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No, Reed Richards Won’t Lead the Avengers in ‘Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-02 20:45:34

We may not know much about Avengers: Doomsday right now, but we’ve known for months the Fantastic Four will be a core part of it. Now, we know something else about it: Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards isn’t taking of the whichever Avengers team he winds up meeting. Earlier in July, Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman described Reed to Variety as a man who “goes from being a nerdy scientist to the husband and father who’d do anything to protect his family, to the guy who’s leading the

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Frigidaire Mini-Fridges Cause $700,000 in Damage After Smoking, Sparking, Burning, Melting, Overheating, and Catching Fire

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-02 22:35:08

Over 600,000 Frigidaire mini-fridges are being recalled over internal electrical components that have short-circuited and ignited, according to an announcement by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The faulty fridges have cost over $700,000 in property damage thus far, according to a new recall notice. “Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled minifridges and follow the instructions to receive a refund at www.recallrtr.com/minifridge,” CPSC said in a press release. “Consum

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I Asked Crime Experts When Home Break-Ins Usually Happen and the Answers Stunned Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 17:00:00

Modern home security cameras and smart systems are well-equipped to watch over our homes -- I should know, I've spent years testing more models than I can count. The biggest advantage is that they can watch your home when you're not there, like on a summer vacation or asleep at night. But when is your home the most vulnerable? I took a look. It turns out that burglars tend to break into houses or look for vulnerabilities at a few specific times. Knowing when can help you stay safer and pick the

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Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2026-01-02 20:40:16

U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life has confirmed to TechCrunch that hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, financial professionals, and employees during a mid-July data breach. When reached by TechCrunch, Allianz Life spokesperson Brett Weinberg confirmed the breach. “On July 16, 2025, a malicious threat actor gained access to a third-party, cloud-based CRM system used by Allianz Life,” referring to a customer relationship management (CRM) database containing

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An Even Scarier Predator Hunted Giant ‘Terror Birds’ in South America

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-02 22:00:44

Sometime between 16 and 11.6 million years ago, a young caiman came upon a tasty snack in modern-day South America. The meal, however, turned out to be rather ambitious, because the croc hadn’t come upon just any old prey. It was a phorusrhacid, a large carnivore in its own right, aptly known as a “terror bird.” The now-extinct terror bird wouldn’t have given in without a fight—unless, of course, it was already dead, and the opportunistic croc simply scavenged its dead body. That doesn’t seem t

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers, You Have Only a Few Days Left Before Interest Restarts. Should You Move to IBR?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-02 18:30:03

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, you have about a week left to switch repayment plans before interest will begin accruing on your loans. But although interest payments will kick in, the change doesn't mean you have to switch repayment plans yet. Earlier this month, the Department of Education announced that on Aug. 1 interest would resume for the nearly 8 million bo

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Stackless Traversal (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Marshall Lochbaum 2026-01-02 10:28:51

Enlist (∊) is twice as fast in Dyalog 16.0 as it was in Dyalog 15.0. Pretty much across the board: ∊⍳100 is not going to be any faster, but whenever the argument is a nested array and the simple arrays it contains are reasonably small, there are huge performance improvements. How did we achieve the huge speedup? Constraints The usual way for a C programmer to write the traversal used in Enlist would be a simple recursive function: If the current array is simple, handle it, and if it is nested,

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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-02 17:43:44

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to help developers code, debug, create documentation, and set up custom configurations. It is available on Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio (VCS) marketplace, where it counts nearly one million installs. As reported by 404 Media, on July 13, a hacker using the alias ‘lkmanka58’ added unapproved code on

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‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Gets an Extended Ending Tonight

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-02 22:15:04

Predator: Killer of Killers ended with a tease of where the franchise could go next, and as it turns out, that’s not the full ending. After Torres and Kenji escape from the Grendel King, we see Yautja cart a cryogenically frozen Ursa away into a collection of prisoners. One of them is is Naru, the protagonist of 2022’s Prey played by Amber Midthunder. During the Predator: Badlands panel for San Diego Comic-Con, the Killers ending was shown, further revealing that Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a

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These Stylish Bluetooth Headphones With Unbelievable Battery Life Are Cheaper Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 02:20:00

Discount available: Marshall's Major V headphones are worth it even at full price but right now they're down to $100 -- or around 38% off -- on Amazon, their all-time lowest price on the site. This covers the black, brown and cream colored versions, but not the midnight blue version for whatever reason. I might not be a true battle-tested headphone expert like CNET's David Carnoy but I still love headphones and I'm confident in what I like about them. My most recent pickup, the Marshall Major V

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Apple may be Intel’s last hope in the foundry business

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-03 08:17:40

In a new research note shared this week, analyst Jeff Pu said that Apple could be among the customers considering Intel’s upcoming 14A process for future M-series chips. Then, came Intel’s Q2 results, and some crucial information about the future of its business. Flat results, tanking stock To say that Intel has been going through a years-long rough patch would be an understatement. Just today, their stock tumbled 8.5% after a weak Q2 report, the first full quarter under the helm of their new

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Perplexity for Mac now supports MCP, and you should check it out

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-03 12:10:48

The Perplexity app for macOS lets you trigger a keyboard shortcut to instantly bring up the prompt field for a search. And now, it’s getting even more useful thanks to the addition of MCP support. Here’s what that means, and why you should look into it. What’s MCP again? MCP, or Model Context Protocol, was proposed by Anthropic and is quickly becoming the industry’s standard interface between AI systems and traditional platforms. In a nutshell, it wants to be the AI equivalent of what HTTP is

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‘Invincible Vs.’ Will Occupy Its Own Unique Corner of the ‘Invincible’ Universe

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-03 12:30:35

After turning The Walking Dead into a multimedia empire, Robert Kirkman has been hard at work doing the same for Invincible. First there were, of course, the comics. Then the awesome Prime Video animated show. There have long been talks of a potential live-action movie. And, next year, the franchise’s first full-fledged video game is coming, called Invincible Vs. And while little is known about the game, set for release in 2026, Kirkman spoke to press about it at San Diego Comic-Con. What we pr

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 26 #510

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 11:00:05

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle features some pretty long answers, and they didn't all come immediately to mind, even when I learned the theme. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 26, #776

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 11:00:07

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Are you traveling this summer? Today's NYT Connections puzzle has two travel-related categories, blue and purple. The purple one requires you to think about places you might travel to, while the blue one is more about how you get around. Need help? Read on for clues and to

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 26, #306

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 11:00:12

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition includes some Olympics-connected sports. The yellow and green categories should be simple, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign t

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Apple Adds 13, 16 and 18 Plus Age Ratings to Apps and Games: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 11:07:00

In an effort to help parents decide which apps they should download or avoid for their kids on iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, Apple TVs and the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has added three new age ratings: 13 plus, 16 plus and 18 plus. To make things a little clearer, Apple removed the 12- and 17-plus ratings (but kept the 4- and 9-plus ratings). Apple said the new age ratings will be present on any Apple device running iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26 and watchOS 26

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Forming Standards for a Better Future Working Together

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2026-01-03 11:00:39

An interview with Yonghong Tian, recipient of the 2025 Hans Karlsson Standards Award Yonghong Tian stands as a global authority in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia systems. Formerly serving as the Dean of the School of Electronics and Computer Engineering, now Vice-Dean of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and Dean of the new School of Science and Intelligence, and a Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, China, Professor Tian has made groundbreaking co

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Google Maps crashes keeping you from planning a route home? You’re far from alone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-03 17:21:22

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is crashing for some users when attempting to get transit directions. Other transportation methods do not appear to be affected. Not everyone on the same version of the app is experiencing the problem, though, and we’ve reached out to Google for more information. Modern navigation software is superior to paper maps for more reasons than we can count, and one great example is how well they can integrate with mass transit systems. Instead of dr

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Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-03 17:26:44

In December 2010, a study led by a NASA astrobiology fellow claimed to have found an alien-like microbe in a salty, alkaline lake in California. This extraordinary bacterium could reportedly thrive using the toxic element arsenic in place of phosphorus—otherwise thought essential for life on Earth. It even incorporated arsenic, instead of phosphorus, into the backbone of its DNA, according to the study, which was published online by the prestigious journal Science. If true, the claims were grou

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Tea app suffers breach, exposing thousands of user images

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-03 22:07:31

Tea, an app that claims to help women "make sure your date is safe, not a catfish and not in a relationship," is experiencing a security breach. 404 Media reports that a database posted on 4chan allowed anyone to access users' data. (It's since been removed.) The dataset included thousands of images, including driver's licenses. 4chan users claimed the data came from an exposed database hosted on Firebase, Google's app development platform. 404 Media verified that the exposed storage bucket URL

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Apple Adds 13, 16 and 18 Plus Age Ratings to Its Apps and Games: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-03 20:43:00

In an effort to help parents decide which apps they should download or avoid for their kids on iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, Apple TVs and the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has added three new age ratings: 13 plus, 16 plus and 18 plus. To make things a little clearer, Apple removed the 12- and 17-plus ratings (but kept the 4- and 9-plus ratings). Apple said the new age ratings will be present on any Apple device running iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26 and watchOS 26

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VSCO launches dedicated 'Capture' app with live previews

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-04 03:40:05

VSCO, the photo filter and editing app that spawned an entire culture , has released a dedicated camera app called VSCO Capture. The free iOS‑only app is a camera with live previews where users can choose from over 50 different presets with real‑time film effects and manual settings like shutter speed and exposure for fine‑tuning. The app takes the guesswork out of how your photo will look after you apply VSCO's iconic filters. “VSCO Capture is a direct response to our community’s desire to get

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Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data

news.ycombinator.com Price Per Token 2026-01-03 20:39:41

All pricing information comes from official provider sources: Disclaimer: Providers don't all count tokens in the same way, but generally a token is equivalent to 3-4 characters. Please refer to each provider's documentation for their specific tokenization methods.

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Animated Cursors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:59:25

Tattoy now supports animated cursors. It uses the same format as Ghostty, therefore rendering the cursor using custom shaders. Here are some popular Ghostty cursors, that you can use out-of-the-box with Tattoy. Even though Tattoy supports Ghostty cursors its rendering is quite different. Ghostty renders the cursor using actual pixels whereas Tattoy renders using UTF8 text-based "pixels", namely "▀" and "▄". This means that Tattoy cursors sometimes miss out on the subtleties of Ghostty cursors,

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Elden Ring: Nightreign's Duo Mode Is Coming to Save You From Matchmaking Hell

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 00:47:00

Elden Ring: Nightreign, from developer FromSoftware, at first seemed like a gimmicky spinoff of its 2022 hit Elden Ring. Since then, it's proven to be a popular game that was the best-selling title in June, and in a few days, it's going to get one of its most requested features. In Nightreign, you can play solo or in a team of three. On July 30, the option for Duo Expeditions will be available, letting players take on runs with a friend. Players have been requesting a two-player mode since Nig

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Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-04 03:13:52

One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers' personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban what they consider predatory surveillance pricing. In a press release, Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The law directly bans companies from using "surveillance-based" price or wage set

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Anker is no longer selling 3D printers

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2026-01-04 03:34:17

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In March, charging giant Anker announced it would spin out its 3D printer business into an “independent sub-brand,” stating that the new EufyMake would “continue to provide comprehensive customer service and support” for its original 3D printers the AnkerMake M5 and M5C. Now, the 3D printing community is wondering whether that was all a eu

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Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

news.ycombinator.com Jul 2026-01-04 11:36:52

Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media. In a statement to 404 Media, Tea confirmed the breach also impacted some direct messages but said that the data is fr

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Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 12:02:23

Very nice I'm a minimalist by nature and typically keep both my menu bar and Dock hidden. That said, I still like having the clock visible at all times. I've tried various widgets in the past to solve this, but none really did the trick—until now. This app nails it. I can still see the clock and date exactly where I want them, and when I move the cursor to the menu bar, the app tucks neatly underneath, just as it should. The customization options are also thoughtfully designed. Bravo!

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Forming Standards for a Better Future Working Together

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Delta’s AI spying to “jack up” prices must be banned, lawmakers say

Anker is no longer selling 3D printers

Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan

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