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‘Stranger Things’ Hellfire Club Catch-Up: Season 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-14 05:00:27

Just a few more months until the return of Stranger Things on Netflix. As we get closer to the final season, join io9’s own Hellfire Club for a rewatch of the series leading up to November’s final season premiere. If you’re new, here’s our first-season refresher. On this month’s catch-up, we look at Stranger Things season two. The sophomore installment expanded the Hawkins crew with the addition of Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) and the newly returned Will (Noah Schnapp), who now take part in the on

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 07:24:51

Robotics engineers at the University of Würzburg have developed a novel 3D laser scanner system for precise plant analysis in the field for the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam. Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many researchers are therefore working on harvesting robots that could provide welcome support to agricultural businesses in the future. ‘There are already a few pro

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Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-14 13:12:02

Last week, OpenAI announced and released GPT-5, and the common consensus both inside the AI community and outside is that the new LLM did not live up to the hype. Bluesky — whose community is skeptical at-best of generative AI in all its forms — began putting the model through its paces: Michael Paulauski asked GPT-5 through the ChatGPT app interface “how many b’s are there in blueberry?”. A simple question that a human child could answer correctly, but ChatGPT states that there are three b’s in

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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

wired.com Andrea J. Arratibel 2025-08-15 12:00:00

A Powerade bottle from 2001 was found on Yaya, a Peruvian beach south of Lima. A Coca-Cola bottle from 2002 was found on Robinson Crusoe Island, a World Biosphere Reserve, in Chile. These were the oldest of all the bottles collected. These discarded pieces of packaging were collected in a new macro-study that looked at the origin of plastic bottle pollution on beaches and cities along Latin America’s Pacific coastline. The research—the first to be conducted on a regional scale, thanks to a citi

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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-08-15 12:01:26

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse 5 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Joshua Nevett Political reporter Share Save EPA Staff at the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised a series of "serious and escalating concerns" in a whistleblowing complaint submitted to the Charity Co

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8 Common Foods That Can Contain Microplastics and How to Avoid Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-15 18:09:00

Microplastics aren't just an ocean pollution issue anymore. They're now a daily life, from diet to kitchen tools. Recent research shows that common foods, drinks and food storage containers may be delivering thousands of tiny plastic particles into your body without you even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as hig

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Samsung Galaxy S25 FE leak suggests last year’s chip is making a return

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 01:24:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A listing for the Galaxy S25 FE recently appeared on a British retailer’s website. The listing included technical specifications and official images. It appears the Galaxy S25 FE will have an Exynos 2400e chip. It won’t be much longer before Samsung releases the Galaxy S25 FE. This year, the company is expected to launch the phone a little earlier than usual. Although Samsung has not revealed the device yet, it looks like a British retailer may have jump

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How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-17 22:00:03

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It's one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. So when some apparently biological carbon was dated to at least 3.95 billion years ago—making it the oldest remains of life on Earth—the claim sparked interest and skepticism in equal measure, as Ars Technica reported in 2017. Whitehouse was among those skeptics. This July

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Dark Rumors Swirl as Boar's Head Plans to Reopen Notoriously Disgusting Meat Processing Plant

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-17 10:00:43

Over a year after a deadly bacterial outbreak forced a Boar's Head deli meat factory in Virginia to shutter indefinitely, the facility is reportedly set to reopen — but that doesn't mean they've cleaned up their act. Starting in May of last year, a number of people throughout the middle- and eastern-US began falling ill with symptoms eerily similar to the flu. Following several hospitalizations and two deaths traced to the same source, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) officially launched a

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Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight

news.ycombinator.com Zhila Semnani-Azad 2025-08-17 11:14:57

This meta-analysis concurrently and comprehensively evaluates the association of intermittent fasting, CER, and ad-libitum diets on cardiometabolic risk factors. Our findings showed a trivial to small reduction in body weight for all diet strategies compared with ad-libitum, and trivial reductions for ADF compared with CER, TRE, and WDF. These associations, however, were only significant among comparisons with ad-libitum diet in moderate-to-long term follow-up durations of at least 24 weeks. ADF

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Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 09:58:52

If you search the Web for the history of fitted sheets, you’re going to find a reference to exactly two patents: 1959 - Bertha Berman of New York: FITTED BED SHEET CONSTRUCTION (PDF, 355Kb) 1992 - Gisele Jubinville of Alberta: MATTRESS COVER/FITTED BED SHEET (PDF, 492Kb) Now, if you actually look at the patents, what you’ll see is that Berman’s was a more complex design that consisted of multiple pieces (but does feature elastic!) And Jubinville’s design, indeed, has the stitched-in elastic d

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A New ‘Final Destination’ Is Already in the Works

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-08-17 11:45:40

After the success of Final Destination Bloodlines, New Line is now on track to dole out more horrible ways to die in another upcoming installment. People can’t seem to get enough as Bloodlines grossed $286 million at its global box office, with a domestic tally of $138.1 million. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Lori Evans Taylor, co-writer of the recent rebootquel, has been hired to write the script to continue Death’s serial killing spree. Bloodlines was co-written by Guy Busick (Re

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You Can Turn Your Pet Pictures Into Emoji on Your iPhone. Here's How

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-17 08:00:03

I love my dog, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. She's brown and white and precious, and I take every opportunity to show her to the world. With an iPhone feature called Live Stickers, I can turn photos of her into emoji and stickers, and then text them to others. Apple introduced Live Stickers in iOS 17 as an evolution of the tap-and-lift feature from iOS 16, which lets you cut out subjects from photos and Live Photos. Now, by saving those cutouts as emoji and stickers of pets, family and friends, you ca

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21 Best Festival Accessories and Gear (2025): The Essentials and the Fun Stuff

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-08-19 05:02:00

On Harm Reduction Photograph: The Bunk Police Regardless of your personal habits, drug use can be prevalent at festivals. It's important to know the location of medical tents, to pay attention to your surroundings, and to look out for your fellow festival attendees the way you'd want them to look out for you. I highly recommend getting trained in administering naloxone (Narcan). It prevents opioid overdose, and it's easy to obtain training and the medicine itself for cheap. I took mine throug

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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-08-19 07:45:20

In Brief Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website

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Doximity buys Pathway Medical for $63 million to help doctors get AI-powered answers

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-08-20 13:38:49

Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for its initial public offering on June 24, 2021. Doximity is diving deeper into artificial intelligence, announcing on Thursday the acquisition of startup Pathway Medical for $63 million. Pathway has built an AI-powered clinical reference tool that doctors can use to ask questions about guidelines, drugs and trials. Pathway's answers are synthesized from medical literature, and Doximity said the Montreal-based startup has one of the largest structured d

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Lightweight LSAT

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 20:51:59

Welcome to the lightweight LSAT The lightweight LSAT is a simple, proven, and completely free guide to the Law School Admissions Test. Who is this guide for? The lightweight LSAT is designed for students who are frustrated with their current way of approaching the LSAT. It doesn't assume you have any knowledge of the LSAT, but it will be most useful for someone who already has some experience studying. Additionally, the lightweight LSAT is written for students who are ambitious, aiming for a

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Weapons turns our deepest anxieties into a potent horror masterpiece

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-08-21 01:47:19

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Zach Cregger’s first major film Barbarian was tense and frightening, but it was also infused with a healthy dose of absurdity. The movie’s twisted sense of humor made it easier to stomach its grotesque violence and a bit more difficult to anticipate how its unhinged story would unfold. But Barbarian also worked surprisingly well as a

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2025 Subaru WRX tS review: A scalpel-sharp chassis lets this car dance

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-21 13:33:40

The Subaru WRX has always been the equivalent of an automotive shrug. Not because it lacks character but because it simply doesn't care what others think. It's a punk rock band with enough talent to fill stadiums but band members who don't seem to care about chasing fame. And the STI versions of yesteryear proved so talented that fame chased them. For 2025, Subaru updated the WRX to now include the tS, which at first glance appears to be the same flannel-wearing street fighter. But looks can be

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Library of Congress explains how parts of US Constitution vanished from its website

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-08-21 21:55:35

The Library of Congress has given a fuller explanation as to why large sections of the U.S. Constitution suddenly vanished from its official website. As TechCrunch previously reported, parts of Section 8, as well as the entirety of Section 9 and Section 10, were deleted from Article 1 of the Constitution on the U.S. government’s official website over the past month. The changes to the sections, which pertained to the Congressional powers, the rights of individual states, and the rights to due p

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Coding error blamed after parts of Constitution disappear from US website

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-23 01:50:38

The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. "It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website," the Library of Congress said today. "We've learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and e

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Sections on habeas corpus and nobility titles were temporarily removed from Congress' US Constitution website

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-23 05:29:56

Key sections of the US Constitution were temporarily removed from Congress' website. Provisions including habeas corpus (due process) and the prohibition of nobility titles (like, say, King) vanished from the digital version of the document. They've since been restored. 404 Media first reported on the edits after users on Lemmy forums spotted them. There are many ways to read a copy of the US Constitution. But the Library of Congress' online version is one of the easiest to find. Alongside its

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You can now uv run a GitHub gist

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 12:45:47

Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code. Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed. Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes. Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch. Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported. You must change the existing code in this

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Tesla and Elon Musk Sued by Shareholders Who Say Robotaxis Violate Traffic Laws

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-08-25 13:25:50

Tesla shareholders filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against both the EV company and CEO Elon Musk, alleging they made “materially false and misleading statements” about the safety of their robotaxis and the regulatory scrutiny that comes with launching autonomous vehicles. Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on June 22, but there’s a human “safety monitor” in the passenger seat, and the robotic vehicles are geofenced to a relatively small area in the city. Despite the p

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SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 21:05:56

Security with a simple API call. Compatible with any language or system. Easy-to-implement without any code rewrites to your identity provider or existing SAML setup.

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'Lilo & Stitch' Gets a Streaming Release Date on Disney Plus

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 20:44:04

Disney is set to welcome one of its most beloved characters to its streaming home on Disney Plus with the arrival of Lilo & Stitch next month. 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. Th

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Will Samsung revive the bundled charger? We might have an answer.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-26 20:19:05

TL;DR Two European retailers have listed the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G and 4G models. The Galaxy A17 5G will apparently start at €230, while the 256GB 4G model could cost €309. The listings also seemingly contradict a previous leak, which pointed to a bundled charger. The Samsung Galaxy A17 5G is expected to launch in the coming months, and we’ve already seen a host of leaks for this budget Android phone. The latest retail leak has now revealed European pricing, along with some bad news on the ac

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These 8 Food Items Are Surprisingly Full of Microplastics

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 08:00:04

Microplastics aren't just an ocean pollution issue anymore. They're now a daily part of our diet. Recent research shows that common foods and drinks, including something as routine as chewing gum, may be delivering thousands of tiny plastic particles into your body without you even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone - and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb

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Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-28 17:00:22

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member states was to address the full life cycle of plastics, from production to disposal: In short, define what counts as plastic pollution and curb the sorts of unchecked production that inevitably leads to it. But across five sessions since, countries have failed to reach a consensus on the text. What was meant to b

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Ioan Gruffudd’s Still Fond of His ‘Fantastic Four’ Tenure

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-29 02:25:00

Even before Marvel Studios retook ownership of the Fantastic Four and got a new movie into production, there was always a bit of fondness for the old Fox movies. Not so much the 2015 one, but the mid-2000s pair directed by Tim Story and starring Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and Michael Chiklis still have their fans. Those films were general audiences’ first introduction to the characters, and there remains a bit of attachment to those versions, particularly after Evans came back for

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