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Lock down your AT&T account to prevent SIM swapping attacks - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-18 09:06:00

AT&T SIM swapping is a popular type of fraud in which someone transfers your mobile number to a SIM in their own device. By intercepting any messages or phone calls sent to you, they're able to access your two-factor authentication codes and other sensitive information. Now, AT&T is offering customers a way to combat this kind of crime. Available starting today, Wireless Account Lock is an option for AT&T subscribers with postpaid or prepaid wireless accounts. Simply by turning on a switch in

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You can snag T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service on any carrier - how to get it for free

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-02-18 23:10:01

Kaye Marie Christofferson / 500px/Getty T-Mobile will officially launch its public Starlink satellite service on Wednesday, July 23. Currently in beta testing, the service will be available for any mobile phone user with a compatible device, including AT&T and Verizon subscribers. In its Monday news release, the Uncarrier explained what Starlink will offer. From the get-go, iOS and Android users alike will be able to send SMS text messages. Other features include MMS (Multimedia Messaging Serv

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Anker USB-C Charger Block (2-Pack) Is Going for Peanuts, So Each One Practically a Gift for 4th of July

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-02-19 04:10:13

If you’re anything like most people, you’ve probably lost a charger or two over the years, bent a few cords, or found yourself with a slow adapter that just doesn’t keep up anymore. It’s normal. But it doesn’t have to persist. You could just keep things where you’ll remember them. But hey, that’s easier said than done. So instead, just get more chargers so you don’t have an excuse to lose them. And you can do that right now for a ridiculously affordable price. Head to Amazon now to get the Anke

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A Viral Question Is Puzzling Bitcoin Fans: Why Isn’t the Price Rising?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-19 04:10:44

A question is going viral on social media, reflecting the confusion shared by Bitcoin skeptics and believers alike. “Can anyone explain to me why companies are buying billions of dollars of Bitcoin every week and the price is virtually unchanged over the last 6 months?” one user posted on X on June 27. “Explain it to me like I’m 5.” Can anyone explain to me why companies are buying billions of dollars of bitcoin every week and the price is virtually unchanged over the last 6 months? Explain it

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Meta adds business voice calling to WhatsApp, explores AI-powered product recommendations

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-02-19 04:15:00

WhatsApp is adding more AI features to its business suite. The company on Tuesday announced it’s introducing the ability for large businesses to reach customers through voice calls, which will allow the app to explore the use of AI-powered voice agents. The company is also looking into using AI to recommend products to users. WhatsApp Business, which has over 200 million monthly users, has been a notable revenue driver for Meta, as its executives noted in the last few quarterly earnings calls.

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MLS Season Pass is now 50% off

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-02-19 14:00:06

The MLS Season Pass price is now $49 for the remainder of the season, which lets subscribers stream all MLS regular season and playoff games, live and on-demand. The price drop reflects the fact that the 2025 season is about halfway finished. As always, Apple TV+ members get an additional discount: MLS Season Pass is now just $39 if you are a TV+ subscriber. The monthly plan price is unchanged. As usual, this does not reflect a permanent change in pricing strategy for MLS Season Pass. It is me

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The 19 best Prime Day 2025 deals under $25

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2026-02-19 14:36:00

Amazon Prime Day is a great time to save money on expensive tech items like laptops, tablets, and TVs--especially on big-name brands like Apple, Samsung, and Sony. But if you're on a strict budget this year, ZDNET has you covered with the best deals. Get daily deals straight to your inbox during Prime Day when you sign up for ZDNET Recommends, your one-stop newsletter for the sale. You can find some very useful tech products, devices, and other gadgets for under $25, even before Amazon Prime D

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Addigy’s Prebuilt App Catalog is built to simplify managing macOS apps at scale

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2026-02-19 20:00:00

Most enterprise apps used on macOS don’t come from the Mac App Store, so IT teams are stuck managing them manually. That includes tracking down the latest versions, packaging them up for deployment, setting up the required permissions, and making sure they’re installed and updated properly across every device. It’s a tedious process that doesn’t scale well, and it introduces security risk when apps fall behind on security updates. Addigy aims to solve this by adding a new Prebuilt App Catalog, w

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Senate votes against curbing state-level AI regulation

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-19 18:11:09

Yesterday, the senate was poised to restrict states' power to regulate AI. Now, the measure is dead in the water, with the Senate voting 99-1 to remove the provision. Are you also having a bit of whiplash? Here's what you need to know about the amendments rightful journey into the trash can of history. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had pushed for an amendment to Trump's tax bill that would ban states from regulating the AI industry for ten years — if the state took AI infrastructure funding includ

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Tech Companies Have a New Thing to Waste Money On: ‘Etiquette Coaches’ for Gen-Z Staff

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-19 18:30:30

A new report from The San Francisco Standard claims that Bay Area companies are investing in a service that can alleviate some of the stresses caused by hiring younger employees: etiquette experts. These experts are making good money explaining to new hires why it’s inappropriate to show up to work in sweatpants or put your feet on the table during a meeting. The story quotes women employed in this apparently blossoming field, including Rosalinda Randall, a coach from Marin who claims that inqu

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Google’s answer to Apple’s Handoff is coming with a welcome upgrade for Android (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-20 02:46:55

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on an Android-wide “Handoff” feature for multi-device syncing. This feature will enable access to apps and media across your devices, and even sync notifications between them. Apple has a similar Continuity feature called Handoff, albeit without notification syncing. Update, July 1, 2025 (04:46 AM ET): We’ve managed to enable the UI for the Handoff feature within Cross-device services. The feature is still a work in progress and doe

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These Google Nest speakers are getting three new voices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-20 02:53:44

Lil Katz / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Nest smart speakers with Gemini-backed Google Assistant are getting new voices. The three new voices are also named after plants, as were the seven previously made available by Google in December 2024. Gemini-powered Google Assistant is still an experimental feature, available only in the US. Google’s ongoing mission to replace the traditional Google Assistant with Gemini has largely been limited to Android phones. Other devices, such as smart spea

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This Android-friendly MagSafe power bank beats the others for this one cool reason

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-20 02:15:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge Icemag 2 power bank is available on Amazon now around $55. With a perfect size, a powerful battery, RBG lighting, and a tiny fan to keep things cool, this power bank is ideal for those on the go. The Icemag 2 isn't exactly the fastest charging power bank on the market but it's still a bargain. $69.9 at Amazon Power banks are a dime a dozen, and you can find all sorts of features that range from the gimmicky to the "why didn't they think of this before?" I've r

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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-20 04:20:27

5 min read A changing landscape of consumption Many publishers, content creators and website owners currently feel like they have a binary choice — either leave the front door wide open for AI to consume everything they create, or create their own walled garden. But what if there was another way? At Cloudflare, we started from a simple principle: we wanted content creators to have control over who accesses their work. If a creator wants to block all AI crawlers from their content, they should

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T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Showing Up: Here's What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 03:00:07

Could you use a little extra money this summer? Check your bank account -- there may be an unexpected deposit from a company you may not recognize. It could be the money you're due from T-Mobile's 2022 class-action settlement. Those who qualify were told to expect settlement checks in April, but then that was moved to May. And now, in mid-June, as cited by Android Authority, Reddit users are saying they are seeing money in their bank accounts. Some are saying they received $56, but others are re

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When will F1 movie be on Apple TV? Here’s the streaming release date

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-02-18 00:50:31

This weekend, F1: The Movie is making a big splash in its opening weekend at the box office at movie theaters around the world. The Apple Original Film is being distributed by Warner Bros. for its theatrical run. But as an Apple production, it will end up streaming on Apple TV+. Here’s the expected streaming release date. Apple has not officially announced further release plans yet, as the company is obviously currently focused on making the cinema run as successful as possible. The logic goes

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This compact Windows PC outperforms the M4 Mac Mini in key areas - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-02-20 06:30:16

ZDNET's key takeaways Minisforum's AI X1 Pro retails for $1,129. It's a powerful mini armed with top-tier hardware for creators, programmers, and coders looking to interface with AI at lightning-fast speeds. Don't count on relying on the device's built-in speakers or mic, and it's one of the chunkier minis. View now at Minisforum View now at Amazon more buying choices All three configurations of the Minisforum A1 XI Pro are on sale, with the 2TB SSD model receiving a $280 discount. When Appl

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Why I recommend this $280 Android phone over cheap models from Samsung and Google

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2026-02-20 06:30:19

ZDNET's key takeaways The CMF Phone 2 Pro is one of the best-value handsets on the market, with a price of $279 It has a striking design, a practical feature set, and fantastic battery life. US buyers should note the phone's cellular network support, and the lack of compatible back accessories. View now at Nothing View now at Walmart View now at Amazon more buying choices I've tested a wide range of distinctive budget smartphones this year, from the Moto G Stylus 2025, which features a built-

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Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg

news.ycombinator.com No Author 2026-02-19 22:54:11

The average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through June 15 stood at ¥3,920 per 5 kilograms, slipping below ¥4,000 for the first time since the week that ended on March 2, the agriculture ministry said Monday. The average price was down by ¥256 from the previous week, declining for the 4th straight week and marking the first drop exceeding ¥100 since March 2022, when the ministry started releasing weekly rice prices. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had aim

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T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone. Check If You’ll Get It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 02:16:00

Going off-grid might soon be a thing of the past, as T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to “eliminate mobile dead zones for good” by utilizing 657 Starlink satellites that will be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing sinc

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T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone. Check If You’ll Get It For Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-20 08:16:00

Going off-grid might soon be a thing of the past, as T-Mobile’s partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service gets ready to launch on July 23. The alliance will provide direct-to-cell messaging service, called T-Satellite, which will also be available to AT&T and Verizon cellphone customers. T-Mobile says its goal is to “eliminate mobile dead zones for good” by utilizing 657 Starlink satellites that will be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing sinc

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Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5 kilograms

news.ycombinator.com No Author 2026-02-20 10:54:11

The average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through June 15 stood at ¥3,920 per 5 kilograms, slipping below ¥4,000 for the first time since the week that ended on March 2, the agriculture ministry said Monday. The average price was down by ¥256 from the previous week, declining for the 4th straight week and marking the first drop exceeding ¥100 since March 2022, when the ministry started releasing weekly rice prices. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had aim

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Creating fair dice from random objects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-17 15:11:38

What if you could make your dice any shape at all—not just boxes and polyhedra, but dragons or other game-relevant shapes? Most people are familiar with conventional cubical six-sided dice, but there are also polyhedral versions like the 20-sided dice used in ancient Rome and to play Dungeons and Dragons. Researchers have figured out how to design dice with even more exotic shapes, like a kitten, a dragon, or an armadillo. And they are "fair" dice: Experiments with 3D-printed versions produced

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Some Disposable E-Cigarettes Are More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-20 23:40:18

E-cigarettes have become increasingly popular over the last two decades, especially among young people. These sleek, deliciously flavored smoking devices are often marketed as a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes, but alarming new research challenges that assumption. In a study published June 25 in the journal ACS Central Science, researchers tested three popular disposable vape brands for hazardous metals and metalloids such as lead, chromium, antimony, and nickel. Inhaling these tox

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The new Crucial X10 1TB Portable SSD just got a 41% price drop

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 09:44:08

Crucial only launched its latest entrant to the SSD market last month, so we thought it would be some time before we saw a significant price drop on it. However, with Prime Day just around the corner, the Crucial X10 1TB Portable SSD just plunged by 41% in this Amazon deal. Crucial X10 1TB Portable SSD for $81.99 ($58 off) It almost goes without saying that the markdown represents an all-time low price on the storage device, and similar savings are reflected on other variants. For instance, if

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Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 09:10:50

First of all, this is purely a personal learning project for me, aiming to combine three of my passions: photography, software engineering, and my family memories. I have a large collection of family photos and want to build an interactive experience to explore them, ala Google or Apple Photo features. My goal is to create a system with smart search capabilities, and one of the most important requirements is that it must run entirely on my local hardware. Privacy is key, but the main driver is

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Jackery’s capable, solar-powered generator is nearly half off

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-02-21 09:35:36

A summer camping trip is the perfect excuse to stop staring at screens, but it doesn’t mean you need to go completely off the grid. Jackery’s Explorer 1000 Power Station V2 lets you charge your gadgets and have more fun while you’re camping. For instance, you can plug in a projector, speakers, or a space heater. In other words, it’s great for entertainment and for maintaining a certain quality of life you may not be willing to give up while camping. This charging station, which also includes a S

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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2026-02-21 14:33:59

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate secur

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I love this wireless remote for more productive workouts, plus it's 20% off

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2026-02-21 18:11:00

Allison Murray/ZDNET Get 20% off this TikTok Remote Control that comes in six different colors when you buy it at Amazon this week. Also: The best July 4th tech deals available now Let's face it, scrolling through our phones is like breathing in this day and age. Whether your preferred scrolling time is spent on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, or a chatbot, it's begrudgingly become a daily habit for many of us (I'm looking at you, Millennials and Gen Z). No, it's not the most useful way to spend

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Deals: M4 MacBook Air $170 off, M4 Max Mac Studio $300 off, Apple Pencil Pro, iPad mini, AirTag, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2026-02-21 23:46:16

The 4th of July Apple deals are starting to fly with up to $170 in savings on the latest 24GB M4 MacBook Air models alongside some relatively rare $200 or $300 price drops on M4 Max Mac Studio configurations. We also have $100 off just about every model iPad mini 7 joined by deals on Apple Pencil Pro and a straight $79 in savings on AirPods Max (or up to $130 off open-box units), AirTag at $23, and a whole lot more in the now live Best Buy 4th of July event. Head below for a closer look. M4 Mac

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Latest Tech News

Lock down your AT&T account to prevent SIM swapping attacks - here's how

You can snag T-Mobile's Starlink satellite service on any carrier - how to get it for free

Anker USB-C Charger Block (2-Pack) Is Going for Peanuts, So Each One Practically a Gift for 4th of July

A Viral Question Is Puzzling Bitcoin Fans: Why Isn’t the Price Rising?

Meta adds business voice calling to WhatsApp, explores AI-powered product recommendations

MLS Season Pass is now 50% off

The 19 best Prime Day 2025 deals under $25

Addigy’s Prebuilt App Catalog is built to simplify managing macOS apps at scale

Senate votes against curbing state-level AI regulation

Tech Companies Have a New Thing to Waste Money On: ‘Etiquette Coaches’ for Gen-Z Staff

Google’s answer to Apple’s Handoff is coming with a welcome upgrade for Android (Updated)

These Google Nest speakers are getting three new voices

This Android-friendly MagSafe power bank beats the others for this one cool reason

Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots

T-Mobile Data Breach Settlement Checks Are Showing Up: Here's What to Know

When will F1 movie be on Apple TV? Here’s the streaming release date

This compact Windows PC outperforms the M4 Mac Mini in key areas - and it's on sale

Why I recommend this $280 Android phone over cheap models from Samsung and Google

Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg

T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone. Check If You’ll Get It for Free

T-Mobile Is Bringing Starlink to Your Phone. Check If You’ll Get It For Free

Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5 kilograms

Creating fair dice from random objects

Some Disposable E-Cigarettes Are More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds

The new Crucial X10 1TB Portable SSD just got a 41% price drop

Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

Jackery’s capable, solar-powered generator is nearly half off

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

I love this wireless remote for more productive workouts, plus it's 20% off

Deals: M4 MacBook Air $170 off, M4 Max Mac Studio $300 off, Apple Pencil Pro, iPad mini, AirTag, more

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