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How to upgrade your deadbolt with a smart lock - and the one I recommend most

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-31 21:15:15

Nuki Smart Lock ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuki Smart Lock is now available for $159 on its own, and $229 when combined with the Keypad 2. This smart lock fits into an existing deadbolt, supports Matter for easy integrations with smart home systems, and features hands-free unlocking. Though innovative, the Nuki smart lock requires a subscription for full remote access; it's also very loud when locking and unlocking, and the Keypad 2 is somewhat slow. $159 at Amazon I'm all for smart home techn

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Firefly Aerospace prices shares at $45, above the expected range

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-01 02:55:16

The Blue Ghost Mission Operations Engineer, Jaxon Liebeck, showcases the Blue Ghost moon lander at Firefly Aerospace headquarters on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 in Cedar Park. Firefly Aerospace priced shares in its IPO at $45 on Wednesday, above its expected range. The Texas-based rocket maker will debut on the Nasdaq Thursday under the ticker symbol "FLY." The offering raised $868 million and values the company at about $6.3 billion. Firefly filed its initial prospectus in July and upped its IPO r

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5 Linux distros I recommend to help businesses cut costs and boost security

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-02 07:17:00

PM Images/Getty Images Businesses around the world may not realize this, but they absolutely depend on Linux and open-source. Without those two pieces of technology, we wouldn't have nearly the services and sites we now enjoy. But Linux isn't just a good option for servers and technology stacks. Linux is also viable as a desktop operating system. Why? It's not only one of the most reliable platforms available, it's also very secure… and cost-effective. Also: 5 command line backup tools every

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Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters

theverge.com Kara Verlaney 2025-09-02 07:48:26

is The Verge’s managing editor who oversees operations. An editor with 10 years of experience, she joined The Verge in 2016. Today, I’m excited to announce three newsletter offerings, exclusive to Verge subscribers, that will continue to deliver must-read stories about tech and beyond. First, we’re introducing Regulator by Tina Nguyen. Regulator is focused on the battles between Big Tech and Big Government — from the juicy palace intrigue to the devastating consequences of their political game

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Free Movies You Can Stream This August on Tubi, Fawesome and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 10:00:03

If you've grown tired of relentless price hikes from your favorite streaming platforms, it's nice to know that free TV services like Tubi, Fawesome and Pluto TV can be counted on for all kinds of great shows and movies. New films (and TV shows) arrive on these platforms every month, making them great options if you're looking for something cheap but with great options. On Tubi, you can check out new originals that arrive throughout the month, including the thrillers The Ultimate Vendetta, now a

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Best Home Security Cameras Without Subscriptions in 2025: Save on Safety

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-02 18:00:00

Does the camera have the ability to listen to audio and initiate a two-way conversation using the app? Does the camera have night vision that can cover the space you have in mind? Is the app easy to understand, control and use to change settings? Does the camera work with your existing home security system or your preferred voice assistant? Can video be stored without fees? Is it local storage under your control or cloud storage? Do you have to purchase your own storage device? Can you share

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Uber beats on revenue, announces $20 billion stock buyback

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-09-03 04:26:19

In this article Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2025. Uber reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat on revenue and announced the authorization of a $20 billion stock buyback. Here's how the company did versus analysts' estimates compiled by LSEG: Earnings per share: 63 cents vs. 63 cents expected. 63 cents vs. 63 cents expected. Revenue: $12.65 billion vs. $12.46 billion expected.

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About the BLOBs in Ventoy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 03:41:01

In #2795 there are some discuss about the BLOBs in Ventoy. For a long time, I devoted my limited spare time to adding new features and fixing bugs and didn't get around to considering this. It should be noted firstly that Ventoy is 100% open souce and everything is transparent. Some binary files are directly get from other open source projects and Ventoy directly use them and don't need any change by default. Now that someone cares about these BLOBs, so I think we can discuss about this and

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YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android (Updated: Official confirmation)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 03:00:26

Update: August 6, 2025 (1 AM ET): YouTube has acknowledged the issue of playback speed not functioning on its Android app. Its team is investigating the problem. A fix should roll out soon enough. Here’s the full update posted on YouTube’s community forums: We’re aware some of you are experiencing issues adjusting playback speed while watching videos on Android devices. Our teams are actively investigating this issue! We’ll update this thread as soon as we have new information. Thanks so much f

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Call to vet YouTube ads like regular TV to stop scams

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-03 04:28:14

Call to vet YouTube ads like regular TV to stop scams Google, which owns YouTube, has said it strives to support an "advertising ecosystem that's trustworthy and transparent for users". Last week, Ofcom's annual report found that YouTube had overtaken ITV to become the UK's second most-watched media service behind the BBC. The party wants more YouTube ads to be screened for potentially harmful content before they appear on the platform and for media regulator Ofcom to issue fines. Ads on You

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Someone is folding the Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 times live on YouTube (Updated: Speaker broken)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 05:20:16

Update: August 5, 2025 (10:14 PM ET): The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has now crossed 180,000 manual folds. The YouTuber stopped folding and unfolding the device to report on its condition at 175,000 folds, and it looks like the speaker of the phone is no longer functioning. However, the display, hinge, and everything else remains intact. The YouTuber also shared some noteworthy findings along the way. Between 6,000 and 10,000 folds, the YouTuber reported that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 experienced a reboot error.

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You’re not going crazy: YouTube’s playback speed controls are broken on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 06:02:26

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s playback controls are broken on the Android app. Playback speed controls are still functioning properly on the YouTube website and the iOS app. On Android, you can tap and hold for 2x speed, but you can’t change the speed settings from the gear icon. The YouTube app for Android appears to be experiencing a glitch that has effectively broken the playback speed controls. Currently, attempting to change the playback speed of a video doesn’t wo

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Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-03 00:29:05

In a 300-plus page final report released today, the US Coast Guard analyzed the 2023 Titan sub implosion from every conceivable angle and came to a clear conclusion: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was a dangerous and deeply unpleasant boss. His company used "intimidation tactics" to sidestep regulatory scrutiny, it was a "toxic" workplace, and its safety culture was "critically flawed." The Titan itself was "undocumented, unregistered, non-certificated, [and] unclassed." As for Rush, he managed to

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Cybertruck Completely Covered by Labubu Graphics

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-03 15:11:52

Born of Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung's series "The Monsters," Labubus — those Cheshire cat-smiling cryptids now gracing the backpacks and purses of fashionistas the world around — are supposedly based on Nordic folklore. But it's hard to say where in the series, or in the underlying mythology, Tesla's notorious Cybertrucks might fit in. Amid the Labubu craze that's taken the world by storm, they have now encroached upon Tesla's unpopular Cybertrucks, and there's non-zero chance their appe

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A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

news.ycombinator.com Andrea Lampros 2025-09-03 18:38:25

For Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: [email protected] A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers — some 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies — will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University and pub

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‘Bluey’ Hopes You Won’t Mind Not Having New Episodes With 4 New Short Series

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-03 18:40:02

Bluey is finally back with four new short-form series inspired by the world of the beloved Heeler family from the Ludo Studio show. But if you’ve been waiting for new minisodes or a new season, this is not it. The new release does offer new thematic, family-friendly filler to tide fans over, but it still seems like we’ll have to wait until at least the Bluey movie in 2026 for the adventure to truly continue. Here’s what you need to know about the new series releases, which take some of the imag

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uBlock Origin Lite has finally arrived for Safari - with one important caveat

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-03 23:08:00

Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker extension has arrived for Safari. This extension is much better at blocking ads than most built-in blockers. Make sure to install the official extension -- we have the correct link. Ad-blocking software has become a necessity for many of us because ads have become intrusive. Some ads are so bad that they can bring a browser to a slow, grinding halt. Even worse, they sometimes contain code that can

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Play Assassin's Creed, Aliens and More on Xbox Game Pass Soon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 22:30:49

The Assassin's Creed franchise is one of the biggest series in gaming today. Ubisoft, the series' publisher, said in 2023 that it has sold over 155 million copies of Assassin's Creed games, making it one of the bestselling franchises in history. Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play one of the most recent entries in the series, Assassin's Creed: Mirage, on Aug. 7. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S

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iPadOS 26 beta 5 is available now, here’s what to expect

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-04 07:16:21

iPadOS 26 developer beta 5 is rolling out now, bringing the latest changes ahead of the software’s public launch next month. Here’s what to expect. Beta 5 could bring shift to new iPadOS 26 betas every week Apple has a new wave of beta software releases ready. About two weeks after developer beta 4 and the first public beta debuted, today iPadOS 26 beta 5 is available to install. There are a couple especially noteworthy things related to this latest update: Historically, August is when Apple

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This favorite ad blocker finally comes to Safari - be sure you download the right one

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-04 07:42:21

Less an ad blocker and more a tool to control annoying content, uBlock is lightweight and easy on RAM and CPU usage. ZDNET's key takeaways The uBlock Origin Lite ad blocker extension has arrived for Safari. This extension is much better at blocking ads than most built-in blockers. Make sure to install the official extension -- we have the correct link. Ad-blocking software has become a necessity for many of us because ads have become intrusive. Some ads are so bad that they can bring a brow

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Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 06:07:46

I couldn't help but notice - GitHub UI has been getting slower and slower recently. Some things that were snappy before are hellishly slow nowadays. GitHub is doing something weird and I just can't wrap my head around what's going on there. You guys developing at GitHub, you're using GitHub to develop it, right? Do you not see this? What's going on? Whenever I bump into slow website which drives me nuts, I open the devtools and profile it. Who knows, maybe I find something to report and the pr

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Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 07:18:37

One of the issues we have with .PNG is slow read/write times. There are now new lossless open source codecs without patent concerns, such as Zstandard (maintained by Facebook) or LZ4: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ https://github.com/lz4/lz4 Zstandard is used by the new Khronos KTX2 GPU texture format specification. I propose that it be added as an option to a future version of .PNG. The possible speedups are quite significant, and for users that read and write a lot of .PNG's as part of th

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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-04 07:16:02

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, an

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Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 11:07:46

I couldn't help but notice - GitHub UI has been getting slower and slower recently. Some things that were snappy before are hellishly slow nowadays. GitHub is doing something weird and I just can't wrap my head around what's going on there. You guys developing at GitHub, you're using GitHub to develop it, right? Do you not see this? What's going on? Whenever I bump into slow website which drives me nuts, I open the devtools and profile it. Who knows, maybe I find something to report and the pr

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GitHub pull requests are down

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 10:39:25

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 14:47:35

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) released its Report of Investigation (ROI) Tuesday on the loss of the Titan submersible, which imploded during a June 2023 dive to the Titanic, killing five people. The more than 300-page ROI outlines key findings and contributing factors in the casualty and includes 17 safety recommendations aimed at strengthening oversight of submersible operations, improving coordination among federal agencies and closing gaps in internati

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C10kday

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-04 17:07:25

From March 20, 1998 when the first curl release was published, to this day August 5, 2025 is exactly 10,000 days. We call it the curl-10000-day. Or just c10kday. c ten K day. We want to celebrate this occasion by collecting and sharing stories. Your stories about curl. Your favorite memories. When you used curl for the first time. When curl saved your situation. When curl rescued your lost puppy. What curl has meant or perhaps still means to you, your work, your business, or your life. We want

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All PS Plus Subscribers Can Play Lies of P and Other Games All August Long

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-05 03:00:09

Lies of P is an award-winning game that reimagines the story of Pinocchio as a soulslike action role-playing game set in a grimy world overrun by killer mechanical puppets. And all PlayStation Plus subscribers can play that award-winning game, and others, at no additional cost now. PlayStation Plus is Sony's version of Xbox Game Pass, and it offers subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tiers, which each have uniq

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The best USB-C hub for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 10:00:37

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . It’s impressive what tablets and ultraportable laptops can do. But to get the most functionality out of them, you may want a few more ports at your disposal, which is where a USB-C hub comes into play. By connecting to just one port, these handy devices give you extra USB connections,

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The Morning After: Could the next PlayStation have triple the power of the PS5?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-05 12:15:05

Leaks claim it could even land at the same launch price. Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive information on the PlayStation 6’s possible specs, starting price and release timing. Caveat: Moore’s Law is Dead adds in the video a disclaimer that the info was sourced from a leaked AMD presentation to Sony back in 2023, adding that some of thes

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