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Sony’s InZone Buds are great for gaming, and right now they’re cheaper than ever

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A quality pair of headphones can make a huge difference in your gaming experience, and Sony’s InZone Buds are among the best wireless gaming earbuds available. They’re currently $143.98 ($86 off) at GameStop, dropping them to a new all-time low price. The Verge’s commerce editor, Cameron Faulkner, says they deliver excellent sound quality and versatility, with a USB-C audio transmitter that allows them to co

Tesla’s robotaxi plans for Nevada move forward with testing permit

Armed with a new permit from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, Tesla is preparing to begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology on public streets in Nevada. The testing permit, which was first noted by Tesla influencer Sawyer Merritt, comes two months after CEO Elon Musk outlined the company’s plans to take its autonomous vehicle ambitions beyond Austin and into several new markets. “We are expecting to greatly increase the service area to well in excess of what competitors are doi

Opendoor stock soars 80% after company names new CEO

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 80% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

Alphabet's Verily covered up HIPAA violations, whistleblower says in lawsuit

Alphabet's health tech subsidiary Verily used the health data of more than 25,000 patients without authorization and actively covered up those violations, a former company executive alleges. The executive, Ryan Sloan, claims Verily fired him after he discovered breaches of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and reported his concerns to the company's senior management. Patient data in the U.S. is protected under HIPAA, which ensures the sensitive information cann

Oracle shares retreat 7% after sharpest rally in more than 30 years

Oracle shares closed down 6% on Thursday, a day after the stock closed at a record high, following an analyst note expressing concern that most of the company's upcoming growth is coming from a single client: OpenAI. The software vendor has seen its stock go on a wild ride this week after CEO Safra Catz on Tuesday said that Oracle had "signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers" in the latest quarter. The company's remaining performance obligation, a measure of co

Google’s Pixel Flex 67W charger is USB-C protocol perfection — but there’s a pretty huge oversight

Google Pixel Flex Dual Port 67W USB-C Fast Charger Google's 67W dual-port charger supports the latest and greatest USB Power Delivery standards and impressive split-power capabilities that'll effortlessly fast-charge your new Pixel and much more. However, Pixel-priority charging causes headaches when mixing and matching gadgets. Along with the new Pixel 10, I’m lucky enough to have the latest Google Pixel Flex Dual Port 67W USB-C Fast Charger in hand (technically the UK version, but the US unit

Apple Watch Series 11 vs. Apple Watch Series 10: Should you upgrade?

Apple’s September event put the spotlight on iPhones, but the Apple Watch Series 11 quietly picked up some big quality-of-life changes. The new watch looks the same as the Series 10, but there are meaningful upgrades: 24-hour battery life (up from 18 hours), 5G connectivity on cellular models and tougher Ion-X glass on aluminum versions. The Series 11 also debuts a new health feature, hypertension notifications, which will alert you if your data shows consistent signs of high blood pressure. Im

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Paramount reportedly wants to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, antitrust law be damned

Paramount Skydance, apparently now in a state of permanent merger, plans to make a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, The Wall Street Journal reports . The company was recently formed following Skydance's acquisition of Paramount for $8 billion. Newly anointed Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison was able to afford the acquisition thanks to the backing of his billionaire father , Larry Ellison. Despite Warner Bros. Discovery's public plans to split back into Warner Bros. and Discovery Globa

Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks

Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). CERT-FR is operated by ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency, and is responsible for preventing and mitigating cybersecurity-related incidents impacting public and critical organizations. According to a Thursday advisory, CERT-FR is aware of at least four instances of Apple threat notifications alerting the company

U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. The Senator started the formal asking by saying that Microsoft should be held "responsible for its gross cybersecurity negligence, resulting in ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure, including U.S. health care organizations." The Senat

Microsoft investigates Exchange Online outage in North America

Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage affecting customers throughout North America, blocking their access to emails. "We're investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method," the company explained earlier today. According to user reports on DownDetector, the issue began impacting Microsoft's customers more than six hours ago and is causing server

I used a $20 AI tool to finish 24 days of coding in 12 hours - but there's a big catch

Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways I spent $20 on Codex and saw 16x productivity. Hard usage limits cut off coding in mid-project unexpectedly. Premium tools can cost $800 monthly but give steadier results. We've talked before about OpenAI's Codex, the AI model designed specifically for programming work. While I found it to have some capabilities, the need to use it only in GitHub or as part of the command-line termin

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The AirPods Pro 3's heart rate sensor won't replace my Apple Watch - here's why

Matthew Miller/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The AirPods Pro 3 can measure your heart rate during a workout. The Apple Watch offers a variety of other health-related tools. I'll buy the AirPods Pro 3, but the Apple Watch is my go-to device. I've used an Apple Watch for years and have always found it a helpful and convenient device. I especially like the health-related features, most notably the heart rate monitor that can not only measure

Your appliances may be quietly draining electricity - this gadget stops that

Smart Wi-Fi power strips are a great way to save on your power bill. But do they pay for themselves? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Leaving devices plugged and switched on can be wasteful. Monitoring usage and remote switching helps reduce bills. This Tapo smart power strip is a great option to monitor power consumption, and at $45, it pays for itself. I have three 3D printers that are on the go a lot of the time. I

Amazon October Prime Day: Everything you need to know about Prime Big Deal Days

It's September, which means fall seasonal sales and early holiday savings are on the horizon. Labor Day is in the rearview, but plenty of the biggest sales of the year will be creeping up soon, and Amazon's October Prime Day (usually formally called Prime Big Deal Days) event is one you can't miss. The retailer has yet to officially confirm the sale or share specific dates, but trust that an announcement should be coming soon. Amazon typically unveils its fall sale dates in mid-September, and l

Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on ​Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the t

Adjacency Matrix and std:mdspan, C++23

In graph theory, an adjacency matrix is a square matrix used to represent a finite (and usually dense) graph. The elements of the matrix indicate whether pairs of vertices are adjacent or not, and in weighted graphs, they store the edge weights. In many beginner-level tutorials, adjacency matrices are implemented using vector of vectors (nested dynamic arrays), but this approach has inefficiencies due to multiple memory allocations. C++23 introduces std::mdspan , which provides a more efficient

Nothing’s New Wireless Earbuds Have a ‘Talk’ Button, and I Need to Know What That Means

Buttons are in right now—at least if you’re a designer at Nothing, they are. On its Headphone 1 (the first pair of Nothing-made over-ear headphones), there are all sorts of doodads. A paddle for track selection; a tic-tac-shaped wheel/button for volume and ANC; a pairing button (okay, this one is boring, but still, it’s a button). Even on its recently released Phone 3, there’s a button on the back of the phone for doing really useful stuff with its “Glyph Matrix,” like… playing spin the bottle.

Latest TRON: Ares trailer takes us back to 1982

We're one month away from the theatrical release of TRON: Ares, and Disney is seeking to stoke interest with a new trailer that shows the titular program going back to the original 1984 grid—and encountering an unexpected figure: the one and only Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). (Some spoilers for Tron and Tron: Legacy below.) As previously reported, TRON: Legacy ended with Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), son of Kevin Flynn, preventing the digital world from bleeding into the real world, as planned by

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others

The FTC announced on Thursday that it is launching an inquiry into seven tech companies that make AI chatbot companion products for minors: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, and xAI. The federal regulator seeks to learn how these companies are evaluating the safety and monetization of chatbot companions, how they try to limit negative impacts on children and teens, and if parents are made aware of potential risks. This technology has proven controversial for its poor outcom

Elon Musk’s Boring Company suspends work on Vegas airport tunnel after ‘crushing injury’

In Brief Elon Musk’s Boring Company has reportedly stopped work on a tunnel it’s been digging to the Las Vegas airport after a worker sustained a “crushing injury” late Wednesday night, according to Fortune. Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation. The Clark County Fire Department received a call at 10:12 p.m. local time on Wednesday and dispatched an 18-person rescue crew to the site. It’s unclear exactly what happened to the worker, but the i

Uber sued by DOJ for alleged discrimination against disabled riders

A man holds up a smartphone with the Uber app visible on screen, as taxis queue in the background on June 4, 2019. The Department of Justice sued Uber on Thursday, alleging the ride-hailing giant discriminated against riders with disabilities, according to a filing. "Despite the importance of its services to people with disabilities, Uber denies people with disabilities full and equal enjoyment of its services in several critical ways," the complaint, filed in a federal court in San Francisco,

The Mysterious Object Cruising Toward Mars Is Doing Something Very Peculiar

A mysterious object from interstellar space is screaming through our solar system right now, and is expected to rip past Mars and Jupiter over the coming months before exiting back into the void between stars. Astronomers have been fascinated by the unusual visitor, dubbed 3I/ATLAS after its discovery in July, and have broadly come to the conclusion that it's a comet comprised of ice and dust particles. As the object approaches its closest point to our Sun, its activity is steadily picking up

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The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

The Federal Trade Commission is making a formal inquiry into companies that provide AI chatbots that can act as companions. The investigation isn't tied to any kind of regulatory action as of yet, but does aim to reveal how companies "measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens." Seven companies are being asked to participate in the FTC's investigation: Google's parent company Alphabet, Character Technologies (the creator of Character.AI), Me

Remastered Tomb Raider games allegedly used AI to change Lara Croft's French voice

Françoise Cadol is the voice actor for Lara Croft in the French localizations of the Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered games. She has sent a legal notice to the games' publisher, Aspyr, alleging that a recent patch used artificial intelligence to alter her performance without her consent. The news was originally reported by French publication Le Parisien and picked up by Game Developer . According to August 2025 patch notes for the remastered game collection, Tomb Raider VI was updated with some adj

A wireless heart rate monitor powered by Raspberry Pi and Wi-Fi - how it works

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I used a $20 AI tool to finish 24 days of coding in 6 hours - but there's a big catch

Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways I spent $20 on Codex and saw 16x productivity. Hard usage limits cut off coding in mid-project unexpectedly. Premium tools can cost $800 monthly but give steadier results. We've talked before about OpenAI's Codex, the AI model designed specifically for programming work. While I found it to have some capabilities, the need to use it only in GitHub or as part of the command-line termin

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Microsoft gives Windows 10 its penultimate update - but saves the best for Windows 11

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways September's Patch Tuesday offers bug fixes for Windows 10 and 11. Windows 11 also received a host of new and improved features. This marks the penultimate Patch Tuesday update for Windows 10. Hey Windows users, it's time once again to install the latest monthly updates on your PC, courtesy of September's Patch Tuesday. Whether you run Windows 11 or are still on Windows 10, you'll find i

Your Android phone's most powerful security feature is hidden and off by default - turn it on now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or