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Google could revamp Android’s backup settings with a sleek new look (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-19 09:38:55

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play Services v25.11.32 beta contains code for a redesigned Backup page, simplifying the interface by removing unnecessary details. Update, July 17, 2025 (06:38 AM ET): Google is rolling out the new Backup UI in Google Play Services. We’ve received the update across devices with Android 15 and Android Canary. Original article, March 20, 2025 (09:02 AM ET): Google has a decently robust backup and restore solution through Google One. This system taps

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Google Messages will soon tell you exactly what happened to sent messages (Updated: Beta rollout)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-19 09:45:04

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has discovered a new UI for the “view details” page in Google Messages. This option typically pops up when you long-press a message, giving you more information about it. The new UI will give you more detailed info about the message and recipients. Update, July 17, 2025 (06:45 AM ET): Google is rolling out the new UI to some users with the latest beta, as spotted by user Aniruddh. While we don’t yet have it on our device

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I can't go back to grainy night vision after testing this security camera

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-19 11:00:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The EufyCam S3 Pro is available separately for $220 or in a two-pack with the HomeBase 3 for $550. This EufyCam is an excellent 4K outdoor security camera that delivers on its night vision promises, features no monthly fees, and has dual motion detection to reduce false alerts. The biggest downsides are that the camera is expensive, especially when you bundle it with HomeBase 3, and its resolution drops to 1080p with HomeKit. $549.99 at Amazon Eufy Security launched a ne

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This '90s Movie Is a Sci-Fi Techno-Noir Gem, and It's Streaming Free on Tubi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 17:25:14

Techno-noir may not have ever been a major genre, but it delivers twists and turns in a futuristic city where things are darker than they seem. Films like Johnny Mnemonic, Blade Runner and 12 Monkeys popularized the genre, but they're far from the only options. One of my overlooked favorites of the genre is Dark City, a mind-bending techno-noir thriller that explores the idea of identity against a city swathed in darkness. Released in 1998, the underrated gem preceded The Matrix by a year, and

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Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2026-02-19 23:00:00

The study, which makes use of a technology called mitochondrial donation, has been described as a “tour de force” and “a remarkable accomplishment” by others in the field. In the team’s approach, patients’ eggs are fertilized with sperm, and the DNA-containing nuclei of those cells are transferred into donated fertilized eggs that have had their own nuclei removed. The new embryos contain the DNA of the intended parents along with a tiny fraction of mitochondrial DNA from the donor, floating in

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OpenAI, Google, and Meta Researchers Warn We May Lose the Ability to Track AI Misbehavior

gizmodo.com Rhett Jones 2026-02-20 09:05:11

Over 40 scientists from the world’s leading AI institutions, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta, have come together to call for more research in a particular type of safety monitoring that allows humans to analyze how AI models “think.” The scientists published a research paper on Tuesday that highlighted what is known as chain of thought (CoT) monitoring as a new yet fragile opportunity to boost AI safety. The paper was endorsed by prominent AI figures like OpenAI co-founde

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Introducing the Ars Technica Posting Guidelines version 3.0

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-20 14:43:23

Ars Technica's community is—in our biased opinion—second to none online. For more than 26 years, readers have enabled and inspired our work, creating a community with an amazing signal-to-noise ratio. To aid these efforts, we're updating our Posting Guidelines to make them more accessible to new readers—and more straightforward and more transparent for everyone. The substance of the guidelines isn't changing. Most provisions are just common-sense items meant to foster genuine discussion, such a

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OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-02-20 14:11:20

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, spouted antisemitic comments and repeatedly called itself “MechaHitler.” Shortly after xAI took its chatbot offline to addre

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KDB-X: KX releases FREE Commercial KDB license

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 18:09:36

This is it ladies and gentleman! The moment we’ve all been waiting for! KX just dropped the long-promised Community Edition, and IT'S FREE. Yes!!, you read that right: it's free. Not for a week. Not for personal use only. Free to use, even commercially. Holy cow, this honestly feels like Christmas came early this year. If you're wondering what all the hype is about and why I'm so excited about this breaking news, keep reading, you don't want to miss this. First thing first, let's start with the

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HBO confirms The Last of Us season 3 will arrive in 2027

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-20 23:11:50

If you’re all caught up on The Last of Us (the TV version that is) then you’ll know that season two made clear that when the show returns it will focus a lot more on Kaitlyn’s Dever’s Abby. But it sounds like we’re going to have to wait a while to see that side of the story unfold. Speaking to Variety off the back of The Last of Us netting HBO 16 Emmy nominations this week, the company’s CEO, Casey Bloys, said season three is "definitely planned for 2027." Bloys didn’t offer any more specific i

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‘Extremely Severe’ Obesity in American Kids Is Surging, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-21 04:00:29

Many Americans today are living with obesity, even with the advent of newer, more effective drugs like semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy). It’s a problem that seems to be getting especially serious in kids, however. Research out today finds that the percentage of children with “extremely severe” obesity has surged in the U.S. over the past decade and a half. Scientists at the University of California San Diego led the study, which examined nationally representative data o

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Our 11 Favorite Air Quality Monitors We’ve Tried (2025)

wired.com Lisa Wood Shapiro 2026-02-21 04:02:00

In the past five years, I’ve tested dozens of indoor air-quality monitors but have relied on my iPhone’s Weather app to check outdoor air quality. On questionable days that might include haze or the smell of wildfire, I’ll check the government’s free AirNow website, where I’ll plug in my zip code and see its easy-to-read air quality meter. With the increasing wildfire activity from coast to coast, however, I realized it was time to test an outdoor air-quality monitor. The Zen is larger than the

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Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (July 16)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 18:30:36

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens. For the newest wall

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5 reasons why I still prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-02-21 23:38:00

Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images I've been working with artificial intelligence (AI) since the 1970s, when Lisp was state-of-the-art. Lately, like everyone else, I've been looking at AI a lot more closely. While it's nifty and getting genuinely useful, it can still blunder, like the time Google's AI Overviews recommended users to eat "at least one small rock per day." AI can also lose its mind, such as when Grok went totally MechnaHitler. Even when I tell J. Random Chatbot to summari

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Nextflow: System for creating scalable, portable, reproducible workflows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 04:30:52

"Dataflow variables are spectacularly expressive in concurrent programming" Henri E. Bal , Jennifer G. Steiner , Andrew S. Tanenbaum Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, portable, and reproducible workflows. It is based on the dataflow programming model, which greatly simplifies the writing of parallel and distributed pipelines, allowing you to focus on the flow of data and computation. Nextflow can deploy workflows on a variety of execution platforms, including your local mach

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Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 05:22:33

Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of Open-Source Project PuTTY PupRed bigtech bitvise domainsnatcher putty ssh In the open-source world, trust, transparency, and community stewardship form the foundation of public credibility. But a recent case involving the domain name putty.org calls these values into question. The domain, long associated by users with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, is not controlled by the PuTTY project itself — but by a

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'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Is Back: How to Watch Belly, Conrad and Jeremiah's Final Season

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 06:05:03

It's not summer without you. Jenny Han's The Summer I Turned Pretty is back this week for its third and final season. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the final installment for more than a year now, and from what we've seen in the official season trailer, this is bound to be another drama-filled summer -- there might even be a wedding? The show is based off the book trilogy of the same name by Jenny Han, who has been executive producing the TV series. Isabelle "Belly" Conklin (Lola Tung) kicks o

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RCS chats not connecting? Google Messages may soon make it easier to diagnose (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 18:14:59

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages may be about to add a “Details” button to help diagnose issues with RCS chats connections. The button was spotted within a recent beta version of the app, and includes a “Submit feedback” option. Google has previously advised users to provide this kind of technical info if they’re having problems with the feature. If you’ve ever found RCS chats registration stuck on “Connecting” or “Verifying” in Google Messages, you know how frustrati

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What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2026-02-22 11:59:04

Thanks for reading! If you enjoy this article, last week’s essay on The Death of Partying in the U.S.A., or my feature story on The Anti-Social Century, consider becoming a subscriber to this newsletter to receive more essays on the social crises of our age. In rich countries around the world, birth rates have fallen to historically low levels. Governments have responded with a confetti cannon of policy ideas to increase the number of babies, including parental leave plans, preschool programs,

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How Culture Is Made

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 20:06:30

Story #1: Take nobody’s word for it It’s November 28, 1660. Europe is in the early stages of transforming from the Middle Ages into something new. At a small university in London, an astronomy professor holds weekly lectures on “Natural Knowledge,” a Middle Age term describing facts that only God would know — how planets move, how human bodies work, things like that. After the lecture a dozen people gather, as they usually do. That particular night the group decides it’s time to start a club d

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The Future of Social Security Looks Grim. 6 Tips to Help You Save for Retirement Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 17:00:00

Getty Images/Zooey Liao/CNET Social Security payments can help you fund part of your retirement -- but don't bank on it as your only source of income. The Social Security trust fund is expected to dry up by 2034, according to the Social Security Administration. That's one year sooner than initially forecast. While the fund won't vanish completely, it's estimated that you'll only receive 81% of your benefits, at best. Why? The fund has been running out of money for years, but President Donald

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Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:39:00

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they dubbed the Infinity Galaxy. It appears to support a leading theory on how some supermassive black holes form. Although "Infinity Galaxy" sounds like a place Thanos would hang out, it merely describes its appearance. Two compact, red nuclei, each surrounded by a ring, give the cluster the shape of an infinity symbol. What's inside is more interesting. (After all, this is a

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Windows KB5064489 emergency update fixes Azure VM launch issues

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-23 09:47:07

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a bug that prevents Azure virtual machines from launching when the Trusted Launch setting is disabled and Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) is enabled. The bug impacted Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2 and was introduced during the July Patch Tuesday security updates. "This update addresses an issue that prevented some virtual machines (VMs) from starting when Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) was enabled," explains Microsoft. "It a

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The best power banks you can buy in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-23 09:27:38

Almost everyone I know owns at least one power bank, and the ubiquity of these portable chargers means that you can pick up cheap units in gas stations and dollar stores. But my extensive testing suggests that these are false economy, and you're very likely buying something that at best won't last long, or at worse could even be dangerous. This is why I recommend buying power banks from reputable brands. Don't worry -- I still work to keep those brands honest by extensively testing every power

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Joby Aviation says it is doubling production at its air taxi manufacturing hub

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-02-23 14:41:55

JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, stands near an electric air taxi by Joby Aviation at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 12, 2023. Joby Aviation is ramping up its manufacturing capabilities in the U.S. as it races to roll out air taxi service in 2026. The electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) maker said Tuesday that it's launching production at its remodeled components facility in Dayton, Ohio, and plans to double capacity at its

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Google One is getting easier on the eyes with these Expressive changes (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-23 14:36:12

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is currently in the middle of bringing its Material 3 Expressive design language to its Android apps. Earlier this year we got a preview of how this would impact Google One, looking at the app’s settings screen. We’re now able to see many more Expressive elements throughout the app, but these still aren’t publicly accessible. Halfway through July may not be official the midpoint of summer, but it sure feels like it. While some of us have been enjoy

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Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-23 18:53:08

An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as 'Diskstation,' which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Elicius' was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation that targets Synology Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which are commonly used by companies for centralized

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My favorite indoor security camera has no subscription fees

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-02-24 04:39:40

ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security Indoor Cam S350 is available for purchase at $130. The S350 indoor camera features dual telephoto and wide-angle lenses with 360-degree motion tracking and optional local storage to avoid monthly fees. The only drawback I've found is that I wish the camera had a button to engage privacy mode manually, but you can schedule it as needed on the app. View now at Amazon It's safe to say the Eufy Security Indoor Cam S350 has become indispensable in my home. W

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Android malware Konfety uses malformed APKs to evade detection

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-24 09:10:36

A new variant of the Konfety Android malware emerged with a malformed ZIP structure along with other obfuscation methods that allow it to evade analysis and detection. Konfety poses as a legitimate app, mimicking innocuous products available on Google Play, but features none of the promised functionality. The capabilities of the malware include redirecting users to malicious sites, pushing unwanted app installs, and fake browser notifications. Instead, it fetches and renders hidden ads using

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I'm taking my favorite portable vinyl player on all my summer trips

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2026-02-24 09:48:48

ZDNET's key takeaways The Audio-Technica Sound Burger retails for $199 and comes in yellow, black, or white. The Sound Burger has unparalleled portability, a long battery life, and provides a novel listening experience. It doesn't have a counterweight, and also doesn't have an auto-return feature. View now at Amazon Technology is all about embracing the now. So, even though I am one of those people who can be stuck in their ways (such as listening to vinyl records with the appropriate analog

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