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LASIK Without Lasers? Scientists May Have Found a Way

What if you could fix your damaged eye without having to shoot a laser at it? Scientists have potentially discovered a novel method of repairing the cornea, similar to LASIK, that wouldn’t require a laser or other invasive surgical tool. Researchers at Occidental College and the University of California, Irvine, created the technique, which aims to temporarily make the cornea malleable. In experiments with rabbit eyeballs, their method appeared to work while also leaving corneal cells alive. Mo

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

Google shares rise on report of Apple using Gemini for Siri

Alphabet shares rose on a Friday report that Apple is in early discussions to use Google's Gemini AI models for an updated version of the iPhone-maker's Siri assistant. The company's shares rose more than 3% on the Bloomberg report, which said Apple recently inquired of Google about the potential for the search giant to build a custom AI model that would power a new Siri that could launch next year. Google's flagship AI models Gemini have consistently been atop key benchmarks for artificial int

Apple accuses Android brand of trade secret theft in wearable tech showdown

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple is suing OPPO, accusing the company of stealing Apple Watch trade secrets through a former employee. Engineer Chen Shi allegedly downloaded 63 confidential files and shared research details with OPPO before leaving Apple. Apple claims OPPO encouraged Shi’s actions to gain an unfair advantage in wearable tech development. Corporate espionage is more common than many of us realize, but two tech giants are at the center of a particularly dramatic e

Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround

atese/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways All Arch Linux sites are under attack. No one knows why Arch is getting smacked around. You can get Arch Linux files and programs from GitHub. Although not well-suited for new users, Arch Linux is a popular distro with a passionate fan base. So, why has someone been knocking down the Arch Linux site repeatedly for over a week now with an ongoing distributed denial-o

‘Peacemaker’ Returns, and Wastes No Time Retconning the New DC Universe

With Superman in the books, the time has finally come to see how DC Studios’ rebooted universe will continue with the second season of James Gunn’s John Cena-led TV series, Peacemaker. Even before the show’s release, Peacemaker existed in a unique transitional phase between the old and new DC Universes, leading fans to wonder which elements would carry over and which would be left behind. The answer to that, as gleaned from trailers and the occasional Gunn interview about its premiere being not

Google's AI Mode Is Getting New Agentic Features for Restaurant Reservations and More

Google's AI Mode is getting new agentic capabilities and expanding to 180 new countries and territories around the world, Google announced Thursday. AI Mode allows you to ask questions directly to Google and it'll kick off a series of searches on your behalf. From there, it will surface relevant information to your query without the need to do any of the deep research yourself. It changes the way you search for things online, and it's getting even smarter with this latest rollout. Powered by De

A Huge Number of Grok AI Chats Just Leaked, and Their Contents Are So Disturbing That We're Sweating Profusely

Brace yourselves, because hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's notoriously foul-mouthed Grok chatbot have hit the internet, Forbes reports — and some of them get into absolutely unholy territory. The more than 370,000 chats were made public after users clicked a "share" button that created a link to their chatbot convos, unaware that by doing so, it was allowing them to be indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Some of them were clearly never meant to see the l

Google's AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations for you - how it works

SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's AI Mode can now suggest restaurant reservations. Users can also now receive personalized dining recommendations. Google is aiming to build a more dynamic and personalized web. AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations, Google announced in a blog post Thursday. Users can now request reservations in local restaurants according to constraints like party size and dietary restrictions, and the system will automat

Europol confirms $50,000 Qilin ransomware reward is fake

Europol has confirmed that a Telegram channel impersonating the agency and offering a $50,000 reward for information on two Qilin ransomware administrators is fake. The impostor later admitted it was created to troll researchers and journalists. "We were also surprised to see this story gaining traction," Europol told BleepingComputer on Monday. "The announcement didn't come from us." The statement comes after a new Telegram channel called @europolcti was created on August 16th, claiming to of

This upcoming Google Maps feature could be a game-changer for group planning (APK teardown)

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is working on a new feature that will make it easier to share a list of search results with others. This new share feature creates a shareable list of the first ten search results from any query. This new functionality could simplify group planning, such as deciding on a restaurant, when it goes live. Google Maps is a great resource for discovering services and local businesses around you. However, there’s plenty that Google can do to improve

Oh No, ‘World of Warcraft’ Is Getting Me Elf-Pilled Again

As someone who has played World of Warcraft on and off for what now qualifies as a significant portion of my life over the last 21 years, I’ve come to learn that there are two things that I deeply appreciate about Blizzard’s long-running fantasy MMO. The first is the way Warcraft has sat with, and handled, the evolution of its world and characters over those two decades as an ongoing entity. Well, that’s not really the first. Because the actual first is that I just really love Warcraft‘s elves.

Google Search can now present real-time table booking results, but only if you pay up for AI

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI Mode is getting an agentic mode to help you with hotel reservations. AI Mode will also scan for your diet and seating preferences and offer suggestions for cafes and restaurants in particular areas. It is now expanding to over 180 countries for searches in English. Yesterday’s Pixel launch displays Google’s determination to bring agentic AI features to Android devices. While Magic Cue on Pixel 10 is just a step in that direction, the company

Google Search’s AI Mode is going global and getting smarter

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. Google is putting AI Mode into Search in 180 countries and territories, allowing the AI-powered search feature to expand beyond the US, UK, and India. The expansion means more people can search for topics using a chatbot-like interface, though it’s still only av

Scammers have infiltrated Google's AI responses - how to spot them

Reddit / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Scammers are exploiting AI to trick people looking for customer numbers. Google's AI Overview, AI Mode, and OpenAI's ChatGPT are vulnerable. Run a regular search, or head to the company's website to find a number. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you ever use Google's AI-powered search to look for customer service numbers and other contact info? If so, y

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

Understanding Moravec's Paradox

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

Windows 11 test brings AI file search to the Copilot app

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. Microsoft is testing out a Windows 11 update that lets you use AI to search through your files and images directly from the Copilot app. This test is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs and allows you to use more descriptive language wh

Stone Age People Brutalized Their Prisoners of War, New Evidence Suggests

When we think of Stone Age people, most imagine small communities living in caves, cutting into their most recent hunt with primitive tools, and imitating their environment with illustrative rock art. People during the Neolithic, however—the last stage of the Stone Age (around 9000 to 3300 BCE)—also waged wars and absolutely demolished their enemies. In a study published today in the journal Science Advances, researchers present horrific evidence suggesting that Neolithic people in northeastern

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before. From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency's website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device

Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

Luminal is a deep learning library that uses search-based compilation to achieve high performance. ShowHN To run the demo shown on HN on mac, clone this repo and run: cd demos/matmul cargo run --release Important We're undergoing a large transition to "2.0", which introduces large-scale kernel search. This radically simplifies the compiler stack and allows us to discover complex optimizations entirely automatically. Please keep an eye on breaking changes, which usually are staged in the crat

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

United States Custom and Border Protection officials have sweeping powers to search anyone’s phone when they are entering the country—including US citizens. Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before. From April through June this year, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, according to stats published on the agency's website. While the figures aren’t broken down by device

Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

Just a few months into Meta's multi-billion-dollar AI moonshot, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already shaking up his "Superintelligence Lab" — and some of its longtime leaders are leaving amid the chaos. As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called "superintelligence," one on products, and another on infrastructure. First leaked in part to The Informa

Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world’s most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park—and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre search field near Murfreesboro sits atop an ancient volcanic pipe that erupted roughly 100 million years ago. That eruption brought diamonds that formed deep within the Earth’s mantle to the surface, where they now wait in the soil for anyone with a garden trowe

Not One, but Two Wild Archie Comics Adaptations May Be on the Way

Jason Momoa’s next project may take him to the high seas. James Gunn teases that Peacemaker‘s return is more about the man behind the mask. Plus, get a look at what’s coming next on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Foundation, and Alien: Earth. Spoilers away! Archie Comics Jeff Sneider’s InSneider Report has word that Paramount is purportedly preparing a film adaptation of the Archie Comics universe, with Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and Mister Miracle writer Tom King tapped to pen the script, a

Material Cultures looks to the past to build the future

Gormley has been finding a “way around it” by systematically exploring how tradition can be harnessed in new ways to repair what she has dubbed the “oil vernacular”—the contemporary building system shaped not by local, natural materials but by global commodities and plastic products made largely from fossil fuels. Though she grew up in a household rich in art and design—she’s the daughter of the famed British sculptor Antony Gormley—she’s quick to say she’s far from a brilliant maker and more o

Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

Scientists recently discovered a microbe with one of the tiniest genomes on Earth. More surprising, the creature is almost entirely dependent on its host: Its genes don’t support any of the functions of metabolism, one of the key processes of life. As such, it challenges fundamental notions of what it means to be a living organism. The discovery was “pure serendipity,” says Takuro Nakayama, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Takayama wanted to study the many m

Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer

Some of the most physically fit people in the world may have a unique health risk. New research uncovers a possible link between marathon running and colorectal cancer. Oncologists at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia conducted the study, which examined the colons of relatively young people who had run several long-distance races. They found these runners had a much higher rate of having potentially dangerous adenomas (a type of polyp) than would be expected for their age. Though the

Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues

In a jarring new analysis, psychiatric researchers found that a wide swath of mental health issues have already been associated with artificial intelligence usage — and virtually every top AI company has been implicated. Sifting through academic databases and news articles between November 2024 and July 2025, Duke psychiatry professor Allen Frances and Johns Hopkins cognitive science student Luciana Ramos discovered, as they wrote in a new report for the Psychiatric Times, that the mental healt

Scammers are sneaking into Google's AI summaries to steal from you - how to spot them

Moor Studio/ DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Scammers are exploiting AI to trick people looking for customer numbers. Google's AI Overview, AI Mode, and OpenAI's ChatGPT are vulnerable. Run a regular search or head to the company's website to find a number. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Do you ever use Google's AI-powered search to look for customer service numbers and other contact i