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ExpressVPN switches to multi-tiered pricing with more feature options

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-28 04:00:16

ExpressVPN has tripled its subscription options by switching to a tiered pricing structure, effective today. The new system includes three levels of service, the cheapest offering basic VPN service and the others adding extra features. Each one of those levels — Basic, Advanced and Pro — can be purchased for monthly, yearly or two-year durations. In total, you've now got nine different options for subscribing to ExpressVPN. The company also says legacy plans will remain active "for now," and cu

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007 First Light is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC on March 27

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:10:11

A PlayStation State of Play showcase all about 007 First Light shed some light on how Hitman developer IO Interactive's James Bond game works. The stream also disclosed what was, until now, a top-secret nugget of intel: the release date. 007 First Light is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, Steam and Epic Games Store on March 27. The State of Play included a partial playthrough of the first mission, which sees Bond stealthily tailing a suspicious bellhop through a fanc

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US offers $10 million bounty for info on Russian FSB hackers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:01:46

The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on three Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers involved in cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure organizations on behalf of the Russian government. The three individuals, Marat Valeryevich Tyukov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, are part of the FSB's Center 16 or Military Unit 71330, which is tracked as Berserk Bear, Blue Kraken, Crouching Yeti, Dragonfl

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Your Android phone just got 3 free upgrades - including a custom emoji creator

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-29 15:00:17

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A new Google update is adding several features to Android phones. A new AI writing tool for Gboard is on the way. An upgraded Emoji Keyboard will help you find the perfect emoji. Your Android phone is getting an upgrade, and it might have a big impact on how you communicate. Also: Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reaso

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Ditching Windows? How to decide between Linux and MacOS - in 7 simple steps

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-29 16:02:16

Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The choice between Linux and MacOS isn't hard. If you can answer these questions, you'll know which to choose. Both are outstanding choices and will serve you well. I use both Linux and MacOS. The former is used for everyday tasks, and the latter for video editing and mobile usage (please, someone, create a Linux laptop that is as reliable and similar to a MacBook). Also:

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You can finally scroll Instagram on your iPad - after 15 years

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-29 16:46:38

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Meta just announced a native app version of Instagram for iPadOS 15.1 and later. The app is free and available in the App Store now. It looks different than the mobile version, with some interesting ways to curate your feed. At long last, you can now scroll Instagram on your iPad. After years of requests by iPad users, it will be available in the App Store for iPadOS 15.1 and later starting Septem

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I tested ReMarkable's 7-inch E Ink tablet, and it solved a problem I didn't know I had

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-29 16:56:00

ReMarkable Paper Pro Move ZDNET's key takeaways The ReMarkable Move is available now for $449 bundled with the Marker, or $499 with the Marker Plus. It's a well-designed digital paper tablet with useful software integrations, and its unique size opens up its own set of use cases. It's expensive, and the small display poses challenges with certain content. View now at ReMarkable Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When ReMarkable released its Paper Pro digital paper tablet l

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Finally, an AirTag alternative that fits my wallet and works well with Android phones

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-29 16:58:21

LuLuLook AirCard Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The LuLuLook AirCard Pro is thin, lightweight, and fits seamlessly into wallets. The built-in rechargeable battery lasts for 4 to 5 months between top-ups. Handy slot cut to allow the finder to be attached to luggage. $24.69 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. My grandfather had a saying -- a place for everything, and everything in its place. It turns out that I'm not as tidy as he was, and I have a tendency to… misplace

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Another YC company was acquihired today by OpenAI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 15:38:48

I'm excited to announce that we're joining OpenAI’s Codex team! When we started out, Xcode had no AI. Building a "Cursor for Xcode" sounded crazy, but we managed to do it anyway. And, over time, we built the best coding agent for iOS & MacOS apps. I'm extremely proud of what we accomplished with Alex. Seeing people build software with our work was surreal. It is an honor to continue that work at a much bigger scale at OpenAI, along with the incredibly talented Codex team. Our mission is to hel

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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 14:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Tufte CSS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 15:41:57

Tufte CSS Dave Liepmann Tufte CSS provides tools to style web articles using the ideas demonstrated by Edward Tufte’s books and handouts. Tufte’s style is known for its simplicity, extensive use of sidenotes, tight integration of graphics with text, and carefully chosen typography. Tufte CSS was created by Dave Liepmann and is now an Edward Tufte project. The original idea was cribbed from Tufte-LaTeX and R Markdown’s Tufte Handout format. We give hearty thanks to all the people who have contr

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The first Gleam Conference – Gathering 2026

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:26:45

About the Gathering Welcome - you've found the information hub for the Gleam Gathering 2026. Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to register their interest in the Gathering. The feedback we got was insightful and honest, and we will listen to it as much as possible going forward with the event. And due to the volume of responses, we can confirm that GLEAM GATHERING 2026 IS A GO! We will be gathering on Saturday 21 February 2026 in Bristol, UK! We are truly honoured to announce our fi

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A Case Study in AI Overstatement: Builder.ai

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-29 16:00:35

Back in May, Builder.ai, once a high-flying startup touted as a path-clearing AI-powered app builder, filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., culminating a spectacular fall that has become a cautionary tale in today’s AI frenzy. The filing followed a flurry of activity that saw creditors seize its accounts, the revelation that it may have been using engineers in India instead of AI, and a probe into how Builder.ai’s founder spent money leading up to its collapse. The collapse has sparked anger among

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Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-29 16:30:43

Disney gets all the press, and Six Flags has all the dancing commercials, but Universal has always had a strong position in the theme park world. Starting with a simple tour of the Universal lot in Hollywood, the film studio evolved that into several parks across the globe, all of which showcase the big, popular film and TV shows created by the studio. Then, last year, that culminated with Universal opening its most advanced park yet, Epic Universe in Orlando. And while we’ve seen plenty of doc

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Waymo Is Expanding to Denver, Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 15:46:00

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Tuesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Denver in the fall "to lay the groundwork for a fully autonomous service in the future." The company is also gearing up to expand to Seattle. This comes after Waymo said in an Aug. 29 blog po

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Instagram App Finally Appears on iPads, After 15 Years of Neglecting Apple's Tablet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-29 16:15:55

After rumors earlier in 2025, iPad users finally saw the Instagram app arrive on their devices on Wednesday, appearing in the App Store after 15 years of avoiding the iPad. Since its original release, Instagram has never been available as a download for Apple's larger screen. While it's not certain why Instagram took so long to appear on the iPad, we've tested out the app and found it ready to download and fully functional. However, Instagram has made a few changes that indicate its latest prio

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Are you ready for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:19:38

Fans of the 28 Days Later franchise were thrilled to finally get a follow-up this year with 28 Years Later—and they weren't disappointed. Sony Pictures has already wrapped filming on a sequel: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, slated for release early next year and directed by Nia DaCosta. The first trailer just dropped and the film looks as grimly compelling as its predecessor, while hopefully also retaining something of the 2025 film's heart. (Spoilers for 28 Years Later below.) As previously

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-29 16:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

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How 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-29 16:00:47

Since 2021, Araraura has been a watchdog for the game Silksong. He posts daily clips on his YouTube channel, aptly named Daily Silksong News, for viewers seeking the latest on Team Cherry’s hotly anticipated Hollow Knight sequel. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much to report. A quick scroll of the channel’s thumbnails reveals that most feature a fat, red lettered “NO.” A few here and there offer “YES,” or “KINDA,” but the majority of videos play the same: a brief introduction, followed by, “

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-29 16:38:36

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, Co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPi

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-29 20:04:04

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when real-life users become more familiar with the tech — realizing that, at their core, products like ChatGPT are wo

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Not using a Pixel or Galaxy? The wait for stable Android 16 just got longer

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 10:42:27

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Thanks to Google’s preponed release timeline, Android 16 has been out for Pixels since June. Samsung also launched phones with stable One UI 8 in July. The company has confirmed that more Galaxy devices will receive the stable update this month. Meanwhile, other Android manufacturers, such as OPPO, Xiaomi,vivo, and OnePlus, are now expected to announce their Android 16-based updates by October, which is far behind Google and Samsung’s rollout. Google laun

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Android’s Quick Share upgrade is here to make file transfers more convenient

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:00:19

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR Google is widely rolling out its redesign of Quick Share. The redesigned UI introduces separate “Send” and “Receive” screens. Users can select files directly from the Send screen and preview them. Google’s Quick Share makes it easy to share files between devices wirelessly, whether that’s with another Android device, Windows PC, or Chromebook. Since April, we’ve been aware that Google was working on a major revamp to the UI. That redesign even started r

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Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen finally lets you save your sticker masterpieces

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:00:20

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard is getting new features with the September Pixel Drop. With this update, Google confirms the expansion of AI writing tools to non-Pixel devices. Additionally, Emoji Kitchen is getting a substantial upgrade with the ability to save creations. The September Pixel Drop has landed on the Pixel 6 as well as all newer phones, watches, and tablets in Google’s portfolio. In addition to its own hardware, Google is also introducing new features to select sys

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Your Pixel’s big Android 16 QPR1 update brings more than just Material 3 Expressive

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:00:26

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Google just announced the September 2025 Pixel Drop, bringing a fresh look and new features to the entire Pixel lineup with the Android 16 QPR1 update. While the announcement highlighted major changes like the revamped UI based on Google’s Material 3 Expressive design, it glossed over several other significant additions. For example, the update also introduces a preview of Google’s DeX-like desktop mode, Live Updates, and much more. Here’s a look at every new

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Your Pixel Watch is getting true hands-free Google Maps navigation

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:00:43

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel Watch will now auto-open Google Maps full screen when you start walking or biking directions on your phone. Until now, Maps only appeared as a small arrow notification on your Pixel Watch that required tapping to expand. The update is part of Google’s latest Pixel Drop, which is rolling out over the coming weeks. If you’ve ever started walking or cycling directions on your phone and squinted at a tiny arrow on your wrist, this one’s for you. Goo

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Earbud sharing begone: Pixel phones now have proper support for Auracast

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:00:59

Supplied by Google TL;DR Google has announced that Auracast is now available on recent Pixel phones. This lets you broadcast Bluetooth audio or tune into Bluetooth broadcasts from others. It also comes months after Google introduced Auracast support on Pixels, but only for compatible hearing aids. Google announced Auracast support for the Pixel 9 series earlier this year, but this was initially restricted to compatible hearing aids. Now, the company has announced full-fledged Auracast suppor

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Samsung Health levels up with virtual doctor visits, on-demand workouts, and more

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:14:47

TL;DR Samsung is collaborating with three partners to add new features to the Health app. These features include telehealth visits, enhanced prescription management, and expert-guided workouts. These features will start rolling out on September 8. It’s always nice when an app gets new features. That’s exactly what’s happening with the Samsung Health app soon. The update will introduce new features enabled by three new partnerships. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us a

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Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are coming to more Android phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-29 21:45:18

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard’s AI-powered Writing Tools feature, which debuted on the Pixel 10, is now rolling out to some non-Pixel devices. Powered by the on-device Gemini Nano model, the feature helps users proofread and rephrase text directly within the keyboard. Availability is tied to devices supporting the multimodal Gemini Nano, such as those with the latest high-end chipsets. Update 1, September 3, 2025 (2:45 PM ET): Google has confirmed that Gboard’s AI Writing T

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AirPods Max get an elegant solution to their biggest design flaw

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 21:09:30

My biggest complaint about AirPods Max over the years hasn’t been the steep price or which chip Apple put inside. It’s been the lack of wireless charging. Fortunately, an elegant solution to solve this problem has arrived. I use wireless charging for every other AirPods model, for my iPhone, and for my Apple Watch. AirPods Max lacking wireless charging all this time is disappointing. Fortunately, Mophie has introduced the Max Charging Stand, a $149.95 accessory designed specifically to give Ai

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Latest Tech News

ExpressVPN switches to multi-tiered pricing with more feature options

007 First Light is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC on March 27

US offers $10 million bounty for info on Russian FSB hackers

Your Android phone just got 3 free upgrades - including a custom emoji creator

Ditching Windows? How to decide between Linux and MacOS - in 7 simple steps

You can finally scroll Instagram on your iPad - after 15 years

I tested ReMarkable's 7-inch E Ink tablet, and it solved a problem I didn't know I had

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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1

Tufte CSS

The first Gleam Conference – Gathering 2026

A Case Study in AI Overstatement: Builder.ai

Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

Waymo Is Expanding to Denver, Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

Instagram App Finally Appears on iPads, After 15 Years of Neglecting Apple's Tablet

Are you ready for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer?

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

How 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

Not using a Pixel or Galaxy? The wait for stable Android 16 just got longer

Android’s Quick Share upgrade is here to make file transfers more convenient

Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen finally lets you save your sticker masterpieces

Your Pixel’s big Android 16 QPR1 update brings more than just Material 3 Expressive

Your Pixel Watch is getting true hands-free Google Maps navigation

Earbud sharing begone: Pixel phones now have proper support for Auracast

Samsung Health levels up with virtual doctor visits, on-demand workouts, and more

Gboard’s new AI Writing Tools are coming to more Android phones

AirPods Max get an elegant solution to their biggest design flaw

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