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Asmi Linux finally makes the Xfce desktop accessible to all, even newbies

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-04 22:25:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Asmi Linux is based on Debian and uses the Xfce desktop. This distribution makes it easy to switch between layouts. You don't have to have Linux experience to enjoy this OS. Confession time: I don't give the Xfce desktop environment the attention it deserves. To date, there has been a reason for that. I tend to focus mainly on desktop environments suited for all types of users (from those with no

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Grocery Stores Toss About 30% of Food. This App Lets You Buy It for Cheap Before They Do

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 21:52:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Flashfood is an app that lets you shop discounted groceries that would otherwise be tossed due to packaging damage or looming expiration dates. Flashfood 9.2 / 10 SCORE Flashfood Buy at Flashfood Pros Shop for discounted groceries while you shop for other groceries Rescue food that would otherwise have to be tossed Heavily discounted items available acr

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Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

gizmodo.com Amiran Baduashvili 2025-11-05 08:50:51

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people—and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the upshot of a detailed review of nearly 700 studies that we co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Many respiratory viruses, such as covid-19 and influenza, can spread through indoor air. Technologies such as HEPA filters, ultraviolet light, and special ventilation designs—collectively kno

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EcoFlow’s Rapid power bank is the fastest yet

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-11-05 08:00:00

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s now possible to charge a large 99Wh (27,650mAh) power bank — the largest you can easily take on an airplane — from zero to 80 percent in about 20 minutes. But only if you own EcoFlow’s new power bank and desktop charger combo, launching in the

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Google will soon make it easier to find out what’s wrong with your Pixel (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 21:07:26

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing new diagnostics options for Pixel devices. This new option combines discrete options into a single dashboard to test if there’s anything wrong with your phone. It also introduces a new AI-powered search option to inspect likely problems with your Pixel device. The on-device diagnostics options on Google’s Pixel phones are in for a significant overhaul. We have spotted Google testing a new menu option that combines various diagnostic

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Switch emulator Sudachi is no more, and it’s (mostly) not because of Nintendo

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 22:35:01

Curtis Joe / Android Authority TL;DR Popular Switch emulator Sudachi is no longer under active development. Developer Jarrod Norwell has moved on to Folium, an iOS emulation app. The final version will remain available, but the dev recommends switching to Eden. Nintendo Switch emulation seems to have recovered from last year’s major blows in the wake of Yuzu’s untimely demise, but one emulator from that era remained under active development, at least until now. Sudachi is a Yuzu fork with a

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Apple accuses Android brand of trade secret theft over wearables (Update: Response)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 22:05:22

Update: August 25, 2025 (1:07 AM ET): OPPO has now issued an official statement addressing Apple’s legal filing against it and a former Apple employee. The company posted the following in an email to Android Authority: We are aware of the recent lawsuit filed by Apple in California and have carefully reviewed the allegations in Apple’s complaint. We have found no evidence establishing any connection between these allegations and the employee’s conduct during his employment at OPPO. OPPO respec

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From Hackathon to YC

news.ycombinator.com Neha Suresh 2025-11-05 14:08:26

This story is being published in the Product Hunt Weekly Newsletter. If you'd like to read more stories like this, subscribe here. 🌟 Hey everyone, I’m Neha, the founder of @April — an AI executive assistant that keeps your inbox, calendar, and meeting prep under control so you can finally get your time back. April exists because of a hackathon I almost skipped, my car crashing into a pillar… and a YC interview I never saw coming. The Hackathon That Changed Everything It's the end of May 2025.

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 25

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 21:38:35

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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Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that

venturebeat.com Sylvain Kalache 2025-11-05 16:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Software developers spend most of their time not writing code; recent industry research found that actual coding accounts for as little as 16% of developers’ working hours, with the rest consumed by operational and supportive tasks. As engineering teams are pressured to “do more with less” and CEOs are bragging about how much of their codeb

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Apple Sues Chinese Phonemaker Oppo For Alleged Trade Secrets Theft

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-05 15:48:37

Apple is suing Chinese consumer electronics company Oppo for poaching a member of the Cupertino giant’s Apple Watch team to allegedly steal trade secrets. Apple, represented by lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, is bringing the lawsuit against the company’s former sensor system architect Dr. Cheng Shi, and his new employers China-based Oppo and California-based Innopeak. Dr. Shi now leads a team developing sensing technology at Oppo’s U.S. office, according to a complaint filed by Apple on Thursda

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 25, #1528

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 17:00:02

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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Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of ‘cloyingly conformist’ Silicon Valley

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-05 17:32:56

In Brief Meta’s former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, “How to Save the Internet.” Unlike certain other Meta employee memoirs, “How to Save the Internet” doesn’t sound like a tell-all or a scathing critique. And in an interview with the Guardian, Clegg (who previously led the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats) seems to distance himself from Silicon Valley without quite disavowing his former employer. “I really do believe that, despite its imper

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Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 11:45:22

In a blog post this week, Microsoft's head of AI Mustafa Suleyman responded to the drastic rise in mental health crises stemming from AI use, calling for caution "about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence." At the core of Suleyman's argument isn't the dystopian threat of AI gaining consciousness — an idea currently grounded more in fantasy than scientific evidence, according to many researchers — but the belief that it already is. "My central worry is that many people will sta

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Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 17:15:26

Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great calcite belt, a region that's rich in the mineral form of calcium carbonate, and teeming with coccolithophores, tiny marine organisms that grow reflective calcite shells out of the mineral. The patch itself, however, has been considered far too frigid to support these tiny plankton, causing a longstand

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 18:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:15:03

A Short Introduction to Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distance These notes provide a brief introduction to optimal transport theory, prioritizing intuition over mathematical rigor. A more rigorous presentation would require some additional background in measure theory. Other good introductory resources for optimal transport theory include: Why Optimal Transport Theory? A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to come up with useful measures of “distance” between pairs o

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The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-11-05 15:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I’ve long dreamed of doing all my gaming on PC — a single platform that’s easily upgradeable and lets me play my overstuffed Steam library wherever and however I like. The Steam Deck is a fantastic handheld, but for my living room, I want something

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Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 09:08:15

🚧 Port Kill A lightweight macOS status bar app that monitors and manages development processes running on ports 2000-6000. The app provides real-time process detection and allows you to kill individual processes or all processes at once. Features Real-time Monitoring : Scans ports 2000-6000 every 5 seconds using lsof commands : Scans ports 2000-6000 every 5 seconds using commands Visual Status Bar Icon : Shows process count with color-coded center (green=0, red=1-9, orange=10+) : Shows proc

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Is It Ever Legal—or Ethical—to Remove DRM?

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-11-05 17:30:00

Whatever you think about Digital Rights Management software, it's hard to argue with the fact that it's annoying. Such technology exists, in theory, to protect the intellectual property of the companies that create music, movies, and games, but it can also get in the way of you enjoying books, music, and videos the way you want to. Say, for example, that you bought a bunch of books on the Amazon Kindle platform but later decided you wanted to switch to a Kobo device (or vice versa). The DRM sys

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What if every city had a London Overground?

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Furseth 2025-11-02 09:11:37

An underground train network is the pinnacle of public transport—right now, in New York and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city. In London, which has the oldest rapid transit system in the world, the Tube isn’t just public transportation—it’s famous as the beating heart of the city, assisting up to five million passenger journeys a day. Formally known as the London Underground, the Tube’s logo is soon r

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 21:00:05

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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ChatGPT-5 Impressions: Fast, but a Bit Impersonal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 22:54:00

ChatGPT-5 likes getting straight to the point. For some, that's a reprieve from its chattier predecessor, GPT-4o. For others, something will certainly seem off. Despite the hype leading up to OpenAI's launch of GPT-5, it ultimately doesn't feel too different from 4o. The quality of responses in my ongoing testing seems to be at the level of past models, including the o3 "reasoning" model. The major difference is that some responses generate very quickly in relatively few words, while others ca

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, Aug. 24

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 16:05:42

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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Using AI for Work Could Land You on the Receiving End of a Nasty Lawsuit

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 08:00:28

For all its hype, artificial intelligence isn't without its psychological, environmental, and even spiritual hazards. Perhaps the most pressing concern on an individual level, though, is that it puts users on the hook for a nearly infinite number of legal hazards — even at work, as it turns out. A recent breakdown by The Register highlights the legal dangers of AI use, especially in corporate settings. If you use generative AI software to spit out graphics, press releases, logos, or videos, yo

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Apple claims an ex-employee stole Apple Watch trade secrets for Oppo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-05 10:26:36

Apple is going after another one of its previous employees for allegedly sharing trade secrets with a new employer. Apple's lawsuit listed Chen Shi, a former employee who worked on the Apple Watch team, along with Oppo, as defendants, claiming they "conspired to steal Apple’s trade secrets." According to the lawsuit, Shi worked as a Sensor System Architect for the Apple Watch from January 2020 to June 2025, but was seeking employment with Oppo as early as April 2025. Apple claimed that its form

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Optimizing our way through Metroid

news.ycombinator.com Will Wilson 2025-11-03 23:42:01

Will Wilson CEO Optimizing our way through Metroid Games People ask me: “why do you let your employees spend so much time playing Nintendo games?” People think we do it for the marketing. People think we do it to have cool demos. People think our blog series on learning autonomous testing concepts via how they come up in games is a pedagogical gimmick and nothing more. People are totally wrong. The honest truth, the underlying reality beneath the hype, is that this is actually how we figured

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OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-05 12:26:46

In Brief In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs. “We urge you to be careful if you are contacted by a firm that purports to have access to OpenAI, including through the sale of an SPV interest with exposure to OpenAI equity,” the company writes. The blog post acknowledges that “not every offer of OpenAI equity […] is problematic” but says firms may be “attempt

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AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 09:15:33

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence has instilled an existential fear in "AI doomers," a subset of people who believe the tech will cause humans to lose their jobs, fall prey to a dominating species of rogue superintelligent AIs, and even eventually get wiped out altogether. And, as The Atlantic reports, some are taking that pervasive fear to striking extremes in their daily lives. Machine Intelligence Research Institute researcher Nate Soares, for instance, told the magazine that he's

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Why I'm still taking this 2024 Dell laptop to the office - even though it's for gamers

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-05 08:30:26

Alienware m16 R2 ZDNET's key takeaways Alienware m16 R2 aims to be the perfect laptop for gamers and professionals alike, and it succeeds. It delivers high-level performance and a 2K display that'll make both groups smile, while giving users a way to tone down the RGB lighting via Stealth Mode. You'll need to keep that charger close by, as the M16 R2's battery doesn't last very long. $1,899.99 at Best Buy $2,099 at Amazon more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Googl

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Asmi Linux finally makes the Xfce desktop accessible to all, even newbies

Grocery Stores Toss About 30% of Food. This App Lets You Buy It for Cheap Before They Do

Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

EcoFlow’s Rapid power bank is the fastest yet

Google will soon make it easier to find out what’s wrong with your Pixel (APK teardown)

Switch emulator Sudachi is no more, and it’s (mostly) not because of Nintendo

Apple accuses Android brand of trade secret theft over wearables (Update: Response)

From Hackathon to YC

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, Aug. 25

Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that

Apple Sues Chinese Phonemaker Oppo For Alleged Trade Secrets Theft

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 25, #1528

Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of ‘cloyingly conformist’ Silicon Valley

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation

You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room

Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

Is It Ever Legal—or Ethical—to Remove DRM?

What if every city had a London Overground?

AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

ChatGPT-5 Impressions: Fast, but a Bit Impersonal

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Using AI for Work Could Land You on the Receiving End of a Nasty Lawsuit

Apple claims an ex-employee stole Apple Watch trade secrets for Oppo

Optimizing our way through Metroid

OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments

AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

Why I'm still taking this 2024 Dell laptop to the office - even though it's for gamers

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