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The Pixel’s latest Android update has a hidden trick for organizing your Quick Settings

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 16:30:39

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A hidden feature in Android 16 QPR1 offers a new, faster way to reorganize your Quick Settings tiles. Instead of dragging and dropping, you can double-tap a tile to select it and then tap its new position to move it. This method is more precise and avoids the awkward scrolling and accidental drops common with the old way. Google rolled out the Android 16 QPR1 update to Pixel devices last week, bringing the company’s new Material 3 Expressive design to the

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Why Techmeme is still every tech pro's go-to news source after 20 years

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-11-08 15:02:00

Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera works in his home office in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. By Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Techmeme celebrates two decades. This tech news site remains popular for tech pros. Unlike other content sites, Techmeme is growing its audience. For tech news, we'd prefer you use ZDNET, but we know many of you turn to Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, or Ha

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Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live

wired.com Wired Staff 2025-11-08 18:30:00

With original reporting and sharp analysis, WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast covers today’s biggest stories in tech. We demystify companies like Palantir, trends like vibe coding, and figures like Sam Altman; we break down our essential coverage of DOGE and ICE; we guide listeners through breakthrough innovations like generative AI and sweeping policy changes like the Trump administration’s tariffs. On September 9, at 7 pm PDT, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley’s first live show of

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Apple is giving iPhone 14 and 15 users another free year of satellite features

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-08 20:38:46

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users are getting another year of free access to satellite connectivity features, according to a footnote on Apple’s newsroom posts for the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro. “The free trial will be extended for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users who have activated their d

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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-09 05:45:42

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. Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement has been put on pause after the federal judge overseeing the class action case raised concerns about the terms of the agreement. During a hearing this week, Judge William Alsup rejected the settlement over concerns

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Why SpaceX made a $17B bet on the direct-to-cell market

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-09 05:44:20

SpaceX just fired off one of the biggest shots yet in the spectrum wars, agreeing to pay $17 billion to take over a massive chunk of wireless airwaves from EchoStar for Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell services. The deal is the most aggressive signal yet that SpaceX wants to rule the satellite-to-phone market. The significance of the sale, which sees SpaceX paying a mix of $8.5 billion in cash and $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, centers around a finite resource: spectrum. Spectrum refers to the range o

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Apple gives iPhone 14 and 15 owners an extra free year of satellite connectivity

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 10:24:34

Tucked away in Apple's iPhone 17 press releases was a bonus for off-grid owners of older models. The company gave iPhone 14 and 15 owners free access to satellite features for another year. This is Apple's third extension since Emergency SOS via satellite launched with the iPhone 14. "The free trial will be extended for iPhone 14 and iPhone 15 users who have activated their device in a country that supports Apple's satellite features prior to 12AM PT on September 9, 2025," the company's copy re

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All of the iPhone 17 models compared

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-09 09:26:24

Aisha is a consumer news reporter at TechCrunch. Prior to joining the publication in 2021, she was a telecom reporter at MobileSyrup. Aisha holds an honours bachelor’s degree from University of Toronto and a master’s degree in journalism from Western University. You can contact or verify outreach from Aisha by emailing [email protected] or via encrypted message at aisha_malik.01 on Signal.

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Nasdaq to invest $50 million in Winklevoss-founded crypto exchange Gemini

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-11-09 15:54:03

Tyler Winklevoss, chief executive officer and co-founder of Gemini Trust Co., left, and Cameron Winklevoss, president and co-founder of Gemini Trust Co., speak during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor ahead of its initial public offering this week, CNBC has confirmed. Nasdaq plans to invest $50 million in the crypto company in a partnership

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Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 20:19:39

At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 officially unveiled: larger display, 5G and satellite connectivity, 42-hour battery

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-10 00:32:44

Apple Watch Ultra 3 is official. Headlining features include a larger and brighter display, 42-hour battery life, and satellite connectivity. Like the new Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3 supports 5G, detection of possible hypertension, sleep score analysis, and new Flow and Exactograph watch faces. Ultra 3 also includes an Ultra-exclusive Waypoint watch face. Satellite connectivity is only offered on the Ultra 3. Emergency SOS is available for free for two years. Messages and Find M

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Windows 11 KB5065426 & KB5065431 cumulative updates released

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:37:21

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5065426 and KB5065431 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. Today's updates are mandatory as they contain the September 2025 Patch Tuesday security patches for vulnerabilities discovered in previous months. You can install today's update by going to Start > Settings > Windows Update and clicking on 'Check for Updates.' Windows Update (KB5065426) You can also manually download and install the update from t

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The Big Ol’ Apple Watch Ultra Will Hit Up Satellites in Case of Emergencies

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-10 00:51:34

The sports-centric Apple Watch Ultra 2 is built to be the kind of smartwatch you wear when diving or racing at top speed downhill. But what should happen when your extreme sport puts you in harm’s way, and you don’t have an easy way to call for help? Finally, with the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple is adding satellite connectivity so you can ask for help when you inevitably careen into danger—helping you avoid putting the “X” in “extreme.” As detailed during Apple’s “Awe Dropping” event on Tuesday,

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Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 11, Watch Ultra 3, and Watch SE 3

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-10 00:40:20

Apple on Tuesday unveiled three new Apple Watch configurations and its annual hardware event: the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch SE 3. Apple Watch Series 11 The Apple Watch Series 11 can alert you to possible hypertension. It uses data from the optical heart sensor and looks for chronic high blood pressure by analyzing how your blood vessels respond to beats of the heart. The algorithm works in the background, reviewing data over 30-day periods and will notify you

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The Next ‘Star Wars’ VR Game Has a New Trailer and Release Date

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-10 05:00:37

It’s time to collect and play with Star Wars toys like never before. ILM and Lucasfilm just announced that Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset will be released on October 7 exclusively for Meta Quest 3 and 3S. It’s a part narrative adventure, part racing playset VR experience that gives you a chance to live a brand new Star Wars story and also race pods like you would in your backyard. Don’t quite get what that means? Here’s the brand-new, full trailer, which makes it much clear

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Judge in Anthropic AI Piracy Suit Worried Authors May 'Get the Shaft' in $1.5B Settlement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 05:07:16

A federal judge on Monday ordered the court to slow-roll a proposed $1.5 billion settlement to authors whose copyrighted works Anthropic pirated to train its Claude AI models. Judge William Alsup, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, said the deal is "nowhere close to complete," and he will hold off on approving it until more questions are answered. Alsup's concerns seem to be around making sure authors have enough notice to join the suit, according to Bloomberg. In

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Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-10 05:21:02

At a hearing Monday, US district judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company. Instead, critics fear Anthropic will get off cheaply, striking a deal with authors suing that covers less than 500,0

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How External Attack Surface Management helps enterprises manage cyber risk

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-10 09:01:11

Every day, businesses spin up new digital services (websites, APIs, and cloud instances) and it can be for security teams to keep track. Somewhere in that churn, an unmonitored subdomain or misconfigured bucket lurks, waiting for an opportunistic attacker to slip in. External Attack Surface Management (EASM) flips the script: instead of reacting to breaches, you map and monitor every internet‑facing asset continuously. Hidden exposures become visible vulnerabilities you can close before they’re

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There’s Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-10 10:35:42

Stupidity is no longer limited to human intelligence. A new website has popped up online calling for nominees to crown an AI king of making ridiculously dumb mistakes in 2025. The new AI Darwin Awards carry on the tradition of the original Darwin Awards, which honor people who remove themselves from the gene pool in spectacularly idiotic ways. Think of the story of Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy, who in 1993 tried to prove the windows at the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable by hurling himse

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Slow Roku TV? This 30-second routine will keep your device running like new

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-10 15:26:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Can you believe that the first Roku device launched 17 years ago? It was initially developed in partnership with Netflix to stream its "Watch Instantly" service. Since then, the company has released numerous generations of streaming players and its very own Roku TVs -- which means you might own one of these older devices. What is a cache? Just like your computer or smartphone, your Roku TV also stores temporary data (the

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Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 20:04:02

One of the most prominent pioneers of artificial intelligence has some grim predictions about what the technology he created is soon going to unleash onto humankind. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work on neural networks earned him the title of "Godfather of AI," suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that tech CEOs who preach positive outcomes for the future of AI are deluding themselves and others. "What’s actually going to happen is rich people are goin

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7 most Windows-like Linux distros - if you're ready to ditch Microsoft

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-11 00:37:00

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you're migrating from Windows, try one of these distributions. Each of these is user-friendly and free. Most of these are either Ubuntu-based or independent. Windows 10's end of life is coming in 2025, and that means you have to hope your machine can run Windows 11, buy a new computer, or try something different -- like Linux. Linux shouldn't be considered a last-choic

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Anscombe's Quartet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 16:29:36

Four data sets with the same descriptive statistics, yet very different distributions The four datasets composing Anscombe's quartet. All four sets have identical statistical parameters, but the graphs show them to be considerably different Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics, yet have very different distributions and appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x, y) points. They were constructed in 1973 b

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Finally, a Windows desktop I can confidently put away my iMac for

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-11 09:00:18

Lenovo Legion T5 gaming desktop ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Legion Tower 5 is available now for $1,880. This desktop excels at a wide range of tasks, from gaming to 3D image rendering and graphic design. However, because of the PC's squat design, some users may have difficulty finding a comfortable place for it. View now at Best Buy View now at Lenovo more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Building a gaming PC can be difficult if you're new to the hobb

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Ask HN: Good resources for DIY-ish animatronic kits for Halloween?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 03:57:18

Does anyone know of good resources to make your own animatronic Halloween displays? I'm a software engineer, and not skilled in hardware per se. I would love to make some things together with my kids. For reference, they are 8, 10, 12 and VERY smart and they use Ubuntu as their desktop computers and can use flatpak from the command line. Not that I am bragging.... And, I would love to NOT spent $400 on just a single ridiculous junky thing from Lowes, and do that for multiple things. My budget

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Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-11 11:08:44

While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study reveals an unexpected result: Neurodiverse employees may be benefiting far more from chatbots than their neurotypical colleagues. The UK's Department for Business and Trade recently released evaluation results from its Microsoft 365 Copilot trial showing that while overall satisfaction was 72 percent, neurodiverse employees reported statistically higher satisfaction (at a 90 percent confidence level) and w

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It’s time to change your Plex password again

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-11-11 12:44:04

Dear Plex User, We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, and securely hashed passw

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Judge rejects Anthropic's record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement for AI copyright lawsuit

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 14:35:12

Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced "down the throat of authors." Alsup reportedly felt misled by the deal and said it was "nowhere close to complete." In his order, he said he was "disappointed that counsel have left important questions to be answered in the future," including t

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Seedship – Text-Based Game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:34:18

<<widget damageSystem>> \t/* Silently apply damage to a system */ \t/* args[0] should be the name of the system */ \t/* args[1] should be the amount of damage */ \t<<switch $args[0]>> \t\t<<case "atmosphere scanner">> \t\t\t<<set $scanner_atmosphere -= Math.min($args[1],$scanner_atmosphere)>> \t\t\t<<set $new_integrity = $scanner_atmosphere>> \t\t<<case "gravity scanner">> \t\t\t<<set $scanner_gravity -= Math.min($args[1],$scanner_gravity)>> \t\t\t<<set $new_integrity = $scanner_gravit

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Plex Security Incident

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 20:11:31

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