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I tested the Apple Watch Ultra 3 to figure out who should upgrade - here's my advice

Apple Watch Ultra 3 ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's rugged smartwatch is now available to preorder. The watch gets an additional six hours of battery life for a total of 42 hours of wear. Sleeping with the smartwatch is difficult. View now at Apple Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If the new Apple Watch Series 11, Apple's baseline smartwatch, is the girl next door, then Apple's Ultra 3 is the Mt. Kilimanjaro-scaling, rugged neighbor. People might be using the Series 11 to

Show HN: A PSX/DOS style 3D game written in Rust with a custom software renderer

About A Scavenging Trip is a short and challenging simulation game were you are tasked with visiting an unknown planet, collect samples from its surface and leave in time. There are 3 missions with 3 difficulty levels each. A perfect speedrun through all difficulties should take around 10-15 minutes. A first playthrough might take 1-2 hours, especially because of the hardest difficulty. There is not a Save feature, as all missions are unlocked and there is not any kind of progression whatsoev

Coders End, from Typers to Thinkers

After 10 years in software development, wearing different hats, my approach to building changed in 2025. With AI, I’m finally developing the way I’ve long believed we should. From Typers to Thinkers I’ve genuinely come to believe the real value of my craft lies in architecture: how things are thought out, assembled, structured, and named. I have long considered that the technical part of a project was successful when the code was readable, maintainable, with the right abstractions in the righ

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Wait4X allows you to wait for a port or a service to enter the requested state

Wait4X Wait4X is a lightweight, zero-dependency tool to wait for services to be ready. Perfect for CI/CD, containers, and local development. 📑 Table of Contents Overview Wait4X helps you wait for services (databases, APIs, message queues, etc.) to be ready before your app or script continues. It's ideal for: CI/CD pipelines : Ensure dependencies are up before tests run : Ensure dependencies are up before tests run Containers & orchestration : Health check services before startup : Health c

Slow Social Media

Slow social media 16 Sep, 2025 People often assume that I hate social media. And they'd be forgiven for believing that, since I am overtly critical of current social media platforms and the effects they have on individuals and society; and deleted all of my social media accounts back in 2019. However, the underlying concept of social media is something I resonate with: Stay connected with the people you care about. It's just that the current form of social media is bastardised, and not socia

Apple releases iOS 15.8.5 security update for 10-year old iPhone 6s

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5 This document describes the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security releases page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible. For more information ab

Did a ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Songwriter Really Use ChatGPT to Write ‘Soda Pop’?

Netflix hit KPop Demon Hunters has stayed in the conversation in large part because of its blockbuster soundtrack, but now one of those songs has come under scrutiny for potentially getting an assist from ChatGPT. In a recent discussion in Seoul for OpenAI’s newly opened Korean office, songwriter Vince reportedly claimed he used the controversial technology to help pen the song “Soda Pop,” performed in the movie by the demonic Saja Boys. He is credited as one of several co-writers on the track,

Do You Really Need a New Apple Watch if You Already Have One?

Reviews for the Apple Watch SE 3, Series 11, and Ultra 3 came out today. I’m in the process of reviewing them. I only have two wrists, and there are three Apple Watches to review—so yeah. Besides, I need to collect more health data before I feel comfortable giving my definitive take. If you’re reading reviews and asking yourself whether or not you should get any of the new models when they become available this Friday, Sept. 19, maybe I can help you make a decision. As I said in my hands-on wit

StubHub to price IPO at $23.50, valuing company at $8.6 billion

The StubHub logo is seen at its headquarters in San Francisco. Online ticket platform StubHub is pricing its IPO at $23.50, CNBC's Leslie Picker confirmed on Tuesday. The pricing comes at the midpoint of the expected range that the company gave last week. At $23.50, the pricing gives StubHub a valuation of $8.6 billion. StubHub will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "STUB." The San Francisco-based company was co-founded by Eric Baker in 2000, and was acquired by eBay for $

CrowdStrike Infested With "Self-Replicating Worms"

A year after a glitch at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike triggered a global computer outage affecting millions of computers, the software vendor is being forced to contain a new threat: a swarm of self-replicating worms. As first reported by investigative cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, CrowdStrike once again became the launchpad for a potentially debilitating security hazard when some 25 code packages were compromised by a novel strand of malware. Dubbed "Shai-Hulud," the malicious so

9to5Mac Daily: September 16, 2025 – iOS 26 now available

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by iMazing: iMazing lets you back up, transfer, and manage your iPhone and iPad data like never before — including messages, photos, music, WhatsApp, voicemails, battery health, and more. No cloud required. Use code 9to5mac-20off to get 20% off, exclusively f

Best 5K monitor for MacBook in 2025 – A definitive buyer’s guide

9to5Mac is brought to you by BenQ. Check out the BenQ PD2730S 5K designer monitor If you are in the market for a new 5K monitor that is built to work with your Mac or even your iPad, then you know the struggle. In a world where everything seems to be moving and innovating at lightning speeds, finding a true 5K monitor that delivers Retina-level clarity, Mac-optimized color accuracy, and reliable connectivity is still surprisingly rare in 2025. Then, when you do find it, there always seems to be

Costco Recalls Prosecco That Could Shatter, Even Without Being Touched

If you recently purchased a bottle of prosecco at Costco, check the brand immediately. The massive warehouse-club retail chain has issued a recall for certain bottles of its Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene, reporting that the bottles could shatter without even being touched. Costco sent a letter to customers who bought the product between April 25 and Aug. 25 this year in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and W

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 17, #359

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one. Movie fans will have an advantage on one grouping. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site ow

A record supply load won’t reach the International Space Station as scheduled

A problem with the main engine on Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft will keep it from delivering 11,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station as scheduled on Wednesday. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, NASA said ground teams are evaluating backup plans that might still allow the Cygnus spacecraft to reach the space station, just not on schedule. The problem arose early Tuesday when the spacecraft's main engine shut down earlier than expected durin

Al Gore on China’s climate rise: ‘I would not have seen this coming’

Twenty-five years ago, Al Gore was in the final stretch of his U.S. presidential campaign, just weeks away from an election that would ultimately slip through his fingers despite winning the popular vote. His platform included ambitious climate action, with America positioned as the natural leader of a global environmental transition. The irony of what has transpired since is not lost on him. “Looking from the standpoint of 25 years ago, I have to say no, I would not have seen this as the most

HackEthix 2025: Training Kerala’s Next Generation of Cyber Defenders

The IEEE Student Branch of Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology (MCET) brought the tech community together with HackEthix 2025. The July 19, 2025, event at the MCET campus in Trivandrum was Kerala’s largest one-day cybersecurity workshop championed by the Computer Society Chapter Grant Initiative. It’s a crucial first step in training and equipping the next generation of cyber professionals. Cybersecurity already faces a talent shortage and skills gap. Global security job vacancies gr

Fiverr is laying off 250 employees to become an 'AI-first company'

Gig economy platform Fiverr is laying off 250 employees as it pivots to being an "AI-first company," CEO Micha Kaufman shared in an essay on X. The move affects around 30 percent of the company's staff, The Register writes, and it's not uncommon among tech companies in 2025. Duolingo announced similar plans to become "AI-first" in April. Kaufman describes this process as returning to "startup mode" and writes that his ultimate goal is to turn Fiverr into "an AI-first company that's leaner, fast

Micro-LEDs boost random number generation

Miniature LEDs called micro-LEDs have been shown to generate random numbers at gigabit-per-second speeds by a team of researchers from Saudi Arabia and the United States[1]. The generation of random numbers is vital for many tasks, including data security — where it is used to create encryption keys and passwords — and computer simulations of complex systems such as the weather and financial markets. There is, therefore, a strong demand to develop cost-effective random number generators that a

PA-RISC Performance and History

PA-RISC Performance and History PA-RISC was HP’s RISC computer design, incepted in the 1980s and developed in three generations from 32-bit to 64-bit until the 2000s, followed by Itanium VLIW. PA-RISC competed with other RISC platforms in the technical Unix workstation and server market and later became the top-performing RISC architecture, next to DEC Alpha. PA-RISC CPU History Periods Period Year Processors Competition Early PA-RISC PA-RISC 1.0 1986-1990 TS-1, NS-1, NS-2, PCX SPEC89 R2000,

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The "Most Hated" CSS Feature: Cos() and Sin()

No feature is truly “the worst” in CSS, right? After all, it’s all based on opinion and personal experience, but if we had to reach a consensus, checking the State of CSS 2025 results would be a good starting point. I did exactly that, jumped into the awards section, and there I found it: the “Most Hated Feature,” a title no CSS should have bear… This shocks me, if I’m being honest. Are really trigonometric functions really that hated? I know “hated” is not the same as saying something is “wors

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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

The UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel ruled on Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide in Gaza, in the most authoritative pronouncement to date. The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group. The finding echoes reports by Palestinian, Israeli and internatio

LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

Mix two internet touchstones together and what do you get? We’re going to find out. LimeWire, the peer-to-peer file-sharing network, announced that it won the rights to the Fyre Festival brand in an auction. The company indicated it has no plans to use the branding for a music festival, but rather bought up the name and likeness mostly for the memes. LimeWire said in a press release that it plans to “unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre — one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into r

Insta360 Go Ultra Review: This Tiny Action Camera Got Swacked by a Sword, and Survived

2025 My brother punched his rapier toward my head. The blade missed me by inches, but the clever duelist swiped down and chopped at my crown, sending the $450 action camera attached to my fencing mask spinning away. The magnetic pod for Insta360’s Go Ultra tumbled to the floor, the light still blinking red, still recording. His sword left a gash along the side of the lens and a scuff on plastic. The camera still works, so if you were wondering how durable the Go Ultra is, know that it passed th

Best Robot Vacuums We've Tested (September 2025)

Each robot vacuum we consider for recommendation gets put through its paces in our test lab in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to test floors where we run our controlled pickup tests, we monitor each robot vacuum in a special test room filled with mock furniture to gauge how well it navigates around common obstacles. Past that, we check each robot vacuum's ability to gobble up pet hair without getting clogged or leaving loose strands behind, we consider mopping capabilities, and we check to se

AI could boost UK economy by 10% in five years, says Microsoft boss

AI could boost UK economy by 10% in five years, says Microsoft boss 23 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Share Save Getty Images Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector – its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years. Its package forms a major part of a $31billion agreement made between the UK government and various other US tech giants, including Nvidia and Google, to invest in British-base

Microsoft, Nvidia other tech giants plan over $40 billion of new AI investments in UK

LONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, as the company builds out its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.'s "largest supercomputer," with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud comp

Trump's Biggest Fans Furious at His Embrace of AI

Partisan politics in the United States makes for a generally contentious atmosphere But these days, the mainstream rift isn't just between blue and red — even some of president Donald Trump's most diehard fanatics have become openly belligerent over the president's obsession with AI. Following the release this summer of president Trump's "AI Action Plan" — a sweeping blueprint outlining the white house's strategy to ramp up AI development while slashing regulation — a number of far-right stalwa

AT&T is launching a digital bouncer to block unwanted calls

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is testing out an agentic AI tool that can identify and filter out robocallers. The “digital receptionist” screens calls to determine if the caller is human, how urgent the call is, and whether it meets your customized criteria before passing the call to you. If the caller won’t identify themselves, it’s a wrong number, or the call doesn’t meet your criteria, the receptionist will either disconnect or take a message. Are you tired of being bothe