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Is a refurbished MacBook worth it? I did the math, and here's my buying advice

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-10 08:31:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I remember when people used to scoff at refurbished tech. Buying a used phone or computer was like rolling the dice: you never knew exactly what you were getting. Well, the times certainly have changed. And, in this economy, the prices on refurbished tech are looking more and more tempting. Consumers are challenging this idea that we're all supposed to buy brand new phones and laptops every few years, and in the process, the market for refurbished tech has blown up. Also:

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You may soon get Starlink internet for a much lower 'Community' price - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-10 08:54:56

BOUREIMA HAMA/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways SpaceX shares details about "Starlink Community," a dish-sharing program that lowers monthly subscription costs. A support page shows a price of $60 a month for the service. Currently, every Starlink subscriber needs their own equipment. You might soon have an option to get Starlink internet at a much more affordable price. There hasn't been a major announcement, but SpaceX has quietly dropped details about a new program that lets you share a si

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Show HN: I built a tool to replace capcut audio transcription

news.ycombinator.com Cosmos Team 2026-01-10 08:20:23

Audio Transcription Transcribe speech to text with AI, all in your browser

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Small Changes That Made Our Daily Stand-Ups More Useful

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Koprowski 2026-01-10 06:14:00

Daily stand-ups are a cornerstone of agile software development – but often they’re seen as a burden or a distraction. Why? Because they frequently devolve into long status reports that bore participants and add little real value. Others see it as a waste of time or such regular part of their day, that it doesn’t deserve a second though. During the past two years, together with my team, I worked on improving our daily to transform it to a tool that helps every participant to kickstart their da

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Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-10 08:50:49

Meet “impossibagel,” a physically impossible bagel that mathematicians use to resolve intricate geometry problems. But impossibagel—and other “impossible objects” in mathematics—is notoriously difficult to replicate, and researchers haven’t been able to fully tap into their mathematical potential. That may no longer be a problem, thanks to a new tool. On Monday, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) announced “Meschers,” software capable of visuali

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‘The Long Walk’ Wanted Mark Hamill for His ‘Star Wars’ Sequels Performance

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-10 08:51:32

Mark Hamill hasn’t been shy about discussing his, shall we say, dislike of Luke Skywalker’s arc in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, specifically in the movie where the character has the most prominence: The Last Jedi. He’s all but closed the door on ever returning to his most famous character, but the prolific actor has kept extremely busy with other roles, including two Mike Flanagan projects, The Fall of the House of Usher and Life of Chuck. He’s also in The Long Walk, one of the few Stephen King

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Why Professionals Say You Should Think Twice Before Using AI as a Therapist

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-10 06:32:49

Amid the many AI chatbots and avatars at your disposal these days, you'll find all kinds of characters to talk to: fortune tellers, style advisers, even your favorite fictional characters. But you'll also likely find characters purporting to be therapists, psychologists or just bots willing to listen to your woes. There's no shortage of generative AI bots claiming to help with your mental health, but go that route at your own risk. Large language models trained on a wide range of data can be un

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Roku gets frugal with the content and price of its new streaming service

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-10 08:39:06

At a time when subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming services keep getting more expensive and their ads more extensive, Roku’s new streaming service, Howdy, is worth a closer look. Howdy launched today in the US for $3 per month. It is currently only accessible via a web browser or the Howdy app on Roku OS. Roku said in its announcement today that Howdy will roll out to “mobile and additional platforms in the near future." Howdy has, per Roku, “nearly 10,000 hours” of content from Warn

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Linda Yaccarino joins health tech platform eMed as CEO after leaving X

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-01-10 08:20:11

Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s troubled ad revenue model, despite her and Elon Musk’s shared approach to minimizing content moderation. Though Yaccarino does not have experie

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Coinbase shares slide Tuesday, as crypto play takes double-digit fall from July record

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2026-01-10 11:55:57

Shares were last down more than 5%. The decline occurred as investors adopted a risk-off stance on Tuesday and the three major averages declined. Coinbase is now off more than 30% from its all-time high of $444.65, reached on July 18. Shares popped in mid-July as legislators voted on a series of crypto-related bills, ending with President Donald Trump signing the GENIUS Act stablecoin legislation — the nation's first-ever crypto law. Shares have been collapsing since then. Shares of the crypto

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Ray-Ban Meta stealth stickers go viral but fail to beat safeguards

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-10 12:08:51

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A TikTok seller is promoting vinyl “Ghost Dots” that claim to block the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Meta’s glasses disable photo and video recording when the light is blocked, and comments suggest the stickers don’t work. TikTok briefly removed the product, but it’s already back on sale. Anyone talking to a Ray-Ban Meta wearer probably wants to know if they’re being recorded, which is why the tech giant added a recording light to it

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FOX One streaming service gets launch date and pricing

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-10 12:03:46

Earlier this year, we told you about plans for a standalone streaming service from FOX with a former Apple TV+ veteran at the helm. As of today, FOX has announced pricing and the launch date for its direct to consumers subscription video service. FOX One will launch in two weeks on Thursday, August 21. The new standalone streaming video service will cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year. That’s a pretty hefty price compared to standalone streaming services from other networks. For example,

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macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 5 is out, here’s what’s new

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-10 12:10:00

Apple just released a fresh batch of developer betas, including the latest test build of macOS 26 Tahoe. Here are the details. When Apple rolled out macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 4, it didn’t introduce new features or big changes, unlike beta 3, which introduced a new screensaver, improvements to tab visibility in apps like Safari and Terminal, and a dialing back of the Liquid Glass transparency effect. The build number for macOS Tahoe 26 beta 5 release is 25A5327h. We’re taking a closer loo

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watchOS 26 beta 5 rolling out for Apple Watch now

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-10 12:12:32

Apple has just released watchOS 26 beta 5, the latest update for developers running the Apple Watch beta. Here’s what to expect. New watchOS 26 beta available for developers, with public beta likely following soon August is here, bringing a new wave of beta software from Apple. Today those releases are only for developers, but public betas should follow in the next couple days. Today’s watchOS 26 beta 5 release is right on track with previous history of Apple releases. Now that we’re little

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Apple releases iOS 26 beta 5 for iPhone

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-10 12:15:15

Apple has released the fifth developer beta version of iOS 26. We expect the redesigned version of the iPhone software to officially launch next month. Apple also launched the first public beta version of iOS 26 last week. The latest build is 23A5308g. iOS 26 developer beta 5 has arrived Apple describes the upcoming iPhone software update by saying that iOS 26 “delivers a stunning new design, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, new ways to stay connected in the Phone and Messages apps, a

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iPadOS 26 beta 5 is available now, here’s what to expect

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-10 12:16:21

iPadOS 26 developer beta 5 is rolling out now, bringing the latest changes ahead of the software’s public launch next month. Here’s what to expect. Beta 5 could bring shift to new iPadOS 26 betas every week Apple has a new wave of beta software releases ready. About two weeks after developer beta 4 and the first public beta debuted, today iPadOS 26 beta 5 is available to install. There are a couple especially noteworthy things related to this latest update: Historically, August is when Apple

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OpenAI releases two open-weight AI models, including one that runs well on Apple Silicon Macs

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-10 12:29:25

Living up to its name, OpenAI has released not one but two new open-weight AI models after promising to deliver a new open-weight model earlier this year. The two models, gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b, are available to download for free now. What makes open-weight models special? Specifically, these are AI models that can be downloaded and run on computers with adequate resources for powering local AI models. No internet connection is required because access to the model provider’s server isn’t

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Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition review: A solid business laptop with some quirks

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-10 12:15:51

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 . Step aside, old boy. The ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition is making me forget all about the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the most renowned business laptop for over a decade. Of course, Lenovo isn’t doing away with the X1 Carbon, but the X9 series certainly seems like the company’s experimental proje

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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 11:07:46

I couldn't help but notice - GitHub UI has been getting slower and slower recently. Some things that were snappy before are hellishly slow nowadays. GitHub is doing something weird and I just can't wrap my head around what's going on there. You guys developing at GitHub, you're using GitHub to develop it, right? Do you not see this? What's going on? Whenever I bump into slow website which drives me nuts, I open the devtools and profile it. Who knows, maybe I find something to report and the pr

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Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 12:18:37

One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/lz4/lz4 Zstandard is used by the new Khronos KTX2 GPU texture format specification. I propose that it be added as an option to a future version of .PNG. The possible speedups are quite significant, and for users that read and write a lot of .PNG's as part of th

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Josh Brolin on ‘Weapons,’ ‘Dune 3’ Teases, and Why He Hates Modern Marketing

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-10 12:50:36

Josh Brolin had had the kind of career most actors can only dream about. He’s done it all, working with all the biggest directors, writers, and producers in every genre, from western to sci-fi and back around again, sometimes both at the same time. And, when you talk to him, you feel that experience. That gravitas. That expertise. It’s incredibly cool, very impressive, and just a tiny bit intimidating. io9 spoke to Brolin recently about his latest film, Weapons, which opens August 8. Written an

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You May Soon Be Able to Chat on WhatsApp Even Without an Account

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-10 10:54:00

Not part of the WhatsApp club yet? Not to worry, it looks like you'll soon still be able to dip your toes in without signing up. A new feature called "guest chats," found by WABetaInfo in a beta build, will reportedly allow anyone without a WhatsApp account to chat with someone who does after the feature is rolled out in a future update. To start a guest chat, an app user would need to invite a non-app user to an online chat via a link. The invited party does not need to have WhatsApp installe

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WhatsApp Adds Tools to Save You From Scams

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-10 11:00:00

WhatsApp, the popular smartphone messaging service, says it's cracking down on millions of accounts linked to scam networks and providing users new tools to alert them when they might be targeted. In a post on Tuesday, the Meta-owned service says it took down more than 6.8 million accounts linked to scam networks primarily based in Southeast Asia. WhatsApp said that many of them are driven by cryptocurrency investment scams and pyramid schemes, and that some use ChatGPT to generate text and lin

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OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-10 12:55:43

OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for any copyright-infringing outputs that could become the most damning evidence in the hotly watched case. In a joint letter Thursday, both sides requested to hold a confidential settlement conference on August 7. Ars confirmed with the NYT's legal team that the conference is not about settling the case but instead was scheduled to set

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Democrats ask how Trump’s government will regulate Trump Mobile

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-01-10 10:03:05

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. When a Trump-branded phone on a Trump-branded mobile network launches sometime this year (if all goes according to plan), US regulators will face what’s become a recurring conundrum in Donald Trump’s presidency: how to regulate a product with ties to the head of state. Six Democra

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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-10 12:16:02

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, an

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For the first time in the US, Spotify is letting your family get access to this feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-10 17:20:32

Tech Team / Android Authority TL;DR Spotify is expanding its Audiobooks Plus plans to users in the US. Audiobooks Plus is an add-on that grants 15 additional hours of audiobook listening per month. Audiobooks Plus for Plan Members allows other members of your Premium Family or Duo plan access to 15 hours of audiobook listening. Through Spotify Premium, you have access to 15 hours of audiobook listening per month. While this is plenty of time for most people, it isn’t enough for some to satia

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iPhone 17 event scheduled for September 9, according to carrier documents

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-10 11:31:59

We’ve previously suggested Tuesday, September 9 as the most likely date for the iPhone 17 event, and a new report says that internal documents held by carriers confirms this. That would mean pre-orders on September 12, shipping on September 19 … Sep 9 had always looked likely Back in July, we looked at what history could tell us about the iPhone 17 release date. Based on the patterns seen between 2021 and 2024, we narrowed it down to the week commencing September 8. We noted that Tuesday was

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Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.1 with improved software engineering accuracy

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-10 17:43:53

In May, AI firm Anthropic introduced its Claude 4 family of models with a focus on improvements to coding, reasoning, and following instructions. Three months later, Anthropic is back with Claude Opus 4.1, which it says upgrades “agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.” Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.1 improves software engineering accuracy to 74.5%. That compares to 62.3% with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 72.5% with Claude Opus 4. More specifically, the updated model is better at “in-depth res

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WhatsApp adds new warning about potential group chat messaging scams

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-10 17:00:13

WhatsApp has shared a new update about how it prevents scams, as well as unveiling a new feature aimed at protecting users from possible swindles. People will now receive alerts when they are added to a new WhatsApp group by someone not in their contacts. This safety overview will include key details about the group chat, such as the number of members, whether any other members are contacts and the chat's start date. It also offers some common sense reminders of how to avoid scams. Users can ex

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