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The First Xbox Handheld Could Be Coming Sooner Than You Think

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-05 16:57:51

Microsoft may be ready to announce an official release date for its long-awaited Xbox handheld (or at least, the one that’s not actually being made by Xbox). The most recent reliable leaks suggest the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X will hit the scene in October, with Microsoft planning to share pricing and preorder info later this month. The end of the year is shaping up to be open season for handheld PCs, though I’m still biting my bottom lip to get used to the sting of what may be very expensiv

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Royal and BlackSuit ransomware gangs hit over 450 US companies

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 03:36:34

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the cybercrime gang behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware operations had breached hundreds of U.S. companies before being taken down last month. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), DHS's main investigative arm, which took down the group's infrastructure in cooperation with international law enforcement partners, added that the cybercriminals also collected over $370 million from their victims. "Since 2022, the Royal and BlackSuit rans

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Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 05:59:19

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play Store (with over 952,000 reviews with an average of 4.9/5 rating) and received nearly 136,000 ratings on Apple's App St

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Microsoft 365 apps to soon block file access via FPRPC by default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 06:52:47

Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft 365 apps for Windows will start blocking access to files via the insecure FPRPC legacy authentication protocol by default starting late August. These changes apply only to Microsoft 365 apps for Windows and will not affect Microsoft Teams users across Windows, Mac, web, iOS, or Android. "Microsoft 365 apps will block insecure file open protocols like FPRPC by default starting version 2508, with new Trust Center settings to manage these protocols," the

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Microsoft rolls out GPT-5 across its Copilot suite - here's where you'll find it

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-06 08:51:00

Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft is rolling out GPT-5 to all its AI offerings, Thursday. The Copilot chatbot will provide GPT-5, even to free users. GPT-5 will also be available to coding and enterprise tools. OpenAI released its much-anticipated upgrade to the engine that powers ChatGPT and many other AI implementations, including Microsoft's AI offerings, on Thursday. Concurrent with the GPT-5 release, Microsoft announced that it is upgrading its consu

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Five iOS 26 features I already can't live without - and how to access them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-06 09:00:21

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: The best MagSa

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Microsoft rolls out GPT-5 across its Copilot suite - here's what we know

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-06 09:01:02

Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft is rolling out GPT-5 to all its AI offerings, Thursday. The Copilot chatbot will provide GPT-5, even to free users. GPT-5 will also be available to coding and enterprise tools. OpenAI released its much-anticipated upgrade to the engine that powers ChatGPT and many other AI implementations, including Microsoft's AI offerings, Thursday. Concurrent with the GPT-5 release, Microsoft announced that it is upgrading i

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, Aug. 8

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-06 09:24:00

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's Mini Crossword might make you hungry. I think I need to put a summer barbecue on my calendar now. The puzzle wasn't terribly tough, but I did mess up on 8-Across for a while, which took me some time to sort out. It was kind of fun that the first three across clue

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Block shares pop on full-year guidance boost

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-06 16:44:20

Block shares jumped 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year. Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG. Earnings per share: 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected Revenue: $6.05 billion vs. $6.31 billion expected Revenue fell close to 2% from $6.16 billion a year earlier. Block said gross profit rose 14% from a year earlier to $2.54 billion, beating analyst

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Wear OS users are starting to see a new kind of Google Wallet pass on their wrists

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-06 16:27:25

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority TL;DR Some Wear OS watches are starting to show Google Wallet photo passes with patterns like QR codes or barcodes. Standard photo-only passes still don’t appear, based on our testing. This may be an early test of limited support for scannable custom passes on smartwatches. You’ve been able to add photo-based passes to Google Wallet on your phone for a while now, but none of these types of passes appeared on Wear OS smartwatches when you open the app. Howe

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Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 18:32:10

Spatio-temporal indexing the BlueSky firehose Joel Gustafson / Posts / 2025-08-07 I recently added a "spatial feed" to Aurora, my map of Bluesky. Now, in addition to seeing community clusters laid out on a giant map, you can also see a real-time of posts from just the accounts currently in view. This works smoothly at all scales — you can see the most recent posts from the entire network when zoomed all the way out, and local posts from any neighborhood when zoomed in. How does this work? Th

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Block shares pop 11% on full-year guidance boost

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-07 02:47:02

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., listens during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on Friday, June 4, 2021. Block shares jumped in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year. Here is how the company did, compared to analysts' consensus estimates from LSEG. Earnings per share: 62 cents adjusted vs. 69 cents expected Block doesn't report a revenue figure, but said gross profit rose 1

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Omada Health beats on revenue in first earnings report since IPO

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-12-07 02:53:29

Omada Health reported quarterly results for the first time since its IPO in June. Here's how the company did based on average analysts' estimates compiled by LSEG: Loss: Loss per share of 24 cents. Loss per share of 24 cents. Revenue: $61 million vs. $55.2 million expected The virtual care company's revenue increased 49% in its second quarter from $41.21 million a year earlier. The company reported a net loss of $5.31 million, or a 24-cent loss per share, compared to a net loss of $10.69 mil

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CISA orders fed agencies to patch new Exchange flaw by Monday

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-07 02:14:16

CISA has issued an emergency directive ordering all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to mitigate a critical Microsoft Exchange hybrid vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-53786 by Monday morning at 9:00 AM ET. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies are non-military agencies within the US executive branch, including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Treasury, Department of Energy, and Department of Health and Human Services. The flaw tracked as CVE-

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The 35 Best Movies on HBO Max Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-12-07 06:00:00

As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, HBO Max—is best known for its impressive lineup of original series. The network has also been upping the ante with feature-length content that is the stuff of Oscar dreams. Below is a list of some of our favorite films streaming on HBO Max—from Oscar-winning epics to dystopian sci-fi classics. If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our picks for the best shows on HBO Max. If you’re loo

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Turn your Mac into a local ChatGPT with OpenAI’s new free model

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-06 09:20:46

This week, OpenAI released its long-awaited open weight model called gpt-oss. Part of the appeal of gpt-oss is that you can run it locally on your own hardware, including Macs with Apple silicon. Here’s how to get started and what to expect. Models and Macs First, gpt-oss comes in two flavors: gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b. The former is described as a medium open weight model, while the latter is considered a heavy open weight model. The medium model is what Apple silicon Macs with enough res

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iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-07 11:12:43

Apple Maps has some compelling new features in iOS 26, but it seems there’s even more coming, as the beta now supports a powerful new feature that Apple never announced: natural language search with Apple Intelligence. Apple Maps gains AI-powered natural language search in iOS 26 Early last month, iOS 26 beta code revealed that Apple was working on adding natural language search to Maps. However, code leaks regularly expose features in development that may not ever ship. In this case though,

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macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 2 rolling out, here’s how to install it

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-07 11:26:11

Following a distribution hiccup, Apple is now rolling out macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 2. Here’s how to install it, and what to expect. First things first: should you install the beta? You probably know the drill: Betas can be unpredictably buggy. Even if something works on one release, it is not guaranteed to work on the next. Just this week, developer beta 5 broke compatibility with the timer app I use on the menu bar, while it had been working just fine in previous betas. I’ve also been facin

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The Disturbing AI Interview That Has Everyone Fuming

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-07 11:40:09

It was billed as a “one-of-a-kind interview,” but it may be remembered as a new low for journalism. Jim Acosta, the former CNN anchor turned Substack host, has ignited a firestorm of controversy by conducting what may be one of the most unsettling interviews of the AI era: a televised conversation with an AI-generated version of Joaquin Oliver, the 17-year-old who was killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The interview aired at the reques

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iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta 2 now available

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-07 16:22:05

Apple kicked off the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta just in the nick of time last month. The company met its self-imposed July deadline after shipping four developer betas instead of the usual three. With Apple’s redesign direction back on track, we’re now seeing the second iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta release become available. iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta 2 For iPhone and iPad users on the public beta train, simply go to the Settings app > General section > Software Update to look f

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Microsoft has ended 'active development' on Contraband

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-07 16:53:33

The upheaval continues for gaming at Microsoft. The latest victim appears to be Contraband, a planned release from Avalanche Studios with Xbox Game Studios as publisher. The co-op open-world game from the studio behind the entertaining Just Cause series was teased in a brief, mostly atmospheric trailer at E3 2021. But very little had been heard since about the project, and it seems the axe is currently hanging pretty precariously above Contraband. "Active development has now stopped while we ev

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New EDR killer tool used by eight different ransomware groups

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-07 16:58:31

A new Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) killer that is considered to be the evolution of 'EDRKillShifter,' developed by RansomHub, has been observed in attacks by eight different ransomware gangs. Such tools help ransomware operators turn off security products on breached systems so they can deploy payloads, escalate privileges, attempt lateral movement, and ultimately encrypt devices on the network without being detected. According to Sophos security researchers, the new tool, which wasn'

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Building Bluesky comments for my blog

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 14:56:01

I hate disqus too much. August 6, 2025 · ~6 min read I’ve been running my blog without decent comments for years. Not by choice, really - I just couldn’t find a solution that didn’t suck. Disqus? Slow, heavy, tracks users, and I don’t own anything. Plus it makes every page 100x slower to load. Self-hosted solutions? Great in theory. (not really.) You’re signing up to manage users, moderate spam, maintain databases, and deal with all the headaches that come with running basically a miniature

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Microsoft brings GPT-5 to Copilot with new smart mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-07 16:20:06

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI officially launched its new GPT-5 models today, and Microsoft is now bringing GPT-5 to Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and more. It’s part of a big simultaneous release of GPT-5 that will show up in Copilot as the new smart mode that I detailed in No

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iOS 26’s Notes app adds a clever new way to use its many tools

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-07 21:30:44

Apple Notes gets more powerful every year, and iOS 26 adds its own batch of new features. With new capabilities comes the threat of feature bloat, but Notes has a clever solution that makes its ever-growing set of tools more easily accessible in iOS 26. iOS 26 gives Apple Notes an ‘adaptive toolbar’ Notes was once an extremely simple iPhone app. Features were minimal, as Apple prioritized just making it a quick place to jot down notes. But at some point, the company started aggressively build

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My top 5 favorite iOS 26 features so far - and how to try them all now

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-07 21:51:15

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: The best MagSa

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The Sunlight Budget of Earth

news.ycombinator.com Asimov Press 2025-12-07 21:15:41

By Sam Clamons Editor’s Note: This article contains numerical estimates compiled from various research articles. It was reviewed by three climate experts: Casey Handmer, Paul Reginato, and Jonathan Burbaum. Their notes are recorded in the footnotes. Our full dataset and calculations are available for download. We hope this will be a useful starting point for much deeper discussions. Modern biotechnology is powered by sunlight. Light-gobbling algae, both natural and engineered, are harvested an

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Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 20:56:01

I hate disqus too much. August 6, 2025 · ~6 min read I’ve been running my blog without decent comments for years. Not by choice, really - I just couldn’t find a solution that didn’t suck. Disqus? Slow, heavy, tracks users, and I don’t own anything. Plus it makes every page 100x slower to load. Self-hosted solutions? Great in theory. (not really.) You’re signing up to manage users, moderate spam, maintain databases, and deal with all the headaches that come with running basically a miniature

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Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-07 21:52:42

During what's supposed to be a year of redemption, Sonos has announced that its gadgets will become more expensive this year, complicating the company's comeback plans. Tariffs that US President Donald Trump announced last week take effect today, including a 19 percent tariff on goods imported from Malaysia (the levy is said not to apply to semiconductors and was cut down from a 25 percent tariff that Trump threatened in July.) Among other countries affected is Vietnam, which now sees a 20 perc

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Can't upgrade your Windows 10 PC? You have 5 options - and 2 months to decide

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-12-08 02:15:00

simpson33/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Windows 10 support ends on Oct. 14, 2025. Users have free and paid options for extended updates. Doing nothing is not a safe option. Have you decided what to do with your Windows 10 PCs when they reach their official end-of-support date in two months? I can tell you with absolute certainty that Microsoft is not going to back down at the last minute and extend that deadline. But you do have options, including some new ways to continue getting sec

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Latest Tech News

The First Xbox Handheld Could Be Coming Sooner Than You Think

Royal and BlackSuit ransomware gangs hit over 450 US companies

Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

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Microsoft rolls out GPT-5 across its Copilot suite - here's where you'll find it

Five iOS 26 features I already can't live without - and how to access them

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Block shares pop on full-year guidance boost

Wear OS users are starting to see a new kind of Google Wallet pass on their wrists

Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose

Block shares pop 11% on full-year guidance boost

Omada Health beats on revenue in first earnings report since IPO

CISA orders fed agencies to patch new Exchange flaw by Monday

The 35 Best Movies on HBO Max Right Now (August 2025)

Turn your Mac into a local ChatGPT with OpenAI’s new free model

iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

macOS Tahoe 26 public beta 2 rolling out, here’s how to install it

The Disturbing AI Interview That Has Everyone Fuming

iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta 2 now available

Microsoft has ended 'active development' on Contraband

New EDR killer tool used by eight different ransomware groups

Building Bluesky comments for my blog

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My top 5 favorite iOS 26 features so far - and how to try them all now

The Sunlight Budget of Earth

Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog

Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

Can't upgrade your Windows 10 PC? You have 5 options - and 2 months to decide

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