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If you’re looking for a mass storage upgrade, you can’t do much better than Seagate’s massive 24 TB hard drive. Imagine every file tucked away locally on a 7200 RPM disk that’s backed by 2 years of warranty, and doesn’t even feel slow for its class, thanks to the 190MB/s top speed.
Source: Latest from Tom’s Hardware.
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Centre for Public Integrity says government’s $560m grant scheme ripe for ‘pork barrelling’
The Centre for Public Integrity has raised concerns that a $560m invitation-only grant program established by the Albanese government is ripe for pork-barrelling
When election promises are channelled through grants without open or transparent eligibility criteria, the distinction between policy delivery and political patronage becomes blurred.
Both major parties have used such mechanisms in the past – including through the community development grants program and Building Better regions fund – to direct taxpayer money toward electorally advantageous projects.
Source: World news | The Guardian.
Energy trading giants Mercuria Energy Group and Vitol Group are among finalists for a refinery and hundreds of gas stations in Argentina being sold by Raizen SA, according to people familiar with the matter.
Source: Bloomberg Markets.
Robot vacuums show up in our gift guides almost every year, and it’s easy to understand why: they clean, they save time, and they’re cheaper than hiring a professional. But not all robovacs are created equal, and some save more time than others. The Dreame X40 Ultra is one of those, offering a more genuinely hands-free cleaning experience than what you typically get. And now through December 1st, it’s down to a new low of $499.99 ($700 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Dreame.
If you’re looking for a great robot vacuum that also does a fantastic job of mopping, the last-gen X40 Ultra is one of the best we’ve tested. With 12,000Pa of suction power, it does a great job of sucking up dirt and debris. It even comes with AI-powered smart dirt detection, which uses onboard cameras to spot particularly dirty areas, then slows down and passes over them multiple times until they’re thoroughly cleaned.
Its dual oscillating mop pads also do a fantastic job on hardwood floors, even extending into edges and under cabinets. It can also automatically detach and reattach its mop pads when switching to vacuuming, so your carpets stay dry. In fact, it repeats this process multiple times throughout a cleaning cycle to ensure carpets are vacuumed and hard floors are mopped properly.
What’s more, the robovac doesn’t require much babysitting; it maps rooms effectively, and its AI-assisted obstacle avoidance navigates around larger items like shoes with ease. Plus, the X40 Ultra can empty its own dustbin, refill its water tank, and clean its washboard — and its mop pads can even wash and dry themselves.
Source: The Verge.
If you have a Pixel 10 phone that you use for turn-by-turn directions in lieu of a dedicated GPS device, Google has an update that might be right up your alley. A Google Maps power-saving mode is now available for Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL and Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The company announced this feature earlier this month as part of its November 2025 Pixel Drop.
Power-saving mode is only available in portrait orientation and it works on your lock screen. If you tap the power button while using the driving navigation tool, the app will switch to a simpler monochrome look that retains the map layer, as 9to5Google notes. It looks a bit like the dark mode map in the Uber app.
You’ll see only see key details your journey, such as your next turn and expected travel time. Other elements, such as your current speed, are stripped out. You can still swipe down to see your notifications.
If you press the power button or tap the screen, Google Maps will revert to the standard view. The app also turns off power-saving mode when you get to your destination.
Google says that the power-saving mode can extend your Pixel 10’s battery life by up to four hours, so this could come in handy for long drives when you don’t have an easy way to charge your phone while you have it mounted on your dashboard. The more streamlined look could perhaps help to mitigate distracted driving too.
Google will probably bring the feature to other devices down the line, but it’s disappointing that the company is limiting it to the Pixel 10 lineup for now. Perhaps it will end up offering this stripped-down UI on the Android Auto version of Google Maps someday. too
It seems that Google is enabling power-saving mode by default via an update on its end. If you’d rather not be able to use the feature, you can switch it off by going to the settings in the app, then Navigation > Driving options and tapping the toggle for power-saving mode.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/a-google-maps-power-saving-mode-lands-on-pixel-10-devices-180000601.html?src=rss
When people talk about building a SaaS, the focus is often on the core idea. In reality, most of the time disappears into the same invisible foundation work that never shows up in demos.
Landing pages.
Authentication.
Billing.
Emails.
SEO.
Analytics.
Monitoring.
Testing.
Before any real feature exists, weeks are already gone.
We recently built a production ready SaaS starter on top of Next.js 16, and I want to share what actually took the longest time, what broke in production, and what we would do differently if we started again today.
1. Authentication was not the hard part. The edge cases were
Setting up basic email and OAuth login was easy. The real pain started with everything around it.
Session refresh across server components
Token sync between API routes and middleware
Handling partial OAuth profiles
Account linking edge cases
Deleting users and cascading data safely
The basic tutorial version works in one afternoon. Making it safe in production is what took days.
If you are building your own auth, design the account lifecycle first. Registration is only a small part of it.
2. Subscriptions are easy until invoices and webhooks enter the room
The first Stripe checkout took less than an hour. What followed took a week.
Webhook reliability
Retrying failed payments
Grace periods
Plan downgrades without breaking access
Invoice state matching your internal DB state
The hardest part was not charging users. It was keeping subscription state consistent between Stripe, the database, and the frontend UI.
Strong advice: model your subscription states on paper before writing a single line of billing code.
3. Emails were a silent source of production bugs
Email feels trivial until it breaks user trust.
Verification emails going to spam
Password reset links expiring incorrectly
Edge cases when users change emails mid session
Race conditions between auth and email dispatch
We ended up treating email as a first class production system, not a utility. Logging, retries, and delivery monitoring became mandatory.
4. SEO and metadata took longer than expected
Next.js makes rendering easy. SEO correctness still takes discipline.
Canonical URLs
OG and Twitter cards
Sitemap updates during dynamic routing
Indexing control between preview and production
Structured data validation
None of it is conceptually hard, but missing even one piece quietly hurts distribution for months.
5. Analytics without polluting the app took multiple rewrites
We wanted clean analytics without slowing the app.
Client side tracking without hydration errors
Server side events for billing
Privacy safe defaults
Mapping anonymous to authenticated users cleanly
The mistake we made early was adding analytics after everything else. It should be part of the core architecture from the beginning.
6. Testing was delayed. That was a mistake
E2E tests always come last. That is where the real bugs hide.
The moment we added full Playwright coverage for:
Auth flows
Checkout
Webhooks
Dashboard state
We immediately discovered issues that had been invisible for weeks.
Testing earlier would have saved real production incidents.
What we learned overall
Infrastructure always takes longer than expected.
Most SaaS bugs live in the invisible glue code.
Shipping fast is only possible if foundations are boringly solid.
Starters are not about speed. They are about eliminating entire failure classes.
This experience eventually led us to turn our internal setup into a reusable SaaS starter called Sabo, simply because we never wanted to repeat this whole process again.
You can find it here if you are curious: getsabo
But even if you never use any starter kit, the lessons above apply to every serious SaaS build.
If you are building a SaaS right now
Ask yourself:
Do you fully understand your auth edge cases?
Can your billing system survive failed payments safely?
Are emails observable and debuggable?
Will Google index exactly what you expect?
Do you trust your E2E tests more than your staging environment?
If even one answer is “not really”, that is where most long term pain starts.
If this was useful, I am happy to share deeper writeups on any of these parts in follow up posts. Auth, billing, email delivery, and SEO each deserve their own war stories.
Source: DEV Community.
The Killswitch Ultra pack from Dbrand combines protective features and ergonomic enhancements to enhance your console experience. Included is the rugged Killswitch protective case/skin, a hard travel cover, 2x screen protectors, thumb-stick grips, and a dock adapter, as the Switch 2’s girth increases with the Killswitch cover and will not fit in the standard dock.
The Killswitch skin not only protects against bumps but also increases the thickness of the side Joy-Con grips for a better handheld experience.
Source: Latest from Tom’s Hardware.
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La Coldiretti Reggio Calabria ha formalmente richiesto al presidente della Camera di Commercio di Reggio la convocazione di un incontro con gli operatori della filiera agrumicola, a fronte delle criticità registrate nell’attuale campagna delle arance destinate alla spremitura.
Sebbene la stagione sia partita con condizioni favorevoli, – afferma Coldiretti -il settore sta oggi affrontando delle difficoltà nel collocamento del prodotto raccolto, a cui contribuisce la crescente presenza sul mercato di succhi esteri a prezzi anomali e dal profilo salutistico dubbio, provenienti da Paesi dove l’uso di fitofarmaci non ammessi in Europa è ancora consentito.
Una dinamica che alimenta concorrenza sleale, penalizza il prodotto calabrese e suscita serie preoccupazioni per la sicurezza alimentare dei cittadini.
Alla luce di questo scenario, la presidente provinciale Federica Basile e il direttore provinciale Gino Vulcano della Coldiretti reggina, hanno chiesto alla Camera di Commercio di convocare nel più breve tempo possibile, un confronto operativo che coinvolga le OP ortofrutticole e le strutture di estrazione dei succhi, con l’obiettivo di favorire un dialogo efficace tra i diversi attori della filiera e garantire una migliore valorizzazione delle produzioni locali, realizzate nel pieno rispetto delle norme europee.
“È fondamentale agire subito – ha ribadito il direttore regionale di Coldiretti Calabria Francesco Cosentini – per tutelare il lavoro delle imprese agrumicole e assicurare un mercato trasparente, equo e coerente con gli standard di qualità che i nostri produttori rispettano ogni giorno.
La collaborazione tra organizzazioni agricole e istituzioni è la chiave per superare l’attuale fase di difficoltà.
È in funzione di questo che Coldiretti invoca a gran voce il rispetto del principio di reciprocità per chiedere che le normative europee, inclusi gli standard produttivi, siano applicate anche ai prodotti agroalimentari importati da paesi extra-UE, dove si utilizzano principi attivi in agricoltura da noi vietati da decenni. “
Coldiretti prosegue nel monitorare la situazione per sostenere con determinazione le produzioni locali e favorire un confronto sistemico per la valorizzazione degli agrumi coltivati nel Reggino.
L’obiettivo è garantire giustizia e trasparenza, proteggendo il reddito degli agricoltori e la salute dei consumatori da concorrenza sleale e prodotti di scarsa qualità.
Source: Irriverentemente.