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Looking for an External Hard Drive? This Seagate 24TB Is Just $0.01/GB for Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-25 12:35:25

Among the vicious competition in the market for external hard drives, four of the largest players – Seagate, WD, SanDisk, and Samsung – are in a constant fight for your attention. Seagate just came today with an incredible 24TB external hard drive on sale at a new record low price: Selling for just $259 (down from $329), Seagate’s Expansion 24TB HDD set a new record low price per gigabyte of about $0.01, which lower than all other drives (including ones with smaller capacities). See at Amazon

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Exploring the Complexity of Distributed Consensus Algorithms in Blockchain

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-02-25 16:00:45

Consensus in blockchain isn’t just a technical problem—it’s an intellectual minefield. You’ve got decentralized nodes spread across the globe, each operating under different assumptions, with varying latencies, incentives, and potential motivations, and yet they’re all expected to come to the same conclusion about the state of a distributed ledger. No central authority, no fallback mechanisms, no easy resets. Just code, cryptography, and coordination dancing on the edge of chaos. It’s beautiful

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Increasingly Paranoid OpenAI Has Installed Fingerprint Scanners and Airgapped Systems to Prevent Secrets Escaping

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-25 16:08:23

As the United States embroils itself in a self-inflicted "arms race" with China, tech companies are ratcheting up the paranoia to extreme levels. Take ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, which is reportedly clamping down hard on physical security after it says it was "targeted" by Chinese AI rivals. Per the Financial Times, the company has gone as far as installing fingerprint "biometric access controls" around its offices, as well as electronically-dependent security airlocks, similar to the kind found

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You’ll Regret It If You Already Have One: Kindle Paperwhite Hits a New Record Low This Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2026-02-26 14:35:44

Every summer season, Kindle sales are the highest because people organize vacations and do not want to lug around stacks of books. The Kindle is the perfect travel companion: it occupies virtually no space, is as close to reading a real book as can be, and can hold thousands of books. For Prime Day, Amazon is providing Prime members with an unbeatable value on the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (32GB), now priced at a new all-time low. It is currently marked down to $149, which is a massiv

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Scientists Discover Secret Weapon That Allows Pythons to Digest Bones

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-26 15:00:40

Pythons are notorious for their eating habits. After suffocating their prey with their lithe bodies, these large snakes swallow the animal whole. Now, researchers have shed new light on the cellular mechanisms that allow them to digest entire skeletons. The study, presented July 9 at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Belgium and published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, investigated the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons. Adult males can grow to be 10 to 16 feet

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Southeast Asia needn't take sides in U.S.-China tech rivalry. It can learn from both, experts say

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-02-26 16:33:30

A visitor watches an AI sign on an animated screen at the Mobile World Congress, the telecom industry's biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona. Josep Lago | Afp | Getty Images As China and the U.S. compete in artificial intelligence, Southeast Asia should draw from the best of both countries while building its own technologies, panelists said at CNBC's East Tech West 2025 conference on June 27 in Bangkok, Thailand. Julian Gorman, head of Asia-Pacific at mobile network trade organization GSMA, s

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At the frontier between two lives–the evolutionary origins of pregnancy

news.ycombinator.com University Of Vienna 2026-02-23 17:17:47

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Single-cell transcriptomic atlases of six mammalian species spanning the diversification of viviparity. Credit: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02748-x An international research team led by scientists from the University of Vienna has uncovered new insights into how specialized cell types

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The Hidden Cost of OpenAI’s Genius

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-02-26 14:55:27

OpenAI is the undisputed poster child of the AI revolution, the company that forced the world to pay attention with the launch of ChatGPT. But behind the scenes, a desperate and wildly expensive battle is raging, and the cost of keeping the company’s geniuses in-house is becoming astronomical. According to a recent report from The Information, OpenAI revealed to investors that its stock-based compensation for employees surged more than fivefold last year to an astonishing $4.4 billion. That fig

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, July 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 15:09:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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MCP isn’t KYC-ready: Why regulated sectors are wary of open agent exchanges

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-02-26 17:33:17

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now For something launched in November, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has begun amassing a large number of users, all but guaranteeing the mass adoption needed to make it an industry standard. But there is a subset of enterprises that are not joining the hype for now: regulated industries, especially financial institutions. Banks and other

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Two charged in $650 million global crypto scam that promised 300% returns

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-02-26 22:30:25

A U.S. Justice Department logo or seal showing Justice Department headquarters, known as "Main Justice," is seen behind the podium in the Department's headquarters briefing room before a news conference with the Attorney General in Washington, January 24, 2023. Federal prosecutors have charged two men in connection with a sprawling cryptocurrency investment scheme that defrauded victims out of more than $650 million. The indictment, unsealed in the District of Puerto Rico, accuses Michael Shan

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Context is a native macOS app that was almost entirely written by AI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-26 22:03:40

Like many image and video AI tools, which have (mostly) stopped creating people with six fingers, AI coding tools have also been making great strides. Case in point: developer Indragie Karunaratne just shipped Context, a native macOS app that was 95% built by Anthropic’s Claude Code. Anthropic has been standing out in AI-assisted development For the better part of the last year, Anthropic has pulled away from the pack when it comes to how good its Claude models are at generating code (to be fa

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 9, #1481

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 20:00:06

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta

wired.com Will Knight 2026-02-26 22:00:00

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. The news came via an internal Slack message sent by OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on Tuesday. Lau is joined by Uday Ruddarraju, the former head of infrastructure engineering at xAI and X, Mike Dalton, an infrastructure engineer from xAI, and Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta. Both Dalton and Rudda

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OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-27 08:20:01

Since OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world two and a half years ago, the company has operated at a substantial financial loss. Despite raising at least $60.9 billion in private funding since ChatGPT's public launch, OpenAI is leaking billions of dollars every year. In 2024, for example, the tech startup lost some $5 billion, per MSNBC. That doesn't seem to bother OpenAI insiders, though, who hope to be bringing in $125 billion in annual revenue by 2029. The gulf between OpenAI's ambitions and

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Inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body

news.ycombinator.com Aurélien Crida 2026-02-23 18:12:01

Gravitational systems in astrophysics often comprise a body – the primary – that far outweights the others, and which is taken as the centre of the reference frame. A fictitious acceleration, also known as the indirect term, must therefore be added to all other bodies in the system to compensate for the absence of motion of the primary. In this Research Note, we first stress that there is not one indirect term but as many indirect terms as there are bodies in the system that exert a gravitationa

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Best Robot Vacuums We've Tested (July 2025)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 06:17:00

Each robot vacuum we consider for recommendation gets put through its paces in our test lab in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to test floors where we run our controlled pickup tests, we monitor each robot vacuum in a special test room filled with mock furniture to gauge how well it navigates around common obstacles. Past that, we check each robot vacuum's ability to gobble up pet hair without getting clogged or leaving loose strands behind, we consider mopping capabilities, and we check to se

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Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion

news.ycombinator.com Iida 2026-02-23 15:18:39

Plant materials and growth conditions Col-0 was used as the wild type unless stated otherwise. ein2-1, etr1-3, ate1-2;ate2-1, prt6-5, proWOX4-erYFP, proPXY:GUS, proPXY:erVenus and 35S:EIN3-GFP have been described previously10,13,27,37,38,39,40. ate1-2;ate2-1 mutants were reciprocally backcrossed into Col-0 for three generations and transfer DNA insertions were confirmed by genotyping to obtain double-homozygous mutants. Seeds were sown on half-strength MS (Duchefa) plates supplemented with 0.0

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TSA Will Reportedly Let You Keep Your Shoes on at Security Checks

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-02-27 12:10:40

In an age of seemingly endless bad news, there appears to be one positive development to report: you won’t have to take your shoes off at airports anymore. The New York Times reports that the Transportation Security Administration has nixed the rule that requires passengers to remove their shoes while heading through security. The development was first announced by Gate Access, a newsletter that is written by a former TSA officer. The Times says a “source familiar with the matter who spoke on c

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You Can Now Play ‘The Last of Us Part II’ in Chronological Order

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-02-27 12:00:43

The video Game publisher Naughty Dog released a free update to The Last of Us Part II today that adds a new chronological story mode. The mode effectively replaces the game’s nonlinear structure that bounced players between two separate characters. Otherwise, the update keeps the gameplay the same. Game owners will get the new mode automatically as part of the latest patch download. In the original version of The Last of Us Part II, players switch between dual protagonists Ellie and Abby, whos

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McDonald's Long-Awaited Chicken Snack Wraps Finally Land This Thursday

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 16:16:00

The clock is ticking -- or maybe it's chicking. McDonald's Snack Wraps, a chicken-tortilla entree that's been missing from US locations of the Golden Arches, returns to the huge fast-food chain on July 10. A recent analysis by VegasInsider.com found that the Snack Wrap was by far the most searched for discontinued McDonald's menu item of 2025. Snack Wrap fever McDonald's Snack Wraps first came out in 2006, and were meant to be a chicken item that would appeal to drive-thru customers. There are

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Check Out the Coolest Space Photos of 2025: Pink Clouds and Hot Blue Stars

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-27 16:48:00

There's always something happening in space, and humanity is documenting it more quickly and clearly than ever before. Orbiting telescopes, astronauts and spacecraft are sending back a stream of photos that show off the diversity and wonder of the universe. Here are some of the best space photos of the year, so far. Los Angeles wildfires Enlarge Image ESA's Sentinel-2 satellite spotted smoke from the Palisades Fire shortly after it started on Jan. 7. NASA Earth Observatory/Wanmei Liang/ESA/Cop

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Gmail’s new subscription management is here to declutter your inbox

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-27 17:22:51

With decades of online life behind us, many people are using years-old email addresses. Those inboxes are probably packed with subscriptions you've picked up over the years, and you probably don't need all of them. Gmail is going to make it easier to manage them with a new feature rolling out on mobile and web. Google's existing unsubscribe prompts are evolving into a one-stop shop for all your subscription management needs, a feature that has been in the works for a weirdly long time. The pitc

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Someone Is Calling Trump Officials Using an AI Clone of Marco Rubio’s Voice

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-27 22:35:25

Government employees keep getting calls from Secretary of State Marco Rubio—which would be bad enough, frankly, having to talk to that guy. But making matters worse, it seems that it’s not actually Marco Rubio but instead, an unidentified caller who is mimicking his voice with artificial intelligence software, according to a report from the Washington Post. The technologically advanced crank caller has reportedly contacted at least three foreign ministers, a governor, and a member of Congress,

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You May Want to Buy a Nintendo Switch 2 Before Tariffs Drive Up the Price

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-02-27 22:41:34

Nintendo’s Switch 2 may have avoided a tariff-related disaster at launch, but today is a new day full of fresh economic horrors, and that means (unfortunately for everyone) potentially new and more draconian U.S. tariffs. In letters to 14 countries sent on Tuesday, President Donald Trump threatened to drastically hike tariffs by as much as 40% by the end of the month, which, for the record, marks a several-week extension of prior tariffs that were set to take effect on July 9. Among those countr

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Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-02-27 22:41:00

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new Gmail feature that is designed to help users easily manage their subscriptions and declutter their inboxes. The new “Manage subscriptions” tool is rolling out on the web, Android, and iOS in select countries. With the new feature, users can view and manage their subscription emails in one place and quickly unsubscribe from the ones they no longer want to receive. Users can view their active subscriptions, organized by the most frequent send

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I can't believe they found another way to make me replay The Last of Us Part II

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 03:45:13

Somehow, Naughty Dog has found yet another way to get me to play The Last of Us Part II again. The developer just released a rather unexpected update to the remastered version of the game for PS5 and PC: you can now play the game in chronological order. Part II was infamous for the its big perspective shift from Ellie to Abby, but now players can go through their adventures side-by-side as they progress. Naturally, Naughty Dog notes that the non-linear structure is crucial to the way it envisio

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The most immersive gaming speaker system I've ever tested is $230 off for Prime Day

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2026-02-28 03:34:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The SteelSeries Arena 9 features a full-fledged 5.1 surround sound system, including subwoofers for added bass. It allows you to connect three devices simultaneously via Bluetooth, USB, and optical cable. While it offers robust EQ customization via the OLED dial and Sonar desktop app, the OLED dial doesn't give you as much control as the Sonar app for non-PC devices. $548.99 at Amazon $679.99 at Lenovo $609.99 at Best Buy more buying choices The SteelSeries Arena 9 syste

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Popular UV Manicure Lamps Might Be Frying Your Skin at the Molecular Level

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-28 03:20:56

UV LED nail lamps are very trendy right now, allowing people to quickly wrap up their manicures at the salon or in the comfort of their own home. But it now appears that these products can come at a potentially serious cost. Scientists in Argentina led the study, which examined how the UV dose emitted by a modern manicure lamp affected common skin molecules. They found that just a few minutes of exposure altered these molecules in ways that could be harmful to skin. Though the long-term health

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An Unknown Entity Has Voice Cloned the Secretary of State and Is Calling High Level Officials

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-28 05:44:27

In a perfect example of why it's an absolutely terrible idea for high-level government officials to use personal cell phones, text messaging platforms, and apps like Signal, secretary of state Marco Rubio has fallen victim to a scammer who's been using AI to clone his voice and writing style. As the Washington Post reports, a July 3 State Department cable revealed that an impostor posing as Rubio had "contacted at least five non-Department individuals, including three foreign ministers, a US go

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Looking for an External Hard Drive? This Seagate 24TB Is Just $0.01/GB for Prime Day

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The most immersive gaming speaker system I've ever tested is $230 off for Prime Day

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