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The iPhone Air Is Sturdier Than It Looks. But Is It Klutz-Proof?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 15:27:30

Apple's thinnest ever phone, the iPhone Air, is here. I was excited to see Apple depart from its usual Plus model lineup for the iPhone 17 family, but I was more than a little nervous at the prospect of an ultrathin model. The device is only 5.6 mm thick, about the size of three stacked credit cards. But I have to ask: Did anyone really ask for a super-thin iPhone? Apple's iPhone Air engineering claims sound promising... Apple has loaded up the iPhone Air with better battery life and faster p

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How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-25 16:31:22

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension's ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140 hospitals and put the medical records of 5.6 million patients into the hands of the attackers. Lost in the focus on Microsoft was something as, or more, urgent: never-before-revealed details that now invite scrutiny of Ascension’s own security

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Meta’s $799 Ray-Ban Display is the company’s first big step from VR to AR

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-25 16:55:45

At last year's Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg focused less on the company's line of Quest VR headsets and more on the "Orion" prototype see-through augmented reality glasses, which he said could launch in some form or another "in the next few years." At the Meta Connect keynote Wednesday evening, though, Zuckerberg announced that the company's Meta Ray-Ban Display AR glasses would be available starting at $799 as soon as Sept. 30. To be sure, Meta's first commercial smartglasses with a built-in

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How to Trade In or Sell Your iPhone (2025)

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-09-25 16:00:00

Whether you’re in the market for the super-slim new iPhone Air or planning to go big with the iPhone 17 Pro Max, don’t just toss that old phone in a drawer when you upgrade. Sell your iPhone! That old hunk of glass is more valuable than you might think. A handful of services offer cash or store credit for used iPhones. We’ve compared some popular options for trading in an old device. Most of these services accept Samsung and Google devices, and all of them take iPhones. Updated September 2025:

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25 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-09-25 16:32:00

It’s common knowledge that a Prime membership gets you free two-day shipping. But there are Amazon Prime perks that make the service more worthwhile—and considering the cost of a yearly membership, you're doing yourself a disservice if you aren't taking advantage of all of them. Below, we've listed some of the perks you should be using as an Amazon Prime member. Arguably, these incentives alone aren't worth the cost of a membership, but chances are at least one of them will come in handy. Amazo

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Political Influencers Are Ramping Up Security—and Posting Through It

wired.com Makena Kelly 2025-09-25 16:40:58

As news broke that conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot at an event on a college campus last week, Hasan Piker’s Twitch chat was spiraling. Messages flooded onto the streamer’s channel. “Disavow quickly and vehemently for your own safety,” one chatter urged. “Pleeeeeeaaaase don’t do public debates anymore,” begged another. Piker, one of the most prominent progressive creators online, was set to face Kirk in a live debate at Dartmouth University on September 25. Now, still on air with new

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How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-09-25 16:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be prett

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You can turn off iOS 26’s obtrusive new screenshot previews

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-25 16:02:44

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. One of the many unpublicized changes introduced with the iOS 26 update released earlier this week is that screenshots now automatically open into a full-screen preview. The new approach provides immediate access to a handful of useful tools for editing a scre

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Building the future of Open AI with Thomas Wolf at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-25 16:00:00

AI is moving fast — but who decides how it’s built, shared, and scaled? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re diving in with Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, for a session on what it takes to make cutting-edge research and models truly open and accessible. Catch him on the AI Stage, along with thousands of other like-minded tech leaders and innovators. Why you can’t miss this session The future of AI won’t j

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From scrappy challenger to IPO: Chris Britt brings Chime’s playbook to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-25 16:30:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders to shape the future of tech. Few embody what it means to build with discipline in a tough market better than Chris Britt, co-founder and CEO of Chime. What began as a scrappy fintech challenger has grown into one of the rare companies to go public in today’s challenging environment. In his session, Building a Company that Lasts, Britt will share the lessons behind

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Nvidia buys $5 billion stake in Intel, planning AI chip collaboration

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-09-25 16:31:18

Nvidia has agreed to buy a $5 billion stake in Intel as part of a broader deal to together develop “multiple generations” of data center and PC products. Nvidia will acquire the Intel stock for $23.28 per share, a slight discount on the companies previous trading price. According to Reuters, the deal would make Nvidia one of Intel’s largest shareholders, owning about 4% of the company. Intel shares were up as much as 30% in early trading on Thursday morning. The companies will integrate their

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US House committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-25 16:45:18

The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit, and gaming platform Steam testify on October 8th about their platforms’ alleged involvement in any online “radicalization” and the “incitement to commit politically motivated acts,” according to letters sent from the House committee to the four tech CEOs. In a statement, Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, referenced the murder of Charlie Kirk and “other acts of politically motivated violenc

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Google and PayPal team up on agentic commerce

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-25 16:58:22

In Brief PayPal announced on Wednesday a new multi-year partnership with Google that will see the payments giant using Google’s AI technology to create new AI-powered shopping experiences. PayPal’s solutions, meanwhile, will be integrated across Google’s products, and PayPal will work with Google Cloud on hosting and improving its technology infrastructure. The companies did not detail what specific types of agentic shopping experiences they would work together to create, but said Google would

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Computing’s Top 30: Kelly Onu

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-25 20:00:50

In addition to her stellar work to ensure application and cloud security for clients across industries, Kelly Onu works to secure technology’s future by mentoring ambitious students and young professionals from all walks of life. Onu’s own experiences as a mentee helped her to sharpen her technical expertise, navigate challenges, and develop as a leader. Today, she pays those benefits forward through active involvement in organizations such as IEEE, Women in Security and Privacy, and the Inter

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Two teenagers charged over Transport for London cyber attack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-25 20:52:07

Two teenagers charged over Transport for London cyber attack Two teenagers have been charged as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into a cyber attack on Transport for London. TfL suffered a major hack on 31 August last year, which investigators believe was carried out by members of the cyber-criminal group, Scattered Spider. Thalha Jubair, 19, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall in the West Midlands, were arrested at their home addresses on Tuesday by the NC

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New Report Finds That China's Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 19:05:54

While the sitting US government strips NASA of its expert leadership and funding, it seems China is more than happy to take up the mantle. A new report from the Commercial Space Federation, a lobbying group fighting for the interests of the privatized space industry, found that China's space program is experiencing a meteoric rise, and will soon pose a significant challenge to the US' dominant position in space. Posed as a "risk assessment" of the pressure Chinese competition puts on "American

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Tim Cook attends Windsor Castle State Banquet as part of Trump’s visit to the UK

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-25 05:05:25

Apple CEO Tim Cook was among multiple high-profile guests at a state dinner at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, joining King Charles III and Donald Trump. Here are the details. Tonight’s 160+ guest list included tech and media moguls Tonight’s dinner guest list also included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Arm CEO Rene Haas, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, among other tech and media personalities, including Rupert Murdoch. As Bloomberg noted, Trump’s vi

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PSA: The Starbucks app is broken, but here’s how to use it anyway

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-25 20:09:36

A slew of people are reporting that the Starbucks app is completely broken. With too-perfect irony, the thing that is breaking it is an app satisfaction survey … Multiple users are reporting that the app forces you to complete the survey before you can use the app to do anything radical like, oh, I don’t know, ordering a cup of coffee. The problem is that even after you have completed the survey, it still doesn’t let you in: it just loops back to the survey. Twitter user Ike found a workaround

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Apple TV+ unveils cryptic new crime thriller from creator of The Blacklist

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-25 20:46:15

Apple TV+ has a huge fall lineup ahead, including the return of one of its best shows next week. Over the coming weeks, Apple TV+ has several brand new crime thriller series debuting, and one of them—The Last Frontier—just got its first trailer. The Last Frontier puts dozens of violent inmates on the loose, with Jason Clarke as lone U.S. marshal If you’re a fan of crime thrillers, Apple TV+ has a lot of new offerings coming soon, including Jessica Chastain’s The Savant next week, and Down Ceme

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PyPI invalidates tokens stolen in GhostAction supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-25 20:09:09

The Python Software Foundation team has invalidated all PyPI tokens stolen in the GhostAction supply chain attack in early September, confirming that the threat actors didn't abuse them to publish malware. These tokens are used to publish packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI), a software repository that acts as the default source for Python's package management tools and hosts hundreds of thousands of packages. As PyPI admin Mike Fiedler explained, a GitGuardian employee reported on Sept

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Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-25 20:50:04

Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. Currently, this change is being rolled out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels, who have upgraded to Notepad version 11.2508.28.0. The AI-powered text summarization, text rewriting, and text generation features introduced for Windows 11 users over the last year are normally available with Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, and Copilot Pro subscriptions. T

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The Nothing Ear 3 have a clever feature I wish my other earbuds had - and they're less than $180

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-09-25 19:30:00

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Nothing announces the Ear 3, the third generation of its flagship earbuds. A functioning microphone inside the charging case is the standout feature. The earbuds will be available to preorder for $179 on Sept. 18. Following the release of its capable flagship smartphone and nothing-short-of-interesting over-ear headphones, Nothing is releasing the next generation of its flagship earbuds, the Ear 3. Nothing introduce

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This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-25 20:19:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Watch timer boosts productivity but annoys partners. Silent mode mutes alerts while preserving wrist haptics. Haptics keep reminders private, and household peace intact. I love me some timers. One of the secrets to how I manage my day is that I set timers for everything. I set them for appointments, sure. But I also set them to remind me when to get started on a phase of work. I set them to r

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Why Apple's new iPhone Air looks so much like an Android (it's not all in your head)

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-25 20:42:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways The $999 iPhone Air It's ultimately for those who value form over features. Yes, it looks a lot like an Android, for one big (speculative) reason. Earlier this month, Apple launched its new smartphone lineup. The new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max hit the market just in time for the upcoming fall season, securing their spots on dozens of Christmas lists. But Apple -- often criticiz

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Best early Amazon Prime Day laptop deals 2025: My 30 favorites sales ahead of October

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-25 20:50:09

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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This new app lets you easily track power outages nearby - and it's free

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-25 20:52:27

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways The Ting app lets you track power outages at a hyper-local level. Anyone can use the free map, even those without a Ting device. Ting says 95% of US homes have a Ting sensor within a mile. If you want to know as soon as the power goes out in your city, there's a new free tool that lets you keep an eye on things. The Ting company, which makes a smart device that plugs into an outlet, monito

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Flipper Zero Geiger Counter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 20:28:59

Flipper Zero Geiger Counter 注意：所有模块均在第三方固件中测试，推荐使用: unleashed固件，链接：[https://github.com/DarkFlippers/unleashed-firmware] Momentum固件，链接：[https://github.com/Next-Flip/Momentum-Firmware] Compatible apps Geiger counter This app gives you a graph view with counts per second (instantaneous measure of the radioactivity) as CPS and per minute as CPM. There is extra functionality to record, zoom, change units, etc. (credits to nmrr) CPS: counts per second (instantaneous measure of the radioactivi

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CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 13:53:08

"Stop — Think — Click"... ...is the basic recommendation for securely browsing the Internet and for securely reading emails. Users who have followed this recommendation in the past were less likely to have their computer infected or their computing account compromised. However, still too many users click on malicious web-links, and put their computer and account at risk.

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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 20:06:03

The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work. When I was new to this emerging craft of AI-assisted coding, I was getting lousy results, despite the models being rather intelligent. Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context. Andrej Karpathy, while referencing my earlier article on this topic, described the work of AI-assisted engineering as “putting AI on a tight leash”. What does a tight le

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‘Him’ Is Filled With Great, Creepy Ideas, But Never Quite Brings It All Home

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-25 20:00:06

Usually, there are sports movies and there are horror movies, and the two don’t really cross over. In Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees wears a hockey mask, but he doesn’t take a slap shot. A killer might swing a baseball bat, but they aren’t stepping up to the plate. Him, the new film from Justin Tipping, is one of the first, and maybe biggest, films to ever blend horror and sports, which, just for that, is worth being excited about. The film uses the violence of football, as well as the hero wor

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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

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