GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Spotify expands audiobooks access to family plan members in the US for the first time

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-18 03:00:00

Spotify is expanding access to its audiobooks to more U.S. subscribers. The company on Tuesday announced the launch of its $11.99 per month Audiobooks+ plan in the market, which allows subscribers or their household members on a Family or Duo plan to add 15 hours of audiobook listening during the month on top of the base plan. Though Spotify launched its audiobooks service in the U.S. back in 2022, household members on Duo and Family plans have long been left out. The offering makes audiobooks

Topics: access audiobooks members plan spotify

Shop Amazon

Get a new MacBook or iPad every 2 years with this subscription

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-12-18 08:42:14

Most Apple users stick with their machines longer than they would like to. Not because they love the slowdowns… but because upgrading is expensive, and reselling takes time most people don’t have. That’s where Upgraded comes in. Upgraded is a tech upgrade program built for Apple lovers. You pay monthly, starting at $33.28/mo for MacBooks and $31.89/mo for iPad Pros, and have the option to upgrade every 2 years to the latest model. It’s simple, clear, and is blowing up in popularity with Appl

Topics: apple ipad macbook upgrade upgraded

Shop Amazon

Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

news.ycombinator.com John Paul Wohlscheid 2025-12-14 15:53:46

from the October 1981 issue of Your Computer magazine Chris Curry's Cambridge company, Acorn, is beginning to emerge as one of the strongest personal computer firms in Britain. Its main product, the Acorn Atom, has proved both popular and reliable. The company won the coveted contract to design and build the computer to be marketed by the BBC and accompany the BBC's planned computer literacy series. Chris Curry talks to Duncan Scot. -------- The ATOM computer is one of the few approved by the

Topics: acorn atom bbc computer curry

Shop Amazon

Pick up Apple's MacBook Air M4 while it's on sale for an all-time-low price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 12:06:39

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the

Topics: 199 inch macbook model ssd

Shop Amazon

Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 12:17:12

Cisco has disclosed that cybercriminals stole the basic profile information of users registered on Cisco.com following a voice phishing (vishing) attack that targeted a company representative. After becoming aware of the incident on July 24th, the networking equipment giant discovered that the attacker tricked an employee and gained access to a third-party cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system used by Cisco. This allowed the threat actor to steal the personal and user infor

Topics: actor cisco company incident information

Shop Amazon

Best VPN for Android for 2025: Protect Your Privacy on Mobile Devices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 12:00:00

With so many Android VPN apps available, it can be difficult to choose the right solution. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the most important factors to consider when choosing a VPN for Android: Privacy No matter which VPN you use on Android or any other device, the bare minimum for consideration is that it protects your privacy. Look for a VPN that uses industry-standard AES 256-bit encryption over the OpenVPN protocol, or ChaCha20 over W

Topics: android privacy provider vpn vpns

Shop Amazon

Lunar Outpost celebrates release of Lego Moon Rover Space Vehicle

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 12:57:41

Browsing the toy aisle at Target, Ari and Aiden were in for a surprise. There, among the newly stocked Lego sets, was a box with an image of a familiar-looking space vehicle. "I pointed at the box and said, 'Hey, what's that?' and they said, 'It's MAPP!'" said Andrew "AJ" Gemer, Ari and Aiden's father. "They didn't even know we had a Lego set until the day it was released." "It was cool to see their faces light up like that," he said in an interview with collectSPACE. The box for the new Lego

Topics: lego lunar moon outpost space

Shop Amazon

Google Contacts’ new Material 3 Expressive look is rolling out, here’s what’s different

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 22:47:56

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out the Material 3 Expressive redesign to its Contacts app with v4.61.27. The redesign features prominent card-like UI across tabs like Highlights and Organize, as well as Search and Contact Details pages. Settings and New Contact pages remain unchanged for now, but are expected to follow soon. Material 3 Expressive is the flavor of the season, and Google is trying to bring the new design to all of its apps ahead of the Android 16 QPR

Topics: contacts expressive google material new

Shop Amazon

Fitbit promised better sleep tracking with new update, but users say it got worse

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-18 22:54:01

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Fitbit has updated its algorithm for more accurate sleep tracking. The new algorithm now accounts for awake times better, supposedly rendering more accurate data about different phases. However, users have complained of increased sensitivity, resulting in their devices capturing shorter sleep durations than the actual time. Fitbit isn’t nearly as popular as it once was, and that is partly because Google, which completed its acquisition of the company

Topics: changes fitbit sleep tracking watch

Shop Amazon

SonicWall urges admins to disable SSLVPN amid rising attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-18 23:28:38

SonicWall has warned customers to disable SSLVPN services due to ransomware gangs potentially exploiting an unknown security vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach networks over the past few weeks. The warning comes after Arctic Wolf Labs reported on Friday that it had observed multiple Akira ransomware attacks, likely using a SonicWall zero-day vulnerability, since July 15th. "The initial access methods have not yet been confirmed in this campaign," the Arctic Wolf Labs research

Topics: attacks day sonicwall vpn vulnerability

Shop Amazon

Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 22:33:21

Clojure Civitas Clojure Civitas makes it easy for you to publish Clojure ideas and explorations without the overhead of setting up a new project, blog, or repo. Whether you're sketching out a quick experiment or writing a deeper post, just fork this repo, create a namespace, write, commit and submit a pull request. This is your shared scratch space. Think. Code. Share. ⚡ No setup – Clone this repo, make a new namespace, start coding. ✍️ Write as you code – Capture notes, results, and ideas a

Topics: clojure markdown metadata namespace site

Shop Amazon

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

news.ycombinator.com Eric Blohm 2025-12-18 22:05:23

Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home. Get access to custom models designed specifically for Frigate with Frigate+.

Topics: access ai built custom frigate

Shop Amazon

PSA: Steam will soon stop supporting macOS 11 Big Sur

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-18 22:01:44

Heads-up if your Mac is still running macOS 11 Big Sur: Valve has announced that, in a few weeks, the Steam Client will stop running on these Macs due to a Chromium compatibility limitation. Here are the details. Support will end on October 15 According to a blog post spotted by user wickedplayer494 on Reddit, the Steam Client will stop working on Macs running macOS 11 Big Sur on October 15. Here’s why, as explained by Valve: “This change is required as core features in Steam rely on an embe

Topics: 11 macos running steam update

Shop Amazon

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 22:36:58

It's been just a year since we wrote about how we implemented deterministic simulation testing (DST) of our Go database (FrostDB). Since then, we have been hard at work writing our new database backed by object storage in Rust (read more here about why). In this blog post, I want to lay out the approach we took to build our new Rust database with DST principles front-and-center and how it compares to the approach we took with FrostDB. As a quick recap, DST tests are randomized full system integ

Topics: dst failure machines message state

Shop Amazon

Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-12-18 22:30:00

Indian startup Jeh Aerospace founders Vishal Sanghavi and Venkatesh Mudragalla have had a front row seat to the commercial aircraft sector and its growing production bottleneck. The two former Tata Group executives spent close to two decades in different positions at the company and worked on projects that included participation from global aerospace companies, including Boeing, Sikorsky, and Lockheed Martin. Now, armed with $11 million in Series A funding, the pair are working to ease global

Topics: aerospace jeh manufacturing sanghavi startup

Shop Amazon

This Forgotten '90s Cyberpunk Flick Nailed the Dystopian VR Vibes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 00:45:03

Pull up any list of the ultimate cyberpunk movies and you'll find The Matrix, Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell. But there's one great tech noir flick that came out at the height of the cyberpunk craze -- and then all-but disappeared. Maybe that's partly because of its title. I'd wanted to rewatch Strange Days for a long time, but I kept forgetting because, honestly, I couldn't remember what it was called. Then I finally rediscovered the sci-fi thriller on Hulu. After my most recent viewing,

Topics: days like movie playback strange

Shop Amazon

Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

news.ycombinator.com Makena Kelly 2025-12-19 00:44:49

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically expanded its work with Palantir, elevating the company cofounded by Trump ally Peter Thiel as the government’s go-to software developer. Following massive contract terminations for consulting giants and government contractors like Accenture, Booz Allen, and Deloitte, Palantir has emerged ahead. Now the data analytics firm is partnering with those companies—offering them a lifeline while consolidating its own power. Palantir has become one

Topics: accenture companies government palantir trump

Shop Amazon

Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-19 12:20:39

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Valve founder Gabe Newell is setting out on a new adventure — and it doesn’t involve Half-Life 3. Instead, Newell is acquiring Oceanco, the yacht-building company that’s creating his $400 million super ship, as reported earlier by Boat International. In a post

Topics: gabe newell oceanco superyacht yacht

Shop Amazon

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-19 17:54:17

French fashion giant Chanel is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce data theft attacks. Chanel says the breach was first detected on July 25th after threat actors gained access to a Chanel database hosted at a third-party service provider, as first reported by WWD. The breach only impacted customers in the United States and exposed personal contact information. "Based on the findings of the investigation, the data obtained by the unauthorized external pa

Topics: attacks chanel customers data salesforce

Shop Amazon

Battlefield 6 Open Beta Start Time, Maps, Modes and Pre-Load

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 12:31:00

EA's DICE studio has blown the lid off the multiplayer for its upcoming military shooter Battlefield 6, and players will soon get to join the fray. A Battlefield 6 public beta is coming on two consecutive weekends starting Aug. 9 -- and if you're lucky enough to get Early Access, to play starting Aug. 7 -- and here's how to join. The Battlefield 6 open betas will be the first chances for players to experience the game's multiplayer before its full release on Oct. 10. The first open beta weekend

Topics: access aug battlefield beta open

Shop Amazon

Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

news.ycombinator.com Seva Gunitsky 2025-12-16 06:16:18

A few days ago Microsoft published a list of the 40 jobs most likely to be replaced by AI. The first two entries are translators and historians, which made me laugh. The two jobs have one thing in common — they are acts of interpretation that are never recognized as such by outsiders. It’s probably self-evident in the tech world that history is a matter of assembling facts. A kind of mechanical curation, like sweeping loose pebbles into neat piles. This delusion reflects a larger hubris— the bel

Topics: act ai facts story translation

Shop Amazon

Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 20:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

Topics: activities activity age child kids

Shop Amazon

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 22:56:58

When will Sierra Space's winged vehicle, Dream Chaser, finally take flight? Unfortunately, it's still not clear. Almost certainly, however, it won't be this year. The Dream Chaser space plane has now been under development for more than two decades, and it has a huge cult following because its winged shape mimics the iconic Space Shuttle. However, during a recent news briefing, a senior NASA official would only say this about a launch date: "We will be ready for them when they're ready to fly."

Topics: chaser dream flight space station

Shop Amazon

Firefly Aerospace lifts IPO range that would value company at more than $6 billion

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-20 03:36:27

Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim sits for an interview at the Firefly Aerospace mission operations center in Leander, Texas, U.S., July 9, 2025. Firefly Aerospace has lifted the share price range for its upcoming initial public offering in a move that would value the space technology company at more than $6 billion. The lunar lander and rocket maker said in a filing Monday that it expects to price shares in its upcoming IPO between $41 and $43 apiece. Firefly's new target range would raise nea

Topics: aerospace filing firefly price range

Shop Amazon

Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:50:05

Sometimes kids need something they can do on their own — while you’re on a work call, cooking dinner, or just taking a breath. Here’s a list of solo activities you can try with your child, grouped by age. Some are linked to full activity guides on Offline.Kids, and others are simple ideas you can… View post

Topics: activities activity age child kids

Shop Amazon

Dental Floss Could Deliver Next-Gen Vaccines, No Needles Required

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-20 03:52:29

Flu shot season is around the corner, and while injections remain the most common form of vaccination, scientists are working hard to find other ways to deliver inoculations that don’t involve shoving a needle into your flesh. And in a new study, researchers think they might have found another novel approach: dental floss. In the new work, a team of scientists based in the U.S. demonstrated how this might work on lab mice, finding that vaccine delivery via dental floss was more effective at sti

Topics: body floss mucosal surfaces vaccine

Shop Amazon

F1 in Hungary: Please stop saying Monaco without the walls

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:42:19

Formula 1 teams can start their annual summer break today. Sometime this month, each of the 10 teams has to close its factory for 14 consecutive days. Laptops stay in the office, email goes unchecked. It all sounds very civilized for a sport where the difference between hero and zero can come down to milliseconds. As was the case at this past weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, at least in qualifying. When the Hungaroring was added to the calendar back in 1986, it was F1's first true foray behind t

Topics: f1 getty images nurphoto race

Shop Amazon

Foxconn sells former GM factory to mystery buyer after failing to make EVs

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-20 03:43:02

Foxconn has sold the former GM factory it has owned for three years after failing to stand up any meaningful, large-scale electric vehicle production there. The pivot marks the second major failure of Foxconn to deliver on its promises to help revive U.S. manufacturing. The iPhone-maker once promised to build a giant LCD factory in Wisconsin — a project that Donald Trump called the “eighth wonder of the world” during his first term — and wound up underdelivering to an extreme degree. Foxconn s

Topics: disrupt electric factory foxconn startup

Shop Amazon

Scientists are growing tumors in space to study how to personalize cancer treatment

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-20 08:48:00

Forward-looking: Although precision medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years, many cancer patients still undergo standard treatments that may not work for everyone. Research underway on the International Space Station offers a glimpse of future care, where doctors map out each course of therapy using a detailed simulation of the patient's cancer. In a laboratory more than 249 miles above Earth, a new generation of cancer research is unfolding. A biotech startup is harnessing the microgravi

Topics: cancer encapsulate patient space tumors

Shop Amazon

Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 05:01:33

Benefits include a 10-percent wage increase over two years and the elimination of crunch time. Employees at Raven Software, known for its work on the Call of Duty franchise, finally have a union contract with Microsoft . This happened nearly years after quality assurance (QA) workers at the company voted to unionize . Workers voted unanimously to ratify the first contract between the company's Game Workers Alliance-CWA (GWA-CWA) members and Microsoft. This contract includes a guaranteed 10-per

Topics: contract overtime time workers years

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Spotify expands audiobooks access to family plan members in the US for the first time

Get a new MacBook or iPad every 2 years with this subscription

Chris Curry interviewed by Your Computer magazine (1981)

Pick up Apple's MacBook Air M4 while it's on sale for an all-time-low price

Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts

Best VPN for Android for 2025: Protect Your Privacy on Mobile Devices

Lunar Outpost celebrates release of Lego Moon Rover Space Vehicle

Google Contacts’ new Material 3 Expressive look is rolling out, here’s what’s different

Fitbit promised better sleep tracking with new update, but users say it got worse

SonicWall urges admins to disable SSLVPN amid rising attacks

Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

PSA: Steam will soon stop supporting macOS 11 Big Sur

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Rust: A Theater of State Machines

Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

This Forgotten '90s Cyberpunk Flick Nailed the Dystopian VR Vibes

Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

Valve founder Gabe Newell just purchased a superyacht company

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

Battlefield 6 Open Beta Start Time, Maps, Modes and Pre-Load

Facts will not save you – AI, history and Soviet sci-fi

Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

Firefly Aerospace lifts IPO range that would value company at more than $6 billion

Offline.kids – screen-free activities for kids

Dental Floss Could Deliver Next-Gen Vaccines, No Needles Required

F1 in Hungary: Please stop saying Monaco without the walls

Foxconn sells former GM factory to mystery buyer after failing to make EVs

Scientists are growing tumors in space to study how to personalize cancer treatment

Raven Software gets its union contract with Microsoft three years after voting to organize

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising