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Grab the 46mm OnePlus Watch 3 for up to $80 off - buy now before the deal ends

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I went hands on with all 4 of the new 2025 iPhone models and my buying advice is different this year

This photo of the iPhone 17 Pro Max in Cosmic Orange was taken with the telephoto lens on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. Jason Hiner/ZDNET The idea of "tyranny of choice" says that having a set of good choices is supposed to let everyone find exactly what makes them most happy, but the reality is that having so many good choices can often lead to anxiety, indecisiveness, and discontent. If we apply this concept to the iPhone 17 lineup, then Apple is quite the tyrant this year. After all, the base model

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This smartphone telescope brought tears to my eyes with stunning photos - how it works

Vaonis Hestia ZDNET's key takeaways The Vaonis Hestia is a smartphone telescope device that retails for $300. The Hestia does well at capturing detailed photos of planets and the stars, and an intuitive app helps guide you. It is an expensive device that takes some getting used to, and the better smartphone camera you have, the better quality photos you will get. $299 at B&H Photo-Video Amidst all the doomscrolling, TV binging, and overworking, we've forgotten to look up at the sky every once

Worldwide AI spending could hit $1.5 trillion by the end of 2025

Getty Images/BlackJack3D Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Global AI spending has been on an upward trajectory. These expenditures will top $2 trillion in 2026. GenAI smartphones, AI-optimized servers lead spending. The AI boom has triggered widespread interest in AI adoption to optimize business processes and individual workflows. This demand has also been a catalyst for large-scale investments in AI infrastructure to support those goals, and a ne

Should we drain the Everglades?

Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida, has an average depth of only nine feet (2.7 meters). Oh, and it has 30,000 alligators, but try not to think about that. Dough4872 , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons I can’t explain why this bothers me so much, but something about it being so big and yet so shallow just creeps me out. I find it unsettling, okay? Mentally, it makes me feel like noodles, if that makes sense. It’s the eighth-largest (freshwater) lake in the country but I’ve swam i

Mixed Excitation Linear Predictive (MELP) Vocoders

This web site teaches the creation and operation of the MELP and MELPe vocoders, summarizes their most updated information, and provides useful resources and solutions related to MELP (MIL_STD-3005), and the later enhanced version known as MELPe (STANAG-4591) vocoders. Introduction to MELP and MELPe Vocoder Mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) is a United States Department of Defense (US DoD) speech coding standard used mainly in military applications and satellite communications, secure

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued

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About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5

About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5 This document describes the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security releases page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by CVE-ID when possible. For more information ab

I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible

Somehow along the way, a feature that I’ve had across DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, and Linux — and has been present on PCs for more than 40 years — is gone. That feature, of course, is the 80×25 text console. Linux has, for awhile now, rendered its text console using graphic modes. You can read all about it here. This has been necessary because only PCs really had the 80×25 text mode (Raspberry Pis, for instance, never did), and even they don’t have it when booted with UEFI. I’ve lately been annoyed t

Normal-order syntax-rules and proving the fix-point of call/cc

Normal-order direct-style beta-evaluator with syntax-rules, and the repeated applications of call/cc The presentation at the Workshop ``Daniel P. Friedman: A Celebration.'' December 4, 2004. Bloomington, IN Normal-order direct-style beta-evaluator with syntax-rules, and the repeated applications of call/cc Repeated applications of call/cc , formally , formally Normal-order direct-style beta-normalizer as syntax-rules Use (2) to prove (1) A few less common examples The title of the talk, i

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs

I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English

I think ARC-AGI is still the most important benchmark we have today. It’s surprising that LLMs can win the math olympiad but struggle with simple puzzles that humans can solve easily. This highlights a core limitation of current LLMs: they struggle to reason about things they weren't trained on. They struggle to generalize. But they are getting better, fast. Last December, I got first place on ARC-AGI v1 with a score of 53.6%. A lot has changed since then. Thinking models had just come out and

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware

Post by minki » 2025-09-16 IMG_20250916_224553.jpg (81.99 KiB) Viewed 26683 times Two and a half years ago, I started my now longest real-world software experiment. I had read an article about how DOOMs engine works and noticed how a variable for tracking the demo kept being incremented even after the next demo started. This variable was compared with a second one storing its previous value. The issue here being, each incrementation would cause the variable to slowly get closer to an overflow,

The Asus Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation

The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation If You're Here, You Know The Pain You own a high-end ASUS ROG laptop perhaps a Strix, Scar, or Zephyrus. It's specifications are impressive: an RTX 30/40 series GPU, a top-tier Intel processor, and plenty of RAM. Yet, it stutters during basic tasks like watching a YouTube video, audio crackles and pops on Discord calls, the mouse cursor freezes for a split second, just long enough to be infuriating. You've likely tried a

Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line

Murex carries tons of unique features. Some highlights include... Content Aware Native support for manipulating data formats such as JSON, YAML, CSV, and others. This allows for seamless integration and manipulation of data in various formats. Data types can be explicitly cast and reformatted, but also inferred if preferred. Expressions Smarter handling of variables and expressions to avoid accidental bugs caused by spaces or incorrect syntax. Resulting in a more reliable and predictable

Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

Currently Importer supports Notion imports via the HTML export #14. This new importer would use the Notion API and download files progressively. This would also add support for Databases to Bases conversion. See #415 Bounty See the Contribution guidelines for how to claim this bounty. Bounty: $5,000 USD Timeframe: 30 days ⚠️ Please only apply if you have taken time to explore the Importer codebase, as well as the Notion API. Provide detail about how you would approach solving it within the

GNU Midnight Commander

Welcome to Midnight Commander GNU Midnight Commander (or mc ) is a visual, dual-pane file manager. It is released under the GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. Midnight Commander is a feature-rich, full-screen, text-mode application that allows you to copy, move, and delete files and entire directory trees, search for files, and execute commands in the subshell. Internal viewer, editor and diff viewer are included. mc uses versatile text interface libraries su

Ozempic May Be Less Effective for Emotional Eaters, Study Suggests

GLP-1 agonists—so-called “wonder drugs” like Ozempic or Wegovy that help individuals lower blood sugar levels and lose weight, among other things—yield significant results for some patients, but not all. People’s motivations to overeat may play a role in this, according to a new study. To investigate why some people don’t benefit from GLP-1 agonists as much as others, researchers observed 92 participants with type 2 diabetes in Japan during their first year of taking GLP-1 drugs. Their results,

India’s Urban Company soars 58% above IPO price in year’s most subscribed offering

Urban Company, India’s largest home services platform, stormed onto the public markets on Wednesday, opening 58% above its issue price after delivering the country’s most subscribed IPO of the year. The Gurugram-based startup, which connects users to at-home services ranging from beauty treatments to appliance repair, debuted on the Mumbai-based National Stock Exchange at ₹162.25 per share (approximately $1.84), up from its IPO issue price of ₹103. The offering, which opened last week, was subs

Amazon CEO Jassy says company is reducing bureaucracy, which is ‘anathema’ to innovation

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Tuesday that he's working to root out bureaucracy from within the company's ranks as part of an effort to reset its culture. Speaking at Amazon's annual conference for third-party sellers in Seattle, Jassy said the changes are necessary for the company to be able to innovate faster. "I would say bureaucracy is really anathema to startups and to entrepreneurial organizations," J

China's Baidu sees shares soar 12% as company secures major AI partnership, eyes fresh capital

Baidu has launched a slew of AI applications after its Ernie chatbot received public approval. Chinese tech giant Baidu saw its shares in Hong Kong soar as much as 12% on Wednesday as the company ramps up its artificial intelligence plans and partnerships. Shares in the Beijing-based firm, which holds a dominant position in China's search engine market, had gained 9% overnight in U.S. trading. The strong stock performance comes after Baidu earlier this week secured an AI-related deal with Chi

Don’t worry, the Apple MacBook Air M4 is back to its record-low price!

We have been kind of spoiled. The Apple MacBook Air has been discounted to $799 for so long that it almost feels like that’s its regular price. The price suddenly jumped up earlier this month, though, which made us worry a bit. Don’t fret, though, the price has come back down! Buy the Apple MacBook Air M4 13-inch for $799 ($200 off) This offer is available from Amazon, and the discount applies to all color versions available. These include Midnight, Silver, Sky Blue, and Starlight. This $799 d

Apple made a strap, now Google has a rope to dangle your Pixel from your wrist

Google TL;DR The Google Rope Wristlet is a $7 polyester rope with a company logo that lets you dangle your Pixel from your wrist. You can actually use it with any phone, not just Pixels. The wristlet is available in three different dual-tone color options: Blue/Purple, Black/Gray, and Green/Yellow. Google has launched a new accessory targeted at Pixel phone users, and coincidentally, it comes right after Apple launched a similar one for iPhones. The new $7 Google Rope Wristlet is meant to at

‘The Morning Show’ season 4 premieres on Apple TV+, as Apple greenlights season 5

Tonight has been a good night for “The Morning Show” fans. Not only is the first episode of season 4 now streaming, but Apple has also officially announced a season 5 renewal. Here’s what to expect. The Morning Show is one of the longest-running Apple TV+ series. It debuted on November 1, 2019, alongside other high-profile shows such as For All Mankind, See, Snoopy in Space, and Dickinson. Tonight, The Morning Show returns for its highly anticipated season 4, with strong reinforcements to its

Apple Vision Pro gains support for digital prism correction

A longstanding limitation of Apple Vision Pro was that it did not offer support for vision prescriptions with a prism value. With visionOS 26, however, you can now enter the prism values from your prescription and visionOS will adapt through software. Since the launch of Apple Vision Pro, there has been a warning for those looking to buy the ZEISS Optical Inserts: A very small percentage of people have a prism value added to their glasses prescription. At this time, ZEISS Optical Inserts based

Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Ray-Bans 3, Hypernova smart glasses, Meta AI, more

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You can buy Hisense's 136-inch Micro LED TV for $20,000 off right now - how the deal works

'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

I tried every Apple Watch model in 2025 - here's why the SE 3 is the most underrated

Apple Watch SE 3 ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's affordable SE 3 is an approachable entry point into the brand's health-tracking suite. Some users might not like the smaller display The watch packs great value for a lower price, making it the one out of the lineup I'd recommend to smartwatch-curious shoppers. View now at Apple Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Last week, Apple unveiled three new smartwatches during its annual September iPhone event. While flashier features

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I tested the Apple Watch Series 11 for a week - here's my buying advice now

Apple Watch Series 11 ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's baseline smartwatch offers upgraded health features and additional battery life. The smartwatch's only weakness is that it's trumped by the value of its younger sibling, the SE 3. The Series 11 is available to preorder now and ships on Sept 19. View now at Apple Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. People wear Apple Watches for all sorts of reasons. There are the health and sleep tracking functions, which Apple has heavily

Wyze launched a new biometric smart lock, and its price might be the best part

'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