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Rumor Replay: iPhone Fold, AirPods Pro 3 features, and more

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-20 15:30:23

This is Rumor Replay, a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: iPhone Fold rumors, iPhone 17 Pro thermals and case curiosity, AirPods Pro 3 features, and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors. iPhone Fold could boast all-screen display, Apple raises expectations This week brought a trio of updates for next fall’s highly anticipated iPhone Fold. Ming-Chi Kuo addressed speculation that the device would fe

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Apple's iPhone 17 is expected to debut next week: Rumors, prices, new features and everything else you need to know

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:23:56

It's true: In just five days, we'll finally get to see the all-new iPhone 17 lineup during Apple's 2025 "Awe dropping" iPhone event. The hardware announcement will take place on Tuesday, September 9 at 1PM ET. The newest phones will come equipped with the latest iOS 26 features preinstalled, along with any new features Apple reveals that day. But until the iPhone event actually happens, we can only speculate what the new devices will look like. As with most unreleased iPhones, rumors and leaks h

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Is this the most promising Chromebook yet? This Acer has specs that almost rival my MacBook

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-20 15:10:00

'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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Southwest Airlines Announces Free Wi-Fi for Everyone, Months After Taking Away Free Checked Bags

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-20 15:20:36

Southwest Airlines announced Thursday that it will start offering free wifi on all flights through a partnership with T-Mobile starting Oct. 24. The service will be available to all Southwest Rapid Rewards members, the airline’s free loyalty program. The announcement comes just a few months after Southwest ended its free checked bags policy. The airline previously allowed bags to “fly free” until it announced at the end of May that first checked bags would cost $35 and a second would be $45. S

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The New ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Has a Release Date and Perfect Casting Announcment

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-20 15:32:25

Let out the biggest “Hadouken!” you’ve got because Street Fighter is coming. Thanks to a new deal between Legendary and Paramount, the studio just announced it will release the latest adaptation of the iconic Capcom fighting game on October 16, 2026. Plus, it made all the previously rumored casting official in an incredible way. According to the press release, this Street Fighter is set in 1993 and follows Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo), who are “thrown back into combat when the myst

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Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 15:33:54

On Wednesday, a global antipiracy group, which included Apple TV+, Netflix, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery, announced that it had assisted in a sting operation that took down Streameast, described as the “largest illicit live sports streaming operation in the world.” Now, accessing websites from the thwarted Streameast brings up a link from the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) that explains how to watch sports games legally. However, people have reported that

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Should AI Get Legal Rights?

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-10-20 15:05:56

In the often strange world of AI research, some people are exploring whether the machines should be able to unionize. I’m joking, sort of. In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but growing field called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights. Within the past year, two research organizations studying model welfare have popped up: Conscium and Eleos AI Research. Anthropic also hired its first AI welfare

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iOS 26 adds seven brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-20 19:10:28

The iPhone’s default ringtone is highly recognizable, but in iOS 26 Apple has a lot of alternate options coming. There are seven brand new ringtones, most of which are remixed versions of the familiar default. Listen to all of the new iPhone ringtones below. New ringtones in iOS 26 offer remixed versions of default ‘Reflections’ sound Apple has long offered a variety of iPhone ringtones that serve as alternatives to the system default. But iOS 26, for the first time, takes that very familiar

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The LEGO Ultimate Death Star set includes over 9,000 pieces and costs $1,000

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 19:35:56

LEGO just revealed the Star Wars Ultimate Death Star set, which is a massive beast that includes over 9,000 pieces. The company says it's the largest LEGO Star Wars set ever made. It's also the most expensive LEGO set ever, Star Wars or not. It costs a whopping $1,000. It may set you back around a month's rent, but just look at this thing. It's a legit monster. The set ships with 38 minifigures, including characters like Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. It also comes with a st

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Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 19:01:31

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts, with more than 18,000 customers and supporting over 60 million students worldwide. In January, the education software giant disclosed that its PowerSource customer s

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Philips Hue Bridge Pro just made it easy to add motion sensing to your old smart lights

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-10-20 19:33:51

PRakhar Khanna/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways MotionAware on the new Hue Bridge Pro is the standout feature. IFA 2025 lineup includes Essentials lights, a strip, and more Philips Hue adds Sonos Voice Control to its smart lighting products. Philips Hue announced a bunch of new products at its IFA 2025 event. From the affordable Essentials range to new smart light strips, there were a lot of cool products, but I was most intrigued by the new

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Seriously, Acer's new 16-inch featherweight laptop makes the MacBook Air seem heavy

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-20 19:45:00

Acer Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Acer announced a slew of new laptops at IFA in Berlin, but the Swift Air 16 is one of the most exciting. The 16-inch laptop has a starting weight of 2.18 pounds - one of the lightest on the market. There are some trade-offs with getting a 16-inch laptop down to this size, specifically with battery life. Acer announced a new 16-inch featherweight laptop at IFA in Berlin yesterday, weighing just 2.18 pounds for

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Finally, a smartwatch for fishing enthusiasts - my verdict after taking it on the river

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-20 19:46:00

Coros Nomad smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Coros Nomad is available now in Green, Brown, and Dark Grey for $349. It's built to withstand the elements with detailed metrics and focused journal utilities for fishing. There is no speaker to playback voice notes, no solar charging, and no LED flashlight to see in the dark. View now at Coros Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had the opportunity to test a lot of smartwatches, but it's still tough to find one watch th

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AI Not Affecting Job Market Much So Far, New York Fed Says

news.ycombinator.com Sept. 2025-10-20 17:47:45

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Rising adoption of artificial intelligence technology by firms in the Federal Reserve's New York district has not been much of a job-killer so far, the regional Fed bank said in a blog on Thursday. "Businesses reported a notable increase in AI use over the past year, yet very few firms reported AI-induced layoffs," New York Fed economists wrote in the blog. "Indeed, for those already employed, our results indicate AI is more likely to result in retrainin

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Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

news.ycombinator.com Meghie Rodrigues 2025-10-20 11:56:37

A new, promising technique has the potential to replace laser surgeries in ophthalmologists’ offices in the future, for a fraction of the cost. Called electromechanical reshaping (EMR), the technique offers a gentler approach to correcting the cornea than Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), today’s gold standard for treating vision issues including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The eye develops these and other conditions when the cornea’s curvature is off—too stee

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Elon Musk Denies He Was Snubbed From Guest List at White House AI Event

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-20 19:50:31

An upcoming White House event on AI will feature some of Silicon Valley’s most influential executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Notably absent from the guest list, however, is Elon Musk. That’s according to The Hill, which reported on Wednesday that, in addition to Zuck, Cook, and Gates, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Musk’s avowed enemy , has also been invited. Musk, however, claims that he was, in fact, invited to the event, but it

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Philips Hue Just Made Lights and Doorbells a Whole Lot Smarter

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 18:56:00

This is definitely not your grandparents' light bulb. A day after its new products were leaked on Amazon, Philips Hue made it official at the consumer tech expo Innovation for All (IFA) on Thursday by unveiling a new smart home lineup that includes motion-sensing lightbulbs, a doorbell with a higher-resolution 2K fisheye camera and a bunch of new light strips. The company also unveiled a new line of Essential bulbs at more affordable prices than the company's previous bulbs. The standard A19/E2

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Honda combines Type-R handling with hybrid efficiency for 2026 Prelude

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-20 16:31:32

At the end of last year, we learned that Honda was bringing back the Prelude. Although Honda has varied the ingredients over the years, the recipe for the Prelude remains the same: a sleek coupe body and some cutting-edge technology under the skin, like four-wheel steering, as rhapsodized by the verbose but usually insightful motoring writer LJK Setright. Today, the new car broke cover ahead of its arrival in showrooms later this fall. It's a handsome shape, though I can't quite get over the re

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Stardew Valley’s creator is in Silksong

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-20 19:11:02

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the indie smash hit Hollow Knight, is finally out, and according to Silksong’s credits, the game features the voice of Eric Barone, the creator of another indie smash hit, Stardew Valley. (You may also know Barone by the name ConcernedApe, which h

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Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-20 19:56:29

Waymo has been cleared to serve its first airpot in California: San Jose Mineta International. The company announced Thursday that it will start testing its robotaxis there in the coming months, and that it plans to start offering commercial rides by the end of the year. The company has spent years working toward serving airports in its home state. Waymo was going back-and-forth with officials at San Francisco’s airport back in 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted

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Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-20 23:04:03

Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 46 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Team Cherry The biggest video game online stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong - one of the most-anticipated games of the year. Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store Steam after its release at 15:00 BST, with errors persisting until around 17:30. Social media us

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Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-20 23:45:05

Ever since Apple Pay Later was abruptly discontinued last year, Apple has been steadily adding third-party ‘pay later’ services as alternatives. And now thanks to an Apple Wallet update, those options are easier to find and use than ever before. Apple Wallet now has a ‘Pay Later Options’ menu with streamlined setup Before today Apple Pay already included support for using third-party ‘pay later’ services such as Klarna and Affirm. But the way that’s historically worked has been pretty hidden a

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Anker's coin-size AI recorder can transcribe and summarize your meetings - in one click

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-20 23:55:24

Anker Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Anker's new AI voice recorder is about the size of a quarter. The device can summarize and transcribe meetings automatically. It will cost $100 plus an optional monthly subscription. Anker wants to make recording your meetings simpler than ever. The company announced its newest device today, the Soundcore Work. A small AI-powered voice recorder that's designed to be worn at meetings, the device can summarize a

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We built an interpreter for Swift (a compiled language)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 22:39:03

Bitrig dynamically generates and runs Swift apps on your phone. Normally this would require compiling and signing with Xcode, and you can’t do that on an iPhone. To make it possible to instantly run your app, we built a Swift interpreter. But it’s an unusual interpreter, since it interprets from Swift… to Swift. One of the top questions we’ve gotten is how it’s implemented, so we wanted to share how it works. To make this more accessible and interesting, we simplified some of the more esoteric

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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-20 18:12:31

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and CEO of Atlassian, speaks at the National Electrical Vehicle Summit in Canberra, Australia, on Aug. 19, 2022. Cannon-Brookes is urging Australia to show more ambition on climate action, even as the new government legislates plans to strengthen the country's carbon emissions cuts. Atlassian said it has agreed to acquire The Browser Co., a startup that offers a web browser with artificial intelligence features, for $610 million in cash. The companies aim to clo

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Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 17:04:36

Today, we’re giving you more reasons to switch to Le Chat. The widest enterprise-ready connector directory (beta), with custom extensibility, making it easy to bring workflows into your AI assistant. Directory of 20+ secure connectors—spanning data, productivity, development, automation, commerce, and custom integrations. Search, summarize, and act in tools like Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub, Atlassian, Asana, Outlook, Box, Stripe, Zapier, and more. Custom extensibility: Add your own MCP conne

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Apple's iPhone 17 Event Is 5 Days Away: Everything We're Expecting

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 22:33:57

There is nothing in this world that is certain, except for death, taxes and the reveal of a new iPhone every year. Invites have already gone out to attendees of Apple's Awe Dropping iPhone 17 event. And while we're still deciphering what's being teased by the Apple logo heatmap, we've already seen a lot of the expected product lineup through leaked photos and rumors. In addition to the base model, you can expect an iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max and a slim version, nicknamed the iPhone 17 Air, to be

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Musk will not attend Trump tech CEO dinner at White House

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-10-21 03:59:56

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for an inaugural event in the White House's renovated Rose Garden on Thursday. Invitees include Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to a list conf

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If you’re upgrading wireless router, look for this brand new standard

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-21 03:00:00

If you’re planning to replace your wireless router with a new one and you have a smart home, there’s a new certification you’re going to want … When your home Wi-Fi router is more than a few years old, one of the best moves you can make when it comes to improving your connection and improving the reliability of your smart home products is to upgrade to a more modern model. For smart homes, you’ll want to check your planned purchase comes with a brand new certification: Wi-Fi for Matter. That’s

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The Switch 2's latest update improves the console's GBA emulator

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 03:43:40

We’re now several months into a brand new Nintendo generation, and waiting impatiently for important information such as the release date for Metroid Prime 4 and the whereabouts of the next 3D Mario game. But in the meantime, the company has been gradually updating its various retro console emulators on Nintendo Switch Online, with the latest being the Game Boy Advance. As spotted by Nintendo Everything, the 3.0.0 update to the GBA app adds button remapping, which is already possible with the N

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Rumor Replay: iPhone Fold, AirPods Pro 3 features, and more

Apple's iPhone 17 is expected to debut next week: Rumors, prices, new features and everything else you need to know

Is this the most promising Chromebook yet? This Acer has specs that almost rival my MacBook

Southwest Airlines Announces Free Wi-Fi for Everyone, Months After Taking Away Free Checked Bags

The New ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Has a Release Date and Perfect Casting Announcment

Sting operation kills “copycat” sports piracy site with 1.6B visits last year

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

iOS 26 adds seven brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

The LEGO Ultimate Death Star set includes over 9,000 pieces and costs $1,000

Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

Philips Hue Bridge Pro just made it easy to add motion sensing to your old smart lights

Seriously, Acer's new 16-inch featherweight laptop makes the MacBook Air seem heavy

Finally, a smartwatch for fishing enthusiasts - my verdict after taking it on the river

AI Not Affecting Job Market Much So Far, New York Fed Says

Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery

Elon Musk Denies He Was Snubbed From Guest List at White House AI Event

Philips Hue Just Made Lights and Doorbells a Whole Lot Smarter

Honda combines Type-R handling with hybrid efficiency for 2026 Prelude

Stardew Valley’s creator is in Silksong

Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

Apple’s Wallet app just made it easier to ‘pay later’ for purchases

Anker's coin-size AI recorder can transcribe and summarize your meetings - in one click

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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories

Apple's iPhone 17 Event Is 5 Days Away: Everything We're Expecting

Musk will not attend Trump tech CEO dinner at White House

If you’re upgrading wireless router, look for this brand new standard

The Switch 2's latest update improves the console's GBA emulator

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