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Why One of the Greatest ‘Star Wars’ Novels Ever Made Was Written Like a Greek Tragedy

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-02 04:15:01

When it came to penning the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the planning all came before the aftermath of the film’s eventual polarizing release. And by chance, Matthew Stover’s version of the events of the film ended up being one of the saving graces of George Lucas’ closing chapter in his saga, at least to the old guard of fanboys. We all know that the generation who grew up on it and the animated shows ended up being more embracing of the maker’s final contribution

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Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting them

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-02 04:26:15

As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and from India to Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. That agility is paying off: The startup has doubled its revenue, turned profitable, and is now expanding its global footprint. Over the past several months, students across emerging markets have faced growing uncertainty around international college admissions. Shifting visa rules and

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That’s No Moon, That’s Lego’s October Releases

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-02 12:30:14

A new month is upon us, and for Lego, a new record: the release of the most expensive Lego set ever made (so far, at least), in the new Star Wars UCS Death Star. But while a very big disc might be overshadowing what else is on the way this month, it’s not the only thing coming from Lego. October might be a “quiet” month for the brick-builder, 9,023-piece Death Stars aside, but there are still a few highlights beyond the superweapon-shaped elephant in the room. The eagerly anticipated Lego Game

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Instagram tests opening right onto Reels

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-02 12:39:00

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Instagram is testing a potentially major change to the app: making Reels the home tab of the app. As part of an opt-in test in India, Meta is making Reels and DMs the first two tabs on the app, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Mosseri says that Reels and DMs have been a key driver of growth for Instagram over the past few years, which is why it’s “exploring” the c

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3 Things to Watch During Starship’s Final Flight of 2025

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-02 20:45:44

It’s been an interesting year for SpaceX’s Starship. The megarocket’s launch schedule got off to a rocky start with back-to-back explosive failures, then got back on track with a near-perfect test flight in August. Needless to say, the pressure is on for Starship’s final launch of 2025, currently scheduled for no earlier than October 13. Flight 11 will be the fifth full-scale test for Starship Version 2 and the last before SpaceX rolls out the larger, upgraded Version 3 in early 2026. But the e

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How stablecoins could change the way Americans shop in stores

cnbc.com Christian Nunley 2025-10-03 12:04:38

Stablecoins are making major strides in mainstream adoption. The blockbuster IPO of USDC issuer Circle and the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill becoming law in the U.S. in July boosted excitement for cryptocurrencies that are pegged to the price of the U.S. dollar. Now, small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. are exploring how the technology could cut down on one their biggest expenses: payment processing fees. Merchant processing fees totaled a record $187.2 billion in 2024, according to a s

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Uxntal: A programming language for the Uxn virtual machine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 10:14:32

Rostiger's Uxn Zine 16X08 A programming language for the Uxn virtual machine. Uxn programs are written in a concatenative flavor of assembly designed especially to map to the idiosyncrasies of this strange little computer. See the Quick Setup to get started. Cheatsheet, by Weeble. Zine, by Clemens Scott. Tutorial, by Compudanzas Manual(7), by Eiríkr Åsheim. BNF Notation, by Jack Leightcap. Introduction Firstly, there are no precedence rules, the calculations are merely performed in the

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iPhone Fold a step closer as Samsung prepping mass production of displays [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-01 16:34:11

Expectations that Apple will launch an iPhone Fold next year got further traction from a claimed Samsung announcement. Update: Samsung has denied making the comments, calling it a “misunderstanding.” See the update at the end … 2026 iPhone Fold Everyone now seems aligned on reports that a foldable iPhone will finally be launched next year. This follows the launch of the iPhone Air, which was an important stepping stone toward the far thinner displays needed. Apple was said to have been testin

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The Russo Brothers Have an ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Set Picture For You to Stare Very Hard at

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-03 16:00:15

Colin Farrell teases the Penguin’s return for The Batman, Part II. Chukwudi Iwuji addresses those Man of Tomorrow rumors. Plus, does the MCU have big plans for two X-Men villains? To me, my spoilers! Highlander THR reports Jeremy Irons will play a second major villain in Chad Stahelski’s Highlander remake. Details on his character are not available at this time. Avengers: Doomsday The Russo brothers have released a new, shadowy set picture from filming, featuring Joe Russo sitting surrounded

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These AR Binoculars Helped Me Unplug and Bathe in a Sea of Stars

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-03 16:00:17

I am an eternally curious hiker limited by my awful memory and paltry 5G signal. I may want to know the name of a valley underneath the cliff’s edge in North Cascades National Park in Washington state or the staggering peak most reminiscent of the Matterhorn nearby, but I’ll leave that trail in ignorance. That was why I was so intrigued by Unistellar’s Envision binoculars. The expensive pair of semi-AR spectacles can not only identify nearby mountains; they can finally reveal the constellations

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Minimal files and config for a PWA

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 20:14:48

This is the minimal set of files for a "progressive web app" to be installable on Android and iOS. It contains the smallest possible manifest.json and service worker to trigger the install flow on Chrome. An even smaller implementation that fits in a single HTML file is in single-file-pwa.html. It has a manifest.json that is dynamically generated from JavaScript, and it is installable without a service worker.

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4 Best Google Assistant Speakers (2025): Speakers, Displays, Soundbars

wired.com Nena Farrell 2025-10-03 20:14:00

What About Gemini for Home? Google has announced Gemini for Home, the new version of its voice assistant. Gemini for Home is rolling out in early access to existing users with Google's ecosystem of devices, and most of its existing smart speakers and displays will be backward compatible—one notable exception is the Google Pixel Tablet. Gemini for Home will eventually replace the current Google Assistant. Unlike Alexa+, Gemini for Home will always be free. Instead, Google is changing its camera

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Allowing more tailpipe pollution means higher fuel costs for Americans

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-10-04 00:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Americans will pay more at the pump if Donald Trump succeeds in tossing out tailpipe pollution regulations, a new analysis shows. That’s on top of job and GDP losses that could result from stifling innovation in cleaner transportation. The Trump administration wants to do awa

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Why I won't buy another portable power station if it doesn't have this useful feature

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-04 09:28:00

EcoFlow River 3 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow River 3 Plus sets a new standard for me in terms of power and charging High-efficiency circuit for sub 100W devices massively boosts battery runtime The unit is built like a tank to take bangs and drops. $288 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Just when you think that portable power stations have become as good as they are going to get, a company goes ahead and makes some big changes that you just didn't see

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Starbase hires Cameron County to police its streets and jail its offenders

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-04 11:31:06

Starbase is a city without a police department, but not without police. For months, Cameron County sheriff’s deputies have patrolled the roads and beaches surrounding SpaceX’s sprawling rocket facility in South Texas. Now, less than a year after Starbase residents voted to incorporate, the city has signed formal agreements making those deputies its de facto police force and Cameron County jails the destination for anyone arrested within city limits. The two interlocal deals, approved in Septem

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Toyota adds another $1.5B to its bet on startups at every stage

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-04 16:15:00

Toyota is looking for the next new thing in mobility, climate, AI, and industrial automation. Its answer is $1.5 billion in new capital that will focus on, and invest in, the life cycle of startups — from the first seeds of an invention through its growth stage and eventually to mature companies. Toyota made two related announcements Tuesday that provide a snapshot of the company’s growing interest in the startup ecosystem. It also hints at how those startups, and their inventions, may play a p

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Pre-Emptive Multi-Tasking on Arm Cortex-M

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan 'Thejpster' Pallant 2025-10-04 20:29:29

Scroll through the blog: ‹ Newer | List All | Older › Pre-emptive Multi-Tasking on Arm Cortex-M Posted on 2025-09-28 Contents Background I write a lot of embedded software in Rust these days - sometimes for fun, and sometimes as training material, and sometimes for customers building safety-critical systems. This last group are usually already writing safety-critical software in C, and wish to switch to writing Rust. When you are writing safety-critical software in C, you are usually using

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Diff Algorithms

news.ycombinator.com Florian Zenker 2025-10-05 00:09:44

For software engineers, diffs are a ubiquitous method for representing changes: We use diffs to compare different versions of the same file (e.g., during code review or when trying to understand the history of a file), to visualize the difference of a failing test compared with its expectation, or to apply changes to source files automatically. Every project I worked on professionally or privately eventually needed a diff to visualize a change or to apply a patch. However, I have never been sat

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Pasta Cooking Time

news.ycombinator.com Kaufman 2025-10-05 02:40:17

I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time, and when I taste one it's already getting too mushy. I decided to run a small experiment to get a better sense of how cooked I like pasta. I decided to use Market Basket Rigatoni. [1] It's a ridged cylinder, and I measured the ridges at 1.74mm: And the valleys at 1.32mm: The box recommends 13-15 minutes: This is a house brand pasta from a cha

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SpaceX has a few tricks up its sleeve for the last Starship flight of the year

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-05 08:36:17

On its surface, the flight plan for SpaceX's next Starship flight looks a lot like the last one. The rocket's Super Heavy booster will again splash down in the Gulf of Mexico just offshore from SpaceX's launch site in South Texas. And Starship, the rocket's upper stage, will fly on a suborbital arc before reentering the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean for a water landing northwest of Australia. SpaceX will again test the rocket's satellite deployer and reignite one of the ship's Raptor engine

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Amazon has a new smart remote that's completely programmable by Alexa+

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 12:00:21

Amazon may have just unveiled a ton of new products across its Ring, Blink, Echo and Kindle categories, but it still had one more piece of hardware to show. Though it didn't get mentioned during the company's Devices and Services event earlier today, there is a new Smart Remote under the Amazon Basics brand that will be available for pre-order for $19.99 and will ship in October. According to the product listing page, it will be released on October 30. At first glance, the Smart Remote looks li

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Best PlayStation 5 Controllers in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 09:16:00

Nacon is a French gaming company that makes accessories and publishes games. The company's Revolution 5 Pro controller for PlayStation 5 is one of the few officially licensed controllers for PlayStation -- and also one of the more novel models. For starters, it's more squared-off than the DualSense controllers, and it also has the the Xbox-style asymmetrical joystick layout rather than the PS's symmetrical joystick arrangement. The face buttons are slightly flatter and larger than most other Pla

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Alexa+ at Amazon's 2025 event: Home Greetings, Fire TV recommendations and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 20:26:18

Before it began slowly trickling out Alexa+ to users at the start of February, Amazon promised a smarter, more conversational assistant. It turned out the reality was more complicated, and, more than anything, Alexa+ in its current state is a showcase of the limitations of generative AI. Of course, that's not stopping Amazon from iterating on the digital assistant. During its "Devices and Services" event on Tuesday, Amazon announced a host of Alexa+ updates, with many of them enabling new integr

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Alexa+ at Amazon's 2025 event: Greetings and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 00:32:11

Before it began slowly trickling out Alexa+ to users at the start of February, Amazon promised a smarter, more conversational assistant. It turned out the reality was more complicated, and, more than anything, Alexa+ in its current state is a showcase of the limitations of generative AI. Of course, that's not stopping from iterating on the digital assistant. During its "Devices and Services" event on Tuesday, Amazon announced a host of Alexa+ updates, with many of them enabling new integrations

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Amazon debuts its latest Fire TVs, including a new Omni QLED model

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-10-06 00:58:35

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. At Amazon’s annual hardware event, it announced a fleet of new Fire TVs, including an Omni QLED model, as well as new 2 and 4-series televisions that are all available to preorder starting today and will ship next month. These TVs feature what the company calls omnisense presence detection. It will allow the TV to wake up when it detects that you walk int

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Composite gets backing from NFDG for its cross-browser agent tool

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-06 00:00:00

The central pitch of AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet, Opera’s Neon, and The Browser Company’s Dia is that they’ll help you complete daily tasks more efficiently. While these are agents that are limited to one browser, Composite aims to build an agentic solution that helps professionals with their tasks, regardless of which browser they use. The startup was started earlier this year by Yang Fan Yun and Charlie Deane. Yun is a former product manager at Uber, while Deane founded a company sell

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Google CTF 2025 – webz : Exploiting zlib's Huffman Code Table

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 21:50:11

1. Overview 2. Background 2-1. google-zlib-Increase-Huffman-Table-Size.patch 2-2. Deflate Algorithm 2-2-1. LZ77 2-2-2. Huffman Coding 3. Code Analysis 3-1. Inflate 3-2. Huffman Table 3-3. Decode 4. Vulnerability 4-1. Unintialized Huffman Code Table 4-2. Exploiting inflate_fast 4-2-1. Integer Overflow (Unexploitable) 4-2-2. PoC 4-2-3. Stream Overflow (Exploitable) 4-2-4. PoC 5. Exploit 1. Overview webz is a zlib exploitation challenge from Google CTF 2025. The Google-zlib implementation provide

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Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Codemanship 2025-10-06 01:37:39

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve worked on legacy systems that were written by other people, perhaps decades ago, you’ll recognise this phenomenon. Before we can safely change code, we first need to understand it – understand what it does, and also oftentimes why it does it the way it does. In that sense, this is nothing new. What is new is the scale o

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DoorDash rolls out creator program for short-form videos, adds AI features and dine-in rewards

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-06 04:00:00

DoorDash said on Tuesday that it’s launching a creator program that will compensate users for short-form videos posted on its app. The company also introduced “Going Out,” which rewards users for dining at local restaurants, along with new AI features. DoorDash says short-form videos posted by local creators will let users preview dishes before they order them. Uber Eats started testing a TikTok-like short-form video feed last year to boost discovery and help restaurants showcase their dishes.

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Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space

technologyreview.com Sarah Scoles 2025-10-06 15:00:00

Permafrost, which lies beneath about 15% of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, is defined as ground that has remained frozen for at least two years. Historically, much of the world’s permafrost has remained solid and stable for far longer, allowing people to build whole towns atop it. But as the planet warms, a process that is happening more rapidly near the poles than at more temperate latitudes, permafrost is thawing and causing a host of infrastructural and environmental problems. Now scie

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