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Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 06:09:03

Overdrive's digital book lending app Libby is adding — you guessed it! — AI. The new Inspire Me feature is an AI-fueled discovery tool tuned to your local branch's collection. Following a soft launch this month, it will be officially available in September. To avoid the pitfalls of a full-on chatbot, Overdrive is limiting the discovery process of the feature. Instead of typing freely into a prompt box, you'll start by answering several canned preference questions. These include categories (such

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SpaceX’s Next Big Trick: Catch the Starship Upper Stage With ‘Chopsticks’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-25 06:46:04

SpaceX finally broke out of a serious Starship slump on Tuesday, acing the rocket’s 10th flight after months of failed attemps. Now, CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on the next big challenge: catching Starship’s upper stage with Mechazilla’s “chopstick” arms. In an X post on Wednesday, August 27, Musk said the next opportunities to attempt this feat would likely be flights 13 through 15, depending on how well V3—the next iteration of Starship—performs. The Starship launched Tuesday was a V2, w

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Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 01:50:05

LISP FROM NOTHING Lulu Press, 2025 – 344 pages – 19 figures – 6" x 9" format – free code Order paperback book at Lulu.com Order hardcover book at Lulu.com * Order PDF copy at Lulu.com Get the source code from the book Read a few pages (PDF) Errata (First Edition) Watch Nino Ivanov's Review on Youtube What is the minimal LISP language that can interpret itself? What is the smallest LISP that can compile itself? What was LISP hacking like in the age of punch cards, teletypes, and mainfr

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Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-25 10:30:52

There are all sorts of cruel parasites out there, and more are being uncovered all the time. Scientists have recently found several invasive species of parasitic wasps that have now landed in the U.S. Researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Iowa made the discovery. For the first time ever, they detected the presence of two closely related parasitic wasp species previously only found in Europe. Don’t be too personally afraid, though: these wasps only infest other wasps. A was

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WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-25 10:15:55

WhatsApp said on Friday that it fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to stealthily hack into the Apple devices of “specific targeted users.” The Meta-owned messaging app giant said in its security advisory that it fixed the vulnerability, known officially as CVE-2025-55177, which was used alongside a separate flaw found in iOS and Macs, which Apple fixed last week and tracks as CVE-2025-43300. Apple said at the time that the flaw was used in an “extremely sophistica

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FTC claims Gmail filtering Republican emails threatens “American freedoms”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-25 18:51:02

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson accused Google of using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder while delivering Democratic emails to inboxes. Ferguson sent a letter yesterday to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, accusing the company of "potential FTC Act violations related to partisan administration of Gmail." Ferguson's letter revives longstanding Republican complaints that were previously rejected by a federal judge and the F

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The Download: humans in space, and India’s thorium ambitions

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-26 10:10:00

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to extraterrestrial vistas. This belief has been mainstream for decades, but its rise has been positively meteoric in this new gilded age of astropreneurs. But as visions of giant orbital stations and Martian cities dance in ou

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How I completed my ultimate smart home setup with this tablet hub (and why it works)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-26 10:45:00

Eufy Security E10 Smart Display ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security E10 Smart Display is available for $200. This smart display shows you the history and current status of your security system and works as a control panel with real-time alerts. The E10 Smart Display only works with Eufy Security devices, so it's not compatible with other security cameras or meant to be a smart home hub. $199.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had an Eufy Security syst

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‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the Sphere Has a Shocking 2-Second Cameo: David Zaslav

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-25 21:26:42

The Sphere’s version of The Wizard of Oz has already drawn controversy over its use of AI. Now we know another unsettling element has been introduced into the Hollywood classic: a likeness of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO and president David Zaslav. No, really: the exec, along with the Sphere’s executive chairman and CEO, James Dolan, will be superimposed on the faces of uncredited background characters in what are apparently blink-and-you’ll-miss-them appearances. The stunt is to celebrate the mo

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Google Workspace user? Do this before you set up your Pixel 10

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 16:31:17

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel 10’s Magic Cue uses AI to give contextual suggestions across apps. However, Google Workspace users don’t have access to Magic Cue. To access Magic Cue, sign in with a regular Gmail account first to unlock access. Google’s 2025 Pixel 10 smartphone lineup is finally here, and the standout new feature is Magic Cue. This AI-powered assistant uses on-device intelligence via the Gemini Nano LLM to deliver contextual suggestions designed to make daily i

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The Galaxy Watch 8 is the first smartwatch I’ve ever forgotten I was wearing

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 18:30:11

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is a sleek, lightweight smartwatch that combines smart features with the robust health tracking of Samsung Health. It's pricier than the Galaxy Watch 7, but it's also a smartwatch that I've genuinely enjoyed wearing and using all day and all night, and that's priceless. I have tested plenty of smartwatches over the years, but after bouncing between premium and mid-range wearables across both Android and iOS, the Galaxy Watch 8 has managed to do

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Do you really need smart home display hub? I tried one, and it made a big difference

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-26 16:00:17

Eufy Security E10 Smart Display ZDNET's key takeaways The Eufy Security E10 Smart Display is available for $200. This smart display shows you the history and current status of your security system and works as a control panel with real-time alerts. The E10 Smart Display only works with Eufy Security devices, so it's not compatible with other security cameras or meant to be a smart home hub. $199.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I've had an Eufy Security syst

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Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 15:57:01

parametric cubic curve boundary representation blending function spline b-spline cubic bezier curve de casteljau algorithm I have been diving into these topics since few days and I have not understood anything. I tried peter shirley's textbook on Computer Graphics. Foley et al, Hearn baker etc... It is clear to me that I lack the mathematics preriquisites for understanding this. Thus, I am deeply asking for resources that I can do to brush up. Me being a computer engineering graduate I h

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Lenovo leaks show concept laptop with rotating display

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-26 19:52:54

Lenovo is gearing up to show off its latest products at Europe’s IFA tech tradeshow next week, but leaks may have just given us a first look at what’s being announced. The most notable gadget shared by reputable leaker Evan Blass shows an image of a concept laptop design with a display that rotates between landscape and portrait orientations, which Lenovo has reportedly dubbed “Project Pivo.” Lenovo has a history of making funky laptop concepts — such as the see-through ThinkBook Transparent Di

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This contentiously thin Galaxy Z Fold 7 competitor is now available in more regions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 03:30:21

TL;DR The HONOR Magic V5, first introduced in China as the “world’s thinnest foldable,” is now on sale in the UK and EU at ~£1,699 / €1,999. The phone features a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, dual 120Hz OLED displays, a large 5,820mAh battery, and a versatile triple rear camera system. The device also comes with IP58 and IP59 water and dust resistance and support for a stylus on both displays. HONOR launched the Magic V5 in China in July, claiming that the white version was the “world’s thinnest fo

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The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-26 15:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Ask HN: What to Learn for Math for Modeling?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 01:57:01

parametric cubic curve boundary representation blending function spline b-spline cubic bezier curve de casteljau algorithm I have been diving into these topics since few days and I have not understood anything. I tried peter shirley's textbook on Computer Graphics. Foley et al, Hearn baker etc... It is clear to me that I lack the mathematics preriquisites for understanding this. Thus, I am deeply asking for resources that I can do to brush up. Me being a computer engineering graduate I h

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Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

news.ycombinator.com James Thomas 2025-10-26 20:44:47

We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we can improve the way we present and teach. The fact is we know that PowerPoint kills. Most often the only victims are our audience’s inspiration and interest. This, however, is the story of a PowerPoint s

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 29, #340

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 22:12:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition was relatively simple for what I consider to be the toughest of the New York Times' puzzles. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunda

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Google's AI Live Translation and Learning Tools Are Here. How to Use Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 06:25:49

Google Translate is getting an AI upgrade designed to make real-time conversations and language learning easier. The update is rolling out this week in the Translate app on iOS and Android. The first tool, for live translations, lets you have a back-and-forth conversation with someone by surfacing audio and text translations as you speak, so you can easily follow along. Advanced Gemini models allow for support of more than 70 languages, including Arabic, French, Hindi, Korean and Spanish. Googl

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Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 03:51:51

SwiftAI A modern, type-safe Swift library for building AI-powered apps. SwiftAI provides a unified API that works seamlessly across different AI models - from Apple's on-device models to cloud-based services like OpenAI. ✨ Features 🤖 Model Agnostic : Unified API across Apple's on-device models, OpenAI, Anthropic, and custom backends : Unified API across Apple's on-device models, OpenAI, Anthropic, and custom backends 🎯 Structured Output : Strongly-typed structured outputs with compile-time v

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Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 10:37:11

To set up an encrypted and authenticated pipe for sending email between two systems (in the author's case, from many systems around the internet to his central SMTP server, which then relays email to the rest of the world), one might run dd if=/dev/urandom bs=32 count=1 of=keyfile spiped -d -s '[0.0.0.0]:8025' -t '[127.0.0.1]:25' -k keyfile on a server and after copying keyfile to the local system, run spiped -e -s '[127.0.0.1]:25' -t $SERVERNAME:8025 -k keyfile at which point mail delivered

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Uncertain<T>

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 07:22:54

You know what’s wrong with people? They’re too sure of themselves. Better to be wrong and own it than be right with caveats. Hard to build a personal brand out of nuance these days. People are attracted to confidence — however misplaced. But can you blame them? (People, that is) Working in software, the most annoying part of reaching Senior level is having to say “it depends” all the time. Much more fun getting to say “let’s ship it and iterate” as Staff or “that won’t scale” as a Principal.

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Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-27 10:25:48

Fireflies glow to attract mates. As new research shows, however, a certain species of spider has learned to take advantage of this luminous natural phenomenon. In a Journal of Animal Ecology paper published August 27, ecologists report that the sheetweb spider (Psechrus clavis) appears to exploit firefly luminescence to attract more prey. Observational analysis and lab experiments revealed that, by using firefly light as bait, the nocturnal predators improved their hunting success. This is the

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How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 09:14:17

Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi. I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub. I've been looking forward to TrueNAS support on Arm for years, though it seems the sentiment in that community was 'Arm servers aren

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How Science Fiction Became the Key to This Year’s Most Buzzed About Concert

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-27 21:50:52

2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars. Star Trek. Tron. Blade Runner. Akira. The Fifth Element. Interstellar. Superman. Flash Gordon. The Matrix. That sounds like a list of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, but actually, it’s a list of the films mentioned during a discussion about the inspirations behind the Backstreet Boys’ popular new residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. This past July, one of the biggest boy bands of all time celebrated 20 years of their iconic album, Millennium, at

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Fubo Sports will make a play for football fans' dollars on September 2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:48:47

Fubo is making a move to attract new subscribers ahead of the NFL season. The company's new Fubo Sports bundle includes content from ESPN, Fox and local affiliates. The football-friendly package costs $56 monthly. Fubo Sports includes over 20 sports and broadcast networks. You get all of ESPN's live channels (including ESPN+). As for Fox, it has FS1, FS2 and the curious inclusion (for a sports package) of Fox News. The bundle also has the ACC Network, Big 10 Network, CBS Sports Network, Fubo Sp

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How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-28 02:05:57

The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets increasingly digitized and artificial intelligence creeps its way into every aspect of life, data centers become more and more important. But that data comes with a catch: the servers in these data centers have monstrous energy demands that eat up natural resources like water, and that puts a significant burden on local communities where data centers are located. Some companies think they’ve found the solution to this problem by sending th

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Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:00:52

“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” It’s the ominous slogan for “Hotel California,” an iconic fictional lodging dreamed up by the Eagles in 1976. One of the rock band’s lead singers, Don Henley, said in an interview that the song and place “can have a million interpretations.” For US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, what comes to mind is a key part of one of the country’s most central conservation laws. “The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel Californ

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Fubo Sports is a $55.99 / month streaming bundle made for watching football

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-28 02:19:11

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. Fubo is launching a new Sports plan on September 2nd that costs $55.99 per month and comes with over 20 live sports and news-focused channels, including the ESPN and Fox Sports channels, as well as local stations owned by ABC, CBS, and Fox. Where available, this

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Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

SpaceX’s Next Big Trick: Catch the Starship Upper Stage With ‘Chopsticks’

Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition

Scientists Discover New Parasitic Wasps Invading the U.S.

WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware

FTC claims Gmail filtering Republican emails threatens “American freedoms”

The Download: humans in space, and India’s thorium ambitions

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Google Workspace user? Do this before you set up your Pixel 10

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Do you really need smart home display hub? I tried one, and it made a big difference

Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

Lenovo leaks show concept laptop with rotating display

This contentiously thin Galaxy Z Fold 7 competitor is now available in more regions

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

Ask HN: What to Learn for Math for Modeling?

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 29, #340

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How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”

Fubo Sports is a $55.99 / month streaming bundle made for watching football

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