Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest price
Sony is one of many companies offering Labor Day discounts on tech products, though its week-long sale on the last-gen WH-1000XM5 is one of the most attractive deals I found upon logging in this morning. The comfy over-ear headphones offer some of the best sound quality and active noise cancellin...
How to disable your digital wallet if you lose your phone
Digital wallets are secure, since even if you lose your phone, they're protected by your lock screen. But you can disable your wallet to be safe.
AirPods 5: Here’s what rumors say will launch next week
Rumors indicate AirPods 5 are launching next week alongside iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12, and iPhone Ultra. Here’s what we know so far about the new AirPods. more…
George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban
The former US representative was also fined more than $71,000 for allegedly attempting to manipulate the prediction market.
Save $240 on a four-item gaming build combo from Newegg – $1,113 buys a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E Motherboard, plus a free 240mm AIO and AMD game bundle
This Newegg 3-item bundle pairs the fast, gaming-focused Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM and a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro board for only $1,113.99. That's a $240 savings, plus two freebies, making this one of the better combo deals available right now.
How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools
AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Some say this will make it harder for governments to use hacking tools and spyware and could reignite calls to backdoor devices.
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
Read Tim Cook’s full memo to Apple employees on his last day as CEO
Today is Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO, with John Ternus set to take over tomorrow. To mark his last day in the role, Cook penned an emotional memo to Apple employees today. Read it below. more…
Deals: AirPods from $80, MagSafe Battery up to 60% off, AirTag 2 $20 each, Apple Pencil, more
The Amazon Labor Day sale is in full force with thousands of price drops alongside ongoing all-time lows on AirTag 2 from $20 each and the M6 Mac mini pre-order discounts (just make sure you grab the new Apple Polishing Cloth at $9 before it sells out). But for today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break we are...
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines
Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow (https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operators into standardized, quality-checked episodes and queryable dataset manifests. A recording can con...
Honor Robot Phone hands-on: A gimbal phone experiment with promising results
Honor crammed a gimbal camera into a phone in a promising hardware experiment.
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules.
Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ inexplicably not listed
Nvidia’s sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sits alongside Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck.
Playa Phone
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Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms
The researchers discovered Fire Ant's new tactic after finding an active GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface on a Cisco IOS XR router that could not be explained by a running configuration or commit history. [...]
MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario
MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.
Trump ‘directly’ pushing Apple to update Lake Ontario name to Lake America in Maps
President Trump has “reached out to Apple directly” about changing Lake Ontario’s name to Lake America in Apple Maps, according to U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. more…
Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods
Overclocking utility mVolt+ seems to have been blocked by the latest Nvidia driver update, hard crashing the moment you try to adjust the core power limit. However, it seems like a driver conflict more than a deliberate blacklist since another app, Hydra 2.3B Pro, is working just fine.
How to disable absolute Bluetooth volume on Android (and why you might want to)
Sometimes the volume control on a Bluetooth device behaves unpredictably. This quick fix in your Android phone's settings is a good troubleshooting step.