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—Jessica Hamzelou Earlier this week, my editor forwarded me a video of the leaders of Russia and China talking about immortality. “These days at 70 years old you are still a child,” China’s Xi Jinping, 72, was translated as saying. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live […]
A threat actor possibly of Russian origin has been attributed to a new set of attacks targeting the energy sector in Kazakhstan. The activity, codenamed Operation BarrelFire, is tied to a new threat group tracked by Seqrite Labs as Noisy Bear. The threat actor has been active since at least April 2025. “The campaign is […]
Vibe Coding, has a stigma about it as you’re not supposed to care about the code, only getting results. This was an instant turn-off for me – I care deeply about the code and the follow on security implications of not caring. However, I’ve started to wonder if I’ve begun to vibe code, even just […]
I know it can feel like a unicorn, but most bug reports do, in fact, contain steps to reproduce the error (or repro steps). As wonderful as it is to have those, the process of walking through and validating everything is still tedious. In a perfect world, we’d have end-to-end or acceptance tests that could […]
September 5, 2025 Ryan welcomes Jeffrey van Gogh, Director of Engineering, Android Developer Experience, at Google and board member of the Kotlin Foundation. They discuss the evolution of the Kotlin language from JVM to multiplatform, how their governance board works with the community to stop breaking changes, and the intricacies of Kotlin’s multiplatform capabilities beyond […]
Achieving a research-level understanding of most topics is like climbing a mountain. Aspiring researchers must struggle to understand vast bodies of work that came before them, to learn techniques, and to gain intuition. Upon reaching the top, the new researcher begins doing novel work, throwing new stones onto the top of the mountain and making […]
An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it’s mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo […]
from the who-needs-to-see-the-big-dipper-anyway dept For years, scientific researchers have warned that Elon Musk’s Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband constellations are harming scientific research. Simply put, the light pollution Musk claimed would never happen in the first place is making it far more difficult to study the night sky, a problem researchers say can be mitigated somewhat but […]
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 series features an upgraded plastic pull tab for easier battery removal than its predecessor. Apple and Samsung’s methods for battery removal are more efficient, showing that Google still has further room for improvement. The Pixel 10 series is the talk of the town, and there are […]
Choosing the best laptop can be a bit of a challenge — there are so many models, sizes and specs out there that it’s easy to feel lost in the shuffle. But the good news is that modern laptops are better than ever. Whether you’re looking for a powerful AI PC, a travel-ready ultrabook or […]
