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Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with colored rice (2021)

Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice December 2021 The history of mankind is also a history of secrets, attacks and defense of the confidential. Steganography, cryptography and technical tools support us in protecting the private. The antagonists of confidentiality operate - depending on the actor - outside or inside legal frameworks, often adapting them with bogus arguments. If we have objects or devices outside our view, we cannot rule

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Sept. 25

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

Astronomers Have Found 6,000 Planets Outside the Solar System

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with discoveries including rocky planets, lava worlds, and gas giants enveloping their stars. Plenty more discoveries are likely on the way. As a result of continued monitoring by NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), there are more than 8,000 potential planets that have been identified and are awaitin

9 upcoming Android flagship phones with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Qualcomm has just announced the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, which sports gains across the CPU, GPU, and NPU and supports the APV codec for higher-quality video capture. This new SoC is expected to be present in top Android flagships throughout the remainder of this year and next, with confirmed manufacturers including ASUS, HONOR, iQOO, nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, POCO, realme, REDMAGIC, Redmi, Samsung, Sony, vivo, Xiaomi, and ZTE. If you’re wondering what phones we can expect with the SoC, here

Google’s viral Nano Banana image editor might soon slip into Google Photos

TL;DR Google may be working on bringing Nano Banana, Gemini’s popular image editing tool, to Google Photos. We’ve uncovered a GIF for a new “Create” feature in the Google Photos app, suggesting it’ll use Nano Banana inside the app. It’s unclear when the feature will roll out, but it’ll certainly make editing images in Google Photos more fun. Last month, Google rolled out Nano Banana, its newest AI-powered image editing tool, inside the Gemini app. Since then, it’s sparked viral trends online,

OnePlus will be first to launch a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (not Elite) phone

Rushil Agrawal / Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus has confirmed that it’ll launch the world’s first phone with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor. The new chipset is one rung below the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. A OnePlus executive added that this phone will launch “globally.” Qualcomm has just launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, which is expected to power a host of flagship Android phones. However, the company also revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, which sits below the Elite ch

Galaxy S25 Ultra Makes Surprise Appearance Shooting the Snapdragon Summit 2025

Companies use big tech events to reveal their new products, but increasingly they're also making a point of showing off how they're doing it. At Wednesday's Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2025, the livestreamed keynote included a prominent Shot on Snapdragon badge during some of the wider camera angles inside the Monarch Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Maui, Hawaii. A Shot on Snapdragon badge appeared on a few camera angles during the livestream of Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2025 event. Sc

Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab

Mark Zuckerberg has poached a high-ranking OpenAI researcher to be the research principal of Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Yang Song, who previously led the strategic explorations team at OpenAI, is now reporting to Shengjia Zhao, another OpenAI alum who has overseen the buzzy AI effort since July, according to multiple sources. He started earlier this month. The move comes after Zuckerberg went on a hiring blitz earlier this summer, bringing in at least 11 top researchers from OpenAI, Goo

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Nvidia's investment in OpenAI will be in cash, and most will be used to lease Nvidia chips

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | Reuters Nvidia's massive investment in OpenAI, announced earlier this week, will put billions of dollars into the coffers of the artificial intelligence startup to use as it sees fit. But most of the money will go towards use of Nvidia's cutting-edge chips. The agreement between the two companies was big on numbers but thin on specifics. They said the investme

Two flagships are better than one: Qualcomm’s surprise Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 takes a page from Apple

TL;DR Qualcomm unveiled a second premium-tier processor alongside its main Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, the chipset marks a new split within Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 family. The company says the split mirrors Apple’s two-chip iPhone strategy. At its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm introduced its expected flagship mobile processor for the next year, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The processor is expected to power next-gen premium Android smartphones like

Your next Windows PC may rival M4 MacBooks thanks to this chipset - here's how

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET At its recent Summit 2025 event, Qualcomm took the stage to announce its next generation of laptop chipsets: the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. I've been closely following Qualcomm's journey through the laptop industry since the company launched the first generation of Snapdragon hardware back in 2024. These chipsets perfectly balance performance with energy efficiency, allowing host computers to last all day long. Judging from preliminary information

Your Next Android Flagship Phone Will Get These 3 Updates in 2026

With every passing year, our phones get smarter, more capable and more adept at handling anything we throw at them with speed and precision. Perhaps the biggest contributing factor in enabling this never-ending cycle of improvement is the fresh set of chips that we get on a yearly basis. When it comes to the top Android phones, almost all of the major manufacturers, Google aside, use Snapdragon chips from Qualcomm. On Wednesday, at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm announced its latest

Check out the intricate, inky world of PS5 game Chronoscript: The Endless End

One of the surprise announcements during Sony's State of Play presentation today was the debut of a literary-themed game titled Chronoscript: The Endless End. It's an action-adventure game with a very cool hand-drawn art aesthetic. Players will navigate the 3-dimensional world of a mysterious manor as well as the 2-dimensional world of illustrated manuscript pages. The trailer mostly focused on those 2D sections, showing combat and platforming and seriously did I mention the very cool hand-draw

This new Snapdragon chipset supports 220 tokens per second - here's why that's a big deal

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. It features the Qualcomm Oryon CPU and next-gen Qualcomm Adreno GPU. The results include the fastest on-device AI processing. In the AI-first world we live in, helpful AI features matter more and more to smartphone buyers. As a result, chipsets behind these devices have to become increasingly powerful to support these features, and Qualcomm's n

Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin

Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin 7 points by 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments by terry_hc I'm looking for a simple way to locally define hostnames for internal use, think /etc/hosts, but without the requirement of superuser privileges. Running a resolver locally, or within the LAN, falls outside the realm of "simple". The subject is primarily the web browser, so a clever browser extension for Firefox and/or Chromium would work great. If resolution could also happen ou

The Ryder Cup 2025: TV Schedule Today, How to Watch, Stream All the Golf From Anywhere

The 45th edition of golf's biggest tournament takes place this weekend. Team USA will be looking to prevent Team Europe from claiming a first Ryder Cup win on American turf since 2012's "Miracle at Medinah." Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live. This year's installment of the biennial event sees Team USA skippered by Keegan Bradley. He will hope that home advantage, as well as having world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, wil

5 Features Coming to Your New Laptop in 2026 Thanks to Snapdragon X2 Elite

We never seem to stop asking more and more of computers -- and the advent of AI is doing nothing to slow the trend. Keeping up with our demands requires ever-more powerful chips and Qualcomm has just unveiled its latest computing platform, which will do just that. On Wednesday, the company announced the X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips, which will be finding their way into some of the top laptops and other PCs over the next year. At the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii where it unveiled the chip

The crew of Artemis II will fly on Integrity during mission to the Moon

The first astronauts set to fly to the Moon in more than 50 years will do so in Integrity. NASA's Artemis II crew revealed Integrity as the name of their Orion spacecraft during a news conference on Wednesday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We thought, as a crew, we need to name this spacecraft. We need to have a name for the Orion spacecraft that we're going to ride this magical mission on," said Reid Wiseman, commander of the Artemis II mission. During Apollo, the previous NASA pro

OpenAI Says It'll Build Five More Huge Data Centers. Here's Where

OpenAI's push to build more data centers to fuel its generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT reached a frenetic pace this week with plans that, if realized, could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. Alongside the cloud computing company Oracle and the Japanese investment firm SoftBank, OpenAI said it would stand up five new data center sites in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio and a yet-to-be-announced location in the Midwest. It's the latest announcement in what's been du

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Elite and Extreme for Windows PCs

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last year, after well over a decade of trying, Qualcomm finally made Windows on Arm laptops a thing, putting both Intel and AMD on notice and shoving Intel out of consumer-grade Microsoft Surface machines. Today, we’re learning about the second generati

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is here and wants to help Android take iPhone’s video crown

TL;DR Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 smartphone processor. The chip has the expected CPU, GPU, and AI gains, but it’s also the first mobile chip to support the APV codec for higher-quality video capture. The Xiaomi 17 series is the first phone family with this chipset, but Samsung, OnePlus and others are also confirmed to adopt it. The Snapdragon 8 Elite powered the majority of global flagship Android phones throughout 2025, and we can understand why. Qualcomm’s chip brou

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme could be the fastest chips for Windows

TL;DR Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite chips feature a 75% faster CPU than Windows competitors. The top-end Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is the first ARM-compatible CPU to reach 5.0GHz on its Prime core. The new chips boast improved power efficiency and an updated NPU for on-device AI. Qualcomm has been making chips for laptops for some time, but the Snapdragon X Elite launched in 2023 was one of its most ambitious attempts, thanks to the custom ARM-based Oryon CPU cores. Qualcomm is refresh

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 benchmarks: Just how badly does it beat its rivals?

Whenever a new chipset is announced, the first question on every enthusiast’s lips is “how well does it perform?” Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is no exception. While we’ll have to wait not too long to get our hands on the first consumer devices, we went hands-on with a reference handset at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit that gives us some indication of the chip’s peak potential. Just a word of caution: retail handsets are unlikely to perform quite as well, owing to their more cons

New Supermicro BMC flaws can create persistent backdoors

Two vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of Supermicro hardware, including Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) allow attackers to update systems with maliciously crafted images. Supermicro is a maker of servers, motherboards, and data center hardware. BMC is a microcontroller on Supermicro server motherboards that permits remote system monitoring and management even if the system is powered off. Experts at firmware security company Binarly discovered a bypass for a flaw (CVE-2024-10237) th

Your next Android phone could be a massive upgrade - thanks to Qualcomm's newest chipset

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. It features the Qualcomm Oryon CPU and next-gen Qualcomm Adreno GPU. Improvements should enable better phone speeds, camera, AI, and more. Nearly every major smartphone launch in the past year has shared a common theme: the devices have an increasing amount of on-device, advanced AI features. These experiences are only made possible by the chip

Next-gen Windows PC may surpass M4 MacBooks thanks to this chipset - here's what's coming

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET At its recent Summit 2025 event, Qualcomm took the stage to announce its next generation of laptop chipsets: the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. I've been closely following Qualcomm's journey through the laptop industry since the company launched the first generation of Snapdragon hardware back in 2024. These chipsets perfectly balance performance with energy efficiency, allowing host computers to last all day long. Judging from preliminary information

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite CPU Is Another Stab at Burying Intel

Qualcomm’s nascent push into PCs now has the sequel chip that will set the tone for what to expect from Windows-based machines going into 2026. This year, Qualcomm doesn’t have just one flagship CPU; it has two. Announced at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii (full disclosure: travel and lodging were paid by Qualcomm, and Gizmodo did not guarantee any coverage as a condition of accepting the trip), the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (a name that, if you say it, immediately cues

Qualcomm’s New Android Chip Could Leave the iPhone 17 Pro in Its Dust for Gaming

Now that the iPhone 17 Pro’s A19 Pro chip has taken center stage as the new hotness in phone silicon, Qualcomm is trying to make the claim that Android phones can be used for more than flicking through your social feeds with zombie-like efficiency. In comes the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a confusing name for a chip with a one-track mind: pushing better graphics and multitasking capabilities. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is the sequel to Qualcomm’s last-gen flagship, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. You k

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Chip Will Boost AI in 2026's Most Powerful Phones

At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit off the west coast of Maui, the company unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its next-generation chip intended for next year's top-tier Android phones. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 succeeds last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite, which saw the mobile debut of Qualcomm's in-house Oryon central processing unit for more power and efficiency over older silicon from Arm. As expected, this year's 8 Elite Gen 5 improves performance over its predecessor. The upgrades include f

Qualcomm's Big Compute Play: An 18-Core Chip Capable of 80 TOPS for AI Power

At Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Maui, the chipmaker unveiled its next big play for the Windows PC market. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and more powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme are a pair of chips built for efficiency and high performance to rival Intel and AMD's leading laptop silicon. Qualcomm announced its first Snapdragon X Elite system-on-a-chip two years ago, which featured the debut of the in-house Oryon CPU that enabled high enough performance in PC laptops to compete in power e