Samsung's new Z Fold 8 Ultra brings design and software changes geared toward power users and enthusiasts.

OPINION Linux now being officially not anti-AI might be good news for projects that are explicitly anti-AI, but we foresee problems with conflict over where the money and development effort come from. A couple of weeks ago, reluctant geek superstar Linus Torvalds...

Federal student loan terms can change from one academic year to the next. For instance, every spring, the Treasury Department determines the fixed interest rate for federal student loans for the upcoming award year, which runs from July 1 to June 30. Borrowers know...

When it comes to driving, most of us want to get to our destination as quickly (and safely) as possible. After all, given how bad sitting behind the wheel is for your health, who wants to be in a car any longer than they have to be? Most of us might expect that, when...

Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated user triggers it by committing two crafted Jupyter notebooks...

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Samsung took a risk with its latest-gen foldables and smartwatches at Unpacked. We were on the ground in London - here's our analysis.

A researcher has explained how an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to target industrial organizations. The post Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software appeared first on SecurityWeek.

EVs are less mechanically complicated than their combustion kin, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune to component failure. The Integrated Charge Control Unit (ICCU) has been the main failure point in recent Hyundai/Kia EVs, and ICCU Observer is an attempt to log data...

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EPISODE 14 The morning coffee in Mission Control is interrupted by a hesitant tapping at the door. Our current office temp has an issue. "It's the printer," she says, apologetically. "It makes a noise." "When it's printing, or all the time?" the PFY asks. "Sort of...

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For years, economists have predicted that artificial intelligence would hollow out the labor market. Machines would write the code, analyze the contracts, draft the emails, and automate the work that once defined white-collar status. What would remain, they argued,...

Somewhere right now, an employee is getting an automated flag for spending too long away from their keyboard. Another is being scored on keystroke volume. And another is having their Slack tone analyzed by an algorithm to determine whether they are a retention risk....

[Ivan Miranda] is famous for his large-scale 3D printed vehicles. They’re pretty fun, but they’re also pretty big and heavy—which can make transporting them around rather impractical. Hence, when he had reason to travel with a 3D printed go kart, he went back to the...

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044074 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

Seizure in zebrafish larva imaged using AO setup. (Credit: Bingxi Liu et al., Biomedical Optics Express, 2026) Key to understanding something like epilepsy is to be able to record highly transient events in biological tissues. Generally this is done using light sheet...

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

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Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price." That's welcome news for enterprises beset by rising token costs. Fable 5 prices tokens at $10 / MTok input and $50 / MTok...