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Netflix just revealed AI-generated footage in a popular show for the first time - did you spot it?

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-25 02:15:41

Netflix Without realizing it, you may have already seen Netflix's first foray into AI-generated content. In its latest company earnings call, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos revealed that AI created part of a scene of a building collapsing in the new Netflix series The Eternaut, a post-apocalyptic drama about an alien invasion in Argentina. Also: I spoke with an AI version of myself, thanks to Hume's free tool - how to try it Sarandos framed the usage of generative AI tools as "an incredible opp

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Comparison of MGR, SunView, OpenWindows and X11R6 (2022)

news.ycombinator.com View My Complete Profile 2025-08-25 01:09:01

My general vintage computing projects, mostly microcomputers, 6502, PalmOS, 68K/Power Mac and Unix workstations, but that's not all you'll see. While over the decades I've written for publications likeand, these articles are all original and just for you. My promise: No AI-generated article text, ever. All em-dashes are intentional and inserted by hand. Be kind, REWIND and PLAY.Old VCR is advertisement- and donation-funded, and what I get goes to maintaining the hardware here at Floodgap. I don'

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OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-08-25 02:05:42

OpenAI’s incoming CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, sent her first note to staff on Monday, telling employees the tools they’re developing “will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history.” “If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever,” Simo wrote, striking a hyper-optimistic tone, according to a copy of the memo viewed by WIRED. “But I also realize those opportunities won’t magically appear on their own.” Simo previously worked as the CEO

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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-25 02:36:37

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. OpenAI’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios. The data suggests that ChatGPT users send over 912.5 billion requests to the AI chatbot each year. Although ChatGPT still has a way to go to catch up to Google’s 5 trillion annual searches, its rapid growth s

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PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-25 06:00:40

We don’t talk enough about the amount of paperwork we come across every day. From essential bank documents, work contracts, tax notices, and bills to invoices, application forms, IDs, letters, and more, keeping everything organized can be a chore. And even more so if there’s a mix of physical and digital paperwork to deal with. Scanning your documents and organizing them digitally is a smart idea. But while there are plenty of scanner apps, any features you might need beyond basic scanning are

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This transforming, dual-screened Android console is the most interesting handheld I’ve ever tested

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-25 06:37:20

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority It isn’t often that something entirely new crops up in the gaming space. Nintendo is the only player still innovating when it comes to handhelds, but even then the evolution from the Wii U in 2012 to the Nintendo Switch 2 released just a few months ago feels far more iterative than say, the leap from the Game Boy to the Nintendo DS. Then there’s the ONEXSUGAR SUGAR 1. With two screens, folding controllers, and more power than nearly any other Android gaming h

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Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-25 04:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're running into problems with ChatGPT this morning, you're not alone. Just after 8:30 a.m. ET, reports began surfacing that paid users were experiencing quite a few errors when trying to converse with the chatbot. In some cases, ChatGPT responds with an error message; in others, it doesn't respond at all. OpenAI confirmed the issue The outage‑tracking website DownDetector showed a spike in reports about that time. Reports were declining but still present b

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Tired of AI images online? This search engine lets you hide them from results now

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-25 06:23:32

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused browser and search engine, has released a new setting on its search engine that allows users to hide AI-generated images. "Our philosophy about AI features is 'private, useful, and optional.' Our goal is to help you find what you're looking for. You should decide for yourself how much AI you want in your life – or if you want any at all," the company said on X last week. Also: I test AI tools for a living. Here are 3 image generator

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Need a new laptop for the office? Save $500 on the Dell 16 Plus and improve your workflow

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-08-25 06:31:14

'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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SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 05:54:03

Announcing SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management We've supported .env integration for managing secrets, but it has several issues: Apps are disconnected from their secrets - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need - applications lack a clear contract about which secrets they need Parsing .env is unclear - comments, multiline values, and special characters all have ambiguous behavior across different parsers - comments, multiline values, and special characters al

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Mercedes-Benz’s Latest Decision Signals Trouble Ahead for EVs

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-25 06:01:03

We are likely to see this story repeat itself, with only the names at the top changing. Mercedes-Benz’s latest announcement does not bode well for the future of electric vehicles in the United States, especially as federal tax breaks are set to expire. On September 30, the federal incentives introduced under the Biden administration to support EV adoption will officially disappear. These tax credits were designed to offset the higher cost of EVs compared to gas-powered vehicles. But with the cl

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Researcher threatens X with lawsuit after falsely linking him to French probe

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-25 06:25:47

Elon Musk's X is refusing to hand over data to French authorities, claiming it's defending its users' free speech and privacy while branding a criminal investigation into alleged algorithm manipulation as "politically motivated." In a post on Monday, X's Global Government Affairs account denied the allegations, insisting the French investigation "egregiously undermines X’s fundamental right to due process and threatens our users’ rights to privacy and free speech." Preparing to fight the alleg

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How WIRED Analyzed the Epstein Video

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-08-25 06:54:08

Michael Calore: Go to the movies. Lauren Goode: Just go to the movies. Katie Drummond: I like that. Michael Calore: This is the worst time of year to go to the movies. Lauren Goode: No, it's the best time of the year because air conditioning and comfy seats. Michael Calore: Yeah, but it's- Katie Drummond: I'm with Lauren, that's great advice. Lauren Goode: No, I've been three times this year and every time, very last minute. A friend invited me last minute to go see the 40th anniversary o

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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-08-25 06:00:00

“My whole life has been preparing me for this moment,” Ben Sanders said when asked about why he launched his emergency response startup Hyper. The company announced Monday a $6.3 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures, as well as an official emergence from stealth. As a child, he so wanted to become a police officer that he had his mother sew yellow stripes on his navy sweatpants. He wore that with an officer’s rain hat for an entire year. As he grew up, he worked at the intersection of tech

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SAVE Student Loan Borrowers Are Up Against an Aug. 1 Deadline. Here's What Experts Suggest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 09:00:26

Interest will restart for SAVE borrowers whose loans remain in a general forbearance on Aug. 1. Viva Tung/CNET If you're a student loan borrower enrolled in SAVE, do you have to switch to a new repayment before interest payments restart in August? That's the question on millions of borrowers' minds, but the answer depends on your forgiveness options and financial situation. "It's crucial for borrowers to act based on their own personal situation," said Elaine Rubin, a student loan policy exper

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What the 'Superman' Post-Credits Scenes Mean for the Future of the DC Cinematic Universe

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-25 09:25:03

The new Superman movie continues to rule the box office after its second weekend, leading the pack with $57 million from US audiences, and this relaunch of the DC universe is only getting started. Superman stars Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor and David Corenswet as the Man of Steel. The movie isn't an origin story; it picks up when Superman is already well-known (and moments after he loses any fight-winning streak he previously had). I won't provide any more details

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Dior begins sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-25 14:31:28

The House of Dior (Dior) is sending data breach notifications to U.S. customers informing them that a May cybersecurity incident compromised their personal information. Dior is a French luxury fashion house, part of the LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) group, which is the world's largest luxury conglomerate. The Dior brand alone generates an annual revenue of over $12 billion, operating hundreds of boutiques worldwide. The security incident occurred on January 26, 2025, but the company only

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The best CRM software with email marketing in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Ritoban Mukherjee 2025-08-25 14:23:47

'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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We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 11:26:04

We Made Postgres Writes Faster, but it Broke Replication +2 By Stu Hood, Ming Ying, Mathew Pregasen, and Olive Ratliff on June 30, 2025 When we built pg_search , the Postgres extension for search and analytics, write throughput was a priority. To be an effective alternative to Elasticsearch we needed to support high ingest workloads in real time. This is because many Elasticsearch use cases — like real-time dashboards, e-commerce search, and recommendation systems — involve continuous writes t

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Spanish police arrest five over $542M crypto investment scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 14:19:31

Spanish law enforcement arrested five people suspected of running an international cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that laundered more than €460 million ($542 million) from over 5,000 victims worldwide, according to a statement from Europol. The suspects, based in Madrid and the Canary Islands, allegedly operated a global network of accomplices who collected money through cash deposits, wire transfers and cryptocurrency transactions. According to Spain’s Guardia Civil, the criminal ring

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The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders

news.ycombinator.com Joachim Froholt 2025-08-23 10:52:43

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The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 21:44:30

The Gentoo Perl Versioning Scheme A common observation/confusion people have is that the versions used on Perl related things in Gentoo don't directly correspond to upstream versions. This is because Upstream uses two different schemes, and one of those schemes is fundamentally incompatible with Gentoo's. The Problem In most people's minds, this is how version numbers sort: 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.45 This is because you read . as a delimiter for multiple integers. However, in Perl, t

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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 14:46:40

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times. The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD Vance. “Th

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This Modder Is Making a Retro Gaming Handheld That Plays Actual SNES Cartridges

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-08-25 14:50:34

We’re in a renaissance of retro tech thanks to modders willing to push the envelope of old-school gaming. Take this ongoing project to scale down an old Nintendo SNES mainboard so it can fit in a device you can hold comfortably in your hands. Even better, it will eventually be able to play the actual cartridges going all the way back to 1990. This latest DIY design comes from tinkerer YveltalGriffin. You may have heard of them from their work on the Nintendo Kawaii, an open-source mod for the N

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Our 9 Favorite Pizza Ovens: Wood, Gas, Electric, and Grill (2025)

wired.com Adrienne So 2025-08-25 14:04:00

Honorable Mentions We've tried a lot of pizza ovens. Here are a few that we liked that didn't quite make the cut. Photograph: Adrienne So Ooni Karu, First Edition for $349: Ooni is still selling the previous generation oven of WIRED's top pick, the Karu 2, for about $100 less. Like other Ooni pizza ovens, O.G. Karu is an excellent oven—light, portable, and easy to clean—and WIRED reviewer Adrienne So couldn't stop using the thing after first testing it. Nonetheless the newer Karu 2 heats more

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Tesla’s response to cratering sales? A deals blitz

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-08-25 14:29:24

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. With its sales in the crapper, Tesla is resorting to a slate of deals and incentives to get reinvigorate flagging customer interest in its lineup of electric vehicles. In recent days, the automaker has rolled out a series of discounts and financing incentives on all of its models, as it seeks to capitalize on what is likely

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I found the perfect card reader that has it all - it even doubles as a storage box

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-25 18:14:31

'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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I tested Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7, and it became my new favorite foldable (despite the limitations)

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2025-08-25 18:15:00

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 4.2 / 5 Very good pros and cons Pros Smallest crease on a book-style foldable Slim and light design Premium in-hand feel A more complete AI suite than its rivals Same main camera as Galaxy S25 Ultra Cons Costs $2,000 Sharp hinge corners Slow charging speed Weak 3x telephoto camera $2,000 at Samsung $2,000 at Amazon more buying choices The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is Samsung's biggest design overhaul since the Z Fold 2 in 2020, and it's back with a bang. Over the last three

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Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities

news.ycombinator.com Suderman Is An Associated Press Investigative Reporter Interested In National Security 2025-08-25 18:15:24

As cryptocurrencies become more intertwined with the traditional financial system, industry heavyweights are racing for a long-sought goal of turning real-world assets into digital tokens. “Tokenization is going to open the door to a massive trading revolution,” said Vlad Tenev, the CEO of the trading platform Robinhood at a recent James Bond-themed tokenization launch event in the south of France. Advocates say tokenization is the next leap forward in crypto and can help break down walls that

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12 Ways ‘Alien: Earth’ Is Respectfully Reimagining the Franchise

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-08-25 18:00:55

Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley knows the tables are stacked against him. He knows the Alien franchise is a tough one to crack and that the idea of bringing it to televsion might elicit groans from certain fans. But Hawley is also really good at his job. He somehow turned Fargo into a TV show worthy of the incredible film. He made Legion one of the best comic book shows in recent memory. And he knows he’ll never be able to remake or recapture the terror you felt watching the Ridley Scott origin

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