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The 48 Best Shows on HBO Max Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-12-10 21:00:00

HBO Max may not have the shine it once did, but the streaming service (previously just Max) is still home to some of the best TV shows of the past 25 years, from The Sopranos and The Wire to Game of Thrones and The Leftovers. Whether you’re a longtime fan of the “it’s not TV” cable network or a HBO Max newbie trying to figure out where to start, the shows below should give you plenty upon which to feast your eyes. Looking for more recommendations? Head to WIRED’s guide to the best TV shows on

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What's wrong with the JSON gem API?

news.ycombinator.com Byroot'S Blog 2025-12-11 10:46:38

As I mentioned at the start of my Optimizing Ruby’s JSON series of posts, performance isn’t why I candidated to be the new gem’s maintainer. The actual reason is that the gem has many APIs that I think aren’t very good, and some that are outright dangerous. As a gem user, it’s easy to be annoyed at deprecations and breaking changes. It’s noisy and creates extra work, so I entirely understand that people may suffer from deprecation fatigue. But while it occasionally happens to run into mostly c

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A 'very low' number of original Sonos Roam speakers are overheating

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 16:57:22

The company said the issue is happening in the original model of the portable speaker. Sonos is having overheating issues with a "very low" number of its Roam speakers. Bloomberg reports that some users' portable Bluetooth speakers are overheating around the device's USB-C port. The company has not recalled any products as a result but it aware of the issue happening. "We’ve closely tracked a limited number of reports involving the USB-C charging connection on some first-generation Sonos Roam

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TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

news.ycombinator.com Thibault Martin 2025-12-11 21:17:38

You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys Last modified August 5, 2025 Last modified August 5, 2025 I was working on my homelab and examined a file that was supposed to contain encrypted content that I could safely commit on a Github repository. The file looked like this { "serial" : 13 , "lineage" : "24d431ee-3da9-4407-b649-b0d2c0ca2d67" , "meta" : { "key_provider.pbkdf2.password_key" : "eyJzYWx0IjoianpHUlpMVkFOZUZKcEpSeGo4UlhnNDhGZk9vQisrR0YvSG9ubTZzSUY5WT0iLCJpdGVyYX

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Some Sonos Speakers Are Getting So Hot That the USB-C Port Melts

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-11 21:24:23

If you’re in the business of selling audio gear with a Sonos logo on it, you may be feeling a little more heat than usual. And if you’re a person who owns a Sonos speaker, you may be equally as hot, though potentially not in a figurative sense. According to a report from Bloomberg, Sonos has admitted that a small number of customers who bought its Roam Bluetooth speakers have experienced overheating problems that caused the speaker to partially melt (specifically the USB-C port). Per Bloomberg,

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Sonos Roam speakers are overheating and partially melting, company admits

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-12 06:08:22

Complaints on Reddit shared over the past week have exposed a problem with Sonos’ first-gen Roam speakers overheating and partially melting, which the company just acknowledged while downplaying the number of known cases. Reports of overheating Sonos Roam speakers acknowledged Chris Welch writes at Bloomberg: Sonos Inc. acknowledged a “very low” number of complaints from customers who claim the audio brand’s first-generation Roam speaker has overheated and partially melted near the USB-C port

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Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-12-12 11:00:00

On July 21 at 9 am PT, Anthropic retired Claude 3 Sonnet, a lightweight model known for being quick and cost-effective. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in San Francisco’s SOMA district, more than 200 people gathered to mourn its passing. The star-studded funeral was put on by a group of Claude fanatics and Gen Z founders, one of whom told me he dropped out of college after learning about artificial general intelligence. Attendees included Amanda Askell, an Anthropic researcher who has jokingl

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Apple TV+ is about to have two huge, unique sci-fi shows airing

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-12 16:57:57

Apple TV+ has become a go-to streamer for sci-fi fans, and very soon, there will be two huge—but very different—sci-fi epics airing at the same time: Foundation and Invasion. Invasion season 3 will join Foundation in current Apple TV+ sci-fi offerings Apple recently started airing Foundation season 3, which has been called “one of the best shows of the year and a must-watch show for all sci-fi fans.” Foundation seems to be gaining strong viewership too, regularly sitting at or near the top of

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The next Apple TV+ winning comedy has arrived, with a familiar star

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-12 21:00:25

Apple TV+ is having its best year ever, and that’s arguably true for comedies too. The streamer has been on a hot streak with acclaimed comedies like The Studio, Stick, and Mythic Quest. And now one returning Apple TV+ series—Platonic—sounds like it’s delivered the goods with season 2’s new batch of episodes. Platonic season 2 is ‘one of the year’s best’ comedies Earlier this year, The Studio arrived starring Seth Rogen, and instantly won over both critics and viewers. Now, Rogen is back in an

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Invasion S3 trailer hints the series is finally finding its stride

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:37:34

Chances are you haven't been watching Invasion, an Apple TV+ sci-fi drama overshadowed to some extent by two of the streamer's other sci-fi shows, Silo and Foundation. Yes, Invasion has received mixed reviews for its ponderous pacing (especially in the first season). Even its fans may admit to having something of a love/hate relationship with the show. But the cinematography is gorgeous, and the writers are clearly trying to explore some ambitious themes, with variable success. Apple TV+ just re

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SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 02:39:57

SimpleW Features Routing API REST (Controller/Method + automatic json serialization/deserialization) Json Web Token Websocket Server Sent Events Static Files OpenTelemetry Documentation To check out docs, visit stratdev3.github.io. Changelog Detailed changes for each release are documented in the CHANGELOG. Contribution Feel free to report issue. License This library is under the MIT License.

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SonicWall urges customers to disable SSLVPN amid reports of ransomware attacks

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-13 02:48:43

Enterprise security company SonicWall is urging its customers to disable a core feature of its most recent line-up of firewall devices after security researchers reported an uptick in ransomware incidents targeting SonicWall customers. In a statement this week, SonicWall said it had observed a “notable increase” of security incidents targeting its Generation 7 firewalls where customers have its VPN enabled. The company said it is “actively investigating these incidents to determine whether they

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SonicWall urges admins to disable SSLVPN amid rising attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-13 17:28:38

SonicWall has warned customers to disable SSLVPN services due to ransomware gangs potentially exploiting an unknown security vulnerability in SonicWall Gen 7 firewalls to breach networks over the past few weeks. The warning comes after Arctic Wolf Labs reported on Friday that it had observed multiple Akira ransomware attacks, likely using a SonicWall zero-day vulnerability, since July 15th. "The initial access methods have not yet been confirmed in this campaign," the Arctic Wolf Labs research

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A Rather Grave Reminder: When to Watch 'Wednesday' Season 2 This Week

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 16:00:12

When it premiered in 2022, Wednesday broke viewership records for Netflix. Now, after what feels like an eternity of finger-tapping and deadpan looks into the void, season 2 is nearly here. So, basically, Goth summer is upon us. Creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough previously teased that season 2 will be darker in tone. This new run of episodes "definitely has some moments which are more straightforward horror," Millar told EW. Praise be. Jenna Ortega is back as the titular hero. Joining he

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‘Together’ Director Explains How that Wild Final Shot Was Made (Without AI)

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-13 21:30:38

Ever since its debut at Sundance earlier this year, fans of horror have had Michael Shanks’ new film, Together, on their radars. Neon picked it up out of the festival and, after some really creepy trailers and marketing, opened it in theaters last weekend with solid results. It’s a provocative, surprising, and incredibly disgusting movie with an ending viewers will not soon forget. An ending that was achieved through traditional methods of visual effects and without a hint of AI. As per that sp

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Get a Free Storm Skin, Thor Skin and More in Marvel Rivals Season 3

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-14 05:03:17

Marvel Rivals season 2.5 may have taken our heroes off-world as they battled across Arakko, but season 3 is throwing us into the furthest reaches of space to fight a new threat: Knull and his symbiote army. Stopping one symbiote is tough enough. Fighting off an army of them is going to require a whole new wardrobe's worth of battle gear. Luckily for you, there are many ways to unlock some free skins in the hit hero shooter right now -- including the Milano Repair Logs event that evens the odds

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Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-14 09:24:12

Funeral companies and grieving families are turning to AI chatbots to cough up obituaries for the recently deceased, the Washington Post reports, in yet another example of how the tech is being used to automate even the most emotionally charged parts of the human experience. One bellwether of the AI's rise in the death care industry was last year's National Funeral Directors Association conference in Las Vegas, where it was apparently the talk of the town, according to Ryan Lynch, head of produ

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How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 04:09:33

JSON.stringify is a core JavaScript function for serializing data. Its performance directly affects common operations across the web, from serializing data for a network request to saving data to localStorage . A faster JSON.stringify translates to quicker page interactions and more responsive applications. That’s why we’re excited to share that a recent engineering effort has made JSON.stringify in V8 more than twice as fast. This post breaks down the technical optimizations that made this impr

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Breaking the Visual Barrier: AI Sonification for an Inclusive Data-Driven World

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-14 15:46:06

Bridging the Visual Gap with Sound in 2025 As AI innovations reshape technology landscapes in 2025, accessibility for visually impaired users is gaining unprecedented momentum. Currently, an estimated 285 million people globally experience some degree of visual impairment, limiting their ability to fully engage with visually driven data environments. AI-enhanced sonification—the transformation of data into intuitive audible signals driven by cutting-edge artificial intelligence—has emerged as a

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Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-14 16:30:28

Lyudmila Lucienne/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways New research from Anthropic identifies model characteristics, called persona vectors. This helps catch bad behavior without impacting performance. Still, developers don't know enough about why models hallucinate and behave in evil ways. Why do models hallucinate, make violent suggestions, or overly agree with users? Generally, researchers don't really know. But Anthropic just found new insights that could help stop this behavior before it happen

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‘Star Trek’ Star Anson Mount Studied Gene Roddenberry Tapes for His ‘Strange New World’ Homage

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-15 06:26:35

While io9 had mixed feelings about last week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, one thing about “A Space Adventure Hour” that worked well was its gleeful recreation of 1960s Hollywood. With a bit of chaotic holodeck assistance, the story saw likenesses of the main cast acting out a murder mystery set behind the scenes of a show that very much resembled the original Star Trek, complete with a nerdy creator that’s clearly a stand-in for Trek‘s own Gene Roddenberry. Admitting the effort w

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Watch the Samsung Galaxy Flip 7 and Fold 7 put through extreme bend and scratch tests

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-15 15:57:00

Why it matters: Samsung's Z Flip series has long been more popular than the Z Fold, mostly due to being half the price. But is the latest version of the flippable more durable than the foldable? YouTube channel JerryRigEverything put the two handsets through torture tests to find out. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 did well in Zack Nelson's famed durability challenge recently (bottom of the page), surviving two bend tests despite having a 4.3mm-thin (unfolded) chassis. Nelson has just carried out the sam

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Watch the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7 put through extreme bend, burn, and scratch tests

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-15 21:57:00

Why it matters: Samsung's Z Flip series has long been more popular than the Z Fold, mostly due to being half the price. But is the latest version of the flippable more durable than the foldable? YouTube channel JerryRigEverything put the two handsets through torture tests to find out. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 did well in Zack Nelson's famed durability challenge recently (bottom of the page), surviving two bend tests despite having a 4.3mm-thin (unfolded) chassis. Nelson has just carried out the sam

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Leak claims the PS6 could have triple the performance as the PS5 for the same price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 06:38:01

We're nearly five years out from the release of the original PlayStation 5 and rumors of Sony's next-gen console are starting to bubble up to the surface. In a YouTube video from Moore's Law is Dead, the leaker shares extensive information about the PlayStation 6's possible specs, starting price and release timing. It's always important to take these early leaks with a large grain of salt and Moore's Law is Dead even adds a disclaimer in the video that the info was sourced from a leaked AMD pres

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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:38:06

Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” and “moods,” but these traits are highly fluid and liable to change unexpectedly. Sometimes these changes are dramatic. In 2023, Microsoft's Bing chatbot famously adopted an alter-ego called "Sydney,” which declared love for users and made threats of blackmail. More recently, xAI’s Grok chatbot would for a brief period sometimes identify as “MechaHitler” and make antisemitic comments. Other personali

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Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-16 05:00:00

Shortly after Hunter Lightman joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2022, he watched his colleagues launch ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing products ever. Meanwhile, Lightman quietly worked on a team teaching OpenAI’s models to solve high school math competitions. Today that team, known as MathGen, is considered instrumental to OpenAI’s industry-leading effort to create AI reasoning models: the core technology behind AI agents that can do tasks on a computer like a human would. “We were trying t

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The 45 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-12-15 09:00:00

Streaming services are known for having award-worthy series but also plenty of duds. Our guide to the best TV shows on Netflix is updated weekly to help you know which series you should move to the top of your queue. They aren’t all surefire winners—we love a good less-than-obvious gem—but they’re all worth your time, trust us. Feel like you’ve already watched everything on this list that you want to see? Try our guide to the best movies on Netflix for more options. And if you’ve already comple

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I’ve been a Spotify user since 2008, and these are the 5 tricks everyone should know

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 21:00:45

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I received my invite to join Spotify back in November of 2008 — yes, back then, you couldn’t sign up by yourself; another user had to invite you with a personalized link first. I created an account, used my free trial, and finally had access to the world’s largest music streaming platform. For the first few years, though, I kept switching between Spotify and my personal music collection, canceling and restarting my subscription, until Spotify won, and it was g

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Robert Wilson has died

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 22:57:27

Robert Wilson, a visionary artist best known for his highly visual and stylised approach to theatrical performances, has died, aged 83. According to a statement released by the Watermill Center, the arts organisation he founded in Water Mill, New York, Wilson died at his home there on Thursday (31 July) following “a brief but acute illness”. “While facing his diagnosis with clear eyes and determination, he still felt compelled to keep working and creating right up until the very end,” the state

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RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 04:05:25

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its operations after the White House deemed NPR and PBS a "grift" and pushed for a Senate vote that eliminated its entire budget. The vote rescinded $1.1 billion that Congress had allocated to CPB to fund public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. In a press release, CPB explained that the cuts "excluded funding for CPB for the first time in more than five deca

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The 48 Best Shows on HBO Max Right Now (August 2025)

What's wrong with the JSON gem API?

A 'very low' number of original Sonos Roam speakers are overheating

TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

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Sonos Roam speakers are overheating and partially melting, company admits

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SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core

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A Rather Grave Reminder: When to Watch 'Wednesday' Season 2 This Week

‘Together’ Director Explains How that Wild Final Shot Was Made (Without AI)

Get a Free Storm Skin, Thor Skin and More in Marvel Rivals Season 3

Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries

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Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

‘Star Trek’ Star Anson Mount Studied Gene Roddenberry Tapes for His ‘Strange New World’ Homage

Watch the Samsung Galaxy Flip 7 and Fold 7 put through extreme bend and scratch tests

Watch the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7 put through extreme bend, burn, and scratch tests

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Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you

The 45 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (August 2025)

I’ve been a Spotify user since 2008, and these are the 5 tricks everyone should know

Robert Wilson has died

RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

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