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Best Sam's Club deals to compete with October Prime Day 2025: My favorite deals

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Dropping Trust in US Media

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago. Meanwhile, seven in 10 U.S. adults now say they have “not very much” confidence (36%) or “none at all” (34%). ###Embeddable### When Gallup began measuring trust in the news media in the 1970s, between 6

I compared the Apple Watch Ultra 3 to Garmin's inReach satellite connectivity - here's the winner

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Best Prime Day Amazon Echo device deals 2025: My 15+ favorites sales available now

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Trump offers universities a choice: Comply for preferential funding

On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration had offered nine schools a deal: manage your universities in a way that aligns with administration priorities and get “substantial and meaningful federal grants," along with other benefits. Failure to accept the bargain would result in a withdrawal of federal programs that would likely cripple most universities. The offer, sent to a mixture of state and private universities, would see the government dictate everything f

Gavin Newson Signs Law Cracking Down on AI Industry

The nascent AI industry has attracted untold hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the past few years, but it’s still operating in a near-total regulatory vacuum. That’s not to say it’s had no negative impact. The tech has been linked to a wave of mental health breakdowns, suicides and even murder — and that’s without getting into allegations about the sector’s surveillance of users, copyright violations, and other alleged negative effects on users and society. Now, lawmakers are

Your Apple Photos app just got a huge upgrade - here are my 4 favorite features

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Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?

Hi friends, The skinny is this: I went to prison, all my personal items were stolen IRL and the same person changed a bunch of my passwords. Subsequently, I can't recover my GitHub account. I have recovered most of my digital assets by proving I am me. Recovering my GitHub has proven to be more painful than Google's treatment regarding my Google Workspace. I have the original phone number associated with my account, and can verify a bunch of private repos that are associated with my account—e

Texas Senators Want to Chop Up Space Shuttle Discovery

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has been home to Space Shuttle Discovery for more than a decade. Each year, millions of visitors get the chance to munch on freeze-dried “astronaut ice cream” and gaze up at the iconic spaceship that launched the Hubble Space Telescope and built the International Space Station. Future visitors, however, may not be so lucky. According to NASA Watch, the White House budget office has asked the Smithsonian to begin chopping up Di

Rivian’s best-case guess for 2025 sales is a 16% drop from last year

Rivian now expects to deliver no more than 43,500 electric vehicles by the end of 2025, which would represent a nearly 16% drop from last year’s sales. The company announced the new guidance for investors on Thursday alongside production and delivery figures for the third quarter of this year. Rivian saw deliveries jump to 13,201 vehicles, up from 10,661 and 8,640 in the second and first quarters, respectively. The company also built 10,720 EVs in the quarter. That’s a good recovery from a slo

Google is giving older Nest devices a useful security upgrade - no additional costs required

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Snowflake adds MCP support, new AI suite for financial services

Eugene Mymrin/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Snowflake now offers MCP support. The company also debuted an AI suite for financial institutions. Both aim to make agentic AI more secure for sensitive datasets. On Thursday, data platform Snowflake announcde its own Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, in keeping with the quick trend Anthropic set with the protocol last spring. The company also announced a new package of AI t

How Israeli actions caused famine, visualized

Israel’s nearly two-year war pushed parts of Gaza into “man-made” famine, according to a report published in August by a United Nations-backed initiative, deepening the Palestinians’ struggle for survival under relentless bombing, mass displacement and the spread of disease. The report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed expert panel that assesses global food insecurity and malnutrition, helped to fuel growing international outcry over Israel’s campaign in Ga

India cracks down on 25 crypto exchanges including BingX, LBank, CoinW over compliance failures

Offshore crypto platforms with billions of dollars in assets are in the Indian government’s crosshairs, as the government’s financial watchdog moves against 25 exchanges for failing to register and comply with anti-money laundering obligations. The Financial Intelligence Unit India (FIU-IND) issued notices to 25 crypto exchanges — including BingX, LBank, CoinW, ProBit Global, BTCC, AscendEX, Zoomex, and Poloniex — for failing to comply with the country’s anti-money laundering rules, the Indian

Meet the Arc spacecraft: It aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour

A relatively new spacecraft company, Inversion, revealed its new "on demand" delivery vehicle Wednesday evening during a splashy ceremony at its factory in Los Angeles. The company said it is building the Arc spacecraft to provide a capability to the US military to deliver as much as 500 pounds (225 kg) of supplies almost anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously. "The nominal mission for us is pre-positioning Arcs on orbit, and having them stay up there for up to five years, able to be ca

Spotify Car Thing 2.0: Verizon is killing its in-car Google Assistant/hotspot gadget

Verizon TL;DR Verizon has announced that it’s discontinuing the service for its Hum in-car accessory line. These gadgets offered vehicle diagnostics, roadside assistance, mobile hotspot functionality, and enabled Google Assistant support. Verizon says it’ll discontinue the Hum service on December 31. Verizon launched its Hum accessories for cars back in 2015, and these were novel devices for the time. These gadgets can access your vehicle diagnostics, offer roadside assistance, and more. The

The best Kindles in 2025: Expert recommended

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Clop extortion emails claim theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data

Mandiant and Google are tracking a new extortion campaign where executives at multiple companies received emails claiming that sensitive data was stolen from their Oracle E-Business Suite systems According to Genevieve Stark, Head of Cybercrime and Information Operations Intelligence Analysis at GTIG, the campaign began in late September. "This activity began on or before September 29, 2025, but Mandiant's experts are still in the early stages of multiple investigations, and have not yet subst

Meet the Arc spacecraft: it aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour

A relatively new spacecraft company, Inversion, revealed its new "on demand" delivery vehicle Wednesday evening during a splashy ceremony at its factory in Los Angeles. The company said it is building the Arc spacecraft to provide a capability to the US military to deliver as much as 500 pounds (225 kg) of supplies almost anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously. "The nominal mission for us is pre-positioning Arcs on orbit, and having them stay up there for up to five years, able to be ca

Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting them

As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. That agility is paying off: The startup has doubled its revenue, turned profitable, and is now expanding its global footprint. Over the past several months, students across emerging markets have faced growing uncertainty around international college admissions. Shifting visa rules and

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of the last Ice Age. Their results suggest that extinct megafauna like giant sloths, giant armadillos, and elephant-like creatures were on the menu for Pleistocene hunters in South America. And that means human hunters may have played a nontrivial role in killing off the continent’s last great Ice Ag

Measuring My DIY Air Purifier

For this post, I tried to measure the performance of my DIY air purifier, the Corsi-Rosenthal box. I wanted to compare its performance against natural ventilation, and commercial ones like the Levoit 400s home purifier. The main metric I needed to beat was the clean air delivery rate (CADR), which is how much ‘polluted air’ is filtered in an hour for a given type of pollutant (like smoke) - it has units in cubic metres of air per hour. Again, this is not a lab grade experiment, but rather a min

Ice Age hunters in South America preferred now-extinct megafauna

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of the last Ice Age. Their results suggest that extinct megafauna like giant sloths, giant armadillos, and elephant-like creatures were on the menu for Pleistocene hunters in South America. And that means human hunters may have played a nontrivial role in killing off the continent’s last great Ice Ag

Pinterest boss says he thinks about Molly Russell every day

Pinterest boss says he thinks about Molly Russell every day 15 hours ago Share Save Shiona McCallum Senior Tech Reporter Share Save Russell Family Molly Russell was 14 when she died in 2017 The boss of Pinterest has told the BBC the death of Molly Russell is a daily reminder of the urgent need to make social media safer for young people. The app - which functions like a digital notice board - hit the headlines when the 14-year-old, from Harrow, in northwest London, took her own life in 2017 a

My favorite iOS 26 feature makes screenshots even more useful - and it's easy to enable

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Best early Amazon Prime Day EcoFlow deals 2025: My 7 favorites sales this October

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How to use Hold Assist on iOS 26 (and why it's my must-have iPhone feature)

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Trump’s solution for high drug prices is a discount portal called TrumpRx

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. President Donald Trump is launching a new government-run website that he says will let Americans buy medications at lower prices. The new website, called TrumpRx, is expected to launch in 2026 and will direct consumers to discounts on drugmakers’ online stores,

How you're cleaning your earbuds and headphones isn't ideal - here's the right way to do it

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Scientists Just Found a Clever ‘Fix’ for Smoky, Wildfire-Tainted Wine

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe on the U.S. West Coast—a region that produces the vast majority of the country’s wine. The resulting smoke has proven to be a costly problem for winemakers, tainting billions of dollars’ worth of product with an unwanted smoky flavor. Fortunately, scientists may have found a clever solution. In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Plos One, researchers led by Claudia Castro of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Se