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Indoor surfaces act as sponges for harmful chemicals

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 04:33:34

Scientists injected volatile organic compounds into a test house and found large reservoirs for the potentially hazardous chemicals in porous surfaces such as wood, cement and paint. VOCs contained in insecticides, cigarette smoke and wildfire smoke can remain on indoor surfaces for as long as one year. Irvine, Calif., Sept. 22, 2025 — Indoor surfaces have an unexpectedly strong ability to absorb and hold harmful chemical compounds that can threaten human health for as long as a year, accordin

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MacOS Tahoe finally turned me into a desktop widget user - here's why

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-18 08:00:33

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways If you've refused to use widgets, MacOS Tahoe may change your mind. Thanks to Liquid Glass, widgets are sexy again. Only add the widgets you need. Widgets aren't exactly the most divisive topic in the tech-sphere, but for some, they are simply a waste of time. For others, however, they are crucial for creating an efficient experience. Me? I've lived in the middle of that spectrum, where they simply

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X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals (2010-2014)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 06:07:57

X Server The X server accepts requests from client applications to create windows, which are (normally rectangular) "virtual screens" that the client program can draw into. Windows are then composed on the actual screen by the X server (or by a separate composite manager) as directed by the window manager, which usually communicates with the user via graphical controls such as buttons and draggable titlebars and borders. For a comprehensive overview of X Server and X Window System, consult the f

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Scammers are now faking the FBI's own website - here's how to stay safe

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-18 18:24:00

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The FBI says spoofed websites masquerading as the IC3 have appeared. Spoofed websites impersonate well-known services to steal your data. FBI warns visitors to remain vigilant against suspicious URLs and incorrect website addresses. The FBI is warning the public that its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website is being spoofed by scammers online. In a public service an

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I tried an Android phone with a 22,000mAh battery - it made my iPhone 17 Pro Max look small

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-19 06:11:00

Doogee S200 Max ZDNET's key takeaways The Doogee S200 Max is on sale now for $750. It's a super chunky handset that won't fit in your pockets, but it's incredibly durable, passing IP68/IP69K and MIL-STD-810H standards. It's not exactly cheap, and you have to be a certain user to carry a phone this durable. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I remember when companies such as Doogee started making ruggedized Android smartphones that were more at home on a

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Do We Really Need a 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Movie?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 04:28:43

Prime Video's hit show The Summer I Turned Pretty officially wrapped its third and final season this month, and for those of us who have been fans of the books and the show, the end of Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah's years-long journeys inspired a lot of reactions. I was feeling all the usual emotions at the end of a show: sadness, anxiety over whether I would be satisfied with the ending and a burning curiosity to absorb any and all theories, fan edits and cast interviews online. It was during a

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How to customize MacOS Liquid Glass and make it uniquely yours

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-19 09:07:16

Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's Liquid Glass desktop has finally arrived. Although you can't configure everything, you can make some tweaks. Liquid Glass comes with MacOS Tahoe, which is a free upgrade. I've been giddy with excitement about MacOS Tahoe for just one simple reason: Liquid Glass. Let me explain. Also: How to decide between Linux and MacOS - if you're ready to ditch Windows You see, I'm a

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I changed 6 settings on my Roku TV to significantly improved the performance

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-19 09:57:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Nothing kills the vibe of a good show faster than the dreaded spinning icon or random freezes. If your Roku TV is stuttering or buffering, don't give up -- here's how to fix it. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Like phones and computers, Rokus have caches that accumulate temporary data, which inevitably slows them down over time. There are simple ways to clear up this hidd

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FBI warns its scam reporting site is being spoofed - how to avoid getting tricked

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-10-19 13:42:00

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The FBI says spoofed websites masquerading as the IC3 have appeared. Spoofed websites impersonate well-known services to steal your data. FBI warns visitors to remain vigilant against suspicious URLs and incorrect website addresses. The FBI is warning the public that its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website is being spoofed by scammers online. In a public service an

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Astronomers Spot ‘Unexpected’ Bead and Star Patterns in Saturn’s Atmosphere

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-19 13:20:19

Saturn already tops the list of the coolest-looking objects in our solar system, but a new finding might put it on another level. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers spotted strange, beady patterns spreading across the planet’s atmosphere—features never seen before on any other planet in the solar system. In a recent Geophysical Research Letters paper, astrophysicists led by Tom Stallard of Northumbria University in the United Kingdom describe their investigations into the

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The best fall desk upgrades

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2025-10-20 05:00:00

is a commerce reporter for The Verge writing about the best deals and gadgets. He previously wrote for Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Futurism, and Popular Science. Your desk should feel truly yours. If you want a boxed copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo next to your high-end monitor for no reason other than it makes you happy, go for it. However, it’s important to balance fun with function; your desk space needs to be equipped to help you get work do

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Slow Android phone? Changing these 4 settings revitalized my whole system

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-10-20 12:00:29

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don't upgrade every year. I have friends and family who tell me they don't want to upgrade and ask, "How can I make my current phone faster?" I finally have an answer. Also: I test dozens of Android phones every year: Here's how Google

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MediaTek's Next Chip Will Boost Low-Power AI in Next Year's Top Android Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 10:00:03

MediaTek has unveiled its next big chip for premium Android phones, promising improvements for performance and AI operations. MediaTek's chip, the Dimensity 9500, debuts at a seemingly deliberate moment just days before Qualcomm is set to reveal its own silicon, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. While we don't know the latter's performance metrics, it will almost certainly compete with the Dimensity 9500 to run the most powerful Android smartphones. The first phones running MediaTek's new chip will

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Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?

wired.com Noah Shachtman 2025-10-20 13:00:00

Just off the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway, the hotel’s rooftop bar is open late. The bartender passes out shots and turns Ozzy up. It’s 11:37 pm on a hot July night in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when our heads all swivel in the same direction. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off, its orange plume glowing bright, about 12 miles due north up the Banana River. The “Iron Man” riff starts to blast. It’s fun for the couple dozen of us there. When we hear the thud of the sonic boom, most everyone lets

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Best Sheets for Every Bed and Budget (2025): Cotton, Linen, Bamboo

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-20 13:38:00

The Citizenry's linen not only feels fantastic to sleep on but comes in lots of colors to go with any color scheme your bedroom might have. Parts of the sheet set (just the top sheet, pillowcases, etc.) can be purchased individually if something happens to one of your pieces. More Linen We Love Extra soft and splurge-worthy linen: Cultiver Linen Sheet Set ($480) is so soft you might not realize it's linen. My husband didn't, and he's a certified linen hater. This set is a splurge, but worth it

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This Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 rival has impressive camera, ray tracing capabilities

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:00:22

Supplied by MediaTek TL;DR MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9500 processor, which is expected to power some flagship Android phones. The new chipset has an upgraded CPU with SME2 support, a GPU with major ray tracing upgrades, and plenty more features. OPPO and vivo are expected to be the first brands to launch Dimensity 9500 phones in the coming weeks. MediaTek is the world’s largest smartphone processor company by market share, but the company has typically played second fiddle to Qual

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These are the common Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 problems so far, and how to fix them

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 05:00:56

Joe Maring / Android Authority The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025) are the company’s two latest smartwatches, packing that squircle body, brighter displays, and larger batteries than their predecessors. Based on online sentiment, neither device has significant holes in its armor, but some users have likely encountered a few minor problems on their journey thus far. If you’re in the latter camp, I detail quick fixes and deeper troubleshooting steps to solve the known Galaxy

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25 Key iPhone Settings to Change (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-10-20 06:30:00

Apple’s software design strives to be intuitive, but each iteration of iOS contains so many additions and tweaks that it's easy to miss some useful iPhone settings. Apple focused on artificial intelligence when it unveiled iOS 18 in 2024 and followed it with Liquid Glass in iOS 26 (the name is now tied to the following year), but many intriguing customizations and lesser-known features lurk beneath the surface. Several helpful settings are turned off by default, and it's not immediately obvious

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These two apps are all I need to keep my productivity high

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 08:00:11

Andy Walker / Android Authority I’m all about productivity, trying to get as much done in the least amount of time. As an Editor here at Android Authority and someone who is involved in all sorts of projects outside of work, I have a lot of tasks to handle on a daily basis, and I need help getting organized. While I use all sorts of apps and services, two of them stand out. I use both Notion and Todoist regularly to stay on top of my professional and personal life, and honestly, I don’t think

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Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell

news.ycombinator.com Grégoire Locqueville 2025-10-16 14:22:21

April 28, 2025 This post is the first of a two-part series that describes my computer-assisted solution to a physical puzzle I got. In this first part, I describe the problem and model it in Haskell. This post is a little verbose, so feel free to skip directly to part II, where we'll see how to tell our computer to actually solve the puzzle. I got gifted a puzzle recently, allegedly a "very hard one". After receiving it, I spent a couple minutes trying to solve it, but it quickly became clear

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When Non-Avian Dinosaurs Went Extinct, the Earth Changed—Literally. Scientists Think They Finally Know Why

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-20 02:00:39

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it wasn’t the Chicxulub asteroid impact. In a study published Monday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers argue that dinosaurs physically influenced their surroundings so dramatically that their disappearance led to stark changes to the Earth’s landscape, and, in turn, the geol

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Diminish Distractions by Setting Your iPhone to Gray Scale When You're Home

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-10-20 01:00:00

Phones are undeniably useful when you're out and about in the world. Directions, photos, music, messaging the people you're meeting up with, or even just scrolling while you're waiting for the bus—it's all great. The problem with phones, in my opinion, is when you're at home. Home is the place where you might rather spend your time reading a book, practicing an instrument, or messing around in the garden. But everything is hard, almost impossible, when your phone is so freaking interesting. Th

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‘Night of the Reaper’ Is a Retro Babysitter Slasher With a Mystery Twist

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-20 09:47:02

Night of the Reaper begins with a familiar slasher movie scenario: a babysitter being stalked by a killer. The masked menace puts on a big show of toying with her, leaving creepy notes that almost feel like a prank until the danger gets all too real. It’s a freaky opening sequence that signals director and co-director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born, Z) is well familiar with the horror tropes his movie is leaning into—and you can tell he knows his audience will pick up on them too. Night of th

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FBI warns of cybercriminals using fake FBI crime reporting portals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 17:43:29

The FBI warned today that cybercriminals are impersonating its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website in what the law enforcement agency described as "possible malicious activity." Although it didn't share any examples and didn't point to specific attacks, the FBI said that such spoofed websites could be used by attackers in financial scams or to steal the visitors' personal information. "Threat actors create spoofed websites often by slightly altering characteristics of legitimate webs

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Gemini Pro just gained a feature ChatGPT can’t easily copy

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-21 07:35:26

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google now lets you share your custom Gems with others. Sharing works just like Google Drive, with options to view, edit, or share via a link. Gems are limited to Gemini Pro subscribers, but this shareability gives them an edge on ChatGPT Projects. If you’ve used the paid versions of both Gemini and ChatGPT, you’ll know that Gems and Projects are pretty similar. They let you set up a custom space that remembers your instructions and style within that are

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The Many Broken Feeds

news.ycombinator.com Abhinav Sarkar 2025-10-18 08:53:30

The Many Broken Feeds RSS/Atom feeds are central to my reading process. I subscribe to over 700 feeds that I have curated over years. Most of them work fine most of the time, but a few are always broken in various different ways (different ones at different times). As a big proponent of Indieweb and feeds, I’m writing this note to categorize the ways feeds break, and offer some solutions. Before we get on to the issues, the very first thing you must do is to subscribe to the feeds of your own

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Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 10:34:15

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

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KDE is now my favorite desktop

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 16:17:51

From my last blog post, I am now using KDE as the desktop environment for my gaming rig. The reason is because I want a reasonably easy to use Linux desktop for when my wife needs to use the PC for something other than gaming, and this was the reason why my "traditional" Sway setup was a no-go. But, after using KDE for a while I am starting to really appreciate how good it is. And no, this is not compared to other Linux desktops, but also with both Windows and macOS (that I need to use often, e

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Russia’s Space Chief Touts ‘Rapid’ Development of Starlink Rival

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-23 05:00:47

With more than 6 million active users, SpaceX’s Starlink has become the world’s leading provider of high-speed satellite internet. That prominence has sparked some rivalry, and not least with other world powers—including Russia. In a televised interview on Wednesday, the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said it is pushing full steam ahead on an alternative to Starlink, Reuters reported. Dmitry Bakanov said that Roscosmos has partnered with Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, to dev

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This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-10-24 09:19:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple Watch timer boosts productivity but annoys partners. Silent mode mutes alerts while preserving wrist haptics. Haptics keep reminders private, and household peace intact. I love me some timers. One of the secrets to how I manage my day is that I set timers for everything. I set them for appointments, sure. But I also set them to remind me when to get started on a phase of work. I set them to r

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KDE is now my favorite desktop

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