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Here’s everything new for the Messages app in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-02-18 08:46:25

iOS 26 is the next major iPhone update, packing big updates for Apple Wallet, CarPlay, Apple Music, and a variety of new features for the Messages app too. Here’s what’s coming to your iPhone later this year. iOS 26 upgrades Messages with new design, group chat features, and more Apple’s Messages app is getting a handful of solid upgrades in iOS 26. Messages gains the new ‘Liquid Glass’ redesign that impacts the app, of course. Buttons have been updated, UI elements have a fresh look, and ove

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Apple iOS 26 public beta is live, here's everything you need to know about the new iPhone features and how to use them

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-18 06:59:57

Exciting changes are coming to your iPhone this fall, including a new aesthetic called Liquid Glass. Liquid Glass is a huge new change coming to iOS 26. (Apple) The wait for accessing all the new Apple iOS 26 features is still a couple months away. However, you can now download and install the public beta if you're itching to see what's coming this fall. Prefer more of a guided tour? Check out our preview of the iOS 26 public beta release, which includes the fresh home and lock screen redesign

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Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:18:51

Microsoft has debuted a Copilot Mode for its Edge web browser. When enabled, this experimental feature can search across multiple open browser tabs and analyze the information on each page. An example posted on X by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shows Copilot Mode examining several papers published by the company's researchers and assessing if they make any similar points. Today we’re introducing Copilot Mode in Edge, our first step in reinventing the browser for the AI age. My favorite featur

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Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:19:53

Microsoft is implementing an age verification system on Xbox accounts to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, and in a new blog post announcing the move, the company suggests it'll come to other countries, too. Players in the UK who indicate on their account that they're 18 years or older will now "begin seeing notifications encouraging them to verify their age," Microsoft says. The process is optional for now, and players will be able to enjoy playing Xbox games until "early 2026," when ver

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Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:55:09

The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages exchanged between the app's members. The Tea app is a women-only dating safety platform where members can share reviews about men, with access to the platform only granted after providing a selfie and government ID verification. On Friday, an anonymous user posted on 4chan that Tea used an unsecured F

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This super simple Android Contacts update solves a problem we've all had

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-02-18 08:06:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Google's new Android feature is focused on ensuring you have quick access to your communication history. It's called Contact History, and it's found within the Android Contacts app. The latest upgrade to Contacts now includes a section called "Recent activity" that lists the recent communication history with a contact. If you find an interaction (be it a phone call, text, or other form), you can tap the entry to open the associated app. Also: I changed 12 settings on my An

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Control your computer with your mind? Meta's working on that

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-02-18 08:24:00

Hand gestures on the Project Moohan headset demoed by ZDNET's Kerry Wan at Google I/O. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Since the onset of the command line, the way humans have interacted with their computers has been restricted to a keyboard. Meta's new wristband seeks to change that. Last week, Reality Labs at Meta, the team responsible for developing the company's AR and VR offerings, published a paper in Nature detailing plans for a noninvasive wristband that uses electrical signals from the user's bod

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This $90 network KVM solves one of my biggest server room hassles - and it's travel-friendly

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2026-02-18 08:25:00

GL.iNet Comet KVM ZDNET's key takeaways The GL.iNet Comet KVM lets you replace keyboard, mouse, and monitor with an Ethernet connection It works well, with good performance, a nice web interface, and specialty options for custom needs At $90, it's fairly pricey, especially when adding to a bunch of PCs, but it does the job. View now at Amazon It's always a happy day when I find a new gadget. It's a particularly happy day when that gadget solves an existing problem or (even better) removes a p

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Are AR glasses for swimming legit? This pair I tested helped me 'hack' my workouts

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2026-02-18 08:35:00

Form Smart Swim 2 Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Form Smart Swim 2 Pro is available for $329, with the premium subscription for $119/year or $15/month. The included solution keeps the goggles fog free, and the annual subscription provides extensive training and analysis features. Peripheral visibility is limited, the glasses are rather expensive, and the anti-fog spray needs to be applied before each swim. View now at Formswim I've been exercising since I was a young boy in the 80s, and never

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Shrinkle – Shrink words, find hidden phrase

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 06:02:38

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SQLx – The Rust SQL Toolkit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 00:54:46

SQLx 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit SQLx is an async, pure Rust † SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. † The SQLite driver uses the libsqlite3 C library as SQLite is an embedded database (the only way we could be pure Rust for SQLite is by porting all of SQLite to Rust). †† SQLx uses #![forbid(unsafe_code)] unless the sqlite feature is enabled. The SQLite driver directly invokes the SQLite3 API via libsqlite3-sys , which requires unsafe . Cross-platform. Being native Rust

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Sign in with Google in Chrome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:24:38

Sign in with Google in Chrome July 28, 2025 By Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company Many websites such as Yelp show an annoying “Sign in with Google” banner when you visit. This is what Google calls the One Tap user experience. Fortunately, my web browser extension StopTheMadness Pro hides “Sign in with Google” banners. What you may not realize if you use Safari or Firefox is that the banners are never displayed in Google Chrome! You can see this in macOS Safari by spoofing the Chrome User

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Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

news.ycombinator.com Todd Price 2026-02-18 08:06:03

Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans Photo by Chieko Hara Mechanical engineer Anthony Gunderman holds a prototype of the robotic gripper for picking blackberries. Fresh, frozen and processed berries are a multi-billion-dollar business in America. In Arkansas alone, fresh-market blackberries contribute $24.3 million each year to the state’s economy. But these delicate blackberries sold in clamshells at supermarkets must be picked by hand, and farm labor has been limited in r

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I designed my own fast game streaming video codec

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:01:26

Streaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days. These use cases demand very, very low latency. Every millisecond counts here. We need to: Send controller input from machine A to B over network B renders a frame on the GPU B encodes the frame into a bitstream B sends the result over a network to A A decodes the bitstream A displays image on screen Dopamine is released in target brain Every step in this chain adds latency and we wa

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Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-18 00:57:55

💾🎉 copyparty turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser 👉 Get started! or visit the read-only demo server 👀 running on a nuc in my basement 📷 screenshots: browser // upload // unpost // thumbnails // search // fsearch // zip-DL // md-viewer 🎬 videos: upload // cli-upload // race-the-beam made in Norway 🇳🇴 readme toc quickstart just run copyparty-sfx.py -- that's it! 🎉 enable thumbnails (images/audio/video), media indexing, and audio

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The New PlayStation 5 Fight Stick Is Way Weirder Than It Looks

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2026-02-18 08:01:39

Sony’s new controller for PS5 is unlike any of its other twin-stick, two-handed controllers, and not for all the obvious reasons. Sony’s “Project Defiant” fight stick now has a new name, FlexStrike, and a vague release date—2026. But the more intriguing, and more annoying, aspect of the fight stick is how it will connect to your PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 5 Pro. The FlexStrike features all the face buttons and triggers of a regular DualSense controller along with a single Japanese-type fight

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Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-02-18 08:20:45

Here’s another thing to add to the list of highly unlikely but deeply horrifying injuries you could sustain in the safety of your own home. A recent case report detailed a 50-year-old man who fainted while brushing his teeth and ended up hospitalized as a result. Doctors at The University of Tokyo Hospital described the unusual incident earlier this month in BMJ Case Reports. After fainting, the man’s toothbrush scraped the back of his throat severely enough to trap air inside, raising the risk

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Superhero Movies Have Stopped Obsessing Over Origins

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-18 08:30:37

There’s a repeating theme across 2025’s major superhero movies—Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts, Superman, and Fantastic Four: First Steps. All four have interesting, sometimes conflicting relationships with time and how far along their characters are into their superhero tenures, making these movies simultaneous continuations and introductions. Time has always been a key part of superhero movies, and it used to be that their starting points could be whenever a creative team chose

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Robo-Bunnies Are the Latest Weapon Against Florida’s Invasive Pythons

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-18 08:55:06

Invasive Burmese pythons are a scourge upon South Florida. These massive snakes are one of the region’s most pernicious pests, posing a significant risk to local biodiversity as they chow down on native wildlife. Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida through the exotic pet trade in the 1970s and are now among the state’s top predators. Researchers and conservationists have been working to wrangle the python problem through capture and kill programs but have faced significant challenges. Th

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Premier League Summer Series: Stream West Ham vs. Everton From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-18 06:30:04

The Premier League Summer Series tournament continues on Wednesday with two teams looking to bounce back from opening match defeats as West Ham faces Everton. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Hammers slipped to a 2-1 defeat to Man United at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, with goalkeeper Alphonse Areola at fault for both goals. Despite the disa

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:07:29

Maybe they should change the button to say, "I am a robot"? On Friday, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet's most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare's anti-bot verification—the same checkbox that's supposed to keep automated programs like itself at bay. ChatGPT Agent is a feature that allows OpenAI's AI assistant to control its own web browser, operating within a sandboxed environment with its o

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Blender developers begin work on full-fledged mobile version

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-18 08:17:17

Popular open source 3D modeling tool Blender's social media channels and subreddit have regularly seen people asking for a tablet version for years now. And according to a blog post by Dalai Felinto from the Blender team, the developers of the application have now committed to build just that. "The idea is to bring the full power of Blender to these devices," the blog post explains. "This requires adapting to platform-specific paradigms, but also to offer more task-oriented user interfaces with

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Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

theverge.com Tanya Tianyi Chen 2026-02-18 08:22:15

An app designed to help women spot the “red flags” of men they date has incidentally put its users at risk. 404 Media reported that Tea was hacked by 4chan users last week, resulting in the selfies and driver’s licenses of its mostly women users being posted to 4chan. An independent researcher for 404 Media has since discovered that messages between users discussing infidelity, abortion, and personal phone numbers are also vulnerable to hackers. Tea was founded by software developer Sean Cook,

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Yet another Pixel 6A caught fire

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-02-18 08:23:32

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. Another user has reported their Pixel 6A catching fire — but this time, it appears to have occurred after applying Google’s recent battery performance update that was intended to prevent overheating issues, as spotted by Android Authority. In a post on Reddit, a Pixel 6A user says they awoke to a “horrible smell and a loud noise,” which is when they

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Flexport sells former freight unicorn Convoy’s tech two years after buying it

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-02-18 08:49:23

Two years ago, logistics company Flexport bought the assets of Convoy, a former freight tech unicorn that had closed up shop. Now it’s sold that platform and delivered a “massive return on investment for Flexport.” Flexport announced the sale on Monday to DAT Freight & Analytics, but declined to disclose terms. “Over the past 18 months, we rebuilt and relaunched the [Convoy] platform as a neutral digital freight execution layer that serves brokers, carriers, and shippers across the market,” Fl

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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-02-18 12:50:47

The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling "inferior imitations" of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon , Walmart and eBay . The Trump Organization company, which is owned by Trump, sells a variety of branded merchandise through its website, including a go

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Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-18 11:58:16

Scientists are racing to find potential ways to slow down global warming, going far as to investigate ways to dim the Sun. The concept, known as solar geoengineering, has proven incredibly controversial in the past, with critics arguing that we simply don't know enough about the risks, including the environmental and societal impacts of tinkering with the climate. Proponents don't necessarily disagree, but they say the situation is already so bad that we need to consider drastic action, even if

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Google’s Linux Terminal plays a big part in turning Android into a true desktop OS

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 12:02:23

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has revealed that it’s developing a Linux Terminal app to transform Android into a platform for on-device app development and eventually gaming. The app runs a Debian Linux environment in a virtual machine on select Android devices. Recent Android builds can already run graphical Linux apps, paving the way for Android to become a true desktop computing platform. When Google released a Linux Terminal app earlier this year, it generated a lot of

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The Apple MacBook Air M4 drops to new record-low prices in both sizes!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 12:56:22

Are you looking to get a good laptop? Bang per buck, it is tough to beat the Apple MacBook Air, especially when you can catch one on sale. Well, today we have come across some record-low prices on both the 13-inch and 15-inch models of the Apple MacBook Air M4. Let’s take a look at them! Buy the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air M4 for just $799 ($200 off) Buy the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air M4 for just $999 ($200 off) These offers are both available from Amazon. They are both “limited time deals,” and t

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Pixel Weather’s AI-powered forecasts expand beyond the Pixel 9 series

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-18 12:58:11

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s new Pixel Weather app launched last year with the Pixel 9 series. While Pixel Weather availability has since expanded to other Pixel models, that hasn’t included AI forecasts. Now Pixel 8 and Pixel 8a users with Gemini Nano report that AI forecasts have started working. Almost all of us rely on weather forecasts to help plan our days, and while you’ve got no shortage of weather apps to chose from on Android, Google’s own Pixel Weather has got

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Latest Tech News

Here’s everything new for the Messages app in iOS 26

Apple iOS 26 public beta is live, here's everything you need to know about the new iPhone features and how to use them

Microsoft trials Copilot Mode in Edge

Microsoft plans to bring Xbox age verification to countries outside of the UK

Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats

This super simple Android Contacts update solves a problem we've all had

Control your computer with your mind? Meta's working on that

This $90 network KVM solves one of my biggest server room hassles - and it's travel-friendly

Are AR glasses for swimming legit? This pair I tested helped me 'hack' my workouts

Shrinkle – Shrink words, find hidden phrase

SQLx – The Rust SQL Toolkit

Sign in with Google in Chrome

Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

I designed my own fast game streaming video codec

Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server

The New PlayStation 5 Fight Stick Is Way Weirder Than It Looks

Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

Superhero Movies Have Stopped Obsessing Over Origins

Robo-Bunnies Are the Latest Weapon Against Florida’s Invasive Pythons

Premier League Summer Series: Stream West Ham vs. Everton From Anywhere

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

Blender developers begin work on full-fledged mobile version

Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

Yet another Pixel 6A caught fire

Flexport sells former freight unicorn Convoy’s tech two years after buying it

Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

Scientists Secretly Working on Plan to Test Blocking Sun From Huge Area of Earth

Google’s Linux Terminal plays a big part in turning Android into a true desktop OS

The Apple MacBook Air M4 drops to new record-low prices in both sizes!

Pixel Weather’s AI-powered forecasts expand beyond the Pixel 9 series

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