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Electric Cooler vs. Ice Cooler: I Camped With Anker's Solix EverFrost 2 and an RTIC Ice Box to See Which Is Better

Keeping drinks and food cold while camping can be a challenge, especially in the summer. Though a portable power station hooked up to a minifridge can help, it's not the most power-efficient option compared with either an electric cooler or a traditional icebox. I set out to test a "regular" icebox-style cooler -- specifically, RTIC's icebox -- against Anker's new Solix EverFrost 2 to see how it would fare in real-world use against the best coolers on the market. To begin testing, I picked up tw

Why your website should be under 14kB in size

Why your website should be under 14kB in size Why your website should be under 14kB in size Having a smaller website makes it load faster — that's not surprising. What is surprising is that a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page — maybe 612ms faster — while the difference between a 15kB and a 16kB page is trivial. This is because of the TCP slow start algorithm. This article will cover what that is, how it works, and why you should care. But first we'll quickly go over some of the

‘Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse’ Is Delayed Again, but Only for a Bit

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has been delayed yet again, only this time, it’s less of a problem and more of a recalibration. The third and final film in the Oscar-winning animated trilogy was originally supposed to be out in early 2024 but was then delayed all the way to June 4, 2027. Now, Sony has tweaked that further and moved the film back three more weeks to June 25, 2027. The reason for this move isn’t because production needs more time, however. Apparently it has more to do with ju

Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L) returns to the stage after a pre-recorded interview during the Microsoft Build conference opening keynote in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Microsoft on Friday revised its practices to ensure that engineers in China no longer provide technical support to U.S. defense clients using the company's cloud services. The company implemented the changes in an effort to reduce national security and cybersecurity risks stemming from

We Finally Know How Much Martin Shkreli’s Wu-Tang Album Cost

The saga of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album that Martin “pharma bro” Shkreli bought for approximately $2 million in 2015, continues. The album’s contents have always been a highly guarded secret, and it was seized by the U.S. government in 2018 after Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud. For years, it was reported that the government had sold the album directly to PleaserDAO, a crypto collective that specializes in NFTs. However, Bloomberg now reports that

These Continuous Glucose Monitors Have Been Recalled Due to Faulty Speakers. What You Need to Do to Stay Safe

Dexcom customers, listen up: Certain continuous glucose monitoring receivers have been recalled due to speaker malfunctions, which can cause you to miss alerts or alarms for dangerous blood sugar levels. Since May 2025, there have been 112 complaints globally, with 56 reported injuries. Missing an alert from your continuous glucose monitor may result in health consequences like vomiting, seizures, loss of consciousness and hypoglycemic or hyperglycemic symptoms. Certain Dexcom G6, G7, One and

Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations

The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Salt Typhoon breached and remained undetected in a U.S. Army National Guard network for nine months in 2024, stealing network configuration files and administrator credentials that could be used to compromise other government networks. Salt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that is believed to be affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence agency. The hacking group has gained notoriety over the past tw

Exposed MCP servers across the internet

Knostic’s research team conducted a systematic study to locate exposed MCP servers on the internet. Leveraging Shodan and custom Python tools, we fingerprinted and mapped production MCP servers. All servers we discovered were insecure and revealed their capabilities to anyone asking. In this series of posts, we are sharing our findings, along with a guide detailing how we fingerprinted MCP servers. We identified a total of 1,862 MCP servers exposed to the internet. From this set, we manually v

Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign

In January, YouTuber Jon Prosser posted a video to his Front Page Tech channel that claimed to be “your very first look at iOS 19,” the operating system that Apple would announce as iOS 26 a few months later. Though Prosser claimed he “could not show the real video of what I saw” because he wanted to protect his source, the rest of the video showed a mock-up for a redesigned version of the Camera app, which ended up being a preview of the company-wide “Liquid Glass” redesign that Apple would sh

In the long run, GPL code becomes irrelevant (2015)

I wrote this in response to a comment thread on hackernews Defending GCC considered futile. There's been a megathread in the last week about whether Emacs should support LLVM, with Richard Stallman and now Eric Raymond joining the frey. Personally, I use a BSD license for all my code and contribute to BSD/Apache licensed software whenever I can. I do it because I think opensource will eventually eat the world anyway, and I think when it does a BSD/Apache implementation of any given piece of sof

Exposing the Unseen: Mapping MCP Servers Across the Internet

Knostic’s research team conducted a systematic study to locate exposed MCP servers on the internet. Leveraging Shodan and custom Python tools, we fingerprinted and mapped production MCP servers. All servers we discovered were insecure and revealed their capabilities to anyone asking. In this series of posts, we are sharing our findings, along with a guide detailing how we fingerprinted MCP servers. We identified a total of 1,862 MCP servers exposed to the internet. From this set, we manually v

The Pigeon River Is Perched, Which Is Geologically Bad News (2020)

A reader of the Nantahala Gorge post asked a very relevant question: Is there a stream capture in the Appalachians that is going to happen soon? While “soon” can be a very relative term in geology, there is most definitely a good answer to the question. At Canton, North Carolina, the headwaters of Hominy Creek, a French Broad River tributary, are VERY close to capturing the Pigeon River. In human terms, this is still probably a long way off, but it is most certainly geologically “imminent.” The

Some Cities in China Are Advertising Exclusive Subsidies for Huawei-Powered Cars

In some parts of China, local governments are offering cash subsidies to people who buy electric or plug-in hybrid cars powered by Huawei software. Experts say the deals are fairly unusual. Since May, at least 10 Chinese provincial and municipal governments have announced consumer subsidies ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 RMB (about $280 to $700) per car, according to social media posts collected by WIRED. The exact amount and conditions vary, but they all have one thing in common: The rebates can

Peacock is raising its prices by $3

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A subscription to Peacock is about to cost more. NBCUniversal announced on Thursday that it’s raising the price of its ad-supported Peacock Premium from $7.99 to $10.99 per month, while its ad-free Premium Plus plan will go from $13.99 per month to $16.99 per month, as reported earlier by Variety. For new customers, the price increase will go into

Assemble for the Classic Age of ‘Avengers’ Comics in This Retro-Tinged Marvel Preview

After bringing Alex Ross back to the realm of the Fantastic Four with the release of his graphic novel Full Circle a few years ago, Abrams is returning to the world of original Marvel Comics with a new tale, with a new creative team, and some very classic Avengers. io9 can give you a sneaky look inside Chip Kidd and Michael Cho teaming up for The Avengers in The Veracity Trap, the second entry in Abrams’ line of MarvelArts releases. Built around the classic early era of the Avengers—with a team

Twitch starts testing vertical video streams

Livestreaming service Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, announced at its annual TwitchCon event earlier this year that it would move into the vertical video space. Now those initial alpha tests have gone live with a few streamers, according to findings from market intelligence provider Appsensa. In a recent build, the firm found references to the vertical video tests and information about what sort of features these new streams would offer. The feature, once fully rolled out, would make Twitch

A Meteor Impact May Have Caused a Giant Landslide in the Grand Canyon

Researchers have long puzzled over the presence of driftwood and lake sediments in Stanton’s Cave in the eastern Grand Canyon, whose mouth sits 150 feet (45.7 meters) above the river. How could the material possibly have reached that height? According to Karl Karlstrom, a geologist from the University of New Mexico, it would have had to be carried by flood levels ten times bigger than any seen in the past several thousand years. An international team of researchers proposes a surprising chain o

A US-Only TikTok Could Be Coming. What We Know So Far About the Replacement App

A US-only version of the TikTok mobile app is being developed by the vertical video social media network's owner ByteDance. It will replace the current version of TikTok being used in the US ahead of a September deadline for the Chinese company to divest ownership, according to a report this week by The Information. The new app is codenamed "M2" and would launch on Sept. 5. Users in the US would be required to switch from the existing app to the new one, the report said, citing anonymous source

Best T-Mobile Plans: How to Choose and Which Ones to Pick in 2025

The T-Mobile Essentials Saver plan offers unlimited data usage and includes 50GB of "Premium" data, which is the fastest-capable 5G rate available in your area. After 50GB, speeds are reduced to 3G levels for the remainder of the month. However, that Premium may not always be so premium: T-Mobile notes in the fine print that "Essentials customers may notice speeds lower than other customers and further reduction if using >50GB/month, due to data prioritization." You can use your phone as a mobi

Here’s your first look at Google Translate’s Conversation mode redesign (APK teardown)

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is set to revamp the Google Translate app’s Conversation mode, featuring Gemini-based branding and smarter AI integration. Updates include clearer speaker identification, quick language-switch chips, inline translations, and visual tweaks across automatic and manual modes. Some settings, like toggling manual modes, are now hidden, reducing immediate accessibility. Google has been working on significant UI updates to the Translate app to better

Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations

Hi all, Over the last 6 months a major project has been underway by the Element server team and the Matrix.org Foundation security team to investigate “state resets”: scenarios where Matrix’s state resolution algorithm can give unexpected results. As part of this work we’ve identified two high severity protocol vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-49090; the other not yet allocated a CVE). Given the security implications of a federation protocol vulnerability, we’ve shared details under embargo over the

Linda Hamilton rocks Stranger Things’ S5 extended teaser

Netflix has finally released an extended teaser for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, airing late this year. It's got everything we could hope for in terms of the conclusive showdown—spooky shots of the Upside Down bleeding into Hawkins, attacking demo-dogs, flamethrowers—plus an armed and dangerous Linda Hamilton taking on the monsters beside our plucky Hawkins crew. (Spoilers for prior seasons below.) S4 ended with Vecna—the Big Bad behind it all—opening the gate that allowed th

The Big Beautiful Bill Is Bad for Americans’ Health and Wallets, Study Finds

The “Big Beautiful Bill” is now law, and it’s poised to wreak plenty of destruction. Research out today finds that the policy changes will lead to thousands more deaths annually, as well as harm the financial health of rural hospitals. Epidemiologists at the University of California, San Francisco, and elsewhere conducted the study. They found the Medicaid cuts caused by the Big Beautiful Bill will cause many avoidable hospitalizations and deaths, put dozens of rural hospitals at high risk of c

Show HN: An MCP server that gives LLMs temporal awareness and time calculation

"Passage of Time" Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server 🕐 An MCP server that gives language models temporal awareness and time calculation abilities. Teaching LLMs the significance of the passage of time through collaborative tool development. 📖 The Story This project emerged from a philosophical question: "Can AI perceive the passage of time?" What started as an exploration of machine consciousness became a practical solution to a real problem - LLMs can't reliably calculate time differences.

DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children

United States Senator Ron Wyden is pressing the United States departments of Homeland Security and Justice to explain how and why they are collecting DNA from immigrants, including children, on a massive scale. Wyden confronted the agencies with demands this week to explain the scope, legality, and oversight of the government’s DNA collection. In letters to DOJ and DHS, the Oregon Democrat also criticized what he described as a “chilling expansion” of a sprawling and opaque system, accusing Tru

Cloudflare says 1.1.1.1 outage not caused by attack or BGP hijack

To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal misconfiguration. The outage occurred on July 14 and impacted most users of the service all over the world, rendering internet services unavailable in many cases. “The root cause was an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack,” Cloudflare says in the announcement. T

Show HN: I gave Claude a sundial and it built a calendar

"Passage of Time" Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server 🕐 An MCP server that gives language models temporal awareness and time calculation abilities. Teaching LLMs the significance of the passage of time through collaborative tool development. 📖 The Story This project emerged from a philosophical question: "Can AI perceive the passage of time?" What started as an exploration of machine consciousness became a practical solution to a real problem - LLMs can't reliably calculate time differences.

‘Extremely Severe’ Obesity in American Kids Is Surging, Study Finds

Many Americans today are living with obesity, even with the advent of newer, more effective drugs like semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy). It’s a problem that seems to be getting especially serious in kids, however. Research out today finds that the percentage of children with “extremely severe” obesity has surged in the U.S. over the past decade and a half. Scientists at the University of California San Diego led the study, which examined nationally representative data o

CERN Physicists Find Key Piece of the Matter-Antimatter Puzzle

All matter in our universe has an evil twin: antimatter. Cosmological models suggest that the Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter that cancel each other out. But for reasons physicists still aren’t completely sure about, that didn’t happen. As a result, our universe today hosts slightly more matter than antimatter—our very existence being clear, physical proof. Now, we might be one step closer to explaining why there’s an imbalance between matter and antimatter,