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The best Xbox controller to buy right now

theverge.com Quentyn Kennemer 2026-01-06 03:28:34

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ago. If you play games on an Xbox Series X or Series S (or a Windows PC), you have the unenviable task of choosing between several high-quality controllers from Microsoft as well as a plethora of great options from the likes of 8BitDo, PowerA, Razer, Scuf, Nacon, and Turtle Beach. Some of them have drift-proof Hall effe

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge rumor teases the best of both worlds

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 08:20:04

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The next Galaxy Edge phone is rumored to be even thinner than its predecessor. The rumor also suggests that the device may have a larger battery. To achieve this feat, Samsung may use “new battery material technology.” The Galaxy S25 Edge stands out from the rest of the Galaxy S25 line due to its slim and light design. However, to achieve this slender frame, Samsung had to make a number of sacrifices, which may have played a hand in its poor sales number

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US nuclear weapons agency reportedly hacked in SharePoint attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-06 08:14:25

Unknown threat actors have reportedly breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a stateme

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NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-06 08:57:06

The popular NPM package 'is' has been compromised in a supply chain attack that injected backdoor malware, giving attackers full access to compromised devices. This occurred after maintainer accounts were hijacked via phishing, followed by unauthorized owner changes that went unnoticed for several hours, potentially compromising many developers who downloaded the new releases. The 'is' package is a lightweight JavaScript utility library that provides a wide variety of type checking and value v

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-01-06 17:41:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underut

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Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 17:23:49

Easy to use open source fast database for search Manticore Search is an easy-to-use, open-source, and fast database designed for search. It is a great alternative to Elasticsearch. Introduction ❗Read recent blog post about Manticore vs Elasticsearch❗ What distinguishes it from other solutions is: It's very fast and therefore more cost-efficient than alternatives, for example Manticore is: 182x faster than MySQL for small data (reproducible❗) 29x faster than Elasticsearch for log analytics (

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I found a video doorbell that records in 2K - and it comes with zero monthly fees

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-07 05:00:16

Lorex 2K Wi-Fi video doorbell ZDNET's key takeaways The Lorex 2K Wi-Fi video doorbell is available for $189. The doorbell comes in wired and wireless installations, communicates reliably, and includes a preinstalled 32GB microSD card for local storage to bypass subscription fees. Although it has a 2K resolution, the image is so wide angle that objects look distorted. $149.99 at Amazon Video doorbells are among the best ways to start your smart home journey. They are easy to use and often easy

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I Played ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ on Mac and It Feels Perilously Close to PC Gaming

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-01-07 09:30:24

Cyberpunk 2077 strode like a solo cyberninja onto MacBooks with the kind of swaggering bravado you’d expect from a chromed-up Night City merc. Knowing you can run CD Projekt Red’s graphically intense game, even if not at the peak ultra settings, is a mark of how well the device plays AAA titles. In case you missed it, Cyberpunk is now on Mac, and I’ve tested it on a plethora of Apple’s M-series laptops from the last few years. The good news is it’s playable, but for many Apple fans, this will be

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Google Photos could soon get a surprising third-party integration (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-07 08:22:26

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Photos is testing a CapCut button to help users edit Memories in the ByteDance-owned app. We spotted and were able to surface the button while conducting an APK teardown of the Google Photos Android app. The button only appears for Memories made up of photos and does not show up for a video-only memory. In a rather surprising move, Google seems to be quietly testing a new third-party integration in its Photos app, the likes of which we’ve neve

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Wild Video Shows Robot Changing Its Own Battery

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-07 06:10:13

What do they even need us for anymore? Self Swap As we continue on our path towards a potential future filled with tireless humanoid robots staffing factory floors, companies are looking to solve a major pain point of the tech: a limited battery life. Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs — a "world's first," seemingly — which means the 95-pound automaton could technically work 24 hours a day, an integra

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New UK law would ban ransomware payments by publicly funded orgs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-07 22:08:51

The British government has announced plans to move forward with a law that would bar public organizations from paying off ransomware attackers. The proposed legislation would add schools, town councils, National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and critical infrastructure managers to a ban which already applies to the national government. The logic behind banning payments is simple. If cybercriminals know a ransomware attack against a UK school or hospital won't get them paid, they'll look somewh

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Windows 11 KB5062660 update brings new 'Windows Resilience' features

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-08 03:36:24

Microsoft has released the KB5062660 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 with twenty-nine new features or changes, with many gradually rolling out, such as the new Black Screen of Death and Quick Machine Recovery tool. The KB5062660 update is part of the company's optional non-security preview updates schedule, which releases updates at the end of each month to test new fixes and features coming to next month's August Patch Tuesday. Unlike regular Patch Tuesday cumulative updates,

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Fun with gzip bombs and email clients

news.ycombinator.com Mike Cardwell 2026-01-08 00:58:23

Gzip/Zip bombs have been a thing for decades. Lets create a 10MB gzip file which decompresses to 10GB: dd if =/dev/zero bs =1G count =10 | gzip > 10gb.gz This is called a Gzip bomb, because when it is decompressed, it blows up to a much larger size (~1000 larger). Add it your website document root and configure Nginx to serve it up as an image, with gzip Content-Encoding: location /10gb.png { default_type image/png; add_header Content-Encoding gzip; try_files /10gb.gz = 404 ; } An HTTP clien

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Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-08 03:57:48

Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers. Miian Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year. Bloomberg first wrote about these spyware notifications. Miaan Group published a report on Tuesday on the state of

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Apple TV+ teases new show coming soon from Breaking Bad creator

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-08 08:36:16

Three years ago, Apple struck a deal with Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, for a new show at Apple TV+. Now, the company is teasing its unveiling with a live countdown timer. New Apple TV+ series reunites Better Call Saul creator and star Today Apple TV’s X account posted a cryptic teaser that read: “Happiness is Contagious.” The new show in question is Vince Gilligan’s next project, starring Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul. Very little is known about the new

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TODOs aren't for doing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 00:43:16

July 21, 2025 Some teams require that every TODO comment in a codebase gets logged in the bug tracker. Others automatically delete any “stale” TODO that has been in the codebase for over a year. Don’t do it! TODO comments don’t need to get done in order to be valuable. If you have // TODO: Write the second half of this file so next week's launch won't explode then sure, you should probably track that somewhere. But to me, a good TODO looks more like this: // TODO: If the user triple-clicks

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Disney World Is Shutting Down One Part of Its ‘Star Wars’ Experience

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-08 08:00:38

Another Walt Disney World attraction will be making way for something new at Hollywood Studios. Star Wars Launch Bay will be closing down for good and will be replaced by The Magic of Disney Animation. The Disney Parks Blog news follows the final days of Muppet*Vision 3-D and the courtyard closure to begin construction for the new Monsters Inc. Monstropolis area and attraction. The Launch Bay area has been overdue for some sprucing, and really, once Galaxy’s Edge opened, its days were clearly n

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CISA and FBI warn of escalating Interlock ransomware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-08 17:36:42

CISA and the FBI warned on Tuesday of increased Interlock ransomware activity targeting businesses and critical infrastructure organizations in double extortion attacks. Today's advisory was jointly authored with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and it provides network defenders with indicators of compromise (IOCs) collected during investigations of incidents as recent as June 2025, along with mitigation meas

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Fantastic Four: First Steps’ greatest superpower is its gorgeous visuals

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-01-08 17:15:00

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, you could see flashes of the studio’s plan to further expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After years of Marvel Studios building up the Avengers, the Fox deal put the company in a position to start telling stories about the characters who ushered in the modern superhero movie frenzy, li

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Finally, a smart ring I don't have to charge every night (and no subscription)

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-08 22:21:47

ZDNET's key takeaways The RingConn Gen 2 is a subscription-free smart ring that monitors sleep, exercise, and stress. It monitors your sleep, activity, stress, and vitals, and it's got a marathon battery life. The only downside is the user interface feels underdeveloped. View now at Amazon View now at Ringconn more buying choices Most smart rings these days claim to offer marathon battery lives, but often fall short of their promise. Many smart rings claim to last a week's worth of battery, b

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Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 16:31:24

I’ve long thought that the Word of the Day was a wasted genre. The goal should be to give you words you can use; to enrich your understanding of words you already know; or at least to use words to tell you something neat about the world. Instead, what you usually get is words that will never be used in conversation, held up as curios. Some examples from Dictionary.com’s daily email: thewless, balladmonger, vagility, contextomy. These words are... not useful. I’ve always thought I could do bett

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Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ branded products

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-08 22:46:15

The Florida GOP isn’t the only one profiting from the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” by selling merchandise. A subset of Etsy buyers and sellers began a boycott of the online marketplace this month over its decision to allow “Alligator Alcatraz”-branded merchandise on its site. Today, this sort of merchandise — including T-shirts, hats, mugs, stickers, patches, and other items — can be found across e-commerce platforms beyond Etsy, ranging from large retailers like Amazon to onl

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Reverse Proxy Deep Dive: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks

news.ycombinator.com Mitendra Mahto 2026-01-09 02:47:33

In Part 1 of this series, we explored a high-level overview of reverse proxies and dived deep into connection management. This post shifts our focus to the intricate world of HTTP handling within a reverse proxy. Deep Dive into HTTP Handling At a high level, the HTTP workflow from a proxy’s perspective might seem straightforward: Receive the request from the client Parse and sanitize the request Uses different requst metadata (path, headers, cookies) to select an upstream host Manipulates the

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TODOs Aren't for Doing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 00:43:16

July 21, 2025 Some teams require that every TODO comment in a codebase gets logged in the bug tracker. Others automatically delete any “stale” TODO that has been in the codebase for over a year. Don’t do it! TODO comments don’t need to get done in order to be valuable. If you have // TODO: Write the second half of this file so next week's launch won't explode then sure, you should probably track that somewhere. But to me, a good TODO looks more like this: // TODO: If the user triple-clicks

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Report: Apple alerted Iranians to spyware attacks in lead-up to war with Israel

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-09 08:24:44

You may have never heard of them, but Apple sends “threat notifications” to users when it believes they’re being targeted by cyber attacks. Earlier this year that happened with several Iranians in the lead-up to the Iran-Israel war, per a new Bloomberg report. Here are the details. Apple threat notifications were sent to over a dozen Iranian cyberattack victims Patrick Howell O’Neill writes at Bloomberg: More than a dozen Iranians’ mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior

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MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles

news.ycombinator.com Maryam Motallebighomi 2026-01-05 15:08:40

The bicycle industry is increasingly adopting wireless gear-shifting technology for its advantages in performance and design. In this paper, we explore the security of these systems, focusing on Shimano's Di2 technology, a market leader in the space. Through a blackbox analysis of Shimano's proprietary wireless protocol, we uncovered the following critical vulnerabilities: (1) A lack of mechanisms to prevent replay attacks that allows an attacker to capture and retransmit gear shifting commands;

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Five things you need to know about AI right now

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2026-01-10 02:50:27

3. AI is power hungry and getting hungrier. You’ve probably heard that AI is power hungry. But a lot of that reputation comes from the amount of electricity it takes to train these giant models, though giant models only get trained every so often. What’s changed is that these models are now being used by hundreds of millions of people every day. And while using a model takes far less energy than training one, the energy costs ramp up massively with those kinds of user numbers. ChatGPT, fo

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Fiberglass-Free, Chemical-Free: Natural Fire Barriers for Mattresses

wired.com Julia Forbes 2026-01-10 04:41:00

What do mattresses and a box of matches have in common? It's not just that they’re both rectangular—both can can be very flammable if you're not careful. Mattresses have historically posed a significant fire hazard, and they still can without careful attention to the materials used. In the US, an estimated 20,800 residential fires occurred due to mattresses and bedding igniting from flame exposure between 1996 and 1998, according to FEMA. At that time, fires involving mattresses and bedding wer

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LetsEncrypt – Complete Outage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 06:29:28

Support for Let's Encrypt services is community-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community.letsencrypt.org

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Need a power bank? Here are two awesome Anker deals for different types of users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-10 12:30:59

Dave Carr Finding the right power bank can be challenging, with so many options in the current market. Anker is among the most recognized battery pack brands, and today we found a couple of deals on some of its hottest options. They are made with different users in mind, though. Keep reading to find out which is best for your needs. Buy the Anker Laptop Power Bank for $94.49 ($40.50 off) Buy the Anker 548 Power Bank for $87.99 ($62 off) These offers are available from Amazon. The deals apply t

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The best Xbox controller to buy right now

Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge rumor teases the best of both worlds

US nuclear weapons agency reportedly hacked in SharePoint attacks

NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware

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I found a video doorbell that records in 2K - and it comes with zero monthly fees

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Fun with gzip bombs and email clients

Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

Apple TV+ teases new show coming soon from Breaking Bad creator

TODOs aren't for doing

Disney World Is Shutting Down One Part of Its ‘Star Wars’ Experience

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Etsy faces user boycott over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ branded products

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Five things you need to know about AI right now

Fiberglass-Free, Chemical-Free: Natural Fire Barriers for Mattresses

LetsEncrypt – Complete Outage

Need a power bank? Here are two awesome Anker deals for different types of users

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