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Cloudflare says 1.1.1.1 outage not caused by attack or BGP hijack

To quash speculation of a cyberattack or BGP hijack incident causing the recent 1.1.1.1 Resolver service outage, Cloudflare explains in a post mortem that the incident was caused by an internal misconfiguration. The outage occurred on July 14 and impacted most users of the service all over the world, rendering internet services unavailable in many cases. “The root cause was an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack,” Cloudflare says in the announcement. T

Best Internet Providers in New Hampshire

What is the best internet provider in New Hampshire? CNET's top choice for the best internet provider in New Hampshire is Fidium Fiber. This is thanks to the broadband's extensive fiber network, which, while it isn't everywhere in the area, is pretty expansive overall. With competitive prices and being well-known for its customer-friendly service, there's a lot to like about Fidium Fiber. It helps that the equipment is included, as well as Fidium offering plans that are contract-free. If you're

Show HN: I gave Claude a sundial and it built a calendar

"Passage of Time" Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server 🕐 An MCP server that gives language models temporal awareness and time calculation abilities. Teaching LLMs the significance of the passage of time through collaborative tool development. 📖 The Story This project emerged from a philosophical question: "Can AI perceive the passage of time?" What started as an exploration of machine consciousness became a practical solution to a real problem - LLMs can't reliably calculate time differences.

More Qi2.2 chargers are here, but here’s why you should wait before buying one

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR More products have been launched with Qi2.2 certification, promising wireless charging speeds at up to 25W with compatible devices. However, very few current smartphones officially support Qi2.2, but more are coming soon. More Qi2.2-certified accessories are also expected in the run-up to the iPhone 17 series launch, which will help widen product choice and stabilize prices for this bleeding-edge tech. UGREEN recently launched the new MagFlow Magnetic

The best free VPNs of 2025: Secure, safe, and fast VPNs

My top pick for free VPNs available in 2025 is Proton VPN, which, despite its limits, will suit many users who do not want to subscribe. Why we like it: The free version of Proton VPN offers many useful features that are paid for through other services and VPN subscribers. This is important when it comes to free VPN services, as it provides a measure of security and data protection that some shady services do not. After all, if your information is being sold in return for a VPN connection, this

No One Is Safe in the First Teaser for ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5

The beginning of the end for Stranger Things draws near as Netflix unleashes the first teaser for its hit franchise’s return. Hawkins’ heroes are back in action as Vecna’s Curse expands outside of the Upside Down. Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Will (Noah Schapp) will need to outrun the looming threat to save those they love, but will one superpowered girl be enough? Take a look at the edge-of-your-seat thrills in the t

The 54 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (July 2025)

Disney+, if you didn’t know, isn’t just for kids. With its ownership of the Lucasfilm brand and the Marvel titles, the streaming service offers plenty of grown-up content in its bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon—and we’re not just talking movies. Since launching the service, Disney has used the name recognition of Star Wars and Marvel to launch scores of TV shows, from The Mandalorian to Loki. In the list below, we’ve collected the ones we think are the best to watch, from those franchises

The live-action Legend of Zelda movie has cast its princess and hero

Benjamin Evan Ainsworth must be really good at saying 'hup' over and over. Nintendo has revealed the two lead actors for its live-action The Legend of Zelda movie. Bo Bragason is playing the title character, Princess Zelda, while Benjamin Evan Ainsworth is taking on the role of Link, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto announced on X. The performers are around the right ages for their parts — Bragason was born in 2004 while Ainsworth is 16. These are by far the biggest roles to date for both actor

The best streaming services in 2025

Free trial: No | Monthly price: Starts at $7/month (with ads) | Annual cost: Starts at $84/year (with ads) | Live TV: Limited | Local channels: No Compared to other on-demand streaming services, no one offers more high-quality content at a single price than Netflix. Pick any category you can think of and Netflix probably has something that will fit the bill, including original programming. Plus, new content is released every week and as a worldwide service, Netflix is consistently adding movies

Google fixes actively exploited sandbox escape zero day in Chrome

Google has released a security update for Chrome to address half a dozen vulnerabilities, one of them actively exploited by attackers to escape the browser's sandbox protection. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-6558 and received a high-severity rating of 8.8. It was discovered by researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on June 23. The security issue is described as an insufficient validation of untrusted input in ANGLE and GPU that affects Google Chrome versions before 1

Pixel Piranhas

I really hate it when I’m exposed to some horrible news online, and feel powerless. There is nothing I can do, I am not responsible, and yet at the same time I have this feeling “this shouldn’t be happening”. There is a temptation to immediately react – if it was printed, I would crumple up the paper and throw it away – yet, reading pixels on the screen I don’t have the right gesture to express my discontent. So I made this little browser extension. Click on a button, and a horde of cursor

The 22 Best Fantasy TV Shows Netflix Has to Offer

Netflix is the go-to streamer for fantasy TV shows. The platform's roster is formidable. Other streamers may be hitting it hard in the genre space, but Netflix is always light years ahead. You've landed on this article because you're looking for quality fantasy TV shows to add to your watchlist. The real question is, where do you start? Finding the right program to invest your time in can be a challenge, considering how crowded the content landscape has become. Well, friend, you're in the right

26 of the Best TV Shows on Disney Plus

Disney Plus has become a force to be reckoned with in the streaming TV realm. Like Netflix before it, the Disney-owned content platform has become a utility within my household. Simply put, it's an entertainment necessity and one of the best streaming platforms today. If you've been sleeping on Disney Plus, now's the time to wake up. The Mouse House's streamer has been around for a bit over a decade, but its library is so stacked, it feels like it's been around for way longer. Where else can yo

How to choose which Apple Watch to buy

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. It used to be easy to pick an Apple Watch. All you had to do was choose whether you wanted the larger model or the smaller one. Then Apple added optional cellular connectivity. Then, a more affordable Watch SE (now in its second generation) and, in 2022, the rugged Apple Watch Ultra (also now in its second generation). Suddenly, there

Here’s why you can’t rate that system app in the Google Play Store

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR Earlier this year, Google started working to implement minimalistic app listings for system services in the Play Store. These listings do not include a review section nor allow users to rate the apps. Users are now starting to see this new format for system services roll out widely. Should all app listings be created the same? At first glance, it might make sense to expect all app listings in the Play Store to have the same stuff: description, screensho

Emmy Awards 2025: Apple TV+ just landed nominations in all major categories

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just announced the contenders for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, and Apple just scored big with Severance alone receiving 27 nominations, more than any other series. Check below if your favorite series and movies made the cut, or update your watchlist ahead of the ceremony. Severance (27) and The Studio (23) score most nominations for Apple TV+ Last year, Apple scored 8 wins, including Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling and Makeup (Non-prosthetic) f

We Are Having a Very Hard Time Believing the "Shape" of Tesla's New Robotaxi Geofence Is a Coincidence

Tesla has expanded the area where its Robotaxis can operate in Austin, and it's difficult — nay, impossible — to ignore its resemblance to something unmistakably vulgar. As folks immediately pointed out online, the crudely-shaped geofence is, essentially, a bathroom graffiti-level dick drawing — and given his puerile sense of humor, there's a non-zero chance that Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it that way on purpose. Indeed, after someone posted a video showing the phallic geofence on X, the shitpos

A Solar System Internet? Space Laser Test Moves Us Closer

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in their efforts to build optical communication systems for future missions to the Moon and beyond. Scientists at the Kryoneri Observatory near Athens, Greece, shot a powerful laser at NASA’s Psyche mission, which then sent a return signal to the Helmos Observatory, which lies some 23 miles (37 km) aw

‘Andor’ Gets 14 Emmy Nominations in a Genre-Heavy Year

Television, it turns out, is geeky as hell. That seemed to be the major takeaway as the 77th annual Emmy Award nominations were announced Tuesday, with Severance leading all nominees with 27 total, HBO’s The Penguin coming in second with 24, The Last of Us in fifth with 16, and Andor coming in sixth with 14, including Outstanding Drama Series. Other genre shows, such as The Acolyte, Agatha All Along, Black Mirror, The Boys, Cobra Kai, Dune: Prophecy, House of the Dragon, Invincible, Paradise, P

How We Test Products and Services

For nearly 30 years, CNET has built a reputation as the premier source for trustworthy, unbiased reviews on all things tech – from phones to TVs to laptops to wireless earbuds to streaming and VPN services. If you can scroll your feeds on it, watch it, type on it or subscribe to it, chances are we've reviewed it. As technology has evolved over time, we've expanded to test artificial intelligence tools, home products, health and wellness, broadband services and personal finance services, evaluat

There’s a Strange New Hole in Yellowstone National Park

Last April, geologists conducting routine maintenance at temperature logging stations in Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin found something unexpected: a previously undocumented thermal pool of blue water. The newly identified pool, found in the Porcelain Basin subbasin, is about 13 feet (4 meters) wide, its idyllic blue water is around 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius), and the water’s surface sits about one foot (30 centimeters) below the rim of the pool, according to a

Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem

Getting rid of them isn’t straightforward—or cheap. Users have been forced to resort to regenerating clips (which costs them more money), using external subtitle-removing tools, or cropping their videos to get rid of the subtitles altogether. Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, posted on X on June 9 that Google had developed fixes to reduce the gibberish text. But over a month later, users are still logging issues with it in Google Labs’ Discord channel, demonstrating how d

Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

Reddit users in the United Kingdom are now required to verify their age as a way to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content. The new requirement comes after the U.K.’s Online Safety Act (OSA) introduced new steps for platforms to take to block children from encountering harmful content, like pornography and material promoting self-harm. Reddit will use the third-party service Persona to confirm a user’s age, necessitating users to submit a picture of their government-issued ident

Reddit begins age verification checks for UK users

Redditors in the UK will now have to verify their ages before they can view mature content. Just like Bluesky, which announced a few days ago that it was rolling out age verification features, Reddit had to enforce the new rule to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. The UK's new requirements are meant to prevent children from accessing age-inappropriate posts. Reddit will use a third-party company called Persona to verify a user's age. Users will either have to upload a photo of their governme

WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash

WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash The firm has now updated its terms, saying it has "made the language easier to understand" to avoid confusion. A WeTransfer spokeswoman told BBC News: "We don't use machine learning or any form of AI to process content shared via WeTransfer, nor do we sell content or data to any third parties." The file sharing company had received lots of criticism from customers on social media after changing its terms of service, which some interpre

Crimson (YC X25) is hiring founding engineers in London

Crimson is the AI platform for high-stakes litigation. We're working with top law firms in the UK and US to streamline how complex disputes are run. Our platform drafts pleadings and submissions, analyzes judgments and orders, summarizes transcripts and locates key evidence in seconds. We're a team of three co-founders with deep technical and domain expertise. Our users are lawyers who trust us with their most sensitive case files. They care about security, accuracy, reliability and speed, and

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Anthropic launches finance-specific Claude with built-in data connectors, higher limits and prompt libraries

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 As some regulated enterprises cautiously expand their use of AI, platform and model makers are starting to offer bespoke versions to specific industries. Anthropic is making its first step into that direction with the new Claude for Financial Services, essentially a special version of its Claude for Enterprise tier, that could soothe some

OpenAI's ChatGPT-powered browser is codenamed 'Aura'

OpenAI is following Perplexity and is working on its own AI-powered browser codenamed "Aura." X user Tibor found references to "Aura," which is probably the codename for the new OpenAI browser. There are already mentions of "is Aura" ("mini-root," which is similar to checks for Android, iOS, or Electron/ChatGPT Windows desktop app), "is Aura Sidebar," and "in Aura" in the ChatGPT web app. Reuters previously reported that OpenAI is building a Chromium-based Chrome alternative that will use gen

Here's Everything You Need to Know About Satellite Connectivity in Phones

The words "satellite phone" probably conjure up an image of a clunky mobile monstrosity straight out of a spy thriller. These bulky and utilitarian traditional satellite phones are typically required in remote locations where cellular networks are unavailable. Nowadays, however, satellite connectivity can be found in regular smartphones too, thanks to new hardware innovations and unique partnerships with satellite network providers. They can't fully replace traditional satellite phones, but in

Reddit is rolling out age verification in the UK

Reddit users in the United Kingdom will now be blocked from accessing “certain mature content” unless they complete the platform’s new age verification process. Reddit announced on Monday that UK users will need to upload a selfie or a photo of their government ID in order to view content that’s restricted for under-18s by the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), including abusive, violent, and sexually explicit materials. The age verification process is performed by Persona, a third-party provider that