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02 May 2026 19:50

RIP Ask Jeeves 🪦

Ask.com aka Ask Jeeves has officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending its 25-year run.

You will be missed 🙏

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02 May 2026 19:31

GitHub, if it would have been built by the European Union or India be like:

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01 May 2026 19:09

Spotify is testing a new app icon for iOS spotted

Spotify's new icon for iOS has been spotted in the Spotify Beta. It is unclear if this will be a temporary or a permanent change.

Anyways, what do you think of this new icon?

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01 May 2026 08:23

Nothing smartphone also received a price hike in India

Nothing Phone 3a Lite and the Phone 4a costs ₹3,000 more now while the Phone 4a Pro has received ₹5,000 (~12.5%) price hike.

Phone (3a) Lite:
8GB+128GB: ₹24,999 → ₹27,999 8GB+256GB: ₹26,999 → ₹29,999

Phone (4a):
8GB+128GB: ₹31,999 → ₹34,999 8GB+256GB: ₹34,999 → ₹37,999 12GB+256GB: ₹37,999 → ₹40,999

Phone (4a) Pro:
8GB+128GB: ₹39,999 → ₹44,999 8GB+256GB: ₹42,999 → ₹47,999 12GB+256GB: ₹45,999 → ₹50,999

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01 May 2026 07:37

Only Gemini can make babies pregnant 💀

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30 April 2026 17:26

Hogwarts Legacy [Epic Games PC]
until May 3rd 8AM Pacific

Ah woops, I missed this this developer giveaway because it's not run by Epic Games. Which I guess if you don't want to contribute to J.K. Rowling's bank account, this is more ethical than the last giveaway? Epic Games pays a lump sum for a giveaway regardless of the number of claims, but if the developer gives it away themselves I don't think there's any revenue apart from in-app purchases/DLC.

https://epicgames.com/p/hogwarts-legacy

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30 April 2026 05:19

Picture-in-picture on YouTube to be available for everyone
- This feature is applicable for long-form videos and non-music content on the Android and iOS apps.
- To use this feature, play any video in the app and exit to keep watching while doing other things, with controls available upon tapping it.
- Rolling out to all users globally in the coming months.

More info: YouTube Community
#Apps #YouTube @PixelHubUpdates

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29 April 2026 23:41

RIP Apple Vision Pro 🪦

Apple has given up on the Vision Pro as even the refreshed model with faster Apple M5 SoC launched in October 2025, failed to revitalize people's interest in the device. The Vision Pro team members have been reassigned to work on revamping Siri & the hardware team of smart glasses. Vision Pro chief Mike Rockwell has been leading the Siri team since March 2025.

The Vision Pro has been unpopular as Apple only sold around 600,000 units in total. Apple has received an unusually high percentage of returns, far exceeding any of their products.

Apple was rumored to be working on a lighter-weight and much cheaper Vision Air for years, but that project has also been liquidated since last year. Instead of continuing to experiment with virtual reality, Apple is now working on smart glasses similar to Google and Samsung.

Apple CEO John Ternus has long been against the Vision Pro as a product. He killed the cheaper/lighter revamp last year and the Mac AR display glasses.

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29 April 2026 21:45

WARNING: Supply Chain Attack on SAP-related npm Packages

A targeted supply chain attack, "Mini Shai-Hulud," has been identified affecting several popular npm packages within the SAP developer ecosystem. Four packages tied to SAP’s Cloud Application Programming Model just shipped versions with a new preinstall script that downloads and executes a platform-specific binary. These packages never required this before today.

Affected versions:
@cap-js/postgres 2.2.2
@cap-js/sqlite 2.2.2
@cap-js/db-service 2.10.1
mbt 1.2.48

The compromised versions added a preinstall script that acts as a bootstrapper: it downloads a Bun ZIP from GitHub Releases, extracts it, and immediately executes the binary. It follows HTTP redirects without validating the destination. On Windows, it invokes PowerShell with -ExecutionPolicy Bypass.

All four versions were published within a ~2.5 hour window this morning (April 29, UTC). At least one version (@cap-js/sqlite@2.2.2) has already been unpublished.

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29 April 2026 19:25

BREAKING: OnePlus x Realme x Oppo is official!

OnePlus and Realme have officially merged into Oppo.

In terms of products, a sub-series product center was established, with a domestic product department and an overseas product department.

In addition, the original realme R&D team has returned to the group, and the imaging, hardware and other departments have been merged into OPPO hardware department.

The newly established sub-series business unit is headed by OPPO Senior Vice President (SVP) Li Bingzhong (Sky). The marketing and service systems of OnePlus and realme, which are included in this sub-series business unit, are overseen by Xu Qi, the former president of realme's marketing and service department, who has also been appointed as the head of the sub-series business unit's marketing and service department.

So, now it will be called Onememe or RealPlus?

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29 April 2026 09:47

Samsung Exynos 2600 Geekbench 6 MT and Steel Nomad Lite power curve by AAA魅魔荧师傅 (Bilibili)
Twitter

Exynos 2600 looks more efficient than both Snapdragon and Mediatek. Apparently, when compared to the previous gen Exynos 2500, it's quite a big improvement as well.

Note: This is the LPDDR5X - 10667 RAM

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28 April 2026 19:37

Remote Code Execution on GitHub allows access to millions of private repositories belonging to users & organizations

Wiz, now owned by Google, discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability on GitHub triggered by a single git push. (CVE-2026-3854)

Researchers extracted GHES compiled binaries & used IDA MCP to reconstruct internal protocols.

They found that git push options (git push -o) were embedded into an internal header without sanitizing the delimiter. A single semicolon allowed attackers to override security-critical fields, bypass the production sandbox, and inject a malicious hook definition pointing to an arbitrary binary, resulting in unsandboxed RCE on GHES.

This did not work on GitHub.com. Researchers then injected a debug flag & saw hooks weren't running. With the help of AI-assisted RE, they found a flag gating enterprise-mode behavior, and discovered it was also injectable.
Result: RCE on GitHub.com.

GitHub fixed the flaw on the same day of disclosure.

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28 April 2026 07:28

Google Expands Digital IDs to more countries

Google is expanding access to digital IDs in Google Wallet in select countries, all built with advanced privacy features like selective disclosure to keep your data secure.

Rolling out now:
🇮🇳 In India, you’ll be able to save Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials directly on your device.

🇸🇬 🇹🇼 🇧🇷 And in Singapore, Taiwan and Brazil you’ll be able to create a secure ID pass based on your passport information. This offers a simple and private way to verify identity or age for in-person and online services that require it, like when needed to sign into your accounts.

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27 April 2026 17:25

OpenAl Is Building an Al-First Smartphone Replacing Apps with AI Agents

OpenAI is co-developing smartphone chips with Qualcomm and MediaTek and has selected Luxshare as the exclusive partner for system co-design and manufacturing.

OpenAI wants control of hardware and the operating system to deliver its agent service. Apps will be replaced with AI Agents.

The project is described as early stage and final specifications and supplier decisions expected by late 2026 or early 2027. Mass production is targeted for 2028.

🔗 Ming-Chi Kuo
🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

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27 April 2026 07:20

So according to VISA, refunding the customer's money is far better than implementing a simple security check like Mastercard does to prevent fraudulent transactions.

VISA doesn't even care about customers getting scared after losing thousands of dollars because they can simply refund it later.

https://youtu.be/PPJ6NJkmDAo

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02 May 2026 19:48

GitHub if built by China/ Japan/ Brazil/ Poland/ South Korea and New Zealand be like:

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01 May 2026 21:42

⚙️ Microsoft has released what it calls the earliest discovered DOS source code, extending prior releases that included MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.11 in 2018 and MS-DOS 4.0 in early 2024. The company published scanned listings, internal memos, assembly printouts and other analog artifacts from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it included digitized paper archives to preserve development context.

A team of IT historians led by Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini located, scanned and transcribed original printouts from Tim Paterson, the developer of DOS. The archive documents the development of PC-DOS 1.00, the first DOS release for the IBM PC, and includes the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, intermediate PC-DOS 1.00 builds, utilities such as CHKDSK and the assembler.

Many pages contain Paterson’s handwritten annotations, and the originals will reside at the Interim Computer Museum. The files appear on GitHub in the DOS-History/Paterson-Listings repository under the MIT license.

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01 May 2026 09:07

Meta cancelled business with contractors whose workers were seeing private footages of Ray-Ban Meta users have sex
Ars Technica

In February, numerous workers from a Kenya-headquartered firm that Meta contracted to perform data annotation work, including working with video, image, and speech annotation for Ray-Ban Meta were reportedly viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Meta has now ended its contract with the firm.

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01 May 2026 08:06

The Current State of Smartphone File Sharing without using 3rd-party apps

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01 May 2026 07:11

Flagship devices have also started receiving a price hike

OnePlus 15 price in India has been increased by upto ₹6,000 and 15R has seen a price hike upto ₹2,500

OnePlus 15:
• 12/256GB: ₹72,999 → ₹77,999
• 16/512GB: ₹79,999 → ₹85,999

OnePlus 15R:
• 12/256GB: ₹50,499 → ₹52,999
• 12/512GB: ₹55,499 → ₹57,999

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30 April 2026 12:45

We are gonna have Galaxy Book Laptops running OneUI 9 powered by Android 17, thanks to Google's AluminumOS

https://fixvx.com/MaxJmb/status/2049792312645939635

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30 April 2026 01:33

#opinion
#oped

Long live the removable battery.

This piece of propaganda slop claims that removable batteries are an inherently bad thing, in and of themselves.

Now, you may ask: why would anyone write such a thing? You'd double-check to see if this the Daily Mail, but apparently not.

The impeccable reason? Back covers being removable, somehow, implies that they'll be plastic or metal.
Ergo, good-bye wireless charging.
Oh, the agony.

Too bad that the iPhone 4s existed, though.

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29 April 2026 22:01

CVE-2026-31431 a/k/a CopyFail

> Linux LPE
> Description sounds like AI slop
> Exploit is legit
> Impacts every Linux kernel from 2017 - Now
> Proof-of-concept released
> It's Wednesday?

https://copy.fail/

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29 April 2026 20:08

Miatoll users are cursing their Redmi as much as possible 💀

"OFFICIAL"
> Flashlight works via 3rd-party app

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29 April 2026 14:56

https://fixvx.com/UniverseIce/status/2049448513474634070

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29 April 2026 06:58

Here's our first "agentic homescreen" for iPhone

Skye AI is an "agentic homescreen" using iOS Widgets, aiming to replace how people use applications.

It will offer insights about your local weather, your current context, your health, draft email replies, help you with your meeting prep, send reminders, flag suspicious charges in your bank accounts, and more.

Sounds like AI slop data harvesting bullshit to me, but sure, someone's already ahead of OpenAI.

🔗 Skye
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28 April 2026 09:11

WhatsApp is working on its own encrypted cloud backup provider

WhatsApp is developing its own "Cloud Backup Provider" as an alternative to Google Drive/iCloud.

Users can choose it to store chat backups directly on WhatsApp's servers, which will offer up to 2GB of free storage, LOL, and possibly a paid 50GB tier as well.

This improves convenience by providing dedicated space, avoiding shared limits with photos/other apps, and eliminating extra third-party storage costs. It will also be end-to-end encrypted by default, with options including passkey (default, using biometrics/device lock), password, or a 64-digit key

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27 April 2026 22:52

Windows 11 is gaining an accessibility feature called Screen Tint in build 26300.8289. The tool is hidden by default, and offers six preset tint colors and an option to choose a custom color. Each preset includes a short description of its intended use and a strength slider to adjust intensity. /* Screen Tint aims to help users reduce glare and improve contrast for comfortable viewing. */ Found by phantomofearth on X.

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27 April 2026 09:32

🔵Here are some internal details on the "Windows K2" initiative. Launched in late 2025, it targets performance, attention to detail, and stability to restore user confidence in Windows 11. Microsoft acknowledged that aggressive AI feature additions and rapid release cadence harmed core performance and stability, including degraded game performance, slower File Explorer operations, and UI responsiveness issues.

* Microsoft plans optimizations to narrow the performance gap with SteamOS on identical hardware, improve File Explorer navigation and in-app search, and reduce background RAM usage and overall OS size to benefit low-end and high-end systems. In some tests, Windows 10 still outperforms Windows 11; Microsoft intends to address that gap.
* Windows Update should require reboots less frequently, with drivers updated primarily during reboots.
* The company will accelerate WinUI 3 adoption, develop a System Composer to lower UI latency and memory use, and rebuild the Start menu for greater speed and personalization. The taskbar will be resizable.
* Microsoft is improving WinUI 3 performance to make native interface elements faster and more reliable, enabling modern controls to replace legacy elements such as the Run dialog box and Control Panel.

The project also targets internal team workflows: not just fixing Windows 11 based on feedback, but changing how developers write and deploy code. A major cultural shift is reportedly underway within Microsoft that is driving the K2 initiative.

Previously, the Windows team prioritized development speed. Teams released new features quickly and frequently, but that came at the cost of quality and stability. With each release, users grew more disillusioned. Teams now prioritize quality over rapid feature development. New features are not permitted in public test builds until they pass rigorous internal review. The quality bar remains but is now higher.

Windows K2 has no specific end date. It is an ongoing initiative intended to set higher standards for Windows development. The goal is to clean up Windows 11, restore user confidence and maintain that standard consistently. Early changes appear in Windows 11 test builds, with more arriving through the summer.

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27 April 2026 04:36

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