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Acer Predator Helios 16S AI Review: Great Performance, Annoying Crashes

wired.com Christopher Null 2025-11-19 17:30:00

Keeping up with the intricacies of Acer’s Predator Helios gaming laptop line isn’t easy. The long-running series (dating back to 2017) now commands 12 different models, distinguished by screen size, the inclusion of AI acceleration (models with an “AI” suffix), and general affordability (denoted by the “Neo” suffix)—in every possible combination. Today, I’m reviewing the Predator Helios 16S AI, which boasts high-end specs and performance—especially in graphics-intensive tasks—but manages to kee

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A brazen attack on air safety is underway — here’s what’s at stake

theverge.com Darryl Campbell 2025-11-19 17:00:00

At the end of July, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened a three-day public hearing to investigate January’s mid-air collision over Washington, DC that killed 67 people. After the hearing, two conclusions were inescapable. First, the disaster should have been prevented by existing safety rules. And second, the government regulators responsible for air safety have become hesitant to enforce those rules, especially when it means standing up to industry demands for more flights

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Apple @ Work: Apple won’t fix enterprise macOS backups, but Backblaze will

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-11-19 21:00:00

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Want free e-books? Today is your last day to claim hundreds for Kindle, Kobo, more

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-19 20:30:18

'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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A smart sensor assessed my home's risk of electrical fires, and I was impressed

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-19 21:00:18

'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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I brought Samsung's rugged Galaxy tablet on a hiking trip, and it weathered everything

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-11-19 21:00:23

Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro is available starting at $659 for the 128GB version, with 5G models starting at $769. It's an exceptionally rugged tablet with removable dual batteries and software updates for eight years. RAM is a bit limited at 6GB, and the included S Pen doesn't support wireless Bluetooth functions. View now at Samsung Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium bro

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Everything I know about good system design

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 17:38:46

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are new to the industry. Another is the Twitter-optimized “you’re a terrible engineer if you ever store booleans in a database” clever trick. Even good system design advice can be kind of bad. I love Designing Data-Intensive Applications, but I don’t think it’s particularly useful for most system design problems engineers will run into. Wha

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CNET Editors Tested High-Tech Camping Gear: Here Are Our Top Picks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 21:00:00

Why I like it: The Grayl GeoPress is among my best outdoor gear purchases. I feel confident drinking water from lakes, rivers and even the sketchiest of sources with this filtered water bottle -- and that's saying something, because I nearly bit the dust by acquiring three strains of E. Coli from contaminated water at one point (before I knew about Grayl). It efficiently removes waterborne pathogens, including 99.9999% of bacteria, viruses and protozoa, and filters particulates like silt, micro

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WIRED’s Guide to Buying a Used Plug-In Hybrid

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-11-19 21:00:00

With sales growth lagging, it’s a weird time in the electric vehicles market. It’s also, oddly enough, a good time to experiment with the plug. The Donald Trump administration put the kibosh on several US federal policies aimed at boosting the development, production, and purchase of new-energy vehicles. Still, $4,000 tax credits for used battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids are available for qualified vehicles and buyers (more on that later) until the end of September. If you want to tak

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Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-19 21:30:00

There's a new smartphone promising to protect your privacy: the Up Phone, from a company called Unplugged. Except it's not new. Unplugged has been around for a few years—the company was cofounded by Erik Prince, the founder of private military company Blackwater—and it originally announced the Up Phone in 2023. But this week, the company claims it's “relaunching” the phone, under new leadership. Like the original, the Up Phone's UnpluggedOS (formerly LibertOS) is built on the Android Open Sourc

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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 23:39:34

I’ve been experimenting with adding AI agents to UserJot, our feedback, roadmap, and changelog platform. Not the simple “one prompt, one response” stuff. Real agent systems where multiple specialized agents communicate, delegate tasks, and somehow don’t crash into each other. The goal was to analyze customer feedback at scale. Find patterns across hundreds of posts. Auto-generate changelog entries. Things that were basically impossible to do manually. I spent weeks reverse engineering tools lik

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IEEE Computer Society Announces Recipients of Inaugural Career Catalyst Scholarship

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-11-20 05:00:55

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 15 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS) is pleased to announce the first recipients of its inaugural Career Catalyst Scholarships. Evaluated by a set of criteria that includes academic performance; technical skills and experience; leadership and extracurriculars; statement of purpose; industry readiness and professionalism; and letters of recommendation, each candidate underwent a rigorous review by a panel of industry judges. Selected from a pool of over 105 applic

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OpenAI in talks to sell around $6 billion in stock at roughly $500 billion valuation

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-20 05:57:35

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on July 8, 2025. OpenAI is preparing to sell around $6 billion in stock as part of a secondary sale that would value the company at roughly $500 billion, CNBC confirmed Friday. The shares would be sold by current and former employees to investors including SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital, according to a person familia

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The Original History Behind the Mandalorians’ Wars Against the Jedi

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-20 06:39:21

The world of Mandalore has a long and complicated history in Star Wars, and perhaps even more complicated than the story of its peoples’ wars among themselves are their wars united against a common foe: the Galactic Republic, and the Jedi Order that served it. But outside of allusions and artwork, the story of what defined these conflicts has gone largely untouched in contemporary Star Wars continuity, as the focus returned to Mandalore’s restoration in the post-Imperial era. In the former canon

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Do yourself a favor and skip buying a Google Pixel right now - it'll be worth it

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-11-20 09:44:00

'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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OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 20:25:02

Here’s a little benchmark complements of Jann Horn. It’s unexpectedly slow on Linux. OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself, as the time utility is missing sufficient precision to even record nonzero. All it does is create one extra thread, then both existing threads create 256 sockets. What’s so hard about that? #include <pthread.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <err.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/socket.h> static void open_socket

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Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:38:05

Hey HN - We’re Bob and Ethan from Embedder ( https://embedder.dev ), a hardware-aware AI coding agent that can write firmware and test it on physical hardware. Here’s a demo in which we integrate a magnetometer for the Pebble 2 smartwatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOpAfeiFQkQ We were frustrated by the gap between coding agents and the realities of writing firmware. We'd ask Cursor to, say, write an I2C driver for a new sensor on an STM32, and it would confidently spit out code that used

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Feast Your Eyes on the Lavish Backdrops of ‘Ne Zha II’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-20 20:45:17

Ne Zha II has already carved out its place in animation history—this year alone, it shattered records to become the highest-grossing animated film as well as the eighth-highest-grossing film, full stop, of all time. Its reputation now precedes it as a global phenomenon, and with that momentum, A24 is set to debut the film’s English-language release—featuring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh and anime favorite Aleks Le—in theaters and IMAX on August 22. But before the premiere, we’re unveiling

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SpaceX Has Likely Skirted Federal Income Taxes for Decades, Investigation Reveals

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-20 21:25:29

Since its founding in 2002, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has emerged as the leading force in commercial spaceflight and a key launch provider for the U.S. government. A recent investigation suggests its dominance may stem—at least in part—from two decades of federal tax avoidance. Internal company documents reviewed exclusively by The New York Times show that SpaceX can exploit net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards, a U.S. tax provision that lets companies use past losses to offset future taxable income

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Samsung offers $250 discount on its latest Galaxy S25 model - multiple retailers included

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-11-21 02:20:00

'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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Feast Your Eyes on the Lavish Backdrops of ‘Ne Zha 2’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-21 02:45:17

Ne Zha 2 has already carved out its place in animation history—this year alone, it shattered records to become the highest-grossing animated film as well as the eighth-highest-grossing film, full stop, of all time. Its reputation now precedes it as a global phenomenon, and with that momentum, A24 is set to debut the film’s English-language release—featuring Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh and anime favorite Aleks Le—in theaters and IMAX on August 22. But before the premiere, we’re unveiling e

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Louisiana sues Roblox for creating an environment where ‘child predators thrive’

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-21 02:38:16

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The state of Louisiana has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, alleging that the company has “permitted and perpetuated an online environment in which child predators thrive, directly contributing to the widespread victimization of minor children in Louisiana.” Roblox sees more than 111.8 mil

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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 06:27:18

HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame James Kettle Director of Research @albinowax Published: 06 August 2025 at 22:20 UTC Updated: 12 August 2025 at 09:50 UTC Abstract Upstream HTTP/1.1 is inherently insecure and regularly exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover. Six years of attempted mitigations have hidden the issue, but failed to fix it. This paper introduces several novel classes of HTTP desync attack capable of mass compromise of user credentials. These techniques are demo

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Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude Code for Embedded Software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 06:38:05

Hey HN - We’re Bob and Ethan from Embedder ( https://embedder.dev ), a hardware-aware AI coding agent that can write firmware and test it on physical hardware. Here’s a demo in which we integrate a magnetometer for the Pebble 2 smartwatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOpAfeiFQkQ We were frustrated by the gap between coding agents and the realities of writing firmware. We'd ask Cursor to, say, write an I2C driver for a new sensor on an STM32, and it would confidently spit out code that used

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Trump admin ranks companies on loyalty while handing out favors to Big Tech

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-21 06:12:24

The Trump administration has ended potential enforcement actions against dozens of tech firms and 165 corporations overall, delivering on promises to end the alleged "weaponization" of the federal government, a report by nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said. "In six months, the Trump administration has already withdrawn or halted enforcement actions against 165 corporations of all types—and one in four of the corporations benefiting from halted or dropped enforcement is from th

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Why I keep 4 pairs of headphones with me at all times (and the unique role each one plays)

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-21 10:14:42

'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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Stop and clean your earbuds or headphones ASAP - here's why audio experts encourage it

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-21 11:31:00

'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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Open-Sourced AI Models May Be More Costly in the Long Run, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-21 11:00:24

As more businesses adopt AI, picking which model to go with is a major decision. While open-sourced models may seem cheaper initially, a new study warns that those savings can evaporate fast, due to the extra computing power they require. In fact, open-source AI models burn through significantly more computing resources than their closed-source rivals when performing the same tasks, according to a study published Thursday by Nous Research. The researchers tested dozens of AI models, including

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Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 16:39:12

JavaScript is not available. We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using x.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our Help Center. Help Center

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-21 16:35:30

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

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