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As Apple again extends free satellite messaging, I’m doubling down on my prediction

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-04 21:21:56

Apple’s satellite messaging service was a key feature of the iPhone 14. Initially limited to providing an emergency service for those outside cellular coverage areas, it was subsequently extended to offer roadside assistance cover for mechanical problems and messaging with family and friends too. Although initially described as free for the first two years only, Apple subsequently extended free coverage – and has just done so again … As Macworld notes, here are the latest free periods: iPhone

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CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 20:32:35

Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until 8:30 a.m. (ET) Thursday, September 11, 2025 USDL-25-1356 Technical information: (202) 691-7000 * [email protected] * www.bls.gov/cpi Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * [email protected] CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - AUGUST 2025 The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August, after rising 0.2 percent in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last

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Apple Free Satellite Service Extended Again for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 Owners

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 20:00:08

Off the grid doesn't mean out of luck. Apple's satellite service, which connects directly to an overhead satellite when there is no cellular or Wi-Fi coverage, will continue to be free for at least another year. The feature, a notable selling point for Apple's devices, allows iPhone users to text family and request emergency help when they're out of range. Apple's free satellite connection service was due to be cut off this year for current owners of iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 models, but the time

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GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 01:46:27

Matthai Hi, I am writing an article and I am sharing a draft with you. I will be glad if you share your thoughts and suggestions with me. GrapheneOS is an Android-based, open source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system for mobile phones. It is one of the most secure and privacy protecting operating systems (and yes, it does this task comparable and in some scenarios even better than iOS, but we will come to that later). However, in the beginning of May, someone started an at

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Download the new iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro wallpapers [U: iPhone 17]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-05 09:05:35

You know the drill: new iPhones, new wallpapers. And if you liked what you saw during the “Awe Dropping” event, we’ve got you covered. Download the new wallpapers below. iOS now creates its default wallpapers dynamically, reacting to movement and interaction on the device. For this reason, the images below are static versions of those wallpapers. And here is one interesting tidbit: the wallpapers can be configured to color-match either the device or the color of the iPhone case. iPhone Air Th

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Elon Musk Says Starlink Could Replace Your Cellphone Carrier

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 13:20:00

On Wednesday, just one day after SpaceX acquired $17 billion of wireless spectrum from telecommunications company EchoStar, Elon Musk made some typically bold claims for how he would put it to use. The second-richest person in the world described a vision where Starlink could be your one-stop-shop for connectivity, whether at home or when you’re away from your Wi-Fi. On the All-In podcast, Musk said Starlink could eventually combine its home internet service with mobile. But he was careful to n

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Anker deals: These essentials will keep all your desk devices charged and connected

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 17:46:29

Keeping a desk organized and clean will always make you more productive and comfortable. With so many devices, peripherals, and accessories, though, things can get messy real quick. Anker is currently running some sales on accessories that will help you better organize your cables, all while keeping all your devices connected and charged. Let’s go over our two favorite bundles. Both of these offers are available directly from Anker. That said, they require a coupon code. Check each section belo

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DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 17:09:41

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs and MikroTik routers, and it was mitigated by FastNetMon, a company that offers protection against service disruptions. “The attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) — one of the largest packet-rate floods publicly disclosed,” FastNetMon says in a press release. “The malicious traff

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 12:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

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Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 10:02:12

Back in August 2023, attackers tied to the Scattered Spider group didn’t exploit a zero-day vulnerability to hack Clorox. They simply called the service desk (run by Cognizant), claimed to be locked-out employees, and asked for password and MFA resets. According to court filings and reporting, the attacker repeatedly phoned Cognizant’s service desk, obtained repeated resets without meaningful verification, and used the resulting access to move quickly toward domain-admin footholds. Clorox says

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Apple Snuck a Clue About Its Smart Home Plans Into the iPhone Air Reveal - and I Caught It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 12:45:00

Apple's "awe dropping" Tuesday event has wrapped up, and we're all still taking in the new paper-thin iPhone Air line (not everyone's in awe of it) as well as the iPhone 17 Pro. But something caught my ear in the middle of the iPhone Air announcement. Along with other connectivity support, Apple made sure to add that the iPhone Air would support Thread. In a presentation where every second and word was intentional, it means a lot that the company included it. (Preorders for the iPhone 17 Air ope

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New subscribers can get three free months of the Apple Music Family Plan

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:12:40

Apple Music is running a promo in which new subscribers can get three free months of the Family Plan tier. That's a savings of $51, which is nothing to sneeze at. After this lengthy free trial is up, it costs $17 per month. The Family Plan allows six different users to access the platform. It offers cross-device support and each user is tied to an Apple ID, so their favorite music won't mess with anyone else's algorithm. Apple Music actually topped our list of the best music streaming platform

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Amazon's Zoox launches its autonomous robotaxi service

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 21:37:50

Amazon's Zoox has announced that its robotaxi service is now available on and around the Las Vegas Strip after months of testing. The autonomous rides are free and can be booked through the Zoox app for iOS and Android devices. This is the company's first official service launch after Amazon acquired the self-driving startup in 2020. The Las Vegas service will operate at select pickup and drop-off locations along the Strip, and riders will enter and exit the vehicles at each destination's ride-

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Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 09:42:55

TailGuard A simple Docker container app which allows connecting existing WireGuard servers to the Tailscale network, in case the device running WireGuard is locked in and/or does not support Tailscale binaries. The network topology will look roughly like this: +---------+ | device1 |\ +---------+ \ VPS +---------+ \ +---------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ | device2 |----| tailnet |----| TailGuard |<---->| WireGuard | +---------+ / +---------+ +-----------+ +-----------+ +---------+ / | device

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Kerberoasting

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Green 2025-10-07 04:01:30

I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me with the brilliance of their inventors. But there’s also another class of vulnerabilities: these are the ones that can’t possibly exist in important production software, because there’s no way anyone could still do that in 2025. Today I want to talk about one of those ridiculous ones, something Microsoft calls “low tech

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Zoox’s robotaxis are open for business in Las Vegas

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-07 05:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Amazon’s Zoox announced today that it’s making its robotaxis available to all customers in Las Vegas. The company says it is the first to operate with a purpose-built autonomous vehicle in public service. And the news comes a few weeks after federal regulators gave the company the green light to expand the use of its robota

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Zoox opens its Las Vegas robotaxi service to the public

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-07 05:00:00

Zoox robotaxis — custom-built all-electric and autonomous vehicles that operate without a steering wheel or pedals — can now be hailed by the public in Las Vegas. But this isn’t a commercial service just yet. For now, the Zoox robotaxi service currently offer rides for free. The Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company, which launched the free service on Wednesday, has been chugging toward this milestone for years now. The company spent six years developing its technology before unveiling its p

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Do Microcurrent Devices Actually Work? Dermatologists Share Pros and Cons

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 05:30:00

If you regularly watch videos of people's morning and evening routines, you've likely seen several microcurrent devices. Said to produce collagen, sculpt the face, improve skin texture and more, these at-home devices from popular brands like NuFace, ZIIP and Therabody can cost hundreds of dollars. But do they actually work? To find out, we asked dermatologists for more information about microcurrent devices' pros and cons and how they compare to professional treatments. Do microcurrent devices

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May Mobility and Lyft's Self-Driving Partnership Hits the Road in Atlanta

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 09:00:03

Table of Contents May Mobility and Lyft's Self-Driving Partnership Hits the Road in Atlanta Lyft and May Mobility kicked off their self-driving partnership in Atlanta on Wednesday. As part of a pilot program, riders in the area can summon a vehicle equipped with May Mobility's autonomous driving technology directly through the Lyft app, "with plans to expand service hours and vehicle availability in the months ahead," the companies said in a release. Lyft customers in Atlanta could be matched

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Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-07 09:00:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. For months, Lyft has watched while its rival Uber made deals with seemingly every autonomous vehicle operator under the sun. But the smaller ridehail company has been quietly building a fleet of its own, and Lyft is ready to launch its first customer-ready robotaxi pilot in Atlanta. Lyft is teaming up with May Mobility, an

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Survey shows Google Home users have high hopes from Gemini

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:04:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Home devices are in for a significant reform. On October 1, Google will announce Gemini for smart speakers and displays and subsequently replace Google Assistant with it on these devices. And we have huge expectations from this upgrade. Gemini has big shoes to fill. Google Assistant has shouldered the load of the entire breadth of commands intended for smart speakers for nearly a decade. However, the recent decline in Google Home’s ability to understa

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Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 04:11:57

X's Recommendation Algorithm X's Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for serving feeds of posts and other content across all X product surfaces (e.g. For You Timeline, Search, Explore, Notifications). For an introduction to how the algorithm works, please refer to our engineering blog. Architecture Product surfaces at X are built on a shared set of data, models, and software frameworks. The shared components included in this repository are listed below:

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Did Anyone Ask for a Super Thin iPhone Air?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 07:59:00

The star of Tuesday's "awe dropping" Apple event was undeniably the iPhone Air, a slim, much-rumored version of its new iPhone 17. It's only 5.6mm thick -- thinner than three stacked credit cards -- if you ignore the huge camera bump. But does anyone actually want a super-thin iPhone? Apple has loaded up the iPhone Air with better battery life and faster processing power via the A19 Pro chip. It's also got a 48-megapixel fusion camera and a 12-megapixel 2x telephoto camera. Apple said this is t

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Did Anyone Ask for a Super Thin iPhone?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 12:59:00

The star of Tuesday's "awe dropping" Apple event was undeniably the iPhone Air, a slim, much-rumored version of its new iPhone 17. It's only 5.6mm thick -- thinner than three stacked credit cards -- if you ignore the huge camera bump. But does anyone actually want a super-thin iPhone? Apple has loaded up the iPhone Air with better battery life and faster processing power via the A19 Pro chip. It's also got a 48-megapixel fusion camera and a 12-megapixel 2x telephoto camera. Apple said this is t

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A Split-Second Hint in the iPhone Air Launch Shows Apple's Ready for the Smart Home

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 13:17:00

Apple's "awe dropping" Tuesday event has wrapped up, and we're all still taking in the new paper-thin iPhone Air line (not everyone's in awe of it) as well as the iPhone 17 Pro. But something caught my ear in the middle of the iPhone Air announcement. Along with other connectivity support, Apple made sure to add that the iPhone Air would support Thread. In a presentation where every second and word was intentional, it means a lot that the company included it. "So, what's Thread?" is probably yo

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X open sourced their latest algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 05:11:57

X's Recommendation Algorithm X's Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for serving feeds of posts and other content across all X product surfaces (e.g. For You Timeline, Search, Explore, Notifications). For an introduction to how the algorithm works, please refer to our engineering blog. Architecture Product surfaces at X are built on a shared set of data, models, and software frameworks. The shared components included in this repository are listed below:

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Switch modder owes Nintendo $2 million after representing himself in court

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 04:29:04

It has often been said that the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. That truism apparently extends to Switch modders as well, at least in the case of Ryan Daly. The operator of the now-defunct moddedhardware.com (archived) now owes Nintendo $2 million after a recent settlement filed in a Washington state District Court. The final judgement, which was jointly agreed to by both parties, asserts that Daly knowingly sold devices such as the MIG Switch and MIG Dumper that "are pri

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Google Home is making your smart home more controllable than ever before

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 13:40:13

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Home web app now features a “Devices” tab, allowing control of more smart devices. This update is currently available to users in the Google Home Public Preview program. The new controls include lights, locks, and thermostats, but not media devices, though more device types and controls are promised to be coming soon Google is gearing up for some big changes to Google Home. The company officially announced that Gemini is coming to Google H

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Survey shows an overwhelming number of users want Gemini on Google Home

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 17:04:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Home devices are in for a significant reform. On October 1, Google will announce Gemini for smart speakers and displays and subsequently replace Google Assistant with it on these devices. And we have huge expectations from this upgrade. Gemini has big shoes to fill. Google Assistant has shouldered the load of the entire breadth of commands intended for smart speakers for nearly a decade. However, the recent decline in Google Home’s ability to understa

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The 4.2-inch Pocket AIR Mini is set to shake up the sub-$150 gaming handheld scene

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:53:28

TL;DR The AYANEO Pocket AIR Mini has a new 4.2-inch 4:3 screen, with a price “everyone can afford.” As the name indicates, the design is a smaller version of the AYANEO Pocket AIR. Rumors indicate it will cost less than $140, making it AYANEO’s most affordable device. If there’s one retro gaming handheld OEM that doesn’t rest on its laurels, it’s AYANEO. The company is currently juggling two very high-profile launches in the Pocket DS and KONKR Pocket FIT, but now we’ve finally gotten our fir

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As Apple again extends free satellite messaging, I’m doubling down on my prediction

CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up

Apple Free Satellite Service Extended Again for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 Owners

GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data

Download the new iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro wallpapers [U: iPhone 17]

Elon Musk Says Starlink Could Replace Your Cellphone Carrier

Anker deals: These essentials will keep all your desk devices charged and connected

DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

Apple Snuck a Clue About Its Smart Home Plans Into the iPhone Air Reveal - and I Caught It

New subscribers can get three free months of the Apple Music Family Plan

Amazon's Zoox launches its autonomous robotaxi service

Show HN: TailGuard – Bridge your WireGuard router into Tailscale via a container

Kerberoasting

Zoox’s robotaxis are open for business in Las Vegas

Zoox opens its Las Vegas robotaxi service to the public

Do Microcurrent Devices Actually Work? Dermatologists Share Pros and Cons

May Mobility and Lyft's Self-Driving Partnership Hits the Road in Atlanta

Lyft’s first ‘robotaxis’ are live in Atlanta

Survey shows Google Home users have high hopes from Gemini

Source code for the X recommendation algorithm

Did Anyone Ask for a Super Thin iPhone Air?

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A Split-Second Hint in the iPhone Air Launch Shows Apple's Ready for the Smart Home

X open sourced their latest algorithm

Switch modder owes Nintendo $2 million after representing himself in court

Google Home is making your smart home more controllable than ever before

Survey shows an overwhelming number of users want Gemini on Google Home

The 4.2-inch Pocket AIR Mini is set to shake up the sub-$150 gaming handheld scene

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