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Proton just dropped a 2FA app that does a few things others don’t

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 04:49:08

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Proton Authenticator is a new free, open-source 2FA app for mobile and desktop. It supports encrypted multi-device sync, local-only storage, and easy import/export of 2FA tokens. The app works with or without a Proton account and avoids things like ads and trackers. Authenticator apps are a great way to help keep your accounts secure, but some of them come with annoying trade-offs. That could be ads, missing features, or making it hard to switch to anot

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QUIC for the Kernel

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 04:57:32

QUIC for the kernel The QUIC transport-layer network protocol is not exactly new; it was first covered here in 2013. Despite carrying a significant part of the traffic on the Internet, QUIC has been anything but quick when it comes to getting support into the Linux kernel. The pace might be picking up, though; Xin Long has posted the first set of patches intended to provide mainline support for this protocol. QUIC was created to address a number of problems that have been observed with TCP on

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GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-21 04:10:44

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. The Elves 2 could also appeal to gamers who prefer a symmetrical joystick layout, similar to what the PlayStation’s controllers use, or those who still have a soft spot for the Sega Saturn gamepad. You’ll need to look real close to actually see inside the translucent black version of the Elves 2. Image: GuliKit It’s compatible with the original

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Samsung Will Finally Stop Screwing Around and Release Its Vision Pro Killer

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-21 09:40:27

Samsung is almost done teasing its first-ever XR headset. According to an investor call this week, Project Moohan, Samsung’s Vision Pro killer, is set to be released in the second half of this year and will finally go on sale before the year is over. Given that Samsung has been teasing its headset for a year now, there’s already a decent amount that we know about it. As any Vision Pro killer should be, Project Moohan will debut with some high-end specs. It will come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X

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Proton launches free standalone cross-platform Authenticator app

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-21 10:00:00

Proton has launched Proton Authenticator, a free standalone two-factor authentication (2FA) application for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. 2FA authenticator apps are offline tools that generate time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) that expire every 30 seconds, and which can be used alongside passwords when logging into online accounts, providing the second factor authentication. Proton is a Swiss technology company known for privacy-focused end-to-end encrypted services like Proton

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Two critical Android 16 security features you're not using (but absolutely should)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-21 15:51:00

JEFF PACHOUD/Getty Images Although Google's earlier-than-expected release of Android 16 was missing a few important features, the updated OS does deliver improved security that every Android user would be well-advised to enable. I'll explain these two key security features and how to find and enable them. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and why it greatly improves performance) 1. Identity Check This feature was added in 2024, but it didn't receive much attention until the relea

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The iPhone 17 Will Be $50 More, Says Jefferies Analyst. Here's Why He's Right

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-21 14:00:09

The iPhone 16 series dropped last year with the same US prices as the iPhone 15 series. But the iPhone 17 might come with the first price increase in years. James Martin/CNET The iPhone 17 series will get a $50 price increase, according to a Jefferies analyst Edison Lee. Since what President Donald Trump touted as "Liberation Day," the possible effect of tariffs on the iPhone's price has been widely discussed. And yet, despite tariffs and politics, iPhone prices have remained the same so far th

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GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 20:22:22

GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database A lightweight, decentralized graph database designed for modern web applications, offering real-time peer-to-peer synchronization, WebAuthn-based authentication, role-based access control (RBAC), and efficient local storage utilizing OPFS. Main Features ✅ GenosDB Core Efficient storage in OPFS. Real-time synchronization between tabs and devices. CRUD operations for nodes and relationships. Efficient serialization using MessagePack and compr

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GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-12-21 16:57:58

Authors: Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, Rishi Khare, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Herumb Shandilya, Michael J Ryan, Meng Jiang, Christopher Potts, Koushik Sen, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Ion Stoica, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Omar Khattab Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457 TL;DR What was done? The authors introduced GEPA (Genetic-Pareto), a novel algorithm for optimizing prompts in complex, multi-module AI systems. Instead of relying on traditional reinforceme

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Prices leak for every Pixel 10 phone

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-21 20:57:33

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. We’ve already seen what every Pixel 10 model looks like, and now we might know the pricing, too. A new leak from Android Headlines suggests the base Pixel 10 with 128GB of storage will have the same $799 starting price as its predecessor, while the rest of the lineup isn’t seeing any major changes, either. The price of the Pixel 10’s 256GB model al

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Galaxy S26 Pro and S26 Edge leak hints at a welcome battery change

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 22:18:44

TL;DR The battery capacities for the Galaxy S26 Pro and the S26 Edge. Both phones get a slight upgrade over the current Galaxy S25 and S25 Edge models. The leak skips out on details about the charging speeds, leaving us wondering if there might be an upgrade on that front. The Galaxy S26 series is expected to be a significant milestone in Samsung’s smartphone journey. We recently learned about the tech giant’s plans to reform its flagship lineup, replacing the base and the Plus models collect

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I’m not convinced about the Pixel 10 Pro’s 100x zoom, and you shouldn’t be either

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 00:00:42

The Google Pixel 10 series is just a few weeks away, and I’m keenly waiting to see what these new phones offer. One of the most intriguing and persistent rumors is that the base model will have a telephoto camera, but what about the Pro phones? It sounds like Google could maintain the same 48MP 5x cameras seen on the Pixel 9 Pro series. However, a trove of marketing material shared by veteran leaker Evan Blass has revealed that the Pixel 10 Pro phones could get 100x zoom. I’m not convinced that

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M4 MacBook Pro vs M4 MacBook Air: What $500 extra really gets you [Video]

9to5mac.com Fernando Silva 2025-12-19 16:47:33

Back-to-school time always brings some of the best deals on laptops, and this year is no exception. Amazon is offering insane deals on both the entry-level M4 MacBook Air ($799) and the baseline M4 MacBook Pro ($1299). While my gut reaction is in awe at how much power and value you get from the M4 MacBook Air at $799, after I stopped to think about it, the M4 MacBook Pro at $1299 could actually be the best bang for buck computer out on the market, but is it worth the $500 price difference? That

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Infracost (YC W21) hiring first PM to shift $600B cloud spend to proactive

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 00:00:26

Overview We were the first to shift FinOps left, and we see a big opportunity to make the $600B/year spent on cloud proactively managed, instead of teams reacting to surprise cost spikes. Reactive is too late, we already tried that approach with our first startup. Join us as our first PM 🚀 This is a high-impact role at the heart of our product and growth strategy. You’ll own critical parts of our roadmap, from early-stage discovery through to GTM, and shape how we scale. You’ll work directly

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8 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-22 00:30:00

Other Video Doorbells to Consider I've tested several other video doorbells. These are the ones that narrowly missed out on a place above. Photograph: Simon Hill Doro Hemma Doorbell for £150: A simplified smart doorbell for seniors is a solid idea, and Swedish maker Doro gets plenty right with the Hemma. It is a battery-powered doorbell that’s easy to install and use, offering a 1440 x 1440-pixel resolution with a decent frame rate (30 fps), local recording via microSD card, and a plug-in rin

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X and 9970X Review

techspot.com Steven Walton 2025-12-22 10:08:00

AMD's latest Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series arrives with a familiar formula: massive core counts, eye-watering specs, and price tags to match. Built on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, these chips pack up to 64 cores and 128 threads, along with 80 lanes of PCIe 5.0 connectivity. As with previous generations, the lineup is split in two: a high-end desktop (HEDT) range, simply called Threadripper 9000, and a workstation-class series known as Threadripper Pro 9000WX. Our focus here is on the HEDT chi

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X and 9970X Review: Zen 5 to the Extreme

techspot.com Steven Walton 2025-12-22 10:08:00

AMD's latest Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series arrives with a familiar formula: massive core counts, eye-watering specs, and price tags to match. Built on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, these chips pack up to 64 cores and 128 threads, along with 80 lanes of PCIe 5.0 connectivity. As with previous generations, the lineup is split in two: a high-end desktop (HEDT) range, simply called Threadripper 9000, and a workstation-class series known as Threadripper Pro 9000WX. Our focus here is on the HEDT chi

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If Samsung gets it right, the Galaxy S26 Pro could be a game-changer for small phone fans

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 09:00:55

Yesterday, Android Authority published an exclusive report detailing what Samsung’s Galaxy S26 lineup could look like next year. And based on what we know, Samsung could be releasing one of the biggest Galaxy S shakeups we’ve ever seen. Traditionally, we expect Samsung to release three phones: a base model, a Plus variant, and its flagship Ultra — as you see with the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. However, with the Galaxy S26 series, we may instead get the Galaxy S26 Pro, Ga

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iPhone 17 is coming soon, with three long-awaited features

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-21 14:58:35

Fall is fast approaching, and that means Apple’s big iPhone 17 launch event is coming soon. Here are three new features of the iPhone 17 line that many users have long been asking for. #1: The biggest iPhone battery ever in iPhone 17 Pro Max Battery life is one of the most important iPhone features. As a result, there’s always a base of users who just want the most possible battery life in an iPhone. Pro Max models have long been the best option for battery. But this year, that will be more t

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GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning

news.ycombinator.com Grigory Sapunov 2025-12-22 10:57:58

Authors: Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, Rishi Khare, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Herumb Shandilya, Michael J Ryan, Meng Jiang, Christopher Potts, Koushik Sen, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Ion Stoica, Dan Klein, Matei Zaharia, Omar Khattab Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19457 TL;DR What was done? The authors introduced GEPA (Genetic-Pareto), a novel algorithm for optimizing prompts in complex, multi-module AI systems. Instead of relying on traditional reinforceme

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Razer BlackShark V3 Pro Review: The Sweatiest Gamers Will Love This Headset

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-22 10:00:45

2025 “The best” of anything is already a misnomer, but throw “pro” into the mix, as so many gamer peripherals tend to, and we’re staring down the barrel of hyperbole. Which brings us to the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro, a gaming headset that Razer claims epitomizes low-latency sound for high-performance gaming, where hearing a footstep or missing your teammate’s callout is the difference between triumph and rage-inducing defeat. So when I say Razer’s BlackShark is “the best” of its class, you have t

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Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-22 10:00:00

Privacy-focused productivity tool company Proton released a new authenticator app today, allowing users to log in to services using dynamically generated two-factor authentication codes. The free app is available on all platforms starting today, including iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. The app allows users to sync codes and accounts across devices. The company said that just like its other products, Proton Authenticator is open source and uses end-to-end encryption to protect user dat

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OpenAI spearheads one of Europe’s biggest data centers with 100,000 Nvidia chips

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-22 12:46:24

OpenAI on Thursday said it is launching a Stargate-branded AI data center in Norway, marking its first foray into Europe with such a project. British firm Nscale will design and build the site as part of a 50-50 joint venture with Norwegian energy infrastructure firm Aker. OpenAI will be a so-called "off-taker" in the project, meaning it will effectively buy capacity from the data center. "Part of the purpose of this project is to partner with OpenAI and leverage European sovereign compute to

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Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 10:54:04

🛡️ AgentGuard 🚨 The Problem Your AI agent has a bug. It makes 1000 API calls in a loop. Your $2000 credit card gets charged. This happens to developers every week: Infinite loops in AI workflows Testing with production API keys Agents that don't know when to stop One typo = hundreds of dollars gone Existing tools only tell you after the damage is done. 💡 The Solution AgentGuard automatically kills your process before it burns through your budget. // Add 2 lines to any AI project: cons

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Figma will IPO on July 31

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 02:24:58

Figma is a design and product development platform—where teams come together to turn ideas into the world’s best digital products and experiences. Today, we’re announcing the pricing of Figma’s initial public offering of 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at a public offering price of $33.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025 under the ticker symbol "FIG." The offering is expected to close on August 1, 2025, subject to the

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Tracking source locations in the Futhark compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 09:40:31

Posted on July 29, 2025 Futhark is a programming language meant for writing fast programs, but as is the case for every programming language meant for writing fast programs, it inevitably happens that a programmer will use it to write a program that is not fast. When this happens, the programmer will likely want to know why their program is not fast, and how to make it faster. A useful tool for answering such questions is a profiler - a tool that tells you how long the different parts of your p

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Samsung's profit more than halves, missing expectations as chip business plunges 94%

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-22 12:33:13

Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a second-quarter operating profit of 4.7 trillion Korean won, missing expectations, weighed by a 93.8% profit slump in its chip business. While Samsung's second-quarter operating profit beat its own forecast of around 4.6 trillion won, it was a steep drop from the 10.44 trillion won recorded in the same period last year. The South Korean technology giant posted a quarterly revenue of 74.6 trillion won, up slightly from 74.07 trillion won a year earlier

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Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Chennai, India

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 11:01:02

Who? We are Sei, an AI-powered regulatory compliance platform. Since launching, a few months ago, we're live with large enterprises across the US, Europe, and APAC and growing at double digits per month. We are backed by world-class investors including Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, PayPal, Picus Capital & Hashed. Pranay (CEO) and Ram (CTO) are the founders. We have combined experience of 20+ years of building fintech, and tech products for businesses & customers across the world at companies su

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Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management

news.ycombinator.com Nicolas Joseph 2025-12-21 03:05:04

When a terminal application that spawns child processes doesn't exit cleanly after a Ctrl+C , the user is left with a corrupted terminal. Instead of a clean prompt, you get garbled output and a non-functional shell. This post covers how to solve these issues, with examples from the Moose CLI (for the PR that fixed many of these issues, see here). In this post, you’ll read learnings from solving these issues in the Moose CLI— terminal application that manages multiple child processes, including

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Apple iOS 26: Is your iPhone compatible? Here's a list which devices can download it today

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 15:44:47

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . iPhone devotees, listen up: Tons of new updates are coming to Apple's operating system this fall that you'll be excited to try out. But instead of being named iOS 19, it'll be called iOS 26. The biggest change? The new Liquid Glass design (think Windows Vista, but arguably more thought

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Latest Tech News

Proton just dropped a 2FA app that does a few things others don’t

QUIC for the Kernel

GuliKit’s new budget-friendly controller can wake the Switch 2

Samsung Will Finally Stop Screwing Around and Release Its Vision Pro Killer

Proton launches free standalone cross-platform Authenticator app

Two critical Android 16 security features you're not using (but absolutely should)

The iPhone 17 Will Be $50 More, Says Jefferies Analyst. Here's Why He's Right

GenosDB (GDB) – Decentralized P2P Graph Database

GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning

Prices leak for every Pixel 10 phone

Galaxy S26 Pro and S26 Edge leak hints at a welcome battery change

I’m not convinced about the Pixel 10 Pro’s 100x zoom, and you shouldn’t be either

M4 MacBook Pro vs M4 MacBook Air: What $500 extra really gets you [Video]

Infracost (YC W21) hiring first PM to shift $600B cloud spend to proactive

8 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X and 9970X Review

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X and 9970X Review: Zen 5 to the Extreme

If Samsung gets it right, the Galaxy S26 Pro could be a game-changer for small phone fans

iPhone 17 is coming soon, with three long-awaited features

GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning

Razer BlackShark V3 Pro Review: The Sweatiest Gamers Will Love This Headset

Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

OpenAI spearheads one of Europe’s biggest data centers with 100,000 Nvidia chips

Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget

Figma will IPO on July 31

Tracking source locations in the Futhark compiler

Samsung's profit more than halves, missing expectations as chip business plunges 94%

Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Chennai, India

Fixing Ctrl+C in Rust terminal apps: Child process management

Apple iOS 26: Is your iPhone compatible? Here's a list which devices can download it today

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