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Sony unlocks regional restrictions for some PC games in more than 100 countries

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-19 17:22:28

It turns out that region-locking your games makes it harder to sell more copies. First discovered by Wario64, Sony has lifted regional restrictions for several of its titles that are available to play on PC through Steam. Sony hasn't officially announced the removal of these region locks, nor the reason why, but God of War Ragnarok, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Spider-Man 2, and the hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2 can be purchased once again in 177 countries that were previously prohibited,

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You can save $30 on the Apple Pencil Pro right now

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-03-19 14:00:19

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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The Talented Ms. Highsmith

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 06:39:20

The Talented Ms. Highsmith I worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me. Patricia Highsmith pictured at her home in Tegna, Switzerland, in 1985. Dino Fracchia / Alamy Stock I first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the fall of 1994. I was twenty and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves full of her first editions, organized in chronological order. Pat was seventy-four and knew she was about to die; she had

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Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi

news.ycombinator.com Doug Brown 2026-03-19 17:00:43

I recently found myself needing to change the monitor that a cheap HDMI “dummy plug” pretended to be. It was a random one I had bought on Amazon several years ago that acted as a 4K monitor, and I needed it to be something simpler that didn’t support a 4K resolution. The story behind why is a long one that I’m still figuring out and might eventually become a separate blog post in the future. If you’re not familiar with dummy plugs, here’s a quick primer: they are tiny dongles you can plug into

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The 34 Absolute Best Shows to Watch on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 15:00:04

Reached the end of a binge and ready for something new? Prime Video may offer your next small-screen fixation. Amazon's streaming service is the place to visit for can't-miss originals like The Boys and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. With new shows premiering frequently, such as the postapocalyptic drama Fallout, you can choose a fresh release or start a series you've had on the back burner. Note that Prime Video is now ad-supported and charges an extra fee to remove commercials. Read on for this

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Is your phone provider’s autopay discount really worth it?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 16:00:14

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Autopay is easily one of the most convenient ways to pay your bills, especially if you’re like me and struggle to keep track of everything manually. Without autopay, it’s easy to accidentally miss a payment if you’re not careful. In the past, I’ve used autopay for nearly everything — from health and car insurance to utility bills, recurring entertainment subscriptions, and, of course, services like phone plans that offer discounts for autopay enrollment. Whil

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2026-03-16 23:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

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How multiplication is defined in Peano arithmetic

news.ycombinator.com Mathematical Association Of America 2026-03-18 13:36:18

Mathematician Keith Devlin is the Executive Director of the Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute ( H-STAR ) at Stanford University and The Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition

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Ruby on Rails Audit Complete

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 14:15:18

The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails (or “Rails”) is an open source full stack web-application framework. Thanks to the help of X41 D-Sec, GitLab, and the Sovereign Tech Agency, Rails can provide more secure versions of the tools needed for users to create database-backed web applications following the Model-View-Controller pattern. Audit Process: The audit work for this engagement took place over Decemb

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How Covid-19 Changed Hideo Kojima’s Vision for ‘Death Stranding 2’

wired.com Silvio Mazzitelli 2026-03-19 16:30:00

When legendary game designer Hideo Kojima announced to the world that Death Stranding 2 would soon be released, he made it known that Covid-19 had completely changed his idea for this sequel. “We released Death Stranding before the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world was moving toward isolation and division—as with Brexit. The idea behind it was ‘Let's connect. We’ll face disaster if we don’t connect.’ The theme, the story, and the gameplay of the first chapter all revolved around that idea,” Koj

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Infineon security microcontroller flaw enabled extraction of TPM secret keys

news.ycombinator.com Denis Laskov 2026-03-19 05:02:41

A few months ago, security researcher Thomas Roche presented his fundamental research on secure elements used in the YubiKey 5. The security element is the Infineon SLE78, which contains a proprietary implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). Using side-channel attacks and a great deal of smart research, the author discovered a vulnerability in Infineon Technologies' cryptographic library and, as a result, was able to extract the ECDSA secret key from the secure

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Iconic icons to showcase your skills

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-17 02:15:07

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2026-03-17 04:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

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Best Internet Providers in Madison, Wisconsin

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 11:00:00

What is the best internet provider in Madison? CNET's top pick for the best internet provider in Madison is AT&T Fiber. The provider offers a wide variety of plan options, transparent pricing and the fastest internet in the area with speeds of up to 5,000Mbps. If AT&T Fiber isn't available at your address, Spectrum is another reliable choice with citywide coverage and plans starting at $30 per month. Be warned, however, that Spectrum's prices increase after the first year. But Spectrum isn't t

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Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry

wired.com Tess Owen 2026-03-19 11:49:05

A man named Vance Boelter allegedly shot and killed Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband Mark Hortman at their home at some point early Saturday morning while, according to law enforcement, impersonating a police officer. He also allegedly shot state senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman at their home. They are alive, but remain in critical condition. Law enforcement has said they found a manifesto and hit list in the alleged suspect’s car, wh

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Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 10:00:15

Secrets of the skeletons. Head Game Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl — and there are signs of tragedy in her bones. As Live Science reports, the skull, which was found in a prehistoric burial ground known as Chega Sofla without its corresponding skeleton, shows signs not only of intentional modification, but also possibly fatal blunt force trauma. Dated to roughly 6,200 years old, the strange cone shape of th

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I tried Canva’s photo editor to see if it could replace my favorite free app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 12:00:17

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been using Canva for years, mostly for simple designs. So when I saw that Canva had rolled out a new photo editing tool, which is more advanced that the simple tweaks you can make in a design, I was interested in trying it out. I stumbled across a useful feature that’s not in my favorite photo-editing app Snapseed, so I wondered if Canva could actually replace the free app’s place in my workflow. I tried out the Canva app’s new tool to see just how effectiv

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Google Search uses AI-generated podcast hosts to answer your questions

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-19 14:18:47

Instead of digging through all the top search results, you can now ask Google Search to give you a comprehensive AI-generated summary with its Audio Overviews feature. The AI feature uses Google Gemini models to create a short audio clip that sounds like a conversational podcast with two hosts. It's not ideal for your basic search queries like finding out when Father's Day is, but it's helpful if you want an in-depth and hands-free response to the history and significance of Flag Day. The Audio

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SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 14:22:41

SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH. Just run the command below and you'll be playing in seconds: $ ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com Controls: WASD or vim keybindings to move (do not use your arrow keys). Escape or Ctrl+C to exit. Code quality disclaimer: SSHTron was built in ~20 hours at BrickHack 2. Here be dragons. Want to choose color yourself? There are total 7 colors to choose from: Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan and White $ ssh [email protected]

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Solidroad (YC W25) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 09:00:07

Every day, millions of customers have terrible experiences. Support teams get blamed. Budgets get slashed. Quality drops further. Everyone shrugs and calls it "the cost of doing business." We think that's wrong. We started Solidroad because we believe customer experience can be both excellent and efficient. We're building the AI that turns every customer conversation into a learning opportunity. We're creating software that makes customer teams more effective. And we're just getting s

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I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 10:56:46

miniDiffusion miniDiffusion is a reimplementation of the Stable Diffusion 3.5 model in pure PyTorch with minimal dependencies. It's designed for educational, experimenting, and hacking purposes. It's made with the mindset of having the least amount of code necessary to recreate Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch, with only ~2800 spanning from VAE to DiT to the Train and Dataset scripts. -Files: The main Stable Diffusion model code is located in dit.py, dit_components.py, and attention.py. The d

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First Looks at Disneyland Expansion and Disney World's 'Piston Peak' Cars Land

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 09:33:03

It's been 70 years since Disneyland opened its gates, and the original Disney park is now celebrating its anniversary. As Walt Disney himself predicted, Disneyland will "never be completed," as long as imagination remains in the world -- and it's continuing to grow with new rides, experiences and entertainment planned for 2025 and beyond. This week, Disney announced new details for its big expansion, including a new esplanade entry experience, where the Coco ride will be, and what old attractio

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Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 04:45:03

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

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'Textbook Copyright Infringement': Disney and Universal Sue AI Image Generator Midjourney

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 12:00:05

Disney, Universal and several of their entertainment companies filed a lawsuit against popular AI creative service Midjourney on Wednesday, alleging that the company committed copyright infringement. It's a big move from power players and will no doubt create ripple effects across the AI and entertainment industries that will flow all the way to what you can create using AI tools. Midjourney is one of many AI image generators that use generative AI text-to-image technology. With an account, any

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Just add humans: Oxford medical study underscores the missing link in chatbot testing

venturebeat.com Nick Mokey 2026-03-19 12:34:19

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Headlines have been blaring it for years: Large language models (LLMs) can not only pass medical licensing exams but also outperform humans. GPT-4 could correctly answer U.S. medical exam licensing questions 90% of the time, even in the prehistoric AI days of 2023. Since then, LLMs have gone on to best the residents taking those exams and

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A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

news.ycombinator.com Gabriela A. Farfan 2026-03-19 10:13:14

ABSTRACT Red diamonds are among the rarest gems on Earth, especially Fancy red diamonds that are pure red and unmodified by brown, orange, or purple. At 2.33 ct, the Winston Red diamond is the fifth-largest Fancy red diamond known to exist and the only Fancy red diamond on public exhibit. On April 1, 2025, it was unveiled in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. This is the first scientific and historical study conducted on this noteworthy stone.

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Filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 14:45:03

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

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Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

venturebeat.com David Chen 2026-03-19 14:48:11

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini itself have relied on autoregression, a step-by-step approach where each

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Implementing Logic Programming

news.ycombinator.com Sir Whinesalot 2026-03-19 19:32:21

Most of my readers are probably familiar with procedural programming, object-oriented programming (OOP), and functional programming (FP). The majority of top programming languages on all of the language popularity charts (like TIOBE) support all three to some extent. Even if a programmer avoided one or more of those three paradigms like the plague, they’re likely at least aware of them and what they’re about. Or they’re applying one of the paradigms while denying that they’re doing so, like Has

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Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 19:38:12

On Thursday, a Boeing jet crashed just moments after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad in western India. The Air India airliner, carrying 242 passengers, slammed into a nearby medical college and exploded in an enormous fireball. Somehow, one man survived: 38-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh. "I don't know how I am alive," Viswash said, according to his younger brother Nayan Ramesh, as quoted by the New York Times. In a video widely shared on social media, the India-born British citizen ca

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Sony unlocks regional restrictions for some PC games in more than 100 countries

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Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry

Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground

I tried Canva’s photo editor to see if it could replace my favorite free app

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SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH

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