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T-Mobile and Starlink's $10 a Month Satellite Texting Service Is Live. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 10:45:00

T-Mobile's T-Satellite internet service, powered by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, officially launched on Wednesday, July 23. The direct-to-cell messaging service that enables texting from anywhere isn't limited to T-Mobile customers -- AT&T and Verizon mobile customers can also purchase it for $10 a month. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" by way of 657 Starlink satellites that'll be used exclusively for cellphone service. T-Satellite has been in beta testing s

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, July 25

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 14:09:22

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

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Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-02-19 09:52:42

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose work explores gay history and culture. “Just found out via Bluesky.” Itch.io is deindexing, or removing from its searc

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Artificial food colours are out, so what's next?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-19 16:01:09

Artificial food colours are out, so what's next? 59 minutes ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save Fermentalg There are hundreds of thousands of microalgae species French firm Fermentalg has been all over the planet in its search for useful microalgae. "One of our lucky scientists got to go and climb the volcanoes in the Caribbean for example, and I have to restrain myself from collecting more every time I go home to New Zealand," says Hywel Griffiths, chief scientific o

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Anthropic unveils ‘auditing agents’ to test for AI misalignment

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-02-19 15:15:53

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 When models attempt to get their way or become overly accommodating to the user, it can mean trouble for enterprises. That is why it’s essential that, in addition to performance evaluations, organizations conduct alignment testing. However, alignment audits often present two major challenges: scalability and validation. Alignment testing r

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Apple publishes Human-Centered Machine Learning workshop videos

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-19 16:01:33

Today, Apple published on its Machine Learning Research blog, select recordings from its 2024 Workshop on Human-Centered Machine Learning (HCML), highlighting its work on responsible AI development. Almost 3 hours of content made available The event, originally held in August 2024, brought together Apple researchers as well as academic experts, and explored everything from model interpretability to accessibility, and strategies to predict and prevent large-scale negative outcomes due to the ev

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8 Mac-focused features coming in macOS Tahoe 26

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-02-19 16:06:01

While macOS Tahoe 26 shares redesign polish with iOS and iPadOS, its best new features double down on what makes the Mac the Mac. Terminal upgrades, automation triggers, and power-user tweaks are the kind of Mac updates that you won’t find on the iPhone and iPad. Apple aims its focus on the Mac with these features. 9to5Mac is brought to by iMazing: iMazing 3 is a comprehensive platform for Apple device management with complete device control for backup management, data transfer capabilities, an

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BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-19 14:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announ

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Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 14:48:53

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build [LWN subscriber-only content] Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! People tend to put a lot of trust into their phones. Those devices have access to no end of sensitive data abou

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Welcome to the Year of Hell With Nacelle’s New ‘Star Trek’ Action Figures

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-19 16:30:04

Nacelle’s new Star Trek line of figures may only just be getting ready to beam in, but we’re already chomping at the bit to see more of what the company has in store beyond a first wave of some truly delightful deep cuts. While we already know the lineup for wave two of the new line—revealed by none other than io9 ourselves back in March—now we can reveal two of our most anticipated figures in the plastic flesh. To celebrate San Diego Comic-Con (and Nacelle’s panel at the convention, happening

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San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Spotlight: The Biggest Drops So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 10:44:00

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 kicked off Thursday and we've already gotten sneak peeks at Lego and Hot Wheels releases plus there's big news happening for TV shows, movies and games. We're excited to hear about Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tron: Ares, Gen V and Welcome to Derry, so we're riding along with fans as announcements and trailer drops come out. We'll be posting highlights here from the four-day affair to help you keep up with the hottest, weirdest and most interesting stuff that hits. Stay

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Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion ‘South Park’ Problem

wired.com Manisha Krishnan 2026-02-19 16:13:39

In an interview with Vanity Fair in September, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone all but swore off satirizing Donald Trump, with Parker noting, “I don’t know what more we could possibly say.” We found out what more they could say yesterday, in brutal fashion. The same day Paramount announced a five-year streaming deal with South Park, including 50 new episodes, the show’s 27th season premiere mercilessly mocked both President Trump and the network for capitulating to his demands, s

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No, Instagram didn’t suspend Zohran Mamdani’s account for being ‘too socialist’

theverge.com Mia Sato 2026-02-19 14:04:19

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. In a story published earlier this week, a site called “NYC Journals” claimed to have a bombshell: that Instagram had suspended the account of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for being “too socialist.” The story claimed that Mamdani’s account was down for three hours; it also cited a “leaked memo” from inside Instagram that said his content went against US

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Paramount-Skydance merger approved after companies agree to government speech demands

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-02-19 16:57:14

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Skydance’s $8 billion purchase of CBS-owner Paramount after the companies agreed to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs but feature a “diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum

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AI slop and fake reports are coming for your bug bounty programs

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-02-19 06:00:00

So-called AI slop, meaning LLM-generated low-quality images, videos, and text, has taken over the internet in the last couple of years, polluting websites, social media platforms, at least one newspaper, and even real-world events. The world of cybersecurity is not immune to this problem, either. In the last year, people across the cybersecurity industry have raised concerns about AI slop bug bounty reports, meaning reports that claim to have found vulnerabilities that do not actually exist, be

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How a Y Combinator food-delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-02-19 16:00:00

The internet trend is simple: A friend or family member looks into the camera and tells viewers, in a slightly aggressive tone, that they are about to witness a presentation and that they better be nice. That’s what Kendall, the sister of Lucious McDaniel IV, did, and after she stepped aside, her brother pitched his company, BiteSight, a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try o

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Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-02-19 21:42:16

Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink said it had a "network outage" on Thursday. The company said it was working on a solution. There were more than 60,000 reports of an outage on Downdetector, a site that logs issues. Starlink is owned and operated by SpaceX, which is also run by Musk. At 4:30 p.m. ET, Musk apologized for the outage on X and said, "Service will be restored shortly." At 6:23 p.m. ET, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, said in an X po

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Spotify Caught Doing Something Unbelievably Ghoulish With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-19 18:14:40

Weeks after trending "indie rock band" The Velvet Sundown admitted its Spotify oeuvre was entirely generated by AI, news has emerged that the streaming company is using AI to publish new tunes by dead musicians. Per reporting by 404 Media, Spotify is populating the profiles of long-dead artists with new AI-generated songs that have nothing to do with the deceased musicians — without the permission of their families or record labels. The outlet uncovered, for instance, that American singer-song

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You can finally run Doom and other graphical apps in Android’s Linux Terminal

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-19 21:13:29

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android’s Linux Terminal app can now run graphical Linux apps in the latest Canary build, a major step forward for the feature. A new “Display” button launches a graphical environment, letting users run full desktop apps that aren’t available on Android. Hardware acceleration can also be enabled for better performance, paving the way for running even more powerful Linux software and games. The Linux Terminal app that Google introduced earlier this yea

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Don’t get your hopes up for One UI 9 leaks as Samsung fixes this major loophole

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-19 21:41:57

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has patched a loophole that enabled many recent One UI leaks. The exploit allowed users to access internal OTA builds via a custom tool and decrypt metadata. You almost certainly won’t be treated to as many One UI 9 leaks going forward. The Samsung fans among you enjoy delving into One UI leaks, and we enjoy bringing them to you when they surface. The bad news for all of us is that it looks like the party might be over. According to a report

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Starlink suffers global outage, as T-Mobile rolls out integration [U]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-02-19 20:37:06

For the past hour, Starlink customers around the globe have had trouble using the service. Although unrelated, the outage comes just one day after T-Mobile launched its integration with the satellite network. On X, Starlink acknowledged that it is working through the solution of a global outage, which began a little more than an hour ago: Starlink is currently in a network outage and we are actively implementing a solution. We appreciate your patience, we'll share an update once this issue is

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Starlink outage: Service returns after over two hours down

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-19 21:41:06

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service experienced a global outage on Thursday that lasted for over two hours. Reports of connectivity issues started around 3:20PM ET, based on DownDetector. SpaceX didn't acknowledged the outage until 4:05PM ET, via a post on the Starlink X account. Service began to come back for some at around 5:30PM ET, and Michael Nicolls, Starlink's VP of engineering, said the provider had "mostly recovered" at 6:23PM ET. Users across the US, Europe, the UK and Asia r

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Show HN: Easy Python Time Parsing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-15 16:17:21

Time Helper A lightweight Python library for effortless datetime handling with timezone support. Built for simplicity and flexibility, it provides a comprehensive set of utilities for parsing, converting, and manipulating dates and times. Key Features: 🌍 Timezone-aware operations with abbreviation support (e.g., IST, PST, CET) with abbreviation support (e.g., IST, PST, CET) 🔄 Universal datetime parsing from strings, timestamps, and various formats from strings, timestamps, and various forma

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New Aarch64 Back End

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 20:20:01

This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig. Also available as an RSS feed. This page contains entries for the year 2025. Other years are available in the Devlog archive page. July 23, 2025 New Aarch64 Backend Author: Andrew Kelley & Jacob Young Jacob upstreamed his new backend yesterday. 275 src/codegen/aarch64/Mir.zig 138 src/codegen/aarch64/abi.zig 11799 src/codegen/aarch64/encoding.zig 10981 src/codegen/aarch64/Select.zig 905 src/codegen/aarch64/Disassemble.zig

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A GPU Calculator That Helps Calculate What GPU to Use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-19 21:14:20

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Court Rules Mike Lindell Doesn’t Have to Pay $5 Million in Hacked Voting Machine Bet

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-02-19 18:35:21

Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of MyPillow, could be considered a loser in many ways, but not in a way that will cost him $5 million. The New York Times reports that a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that Lindell will not have to pay out the prize money for his “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge, which offered up a $5 million reward to anyone who could sufficiently debunk his baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Lindell offered up the prize money in 2021 dur

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‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Bringing in Matthew Rhys for a Major Role

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2026-02-19 21:00:55

Congo lining up off of Prime Video’s announcement that Invincible will have its fifth season queued up while its fourth season is waiting in the wings, Skybound Entertainment announced new casting for the adult animated series that’ll play a major role in its upcoming season at San Diego Comic-Con. During Invincible co-creator Robert Kirkman’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that actor Matthew Rhys (The Americans) will play the role of Dinosaurus. To all the folks who didn’t have

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‘Peacemaker’ Came to Comic-Con to Tease the End of Its Own Universe

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-19 21:45:12

The most in-your-face explanation for what’s going on with Peacemaker in the new DCU can be found outside of San Diego Comic-Con. Simply put—as soon as you walk in past the HBO Max activation marquee for the Peacemaker “Peacefest” in the Gaslamp District, you see a sign that reads, “Relax, it’s a state of emergency; you’re fucked’, dude.” io9 was invited to scope out the space, which allowed for some rocking fun as you walk in through a Quantum Portal into the “altered dimension” of the Peacem

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Don't Let Summer's High Interest Rates Pass You By. Do This ASAP

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-19 20:00:00

Like temperatures, savings rates could start cooling off in September. Kristina Kokhanova/Getty Images Temperatures aren't the only thing that's elevated this summer. Savings rates are sizzling too. That's awesome news for anyone who wants to grow their money faster. But, just like temps, annual percentage yields can't stay high forever. The Federal Reserve is likely to keep rates where they are at its July 29-30 meeting, but it could begin cutting them in September. That makes now the time to

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The 47 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2026-02-17 08:00:00

While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of Cards, the burgeoning streamer premiered The Morning After, a pop-culture-focused news show that ran for 800 episodes over three years. Hulu has continued to make TV history in the years since, most notably in 2017 when it became the first streamer to win an E

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