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Google pulls the Pixel 10’s Daily Hub to ‘enhance its performance’

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-11 03:50:45

If voice translation is halfway between a helpful feature and a gimmick, then Daily Hub leans even further into gimmick territory. It’s a lot like the Now Brief Samsung introduced on its S25 phones, and it’s supposed to act as a quick digest for your day as well as a place to find some inspiration based on your recent activity. It does the first part of that job just fine; it’s maybe a more longwinded version of Google’s At a Glance widget, which gives you a heads up on the weather and upcoming

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Traveling soon? 5 simple ways I thwart phone thieves - and you can too

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-10-10 23:00:17

Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Phone theft is on the rise. There are ways you can protect yourself. We also cover what to do if you're a victim. My wife and I like to travel throughout the year. We sometimes venture to unfamiliar or offbeat places, both in the US and abroad. Naturally, we bring along our smartphones to snap photos and videos, get travel directions, and search for information on local attractions. But our pho

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How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

zdnet.com Ed Bott 2025-10-11 04:30:17

Suchitra Sangsuwan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's Key Takeaways Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article includes step-by-step instructions to turn off OneDrive Backup and reset your local folders. Microsoft is getting more aggressive about tying its flagship productivity products to t

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Contracts for C

news.ycombinator.com Jens Gustedt 2025-10-07 08:36:49

C++ seems to finally converge with their contracts proposal, https://wg21.link/p2900. I decided to give it a try and come up with ideas how such a thing would look for C. This is in early stages, not a full proposal yet, and still would need implementation by some of the major compilers. In particular, the C++ feature is full of sidetracks that I don’t like at all, such as user-defined global handlers and ignorability. But there is a core of ideas, syntax and semantics that I found interesting

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Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-11 02:37:04

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest supply-chain attack ever. The attack, which compromised nearly two dozen packages hosted on the npm repository, came to public notice on Monday in social media posts. Around the same time, Josh Junon, a maintainer or co-maintainer of the affected packages, said he had been “pwned” after falling for an email that claimed his account on the platform w

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It's taken three years to recover from China hack, election watchdog says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-11 06:11:46

It's taken three years to recover from China hack, election watchdog says 48 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images The UK's elections watchdog says it's taken three years and at least a quarter of a million pounds to fully recover from a hack that saw the private details of 40m voters accessed by Chinese cyber spies. Last year, the Electoral Commission was publicly reprimanded for a litany of security failures that allowed hacking group

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Signal lets you back up your chats for free now - plus its first-ever paid feature

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-11 06:36:06

Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Privacy-centric messaging app Signal has a message backup option. The free tier stores up to 45 days of messages. You can pay $1.99 a month if you want to store more than 45 days. Signal is offering its first-ever backup option. In a post Monday, the security-focused messaging app company announced a new feature that lets you back up your messages for free. In the past,

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Get This Item to Make Hollow Knight: Silksong Much Easier

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 10:02:34

Hollow Knight: Silksong received a lot of hype in the lead-up to its release on Thursday. When the long-awaited title finally came out, a flood of players rushed to download it, but it appears some caught up in the hype were not prepared for the game's crushing difficulty. But there is some help for struggling players near the very start of the game. Silksong protagonist Hornet is far more agile than the Knight from Hollow Knight, especially in her diagonal downward slash. But this angled attac

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Dynamic Duo Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey Reunite for Army Combat Goggles Contract

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-11 14:20:20

Despite spending billions of dollars to make it happen, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey were never able to make virtual reality a profitable consumer product. Teamed up again, the pair have found an audience that is more comfortable with spending lots of money for slow development timelines and little return: the US Army. According to a report from Bloomberg, Luckey’s Anduril Industries and Zuck’s Meta Platforms were among three companies tapped to produce prototypes fo

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Tonight only: One more chance to get a Pixel 9 unlocked for as little as $299

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:25:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Pixel 9 TL;DR US Mobile is relaunching its Pixel 9 deal starting today at 5 PM EST. The phone costs $299 with an annual plan or $339 with a monthly plan, and the Pixel 9 devices are fully unlocked. To qualify, you need at least 30 days of US Mobile service (or an annual plan), but there is no commitment beyond that. Earlier this summer, US Mobile offered the Pixel 9 for just $249 in fully unlocked form, as long as you signed up for an unlimited plan. If you

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ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 10:38:49

Last week, I wrote about how Joshua Aaron's ICEBlock app, which allows people to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5-mile radius, is – unfortunately, and despite apparent good intentions – activism theater. This was based on Joshua's talk at HOPE where he made it clear that he isn't taking the advice of local community groups, that ICE sightings aren't verified in any way, and that he doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to security and privacy. In that post, in the section about

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A critique of package managers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 10:18:55

Package Managers are Evil n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup Package managers (for programming languages) are evil. To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers mix up: A package Package Repositories Build Systems Package Managers These are all separate and can have no relation to one another. I have nothing wrong with packages, in fact Odin has packages built into the langu

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Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 05:58:38

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution Català Español Français Italiano 日本語 한국어 Deutsch Nederlands Türkçe 中文 Українська Русский Português Brasileiro Svenska العربية Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย Disclaimer ⚠️ The project is under very active development. The project is under development. ⚠️ Expect bugs and breaking changes. Expect bugs and breaking changes. ⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos. ⚠️ Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for y

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Signal adds secure cloud backups to save and restore chats

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-11 22:17:25

Signal has introduced a new opt-in feature that helps users create end-to-end encrypted backups of their chats, allowing them to restore messages even if their phones are damaged or lost. Secure backups are already available in the latest Signal beta version for Android users and will also be rolled out to iOS and desktop devices after this testing phase. "If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you'll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days' worth of m

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iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings

news.ycombinator.com Clare Duffy 2025-10-11 22:02:56

New York CNN — Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13. His newest app is designed for a very different purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area. Aaron launched the platform, called ICEBlock, in early April after watching President Donald Trump’s administration begin its immigration crackdown. The White Ho

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Setting up local LLMs for R and Python

news.ycombinator.com Posit Team 2025-10-11 22:00:20

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‘Sherlock Holmes’ May Get the Animated Treatment From a ‘Shrek’ Producer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-11 22:00:35

Here’s a duo you don’t expect: Sherlock Holmes and Shrek. There won’t be any content crossover if a new animated Sherlock Holmes series—tentatively titled Animated Sherlock—gets off the ground, but the shared behind-the-scenes interests are there. Also of note, the series wouldn’t adapt the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle source material but rather a novel series that puts a more risque twist on his classic tales. As Variety reports, Animated Sherlock would tap into The Unexperguated Adventures of Sherl

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Some Heart Attacks Might Be Triggered by Germs

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-11 22:30:27

Germs might be even worse for us than we thought. New research suggests that certain infections could be a contributing factor to heart attacks. Scientists in Finland and the UK conducted the study, which examined arterial plaques taken from people who died from heart disease and others. They found these plaques often contained a dormant layer of bacterial biofilm; they also found evidence that bacteria released from this biofilm can then trigger heart attacks. Though not yet definitive, the st

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13 of the Best Peacock Shows to Stream This Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 21:21:29

Peacock recently rolled out a price increase, but the streamer's reliably entertaining lineup of NBC and Bravo favorites could mean you're keeping it around. If you aren't dropping it, the platform's original series are also worth checking out. Peacock has highly rated options such as the 2024 Eddie Redmayne assassin series, The Day of the Jackal, and the new The Office spinoff, The Paper. If you're poking around for something to watch, you can't go wrong with these 13 standout shows. Peacock n

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Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-12 02:59:40

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. Signal is launching its first paid feature: the ability to make secure, end-to-end encrypted backups of your media history older than 45 days and of your text message history for $1.99 per month. “Media requires a lot of storage, and storing and transferring large amounts of data is e

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VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-12 02:56:04

Venture capital firm Insight Partners says it has completed notifying a number of individuals, including the firm’s limited partners, whose personal information was stolen by hackers in a January data breach. In a statement late last week, the company said it completed its review in August following the data breach, which it described as a “social engineering attack” without further explanation. According to its earlier notice, the stolen data included information about certain Insight Partner

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New AirPods Pro tomorrow? These 3 features would be so worth upgrading for

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-12 06:06:12

Jada Jones/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. It's almost time for Apple to announce the iPhone 17 smartphone lineup, but I'm more excited about the possibility of an AirPods Pro 3 announcement. The AirPods Pro 2 are my daily driver earbuds, but there are some features I'd love to see improved in the next model. Also: How to watch Apple's event this week (and what to expect) I've heard rumors about a complete redesign of the AirPods Pro's earbuds and charging case, p

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Salesloft says Drift customer data thefts linked to March GitHub account hack

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-12 06:35:06

Salesloft said a breach of its GitHub account in March allowed hackers to steal authentication tokens that were later used in a mass-hack targeting several of its big tech customers. Citing an investigation by Google’s incident response unit Mandiant, Salesloft said on its data breach page that the as-yet-unnamed hackers accessed Salesloft’s GitHub account and performed reconnaissance activities from March until June, which allowed them to download “content from multiple repositories, add a gue

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Signal introduces free and paid backup plans for your chats

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-12 06:44:27

Privacy-focused messaging app Signal announced on Monday that it’s introducing a feature that allows users to back up their text conversations for free, along with the last 45 days of media. It’s also debuting its first paid feature by offering full media backups with up to 100GB of storage. Historically, the messaging app didn’t let users store any kind of backup of your conversations on the platform. This could be especially troublesome if you lost or broke your phone. While you could transfe

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Hackers hijack npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads in supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 10:47:51

In what is being called the largest supply chain attack in history, attackers have injected malware into NPM packages with over 2.6 billion weekly downloads after compromising maintainers' accounts in a phishing attack. One of the package maintainers whose accounts were hijacked in this supply-chain attack confirmed the incident earlier today, stating that he was aware of the compromise and adding that the phishing email came from support [at] npmjs [dot] help, a domain that hosts a website imp

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Signal Secure Backups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 10:43:39

In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains why the most common feature request has been backups; a way for people to get Signal messages back even if their phone is lost or damaged. After careful design and development, we are now starting to roll

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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-12 10:15:24

The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot in southern Germany, hosts a particularly rich array of baby pterosaur bones. That led paleontologists to believe that the animals flourished here—until an autopsy unveiled the broken, storm-tossed wings of two baby pterosaurs, painting a darker picture of how the bones got there. In a Current Biology paper published September 5, paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom describe the tragic tale of Lucky and Lucky II, two baby

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Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-12 14:54:31

There are myriad questions about how NASA's budget process will play out in the coming weeks, with the start of the new fiscal year on October 1 looming. For example, the Trump administration may seek to shut off dozens of science missions that are either already in space or in development. Although Congress has signaled a desire to keep these missions active, absent a confirmed budget, the White House has made plans to turn off the lights. Some answers may be forthcoming this week, as the Hou

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Databricks confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-12 14:33:26

In Brief Just nine months after raising a whopping $10 billion (plus $5 billion in debt) in January, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation. When rumors of the raise first broke last month, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that the company is using the funds to invest in its Supabase-competitor database for AI agents. “A year ago, we saw in the data that 30% of the databases were not created by humans,” said Ghodsi. “For the first time, they wer

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Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 16:58:38

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution Català Español Français Italiano 日本語 한국어 Deutsch Nederlands Türkçe 中文 Українська Русский Português Brasileiro Svenska العربية Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย Disclaimer ⚠️ The project is under very active development. The project is under development. ⚠️ Expect bugs and breaking changes. Expect bugs and breaking changes. ⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos. ⚠️ Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for y

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