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HP’s 2025 New 14″ Laptop at Over 70% Off Makes It Almost Free, With MS Office and Windows 11 Pro Included

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-23 19:10:58

Schools is out but the next semester will be here before you know it. Is you college student equipped to take on all their classes? Make sure they are kitted with the right laptop to get all their class work and homework done reliably without any technical issues. Amazon is making that easy as they’ve knocked more than half the price off this HP portable student and business laptop. It includes Microsoft Office and also thrown into the bundle is a license for Windows 11 Pro. It’s down from $1,30

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Beats Solo 4 Headphones Are 50% Off, Cheaper Than Last Prime Day While Stock Lasts on Amazon

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-23 19:40:43

Modern life can be incredibly hectic, and sometimes it’s nice to just zone out properly and enjoy some music, a podcast, or an audio book. It can be really hard to do that when you’re out and about though, which is why having some really good headphones is so important. Of the options out there, and there really are a lot, one of the most reliable brands around is Beats. See at Amazon You can currently get your hands on Beats Solo 4 headphones for just $100, which is a massive 50% off the norm

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Iconiq VCs spent two years courting Chime and the firm isn’t selling its stake

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-23 19:00:00

The VC tech world was abuzz on Thursday when neobank Chime successfully became a public company. Chime raised $864 million on a its $27 share price, which popped big, opening at $43. This wasn’t the biggest IPO of the year. CoreWeave, for instance, raised $1.5 billion in March, and its first-day market cap hit around $14 billion, too. (Its share price and valuation has soared since then). However, Chime’s cap table includes an absolute who’s who of Silicon Valley investors, many of whom are pu

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Anker recalls over a million power banks due to fire and burn hazards

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:00:17

You should stop using the PowerCore 10000 'immediately' and contact Anker for a free replacement. Anker has recalled its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to an issue with the lithium battery that can cause it to "overheat, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers," the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) wrote. The company received 19 reports of fires and explosions, including two reports of minor burn injuries and 11 property damage claims totaling over $60,700. It's a

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Jemalloc Postmortem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:37:17

Home Published Jun 12, 2025 The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and has been in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing, jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to an end. This post briefly describes jemalloc’s development phases, each with some success/failure highlights, followed by some retrospective commentary. Phase 0: Lyken In 2004 I began work on the Ly

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Strap in for a Thrilling Glimpse of Universal’s High-Speed ‘Fast & Furious’ Coaster

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-24 03:00:45

Giving a new name to family ride at Universal Studios Hollywood will be the theme park’s first major thrill rollercoaster inspired by The Fast and the Furious franchise. Height requirements are pending, sorry kids! The West Coast’s love for adrenaline-packed car races and theme parks combines in Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift—Universal’s fastest “drifting” coaster with a speed of 72 MPH. The ride is set to open sometime next year, and construction is well underway for it with the tracks huggin

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Trump’s protest threats raise surveillance alarms around his military parade

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-09-24 05:50:24

President Donald Trump’s warning that protesters of Saturday’s US military parade in Washington, DC, will be met with “very heavy force” threatens to chill speech and underscores the need for protesters to take precautions around digital surveillance, privacy advocates tell The Verge. In remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump did not distinguish between peaceful and non-peaceful protesters. “For those people who want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force,” Trump said.

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Android 16 is great, but changing this one setting makes it even better

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:00:04

Google’s Android 16 update is now available for Pixels, and like many of you, I eagerly rushed to update my phone as soon as the new software was live. Even though Android 16 isn’t the most thrilling OS upgrade we’ve ever seen (the really big changes are coming in Android 16 QPR1), a new Android update is still exciting, no matter how small. Android 16 has been running wonderfully on my Pixel 9a so far. It’s not a drastic update, but it’s smooth, responsive, and the little tweaks here and there

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Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:14:00

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known. In November 2024, researchers at the security firm Qurium publishe

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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins

news.ycombinator.com Scott Sayare 2025-09-24 10:50:08

On a late-summer day in 2001, at the University of Poitiers in west-central France, the palaeontologist Michel Brunet summoned his colleagues into a classroom to examine an unusual skull. Brunet had just returned from Chad, and brought with him an extremely ancient cranium. It had been distorted by the aeons spent beneath what is now the Djurab desert; a crust of black mineral deposits left it looking charred and slightly malevolent. It sat on a table. “What is this thing?” Brunet wondered aloud

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Konami's Original Silent Hill Getting Official Remake Treatment by Blooper Team

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 10:46:00

An official remake of the original 1999 Silent Hill video game is currently being developed by the same team behind the successful Silent Hill 2 remake last year. The title was announced as being in development at the very end of Thursday's Press Start game showcase, which showed off several upcoming games from Konami, including Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and more. Though the original Silent Hill has seen adaptations in the form of 2009's Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the 2006 fi

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Anker issues recall for popular power bank due to fire risk - stop using it now

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-24 15:01:51

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a new recall for the Anker PowerCore 10000 power bank, model number A1263. According to the report, the lithium-ion battery inside can overheat, causing the device to become a fire and burn hazard to consumers. "Anker has received 19 reports of fires and explosions" caused by its faulty power bank. Among those incidents, there have been "two reports of minor burn injuries" (thankfully not requiring medical attention) and 11

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After a series of tumors, woman’s odd-looking tongue explains everything

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 15:39:39

Breast cancer. Colon cancer. An enlarged thyroid gland. A family history of tumors and cancers as well. It wasn't until the woman developed an annoying case of dry mouth that doctors put it all together. By then, she was in her 60s. According to a new case study in JAMA Dermatology, the woman presented to a dermatology clinic in Spain after three months of oral unpleasantness. They noted the cancers in her medical history. When she opened wide, doctors immediately saw the problem: Her tongue wa

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After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-24 15:13:38

In Brief Felicis founder Aydin Senkut is celebrating his 20th year as an institutional early-stage investor by announcing the firm’s biggest fund yet: a $900 million Fund X. This follows the $825 million Fund IX raised in 2023 and the $600 million Fund XIII raised in 2021. Felicis, a seed and Series A firm, is known for backing a long string of successes, including Ayden, Bonobos, Ring, Shopify, and Twitch, among others. Since being founded in 2006, Felicis has backed over 50 unicorns and had

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Oracle shares pop 13% to record high on earnings beat, cloud optimism

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-24 19:26:07

Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, chief technology officer and chairman, at right, and U.S. President Donald Trump share a laugh as Ellison uses a stool to stand on as he speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Trump announced an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and took questions on a range of topics including his presidential pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, the war in Ukraine, cryptocurrencies and other t

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Chime pops 37% in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO above expected range

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-24 19:06:01

CEO of Chime, Chris Britt, center right, rings the opening bell during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite on June 12, 2025 in New York City. Chime shares jumped 37% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of online banking services sold shares in an IPO that valued the company at $11.6 billion. Late Wednesday, Chime raised about $700 million in its offering, and existing investors sold an additional $165 million worth of shares. The stock, trading under

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Schumer Interrupts Crypto Debate to Announce Sen. Padilla Was Roughed Up by Federal Thugs in California

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-24 19:36:29

Sen. Alex Padilla, the Democratic senator from California, was forcibly removed from a press conference held by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, on Thursday that was focused on ICE’s campaign of terror against the people of Los Angeles. Padilla was thrown to the ground and handcuffed. And it put a real damper on the current debate about the controversial cryptocurrency bill that Chuck Schumer is currently trying to get passed in the Senate. Two videos of Padilla’s arrest at the

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There's a Giant Problem With SpaceX's Starlink Satellites

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-24 22:27:06

Astronomers' attempts to peer into the earliest reaches of the universe could be threatened by thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions that ruin observations made with highly sensitive telescopes. As New Scientist reports, a team of researchers led by Curtin University radio astronomy professor Steven Tingay tracked the signals of almost 2,000 Starlink satellites, with the help of a prototype telescope from the Square Kilometre Array, which is currently under constructio

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The coolest visionOS 26 feature is also a hint at Apple’s next home product

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-24 00:59:00

This week, Apple unveiled visionOS 26, and one of its standout features is spatial widgets: customizable, three-dimensional elements that users can pin to their surroundings and glance at while wearing an Apple Vision Pro. And while they’re technically impressive and undeniably cool-looking (especially that wall-embedded ones), they might also be Apple’s first hint at what we could expect from a long-rumored smart home product. Spatial widgets in visionOS 26 With customizable Batteries, Calen

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Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 03:16:33

Moviemaking icon Mel Brooks and Amazon MGM Studios have published a teaser trailer to announce that Spaceballs 2 is moving full steam ahead with plans to premiere in 2027 – and it sounds like Rick Moranis is coming back as Dark Helmet, too. A trailer for the sequel to the classic '80s sci-fi Star Wars parody arrived today. Although it mostly comes with a special message from Brooks himself and a familiar text crawl that pokes fun at the long, long list of sequels that have come to theaters in t

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs — today it IPO’d at $14.5B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-25 02:23:17

One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its shares at $27, which is above its previously announced range of $24 to $26. That gave it a starting market cap of about $9.8 billion. While some would point out that this is far below its last private valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook’s estimates, shares opened at $42, putting it at $14.5 by midday in heavy trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The hungry

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Chime opens at $43 in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO above expected range

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-25 07:10:15

CEO of Chime, Chris Britt, center right, rings the opening bell during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite on June 12, 2025 in New York City. Chime opened at $43 in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday after selling shares at $27 each in an IPO that valued the online banking company at $11.6 billion. Late Wednesday, Chime raised about $700 million in its offering, and existing investors sold an additional $165 million worth of shares. The stock is trading under the ticker sy

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Razer's new Kishi V3 controllers can fit up to a 13-inch iPad

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-25 07:03:17

Razer has announced its latest lineup of Kishi mobile gaming controllers, capable of housing your phone, small tablet and, in the most comically extreme case, a full-size iPad. The Kishi V3 Pro XL is seemingly designed for people who like to play games on the largest possible mobile canvas, but don’t want to rely on touch controls or just pair a wireless pad. The two sides of the controller stretch out so wide that the V3 Pro XL is able to accommodate a 13-inch iPad Air or Pro, or compatible An

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Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-25 07:14:38

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty In his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Singularity -- the moment in which machine intelligence surpasses our own -- would occur around the year 2045. Sam Altman believes it's much closer. In a blog post published Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO delivered a homily devoted to what he views as the imminent arrival of artificial "superintelligence." Whereas artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is usually defined as a computer

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My favorite MagSafe wallet stand is the ideal iPhone companion, and it just got cheaper

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-09-25 07:23:39

ZDNET's key takeaways ESR's Aura Halo-Lock MagSafe wallet and stand combine style and function at a fair price point. The $40 MagSafe wallet stores up to five cards, doubles as a phone stand, includes an ID window, and comes in five colorways. If you're after smaller capacity wallets or more premium materials, you're better off with other MagSafe cardholders. $23.99 at Amazon The ESR Aura MagSafe wallet and stand is on sale in select colors for $19 at Amazon now. When I'm not doubled down co

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Shaq Signs $1.8 Million Check to End His Crypto Drama

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-25 07:40:17

Shaquille O’Neal can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The basketball legend turned businessman and TV personality has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over his role in promoting the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX. While the payment closes a legal chapter for the former Laker, it also marks a turning point in how courts are treating celebrity endorsements in the volatile world of crypto, a space where stardom once offered both hype and cover. O’Neal is among

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‘Spaceballs 2’ Could Also Bring Back Rick Moranis—and More

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-25 07:52:17

We’re not sure if there’s a Christmas in the Spaceballs universe, but if there is, it’s probably today. Hot on the heels of creator Mel Brooks making the news of a sequel official, a new report suggests two of the original’s main stars will be returning as well. Deadline reports that original stars Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are both expected to return for Spaceballs 2, which is coming to theaters in 2027. Keke Palmer (Nope) is also expected to star in the film, along with Josh Gad. Pullman

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Instagram grid customization is coming next week

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-25 06:00:00

Instagram is making it easier for users to express themselves through music, reels, and says it’s “exploring” ways to support posts that can appear on your profile without being pushed to followers’ feeds. A feature rolling out today allows users to automatically share the name and artist of the Spotify song they’re currently listening to in their Instagram Notes — the temporary status updates that appear above profile pictures in Instagram DMs. Meta spokesperson Christine Pai confirmed that st

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Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 is once again available for purchase

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-09-25 07:31:40

writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get your hands on Nintendo’s GameCube Controller for the Switch 2, now’s your moment. It’s back in stock for $64.99 from the My Nintendo Store website. As before, it’s only available to Nintendo Switch Online members, and it’s made to play GameCube titles available through the Switch Online Expansion Pack, like The Legend

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-25 07:23:17

One of the year’s most anticipated IPOs took place on Thursday when neobank Chime raised $864 million in its IPO, pricing its shares at $27, above its previously announced range of $24 to $26. That gave it a starting market cap of about $9.8 billion. While some would point out that this is far below its last private valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook’s estimates, shares opened at $42, putting it at $14.5 by midday in heavy trading, according to Yahoo Finance. The hungry response

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HP’s 2025 New 14″ Laptop at Over 70% Off Makes It Almost Free, With MS Office and Windows 11 Pro Included

Beats Solo 4 Headphones Are 50% Off, Cheaper Than Last Prime Day While Stock Lasts on Amazon

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Strap in for a Thrilling Glimpse of Universal’s High-Speed ‘Fast & Furious’ Coaster

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Konami's Original Silent Hill Getting Official Remake Treatment by Blooper Team

Anker issues recall for popular power bank due to fire risk - stop using it now

After a series of tumors, woman’s odd-looking tongue explains everything

After a string of successes, early-stage fund Felicis raises fresh $900M

Oracle shares pop 13% to record high on earnings beat, cloud optimism

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Schumer Interrupts Crypto Debate to Announce Sen. Padilla Was Roughed Up by Federal Thugs in California

There's a Giant Problem With SpaceX's Starlink Satellites

The coolest visionOS 26 feature is also a hint at Apple’s next home product

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Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs — today it IPO’d at $14.5B

Chime opens at $43 in Nasdaq debut after pricing IPO above expected range

Razer's new Kishi V3 controllers can fit up to a 13-inch iPad

Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

My favorite MagSafe wallet stand is the ideal iPhone companion, and it just got cheaper

Shaq Signs $1.8 Million Check to End His Crypto Drama

‘Spaceballs 2’ Could Also Bring Back Rick Moranis—and More

Instagram grid customization is coming next week

Nintendo’s GameCube controller for the Switch 2 is once again available for purchase

Chime almost died in 2016, turned down by 100 VCs. Today it IPO’d at $14.5B.

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