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PSA: WhatsApp for iPhone now also lets you copy part of a message

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-02 14:06:48

If you got excited by yesterday’s news that iOS 26 will let you copy parts of a text message in Messages, but aren’t running the beta and don’t want to feel left out, here’s some good news: you can already do that on WhatsApp. Since version 25.16.81, WhatsApp has offered partial text selection on iPhone, letting you highlight and copy just the specific section of a message you want. To use it, long-press the message bubble, then press and hold again on the text itself. This brings up the famil

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Apple’s Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac with big upgrades

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-02 14:56:58

Apple’s Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac as part of iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, and several brand new features will be included too—even on iPhone. Journal app is included with iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe Journal first debuted in iOS 17.2 as a brand new iPhone app, but many expected it to go cross-platform as early as iOS 18 the following year. It’s taken longer than expected, but soon, Apple’s Journal app will no longer be iPhone-only. iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe both include Journal as

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Peak Design's new tripods take aim at the professional set

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 13:58:43

Peak Design is building on the success of its innovative Travel Tripod. The photography accessory maker is launching a new Pro Tripod on Kickstarter. The latest model comes in three flavors: Pro Lite, Pro and Pro Tall. As you might expect, their prices dwarf that of the (already expensive) Travel Tripod. The Pro Tripod is scaled up for greater stiffness and maximum height. It has stronger legs, an all-CNC-machined hub and a ﬂanged center column. This results in double the weight capacity of the

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Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:41:06

Meta’s Threads is deepening its integration with the fediverse , a collection of decentralized social media platforms that includes Mastodon . Starting today, users who have enabled sharing to the fediverse in Threads will be able to see posts from federated accounts that they follow. These posts will now appear in a dedicated feed. From this feed, users can now search for federated users from within Threads. These posts will populate in reverse chronological order, ensuring the newest posts fr

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This 1-800 number will generate ChatGPT images, if for some reason you need that

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:46:37

The discourse around artificial intelligence has all been about pursuing the bleeding edge, pushing the tech into the future as fast as possible. So maybe it should be refreshing that OpenAI's latest announcement feels almost quaintly analog. Starting today, users can tap into the company's image generation by texting 1-800-ChatGPT on WhatsApp. The post on X announcing this new option for using the ChatGPT AI chatbot specifies that the feature is "now available to everyone." I'm not sure what p

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New Veeam RCE flaw lets domain users hack backup servers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 12:42:48

Veeam has released security updates today to fix several Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) flaws, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-23121, this security flaw was reported by security researchers at watchTowr and CodeWhite, and it only impacts domain-joined installations. As Veeam explained in a Tuesday security advisory, the vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated domain users in low-complexity attacks to gain code execution remotely on

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What Apple's controversial research paper really tells us about LLMs

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-02 14:06:46

CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Generative AI models quickly proved they were capable of performing technical tasks well. Adding reasoning capabilities to the models unlocked unforeseen capabilities, enabling the models to think through more complex questions and produce better-quality, more accurate responses -- or so we thought. Last week, Apple released a research report called "The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the

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Forget AirTags: This KeySmart luggage lock makes location-tracking easy (and it's TSA-compliant)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-02 14:14:27

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Prime Day is coming, and Metro by T-Mobile customers can get Amazon Prime free on this plan

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-10-02 14:24:19

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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How to share your location on Android quickly - via text or Google Maps

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-02 14:35:00

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Have you ever been somewhere and wanted to share that location with someone via your Android phone? If so, you might have assumed it would be as simple as "Dropping a pin" with your iPhone. Although it's not complicated, it is not exactly straightforward. Plus: There are two different ways to do this. Fun times. Also: I upgraded to Android 16 - here's what I love and what's still missing Let me help you out here, so you can easily share your locat

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 01:50:19

Early animated Disney character This article is about the character. For works with the title, see Oswald the Lucky Rabbit filmography Fictional character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit, Oswald Rabbit, and Ozzie[8][9][10]) is an animated cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures. He starred in several animated short films released to theaters from 1927 to 1938. Twenty-seven animated Oswald shorts were produced at the Walt D

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Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94

news.ycombinator.com Imogen Tilden 2025-10-02 14:00:25

The celebrated pianist and author Alfred Brendel has died aged 94 at his home in London. The musician was born on 5 January 1931 in Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic) and spent his childhood mainly in Croatia and Austria. “I was not a child prodigy or eastern European or Jewish as far as I know,” he told interviewers. “I’m not a good sight reader, I don’t have a phenomenal memory and I didn’t come from a musical family, an artistic family or an intellectual family. I had loving parents, b

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Now might be the best time to learn software development

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 11:51:40

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CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses

news.ycombinator.com Looms 2025-10-02 12:49:10

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Guidelines on how to be a scientific sleuth released

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:12:30

![COSIG Logo][1] ### **Anyone can do post-publication peer review.** ### **Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.** ### **Anyone can do forensic metascience.** ### **Anyone can sleuth.** However, investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature often requires domain-specific knowledge that not everyone will have. This open source project is a collection of guides written and maintained by publication integrity experts to distribute this domain-specific knowledge

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Windows 10 EOL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 12:46:59

Blog Windows 10 EOL June 17th, 2025 (permalink) So Microsoft decided to produce tons of e-waste for no obvious reason. There's a lot of capable hardware out there, and it would be of software company's interest to support as much hardware as possible. Instead, they made some arbitrary reason to deprecate "old" hardware. At the same time they also turned all of windows VR headsets into garbage. We'll have to wait for the open source implementations to catch up for any hope of them being usable

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The Trump Phone Isn’t Just a Bad Deal, It’s a Full-On Privacy Nightmare

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-02 14:00:00

Bad news, folks: we all went to sleep, woke up, and the Trump phone is still here. That means a couple of things. For one, it means the T1 phone wasn’t the result of a spicy, food-fueled fever dream or a bad batch of crazy-style mushrooms—it’s a real phone that costs real money, made by a real president, who thinks “fox in the henhouse” is an allegory for how to win bigly in the U.S. government. It also means something else depressing, and it’s got nothing to do with making America great and eve

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Ethan Hunt Doesn’t Die in the New ‘Mission Impossible,’ But They Considered It

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-02 14:00:11

When the eighth Mission: Impossible film changed its title to “The Final Reckoning,” we all had the same thought: Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, was going to die. It would have been the most obvious way to add some real finality to the franchise, but we now know that doesn’t happen. Instead, Ethan lives, as does his sworn enemy, the Entity. And, in a new interview, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie discussed those crucial decisions and many more. In an extended, spoiler-filled conversa

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Surgery Still Beats Ozempic and Other GLP-1 Drugs in Real-World Weight Loss Study

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-02 14:05:43

When it comes to weight loss, surgery still reigns supreme. Research out today shows that people undergoing bariatric surgery tend to lose significantly more weight than people taking the newest, most effective GLP-1 medications for obesity. Scientists at New York University conducted the study, which analyzed real-world data from obesity patients. People who received surgery lost five times more weight over a two year span on average than those who were prescribed a GLP-1 drug, they found. The

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Stay on Top of These 6 Blood Tests to Make Sure You're Monitoring Your Health

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 13:45:03

Having your blood drawn might not be much fun, but regular diagnostic tests of your blood can detect diseases early for treatment and give your doctor and medical providers critical information about how well your body is functioning. The proper frequency of these blood tests depends on your age and personal health status -- the most important thing is to ask your doctor which tests you need and when you need them. With all the different types of blood tests out there, it's good to go into you

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DJ Furby Elongates the Classic Toy With a Literal Glow Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 14:00:00

Hasbro is launching a new type of Furby Tuesday, with an elongated design that makes it part cat, part worm and part DJ. The $70 DJ Furby is three times the size of a standard Furby, and the creature's body includes a light display along its body that can be used for various games. After unboxing the DJ Furby, it was immediately obvious to me that the wormlike body emphasizes the animatronic toy's resemblance to a cat more than ever. It can easily sit around my shoulder, and it looks like a pet

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'A Minecraft Movie' Streaming on Max: Release Date and Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-02 14:08:56

If you caught some morsels from A Minecraft Movie on social media -- videos of Jack Black passionately singing about cooking chicken with lava or theater audiences going wild over a chicken jockey -- this week you can stream the flick that started it all. The Max streaming service, which will soon take on the title of HBO Max again, previously announced that the video game movie would premiere in June. Now it's shared the exact release date for the PG-rated comedy. A Minecraft Movie stars Black

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Sally celebrates complicated legacy of first US woman in space

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:40:40

"Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure, she carried a secret." On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. National Geographic is marking the occasion with a new documentary on the astronaut's life: Sally. In addition to revisiting her storied career, the film provides an unprecedented look at the famously private Ride's personal life—notably

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Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:58:55

Google has announced a big expansion of its Gemini AI model family today. After months of tweaking and tuning, the high-power Gemini 2.5 Pro is leaving preview and is ready for developers to build on. Meanwhile, Google is offering a peek at its upcoming high-efficiency model, known as Gemini 2.5 Pro Flash-Lite. Try as it might, Google can't get away from confusing model names. Google's AI aspirations have been looking up in 2025 with the debut of Gemini 2.5. These models showed a marked improve

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How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

wired.com Louise Matsakis 2025-10-02 14:00:00

In her new book, Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, journalist and WIRED alum Megan Greenwell chronicles the devastating impacts of one of the most powerful yet poorly understood forces in modern American capitalism. Flush with cash, largely unregulated, and relentlessly focused on profit, private equity firms have quietly reshaped the US economy, taking over large chunks of industries ranging from health care to retail—often leaving financial ruin in their wake. T

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LG’s C4 OLED TV has dropped to a new low price

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-02 14:10:00

It’s official: Amazon’s Prime Day event is just three weeks away, and it’s possible we’ll see a number of great TV deals during the four-day event. But if you’d rather not wait and see, LG’s C4 OLED TV has hit a new low price, starting at $699.99 ($800 off) for the 42-inch model at Amazon and Best Buy. Some larger configurations like the 77-inch model are on sale too, with the 77-inch model going for $1,799.99 ($1,899 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Given how similar the last-gen models are to the

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Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-02 14:28:41

At Xbox our vision is for you to play the games you want with the people you want, anywhere you want. That’s why we’re investing in our next-generation hardware lineup — across console, handheld, PC, cloud, and accessories. I’m thrilled to share we’ve established a strategic multi-year partnership with AMD to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices — including our next-generation Xbox consoles in your living room and in your hands. Together with AMD we’re advancing the state of art in

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In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B from $13B

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-02 14:10:57

In Brief Spend management startup Ramp announced on Tuesday that it raised a $200 million Series E led by its largest investor, Founders Fund, at a post money $16 billion valuation. This is a jaw-dropping $3 billion increase over the $13 billion valuation Ramp announced just a few months ago in March from a $150 million secondary share sale. It’s current valuation is also more than double the $7.65 billion Ramp hit a little over a year ago when it raised $150 million at a $7.65 billion post mo

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Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-10-02 14:50:32

In Brief Intel will begin a new round of layoffs next month. The semiconductor giant plans to lay off 15% to 20% of workers in its Intel Foundry division starting in July, according to an internal memo originally reported on by The Oregonian. Intel Foundry designs, manufactures, and packages semiconductors for external clients. It’s unclear how many workers this will directly impact. Intel’s total workforce was 108,900 people as of December 2024, according to the company’s annual regulatory f

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Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-02 14:56:39

Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation. Up until now, users have been able to share both video posts and reels. The company is also renaming the “Video” tab on its platform to the “Reels” tab. The update won’t change what videos are recommended to you, Facebook says. In the coming months, users won’t have to choose between uploading a video or reel, as it will automatically be shared as a reel. In add

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Latest Tech News

PSA: WhatsApp for iPhone now also lets you copy part of a message

Apple’s Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac with big upgrades

Peak Design's new tripods take aim at the professional set

Threads adds new dedicated feed for fediverse content

This 1-800 number will generate ChatGPT images, if for some reason you need that

New Veeam RCE flaw lets domain users hack backup servers

What Apple's controversial research paper really tells us about LLMs

Forget AirTags: This KeySmart luggage lock makes location-tracking easy (and it's TSA-compliant)

Prime Day is coming, and Metro by T-Mobile customers can get Amazon Prime free on this plan

How to share your location on Android quickly - via text or Google Maps

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

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Now might be the best time to learn software development

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses

Guidelines on how to be a scientific sleuth released

Windows 10 EOL

The Trump Phone Isn’t Just a Bad Deal, It’s a Full-On Privacy Nightmare

Ethan Hunt Doesn’t Die in the New ‘Mission Impossible,’ But They Considered It

Surgery Still Beats Ozempic and Other GLP-1 Drugs in Real-World Weight Loss Study

Stay on Top of These 6 Blood Tests to Make Sure You're Monitoring Your Health

DJ Furby Elongates the Classic Toy With a Literal Glow Up

'A Minecraft Movie' Streaming on Max: Release Date and Time

Sally celebrates complicated legacy of first US woman in space

Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite

How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

LG’s C4 OLED TV has dropped to a new low price

Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’

In just 3 months, Ramp’s valuation jumped to $16B from $13B

Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers

Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels

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