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Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

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. Sony has shared more details about its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event in early June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the fight stick is now called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable battery, mechanical switch buttons, restrictor gates that limit the joystick’s movemen

The Coolest Hasbro Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Reveals of San Diego Comic-Con 2025

Hasbro always brings out the big guns at Comic-Con, and this year’s convention was no exception. Quite literally, in fact, as both Marvel and Star Wars got some reveals that you could ostensibly count as big guns for Marvel Legends, Black Series, and Vintage Collection, and also some reveals that did actually include some actual Big Guns. This year’s reveals included a ton of X-Men goodness for Marvel (anchored around a new wave of X-Men ’97 figures), as well as the latest made-to-order deluxe

‘Invincible Vs.’ Will Occupy Its Own Unique Corner of the ‘Invincible’ Universe

After turning The Walking Dead into a multimedia empire, Robert Kirkman has been hard at work doing the same for Invincible. First there were, of course, the comics. Then the awesome Prime Video animated show. There have long been talks of a potential live-action movie. And, next year, the franchise’s first full-fledged video game is coming, called Invincible Vs. And while little is known about the game, set for release in 2026, Kirkman spoke to press about it at San Diego Comic-Con. What we pr

Figma’s AI app building tool is now available for everyone

Figma Make, the prompt-to-app coding tool that Figma introduced earlier this year, is now available for all users. Similar to AI coding tools like Google’s Gemini Code Assist and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, Figma Make allows users to build working prototypes and apps using natural language descriptions, instead of needing to have innate coding skills. While Figma initially launched it in beta for “Full Seat” users — the subscription tier required to unlock all of Figma’s design products — Figma

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FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

Vision Language Models (VLMs) enable visual understanding alongside textual inputs. They are typically built by passing visual tokens from a pretrained vision encoder to a pretrained Large Language Model (LLM) through a projection layer. By leveraging the rich visual representations of the vision encoder and the world knowledge and reasoning capabilities of the LLM, VLMs can be useful for a wide range of applications, including accessibility assistants, UI navigation, robotics, and gaming. VLM

Grok’s AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money

Grok’s raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it’s Grok 4, xAI’s latest model, that’s been driving the app’s revenue of late. Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4 late on July 9, and by Friday, July 11, Grok’s gross revenue on iOS had jumped a whopping 325% to $419,000, up from $99,000 the day before the Grok 4 launch, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Image Credits:Appfigures Grok continued to pull in higher-than-usu

Figma looks to raise nearly $1B as it kicks off its IPO roadshow

In Brief Enterprise design startup Figma has entered the next step of its IPO journey. Figma announced Monday it is kicking off its IPO roadshow. The company plans to offer more than 36 million shares of class A stock that are expected to be priced between $25 and $28 a share. This offering includes a mix of primary and secondary shares and would allow the company to raise around $1 billion. The company is expected to price its IPO the week of July 28. If the company prices its shares in the

Figma’s Dylan Field will cash out about $60M in IPO, with Index, Kleiner, Greylock, Sequoia all selling, too

When Figma announced its initial hoped-for price range on Monday ($25-$28), it also revealed an unusual decision for its highly anticipated IPO. It will allow existing shareholders to sell more shares than the company plans to sell, by a high ratio. The company plans to offer about 12.5 million shares. Yet existing shareholders will be allowed to cash out of nearly 24.7 million shares, it said. In addition, should this IPO be as hot as everyone thinks it will be, existing shareholders will get

Figma IPO could value design software maker at $16 billion

Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma Inc., after the morning sessions at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 11, 2024. Design software company Figma on Monday published an updated prospectus for its initial public offering. The company said it expects to sell about 37 million shares at $25 to $28 each. That would generate as much as $1 billion in proceeds, between the company and selling shareholders. The IPO could value Figma, led by co-founder D

Figma looks to raise nearly $1 billion as it kicks off its IPO roadshow

In Brief Enterprise design startup Figma has entered the next step of its IPO journey. Figma announced Monday it is kicking off its IPO roadshow. The company plans to offer more than 36 million shares of class A stock that are expected to be priced between $25 and $28 a share. This offering includes a mix of primary and secondary shares and would allow the company to raise around $1 billion. The company is expected to price its IPO the week of July 28. If the company prices its shares in the

Dual interfacial H-bonding-enhanced deep-blue hybrid copper–iodide LEDs

Solution-processed light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are emerging as a promising technology for advanced solid-state lighting (SSL) and display industries, owing to their energy-efficient, low-cost, and straightforward manufacturing processes1-3. In this realm, lead-halide based perovskites4, organic semiconductors5, and colloidal core–shell quantum dots (QDs)6 have gained recognition as promising candidates. They have been utilized as emitting layers via solution processing and achieved impressive p

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LLM architecture comparison

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions People occasionally ask me how I think Guix compares to Nix. Let me set the stage: I've been using Nix for many years, have large projects using Nix, used to be very active in the Nix community, and even wrote multiple Nix language interpreters, so I'd say that I'm at least fairly comfortable with Nix. I'm also one of those people who live in Emacs. I'm no stranger to Lisps (although my experience with Scheme is limited) and am very fond of them. It feels nat

Chinese hackers breached National Guard to steal network configurations

The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Salt Typhoon breached and remained undetected in a U.S. Army National Guard network for nine months in 2024, stealing network configuration files and administrator credentials that could be used to compromise other government networks. Salt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group that is believed to be affiliated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) intelligence agency. The hacking group has gained notoriety over the past tw

Walt Disney Returns as a Surreal Animatronic for Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary

As of this week, Walt Disney returns to his original Magic Kingdom, with a little help from the magic-makers at Imagineering. Through the audio-animatronics technology Walt Disney introduced when he opened Disneyland 70 years ago, the evolution of the show robots has gone from static positioning with some movements, as first seen on the singing birds in the Enchanted Tiki Room, to a roaming animatronic of Uncle Walt. Stationed in the Main Street Opera House, the (m)animatronic is the crown jewe

East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming

RAMIP simulations and recent emissions changes in East Asia We first document the emissions perturbation applied in the RAMIP baseline and East Asia simulations21 (see “Methods”), and compare them to the actual emissions reductions from the same region since around 2010. Briefly, RAMIP isolates the climate effects of aerosol emissions in one region by comparing two sets of transient emission simulations; one following a global, high emissions pathway (SSP3-7.0, which assumes weak air quality po

East Asian air cleanup likely contributed to acceleration in global warming

RAMIP simulations and recent emissions changes in East Asia We first document the emissions perturbation applied in the RAMIP baseline and East Asia simulations21 (see “Methods”), and compare them to the actual emissions reductions from the same region since around 2010. Briefly, RAMIP isolates the climate effects of aerosol emissions in one region by comparing two sets of transient emission simulations; one following a global, high emissions pathway (SSP3-7.0, which assumes weak air quality po

How to Watch the Live Rematch Between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano

New York's Amanda Serrano and Ireland's Katie Taylor are set to duke it out in the ring once again, this time in a super lightweight match-up. The upcoming event marks their third face-off, with their first fight in 2022 and a contentious match on Netflix last fall that ignited lots of internet commentary. Now, they are squaring up for a trilogy bout that will stream live on Netflix. The pair's initial match made history as the first women's pro boxing fight to get top billing at Madison Square

Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

diffsitter Disclaimer diffsitter is very much a work in progress and nowhere close to production ready (yet). Contributions are always welcome! Summary diffsitter creates semantically meaningful diffs that ignore formatting differences like spacing. It does so by computing a diff on the AST (abstract syntax tree) of a file rather than computing the diff on the text contents of the file. diffsitter uses the parsers from the tree-sitter project to parse source code. As such, the languages sup

You Can Soon Own a Very Realistic Pedro Pascal Figure

From Star Wars to Marvel, The Last of Us, and more, Pedro Pascal is one of the most famous and in-demand actors working today. Everyone loves him. Everyone wants a piece of him. And soon, you can own not just a piece; you can own the whole damn thing. Hot Toys just revealed it’s turning Pascal’s Last of Us character, Joel Miller, into a 6th scale collectible, and it’s got it all. Pedro’s good looks. Pedro’s good hair. Pedro’s “separate rolling eyeballs.” It lacks Pedro’s fashion sense because J

The First ‘Red Sonja’ Trailer Feels Like an Early Aughts Throwback

Late last night the first trailer for Red Sonja, Dynamite Comic’s iconic chain-mail-bikini-clad warrior brought to life by Revenge star Matilda Lutz, hit the web, and it’s time to party like it’s 2004. The trailer, which might’ve revealed a bit too much about what happens in the film, all but promises to be a nostalgic throwback to sweeping fantasy and stylized action vibes from the early to mid-aughts. Directed by MJ Bassett (Rogue, Solomon Kane), Red Sonja follows the titular hero, who, after

‘Night at the Museum’ Franchise Gets Reboot at Disney 20 Years After the First Film

The Night at the Museum film franchise is getting another go at 20th Century Studios under Disney to mine more historical hijinks. It’s been 20 years (a shocking number, yes) since the release of the first film starring Ben Stiller (Severance) as a museum night watch guard who goes on adventures when the exhibits come to life at night. The concept spawned several sequels, which featured stars like Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Rami Malek, and Dan Stevens as legendary figures. Deadline reports th

5,000-Year-Old Rock Carving Is Among the Oldest Known Depictions of an Ancient Egyptian Ruler

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel depicts an elite individual with features resembling those of early Egyptian rulers, from the very beginning of political unification across Egypt. Around 6,000 years ago, Egypt underwent a dramatic political transformation, ultimately leading to the formation of the Egyptian state under the first pharaoh, Narmer, around 3100 BCE. Researchers still know relatively little

Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE

tl;dr: On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop). If you've ever used an old mechanical typewriter, you know that when you get to the end of the line there's a physical action to to get back to the start of the line. Sometimes this was done through an actual lever on the typewriter, later models had a button. Because this act

CVE-2025-48384: Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE

tl;dr: On Unix-like platforms, if you use git clone --recursive on an untrusted repo, it could achieve remote code execution. Update to a fixed version of git and other software that embeds Git (including GitHub Desktop). If you've ever used an old mechanical typewriter, you know that when you get to the end of the line there's a physical action to to get back to the start of the line. Sometimes this was done through an actual lever on the typewriter, later models had a button. Because this act

Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling

The spatial arrangement of the main stops considered by the previous authors, reveals a significantly different distribution of sites in the territory. In our analysis, we have omitted some points that were considered very close to others, such as the case of Puente de Meyjaboy with Marzán or Iría Flavia with Padrón (Fig. 2). Fig. 2 Positions for each of the mansions in the Antonine Itinerary according to the various published studies. The position of each of the mansions can be found in differ

Tuning the Prusa Core One

Introduction This article introduces and explores the new Prusa Core One printer. It includes a number of methods to increase this printer's accuracy and usefulness. Some printable 3D resources are included, including a Web camera mount to provide a local-network, full color, video frame rate printing monitor, to replace the Prusa Buddy3D camera. This article describes the Prusa Core One from a user perspective. I have no connection with Prusa, no editorial constraints, and some personal prefer

When Figma starts designing us

I first encountered Figma in 2013, when Dylan Field demoed an early prototype to me at O’Reilly’s Foo Camp. I remember the pen tool feeling surprisingly elegant, but I missed the bigger picture: the radical implications of a design tool that ran in the browser. A decade later, Figma is a core part of our creative process, and without it, we wouldn't have been able to build a fully remote design practice. That’s probably why Dylan is a near-billionaire and I’m not. However, over the course of th

Show HN: Semcheck – AI Tool for checking implementation follows spec

Semcheck Semcheck is a tool that uses large language models to verify that your implementation matches your specification. Define semantic rules to describe how your code should align with your specification, then let Semcheck handle the comparison. Use it as a final check before committing or merging code. Features Non-intrusive: no changes required to existing code or specification files Bring Your Own Model: supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Cerebras and Ollama (local) Supports remote