To strengthen its appeal to fitness enthusiasts, Garmin has announced a new retail partnership with Giant Bicycles India, bringing its cycling-focused wearables and performance tech to select Giant stores across the country. As part of the first phase, Garmin products are now available at select Giant retail stores in Mumbai, Pune, and Jaipur. Customers visiting these outlets can explore Garmin’s cycling ecosystem alongside Giant’s bicycle range.
Garmin’s Cycling Ecosystem Comes to Giant Stores
Garmin’s portfolio spans a wide range of cycling-focused products, including advanced bike computers with detailed ride tracking and mapping, TACX indoor trainers, GPS smartwatches, power meters, and power pedals. The company also offers smart bike lights with rear-view radar alerts, performance trackers, and 4K ride-recording cameras designed for documenting rides.
In particular, the TACX indoor trainers allow cyclists to replicate real-world terrain indoors using their existing Giant bicycles. Meanwhile, Garmin’s cycling computers and performance tools provide detailed insights into speed, cadence, heart rate, endurance, and navigation. All these features are increasingly sought after by serious riders and training-focused enthusiasts.
Deepak Raina, Director at AMIT GPS & Navigation LLP., said, “Data has become central to how cyclists understand and improve their performance. Access to accurate ride metrics, training insights, and navigation information helps riders make better decisions and measure real progress over time without compromising on the safety on roads by increasing situational awareness. Through our partnership with Giant Bicycles India, we are bringing reliable, data-driven technology closer to cyclists at the point where they invest in their riding journey.”
Adding to this, Varun Bagadiya, Director at Giant Bicycles India, said, “We are pleased to partner with Garmin, a brand synonymous with precision and performance. Offering Garmin’s full product portfolio at our stores allows us to deliver a more comprehensive experience to cyclists, supporting them not just with world-class bicycles but also with advanced performance technology.”
Reading analog clocks is a pretty straightforward skill to learn. However, if you’ve already learned to read and don’t want to pick up the extra skill, a word clock is a perfect solution for telling time. [povey_tech] found some nice examples in the wild but didn’t appreciate the price, so he set about building his own.
The build is based around an ESP32 microcontroller. While many projects in this vein would use the onboard wireless connectivity to query network time servers, in this case, the board relies on the user manually setting the time and a DS1307 real-time-clock module to keep a steady tick. Also onboard is a VEML7700 ambient light sensor, which the microcontroller uses to control the brightness of the WS2812 LEDs inside the board.
The words themselves are laser cut out of acrylic panels, with everything set inside a tidy oak picture frame. A layer of anti-reflective glass in front helps cut down on glare, while [povey_tech] was so kind as to implement two LEDs per letter to allow for lovely color gradients to be displayed. Configuring the clock is easy thanks to a webpage hosted on the ESP32 that allows for control of dimming modes, colors, and setting the time. Home Assistant integration is something planned for the future.
A threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is distributing fake enterprise VPN clients from Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet to steal VPN credentials from unsuspecting users.
The attackers manipulate search results (SEO poisoning) for common queries like “Pulse VPN download” or “Pulse Secure client” to redirect victims to spoofed VPN vendor sites that closely mimic VPN solutions from legitimate software vendors.
After examining the attack and command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, Microsoft researchers discovered that the same campaign used domains related to Sophos, Sonicwall, Ivanti, Check Point, Cisco, WatchGuard, and others, targeting users of multiple enterprise VPN products.
In the observed attack, Microsoft found that the fake sites link to a GitHub repository (now taken down) that hosts a ZIP archive containing a fake VPN MSI installer.
Advertisement
Fake Fortinet website Source: Microsoft
When executed, this file installs ‘Pulse.exe’ into %CommonFiles%\Pulse Secure, and drops a loader (dwmapi.dll) and a variant of the Hyrax infostealer (inspector.dll).
The fake VPN client displays a legitimate-looking login interface that invites victims to enter their credentials, which are captured and exfiltrated to the attacker’s infrastructure.
The malware, which is digitally signed with a legitimate, but now revoked, certificate from Taiyuan Lihua Near Information Technology Co., Ltd., also steals VPN configuration data stored in the ‘connectionsstore.dat’ file from the legitimate program’s directory.
To reduce suspicion, the fake VPN client displays an installation error after stealing the credentials, and redirects them to the real vendor’s site to download the legitimate VPN client.
“If users successfully install and use legitimate VPN software afterward, and the VPN connection works as expected, there are no indications of compromise to the end users […], [who] are likely to attribute the initial installation failure to technical issues, not malware,” explains Microsoft.
Advertisement
Meanwhile, in the background, the infostealer malware creates persistence for Pulse.exe via the Windows RunOnce registry key, ensuring the infection survives system reboots.
The researchers recommend that system administrators enable cloud-delivered protection in Defender, run EDR in block mode, enforce multi-factor authentication, and use SmartScreen-enabled browsers.
Microsoft has also provided indicators of compromise (IoCs) and hunting guidance to help detect and block this campaign early.
Malware is getting smarter. The Red Report 2026 reveals how new threats use math to detect sandboxes and hide in plain sight.
Download our analysis of 1.1 million malicious samples to uncover the top 10 techniques and see if your security stack is blinded.
The interference has scrambled the Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) that ships rely on to share their positions. That means tankers carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of oil may not know exactly where nearby vessels are – a potentially catastrophic problem in narrow waterways, where even a small navigational error… Read Entire Article Source link
Neither of Apple’s first two CEOs are particularly remembered next to the likes of Steve Jobs, John Sculley, or Tim Cook, yet Mike Markkula, Apple’s second CEO, certainly should be.
Mike Markkula (right) with Steve Jobs in the 1970s — image credit: allaboutstevejobs
Michael Scott was the first CEO of Apple, but he was hired by Mike Markkula. And then if not exactly fired, he was at least pointed toward the door by Markkula. Without Markkula, there would quite possibly never have been an Apple. And there certainly wouldn’t be one that stood the test of time. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Ex-Apple designer Alan Dye did not leave the company by himself, and a new report on Sunday says that he took others with that pioneered Liquid Glass with him. As we’ve said before, there is no possibility that Apple will ditch this overhaul.
Liquid Glass is Apple’s future, like it or not
Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign of all of its operating systems from iPhone to Mac may have proven divisive, and it was certainly spearheaded by Alan Dye. But there is no possibility that it will be dropped, even as Bloombergnow reports that several designers left alongside Dye when he moved to Meta. This new report from Mark Gurman’s “Power On” newsletter says that Apple whipped out Liquid Glass as a wild card to distract from its failings in Apple Intelligence. But then in the same breath, the report also says that Liquid Glass was many years in the making. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Nearly all new TVs and projectors have the ability to decode HDR, or high dynamic range, video. In most cases, HDR content looks better than non-HDR material, though an individual display’s ability to deal with the extra data can vary greatly. There are multiple HDR formats, including Dolby Vision, Dolby Vision 2, HDR10, HDR10 Plus and HLG. Most displays can only decode one or two of these. Likewise, streaming services and 4K Blu-rays typically offer only one or two.
Fortunately, all HDR displays can play HDR content — just not always in the best format available. Here’s what to keep in mind when shopping for a new TV or deciding which streaming service to use for a movie or show.
The basics
Advertisement
These images attempt to illustrate, on your standard dynamic range screen, what HDR can do on HDR displays. The top left shows how the image appears on an SDR display, tuned so the shadows are visible. Notice how the highlights in the clouds are “blown out,” meaning they lack detail. The upper right shows the HDR version with detail preserved in the clouds. The lower left shows the same image adjusted to preserve the highlights, which causes the shadows to disappear. HDR displays showing HDR content have a wider dynamic range — the difference between the brightest and darkest parts of an image.
HDR10plus.org
In CNET’s TV and projector reviews, we’ve found that both the capabilities of the TV itself and the way HDR is used in the movie or TV show have a greater impact on image quality than the specific HDR format. In other words, just because a display supports a “better” HDR format doesn’t mean it will look better than one that doesn’t. Here’s a tour of the HDR landscape today.
Everything supports HDR10, but many TVs and sources will also have at least one of the other formats.
Dolby Vision and HDR10 Plus can look better in specific ways compared to HDR10. All will look better than non-HDR, standard dynamic range content.
One format might look “better” than another on paper, but in the real world, image quality depends far more on the TV’s overall performance and how the content was made.
Most new TVs can display HDR content, which preserves more detail in both bright and dark areas of an image, creating a greater “dynamic range” than non-HDR content (i.e., pretty much everything you’ve ever watched). That older format is now called SDR, or standard dynamic range. On an HDR TV, HDR content can look far more punchy and vibrant than traditional video.
The dynamic range of what’s captured by the camera (left) and what’s possible on SDR and HDR displays.
AJA
Just having an HDR TV isn’t enough; you also need HDR content. Without it, the TV doesn’t have much to work with. It may still look good and can artificially expand SDR content for a slight improvement, but to get the most out of HDR you need content designed for it. Thankfully, there’s now plenty available, including movies, TV shows and even video games. Chances are your favorite new programs already support HDR.
HDR10
Supported by everything.
Better image quality potential than SDR, but perhaps not as good as HDR10 Plus or Dolby Vision.
Static metadata.
HDR10 is about as close to a universal standard as we’ve got. Because it’s free for manufacturers to use, it’s supported almost everywhere. Every HDR TV can decode it and every HDR streaming device supports it. Nearly all HDR content includes an HDR10 version, sometimes alongside more advanced formats such as Dolby Vision, which we’ll discuss shortly.
HDR10’s main limitation is its “static” metadata, meaning a single HDR “look” is applied to an entire movie or show. That’s still better than SDR, but it doesn’t allow very bright or very dark scenes to look their absolute best within the same film. This one-size-fits-all approach works, but it prevents both the content and the TV from reaching their full potential. Dynamic metadata, which most other HDR formats use, addresses this limitation.
Static metadata is like forcing an entire football team to wear the same size shirt. It might fit the quarterback and look OK on the big linebacker and tiny kicker, but everyone would look better in shirts sized for them.
Advertisement
HDR10 isn’t backward-compatible with SDR TVs, so it’s no good for broadcast. You’ll find it available with streaming content and on 4K Blu-ray.
HDR10 Plus
Championed by Samsung.
Dynamic metadata.
Potentially better image than vanilla HDR10.
As you may have guessed from the name, HDR10 Plus is similar to HDR10, but with a little plus. The “plus” in this case is dynamic metadata, which improves on HDR10’s static version. This means that on a per-scene — or even per-image — basis, the content can provide the TV with all the information it needs to look its absolute best.
While there are certain fees for manufacturers to use HDR10 Plus, they’re much less than what Dolby charges for Dolby Vision. Because it’s from Samsung, it’s highly unlikely there will ever be an LG TV with HDR10 Plus. Sony is another holdout, likely for similar reasons. However, Epson, TCL, Hisense, Roku and others offer HDR10 Plus compatibility.
It’s a little hard to see in this graphic, but notice how the frames on the right show different levels of brightness in the sky. This example uses a standard dynamic range image on a standard dynamic range screen. HDR10 Plus’s dynamic metadata allows filmmakers to optimize how each shot or scene is displayed. HDR10, by contrast, uses static metadata — a single setting that must serve as a compromise between the darkest and brightest scenes.
Advertisement
Samsung
On the content side, there’s Amazon, Apple TV, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus and Netflix, among others. Keep in mind that just because a company or streaming service supports HDR10 Plus doesn’t mean that every product or show/movie is compatible with or has HDR10 Plus data.
Potentially the best image quality of all the formats.
Less content available than with HDR10.
The de facto “step up” HDR format.
Dolby Vision, like HDR10 Plus, can have dynamic metadata. Streaming services including Netflix, Amazon, Vudu and Apple TV support it, and you can find it on some 4K Blu-rays. Some Dolby Vision features — including dynamic metadata and color handling — are optional in HDR formatting for NextGen TV, though over-the-air HDR content remains rare.
This is an approximation, using two SDR images, of what you’d see if you placed an SDR and HDR TV side-by-side.
Advertisement
Dolby
The downside of Dolby Vision is that manufacturers have to pay Dolby to use it. In return, Dolby helps them optimize their TVs to look their best with DV content. For some companies, that’s an easy way to improve picture quality. Larger manufacturers — like a certain Korean brand that begins with the letter S — prefer to invest in their own HDR formats instead, thank you very much.
After HDR10, this is the most popular HDR format, but that doesn’t mean it’s universal. Samsung is the biggest holdout, for reasons mentioned above. Generally speaking, if a company doesn’t support Dolby Vision, it likely supports HDR10 Plus, though some companies support both. There is less Dolby Vision content than there is vanilla HDR10 content, but big-budget movies and TV shows almost always include it.
Dolby
Announced at CES 2026, Dolby Vision 2 introduces several new features. The most controversial, in my opinion, is optional motion smoothing, which would allow directors or showrunners to smooth scenes they consider too juddery, such as fast pans. The format also includes “content intelligence” features that adjust a TV’s performance based on ambient light and the content being shown. Midpriced and lower-end TVs will support the base version of Dolby Vision 2, while higher-end models will offer Dolby Vision 2 Max, which includes the motion-smoothing feature. We’ll have to see how it’s implemented once TVs and compatible content arrive, possibly later this year.
The good news is DV2 is compatible with all current Dolby Vision TVs. Older DV TVs won’t have access to the new features, of course, but the HDR and dynamic metadata will still work.
Advertisement
HLG
From BBC and NHK.
Free to use.
Broadcast-friendly.
Hybrid Log Gamma was created by Britain’s BBC and Japan’s NHK. Unlike the formats we’ve discussed so far, it’s actually backward-compatible with SDR TVs. One signal that works on both older TVs and newer ones is a huge deal for broadcasters. As you can imagine, it’s not without drawbacks — mainly when it comes to picture quality. Like HDR10, HLG is likely better than SDR, but it may not match the picture quality of some other HDR formats. It’s the format used for over-the-air HDR broadcasts.
A graphical representation of an SDR and HLG signal. The vertical axis is the signal, from broadcast, cable or satellite, for example. “0” is black, “1” is bright white. The horizontal axis is the physical brightness coming out of your television. An SDR TV would see the HLG signal and think it was “normal,” showing an image with, perhaps, better highlight detail. An HDR TV that’s HLG-compatible would understand what to do with the HLG signal and show that brighter information as a physically brighter part of the image (i.e., how HDR normally works).
Public Domain/Creative Commons
There’s already wide TV support. Content is still in the early stages, however. If you can get the BBC’s iPlayer (whether you’re in the UK or using a VPN), that service has HLG support. DirecTV and YouTube also support HLG, but there’s just not a lot of content so far. It’s free and fills an important niche, but it’s been years since it came out and it hasn’t been widely adopted. Some phones can record HDR via HLG, which you can playback on HLG-compatible displays.
Technicolor’s Advanced HDR comes in multiple flavors: SL-HDR1 is similar to HLG in that it’s fully backward-compatible with SDR TVs, allowing for one signal to rule them all; SL-HDR2 has dynamic metadata like HDR10 Plus and Dolby Vision; SL-HDR3 uses HLG as a base, but adds dynamic metadata.
The path to SDR and HDR in one SL-HDR1 signal. The top is the content creation, the bottom is what your TV will do with it. The SDR content is automatically created from the HDR signal.
Technicolor
Content is limited to some NextGenTV broadcasts. It’s unlikely it will get wide acceptance among streaming companies.
Here’s the tl;dr: HDR10 is the main HDR format. Dolby Vision and HDR10 Plus are the step-up options that offer potentially better image quality. All HDR should look better than older SDR content (or the non-HDR version of modern content). NextGenTV continues its slow rollout. The potential of free over-the-air HDR is still there, but at this point it’s in the hands of the individual channels and channel owners as to how much HDR they want to broadcast.
Generally speaking, it’s worth making sure any new TV you’re considering supports either Dolby Vision or HDR10 Plus since the dynamic metadata can make a noticeable difference, especially on the best TVs. The good news is that the majority of new shows, movies and even many games, all support HDR in one way or another. Most TVs and projectors do as well, though of course, some better than others.
Note: This story was first published in 2018 but is updated regularly to reflect new HDR formats and info.
“Just the anachronism of seeing Doom, one of the poster children for the moral panic around violent video games, on a Nintendo console is novel,” writes Kotaku — especially with the console’s underpowered “Super FX” coprocessor
Hampered by a nearly unplayable framerate, especially in later levels, and mired by sacrifices, like altered levels, no floor or ceiling textures, and the entire fourth episode being cut, [1995’s] Doom on the Super NES was not a good version of the game, but it was Doom running on the Super NES, and, for that alone, [programmer Randal] Linden’s genius deserves recognition.
But then in 2022 when Audi Sorlie interviewed Linden on the YouTube show DF Retro, “Not really knowing where fate was going to take us, I asked [Linden] a throwaway question regarding the source code for Doom.”
If you ever worked on this again, Sorlie asked, would you make any improvements or do anything differently?”
Advertisement
“Yeah,” Linden replied. “I have plenty of ideas if I could go back, but, you know, I don’t think anyone’s asking me to go back to Super Nintendo Doom and improve it.”
A few years passed, and Sorlie joined Limited Run Games as lead producer for their development department. When LRG asked him to run down his craziest ideas, a new, improved release of Randal Linden’s Doom loomed large. Convincing Linden was easy, and Sorlie said even the folks at license holder Bethesda were more amused than anything.
“You want to go back and develop for Super Nintendo?” they asked Sorlie. “Like, for real…?”
“The trick was actually pretty cool,” Linden said. “It’s right here.” He pointed to a chip on the prototype SNES cartridge, similar to the one Limited Run sent me to test out the game. “It’s a Raspberry Pi 2350.” Super FX chips are no longer in production for obvious reasons, but with a clever bit of programming, Linden was able to load software onto the Raspberry Pi that fools the SNES into thinking the game has one. “The Super Nintendo doesn’t know that it’s not talking to a Super FX,” he explained. When he programs for it, he writes code almost identical to what he’d write for an authentic Super FX chip.
Advertisement
“I had to go back and reverse-engineer my own code from 30 years ago,” Linden laughed. “It’s like, what was I doing here? And what was I doing there? Yeah, it was pretty tricky, some of the code. I was like, wow, I used to be very smart.” The result of Linden’s work? It’s Doom, running right on a Super Nintendo, but it’s smoother, packed with new content, and even includes rumble.
A new open-source tool called Betterleaks can scan directories, files, and git repositories and identify valid secrets using default or customized rules.
Secret scanners are specialized utilities that scour repositories for sensitive information, such as credentials, API keys, private keys, and tokens, that developers accidentally committed in source code.
Since threat actors often scan configuration files in public repositories for sensitive details, this type of utility can help identify secrets and protect them before attackers can find them.
The new Betterleaks project is intended as a more advanced successor to Gitleaks and is maintained by the same team, with support from Aikido, a Belgian company that provides a platform for securing the development cycle.
Advertisement
Scanning speed comparison Source: GitHub
Betterleaks is developed by Zach Rice, Head of Secrets Scanning at Aikido Security, who also authored the popular Gitleaks with 26 million downloads on GitHub and more than 35 million pulls on Docker and GitHub Container Registry (GHCR).
“Betterleaks is the successor to Gitleaks. We’re dropping the “git” and slapping “better” on it because that’s what it is, better,” Rice says.
Betterleaks was created after Rice lost full control over Gitleaks, which he started developing eight years ago. The list of features in the new tool includes:
Rule-defined validation using CEL (Common Expression Language)
Token Efficiency Scanning based on BPE tokenization rather than entropy, achieving 98.6% recall vs 70.4% with entropy on the CredData dataset
Pure Go implementation (no CGO or Hyperscan dependency)
Automatic handling of doubly/triply encoded secrets
Expanded rule set for more providers
Parallelized Git scanning for faster repository analysis
The developer has also revealed additional features planned for the next version of Betterleaks, like support for additional data sources beyond Git repositories and files, LLM-assisted analysis for better secret classification, more detection filters, automatic secret revocation via provider APIs, permissions mapping, and performance optimizations.
Regarding the project’s governance, Rice explains that it uses the open-source MIT license and is maintained by three additional people beyond himself, including contributors from the Royal Bank of Canada, Red Hat, and Amazon.
Rice underlined that Betterleak’s design philosophy combines human-centric use with accommodation for AI agent workflows, including CLI features optimized for automated tools that scan AI-generated code.
Advertisement
Malware is getting smarter. The Red Report 2026 reveals how new threats use math to detect sandboxes and hide in plain sight.
Download our analysis of 1.1 million malicious samples to uncover the top 10 techniques and see if your security stack is blinded.
Unacademy, once a one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal that would bring together two major online learning platforms in the country.
On Sunday, Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal said in a post on X that the companies had signed a term sheet for upGrad to acquire Unacademy in a 100% share-swap deal, adding that the valuation would not be disclosed until the transaction closes. The announcement comes more than three months after Munjal said that Unacademy’s valuation had dropped below $500 million — down roughly 85% from its pandemic-era peak of $3.5 billion in 2021.
India’s once-booming edtech sector has struggled since pandemic-era lockdowns eased, as students returned to classrooms and demand for online test prep and learning platforms cooled. Companies including Unacademy, which expanded aggressively during the pandemic, have since cut costs, scaled back offline ambitions, and refocused on core digital products.
In a separate post, upGrad co-founder Ronnie Screwvala said Munjal will continue leading Unacademy after the acquisition, adding that the combination would strengthen upGrad’s integrated model spanning K-12 education, upskilling, and lifelong learning. The companies have agreed to an undisclosed break fee if the deal does not close, Screwvala said.
Advertisement
“Unacademy helped invent the modern edtech playbook,” Munjal wrote. “Along the way we lost some focus and market share, and the sector itself has not seen enough real product innovation in recent years.”
Founded in 2015, Unacademy emerged as one of India’s most prominent edtech startups during the pandemic, when lockdowns drove millions of students to online learning platforms. But as demand cooled after classrooms reopened, the company reduced costs, laid off employees, and restructured parts of its business.
Munjal said Unacademy currently holds more than $100 million in cash reserves after spending the past year consolidating company-operated offline centers with franchise partners and refocusing on its core online learning products. The company also completed an employee stock buyback worth ₹500 million (about $5.40 million), with roughly 40% of former employees participating, he said.
Techcrunch event
Advertisement
San Francisco, CA | October 13-15, 2026
Unacademy has raised about $854.3 million across 13 funding rounds, according to PitchBook, and counts investors including SoftBank, Tiger Global, General Atlantic, and Peak XV Partners among its backers.
Advertisement
The upheaval has reshaped the competitive landscape of India’s edtech sector. Byju’s, once the country’s most valuable startup, has seen its valuation written down to effectively zero and entered insolvency proceedings in September 2024.
Meanwhile, rival Physics Wallah, once seen as an underdog in the sector, has turned profitable and continued expanding. The company made a strong debut in the public markets late last year.
In recent months, Munjal has devoted increasing attention to Airlearn, an AI-first language-learning app that imitates the gamified approach popularized by Duolingo. The shift has created friction with some Unacademy investors, who felt the core edtech business was being left adrift during a difficult phase, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.
Still, Munjal said Airlearn is gaining traction in markets including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada, and argued that artificial intelligence could unlock a new wave of innovation in education technology.
Those who stay into the forbidden realm of font rendering quickly learn how convoluted and arcane it can be – LaTeX is a fully Turing-complete programming language, Unicode has over eighty invisible characters, and there are libraries that let you execute WebAssembly in a font. A great example of a font’s hidden capabilities is Z80 Sans, a font that disassembles Z80 opcodes to assembly mnemonics.
If one pastes Z80 opcodes into a word processor and changes their font to Z80 Sans, the codes are rendered as their assembly mnemonics. The font manages this by abusing the Glyph Substitution Table and Glyph Positioning Table, two components of the OpenType standard. Fonts define relations between characters (internal representations used by the computer, such as ASCII and Unicode) and glyphs (the graphics actually displayed).
In some cases, though, the way a character is displayed depends on where it appears in a word, or what appears around it (Arabic characters are a common example, but an example from English is the ligature “æ”). Z80 Sans defines all the possible glyphs for each nibble of the opcodes, then used a recursive descent parser to generate substitution rules which display the correct glyphs in context.
