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Will the Pixel 10 save Android from the Green Bubble Curse? | Authority Insights Podcast #003

00:00 – Mishaal Rahman: Is AI enough to make the Pixel 10 a worthwhile upgrade? 00:04 And will Google and Apple actually make eSIMs and RCS work better across Android and iOS? 00:10 I’m Mishaal Rahman. 00:13 – C. Scott Brown: And I’m C. Scott Brown and this is the Authority Insights podcast, where we break down the latest news and leaks surrounding the Android operating system. 00:22 – Mishaal Rahman: So Scott, I am so jealous right now because you are in Brooklyn and I am stuck in Houston w

Show HN: Creao – Vibe coding product for founders

WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED. MORE USE CASES COMING SOON. BUT FOR NOW BLOG LIKE A BOSS, WITHOUT WRITING A SNGLE LINE OF HTML. JOIN THE ALPHA.LAUNCH PREVIEW MAKING MERMAID CHARTS MOVE WITH STYLE! JUST BUILT A TINY APP USING AGENT THAT RENDERS MERMAID CODE BUT WITH A TWIST: PAPER-LIKE CARDS BOLD MATERIAL COLORS CLICK RIPPLE SATISFYING SMOOTH TRANSITIONS MICRO-INTERACTIONS FOR THE DETAIL LOVERS LIVE DEMO DROPPING SOON COME SEE YOUR MERMAID DIAGRAMS COME TO LIFE DROP YOUR MERMAID CODE IN THE REPLIES A

From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

I switched my five-year-old MacBook Pro M1 Max for a cheap (comparable) Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G7 ARP (AMD) laptop, running Linux (Arch btw, or better, Omarchy. And I am having a blast. But not everything is perfect. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This is a short recap after using it for one month on and off (due to repair 😅), and the last 2 weeks full time. I want to share what I learned, what I like about the new setup after working for 15 years plus on a MacBook, and on and off on Window

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)

The number of people choosing Linux as their primary operating system to play games has been slowly but steadily going up, at least according to the Steam hardware survey. This is most likely because of the Steam Deck release and the increasingly obnoxious features being added to Windows. If you switch to Linux today, you’ll probably be surprised by how many games run out of the box just fine (mostly due to the Windows compatibility layer Proton built right into Steam), except for basically all

A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers

I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. Or maybe you’re the star individual contributor who is the only person who can ever figure out how to solve the hard problems. Or maybe you’re the professor who created the entire subject of the algorithms you’re implementing. I don’t know you, but I do know that you think you’re too good to vibe code. And guess what, you’re absolutely and totall

The issue of anti-cheat on Linux

The number of people choosing Linux as their primary operating system to play games has been slowly but steadily going up, at least according to the Steam hardware survey. This is most likely because of the Steam Deck release and the increasingly obnoxious features being added to Windows. If you switch to Linux today, you’ll probably be surprised by how many games run out of the box just fine (mostly due to the Windows compatibility layer Proton built right into Steam), except for basically all

‘The Institute’ Will Deepen Its Stephen King Mystery With a Second Season

Have you been watching The Institute? While MGM+ isn’t the best-known streaming platform, it’s worth finding your way there just to check out the Stephen King adaptation, set in and around a secretive facility that snatches psychically gifted kids from their families and tasks them with some very dark deeds. And it seems many folks have been doing just that, because it just got renewed. According to an MGM+ press release sharing the news, The Institute had the streamer’s best-ever premiere. You

A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers

I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. Or maybe you’re the star individual contributor who is the only person who can ever figure out how to solve the hard problems. Or maybe you’re the professor who created the entire subject of the algorithms you’re implementing. I don’t know you, but I do know that you think you’re too good to vibe code. And guess what, you’re absolutely and totall

Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare

It's 12:45 PM, and my morning has vanished into the black hole of debugging my vibe-coded meme stock valuation site. The monthly growth numbers are spitting out garbage. What should be a steady 3-5% is showing wild swings between -50% and +2000%; the numbers don't add up. Each fix attempt means a 3-5 minute wait for Claude Code, get distracted, and come back to find that some code was added, but the bug remains. To fix this bug, I need to understand the code. However, the code is a mess of dup

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Explaining the Internet’s obsession with Silksong, which (finally) comes out Sept. 4

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be released on September 4. It will come out simultaneously on Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, the Nintendo Switch, and the Nintendo Switch 2. On paper, "game gets release date" isn't particularly groundbreaking news, and the six-year wait between the game's announcement and release is long but nowhere near record-breaking. People have waited longer for Metroid Prime 4 (announced 2017, releasing this fall), Duke Nukem Forever (announced 19

Jamboard escapes the Google graveyard with a new lease on life from LineageOS

Nolen Johnson TL;DR Google launched Jamboard back in 2017 as a digital whiteboard for teams. Official Jamboard support ended at the start of this year. Now that old hardware can run modern Android thanks to some unofficial LineageOS ports. What’s your favorite canceled Google hardware? The ill-fated Nexus Q? That one may have been a particularly spectacular failure, but far more devices just run their natural course and end up retired, replaced by newer solutions. Eight years ago, Google int

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be out on September 4

Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date of September 4. You heard right, people. This is not a drill. One more time for those in the back, Hollow Knight: Silksong is now scheduled to be available in just a few weeks. The news dropped as part of a "special announcement" YouTube stream, and it'll be playable at Gamescom. For those of you at the event in Cologne, the game will be availabe at both Nintendo and Xbox's booths. Expect very, very long lines. The original Hollow Knight game was a hug

Pick up the HORI Piranha Plant camera for Switch 2 while it's on sale for $40

The HORI Piranha Plant camera for the Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale for just $40, which is a discount of $20 and a record-low price. This is a great deal for those who own a Switch 2 and want to take advantage of the camera functionality in games like Mario Kart World and that recently-released campfire sim. This was designed specifically for Nintendo's new console, so it's a plug-and-play affair. It's actually cheaper than the official Switch 2 camera with this sale and it looks a whole lot coo

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

I don’t think we have any actually good programming languages, and I don’t think I’m alone in believing this. Programming is hard, and language design is harder. We’re still learning. But I think they’re all failing us in a shockingly fundamental way. The root of the trouble is a distinction I’d like to draw between data and objects. Let me know if you think there are better terms to use. Programming languages give us tools to represent things. Sometimes these things are values: the integer 1.

The Cybertruck Is Such a Mess That Insurance Companies Are Refusing to Even Cover It

The Cybertruck Is Such a Mess That Insurance Companies Are Refusing to Even Cover It Not even insurance companies want anything to do with it. Truck Putz Tesla's Cybertruck is turning out to be a full-blown disaster. Sales are circling the drain, with the Elon Musk-led automaker selling a mere 4,306 Cybertrucks in the second quarter of 2025, a stunning 50.8 percent drop over the same period last year. Resale values are cratering as well, with the value of a used Cybertruck plummeting by mor

Sequoia backs Zed

Nathan Sobo August 20th, 2025 Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across dif

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

When Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina in September 2024, one of its many victims was a manufacturing plant that made intravenous fluids. The sterile IV solutions produced in the plant are essential supplies for hospitals and other medical facilities, which use them in various treatments, from rehydration to drug delivery and kidney dialysis. And the plant damaged by Helene—Baxter International's North Cove manufacturing facility in Marion—didn't just make some of the US supply; it

‘The Penguin’ Team Had Talks About Bringing in Robert Pattinson’s Batman

Almost a year has passed since audiences were first exposed to HBO’s The Penguin, and to call it a success would be an understatement. The show didn’t just find fans among critics and audiences alike; everyone involved has been swimming in awards ever since, with its recent 24 Emmy nominations being the latest. And yet, before its release, many were skeptical of the show. Why would we want to see this story? And did it make sense to do a Batman villain story without Batman himself? To that last

An Exclusive Look at Reliability Labs, Where Google Stress-Tests Pixel Hardware

Smartphones are durable, powerful devices we carry everywhere. They get slightly better every year, too. Whether that's through improved glass technology that's more shatter- and scratch-proof, or screen size adjustments to ensure the best experience in your hand. Take the just-announced Pixel 10 Pro Fold, for example. It's now IP68-rated for water and dust resistance, just like most flagship candybar phones. Just a few years ago, the hinge mechanism on folding phones was still having problems

The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home

On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, before passing the results to a local neural network that distills these images into digital fingerprints. Before people find their seats, they are matched against an on-premises database—tagged with names, membership tiers, and watch-list flags—that’s

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Today only: Rakuten is offering $80 cash back for new Visible customers

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Today only, you can sign up for the Visible service through Rakuten to earn $80 in cash back rewards. The offer requires you to be a new Visible customer and to transfer an existing line from another carrier to qualify. Visible plans start as low as $19/month for the first year ($25 afterward), with the premium plan at just $39. Visible is already one of the best deals in the mobile world, with plans as low as $19 a month for the first 12 months, and just

An Exclusive Look at Reliability Labs, Where Google Stress Tests Pixel Hardware

Smartphones are durable, powerful devices we carry everywhere. They get slightly better every year, too. Whether that's through improved glass technology that's more shatter- and scratch-proof, or screen size adjustments to ensure the best experience in your hand. Take the just-announced Pixel 10 Pro Fold, for example. It's now IP68-rated for water and dust resistance, just like most flagship candybar phones. Just a few years ago, the hinge mechanism on folding phones was still having problems

Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding

Nathan Sobo August 20th, 2025 Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across dif

The Creator of ‘Severance’ Just Explained a Key Logistical Question

When it comes to Severance, there are rarely simple answers. Everything is wrapped in mystery and intrigue. Which, admittedly, is kind of the best part about it. We love to explore and speculate about what’s going on at Lumon. And yet, getting an answer, even a small one, here and there is nice. Which is what the creator of the show, Dan Erickson, just did. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Erickson dodged questions about big topics like the structure of season three or the ultimate length of

The 20 Films We’re Most Excited About to Close Out the Year

Guillermo del Toro. James Cameron. Edgar Wright. These are just some of the filmmakers who still have major, exciting genre films coming to your eyeballs before the end of 2025. So while the big, blockbuster-heavy summer season might be over, there is still a lot to be excited about as we look towards fall and winter. To commemorate the turning of the calendar, we decided to go through and select 20 movies we’re most excited to see in the next few months. They range from big blockbusters to offb

Should you buy a handheld PC? This Lenovo model running SteamOS made my decision easy

Lenovo Legion Go S (SteamOS) ZDNET's key takeaways The Legion Go S running SteamOS is on sale for $600. This version trims the fat and delivers a streamlined gaming experience via a vibrant 8-inch screen. The simpler OS means less features than the Windows model. View now at Best Buy Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. No, you're not seeing double. This is the second review I've done for Lenovo's Legion Go S. However, th

The Moment the AI Hype Cycle Really Kicked In

Does it feel like news about artificial intelligence is inescapable? You’re not just imagining it. Zach Perkel, the Principal and Director of Applied AI at enterprise AI firm Fractal, tracked the number of AI-related posts that managed to crack the top 10 stories on Y Combinator’s Hacker News, and found that we are experiencing peak AI (so far). Perkel analyzed 24,910 articles and posts that managed to crack the Hacker News top 10 from January 1st, 2019, to August 15th, 2025, to determine just

Why ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ May Never Get a Home Release

Film fans everywhere have surely seen Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2. But only a select few have seen those two films edited together, with minor but important changes, and renamed Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. The rare print, which runs 258 minutes plus an intermission, has only played in public a handful of times, including a July run at Tarantino’s Vista Theater in Los Angeles. That got fans outside of Los Angeles wondering, “Will we ever get to see this thing in our home

Howard Lutnick Calls CHIPS Act a ‘Giveaway to Rich Companies’ Like Intel

The U.S. government could get a 10% equity stake in Intel in exchange for more funds from the CHIPS Act, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who appeared on CNBC Tuesday. Lutnick was pressed about whether that would be a worse deal than what Intel had previously received under the Biden-era manufacturing plan, and the commerce secretary seemed more than happy to acknowledge it was. “Of course it’s worse, of course it’s worse…” Lutnick said, laughing. CNBC host David Faber asked if t

Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

Ever wished for smooth, on-point song transitions in your music streaming playlists customized to your liking? Spotify is rolling out a new beta feature for Premium subscribers globally that lets you add tailor-made transitions between songs, the company shared Tuesday. You can opt to play DJ -- and skip the AI version -- and curate how songs flow on an existing playlist or a new one. By clicking the Mix button, you can adjust the EQ, volume, fade and other effects. If you're looking to collabo