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Get a Quick and Effective Cardio Workout With the Best Rowing Machine Picks Tested by a Fitness Expert

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 04:00:00

What we like about it: This is Peloton’s first smart rowing machine, which teaches you how to row and correct your form. Similar to other Peloton equipment, you receive white glove delivery and it’s assembled in your home. The delivery people are pros, so they have it up and running in a half hour, tops. It has a 24-inch HD touchscreen that's adjustable and easy to rotate. Using the Peloton Row is an experience, unlike the others I had when testing rowing machines. Before you take a class, you

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Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-17 14:14:00

SOPA Images / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key Takeaways PayPal and Venmo experienced an outage Friday morning. Affected accounts couldn't send or receive payments. PayPal has acknowledged the problem and said a fix is in the works. Are you having trouble with PayPal or Venmo this morning? You're not alone. Also: PayPal's AI-powered scam alert system might intercept your transactions now - here's why Shortly before 9 a.m. ET, users began reporting that both platforms were down. They

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This $599 Windows laptop is the back-to-school deal I most recommend right now

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-17 18:29:00

Asus Zenbook A14 ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $599. It's a fantastic balance of innovation and value with an OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Best Buy The Asus Zenbook A14 is on sale for $599 at Best Buy for the 16GB model. That's a $400 discount on one of the best laptops we've teste

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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 17:51:38

Some people enjoy live coding interviews. I’m not one of them. Two days ago, I stumbled upon a post on LinkedIn: Sounds absurd at first. Why would a senior engineer, who has been writing code for years, struggle with something as simple as a basic algorithm? Did they suddenly forget how to code? Maybe. But I have a different perspective. A quick story # Four years ago, I applied for Toptal. I passed the initial stage(s). I passed a 90-minute Codility assessment (three problems as I recall it

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This $599 Asus Zenbook OLED is seriously the best Windows laptop deal right now

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-12-19 04:39:00

Asus Zenbook A14 ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook A14 with 16GB of memory is on sale at Best Buy for $599. It's a fantastic balance of innovation and value with an OLED display, competitive hardware, and a satisfying physical form. While its use case is clearly defined, the laptop has its limits when it comes to high-end performance. View now at Best Buy The Asus Zenbook A14 is on sale for $599 at Best Buy for the 16GB model. That's a $400 discount on one of the best laptops we've teste

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Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 03:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Google AI Model Helps Us See the Planet as We Never Have Before

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 12:14:00

It's a view of Mother Earth as we've never seen her, and it just might help us solve some our most existential issues. Google has launched a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations, which can take images and measurements from satellites and other sources to create current and accurate digital representations of lands and waters. With all this data, scientists and researchers can monitor problems like water scarcity, deforestation and crop health. Google says AlphaEarth's AI modeling has alr

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Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-20 14:00:00

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 Data platform vendor Informatica is expanding its AI capabilities as the needs of gen AI continue to increase enterprise requirements. Informatica is no stranger to the world of AI; in fact, the company debuted its first Claire AI tool for data in 2018. In the modern generative AI era, the company has expanded its technology with improved

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Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 12:40:05

Creating a performance gate in a CI environment, preventing significant performance regressions from being deployed has been a long-standing goal of dozens of software teams. But measuring in hosted CI runners is a particularly challenging task, mostly because of noisy neighbors leaking through virtualization layers. Still, it's worth the effort. Performance regressions are harder to catch and more expensive to fix the longer they go unnoticed. Mostly because: Catching issues in production is

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 17:00:06

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

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Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 18:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-22 09:38:08

Dropbox has announced that its password manager, Dropbox Passwords, is shutting down soon. And you don’t have long to find a new solution. Dropbox Passwords shutdown will happen in three stages on accelerated timeline Dropbox Passwords is being discontinued, and users are encouraged to find a new password solution elsewhere. Why the shutdown? Per a support doc, it’s “part of our efforts to focus on enhancing other features in our core product.” Though web service shutdowns often come with ex

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I tried underwater AR goggles to track my workouts - and they worked surprisingly well

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-22 14:55:00

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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Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 12:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:17:07

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg . The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on the grounds that it's an educational tool. This irked other platforms, with Meta and TikTok urging the coun

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Critical Vulnerability Discovered 11 Days After Wix Buys Base44

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:12:32

One of the most profoundly transformed domains in the wake of the LLM revolution has been code generation, especially the rise of vibe coding, where natural language prompts replace traditional programming. This shift has empowered millions of users with little to no technical background to build fully functional applications with ease. Platforms like Loveable, Bolt, and Base44 are on the front of this movement - they have enabled the creation of millions of applications spanning from persona

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Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-22 18:00:00

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. On July 25th, the UK became one of the first countries to widely implement age verification. Its Online Safety Act requires sites hosting porn and other content deemed “harmful” — including Reddit, Discord, Grindr, X, and Bluesky — to verify that users are over the age of 18. The early results have been chaotic. While many services have complied, so

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TikTok gamifies mindfulness with 'well-being missions'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 00:00:14

Or, hear me out: Put down your phone and breathe. TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling. The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses on the platform’s existing digital well-being tools. (The

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

news.ycombinator.com Eileen Guo 2025-12-23 22:59:09

Indeed, the curators of DataComp CommonPool were themselves aware it was likely that PII would appear in the data set and did take some measures to preserve privacy, including automatically detecting and blurring faces. But in their limited data set, Hong’s team found and validated over 800 faces that the algorithm had missed, and they estimated that overall, the algorithm had missed 102 million faces in the entire data set. On the other hand, they did not apply filters that could have recognize

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Luma and Runway expect robotics to eventually be a big revenue driver for them

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-24 18:12:43

In Brief AI video-generating startups Luma and Runway are looking beyond movie studios. These video-generating AI companies have their sights set on other markets for future revenue streams and have been in talks with both robotics and self-driving car companies, according to reporting from The Information. The report didn’t identify which companies Luma and Runway are in talks with. This potential revenue stream makes sense for Luma in particular. The company announced it was looking to buil

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YouTube will identify and restrict minors’ accounts with AI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-25 09:48:50

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. YouTube will soon begin using AI-powered age estimation technology to figure out which users are under the age of 18. Starting August 13th, YouTube will detect underage users in the US based on their activity and the age of their account, allowing the platform to automatically apply restrictions. These accounts will get the same protections YouTube

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Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Review: Not Quite There

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-12-25 23:03:00

This should've been Nvidia’s victory lap after a fairly successful round of high-end GPUs. The RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 were expensive and hard to find at launch, but the performance was impressive for those who could get their hands on one. Most people spend less than $500 on a graphics card, and they've been waiting patiently for their turn to go shopping. Unfortunately, the RTX 5060 falls short of its similarly priced AMD counterpart, and the gap gets even worse when any pressure is applied. Si

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-25 23:30:00

When Esther Hallam welcomed her daughter, Nara, into the world, she faced the challenge of searching for trustworthy brands that offered high-quality, organic infant formula in the U.S. Despite being available for nearly 160 years, the quality of infant formula options in the U.S. is still lacking, she believes. Many manufacturers opt for skim milk to cut costs, which allows them to add oils to meet nutritional requirements. Several formulas contain palm oil, soy, and corn syrup, which aren’t r

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Apple @ Work Podcast: Solving access management and control for small businesses

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-12-26 09:00:00

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with

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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon 9060 XT with DLSS and FSR Enabled

techspot.com Tim Schiesser 2025-12-26 18:20:00

When looking to buy a mid-range graphics card for a gaming PC, you're probably choosing between the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and the Radeon RX 9060 XT, and per our recommendation, 16GB versions for both GPU models. In today's review, we will be comparing these GPUs with multiple upscaling modes enabled to determine which model performs best in realistic gaming configurations. We know many of you will be using DLSS 4 on a GeForce GPU and FSR 4 on a Radeon GPU, and this review includes performance data

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Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon 9060 XT with DLSS and FSR Enabled

techspot.com Tim Schiesser 2025-12-26 18:20:00

When looking to buy a mid-range graphics card for a gaming PC, you're probably choosing between the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and the Radeon RX 9060 XT, and per our recommendation, 16GB versions for both GPU models. In today's review, we will be comparing these GPUs with multiple upscaling modes enabled to determine which model performs best in realistic gaming configurations. We know many of you will be using DLSS 4 on a GeForce GPU and FSR 4 on a Radeon GPU, and this review includes performance data

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50x rendering speed improvements in Hologram (Elixir web framework)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 16:27:54

Hologram v0.5.0 Released! Hologram 0.5.0 represents a major evolution of the framework, delivering significant new features, performance improvements, and architectural changes that provide a more robust foundation for future development. This release brings substantial performance enhancements across the entire stack - execution times have improved from milliseconds to microseconds in many core client-side operations, making Hologram fast enough to handle real-time interactions like mouse mov

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I Hate When Steam Drops for Maintenance, but Now I Know When to Likely Avoid It

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-26 21:00:03

You open Steam to boot up a game and get stopped by a warning saying Steam is down for maintenance. Frustrated, you wonder -- how long will this gameless purgatory last? The short answer: It's never certain, but it could be less than an hour if it's routine maintenance or longer, depending on the issue being solved, especially if it's an emergency fix. With some advance knowledge offered by Steam's owner, Valve, however, you may be able to avoid or reduce maintenance windows. In a support artic

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Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:48:23

Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected." However, 404 Media reports that the problem is bigger than originally stated. The site credits independent security researcher Kasra Rahjerdi , who found that content from the platform as recent as last week has been exposed. Additionally, this source cla

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Latest Tech News

Get a Quick and Effective Cardio Workout With the Best Rowing Machine Picks Tested by a Fitness Expert

Are PayPal and Venmo down for you? What we know - and alternatives to use

This $599 Windows laptop is the back-to-school deal I most recommend right now

Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills

This $599 Asus Zenbook OLED is seriously the best Windows laptop deal right now

Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

Google AI Model Helps Us See the Planet as We Never Have Before

Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks

Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

I tried underwater AR goggles to track my workouts - and they worked surprisingly well

Critical Vulnerability in AI Vibe Coding platform Base44

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

Critical Vulnerability Discovered 11 Days After Wix Buys Base44

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

TikTok gamifies mindfulness with 'well-being missions'

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Luma and Runway expect robotics to eventually be a big revenue driver for them

YouTube will identify and restrict minors’ accounts with AI

Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Review: Not Quite There

Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

Apple @ Work Podcast: Solving access management and control for small businesses

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon 9060 XT with DLSS and FSR Enabled

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti vs AMD Radeon 9060 XT with DLSS and FSR Enabled

50x rendering speed improvements in Hologram (Elixir web framework)

I Hate When Steam Drops for Maintenance, but Now I Know When to Likely Avoid It

Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

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