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Scammers Are Now Driving Around With Fake Cell Towers That Blast 100,000 Texts Per Hour

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 10:00:38

Leave it to phone scammers to innovate new ways to be as annoying — and scummy — as humanly possible. These cybercriminals are no longer content with just sending you the odd phishing text or two. As Wired reports, more and more of them are using so-called "SMS blasters" that basically act as a portable cell tower, tricking your phones into connecting with them as they cruise by. The scammers walk or drive around with the devices, firing out a ludicrous volume of SMS messages that contain dange

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I finally found a pair of earbuds that will record and transcribe my calls - for free

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-20 07:45:27

Oso AI Earbuds ZDNET's key takeaways The Oso AI earbuds are available for $249. They record calls, meetings, and conversations, and generate accurate transcripts and AI summaries. They're pricey, some features are behind a premium tier, and without ANC, they won't replace your primary pair of earbuds. View now at Oso Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Earbuds aren't all about playing the best music, anymore. Productivity-minded earbuds are a thing -- sacrificing some audio

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Save up to $700 on Razer's newest gaming laptop - and get a free game

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-09-20 08:00:37

'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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Don't make this SSD mistake - here's the model I recommend for easy data transferring

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-09-20 09:01:05

'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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5 ways volunteer work pays off - even for the busiest executive

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-09-20 10:00:27

fstop123/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Going beyond your own business boosts your knowledge. You can build networks and create useful contacts. Giving something back also helps you feel good. Senior executives are so busy transforming their businesses that it's difficult to make room for experiences beyond the firewall. However, evidence suggests that non-executive director positions can help leaders t

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Wi-Fi router vs. mesh system: I compared both - and here's what I'd choose

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-09-20 10:58:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Routers are cheaper, faster, and easier to set up. Mesh systems fix dead zones with wider coverage. Choose based on budget, home size, and connection needs. With the adoption of remote and hybrid working, having a reliable internet connection at home is imperative -- not just for one device, but for several. If you have a family, maybe even dozens. So what's better, one single access point, or a me

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Netflix: 22 of the Best Fantasy TV Shows to Stream Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 10:00:06

Netflix is a heavy-hitter when it comes to epic fantasy TV shows. I think we can all agree on that. You can probably point to other streamers like Prime Video or Disney Plus -- they've got solid genre libraries -- but Netflix has always been on top. It wasn't long ago when fantasy shows on television were all about slaying dragons and conquering thrones. The content landscape has changed a lot since the days of Game of Thrones, and there are so many cool stories and worlds we can immerse oursel

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Meta’s Smart Glasses Might Make You Smarter. They’ll Certainly Make You More Awkward

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-09-20 10:00:00

On an earnings call this summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an ambitious claim about the future of smart glasses, saying he believes that someday people who don’t wear AI-enabled smart spectacles (ideally his) will find themselves at a “pretty significant cognitive disadvantage” compared to their smart-glasses-clad kin. Meta’s most recent attempt to demonstrate the humanity-enhancing capabilities of its face computing platform didn’t do a very good job of bolstering that argument. In a live

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Trump and Xi discuss future of TikTok in US

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-20 10:34:04

Trump and Xi discuss future of TikTok in US Watch: Trump says TikTok deal approved by Chinese President Xi TikTok, which is run by Chinese firm ByteDance, was previously told it had to sell its US operations or risk being shut down. China's official state news agency Xinhua left the outcome of their discussion less clear, with Xi quoted as saying that Beijing "welcomes negotiations over TikTok". Trump wrote on Truth Social that the call was "productive" and he "appreciated" Xi's approval of

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Mini: Tonemaps (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 09:04:21

Good day. One of the first things you learn about shaders is that color values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This is known as 8-bit “unorm” color, because each channel has 256 color values, is unsigned (meaning no negatives) and normalized to the 0.0 to 1.0 range. Most of the time, we don’t need to think about this because 8-bits is enough for outputting colors to the screen. Sometimes, blending 8-bit colors is just not enough though. Today I want to show demonstration when you should care and what to

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A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 02:24:14

This 3D-printed contraption is by Igor Daemen, an Eindhoven-based product designer. "I designed this businesscard embosser to be modular and 3D printable without using any support and without any hardware required to assemble," he writes. "The tolerances are tight," Daemen explains. "And some materials work better then others. I have had best results using Basic PLA." You can download the files for free here.

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If all the world were a monorepo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 18:33:45

As a software engineer raised on a traditional diet of C, Java, and Lisp, I’ve found myself downright baffled by R. I’m no stranger to mastering new programming languages, but learning R was something else: it felt like studying Finnish after a lifetime of speaking Romance languages. I’m not alone in this experience. There are piles of discussions online revealing the difficulty of using R, with some users becoming so enraged as to claim that R is “not actually a programming language”. My strug

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Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 08:02:29

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts. Less is safer It may sound obvious but the primary way we reduce the risk of supply chain attacks is to avoid depending on third-party code. Obsidian has a low number of dependencies compared to other apps in our category. See a list of open source libraries on our Credits page. Features like

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The New Meta Ray-Bans Might Be Your Next Disneyland Tour Guide

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 09:02:48

Walt Disney Imagineering is in the early stages of prototyping a new augmented reality experience at its theme parks. This week, the team released a video showing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses used as a personal virtual assistant inside Disneyland. Meta is just one of the companies Disney Imagineering R&D is working with on AR. The Ray-Ban smart glasses allow Disney guests to ask questions out loud and receive real-time responses with information about rides, attractions, merchandise, food and d

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Trump hits H-1B visas with $100,000 fee, targeting the program that launched Elon Musk and Instagram

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-09-20 11:34:22

President Trump just made it a lot more expensive for companies to hire foreign workers through the H-1B program. The White House announced Friday that Trump signed a proclamation requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, an enormous jump from the current $215 lottery registration fee. H-1B visas allow U.S. companies to hire foreign workers in fields that typically require technical expertise like IT, engineering, mathematics, or medicine. The program is ca

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US and China agree to agree on a TikTok deal

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 14:12:54

The long-promised deal to "save" TikTok remains elusive even as the US and China seem to be inching toward an agreement. On Friday, President Donald Trump did little to clarify where the deal currently stands following a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said both that the two had "made progress" on "approval of the TikTok Deal" and that he "appreciate[s] the TikTok approval." Trump also told reporters in the Oval Office that "he approved the TikTok deal,"

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Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:02:29

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts. Less is safer It may sound obvious but the primary way we reduce the risk of supply chain attacks is to avoid depending on third-party code. Obsidian has a low number of dependencies compared to other apps in our category. See a list of open source libraries on our Credits page. Features like

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CDC Panel Votes to Nix Current Covid Vaccine Recommendations

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-20 12:05:48

On Friday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to drop its recommendation that U.S. adults should generally receive the covid-19 vaccine, instead endorsing an individualized approach. In a unanimous decision, the ACIP members agreed that adults 65 and older should decide on their own or with their doctor whether to get vaccinated for covid-19. The ACIP also recommended that people between the ages of 6 months and 64 years make an individual decision about covid-19 vacc

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Elon Musk Fires 500 Staff at xAI, Puts College Kid in Charge of Training Grok

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 09:04:24

Remember when Elon Musk hired a bunch of youngsters to gut the federal government? Well, now he's put one in charge of a key division at his company xAI. Business Insider reports that the data annotation team that helps train the company's AI chatbot Grok is now being led by Diego Pasini, a college student who graduated from high school in 2023 — and who's been at the company for less than a year. His promotion comes right off the back of a brutal round of layoffs at the team which saw more th

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Get the latest Amazon Fire tablet for $90 right now

zdnet.com Monica Bell 2025-09-20 15:13:57

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If you're looking for a back-to-school tablet, our top-rated Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet is now available for 36% off at Amazon as an early October Prime Day deal, meaning you can score the latest model of the Fire HD 10 for just $90. We found this tablet to be an excellent option for those looking to stream media, game, or read e-books, and it's particularly well-suited for kids. Also: The best kids' tablets you can buy Our expert Maria Diaz previously reviewed the Amazon Fire

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Tonemaps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 19:04:21

Good day. One of the first things you learn about shaders is that color values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This is known as 8-bit “unorm” color, because each channel has 256 color values, is unsigned (meaning no negatives) and normalized to the 0.0 to 1.0 range. Most of the time, we don’t need to think about this because 8-bits is enough for outputting colors to the screen. Sometimes, blending 8-bit colors is just not enough though. Today I want to show demonstration when you should care and what to

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Microsoft Is Hiking Xbox Series Console Prices Again. Here's What You'll Pay This Fall

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 16:10:00

Microsoft will increase the prices of its Xbox Series consoles once again in October. This latest increase comes just five months after it raised prices due to tariffs. An Xbox support page notes the upcoming price increase happening on Oct. 3, as first reported by Windows Central on Friday. Console costs will jump $20 to $70, depending on the version. The new prices are: Xbox Series S 512GB: $380 to $400 Xbox Series S 1TB: $430 to $450 Xbox Series X Digital: $550 to $600 Xbox Series X: $6

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28 Best Travel Tech Gifts in 2025: Must-Have Gadgets for the Traveler in Your Life

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 17:00:00

You can't ask for a better travel companion than the highly portable (and affordable) JBL Go 4 speaker. It's waterproof, sounds great for its (tiny) size, recharges via USB-C and comes in a variety of fun colors too. It's a great way to enjoy music in your hotel room, on a picnic and anywhere in between. And if you happen to get it wet, no problem -- it has an IP67 waterproof and dustproof rating. It also made our pick for best pocket-friendly wireless speaker. Plus, you can get the JBL Go 4 sp

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Bad Luck for Zuckerberg: Why Meta Connect's Live Demos Flopped

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 18:50:00

This week's Meta Connect smart glasses event was, let's admit it, a little cringeworthy. Or at least I cringed when two of Meta's live demos epically failed. (A third live demo took some time but eventually worked.) During the event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg blamed it on the Wi-Fi connection. Now we know what actually happened. Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth addressed each of the live demos in an Instagram AMA (ask me anything) session on Thursday. Let's start with the first demo fai

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Microsoft Is Raising Xbox Series Console Prices Again. Here's What You'll Pay This Fall

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 21:10:44

Microsoft will increase the prices of its Xbox Series consoles once again in October. This latest increase comes just five months after it raised prices due to tariffs. An Xbox support page notes the upcoming price increase happening on Oct. 3, as first reported by Windows Central on Friday. Console costs will jump $20 to $70, depending on the version. The new prices are: Xbox Series S 512GB: $380 to $400 Xbox Series S 1TB: $430 to $450 Xbox Series X Digital: $550 to $600 Xbox Series X: $6

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RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Down Its Own Proposal to Require Prescriptions for Covid-19 Shots

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-09-20 22:39:56

On the second day of a pivotal vaccine meeting that was at times heated, confusing, and chaotic, a group of federal advisers chosen by Health and Human Services secretary and longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted against requiring a prescription to receive a Covid-19 vaccination. The vote took place after hours of discussion, in which several advisers sowed doubts about the Covid-19 vaccines and went on tangents about their safety and efficacy—both of which have been well-e

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Meta’s AR ambitions meet reality, and California gets serious about AI safety … again

techcrunch.com Theresa Loconsolo 2025-09-20 18:20:38

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves in AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.

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Why California’s SB 53 might provide a meaningful check on big AI companies

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-09-20 22:00:37

California’s state senate recently gave final approval to a new AI safety bill, SB 53, sending it to Governor Gavin Newsom to either sign or veto. If this all sounds familiar, that’s because Newsom vetoed another AI safety bill, also written by state senator Scott Wiener, last year. But SB 53 is narrower than Wiener’s previous SB 1047, with a focus on big AI companies making more than $500 million in annual revenue. I got the chance to discuss SB 53 with my colleagues Max Zeff and Kirsten Koro

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Best early October Prime Day 2025 PC gaming deals: Save big on laptops and accessories

zdnet.com Taylor Clemons 2025-09-21 02:25:49

'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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R MCP Server

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 06:18:54

RMCP: R Model Context Protocol Server Version 0.3.7 - A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 40 statistical analysis tools across 9 categories. RMCP enables AI assistants and applications to perform sophisticated statistical modeling, econometric analysis, machine learning, time series analysis, and data science tasks seamlessly through natural conversation. 🎉 Now with 40 statistical tools across 9 categories including natural language formula building and intelligent error r

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