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How I cut my monthly cloud storage bill in half - with 5 tough decisions

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-02 03:18:00

My file and backup servers. That's a tenth of a petabyte right there. My security server is on a different shelf and the offline backup server mentioned below is upstairs. David Gewirtz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Cloud storage costs exploded after unlimited plans vanished Backing up everything was expensive and unnecessary Five strategic changes saved over $1,200 per year 60 terabytes. I'll never see that much cloud storage again. On o

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The Apple Watch Ultra 3 Could See Its Biggest Upgrade Yet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 03:00:11

With Apple's September 9 event officially in the books and rumors about its fall lineup gaining traction, the biggest clue yet about the new Apple Watches comes straight from the source. The notoriously secretive company may have tipped its hand regarding a new Apple Watch Ultra 3 in the public beta of iOS 26 (first spotted by MacRumors), where imagery reveals new screen specs that don't match any current Apple Watch model on the market. While Apple has yet to confirm the existence of the watch

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Porsche adds digital keys, in-car gaming to 2026 Macan Electric

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-02 03:48:14

Although it feels like Porsche only just introduced the electric Macan, the sporty EV SUV is starting to become a more common sight on the road. And as the automaker transitions into model year 2026, it's giving the Macan some new digital toys. Now, both Android and iPhone users will be able to create a digital key for the car (iPhone users can also add a key to their Apple Watch). This works via near-field communication as well as Bluetooth low energy and ultra-wideband, and you can share keys

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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music

theverge.com Barbara Krasnoff 2025-11-02 03:30:00

is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an editor and writer (and occasional sci-fi author) for more years than she cares to admit to. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding t

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Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 14:40:27

Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft' 21 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images A top artificial intelligence (AI) company says the technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carried out cyber-attacks

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I took Gemini shopping with its new visual guidance on the Pixel 10: Here’s how it went

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:30:51

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google keeps giving Gemini more tricks on our phones, like a magician stuffing rabbits in a hat. On the Pixel 10 series, Gemini talks to apps, performs unreal voice translations, helps take better photos, and basically shows off its abilities every chance it gets. Visual guidance is also one of Gemini’s newest party tricks to debut alongside Google’s latest flagships. So last week, I grabbed my fresh-out-of-the-box Pixel 10 Pro XL and headed out for some retail

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Long-running Apple TV+ comedy to be seen by a new audience on the BBC

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-11-02 12:35:55

Apple’s longest-running original comedy series is getting new life on the BBC in the United Kingdom. The Apple Original Trying, which premiered on Apple’s streaming service in May 2020, will now be available on BBC iPlayer and set for broadcast on the BBC’s linear channels. The BBC deal was first reported by Deadline, and apparently includes the first three seasons of Trying with the first season debuting on September 8. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ is currently in development of a fifth season of the

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I did not expect these Sony headphones to set such a high bar for immersive audio

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-02 10:00:23

Sony InZone H9 II ZDNET's key takeaways Sony's InZone H9 II headset is available now for $349. Their 360-degree spatial sound allows for immersive audio (especially for FPS games) while the detachable mic turns them into a great pair of everyday headphones. The black matte texture is a fingerprint magnet. $349.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sony recently released its latest pair of premium gaming headphones, the InZone H9 II, a follow-up to its previous hi

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7 rules to follow for the best home security camera footage (and places to avoid setup)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-02 10:00:24

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a subscriber to the Nextdoor app, you've seen plenty of footage of prowling ne'er-do-wells caught in the eye of a video doorbell or home security camera. Hopefully, you don't have your own first-hand experience with suspicious characters milling around your front porch, or far worse. Also: Unplugging these 7 common household devices helped reduce my electricity bills For good reason, security cameras continue to

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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-02 10:15:18

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targe

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Anthropic's Claude Chrome browser extension rolls out - how to get early access

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-02 11:21:55

DrPixel/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Claude is incorporating AI into a Chrome web browser extension. The closed beta allows users to chat with Claude in a side panel. Anthropic warned early users to use the extension carefully. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, is following Perplexity with its Comet web browser and Dia by incorporating AI into a web browser. Anthropic's first effort is a closed beta of a Chrome web browser ext

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Pausing Insect Activity

news.ycombinator.com Ulkar Aghayeva 2025-10-30 12:23:08

For all known life forms, activity is punctuated by periods of rest. Sleep may be the most familiar, but many other distinct dormant states occur on longer timescales, from weeks to months on end. Such suspended animation has garnered many different names: hibernation and torpor (in mammals and birds), brumation (in reptiles), diapause and quiescence (in insects and nematodes), aestivation (summer dormancy in vertebrates and invertebrates), hypobiosis, cryptobiosis, and latent life (in microorga

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7 Easy Habits to Care for Your Eye Health This Fall

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 10:23:00

The sun's UV rays can be harmful, not only for your skin, but also for your eyes. The World Health Organization reports that 15 million people worldwide have blindness from cataracts, and the likely cause for that for up to 10% of these people may have been exposure to ultraviolet radiation. Although the harsh summer sun may be going away now, fall brings colder, drier air, which can also cause irritation to your eyes. You can find plenty of Reddit threads discussing eye health and recommending

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'Machines Can't Think for You.' How Learning Is Changing in the Age of AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 11:30:02

Entering her first year of teaching as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, Sydney Koeplin had more on her mind than how to relate to her students. She was worried about how to deal with generative AI. At first, Koeplin took a "hard line" against allowing students to use AI beyond basic grammar and spelling checks. (The school's curriculum dictated that it could be used conditionally, but those conditions were left to the professor to define.) After several students in her fi

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23 of the Best Sci-Fi TV Shows Netflix Has to Offer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 12:00:04

So you're looking for a solid sci-fi TV show to add to your Netflix binge list? Well, friend, you've come to the right place. The streamer has long-established itself as the gold standard for genre entertainment. If you're anything like me, you've already tackled the platform's big hit series like Stranger Things and Black Mirror. You want something else -- and I put together a list that will surely scratch that genre itch. Sci-fi fans are passionate and can also be a fickle bunch. It makes sen

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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-11-02 12:00:00

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups are developing. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, read and decode neural activity to translate it into commands. Because they provide a direct link between the brain and an external device, such as a computer or robotic arm, BCIs have tremendous potential as assistive devices for people with severe

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More than 10 European startups became unicorns this year

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-11-02 11:16:00

Funding season is about to restart in Europe after the summer lull, and if all goes well, it will be counting new unicorns in dozens — plural. While mega-rounds are less common than they were in 2021, this hasn’t prevented 12 European startups from raising rounds at valuations of more than $1 billion during the first half of 2025. As the usual caveat goes, past performance is not indicative of future results, but this bodes well for the rest of the year. Either way, this is also a good indicati

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I unlocked 15GB more Gmail storage for free - without deleting a single email or file

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-02 15:45:17

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Every new Google email account comes with 15GB of free storage -- a solid offer at no cost. However, that space can fill up fast, especially since it also covers files in Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox is cluttered with unread newsletters and sneaky spam, there's a way to clean house without losing important messages. With the right approach, you can preserve what matters while giving yourself a

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Certificates for Onion Services

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 10:05:42

Certificates for Onion Services¶ This document tracks existing procedures or proposals for integrating and validating TLS/HTTPS certificates for Onion Services. While some depends on Certificate Authorities (CA) model, others rely on alternative certification and validation procedures that does not require built-in certificate chains in the client software or reliance on financial transactions. Whenever you browse the internet regularly, the connection between your computer and a service is u

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Will Bardenwerper on Baseball's Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 23:46:15

Journalist Will Bardenwerper joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America, which explores the consequences of Major League Baseball cutting 40 affiliated minor league teams, each one only as expensive as an average Major League salary. He explains how the accessibility and affordability of minor league baseball has made it a unique gathering point for working-class communities like the one in

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Nearly Every Whale Shark at This Tourist Destination Bears Human-Made Scars

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-02 11:00:25

The world’s largest living fish has plenty to fear from people. New research shows that a large proportion of whale sharks at a popular and protected tourism region bear scars caused by human activity. A large group of marine scientists examined more than a decade’s worth of whale shark sightings in the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia. Among other things, they found that over half of the sharks had injuries attributable to humans. Many of these injuries were preventable, the researchers say,

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-02 09:05:11

For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "A

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Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-02 14:15:08

As OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators exploded onto the world stage over the past few years, they kicked off a series of legal showdowns that are still working their way through the courts. The New York Times is suing OpenAI. Disney is suing Midjourney. And in a class action case representing potentially millions of writers, book authors are suing Anthropic. All these cases are orbiting around a central question: what do the creators of modern AI systems — which are trained by ingesting vast a

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About Containers and VMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 18:58:56

About containers and VMs¶ Incus provides support for two different types of instances: system containers and virtual machines. Incus uses features of the Linux kernel (such as namespaces and cgroups ) in the implementation of system containers. These features provide a software-only way to isolate and restrict a running system container. A system container can only be based on the Linux kernel. When running a virtual machine, Incus uses hardware features of the the host system as a way to iso

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Apple warns UK against introducing tougher tech regulation

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 15:03:24

Apple warns UK against introducing tougher tech regulation 3 hours ago Share Save Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Apple has warned that "EU-style rules" proposed by the UK competition watchdog "are bad for users and bad for developers". It says EU laws - which have sought to make it easier for smaller firms to compete with big tech - have resulted in some Apple features and enhancements being delayed for European users. It argues the UK risks similar hold-ups

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WhatsApp starts testing AI-powered writing suggestions on iOS [U: launched]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-02 17:39:00

Update, Aug 27: The feature was officially launched today for English-speaking users, according to the official WhatsApp blog. Original post below. In the latest TestFlight release for its iOS beta testers, WhatsApp rolled out a tool called “Writing Help,” which suggests replies based on the tone set by the user. Here’s how it works. As noted by WABetaInfo: When Private Processing is enabled from the app settings, some users will notice that after typing a short phrase within the chat text in

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What we find in the sewers

news.ycombinator.com Calum Drysdale 2025-11-02 05:50:59

This article concludes Issue 07. See you next month for the launch of Issue 08! The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and confronts everything else. — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables In his book What is Life? Schrödinger called humans “entropy machines.” Extracting order from our environment to compensate for our disorder, he said, is what defines us as living beings. The same claim could be made of defecation. We strip the world of the nutrients and substrates we nee

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The Next Apple Watch Series 11 Has a Release Date and a Few Surprises

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 16:39:00

Apple just confirmed its "Awe dropping" event for Sept. 9, at Apple Park, and we're expecting a fresh lineup of Apple Watches to take the stage. The headliner will likely be the Apple Watch Series 11, but Apple may have also tipped its hand on the Ultra 3. MacRumors uncovered imagery buried in the iOS 26 public beta showing display details for what's likely the next-generation rugged watch. With the event just days away, the clues are stacking up. Here's a look at everything we know, suspect, a

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-02 21:05:11

For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "A

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Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 20:45:51

Primary shipping services, including the European branch of DHL, multiple European state postal services, Australia Post, Japan Post and Taiwan's state postal service, have stopped shipping consumer goods of varying amounts (over $100 in some cases) to the US. The pause is currently expected to be temporary as countries respond to the latest US tariff measures, but could have a significant impact on US businesses selling anything from Taiwanese GPUs and Japanese card packs to European electronic

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How I cut my monthly cloud storage bill in half - with 5 tough decisions

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 Could See Its Biggest Upgrade Yet

Porsche adds digital keys, in-car gaming to 2026 Macan Electric

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Long-running Apple TV+ comedy to be seen by a new audience on the BBC

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Nearly Every Whale Shark at This Tourist Destination Bears Human-Made Scars

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Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

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