GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

What Is Down Alternative and Who Should Buy It? Experts Explain (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-11-09 08:38:00

When shopping for new bedding, you'll undoubtedly run into both natural down and materials described as down alternatives. This prompts a lot of questions. Is down or down alternative better? What are the differences between them? Why is one more expensive than the other? Which is easier to care for? Which is warmer? It can all be very confusing. As evinced in our down comforter buying guide, not to mention other stories in our sleep directory, there are plenty of options for high-quality down

Topics: alternative bedding better care comforters

Shop Amazon

This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-09 09:00:00

The bean just wants to knit. With their back to me, Poe, the name I gave the animated brown bean in the Focus Friend app, is stitching up a little storm that will eventually become socks—if I can leave them alone. Unfortunately, I need to check my texts. I cancel the timer after six minutes, which warns me that Poe’s knitting will unravel and “they’ll be really sad.” Their shoulders slump as their work falls apart and a little bubble appears over their head. “It’s ok, we tried,” they reassure m

Topics: bean focus little says sullivan

Shop Amazon

Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 21:26:44

August 21, 2025 The latest uv release (0.8.13) quietly introduced an experimental new command that Python developers have been waiting for: uv format . This addition brings code formatting directly into uv’s toolkit, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools for basic Python development workflows. What is uv format? The uv format command provides Python code formatting through uv’s interface. Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to consisten

Topics: format formatting python ruff uv

Shop Amazon

The attr() function in CSS now supports types

news.ycombinator.com Amit Merchant 2025-11-05 04:54:29

The attr() function in CSS is a powerful function that allows you to use the value of an attribute of an HTML element as the value of a CSS property. This function is commonly used with the content property in pseudo-elements to display the value of an attribute on the page. The attr() function has been around for a while and is widely used in CSS. However, it was limited to only accepting a single argument: the name of the attribute whose value you wanted to use. On top of that, the value ret

Topics: attr color data div width

Shop Amazon

DeepSeek-v3.1 Release

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 08:06:09

DeepSeek-V3.1 Release Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes ⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528 🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and multi-step agent tasks Try it now — toggle Think/Non-Think via the "DeepThink" button: https://chat.deepseek.com/ 🔹 deepseek-chat → non-thinking mode 🔹 deepseek-reasoner → thinking mode 🧵 128K

Topics: api deepseek https think v3

Shop Amazon

Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

news.ycombinator.com Anant Bhasin 2025-11-05 21:43:31

QR codes are everywhere. They’re incredibly functional, connecting our physical and digital worlds with a simple scan. But let's be honest: most of them are an eyesore. The standard black-and-white pixelated square often feels like a necessary evil that disrupts an otherwise beautiful design. The common solution has been to leverage the QR code's built-in error correction to place a logo in the center. While functional, it’s still an overlay—a sticker on top of the data. We thought, what if the

Topics: code data image pattern qr

Shop Amazon

Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 03:11:11

Renowned publications including Wired and Business Insider have been caught publishing what appears to be AI slop. As Press Gazette reports in a fascinating investigation, numerous outlets have removed features published under the byline of "Margaux Blanchard" after suspicion emerged that the stories were fictionalized and AI-generated. After Press Gazette reached out to the non-profit Index on Censorship over an article by the same author, for instance, the publisher concluded that the piece

Topics: ai article gazette piece wired

Shop Amazon

Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 03:26:44

August 21, 2025 The latest uv release (0.8.13) quietly introduced an experimental new command that Python developers have been waiting for: uv format . This addition brings code formatting directly into uv’s toolkit, eliminating the need to juggle multiple tools for basic Python development workflows. What is uv format? The uv format command provides Python code formatting through uv’s interface. Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to consisten

Topics: format formatting python ruff uv

Shop Amazon

Elon Musk’s X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-10 08:25:22

More than two years after leaving the company, some former Twitter employees may finally receive their severance pay. Elon Musk’s X is tentatively settling a class action lawsuit filed by workers who were let go soon after he purchased Twitter. This news comes in the form of a court filing where both parties asked the court to delay an upcoming hearing so that they could work out a deal. After buying Twitter in 2022, Musk laid off over 6,000 Twitter employees, reducing the company’s headcount

Topics: employees lawsuit musk severance twitter

Shop Amazon

Severance stars face off in delightful trivia game show, watch here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-10 12:42:11

If the wait for Severance season 3 is wearing on you, Apple just released the perfect way to ease your pain. A new video episode of the Severance podcast is available now, featuring the cast competing against each other in a trivia game show “Tournament of Fripperies.” Severance trivia show features series cast and creators The official Severance podcast has historically been an audio-focused show. Hosted by Ben Stiller and star Adam Scott, the podcast started as a way of recapping Severance

Topics: cast creators podcast scott severance

Shop Amazon

I Thought This Handheld Would Let Me Play Battlefield Anywhere. I Was Wrong

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 11:44:17

If you're excited by the arrival of the next Battlefield installment, then you were probably battling for "C" right alongside me on the past beta weekend. I was there, mainly on my desktop, but also, briefly, on the device I believe to be the best purchase I've made since the pandemic: my Lenovo Legion Go S. While sitting in bed and playing Call of Duty multiplayer on the Legion Go S is one of my new favorite things to do, I thought (wrongly) that it would be great for Battlefield, too. Here's w

Topics: battlefield games legion pc steam

Shop Amazon

Install Microsoft's emergency Windows patch now - what it fixes and why it was rushed out

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-10 22:13:52

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Fixes a flaw that impacted the Windows reset and reinstall tools. The patch affects certain versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. To install the patch, head to Windows Update under Settings. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Microsoft has squashed a recent and annoying bug in Windows that caused the built-in reset and reinstall tools to fail if you tried to run

Topics: patch reset settings update windows

Shop Amazon

Google’s Pixel Buds 2a Have One Thing Apple Would Never Give Us on AirPods

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-11 03:49:57

Wireless earbuds are better now than they’ve ever been. Trust me, I’ve tried a lot of them. They sound better; they look better; they have impressive noise cancelling, and in the grand scheme of things, they’re pretty affordable. That being said, there is one thing they’re sorely lacking, and that’s modularity and repairability. As solid as Apple’s AirPods are, when the battery goes, so too does the whole pair of wireless earbuds. That sucks, to say the least. This sad fact about most wireless

Topics: 2a battery buds earbuds pixel

Shop Amazon

The first update for Proton's privacy-focused chatbot offers major performance improvements

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:52:55

In July, Proton, the company behind Proton Mail , released Lumo , a privacy-focused AI chatbot. Now, just under a month later, Proton has begun rolling out Lumo 1.1 to both free and paying users, and according to the company, the updated assistant "performs significantly better across the board" relative to its predecessor. Just how much better is the new version of Lumo? Proton claims it offers a 170 percent improvement in context understanding, meaning the chatbot is able to more accurately a

Topics: better company lumo percent proton

Shop Amazon

Can AI Predict Powerball Numbers?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-11 08:25:17

With the Powerball ballooning to $650 million after Wednesday’s drawing, hopeful players have been asking: Is winning the lottery a matter of luck or something that science and artificial intelligence can predict? Three students at the University of Salento in southern Italy say that science wins out. They say they used AI to analyze patterns from past draws to predict future winning numbers. Their experimental approach resulted in a €43,000 jackpot in April, which now has people wondering if

Topics: lottery numbers patterns powerball predict

Shop Amazon

Why is D3 so Verbose?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 09:12:35

Why is D3 Code So Long and Complicated (or Why is it So Verbose)? D3 is a b***h of a language at first glance. It’s long. It’s complicated and verbose. You have to enter what feels like an obscene amount of key strokes to draw one line. I’m currently about one-third of the way through my journey of learning D3.js, having finished Interactive Visualisation for the Web by Scott Murray, and now picking my way through D3.js in Action by Elijah Meeks and Anne-Marie Dufour. (And just for kicks, I’m

Topics: attr d3 data draw line

Shop Amazon

Sixteen bottles of wine riddle

news.ycombinator.com Chris K. W. 2025-11-06 21:57:50

Imagine the typical everyday scenario in which you have been imprisoned in the wine cellar of an evil combinatorialist. She promises to let you go, but only if you can solve her riddle. “Is it the one where there are 1000 barrels of wine and one of them is poisoned?” “Uh, maybe? Do you already know the answer to that one?” “…” You’re lead past a conspicuous amount of barrels and into a new room where you’re given a bottle of wine and four measuring devices. The combinatorialist explains that t

Topics: bottle device measurements w_ wine

Shop Amazon

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 11:20:53

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often scale down large images before sending them to the model: when scaled, these images can reveal prompt injections that are not visible at full resolution. In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers c

Topics: attacks downscaling image prompt scaling

Shop Amazon

This Anker 5K magnetic power bank is 30 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-11 17:40:37

The last thing anyone wants at the end of a long day is to look down at their phone and see its battery almost dead. One way to avoid that is to keep a compact power bank on you at all times, and it's arguably easiest to do that with one like Anker's 621 MagGo portable battery. This sleek, 5K magnetic brick attaches to the back of your iPhone to power it up, even while you're still using it. Now, it's on sale for 30 percent off — you can pick up any of five coloways for only $28 a pop. This is

Topics: 621 anker battery maggo magnetic

Shop Amazon

Sütterlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 04:56:44

Historical form of German handwriting, used 1915–1970s Sütterlinschrift (German pronunciation: [ˈzʏtɐliːnˌʃʁɪft], "Sütterlin script") is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Culture (Preußisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung) to create a modern handwriting

Topics: german handwriting script sütterlin used

Shop Amazon

You can fine tune the resistance of the joysticks on GuliKit’s new controllers

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-11 17:57:03

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. GuliKit was the first company to address the original Switch’s drifting issues with a Hall effect Joy-Con upgrade kit, and it released one of the first controllers that can remotely wake the Nintendo Switch 2. Its latest first, announced at Gamescom 2025 in G

Topics: controllers gulikit max pro tt

Shop Amazon

Sixteen Bottles of Wine Riddle

news.ycombinator.com Chris K. W. 2025-11-07 15:57:50

Imagine the typical everyday scenario in which you have been imprisoned in the wine cellar of an evil combinatorialist. She promises to let you go, but only if you can solve her riddle. “Is it the one where there are 1000 barrels of wine and one of them is poisoned?” “Uh, maybe? Do you already know the answer to that one?” “…” You’re lead past a conspicuous amount of barrels and into a new room where you’re given a bottle of wine and four measuring devices. The combinatorialist explains that t

Topics: bottle device measurements w_ wine

Shop Amazon

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 20:56:03

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) 1.0.1 Introduction The Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) is a modern, flexible, and scalable standard for defining and interacting with tools across a wide variety of communication protocols. UTCP 1.0.0 introduces a modular core with a plugin-based architecture, making it more extensible, testable, and easier to package. In contrast to other protocols, UTCP places a strong emphasis on: Scalability : UTCP is designed to handle a large number of tool

Topics: http optional required tool utcp

Shop Amazon

‘Kirby Air Riders’ on Switch 2 Makes a Better Case for the GameCube Than Nintendo Ever Did

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-11 16:03:37

“I have no idea what is happening right now.” I sigh several variations of that phrase in the hour I spend playing through a sliver of Nintendo’s upcoming Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders. I’m tired after a full day’s work—somewhere between fried and manic—but the racing game, which director Masahiro Sakurai quipped in his Tuesday Nintendo Direct was “basically Mario Kart,” is akin to being thrown hurtling down the mouth of a kaleidoscope at 200 miles per hour. I know I won some races and ba

Topics: air button game kirby switch

Shop Amazon

French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 14:32:44

E-bike batteries are, for the most part, a collection of 18650 batteries, packaged together and welded in series and parallel, attached to a battery management system (BMS). A "dead" e-bike battery may only have two or three truly dead cells inside, while the remainder work fine. This is useful knowledge that, for the most part, very few e-bike owners can really use. Arc welders are not a common tool to own, and most e-bike batteries are not designed to be opened, safely or otherwise. French fi

Topics: 18650 batteries battery bike gouach

Shop Amazon

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Parris 2025-11-12 03:10:07

Intro: Why Is Everything "Certified Fresh"? I stayed in a hotel recently, which means I watched cable television, which means I consumed commercials that I could not skip—and some of these commercials advertised upcoming movie releases. Promo after promo, I noticed an unmistakable pattern: every film was "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, with this seal of approval serving as the ad's climactic selling point. After five days of "Certified Fresh" movie propaganda, I began to grow suspicious.

Topics: data fresh rotten tomatoes tomatometer

Shop Amazon

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-12 17:16:21

Image by Getty / Futurism Mental Health "Go outside" or "touch grass" are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where said arguments take place, it turns out it's pretty sound advice. As the New York Times reports, there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that simply spending time in nature can instantly boost your algorithm-addled brain's attention span. It's part of

Topics: attention nature nyt theory university

Shop Amazon

8 reasons I’d get the Google Pixel Watch 4 over the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 11:00:37

The Galaxy Watch 8 hit shelves weeks ago, landing with shiny hardware and Samsung’s signature polish. Now the Pixel Watch 4 is available with an updated display, a bigger battery, and key software improvements. Here are seven reasons Google’s latest smartwatch is the one I’d actually spend my own money on. Do you prefer the Google Pixel Watch 4 or Samsung Galaxy Watch 8? 2 votes Google Pixel Watch 4 50 % Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 50 % Neither. 0 % 1. Looks can kill (my interest) I haven’t been s

Topics: battery google pixel samsung watch

Shop Amazon

Scientists Built a Beer-Fridge-Sized Reactor That Brings Fusion Closer

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-13 10:00:34

Fusion is always 10 years away, it seems. To expedite development, some scientists have turned to the prospect of cold fusion—a hypothetical technology that seeks to achieve fusion at room temperature with simpler machines. Needless to say, no one has achieved this vaunted goal, but a team of chemists believes they’re getting closer. A paper published today in Nature introduces Thunderbird: a particle accelerator roughly the size of a beer fridge. The bench-top reactor operates on plasma scienc

Topics: berlinguette deuterium fusion nuclear thunderbird

Shop Amazon

Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling behind U.S.

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-13 17:26:54

The U.K. should establish a national stablecoin strategy to enable adoption of the tokens and avoid falling behind the U.S. on the disruptive new technology, several major crypto firms said Wednesday. In an open letter addressed to Finance Minister Rachel Reeves, 30 crypto industry figures said that the U.K. "must act now to avoid being a rule-taker rather than a rule-maker in the digital asset era." "To ensure the UK is at the forefront, we believe a proactive, coordinated national strategy i

Topics: avoid crypto letter said stablecoins

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

What Is Down Alternative and Who Should Buy It? Experts Explain (2025)

This Extremely Cute Bean Wants to Help You Stop Doomscrolling

Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

The attr() function in CSS now supports types

DeepSeek-v3.1 Release

Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally)

Elon Musk’s X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit

Severance stars face off in delightful trivia game show, watch here

I Thought This Handheld Would Let Me Play Battlefield Anywhere. I Was Wrong

Install Microsoft's emergency Windows patch now - what it fixes and why it was rushed out

Google’s Pixel Buds 2a Have One Thing Apple Would Never Give Us on AirPods

The first update for Proton's privacy-focused chatbot offers major performance improvements

Can AI Predict Powerball Numbers?

Why is D3 so Verbose?

Sixteen bottles of wine riddle

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

This Anker 5K magnetic power bank is 30 percent off right now

Sütterlin

You can fine tune the resistance of the joysticks on GuliKit’s new controllers

Sixteen Bottles of Wine Riddle

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

‘Kirby Air Riders’ on Switch 2 Makes a Better Case for the GameCube Than Nintendo Ever Did

French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

8 reasons I’d get the Google Pixel Watch 4 over the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8

Scientists Built a Beer-Fridge-Sized Reactor That Brings Fusion Closer

Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling behind U.S.

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising