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All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 07:09:25

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late '00s. The community was working to get around Apple's onerous FairPlay DRM by having people who still owned original copies of those (now unavailable) games sync their accounts to a single iTunes installation via a coordinated Virtual Machine. That "master library" would then be able to provide playable copies of those games to

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Children and young people's reading in 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 19:51:38

Our surveys show that the reading crisis persists, with the number of children and young people who say they enjoy reading, and read daily, continuing to decline. This report is based on 114,970 responses to our Annual Literacy Survey from children and young people aged 5 to 18 in early 2025. It includes findings on reading enjoyment , frequency and motivation and explores responses by age, gender, socio-economic background and geographical region. Key findings Reading enjoyment: In 2025, th

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These Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Snailfish Just Became Our Latest Obsession

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 22:00:26

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges. Sometimes, scientists discover more humble creatures that are so tiny that they go unnoticed until new technology brings them into view. Such efforts rarely disappoint. Using an underwater robot camera, researchers discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish: one bumpy, one dark, and one sleek. In a new paper published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, researchers explain h

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Thuma Dupes: Japanese Joinery Bed Frames That Stack Up (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-10-08 23:36:00

I’m a longtime fan of DreamCloud mattresses, so it came as no surprise that the brand’s Japanese joinery bed frame is an excellent product. Just like the mattress, numerous thoughtful details in this frame made it immediately stand out, so much so that I will be keeping it around for long-term testing to try with a larger variety of beds. DreamCloud made the setup of this frame seamlessly idiot-proof (@me). Each piece is labeled, and when it comes time to actually put it all together, take a ga

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Zillow’s new AI staging feature is impressively unimpressive

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-08 23:00:00

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Zillow is launching an AI-powered feature that will allow home hunters to empty the room of furniture or subtly change the design style. The intent is to make it easier to overcome the owner’s dodgy design choices and questionable furniture so

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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-09 00:00:00

Spotify is finally launching high-quality, lossless music streaming support for premium account holders after years of waiting. The company first talked about a hi-fi tier in 2021 — which would offer CD-quality audio –but the plan faced multiple delays, partially due to licensing issues. Last year, CEO Daniel Ek said that the company was in the “early days” of launching lossless streaming support. Over the past few years, reports and code hints in the app suggested that the company was plannin

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GameHub 5.0 arrives with Steam sync on Android and big performance gains

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 23:37:59

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR GameSir’s GameHub app has gained full Steam support, including cloud saves and other ecosystem features. The update is also fully optimized for Hollow Knight: Silksong. Early users are also reporting notable performance gains. GameSir is rolling out version 5.0 of its GameHub app, with full Steam support, including cloud saves and online play. That means you can now play your Steam games on your Android devices and keep the progress synced across devi

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Semantic Line Breaks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 06:14:41

Semantic Line Breaks Summary When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought. Introduction Semantic Line Breaks describe a set of conventions for using insensitive vertical whitespace to structure prose along semantic boundaries. Many lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc, join consecutive lines with a space. Conventional markup languages like HTML and XML exhibit a similar behavior in pa

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All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 12:09:25

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late '00s. The community was working to get around Apple's onerous FairPlay DRM by having people who still owned original copies of those (now unavailable) games sync their accounts to a single iTunes installation via a coordinated Virtual Machine. That "master library" would then be able to provide playable copies of those games to

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Nikon’s first RED co-brand is the Nikon ZR

theverge.com David Imel 2025-10-09 00:01:57

Nikon has just unveiled the ZR, its first official co-brand with RED, the cinema camera company it purchased in April of last year. The ZR takes what Nikon has already been doing well, with its heavily adaptable Z-mount, internal RAW video recording and popular color science and turns it up to 11 for video shooters. That’s headlined by its ability to shoot RED R3D NE files. These files allow you to change settings like ISO and white balance can be changed in post, giving you way more flexibilit

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'We're all kind of in shock.' Oracle's revenue projections leave analysts slack-jawed

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-08 23:51:37

Oracle Chair and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2019. John DiFucci from Guggenheim Securities said he was "blown away." TD Cowen's Derrick Wood called it a "momentous quarter." And Brad Zelnick of Deutsche Bank said, "We're all kind of in shock, in a very good way." That's how the analysts opened their comments and questions during Oracle's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, as the company's stock price was in the

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Google’s Pixels rocket back into the global top 5 premium smartphones

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 02:19:33

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Pixels are suddenly doing very well in the global premium smartphone market. Google broke into the top 5 in the first half of this year, thanks to a highly successful Pixel 9 series. Apple still leads the pack by a mile, with Samsung claiming second place. Google is definitely doing something right because Pixels are back in the top 5 global premium smartphone rankings (devices that cost above $600), with a highly impressive 105% growth year over year

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Beats' new iPhone 17 case has a lanyard that turns into a kickstand

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 02:50:44

Beats has launched a new collection of cases to go with Apple's latest iPhones, including one with a removable lanyard that doubles as a kickstand. Lanyards and cross-body straps for phones are becoming pretty common these days. If you're someone who travels every now and then, they can help protect you from pickpockets or from accidentally leaving your phone behind while you struggle with your luggage. The lanyard on Beats' case comes with something extra: It has an adaptor at the end that slid

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US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

news.ycombinator.com Ma Is An Associated Press National Writer Who Covers Education. 2025-10-08 13:45:46

WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eight

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 23:58:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including their names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting companies' Salesforce databases. The data breach, which occurred on July 28, was identified and contained within hours, a TransUnion spokesperson told CNET. TransUnion is

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Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live

wired.com Wired Staff 2025-10-09 02:30:00

With original reporting and sharp analysis, WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast covers today’s biggest stories in tech. We demystify companies like Palantir, trends like vibe coding, and figures like Sam Altman; we break down our essential coverage of DOGE and ICE; we guide listeners through breakthrough innovations like generative AI and sweeping policy changes like the Trump administration’s tariffs. On September 9, at 7 pm PDT, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley’s first live show of

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Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-08 23:05:58

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. It’s less noticeable than a thinner profile or trick camera lenses, but Apple is pointing out another upgrade in the iPhone 17 family of phones that it says is part of “the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.” Explicitly targeting the spyware industry that produces exploits for tools like

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AirPods Pro 3 get foam-infused ear tips in five different sizes

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 03:33:10

Two of the best AirPods Pro 3 announcements from earlier today weren’t exactly about performance improvements or new sensors, but comfort and further customization. Here are the details. Foam-infused ear tips and two extra sizes After years of users resorting to aftermarket foam AirPods ear tips, Apple seems to have finally taken notice. As the company explained during the Awe Dropping event, AirPods Pro 3 have foam-infused ear tips, which double as an extra insulator for the 2x improved acti

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Sigourney Weaver Is a Fan of ‘Alien: Earth,’ Too

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-09 04:15:55

We’re on record saying just how good the new FX show Alien: Earth is but who are we? Just some weird website that writes about pop culture and technology. The real voices you want to weigh in on an Alien show are the people who are a part of it, and at the top of that list is Sigourney Weaver. Weaver played Ellen Ripley, or some version of her, in four Alien movies from 1979 to 1997 and is clearly the go-to when it comes to Alien. Especially because she, unlike original director Ridley Scott, h

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AirPods Pro 3 Vs. AirPods Pro 2: Which Wireless Earbuds Are Better?

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-09 07:10:07

After years of speculation, Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 are finally here, and while we haven’t tried them for ourselves, they look like they were worth the wait. This generation brings new hardware, features, and some impressive improvements on paper over the last generation, which was refreshed in 2023 with USB-C and a few other features. If you’re in the market for new AirPods, you’re probably already wondering whether you should rush out to scoop up Apple’s long-awaited third-gen, but before you do

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Here’s a first look at the iPhone 17

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-10-09 04:56:06

Apple’s big fall event just wrapped up, and we rushed out of the Steve Jobs Theater to get our hands on the latest iPhones. Here’s a look at the new iPhone 17, Apple’s base model this year, which is joined by the thinner iPhone Air and beefier iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max — there’s no Plus this time around. The first place to start is the rear camera. Not because a lot has changed here, but rather because it hasn’t: while the iPhone 17 Pro and Air have both adopted new horizontal camera “plateaus,

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Here’s everything Apple didn’t announce during its ‘Awe Dropping’ event

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 11:21:57

For an event that lasted less than 1 hour and 20 minutes, Apple managed to pack quite a lot of new devices and features into its lineup. Still, some had been expecting a little bit more. Here’s what Apple decided not to include in today’s event, some of which may still come by the end of the year. AirPods Pro 3 with infrared camera sensor For the past few days, there were rumors indicating that Apple would release two AirPods Pro 3 versions: the one that was actually announced today, and an in

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Apple publishes ‘Dear Apple’ segment from today’s event

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 11:57:15

For the past few years, Apple has featured real cases of users whose lives were saved or profoundly changed by the Apple Watch. Today, it was no different. Watch the heartfelt segment below. Dear Apple… Following today’s “Awe Dropping” event, Apple published a standalone version of the “Dear Apple” segment on its YouTube channel. The video features multiple users who were either alerted or outright saved by the Apple Watch when something went wrong or who found motivation to stay active and l

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Show HN: Vicinae – a native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 10:10:00

Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt. It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved. Inspired by the popular Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification. Vicinae is designed for developers and power users

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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Daniel 2025-10-09 08:04:49

Once a year, Unicode drops its annual update: thousands of new characters, new scripts, new symbols, and of course… new emoji. Today marks the release of Unicode 17.0, adding 4,803 characters (bringing the grand total to 159,801!). You can download Noto Emoji today and embed on your website but they’re not quite ready to keyboard smash (it will take some time before many of these reach our devices) let’s take a moment to bask in the glow of … Hairy Creature Hairy creature is one of those rare

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Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 10:55:34

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company's support documentation also warns that it "may put your data at risk" and details how the AI assistant can be manipulated to transmit user data to external servers. The fe

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Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 11:32:29

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple just announced a bunch of new health tracking features alongside its new smartwatch lineup — but you might not need to upgrade your device to get access to them. With the launch of watchOS 26 next week, Apple will bring hypertension notifications, live tra

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Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-10-09 15:02:19

Nebius, which was spun out from Russian internet giant Yandex, provides graphics processing units or GPUs for training artificial intelligence models. Shares of artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Nebius Group soared nearly 50% Tuesday, a day after the company disclosed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft . The Amsterdam-based firm announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Microsoft worth up to $19.4 billion to provide cloud computing power for AI workloads. Nebius, which w

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This is the new iPhone lineup following today’s iPhone 17 launch event: details

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-09 13:30:22

Today, Apple announced its new iPhone 17 lineup, including iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. This year’s star of the show is the iPhone Air, replacing last year’s Plus model. With these four new iPhones, Apple has also discontinued a number of older models. This is the new iPhone lineup. iPhone lineup With the launch of the iPhone 17, Apple discontinued the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This leaves the following iPhones at the foll

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 gains best display feature from Series 10 and Series 11

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-09 15:15:07

The biggest Apple Watch Ultra 3 display news is that it has the biggest Ultra display yet. However, there’s a smaller Ultra 3 display change that is a welcome arrival too. Last year, Apple Watch Series 10 introduced a new display feature that required updated hardware. For the first time, Apple Watch faces could display ticking seconds in always-on mode. Apple confirms this change: LTPO3 is also more power efficient, enabling a faster refresh rate when Apple Watch Ultra 3 is in always-on mode,

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Latest Tech News

All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Children and young people's reading in 2025

These Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Snailfish Just Became Our Latest Obsession

Thuma Dupes: Japanese Joinery Bed Frames That Stack Up (2025)

Zillow’s new AI staging feature is impressively unimpressive

Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

GameHub 5.0 arrives with Steam sync on Android and big performance gains

Semantic Line Breaks

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Nikon’s first RED co-brand is the Nikon ZR

'We're all kind of in shock.' Oracle's revenue projections leave analysts slack-jawed

Google’s Pixels rocket back into the global top 5 premium smartphones

Beats' new iPhone 17 case has a lanyard that turns into a kickstand

US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach: What to Know

Watch WIRED’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ Live

Apple says the iPhone 17 comes with a massive security upgrade

AirPods Pro 3 get foam-infused ear tips in five different sizes

Sigourney Weaver Is a Fan of ‘Alien: Earth,’ Too

AirPods Pro 3 Vs. AirPods Pro 2: Which Wireless Earbuds Are Better?

Here’s a first look at the iPhone 17

Here’s everything Apple didn’t announce during its ‘Awe Dropping’ event

Apple publishes ‘Dear Apple’ segment from today’s event

Show HN: Vicinae – a native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux

Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0

Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in

Apple’s newest health-tracking features are coming to older watches

Nebius stock soars nearly 50% on Microsoft AI deal

This is the new iPhone lineup following today’s iPhone 17 launch event: details

Apple Watch Ultra 3 gains best display feature from Series 10 and Series 11

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