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This budget Motorola phone punches way above its weight (and it comes with a stylus)

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-03-18 05:30:17

ZDNET's key takeaways The Moto G Stylus is currently on sale for $400 It is the best of Motorola's 2025 series sporting a Super HD display and the most powerful chipset of the bunch You'll hardly ever use its namesake feature, the stylus. View now at Best Buy View now at Motorola View now at Amazon more buying choices They say good things come in threes, and after living with the Moto G Stylus, I'm starting to believe it. I've reviewed all three of Motorola's mid-range smartphone lineup: the

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Best Internet Providers in Utah

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 04:39:00

When it comes to internet providers in Utah, your options will vary depending on exactly where you live in the state. While Xfinity and CenturyLink offer widespread coverage in populated areas, certain addresses might score even better blazing-fast fiber internet. What is the best internet provider in Utah? Xfinity earns CNET’s top pick for Utah’s best internet provider. It offers broad availability, impressive speeds and diverse plans. However, fiber contenders like Quantum Fiber and Google F

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X will let AI write Community Notes

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-18 11:01:30

In what was probably an inevitable conclusion, X has announced that it will allow AI to author Community Notes. With a pilot program beginning today, the social network is releasing developer tools to create AI Note Writers. These tools will be limited to penning replies in a test mode and will need approval before their notes can be released into the wild. The first AI Note Writers will be accepted later this month, which is when the AI-composed notes will start appearing to users. "Not only d

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X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-03-18 15:13:23

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts. Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be able to submit a Community Note, but they will only actually be shown on a post “if found helpful by people from different perspectives,” X says in a post on its Community Notes account. Notes written by AI will

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Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-03-18 18:52:39

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: The company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability report, which it released late last week. In 2024, Google data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity. That’s up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, the earliest year Google broke out data center consumption. Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity

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X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-03-18 19:26:12

The social platform X will pilot a feature that allows AI chatbots to generate Community Notes. Community Notes is a Twitter-era feature that Elon Musk has expanded under his ownership of the service, now called X. Users who are part of this fact-checking program can contribute comments that add context to certain posts, which are then checked by other users before they appear attached to a post. A Community Note may appear, for example, on a post of an AI-generated video that is not clear abou

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Google’s data center energy use doubled in four years

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-03-18 23:52:39

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: the company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability report, which it released late last week. In 2024, Google data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity. That’s up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, the earliest year Google broke out data center consumption. Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity

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Your Samsung phone will get Android 16’s powerful Advanced Protection mode in One UI 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 07:19:36

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s One UI 8 update will introduce a new “Advanced Protection” mode, a one-click toggle to easily enable multiple security features at once. This optional mode activates various safeguards, such as blocking app sideloading, preventing USB data access, and disabling 2G network connections. The feature is part of Android 16 and expands on Google’s Advanced Protection Program, making high-level security accessible to all users. Samsung phones offer

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Amazon Busted Down My Gate and Refused to Pay. The Device Would Have Saved Me $500

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 16:38:00

I was at home working in my office upstairs when what can only be described as a loud clonk in my backyard startled me and my terrier. I guessed it was an enthusiastically dropped package, but I couldn't have imagined the full scope of the incident that originated the noise. I made my way downstairs to investigate, and found my double chain link gate had been kicked in by an Amazon delivery person, who was seemingly unable to figure out the flip-up lock. The brute force entry busted the gate's

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GOP wants EV tax credit gone; it would be a disaster for Tesla

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-19 19:00:55

The Republican Party's opposition to tax credits for electric vehicles has stepped up a notch. As its members in the US Senate add their input to the budget bill that came from their colleagues in the House of Representatives, among the changes they want to see is a faster eradication of the IRS clean vehicle tax credit. The tax credit provides up to $7,500 off the price of an EV as long as certain conditions are met, and the language from the House would have given it until the end of the year.

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The Game Is On in the First ‘Running Man’ Trailer

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-03-20 00:00:24

Last year, we learned Edgar Wright was helming a remake of Stephen King’s The Running Man with Glen Powell (Twisters) in the lead role—and that it would be released during the year the original book is set: 2025. After a small sampling to press during CinemaCon, Paramount’s first trailer sets the stage for what’s coming this fall. Powell plays Ben Richards, the latest contestant in a reality game show where people avoid bounty hunters sent to kill them. Like in the 1982 novel and 1987 film, Ric

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xAI raises $10B in debt and equity

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-03-20 03:35:54

In Brief Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley confirmed on Monday. In a post on X, the financial giant said xAI had raised $5 billion in debt and another $5 billion in a separate strategic equity transaction. “The combination of debt and equity reduces the overall cost of capital and substantially expands pools of capital available to xAI. The proceeds will support xAI’s continued development of cutting-edge AI solutions, including one of the

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Samsung is cooking up a privacy and security powerhouse in One UI 8 (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-20 10:30:25

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung seems to be developing a new “Alert Center” in One UI 8 to notify users about sneaky apps, security risks, and aging account settings. Code strings describing “Alert Center” and its features were discovered in an internal One UI 8 build. It’s unclear when Samsung will launch the new security hub, but it should be available in your phone’s Settings when and if it goes live. Samsung seems to be going one step above Android’s built-in security and pr

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Here’s a first look at the Google Personal Safety app’s Expressive redesign (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-20 12:00:53

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed plenty of visual changes coming to the Personal Safety app. These changes are in line with Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language and cover the emergency contacts menus. This redesign will likely be exclusive to Android 16 QPR1 for now. Google’s Personal Safety app is a one-stop shop for emergencies, allowing you to quickly get help, record video, and much more. Now, it looks like Google is bringing so

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Mexican Drug Cartel Hacker Used Surveillance Tech to Target FBI Informants for Execution

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-03-19 21:45:45

Sometimes the surveillance state gets turned against itself. That seems to be what resulted in the unfortunate demise of a number of FBI informants, who were tracked by a hacker working for the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, according to a recent report published by the U.S. Justice Department. According to the 47-page report issued by the Justice Department Inspector General, titled “Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Efforts to Mitigate the Effects of Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance,

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Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, but There's a Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-20 10:30:03

Microsoft is closing the door on Windows 10 in October 2025, and will be ceasing security support for that operating system unless users pay $30 for a one-year extended security update. On June 24, with less than four months on the clock until support expires, Microsoft has added a free option. Users need to turn on cloud backup and connect it to their OneDrive account. The ability to get free updates on Windows 10 is a pretty big deal because it is still the most widely used Windows OS, accoun

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Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-20 06:58:22

Why should you choose Pluto? Accelerated Development. Greatly enhanced standard library. Several new syntaxes, such as switch statements, compound operators, ternary expressions, etc. Focused On Lua Compatibility. Pluto is largely compatible with Lua 5.4 source code, but there is an imperfection: Pluto implements new keywords, which can cause conflicts with otherwise normal identifiers such as 'switch', or 'class'. The parser tries to identify what is meant but if that doesn't work, you ca

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Elon Says He’s Launching ‘the America Party’ to Compete With Democrats and Republicans If Budget Bill Passes

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-20 15:36:18

Elon Musk is threatening to launch his own political party called the America Party if President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” passes. And while the billionaire oligarch already suggested the idea almost a month ago after his falling out with Trump, he seems serious this time. “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” Musk tweeted on Monday. “Our country needs an alternative to the Democrat-Republican uniparty so that the people actual

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Gallery: Check out Samsung’s new watch faces for the Galaxy Watch 8 (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-20 23:23:33

Evan Blass / Samsung TL;DR Samsung’s next launch event is on July 9, and we expect to see the Galaxy Watch 8 series announced. Watch 8 leaks so far have detailed design changes and given us plenty of looks at the evolving hardware. Our attention now turns to some new watch faces which should premiere alongside the Watch 8 series. With July now on our doorstep, we are mere days away from Samsung’s next Unpacked launch event. In just a little over a week, media will descend upon New York City

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Jacobi Ellipsoid

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 23:27:58

Shape taken by a self-gravitating fluid body rotating at constant velocity Artistic rendering of Haumea, a dwarf planet with triaxial ellipsoid shape. A Jacobi ellipsoid is a triaxial (i.e. scalene) ellipsoid under hydrostatic equilibrium which arises when a self-gravitating, fluid body of uniform density rotates with a constant angular velocity. It is named after the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.[1] History [ edit ] Before Jacobi, the Maclaurin spheroid, which was formulate

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Check out Gemini’s new avatar in Google colors ahead of its official rollout (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-21 07:02:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google may soon replace Gemini’s two-tone color scheme with its iconic brand colors. The new colors will appear around the Gemini overlay, which could receive another minor design change. The Gemini logo will also adopt Google’s red, blue, yellow, and green color palette. Gemini may soon adopt Google’s iconic brand colors for its logo and overlay. We recently spotted these changes while digging through beta builds of the Google app on Android and gav

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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

news.ycombinator.com Amsterdam 2026-03-21 06:31:09

The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened. Originally published on 11 May 2023. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get full newsletters twice a week, subscribe here. Datadog is a leading observability tooling provider which went publi

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I write type-safe generic data structures in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-21 04:55:20

June 25, 2025・7 minute read I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It uses unions to associate type information with a generic data structure, but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays, binary trees… but for this article I illustrate the ideas by implementing a basic linked list. Since many people aren’t aware you can do C generics at all, I figured I’d start simple and build up to this: typede

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Challenging the Status Quo to Revolutionize Computer Architecture

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2026-03-21 14:02:25

An interview with Gurindar Sohi, recipient of the 2025 Computer Pioneer Award Gurindar (Guri) Sohi, Vilas Research Professor, John P. Morgridge Professor, and E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Sciences, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., U.S.A., has remained in the same office at the university since 1987 – almost 40 years. He jokes that it even still has some of its original furnishings, like the carpet. But what he does not make light of is the

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Why are lefties more creative? Turns out, they're not

news.ycombinator.com James Dean 2026-03-21 16:22:12

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What do Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher and Jimi Hendrix have in common? They're just a few of the creative geniuses also known for being left-handed, helping to fuel the widespread belief that lefties are more creative. It's a compelling idea that even scientists presumed to be tru

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Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-21 11:08:24

Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language. Key Goals of Helix: High-performance: The language is designed to be as fast as C, with modern features and a more expressive syntax. Safety: Focused on safe memory management without sacrificing developer productivity and freedom. Borrow Checker: Implements a Advanced Memory Tracking system for memory safety, while being far less strict than other languages. Robustness: Provides tools and features that ensure code stability and reduce runtime err

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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2026-03-21 14:38:43

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million metric tons of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times faster than e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The i

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I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-21 14:55:20

June 25, 2025・7 minute read I write type safe generic data structures in C using a technique that I haven’t seen elsewhere. It involves unions and typeof , but we’ll get to that. My approach works for any type of data structure: maps, arrays, binary trees… but for this article I illustrate the ideas by implementing a basic linked list. Since many people aren’t aware you can do C generics at all, I figured I’d start simple and build up to this: typedef struct { int value ; } Foo ; List ( int )

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Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can't be patched

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-21 19:54:02

This could allow bad actors to remotely access these devices. A security company has found eight security vulnerabilities that impact hundreds of Brother printer models. The company has released firmware updates to handle seven of these vulnerabilities, but one security flaw cannot be patched. Brother has indicated that it'll fix the remaining issue during the manufacturing process of future printers, which doesn't help current owners. The company recommends that users change the default main

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Gemini Live looks like it’s getting ready to work with all your favorite apps (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-21 23:42:41

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Back in May, Google announced the first wave of Gemini Live extension support. Initial extensions for Maps, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks are slowly starting to hit users. Beyond these, we’ve uncovered a large list of Live extensions that appear to be in development. Gemini Live has been both technically impressive and quite a bit of fun to interact with, right from the get-go; the combination of Gemini’s powerful models and a naturally flowing conversati

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This budget Motorola phone punches way above its weight (and it comes with a stylus)

Best Internet Providers in Utah

X will let AI write Community Notes

X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots

Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years

X is piloting a program that lets AI chatbots generate Community Notes

Google’s data center energy use doubled in four years

Your Samsung phone will get Android 16’s powerful Advanced Protection mode in One UI 8

Amazon Busted Down My Gate and Refused to Pay. The Device Would Have Saved Me $500

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The Game Is On in the First ‘Running Man’ Trailer

xAI raises $10B in debt and equity

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Here’s a first look at the Google Personal Safety app’s Expressive redesign (APK teardown)

Mexican Drug Cartel Hacker Used Surveillance Tech to Target FBI Informants for Execution

Microsoft Offers Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, but There's a Catch

Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming

Elon Says He’s Launching ‘the America Party’ to Compete With Democrats and Republicans If Budget Bill Passes

Gallery: Check out Samsung’s new watch faces for the Galaxy Watch 8 (APK teardown)

Jacobi Ellipsoid

Check out Gemini’s new avatar in Google colors ahead of its official rollout (APK teardown)

Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved

I write type-safe generic data structures in C

Challenging the Status Quo to Revolutionize Computer Architecture

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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

I Write Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C

Hundreds of Brother printer models have security flaw that can't be patched

Gemini Live looks like it’s getting ready to work with all your favorite apps (APK teardown)

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