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Amazon has cut the price of Sony's WH-1000XM6 wireless headphones to $378, down from their $459.99 list price, an $81.99 saving. The deal ties the lowest price the headphones have hit so far this year, ahead of the upcoming Prime Day sale.
A tutorial series by Feriel Choutri de Tarlé walks intermediate Haskell developers through building a todo-list app using Haskell, GTK 4 and the Adwaita library via the haskell-gi binding toolkit. The first installment shows how to set up a basic GTK Application object and connect its activate signal, with full source code available on GitHub under Floreal Technologies.
A CNET writer highlights smart home products discounted during Amazon's October Prime Day sale, including a Tapo two-pack smart plug with energy monitoring priced around $10-$15, and the Google Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen). The recommendations are based on the writer's own long-term testing of devices for cost savings, convenience and privacy features.
Amazon has cut the price of Sony's LinkBuds Clip open-ear earbuds to $158, down from their $228 list price, a 31% discount. The earbuds use a lightweight clip-style, open-ear design, offer about 8 hours of battery per charge plus 14 more from the case, and carry IPX4 splash resistance. They also support Sony's Sound Connect app, with EQ tools, DSEE upscaling, and 360 Reality Audio.
Several U.S. voters are turning to ChatGPT to research political candidates, verify claims, and organize voting information. Experts warn that AI may reinforce existing biases rather than provide impartial guidance. Users like Adam Johnson and Lakshmi Iyer utilize AI tools to inform their voting choices and create resources for others.
A lamp enthusiast shares a tour of his collection, featuring high-end vintage pieces like the Artemide Tolomeo Mini and the Tizio Micro, highlighting their design history and personal significance. He notes that these lamps are costly but valuable as collectibles, contrasting them with affordable modern alternatives from brands like IKEA.
A new implementation within Linux containers removes several powerful capabilities, including audit controls, suspend prevention, and file system access, by modifying capability sets in a concise codebase. These changes aim to restrict container privileges and enhance security.
In programming, integer operations require explicit checks for overflow or failure, with languages like C and Rust providing tools to handle such cases. Conversely, floating-point calculations based on IEEE-754 standards produce NaN or infinity upon errors, which propagate silently without crashing the program. This fundamental difference influences how developers approach error handling in each domain.
OpenAI is deploying text watermarking features for ChatGPT and Codex users within the European Union, starting with an opt-in option for API clients worldwide. The company also plans to provide access to detection tools for approved researchers and organizations to evaluate watermark effectiveness, without making the detector publicly available initially.
Qualcomm and Huawei have entered into a multiyear agreement that includes a cross-license covering 5G, AI, compute, and networking technologies. Additionally, Qualcomm will acquire a selection of Huawei's US patents related to these fields. The deal's financial terms and specific patent details remain undisclosed, and regulatory approval is pending.
The MusicBrainz Picard team has released version 3.0 of its open-source music tagging tool. The update migrates the application from Qt5 to Qt6, introduces a redesigned plugin system, adds customizable columns with scripting support, and improves cover art handling and ISRC submission.
Flexibits' Fantastical, a scheduling app that began on Apple platforms 15 years ago and later expanded to Windows, is now launching a native version for Googlebooks (Chromebooks) rather than for Android phones and tablets. The app retains its existing pricing structure, with a free tier and paid individual, family, and team plans starting at $4.75 a month.