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Your Wemo smart devices are about to get dumb as Belkin pulls the plug

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-07-31 19:34:06

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images If you have any Wemo smart devices in your home, you should start planning an upgrade -- because you only have about six months left to use them. In an email to users today, Wemo announced that it was ending support for nearly all of its smart devices sold over the last 10 years on Jan. 31, 2026, including light switches, plugs, and more. Also: The $13 Amazon Smart Plug deal is the best Prime Day deal available right now "After careful consideration," the

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The Best Pillows, Tested and Approved by CNET’s Sleep Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-31 22:00:00

If you're not getting enough sleep or if your sleep quality seems low, there may be a few factors to blame. A better mattress may be the answer to your sleep woes, but a great pillow could also make a world of difference. You need to consider several factors to find the best pillow for your needs, including your sleeping position and your budget. Our sleep experts have five-plus years of hands-on (and heads-on) pillow testing, which we combined with brand and material knowledge, weeks of nightly

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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

wired.com Dhruv Mehrotra 2025-08-01 07:23:55

The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned nearby Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of putting those suspicions to rest, it may fuel them further. Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics e

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New ‘HomePad’ product gets fresh launch timing update

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-01 11:33:30

If you’re interested in Apple’s smart home products, one of the most highly anticipated debuts is a brand new ‘HomePad,’ and this cross between an iPad and HomePod just got a launch timing update via Bloomberg. HomePad now expected in spring 2026 due to Siri delays Mark Gurman writes at Bloomberg: Apple continues to work on a smart home hub code-named J490. Originally planned for March of this year, the device was delayed indefinitely due to its reliance on new Siri voice assistant features t

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At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says

news.ycombinator.com Aishvarya Kavi 2025-08-01 22:56:19

At least 13 postal workers in Britain died by suicide amid a post office scandal in which about 1,000 postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for theft and other crimes, according to a report released this week as part of an inquiry into the scandal. Wyn Williams, the retired high court judge who is leading the inquiry, wrote in the report, published on Tuesday, that by his estimation, more than 10,000 people were eligible for some kind of redress and that he expected that number to grow. Th

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Indeed, Glassdoor to lay off 1,300 staff

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-08-02 08:52:23

In Brief Recruit Holdings, the Japanese parent of Indeed and Glassdoor, said on Friday that it is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 6% of the staff, at the two job sites. The job cuts would affect functions mostly in the U.S. across the two companies’ R&D, tech, and HR and sustainability divisions, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo. Reuters also reported that the company’s CEO, Hisayuki Idekoba, wrote in the memo: “AI is changing the world, and we must adapt by ensuring our product

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Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:12:26

On Thursday, a digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, published an expansive investigation into AI-generated police reports that the group alleged are, by design, nearly impossible to audit and could make it easier for cops to lie under oath. Axon's Draft One debuted last summer at a police department in Colorado, instantly raising questions about the feared negative impacts of AI-written police reports on the criminal justice system. The tool relies on a ChatGPT variant to g

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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-08-02 20:58:59

D[avid] A[stor] very damping about the Dieppe raid, which he saw at more or less close quarters and which he says was an almost complete failure except for the very heavy destruction of German fighter planes, which was not part of the plan. He says that the affair was definitely misrepresented in the press [1] and is now being misrepresented in the reports to the P.M., and that the main facts were: – Something over 5000 men were engaged, of whom at least 2000 were killed or prisoners. It was not

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What's Free in the Epic Games Store This Week?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-02 22:37:00

Have you done the impossible and run out of new video games to play? Or are you someone who simply enjoys free stuff? There's no shame in that, especially with game prices rising and tariffs looming. Who isn't eager to save a bit of money? If that does sound like you, then we've got just the place you should check out: the Epic Games Store. The store launched in 2019 after Epic capitalized on the massive success of battle royale game Fortnite. Addictively fun, Fortnite quickly became a cultural

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ExTiX's new release is an even better Windows 11-like Linux desktop

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-03 03:30:23

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Back in 2022, I reviewed ExTiX with the idea of using it to get the Deepin desktop experience, without the possible security/privacy issues associated with Deepin Linux. Now ExTiX has a new release, based on Deepin 25 Stable. This new release vastly improves on the experience to deliver a desktop with a layout that would make any Windows 11 user feel right at home, only there are no intrusive ads, unexpected reboots, or concerns that something will come crashing down. When yo

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U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

news.ycombinator.com Kat Lonsdorf 2025-08-03 03:48:48

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications toggle caption Alexander F. Yuan/AP WASHINGTON — In yet another twist for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S., the State Department says it will resume processing student and visiting scholar visa applications for foreign citizens but plans to review their social media accounts as part of the process. All students applying for a visa will need to set their social media profiles to "public," according to a post Wednes

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Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-03 03:20:59

Hey HN, Henry and Roman here - we've been building a cross-platform framework for deploying LLMs, VLMs, Embedding Models and TTS models locally on smartphones. Ollama enables deploying LLMs models locally on laptops and edge severs, Cactus enables deploying on phones. Deploying directly on phones facilitates building AI apps and agents capable of phone use without breaking privacy, supports real-time inference with no latency, we have seen personalised RAG pipelines for users and more. Apple a

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Student Loan Update: Here's What SAVE Borrowers Should Do by August 1

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-03 02:21:48

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on August 1. Viva Tung / CNET Federal student loans for those who are enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan have been in an interest-free forbearance for a year while the income-driven repayment plan was challenged in court. Although SAVE has been officially blocked in the courts, borrowers' loans are still in limbo. Now, borrowers are being encouraged to choose a new payment plan or face interest

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George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

news.ycombinator.com Posted On 2025-08-03 06:58:59

D[avid] A[stor] very damping about the Dieppe raid, which he saw at more or less close quarters and which he says was an almost complete failure except for the very heavy destruction of German fighter planes, which was not part of the plan. He says that the affair was definitely misrepresented in the press [1] and is now being misrepresented in the reports to the P.M., and that the main facts were: – Something over 5000 men were engaged, of whom at least 2000 were killed or prisoners. It was not

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Graphical Linear Algebra

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-03 10:02:40

Applications are open for the ACT Applied Category Theory Research School 2018! And because arithmetic science and geometric science are connected, and support one another, the full knowledge of numbers cannot be presented without encountering some geometry, or without seeing that operating in this way on numbers is close to geometry; the method is full of many proofs and demonstrations that are made with geometric figures. Fibonacci, preface to Liber Abaci (first published 1202, 1228 manuscrip

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OnePlus 13R drops to $499.99 for the first time on Amazon ($100 off)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-03 15:30:23

Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority Amazon Prime Day 2025 continues to throw up exciting tech deals, offering various discounts that enthusiasts won’t want to miss. Among the standout offers is the OnePlus 13R, now available for a record-low price $499.99, a significant drop from its usual price of $599.99. And we loved it at that retail price. OnePlus 13R for $499.99 (17% off) The OnePlus 13R, which debuted in early 2025, brings several impressive features to the table. It sports a 6.78-inch L

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Forget the subscription: this fitness band has everything I need to track my progress

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-03 19:35:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Amazfit Helio Strap is available now for $99. As a smartwatch alternative, the strap offers virtually all the same health tracking features via the robust Zepp app, with over a week of battery life. The fabric strap isn't made of exceedingly high quality materials, but luckily can be easily replaced. View now at Amazon Amazfit, makers of such smartwatches as the Bip 5 and the new Balance 2, just released its new Helio Strap, a fitness tracker that has all the core fu

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Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone’s pivoting, then pivoting again’

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-08-03 23:00:00

Welcome to Decoder! I’m Alex Heath, Deputy Editor at The Verge and author of the Command Line newsletter. This is the first in a series of Thursday Decoder episodes that I’ll be hosting while Nilay is out on parental leave. I’ve been covering AI a lot at The Verge, and I’m excited to start sharing some of the conversations I regularly have with leaders in the space here. The plan is for each episode to focus on a specific theme, from the rise of deepfakes to how AI is reimagining the browser.

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Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Ricardo Pallás 2025-08-04 14:27:02

Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust Table of contents In a previous post I explored how to optimize file parsing for max speed. This time, we’ll look at a different, self-contained problem: writing a math expression parser in Rust, and making it as fast and memory-efficient as possible. Let’s say we want to parse simple math expressions with addition, subtraction, and parentheses. For example: 4 + 5 + 2 - 1 => 10 (4 + 5) - (2 + 1) => 6 (1

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I tested a subscription-free smart ring that rivals Oura - and it's $50 off for Prime Day

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-08-05 03:30:25

ZDNET's key takeaways The Ultrahuman Ring Air is the brand's first foray into the smart ring space, and it's available for $349, no subscription required The ring is great for hardcore fitness enthusiasts and recreational exercisers looking to use their health data to optimize their wellness routines The app's user interface could be improved for easier access to daily logging functions. $349 at Amazon For Amazon Prime Day, the retailer is offering the Ultrahuman Ring Air at a $50 discount, b

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SAVE Borrowers, Your Student Loans Will Start Accruing Interest Again on Aug. 1: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-05 01:11:00

Getty Images/Zooey Liao/CNET It looks like time has run out for the nearly 8 million student loan borrowers enrolled in SAVE. The US Department of Education announced that loans will resume accruing interest on Aug. 1. Borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education Plan, a product of the Biden administration, have been in limbo since June 2024, when Republican opponents challenged the plan and later struck down by a federal court. Since then, borrowers have had their loans placed in

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Pope Leo Signed a Popplio ‘Pokémon’ Card in the Cutest Vatican Sanctioned Interaction

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-05 02:00:12

One Pokémon fan traveled across the land and searched far and wide to find Pope Leo XIV with a Popplio card in hand for a truly delightful interaction. The meeting took place at the Vatican, where recently elected Pope Leo XIV greeted visitors for blessings. The Pokémon aficionado (known as ReptileCake on Reddit) took a card of Popplio, the water starter from the 7th generation of the card game, to get signed as well as another card to be blessed by the pontiff as a memento. The interaction to

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-05 07:08:27

Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites on behalf of a paid service, a researcher said. The 245 extensions, available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, have racked up nearly 909 million downloads, John Tuckner of SecurityAnnex reported. The extensions serve a wide range of purposes, including managing bookmarks and clipboards, boosting speaker volumes, and generating random numbers. The common

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Bitcoin Depot breach exposes data of nearly 27,000 crypto users

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-05 19:33:46

Bitcoin Depot, an operator of Bitcoin ATMs, is notifying customers of a data breach incident that has exposed their sensitive information. In the letter sent to affected individuals, the company informs that it first detected suspicious activity on its network last year on June 23. Although the internal investigation was completed on July 18, 2024, a parallel investigation by federal agencies dictated that public disclosure of the incident should be withheld until it was completed. “On July 1

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Mysterious Signals From Deep Space Expose Aftermath of Failed Cosmic Eruptions

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-08-05 19:25:20

Whenever we study space, we’re usually talking about long-lasting objects, like our own solar system or faraway galaxies that occasionally catch our attention when something extraordinary happens. But sometimes, the universe sends us quick, random bursts of energy that are usually too far away and too ephemeral for scientists to make any sense of—like fast X-ray transients (FXTs), whose elusive origins have long evaded astronomers. Recently, however, astrophysicists had a lucky strike: spotting

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Prime Day steal: OnePlus Pad price gets record drop to only $329

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-05 23:30:07

Ryan Haines / Android Authority If you’re in the market for a new tablet, there’s an exciting Prime Day deal you can’t miss. The OnePlus Pad is available for a remarkable price of $329, down from its usual price of $479.99. This represents a 31% discount off the retail price, and we’ve certainly never tracked it this cheap ever. OnePlus Pad for $329 (31% off) The OnePlus Pad might now have a successor, but it’s still packed with features that cater to tech enthusiasts and casual users alike. I

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Oura Ring 4 On Sale for the First Time Ever, Amazon Crushes the Price for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-05 23:10:08

The Oura Ring 4th generation entered the market a few months ago, and it immediately became known as one of the most advanced smart rings in existence. Up until today, there was never a discount available on this product – either on Amazon or elsewhere. In honor of Prime Day, Amazon is going against the norm with the first-ever price cut on Oura Ring 4: With a 15% reduction on all sizes, you can now buy the Oura Ring 4 in silver, size 10, for $297 from $349. Other sizes are also on sale, but so

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Epic Games Settles With Samsung. That's a Big Deal for Fortnite Players and Gamers More Broadly

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-05 22:15:40

Epic Games says it's reached a settlement with Samsung after suing both Samsung and Google last year over antitrust issues. The action is likely a turning point for players of Fortnite and other games. Epic didn't disclose the terms of the settlement, but the original suit focused on Samsung blocking the installation of apps on its mobile devices, making it more difficult for users to install Epic Games titles, such as the popular Fortnite. At the time, Epic said it took 21 steps to install a g

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Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-06 03:36:33

Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X Musk has posted a brief reply, saying only: "Thank you for your contributions." In a post on the platform , she said was "immensely grateful" to Musk for "entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App". Ms Yaccarino has been in the role since June, 2023. Linda Yaccarino, the boss of Elon Musk's social media site X, has announced she is stepping down. Ms Yacca

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iPhone 17 release date: Here’s when to expect Apple’s big launch

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-06 07:03:30

It’s been almost a year since Apple’s flagship iPhone 16 lineup debuted. That means the iPhone 17 release date is fast approaching. Here’s when to expect Apple’s new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max to launch. September is iPhone 17 lineup’s launch month Apple products all have their own release cadence. Some go years between updates, while others launch new hardware annually. Out of all Apple product launches, the iPhone is the most consistent. Every year, new

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Your Wemo smart devices are about to get dumb as Belkin pulls the plug

The Best Pillows, Tested and Approved by CNET’s Sleep Experts

Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

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Indeed, Glassdoor to lay off 1,300 staff

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U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

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Student Loan Update: Here's What SAVE Borrowers Should Do by August 1

George Orwell Diaries 1938-1942

Graphical Linear Algebra

OnePlus 13R drops to $499.99 for the first time on Amazon ($100 off)

Forget the subscription: this fitness band has everything I need to track my progress

Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone’s pivoting, then pivoting again’

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I tested a subscription-free smart ring that rivals Oura - and it's $50 off for Prime Day

SAVE Borrowers, Your Student Loans Will Start Accruing Interest Again on Aug. 1: What to Know

Pope Leo Signed a Popplio ‘Pokémon’ Card in the Cutest Vatican Sanctioned Interaction

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

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Prime Day steal: OnePlus Pad price gets record drop to only $329

Oura Ring 4 On Sale for the First Time Ever, Amazon Crushes the Price for Prime Day

Epic Games Settles With Samsung. That's a Big Deal for Fortnite Players and Gamers More Broadly

Linda Yaccarino departs as boss of Musk's X

iPhone 17 release date: Here’s when to expect Apple’s big launch

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