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Vim Macros for Beancount

Here I try to describe performing a niche Beancount data manipulation by building up complex Vim Macros from basic Vim Motions. I am a long time user of vim: still a novice frustrated that I still opt to use the hjkl movement keys to navigate around without going deeper by committing the more sophisticated motion capabilities into muscle memory I have recently (in the last 4 years) have finances that are somewhat representative of a normal(ish) adult salary housing expenses bills mainten

Verizon’s loyalty discount mess is somehow getting worse

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon subscribers are reporting that the carrier is tricking them into accepting lower discounts. A new $10 discount on the My Verizon app replaced the existing $20 loyalty discount without warning. Some users say they were able to stack the two discounts, but many others report increased bills after unknowingly accepting the new offer. Verizon’s loyalty discount mess seems to be getting worse. Users are now reporting that they are being tricked in

Figure’s IPO filing marks Mike Cagney’s return to public markets

Figure Technology, a seven-year-old blockchain-based lending company, has filed for an IPO of its Class A common stock on Nasdaq, with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and BofA Securities serving as its lead bookrunners. The number of shares on offer and price range have not yet been determined. Figure says in its IPO paperwork that its revenue rose 22.4% to $191 million in the six months ended June 30, and that it reported a profit of $29 million in the same period, compared with a loss of $13 milli

Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

DENVER (AP) — The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday. The settlement comes after Fox News Channel paid $787.5 million to settle a similar lawsuit in 2023 and Newsmax paid what court papers describe as $40 million to settle a libel lawsuit from a different voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, which also

Over 800 N-able servers left unpatched against critical flaws

Over 800 N-able N-central servers remain unpatched against a pair of critical security vulnerabilities tagged as actively exploited last week. N-central is a popular platform used by many managed services providers (MSPs) and IT departments to monitor and manage networks and devices from a centralized web-based console. Tracked as CVE-2025-8875 and CVE-2025-8876, the two flaws can let authenticated attackers to inject commands due to improper sanitization of user input and execute commands on

This $320 Kit Brings the BlackBerry Classic Back From the Dead

People are bored of their phones. So bored of their big, boring glass and metal slabs that they can’t help but dump all over phones like Nothing’s Phone 3 that don’t look like boring-ass bricks. But apparently people are so bored of their phones that somebody went and made a whole-ass kit that replaces the guts of the long-dead BlackBerry Q20, or “Classic,” with new components and effectively modernizes it with Android. Beloved for its QWERTY keyboard and BlackBerry OS (who remembers BBM?), the

There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of a supernova known as 2023zkd, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had ever seen before. As its name suggests, this supernova — the fabulous astronomical term for the explosive death of a star — was first spotted back in 2023, when Southern California's Zwicky Transient Facility zeroed in on it thanks to new AI algorithms designed to detect such brilliant blasts. This supernova, however, was different. It appeared,

The best Motorola phones of 2025: Is the $1,300 Razr Ultra worth buying?

While Apple iPhones remain a popular pick amongst consumers, there's no denying that Android offers more variety. From hardware to software, there are different kinds of phones -- including foldables -- at every price point. If you're going to spend on an Android, you should look at Motorola phones for their unbeatable value proposition. You will always find a Moto device at the top of our recommendations thanks to its clean user interface, similar to that of Google Pixel phones, but with more c

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or no help from users. August’s patch batch from Redmond includes an update for CVE-2025-53786, a vulnerability that allows an attacker to pivot from a compromised Microsoft Exchange Server dire

Cisco warns of max severity flaw in Firewall Management Center

Cisco is warning about a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the RADIUS subsystem of its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. Cisco FCM is a management platform for the vendor’s Secure Firewall products, which provides a centralized web or SSH-based interface to allow administrators to configure, monitor, and update Cisco firewalls. RADIUS in FMC is an optional external authentication method that permits connecting to a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring a Senior GenAI Engineer (100% Remote)

Connect your financial data with ERPs, CRMs, billing systems, and more—all in one place. The 2025 Tesorio AR Benchmark Report Discover how 200+ companies are collecting cash, managing risk, and measuring performance. Download it now to compare your KPIs including Average Days to Collect (ADC), percent of overdue AR, and aging severity across 10 major industries.

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Court Records Reveal Sig Sauer Knew of Pistol Risks for Years

A court exhibit recently published online summarizes Sig Sauer’s internal P320 testing and shows that the gun maker and U.S. Army were both aware of serious safety risks with the pistol since at least 2017, years before it was fielded to soldiers as the full-size M17 and compact M18. The document — prepared as a part of Sig Sauer’s contracting process with the U.S. Army — outlines multiple ways the pistol could fire without an intentional trigger pull. A redacted version of the court document w

Massive deal: The Edifier W820NB Plus headphones are too good for a mere $36.88

High-end headphones are exciting, but every time I get a pair, I feel like I am being robbed. I mean, some of the best headphones out there can cost $300-$500 or more. I simply don’t feel comfortable shelling out that much on a pair of cans. I am all about value per dollar, and yesterday, our sister site SoundGuys.com partnered with Edifier to offer an exclusive coupon on the Edifier W820NB Plus headphones. Get this: you can buy them for a mere $36.88, and they are actually pretty fabulous headp

The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27

Set your alarms. Bookmark this page. Refresh like your future depends on it. After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, TechCrunch is just days away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — our handpicked cohort of the most promising early-stage startups set to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt this October 27-29. The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list will go live, right here, on Wednesday, August 27, at 9:00 a.m. PT. Whether you applied, refe

When Theft Replaces Encryption: Blue Report 2025 on Ransomware & Infostealers

Ransomware and infostealer threats are evolving faster than most organizations can adapt. While security teams have invested heavily in ransomware resilience, particularly through backup and recovery systems, Picus Security's Blue Report 2025 shows that today's most damaging attacks aren't always about encryption. Instead, both ransomware operators and infostealer campaigns often focus on credential theft, data exfiltration, and lateral movement, leveraging old-school stealth and persistence to

Now even Flip phones will get 200MP cameras

TL;DR The HONOR Magic V Flip 2 will apparently have a 200MP main camera. This would make it the first Flip phone with a 200MP camera. HONOR has also confirmed that it will have the biggest battery in a Flip phone. The Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition and Galaxy Z Fold 7 were the first foldable phones to offer a 200MP main camera. However, it looks like the first Flip foldable with a 200MP camera could launch next week. HONOR has confirmed that it will launch the Magic V Flip 2 foldable phone on

Survey reveals the worst Android phone to buy this month

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Android phones launch throughout the year, so there’s always a new phone to look forward to at any point. Thanks to this never-ending cycle and the ups and downs on discounts, phone recommendations are always in a state of flux—phones that are good to buy right now may not be the best choice later on, and phones that were skippable early in their release cycle can suddenly become insane value after a price drop. With a big chunk of Android flagship releases done

CISA warns of N-able N-central flaws exploited in zero-day attacks

​CISA warned on Wednesday that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in N‑able's N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. N-central is commonly used by managed services providers (MSPs) and IT departments to monitor, manage, and maintain client networks and devices from a centralized web-based console. According to CISA, the two flaws can allow threat actors to gain command execution via an insecure deserialization weakness (CVE-2025-8875) and inject

New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients

TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through a catheter and releases the drug for three weeks per treatment cycle. How the drug delivery system works TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through a catheter. Once inside the bladder, the TAR-200 slowly and consistently releases the gemcitabine into the

OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution

OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 is here After another 6 months have passed, we are proud to announce the release of our 2021.04 snapshot. The images are available at the usual place. As usual we have automatically received all updates that have been integrated into illumos-gate. This release’s most notably changes are ... Click to Read more

This is the fastest local AI I've tried, and it's not even close - how to get it

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The gpt-oss:20b model is very fast. You'll get blazing-fast answers to your queries with gpt-oss:20b. With the latest version of Ollama installed, you can use this model. Let's talk about local AI and speed. There are a lot of factors that go into getting the most speed out of your AI, such as: Whether you have a dedicated GPU. The context length you use (the smaller, the faster). The complexity of your query. The LLM you

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Microsoft removes PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11, Windows Server

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor introduced with Windows 7 was already removed for Windows Insiders as of July 2025, with the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27891 to the Canary Channel. As detailed in a support document published on Monday, Microsoft will permanently remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11 version 24H2, sta

Farmers want California to change its autonomous tractor ban

In some states, autonomous farming equipment is put to work on farms, doing things like spreading fertilizer or getting rid of insects. But in California, these robots aren’t allowed to operate on their own. State safety regulators say operators have to be at the controls, with few exceptions. But farmers say that hurts their business, and could impact food prices for the rest of the country. NBC Bay Area’s Bigad Shaban has a closer look.Aug. 9, 2025

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Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils

I cobbled together a journaling system with {neo,}vim, coreutils and dateutils. This system is loosely based on Ryder Caroll's Bullet Journal method. The format The journal for a given year is a directory: λ ls journal/ 2022/ 2023/ In each directory are 12 files, one for each month of the year, numbered like so: λ ls journal/2023/ 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 We can now begin writing stuff down: λ vim journal/2023/1 Every month must start with a calendar of course, fill that in wi

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Threads is up to 400 million monthly active users

Meta's X competitor, Threads, is continuing to add users at a brisk clip, with the social network now surpassing 400 million monthly active users. The news, reported by Fast Company , follows Threads reaching the 300 million mark in December 2024 and the 200 million mark in August 2024. FC also cited data from Similarweb that showed mobile performance for Threads drawing closer to the figures from X. In June, Threads posted 115.1 million daily active users on mobile and X had 132 million. Those

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far, according to new data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Appfigures. This subsection of the AI market on mobile has now generated $82 million during the first half of the year and is on track to pull in over $120 million by year-end, the firm’s analysis indicates. Unlike g

Next year’s iPhones could get bigger than usual upgrades with A20 chip

We’re just weeks away from Apple unveiling its iPhone 17 lineup, but a new report corroborates prior indications that next year’s iPhone 18 models are due for an especially strong performance boost thanks to innovations with the A20 chip. A20 chip in iPhone 18 will bring new packaging process for greater gains Today Ming-Chi Kuo has published a new report on Eternal Materials securing a packaging order from TSMC for next year’s iPhones and high-end M5 MacBooks. The most noteworthy detail invo

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Over 3,000 NetScaler devices left unpatched against CitrixBleed 2 bug

Over 3,300 Citrix NetScaler devices remain unpatched against a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass authentication by hijacking user sessions, nearly two months after patches were released. Tracked as CVE-2025-5777 and referred to as CitrixBleed 2, this out-of-bounds memory read vulnerability results from insufficient input validation, enabling unauthenticated attackers to access restricted memory regions remotely on devices configured as a Gateway (VPN virtual server, ICA Pro

China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips

Beijing is demanding tech companies including Alibaba and ByteDance justify their orders of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips, complicating the US chipmaker’s business in China after striking an export arrangement with the Trump administration. The tech companies have been asked by regulators such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to explain why they need to order Nvidia’s H20 chips instead of using domestic alternatives, said three people familiar with the

Motorola Razr Plus 2025 plummets to a new record-low price

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Are you looking to get into the world of foldable phones but don’t want to pay the crazy prices they usually come associated with? Have we got the deal for you! Today, I came across this offer and was immediately surprised. The Motorola Razr Plus 2025 has dropped to a new record-low price of $626.18, saving you a whole $373.81 on the retail price. You must like Hot Pink, though! Buy the Motorola Razr Plus 2025 in Hot Pink for just $626.18 ($373.81 off) This offe