Samsung is hosting a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it's expected to unveil its new folding smartphones, including the Galaxy Z Fold8, the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and the Galaxy Z Flip8. We already know what these foldables will look like due to previous leaks, but we are now getting our best look yet at a working Fold8 as it's teased by BTS member J-Hope. South Korean boy band BTS' Jung Ho-seok, known professionally as J-Hope, posted a short Instagram Story on his account ..

This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America's biggest cybersecurity adversary and how that investigation ultimately changed U.S. government policy. The reporter first found an ad offering $18 to $28 to hire Americans as "digital escorts" for China-based tech support, then just searched LinkedIn for people who apparently had answered ..

The automotive industry's increasing use of over-the-air technology makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say.

Reuters reports: Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government's troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, deemed a "fiasco" by a cross-party committee of lawmakers, will be redirected to Burnham's priorities, the spokesperson said... "All the time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, ..

Ukraines Stetman plans a 360-satellite constellation by 2027, using SpaceX launches and European partnerships despite leadership changes.

These things happen from time to time, especially when dealing with such complex software with so many edge cases and even more so with software with special privileges like Geminis ability to run from the lock screen. In traditional hacking circles, this is known as an authentication bypass vulnerability or a lockscreen bypass. It is always so fascinating to observe what things people find or often stumble upon. You can see the short video for yourself. Still, it goes something like this: The ..

The US Air Force tested an autonomous drone firing an AMRAAM missile, advancing plans for future human-controlled combat aircraft.

"Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player," according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It's driven in part by "collection building", according to their report [PDF]: The CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible. This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much about aesthetic ownership and direct financial ..

The country's gambling authority ordered ISPs to block access to the prediction market's website.

"One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management," reports The Register: Aside from the homepage, there's a GitHub repository but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo is still there although the most recent changes were seven years ago. The new project also has a project history giving credit where it's due. The main man behind the revival is Joe Maloney, known on GitHub as pkgdemon. In case his name rings a bell, we've ..

Netflix acquired Affleck's AI startup InterPositive in March for $587 million, the streamer disclosed in an SEC filing.

The company may be trying to save ad space for local businesses.

Up to 32 employees were affected by the studio's recent decision.

A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously.

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D has suddenly become a solid value thanks to a $50 promo code, knocking its price down from $329 to just $279 on Newegg.

In a sign of our times, CNBC's Jim Cramer "said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off," reports CNBC: "I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now...." While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into measurable financial returns for customers. Cramer said one of his biggest ..

TrashBench recently decided to test whether adding m

The original lawsuit was filed in 2023 and claimed Twitter hosted thousands of cases of copyright infringement.

The Xiaomi Mix Fold 5 is coming; we know that much for sure. In fact, it could arrive sooner rather than later, with many rumors speculating an August 2026 release timeframe. The device is already certified in China seemingly before any of the Xiaomi 18 family of devices, which is a good sign for a potential early release. Also, unlike the Xiaomi 18 family, the Mix Fold 5 does not need to wait for Qualcomms Snapdragon Elite Gen 6 chipset, since pretty much every source out there agrees that it ..

Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons probe flew by the planet Pluto in 2 . But this week it "awakened from its longest sleep ever," reports CNN. It's now 5.9 billion miles (9.5 billion kilometers) from Earth... NASA's New Horizons spacecraft went into a planned hibernation mode on August 7, 2025, and woke up on June 23 using commands stored on its main computer. The mission's flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New ..

The AI trade dominated the market once again this week, upstaging an impressive start to the second-quarter earnings season.

Thursday the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios filed unfair labor complaints against Microsoft over the layoffs of 1,600 employees. The gaming news site Aftermath says the complaints allege unlawful action: "Xbox management is required to bargain with the union over the decision of layoffs prior to implementing them during the status quo period, and we are pursuing every available avenue to protect our members," a Communications ..

The water lock feature on Apple Watches automatically activates when you're swimming, but what does it do?

Newegg has a great combo bundle on sale with over $100 in savings for the fastest DDR4 gaming system you can build today. It pairs a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 16GB of CL16 DDR4-3200 RAM and an Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus WiFi II motherboard.

Last year just 0.6% of new vehicles made for U.S. customers were stick shifts, reports the Washington Post, citing preliminary government data. "That's a precipitous drop from the 34.6 percent of vehicles with manual transmissions produced in 1980." [T]he stick shift's popularity hit multiple new lows in recent years, with no signs of a turnaround, thanks to new technologies and a rapidly changing marketplace. Buyers and automakers increasingly have turned to the sophisticated automatic ..

Apple has put up the prices for its music streaming subscription service for the first time in four years.

A fairly reputable leakster has dropped some alleged specs for Google's new "a-series" device, and if true, it might just be the best one to come out in years. There is at least one big surprise in there that we frankly didn't expect the chipset. When Google dropped the Pixel 10a in March 2026, one of the biggest complaints most prospective buyers had was the chipset. Google decided to stick with last year's Tensor G4 chipset, which is just one of the aspects that made the 10a a bit too similar ..

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The 3GB GDDR7 chips that the RTX 50 Super GPUs will use reportedly cost twice to thrice as much as the 2GB chips found on vanilla RTX 50-series graphics cards. This would likely push the retail price of these GPUs way beyond Nvidia's target MSRP.

Cutting the cord in your car is a simple upgrade.

The Jensen Jacket achieved a hammer price of $960,000 this weekend.

Ukraine revealed reusable Horynych bomber drones converted from civilian aircraft following a reported strike against Russian military infrastructure near Crimea.

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Chinese company LONGi has developed crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells with a 35.5 percent conversion efficiency.

Here's everything we know so far about the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first X-Men movie.

At this point, we've seen and we've heard it all. The Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Galaxy Watch9 leaks we've seen so far leave nothing to the imagination. We've already seen some renders and most of the specs. Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra However, the latest leak comes from a reputable source, Evan Blass, and by the looks of it, all the renders are official. This, in turn, means that all the features and specs you see in the images are basically confirmed. Galaxy Z Fold8 There are no surprises ..

Apple has continued to put the prices up for its online services, with iCloud+ rising in cost in a number of territories. iCloud+ now costs more money in some countries. Over the course of a few days, Apple has been increasing the prices of its various online services . Not to be left behind, iCloud+ has now upped its prices to join the rest of the roster. The change, revealed by Apple's iCloud+ pricing support page , doesn't outright say what countries are affected by the pricing. However, ..

Project Neo replaces endless TV browsing with conversational AI.

Gameboy Advance port of hashcat allows for advanced password cracking in meager hardware so long as you're willing to wait

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