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The best satellite phones of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

We tested the best satellite phones and communicators from companies like SpaceX, Garmin, and Inmarsat, which offer features like messaging, live tracking, and SOS capabilities.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Trump can’t keep China from getting AI chips, TSMC suggests

As Trump eyes chip controls, TSMC fears its tariff-proof era will end.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

β€˜We got stuck in puddles’: skiers upset by lack of snow on Swedish slopes

Customers at SkiStar resort in SΓ€len, one of Sweden’s largest, say they deserve a partial refundOutraged skiers in northern Sweden claim they should have been given a discount after finding more mud than snow on the slopes at a popular ski destination.Visitors complained of slush, water and damaged equipment because there was insufficient snow for skiing. Continue reading...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Bluesky is getting blue checkmarks and an official verification system

Bluesky is adopting an official verification system after all. In an update, the company said it plans to grant blue checkmarks to β€œauthentic and notable” accounts. It will also allow some β€œtrusted organizations" to verify users as well. The change is a notable shift for the upstart platform, which previously resisted the idea of centralized verification. Up to now, the company has relied on a domain-based verification...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Fake PDF converters are spreading malware to steal user information and worse - here's how to stay secure

Cybercriminals are impersonating a popular online PDF converter to steal your data, and worse.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: TechRadar favicon TechRadar

Can Cybersecurity Weather the Current Economic Chaos?

Cybersecurity firms tend to be more software- and service-oriented than their peers, and threats tend to increase during a downturn, leaving analysts hopeful that the industry will buck a recession.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Dark Reading favicon Dark Reading

FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices

Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-takes-action-against-uber-deceptive-billing-cancellation-practices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754274 Points: 271 # Comments: 133

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Hacker News favicon Hacker News

We tested Intel's new '200S Boost' feature: 7% higher gaming performance thanks to memory overclocking, now covered by the warranty

Intel's new "Intel 200S Boost" feature for its Arrow Lake processors enhances gaming performance by providing official warranty coverage for a subset of overclocking features, mostly oriented around the memory and fabric speeds.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Tom's Hardware favicon Tom's Hardware

Nasdaq-listed Upexi shares up 630% after $100M raise, SOL treasury

Upexi, a brand owner that specializes in supply chain management, is diversifying into the cryptocurrency sector. On April 21, the company announced a $100 million raise, with over 90% earmarked for building a Solana (SOL) treasury strategy.After the announcement, shares of Upexi have skyrocketed from a $2.30 close on April 17 to $16.79 at this writing, marking a 632% jump for the day.UPXI intraday performance on the...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Cointelegraph favicon Cointelegraph

These 6 lightweight Linux apps let older PCs run blazing fast

Migrating your aging Windows 10 computer to Linux? Try these essential, lightweight apps - my favorites for keeping older machines humming along. And they're all free.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

a16z acqui-hires VC tech podcaster Erik Torenberg, who joins as new partner

Andreessen Horowitz’s hiring spree continues. On Monday, Erik Torenberg announced that the giant VC firm had acquired his Turpentine podcast, with him joining as a general partner. Torenberg’s podcast focuses mostly on interviewing VCs at a variety of firms about their approach to investing. Recent guests include Accel’s Andrew Braccia, Seven Seven Six’s Alexis Ohanian, […]

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch favicon TechCrunch

Instagram is ramping up AI-powered age detection on teen users

Instagram is using AI-powered age detection technology to enroll young users lying about their age into Teen Accounts.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Digital Trends favicon Digital Trends

Why Do Modern Fighter Jets Have Lower Top Speeds?

Although technology has advanced over time, it appears fighter jet speeds have not. Why is this, and what has replaced speed in the priorities?

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

How Instagram is using AI to uncover teen accounts lying about their age

Choosing a birth year from the 1900s won't work anymore, kids.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

Nintendo is going after the person behind last year’s massive PokΓ©mon leak

Nintendo is going after the leaker behind last year’s massive PokΓ©mon data breach, according to a report by Polygon. The company has asked a California court to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind the leak, who goes by the name "GameFreakOUT" on the platform. Nintendo wants Discord to release the name, address, phone number and email address of the leaker. It said in a subpoena that the person...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Apple releases beta 3 for visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and more

New beta software has just been released. Apple has shipped developer beta 3 across its various forthcoming updates, including visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and more. more…

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

Why 100s of the Top CROs, CMOs, CCOs, and CFOs Are Coming to SaaStr Annual 2025β€”and Why You Should Too

SaaStr Annual 2025 is not just another SaaS eventβ€”it’s thelargest gathering of SaaS, Cloud, and AI founders in the world, and this year, we’re taking it to the next level with the second year of our VIP Summits. These exclusive, role-specific gatherings are designed to bring together the best and brightest revenue and operational leaders... Continue Reading

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

AWS Weekly Roundup: Upcoming AWS Summits, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon CloudFront updates, and more (April 21, 2025)

Last week, we had the AWS Summit Amsterdam, one of the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) events that offers you the opportunity to learn from technical and industry leaders, and meet AWS experts and like-minded professionals. In particular, most AWS Summits have Developer and Community Lounges in their exhibition halls. A photo taken by Thembile […]

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: AWS Blog favicon AWS Blog

AMD 16-core Zen 5c die shots show long, narrow CCX, all 16 cores sharing a single L3 cache

Die shots of AMD's new Zen 5c die have been exposed, revealing a drastically different design compared to Zen 4c, featuring a single-CCX design with a highly elongated shape.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Tom's Hardware favicon Tom's Hardware

Chris’ Corner: Rounded Triangle Boxes and Our Shapely Future

I enjoyed Trys Mudford’s explanation of making rounded triangular boxes. It was a very real-world client need, and I do tend to prefer reading about technical solutions to real problems over theoretical ones. This one was tricky because this particular shape doesn’t have a terribly obvious way to draw it on the web. CSS’ clip-path […]

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: CodePen Blog favicon CodePen Blog

SEC Still Plans on Charging Miami Crypto Companyβ€”But It's Vowing to Fight Back

Miami-based Unicoin was given until April 18 to agree to a settlement with the SEC. CEO Alex Konanykhin plans to fight the charges in court.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Decrypt favicon Decrypt

The best iPad cases for kids of 2025: Protect your kids' tablets

Choose the perfect tablet case for your whole family, with the best kid-tested and parent-approved iPad cases for kids with features like keyboards, carrying handles, built-in screen protectors, and more.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: ZDNet favicon ZDNet

macOS Sequoia 15.5 beta 3 now available

Apple has just released new beta software for its upcoming Mac update. macOS Sequoia 15.5 beta 3 is now available for developers. more…

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: 9to5Mac favicon 9to5Mac

Racing into 2025 with new GitHub Innovation Graph data

Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the quarterly release of data for the Innovation Graph, updated through December 2024. The post Racing into 2025 with new GitHub Innovation Graph data appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: GitHub Blog favicon GitHub Blog

Star Wars: Zero Companyβ€˜s Developers Want You to Shape Its Story as Much as They Do

io9 sat down with some of the team behind the new Star Wars game to discuss why now is the time for the galaxy far, far away to go turn-based tactical.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Gizmodo favicon Gizmodo

Simplifying Vector Embeddings With Go, Cosmos DB, and OpenAI

When working on applications that require vector, semantic, or similarity search, it's often useful to have a quick and easy way to create vector embeddings of data and save them in a vector database for further querying. This blog will walk you through a simple web application that allows you to quickly generate vector embeddings for various document types and store them directly in Azure Cosmos DB. Once stored, this...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: DZone favicon DZone

5 Cheap Car Battery Jump Starters With Good Reviews

Every person who owns a car should have a jump starter in case of an emergency. If you need one, here are the best options according to reviews.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: SlashGear favicon SlashGear

What Makes Code Vulnerable – And How to Fix It

Writing code is relatively easy. But writing secure code is much harder. The truth is, most developers don’t realize their code is vulnerable until something breaks. Or, worse, until someone attacks it. So if you want secure code, you first have to k...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: freeCodeCamp favicon freeCodeCamp

How to watch Bethesda reveal the Oblivion remake

Barring a completely shocking turn of events, it seems that Microsoft and Bethesda are about to formally unveil the long-rumored remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. The publisher will hold a livestream on Tuesday, April 21 at 11AM ET. You can watch it on YouTube or right here by clicking the play button on the above video when the time is right. Bethesda hasn't explicitly said what the stream is about. The YouTube...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Engadget favicon Engadget

Pope Francis warned against new technology replacing human relationships in final weeks

Pope Francis shared a prescient warning about technology just weeks before his death.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

In depth with Windows 11 Recallβ€”and what Microsoft has (and hasn’t) fixed

Original botched launch still haunts new version of data-scraping AI feature.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica

This is your last chance to score 25% off certified refurbished tech at Sonos

Time's running out! Save 25% on Sonos certified refurbished speakers, soundbars, and more. This deal ends April 22.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Mashable favicon Mashable

Boeing investors brace for fallout from Trump tariffs

Jets intended for Chinese airline returned to US, raising fears for planemaker as results nearChina sends back new Boeing jet made more expensive by tariffsInvestors in Boeing are braced to learn the full impact of Donald Trump’s trade war, amid fears the US planemaker could be hit harder than first expected after jets intended for a Chinese airline were returned to the US.A Boeing 737 Max 8 plane intended for use by a...

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: The Guardian World News favicon The Guardian World News

Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward

The court ruled that Google has a search monopoly. Now, we learn the consequences.

Published on: April 21, 2025 | Source: Ars Technica favicon Ars Technica