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The 55 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Jennifer M. Wood 2025-12-23 00:00:00

Disney+, if you didn’t know, isn’t just for kids. With its ownership of the Lucasfilm brand and the Marvel titles, the streaming service offers plenty of grown-up content in its bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon—and we’re not just talking movies. Since launching the service, Disney has used the name recognition of Star Wars and Marvel to launch scores of TV shows, from The Mandalorian to Loki. In the list below, we’ve collected the ones we think are the best to watch, from those franchises

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Economic woes dominate as Bolivia prepares to go to the polls

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-24 16:29:33

Economic woes dominate as Bolivia prepares to go to the polls 32 minutes ago Share Save Jane Chambers Business reporter Reporting from El Alto, Bolivia Share Save Getty Images Higher food and fuel prices have led to street protests across Bolivia this year As Bolivians prepare to vote in a general election, the country's deep economic woes are the central issue. Whoever becomes the nation's next president faces a very difficult job to try to sort out the mess. El Alto is Bolivia's second-larg

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Haskins 2025-12-24 16:03:16

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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‘New Panty & Stocking’ Just Tackled the Gen Z-Millennial Divide in the Most Absurd Style

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-24 15:20:07

Although Prime Video hasn’t adequately promoted Studio Trigger’s sequel series to the raunchy cult classic New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, the show remains one of the funniest anime airing this season. Its latest episode prominently highlights the contentious generational divide between Millennials and Gen Z. In its sixth episode, titled “The Brothers from Heaven,” the anime slows down its compilation of short stories to present a unified narrative filled with pop culture references throu

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The Grimmest Ensign Deaths on ‘Star Trek’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-24 16:00:15

Lots of people die in Star Trek, and do so pretty horrifically. Boldly going is deadly business, but there’s always something particularly grim when tragedy strikes at the lowest rung on Starfleet’s officer ladder: the lowly ensigns that keep any good starship or space station humming along as they try to survive long enough to eke it out to lieutenant junior grade and beyond. In last week’s episode of Strange New Worlds, we got to sadly see poor Ensign Gamble pay the ultimate price in a particu

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Kodak says it might have to cease operations

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Valinsky 2025-12-23 04:15:13

Investing Visual arts See all topics Follow New York — Eastman Kodak, the 133-year-old photography company, is warning investors thats it might not survive much longer. In its earnings report Monday, the company warned that it doesn’t have “committed financing or available liquidity” to pay its roughly $500 million in upcoming debt obligations. “These conditions raise substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” Kodak said in a filing. Kodak aims to conjure

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Google faces loss of Chrome as Perplexity bid adds drama to looming breakup decision

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-25 02:41:46

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns. Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Damian Lemanski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perp

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OpenAI and Sam Altman Are Reportedly Working on a Neuralink Competitor

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 00:53:24

The escalating feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his arch nemesis, Elon Musk, may soon escalate with news that the former is starting a rival brain-computer interface (BCI) company. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI is weighing a major investment in Merge Labs, a BCI startup seeking to become the latest Neuralink competitor by achieving $850 million valuation with the help of the company's ventures team and other interested parties. According to three insiders with knowledge of the p

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9to5Mac Daily: August 13, 2025 – iPhone 17 pricing, Apple vs Elon

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-12-25 02:14:49

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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How well do coding agents use your library?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 17:23:56

How StackBench Works StackBench simulates how coding agents actually use your library documentation. We extract real use cases, then test if agents can implement them successfully.

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14, #795

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 00:00:09

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has some fun categories. Been to any weddings this summer? If so, you might ace the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to recei

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14 #529

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 00:00:10

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle might be a stumper. Some of the answers are quite long and tough to unscramble, though all of them match the theme very well. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 02:58:00

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 has four logos in it, but never fear, the Times wouldn't make it so easy that they are all in the same category. One trick I'm passing along: Memorize some of the unusual team names in the various sports leagues, like Dream or Storm or Wild. Those words show

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Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-25 02:53:30

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded. “Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” Babuschkin wrote in the post. “I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the fu

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CoreWeave tanks 20% after posting wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-25 06:12:24

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

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PSA: YouTube will start guessing your age from today (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:59:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will start estimating the age of its US viewers beginning today, August 13. The platform will use AI to determine if you are under 18 and automatically apply age-appropriate experiences to your account. You can dispute the age estimation by providing a government ID, selfie, or a credit card. Update, August 13, 2025 (4:59 PM ET): Just as promised, YouTube’s new age checks have gone live, and users are already reporting running into restrictio

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Fortinet warns of FortiSIEM pre-auth RCE flaw with exploit in the wild

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-25 06:23:15

Fortinet is warning about a remote unauthenticated command injection flaw in FortiSIEM that has in-the-wild exploit code, making it critical for admins to apply the latest security updates. FortiSIEM is a central security monitoring and analytics system used for logging, network telemetry, and security incident alerts, serving as an integral part of security operation centers, where it's an essential tool in the hands of IT ops teams and analysts. The product is generally used by governments,

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I bought the 2025 version of Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra - here's the model I'd recommend instead

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-12-25 05:08:00

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is on sale for $650 in four color options. Its display is vibrant and large, the battery lasts through a couple of days, and LTE is provided at no extra cost. It comes in a single 47mm size, gesture support is limited, and external sensor connections are not supported. $649.99 at Amazon Last year's Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra was my favorite Google WearOS smartwatch, so when I saw the 2025 Watch Ultra with its new

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Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

news.ycombinator.com Shane O'Sullivan 2025-12-22 16:11:16

TLDR: Click here for code to implement a lightweight, resilient clickable YouTube preview. YouTube videos are expensive to load on a web page. This compounds if you want your page to display many videos at the same time for the user to choose from. Before the user even plays the video, it loads 4MB onto your previously zippy page. Of course, YouTube does a decent job of caching these resources, but your browser is still doing all this work, creating another complete page context per video, exe

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Illinois bans use of artificial intelligence for mental health therapy

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Wu 2025-12-25 06:11:50

Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy, joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots for emotional support and advice. Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks. Companies are also not allowed to offer AI-powered therapy services — or advertise chatbots as therapy tools — without t

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Amazon Is Expanding Same-Day Grocery Delivery to Over 2000 Cities

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-25 06:50:59

Amazon wants people to shop for eggs, milk, and other fresh groceries on its online shop. The e-commerce giant announced on Wednesday that same-day delivery for perishable grocery items, including meat and seafood, is now available in more than 1,000 cities, including Phoenix, Orlando, Raleigh, and Milwaukee. It plans to expand the service even further to over 2,300 U.S. cities by the end of the year and even more towns in 2026. “We’re continuously innovating to make grocery shopping simpler,

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Is Amazon testing a cheaper color Kindle?

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-25 06:26:50

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. A Reddit user, writing in Portuguese, has shared a handful of images of what appears to be a prototype of a small Kindle with a color screen. The device shows the name Kindle Petit Color in the corner of one image, although the post author says that name hasn

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Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-25 06:03:03

I’m riding in the back of a Waymo that’s autonomously navigating the busy streets of San Francisco with relative ease thanks to 29 external cameras, six radar, and five lidar sensors all feeding into an AI model. For just 15 bucks, I get to experience what feels like a miracle of modern technology, and yet, there’s a nagging thought I can’t shake. The music sucks in here. Waymo’s music-streaming feature has felt like an aged barnacle attached to a futuristic shell. Until this week, passengers

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CoreWeave stock slumps 20% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lock-up expiration

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-25 11:49:56

CoreWeave 's stock sank 20% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a loss of 21 cents per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave's results came as the lock-up period following its initial public offering is set to expire Thursday evening and potentially add volatility to shares. The term refer

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Google Play Store Bans Wallets That Don't Have Banking License

news.ycombinator.com The Rage 2025-12-25 10:47:24

Google Play Store has introduced a policy that requires any software wallet developer to obtain a license before publishing cryptocurrency wallet apps to the Google Play Store "to ensure a safe and compliant ecosystem for users." The policy targets 15 jurisdictions, including the European Union and the United States, laying out which regulations Google Play Store expects software wallet developers to comply with. This includes being a registered Money Service Business with FinCEN in the US, as

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OCaml as my primary language

news.ycombinator.com Xvw 2025-12-25 10:05:05

I started using the OCaml language regularly around 2012, and since then, my interest and enthusiasm for this language have only grown. It has become my preferred choice for almost all my personal projects, and it has also influenced my professional choices. Since 2014, I have been actively participating in public conferences dedicated to programming and software development, where I often express my enthusiasm for OCaml in ways that may be a bit over the top (but always passionate). This has ea

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‘Alien: Earth’ Star Alex Lawther on That Very Sci-Fi Sibling Reunion

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-25 08:15:50

Alien: Earth has finally arrived, bringing weekly doses of Ridley Scott’s world of Alien—filtered through the creative lens of Noah Hawley—to sci-fi fans. The first two episodes (read io9’s recap here) had to spend a bit of time doing necessary setup, introducing the characters and how they fit into the story that’ll unfold. So far one of the most unique relationships is the one between Joe, aka Hermit (Alex Lawther) and Wendy (Sydney Chandler), formerly Marcy. They’re siblings, with a twist. A

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Krypto the Superdog Gets His Own Animated Series

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-25 11:30:15

With Superman hitting digital this week, DC Studios is using the bonus features as a way to tease expanded content within its new universe. Key among the special selections for the Superman home release is a first look at a series of animated shorts starring Krypto the Superdog. In the spin-off series Krypto Saves the Day, the adorable rascal (still modeled on James Gunn’s dog, Ozu) gets into his own heroic hijinks around Metropolis. The first of the shorts from Warner Bros. Animation and DC S

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AI Company Tensor Debuts a Robocar You Can Own

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 10:45:00

Table of Contents AI Company Tensor Debuts a Robocar You Can Own Robotaxis are expanding into a growing number of cities, but an AI company called Tensor unveiled a self-driving vehicle on Wednesday designed specifically for personal ownership. The Tensor Robocar looks somewhat like a mashup of Waymo's Jaguar I-Pace vehicles and Tesla's Model Y, with sleek, futuristic contours and a silver finish, as seen in a promotional video. In a statement, the company said the vehicle has "over 100 seamle

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New Study Shows Smartwatch Stress Sensors Have No Idea What They're Doing

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-25 10:53:28

You might want to think twice before you put a lot of stock in the latest stress charts from your fitness wearable. A recent study from the Netherlands' Leiden University, published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, has found that when smartwatches and similar devices record readings on stress, fatigue or sleep, they're frequently getting it wrong. Researchers studied 800 young adults using the same Garmin Vivosmart 4 smartwatch model. They compared the data the smartwatch

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The 55 Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now (August 2025)

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 14, #795

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Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company

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Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image

Illinois bans use of artificial intelligence for mental health therapy

Amazon Is Expanding Same-Day Grocery Delivery to Over 2000 Cities

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Krypto the Superdog Gets His Own Animated Series

AI Company Tensor Debuts a Robocar You Can Own

New Study Shows Smartwatch Stress Sensors Have No Idea What They're Doing

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