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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

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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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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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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 10:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

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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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Samsung Announces Plans to Plaster Your Smart Fridge With Digital Advertisements

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 13:30:14

If it's digital, it can have a screen. And if it has a screen, it can show you ads. That's the logic that dominates the electronics and tech industry these days, and it's now coming to bear on an essential household appliance: the fridge. We call it a fridge, but after reading this, you may yearn for the days when they functioned as a mere icebox. Friend of the advertising industry Samsung announced that it will start plastering ads on its Family Hub™ refrigerators in the US, rendering your bl

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Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 14:15:17

Presidential Actions RESTRICTION ON ENTRY OF CERTAIN NONIMMIGRANT WORKERS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor. The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program h

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Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 15:04:35

2023-10-06 Wayland We on the XMonad devteam (Tomáš, Tony, Yecine, and myself) have been collecting contributions for the past two years with an eye toward paying someone to work on a port of XMonad to Wayland, since none of us is up to the task. We think we now have enough contributions coming in monthly to pay for someone to work with us on it. Problem is, we have no idea who can do this. So this is a call for help, looking for someone who can write it. There is an existing project but it’s

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Trump's $175 Billion Golden Dome is Turning Into a Disaster

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 14:41:00

Months after US president Donald Trump signed off on a long-range missile defense system called the "Golden Dome," officials and the public are still in the dark on how to finish the project — and experts warn its price tag will be far higher than previously disclosed. After being given a 60-day deadline to come up with a plan for the project, Space Force General Michael Guetlein said the blueprint is complete — but wasn't able to give any details about the scope, timeline, or cost, Bloomberg r

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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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Rails Needs New Governance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 17:41:11

The title card of Tom Stuart’s presentation, The DHH Problem. Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name. The DHH Problem Back in 2014, Tom Stuart delivered a pithy yet salient lightning talk at the Scottish Ruby Conference titled The DHH Pr

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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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Samsung One UI 8.5 wants to save you from a strobe-induced seizure (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 22:22:44

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR One UI 8.5 has leaked, and one new feature we’ve already spotted appears to be a system for combatting photosensitive epilepsy. Your phone will detect when video contains flashing lights, and automatically dim the screen. It’s still unclear if this will be available for all devices getting One UI 8.5, and if it will work for gaming. Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) may often be played for comic effect on shows like The Simpsons, where characters are briefly

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Tim Cook Swears Tariffs Aren’t to Blame for iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-09-20 20:40:43

Apple CEO Tim Cook wants everyone—especially Donald Trump—to know that the company’s new iPhone Pro price hike has nothing to do with tariffs. “There’s no increase for tariffs in the prices to be totally clear,” Cook told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday, the launch day for Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup. Earlier this month, Apple announced it would be raising the starting price for its most advanced iPhone by $100. For the first time since the iPhone X debuted in 2017, Apple’s entry-level Pro model star

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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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Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 22:44:26

A two-day federal vaccine advisory meeting crammed with chaos, confusion, inept debate, bizarre comments, and a hot mic catching someone saying "you're an idiot," ended with an unexpected twist: The advisors unanimously voted—possibly unintentionally—to maintain broad access to COVID-19 vaccines. In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-

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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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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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Lego Game Boy Hands-On: Nintendo Didn’t Need to Go This Hard

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-09-21 02:40:48

Nintendo invited me to a “holiday showcase” to play upcoming Switch 2 titles like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2, Hades 2, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and Kirby Air Riders, but the only thing I can’t stop thinking about is the Lego Game Boy that was on display at the entrance. Announced at SDCC 2025, the Game Boy set is even better in person than in online renders. The brick-sized handheld, which is made of 421 brick pieces, costs $50 and comes out on Oct. 1. As

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Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 02:05:33

In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial "drunken monkey hypothesis" proposed that the human attraction to alcohol goes back about 18 million years, to the origin of the great apes, and that social communication and sharing food evolved to better identify the presence of fruit from a distance. At the time, skeptical scientists insisted that this was unlikely because chimpanzees an

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Microsoft raises Xbox console prices for the second time this year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 02:20:34

Less than a month ago, we looked at how current game console prices were historically high due to price increases from all three major console makers. Today, that analysis is already a bit out of date, as Microsoft has announced its second set of Xbox price increases this year in the US. The new Xbox price hikes, which will go into effect on October 3, or roughly five months after the last set of Xbox price hikes, are as follows: Xbox Series S 512GB: $400 (up from $380 in May / launched at $30

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Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-09-21 02:55:54

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang descended on the United Kingdom this week, armed with a pledge to invest £2 billion ($2.6 billion) to supercharge the country’s AI startup ecosystem. Wayve, the UK-based self-driving tech startup, could be one of those to receive funds from Nvidia’s AI investment commitment, the company told TechCrunch. Wayve said it has signed a letter of intent with Nvidia to evaluate a $500 million strategic investment in the U.K. startup’s next funding round. Nvidia participated in W

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Microsoft raises Xbox prices in U.S. due to economic environment

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-09-21 06:37:08

Microsoft said on Friday that it will increase the recommended retail price of several Xbox consoles in the U.S. starting in October because of "changes in the macroeconomic environment." The company said it would not increase prices for accessories such as controllers and headsets, and that prices in other countries would stay the same. While Microsoft didn't explicitly attribute the increase to the Trump administration's tariffs, many consumer companies have been warning for months that high

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Microsoft is making Xbox consoles even more expensive in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-21 06:34:21

Starting on October 3, Microsoft says Xbox consoles will be getting yet another price bump, this time ranging anywhere from a $20 increase on the company's entry-level model to $70 for a special edition model with 2TB of storage. If all of this sounds familiar, there's a good reason, the last time xbox prices were raised was only a few months ago in May. The price increases breakdown as follows: Xbox Series S (512GB): $400, up $20 from $380 Xbox Series S (1TB): $450 up $20 from $430 Xbox Ser

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With Strings Attached

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Noël 2025-09-18 15:59:45

In March 2025, an anonymous buyer purchased the 1715 “Baron Knoop” Stradivarius for $23 million (U.S.), making it the most expensive violin ever sold. (The seller, the American stringed-instrument collector David L. Fulton, had purchased it for a more modest $2.75 million in 1992.) Previous record setters have included the 1721 “Lady Blunt,” which fetched $15.9 million in 2011, and the “Joachim‑Ma,” which went for $11.25 million in February 2025. All three of these models were made by Antonio S

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Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 12:40:35

After more than 27,000 people signed our open letter to Oracle about the “JavaScript” trademark, we filed a formal Cancellation Petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Ten months in, we’re finally reaching the crucial discovery phase. Deno initiated this petition since we have legal standing as a JavaScript runtime, but it’s really on behalf of all developers. If we win, “JavaScript” becomes public domain – free for all developers, conferences, book authors, and companies to use witho

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Scientists Find a Tattoo–Cancer Link—But It’s Not What You’d Expect

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-21 06:25:08

You may have heard lately that tattoos can potentially raise your risk of skin cancer. Recent research might complicate that narrative, however, suggesting that tattoos aren’t as harmful to our skin as assumed. Scientists at the University of Utah led the study, published last month in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Contrary to their expectations, they found that people who had multiple tattoos actually had a lower associated risk of melanoma. That said, the findings don’t provid

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Microsoft Is Torpedoing Xbox With Yet Another Price Hike

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-21 06:54:04

Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles… again. The previous price hike shifted expectations for both the Xbox Series S and Series X. The new pricing structure demands so much money from consumer wallets it seems nobody in their right mind would buy an Xbox in this day and age. The new pricing structure begins Oct. 3. In a post to its support page, Microsoft blamed today’s “macroeconomic environment,” which is a longer way to say “Trump tariffs.” All consoles are demanding at least $50 mor

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Two of the Kremlin’s most active hack groups are collaborating, ESET says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-21 06:35:38

Two of the Kremlin’s most active hacking units recently were spotted collaborating in malware attacks that compromise high-value devices located in Ukraine, security researchers said Friday. One of the groups is Turla, which is easily one of the world’s most sophisticated advanced persistent threats (well-organized and well-funded hacking groups, many backed by nation states, that target specific adversaries for years at a time). Researchers from multiple security firms largely agree that Turla

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

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