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You can try Linux without abandoning Windows through dual-booting - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-07-27 18:16:00

ZDNET With Windows 10 support due to end soon, many users are looking for an alternative OS, so they don't have to purchase yet another computer. One of the best options for most people is Linux. Modern Linux distributions are user-friendly, rock-solid, and free. If you have zero experience with Linux, you might think it's above your skills, so you have yet to find the courage to use it. Back in 1997, when I discovered Linux, I was clueless about how it worked. When I finally installed the ope

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Show HN: Cogency – Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 21:06:26

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Google's Reverse Acquihire of Windsurf and the Future of AI Developer Tools

news.ycombinator.com Itamar Friedman 2025-07-27 18:25:00

The reverse acquihire of Windsurf by Google is more than a corporate reshuffle. It offers a rare glimpse into the strategic realignments happening in AI-powered developer tools – a space that is powerful, promising, but still deeply unsettled. Windsurf set out with an ambitious bet: bringing “agentic” capabilities directly into the IDE. It wasn’t just about generating code snippets faster; it aimed to create a true coding partner, capable of understanding high-level intent and navigating large

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Don't Want to Upgrade to Windows 11? Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Security Updates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-27 14:45:04

The era of Windows 10 is almost at an end. In October 2025, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 and stopping security support. Initially Microsoft was offering a one-year extended security update for $30, but we've got good news. Microsoft has added a free option, allowing you to stick with Windows 10 for another year. However, in order to access it, users will need to use cloud backup and connect it with their OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty b

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Form makes its smart swimming goggles tougher with Gorilla Glass lenses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-27 18:00:19

It’s been a little over a year since Form released its second-generation smart swim goggles into the world. Since then, the company has been working on a way to ensure its headgear is even more attractive to swimmers who like to get out in the rough. Today, it’s announcing the Smart Swim 2 Pro, a modest upgrade on its predecessor with a focus on durability. The 2 Pro’s lenses are now made of Gorilla Glass 3, which adds a gram or two more weight but should keep them scratch-free for far longer.

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The 2025 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge: Spurring Innovation for Edge and Mobile Devices

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2025-07-28 00:28:56

Imagine a downtown urban street on a traffic-heavy Saturday night. Now, add a severe snowstorm and an autonomous vehicle that safely navigates it all, despite fogged-up cameras, unpredictable pedestrians in oversized outerwear, streetlights throwing glare off a dozen wet surfaces, and the snow itself, which all but obliterates the visibility of traffic signs and lane markers. A computer vision (CV) system that could make this safe navigation possible would revolutionize not only autonomous

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Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

news.ycombinator.com Scott Wu 2025-07-27 21:07:15

We’re excited to share that Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, some of the best talent in our industry, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. In the immediate term, the Windsurf team will continue to operate as they have been, and we will remain focused on our work of accelerating your engineering

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Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO in $2.4 billion licensing deal

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-07-28 13:45:12

In this photo illustration, a man seen holding a smartphone with the logo of US artificial intelligence company Cognition AI Inc. in front of website. Artificial intelligence startup Cognition announced it's acquiring Windsurf, the AI coding company that lost its CEO and several other senior employees to Google just days earlier. Cognition said on Monday that it will purchase Windsurf's intellectual property, product, trademark, brand and talent, but didn't disclose terms of the deal. It's the

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How to buy the Switch 2: Nintendo's restock updates at Best Buy, Walmart and others

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-28 13:00:35

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 . Update (7/14/25): Best Buy will reportedly restock Switch 2 consoles next on July 17, which coincides with the release of Donkey Kong Bananza. The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally available in the US, but it's still pretty tough to find it in stock online anywhere. The $450 console offici

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My wife and I share a car: this adapter fixed our issues connecting to Android Auto

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-07-28 13:42:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The AAWireless Two typically costs $65 and gives you wireless Android Auto support when plugged in. A new built-in button lets you quickly swap between paired devices. The companion app is almost too robust, but that's a good problem to have. $51.99 at Amazon The AAWireless Two is on sale at Amazon for $50, the lowest price we've seen for this product. Since I bought my first car three years ago, I've had the worst luck with wireless Android Auto adapters. I initially s

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Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-07-28 17:46:42

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 Autonomous AI coding startup Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the AI developer tools startup best known for its agentic integrated development environment (IDE), the two companies announced on their respective X accounts on Monday. No acquisition amount was disclosed publicly, nor were specific terms of the d

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Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-28 17:51:29

Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf. The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf’s CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2.4 billion deal, a reverse-acquihire that left the rest of the startup’s 250-person team behind. Google’s deal occurred just hours after OpenAI’s $3 billion offer to acquire Windsurf

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Best Buy is restocking the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 17

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-28 21:46:37

If you've been hunting high and low for a Nintendo Switch 2 , then get ready to visit your local Best Buy on July 17 . The electronics retailer will be restocking the handheld in all of its stores to coincide with the release of Donkey Kong Bananza , the first 3D Donkey Kong game in almost 30 years. The Nintendo Switch 2 has been one of the hottest launches of the summer, and it remains in short supply due to high demand. Even the Amazon listing for the Switch 2 is available only by invitation

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Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-28 20:38:08

Microsoft’s advertised end-of-support date for Windows 10 is October 14, 2025. But in reality, the company will gradually wind down support for the enduring popular operating system over the next three years. Microsoft would really like you to upgrade to Windows 11, especially if it also means upgrading to a new PC, but it also doesn’t want to leave hundreds of millions of home and business PCs totally unprotected. Those competing goals have led to lots of announcements and re-announcements and

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Window Air Conditioners Get a Bad Rap -- but I Found One That Actually Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 00:30:05

CNET's key takeaways The Windmill AC normally costs $349 for 6,000 BTUs, but you can often find it on sale on Windmill's website Amazon Home Depot Not only is the Windmill AC the easiest unit I've ever installed, it's the only AC unit I've tried that effectively kept my older and not well-insulated home cool during a heat wave. Bonus: It's actually stylish. Although, I still would have paid for an ugly one that works. Its normal price is higher than some other window AC units, but I've paid

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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-29 01:08:13

An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first. On Friday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison documented that xAI's new Grok 4 model searches for Elon Musk's opinions on X (formerly Twitter) when asked about controversial topics. The discovery comes just days after xAI launched Grok 4 amid controversy over an earlier version of the chatbot generating antisemitic outputs, including labeling itself as "Mech

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This $12 USB-C accessory solved the biggest issue I had with my laptop's charger

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-07-29 05:27:39

ZDNET's key takeaways The magnetic USB-C connector now supports a 180-degree swivel, and it's only $12 at Amazon. It can pump out as much as 240W of power. I just wish it was suitable for data transferring or powering monitors. $12.99 at Amazon A hill I'm always willing to fight on -- and maybe even die on -- is that the magnetic breakaway USB-C connector is one of the best USB accessories out there. Sure, it's not as flashy as a hardware-encrypted storage device or as geeky as a USB power me

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Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 04:47:54

We have already covered it ahead of its launch: the Lenovo Legion Go S is a high-end handheld PC that comes in two flavors: a SteamOS variant and a Windows 11 version. Today, we are going to look at the performance across both versions, based on multiple benchmarks collected from different sources on the webs. The Lenovo Legion Go S: SteamOS for the Masses Both versions of the Legion Go S use a similar AMD processor (Z2 Go at 4c/8t) and a 55.5 Wh battery, but the SteamOS model is priced about

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Microsoft has a new trick to improve laptop battery life on Windows

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-07-29 05:50:05

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has started testing a new feature in Windows 11 that will improve laptop battery life. A new adaptive energy saver mode will soon automatically enable or disable the main energy saver mode, based on your laptop’s workload rather than just its amount of battery life left. The energy saver mode in Windows 11 typically dims a display brightness by 30 percent, disables t

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Your complete Windows 11 upgrade guide: Everything to know - before you ditch Windows 10

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-07-29 13:11:00

Chartchai Sansaneeyashewin/Getty Images Windows 11 is about to celebrate its fourth anniversary and runs on hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. When it debuted in 2021, the new version of Microsoft's flagship operating system was arguably an incremental change to Windows 10, with a fresh look and feel on top of core code that was practically identical to its predecessor. The more important change, it turned out, was a new set of hardware compatibility requirements that made many existing PC

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Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-07-29 17:37:39

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has quietly revealed that it will stop adding new features to Office apps (Microsoft 365) for Windows 10 users in August 2026. While security updates will remain in place for Office apps running on Windows 10 until October 2028, Microsoft will cut off new feature support gradually next year. Microsoft 365 Personal and Family users will stop getting new features on Wi

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Samsung Galaxy S26 series leak hints at an Edge future (again)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-30 01:27:05

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will reportedly gain a 200MP main camera and a 50MP tele camera. Samsung’s middle Galaxy S26 model apparently has a 50MP ultrawide camera, much like the Galaxy S25 Edge. This ultrawide camera potentially hints at the Galaxy S26 Plus being swapped out for an S26 Edge. We already know that Samsung is hard at work on the Galaxy S26 series, and we’ve seen a few leaks already. Now, a trusted outlet has revealed some more details

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Windows 10 KB5062554 update breaks emoji panel search feature

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-29 19:15:25

The search feature for the Windows 10 emoji panel is broken after installing the KB5062554 cumulative update released Tuesday, making it not possible to look up emojis by name or keyword. Windows includes an emoji panel that allows you to select emojis to insert into text or search for an emoji using keywords. On Tuesday, Microsoft released Windows updates to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities as part of the July 2025 Patch Tuesday. Since installing the Windows 10 KB5062554 update, numerou

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5 features I don’t care about when buying a new phone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 20:44:09

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When it comes to buying a new smartphone, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype. Manufacturers constantly push the latest and greatest features, leading many of us to buy more phone than we actually need. When I’m in the market for a new phone, I always try to narrow down my options as much as possible. I do that by making a list of not only the features I want in my next smartphone but also those I don’t care about. This approach helps me cut through th

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For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

wired.com Ben Brubaker 2025-07-29 17:00:00

That classic result was a way to transform any algorithm with a given time budget into a new algorithm with a slightly smaller space budget. Williams saw that a simulation based on squishy pebbles would make the new algorithm’s space usage much smaller—roughly equal to the square root of the original algorithm’s time budget. That new space-efficient algorithm would also be much slower, so the simulation was not likely to have practical applications. But from a theoretical point of view, it was n

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Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-29 07:07:29

In Brief Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post. According to the Post, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended two decades ago) as “mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation.” He also reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my

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Switch 2 user warns about accidental ban after playing preowned game cards

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-29 16:24:52

You might have to be extra careful who you buy your used Nintendo Switch game cards from if you don't want to get mistakenly banned. A Nintendo Switch 2 owner posted on Reddit that they got banned after downloading patches for a few Switch game cards that were bought off Facebook Marketplace. Reddit user dmanthey said they inserted each game into their Switch 2 to patch, but found out that their online services were restricted the day after. The Switch 2 user contacted Nintendo support and disc

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I use these 15 hidden Android shortcuts, and you should too

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 13:30:01

Joe Maring / Android Authority The number of hidden Android shortcuts is mind-boggling. Once you include core apps, there are hundreds, and not all are created equal. Some are niche and depend on how you use your phone. Personally, I’m never going to be much of a one-handed mode or split-screen user, but those features have their fans. My favorite hidden Android shortcuts have much broader appeal. Once you hear about them, you’ll be amazed that you were getting by without them. They’re listed

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This HDMI mod lets you play Nintendo Switch Lite on a big screen

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-29 18:46:25

If you can't get your hands on the latest Nintendo Switch 2, you might be able to keep the FOMO at bay in the meantime with a clever mod for your Switch Lite. Retro Remake's co-founder, Taki Udon, posted a video showing off a working version of the SUPER5 OLED Touch HDMI mod. As the lengthy name suggests, this third-party mod adds an OLED display, a glass touchscreen and HDMI output to the Switch Lite. The Nintendo Switch 2 is barely a month old so it's too early to expect any news on a Switch

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Hackers are exploiting critical RCE flaw in Wing FTP Server

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-29 16:13:24

Hackers have started to exploit a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Wing FTP Server just one day after technical details on the flaw became public. The observed attack ran multiple enumeration and reconnaissance commands followed by establishing persistence by creating new users. The exploited Wing FTP Server vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-47812 and received the highest severity score. It is a combination of a null byte and Lua code injection that allows remote a unauthenti

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Latest Tech News

You can try Linux without abandoning Windows through dual-booting - here's how

Show HN: Cogency – Cognitive Architecture for AI Agents

Google's Reverse Acquihire of Windsurf and the Future of AI Developer Tools

Don't Want to Upgrade to Windows 11? Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Security Updates

Form makes its smart swimming goggles tougher with Gorilla Glass lenses

The 2025 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge: Spurring Innovation for Edge and Mobile Devices

Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO in $2.4 billion licensing deal

How to buy the Switch 2: Nintendo's restock updates at Best Buy, Walmart and others

My wife and I share a car: this adapter fixed our issues connecting to Android Auto

Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

Best Buy is restocking the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 17

Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.”

Window Air Conditioners Get a Bad Rap -- but I Found One That Actually Works

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

This $12 USB-C accessory solved the biggest issue I had with my laptop's charger

Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability

Microsoft has a new trick to improve laptop battery life on Windows

Your complete Windows 11 upgrade guide: Everything to know - before you ditch Windows 10

Microsoft will halt new Office features for Windows 10 in 2026

Samsung Galaxy S26 series leak hints at an Edge future (again)

Windows 10 KB5062554 update breaks emoji panel search feature

5 features I don’t care about when buying a new phone

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

Switch 2 user warns about accidental ban after playing preowned game cards

I use these 15 hidden Android shortcuts, and you should too

This HDMI mod lets you play Nintendo Switch Lite on a big screen

Hackers are exploiting critical RCE flaw in Wing FTP Server

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