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Spotify now lets you create seamless transitions between songs on your custom playlists

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 05:00:51

Spotify routinely debuts new playlist features for its users, but the company's latest update has the potential to dramatically alter custom mixes. Starting today, premium users will have access to a new tool for creating customized transitions within playlists. This will allow seamless progression from one track to the next, with natural-sounding changeovers and no awkward silence. Once you've created a playlist, you'll notice a Mix option on the toolbar. When selected, the tool gives you the

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Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

news.ycombinator.com Steve Weinman 2025-12-24 05:04:11

How Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes The world record for longest underwater breath-hold using oxygen is often viewed as much as a conjuring trick as an athletic feat – and at one time the title was indeed held by US magician David Blaine. But now a remarkable new mark has been set by a Croatian already recognised for his more conventional competitive freediving achievements. Vitomir Maričić has set a new Guinness World Record (GWR) of 29min 3sec for “the longest breath held volun

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iMessage gets a new Drafts folder in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-12-24 20:47:22

The iPhone Messages app on iOS 26 gets a bunch of new filtering features, primarily targeted around dealing with spam and junk texts. But it also gets some filters that are generally useful too. For the first time, iMessage has a dedicated Drafts folder. This filters the conversation list to show only threads where you have a partly-written message. These new capabilities are exposed through a new filter button found at the top-right of the screen. This menu includes common sections like Messa

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Rey’s Climatic ‘Star Wars’ Showdowns Get a Beautiful Poster Set

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-25 00:15:49

Bottleneck Gallery and artist Kevin Wilson will soon release a truly beautiful set of Star Wars posters that feature Rey’s three unforgettable Sith showdowns in all their glory. There’s her first battle with Kylo Ren at the end of The Force Awakens, the start of her showdown with Snoke in The Last Jedi, and the final encounter with her dear old pappy Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker. Each is prettier than the last, and they make us think back to a simpler time. Before we get to that, though,

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Every Google Pixel Watch owner should know these 2 simple performance tricks

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-25 10:49:00

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways A restart fixes freezes, errors, and update issues. A reset clears all data to fix major glitches. Use restart first, reset only as a last resort. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Like every other piece of tech, our smartwatches can get sluggish after continual use. Maybe you're waiting several seconds for your smartwatch to load functionalities, or you're experiencing anno

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Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-25 05:13:37

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot can now end conversations deemed “persistently harmful or abusive,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The capability is now available in Opus 4 and 4.1 models, and will allow the chatbot to end conversations as a “last resort” after

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Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-25 15:20:56

ROBOTS.TXT IS A SUICIDE NOTE ROBOTS.TXT is a stupid, silly idea in the modern era. Archive Team entirely ignores it and with precisely one exception, everyone else should too. If you do not know what ROBOTS.TXT is and you run a site... excellent. If you do know what it is and you have one, delete it. Regardless, Archive Team will ignore it and we'll delete your complaints, just like you should be deleting ROBOTS.TXT. For the unfamiliar, ROBOTS.TXT is a machine-readable textfile that sits on w

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UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-25 20:36:46

A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and hacking websites belonging to the government in Yemen, an Israeli news outlet, and organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to the

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This Linux distro puts more than 20 desktops a click away

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-25 20:00:00

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Sparky Linux is a lightweight distribution based on Debian 13. With Sparky Linux, you can install from over 20 desktops. Sparky Linux is a great option, even for new Linux users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Sparky Linux is well-known as a very good lightweight Linux distribution. Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE

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Pixel Watch running slow? Do this to instantly improve the performance

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-12-26 10:22:08

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways A restart fixes freezes, errors, and update issues. A reset clears all data to fix major glitches. Use restart first, reset only as a last resort. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Like every other piece of tech, our smartwatches can get sluggish after continual use. Maybe you're waiting several seconds for your smartwatch to load functionalities, or you're experiencing anno

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Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 20:14:27

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

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This open-source fasting app actually helped me hit my fitness goals

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 17:00:25

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority I was never an athletic kid, and that continued through most of my 20s. That is, until I decided to change things up, drop some weight, and focus more on my health. Intermittent fasting was a big part of that journey, and I’ve been following it for several years now. In fact, it’s the one constant in my wellness journey that has actually stuck with me. Much as I’ve dabbled with workout plans, picked up the best fitness trackers, tracked macros with obsessive de

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Changing these 12 settings on my Android phone extended its battery life by hours

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-26 15:00:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartph

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Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 04:36:57

Aug 9 2025 Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector One problem Nostr still has to deal with is the fact that web clients are "owned" by someone, because they rely so much on the domain name they're served from. Everything is fine with, say, https://coracle.social/, until npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn decides to shut it down or maybe he is threatened to include some malicious code in there, most Coracle users are going to fall for that and Nostr will feel

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Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-12-25 20:36:49

For all the power she wields with the White House’s affairs, Laura Loomer does not have the traditional tools that her rivals in the MAGA influencer industrial complex have — the highest follower count, the most political power, the most internet platforms, etc. But the fact remains that she’s the influencer responsible for getting Donald Trump to fire over a dozen members of his administration (and counting) for the hazily-defined crime of being disloyal to MAGA. This is something that none of

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Brands might be cooling on satellite features, and that’s bad news for cheaper Androids

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-27 18:36:10

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Chinese brands are scaling back satellite communication and keeping it for top-end models only. A reliable tipster says past high-end sat-com flagships sold poorly and were dropped. This could make global brands less likely to bring the feature to affordable phones. Satellite communication has been one of the most talked-about phone features in the past couple of years, and it’s no longer just for emergencies. Just this week, our APK teardown showed h

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HyperX’s claims its latest headset lasts 250 hours on a single charge

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 04:51:25

HyperX has announced its latest flagship wireless gaming headset, and once again , the brand’s primary mission statement seems to be chasing eternal life for headphone batteries. The Cloud Alpha 2 will last, according to its maker, for up to 250 hours on a full charge. While that number halves if you make use of the headsets’s simultaneous Bluetooth connectivity, a more than 10-day battery life is impressive for any wireless headset. Its new multi-layer 53mm drivers are engineered to reduce dis

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Changing these 10 settings on my Samsung phone greatly improved the user experience

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-12-28 09:42:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET I've been fairly vocal recently that Samsung's One UI 7 is my favorite Android skin. It is fast, responsive, and intuitive. But nothing comes fine-tuned to your experience straight out of the box. You need to personalize your smartphone to make it more appealing. I change almost a dozen settings on every Samsung Galaxy phone to best suit my needs, and I believe these will elevate your user experience, too. Also: The best Samsung phones to buy From setting the highest available

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HP’s New Gaming Headset Promises to Stay Powered From Now Until Judgement Day

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-28 09:43:11

If you really can’t stand the idea of plugging a headset into a spare USB charger after a marathon gaming session, your old buddies Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard may have what you’re looking for. HP’s HyperX lineup of PC gaming peripherals now includes the $300 HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 headset that promises a total of 250 hours of battery life on a full charge. No, it’s not as long as the original $200 HyperX Cloud Alpha’s promised 300 hours back in 2022, but the sequel now includes a big glowing ba

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5 quick ways to make your soundbar sound better than ever (and for free)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-29 06:00:15

Jada Jones/ZDNET Soundbars are gaining in popularity because of their sleek design and ability to provide an ample boost in audio quality compared to built-in TV speakers. Even with their plug-and-play nature, you can make a few modifications to help unleash the best possible sound quality. Also: I replaced my Sonos Arc Ultra with this Samsung flagship soundbar - and it's a worthy alternative Whether you're new to soundbar setups or a self-proclaimed audiophile, familiarizing yourself with so

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Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 06:37:13

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? XSLT v1.0, which all browsers adhere to, was standardized in 1999. In the meantime, XSLT has evolved to v2.0 and v3.0, adding features, and growing apart from the old version frozen into browsers. This lack of advancement, coupled with the rise of JavaScript libraries and frameworks that offer more flexible and powerful DOM manipulation, has led to a significant decline in the use of client-side XSLT. Its role within the web browser has been largely sup

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Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good UI code in SwiftUI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-29 04:21:54

In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good user interface code in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it. In the paper UICoder: Finetuning Large Language Models to Generate User Interface Code through Automated Feedback, the researchers explain that while LLMs have gotten better at multiple writing tasks, including creative writing and coding, they still struggle to “reliably gene

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DINOv3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 11:02:46

🆕 [2025-08-14] 🔥 DINOv3 backbones are now available in Hugging Face Hub and supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library DINOv3 🦖🦖🦖 Meta AI Research, FAIR Oriane Siméoni, Huy V. Vo, Maximilian Seitzer, Federico Baldassarre, Maxime Oquab, Cijo Jose, Vasil Khalidov, Marc Szafraniec, Seungeun Yi, Michaël Ramamonjisoa, Francisco Massa, Daniel Haziza, Luca Wehrstedt, Jianyuan Wang, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni, Leonel Sentana, Claire Roberts, Andrea Vedaldi, Jamie Tolan, John Brandt,

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We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 12:19:00

August 14, 2025 We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. There are multiple interesting, technical topics from this process, but I want to focus in on two (1) interfacing with the GObject type system from Zig and (2) verifying a GTK application with Valgrind and reflecting on the memory issu

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We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 18:19:00

August 14, 2025 We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD. There are multiple interesting, technical topics from this process, but I want to focus in on two (1) interfacing with the GObject type system from Zig and (2) verifying a GTK application with Valgrind and reflecting on the memory issu

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Bask in the Golden Age Hero Stylings of ‘The Boys’ Prequel ‘Vought Rising’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-30 04:00:26

As The Boys prepares to say goodbye in 2026, the Amazon Prime franchise is gearing up for its prequel spin-off. In Vought Rising, some familiar faces, including Soldier Boy (Jenson Ackles) and Stormfront (Aya Cash) are set to feature, alongside some new heroes. The upcoming Amazon series will explore the origin story that establishes the foundation for the nefarious presence of the corporate entity controlling the superhero world throughout the history of the Boys universe. Today, the streamer

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The End of Wireless Dead Zones? Starlink Texting Now Available on AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 14:01:00

After six months of beta testing, Starlink's partnership with T-Mobile officially launched on July 23. The direct-to-cell messaging service enables texting from anywhere in the US. It's not limited to T-Mobile customers, either -- AT&T and Verizon mobile customers can purchase it for $10 a month. T-Mobile says its goal is to "eliminate mobile dead zones for good" by way of 657 Starlink satellites that'll be used exclusively for cellphone service. The new satellite texting service represents a

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Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 23:24:53

Hi HN, We’re Mahmoud and Alan, building Cyberdesk ( https://www.cyberdesk.io/ ), a deterministic computer use agent for automating Windows desktop applications. Developers use us to automate repetitive tasks in legacy software in healthcare, accounting, construction, and more, by executing clicks and keystrokes directly into the desktop. Here’s a couple demos of Cyberdesk’s computer use agent: Completing a lightning fast file import automation into a legacy desktop app: https://youtu.be/H_lRzr

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How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-12-31 09:37:00

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underut

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‘Weird Looking’ Otter Poo Reveals an Unexpected Role in Parasite Control

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-31 22:00:17

Receiving an unsolicited photo of worm-infested animal poop would make anyone cringe, unless you’re a parasite expert like Katrina Lohan. When a colleague sent her a snapshot of a watery pile of feces with a fire-engine red worm inside, she was instantly intrigued. “She sent this to me and was like, ‘I think this is a parasite, are you interested in studying river otters?’ And I was like, ‘Ooh, I think that’s a parasite too. And yes, I am,’” Lohan, a parasite ecologist who leads the Coastal Dis

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Spotify now lets you create seamless transitions between songs on your custom playlists

Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

iMessage gets a new Drafts folder in iOS 26

Rey’s Climatic ‘Star Wars’ Showdowns Get a Beautiful Poster Set

Every Google Pixel Watch owner should know these 2 simple performance tricks

Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’

Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

UK sentences “serial hacker” of 3,000 sites to 20 months in prison

This Linux distro puts more than 20 desktops a click away

Pixel Watch running slow? Do this to instantly improve the performance

Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

This open-source fasting app actually helped me hit my fitness goals

Changing these 12 settings on my Android phone extended its battery life by hours

Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector

Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything

Brands might be cooling on satellite features, and that’s bad news for cheaper Androids

HyperX’s claims its latest headset lasts 250 hours on a single charge

Changing these 10 settings on my Samsung phone greatly improved the user experience

HP’s New Gaming Headset Promises to Stay Powered From Now Until Judgement Day

5 quick ways to make your soundbar sound better than ever (and for free)

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?

Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good UI code in SwiftUI

DINOv3

We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application

We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

Bask in the Golden Age Hero Stylings of ‘The Boys’ Prequel ‘Vought Rising’

The End of Wireless Dead Zones? Starlink Texting Now Available on AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Phones

Launch HN: Cyberdesk (YC S25) – Automate Windows legacy desktop apps

How to turn off ACR on your TV - and why you shouldn't wait to do it

‘Weird Looking’ Otter Poo Reveals an Unexpected Role in Parasite Control

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