europe plunged in July, in the company's seventh consecutive month of declines, while Chinese rival BYD saw a monthly surge, data released on Thursday showed. New car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA. BYD meanwhile recor

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Nearly Every Whale Shark at This Tourist Destination Bears Human-Made Scars

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-30 02:00:25

The world’s largest living fish has plenty to fear from people. New research shows that a large proportion of whale sharks at a popular and protected tourism region bear scars caused by human activity. A large group of marine scientists examined more than a decade’s worth of whale shark sightings in the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia. Among other things, they found that over half of the sharks had injuries attributable to humans. Many of these injuries were preventable, the researchers say,

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 28

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 00:31:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:12:23

bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping bookmarks in plain text files. Principals Bookmarked URLs are stored in files named bookmarks.txt . The format is described below. . The format is described below. A "global" bookmarks file is located in the home directory ( $HOME/bookmarks.txt ). ). "Local" bookmarks files could exist in different directories as well. Format URLs are stored one per line and could be accompanied with optional titles. Titles are separated from URLs with one space charac

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 28, #809

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 03:21:00

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. Oh, come on, puzzle editors! Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a word in it that I have never heard of before. Fortunately, it just placed itself in the purple category and it was the only completely loopy word in the mix. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers

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Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-30 09:45:51

Primary shipping services, including the European branch of DHL, multiple European state postal services, Australia Post, Japan Post and Taiwan's state postal service, have stopped shipping consumer goods of varying amounts (over $100 in some cases) to the US. The pause is currently expected to be temporary as countries respond to the latest US tariff measures, but could have a significant impact on US businesses selling anything from Taiwanese GPUs and Japanese card packs to European electronic

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Apple TV+: Romantic drama with Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein gets first trailer

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-30 15:37:25

Last December, Apple announced a new romantic drama starring Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinking), and Imogen Poots (28 Weeks Later, Green Room), marking its third collaboration with the actor/writer. Today, the movie got its first trailer, ahead of its official release next month. Watch it below. ‘All of You’ premieres September 26 According to Apple, “All of You” is a love story for grown-ups. It is directed by William Bridges (Black Mirror, Stranger Things), who also co-wrote the screenpl

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Japanese Online Marketplace Begs People to Stop Selling Ultrasound Photos

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-30 19:35:15

Some people will tell you that no one wants to see pictures of your kids, but they’ve apparently never been on the Japanese marketplace app Mercari. According to SoraNews24, there was a surprisingly robust market for ultrasound photos on the e-commerce platform, which resulted in Mercari ultimately banning the sale of said images. Ultrasound images have landed on the list of “inappropriate items” that Mercari maintains, which are restricted from being sold on the platform. The ban will go into

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CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 19:32:43

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top foodborne infections down to just two, according to a report by NBC News. The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)—a network of surveillance sites that spans 10 states and covers about 54 million Americans (16 percent of the US population)—previously included active monitoring for eight infections from pathog

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911 centers are so understaffed, they’re turning to AI to answer calls

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-30 19:42:12

When Max Keenan joined Y Combinator’s summer 2022 batch, he was working on Aurelian, a company that automated appointment bookings for hair salons. But less than a year later, a conversation with one of his clients led him to a far more significant problem. A nearby school’s carpool line was constantly blocking the parking lot of one of Aurelian’s hair salon clients. The salon owner called the city’s non-emergency line and was put on hold for 45 minutes before reaching a dispatcher. “She called

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Founder of IRL social media app charged with defrauding investors

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-10-30 23:49:42

The founder of the company behind the IRL social media app was charged with defrauding investors of $170 million in the company's 2021funding round, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. A federal grand jury in the Northern District of California indicted Abraham Shafi, 38 of Hawaii, with wire fraud, securities fraud and obstruction in connection with the scheme, the DOJ said. Shafi was the CEO of Get Together, the parent company of IRL. The company was valued at $1 billion after its 2021

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Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 22:56:03

In addition to Cookies necessary for this site to function, we’d like your permission to set some additional Cookies to better understand your browsing needs and improve your experience. Rest assured — we value your privacy. Accept All Additional Cookies Reject All Additional Cookies Cookie settings

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We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 00:18:29

By Ryan Ryke, CEO, Cloud Life ‍ This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable. Before this project, we’d been working with the same model that most modern infrastructure teams use: Terraform scripts, config repos, PR reviews, CI pipelines. We’d optimized what we could, but the w

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The Pixel 10 Pro phones got two more video upgrades you may have missed

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 07:00:51

TL;DR The Google Pixel 10 Pro phones can now film Night Sight Videos with the ultrawide camera. The phones can also use any zoom range up to 20x for Night Sight Video. Google’s Pro devices have also received an 8K/24fps option for more cinematic 8K video. The Google Pixel 10 phones offer AV1 capture, which enables smaller file sizes for your recorded videos. This isn’t the only video-related improvement, though, as the Pixel 10 Pro phones also bring a couple of other enhancements. Don’t want

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Google has been testing this app-launching trick since last year — now it’s live

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-31 07:52:29

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is starting to roll out an auto-open toggle for when you download apps. When enabled, the app you’re downloading will open automatically. You will receive a notification with a five-second countdown before the app opens, giving you a chance to cancel. Google has long been working on a feature for the Play Store that automatically opens apps after they are downloaded. This feature was first spotted in one of our APK teardowns in September of la

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Pixel 10 Review: Google Delivers the AI Phone That Apple Promised

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-31 07:00:29

2025 If you just look at the Pixel 10’s physical design, you’re going to be disappointed. Google’s new $800 Android smartphone looks almost identical to last year’s Pixel 9, save for an additional 5x telephoto camera lens and some new colors, including the makes-me-smile Indigo blue. But like most new phones, there are a bunch of small upgrades internally that add up to a better daily experience, even if they’re not revolutionary. All of that stuff is good and necessary for a new phone—though,

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We Rebuilt Cloud Life's Infrastructure Delivery with System Initiative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 10:18:29

By Ryan Ryke, CEO, Cloud Life ‍ This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable. Before this project, we’d been working with the same model that most modern infrastructure teams use: Terraform scripts, config repos, PR reviews, CI pipelines. We’d optimized what we could, but the w

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Mosyle identifies new Mac malware that evades detection through fake PDF conversion tool

9to5mac.com Arin Waichulis 2025-10-31 15:31:55

Mosyle, a leader in Apple device management and security, has exclusively revealed to 9to5Mac details on a new Mac malware strain, dubbed “JSCoreRunner”. The zero-day threat evaded all detections on VirusTotal at the time of discovery, spreading through a malicious PDF conversion site called fileripple[.]com to trick users into downloading what appears to be a harmless utility. Free tools that promise quick file conversions for HEIC and WebP files, PDFs, and Word docs have become prolific onlin

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The best portable power stations for camping in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-10-31 15:08:00

To figure this out, you're going to need to do some calculations and gather some information. First, you need to know what devices you are going to power. List them all, because forgetting that coffee pot or heated blanket could make the difference between the power station lasting all day, or giving up the ghost on you before the day is over. Specifically, you want to know how much power, in watts, each device draws. This information is usually found on a label on the device. For example, a h

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New Fossils Reveal Ankylosaur With Armor Unlike Any Other Animal, Living or Dead

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-31 15:00:05

Ankylosaurs were squat and thick four-legged dinosaurs with club tails and tough body armor. In other words, invincible Pokémon. A new fossil discovery, however, has revealed that the earliest ankylosaurs were several orders of magnitude more badass than their descendants. In a study published today in the journal Nature, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a Spicomellus, a genus of early ankylosaurs, unearthed in Morocco and dating to around 165 million years ago. The finding includes

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The new Return to Silent Hill trailer gives us our first look at Pyramid Head

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 19:22:34

Nearly three years on from its original announcement, Return to Silent Hill finally has a proper trailer. It’s only 40 seconds long, but in that time we get a healthy supply of foggy and eerily empty street shots, terrifying monsters and a very brief glimpse of the iconic Pyramid Head. It looks like a Silent Hill movie alright. Return to Silent Hill is based on the 2001 survival horror classic Silent Hill 2, which got the remake treatment last year and remains one of the genre’s most important

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Why zero trust is never 'done' and is an ever-evolving process

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-31 19:15:25

Picture this scenario: Six months after celebrating their "zero trust transformation," a financial services firm gets hit with a devastating breach. Attackers waltzed through a supply chain vulnerability in a third-party API, bypassing all those carefully configured identity controls . The firm ticked every checkbox and met every requirement - yet here they are, scrambling to contain customer data exposure. But wasn’t zero trust supposed to protect them? The truth is zero trust isn’t a project

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Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-31 19:00:00

Google debuted its new-age video editor called Vids for the Google Workspace productivity suite last year. On Wednesday, the company is adding new features like AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools. It is also releasing a free-to-use feature for consumers with limited features. This version of the editor will have basic edit controls along with access to Google’s template library, font collection, and stock media library, but it won’t offer AI features at this tim

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ARMSX2 is the future of PS2 emulation on Android, and you can try it now

Poll: Just how round do you like the corners on your smartphone?

You can now ask Google Finance when Ethereum will hit its peak

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Two subscription-free smart rings were just banned in the US - here's why

Open Source is one person

Microsoft fires two employees over breaking into its president’s office

Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

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Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

Apple TV+: Romantic drama with Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein gets first trailer

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CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of 8 top infections

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Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version

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