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Wondering who bought the Galaxy S25 Edge? Turns out, A lot of people did.

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Twitter leaker has posted purported Galaxy S25 series sales data, including figures for the S25 Edge. The figures suggest that the Galaxy S25 Edge sold 650,000 units during its first month of sales. The numbers also point to significant growth for the Galaxy S25 series compared to the S24 series. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 Edge a few months ago, and initial reports suggested that it saw lower-than-expected sales. Now, a leaker has posted apparent

Google's Jules AI coding tool exits beta with serious upgrades - and more free tasks

Natalya_Yudina/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's Jules coding agent is out of beta, with clear pricing tiers. Even the free tier has newer, more generous usage limits. Updates include improved AI and better setup management. Google's coding AI Jules is out of beta. Announced in a blog post on Wednesday, the coding helper will be powered by Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro LLM. You might recall that Google also recently announced its Gemini CLI GitHub Actions coding tool. What do all these

3 charging mistakes slowly killing your tablet - and what to do instead

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Unplug at 100%, keep battery between 20% and 80%. Avoid draining to 0%; store unused tablets at 50%. Use certified chargers to prevent stress and overheating. As someone who uses a tablet daily, I'm constantly looking for ways to make its battery last longer. However, some habits you don't think twice about could actually be hurting your battery over time. There are ways to extend your tablet's battery life, and there are some things you should avoid t

Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions

AURA: The Protocol for a Machine-Readable Web AURA (Agent-Usable Resource Assertion) is an open protocol for making websites understandable and operable by AI agents. It proposes a new standard for AI-web interaction that moves beyond fragile screen scraping and DOM manipulation towards a robust, secure, and efficient machine-readable layer for the internet. The web was built for human eyes. AURA is a specification for giving it a machine-readable "API". The Vision: Why AURA? Current AI agen

The greenhouse gases we’re not accounting for

Researchers around the world set to work unraveling the mystery, reviewing readings from satellites, aircraft, and greenhouse-gas monitoring stations. They eventually spotted a clear pattern: Methane emissions had increased sharply across the tropics, where wetlands were growing wetter and warmer. That created the ideal conditions for microbes that thrive in anaerobic muck, which gobbled up more of the carbon-rich organic matter and spat out more methane as a by-product. (Reduced pollution from

Google Messages finally fixes a long-standing issue with truncated text

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out a “More content” button for RCS messages with rich card carousels in its Messages app. The new button will expand rich card carousels into a full-screen, swipeable view to show the complete message, eliminating issues caused by truncated text. The update, currently in open beta, is expected to roll out globally by the end of Q3 2025. Traditional SMS continues to have its use-cases, but texting has now evolved to instant messaging

Welcome to dystopia: I helped ChatGPT pass a CAPTCHA and doomscroll my Facebook

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Last week, OpenAI released what may be the most ambitious (and potentially controversial) update to ChatGPT since its launch: Agent mode. Unlike the standard conversational interface, Agent mode gives ChatGPT control over a virtual machine running Chrome, allowing it to interact with websites like a human would. It can identify elements on websites, scroll, click buttons, fill out forms, and, if granted credentials, even log into your online accounts. For th

I switched my TV with a 4K UST projector - and it was a visual upgrade in several ways

Formovie Cinema Edge 4K UST projector ZDNET's key takeaways The Formovie Cinema Edge 4K UST projector is available now for $1,899 at Amazon. It has a sturdy construction and sleek design. It's great for cinematic viewing, although it could greatly benefit from having a dedicated sound system. $1,799 at Amazon The first ultra short-throw (UST) projectors hit the mainstream market in the US as early as 2014. (Thank you, Sony.) Collectively, they've come a long way since then in terms of design,

Scientists have recreated the Universe's first molecule

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high temperatures and densities. However, after just a few seconds, it had cooled down enough for the first elements to form, primarily hydrogen and helium. These were still completely ionized at this point, as it took almost 380,000 years for the temperature in the universe to drop enough for neutral atoms to form through recombination with free electrons. This paved the way

New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

In June, we launched Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini to your terminal. The enthusiastic adoption from developers has been incredible. To keep up with the flood of feature requests and contributions, we put our own tool to the test — using Gemini CLI to automate issue triage and pull request reviews. When community members noticed our new workflows, they asked us to share what we’ve built. Today, we’re introducing Gemini CLI GitHub Actions. It’s a no-cost, pow

Microsoft warns of high-severity flaw in hybrid Exchange deployments

Microsoft has warned customers to mitigate a high-severity vulnerability in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges in Exchange Online cloud environments without leaving any traces. Exchange hybrid configurations connect on-premises Exchange servers to Exchange Online (part of Microsoft 365), allowing for seamless integration of email and calendar features between on-premises and cloud mailboxes, including shared calendars, global address lists

This mini projector beats more expensive models (and took 5 minutes to set up)

Dangbei N2 Mini Projector ZDNET's key takeaways The Dangbei N2 Mini projector is on sale on Amazon for $189. The N2 Mini is one of the easiest projectors to setup I've used, and delivers crisp 1080p video without much fuss. Unfortunately, it's limited to 1080p and does not do 4K, and you'll want to connect a Bluetooth speaker. $229 at Amazon I've used plenty of projectors over the years. Back in the day, they were a pain to set up and use, with complex, fragile internal components and finnick

You know more Finnish than you think

Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, making helpful connections and breaking down psychological barriers. This theme was present in two old posts of mine that used etymology to elucidate two Old English texts, namely Beowulf and The Wanderer. Now, as an unplanned third installment, allow me to show you how familiar a whole language can be. This is the i

Firefly Aerospace prices shares at $45, above the expected range

The Blue Ghost Mission Operations Engineer, Jaxon Liebeck, showcases the Blue Ghost moon lander at Firefly Aerospace headquarters on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 in Cedar Park. Firefly Aerospace priced shares in its IPO at $45 on Wednesday, above its expected range. The Texas-based rocket maker will debut on the Nasdaq Thursday under the ticker symbol "FLY." The offering raised $868 million and values the company at about $6.3 billion. Firefly filed its initial prospectus in July and upped its IPO r

Bob Iger Insists Disney’s Focus Is on Original Movies—but Is It?

A glance at the list of announced films coming from Walt Disney Studios—including Disney’s live-action and animated divisions, plus Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and more—will tell you a few things. The biggest is that the upcoming slate leans heavily toward sequels, reboots, remakes, and new entries in well-known series, something the company’s CEO, Bob Iger, seemed to hedge against in a recent earnings call. “I wouldn’t say that we’ve got a priority one

Best 4K Projector for 2025: Tested and Reviewed by Experts

Sony All the projectors we review at CNET go through the same testing process that includes objective measurements and side-by-side subjective evaluation. I've been reviewing projectors for over 20 years and have used one (OK, many over the years) as my main "TV" since I started reviewing them. I'm also Imaging Science Foundation certified and did training at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to correctly measure displays. I use specialized test equipment, including a C6 HDR500

Gartner's AI Hype Cycle reveals which AI tech is peaking - but will it last?

JuSun/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Gartner has released its 2025 Hype Cycle report. AI agents and data are at their most inflated and need precise application to yield results. The report also emphasized trust and safety efforts as critical to the next five years. Research firm Gartner has released its annual Hype Cycle report, which investigates whether new technology is living up to expectations or is still far off from making a meaningful impact. At the top of the list this year? AI agent

Researchers Seize Control of Smart Homes With Malicious Gemini AI Prompts

Recent reports and demonstrations from the Black Hat computer-security conference have shown how outside Gemini AI prompts, dubbed promptware, could fool the AI and force it to control Google Home-connected smart devices. That's an issue for Google, which has been working to add Gemini features to its Google Home app and replace Google Assistant with the new AI helper. The secret to these serious vulnerabilities is how Gemini is designed to respond to basic commands in English. Demonstrations s

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Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination. These ships are often envisioned as

Researchers design “promptware” attack with Google Calendar to turn Gemini evil

Generative AI systems have proliferated across the technology industry over the last several years to such a degree that it can be hard to avoid using them. Google and other big names in AI spend a lot of time talking about AI safety, but the ever-evolving capabilities of AI have also led to a changing landscape of malware threats—or as researchers from Tel Aviv University would say, "promptware." Using simple calendar appointments, this team managed to trick Gemini into manipulating Google smar

Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Health practitioners are becoming increasingly uneasy about the medical community making widespread use of error-prone generative AI tools. The proliferation of the tech has repeatedly been hampered by rampant "hallucinations," a euphemistic term for the bots' made-up facts and convincingly-told lies. One glaring error proved so persuasive that it took over a year to be caught. In their May 2024 research paper introducing a healthcare AI model, dubbed Me

How a ‘vibe working’ approach at Genspark tripled ARR growth and supported a barrage of new products and features in just weeks

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Traditionally, product releases can be cumbersome, requiring multiple sign-offs, endless tinkering, bureaucracies and friction points. Genspark has developed a much different approach. The AI workspace company’s lean team practices AI-native working — or ‘vibe working,’ if you will — so that they can move at what they call “gen speed.” Th

Google’s new diffusion AI agent mimics human writing to improve enterprise research

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google researchers have developed a new framework for AI research agents that outperforms leading systems from rivals OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The new agent, called Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), is inspired by the way humans write by going through a process of drafting, searching for information, an

Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone’s entire storage

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Terminal app on Pixel phones enables users to run Linux apps via a Debian virtual machine. The Android 16 Beta 4, and subsequently the stable Android 16 release, removed the previous 16GB storage cap for the Linux VM. In Android 16 QPR1, manual storage resizing has been replaced with dynamic storage ballooning, allowing the VM to adjust its storage needs automatically. Update 1, August 6, 2025 (02:24 PM ET): With the release of Android 16 QPR1 Bet

Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer. Guided Learning will be available as toggle in the prompt box of Gemini as the feature rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will treat quest

College students can get Google's AI Pro plan for free now. Here's how

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Students ages 18+ get the Google AI Pro plan for free for 12 months. Plan includes access to Deep Research, Veo 3, Jules, and more. Part of a larger $1 billion investment in AI education and job training. As AI tools continue to develop, they expand beyond the standard question-and-answer loop and offer more meaningful assistance for students. Google, for instance, has tools that can create podcasts for users from their notes, debu

Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

Zig Error Patterns

Some patterns I have started to use when writing zig code with unit tests. Introduction Although I try to make good use of the debugger, I am quite used to print-based debugging, especially for unit tests. I wanted to explore some tricks to improve print-based debugging, and also incorporate the debugger more. print-based debugging improved One big problem with using print debugging is spammy output. If I am running something in a loop, and only one iteration of the loop has anything interes

The 12 Most Effective Cardio Workouts

Cardio is more than just running laps or hopping on a bike. It's any movement that gets your heart pumping, your body sweating and your energy levels soaring. Whether you're chasing a weight loss goal or looking to boost endurance, there's a cardio workout that fits your mood and motivation. Not into high-impact moves? Go for swimming or a rowing session that's easier on the joints. Want something that pushes your limits? Sprinting or HIIT might be your jam. Cardio is flexible and lets you mix i