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Googlebooks feel like the first laptops built for Android owners

There's a good chance that my next laptop will be a Googlebook. If you're an Android user like me, then yours might be too, because Google is making a compelling pitch: The Googlebook does for the Android phone what the MacBook does for the iPhone (and then some). John Maletis, Google's head of laptops and […]
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The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests

The Mac Studio review unit that Apple sent us to test this year is, put simply, kind of outrageous. It has an M5 Ultra chip with a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 256GB of RAM, and 4TB of storage and costs $12,299. This thing is not for your typical content creation workloads. It's for AI […]
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The Mac Mini is still mighty, just not as cheap

There are lots of compact desktop computers out there, but none match the Mac Mini's small size and big power. 2024's redesign reduced the Mini to 0.82L, a chassis so minimal you can easily mount it behind a monitor or under a desk. I've used gaming laptop charging bricks that are nearly as large and […]
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I got to see Google’s wild ideas about the future of laptops

There are a few things about using a Googlebook that immediately feel just right. The hardware is polished (since it's based on current laptops). The OS is familiar (if you've ever used a Chromebook). But most impressive, it integrates your Android phone with your PC so they feel more like one device. It's the culmination […]
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The long dream of the Googlebook

In late 2010, an up-and-coming Google executive named Sundar Pichai took the stage in front of a bunch of reporters and explained that Google had a big new idea about laptops. In the future, he said, the only thing you'd need on your computer was a web browser - that was where all your apps, […]
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These are the first five Googlebook laptops

Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner. There are five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to kick things off. They're available for preorder starting today and arrive in stores on October 4th. Starting prices range from $899 to $1,299, putting the Googlebooks in the same […]
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Vivo’s X500 Pro Max has 17 stops of dynamic range and 4K240 slo-mo

Vivo's new X500 flagship phones have arrived in China, and as usual the company's focus is firmly on photography. The X500 Pro Max - a new tier in its lineup - is the first phone to use new sensors and silicon from Sony and MediaTek that enable impressive dynamic range and slow-motion video recording. The […]
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iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlement

Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout. If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model between June 10th, 2024, and […]
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Can John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?

Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On.  Earlier this month, Apple hosted its annual iPhone hardware event, virtually every detail of which was reported ahead of time by Mark. But this event was […]
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Grab an Xbox controller and a $50 Xbox gift card together for just $80

Newegg is hosting a bundle that includes Microsoft’s wireless Xbox controller (in black) and a $50 digital Xbox gift card together for $80. Given that this model typically sits around $50 to $60 depending on the color you want, this is a fantastic value since it essentially knocks its price down to $30. Another way […]
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Externum launches today: one typed source Python, Bash or bytecode (with honest benchmarks)

One statically typed source compiles to readable CPython, a standalone set -euo pipefail bash script, or a source-less bytecode artifact. The compiler is written mostly in itself, bootstrapped from a 6.4 KB Python stub. Today Externum is launching (Show HN + DevHunt launch week). This post is the honest version of that story: what it does, what it's bad at, and the numbers I'd want to see before trusting any "multi-target compiler" pitch. The three backends Python target...
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Cómo solucionar `docker run` con exit code 1 en Raspberry Pi

Cómo solucionar docker run con exit code 1 en Raspberry Pi ¿Por qué ocurre este error? El código de salida 1 indica que el proceso principal del contenedor terminó con un error genérico. En Raspberry Pi, los casos más comunes son: Arquitectura incompatible : La imagen fue construida para amd64 (x86_64), pero Raspberry Pi usa arm32v7 o arm64v8 . Falta de binarios compatibles : El ENTRYPOINT o CMD de la imagen intenta ejecutar un binario compilado para otra...
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Backlinks as structured observations: designing a conservative link-audit result

A backlink audit is easier to debug when it returns observations rather than a single success flag. A page can be reachable while its link is missing; a link can exist while the checker has no evidence about indexing. This article proposes a small data contract for that distinction. It is a design note prepared with AI assistance, not a production benchmark. Keep evidence separate from conclusions For each check, record: source URL and intended destination; check timest...
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Building EduVetta: an AI tool for the parts of teaching nobody signed up for

I've spent the last few months building EduVetta, a small SaaS product for teachers. I want to write about what it does and why, without the usual "we're revolutionizing education" framing, because honestly it's a fairly narrow tool solving a fairly narrow problem. The problem, as I understood it Teachers spend a lot of time on tasks that are adjacent to teaching but aren't teaching: writing up what was covered in class, formatting a test, chasing down students who missed a lecture, mark...
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NPU, DPU, QPU: Which One Actually Belongs in Your Stack

Every hardware vendor keeps mailing you a new three-letter acronym like it's a subpoena. NPU. DPU. QPU. Somewhere a marketing team is very happy. Somewhere else, you're trying to figure out if any of this actually changes what you deploy on Tuesday. Short answer: two of these are already earning their keep in production today, and one is still mostly a research toy wearing a lab coat. Let's separate the hype from the workload. 🧠 NPU — Yes, If You're Doing On-Device Inference A...
Why fork() Doesn't Duplicate Memory: Copy-on-Write and the Page Table
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Why fork() Doesn't Duplicate Memory: Copy-on-Write and the Page Table

Calling fork() does not duplicate a process's memory space; it copies the page table hierarchy and sets every Page Table Entry to read-only. When either process attempts a write, the hardware MMU triggers a page fault exception, forcing the Linux kernel to allocate a new physical page, replicate the data via memcpy, and broadcast TLB shootdowns across CPU cores. High-throughput in-memory workloads encounter severe write amplification, elevated latency, and unexpected Out-of-Memory terminations. ...
How Hacktron Hacked OpenAI: What I Learned from an AI-Assisted Attack Chain
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How Hacktron Hacked OpenAI: What I Learned from an AI-Assisted Attack Chain

A few days ago, I came across a security research report from Hacktron that caught my attention. The researchers described how they chained multiple vulnerabilities to compromise OpenAI employee accounts and reach internal GitHub repositories. What makes the story particularly interesting isn't just the final impact. It's the attack chain . The initial vulnerability involved image processing. From there, the researchers were able to move through Discourse, OpenAI's authentication in...
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What happens when enterprise requirements hit Strands, LangGraph, and CrewAI - 45 runs measured

What happens when enterprise requirements - human approval gates, audit trails, structured output - hit three agent frameworks? The first article measured how Strands, LangGraph, and CrewAI differ on a plain task. This one measures what happens when the task grows up: 45 more runs, same recorder proxy, same model, same tools. The headline finding: the frameworks fail differently. Strands - the model-driven one - finished with an empty output three times while exiting LangGraph and...
Inside S7comm: From ISO-on-TCP to PLC Memory
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Inside S7comm: From ISO-on-TCP to PLC Memory

By RUGERO Tesla ( @404Saint ). S7comm is one of those protocols that looks simple until you start following the conversation all the way down. At first, there is just a TCP connection to port 102, then TPKT appears, then COTP, then Siemens-specific connection parameters, then the S7comm session has its own negotiation, then a memory address becomes meaningful, then a single function code can turn a packet from a read request into a write operation. That was exactly what I wanted to investig...