Everyone told me SSD caching would fix my NAS, but it fixed absolutely nothing

Caching is only good if you can actually make better use of it.

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Determining the Body Temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex

One of the most fun challenges in paleontology is determining characteristics of long-dead species like their behavior and body temperature based on nothing but some fossils and traces that are …

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Vivo X500 Pro gets two 16GB RAM variants

Vivo has announced two additional configurations for the newly-launched X500 Pro. The new additions have more RAM and can be purchased with up to 1TB of storage, just like the X500 Pro Max.

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How to use Google's Find Hub to locate your Android phone

Is your Android phone missing? Here's how you can use Find Hub to look for it.

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Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it…

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Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025

In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue...

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OpenAI will let outside groups test its models during training

OpenAI says it will let third-party groups run technical safety assessments while models are being trained and evaluated rather than only before launch, and is in talks with groups including METR and Redwood Research. It has named no partner and set no access…

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China's CXMT just entered mass production of memory chips that can rival Samsung's

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) set the stage at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention by announcing its latest advancements in chip manufacturing. The Chinese corporation has officially begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM technology…

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A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model

Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-weight models, Pro and Flash, under an MIT licence. The weights are on Hugging…

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a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

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Minecraft’s Ender Dragon can apparently die without playing the game but there's a 2 Billion year catch

YouTuber RedLogic’s Monte Carlo simulation suggests Minecraft’s mobs could theoretically kill the Ender Dragon without player input through an extraordinarily rare chain of events. The process would take nearly two billion in-game years, and the paywalled…

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Minecraft’s Ender Dragon can apparently die without playing the game but there's a 2 billion year catch

YouTuber RedLogic’s Monte Carlo simulation suggests Minecraft’s mobs could theoretically kill the Ender Dragon without player input through an extraordinarily rare chain of events. The process would take nearly two billion in-game years, and the paywalled…

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How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement

Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim.

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Beat the Switch 2 storage crisis with this $99 512GB microSD Express card

Amazon has slashed 33% off the price of the Samsung P9 microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2, bringing it down to $99.99.

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M5 Pro Mac mini vs. M4 Pro Mac mini compared: Specs, hardware, price

Apple's Mac mini has finally been upgraded with the M5 Pro chip. Here's how the latest model compares to its M4 Pro counterpart. M5 Pro Mac mini vs. M4 Pro Mac mini: Apple's tiny desktop Mac just got even better. After the debut of the M5 Pro chip in the…

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Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5.5 model is almost like Fable 5.1, but much cheaper

Anthropic has shipped Claude Opus 5.5, a model it claims performs at the level of Fable 5.1 for most tasks, at a fraction of the cost.

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Apple Maps & Apple Podcasts join forces for Hidden Histories guides & episodes

Apple Podcasts has launched the Hidden Histories guides in Apple Maps , giving listeners a new way to find podcast episodes tied to landmarks and lesser-known locations in five major U.S. cities. Hidden Histories A new Apple Maps guides collection covers San…

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Your smartwatch might be giving your workouts more credit than they deserve

Your body fat percentage could be throwing off your smartwatch's calorie counter.

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Why I stopped using voice controls and turned on this one Android Auto feature

This tiny tweak changed how I use Android Auto in my cars

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Trump wants to rename Artificial Intelligence ‘Super Intelligence’ — but something else worries me

US President wants to rename Artificial Intelligence to 'Super Intelligence', but no matter the name, he won't be regulating it.

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Save $30 on Apple’s Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and a numpad

Until the end of the day on September 22nd, 2026, Best Buy and Amazon have the black Apple Magic Keyboard on sale for $169.99, a $30 discount from the usual price. This is the souped-up version of Apple’s full-size, wireless keyboard, with a Touch ID button…

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Six-year-old Chinese girl ‘sets new women’s Rubik’s Cube world record’

Lian Yunzhi solves 3x3 puzzle on several occasions in average time of under 4.5 seconds, according to state media A six-year-old Chinese girl has set a new women’s world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in just over four seconds, state media reported…

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Toyota’s popular $15,000 Chinese EV spotted testing overseas in RHD [Images]

The bZ3X is the best-selling EV produced by a joint venture in China. A right-hand drive version was spotted testing overseas, suggesting Toyota will bring the popular electric SUV to global markets.…

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Talk about catch of the day — Florida fishing charter snags a huge military drone in the Gulf of Mexico, but no one is claiming it yet

A Pensacola fishing crew recovered a large unidentified military-style drone from Gulf waters near Eglin Air Force Base during an offshore trip.

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Crimson Desert becomes a true sandbox with this mod

The modding community has unlocked over 48,000 prefab objects in Crimson Desert and handed them to the players to create whatever they want. World Builder for Crimson Desert makes actual world-building possible.

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Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate

The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.

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Apple Releases Firmware Update for Beats 360

Apple today released a firmware update for the Beats 360 over-ear headphones, so customers ordering the headphones will have new software available when they arrive. The firmware has a 4A262 version number, up from the prior 4A260 firmware. We don't know…

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China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported for The…

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WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers

WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on…

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OpenAI upgrading ChatGPT and Codex with two more GPT-6 models

Earlier this month, OpenAI released the first GPT-6 model with Astra. Now GPT-6 is expanding with new GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models.…

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