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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2026-02-21 06:38:43

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million metric tons of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times faster than e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The i

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 now blocks email bombing attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-21 12:04:20

Microsoft says its Defender for Office 365 cloud-based email security suite will now automatically detect and block email bombing attacks. Defender for Office 365 (formerly known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection or Office 365 ATP) protects organizations operating in high-risk industries and dealing with sophisticated threat actors from malicious threats from email messages, links, and collaboration tools. "We're introducing a new detection capability in Microsoft Defender for Office 36

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Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-21 12:36:00

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate users who are accused of copyright infringement. In a list of orders released today, the court granted a petition filed by cable company Cox. The ISP, which was sued by Sony Music Entertainment, is trying to overturn a ruling that it is liable for copyright infringement because it failed to terminate users accused of piracy. Music companies want ISPs to disconnect users whose IP ad

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Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-02-21 12:44:28

Google on Monday announced a series of updates intended to bring its Gemini AI and other AI-powered tools deeper into the classroom. At the ISTE edtech conference, the tech giant introduced more than 30 AI tools for educators, a version of the Gemini app built for education, expanded access to its collaborative video creation app Google Vids, and other tools for managed Chromebooks. The updates represent a major AI push in the edtech space, where educators are already struggling to adapt to how

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Gemini Live looks like it’s getting ready to work with all your favorite apps (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-21 17:42:41

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Back in May, Google announced the first wave of Gemini Live extension support. Initial extensions for Maps, Calendar, Keep, and Tasks are slowly starting to hit users. Beyond these, we’ve uncovered a large list of Live extensions that appear to be in development. Gemini Live has been both technically impressive and quite a bit of fun to interact with, right from the get-go; the combination of Gemini’s powerful models and a naturally flowing conversati

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How Do Pimple Patches Work? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2026-02-21 17:24:36

How do pimple patches work? Back in the day, getting a zit meant caking on disguising layers of foundation, concealer, powder …or maybe just a strategically angled hairstyle. But now, the game has changed: Why hide a pimple when you can dress it up? No frantic blending or pore-clogging products are required. Today, we’re embracing a radically different (and refreshingly low-key) approach to clogged pores: slapping a bright yellow star-shaped sticker on it and calling it a day. Welcome to the er

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Google is opening its NotebookLM AI tools to students under 18

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2026-02-21 22:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Google announced a variety of new features for its Classroom software suite, including free Gemini AI tools for educators and NotebookLM for users under 18 — the first time the tool has been available to minors. Teachers with a Google Workspace account will have a new dedicated Gemini tab in their Google Classroom, offering tools that

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Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-20 18:45:16

Image by Getty Images Studies When you die, your memories die with you, never to be experienced again. Or at least, that's always been how the case. Now, though, in an exercise to assess shifting scientific consensus, a cohort of 312 neuroscientists were quizzed by researchers on whether memories might live on in the structure of deceased brains. And a surprisingly larger number — 70.7 percent of the group — believe they may, findings which were newly published in the science journal PLOS One.

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Alleged Verizon data breach sees 61M customer records offered for sale

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-02-22 03:13:47

An alleged Verizon data breach has seen hackers offering for sale a database of 61 million customer records, which includes personal information useful for both phishing attempts and identity theft. The sample data supplied includes name, full postal address, date of birth, email address, phone number(s), tax identification code, and other ID codes … Security researchers at SafetyDetectives said that the data was being offered for sale, but the samples posted were too small to confirm the vera

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New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation

news.ycombinator.com Max Springer 2026-02-18 18:59:28

Once upon a time computers filled entire rooms, reading numbers from spinning tapes and churning them through wires to do chains of basic arithmetic. Today they slip into our pockets, performing in a tiny fraction of a second what used to take hours. But even as chips shrink and gain speed, theorists are flipping the question from how much computation space we can pack into a machine to how little is enough to get the job done. This inquiry lies at the heart of computational complexity, a measu

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This Newly Released Mini PC (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Is Almost Free Compared to a Mac Mini for Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-02-22 08:40:39

You don’t need to let your desktop take up your entire, well, desktop! Save some crucial space buy downsizing to a small but powerful mini PC. The ACEMAGIC Mini PC is perfect for school, business, or personal use and is right now heavily discounted at Amazon. Normally, it goes for $319 but for a limited time you can scoop one up for $189. That’s a savings of 41% equating to $130. But don’t stop there. Redeem the coupon code ACEYJD5Y and receive an additional 6% off at checkout. See at Amazon D

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Gmail could soon help you skim your entire inbox without opening any emails (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 15:13:12

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail is working on a new feature that could display a one-line AI summary directly in your inbox in the main email list. Such brief, auto-updating synopses could help you quickly scan long conversations without opening them. When the feature rolls out, users will also be able to provide feedback on the one-line summaries with “Helpful” or “Not Helpful” votes. One of the most common use cases for AI is using it for summarizing content. AI summaries a

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New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation

news.ycombinator.com Max Springer 2026-02-19 06:59:28

Once upon a time computers filled entire rooms, reading numbers from spinning tapes and churning them through wires to do chains of basic arithmetic. Today they slip into our pockets, performing in a tiny fraction of a second what used to take hours. But even as chips shrink and gain speed, theorists are flipping the question from how much computation space we can pack into a machine to how little is enough to get the job done. This inquiry lies at the heart of computational complexity, a measu

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Biologists Uncover Previously Unknown Structure Hiding Inside Human Cells

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-02-22 17:00:57

Even after decades of peering into cells, biologists are still finding surprises. In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, dubbed the hemifusome. This tiny membrane-bound structure serves as a cellular recycling center and may hold the key to treating several genetic diseases. The research has been published in Nature Communications. “This is like discovering a new recycling center inside the cell,” co-author Seham E

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Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Adamson 2026-02-22 20:24:54

PARIS — The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and pandemic — but on Monday, it was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism . It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries. Thousand

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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 16:49:39

Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us via the ACME API. This service ended on June 4, 2025. The decision to end the service is the result of the following factors: Over the past 10 years more and more of our subscribers have been able to put reliable automation into place for certificate renewal. Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses c

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‘Resident Evil: Requiem’ Will Refocus On the Series’ Past

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-22 12:15:24

After the series explored new, undead ground in the last two main games, Resident Evil: Requiem is going back to narrative threads from the franchise’s past. In a recent PlayStation Blog interview, producer Masato Kumazawa talked about Requiem’s timing as a game for the series’ 30th anniversary. Where Ethan Winters’ two games “explored [the series’] broader world, Capcom wanted to “return to a story that continues the overarching narrative rooted in Raccoon City and the secret machinations of t

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Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-21 06:09:19

Let's Encrypt has announced it will no longer notify users about imminent certificate expirations via email due to high costs, privacy concerns, and unnecessary complexities. The decision to end the expiration notification email service was implemented as of June 4, 2025, but Let's Encrypt has now communicated it via a blog post to raise awareness and prevent unexpected disruptions. Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority (CA) that provides free, automated, and open digital certific

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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo would feel right at home on your GBA

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-22 10:00:00

When I was a kid, there was a moment when it felt like everyone was obsessed with yo-yos. I never got better than just being able to make the yo-yo go up and down. But with Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo, I could pretend like I was halfway decent — all while playing a silly game that feels like a spiritual successor to the Game Boy Advance titles I loved growing up. Pipistrello is a top-down adventure game, in which you use your yo-yo to attack enemies and traverse the world. You play as Pippi

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Happy hour with Gemini: How I built my perfect summer bartender

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 12:00:36

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority If you open the liquor cabinets (plural) in my home, you’ll find an eclectic collection of spirits ranging from the mundane to the random and unique bottles my husband and I have bought in some small or unknown town during our travels. My husband likes to joke that I gifted him a basic bartending course and now I’m benefiting from it, but in my mind, it was a sound financial investment for both of us. The problem, though, is that there isn’t a course varied e

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I can’t believe how far Switch emulation has come in the year since Nintendo killed it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 12:30:37

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority It’s been a few weeks since the Nintendo Switch 2 hit shelves, but if we’re being perfectly honest, there’s not much reason to buy one yet. I’ve been revisiting my OG Switch to stave off the FOMO, but I was sad to learn that my left Joy-Con now drifts so badly that Link runs in circles like he’s drunk in Breath of the Wild. Instead of shelling out $40 for another Joy-Con with a ticking drift timer, I reached for something I hadn’t touched in a while: Switch e

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Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU

news.ycombinator.com Chester Lam 2026-02-22 06:40:13

Nvidia has a long tradition of building giant GPUs. Blackwell, their latest graphics architecture, continues that tradition. GB202 is the largest Blackwell die. It occupies a massive 750mm2 of area, and has 92.2 billion transistors. GB202 has 192 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), the closest equivalent to a CPU core on a GPU, and feeds them with a massive memory subsystem. Nvidia’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell features the largest GB202 configuration to date. It sits alongside the RTX 5090 in Nvidia’s

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Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2026-02-22 06:02:32

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don't drink coffee, but the Mr Pibb doesn't buy itself.

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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

news.ycombinator.com Luc Rinaldi 2026-02-22 04:06:31

Rollie Pemberton was barely a teenager when he started rapping. His hometown, Edmonton, didn’t have much of a hip-hop scene in the early aughts, so he honed his craft online. He plugged an old-school microphone into his mom’s desktop computer, recorded a few verses, later turned them into tracks, and sent them out into the burgeoning music blogosphere. Within a few years, he’d adopted the emcee name Cadence Weapon and earned a reputation as a shrewd critic and sharp lyricist. This work didn’t p

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JavaScript Trademark Update

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 05:52:00

On June 18, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision. That claim alleged Oracle knowingly misled the USPTO in its 2019 renewal by submitting a screenshot of the Node.js website to show use of the “JavaScript” trademark. As the creator of Node.js, I find that especially offensive. Node.js was never an Oracle product or brand. Oracle didn’t create it, didn’t run it, and wasn’t authorized to use it to prop up its trademark

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The ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Trailer Locks In For the End

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-22 05:50:02

Shonen fans have had eyes on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba since it dropped in 2019, and it’s making its way back to the big screen. Sony and Crunchyroll released the first trailer for the series’ upcoming Infinity Castle movie, which will be the first in a trilogy that’s rtaking big steps toward wrapping things up. Based on the manga’s arc of the same name (which spans Chapters 140-183) and picking up after the end of season four, the members of the Slayer Corps have been transported into the

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #483

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-22 08:00:04

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I love today's NYT Strands puzzle! It's maybe a bit easier than usual once you understand the theme, but then it gets, well, really colorful. And the spangram even makes a themed shape! If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in th

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What really happens when your phone runs out of RAM?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 04:00:00

Robert Triggs / Android Authority These days, high-end smartphones and even more affordable models ship with about as much RAM as a modern mid-range PC. And why shouldn’t they? We use our phones for various tasks, from flicking through countless apps to playing the latest high-end games. They all need RAM, and increasingly more of it, especially when it comes to chatting with a large language model or using AI to spruce up our media. Can your phone even run out of RAM these days? It sounds unl

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I’d give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 06:00:34

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority Retro gaming handhelds have come a long way in the past few years, but there’s still one big sticking point: the setup. Every time a new handheld comes in for review, I have to spend hours installing emulators, fixing folder structures, and configuring a frontend. Once that’s done, I still have to configure settings and shaders for each console individually, which requires arcane knowledge in popular emulators like RetroArch. Compared to Linux-based handheld

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This tiny Gmail change will make it easier to manage your inbox on Android

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 08:42:54

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail for Android is testing a new “mark as read” button directly within its notifications, letting users manage their inbox without opening the app. The feature appears to be undergoing A/B testing with a small number of users, as it’s not widely available despite being on the latest app version. This potential addition would bring Gmail’s Android app in line with its iOS counterpart and other email clients that already offer this convenient shortcut

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Latest Tech News

A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 now blocks email bombing attacks

Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more

Gemini Live looks like it’s getting ready to work with all your favorite apps (APK teardown)

How Do Pimple Patches Work? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Google is opening its NotebookLM AI tools to students under 18

Startling Percentage of Neuroscientists Say We Could Extract Memories From Dead Brains

Alleged Verizon data breach sees 61M customer records offered for sale

New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation

This Newly Released Mini PC (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) Is Almost Free Compared to a Mac Mini for Early Prime Day

Gmail could soon help you skim your entire inbox without opening any emails (APK teardown)

New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation

Biologists Uncover Previously Unknown Structure Hiding Inside Human Cells

Louvre shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism

LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

‘Resident Evil: Requiem’ Will Refocus On the Series’ Past

Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo would feel right at home on your GBA

Happy hour with Gemini: How I built my perfect summer bartender

I can’t believe how far Switch emulation has come in the year since Nintendo killed it

Blackwell: Nvidia's GPU

Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board

The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

JavaScript Trademark Update

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 29, #483

What really happens when your phone runs out of RAM?

I’d give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld

This tiny Gmail change will make it easier to manage your inbox on Android

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