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Library cards be "one of the most powerful tools anyone can have which offers access to many resources beyond books," one advocate told CNET. https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/how-do-i-sign-up-for-a-library-card-what-to-do-and-what-it-gets-you/#ftag=CADf328eec

The streaming service will allow members to add only one extra user. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/max-streaming-password-crackdown-8-extra-member-fee-rollout-begins/#ftag=CADf328eec

Tick bites can cause a variety of diseases but staying vigilant can help you protect yourself. https://www.cnet.com/health/tick-season-has-arrived-try-this-trick-to-safely-remove-a-tick-without-tweezers/#ftag=CADf328eec

You may even get store credit when you trade in your PCs, laptops and printers. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/spring-cleaning-for-earth-day-where-to-recycle-computers-and-printers-for-free/#ftag=CADf328eec

The cordyceps infection has changed the world, filling it with mindless killing machines. Find out exactly what's waiting outside the walls. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/runners-and-clickers-and-bloaters-oh-my-all-the-infected-variants-in-the-last-of-us/#ftag=CADf328eec

Here are hints -- and the answer -- for today's Wordle No. 1,404 for April 23. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-wordle-hints-answer-and-help-for-april-23-1404/#ftag=CADf328eec

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 416 for April 23. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-strands-hints-answers-and-help-for-april-23-416/#ftag=CADf328eec

The papal funeral is scheduled for Saturday, April 26. It will be a more modest event than others, for a modest man. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-stream-pope-francis-funeral-and-the-movie-about-picking-the-next-pope/#ftag=CADf328eec

Hackers rebrand top YouTube accounts to impersonate trusted names, then lure fans into clicking malware-filled links and livestreams.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/millions-at-risk-as-cybercriminals-successfully-compromise-popular-youtube-accounts-heres-how-to-stay-safe

US Immigration enlists Palantir for "targeting and enforcement prioritization".

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/palantir-to-develop-immigrationos-for-ice-to-speed-up-deportations

Google Messages beta finally adds Sensitive Content Warnings for some.

https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/google-messages-update-finally-adds-an-important-safety-tool-and-teases-a-feature-im-surprised-the-app-doesnt-have-already

North Korean hackers pose as recruiters, turning coding tests into costly crypto theft schemes.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/north-korean-hackers-are-using-linkedin-to-entice-developers-to-coding-challenges-heres-what-you-need-to-know

Save up to $500 on select gaming laptops at Best Buy like the Laptop Mag Editor's Choice Award-winning Asus ROG Zephyrus G16.

https://www.laptopmag.com/deals/laptops/gaming-laptops-pcs/best-buy-is-having-a-huge-gaming-laptop-sale-here-are-9-deals-to-help-you-save-up-to-usd500

Bad news for handheld gaming

https://www.laptopmag.com/gaming/handheld-gaming-pc-anbernic-us-tariff

Google pays Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ of money to pre-install Gemini AI tools on its Galaxy smartphones, an antitrust court in the United States has heard. As part of an antitrust case that could see Google as we know it forced to break up, Google revealed the payments to Samsung had begun in January this [...]

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US streaming service Max has officially launched its extra member fee that aims to eliminate password sharing on the platform. The move was expected, as last year operator Warner Bros. Discovery warned it would be “asking members who have not signed up, or multi-household members to pay a little bit more.” Now it’s here, the [...]

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There's different versions of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered available for purchase, so here's what you need to know.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastered-buying-guide

I tried turning my PC into an EdgeBook by relying only on Microsoft Edge. The pitfalls of my setup shocked me.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/browsing/i-turned-my-windows-pc-into-an-edgebook-microsofts-web-apps-were-the-most-glaring-issue

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster just shadow dropped and it seems even our favorite spot for deals, CDKeys has been hit by unprecedented traffic.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/the-oblivion-remaster-is-already-discounted-but-its-so-popular-its-crashing-deal-websites

Several key resellers are already discounting the brand-new Oblivion remaster on Steam, letting you save money just hours after release.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/shadow-dropped-or-not-you-can-already-save-money-on-the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastered-for-steam

It didn't take long after this remaster shadow dropped for over 100,000 players to dive in on Steam. That number will continue to rise by quite a bit.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/elder-scrolls-oblivion-remastered-player-count-surges

Igor's Lab has discovered extremely high hotspot temperatures on most (if not all) RTX 50-series AIB partner cards around the power delivery area that could compromise graphics card longevity.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/igors-lab-uncovers-hotspot-issue-affecting-all-rtx-50-series-gpus-says-it-could-compromise-graphics-card-longevity

Six months after its commercial release, a recently re-tested Intel Core Ultra 9 285K shows a 6% performance boost, thanks to BIOS revisions and better P/E core scheduling.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-core-ultra-9-285k-performance-sees-6-percent-improvement-on-linux-arrow-lake-boosts-even-without-new-200s-boost-bios

Scythe faces an uncertain future in Europe as insolvency proceedings have begun. A German court has appointed a provisional insolvency administrator for Scythe EU GmbH to address the mounting financial pressures.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/scythe-faces-uncertain-future-in-europe-as-insolvency-proceedings-begin

Wheel of Time is getting a new video game adaptation. The popular fantasy book series has already seen an imagining for the small screen with an Amazon Prime Video series that is currently airing its third season. Now iwot Studios, which has a hand in creating the Amazon show, is launching a new game studi

Max now requires a fee for extra members who join a plan outside of the household. Each person who joins a subscription plan will cost $8 a head, no matter which access tier the main account holder is on. This type of "extra member" charge is how severa

Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, but tensions between Mark Zuckerberg and the app’s founders persisted for years afterward. On Tuesday, Instagram’s former CEO and cofounder Kevin Systrom took the stand in Meta’s antitrust trial in Washington D.C and offered a firsthand account of how Zuckerberg viewed the photo-sharing app as a “threat” to Facebook.

Systrom, who ran Instagram until 2018, said that Zuckerberg slowed hiring and other investments into Instagram despite

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Stalking, but with a side of Dr Pepper?

A number of streamers in Japan have recently had run-ins with a mysterious stream sniper known only as the Dr Pepper Guy. As Dexerto first reported, after tracking down streamers in random locations, the unknown figure silently cracks open a can of cold Dr Pepper, hands it over, and disappears without a word.

Stre

The Trump administration might be in the process of dismantling the Department of Education, but it still wants a say in what students learn in school. The Washington Post reports that Trump has drafted (but not yet signed) an exec

Photos of the French Alps, Utah, the Maldives, Quebec, Australia and Argentina show the naturally occurring letters. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-doodle-spells-out-company-name-with-nature-for-earth-day-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec

We got our first purported look at Motorola's new foldable phone just two days before its announcement, but there was no leak for the Razr 60 Ultra. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/motorola-razr-60-promo-pictures-leak-ahead-of-announcement/#ftag=CADf328eec

The Oscar-nominated 2024 film, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, offers a fictionalized, high-stakes look at what happens behind the Vatican's closed doors. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/where-to-watch-conclave-the-vatican-thriller-about-electing-a-new-pope/#ftag=CADf328eec

Binge Severance, Ted Lasso or the new satirical series, The Studio, with a discount. https://www.cnet.com/deals/apple-tv-plus-deal-you-can-still-get-3-months-of-streaming-for-9/#ftag=CADf328eec

Don't expect many new features from Apple as it prepares for WWDC in June. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ios-18-5-public-beta-2-just-dropped-dont-get-too-excited/#ftag=CADf328eec

Think you know how much sleep you need? Experts break down the science behind sleep stages, personal needs and what happens when you don’t get enough. https://www.cnet.com/health/sleep/how-much-sleep-do-you-need/#ftag=CADf328eec

Knowing when to buy your ticket is just as important as knowing where you're going. Google Flights has you covered. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/google-flights-knows-the-best-time-to-book-for-the-cheapest-plane-tickets/#ftag=CADf328eec

Mortgage rates have been more volatile than usual in recent weeks, with a weakening economic outlook and an intensifying trade war keeping investors on their toes. https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/key-rates-move-down-for-homebuyers-current-mortgage-rates-for-april-22-2025/#ftag=CADf328eec

The challenge raised millions of dollars for ALS research in 2014. Now, it's back promoting mental health support. https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/yes-the-ice-bucket-challenge-is-splashing-back-into-your-feed-heres-why/#ftag=CADf328eec

Star Wars star Mark Hamill, author Stephen King and millions of others now are using the social-media site Bluesky. https://www.cnet.com/tech/how-to-join-bluesky-which-now-has-35-million-users-as-a-twitter-alternative/#ftag=CADf328eec

Unlike on X, users cannot pay for a blue checkmark on Bluesky. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/bluesky-introduces-blue-checkmarks-and-new-verification-methods/#ftag=CADf328eec

A new report says that Motorola is preparing to launch its first pair of open-ear headphones, and a smartwatch too

https://www.techradar.com/audio/earbuds-airpods/the-second-pair-of-open-earbuds-with-bose-tech-are-coming-but-not-from-bose

Routers, VPNs, and other network edge devices are being used as entry points by attackers.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-are-hitting-firewalls-and-vpns-to-breach-businesses

GPT-4.5 passed the Turing Test by convincing people it was human.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-crosses-a-new-ai-threshold-by-beating-the-turing-test

These Chinese companies are reportedly considering IPOs in the US despite the ongoing trade war.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/chinese-tech-companies-want-to-enter-the-us-market-despite-trade-and-tariff-war

The Insta360 X5's dual-capture InstaFrame mode caters to adventurers and editors alike, but syncing with Apple and Garmin smartwatches gives every shot serious video game vibes.

https://www.laptopmag.com/cameras/insta360s-latest-360-degree-camera-gives-your-footage-main-character-energy-with-a-hud-to-match

Pick up the latest iPad with Apple A16 chip for an all-time low price.

https://www.laptopmag.com/deals/tablets/ipads/apples-new-ipad-11-with-a16-chip-hits-record-low-price-of-usd319-just-in-time-for-mothers-day

I downloaded The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion: Remastered so fast, and I jumped at the chance of testing it on the HP Omen Max 16, an RTX 5090 gaming laptop.

https://www.laptopmag.com/gaming/elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered-rtx-5090-gaming-laptop-performance

Given its plans to overhaul Siri to fit the generative AI era have not gone well, reports the company is switching up the playbook is potentially positive news for Apple fans. Bloomberg reports the recently-appointed Siri lead at Apple is shaking things up and bringing the team that managed to get Apple’s other first-time product [...]

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Instagram is finally rolling of the new Edits app as a direct rival to the TikTok-owned CapCut video creation tool. Initially announced in January amid uncertainty over the future of TikTok, Edits offers finer video shooting and editing controls than those offered by the in-app Instagram editor. For example, you’ll be able to edit videos [...]

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Bethesda has announced and released the long-awaited remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, which includes many changes to the original game's visuals and gameplay.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastered-whats-new-and-different

Following an announcement today, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered shadow dropped. So, can you play it on Game Pass?

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/is-the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastered-on-game-pass

Pick up this powerful gaming PC from Newegg today and save $300. Get in the action with the 9800X3D and RTX 5070 Ti.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/you-can-save-usd300-on-this-prebuilt-abs-gaming-system-with-the-best-gaming-cpu-and-gpu-combo-amds-ryzen-7-9800x3d-and-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-ti

Rumors suggest that Intel is contracting TSMC to utilize its N2 process node for Nova Lake, likely alongside its own 18A node.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/tsmcs-n2-process-reportedly-lands-orders-from-intel-nova-lake-is-the-likely-application

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Engadget's pick for the best security camera for newbies is on sale for 30 percent off. The

Earlier this year, right as TikTok and other ByteDance apps were temporarily pulled from Apple and Google’s app stores, Meta announced that it was working on a new video editing app tailored to Instagram creators. That app, called Edits, is now finally rolling out as Meta continues to try to leverage the uncertainty surrounding TikTok’s future to draw more creators to its apps.

As

I try to play as broad a swathe of games as I can, including as many of the major releases as I am able to get to. Baldur's Gate 3 garnered near-universal praise when it arrived in 2023, and I was interested in trying it. But when I watched gameplay videos, the user interface seemed distressingly busy. There were far too many icons at the bottom of the screen and my brain crumbled at the sight of them. I am yet to try Baldur's Gate 3.

Two years later, I had similar fe

Fellow has been slowly growing its collection of coffee gadgets with its brewers, scale,

Pinterest is testing a new prompt that warns kids to get off the app during school hours, as reported by The Verge. The pop-up warning encourages minors in the US and Canada to stop using the app and turn off notifications until the end of the day. "Focus is a beautiful thing," the prompt says. "Stay in the moment by putting Pinterest down."

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Hey HN, we’re Adi and Arnav. A few months ago, we hit a wall trying to get LLMs to answer questions over research papers and instruction manuals. Everything worked fine, until the answer lived inside an image or diagram embedded in the PDF. Even GPT‑4o flubbed it (we recently tried O3 with the same, and surprisingly it flubbed it too). Naive RAG pipelines just pulled in some text chunks and ignored the rest.

We took an invention disclosure PDF (

Hi HN! We’re Arjun, Ramnique, and Akhilesh, and we are building Rowboat (https://www.rowboatlabs.com/), an AI-assisted IDE for building and managing multi-agent systems. You start with a single agent, then scale up to teams of agents that work together, use MCP tools, and improve over time - all through a chat-based copilot.

Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, docs are at

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I built a Ruby gem for memoization with TTL + LRU cache. It’s thread-safe, and has been helpful in my own apps. Would love to get some feedback: https://github.com/mishalzaman/memo_ttl

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A commercial airliner was on final approach to San Francisco’s international airport in November when the crew spotted a drone outside the cockpit window. By then it was too late “to take evasive action,” the pilots reported, and the quadcopter passed by their windshield, not 300 feet away.

A month earlier, a jetliner was flying at an altitude of 4,000 feet near Miami’s international airport when its pilots reported a “close encounter” with a drone. In August, a drone came within 5

Google's antitrust trial enters the remedies phase, with the DOJ seeking Chrome breakup and AI restrictions.

The post DOJ’s Google Search Trial: What If Google Must Sell Chrome? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/dojs-google-search-trial-what-if-google-must-sell-chrome/54

Celebrate Earth Day by learning about the greener and more cost-efficient alternative to throwing away leftover scraps. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/leftover-food-scraps-can-be-a-goldmine-how-to-maximize-your-groceries/#ftag=CADf328eec

With so much economic uncertainty, scoring a high-end phone at a discount could come in clutch. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/get-the-galaxy-s24-at-a-discount-through-samsungs-refurbished-program/#ftag=CADf328eec

The tiny Capsule Air is the size of a can and it lets you project movies and TV anywhere. https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/anker-nebula-capsule-air-review-little-led-can-can-light-a-little/#ftag=CADf328eec

With the help of an online tool, you can create a personalized roadmap for making your home more sustainable. https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-how-you-can-make-a-home-electrification-plan/#ftag=CADf328eec

New Pew data shows nearly half of the 1,400 teens surveyed believe social media is harmful to their generation. https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/social-media-apps-blamed-by-many-teens-for-mental-health-struggles/#ftag=CADf328eec

The agency accuses the ridesharing company of charging customers without consent and making it hard to cancel the service. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ftc-sues-over-uber-one-saying-it-deceived-consumers/#ftag=CADf328eec

Google said the process happens entirely on your device, and that it doesn't have access to any images. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/googles-new-nudity-warnings-in-messages-will-warn-you-of-incoming-explicit-images/#ftag=CADf328eec

Say goodbye to surprise cleaning charges as Airbnb complies with an FTC rule requiring full price disclosure. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/find-out-an-airbnbs-price-before-you-book-even-the-sneaky-fees/#ftag=CADf328eec

How good is your recycling knowledge? Participate in Earth Day and make our world greener by identifying which items are actually recyclable. https://www.cnet.com/science/climate/earth-day-challenge-test-your-recycling-iq/#ftag=CADf328eec

The highs of making impossible plays outweigh dying to overpowered builds, but I worry about stompiness and counters. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/after-a-week-of-playing-overwatch-2-stadium-early-it-might-be-my-new-favorite-mode/#ftag=CADf328eec