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Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal file joint lawsuit against generative AI app Hailuo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-22 22:38:19

Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up on the latest blockbuster AI lawsuit , this time against Chinese company MiniMax, owner of Hailuo AI. The three mega-studios, which collectively represent over half of the US box office take , filed suit in California against the AI-powered image and video generation platform alleging that it "pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale." The lawsuit includes dozens of screenshots of infringing generated image

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Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 08:28:09

Yes. Backdrop supports using custom video files and Rive animations to create a scene. You can import your own content via the Creator feature, and even submit it to the Community Platform for others to use.

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‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run’ Anime to Stream Worldwide on Netflix

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-09-27 10:13:47

The upcoming season of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime, Steel Ball Run, is set to stream worldwide on Netflix. The announcement came alongside a press release to celebrate the streaming platform’s tenth anniversary in Japan, Deadline reported. The anime series, based on Hirohiko Araki’s manga, follows the Joestar family’s bloodline across generations as they face a variety of eccentric foes, including the time-rewinding Dio Brando. This series’ core gimmick features heroes and villains alike uti

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‘Dan Da Dan’ Season 2’s Penultimate Episode Sets the Stage for a Giant Robot vs Space Kaiju Showdown

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-09-29 02:45:10

While the end is near for Dan Da Dan season two, animation studio Science Saru isn’t repeating what it did last season with the show concluding on a crushing mid-arc cliffhanger. Instead, the lovey-dovey raucous sci-fi-meets-yokai anime is going out with a bang, with its penultimate episode setting up a cataclysmic giant robot versus space kaiju battle to send anime fans home happy. In Dan Da Dan episode 11, “Hey, It’s a Kaiju,” the gang battles a kaiju. While Momo, Okarun, and their new friend,

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Bronze Age Britons Threw Massive Ragers With Food and Friends From Far Away

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-01 10:10:21

You can learn a lot about people by studying their trash, including populations that lived thousands of years ago. In what the team calls the “largest study of its kind,” researchers applied this principle to Britain’s iconic middens, or giant prehistoric trash (excuse me, rubbish) piles. Their analysis revealed that at the end of the Bronze Age (2,300 to 800 BCE), people—and their animals—traveled from far to feast together. “At a time of climatic and economic instability, people in southern

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Cities obey the laws of living things

news.ycombinator.com Elena Kazamia 2025-10-01 00:31:01

Who would disagree with Dickens that London’s green spaces are the city’s “lungs?” A city is an animal that sleeps, although some never do, like New York City or Hong Kong. All cities are creatures of a sort. Some have multiple “faces” they present to the world, most have a “beating heart” where the action unfolds, and it is a rare city that lacks a dark “underbelly.” The analogy of city as living organism is so established, in fact, that it has crossed over into the realm of scientific inquiry

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‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Anime Studio Explains Delay, Vows to Do Justice to Manga’s Spellbinding Artistry

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-03 14:45:38

Studio Bug Films hopes its adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's manga will be as big as 'Lord of the Rings' for anime fans. Studio Bug Films recently delivered the deflating news that its anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier would be delayed to 2026. In the wake of its announcement, the studio gave fans an update about the nature of its delay and reaffirmed its commitment to doing the best possible job transforming manga pages into animation. In an X/Twitter social media post, which links out to

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‘Sherlock Holmes’ May Get the Animated Treatment From a ‘Shrek’ Producer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-06 02:00:35

Here’s a duo you don’t expect: Sherlock Holmes and Shrek. There won’t be any content crossover if a new animated Sherlock Holmes series—tentatively titled Animated Sherlock—gets off the ground, but the shared behind-the-scenes interests are there. Also of note, the series wouldn’t adapt the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle source material but rather a novel series that puts a more risque twist on his classic tales. As Variety reports, Animated Sherlock would tap into The Unexperguated Adventures of Sherl

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Dyson’s New Stick Vacuum Just Solved My Biggest Problem With Cordless Models

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 01:15:00

Dyson is one of the best-known cordless vacuum manufacturers, and its V-series vacuums are flagship models that usually earn top marks in our testing. With strong suction and innovations including dust detection, the best Dyson vacuums can usually be counted on to bring something new to the table. I got to go hands-on with the Dyson V16 Piston Animal (there’s also a Submarine variant), the company’s newest cordless vacuum that’s expected to launch in the US in 2026. It offers the top-of-class c

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Tropical Storms Routinely Shredded Baby Pterosaurs, Fossil Evidence Suggests

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-06 14:15:24

The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot in southern Germany, hosts a particularly rich array of baby pterosaur bones. That led paleontologists to believe that the animals flourished here—until an autopsy unveiled the broken, storm-tossed wings of two baby pterosaurs, painting a darker picture of how the bones got there. In a Current Biology paper published September 5, paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom describe the tragic tale of Lucky and Lucky II, two baby

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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-07 14:56:43

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, according to the Wall

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Samsung leak reveals how you’ll be opening and closing its dual-hinge foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 18:26:12

TL;DR A new animation for Samsung’s multi-fold foldable has leaked. The animation shows how the device will open and close. It also appears to show that users will be able to take selfies with the rear cameras. Samsung debuted the Galaxy S25 FE this week, but that’s not the last smartphone the company is expected to announce this year. The tech giant also has a multi-fold device, popularly but misleadingly called a “tri-fold,” due later this year. Last week, a few 2D animations related to the

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Purposeful animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 07:34:57

When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience? Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose. Purposeful animations Before you start animating, ask yourself: what

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You Don't Need Animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 12:34:57

When done right, animations make an interface feel predictable, faster, and more enjoyable to use. They help you and your product stand out. But they can also do the opposite. They can make an interface feel unpredictable, slow, and annoying. They can even make your users lose trust in your product. So how do you know when and how to animate to improve the experience? Step one is making sure your animations have a purpose. Purposeful animations Before you start animating, ask yourself: what

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I Tried It: Dyson's Newest Stick Vac Empties So Neatly, I Could Do It in Bed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 22:01:00

Dyson is one of the best-known cordless vacuum manufacturers, and its V-series vacuums are flagship models that usually earn top marks in our testing. With strong suction and innovations including dust detection, the best Dyson vacuums can usually be counted on to bring something new to the table. I got to go hands-on with the Dyson V16 Piston Animal (there’s also a Submarine variant), the company’s newest cordless vacuum that’s expected to launch in the US in 2026. It offers the top-of-class c

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The Hand-Drawn Hits That Hollywood Isn't Making

news.ycombinator.com Animation Obsessive Staff 2025-10-07 20:08:23

Detail from a poster for Nobody (2025) by Shanghai Animation Film Studio Welcome! This is a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Our lineup today: 1) Why 2D movies are booming elsewhere. 2) Newsbits. With that, let’s go! 1 – Stories that resonate Folks who follow the animation news have already heard. Right now, hand-drawn features are taking over. It’s happening in Japan, where Infinity Castle (of the Demon Slayer series) just became the third-biggest movie in the co

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The Unexpected Winners of Trump’s Trade War

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-10-11 02:19:35

I thought I had outsmarted Donald Trump’s tariffs, but I was wrong. Well, at least sort of. On August 29, the US government officially ended an 87-year-old rule that allowed Americans to import small packages tariff-free. Known as the de minimis exemption, the policy had allowed shipments under a certain value threshold—$800 in recent years—to clear customs without paying any duties. Policymakers have been debating changing de minimis for years, but when it finally happened, the move still sent

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Short Stories From the ‘Chainsaw Man’ Creator Are Becoming a Prime Video Anime

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-14 22:00:14

Just when you thought anticipation for the theatrical debut of MAPPA’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and a film compilation of its first season was at its maximum, the Tatsuki Fujimoto train continues to show no signs of slowing down. Soon, more of the acclaimed manga creator’s early short stories will join the likes of his emotional gut-punch of a film, Look Back, in a new anime anthology series coming to Prime Video this November. Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26, produced by Flagship Line, will a

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The tariff apocalypse is here

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-10-15 02:34:13

As President Donald Trump’s August 29th deadline for new tariffs rolled around, the first thing that I thought of was 2026 planners. In July, Trump signed an executive order essentially killing a little-known but highly consequential trade rule, which meant that purchases coming from abroad — like $100 in planners and accessories — could enter the US duty-free. My preferred planner, the Hobonichi Techo, is printed and shipped from Japan. With the de minimis exemption removed, my tax bill could b

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When to Stream 'Lilo & Stitch' on Disney Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 01:00:02

With the arrival of Lilo & Stitch, Disney is set to welcome one of its most beloved characters to its streaming home on Disney Plus. The live-action release has raked in just over $1 billion at the box office and will make its way to your TV screen, finding a seat next to its animated predecessor on the streaming platform. Lilo & Stitch revisits the original story of 6-year-old Lilo, a Hawaiian girl being cared for by her older sister Nani, and Stitch, a little blue fugitive alien. Their paths

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A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 04:25:10

I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim. After reading a recent article on Nim ("Why Nim") and the associated HN comments, it's clear that comments and some information about Nim are misleading and outdated. Since Nim 2, a tracing Garbage Collector is not the default nor the recommended memory management option. Instead, the default memory management mod

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A Review of Nim 2: The Good and Bad with Example Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 10:25:10

I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim. After reading a recent article on Nim ("Why Nim") and the associated HN comments, it's clear that comments and some information about Nim are misleading and outdated. Since Nim 2, a tracing Garbage Collector is not the default nor the recommended memory management option. Instead, the default memory management mod

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‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ and ‘Devilman Crybaby’ are Thankfully Getting Blu-Ray Releases

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-18 16:50:33

To everyone’s benefit, Netflix has been gradually putting out physical versions for some of its fan-favorite shows. For the anime fans, you’ll be more than happy to hear are Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Devilman Crybaby are the next two series to leave Netflix jail by the end of 2025. Earlier in the week, Crunchyroll opened up pre-orders for the box sets for both shows. Devilman’s Blu-Ray puts the entire 10-episode series on two discs. Developed by Science Saru, the anime is based on Go Nagai’s D

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Show HN: OpenAnimation – KMP app for exploring and editing Lottie animations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 12:18:53

OpenAnimation ✨ Check out the live web version: openanimation.web.app ✨ Discover and draw inspiration from a curated collection of beautiful Lottie animations, all powered by Kotlin Multiplatform. 🔥 New Features 🙏 Libraries Used Contributing Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. License This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details. 🚀 Roadmap & TODO Features

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HoYoverse's Star Rail spinoff is Honkai: Nexus Anima

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-19 18:36:38

HoYoverse's next gacha game has shades of Teamfight Tactics and Pokémon. The developer describes Honkai: Nexus Anima as a "creature-collector adventure strategy game." HoYoverse first teased the title in May at the Honkai: Star Rail Concert 2025. In Honkai: Nexus Anima's game world, a sudden rupture has shattered the balance between opposing forces (Nexus). You'll explore the realm, forging bonds with the resulting creatures (Anima) scattered about. It sounds like gameplay will revolve around a

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword Interview: Resurrecting a Series After 20 Years

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 18:00:03

Since its arrival on PlayStation 2 in 2001, the Onimusha series has been recognized for blending a mix of Resident Evil-style action horror with historically inspired Japanese samurai combat. Now, after lying dormant for over two decades, players will soon enter Edo-era Kyoto as Musashi Miyamoto, the new wielder of the Oni Gauntlet, in Onimusha: Way of the Sword. At Gamescom 2025, I sat down with Akihito Kadowaki, producer of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, to chat about the upcoming Onimusha game,

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First look at Star Wars Visions: season 3 shows a more experimental anthology

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 05:10:00

Disney+ fatigue might be setting in for many viewers, with a surfeit of Marvel and Star Wars shows dropping at a hectic clip over the past few years. But that didn’t stop Star Wars: Visions from getting a warm reception at this past weekend’s Anime NYC convention, where thousands of fans were given a sneak peek at the upcoming season of the animated anthology show. Star Wars: Visions season three was also featured at this summer’s Star Wars Celebration, but its appearance at an anime con was ju

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 14:35:49

Manim is an engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos. Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlie

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Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly "Gooning to AI Anime"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 08:04:56

The richest man in the world can't quit getting high on his own supply — and his most loyal fans are openly mocking him for it. Many AI boosters say the tech is poised to cure disease and usher humanity into a new age of prosperity. But billionaire and xAI CEO Elon Musk has shifted his AI startup's focus to lewd, anime-styled chatbots that will happily undress themselves for drooling users. Case in point, xAI recently revealed cringe AI "companions," including a hypersexualized goth anime girl

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Studio Behind New ‘Sekiro’ Anime Denies Use of AI

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-31 09:30:10

Earlier this week at Gamescom, Crunchyroll unveiled a first look at its upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime, Sekiro: No Defeat, which adapts the popular PlayStation Soulslike game developed by FromSoftware, Inc. But in the wake of the trailer’s release, concerns from fans online began to suggest and speculate that some off-looking parts of the trailer may have been down to a use of generative AI. Qzil.la, the studio behind No Defeat, was not prominently featured in its marketing in the tra

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

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