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A Spaceship Crew Faces Doom in This Surprisingly Tender Sci-Fi Story

gizmodo.com Lightspeed Magazine 2025-10-16 15:30:08

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Last Meal Aboard the Awassa” by Kel Coleman. Enjoy! Last Meal Aboard the Awassa by Kel Coleman Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and the gesture it represented soothed her after a long,

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3 Sports Documentaries You Absolutely Should Watch Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 14:00:03

There was a time in 2012 when NBA fans from all over were stricken with Linsanity. Jeremy Lin was a benchwarmer for the New York Knicks for much of that season, until he helped the team lock down a seven-game winning streak when he replaced a sidelined Carmelo Anthony in February of that year. Lin's popularity exploded, and though he was traded in the following offseason, his dazzling performance cemented a lasting legacy. Lin left the NBA in 2019 to play internationally, and he just announced

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World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer: Stream Argentina vs. Venezuela Live From Anywhere for Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 15:00:03

Already qualified Argentina could deliver a hammer blow to Venezuela's World Cup 2-26 qualification hopes as these two team's meet on Thursday in Buenos Aires. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens, wherever you are in the world and how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are. Lionel Scaloni's defending world champs sealed their place in next summer's tournament back in March, but today's nevertheless remains significant

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Strava updates Apple Watch app, introduces Live Segments

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-16 19:30:34

If you’re a Strava user, you know this has been a long time coming. The company has completely redesigned its Apple Watch app, in an update that introduces Live Segments. Here’s how it works. Every time Tim Cook discusses the Apple Watch during Apple’s quarterly earnings conference call, he says something like, “over half of Apple Watch sales were to new customers,” which is Apple’s way of saying that its user base keeps growing. Strava, for its part, is also seeing that. In a blog post detail

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Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 19:11:05

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports . The studio's publisher and owner 2K confirmed that the layoffs were happening as Firaxis "restructures and optimizes" for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The layoffs follow turmoil at another 2K studio , Cloud Chamber, which is supposed to be developing the next Bioshock game. Since the restructuring has yet to be publicly disclosed, it's hard to

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Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 19:01:11

TL;DR Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't. Introduction In part 1 I showed how some computer performance factors are scaling exponentially while others have been stagnant for decades. I then asserted, without proof, that sourcing data from disk can be faster than from memory. What follows is the proof.

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What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 18:36:50

Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three. Home Menu About Documentation Download License Support Purchase Search About Documentation Download Support Purchase Search Documentation Search Changelog What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? Introduction Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include: Smaller documents Faster File/Save times Faster startup times Less memory used Document

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Rocketships and Slingshots

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Harris 2025-10-16 18:06:10

The dominant metaphor for a successful startup these days is the rocketship. The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The stories are simple, the progress is amazing, the pull of the market is irresistible. Sometimes these will be the biggest and most interesting companies of the future. Then again, as with most stories, the realities o

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Tim Cook expected back at the White House for Trump AI event

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-16 05:31:35

Where will Tim Cook be on the Thursday before the iPhone 17 event? Back at the White House, it seems. The Apple CEO gifted President Trump a big chunk of 24k gold with a piece of glass in August after announcing plans to make all iPhone glass in Kentucky. 29 days later, their next meeting will focus on AI, according to The Hill: President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, including M

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Big tech signs on to White House plan for AI education in US schools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 23:26:46

The White House hosted several tech and AI leaders at an event today centered on teaching artificial intelligence in US schools. Many of the big tech companies — including Amazon , Google , Microsoft , OpenAI and Anthropic — have already issued press releases with their commitments to a pledge from the White House to help "foster early interest in Al technology, promote Al literacy and proficiency, and enable comprehensive Al training for parents and educators." The business commitments include

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Non-Obviously Great Startups

news.ycombinator.com Aaron Harris 2025-10-16 23:06:10

The dominant metaphor for a successful startup these days is the rocketship. The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The stories are simple, the progress is amazing, the pull of the market is irresistible. Sometimes these will be the biggest and most interesting companies of the future. Then again, as with most stories, the realities o

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Wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Built on Object Storage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 18:55:06

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 5 #551

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 22:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle was a mix for me. Some of the words I found right away, but others were tough, and a few were difficult to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's

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Got a great browser interoperability idea? Apple wants to hear from you

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-17 03:55:47

Entries are now open for Interop 2026, a yearly effort where anyone, from users to web developers, can submit their best ideas to improve cross-browser interoperability. Here’s how to participate. Interop started in 2022, when Apple, Bocoup, Google, Italia, Microsoft, and Mozilla came together “to commit to improve interoperability in 15 key areas that will have the most impact on web developer experience.” The project, which stemmed from Google’s Compat initiative, gained enough traction to b

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Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 03:32:45

Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop and YouTube have announced a new "extended partnership" that will bring episodes of the iconic children's show to the platform and a series of workshops for creators on "how to create content that is entertaining while also promoting learning." This new YouTube partnership joins an existing Netflix deal to stream new episodes of Sesame Street starting in November. According to YouTube, it'll now have a catalog of "hundreds of full episodes" of the show, on

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Mangrove Restoration Frustration (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Katarina Zimmer 2025-10-13 10:13:14

If any single event was a watershed for conservation of the world's mangrove forests, it was the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The day after Christmas that year, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake thundered along a fault line on the ocean floor with a force that sent waves — some a hundred feet high — surging toward the densely populated coasts encircling the Indian Ocean. The disaster took more than 225,000 lives. In the aftermath of the tsunami, some scientists reported that settlements behind swampy

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A programmable display using microfluidics [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 10:31:36

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How we built an interpreter for Swift

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 23:39:03

Bitrig dynamically generates and runs Swift apps on your phone. Normally this would require compiling and signing with Xcode, and you can’t do that on an iPhone. To make it possible to instantly run your app, we built a Swift interpreter. But it’s an unusual interpreter, since it interprets from Swift… to Swift. One of the top questions we’ve gotten is how it’s implemented, so we wanted to share how it works. To make this more accessible and interesting, we simplified some of the more esoteric

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LLM Visualization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 01:06:05

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Oscar Isaac Will Bring a ‘Rock Star’ Energy to His Victor Frankenstein

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-17 03:00:48

Entertainment Weekly recently sat down with Oscar Isaac to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie, which will hit theaters in October before rolling out on Netflix. While the article breaks down the overall thrust of the movie—namely, that Dr. Frankenstein is haunted by the specter of an abusive father (Charles Dance), prompting him to create new life in an attempt to break the chains of generational trauma more than scientific achievement—the piece hones in on Isaac’s quote that his po

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TED leader’s $300M ‘valley of death’ fund might be just what later-stage climate tech needs

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-17 03:42:26

Like many startups, climate tech companies often face a “valley of death” that lies between early stage funding and growth capital that helps proven technologies reach commercial scale. But because climate tech startups are often hardware focused — physical problems tend to require physical solutions, after all — this valley of death tends to be a lot wider. Financing a first-of-a-kind power plant or factory can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, a new fund hopes to bridge this

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Researchers find alarming overlaps among 18 popular VPNs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 07:18:28

A new peer-reviewed study alleges that 18 of the 100 most-downloaded virtual private network (VPN) apps on the Google Play Store are secretly connected in three large families, despite claiming to be independent providers. The paper doesn't indict any of our picks for the best VPN , but the services it investigates are popular, with 700 million collective downloads on Android alone. The study, published in the journal of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), doesn't just find tha

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Is this the most promising Chromebook yet? This Acer has specs that almost rival my MacBook

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-10-17 07:10:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-17 07:00:00

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take over tedious and repetitive work performed by freight shippers, carriers and brokers. On Thursday, Augment announced that it raised an $85 million Series A le

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Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-17 07:06:54

Nepal has ordered internet service providers to block access to major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X, after the companies failed to comply with local registration rules — drawing criticism from media rights groups and raising concerns over censorship and free expression. On Thursday, Nepal’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology directed the Nepal Telecommunications Authority to instruct internet service providers to restrict access to 26 so

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Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 11:01:31

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts, with more than 18,000 customers and supporting over 60 million students worldwide. In January, the education software giant disclosed that its PowerSource customer s

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Hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day flaw to deploy backdoors

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 11:51:42

Threat actors have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in legacy Sitecore deployments to deploy WeepSteel reconnaissance malware. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-53690, is a ViewState deserialization vulnerability caused by the inclusion of a sample ASP.NET machine key in pre-2017 Sitecore guides. Some customers reused this key in production, allowing attackers with knowledge of the key to craft valid, but malicious '_VIEWSTATE' payloads that tricked the server into deserializing and exe

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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

news.ycombinator.com Ashanty Rosario 2025-10-16 19:37:42

AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I watched a classmate discreetly shift in their seat, prop their laptop up on a crossed leg, and highlight the entirety of the chapter under discussion. In seconds, they had pul

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Nazi-Looted Painting Found on Real Estate Website Finally Seized by Authorities

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-17 11:10:09

After 80 years of being lost, Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady has finally been recovered. After it briefly appeared in an online real estate listing last month, the family that was in possession of the painting turned it in to the Argentinian authorities. The painting, a portrait of Contessa Colleoni, was one of more than 1,000 that were looted by Nazis from the collection of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker during World War II, and was last seen in 1940, according to the Lost Art

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Could We Probe an Interstellar Object Before It Zips Out of the Solar System?

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-17 11:35:42

In June, a mysterious object was spotted hurtling through the inner solar system on a hyperbolic path. It was later confirmed as an interstellar object, the third such entity from outside our solar system to be seen in the night skies. The rare discovery has prompted a scientific scramble to understand the object and its origins, including potential probes to study it up close. Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) put together a mission study that outlines how a spacecraft coul

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Latest Tech News

A Spaceship Crew Faces Doom in This Surprisingly Tender Sci-Fi Story

3 Sports Documentaries You Absolutely Should Watch Right Now

World Cup 2026 Qualifier Soccer: Stream Argentina vs. Venezuela Live From Anywhere for Free

Strava updates Apple Watch app, introduces Live Segments

Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 2

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Rocketships and Slingshots

Tim Cook expected back at the White House for Trump AI event

Big tech signs on to White House plan for AI education in US schools

Non-Obviously Great Startups

Wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Built on Object Storage

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 5 #551

Got a great browser interoperability idea? Apple wants to hear from you

Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform

Mangrove Restoration Frustration (2021)

A programmable display using microfluidics [video]

How we built an interpreter for Swift

LLM Visualization

Oscar Isaac Will Bring a ‘Rock Star’ Energy to His Victor Frankenstein

TED leader’s $300M ‘valley of death’ fund might be just what later-stage climate tech needs

Researchers find alarming overlaps among 18 popular VPNs

Is this the most promising Chromebook yet? This Acer has specs that almost rival my MacBook

AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A

Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns

Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans

Hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day flaw to deploy backdoors

A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

Nazi-Looted Painting Found on Real Estate Website Finally Seized by Authorities

Could We Probe an Interstellar Object Before It Zips Out of the Solar System?

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