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Android 15 is bricking some Fairphone 5 devices, and here’s how you can avoid it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:40:26

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR The Android 15 update is causing some Fairphone 5 phones to become bricked, but only if the fingerprint sensor is broken. A Fairphone rep confirmed stricter hardware checks in Android 15 are to blame. A fix is in the works, but for now, users with faulty sensors should avoid the update. For phone geeks like us, an OS update is usually exciting, but it doesn’t always go smoothly. Multiple reports suggest that the Android 15 update is causing some Fairpho

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OpenAI could rival Google Shopping with ChatGPT Shop

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:25:28

AI companies like OpenAI and Perplexity like to be the "everything company," and OpenAI's latest ChatGPT feature, "Shopping," makes that obvious. Financial Times recently reported that ChatGPT is testing a new shopping feature where you could buy products directly from the app. When ChatGPT 'converts' sales for merchants, OpenAI gets a percentage of the revenue. This is similar to the existing affiliate program for publishers. FT reports that OpenAI could partner with Shopify to integrate th

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OpenAI prepares GPT-5 for roll out

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-04 02:43:15

OpenAI's ChatGPT-5 could drop in the coming days, and it could be one of the best models from the Microsoft-backed startup. As The Verge's Tom Warren first reported, GPT-5 is being prepared for an August release. GPT-5 is believed to be the "unified" model, which means it combines the breakthroughs from the reasoning and multi-modal models, such as o3 and 4o respectively. ChatGPT currently has too many capable models for different tasks. While the models are powerful, it can be confusing beca

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The First ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Trailer Is a Huge Level Up for Pandora

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-04 02:09:15

Give James Cameron three years to tinker with the same world, and everything is going to get bigger and better. That’s the main takeaway in this first trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in Cameron’s mega-blockbuster sci-fi series. Everything in this trailer takes what we expect from Avatar and brings it up a notch. The action is bigger. The sets are more elaborate. The characters are more emotional. And, if we’ve come to learn anything from Cameron and this franchise, it’s sure to

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The first dual-screen Android gaming clamshell was just announced, and it looks incredible

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 06:14:15

AYANEO TL;DR AYANEO announced the Pocket DS, an upcoming dual-screened Android gaming handheld. The first of its kind, it features two enormous screens and inset sticks. The company also teased a new Game Boy-like vertical handheld, and several Windows devices. The Pocket DS will have a full announcement event tomorrow. AYANEO has been absolutely crushing it this year, with tons of premium releases and unique form-factors added to its catalog of retro gaming handhelds. The Flip 1S DS was an

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DOGE is reportedly pushing an AI tool that would put half of all federal regulations on a 'delete list'

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-02 05:20:54

According to a report from The Washington Post, DOGE is using an AI tool to analyze federal regulations and determine which to get rid of. A DOGE PowerPoint presentation obtained by the publication notes that its "AI Solution" — reportedly called the DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool — found that 100,000 out of over 200,000 regulations "can be deleted." The document sets a September 1 goal deadline for agencies to complete their own deregulation lists using the tool, which it says can be done i

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Why this SSD docking station is one of the best investments I've made for my PC

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-04 06:03:00

Sabrent USB SSD Docking Station ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $72. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn't get in the way of performance. View now at Amazon At Amazon, the Sabrent USB SSD docking station is currently on sale for $72, a savings of $18. It seems I'm always running out of room on my iMac drives. Why

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I compared the best smartwatches from Samsung, Google, and Apple - here's how Galaxy Watch 8 wins

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-04 06:16:00

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 is available for purchase now at a starting price of $349. It's a capable smartwatch with all the usual health metrics, along with Samsung's Running Coach, bedtime guidance, and recovery insights. Some features feel more experimental than scientific, like Antioxidant Index and BMI, which failed to work several times. View now at Samsung Samsung's latest smartwatches have arrived. The Galaxy Watch 8 lineup, which includes bo

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Getting the KIM-1 to talk to my Mac

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 17:12:19

It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down t...

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Viral Language

news.ycombinator.com Jan 2026-01-01 09:07:28

Viral Language Helena Aeberli looks for rizz in Adam Aleksic’s “Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.” By Helena Aeberli July 20, 2025 Cultural Studies Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language by Adam Aleksic . Knopf , 2025. 256 pages. LANGUAGE IS A MEANS of communication and a container of meaning. It enables us to come together to share intentions and coordinate actions, to form relationships and communities, to distinguish between in-g

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Here's How to Safely Factory Reset Your PS5 or PS4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 05:00:26

The PS5 might still feel new, but it actually launched back in 2020, which means it's already well into its life cycle. If you're not gaming as much or eyeing another console, it may be time to let it go. Whether you're giving it to a friend or hoping to make some cash by selling it, don't forget one crucial step before handing it over-erasing your personal data. Luckily, factory resetting your PS5 or PS4 is straightforward. This step protects your information, removes linked accounts, and ensu

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Internet and TV Bundle Prices Are Rising. Here's How to Trim Your Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-04 05:30:00

You're not alone if you've noticed your TV and internet bills going up recently. Internet and TV bundles increased for the first quarter of 2025, recent J.D. Power data shows. Surprisingly, unbundled internet bills saw a slight decrease. Finding ways to cut back on monthly bills can feel nearly impossible, especially when there's a price increase every few months. But it's possible. Here's more on J.D. Power's findings and what CNET experts recommend to help lower your TV and internet bills. T

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ChatGPT can be a disaster for lawyers — Robin AI says it can fix that

theverge.com Jon Fortt 2026-01-04 06:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Jon Fortt — CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. This is the last episode I’ll be guest-hosting for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. We have an exciting crew who will take over for me after that, so stay tuned. Today, I’m talking with Richard Robinson, who is the cofounder and CEO of Robin AI. Richard has a fascinating resume: he was a corporate lawyer for high-profile firms in Lo

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Roku streaming sticks are up to 37 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-04 11:50:13

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . They can be powered via USB and feature an easy-to-use interface. Roku’s latest streaming sticks are both on sale with steep discounts. The Roku Streaming Stick Plus , which supports 4K and HDR10+, is on sale for $29, a discount of 27 percent. If your television only supports HD, pick

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My 5 favorite Linux distros for home office desktops - and I've tried them all

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-04 11:26:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I've worked from home for over a decade. Without Linux as my primary operating system, I'm not sure how I would be able to do the things I do with the level of simplicity and reliability that I've achieved with the open-source OS. Linux makes a lot of things possible for me that Windows and MacOS cannot handle. Also: The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed But which distributions would I recommend for people who want an oper

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Heaven Help Us, the ‘Crossed’ Movie Is Really Happening

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2026-01-04 11:00:41

Chris Sheridan talks Resident Alien‘s cancellation. Hayden Christensen is still filming the second season of Ahsoka. And could Leatherface survive his own love interest in the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Future events such as these will affect you in the future. Morning Spoilers, ho! Crossed THR reports Devin Druid and Ash Santos will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Garth Ennis’s Crossed as Stan and Cindy, “the leaders of a group of strangers thrown together as they attempt to escape

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The Best Smart Rings, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2026-01-04 11:30:00

Honorable Mentions We have tested several other entrants to this nascent category, some good, some bad, and some in between. Here is the lowdown on some of your smart ring alternatives. Photograph: Adrienne So; Getty Images Movano Evie Ring for $269: When it first came out, the Movano Evie Ring (4/10, WIRED Review) was touted as the world's first fitness tracker designed specifically for women. I was very excited! It was recently updated to integrate with Apple Health (in the iOS version of t

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Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-04 11:30:37

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. Temu users in the European Union are at “high risk” of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or “non-c

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What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

news.ycombinator.com Emil Rosendahl 2026-01-04 10:27:17

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

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Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-04 15:00:45

Agrawal was in the room, too. "I was on the crew that needed to count the pieces," he told Ars. "I didn’t know the significance of what was happening until after many years, but the Chinese had clearly changed the nature of the space environment." The 2007 anti-satellite test also clearly changed the trajectory of Agrawal's career. We present part of our discussion with Agrawal below, and we'll share the rest of the conversation tomorrow. The text has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity

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Best Whitening Toothpaste of 2025, According to Dentists

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 00:28:00

Why we like it: Colgate Optic White Pro Series toothpaste is one whitening toothpaste that Dr. Fatima Khan, a dentist in Houston, Texas, recommends. Some of her reasons for recommending it include its trusted brand name and its 5% hydrogen peroxide whitening agent. Unlike other whitening agents that work by removing stains on the surface of the tooth, hydrogen peroxide can get inside the tooth so it whitens intrinsically as well as intrinsically. Sachar also recommends this toothpaste, saying,

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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

wired.com Samuel Arbesman 2026-01-05 03:00:00

Perl was once everywhere. Or at least it felt that way. Around the turn of the millennium, it seemed that almost every website was built on the back of this scripting language. It processed massive amounts of text—mechanisms for doing this powerfully and easily were part of the language—and it was even used in bioinformatics, munging and churning through genetic data. Based on one list, the companies that used Perl ranged widely: Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Deutsche Bank, Akamai, Citibank, Comcast, M

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Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-04 18:16:50

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity 9 hours ago Share Save James Clayton, Anna Foster and Ben Derico BBC News Share Save EPA Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023. Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert - giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the

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Samsung may be killing bootloader unlocking on all phones with One UI 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-04 22:50:37

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung appears to be disabling bootloader unlocking in One UI 8 on more devices than before. Previously, only US models lacked the OEM Unlock toggle, but the restriction now seems to be spreading to global models as well. A contributor on XDA Developers discovered that Samsung is likely stripping out the necessary code to unlock bootloaders entirely. Samsung might be quietly locking down its phones even more tightly with the One UI 8 update. A new report

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I replaced my Apple Watch with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 for a week - and didn't mind it

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-05 04:45:18

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Galaxy Watch 8 is available for purchase now at a starting price of $349. It's a capable smartwatch with all the usual health metrics, along with Samsung's Running Coach, bedtime guidance, and recovery insights. Some features feel more experimental than scientific, like Antioxidant Index and BMI, which failed to work several times. View now at Samsung Samsung's latest smartwatches have arrived. The Galaxy Watch 8 lineup, which includes bo

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Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 05:07:42

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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The Meeting Culture

news.ycombinator.com Emil Rosendahl 2026-01-05 04:27:17

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

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Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 21:46:44

Something felt off. Article continues after advertisement Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex technical paper on an unfamiliar topic, produced by well-respected researchers at the world-renowned Argonne National Laboratory. Sitting at his cluttered desk in the Environmental Defense Fund’s sixth-floor offices in Washington, D.C., overlooking the famous ba

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Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 06:47:24

The Knowledge Project Podcast When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who’d never run anything. By retirement, she’d taken down a president, ended the most violent strike in a generation, and built one of the best-performing companies in American history. Graham had no training, no experience, not even confidence. Just a newspaper bleeding money and a government that expected her to fall in line. Public Release: July 29. Members have access now .

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The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 11:23:31

Become a Jujutsu Master in 1 hour Perhaps you've heard of the JJ VCS, a new VCS replacing git that makes commit discipline and dealing with stacked PRs a breeze. Perhaps you've read the same blog posts I have, about how great jj is and how easy it is to get started. But it wasn't enough for me, and it might not be enough for you. I felt my productivity grind to a halt as I struggled with things that had become second nature after 15 years of using git. Even though I was told it would be easy,

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Latest Tech News

Android 15 is bricking some Fairphone 5 devices, and here’s how you can avoid it

OpenAI could rival Google Shopping with ChatGPT Shop

OpenAI prepares GPT-5 for roll out

The First ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Trailer Is a Huge Level Up for Pandora

The first dual-screen Android gaming clamshell was just announced, and it looks incredible

DOGE is reportedly pushing an AI tool that would put half of all federal regulations on a 'delete list'

Why this SSD docking station is one of the best investments I've made for my PC

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Viral Language

Here's How to Safely Factory Reset Your PS5 or PS4

Internet and TV Bundle Prices Are Rising. Here's How to Trim Your Costs

ChatGPT can be a disaster for lawyers — Robin AI says it can fix that

Roku streaming sticks are up to 37 percent off right now

My 5 favorite Linux distros for home office desktops - and I've tried them all

Heaven Help Us, the ‘Crossed’ Movie Is Really Happening

The Best Smart Rings, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

Best Whitening Toothpaste of 2025, According to Dentists

Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity

Samsung may be killing bootloader unlocking on all phones with One UI 8

I replaced my Apple Watch with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 for a week - and didn't mind it

Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020)

The Meeting Culture

Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels

Katharine Graham: The Washington Post

The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun

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