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TIFF 2025: Frankenstein, Knives Out 3, and all the biggest movies from Toronto

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-13 06:30:00

The Toronto International Film Festival is almost like a preview of the movie slate for the next few months — and this year I’m watching as much as possible to give you all the scoop on what’s ahead. To do that, I’ll be writing a dispatch covering every movie I’ve seen that day, which will run daily throughout most of the festival. That includes bigger movies you probably already know about, like Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man and Frankenstein, along with hopefully some great new films you maybe wer

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The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:26:44

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back in 2003 I gave a talk citing how bad Apple’s definition was. At the time it stated: A view object knows how to display and possibly edit data from the application’s model… A controller object acts a

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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 20:57:59

The use of effective sunscreen can reduce the harm caused to the skin by ultraviolet rays (UV) and slow down skin aging. The Consumer Council tested 30 models of sunscreen for daily use and over 80% of them were found to perform below their respective labelled efficacy. The measured sunscreen efficacy of 4 models were below SPF15, of which 2 were sunscreen products with very high protection i.e. labelled with SPF50+. Among the 23 models using the “PA System” which is commonly adopted by Asian co

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The MVC definition has been abused

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 02:26:44

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back in 2003 I gave a talk citing how bad Apple’s definition was. At the time it stated: A view object knows how to display and possibly edit data from the application’s model… A controller object acts a

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A Sitting President Is Making Billions Off Crypto, Which Feels Like a Bit of an Outrage

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 22:00:34

Before his first presidential bid, TV personality and real estate tycoon Donald Trump was doing just fine, financially speaking. The benefactor of a $5.5 million trust fund, adjusted for inflation — not to mention a $20 million inheritance from his father, split with his siblings — Trump's actual net worth has always been a hazy target for estimates. As he left office in 2021, Trump's net worth seemed to be around $2.3 billion, according to Forbes, thanks to legal fallout and a real estate port

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Matmul on Blackwell: Part 2 – Using Hardware Features to Optimize Matmul

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 00:16:18

In the first blog post in this series we explained Nvidia's Blackwell GPU architecture and concluded with a 4 line kernel that was a bit worse than cuBLAS. In fact, the performance was a lot worse coming in at 0.3% of cuBLAS and leaving 1758 TFLops on the table. In this post we are going to continue our journey and improve our performance by more than 50x our initial kernel benchmark. Along the way we are going to explain more GPU programming concepts and leverage novel Blackwell features. Note

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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 06:39:33

Anonymous recursive functions in Racket Context Some languages, like PowerShell, have “anonymous recursive functions”. That is, normally, a function needs to use a name to refer to itself to recur. But “anonymous recursion” means the language has some special mechanism by which the function can refer to itself without having to explicitly introduce a name. In some contexts, this is called an anaphoric reference. Code Here we show how we can easily implement this feature in Racket. The file a

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Please, ‘Highlander’ Reboot, Don’t Waste Djimon Hounsou

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-12 22:25:26

The upcoming Highlander movie continues to build out its cast: after recently nabbing Karen Gillan and Dave Bautista of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, we’ve got another Marvel alum in Djimon Hounsou. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Hounsou will play an immortal African warrior and presumably cross paths with either Henry Cavill’s Connor MacLeod or Bautista’s villainous Kurgen. We really don’t know much about this movie, save for director Chad Stahelski’s aim to expand upon the mythology from the pre

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The Robot Vacuum’s Next Humble Trick: Climbing Stairs

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-13 03:30:34

Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a reality, sort of. That’s courtesy of a little baby trend at IFA 2025 of robot vacuums slipping into something more climbable—a little caddy that carries them upstairs when it’s time to move floors, then waits to carry them back down when they’re done. The first one we encountered was the Eufy MarsWalker. Then, it turned out that Dreame had one, too, using almost the exact same approach, only it’s weirdly much scarier-looking. Both have a s

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How to Watch the 2025 MTV VMAs Live Without Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 03:30:03

The MTV Video Music Awards are back, giving fans a chance to vote for their favorite nominees across 19 categories including Best Collaboration, Best New Artist, Best Choreography, and the coveted Video of the Year. In recent years, the addition of social-driven categories has opened the door for viral artists and internet favorites to take home a trophy, making the competition broader than ever. This year's ceremony will be hosted by L.L. Cool J and feature a star-studded lineup of presenters

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Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:00:17

Losing a baby to a stillbirth is arguably the most heartbreaking outcome an expecting mother can experience. But what would you do if that stillbirth kicked off a lengthy and protracted legal battle in which your most intimate details are spilled to the police, the courts, and social media? That's the horrifying conundrum facing Rebecca Smith, a 34 year old would-be surrogate mother who says her stillbirth almost killed her. Despite almost paying for the unfortunate complication with her life,

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AYANEO just undercut the Odin 3 for the cheapest 8 Elite handheld, and you can pre-order today

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:46:31

AYANEO TL;DR The KONKR Pocket FIT and FIT Elite are available for pre-order now, with early bird discounts. Pricing on the G3 Gen 3 model starts at $239, with the 8 Elite model starting at $269. The AYN Odin 3, which also has an 8 Elite and launches tomorrow, starts at $299. They say competition is good for the consumer, and never has that been felt more by the Android gaming handheld community than in the past few weeks. First, AYANEO and AYN released competing dual-screen clamshells in the

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A feels like a strong step forward for the series

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:56:51

The Pokémon series has had staying power ever since its debut in the 1990s, but it has felt especially popular in recent years, thanks to Pokémon GO and the resurgence of the trading card game. Given that more Pokémon fans are experiencing new ways to play, it’s the right time for developer Game Freak to refresh the video game series. The upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A looks to do just that with a more action-oriented focus on a Pokémon trainer's journey. At a special Nintendo showcase during PA

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Premiere Pro for Free: How Adobe's New iPhone App Will Let You Edit Videos at No Cost

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 22:04:02

Thanks to social media apps like TikTok and Instagram, everyone is an video editor these days. And soon you won't have to sit down at a laptop to use one of the most popular video editors on the market. Adobe announced on Thursday that it is releasing a new video editing iPhone app named Premiere on Sept. 30. You can preorder the app now in the Apple App Store, with an Android app currently in development. The iOS app should feel familiar to Premiere users, with its multitrack timeline and pre

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Dare to Stream These 11 Great Horror Movies on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 01:00:04

Coherence is a huge favorite here at CNET and it's a terrifying watch. Not necessarily in the traditional, gory, horrific sense but more in terms of the concepts. It's a multiverse movie released before multiverses were cool and is not what you expect. Coherence is the kind of movie you'll finish and immediately rewatch to try to rewire your brain. It's a fantastic achievement and a must watch.

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Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

wired.com Sophie Hurwitz 2025-10-12 22:00:00

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis on May 16, DeAmon White hopped in his car and rushed home. As he navigated downed trees and power lines, turning his 10-minute commute into a three-hour slog, he worried whether his family

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AI's not 'reasoning' at all - how this team debunked the industry hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-10-13 02:00:17

Pulse/Corbis via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways We don't entirely know how AI works, so we ascribe magical powers to it. Claims that Gen AI can reason are a "brittle mirage." We should always be specific about what AI is doing and avoid hyperbole. Ever since artificial intelligence programs began impressing the general public, AI scholars have been making claims for the technology's deeper significance, even asserting the prospect

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What Are the Healthiest Air Fryer Foods? Registered Dietitians Weigh In

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 23:39:03

Air fryers have become known as a healthier alternative to other cooking methods because, according to Melissa Jaeger, head of nutrition at nutrition tracking app MyFitnessPal, "Air fryer cooking delivers the crispy texture we know and love from fried foods, but with far less oil and fat than traditional deep frying." If you're interested in using your air fryer for healthy recipes but don't know where to start, we contacted registered dietitians to uncover the healthiest air fryer foods. Plus,

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First look: Dyson’s Spot+Scrub Ai robot seeks out stains

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-10-12 23:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai Robot is the company’s first combination robot vacuum and mop. It debuted at Dyson’s Berlin store during the IFA tech show this week and is a follow-up to the company’s 360 VisNav robot vacuum, which launched i

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A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 23:08:43

📜 PlateShapez A research tool for generating adversarially perturbed license plate overlays on vehicle images, producing structured datasets with reproducibility, transparency, and ethical guardrails. Design Principle: user-first, safe by default, hackable by experts. 🚀 Quick Start 🎬 Try the Demo First! For a complete walkthrough that creates test images and demonstrates both CLI and Python API: # Run the integrated CLI demo (recommended) uv run advplate demo # With automatic cleanup uv ru

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GLM 4.5 with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 02:45:08

GLM Coding Plan — designed for Claude Code users, starting at $3/month to enjoy a premium coding experience! GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air are our latest flagship models, purpose-built as foundational models for agent-oriented applications. Both leverage a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. GLM-4.5 has a total parameter count of 355B with 32B active parameters per forward pass, while GLM-4.5-Air adopts a more streamlined design with 106B total parameters and 12B active parameters. Both models sh

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Two authors accuse Apple of illegally training AI models on pirated books

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-13 06:16:58

A new proposed class action suit was filed in the federal court in Northern California today, accusing Apple of illegally using books to train its AI models. Here are the details. Authors base the accusation on Apple’s own documents As reported by Reuters, authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Robertson are accusing Apple of using a pirated dataset, in which their work was included. From the lawsuit: “But Apple is building part of this new enterprise using Books3, a dataset of pirated copyrighte

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5 Things We Loved, 3 Things We Didn’t About ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-13 06:15:54

Season 2 of Wednesday is finally available to watch in its entirety on Netflix. And while the first half introduced a solid return, the second half almost holds up before a messy to-be-continued conclusion. Tim Burton puts his whole Burtonesque business on full display with a third-act antagonist reveal that both works and doesn’t. The Addams family being at the mechanical heart of another mystery creates a lot of fun lore for Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) to discover about her parents. This time Mo

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OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-13 06:19:12

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers — would be joining the Post Training team, a larger research group responsible for improving the company’s AI models after their initial pre-training. As part o

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Don't Miss Out: Paramount Plus Annual Plans at 50% Off

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 09:00:00

Between hikes at Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV Plus, streaming services haven't held back on increasing prices in 2025. It's as good a time as any for a deal, and Paramount Plus is offering one for new and returning subscribers. Now through Sept. 18, you can get half off Paramount Plus' annual plans, which require you to pay up-front for the 12 months. You can choose between $30 for a year of Paramount Plus Essential, which is ad-based, and $60 for Paramount Plus Premium, which has no commercia

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What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 09:15:00

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination -- although one research paper suggests we call it BS instead -- and it's an inherent flaw that should give us all pause when using AI. Hallucinations happen when AI models generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. It can be as small as a wrong date i

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Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 14:00:26

Role Summary Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest - millions of downloads, 79,000+ reviews, and a 4.9-star rating. We’re hiring our founding UX Design Engineer to drive the development of our upcoming mobile web app (embedded in native), and web surfaces inside our flagship, social VR experience. You’ll own key UX surfaces end-to-end - crafting in Figma, then building responsive, production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS - and you’ll set a clear quality bar for speed, poli

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Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement for Downloading Pirated Books to Train AI

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-13 14:10:00

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by authors and publishers over its use of millions of copyrighted books to train the models for its AI chatbot Claude, according to a legal filing posted online. A federal judge found in June that Anthropic’s use of 7 million pirated books was protected under fair use but that holding the digital works in a “central library” violated copyright law. The judge ruled that executives at the company knew they were downloading pirat

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Apple is making the movies Hollywood won’t, and it’s paying off big

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-13 18:32:41

’Think different’ was an iconic Apple ad campaign, and it might just be the best way to summarize the company’s new Apple TV+ strategy for movies. Here’s why recent debuts like Highest 2 Lowest and F1 reflect a growing trend of Apple making movies that Hollywood won’t. Apple has found success with big-budget, original films in an industry of sequels and remakes Just one short year ago, Apple’s movie strategy was in disarray. Following a string of box office disappointments, the company abrupt

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US Customs asks court to toss Masimo lawsuit in Apple Watch dispute

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-13 18:51:16

A few days ago, Masimo sued U.S. Customs over its decision to let Apple resume selling the Apple Watch in the United States with the blood oxygen feature enabled. Now, the government agency has responded with a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Here are the details. A quick recap When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent infringement. Over the years, the lawsuit dragged on and came to a head with an import ban in Decembe

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TIFF 2025: Frankenstein, Knives Out 3, and all the biggest movies from Toronto

The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

The MVC definition has been abused

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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

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How to Watch the 2025 MTV VMAs Live Without Cable

Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth

AYANEO just undercut the Odin 3 for the cheapest 8 Elite handheld, and you can pre-order today

Pokémon Legends: Z-A feels like a strong step forward for the series

Premiere Pro for Free: How Adobe's New iPhone App Will Let You Edit Videos at No Cost

Dare to Stream These 11 Great Horror Movies on Prime Video

Real Estate Speculators Are Swooping In to Buy Disaster-Hit Homes

AI's not 'reasoning' at all - how this team debunked the industry hype

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First look: Dyson’s Spot+Scrub Ai robot seeks out stains

A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI)

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Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement for Downloading Pirated Books to Train AI

Apple is making the movies Hollywood won’t, and it’s paying off big

US Customs asks court to toss Masimo lawsuit in Apple Watch dispute

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