GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-28 11:25:48

Fireflies glow to attract mates. As new research shows, however, a certain species of spider has learned to take advantage of this luminous natural phenomenon. In a Journal of Animal Ecology paper published August 27, ecologists report that the sheetweb spider (Psechrus clavis) appears to exploit firefly luminescence to attract more prey. Observational analysis and lab experiments revealed that, by using firefly light as bait, the nocturnal predators improved their hunting success. This is the

Topics: fireflies prey researchers spider spiders

Shop Amazon

Why I recommend this $700 Lenovo laptop to both college students and working professionals

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-28 15:09:27

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i 15-inch ZDNET's key takeaways The IdeaPad Slim 3i is on sale at Costco for $669. It's an affordable 15-inch laptop with a full-size keyboard and nice selection of ports. The battery isn't spectacular, and its display is lackluster. View now at Costco Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3i is an affordable, versatile laptop with a competent set of hardware for students or professionals. It's got a full-size keyboard (something tha

Topics: 3i ideapad inch laptop slim

Shop Amazon

I found a smart air purifier that doubles as a pet bed (and my cat loves it)

zdnet.com Allison Murray 2025-10-28 15:12:00

Blueair PetAir Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The BlueAir PetAirPro is an air purifier for pet hair that retails for $500 The device does a fantastic job of sucking up pet hair clumps and other dust, plus it has a pet bed on top of it for your furry friend It is expensive for an air purifier, and can be quite large for small spaces. View now at Blueair Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I love my cat, Norbert, dearly, but I don't love the orange hair he leaves everywhere (even

Topics: air bed blueair pet purifier

Shop Amazon

I left my home with a robot vacuum on auto-pilot for 10 days - here are the results

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-28 15:13:00

Narwal Freo Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Narwal Freo Pro is now available for $500 (a $300 discount). Construction is optimized to prevent blockage and hair tangles, with a conical brush on a single floating arm and a hair-loosening side brush. The dust bag didn't last me the claimed seven weeks, and the robot's object detection leaves a lot to be desired $499.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A recent trip took me and my family out of town for 10 days. I li

Topics: clean freo narwal pro robot

Shop Amazon

China is eating the world

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 11:55:49

The thing that surprised me most about traveling to China back in 2019 was how quiet it was. I expected chaos, noise, pollution—all the stuff you associate with a developing country. Instead, I found electric bikes gliding silently through tree-lined streets. We lived there for five months until COVID hit. About a week ago, I went back to visit Yunnan. Walking through the ancient towns another reality hit me: China doesn't need us anymore. These towns were packed with only Chinese tourists, I c

Topics: china chinese went world years

Shop Amazon

Apple Watch Ultra 3’s software might be another reason to upgrade from Ultra 1

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-28 18:43:04

Two years after its predecessor launched, Apple Watch Ultra 3 is almost here. And in addition to the array of hardware upgrades coming, the Ultra 3 could also push Ultra 1 owners to upgrade with a variety of software features. watchOS is getting even more features not supported by Apple Watch Ultra 1 When the Apple Watch Ultra 2 debuted in 2023, it was a fairly minor, iterative update over the original Ultra. Now that more time has passed between hardware generations, Apple’s forthcoming Ultr

Topics: apple features ultra watch watchos

Shop Amazon

The Genetic Trick That Helped Humans Ride Horses

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-28 19:00:55

Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a bond that would shape the history of our species. The domestication of horses led to significant advancements in transportation, hunting, and warfare, literally carrying human society into the modern era. Despite how influential horses have been for humans, scientists still have many fundamental questions about their domestication. New research published Thursday, August 28, in the journal Science, offers new insight into the genetic shifts that helped t

Topics: breeding domestication horses orlando years

Shop Amazon

Satellite Companies Like SpaceX Are Ignoring Astronomers’ Calls to Save the Night Sky

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-28 19:55:01

There are more than 12,000 active satellites circling Earth at the moment, a growing figure that has nearly doubled in less than three years. This recent boom in the satellite industry has been a major headache for astronomers, with bright satellites appearing as streaks in telescope images of the universe and tarnishing views of the night skies. A new paper reveals that satellite constellations are brighter than the recommended limits set forth by astronomers, with only one company adhering to

Topics: brightness earth magnitude orbit satellites

Shop Amazon

Battlefield 6 PC Specs Revealed, Supports 2019 Graphics Cards

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-28 19:16:06

After the wildly successful Battlefield 6 open beta that ran earlier in August, EA has released the specs your PC will need to play the next installment in the popular multiplayer shooter series. There aren't too many surprises on the specs list EA revealed in a blog post Thursday. Players with graphics cards as old as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (released in 2019 and 2020, respectively) with at least 6GB of virtual RAM can play Battlefield 6. That's reasonably inclusiv

Topics: battlefield boot ea play players

Shop Amazon

Proton offers a new lifeline for when the unexpected happens

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:36:09

TL;DR Proton has rolled out a new feature called Emergency Access. This feature allows paid users to pick five trusted contacts who can gain access to their account in case anything happens. Users can allow their trusted contacts to access their account immediately or after a custom set period of time. We all have crucial information stored in the various apps we use. For instance, you could have an important message sitting in your inbox, logins in your password manager, or financial informa

Topics: access contacts feature proton trusted

Shop Amazon

Meta is experimenting with long-form text on Threads

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:55:58

Meta seems to be working on ways for Threads users to share long-form writing within a single post. Several users have reported seeing a new "attach text" feature on the service, which allows them to embed large chunks of text within a single post. The feature, which hasn't been formally announced by Meta, is similar to the "articles" feature that's available on X to Premium+ subscribers. It enables Threads users to embed longer text excerpts within a single Threads post and offers some basic f

Topics: feature long meta text threads

Shop Amazon

Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:08:08

Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been used in fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes and to distribute lures for Contagious Interview campaigns, in Chinese APT campaigns, and by a Russian-speaking developer to create malware with advanced evasion capabilities. AI-created ransomware In another instance, tracked as ‘GTG-5004,’ a UK-b

Topics: ai anthropic claude ransomware threat

Shop Amazon

OpenAI gives its voice agent superpowers to developers - look for more apps soon

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-28 23:01:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI's Realtime API is now optimized and generally available. You can try its latest speech-to-speech model, gpt-realtime. The upgrades improve OpenAI's voice offerings for developers. This year, AI agents that can carry out tasks on behalf of users have been a major focus, with companies constantly developing offerings that reduce the user's workload. To make these interactions as

Topics: api model openai realtime voice

Shop Amazon

Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-28 23:01:29

Threads is testing a new feature that makes it easy to share long-form text on the social network, Meta confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The feature lets users attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas. App researcher Radu Oncescu first spotted the new “text attachment” feature on iOS and shared a screenshot of it. According to the app’s description of the new feature, it’s designed to allo

Topics: feature share text threads users

Shop Amazon

Apple teases new Powerbeats Fit earbuds launching soon

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-29 03:46:37

Apple is working on a new flavor of its popular Powerbeats earbuds, dubbed the Powerbeats Fit. Apple teased the new earbuds in a video on YouTube today, referring to them as “fit for every move.” Apple says the Powerbeats Fit are “coming fall 2025.” There’s no word on what’s new with the Powerbeats Fit. They appear to be the follow-up to the Beats Fit Pro, which debuted in 2021. Beats Fit Pro offer a compact in-ear design with an added hook to further secure the fit. They offer features like A

Topics: apple beats fit new powerbeats

Shop Amazon

Teams Grow Organically

news.ycombinator.com Frederick Vanbrabant 2025-10-26 00:00:15

I’ve been working a lot with service line architecture recently. If you’re not familiar with that; it’s how business units such as IT, HR, or Sales bring services to clients, both internal and external. These structures often mirror team organization. Think of it as a hierarchy: IT at level one, Software Development and Ops at level two, and then individual teams, like: Software Team X or Ops Team Y, at level three. What’s surprising is how rarely these structures reflect reality. In practice,

Topics: communication team teams ties weak

Shop Amazon

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

news.ycombinator.com Simon Späti 2025-10-29 01:40:58

Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency. There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think. Similar to what DHH said: It’s also more fun to be competent in something than constantly waiting for an AI to complete. The probability that AI will make us unhappy is very high IMO. Use it, yes, but not for every task. For discovering, creating a historical overview, or creating di

Topics: ai learn people think writing

Shop Amazon

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 02:30:52

Strand is a marketing agency based in London, UK. The company specialises in copywriting and content creation for many of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, running marketing programmes that produce hundreds of white papers, case studies, blog posts and articles every year. Challenge For many years, Strand has relied on a custom-built project management system to support the operational aspects of its business—creating projects, tracking activities and managing documents. How

Topics: ed gleam kelly language strand

Shop Amazon

How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-29 03:05:57

The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets increasingly digitized and artificial intelligence creeps its way into every aspect of life, data centers become more and more important. But that data comes with a catch: the servers in these data centers have monstrous energy demands that eat up natural resources like water, and that puts a significant burden on local communities where data centers are located. Some companies think they’ve found the solution to this problem by sending th

Topics: centers data earth orbit space

Shop Amazon

At Least 2 People Died of ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria After Eating Tainted Oysters

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-29 03:20:22

“Flesh-eating” bacteria are continuing to claim lives this summer. Louisiana health officials reported this week that two more people have died from Vibrio infections this month, potentially caused by eating tainted oysters. The Louisiana Department of Health announced the latest deaths during a meeting of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force held Tuesday. Both deaths are linked to oysters harvested in the state, but the oysters were eaten at separate restaurants in Louisiana and Florida. Louisiana

Topics: bacteria cases infections louisiana year

Shop Amazon

China Takes a Key Step Toward Its ‘Meltdown-Proof’ Nuclear Reactor

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-29 03:35:51

China’s ambitious plan to dramatically pull back from fossil fuels is perhaps most evident in the explosive growth of its nuclear energy program. The latest news suggests China may be tantalizingly close to bringing self-cooling reactors to practical use—a development with profound safety implications. In a statement earlier this week, the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) announced that it had recently concluded tests for a residual heat removal system for integral fast reactors (IFRs).

Topics: china energy fast reactor reactors

Shop Amazon

The 48 Best Deals From REI’s 2025 Labor Day Sale

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-29 02:40:23

Isn't it amazing how fast summer goes by? The kids are back in school, and it's time for the annual REI Labor Day Sale. This year’s event kicks off today, August 22, and ends on Labor Day, September 2. Many items are up to 30 percent off, and REI Co-op members save 20 percent on any REI Outlet item. To get the member discount, add the promo code LABORDAY2025 at checkout. We've rounded up the best deals on all our favorite tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, pads, cookware, outdoor apparel, and mor

Topics: bag best deals sleeping ve

Shop Amazon

Kobo replaces Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers in a free update

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-29 03:16:22

A big draw of Kobo e-readers has always been Pocket integration. But, when Mozilla announced in late May that it was shutting down the read-it-later app in July, the Kobo community was left in a bit of a lurch. To the company’s credit, in late July, it announced that it would be replacing Pocket with another stalwart of the scene, Instapaper. And, just a month after that, support is already live and available as a free firmware update for all currently supported Kobo readers (and the list is sur

Topics: announced instapaper kobo pocket readers

Shop Amazon

Battlefield 6 PC requirements are pretty chill — if you don’t mind 30fps

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-29 03:48:57

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. EA is promising Battlefield 6 will offer “the best PC experience in the history of the franchise,” including 4K resolution, 21:9 and 32:9 ultrawide monitors, HDR, uncapped framerates, both PS5 and Xbox gamepad support on PC, the ability to create and br

Topics: 4k beta ea pc won

Shop Amazon

Galaxy S25 FE leak shows off every angle and color ahead of launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-29 07:07:58

TL;DR A leak shows the Galaxy S25 FE from every angle. The leak also shows off the device in all four of its color options. Today, Samsung announced it will hold a reveal event in a week from now. At that event, we’ll be introduced to “the newest member of the Galaxy S25 family.” This is definitely in reference to the Galaxy S25 FE. Before that unveiling, however, you can get at least one more early look at the device, thanks to a new leak. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority?

Topics: device fe galaxy leak s25

Shop Amazon

iOS 26 fixed the Photos app and it’s more powerful than ever

9to5mac.com Fernando Silva 2025-10-29 05:44:03

Last year, with iOS 18, Apple tried to shake up the Photos App by making it more streamlined. They put everything under one view, and for most people, it was a flop. Instead of making it simpler to navigate, it was actually even more tedious to use. It felt like nothing really had its own place, and everything was just on one never-ending page. Apple seemed to have heard us and changed up the look and feel of the Photos App with iOS 26 and I think they nailed it. They took the best parts of the

Topics: app features ios photo photos

Shop Amazon

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) review: Still a noise-canceling powerhouse

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 07:30:17

Bose announced its latest earbuds in June , but the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) ($299) won’t arrive until early September. Today, though, they’re available for preorder, and I’ve spent the last few weeks testing all the new features. This model is an overhaul of the noise-canceling earbuds the company debuted in 2023 alongside its take on spatial audio. Among the upgrades, Bose has improved the active noise cancellation (ANC) performance, enhanced call quality and added wireless chargin

Topics: bose earbuds gen qc ultra

Shop Amazon

MATLAB dev says ransomware gang stole data of 10,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-29 07:00:06

MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical simulation and computing software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 10,000 people after breaching its network in April. The company disclosed the attack on May 27, when it linked ongoing service outages to a ransomware incident that disrupted access to some internal systems and online applications for its staff and customers. Impacted services included multi-factor authentication (MFA), account SSO (Single Sign-On), the MathW

Topics: attackers breach gang mathworks ransomware

Shop Amazon

3 smart ways business leaders can build successful AI strategies - before it's too late

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-29 07:45:13

Serg Myshkovsky/Photodisc via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Business leaders should create a platform to test AI concepts. Encourage employees to take risks with AI, but proceed with care. Keep one eye on the market for new technologies that might be exploited. Making the most of AI is tough. MIT recently revealed that 95% of enterprises attempting to harness generative AI aren't seeing measurable results in revenue or growth. However, w

Topics: ai research roth said strategy

Shop Amazon

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-29 05:00:31

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

Topics: bride gets new really trailer

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

Why I recommend this $700 Lenovo laptop to both college students and working professionals

I found a smart air purifier that doubles as a pet bed (and my cat loves it)

I left my home with a robot vacuum on auto-pilot for 10 days - here are the results

China is eating the world

Apple Watch Ultra 3’s software might be another reason to upgrade from Ultra 1

The Genetic Trick That Helped Humans Ride Horses

Satellite Companies Like SpaceX Are Ignoring Astronomers’ Calls to Save the Night Sky

Battlefield 6 PC Specs Revealed, Supports 2019 Graphics Cards

Proton offers a new lifeline for when the unexpected happens

Meta is experimenting with long-form text on Threads

Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware

OpenAI gives its voice agent superpowers to developers - look for more apps soon

Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform

Apple teases new Powerbeats Fit earbuds launching soon

Teams Grow Organically

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand

How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

At Least 2 People Died of ‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria After Eating Tainted Oysters

China Takes a Key Step Toward Its ‘Meltdown-Proof’ Nuclear Reactor

The 48 Best Deals From REI’s 2025 Labor Day Sale

Kobo replaces Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers in a free update

Battlefield 6 PC requirements are pretty chill — if you don’t mind 30fps

Galaxy S25 FE leak shows off every angle and color ahead of launch

iOS 26 fixed the Photos app and it’s more powerful than ever

Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd gen) review: Still a noise-canceling powerhouse

MATLAB dev says ransomware gang stole data of 10,000 people

3 smart ways business leaders can build successful AI strategies - before it's too late

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising