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Nov 1, 2026The FBI says North Korea was behind the massive $6.3 billion crypto heist that hit Binance on October 29th. The FBI labeled the activity "TraderTraitor" and said that it had observed actors it has connected to hack converting the tokens to Ethereum a...
Nov 1, 2026Bigger isn't always better, but when it comes to space exploration, it just might be. With both stages stacked, the current SpaceX Starship launch vehicle stands at 407 feet. It's taller than the tallest known living tree, Hyperion, and one-third ta...
Nov 1, 2026The AUX jack survives on older Echo speakers. The voice commands that made it convenient don't. Amazon has disabled Alexa voice controls for the AUX input on several older Echo speakers. An Amazon email shared by a customer and reported by Ars Techn...
Nov 1, 2026How owning a 3D printer can save you some big cash in your hobbies NASA's 3D printers hosted on the International Space Station (ISS) print tools and replacement parts on demand. Here on Earth, 3D printers can sometimes make expensive components and...
Nov 1, 2026Strava's data serves as the backbone for "personalized" insights for subscribers. ### What you need to know - Strava announced that it's rolling out a Connected Apps experience with Google's Gemini for subscribers. - Once connected, users will rec...
Nov 1, 2026No better way to end the week than this. ### What you need to know - Nothing announced that its OS 5.0 update (Android 17) is rolling out today (Oct. 30) for the Phone 3a and Phone 4a series. - The update brings a hefty changelog of fixes and twea...
Nov 1, 2026The OPPO Find X10 Ultra might be testing MediaTek power, but Qualcomm isn't done yet. OPPO could be planning a big change for its next flagship camera. The upcoming Find X10 Ultra is reportedly being tested with MediaTek's Dimensity 9600 Pro, a mov...
Nov 1, 2026There is no lack of frustrating and unwanted features on Windows, and Search is perhaps one of the worst offenders. Your experience with Windows Search has probably revolved around irrelevant results, missing files, and painfully slow performance. Wh...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Andy's Tech Lab turned an Echo Dot 3 (2018) into a local Home Assistant voice satellite by replacing Amazon firmware. - They soldered a USB to a Dot's board, then rooted it and used Claude to make the Echo Dot Assist software. - This...
Nov 1, 2026I've seen this happen more than once: a laptop with a beefy RTX 40-series GPU chugs through a game or renders video like it's running on a toaster. The culprit is almost always Windows happily defaulting to the integrated graphics. Laptops from best ...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Konsole is nearly 30 years old; Kwi is a fresh, experimental terminal for KDE. - Kwi uses Qt Quick GPU rendering and libghostty-vt, claiming 3-35x faster rendering than Konsole. - It's an experiment, easy to embed in Qt Quick apps ...
Nov 1, 2026### Summary - Jet Studio delivers a Godot-like editor for building and flashing 2D/3D games to the ESP32-S3. - Demos hit high frame rates: a 2D shooter hit 85 FPS, an Outrun-style racer at 65 FPS, and a 3D physics test at 55 FPS. - The editor has ...