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This lightweight Linux distro makes switching from Windows 10 easy

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-18 02:53:42

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Lubuntu. Say it with me. Looboontoo. Has a nice ring, doesn't it? Lubuntu isn't just an adorable name that rolls off the tongue like caramel. It's also a Linux distribution that combines the Ubuntu distribution and the LXQT desktop. LXQT is a lightweight Linux desktop based on the Qt cross-platform application development framework. LXQT is fast, simple, works well on older hardware, is customizable, and includes a decent collection of software to get

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The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-18 06:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s software to attack government agencies Engineers across the world are racing to mitigate the risk it poses. (Bloomberg $) + The attack hones in on servers housed within an organization, not the cloud. (WP $) 2 The French government has launched a criminal probe into X It’s investigating the company’s recommendation algorithm—

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XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 03:48:05

Vasu Chakkera gives a summary of some of the varied enterprise uses for XSLT Introduction While modern development trends lean toward JSON and microservices, XML continues to operate quietly but powerfully beneath the surface in enterprise domains like finance, healthcare, legal, education, and digital publishing. In these spaces, where precision, structure, and longevity are non-negotiable, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) remains one of the most capable — and often under

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Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX confirms $44 million stolen during hack

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-18 06:50:33

India’s largest crypto exchange CoinDCX has confirmed that one of its internal operational accounts was compromised in a recent security breach, allowing the hackers to make off with millions in crypto. On Saturday, CoinDCX co-founder and CEO Sumit Gupta disclosed in a post on X that an internal account “used only for liquidity provisioning on a partner exchange” was compromised during the hack. The executive assured that the incident did not affect customer funds and that all its customer asse

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The floating robot collecting rubbish in our waterways

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-15 08:12:08

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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is doing something no Galaxy Fold has done before

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-18 12:44:26

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is apparently receiving more pre-orders than the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in Korea. This is reportedly the first time the Fold model has been more popular than the Flip device. Samsung’s newest Fold offers a super-thin and light design, larger screens, and a powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip series has traditionally been its most popular foldable phone, accounting for most pre-orders and sales over the years.

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Apple Sports app expands soccer coverage and launches in a new country

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-01-18 17:55:20

The Apple Sports app, which allows users to track sports scores in real-time, today expanded its coverage of soccer. With the new 3.1 update, fans of the FA Community Shield soccer tournament can now follow along inside Apple Sports. Also notable is that the app is now available to download in Mexico. This means fans of Liga MX can now use the app for the first time to track the performance of their local teams, as well as how they fare in the MLS Leagues Cup. Apple also said the app has incre

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GIGABYTE's new AI PCs are slim, multitasking powerhouses for professionals

zdnet.com Unknown 2026-01-18 16:00:00

GIGABYTE ZDNET BrandX for GIGABYTE For the modern on-the-go professional, there are two non-negotiables when it comes to laptops: It has to be light, and it has to be powerful. Until recently, these two demands were in conflict. The lighter a laptop was, the less likely that it could make it through a long remote workday or a transatlantic flight without its battery dying or the entire system overheating. GIGABYTE's new AI laptops are powerhouse machines designed for gamers and creators, but

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Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack because of a major security flaw

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2026-01-18 15:01:03

Hackers have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s SharePoint software, placing tens of thousands of on-premises servers used by global businesses and agencies at risk. Microsoft issued an alert on Saturday disclosing that it was aware of “active attacks,” and that it was working to patch the zero-day exploit. Researchers at Eye Security first identified the vulnerability on July 18th, which allows hackers to access certain on-premises versions of SharePoint and steal keys that can let them

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The best Android phones for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-18 18:01:27

Read our full Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL review Processor: Google Tensor G4 | Display: 6.3-inch Super Actua, up to 120Hz | Cameras: Rear array (50MP wide, 48MP ultrawide with Macro Focus, 48MP 5x telephoto lens), 42MP dual PD selfie front camera with autofocus | Battery: 4,700mAh Finally, a smaller Pixel Pro. Google's Pixel series has long been one of the best Android phones around, with the Pro model being the superior version. But it was always a little too big and too cumbersome

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I still prefer my Google Pixel 9 Pro over the expensive flagships - and it's not even close

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-18 17:45:13

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Last year, I was emphatic that my time with Pixel phones was over because Google had announced it was planning to inject even more AI "goodness" into Android. I saw that as an opportunity to jump ship. My goal was to buy the Nothing Phone 3. Then, as fate would have it, Nothing CEO Carl Pei announced that his company was going all-in on AI, and the next Nothing Phone would leverage the technology in ways no other device had. Foiled again. Also: This hidden Pixel camera set

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Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 11:13:33

AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture GPUs, which have 3rd-generation Matrix Cores, improved the performance of Generalized Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) operations. The table below compares theoretical FLOPS/clock/CU (floating point operations per clock, per compute unit) to previous generations. However, we changed the VGPR layout for the arguments of Wave Matrix Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) operations compared to the previous RDNA 3 generation [1]. Therefore, it does not have ba

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The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus

theverge.com Mia Sato 2026-01-17 22:00:00

On Thursday night, I toggled endlessly between a TikTok Live stream and a shopping app in anticipation of 9:30PM. For 30 minutes, I hunted for an available listing; many expletives were uttered. I exhibited bot behavior and got iced out of the app multiple times. I tapped so many times my thumbs got sore. This is Labubu drop night. Something that’s lost in the Labubu mania is that actually buying one from the source is, in one word, maddening. There are, of course, countless fake options (“Lafu

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Hacking a Toniebox

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-18 08:16:36

Hack all the things - Toniebox 17. Jun 2025 Continuing my Hack all the things series, I’m doing something slightly different today. So far I’ve hacked my PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS, but this time I want to talk about my Toniebox. Or rather…my kids’ Toniebox. If you’re unfamiliar with the thing, it’s a little music box with a built-in speaker, two little “ears” to raise or lower the volume and an NFC reader at the top. Instead of putting in cassettes or CDs (yes, I’m old!), you instead put litt

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Speeding up my ZSH shell

news.ycombinator.com Scott Spence 2026-01-18 05:51:44

Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest, again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say ages, more like 5+ seconds every time I opened a new terminal, that sort of thing can add up. This is just something I’ve lived with over the years, nothing has prompted this other than me wondering why it’s slow, then searching for how to profile it. So, what’s actually slowing things down? Zsh comes with this super handy profiling tool called zprof . Here’s

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FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

news.ycombinator.com Mark Tyson 2026-01-18 11:51:41

The developers behind the FFmpeg project are again claiming major performance uplifts delivered by wielding the art of handwritten assembly code. With the latest patch applied, users should see a “100x speedup” in the cross-platform open-source media transcoding application. However, the developers were soon to clarify that the 100x claim applies to just a single function, “not the whole of FFmpeg.” BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly13:55:30 <•haasn> rangedetect8_avx512: 12

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I tasked Alexa Plus with tackling my to-do list — it was hit or miss

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2026-01-18 02:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. One of the best features of Amazon’s new Alexa Plus is that I don’t have to “speak Alexa” anymore. I’ve been testing the voice assistant for about a week now, and it understands what I say, regardless of how I say it — there’s no more need for precise phrasing to get Alexa to do what I want. This big shift underpins anoth

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Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-18 06:30:12

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel. As detailed in a new paper published today in the journal Joule, the team found that their proposed "photothermal strategy" — essentially converting light into heat — could effectively convert carbon dioxide from extracted water into carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and oxygen gas, a "potential route for sustaining human life on the Moon and enabling long-term extraterrestrial exploration." "

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The best colors we’ve seen on Google Pixel phones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-18 11:00:40

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google will finally launch the Pixel 10 series next month, and leakers have apparently already revealed all the colors. These shades include Obsidian and Porcelain, with Lemongrass and Indigo adding a much-needed splash of color. So we thought now would be a good time to choose our favorite Google Pixel phone colors ever. I asked the Android Authority team to choose their favorite shades, tallied their choices, and created this list. Do note that we excluded the

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XMLUI

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Jon Udell 2026-01-18 10:03:39

In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on the shoulders of the coders who built those components. If you’re younger than 45 you may not know what that was like, nor realize web components have never worked the same way. The project we’re announcing today, XMLUI, brings the VB model to the modern web and its React-based component ecosystem. XML

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How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether

wired.com David Nield 2026-01-18 06:30:00

Artificial intelligence is now more pervasive than ever in the apps and gadgets we use day to day, and that of course extends to smartphones: Google Gemini on Pixels and other Android handsets, Apple Intelligence (currently still rolling out) on iPhones, and Galaxy AI on Samsung smartphones. These tools can help you refine text, generate images, and summarize documents, among other tricks, and you don't have to go far through your apps to find an AI feature ready and willing to help you with so

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I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2026-01-18 08:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. One of the best features of Amazon’s new Alexa Plus is that I don’t have to “speak Alexa” anymore. I’ve been testing the voice assistant for about a week now, and it understands what I say, regardless of how I say it — there’s no more need for precise phrasing to get Alexa to do what I want. This big shift underpins anoth

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The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is my first foldable phone, and it totally caught me off guard

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-18 11:00:10

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority I’ve handled every foldable phone Samsung has ever launched. I have admired their engineering. I have watched with jealousy as people at airport lounges and hotel lobbies dramatically unfold their devices like they were unfolding a future I have purposely denied myself. But despite my curiosity and awe, I’ve stayed far, far away from foldables, especially book-style devices. Samsung’s flip phones still felt closer to home for someone like me who’s used only sla

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I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2026-01-13 16:14:42

With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoyingly called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. Vibe coding is when you rely almost entirely on these “AI” system to write your code for you via a series of drawn-out conversations. Putting on my cranky old man hat, I find most of it rather frustrating. Now I’m not some retro-sycophant who refuses to use modern tools. I’ve been a software professional for over 30 years at this point and I’ve used lots of tools throughout the

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The 43 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (July 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2026-01-17 08:00:00

Streaming services are known for having award-worthy series but also plenty of duds. Our guide to the best TV shows on Netflix is updated weekly to help you know which series you should move to the top of your queue. They aren’t all surefire winners—we love a good less-than-obvious gem—but they’re all worth your time, trust us. Feel like you’ve already watched everything on this list that you want to see? Try our guide to the best movies on Netflix for more options. And if you’ve already comple

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Anker Nebula X1 review: a terrific home theater that goes anywhere

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2026-01-18 06:19:35

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. I seldom sleep in the same place for more than a couple of weeks at a time, so I’m a big fan of portable all-in-one projectors. They’re small and set up quickly, making them ideal for vanlife, gaming parties, outdoor movie nights, or an evening in on the couch — but they usually sacrifice quality for convenience. Anker’s new Nebula X1 p

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I tried Vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2026-01-13 22:14:42

With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoyingly called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. Vibe coding is when you rely almost entirely on these “AI” system to write your code for you via a series of drawn-out conversations. Putting on my cranky old man hat, I find most of it rather frustrating. Now I’m not some retro-sycophant who refuses to use modern tools. I’ve been a software professional for over 30 years at this point and I’ve used lots of tools throughout the

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Is the iPhone 17 Pro Going to Be Big and Orange? We Rounded Up the Rumors

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-18 05:27:00

Key takeaways: The rumored iPhone 17 Pro is expected to be released in early September. The Pro is rumored to be getting a scratch-resistant antireflective display. Colors could include black, silver, dark blue and orange. The new iPhone is likely just a couple of months away from release, and rumors about an iPhone 17 Pro have been ramping up. Although whispers about an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air have hogged a lot of the attention, the Pro models tend to include more upgraded features. In addi

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This charging iPad mount turns your car into a mobile movie theater – Kuxiu X97 [Hands-on]

9to5mac.com Fernando Silva 2026-01-18 05:10:15

Early last year, Kuxiu released its X33 Pro Max iPad stand. It was the first stand to incorporate pin connectors into a magnetic stand to be able to charge your iPad. It was a fantastic idea. As a stand, it’s built very well, is high quality, does everything you need a stand to do, and gets the job done, but the fact that it also instantly charges the iPad was a game-changer for my setups. But now, they’ve brought the same tech but into your car with a mountable, magnetically charging iPad stand

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A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

news.ycombinator.com Abu Baker 2026-01-13 15:02:37

The United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor estimates that the world generates over 60 million tonnes of e-waste annually. Furthermore, this number is rising five times as fast as e-waste recycling. Much of this waste comes from prematurely discarded electronic devices. Many enterprises follow a standard three-year replacement cycle, assuming older computers are inefficient. However, many of these devices are still functional and could perform well with minor upgrades or maintenance. The issue i

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This lightweight Linux distro makes switching from Windows 10 easy

The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors

XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation

Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX confirms $44 million stolen during hack

The floating robot collecting rubbish in our waterways

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is doing something no Galaxy Fold has done before

Apple Sports app expands soccer coverage and launches in a new country

GIGABYTE's new AI PCs are slim, multitasking powerhouses for professionals

Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack because of a major security flaw

The best Android phones for 2025

I still prefer my Google Pixel 9 Pro over the expensive flagships - and it's not even close

Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs

The frenzied, gamified chase for Labubus

Hacking a Toniebox

Speeding up my ZSH shell

FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

I tasked Alexa Plus with tackling my to-do list — it was hit or miss

Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

The best colors we’ve seen on Google Pixel phones

XMLUI

How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether

I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is my first foldable phone, and it totally caught me off guard

I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

The 43 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (July 2025)

Anker Nebula X1 review: a terrific home theater that goes anywhere

I tried Vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

Is the iPhone 17 Pro Going to Be Big and Orange? We Rounded Up the Rumors

This charging iPad mount turns your car into a mobile movie theater – Kuxiu X97 [Hands-on]

A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

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