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The 197 best Prime Day 2025 deals that we found

You can gauge how well you know your friends and family by playingwhich is on sale at Amazon right now for $14.99 ($10 off), its best price of the year. You only get to say one word associated with multiple tiles on the board, and your teammates have to figure out which ones you’re talking about. If you’re too vague, your teammates may guess incorrectly, giving the other side an edge.

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

Switch project, part 3 - what Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 2025-07-04 08:00 This is part 3 of my ongoing series about LATENTRED, my project to create an open source 1U managed Ethernet switch from scratch. Here’s a quick, or maybe not-so-quick, update about the PHY on the line card and some of my troubles (and solutions). And probably more internal details than you want to know, but hey - maybe this will be useful to somebody. Not a lot of pretty pictures either.

This Robot Dog Is as Good at Walking as I Am at Being a Robot Dog

Aren’t pets such a drag? I mean, really. They’re all furry, and cute, and innocent. And you have to feed them and love them, and respect their autonomy and basic needs. For what? Borderline unconditional love? Who’s got time for all that? Certainly not me. My job is computer, and I need efficiency—a practical companion that’s alive when I want it to be and shutting the f**k up when I need to have the TPS report filed by EOD so corporate can circle back on the EOY roadmap. You got all that? Me ne

This Robot Dog Is As Good at Walking as I Am at Being a Robot Dog

Aren’t pets such a drag? I mean, really. They’re all furry, and cute, and innocent. And you have to feed them and love them, and respect their autonomy and basic needs. For what? Borderline unconditional love? Who’s got time for all that? Certainly not me. My job is computer, and I need efficiency—a practical companion that’s alive when I want it to be and shutting the f**k up when I need to have the TPS report filed by EOD so corporate can circle back on the EOY roadmap. You got all that? Me ne

How to prove your writing isn't AI-generated with Grammarly's free new tool

SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty AI is everywhere. It can be problematic for students, professionals, and everyone in between because it's hard to prove what was written by AI - and what wasn't. That could cause serious problems. Also: My two favorite AI apps on Linux - and how I use them to get more done That confusion could be intensified when your words are used to train AI. Who's to say someone might use generative AI to write a paper, only to find your words were used in the process? You

Grammarly wants to become an ‘AI productivity platform’

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Grammarly plans to acquire the buzzy email app Superhuman, according to a press release. Email is already the “number-one use case” of Grammarly for professional users, the company says, with “the AI assistant helping to revise over 50 million emails per week across more than 20 email providers.” Buying Superhuman makes some sense, then: it gives Grammarly its own email app t

Grammarly Adds Superhuman Email App to Expand Its AI Platform. Here's What That Could Mean for You

Show of hands: Who'd like to spend less time going through their email? That could be in the offing from Grammarly, which announced it's expanding its suite of workplace tools with the purchase of Superhuman, an email efficiency tool. Grammarly, the company behind the popular grammar enforcement app of the same name, has acquired the AI-powered Superhuman app as part of its push to build out its business productivity offerings, the company said in a press release today. "Email is the main comm

The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn

Jay Dickman/Getty Images I remember when I started using Linux in the late 1990s. Back then, using the command line wasn't optional. If you worked with the open-source operating system, you had to spend time in the terminal. Using the command line in the past was challenging because there wasn't as much help as today. I was pretty much on my own. Thankfully, I struggled through and became proficient. With the help of man pages (manual pages for commands), I survived those early days. Of course

Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman

Grammarly announced Tuesday the acquisition of email client Superhuman in a push to build out its AI for its productivity suite. Neither companies provided details about the financial terms of the deal. Superhuman was founded by Rahul Vohra, Vivek Sodera, and Conrad Irwin. The company raised more than $114 million in funding from backers including a16z, IVP, and Tiger Global, with its last valuation at $825 million, according to data from venture data analytics firm Traxcn. “With Superhuman, w

Claude Code now supports hooks

Customize and extend Claude Code’s behavior by registering shell commands Claude Code hooks are user-defined shell commands that execute at various points in Claude Code’s lifecycle. Hooks provide deterministic control over Claude Code’s behavior, ensuring certain actions always happen rather than relying on the LLM to choose to run them. Example use cases include: Notifications : Customize how you get notified when Claude Code is awaiting your input or permission to run something. : Customi

Rust CLI with Clap

Types Define Interfaces Types are important. In fact, I'd guess that the expressive type system in rust is the single biggest reason why so many developers love the language. Types allow us to have a contract between parts of the system about our data and how to interact with it. All programming languages have the concept of types, but these exist along several dimensions. Strongly typed vs weakly typed as well as static vs dynamic typing. Rust stakes out its place as a statically, strongly typ

Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

Inflammation, long considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research suggests that "inflammaging"—chronic, low-grade inflammation associated with aging—appears to be a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles and varies significantly across global populations. The findings are published in Nature Aging. Researchers analyzed data from four populations: two industrialized groups—th

Claude Code now supports Hooks

Customize and extend Claude Code’s behavior by registering shell commands Claude Code hooks are user-defined shell commands that execute at various points in Claude Code’s lifecycle. Hooks provide deterministic control over Claude Code’s behavior, ensuring certain actions always happen rather than relying on the LLM to choose to run them. Example use cases include: Notifications : Customize how you get notified when Claude Code is awaiting your input or permission to run something. : Customi

Rust CLIs with Clap

Types Define Interfaces Types are important. In fact, I'd guess that the expressive type system in rust is the single biggest reason why so many developers love the language. Types allow us to have a contract between parts of the system about our data and how to interact with it. All programming languages have the concept of types, but these exist along several dimensions. Strongly typed vs weakly typed as well as static vs dynamic typing. Rust stakes out its place as a statically, strongly typ

Gmail could soon help you skim your entire inbox without opening any emails (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is working on a new feature that could display a one-line AI summary directly in your inbox in the main email list. Such brief, auto-updating synopses could help you quickly scan long conversations without opening them. When the feature rolls out, users will also be able to provide feedback on the one-line summaries with “Helpful” or “Not Helpful” votes. One of the most common use cases for AI is using it for summarizing content. AI summaries a

Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Oscar-winning film, Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's masterful love letter to NASA's Apollo program in general and the eponymous space mission in particular. So we're taking the opportunity to revisit this riveting homage to American science, ingenuity, and daring. (Spoilers below.) Apollo 13 is a fictional retelling of the aborted 1970 lunar mission that became a "successful failure" for NASA because all three astronauts made it back to Earth a

Google Drive could soon help you decode documents faster (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Drive on Android is working on introducing Gemini-based PDF summary capabilities, similar to those found on Drive on the web. Users will soon be able to access PDF summaries directly within the PDF viewer via a three-dot menu or header icon. The app is also working on multi-file and limited folder summarization features that allow content across various Docs and PDFs to be summarized simultaneously. Google Drive has received many Gemini-relate

M3gan 2.0 is a fun upgrade that’s a little too self-aware

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Universal and Blumhouse’s first M3gan feature came out of nowhere with a premise so ridiculous and campy that it was hard not to be at least a little intrigued. Equal parts Child’s Play and Small Wonder, M3gan was undeniably silly with its story about an AI-powered doll who sang Sia’s “Titanium” and danced around as she chopped people

Meta AI can summarize your unread WhatsApp messages now - how to try it

J Studios/Getty Images Meta is introducing a new AI-powered feature into WhatsApp designed to summarize unread messages. The feature, called Message Summaries, was announced Wednesday in a WhatsApp company blog post. Message Summaries leverages Meta AI to provide brief, bulleted lists outlining key points from a message chain on the social messaging app. It's built upon Meta's Private Processing technology, which means the summaries are conveyed privately to users without any of the informatio

Introducing Gemma 3n

The first Gemma model launched early last year and has since grown into a thriving Gemmaverse of over 160 million collective downloads. This ecosystem includes our family of over a dozen specialized models for everything from safeguarding to medical applications and, most inspiringly, the countless innovations from the community. From innovators like Roboflow building enterprise computer vision to the Institute of Science Tokyo creating highly-capable Japanese Gemma variants, your work has shown

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WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages

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. WhatsApp can now call on Meta AI to summarize your personal chats. As shown in a GIF, you can access it by tapping the button to unfurl all of your unread messages in a chat. But instead of showing your messages, WhatsApp uses Meta AI to generate a bulleted summary of what you missed. The feature is rolling out in English in the US, with plans to l

AI-powered chat summaries are coming to WhatsApp

Meta is adding a new Message Summaries feature to WhatsApp that uses AI to summarize unread messages in a few bullet points. The feature is built on the Private Processing technique Meta announced at Llamacon in April, and claims to let AI work with content in WhatsApp without exposing any of it to Meta itself. Once the feature appears in your app, you just tap on the onscreen banner over your unread messages with that says "Summarize privately" to receive a summary from Meta AI. The Message Su

‘M3GAN 2.0’ Is an Antihero Upgrade, But at a Cost

M3GAN 2.0 delivers a bloody slay of a sequel, one that elevates Blumhouse’s sci-fi horror darling and gives its icon an action-packed upgrade–one that works, albeit at the expense of the original’s horror roots. You can’t keep a killer down, or a killer doll for that matter, as the end of the first film teased, as 2.0 opens with M3GAN (voiced by Jenna Davis, and physically portrayed by Amie Donald) having taken refuge in the cloud after he defeat. In the sequel, we discover that while Gemma (Al

WhatsApp rolls out Meta AI-powered message summaries in the U.S.

A couple of weeks ago, WABetaInfo spotted signs that Meta was gearing up to bring AI-generated summaries for WhatsApp messages. Today, the feature is officially live for users in the U.S. Here’s how to use it. Summarization is perhaps one of the most useful applications of generative AI, especially when it comes to quickly catching up on transactional information. Which is why, provided it’s well-implemented, using AI to condense notifications and group chats can genuinely save time. Which is

FurtherAI (YC W24) Is Hiring for Software and AI Roles

Why you should join FurtherAI At FurtherAI, we are building a workforce of AI Teammates to automate insurance workflows. These AI Teammates can practically automate any insurance workflow involving processing unstructured documents, data entry into internal systems or web portals, or even making phone calls. Our core mission is to answer a critical question: Can AI be made as reliable, adaptive, and continuously learning as a new human employee? We have raised a $5MM seed round from top-tier

New FileFix attack weaponizes Windows File Explorer for stealthy commands

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into executing malicious commands via the File Explorer address bar in Windows. FileFix, a variation of the social-engineering attack called ClickFix, allows threat actors to execute commands on the victim system through the File Explorer address bar in Windows. Cybersecurity researcher mr.d0x discovered the new method and demonstrated that it could be used in attacks targeti

Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300

Cataphracts Design Diary #1 Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military historian Bret Devereaux’s blog, ACOUP: analyses of Helm’s Deep and Minas Tirith, breakdowns of pre-modern command and pre-modern logistics, and, of course, a post simply titled “How Fast Do Armies Move?”. I’m a fan of Devereaux’s—he writes in that delicious space of really knowing his history yet also with the understanding he

Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon

ts-ssh: Powerful Tailscale SSH/SCP CLI Tool A streamlined command-line SSH client and SCP utility that connects to your Tailscale network using tsnet . Features powerful multi-host operations, batch command execution, and real tmux integration - all without requiring the full Tailscale daemon. Perfect for DevOps teams who need fast, reliable SSH access across their Tailscale infrastructure. Features 🚀 Core SSH/SCP Functionality Userspace Tailscale connection using tsnet - no daemon required

Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

Fang The CLI starter kit. A small, experimental library for batteries-included Cobra applications. Features Fancy output : fully styled help and usage pages : fully styled help and usage pages Fancy errors : fully styled errors : fully styled errors Automatic --version : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice : set it to the build info, or a version of your choice Manpages : Adds a hidden man command to generate manpages using mango 1 : Adds a hidden command to generate man

New to MacOS? 8 beginner tips and tricks to try first - and why

Kerry Wan/ZDNET If you're considering a migration from Windows 11 to MacOS, you're in for a treat, as Apple's operating system is so much more user-friendly, stable, secure, and better designed than Microsoft's. When you first log into your new MacOS device, you should feel instantly at home. You'll instinctively understand how things work and won't have a problem getting up to speed. That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't a few quick tips you should know to make the experience even eas