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Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 09:46:02

As promised last month, Apple today released four new titles to Apple Arcade, adding to the catalog of over 200 ad-free games available to subscribers. Here’s what’s new. Play-Doh World Play-Doh brings its magic to the digital space with Play-Doh World, allowing players to craft their own characters and watch them spring to life. From inventing wild zoo animals to styling outrageous salon hairdos, every corner of this colorful universe responds to the player’s creative whim. With dozens of int

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Samsung’s AI photo editor now lets you fake DSLR shots with a tap

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 14:33:56

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has updated its Galaxy Enhance-X photo app with two new AI features. As well as better upscaling, Focus Shift blurs the background to mimic DSLR-style shallow depth of field. The update is exclusive to Samsung phones running One UI 8. Samsung is finally widening the rollout of One UI 8, and the manufacturer is now giving you another reason to want it. A new update to the Galaxy Enhance-X app — Samsung’s AI-powered photo editor — adds two cool fea

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CISA orders fed agencies to patch new Exchange flaw by Monday

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-13 14:14:16

CISA has issued an emergency directive ordering all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to mitigate a critical Microsoft Exchange hybrid vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-53786 by Monday morning at 9:00 AM ET. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies are non-military agencies within the US executive branch, including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Treasury, Department of Energy, and Department of Health and Human Services. The flaw tracked as CVE-

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Beware of promptware: How researchers broke into Google Home via Gemini

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-13 14:28:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Researchers demonstrated a way to hack Google Home devices via Gemini. Google put additional safeguards in place for Gemini in response. Keeping your devices up-to-date on security patches is the best protection. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to maliciously control your home and life is one of the main reasons why many are reluctant to adopt the new technology -- it's downright scary. Almost as scary as having your smart devi

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Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 14:32:24

Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That's around the same time that the ancestors of the infamously diminutive “Hobbits” may have reached the island of Flores. Archaeologist Budianto Hakim of Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency and his colleagues were the ones who recently unearthed the tools from a site on Sulawesi. Although a handful of stone flakes

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Researchers used Gemini to break into Google Home - here's how

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-13 18:42:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Researchers demonstrated a way to hack Google Home devices via Gemini. Google put additional safeguards in place for Gemini in response. Keeping your devices up-to-date on security patches is the best protection. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to maliciously control your home and life is one of the main reasons why many are reluctant to adopt the new technology -- it's downright scary. Almost as scary as having your smart devi

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School AI surveillance can lead to false alarms, arrests

news.ycombinator.com Lurye Is The Data Reporter For The Associated Press 2025-12-13 15:17:32

Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong. But she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says. Earlier in the day, her friends had teased the teen about her tanned com

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Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 21:16:42

Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers The Python Package Index is introducing new restrictions to protect Python package installers and inspectors from confusion attacks arising from ZIP parser implementations. This has been done in response to the discovery that the popular installer uv has a different extraction behavior to many Python-based installers that use the ZIP parser implementation provided by the zipfile standard library module. Summary ZIP archives

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Foundry (YC F24) is hiring staff-level product engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 22:00:58

About Foundry We're building the foundational infrastructure to automate digital work. Today's browser-based workflows represent a potential trillion dollar opportunity—currently trapped behind inefficient manual tasks and repetitive actions. Current AI agents fail when facing complex real-world scenarios; they're brittle experiments, not scalable solutions. Foundry provides the critical, high-fidelity simulation environment necessary for training, testing, and deploying robust AI agents. Thin

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New EDR killer tool used by eight different ransomware groups

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:58:31

A new Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) killer that is considered to be the evolution of 'EDRKillShifter,' developed by RansomHub, has been observed in attacks by eight different ransomware gangs. Such tools help ransomware operators turn off security products on breached systems so they can deploy payloads, escalate privileges, attempt lateral movement, and ultimately encrypt devices on the network without being detected. According to Sophos security researchers, the new tool, which wasn'

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Foundry (YC F24) Is Hiring Staff Level Product Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:00:58

About Foundry We're building the foundational infrastructure to automate digital work. Today's browser-based workflows represent a potential trillion dollar opportunity—currently trapped behind inefficient manual tasks and repetitive actions. Current AI agents fail when facing complex real-world scenarios; they're brittle experiments, not scalable solutions. Foundry provides the critical, high-fidelity simulation environment necessary for training, testing, and deploying robust AI agents. Thin

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The Sunlight Budget of Earth

news.ycombinator.com Asimov Press 2025-12-14 09:15:41

By Sam Clamons Editor’s Note: This article contains numerical estimates compiled from various research articles. It was reviewed by three climate experts: Casey Handmer, Paul Reginato, and Jonathan Burbaum. Their notes are recorded in the footnotes. Our full dataset and calculations are available for download. We hope this will be a useful starting point for much deeper discussions. Modern biotechnology is powered by sunlight. Light-gobbling algae, both natural and engineered, are harvested an

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PyPI: Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 09:16:42

Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers The Python Package Index is introducing new restrictions to protect Python package installers and inspectors from confusion attacks arising from ZIP parser implementations. This has been done in response to the discovery that the popular installer uv has a different extraction behavior to many Python-based installers that use the ZIP parser implementation provided by the zipfile standard library module. Summary ZIP archives

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Astronomers Discover the Earliest Black Hole Ever Confirmed

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-14 09:06:09

An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery could offer new clues to a mysterious class of ancient galaxies that confounded prevailing theories of cosmology. In a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the researchers describe CAPERS-LRD-z9—a distant, gas-enshrouded galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. It dates back some 13.

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Samsung Will Reportedly Make iPhone Image Sensors at Texas Facility

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 08:11:00

Samsung will reportedly begin producing a three-layer stacked image sensor for Apple's iPhone 18 in Texas. The deal with Apple will help the South Korean company avoid President Trump's strict tariffs policy and cut out Sony as the sole image sensor maker for iPhones, according to Financial Times, The three-layer stacked image sensors enable fast shooting speeds and high-frame-rate 8K video in smartphones. On Wednesday, Apple said it was "working with Samsung at its fab [semiconductor fabricati

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Is the Xperia line dead? Sony clarifies the future of its smartphones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-14 14:15:31

It’s no secret that Sony Xperia smartphones aren’t the best-selling phones, nor are they the top choice for Android flagships . Sony built a loyal niche of fans who buy its Xperia phones, but the market beyond them doesn’t pick up on the phones with as much enthusiasm. When the company’s latest flagship, the Xperia 1 VII, began dying and disappearing across markets , many presumed that the end was near for Sony’s Xperia line of phones. Sony is laying rest to those fears, indicating it is around,

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iPhone 17 case leaks, iOS 26 beta 5 changes, Tim Cook’s AI pep talk

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-12-14 14:40:52

Benjamin and Chance talk about the week’s Apple news including all the changes in iOS 26 beta 5, in which Apple inexplicably doubled down on the inverted scroll direction in the Camera app. Also, iPhone 17 case leaks suggest Apple will be adding lanyard holes to its silicon cases for the first time, and Tim Cook presents an AI strategy pep talk to employees and investors. And in Happy Hour Plus, they discuss the uncertain future of the default search deal between Apple and Google. Subscribe at

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7 common household devices to unplug to save money on your electricity bill

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-12-14 12:14:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Costs are steadily rising in the US, and energy costs are a prominent example. This is made worse by summer temperatures being at record highs, with heat waves wreaking havoc across various states in the past few weeks. As someone who's gone through a few of these this summer alone, I'm constantly looking for ways to conserve energy. There are many little things you can do that can shave dollars off your monthly energy bill, and they go beyond switching off the lights when you

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Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-14 14:10:07

Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to a black hole in the 1979 movie The Black Hole, an astrophysicist has released a plan for a real interstellar mission to go where no spacecraft has gone before. Outlined in a new paper published today in iScience, the proposal is a two-pronged, surprisingly simple approach. First, scientists need to find a black hole that’s relatively nearby. Second, they need to build something called a na

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Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 18:11:14

Honesty Boxes in Scotland Dotted around the Scottish countryside, honesty boxes are a heartwarming tradition reflecting the trust and community spirit of rural life. These unstaffed stands offer all sorts; from fresh eggs and home-baked goods to seasonal fruits and vegetables, and even handmade crafts. This practice not only supports local farmers and artisans but also fosters a sense of integrity and mutual respect among residents and travellers. Here is a selection of the unique things you ca

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Pranksters Interrupt Education Secretary Linda McMahon With Circus Music

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-14 17:30:23

Pranksters were able to play disruptive audio clips, including the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme and circus music, during an interview with Education Secretary Linda McMahon at the Young America’s Foundation student conference in Washington D.C., on Wednesday. And Trump supporters would like you to know that they aren’t bothered by it at all. Not one little bit. McMahon, who previously worked as a professional wrestling promoter, was appointed by Trump to dismantle the Department of Education and

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Copilot, vibe coding, and AI’s next chapter

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-14 18:00:00

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. It’s AI coding week at Decoder. You just heard Casey Newton’s interview with the CEO behind Cursor, Michael Truell. Now, I have a conversation with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the current AI coding boom. But since Thomas

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There’s Even More Rumors About the Villains of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-14 23:00:29

It’s going to be a while before we see Blade Runner 2099. Dune Part III will be partially shot on film. Exit 8 is coming stateside. Plus, get a creepy new look at Ben Wheatley’s new movie. Spoilers now! Spider-Man: Brand New Day As reported by Cosmic Marvel and Comic Book, costume prop modeler Monica Avitto has created a public mood board on Pinterest full of samurai armor for one of the villains appearing in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, leading to fevered speculation that a Japanese character l

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iPhone Gaming Is Convoluted. Here's What the iPhone 17 Needs to Sway Me as a Gamer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 22:00:20

I've been trying to use my iPhone as a gaming handheld for years but I often hit the same roadblocks when trying to have it replace my Nintendo Switch when I travel. And it's not for lack of Apple and other companies trying, as there's tons of gaming content available for the iPhone between titles that run directly from the device to more-intensive games that I can stream over a strong internet connection. Gaming on the iPhone is more convoluted than it should be and it's frankly easier to do o

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Anker's 10K Qi2 magnetic power bank drops to $60

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-15 04:45:35

A power bank with a wireless charging option is a very handy device for anyone who's typically on the go. It's probably worth having a fully charged one on hand in case of a power outage too. Anker makes some of our favorite power banks, and one with a Qi2 charging function and 10,000mAh capacity is currently on sale. You can snap it up for $60. That's a 25 percent discount on the list price of $80. It is also the lowest price for this model so far in 2025. The power bank is currently available

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Nothing Phone 3 Review: A Rule-Breaking Phone for Rebels

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-12-15 04:59:10

A month removed from the flustered echo chamber of gearheads, self-proclaimed tastemakers, and apparently everyone-is-a-designer-and-engineer-now people on social platforms like X and Threads, I can say with certainty that almost all of the complaints about Nothing’s controversial Phone 3 are much ado about—excuse the pun—nothing. Taken as a whole, the Phone 3 is exactly what I expect from Nothing, the London-based technology startup led by ex-OnePlus cofounder Carl Pei that’s known for stirrin

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The Pixel’s most powerful privacy tool doesn’t come from Google, but I’d install it in a heartbeat

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 12:00:24

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google’s Pixel phones have long been sold as some of the most secure Android devices you can buy, thanks to the inclusion of the Titan M2 chip and regular security patches over several years. There’s a bit of irony to that statement, of course — Google’s entire business model revolves around selling ads. Indeed, the search giant has quite a bit of insight into the way you use your device along with a host of other analytics and location data. Having said tha

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Poll: Are you upgrading to the Google Pixel 10 series?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 12:45:18

Google The Google Pixel 10 phones will launch in a few weeks, and it looks like there’ll be no shortage of models on the day. Google is expected to offer the base Pixel 10, the Pixel 10 Pro, the Pixel 10 Pro XL, and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. Do you plan to upgrade to these phones, though? That’s the question we’re asking in our featured poll today. So let us know by making a choice below! You can also leave a comment if you’d like to explain your decision. And do let us know which older Pixel you

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We asked Gemini for a story about the Pixel 10 launch and it hallucinated a bizarre foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:30:44

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority Summer’s been going by so fast, it’s hard to believe that we’re already down to just two weeks to go until Google’s August 20 event, where we’re expecting to see the company introduce the Pixel 10 series, the Pixel Watch 4, and some new Pixel Buds. As that date keeps creeping up on us, we’re learning more and more about what we’re likely to get. Some of it sounds great, like the full-featured Qi2 magnetic charging support, while we’re a little bummed by other

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Power bill surging? Why you should 'electrify' your home before 2026

zdnet.com Mike Lock 2025-12-15 14:00:23

timyee/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Seventy-four percent of households expect their electric bill to go up Lack of backup power is the top energy frustration Two-thirds are considering solar or storage investments Neighborhood solar panels blend into the background of the everyday commute. Home batteries might enter our minds during an outage, but then fade when the power returns. Most people don't think about power and electricity unless they're in the middle of a home project or something

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Apple Arcade just got four new games, including Play-Doh World

Samsung’s AI photo editor now lets you fake DSLR shots with a tap

CISA orders fed agencies to patch new Exchange flaw by Monday

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Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis

Researchers used Gemini to break into Google Home - here's how

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Power bill surging? Why you should 'electrify' your home before 2026

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