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PINE64 community manager Camden, also known as “CarbonatedCaffeine” and “Caffeine,” has announced an incoming new wearable from the open hardware specialist — along with the less welcome news that the rising price of memory means production of the company’s tablets and phones has been halted.”The new device is an improvement on the original with an AMOLED display, GPS, a custom chip, a digital crown which also features an extra button and new sensors including a blood oxygen sensor,” Camden writes of the PineTime Pro, an upgraded successor to the original PineTime smartwatch. “Power to individual components can be cut, unlike…

Spring is a great time to pick up the latest headphone deals, as many retailers launch big sales on a wide range of devices across the price spectrum. As one example, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is live this week, and it includes 46% off the price of the Sony WH-CH720N noise-cancelling headphones.These are a more affordable pair of ANC-backed headphones than the Sony WH-1000XM6, ringing in at nearly half the price (before the discount). The wireless headphones feature a lightweight, comfortable and foldable design, a long battery life, and various audio-enhancement and customization features that make them live up to…

An international team of astronomers, led by a PhD student at University of Galway, have made the groundbreaking discovery of a second planet in the same system where they discovered another planet last year. Detected at an early stage of formation in the disc around a young star, the young planet named WISPIT 2c is estimated to be about 5 million years-old and most likely ten times the mass of Jupiter. The star, WISPIT 2 is located in the constellation of the Eagle, a prominent equatorial constellation visible in the summer northern hemisphere (July-November) along the Milky Way. The study…

Airtel Africa has announced the successful testing of data and messaging services in partnership with SpaceX using Starlink Mobile. The trial focused on enabling connectivity in areas where terrestrial mobile networks had no signal, marking a key step towards expanding coverage beyond traditional network infrastructure.4G Smartphones Connect Directly to SatellitesAccording to Airtel Africa, standard 4G smartphones were able to seamlessly connect to Starlink’s satellite constellation during the test phase. The satellites, numbering over 650, helped bridge connectivity gaps in locations that are typically difficult to serve through conventional mobile networks.The company highlighted that this testing showed how connectivity can be…

Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and impacted humans, a step toward safer and more trustworthy AI. To gain a comprehensive understanding, we can analyze these systems through different lenses: feature attribution, which isolates the specific input features driving a prediction (Lundberg & Lee, 2017; Ribeiro et al., 2022); data attribution, which links model behaviors to influential training examples (Koh & Liang, 2017; Ilyas et al., 2022); and mechanistic interpretability, which dissects…

There are a lot of things that we have talked about in Smart Data Collective over the years. One of them has been the sudden popularity of data science education.Amstat News reports that the number of students studying data science and related fields continues to rise, with master’s degrees in biostatistics increasing 23% over 2022 to 1,130. There are also increases in biostatistics PhDs by 4% to 284 and bachelor’s degrees from 50 to 84, while statistics bachelor’s degrees reached 5,463 and PhDs climbed 5% to 568, showing strong academic interest. Keep reading to learn more.How Warm-Ups Prepare Data Science…

The RAT module maintains regular communication with an attacker-controlled C2 server, executing commands to terminate its own process, change the working directory, list files and directories, navigate to the application directory, retrieve directory details, upload a file, execute Node.js code, and run arbitrary shell commands, among others.StoatWaffle also exhibits custom behavior depending on the victim’s browser. “If the victim browser was Chromium family, it steals browser extension data besides stored credentials,” the researchers said. “If the victim browser was Firefox, it steals browser extension data besides stored credentials. It reads extensions.json and gets the list of browser extension names, then…

A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language. Experts say the wiper campaign against Iran materialized this past weekend and came from a relatively new cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. In December 2025, the group began compromising corporate cloud environments using a self-propagating worm that went after exposed Docker APIs, Kubernetes clusters, Redis servers, and the React2Shell vulnerability. TeamPCP then attempted to…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. I saw the news yesterday and honestly had to laugh. The stock market was up and oil prices were dropping because there’s a rumor that the US and Iran had “perfect” negotiations led by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. But, when you see Donald Trump use words like “perfect” and “beautiful,” it’s almost always a massive tell. Before hearing anything more, I was hitting that “doubt” button. Why doubt the President of the United States? Because he’s basically Biff Tannen. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Then along…

Learn how to use UICollectionView, with highly reusable UIKit components and some MVVM pattern without the going nuts with index path calculations. Anatomy of the UICollectionView classIf you’re not familiar with UICollectionView, I’d suggest to get familiar with this class immediately. They’re the basic building blocks for many apps provided by Apple and other third party developers. It’s like UITableView on steroids. Here is a quick intro about how to work with them through IB and Swift code. 💻You might have noticed that I have a love for metal music. In this tutorial we’re going to build an Apple Music…