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Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-08 00:00:00

Following its long-awaited launch of lossless streaming for paid subscribers, Spotify is upgrading its service for free users, too. On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will now be able to search and play any song they want or play a song shared by a friend or an artist they follow on social media. The company calls the new features “Pick & Play,” “Search & Play,” and “Share & Play,” respectively. With the former, free users can hit play in the Spotify app to pick and play

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Microsoft says Windows September updates break SMBv1 shares

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-08 05:48:23

Microsoft has confirmed that the September 2025 Windows security updates are causing connection issues to Server Message Block (SMB) v1 shares. The list of platforms affected by this known issue is quite extensive, as it includes both client (Windows 11 24H2/23H2/22H2 and Windows 10 22H2/21H2) and server (Windows Server 2025 and Windows Server 2022) platforms. In a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft said this known issue affects those connecting to SMBv1 shares over the NetBIOS

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The 2025 Emmys Are Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-06 22:00:53

The biggest night in television is finally here. The 77th edition of the annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be given out on Sunday night. The best shows that came out sometime between June 2024 and May 2025 will be awarded across categories. Apple TV+ is the big winner so far when it comes to nominations. Its fan-favorite show Severance picked up a total of 27 nominations. Lead actors Adam Scott and Britt Lower, who play Mark and Helly on the show, are both nominated for best actor nominations

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Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:30:52

Streaming platforms once again dominated the 2025 Primetime Emmy awards (77th edition), while network TV was shut out of the the major filmed categories. Apple TV+ came out on top with seven total wins including four for The Studio: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Seth Rogen), Outstanding Directing (Rogen and Evan Goldberg) and Outstanding Writing. "I've never won anything in my life," Rogen said during his off-the-cuff acceptance speech. "When I was a kid I bought a used bowl

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iOS 26 Goes Live Today: Here's Your Cheat Sheet for the Update

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 15:00:02

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

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This Android brand is skipping an entire generation to rival the iPhone 17

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:15:33

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi is skipping the 16 series and jumping straight to the 17 series flagships. The company says it has decided to take the generational leap to better compete with the iPhone 17 series. The Xiaomi 17 series will consist of three new flagships launching later this month. Xiaomi’s next flagship smartphone series will launch this month, but there’s one thing you won’t see — the Xiaomi 16 series. Xiaomi president Lu Weibing announced on Weibo that the

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Breaking: One UI 8 stable starts rolling out for the Galaxy S25 series

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 17:35:40

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has begun rolling out the first One UI 8 stable release for the Galaxy S25 series. The update is being gradually rolled out to users in South Korea, but we expect a rollout for users in the US and the rest of the world to follow very soon. After months of beta testing, Samsung is now following through on its One UI 8 expansion plans by finally rolling out stable One UI 8 based on Android 16 to its flagship, the Galaxy S25 series. Don’t want to mis

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New VoidProxy phishing service targets Microsoft 365, Google accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-08 03:23:32

A newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, named VoidProxy, targets Microsoft 365 and Google accounts, including those protected by third-party single sign-on (SSO) providers such as Okta. The platform uses adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics to steal credentials, multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes, and session cookies in real time. VoidProxy was discovered by Okta Threat Intelligence researchers, who describe it as scalable, evasive, and sophisticated. The attack begi

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Implementing namespaces and coding standards in WordPress plugin development

news.ycombinator.com Troy Chaplin 2025-11-05 08:56:32

As WordPress projects grow in complexity, organizing your codebase becomes essential. Whether you’re building a plugin, theme, or block library, a clean and scalable architecture makes development faster, onboarding easier, and long-term maintenance far less painful. In Refactoring the Multi-Block Plugin: Build Smarter, Register Cleaner, Scale Easier, I walked through setting up a flexible structure for managing multiple static, dynamic, and interactive blocks within a single plugin. That setup

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Observable Notebooks Data Loaders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 17:04:29

The cell above is JavaScript that runs in Node.js, unlike normal JavaScript cells that run in the browser. The output of a data loader cell is automatically saved to a .observable/cache directory on your local file system alongside your notebooks. Data snapshots are stable — the data only updates if you re-run the data loader cell. In Observable Desktop, you can re-run a data loader cell by clicking the Play button, by hitting shift-return, or by clicking on the query age in the cell toolbar. I

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Apple TV Plus: The 14 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows You Should Stream Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 05:00:04

So, you're an Apple TV Plus subscriber looking for worthwhile sci-fi TV shows to watch. You've already binged every episode of Severance. What should you dive into next? Apple's streaming service (which just raised its monthly price) feels like an exclusive place. The majority of the original programs on the platform premiere without much promotion, instead being left for you to discover on your own. With so many streaming shows vying for your attention, the perfect title can get lost. Do you

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How Advanced Ocean Exploration Is Rewriting History

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 06:00:00

Back Services & Software All the news and tips you need to get the most out of services, apps and software you use every day.

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Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 00:00:16

Where This Story Begins In 2022, we had three different query interfaces. Logs had a custom search syntax with no autocomplete. Traces only had predefined filters - no query builder at all. Metrics had a raw PromQL input box where you'd paste queries from somewhere else and hope they worked. Each system spoke a different language. An engineer debugging a production issue had to context-switch not just between data types, but between entirely different mental models of how to query data. When

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Lexy: A parser combinator library for C++17

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 02:05:45

Why should I use lexy over XYZ? lexy is closest to other PEG parsers. However, they usually do more implicit backtracking, which can hurt performance and you need to be very careful with rules that have side-effects. This is not the case for lexy, where backtracking is controlled using branch conditions. lexy also gives you a lot of control over error reporting, supports error recovery, special support for operator precedence parsing, and other advanced features. Boost.Spirit The main differenc

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Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-08 03:15:54

Spotify has never been shy about the fact that the massive amount of user data it collects is a major part of its secret sauce, from its user-specific Discover Weekly playlist to the annual event that is Spotify Wrapped. But the company, which does everything it can to lock people into long listening sessions and sells ads based on user data, would really prefer it if you didn’t bottle up that sauce and resell it for your own profit. According to a report from Ars Technica, a set of users did ju

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ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-07 23:00:13

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its official emoji dictionary. Frail human minds have sometimes been surprised to learn that fact, in a perfect example of the Mandela Effect, in which people become convinced that they remember something that isn't actually real — like that South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela died in pris

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Here are three reasons you shouldn’t quite consider Apple Watch Series 11

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-08 05:53:30

Apple’s latest generation Apple Watch model, the Series 11, was just unveiled on Tuesday. While at first glance, it seemed like a relatively decent upgrade – it turns out that there’s some details that makes it less appealing than it might’ve initially seemed. Battery life isn’t as good as you may think As discovered by users who were peeping into the fine print, Apple’s latest battery estimates for Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 tack on an additional 6 hours of sleep tracking for Apple’s i

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Newcastle vs. Wolves Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 00:00:04

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe will be hoping his new-look strike force can help his team claim its first victory of the English Premier League campaign as the Magpies take on fellow winless side Wolves on Saturday. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching EPL games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Having finally said goodbye to Alexander Isak, following his painfully drawn-out $170 million move to

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This Fierce Thriller Is One of the Best Shows of the Early 2000s, and You Can Stream It for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 00:30:03

There are some TV shows that stick with you forever (and others you completely forgot you've ever watched). For me, Damages, which originally aired for five seasons on FX, is seared in my brain since its first release in 2007. And it's now available to stream for free on Tubi. I was addicted from the series' first episode, which opens with Rose Byrne's character running out of an apartment building into the bustling streets of New York wearing nothing but a blood-soaked trench coat and high hee

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The 25 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-11-08 00:00:00

While Netflix is busy pumping out more series than any one person could watch (probably), some of the best shows are on Amazon Prime Video. Trouble is, navigating the service’s labyrinthine menus can make finding the right series a pain. We’re here to help. Below are our favorite Amazon series—all included with your Prime subscription. For more viewing picks, read WIRED’s guide to the best movies on Amazon Prime, the best movies on HBO’s Max, and the best movies on Netflix. If you buy somethin

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How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development

news.ycombinator.com Zach Wills 2025-11-03 20:21:18

In my last post I talked about how I spent a week heads down using AI to work on a greenfield engineering metrics tool. As I built it, I’d often navigate the web app and spot things that needed to be fleshed out. Sometimes it was a small typo; other times it was a bigger feature that was still TODO. At one point I had Claude Code redesign the homepage to make it more lively. In doing so, it added some new functionality that didn’t fully exist yet: A “View All Insights” link that would show you

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Horror Icon Lin Shaye Is Returning to ‘Insidious’

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-08 10:50:56

Insidious franchise star Lin Shaye’s dearly departed medium character will make another return to star in Blumhouse’s sixth film in the series. The horror legend’s tenure as psychic Elise Rainier has been a beloved part of the Insidious movies and filmmaker Jacob Chase has officially enlisted her return, as reported by Deadline. The actress is joined by Amelia Eve (star of Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor) in the upcoming installment, written by Chase and David Leslie Johnson. It goes into p

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This is how much out-of-warranty repairs will cost for the new iPhones

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-08 15:55:50

Apple has updated its iPhone Repair and Service website to include service fees for the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone Air. Here are the prices for battery, glass, and other replacements. Service fees range between $99 and $799 Following the announcement of new iPhones this week, Apple has now updated its Repair and Services estimate tool to include out-of-warranty costs for multiple services, including cracked screens, battery issues, and other damages. Here is the full repair and serv

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FTC scrutinizes OpenAI, Meta, and others on AI companion safety for kids

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-09 05:14:00

Olemedia/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The FTC is investigating seven tech companies building AI companions. The probe is exploring safety risks posed to kids and teens. Many tech companies offer AI companions to boost user engagement. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the safety risks posed by AI companions to kids and teenagers, the agency announced Thursday. The federal regulator s

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 10:47:14

Instagram fixed a bug that caused the reach of some users' Stories to shrink when they posted more than one Story a day, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared on Friday. The fix addresses a common complaint shared by creators in the last year that they were disincentivized to use Stories because of how regularly using the feature impacted the number of people who actually saw their posts. "People were complaining about getting less reach with their Stories if they posted lots of Stories in the sam

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Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:35:08

Posted August 31, 2025 by Nolan Lawson in performance, Web. Tagged: timers. 9 Comments Even if you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while, you might be surprised to learn that setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0) . Instead, it could run 4 milliseconds later: const start = performance.now() setTimeout(() => { // Likely 4ms console.log(performance.now() - start) }, 0) Nearly a decade ago when I was on the Microsoft Edge team, it was explained to me that browsers did this to avoid “abuse.” I.

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Everything New in the Apple Watch Series 11: Blood Pressure Alerts, Sleep Scores, 5G and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 10:17:08

Apple updated its entire lineup of Apple Watch models at its "awe dropping" event on Tuesday, with the Apple Watch Series 11 leading the pack. Although the design is the same as last year's slimmer flagship model, this version increases battery life, adds 5G connectivity on cellular models and boosts its health offerings with hypertension notifications and Sleep Score analysis. With a decade of upgrades and refinements, the Series 11 represents a big move for Apple as it leans further into its

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California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 10:33:47

California's legislature this week approved a bill to let renters opt out of bulk-billing arrangements that force them to pay for Internet service from a specific provider. The bill says that by January 1, a landlord must "allow the tenant to opt out of paying for any subscription from a third-party Internet service provider, such as through a bulk-billing arrangement, to provide service for wired Internet, cellular, or satellite service that is offered in connection with the tenancy." If a lan

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Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-09 15:03:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR AT&T is partnering with Gigs, a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler, to let companies integrate prepaid services into existing apps and platforms. Early adopters include fintech companies like Klarna and OnePay, which are adding mobile service to their financial apps. Unlike most prepaid brands, Gigs-powered services can openly advertise that they run on AT&T’s network. Carriers are increasingly making it easier for independent companies to launch their o

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Show HN: An MCP Gateway to block the lethal trifecta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 18:22:00

OpenEdison 🔒⚡️ The Secure MCP Control Panel Connect AI to your data/software securely without risk of data exfiltration. Gain visibility, block threats, and get alerts on the data your agent is reading/writing. OpenEdison solves the lethal trifecta problem, which can cause agent hijacking & data exfiltration by malicious actors. Join our Discord for feedback, feature requests, and to discuss MCP security for your use case: discord.gg/tXjATaKgTV 📧 To get visibility, control and exfiltration

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Latest Tech News

Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks

Microsoft says Windows September updates break SMBv1 shares

The 2025 Emmys Are Tonight. Here’s Everything You Need To Know

Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

iOS 26 Goes Live Today: Here's Your Cheat Sheet for the Update

This Android brand is skipping an entire generation to rival the iPhone 17

Breaking: One UI 8 stable starts rolling out for the Galaxy S25 series

New VoidProxy phishing service targets Microsoft 365, Google accounts

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Spotify Would Prefer You Didn’t Sell Your Own Data for Profit

ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

Here are three reasons you shouldn’t quite consider Apple Watch Series 11

Premier League Soccer: Stream Newcastle vs. Wolves Live From Anywhere

This Fierce Thriller Is One of the Best Shows of the Early 2000s, and You Can Stream It for Free

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Horror Icon Lin Shaye Is Returning to ‘Insidious’

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Instagram fixed an issue that caused posting multiple Stories to tank your reach

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California bill lets renters escape exclusive deals between ISPs and landlords

Forget carriers: your next phone plan could come from an app

Show HN: An MCP Gateway to block the lethal trifecta

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