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Amazon’s New ‘War of the Worlds’ Features a Head-Scratching Twist

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-21 21:00:55

Even before War of the Worlds entered the public domain a decade ago, H.G. Wells’ alien-invasion tale had been adapted over and over. Steven Spielberg’s 2005 movie is probably the best-remembered cinematic version, though Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast, said to have sparked panic among more gullible listeners, is still the most famous. A new version has arrived this week, directed by Rich Lee (making his feature debut after many music videos and commercials) and starring Ice Cube. Set very

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How long will your Galaxy Z Fold 7 screen last? That depends on where you live.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-24 03:34:34

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung Display has revealed more details about the Galaxy Z Fold 7 screen’s durability in extreme temperatures. Samsung told Android Authority that the folding screen is rated for 60,000 folds at -20 degrees Celsius and 300,000 folds at 60 degrees Celsius. This is a two-fold increase over the Galaxy Z Fold 5’s folding screen durability in extreme temperatures. Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 7 earlier this month, and it also revealed that the fold

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Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support

news.ycombinator.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-25 04:09:58

herraez/Getty Images The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not "really not all that interesting (in all the best ways!)." Here's my list of what's new and improved. First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI

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Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory, & more Rust

news.ycombinator.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-25 16:09:58

herraez/Getty Images The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not "really not all that interesting (in all the best ways!)." Here's my list of what's new and improved. First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI

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Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-27 04:40:13

herraez/Getty Images The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not "really not all that interesting (in all the best ways!)." Here's my list of what's new and improved. First, the Rust language is continuing to become more well-integrated into the kernel. At the top of my list is that the kernel now boasts Rust bindings for the driver core and PCI

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You Can Now Get Starlink for Just $15 a Month in New York, but There Are Still Some Hurdles

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 10:15:00

Starlink has brought high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans for the first time. It’s also one of the most expensive internet service providers in the country. So, how is it available in New York for just $15 a month? If Starlink wants to sell internet in the state, it has no choice. That’s thanks to the Affordable Broadband Act, a New York state law passed in January. However, customers will still have to pay $349 upfront for Starlink's equipment kit. That might be an insurmountable

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Hyperpb: Faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-04 22:32:37

Today we’re announcing public availability of hyperpb, a fully-dynamic Protobuf parser that is 10x faster than dynamicpb, the standard Go solution for dynamic Protobuf. In fact, it’s so efficient that it’s 3x faster than parsing with generated code! It also matches or beats vtprotobuf’s generated code at almost every benchmark, without skimping on correctness. Don’t believe us? We think our parsing benchmarks speak for themselves. Here, we show two benchmark variants for hyperpb: out-of-the-bo

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Hyperpb: 10x faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 10:32:37

Today we’re announcing public availability of hyperpb, a fully-dynamic Protobuf parser that is 10x faster than dynamicpb, the standard Go solution for dynamic Protobuf. In fact, it’s so efficient that it’s 3x faster than parsing with generated code! It also matches or beats vtprotobuf’s generated code at almost every benchmark, without skimping on correctness. Don’t believe us? We think our parsing benchmarks speak for themselves. Here, we show two benchmark variants for hyperpb: out-of-the-bo

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The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be Microsoft’s first $80 Xbox game

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-06 02:19:25

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft-owned developer Obsidian Entertainment is announcing a price drop for the The Outer Worlds 2 today. The game was originally supposed to debut at $79.99 in October, but it’s now going back to the regular $69.99 Xbox game price. Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would be raising the price of new Xbox first-party games from $69.99 to $79.99, alongside increa

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7's display is rated to withstand 500,000 folds

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-09 11:00:48

Samsung said the display it used for the Galaxy Z Fold 7 can be folded over twice as many times as the display used for the previous iterations of the model. The foldable OLED panel "remained fully functional" after certification company Bureau Veritas put it through a durability test, wherein it was folded 500,000 times over 13 days. That means if a user folds their phone roughly 100 times a day, the display could last for over 10 years. In its announcement, Samsung said that "durability is no

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Galaxy Z Fold 7’s display survives 500,000 folds, a massive leap over Fold 6 durability

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-09 23:37:42

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 display can withstand 500,000 folds, double that of the Galaxy Z Fold 6. That means the Galaxy Z Fold 7 can endure over 10 years of daily use, assuming about 100 folds a day. The fold rating for the Fold 7’s display comes from a test conducted by Bureau Veritas, a global testing and certification company Samsung Display has finally revealed what we’ve wanted to know for many days — how many folds can the

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Isn’t Done With the Gorn Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-01-12 06:15:17

The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally started this week, and its opener, “Hegemony, Part II,” picked up right where the last season left off. But along the way, it surprisingly ended up taking the Gorn—a Trek mainstay and the show’s longest-running threat—off the board. In the episode itself, the Enterprise crew stop Captain Batel from Gorn infection, prevent their invasion of the Federation, and rescue their crew members captured by the Gorn at the end of last season. You’d

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What the hell is going on with Subnautica 2?

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 21:29:28

If I had to describe the status of Subnautica 2 in just three words, it would be these: messy, messy, messy. That’s not to say the game itself is in terrible shape — this is actually a pivotal claim in the whole situation — but the relationship between Subnautica series developer Unknown Worlds and its parent company, Krafton, is in shreds. This month alone, Krafton fired the founders and CEO of Unknown Worlds, Subnautica 2 was delayed until 2026 and the ousted leaders filed a lawsuit against Kr

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Returns With an Awkward Case of Tonal Whiplash

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-16 02:30:59

It’s been almost two years since Star Trek: Strange New Worlds left us on a tense cliffhanger, and now it’s finally back to pay it off. It is perhaps an unfair pressure to put on the show, that circumstances outside of its control have kept this return anticipated for longer than it should have. But even beyond the context of its Hollywood strikes-induced delay, there was going to be pressure on Strange New Worlds to put its best foot forward regardless. So… it’s perhaps not ideal that the seri

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Starlink Just Rolled Out a $15-Per-Month Plan in New York, but You’ll Have to Qualify to Sign Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-16 20:00:00

Starlink has brought high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans for the first time. It’s also one of the most expensive internet service providers in the country. So, how is it available in New York for just $15 a month? If Starlink wants to sell internet in the state, it doesn’t have a choice. That’s thanks to the Affordable Broadband Act, a New York state law passed in January. Customers will still have to pay for $349 upfront, however, which will likely be an insurmountable cost for

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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 02:05:39

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you're working on something difficult, sketch a proof in your head as you go that your code will actually do what you want it to do. A simple idea, but easier said than done: doing this "online" without interrupting your flow takes a lot of practice. But once you get really good at it,

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You Can Now Get Starlink for $15-Per-Month in New York, but There’s a Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-28 17:15:00

Starlink has brought high-speed internet to millions of rural Americans for the first time. It’s also one of the most expensive internet service providers in the country. So, how is it available in New York for just $15 a month? If it wants to sell internet in the state, it doesn’t have a choice. That’s thanks to the Affordable Broadband Act, a New York state law passed in January. The law says that major ISPs (those serving 20,000 households or more) operating in New York must offer plans sta

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Subnautica 2's early access release delayed to 2026 amid developer drama

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-31 02:30:42

Subnautica 2 is one of the most highly anticipated games around. It's the second-most wishlisted game on Steam behind (you guessed it) Hollow Knight: Silksong. However, you'll need to wait longer than anticipated to try Subnautica 2 in four-player co-op, as the survival game's early access release has been delayed until early 2026. Developer Unknown Worlds said that community members who took part in playtests provided positive feedback about the story, creatures, environment and general direct

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Two months of Paramount+ is down to only $2 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-03 09:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . This is just in time for the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Another hot streaming deal has arrived to match the summer heat. This time is comes from Paramount+, which is offering a two-month subscription for only $2. Put another way, you'll pay $1 per month for your firs

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Paramount+ deal: Get two months of Essential or Premium for only $2

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-08 06:00:37

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . This is just in time for the new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Another hot streaming deal has arrived to match the summer heat. This time it comes from Paramount+, which is offering a two-month subscription for only $2. Put another way, you'll pay $1 per month for your firs

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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

news.ycombinator.com Posted June 2026-02-09 22:32:10

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel The history of the bcachefs filesystem in the kernel has been turbulent, most recently with Linus Torvalds refusing a pull request for the 6.16-rc3 release. Torvalds has now pulled the code in question, but also said: I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window. You made it very clear that I can't even question any bug-fixes and I should just pull anything and everything. Honestly, at that point, I don't really feel comfortable being involved

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Reproducible Builds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 04:08:25

Process in computer science Logo of the Software Freedom Conservancy's Reproducible Builds project Reproducible builds, also known as deterministic compilation, is a process of compiling software which ensures the resulting binary code can be reproduced. Source code compiled using deterministic compilation will always output the same binary.[1][2][3] Reproducible builds can act as part of a chain of trust;[1] the source code can be signed, and deterministic compilation can prove that the bina

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I’d give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-02-22 00:00:34

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority Retro gaming handhelds have come a long way in the past few years, but there’s still one big sticking point: the setup. Every time a new handheld comes in for review, I have to spend hours installing emulators, fixing folder structures, and configuring a frontend. Once that’s done, I still have to configure settings and shaders for each console individually, which requires arcane knowledge in popular emulators like RetroArch. Compared to Linux-based handheld

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Best Handheld Gaming Consoles Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-21 22:00:00

Phones and tablets already do a fine job of playing tons of great games and streaming games from consoles or the cloud. Dedicated devices can provide unique features, exclusive games or extra power to do things your phone can't. The difference between types of game handhelds at the moment can feel vast, but let’s break it down into some clear categories. Handhelds can be full TV-connectable consoles, tinier versions of full PCs, or smaller, purpose-built ways to play retro games, indies, or even

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What tech titans Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates talked about in their first meeting

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-03-05 06:00:19

Microsoft/Mark Russinovich Boy, do I wish I had been at this dinner. For decades, Microsoft and Linux fought like cats and dogs. However, while the conflict has cooled down, and Microsoft loves Linux these days, the two leaders, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds, had never met… until now. Also: Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4 Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, decided it would be neat if he could somehow get the pair and Dave

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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time at tech titans' dinner

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-07 02:22:00

What just happened? Given that there was a time when Microsoft called Linux a "cancer," it's little surprise that the Redmond firm's co-founder and long-time boss Bill Gates had never met Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. But that changed recently when the two attended a dinner, and it appears to have gone well. Microsoft chief technical officer Mark Russinovich posted evidence of the historic dinner in a LinkedIn post. Dave Cutler, the legendary programmer and lead architect of the

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Alpha Centauri

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2026-03-08 06:50:14

This article tells part of the story of the Civilization series. In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else. At that time, the two men were working for MicroProse Software, for whom they had just completed Civilization II, with Reynolds in the role of primary designer and programmer and Briggs in that of co-designer, producer, and soundtrack composer. They had brought the project in for well under $1

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Google just made it way easier to use Chrome extensions on Android — here’s how

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-09 19:00:26

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is developing a new version of Chrome for Android that supports extensions, and recent builds show significant progress. It’s now possible to install Chrome extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store, and they will persist even after restarting the browser. The feature is still experimental and intended for future Android-powered PCs, but anyone can sideload the APK to try it now. While Google Chrome is by far the most popular browser on And

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Borderlands 4 promises seamless combat, looting and leveling up | hands-on preview

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-14 06:00:00

Borderlands 4 is coming on September 12 on the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and the Windows PC. I had a chance to play it for a few hours in a preview session, and I liked how familiar it felt. The action role-playing first-person shooter looter game is now priced at $70 instead of the previously floated $80, per Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford’s tweet this week. At a Gearbox event in Novato, California, I also interviewed the creative director of the game, Graeme Timm

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AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement

news.ycombinator.com Chester Lam 2026-03-15 12:38:02

CDNA 4 is AMD’s latest compute oriented GPU architecture, and represents a modest update over CDNA 3. CDNA 4’s focus is primarily on boosting AMD’s matrix multiplication performance with lower precision data types. Those operations are important for machine learning workloads, which can often maintain acceptable accuracy with very low precision types. At the same time, CDNA 4 seeks to maintain AMD’s lead in more widely applicable vector operations. To do so, CDNA 4 largely uses the same system

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Amazon’s New ‘War of the Worlds’ Features a Head-Scratching Twist

How long will your Galaxy Z Fold 7 screen last? That depends on where you live.

Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support

Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory, & more Rust

Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support

You Can Now Get Starlink for Just $15 a Month in New York, but There Are Still Some Hurdles

Hyperpb: Faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code

Hyperpb: 10x faster dynamic Protobuf parsing that's faster than generated code

The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be Microsoft’s first $80 Xbox game

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7's display is rated to withstand 500,000 folds

Galaxy Z Fold 7’s display survives 500,000 folds, a massive leap over Fold 6 durability

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Isn’t Done With the Gorn Yet

What the hell is going on with Subnautica 2?

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Returns With an Awkward Case of Tonal Whiplash

Starlink Just Rolled Out a $15-Per-Month Plan in New York, but You’ll Have to Qualify to Sign Up

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

You Can Now Get Starlink for $15-Per-Month in New York, but There’s a Catch

Subnautica 2's early access release delayed to 2026 amid developer drama

Two months of Paramount+ is down to only $2 right now

Paramount+ deal: Get two months of Essential or Premium for only $2

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

Reproducible Builds

I’d give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld

Best Handheld Gaming Consoles Right Now

What tech titans Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates talked about in their first meeting

Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time at tech titans' dinner

Alpha Centauri

Google just made it way easier to use Chrome extensions on Android — here’s how

Borderlands 4 promises seamless combat, looting and leveling up | hands-on preview

AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement

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