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Best Places to Buy Replacement Prescription Lenses Online in 2025

cnet.com David Carnoy 2025-06-04 15:00:00

Some companies may expedite your order more quickly if you send them detailed info about your frames. It's important to know exactly what your prescription is (ideally a current one), although some companies can pull it from your old lenses if necessary. Check the site for discount codes or first-time buyer discounts (you usually have to provide your email address). The prescription for your glasses is typically only valid for a year or two. If it’s time to replace your current lenses, you ca

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How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-06-04 16:51:24

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has come into force, and it’s meant that some of the world’s biggest tech companies are having to make major changes to how they operate. The law, which is designed to increase competition in the EU’s digital markets, designates some large online companies and their services as “gatekeepers.” Those that have received the gatekeeper designation — the companies on the list are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft — have to meet str

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Crypto exchange Bybit says it was hacked and lost around $1.4B

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-06-04 13:00:33

Crypto exchange Bybit announced on Friday that “a sophisticated attack” led to the theft of Ethereum (ETH) from one of the company’s offline wallets. Bybit’s chief executive and co-founder Ben Zhou said in a livestream that the hackers stole around 401,346 ETH, which at the time of the theft amounts to about $1.4 billion. Both crypto security firm Elliptic, as well as crypto security researcher ZachXBT, the total amount of ETH stolen is worth around $1.4 billion, making this the largest known

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9to5Mac Daily: February 21, 2025 – UK encryption, reverse wireless charging

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-06-04 18:04:37

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ChargeASAP: Check out the Flash Pro Ultra, featuring a new 275W power bank with an OLED screen that can charge up to 6 devices simultaneously, including your MacBook, phone, smartwatch, and more! New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. S

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Six months of Apple Music is on sale for only $3

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 15:55:25

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 . Yes, $3 in total, but the offer is only for new subscribers. Deals on music streaming services tend to be few and far between. But right now, you can snag one of the best deals we've seen, period, on Apple Music. Six months of access is down to just $3 right now and no, that's not a t

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Bybit CEO Confirms Exchange Was Hacked for $1.46B

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-04 17:15:03

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46 billion worth of "suspicious outflows," according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT. The wallet in question appears to have sent 401,346 ETH ($1.1 billion) as well as several other iterations of staked ether (stETH) to a fresh wallet, which is now liquidating mETH and stETH on decentralized exchanges, etherscan shows. The wallet has sold around $200 million worth of stETH so far. Bybit CEO Ben Zhou wrote on X that a hacker "took control of the spe

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Launch HN: Massdriver (YC W22) – Self-serve cloud infra without the red tape

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-04 16:19:12

Hi HN! We’re Cory, Dave, and Chris, the founders of Massdriver ( https://www.massdriver.cloud/ ), an infrastructure automation platform. Massdriver enforces organizational standards and delivers consistent, compliant deployments—no more endless approvals, red tape, or broken Terraform plans. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6T5p0qXcFE&t=4s Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows were designed to help developers and work fine for small teams, but as organizations scale, they

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Govee Smart LED Floor Lamp Brings 16 Million Colors at Its Lowest Price Yet

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-06-04 15:45:14

Transform your space from boring to brilliant with Govee’s RGBIC Floor Lamp – it’s not just a light, it’s practically a party in a pole. This sleek 136cm tall lamp packs serious illumination power with its 1000 lumens, but the real magic is in its ability to display multiple colors simultaneously, making it perfect for gaming setups, movie nights, or just adding some life to that dull corner of your room. Deal alert: Amazon’s slashed the price from $100 to just $60, making this a whopping 40% d

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Musk’s Plan to Kill the ISS Early Is a Selfish, Shortsighted Move

gizmodo.com Adam Kovac 2025-06-04 15:05:34

The immediate future of the International Space Station is suddenly in doubt thanks to a single tweet. Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and unelected advisor to President Donald Trump on basically everything, wants the venerable station gone, and he wants it gone sooner rather than later. On Thursday, Musk posted on his X platform that he believes it’s “time to begin preparations for deorbiting” the ISS. “It has served its purpose,” he declared. “There is very little incremental utility. Let’s go to

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The $230 MacBook Air Is Real, It’s a Steal, and It’s Flying Off the Shelves

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-06-04 15:55:06

MacBooks are many things — beautifully designed, reliable, sturdy, fast, and powerful among them. Inexpensive, however, is not a word you hear applied to MacBooks often, if ever. Apple is very much a get-what-you-pay-for company, and you pay for quality. Thankfully, there are shortcuts to be found, like the deals StackSocial frequently runs on Grade-A refurbished MacBooks for a fraction of their usual cost. See at StackSocial Here’s one that’s on the extreme side even for StackSocial: A 13.3-i

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48TB of Your Own Personal Cloud Storage for Under $300, Amazon’s Best-Seller Hits a New Low

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-06-04 16:35:32

Cloud storage has been one of the better advancements of the last 15 years. The ability to access any of your documents, photos, videos, or file of any type wherever you are is no short of a miracle. Some folks still don’t have a firm grasp on what exactly cloud storage is. In short, it’s just saving stuff to someone else’s computer. But that’s hogwash. Just save it to your own computer and do the same thing yourself. Right now, you can get this UGreen NASync 2-Bay desktop for a solid 15% discou

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Best Internet Providers in Massachusetts

cnet.com Amanda Kooser 2025-06-04 13:46:00

What is the best internet service provider in Massachusetts? According to CNET, Xfinity is the best internet provider in Massachusetts, thanks to its solid speeds, competitive pricing and reliability. However, Xfinity isn’t available in every part of the state and you have more options to choose from. For residents in eastern Massachusetts, Verizon Fios is a strong alternative, offering fast speeds at reasonable rates. In rural areas, local fiber networks may provide better service. If afforda

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Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-06-04 15:00:00

Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a supporting role—I mused how playwrights have been dealing with the implications of AI for over a century. In 1920—well before Alan Turing devised his famous test and decades before the 1956 summer Dartmouth conference that gave artificial intelligence its name—a Czech playwright named Karel Čapek wrote R.U.R.—Rossum’s Universal Robots. Not on

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The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us

theverge.com Gadel Valle 2025-06-04 18:19:32

is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. Update February 21st: Apple has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK, calling itself “gravely disappointed” with the move. The encryption wars have reached a fever pitch, and the most contentious battle is not happening in the United States, where much of the action has been in the past — like the government’s efforts to restrict exports of

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A huge trove of leaked Black Basta chat logs expose the ransomware gang’s key members and victims

techcrunch.com Carly Page 2025-06-04 15:22:20

A trove of chat logs allegedly belonging to the Black Basta ransomware group has leaked online, exposing key members of the prolific Russia-linked gang. The chat logs, which include over 200,000 messages spanning from September 18, 2023, to September 28, 2024, were shared with threat intelligence company Prodaft by a leaker. The cybersecurity firm says the leak comes amid “internal conflict” within the Black Basta group after some members allegedly failed to provide its victims with functional

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Crypto exchange Bybit says it was hacked and lost around $1.4 billion

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-06-04 18:00:33

Crypto exchange Bybit announced on Friday that “a sophisticated attack” led to the theft of ethereum (ETH) from one of the company’s offline wallets. Bybit’s chief executive and co-founder Ben Zhou said in a livestream that the hackers stole around 401,346 ETH, which at the time of the theft amounts to about $1.4 billion. Both crypto security firm Elliptic, as well as crypto security researcher ZachXBT, the total amount of ETH stolen is worth around $1.4 billion, making this the largest known

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Show HN: I built an AI voice agent for Gmail

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-04 05:04:04

It's secure and free Power through emails with Pocket, the ultimate voice-based AI assistant. Designed for dealmakers. for more Take Action Get through your email with an assistant that understands intent Speak Freely You're in control – pause, interrupt, or change your mind at any time Just Ask Find exactly what you're looking for with conversational search

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Elon Musk Just Caused a Huge Headache for the New Head of NASA

futurism.com Unknown 2025-06-04 11:06:08

SpaceX CEO and unelected White House advisor Elon Musk unexpectedly said today that he wants the International Space Station destroyed "as soon as possible." In a tweet today, the mercurial entrepreneur asserted that it's "time to begin preparations for deorbiting the space station," arguing that "it has served its purpose," with "very little incremental utility." Instead, Musk argued, the station should be destroyed within two years — but left the final decision "up to the President." It's a

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Insta360 launches new ‘AI Tracker’ accessory for Flow 2 Pro gimbal

9to5mac.com Filipe Espósito 2025-06-04 11:47:04

Insta360 introduced the Flow 2 Pro earlier this year, the company’s latest smartphone gimbal – which I reviewed here on 9to5Mac. Now the company has just announced a new accessory for Flow 2 Pro owners. Called the “AI Tracker,” the accessory is a module with a built-in camera sensor to improve the tracking of people and objects. Meet the new Insta360 Flow 2 Pro AI Tracker Most gimbals offer subject tracking through their companion apps. When it comes to Insta360 Flow 2 Pro, iPhone users could

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‘Tripsy’ trip planner app can now convert currencies and show nearby places

9to5mac.com Filipe Espósito 2025-06-04 12:33:02

Tripsy, a popular app to help users plan and organize their trips, has just received another major update with some useful new features. The new version of the app makes it easier for users to check their expenses in different currencies and also to see nearby places on a map. What’s new with Trispy For those unfamiliar, Tripsy is a trip planner that “helps you plan your entire trip in one place.” You can share your itinerary with family and friends, receive flight alerts, and make wish lists

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How to make the most of the iPhone's Action Button

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 09:30:38

The Action button is available on nearly every iPhone Apple sells, offering a quick way to access a feature, app or shortcut on your phone, just by pushing a button. It can be a flashlight, activate a smart home routine or let you access any number of custom shortcuts without having to unlock your phone and pick through apps. Apple added the Action Button on the iPhone 15 Pro as a replacement for the iPhone's original Ring / Silent switch, and it was an acknowledgement of sorts that lots of peo

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BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-04 13:15:20

BritCSS Fixes CSS to use non-bastardised spellings Permits using English (traditional) spellings for CSS properties, rather than English (simplified). Because this is implemented with a client-side script. You can use this to properise the CSS of any page. Demo on CodePen Usage To use this script, simply include it in your HTML: < script src =" https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/DeclanChidlow/BritCSS/britcss.js " > </ script > To enter debug mode: britCSS . debug ( true ) ; To stop the script

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Most People Still Aren’t Happy With Their Internet, but It’s Not All Bad

cnet.com Trey Paul 2025-06-04 08:58:00

The American Customer Satisfaction Index released its annual survey, based on over 25,000 customer interviews, revealing how we really feel about our internet service providers. The good news for ISPs -- things are trending up. Overall, ISPs scored 71 on the ACSI's 100-point scale -- an increase of three points over 2023 and the highest score since the ACSI started measuring ISPs in 2013. The not-so-good news? Internet service providers still rank at the bottom of the index, just ahead of subscr

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61 US startups became unicorns in 2024: Here’s the full list

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-06-04 07:55:22

Despite the tight venture capital market, unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase, CB Insights, and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly minted unicorns so far this year. The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups. But cybersecurity, health tech, and fintech have also done well. This list will be updated throughout the year, so check back and see the powerhouses ra

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Invisible, autonomous and hackable: The AI agent dilemma no one saw coming

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-06-04 12:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Generative AI poses interesting security questions, and as enterprises move into the agentic world, those safety issues increase. When AI agents enter workflows, they must be able to access sensitive data and documents to do their job — making them a significant risk for many security-minded enterprises. “The rising use of multi-agent

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Save $50 on the already affordable Apple Mac Mini M4

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-04 15:23:05

Apple, previously known for its usually overpriced products, now offers some of the most competitive computers around. The perfect example is the Apple Mac Mini M4, which is usually only $599 and leaves almost all competitors in its price range in the dust. Today, you can actually get it for less, thanks to a $50 discount that takes the cost down to $549. Get the Apple Mac Mini M4 for $549 ($50 off) This offer is available from Amazon. The deal is for the base model with an Apple M4 processor,

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Apple unveils iPhone 16e, new Studio Display rumors, Siri delays

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-06-04 14:26:45

Benjamin and Chance discuss the newly announced iPhone 16e, some peculiarities in feature omissions, and exactly what market a lower-cost iPhone actually serves. There’s also exciting new rumors about a second-generation Studio Display, and more doubts about whether Apple will be able to deliver Siri intelligence features in the short-term. And in Happy Hour Plus, Humane shuts up shop and sells to HP. We reflect on the failings of the Ai Pin idea. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Sponsored by Ch

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9to5Mac Daily: February 20, 2025 – iPhone 17 rumors, more iPhone 16e tidbits

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-06-04 15:36:13

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by ChargeASAP: Check out the Flash Pro Ultra, featuring a new 275W power bank with an OLED screen that can charge up to 6 devices simultaneously, including your MacBook, phone, smartwatch, and more! New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. S

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Apple's M4 Mac mini is back on sale for $549

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 11:15:12

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 . While there's a new iPhone that's surely soaking up the attention of many Apple fans, it's often worth keeping an eye on the company's other products as you might find a decent deal. If you've been on the lookout for a discount on the latest Mac mini, you're in luck. The M4 Mac mini is

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Dune: Awakening will spice things up on May 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-04 13:45:52

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 . A day after it was reported that Denis Villeneuve's third Dune movie starts shooting this summer, developer Funcom announced that its open-world MMO Dune: Awakening arrives on May 20 for PC. You can even get a jump on your journey through Arrakis with a character creator that's availab

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