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Unix Conspiracy (1991)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-02 21:48:12

[ITS] According to a conspiracy theory long popular among ITS and TOPS-20 fans, Unix's growth is the result of a plot, hatched during the 1970s at Bell Labs, whose intent was to hobble AT&T's competitors by making them dependent upon a system whose future evolution was to be under AT&T's control. This would be accomplished by disseminating an operating system that is apparently inexpensive and easily portable, but also relatively unreliable and insecure (so as to require continuing upgrades from

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If You’re Not Already Planning Your Halloween Costume, You’re Falling Behind

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-07 00:15:13

There’s no reason to delay getting in the spirit of Halloween as popular costume retailers begin to release this year’s slate of pop culture-inspired looks. From Spirit Halloween to BoxLunch to PetSmart, there are a ton of fandom fits across stores and online for the while family. For Squid Game fans we’re excited about the official collaboration between Spirit Halloween and the Netflix hit show. Fans can dress up as players, guards, and the Front Man and there’s an update for the Young-hee dol

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RIP to Horror Icon Scott Spiegel, Co-Writer of ‘Evil Dead II’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-07 10:30:37

You might not immediately recognize the name Scott Spiegel, but if you—like most horror fans—are a sworn devotee of the legendary splatter comedy Evil Dead II, you are well familiar with his work. Spiegel, who passed away this week at age 67, co-wrote that film with a buddy of his since high school: director Sam Raimi. He had also acted in Within the Woods, Raimi’s proof-of-concept that later helped him make the first Evil Dead. Spiegel’s other credits include co-writing the Clint Eastwood thri

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Tom Holland Has Been Lurking on Your Internet Posts for ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Inspiration

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-08 10:20:49

It’s a month since Tom Holland shared a look at his new Spidey suit and filmed an action scene while swinging through a city street in front of a crowd, but excitement surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day remains at an all-time high. Fans have hailed his fourth film as Spider-Man a kind of renaissance for Marvel, with some creating numerous photoshopped edits of Holland that exude aura, as the kids say. Turns out, Holland has been lurking on fans’ internet posts for inspiration in the hopes of

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These new headphones promise up to 100 hours (!) of battery life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 20:30:30

Baseus TL;DR Baseus has announced the Inspire XH1 noise canceling headphones. This pair of headphones offers up to 100 hours of battery life, or up to 65 hours with ANC enabled. The company also revealed a pair of wireless earbuds and a pair of open-ear earphones. Baseus has just announced two cool charging gadgets at IFA 2025, including a mobile hotspot that doubles as a 20,000mAh power bank. But the company isn’t stopping here, as it’s also announced a trio of audio products today. Inspir

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Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 review: The new ChromeOS sweet spot

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-12 04:00:14

In the last few years, I’ve felt like Chromebooks have hit a plateau. ChromeOS is a quirky but mature platform at this point, and Google has continued to add smart and useful features on a regular basis. But the hardware has felt pretty stagnant, with a few exceptions. Most Chromebooks at this point are utilitarian devices that get the job done but inspire little excitement, and I’ve found most Intel-based Chromebooks don’t get me through a day of work before the battery dies. But earlier this

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I Ditched My Air Fryer for This Glass-Bowl Model. It's Better in Almost Every Way

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-12 23:51:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 9.2 / 10 SCORE Ninja Crispi $180 at Amazon $180 at Best Buy $180 at Target Pros Cook, serve, and storage capabilities Easy to clean: almost everything is dishwasher-safe Intuitive operation No concern about PFAS Ability to see cooking in progress Can buy additional glass vessels for maximum food prep Small storage footprint with nesting capabilities

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We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-13 05:15:39

This summer’s 28 Years Later ended on a maddening, disturbing cliffhanger. Spike (Alfie Williams) decided to leave his family and its safe village to explore the world, only to run into the insane Jimmy (Jack O’Connell) and his jumpsuit-wearing gang. What did this have to do with the film we’d been watching? What did it have to do with what’s coming next? We finally have some answers. Those answers are coming in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which opens in theaters January 16, 2026. That’s a

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Behold: Horror Icons Are Getting the Baby Yoda Treatment

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-15 20:00:57

It seems these days most major franchises want to cash in on that Star Wars Baby Yoda money by making their own adorable version of something within any given fandom. We saw it last year with the debut of Baby Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and now this year we have Spirit Halloween‘s Horror Babies. The cuteness aggression is too real with Terrifier star Art the Clown—plus Chucky, Ghostface, lil’ Michael Myers, Leatherface, Pennywise, and others, all featured as infants in the Spirit H

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Lego’s September Releases Set Sail in More Ways Than One

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-17 00:00:07

Thought Lego would take a break from the realm of big boats after it launched One Piece as part of its blockbuster August? Well, thanks to last week’s surprise announcement of a new Pirates of the Caribbean set, we can think again. And yet, it’s not the only boat on the horizon for this month. After going all out for its big summer release wave in August, things are definitely a bit quieter in September for Lego. But that doesn’t mean big things aren’t coming: the new Black Pearl and a funky Ch

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FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Lyons 2025-11-17 00:43:44

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official. "There's a good chance this espionage campaign has stolen information from nearly every American," Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for the FBI's cyber division, told The Register. "There's a thought among the public that if you don't work in a sensitive area

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‘Magic’ Weaves New Mechanics and Cards for Spider-Man Set

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-17 11:25:11

Less than a month out from Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man set, Wizards of the Coast has given it a full unveiling with reveals of more cards and gameplay mechanics for its crossover with Marvel’s webhead and friends. Wizards previously revealed a selection of cards at San Diego Comic-Con back in July. Like those, this new selection sports some amazing art from the company’s internal artists and creatives who’ve previously drawn Spider-Man over the character’s decades-long history, which is o

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Acer’s Awesome Budget Laptop Is Even Better Now That It's at $500 for Labor Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 04:45:00

CNET's key takeaways Laptop prices are on the rise -- and the more they increase, the better Acer's Aspire 14 AI looks. The Acer Aspire 14 AI is available for $500 at Costco $625 at Amazon The Intel Lunar Lake CPU offers good performance for the price and long battery life. The display and design won't wow you. When I reviewed it in April, it cost $700 at Costco and was the cheapest Copilot Plus PC I had reviewed. Fast-forward two months, and a Labor Day deal has brought that price down to

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Libby introduces ‘Inspire Me’ to beef up your reading list

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:00:24

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Libby will soon officially roll out a new AI-powered discovery tool called Inspire Me. The feature suggests five titles based on saved books or selected prompts. Some users and librarians are skeptical about privacy concerns and AI replacing human curation. Libby, the popular library app for borrowing e-books and audiobooks, has introduced a new discovery tool called Inspire Me. The AI-powered feature offers five tailored recommendations based on a re

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Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-17 09:30:03

Spider-Man is one of the most recognizable superheroes in the world, with decades of comics history, multiple movie franchises, animated shows and a long list of video games, including three recent titles on PS5 and PC. And now he's crawling his way into Magic: The Gathering with September's Spider-Man set. This is the third full Universes Beyond set -- Magic's name for products based on outside properties. While Universes Beyond has introduced myriad properties from Stranger Things to Spongebo

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Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:09:03

Overdrive's digital book lending app Libby is adding — you guessed it! — AI. The new Inspire Me feature is an AI-fueled discovery tool tuned to your local branch's collection. Following a soft launch this month, it will be officially available in September. To avoid the pitfalls of a full-on chatbot, Overdrive is limiting the discovery process of the feature. Instead of typing freely into a prompt box, you'll start by answering several canned preference questions. These include categories (such

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Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 00:37:11

To set up an encrypted and authenticated pipe for sending email between two systems (in the author's case, from many systems around the internet to his central SMTP server, which then relays email to the rest of the world), one might run dd if=/dev/urandom bs=32 count=1 of=keyfile spiped -d -s '[0.0.0.0]:8025' -t '[127.0.0.1]:25' -k keyfile on a server and after copying keyfile to the local system, run spiped -e -s '[127.0.0.1]:25' -t $SERVERNAME:8025 -k keyfile at which point mail delivered

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Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-21 00:25:48

Fireflies glow to attract mates. As new research shows, however, a certain species of spider has learned to take advantage of this luminous natural phenomenon. In a Journal of Animal Ecology paper published August 27, ecologists report that the sheetweb spider (Psechrus clavis) appears to exploit firefly luminescence to attract more prey. Observational analysis and lab experiments revealed that, by using firefly light as bait, the nocturnal predators improved their hunting success. This is the

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New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:25:12

Ankylosaurs, with their squat, armored bodies and bizarre, weaponized tails, are an iconic group of dinosaurs. While there were plenty of species present in the Cretaceous, they're thought to have origins that trace back to the Jurassic. It has been hard to say much about those origins, however, because the fossil evidence was so sparse. One of the earliest potential ankylosaur species, Spicomellus, was known from only a single partial rib; others are known only by jaw fragments or teeth. Now,

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New Fossils Reveal Ankylosaur With Armor Unlike Any Other Animal, Living or Dead

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-24 20:00:05

Ankylosaurs were squat and thick four-legged dinosaurs with club tails and tough body armor. In other words, invincible Pokémon. A new fossil discovery, however, has revealed that the earliest ankylosaurs were several orders of magnitude more badass than their descendants. In a study published today in the journal Nature, researchers describe the partial skeleton of a Spicomellus, a genus of early ankylosaurs, unearthed in Morocco and dating to around 165 million years ago. The finding includes

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God Damn, Just Look at This Spider-Man Action Figure

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-11-27 14:00:01

Earlier this summer, just after Hasbro had revealed its own line of Marvel Legends action figures inspired by the long legacy of Capcom’s Marvel fighting games, Bandai wowed us with S.H. Figuarts joining in on the celebration with its very own series of figures, starting with X-Men stalwart Cyclops. Now, Figuarts is back for round 2—and it’s ready to unleash some maximum spider! This week Bandai officially unveiled that the next series in its own Marvel Gameverse line will be none other than on

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Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 21:42:01

Latest Version: 0.2.11 service-ping (sping) Modern terminal HTTP/TCP latency monitoring tool with real-time visualization. Think httping meets modern CLI design with rich terminal UI, phase timing, and advanced analytics. Status: Feature-complete MVP with HTTP/TCP support, phase timing, outlier detection, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. Demo Real-time latency monitoring with interactive charts showing HTTP response times, outlier detection, and live statistics. Why? I've freque

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Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 12:11:00

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It's so effective—some have called it "impossible to return"—that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) banned the spin serve in 2023, at least until after the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The sanction wasn

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Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-01 09:00:36

Spider-Man 2 is widely considered one of the greatest comic book movies of all time—if not the greatest—and now you can own a piece of Hollywood history, or at least admire it in some very up-close new photos, thanks to an upcoming auction offering Tobey Maguire’s screen-used Spider-suit. As a bonus, the suit was also used in the much less-beloved Spider-Man 3, so it’s also got some genuine Hollywood notoriety attached to it, too. The suit is yet another jaw-dropping addition to Propstore’s upc

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Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-01 03:42:30

Sustainability-focused fintech Aspiration was flying high a few years ago, attracting famous investors including Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert Downey Jr. Now, its co-founder will plead guilty to helping perpetuate a $248 million fraud scheme, according to U.S. attorneys. Joseph Sanberg, who was arrested in March, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud, felony counts that could land him in prison for up to 20 years each. “This so-called ‘anti-poverty’ activist has

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At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

wired.com Verity Burns 2025-12-02 14:08:24

It's been over two months since Trump Mobile announced the T1 Phone was being “Made in the USA” designed “with American values in mind,” and it seems that anyone deciding to preorder it still can’t be sure exactly what phone they might receive. In posts on X and Instagram on Wednesday, the Trump Mobile account encouraged followers to place their preorder, promising them that “the wait is almost over.” This was joined by an image that looks nothing like the one of the T1 phone that's currently o

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Trump Mobile’s latest T1 phone teaser fails to hide an epic Photoshop blunder

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 12:49:16

Trump Mobile TL;DR Trump Mobile is now advertising a new design for its upcoming T1 smartphone. If it looks familiar, that is because the team has now picked up the Galaxy S25 Ultra to showcase the design. Funnily, the image now used by Trump Mobile hides a logo from casemaker Spigen, suggesting the former lifted off media from the latter’s catalog. Trump Mobile can’t stick to a single phone design for its trumpeted phone, which is set to launch in the US next month. After recently showcasin

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‘Severance’ Standout Tramell Tillman Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-06 23:38:14

The manager of the severed floor has a new gig: tangling with Spider-Man. Though we (of course) have absolutely no idea which character he’ll be playing, Severance standout Tramell Tillman will be swinging into a role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. This update on the much-anticipated fourth Spider-Man MCU movie starring the returning Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon—plus Jon Bernthal’s Punisher and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk—comes from Variety. Tillman joins Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) and Liza

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Physics of badminton’s new killer spin serve

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 18:44:31

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It's so effective—some have called it "impossible to return"—that the Badminton World Federation (BWF) banned the spin serve in 2023, at least until after the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The sanction wasn

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Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-10 22:53:11

Hi HN, Aria and Tony here, co-founders of Parachute ( https://www.parachute-ai.com/ ). We’re building governance infrastructure that lets hospitals safely evaluate and monitor clinical AI at scale. Hospitals are racing to adopt AI. More than 2,000 clinical AI tools hit the U.S. market last year - from ambient scribes to imaging models. But new regulations (HTI-1, Colorado AI Act, California SB 3030, White House AI Action Plan) require auditable proof that these models are safe, fair, and contin

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Latest Tech News

Unix Conspiracy (1991)

If You’re Not Already Planning Your Halloween Costume, You’re Falling Behind

RIP to Horror Icon Scott Spiegel, Co-Writer of ‘Evil Dead II’

Tom Holland Has Been Lurking on Your Internet Posts for ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Inspiration

These new headphones promise up to 100 hours (!) of battery life

Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 review: The new ChromeOS sweet spot

I Ditched My Air Fryer for This Glass-Bowl Model. It's Better in Almost Every Way

We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

Behold: Horror Icons Are Getting the Baby Yoda Treatment

Lego’s September Releases Set Sail in More Ways Than One

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

‘Magic’ Weaves New Mechanics and Cards for Spider-Man Set

Acer’s Awesome Budget Laptop Is Even Better Now That It's at $500 for Labor Day

Libby introduces ‘Inspire Me’ to beef up your reading list

Magic: The Gathering PAX Panel Previews Seriously Sinister Supervillains

Libby is adding an AI book recommendation feature

Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

Spiders Hijack Fireflies to Create Devious Glowing Death Traps

New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

New Fossils Reveal Ankylosaur With Armor Unlike Any Other Animal, Living or Dead

God Damn, Just Look at This Spider-Man Action Figure

Show HN: Sping – An HTTP/TCP latency tool that's easy on the eye

Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve

Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

Aspiration co-founder to plead guilty to $248M fraud scheme

At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

Trump Mobile’s latest T1 phone teaser fails to hide an epic Photoshop blunder

‘Severance’ Standout Tramell Tillman Joins ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

Physics of badminton’s new killer spin serve

Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

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