Published on: 2025-09-14 04:02:14
One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling an ongoing effort by the world’s richest man to wrest control over their networks and data. The Trump administration has fired at least 130 employees at the federal government’s foremost cybersecurity body — the Cybersec
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MirageC/Getty Images Storytime! 😄 There I was, many, many, many moons ago, struggling to make Facebook ads work. I would complain to anyone who would listen that I couldn't get these ads to work, and my customer acquisition cost was through the roof. Also: The billion-dollar AI company no one is talking about - and why you should care Then, I heard what could only be described as an angel say, "Have you tried email marketing?" My guardian angel taught me the importance of collecting the le
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ZDNET's key takeaways Pre-orders for the Galaxy Book5 Pro start at $1,349. It sports a brilliant 3K touchscreen and large touchpad, plus Intel's Lunar Lake chip delivers next-gen performance. Despite the better hardware, this laptop shares some of the design flaws as its predecessor. View now at Samsung Whenever a new laptop comes out, consumers expect it to launch with several new features. But sometimes, manufacturers focus on refining a device's use case instead. That's how I felt after te
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'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
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ZDNET's key takeaways Sony's Ult Wear headphones debut with a novel audio feature and are perfect for anyone looking for an everyday pair of headphones for $200. An enjoyable sound, all-day comfort, and premium software features and design elements set these headphones apart from others in the same price range. You can only access higher-quality Bluetooth codecs and spatial audio technology with a compatible device or music streaming platform. $148 at Amazon $149.99 at Best Buy $148 at B&H Pho
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET If your computer desktop looks a little chaotic and you're noticing some performance slowdown, it might be time to do a cleanup. The best way to keep things running smoothly is to ensure you're running the most updated version of Windows (you'd be surprised how many folks' devices are several updates behind). But if you're up-to-date, there are other things you can do to optimize. Also: How to create a Windows recovery drive in 4 easy steps - before it's too late Windows has a
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ZDNET's key takeaways The LG S95TR soundbar with wireless subwoofer is optimized for the company's OLED TVs with immersive audio features. The LGS95TR may be expensive, but the high-quality audio is easily worth the price. The soundbar has many features, but some of the best ones require a newer LG TV model. View now at Best Buy View now at LG View now at Amazon more buying choices LG released the S95TR soundbar earlier this year, following much hype, as a high-end complement to its newest OL
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET With the way we use our iPhones these days, it can be hard to make it through a single day on a full charge. A few FaceTime calls, some text messaging, and opening Maps a few times, and you could already be 25% down. If you've experienced this problem, you're not alone. These phones can be very power-hungry -- even the more affordable iPhone SE 4 has battery issues. The problem is made worse by all the different apps, features, and settings vying for battery life. And the kicke
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Blackview Tab 90 Wi-Fi is certified for streaming DRM HD content. I found the battery life of the tablet to be decent enough for content consumption. The battery charging, however, is notably slow. View now at Blackview View now at Amazon more buying choices It's that time of year when I get a lot of questions about tablets. They seem to be a popular gift around the holidays. While those in the Apple ecosystem are limited to the iPad line, Android users have many mor
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'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
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It's easy to silkscreen 600W on the product, but can the product live up to the hype? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I test dozens of chargers every year. Some are excellent, while others fall short. Here on ZDNET, I only feature the cream of the crop --the best of the best. However, I occasionally receive requests from readers asking for my thoughts or opinions on specific products. Lately, one product that's been generating a lot of buzz is this 600W GaN charger. Also: The best power banks yo
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Max Buondonno/ZDNET What's the deal? You can purchase Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 6 for as low as $899 on Amazon. This deal only applies to the 256GB model in Silver, but other configurations have seen similar discounts. ZDNET's key takeaways The $1,219 Galaxy Z Flip 6 It comes with a few upgrades, such as a tougher design, better performance, a new main camera, and a bigger battery. It's far from exciting, however, given its similarities to the Z Flip 5, and it's priced over $200 more tha
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Allison Murray/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Windscribe The free and paid versions work with streaming platforms, and you can safely use the service for online activities, including web surfing and torrenting. Windscribe's no-logs policy hasn't been audited, and having the headquarters in Canada isn't good for privacy. Windscribe is much more flexible than other VPNs. It's both free and paid and is the second best free VPN that we recommend. The "Build-a-Plan" scheme allows you to tailor the
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You shouldn't leave security and privacy at home when you travel. A virtual private network (VPN) can keep your data safe and mask your online activities, enhancing your privacy no matter where you are in the world. Trusted VPNs create encrypted tunnels that protect your internet activity, mask your internet protocol (IP) address, route your traffic through VPN networks, and provide protection against tracking, eavesdroppers, and data theft. Also: The best VPNs for streaming You should always
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Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. As our Founding Engineer, you'll own and build the systems that power our rapidly growing platform. We're at an inflection point where customer demand is outpacing our engineering capacity, and we need someone hungry, autonomous, and gritty—someone who can ship code fast while handling both front- and backend challenges. Technical/Architectural chat with CTO. (We don’t believe in leetcode style questions, thank you @Stripe) A high
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Around twenty years ago, people would have laughed if you told them that videogames would end up at the Smithsonian, but the Half-Life team really did want to make games that were more than just throwaway toys. The rule against cinematics — which made our jobs much harder and also ended up leaving a lot of my favorite work out of the game — was a kind of ideological stake in the ground: we really did want the game and the story to be the same thing. It was far from flawless, but it was really tr
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Thailand will cut electricity, oil supplies, and internet services to five locations in Myanmar at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, citing security concerns over suspected Chinese-operated call center scams. The sites, located in Payathonzu, Tachileik, and Myawaddy townships along the border, have been linked to fraudulent operations targeting victims in Thailand, China, and other countries. Authorities estimate that these scams have cost Thailand alone over 80 million baht per day, amounting to 86 billion
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 17:25:17
Quick intro LeetArxiv is Leetcode for implementing Arxiv papers. We offer weekly, hands-on, step-by-step coding guides to programmers who want to transition into careers in research. Frontmatter for the paper ‘A Summary of the AAN Discrete Cosine Transform’. *We provide a C implementation that can be translated to other languages. 1.0 Introduction The paper, A Summary of the AAN Discrete Cosine Transform, summarizes the Discrete Cosine Transform optimizations introduced in the 1981 paper, A
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2025-02-21 Mastodon Comments Comments powered by Mastodon! I hate ads. I also hate tracking and bloat. But I didn't actually hate the latter quite enough to get rid of Disqus for comments. It was a free, good service, and you could turn off ads for the users (which I did). But recently they sent out a mail saying they were not longer offering a free ad-free option, and it's not worth paying for at my usage levels, so they got the boot. What to replace them with? The ultimate would be some k
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Example of how the jailbreaking approach works. Credit: Ding et al. Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of the conversational agent ChatGPT, are becoming increasingly widespread worldwide. As many people are now turning to LLM-based platforms to source information and write c
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OmniAI OCR Benchmark Using Structured Outputs to evaluate OCR accuracy Published Feb 20, 2025 Overview Are LLMs a total replacement for traditional OCR models? It's been an increasingly hot topic, especially with models like Gemini 2.0 becoming cost competitive with traditional OCR. To answer this, we run a benchmark evaluating OCR accuracy between traditional OCR providers and Vision Language Models. This is run with a wide variety of real world documents. Including all the complex, messy,
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A recurring theme of this Substack are my attempts to build out an accessible curriculum for hobby electronics. The target audience are folks who are no longer content with dumbed-down analogies, but who aren’t keen on academic textbooks brimming with obtuse jargon and advanced calculus. I’m particularly fond of the following foundational articles: Today, I’d like to take a step back and tackle a more basic question that isn’t always satisfactorily answered in high school: what is electricity a
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OK, this is wild. I just saw o3-mini (regular) to precisely simulate (calculate?) output of quite complicated computations. Well, at least for a human… and no, it didn’t use code interpreter (more on that later). The prompt It all started with a prompt like that (sic!, sorry for the typos): How deoes TfidfVectorizer behave with {“use_idf”: True, “binary”: True} ? Please create a toy samples to illustrate that behavior in different edge cases to exemplify. Think about all possible cases. I wan
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A macOS like theme for Linux GTK Desktops If you like my project, you can buy me a coffee, many thanks ❤️ ! Usage: ./install.sh [OPTIONS...] Details (click to open) Since the release of Gnome 43.0 , more and more built-in apps use libadwaita now, and libadwaita does not support custom themes, which means we cannot change the appearance of app using libadwaita through gnome-tweaks or dconf-editor . For users who love custom themes, it’s really sucks! Anyway if anybody who still want to custo
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Suppose we have a list of items of length \(n\), and we want to consider windows (i.e. contiguous subsequences) of width \(w\) within the list. ⊕ A list of numbers, with contiguous size-3 windows highlighted We can compute the sum of each window by brute force in \(O(nw)\) time, by simply generating the list of all the windows and then summing each. But, of course, we can do better: keep track of the sum of the current window; every time we slide the window one element to the right we can
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Viet GD VIET GD is a casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Currently, there are 274 objects in this collection.
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: When the orchid Oreorchis patens happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the wood and significantly increases the amount of nutrients it takes from them—without ceasing to employ photosynthesis. As a result, the plants are bigger and produce more flowers. Credit: A
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No, it is not a compiler error. It is never a compiler error. When I used to hang out in the comp.lang.c Usenet group, back when there was a comp.lang.c Usenet group, people would show up fairly often with some program they had written that didn't work, and ask if their compiler had a bug. The compiler did not have a bug. The compiler never had a bug. The bug was always in the programmer's code and usually in their understanding of the language. When I worked at the University of Pennsylvania
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European word translator Enter one or two lower-case English words to see translations from Google Translate. Translate it! Examples: banana the cat she runs Random words: graduation robot A few things to keep in mind:
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