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‘The Institute’ Is a Solid Stephen King Adaptation

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-02-08 03:00:52

Stephen King is easily the most-adapted horror author; his books are so popular, many of the biggest ones have been adapted multiple times. Right now, there’s both a Carrie series and a feature take on The Stand in the works, and Edgar Wright’s The Running Man just dropped its first trailer. With the same titles seemingly caught in Hollywood’s revolving door, it can be tempting to forget King is still regularly publishing new stories. That’s one reason The Institute is such an intriguing new ar

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Google Maps is now available on Garmin’s smartwatches

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2026-02-08 03:54:04

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. Garmin has announced that a free Google Maps app is now available for most of the company’s smartwatches that lets you know where and how far your next turn is while walking, cycling, or running. Unlike the more robust version of Google Maps available for Wear OS that can be used to search for destinations and even navigate without a smartphone,

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Robinhood CEO downplays OpenAI concerns on tokenized stock structure

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2026-02-08 17:25:32

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says it's not "entirely relevant" that the trading platform's so-called tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX aren't technically equity in the companies. It comes after OpenAI raised concerns about the product, which is designed to give users in the European Union exposure to various U.S. stocks — including private companies, which are less liquid than publicly listed firms. OpenAI last week warned that Robinhood's stock tokens do not represent equity in the company an

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As California faces court battles, states scramble to save their climate goals

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-09 09:08:03

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When President Donald Trump signed legislation to revoke California’s authority to enforce stricter tailpipe emissions standards and to ban sales of gas-powered cars by 2035, the effects rippled far beyond the Golden State. Seventeen states relied on California’s Clean Air Act waivers to adopt stronger vehicle

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‘Yearners’ Are Sick of Playing It Cool on Dating Apps

wired.com Jason Parham 2026-02-09 09:00:00

On TikTok, Gyasi Alexander likes to hold “yap sessions” about all sorts of vulnerable topics—self-image issues, anxiety, why you shouldn’t romanticize forgiveness. He started posting videos like that last summer, following the end of an 11-year relationship, after a group of friends encouraged him to use the platform as an outlet to talk about his healing process. Lately, though, the 28-year-old retail sales worker who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, has decided to fully embrace, and talk abo

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The era of exploration

news.ycombinator.com Yiding Jiang 2026-02-08 15:23:57

Large language models are the unintended byproduct of about three decades worth of freely accessible human text online. Ilya Sutskever compared this reservoir of information to fossil fuel, abundant but ultimately finite. Some studies suggest that, at current token‑consumption rates, frontier labs could exhaust the highest‑quality English web text well before the decade ends. Even if those projections prove overly pessimistic, one fact is clear: today’s models consume data far faster than humans

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Best Internet Providers in Hawaii

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-09 00:09:00

What is the best internet provider in Hawaii? CNET's pick for the best internet provider in Hawaii is Spectrum. The provider offers gig speeds and is available throughout much of Hawaii, from the Big Island to Kauai. Spectrum offers multiple speed options for a variety of budgets, unlimited data and a free modem, allowing those already owning a router to skip equipment fees altogether. While Spectrum technically has fiber available in Hawaii, it's practically impossible to find. Your better be

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 8, #1480

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-09 21:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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ChatGPT Glossary: 53 AI Terms Everyone Should Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-09 21:06:00

AI is everywhere. From the massive popularity of ChatGPT to Google cramming AI summaries at the top of its search results, AI is completely taking over the internet. With AI, you can get instant answers to pretty much any question. It can feel like talking to someone who has a Ph.D. in everything. But that aspect of AI chatbots is only one part of the AI landscape. Sure, having ChatGPT help do your homework or having Midjourney create fascinating images of mechs based on country of origin is co

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The Opening of ‘Final Fantasy IX’ Is a Love Letter to Fantasy Itself

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-02-10 03:15:34

Final Fantasy games are known for their big, bombastic openings. Final Fantasy VII‘s legendary bombing mission, the brainwashed Terra being sent through the snowy paths into Narshe in Final Fantasy VI, the destruction of Zanarkand in Final Fantasy X—these are grand set pieces with high stakes, introducing threats and conflicts central to their epic narratives. They are big and loud, meant to immediately hook you into a journey that will last dozens upon dozens (upon dozens) of hours. They’re al

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Starlink’s In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Faster Than Its Home Internet Speeds: Here’s Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-10 11:00:00

Starlink is nearly twice as fast as any other in-flight Wi-Fi option, according to the latest report by the speed test site Ookla. (Disclaimer: Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) The satellite internet company from SpaceX clocked median download speeds of 152 megabits per second and upload speeds of 24Mbps. That means that Starlink’s speeds in the air are faster than some internet providers on the ground. Those download and upload speeds were nearly twice as fast a

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‘Warning Fatigue’ Might Have Made Texas Floods Deadlier

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2026-02-10 17:30:49

A deluge of rain triggered deadly flash floods in Texas Hill Country over the weekend, causing widespread damage and killing more than 80 people. As the death toll climbs, some experts say “flood warning fatigue” may have discouraged residents from heeding the National Weather Service’s (NWS) warnings. Texas Hill Country is part of “flash flood alley,” a crescent-shaped region that curves from the Dallas area down to San Antonio and then westward. It’s one of the most dangerous places in the U.

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The Era of Exploration

news.ycombinator.com Yiding Jiang 2026-02-11 03:23:57

Large language models are the unintended byproduct of about three decades worth of freely accessible human text online. Ilya Sutskever compared this reservoir of information to fossil fuel, abundant but ultimately finite. Some studies suggest that, at current token‑consumption rates, frontier labs could exhaust the highest‑quality English web text well before the decade ends. Even if those projections prove overly pessimistic, one fact is clear: today’s models consume data far faster than humans

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Apple appeals 500 million euro EU fine over App Store policies

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-02-11 12:39:37

Two young men stand inside a shopping mall in front of a large illuminated Apple logo seen through a window in Chongqing, China, on June 4, 2025. Apple on Monday appealed what it called an "unprecedented" 500 million euro ($586 million) fine issued by the European Union for violating the bloc's Digital Markets Act. "As our appeal will show, the EC [European Commission] is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users," the compan

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Best Cheap Internet Providers for July 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-10 11:00:00

Our picks 90001 Edit ZIP code Why we chose these providers Sort by Best cheap internet provider 150 - 2,000 Mbps $19 - $95 per month Check with Xfinity Internet Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (877) 587-0411 Best cheap fiber internet provider 300 - 5,000 Mbps $55 - $250 per month Check with AT&T Fiber Provider not available in 90001 Edit ZIP code Or call to learn more: (833) 579-0031 Best cheap fiber internet plan 500 - 5,000 Mbps $50 - $155 per month Check w

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 11:09:42

Comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms. Learn by doing. Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language. Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.

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Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 17:01:51

Single file social media - like twitter but by writing markwhen. Learn more. Login / Sign up

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 17:09:42

Comes with everything you need to understand complete systems such as SSL/TLS: block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, public key encryption, key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms. Learn by doing. Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language. Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, July 7

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-12 00:26:17

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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I don't think AGI is right around the corner

news.ycombinator.com Dwarkesh Patel 2026-02-11 22:45:20

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” - Rudiger Dornbusch I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some guests think it’s 20 years away - others 2 years. Here’s where my thoughts stand as of June 2025. Continual learning Sometimes people say that even if all AI progress totally stopped, the systems of today would still be far more economically transformative than the internet.

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 7, #1479

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-11 22:00:06

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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X blocked Reuters accounts in India

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-11 18:34:56

The main Reuters news account, as well as the Reuters World account, became inaccessible to X users in India on Saturday evening. Access was subsequently restored on Sunday. Reuters reports that Indian users attempting to view the @Reuters account — which has 25 million followers — instead saw a message stating that the account “has been withheld in IN (India) in response to a legal demand.” However, an Indian government spokesperson told TechCrunch, “There is no requirement from the Governmen

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, July 6

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-11 18:54:31

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Eric Jang 2026-02-09 08:31:17

Generalizing to what you want may be easier than optimizing directly for what you want. We might even ask for "consciousness". This blog post outlines a key engineering principle I’ve come to believe strongly in for building general AI systems with deep learning. This principle guides my present-day research tastes and day-to-day design choices in building large-scale, general-purpose ML systems. Discoveries around Neural Scaling Laws, unsupervised pretraining on Internet-scale datasets, and o

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 6, #1478

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-11 17:00:03

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Wi-Fi and Your Walls: Our Experts Share This One Secret to Optimizing Your Internet Connection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-11 14:00:00

When it comes to your home internet connection, there's one question we get asked quite a bit: Does Wi-Fi travel through walls? The short answer is yes, but the long answer is a bit more complicated. I spoke with several experts, including CNET's Laboratory Technical Project Manager, Gianmarco Chumbe, to find out everything you need to know about how your home's walls can impact your connection. It's a simple question, but it has a big impact on your Wi-Fi connection. "As with any radio signal,

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How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-12 08:00:08

Can an LLM "help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss?" It's been a rough week at Microsoft. Following the news that 9,000 people are being laid off at the company, one Xbox executive offered some questionable words of advice for people on their way out: Find solace in Microsoft Copilot. As reported by Aftermath , Matt Turnbull, an executive producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing who clearly did not lose his job recently, took to LinkedIn to let folks know, "You'r

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Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-13 02:00:50

Like any crappy human writer, AI chatbots have a tendency to overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using that propensity to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it in their work. As the New York Times reports, scientists estimate, based on an analysis of those overused terms, that there could already be hundreds of thousands of academic papers written with the assistance of AI. In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers from Germany's University o

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Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-13 11:30:48

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but they've never seen visual evidence of this happening. That just changed. Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have taken the first-ever image of a star that died in a stellar "double-detonation," leaving behind a spectacular supernova remnant. Their findings, published as a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy, deepen our understanding of the stellar evolu

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The American system of democracy has crashed

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2026-02-13 22:00:00

Once upon a time in America, there was a tyrant. And Congress rejected him totally. The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but the Declaration was an enormous political innovation — in it, the country that became the United States of America laid claim to certain “unalienable” rights, rights that took precedence over any king or crown. To protect those rights, our Founders declared that the People were allowed to “

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Latest Tech News

‘The Institute’ Is a Solid Stephen King Adaptation

Google Maps is now available on Garmin’s smartwatches

Robinhood CEO downplays OpenAI concerns on tokenized stock structure

As California faces court battles, states scramble to save their climate goals

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 8, #1480

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Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (2017)

Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, July 7

I don't think AGI is right around the corner

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 7, #1479

X blocked Reuters accounts in India

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Sunday, July 6

Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 6, #1478

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Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

The American system of democracy has crashed

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