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Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Val Town makes it easy to ship TypeScript automations and applications to the internet via an integrated web editor experience. We strive to offer a magical tight feedback loop, with 100ms deploys on save. That online editor experience should be great: we should support high-quality highlighting, autocompletion, information for when you hover over bits of code. But unfortunately it hasn't been so: our previous editor has been buggy and slow to give useful TypeScript feedback. But now, we've re

Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version

Upon release of Hotfix #34 on your Steam Deck, your device will install the Native version. If you are unsure whether the build has been installed correctly, you can do the following: Go to the game’s Steam page. Click on the Settings button and select Properties. Once in the Properties page, go to the Compatibility tab. Tick the box for “Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”. Select any version that has Linux Runtime. Allow the game to update if an update appears.

Uber rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale

Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India that competes with Uber, has doubled its valuation to $2.3 billion following a secondary share sale by food delivery giant Swiggy. The share sale comes just weeks after Rapido began piloting food deliveries, edging into Swiggy’s core territory. Swiggy has offloaded its entire 12% stake in Rapido for ₹24 billion (about $270 million) through two separate deals, according to regulatory filings. Around 10% of the stake is being acquired by Prosus for

Microsoft claims a 'breakthrough' in AI chip cooling

AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. Although most of that comes from running GPUs, cooling them is another significant overhead. So, it's worth noting when a company of Microsoft's stature claims to have achieved a breakthrough in chip cooling. Microsoft's new system is based on microfluidics, a method long pursued but hard to implement. The company claims its approach could lead

Google Photos' conversational editing is rolling out to Android users

You know how annoying it is to click multiple edits on a photo? What's that? It's actually pretty easy to do. Well, Google says otherwise and has a solution for you: conversational editing, a feature that lets you tell Google your requested edits, rather than have to make them yourself. Google first introduced conversational editing to Pixel 10 phones, but the company is now rolling it out to Android users in the US. It should be available for any adults who have their Google account set to Eng

Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study

Scientists injected volatile organic compounds into a test house and found large reservoirs for the potentially hazardous chemicals in porous surfaces such as wood, concrete 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, accord

Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

Today, we're starting to roll out the conversational editing feature first introduced on Pixel 10 to all eligible Android users in the U.S. Forget switching between tools and adjusting sliders. You can simply describe the edits you want using your voice or text and watch Google Photos bring your vision to life. And now even more people can try it. Just tap “Help me edit” in the editor, describe what you want changed and voila, Photos takes care of it for you — with a little help from advanced G

Figma made its design tools more accessible to AI agents

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Figma is launching some new updates that allow AI models to directly communicate with its app-building tool and access designs remotely. Figma’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server — a bridge that enables AI models to tap directly into the code behind pr

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Jaguar Land Rover to pause production until next week – at least

In Brief Luxury car-maker Jaguar Land Rover will not resume production at its factories for yet another week as it continues to grapple with fallout from a cyberattack. In early September, the Jaguar Land Rover stopped production at its factories in the U.K. after it was impacted by a cyberattack in which hackers stole company data. Jaguar Land Rover has not said what data was stolen. Jaguar Land Rover said in a statement on Tuesday the production suspension will continue until next week, spe

Uber-rival Rapido doubles valuation to $2.3B following Swiggy stake sale

Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India that competes with Uber, has doubled its valuation to $2.3 billion following a secondary share sale by food delivery giant Swiggy. The share sale comes just weeks after Rapido began piloting food deliveries, edging into Swiggy’s core territory. Swiggy has offloaded its entire 12% stake in Rapido for ₹24 billion (about $270 million) through two separate deals, according to regulatory filings. Around 10% of the stake is being acquired by Prosus for

Riot's 2XKO fighting game hits early access on October 7

Riot's long-awaited fighting game 2XKO, previously called Project L , will be released for PC as an early access title on October 7 . That's just two weeks away. The company dropped a development update video that's filled with nods to the source material. 2XKO is set in the League of Legends universe and features many characters from across the franchise. Players can fight as icons like Jinx, Yasui, Braum and many more. The early access version will feature 10 playable characters, with more co

Rokid's smartglasses are surprisingly capable

Meta put the smartglasses industry on alert when it announced the Meta Ray-Ban Displays last week. And while those might feature one of the most advanced optical engines on a device its size, after testing out one of its competitors — the Rokid Glasses — I'm convinced there's still plenty of room for competition. At $549, the Rokid Glasses are more affordable than the Meta Ray-Ban Displays, which are set to launch at $800. However, it should be noted that this difference won't last forever, as

The Death Stranding anime now has a title and its first trailer

The long-running joke about Hideo Kojima is that he’d secretly rather be making movies than video games. Kojima somehow nearly got into double figures on Metal Gear games without any of them receiving the adaptation treatment (though not for the lack of trying on his part), but it’s looking like a very different story for the Death Stranding series on which he’s been working since departing Konami. A live-action adaptation of the post-apocalyptic walking simulator landed a writer and director b

CISA says hackers breached federal agency using GeoServer exploit

CISA has revealed that attackers breached the network of an unnamed U.S. federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency last year after compromising an unpatched GeoServer instance. The security bug (tracked as CVE-2024-36401) is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability patched on June 18, 2024. CISA added the flaw to its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities roughly one month later, after multiple security researchers shared proof-of-concept exploits online [1, 2, 3], demo

Hideo Kojima's OD captures the spirit of P.T. in the first gameplay trailer

Kojima Productions, the studio helmed by auteur and famed cardboard box enthusiast Hideo Kojima, has finally given us our first glimpse of gameplay for the horror game OD. Developed in collaboration with Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele, OD is being billed as a totally unique experience that Kojima expects to divide players. It’s also going to leverage Microsoft’s cloud gaming tech in ways we’re not yet aware of, with Xbox Game Studios publishing the game. In the new just over three-minute

Meta is making its Llama AI models available to more governments in Europe and Asia

Meta is allowing more governments to access its suite of Llama AI models. The group includes France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea and organizations associated with the European Union and NATO, the company said in an update . The move comes after the company took similar steps last year to bring Llama to the US government and its contractors. Meta has also made its AI models available to the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for "national security use cases." Meta notes that gover

This expandable power station has one of the most intuitive features I've tested yet

EcoFlow River 3 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow River 3 Plus sets a new standard for me in terms of power and charging High-efficiency circuit for sub 100W devices massively boosts battery runtime The unit is built like a tank to take bangs and drops. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Just when you think that portable power stations have become as good as they are going to get, a company goes ahead and makes some big changes that you just didn't

Chicago’s Once-Disgusting River Just Hosted a Swimming Party

On Sunday, over 250 swimmers dove into the Chicago River for its first open water swim in almost a century. The Chicago River Swim’s triumphant return this past weekend celebrated the city’s environmental progress and raised $150,000 for ALS research at Northwestern’s Ozdinler Lab and swim-safety education programs at the Salvation Army Kroc Center, according to a recent Chicago River Swim statement. “Swimming in the Chicago River may sound like a wild idea, but the river has come a long way f

YouTube wants you to go live

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube is the most powerful platform in entertainment, and as such it has outsize influence on what kind of entertainment people make and watch. When YouTube adds a mid-video ad break, videos get longer to accommodate it. When YouTube tells podcaster

Palworld: Palfarm might be the creepiest farming game ever

Palworld is getting as spinoff that looks both cozy and terrifying — oh, and filled with characters that look exactly like Pokémon. In Palworld: Palfarm, you move to the Palpagos Islands and create a farm alongside Pals. These creatures help with farm work, cook and can even become friends. According to an announcement on Steam, "Through daily conversations, working together, or giving gifts from time to time, you can gradually deepen your relationships with both the Pals and the people of the

Google begins its battle for the ‘unofficial currency of the internet’

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Google has spent a decade sharpening its “weapons” in an industry that helps sustain large swaths of the open internet, the Justice Department argued before a federal judge Monday. After years of operating an illegal monopoly in two ad tech markets and unlawfully tying its products

More Android flagships are confirmed to get a camera kit, this time from ZEISS

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR vivo has confirmed that its entire upcoming X300 series will be compatible with its existing ZEISS 2.35x telephoto converter. The company has shared renders of the X300 and X300 Pro with the ZEISS camera kit, including a new silver-colored model to accompany the base X300. The X300 Ultra will potentially also support the same ZEISS 2.35x telephoto converter, though we are hoping for more functionality through new lenses. The next round of Android flags

This portable power station just set the gold standard for me - and it's priced well

EcoFlow River 3 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways One of the most intuitive solutions I've seen to making an expandable power station High-efficiency circuit for sub 100W devices massively boosts battery runtime The unit is built like a tank to take bangs and drops. $299 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Just when you think that portable power stations have become as good as they are going to get, a company goes ahead and makes some big changes that you just didn't see

Indoor surfaces act as sponges for harmful chemicals

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

Volvo promises software improvements for buggy EX90 SUV

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Volvo’s EX90 SUV was supposed to usher in a new era of electrified dominance for the Chinese-owned, Swedish designed automaker. Instead, the three-row SUV has been plagued by problems from the very start, including blank infotainment sc

How to fight censorship, one Disney+ cancellation at a time

In 2024, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled to defend a pretty obvious idea about free speech: viz., that the government cannot punish people or companies simply for saying things that government officials dislike or disagree with. Being a media organization, this principle is of fundamental importance to Ars Technica. Unfortunately, nearly one year on, the government is routinely trying to censor voices it doesn't like. The recent blow-up surrounding late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel is jus

T-Mobile is shaking things up with a new CEO, but what does that mean for you?

TL;DR Mike Sievert will step down as T-Mobile CEO on November 1, transitioning to the role of vice chairman after five years of leadership. Current COO Srini Gopalan will take over as CEO. Goplan has prior executive experience at Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone UK, and Bharti Airtel. T-Mobile states that Gopalan will lead a strategy focused on becoming a data-driven, AI-enabled, digital-first company while continuing 5G and next-generation network expansion. It has been five years since Mike Sieve

T-Mobile's Mike Sievert to Become Un-CEO: Srini Gopalan Takes Over Nov. 1

T-Mobile announced today that CEO Mike Sievert will step down effective Nov. 1 and be replaced by current Chief Operating Officer Srini Gopalan. Sievert will continue with the company as vice chairman and also serve on its board of directors. The announcement comes as T-Mobile is soaring in the mobile marketplace. A CEO shift often indicates problems for a company, but in this case, all outward signs point to an orderly, planned succession. It should have little impact on T-Mobile customers, bu

Android TV is getting ready to kill off the Discover tab… last month? (Update)

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Android TV currently offers a Discover tab for getting recommendations and building your watchlist. A new update to the system launcher suggests that Google’s planning to drop Discover and move your watchlist to the Home tab. Confusingly, Google’s messaging in the app suggest that this change was supposed to take place in July. Update: September 22, 2025 (4:40 PM ET): We have spotted a notice on Android TV warning users that the Discover tab will soon

Transforming recursion into iteration for LLVM loop optimizations

Abstract Recursive algorithms are a natural and expressive way to traverse complex data structures, but they often miss opportunities for optimization in modern compiler infrastructures like LLVM. This thesis explores a novel technique that temporarily transforms recursive traversals into synthetic loop-like structures, enabling existing loop-specific optimizations to apply, before transforming them back. By extending Clang’s semantic analysis and implementing a custom LLVM transformation pass,