Saturday, 18 January 2025

Apple released new beta versions of iOS 18.3 to developers and the public yesterday, and one of the changes coming with the new software update will (at least temporarily) disable Apple Intelligence notification summaries for all apps in the App Store's News and Entertainment category, at least temporarily.

Apple said earlier this month that it would be instituting updates to how these notifications are handled after complaints from news organizations, and the company has apparently decided to turn them off entirely while it decides what those updates will look like. Most prominently, one user's notification summary from the BBC suggested that Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had died of suicide; this was not true. Other examples have been cropping up since then.

For the notification summaries that remain, Apple is instituting changes to make it clearer when users are reading summaries and to make it easier to turn those summaries off. Notification summaries in iOS 18.3 will be italicized to help further distinguish them from individual non-summarized notifications—before, there was a small icon next to the text to indicate you were looking at a summary. Apple is also making it possible to turn off summaries on a per-app basis directly from the lock screen without diving into the Settings app to do it.

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As Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 continues its success by crossing 6 million players, Games Workshop wants another big 40K game.

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Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year

Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.…



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Friday, 17 January 2025

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Garmin smartwatches have been gaining popularity in recent years for health-conscious and sports enthusiasts alike. Their Garmin Venu 3S, which was released in late 2023, is one of their premium watches that works great for beginners and more advanced athletes thanks to their user-friendly fitness tracking. You can get the 41mm Venu 3S for $349.99 (originally $449.99), the lowest price it has been according to price tracking tools.

The Venus 3S offers Android and Apple users a long battery life of up to 10 days (depending on your use and settings), 8GB of storage, a built-in GPS to track your activity, and a 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen. This 41mm size is perfect for people with smaller-sized wrists.

The Venus 3S is user-friendly, with three buttons and a touchscreen to navigate its features and avoid accidentally stopping your workout. The smartwatch has a speaker and microphone so you can take your calls directly from your watch. You can also use it to listen to its guided meditation feature or your playlists from Spotify and Amazon music, just keep in mind there is no LTE support, so you'll need to be within Bluetooth or wifi range of your phone to use these features.

If you're looking for a smartwatch to do trail runs, this smartwatch is not it, since there's no trail-run feature. However, you can get stats on your recovery time after workouts as well as the benefits of your training, a morning report of your health status, heart rate monitoring, stress tracking, on-screen workouts you can follow along, their Body Battery Energy Monitoring that shows you how much or little energy you might have, as well as a Sleep Coach feature that helps you improve your sleep.

Thursday, 16 January 2025

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The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 is a tablet/laptop hybrid that came out last summer and quickly rose to become one of the best laptops for college students, even in 2025. It is sleek and has a long battery life, and its comfort and ease of use as a tablet make it great to be hands-on. You can get it for $879.99 (originally $1,199.99), $3 off the lowest price it has ever been since its 2024 release, according to price-tracking tools.

Last year, Microsoft unveiled a new lineup of Surface computers included in its Copilot+ PC Windows AI lineup, which Microsoft claims are faster than the new M3 MacBooks. It runs the Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chip and comes with all the Copilot+ PC perks. Here is how Senior Tech Editor Jake Peterson described the Surface Pro:

If you're looking for a machine with a detachable tablet, that's the Surface Pro. The latest 2-in-1 Surface comes in an optional 13-inch OLED configuration, with an ultrawide camera, two USB-4 ports, Wi-Fi 7, and support for outputting to up to three external 4K displays. Notably, you can actually replace many of the parts of the Surface Pro, including the motherboard, battery, and cameras. (What year is this?) Finally, the new Surface Flex Keyboard actually works while detached, so you don't need to physically connect it to the display in order to type.

Lifehacker tech writer David Nield got his hands on one of these Surface Pro 11 and called it "almost the perfect tablet/laptop hybrid" in his review.

I've been a loyal customer of the Surface Pro tablets for many years and can attest to their user-friendliness, reliability, and performance. I love being able to use my hands when needed, and turn it into a tablet when using the stylus to take notes, sign documents, or just sketch. You'll get a 13-inch touch LCD display, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. Keep in mind you'll still need to buy the keyboard and stylus separately.

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Microsoft has released the Windows 11 KB5050009 and KB5050021 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and issues. [...]

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Texas has sued insurance provider Allstate, alleging that the firm and its data broker subsidiary used data from apps like GasBuddy, Routely, and Life360 to quietly track drivers and adjust or cancel their policies.

Allstate and Arity, a "mobility data and analytics" firm founded by Allstate in 2016, collected "trillions of miles worth of location data" from more than 45 million people, then used that data to adjust rates, according to Texas' lawsuit. This violates Texas' Data Privacy and Security Act, which requires "clear notice and informed consent" on how collected data can be used. A statement from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the suit is the first-ever state action targeting comprehensive data privacy violations.

“Our investigation revealed that Allstate and Arity paid mobile apps millions of dollars to install Allstate’s tracking software,” Paxton said in a statement. “The personal data of millions of Americans was sold to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent in violation of the law. Texans deserve better, and we will hold all these companies accountable.”

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Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Threat actors are exploiting a critical remote command execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50603, in Aviatrix Controller instances to install backdoors and crypto miners. [...]

source https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-critical-aviatrix-controller-rce-flaw-in-attacks/

Your microwave gets super dirty, but it can be easy to ignore; you can shut the door when you're not using it, thus hiding all the grease, splatter, and crumbs left in there. That said, out of sight might be out of mind, but it doesn't translate to being out of the woods. Food and grime can attract pests and/or make your microwave (and food) smelly and gross. It's time to clean your microwave. Here's how.

Step one: Steam your microwave

To start, you should steam the inside of your microwave. That bad boy has all kinds of splatter caked and crusted on the interior and steam is going to loosen it up. Steam is a powerful tool for cleaning, as is citric acid, so this one is a no-brainer. Around the internet and CleanTok, you'll find suggestions ranging from doing this with a half cup of water to a full cup, a half lemon to a whole one, and for three minutes to five minutes, with five minutes or 15 minutes left over for the steaming. That can all get complicated and annoying, which I discovered today. Due to a recent incident in my microwave, mine was looking exceptionally bad inside. Here's the lemon-infused protocol I followed to get the ball rolling:

  1. I cut a lemon into quarters and put two of them in a microwave-safe mug with one cup of water. (You can also use a bowl but I had a mug handy.)

  2. I microwaved on high for three minutes, checking to see if steam was forming toward the end. If you don't see any steam, give it another minute (my steam is visible on the cupboard above the microwave, which is how I knew it was working).

  3. I let it sit with the door closed for five minutes.

When you open the microwave, you should see that what was once crusted onto the walls and ceiling of the machine is now kind of soggy and should be easy to wipe up with a sponge. I used a Clorox wipe to remove mine, just for added disinfecting power. Plus, it always smells nice and lemony. Be warned that this may take a few rounds: In the past, I've noticed the crust and splatter near the top was much easier to remove than anything on the bottom, since the steam travels up, but on my most recent attempt, it was the gunk at the bottom that came off easier after one round of steaming. Oh, and if your turntable is removable, take it out and soak it in warm water while you wipe out the interior, then scrub it with a sponge.

You can see in the image at the top how much success I had just from one round of lemon-steaming and a wipe-down.

Step two: Clean the exterior of the microwave

The way you clean the exterior of your microwave depends on what's stuck on there. If it's greasy, use a mixture of one part vinegar and one part water to gently scrub. If it's splattered but not greasy, try a mix of one part rubbing alcohol and one part water. You can also use a damp sponge dipped in baking soda for heavier-duty messes, but be sure to follow that up with plain water.

I do this part in multiple steps. First, I use the mixture of rubbing alcohol and water to remove any easy stains or residue, then reevaluate to determine if anything left over is stuck on. Using a soft cloth, I buff some baking soda over that (which is streaky and messy) and then use plain water to remove it. If there are still streaks, then I go in with my vinegar and water, which is a streak-killing combo.

You don't need specialty products beyond what you have around the house already to get the inside and outside of your microwave gleaming, but you do need the know-how and a bit of time.

Identity theft is worse in some ways than other forms of fraud, because it can remain undetected for a long time. There were 726,396 cases of ID theft overall in the first three quarters of 2024 alone, and it’s a crime that can happen to anybody—including your children.

You might think you don’t have to worry about your kids being victims of identity theft because they’re too young and don’t have any credit to steal—but you would be wrong. Of those 726,396 cases of ID theft, 17,559 (2%) involved people under the age of 19. The key is your kid’s Social Security number—once a thief has that, they can create financial accounts using what’s called “synthetic identity theft,” combining your child’s information with fake details.

You might be proactive about protecting your kids from online scams and other more obvious threats, but you also need to protect them from identity theft.

Check their credit report

Your first step is to check to see if your child has a credit report already—they shouldn’t, unless you’ve opened up an account for them or added them as an authorized user to one of your own credit cards to establish their credit. You can check this at all three credit reporting bureaus by printing out forms (Equifax, Experian) and mailing them in, or filling out an online form (TransUnion).

If your child has a credit report and you haven’t taken any steps to give them a financial history, they might be a victim of identity theft. You should immediately freeze their credit, then take the additional steps listed below to help protect them and their future finances.

Consider freezing their credit

Even if your child doesn’t have a credit report, you should go ahead and freeze their credit. Depending on their age, your children may not need to use their credit score for years, so there’s little sense in leaving them vulnerable to identity theft.

All three credit bureaus have mechanisms for parents and legal guardians to freeze the credit of a minor (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion), and if no credit report exists they will create one and then freeze it. This involves printing out a form or writing a letter and mailing it to the bureaus, along with some copies (not originals) of supporting documentation to prove you have the authority to request the freeze, including your driver’s license or other government-issued ID, both your own birth certificate and the child’s birth certificate (or other proof that you’re legally authorized to request the freeze, such as a foster care certification or court order), your and your child’s Social Security cards, and proof of address (utility bill, bank statement, etc.).

Minors can sometimes request this freeze themselves—Experian will accept freeze requests from children 14 years old and up, and TransUnion and Equifax will accept requests from children age 16 and older.

Once the freeze is confirmed, you can leave it in place until your children are older or until they need to apply for credit. You’ll receive information about how to thaw the credit reports when they’re confirmed—store that information safely so you can access it easily when you need it.

What to do if your child has a fraudulent credit report

If you discover that your child has a credit report, do three things right away:

  • Request a copy of the report and contact every account listed there to let them know the account is fraudulent. Get written confirmation that the accounts were the result of identity theft and were closed.

  • Freeze your child’s credit report, as noted above.

  • Report the identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at identitytheft.gov. The FTC will help you create a recovery plan and point you to the appropriate government resources—for example, if you need to report a misused Social Security number or need assistance establishing that your child wasn’t involved in a criminal enterprise as a result of the identity theft.

After an app update rollout that can best be described as disastrous, Sonos is seeking a new CEO. The company announced today that Patrick Spence, who had been CEO for eight years, is stepping down.

In its announcement, Sonos said its board of directors and Spence "agreed" on the decision while saying it was unrelated to the company's fiscal Q1 2025 earnings, which it will report next month.

Spence joined Sonos as chief commercial officer in 2012 after leaving Blackberry. Under his tenure, Sonos branched into new categories, including portable speakers and spatial audio. But in May, Sonos issued an app update that broke basic and critical features. Sonos employees said the update was built on outdated code and infrastructure, impacting users' ability to do things like access and manage local libraries, set sleep timers, and edit song queues and playlists.

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Monday, 13 January 2025

Understandably, the main building of Blue Origin's sprawling campus in Florida buzzed with activity on Sunday evening as the final hours ticked down toward the company's historic, first orbital launch. The time had come to celebrate a moment long awaited.

On one side of the large foyer, a multi-story print of the New Glenn rocket lit up on its launch pad hung from the wall. The striking image had been taken a day after Christmas, and put up in the lobby two days earlier. On the other side a massive replica of the company's "Mk. 1" lunar lander towered over caterers bustling through.

My escort and I took the elevators to the upper floor, where a walkway overlooks the factory where Blue Origin builds the first and second stages of its New Glenn rocket. There I met the chief executive of the company, Dave Limp, as well as the person responsible for all of this activity.

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PLUS: China plans unified APIs; Singapore lets Police run scam victims’ bank accounts; Fujitsu now too cool for aircon

Asia In Brief  Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has reported strong annual revenue growth.…



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Cybercriminals are exploiting a trick to turn off Apple iMessage's built-in phishing protection for a text and trick users into re-enabling disabled phishing links. [...]

source https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phishing-texts-trick-apple-imessage-users-into-disabling-protection/

Sunday, 12 January 2025

El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show

Kettle  The annual Consumer Electronics Show was held this week in Las Vegas – and for us the extravaganza felt a bit subdued for a change.…



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Plenty of computer monitors made debuts at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, but many of the updates at this year's event were pretty minor. Many could have easily been a part of 2024's show.

But some brought new and interesting features to the table for 2025—in this article, we'll tell you all about them.

LG’s 6K monitor

Pixel addicts are always right at home at CES, and the most interesting high-resolution computer monitor to come out of this year's show is the LG UltraFine 6K Monitor (model 32U990A).

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A standard digital camera used in a car for stuff like emergency braking has a perceptual latency of a hair above 20 milliseconds. That’s just the time needed for a camera to transform the photons hitting its aperture into electrical chargers using either CMOS or CCD sensors. It doesn’t count the further milliseconds needed to send that information to an onboard computer or process it there.

A team of MIT researchers figured that if you had a chip that could process photons directly, you could skip the entire digitization step and perform calculations with the photons themselves. It has the potential to be mind-bogglingly faster.

“We’re focused on a very specific metric here, which is latency. We aim for applications where what matters the most is how fast you can produce a solution. That’s why we are interested in systems where we’re able to do all the computations optically,” says Saumil Bandyopadhyay, an MIT researcher, The team that implemented a complete deep neural network on a photonic chip, achieving a latency of 410 picoseconds. To put that in perspective, Bandyopadhyay’s chip could process the entire neural net it had onboard around 58 times within a single tick of the 4 GHz clock on a standard CPU.

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COCOA BEACH, Fla.—As it so often does in the final days before the debut of a new rocket, it all comes down to weather. Accordingly, Blue Origin is only awaiting clear skies and fair seas for its massive New Glenn vehicle to lift off from Florida.

After the company completed integration of the rocket this week, and rolled the super heavy lift rocket to its launch site at Cape Canaveral, the focus turned toward the weather. Conditions at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base have been favorable during the early morning launch windows available to the rocket, but there have been complications offshore.

That's because Blue Origin aims to recover the first stage of the New Glenn rocket, and sea states in the Atlantic Ocean have been unsuitable for an initial attempt to catch the first stage booster on a drone ship. The company has already waived one launch attempt set for 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Friday, January 10.

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Saturday, 11 January 2025

Threat actors are employing a new tactic called "transaction simulation spoofing" to steal crypto, with one attack successfully stealing 143.45 Ethereum, worth approximately $460,000. [...]

source https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-web3-attack-exploits-transaction-simulations-to-steal-crypto/
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted three operators of sanctioned Blender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixer services used by ransomware gangs and North Korean hackers to launder ransoms and stolen cryptocurrency. [...]

source https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-charges-operators-of-cryptomixers-linked-to-ransomware-gangs/

I am good at many things, but managing my money isn't always one of them. My New Year's resolution is to be more financially responsible, but the truth is I've been working on it for a while. One of the most useful strategies I devised is using multiple bank accounts to budget. Here's why (and how) I do it, and why it might work for you, too.

Different bank accounts slow me down and help me see where my money is going

In the same way I use a variety of Google accounts to carry out different kinds of work in dedicated browsers, I use a few different bank accounts to divide my money, though I use "bank account" to describe a few things that might not technically be bank accounts. Two are traditional ones, one through the bank I grew up with in my hometown and another through Chase. The other two are digital, my Venmo and Chime accounts. For all four, I have an app, a debit card, and, crucially, a plan.

For my regular paychecks, I elected to have my payouts be disbursed 70/30 between the account with the bank back home and my Chime account, respectively, though portions from both are also automatically earmarked for savings. Money I earn from teaching spin classes goes into Chase, as does money I earn from personal projects or freelancing. Money in Venmo is just regular money in Venmo, acquired when someone pays me back for something or I occasionally—but rarely—transfer some in there. "Serious" expenses, like bills, groceries, and student loans, pull straight from the account I've had back home since I got my first job in tenth grade. I leave that debit card out of my wallet most of the time so I don't even touch it unless it's an emergency. The 30% of my regular paycheck that hits the Chime account is spent on things that are fun, like personal upkeep and daily Dunkin' runs. The spin class money in the Chase account is for boring needs, like transit and laundry. Every two weeks or so, I assess what, if anything, is left over in the less serious ones and, if I feel inclined, move some to Venmo, which is designated only for frivolity, like a night out. If there's not much money in the frivolity account, I don't go (or at least I go with a firm budget in mind). Finally, if there's a big expense I'd like to pay for but don't want to decimate one account or the other for it, I move a little from all the accounts into Venmo.

Why this strategy works for me

"But Lindsey," you may say, "You have the same amount of money whether it's in four accounts or one. Why bother with all this?" Well, because I'm bad at budgeting, that's why. If I had one single account and opened my app on payday to see all my money in one place, I'd go a little hog wild without remembering to plan ahead for needs at different levels of severity. Opening four accounts, seeing four different amounts, and having a better idea of precisely how much I have available to spend for each category makes me think a little more and puts up a little buffer to stop me from waltzing into Sephora without a care in the world.

Some people do this with their savings and checking accounts, which are both linked to the same bank account. That's fine... for those people. I tried that once. It didn't take much convincing from the devil on my shoulder to transfer money right back out of savings into checking with one tap. Transferring it between different institutions is not difficult, per se, but it requires a little more effort than toggling between savings and checking, and that split-second effort is enough to get me to pause and rethink my bad idea.

There have really been no downsides to this besides needing a wallet with a substantial number of pockets. All the cards except for the "serious" one are linked up to my Apple Pay, anyway, and the only issue there is I have to be more diligent about not letting myself use them for purposes other than the ones I've assigned to them just because it's convenient. For someone who's good at budgeting and managing their money, this probably isn't entirely necessary, but if you read even a word of this and related to me, consider it. The accounts were all easy to set up, the debit cards were all free with the accounts, and since I implemented this strategy, I have never found myself in a position where I don't have enough money to cover the things I need and the things I want just because I went a momentarily numb in the brain on payday.

It's 2025, which means every tech company needs to have its own AI bot, of course. X is no exception: Since late 2023, the site has offered a chatbot to its Premium subscribers, developed by sibling company xAI. While blue check accounts may enjoy their built-in AI solution, the vast majority of users with even a passing interest in AI will undoubtedly look towards other options, free or not, like ChatGPT or Gemini.

Perhaps that will change this year: In December, xAI announced a free version of Grok, specifically the newest Grok-2 model, available to anyone with an X account. Today, if you click on the Grok tab on X, you'll be able to access Grok, much like any other chatbot you've used before. That's fine and well for the curious among us still on X. But those who have fled for greener pastures haven't been able to take advantage of this perk. That is, until now.

Grok is on iPhone, no X account required

As of this week, Grok is now available as a free app on iOS—no strings attached. You don't need an X account to use Grok, nor do you need to sign into any account at all. (Of course, you can connect your X account, or sign in via Apple, Google, or email.) Once you download the app, you can immediately ask Grok whatever it is you'd ask an AI chatbot. If you don't sign in with X Premium, it seems the app is working off similar limitations to the free plan. That's 10 requests every two hours, with three image analysis requests and four image generations per day.

Of course, now the question is, will people actually use Grok? It's possible. As I write this, the app is the fourth most popular free app on the iOS App Store—one spot below ChatGPT, and well above Gemini at 49. (X is number 31, by the way.) However, I am a bit skeptical about its staying power. I obviously understand X and Elon Musk fans flocking to Grok, but most people who care about AI, I think, will stick with what they know (i.e., ChatGPT) unless Grok can do something different, better, or both.

I'll admit, Grok is fast: I hadn't tried it myself until now, and the speed at which it responds to text-based queries is impressive. That said, I haven't spent too much time with it, so I can't swear by how accurate the results are—and as a relative AI-skeptic, I'm not likely to use it much. However, the one area I see Grok having an advantage (and not necessarily in a good way) is its lack of filter. This is an X Corp product, after all, which means Grok doesn't have some of the restrictions and limitations that other services have put into place to prevent abuse. When it comes to image generation, you can make some wild stuff with Grok.

When Lifehacker associate tech editor Michelle Ehrhardt tested out the Grok-2 beta in August, she was taken aback by some of the images she was able to get Grok to generate: violent, offensive, and weird. Even in some brief testing, I was able to make Grok infringe on copyrights without even having to trick it: With Google's Imagen 3, for example, I was able to generate images of Mario by prompting the bot with vague workarounds, like "an Italian plumber wearing a red hat with the letter M." Asking it to draw Mario wouldn't work. Grok is the opposite: Try a workaround, and it spits out weird images of men wearing Mario's clothes. Ask it to draw Mario, and it will—for better, or worse.

mario holding a gun with a goomba
Mario was supposed to shoot the goomba, but I guess Grok had other plans. Credit: Jake Peterson

Friday, 10 January 2025

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January kicks off the new year with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), arguably the biggest tech event of the year. While the new product announcements are exciting for tech geeks, it's a good time for bargain hunters too, as with them come discounts on older products.

That's all to say that If you're looking for a stylish portable Bluetooth speaker with good bass and an array of features, take a look at the Beats Pill, which is currently matching its Prime Day price of $99.99 (originally $149.95), the lowest it has been since its recent release, according to price-tracking tools. For less than a hundred dollars, this speaker is a steal.

I've been using the Beats Pill speaker since it came out in June, and it has everything I want in a portable: It offers stereo sound when connected to at least one other compatible speaker, it can handle multi-room to play across multiple speakers, it works with Apple's Find My Device feature if you misplace it, and it has a microphone that allows you to use it as an extension of your phone.

This Beats speaker is not just for Apple users; Android devices can also connect to it via Bluetooth 5.3, though it only supports AAC and SBC codecs, so there are no Android-friendly codec options that will make the audio really pop. Apple users also get seamless iOS compatibility for a much smoother experience—the Pill will automatically show up as a pairing option on iPhones, while Androids will have to search for it. You can read about all of this in more detail in PCMag's "excellent" review.

When it comes to battery life, you can expect around 24 hours per charge, depending on your use, which is up there with other speakers of its size. Sound-wise, it offers the classic bright Beats signature, balanced yet bass-heavy. The biggest negative is that there is no adjustable EQ within the app, but in my experience, it sounds great out of the box, and is a good buy at this price.

The Internet has become the most prevalent communications technology the world has ever seen. Though there are more fixed and mobile telephone connections, even they use Internet technology in their core. For all the many uses the Internet allows for today, its origins lie in the cold war and the need for a defence communications network that could survive a nuclear strike. But that defence communications network quickly became used for general communications and within only a few years of the first transmission, traffic on the predecessor to today’s Internet was already 75% email.

In the beginning

Arpanet was the vital precursor of today’s Internet, commissioned by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) in 1969. In his interesting account of why Arpanet came about, Stephen Lukasic, Director of Darpa from 1970-75, wrote that if its true nature and impact had been realised it would never have been permitted under the US government structure of the time. The concept for a decentralised communications technology that would survive a nuclear attack would have placed it outside Darpa’s remit (as defence communications specifically were assigned to a different agency), so the focus changed to how to connect computers together so that major applications could be run on the most appropriate system available.

This was in the era of time-sharing computers. Today’s familiar world of the ubiquitous “personal computer” on each desk was decades away. Computers of this time were generally very large, filling entire rooms, and comparatively rare. Users working at connected terminals would submit jobs to the computer which would allocate processing time for the job when available. The idea went that if these computers were networked together, an available remote computer could process a job even when the computers closer to the users were full. The resulting network was called Arpanet and the first packets of data traversed the network in September 1969.

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Thursday, 9 January 2025

Cleaning is a task that is best done in short bursts, but even if you're sticking to a schedule and only working for short amounts of time, you still need some structure to determine what to focus on. Enter the 5x5 method, which has recently been picking up steam on social media. It offers a way to structure your cleaning sessions while keeping them quick, reducing the likelihood you end up overwhelmed or burned out.

What is the 5x5 cleaning method?

Think of it a little like the Pomodoro productivity technique: You'll need a timer, which you'll set in five-minute increments, and a list of five zones in your home that need some attention. You'll work on each zone for five minutes before moving to the next one. As with the Pomodoro technique, you shouldn't keep going on a particular zone once the timer goes off.

This approach is gaining popularity online, where CleanTokkers are celebrating it for keeping their cleaning routines simple and helping them make small impacts that add up to bigger ones over time.

What to keep in mind with the 5x5 cleaning method

I'm a well-documented fan of cleaning in 15-minute bursts to cut down on strain and feelings of being overwhelmed, so the 5x5 approach, with its 25 dedicated minutes of cleaning, is a little outside what I tend to recommend. Because the chunks of time devoted to each zone are so small, however, it doesn't end up feeling that overwhelming at all.

You have two options when you set out to do this: You can choose five standard zones to address every day, or devote each day to whichever five unique zones are in the most serious need of some attention. The goal here is to pick small, workable spaces, not entire rooms, which differentiates the technique from other zone-based cleaning approaches like the FlyLady method. Instead of attempting to devote five minutes to "the bathroom," for instance,break the bathroom down into five smaller zones: the medicine cabinet, bathtub, toilet, etc.

Play around with the approach for a few weeks to determine what works for you. For me, personally, this kind of routine usually involves zones that are pretty disparate. Spending 25 straight minutes in the bathroom would sap my motivation, but giving five minutes to the kitchen sink, then the shower, then the dining room table keeps me engaged and in the zone.

It's also important not to go over the allotted time, to the best of your ability. No, you shouldn't drop your vacuum in the middle of the room if you haven't finished the whole floor when the timer rings, but ideally, after doing this for a while, you'll get the hang of figuring out what can and can't be done in five minutes, so you don't end up in that position. Sticking within the five-minute window will make you focus, work harder, and be more decisive, knowing your alarm is about to go off.

There are, of course, bigger tasks that can't be done during five-minute bursts, so 5x5 may not work as an everyday approach for you. When mapping out your cleaning schedule for a given week, consider making three or four days a 5x5 day and setting aside a certain day or two for the bigger projects.

Overall, what you want here is to build the habit of always maintaining your space, not letting messes pile up until they're overwhelming. Five minutes might not seem like a lot of time (because it isn't!) but a daily commitment to it will result, eventually, in a much cleaner home.

The European Commission (EC) is planning to "energetically" advance its probe into content moderation on X (formerly Twitter), potentially ordering changes at Elon Musk's social network in the coming months, Bloomberg reported.

Since 2023, the EC has been investigating X for possible violations of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Notably, it's the group's first formal probe under the DSA, which requires very large online platforms to meet strict content moderation and transparency standards to ensure user safety, reduce misinformation, prevent illegal/harmful activity, and facilitate "a fair and open online platform environment."

In a letter to European lawmakers viewed by Bloomberg, EC tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen and justice chief Michael McGrath apparently confirmed that the investigation into X will end “as early as legally possible."

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LAS VEGAS—If you've always dreamed of a world where your vehicle is a "partner" around whom you can "always be yourself," Honda has the vehicles for you—at least that's what the Japanese automaker is promising with its new "near production" Honda 0 prototypes that debuted at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

In a somewhat dystopian but highly sentimental video shown at the presentation, a woman drives along a desolate road in search of a sunrise, describing her favorite colors and laughing along with the Saloon concept. A calm voiceover intones, "Saloon is my partner—always by my side, opening me up to new experiences and expanding my world," as the passenger is zipped along the flat purple and pink landscape, sharing moments of joy and tears. The car even "comforts" her when she is sad.

This is Honda's vision for what Katsushi Inoue, chief officer of electrification business development operations at Honda, called the "ultra personal optimization" of a "new level of intelligent car."

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File Roller (formerly also called Archive Manager) is the default archive manager program on Ubuntu. Its logo is a grey box with a zipper. An archive manager is a computer program that helps the user to extract and create archive or compressed archive files such as ZIP, RAR, TAR.GZ, 7ZIP and so on. File Roller helps you doing all that with good integration to Ubuntu desktop. Originally, File Roller is a part of GNOME and had been adopted as default on Ubuntu thanks to their strong and close relationship as Free/Libre Open Source Software projects. To Ubuntu users, File Roller fills the same purpose to WinZIP or WinRAR to Windows users. This article is part of our published compilation List of Ubuntu Default Applications and Their Purposes. We hope this helps everyone including you Ubuntu beginners. Now let's start sharing Free Software together once again!
 
 
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(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)



Where:

(a) Default File Roller user interface. It says "No archive opened".

(b) File Roller opening a tarball archive with xz compression (.tar.xz) file containing Ubuntu Documentation.

(c) Extracting an archive file. It shows among others options to "Keep directory structure".

(d) Detailed view of (b). It shows the directory structure inside an archive file.

(e) Creating a ZIP compressed archive.

(f) Creating a ZIP archive, with additional options shown, and one among them, password. 



Description


File Roller (formerly also called Archive Manager) is the archive manager of Ubuntu. The name File Roller matches the main purpose that is reducing size (rolling over, making something flat) of file. With File Roller, user can view the contents of an archive, extract files from it, and create new archives. It provides multiple archive format supports from external libraries. On Ubuntu, File Roller can both open and create most popular archives such as ZIP, ISO, TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, and 7ZIP. It can also open RAR with limitation to create one because this format is proprietary (nonfree). For that reason, File Roller (along with the worldwide Free Software community) does not endorse nor encourage the use of RAR, rather it enables user to extract a RAR content and recreate the archive in other format such as ZIP or TAR.XZ.


Purposes


File Roller enables Ubuntu user to:

1. Extract archive files such as ZIP, TAR, RAR etc.

2. Create archive files and also edit existing ones.

3. Reduce size of file or folder by compressing.

4. Password protect file or folder.

5. Combine archive with compression such as TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.XZ etc.

6. Make use of a lot of archive file formats such as 7ZIP, JAR, DEB, and still many more.


List of Supported Formats


File Roller supports these formats:

1. Archive only:
    AIX Small Indexed Archive (.ar)
    ISO-9660 CD Disc Image [Read-only mode] (.iso)
    Tape Archive File (.tar)

2. Archive and compression:

    Java Archive (.jar)
    WinRAR Compressed Archive (.rar) [Read-only mode]
    Cabinet File (.cab)
    ZIP Archived Comic Book (.cbz)
    ZIP Archive (.zip)
    ZOO Compressed Archive File (.zoo)

3. Tape Archive File compressed with:
    gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz)
    bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz)
    bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2)
    lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo)
    7zip (.tar.7z)
    xz (.tar.xz)


Location on Screen


1. File Roller is available on Ubuntu applications menu.

2. File Roller window will show when you double-click an archive file. If you open one ZIP file for example, you are opening File Roller.

3. File Roller will also show when you right-click a folder as option called "Compress...".

4. File Roller will also show when you right-click an archive file as two options called "Extract" and "Extract to".





How To Run the Program 


There are several ways to run File Roller. Pick one of these:

1. Open applications menu -> type File Roller -> click File Roller logo -> it runs.

2. Open Files -> right-click a file or folder -> Compress... -> it runs.

3. Open a ZIP or TAR.XZ archive -> it runs.

4. Click File Roller on the Dash (left panel) if any -> it runs.



Examples of Use


1. To create a ZIP: run Files -> right-click a file -> Compress... -> select ZIP -> OK.

2. To create a TAR.XZ: run Files -> right-click a file -> Compress... -> select TAR.XZ -> OK.

3. To open a RAR: run Files -> double-click a RAR -> Open With -> File Roller -> Open.

4. To extract a RAR: run Files -> double-click a RAR -> Select extract destination -> Extract.

5. To convert a RAR into a ZIP: combine example 3 and 1 above.

6. To convert a RAR into a TAR.XZ: combine example 3 and 2 above.

and many more! Please see Tutorials section.

 


 

User Documentation


File Roller comes with its own full documentation. You can read everything about it explained in an easy to understand way yet detailed and complete. Pick one of these to open it:


1. Run File Roller -> press F1.

2. Run File Roller -> click triple line button -> Help.


 


Tutorials on File Roller

 
We have published tutorials and articles about using File Roller you can read:

1. File Roller: Basic Archiving

2. File Roller: Archiving with Compression

3. File Roller: Archiving with Password Protection 

Comparison to Counterparts on Other Systems

 
File Roller is a default preinstalled program on Ubuntu. Thus, File Roller is an alternative to WinZIP or WinRAR on Windows. However, in fact, both of the latter are neither default nor preinstalled on Microsoft systems. The distributors who sell preinstalled Windows computers are responsible for both. File Roller is free software and licensed under GNU General Public License. On the other hand, both counterparts are nonfree (proprietary) software.

Contributing to File Roller

 

File Roller is a Free/Libre and Open Source Software developed in public by a community of people. It is written in C with GTK framework and licensed under GNU GPL v2+ license. Everyone is invited to join the development and that would be a great contribution to the society in general, The GNOME Project and the Ubuntu community in particular. You can join the project to better improve and advance File Roller by helping writing code, drawing artworks, translating languages, testing bugs and fixing them, and many more including educating people to use Free Software like it. Visit their official website File Roller GitLab.

Similar Programs


KDE Ark - Default archive manager of Kubuntu.

PeaZip - free software archive manager that is crossplatform.


References

 

File Roller Official Homepage

File Roller User Manual / Documentation (older version 3.26)

File Roller User Forum at GNOME

File Roller at Wikipedia

 

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Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Throughout the entirety of CES 2025, I’ll be carrying around a MacBook Pro in my backpack, and even just one day into the event, I’m already tired of it. Maybe that’s why Asus is coming for Apple’s throne with a new laptop that’s not just lighter than the Pro, but lighter than even the smallest MacBook Air.

Named the Zenbook A14 (you can guess what the “A” stands for), this laptop comes in at a starting weight of 2.18 pounds and a max weight of 2.4 pounds. Yes, there are “featherweight” laptops that technically beat that, but what’s impressive here is the weight-to-performance ratio.

While other laptops bearing similar chips usually weigh in at about 2.6 pounds to start, this laptop manages to pack the totally respectable Snapdragon X and Snapdragon X Plus mid-range chipsets into the smallest form factor I’ve held yet, and to be honest, I think my (significantly weaker, but admittedly a little old) iPad might be heavier. 

What makes this possible is the laptop’s “ceraluminum” chassis, which is basically just a fancy way of saying it’s ceramic and aluminum, with a little bit of Asus secret sauce thrown in. Marketing terms aside, whatever they’re doing is working, because aside from feeling like I’d need to lift 10 at once to get a half-decent bicep curl in, the Zenbook A14 looks pretty cool, too.

Zenbook A14 open
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Rather than being painted, ceraluminum is colored via a dip in electrolytic water and minerals during manufacturing. That also leaves it with a mild porousness that adds some light texture and visual detail without getting overwhelming, giving the whole thing a premium effect. Ceraluminum isn't new, but the A14 is the first Asus laptop to have the whole body made out of it, rather than just the lid.

Only two colors are available right now—gray and beige—and each comes with a distinct cost and configuration. The beige is the cheaper of the two, and paradoxically, has the more advanced chip with the Snapdragon X Plus. Coming in at $899, what holds it back compared to its sibling is its 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. While not meager, the $1,099 gray Zenbook A14 has 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, plus it’s the lighter model, coming in at 2.18 pounds rather than 2.4.

If you're curious, while its dimensions are not as standout as the weight, the A14 is also quite thin, measuring in at 12.23 x 8.42 x 0.53-0.63-inches (with the exact thickness depending on the configuration).

Still, regardless of model, Asus is claiming this is the lightest Copilot+ PC yet. While I’m still not sold on the AI features that come with Copilot+, the Snapdragon PC chips are a good get for this price point, although if $899 is still too much for a thin and light, there’s also a refreshed series of plastic Vivobooks that offer the Snapdragon X starting for $200 less.

The Pixel 4a, a well-regarded release in Google's line of budget-minded phones with nice cameras and decent stock software, was not supposed to get any more updates. This week, it will receive a rather uncommon one—one that intends to lower its reported battery life.

The Pixel 4a, released in the summer of 2020, was discontinued at the end of 2022. It received its last official software update in the summer of 2023, followed by a surprise security update in November 2023. Throughout 2024, there were no updates. This week, owners of the 4a (and likely many former owners) are getting a new update, along with an email titled "Changes coming to your Pixel 4a."

The email addresses "an upcoming software update for your Pixel 4a that will affect the overall performance and stability of its battery." The automatic software update to Android 13 "introduces new battery management features to improve the stability of your device," which will "reduce your battery's runtime and charging performance."

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Tuesday, 7 January 2025

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Though I am a dedicated daily Dunkin' Donuts consumer, that doesn't mean I don't make coffee at home. I'm a little coffee freak: I'll buy pre-made caffeine confections and brew my own on the same day. Nothing can stop my caffeine habit, not even financial barriers.

When I want to caffeinate at home, I use a Nespresso machine, which is more expensive to buy upfront than some other coffeemakers—but the initial investment isn't the only chunk of change associated with using it. Here's what ongoing Nespresso ownership looks like from a financial standpoint, and how that compares to a regular ol' coffee pot.

The upfront cost of a Nespresso machine

First of all, there are a lot of different devices that fit under the category of "Nespresso machine." I personally own the Vertuo Next Coffee and Espresso Machine by De'Longhi (with milk frother), which I like for its small footprint and sleek look.

The brand has a variety of machines available beyond that one. All of the devices use disposable pods to brew cups of espresso or coffee, but each is a little different—and some can cost as much as $700.

For the average consumer, like me, the smaller, less expensive ones are fine, but even saying "less expensive" here is purely relative, since $144 is nothing to scoff at when a standard coffee machine can be had for around $25.

Machine cost: Starting at $144

The best coffee options for the Nespresso

I prefer the taste and smoothness of my Nespresso to other brewing methods, but I know a lot of that depends on the quality of the coffee I'm putting into it, not necessarily the machine. I've found that it's more economical to source my pods directly from the brand rather than ordering them on Amazon or picking them up at Target.

Depending on where you live, there may even be a Nespresso store near you—in which case I recommend a visit; the employees tend to be extremely educated in all things coffee and can make recommendations to help you find your own perfect brew (that's how I wound up favoring the peanut and roasted sesame flavor). Plus you can sample everything, and even enjoy a cup at the in-store coffee counter. Signing up and getting a membership can be useful, as you'll regularly qualify for discounts and perks, and you'll earn points that can be traded for things like special mugs.

Of course, you can always just order or buy pods from your usual retailers. While a sleeve of 10 pods through Nespresso typically costs between $9 and $15 before any discounts, the prices on Amazon—both for Nespresso-branded ones and other collaborations, like Starbucks—are comparable. You can also get $16 refillable pods that can be used up to 100 times, though that doesn't include the cost of the beans you'll put in them.

I like shopping directly through Nespresso not only for the membership rewards, but because there's such a variety of flavors and styles available, but I know the same is true across the wider world of coffee. I have a Trade Coffee subscription, for instance, that provides me with a new bag of exotic or rare coffee every few weeks, so I know how many varieties and blends are out there. You can easily make a fabulous brew in a standard coffee pot if you take the time to seek out blends and beans that are better than your average Folgers.

For reference, you can buy enough Folgers coffee grounds to brew 240 cups of coffee for under $13. My favorite blend I've received from Trade, the Família Peixoto, is $15.75 per bag and makes 20 cups. Obviously, both of those options are more economical than the 10 cups you get for around $14 from Nespresso, so factor in that extra expense if you're considering this machine.

Pods cost: Starting at 90 cents to $1.50 each

Cleaning the Nespresso can also cost you

Finally, while you can clean and descale your Nespresso machine using vinegar (and I have even outlined the process for you), Nespresso recommends against doing so in favor of using their own products for cleaning. If you end up going the recommend route, you'll pay $12.99 to get two descaling packs.

After using my machine for a year, I've stuck with the vinegar method, but I do think I'll use the recommended cleaner soon. It's better to be safe than sorry, and I've noticed some weird tastes in my coffee lately, so it looks like I'll be adding another $13 to my list of expenses.

Cost of cleaning: $13 for two descaling packs

Must-have Nespresso machine accessories

Just like when I got my Peloton, I didn't stop to think about which accessories I might end up needing for a Nespresso machine, but since I made such a significant initial investment in both cases, I wanted to make sure I had all the add-ons to help me get the most out of it. If you're like me, that's more money you'll have to spend.

My favorite enhancement has definitely been my pod organizer. I got the rotating pod tree for $16.99, but you can also get pull-out drawers that stack underneath the machine itself for around $35. In retrospect, I wish I'd gotten the drawer instead of the rotating tree, since it would add a few inches to the height of my machine and make it easier for me to brew directly into my tall to-go mugs, but hindsight is 20/20.

I also got "The Sphere," which is just a little metal ball with prongs that you store in the freezer and set on top of your cup while you're brewing. It cost me a little over $13 and I got it thinking it would cool my drinks to iced coffee temperature without watering them down, but so far I haven't been able to make it work that way; it just lowers the temperature a little, not a lot. What it does do well is remove some bitterness from the brew, which is key for me as someone who uses each pod twice to save some money—the second brew of a pod always gets a little nasty, and this ball helps with that, though I can't explain the science behind it.

Bottom line

Though it costs more than an old school coffeemaker, both on initial investment and over time, I still recommend the Nespresso, and I'm glad I have one. It's easier to use and I like the flavor of my coffee. As long as you're comfortable paying a premium for the convenience, I think you'll be pleased too.

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