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Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-08 06:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lossless audio is coming to Spotify. Lossless audio offers a more accurate and dynamic sound. The feature is slowly rolling out to all users with a paid plan. In 2021, Spotify teased the idea of a high-fidelity tier (hi-fi tier) that would offer lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, licensing issues caused the plan to be put on the back burner. Also: This new Spotify feature almost ma

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The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-08 04:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Ask someone their worst fears about AI, and you’ll find a few recurring topics — from near-term fears like AI tools replacing human workers and the loss of critical thinking to apocalyptic scenarios like AI-designed weapons of mass destruction and automated war. Most have one thing in common: a loss of human control. And the sy

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Grammarly now offers spelling and grammar check for five more languages

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-08 06:00:00

Grammarly built its reputation on being a tool for checking spelling, grammar, and writing tips in English. The company is now expanding the scope of these features to support five more languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian. The company said it will now suggest paragraph-level rewrites for tone, style, and flow for the new languages. Users writing in any of these five languages, as well as English, will also be able to translate text in-line in 19 languages. The multilingua

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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-08 10:44:30

Reddit users can no longer see how many people are subscribed to their favorite subreddit communities. The platform has announced that it’s removing the member count metric that appears on subreddit pages — located under the page bio on the right for desktop users, or at the top under the subreddit name on mobile — to better focus on real-time engagement. The member count is being replaced by two metrics. One shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, “based on a roll

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YouTube Music didn’t learn from Spotify’s mistake, tries to paywall lyrics

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 17:02:29

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music is experimenting with paywalling lyrics for its free users. The company is limiting the number of free lyrics views before prompting users to upgrade to a Premium account. This move is similar to what Spotify did, a change it eventually reversed after user backlash. Spotify and YouTube Music are reasonably competitive in their features, with each service having some nice extras. Spotify Connect is a lifesaver if you have multiple devices, wh

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Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-08 19:00:00

It’s been a long time coming but Spotify is finally getting lossless audio. Rumors have been circulating about a high-fidelity offering since as early as 2017. In 2021, Spotify claimed it was “coming later this year.” And by May of 2024 it was “almost ready.” So, when rumors started picking up again in June of this year, they were met with skepticism, especially amid announcements over the launch of features nobody was asking for, like direct messaging. Well, it’s here. For real. And there’s so

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Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-08 19:00:00

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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Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear

news.ycombinator.com August 2025-10-08 19:55:16

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer cells in animal models, the drugs had limited impact on patients in clinical trials and caused dangerously systemic inflammatory responses, low platelet counts, and liver toxicity, among other adverse reactions—even at a low dose. But in 2018, the lab of Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey V. Ravetch

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Immunotherapy drug eliminates aggressive cancers in clinical trial

news.ycombinator.com August 2025-10-09 05:55:16

Over the past 20 years, a class of cancer drugs called CD40 agonist antibodies have shown great promise—and induced great disappointment. While effective at activating the immune system to kill cancer cells in animal models, the drugs had limited impact on patients in clinical trials and caused dangerously systemic inflammatory responses, low platelet counts, and liver toxicity, among other adverse reactions—even at a low dose. But in 2018, the lab of Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey V. Ravetch

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Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 13:20:19

Tesla has quietly changed how it defines "Full Self-Driving," Electrek reports, in a way that awfully sounds like it's giving up on CEO Elon Musk's perennially pushed-back promise that its cars will actually drive themselves without human help. The change comes in a document outlining a potential and absolutely ludicrous $1 trillion compensation package for Musk that the Tesla board recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The GDP of a wealthy nation's worth in stock options,

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Citron’s big update just landed, and it could be a game-changer for Switch emulation

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 10:11:36

Nick Fernandez / Android Authority TL;DR Switch emulator Citron just released version 0.7, its first update in more than six months. It’s a “complete ground-up rewrite” of the emulator, with significant changes and improvements. Highlights include an overhaul of the Vulkan rendering pipeline and early FSR2 support. Nintendo Switch emulation had a rough one in 2024, but this year is shaping up to offer some huge leaps forward. Last week we saw a big update for Eden, but now it’s Citron’s time

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‘The Grandmaster’ Chinese Martial Artist Max Zhang to Join ‘Highlander’ Reboot

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-10 18:45:18

Bruce Campbell steps back from Evil Dead, Marion Cotillard plays a Snow Queen, and Eman Esfandi promises a lightsaber move that we’ve never seen before is coming in the second season of Ahsoka. Spoilers are go! Highlander Deadline reports that Chinese martial artist and actor Max Zhang (Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Grandmaster, Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) has joined the cast of Chad Stahelski’s Highlander in a currently undisclosed role. Bob: The Musical Deadline also reports Randy Mancuso (M

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Spotify’s music recommendations stink. Here’s how I made them better

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 03:00:05

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority I am a snob when it comes to music choices. I have spent countless hours in my teenage years arguing with strangers on the internet that Megadeth is overrated, or defending Nickelback from being smeared as the worst rock band ever. Now, while I’ve realized I have been wrong in imposing my music choices on others, I still maintain a high level of scrutiny when deciding which music tracks will remain in my Spotify playlists. Yes, I rely on Spotify as one of my go

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The best DACs for Apple Music Lossless in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:00:36

Apple Music is one of the few streaming services that offers high-resolution audio (aka “lossless”) at no extra charge. But enjoying that extra quality on your phone usually requires some extra hardware. That is the purpose of this guide, — to help you find exactly what you need depending on how you prefer to listen. Every product listed below will help you squeeze more audio quality out of your Apple Music subscription. In fact, whatever music service you use, your listening experience will be

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I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 18:06:52

So Long Hi everyone, I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher. For the past several months I have been preparing the Open Source release of Nova Launcher. This work included cleaning up the codebase, reviewing licenses, removing or replacing proprietary code, and coordinating with legal to ensure a proper release. When Branch a

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So Long [Nova Launcher's FOSS release blocked by its owners,despite obligations]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:06:52

So Long Hi everyone, I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher. For the past several months I have been preparing the Open Source release of Nova Launcher. This work included cleaning up the codebase, reviewing licenses, removing or replacing proprietary code, and coordinating with legal to ensure a proper release. When Branch a

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Dwayne Johnson Will Play the Chicken Man in ‘Lizard Music’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-12 02:00:08

The Rock is about to become the Chicken Man. Dwayne Johnson is set to reteam with his Smashing Machine director, Benny Safdie, to make Lizard Music, a fantasy adventure based on the popular 1976 book by Daniel Pinkwater. According to Deadline, which broke the news, Johnson will play the aforementioned poultry-themed character, who teams up with a young man to explore some mysterious goings-on involving music played by lizards on TV. It’s one of those books you probably read in middle school or

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Amazon Music launches AI-powered weekly playlists based on 'preferences and mood'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 06:42:39

Amazon Music has just launched new AI-powered weekly playlists based on the "preferences and mood" of listeners. This just means it scrapes what you've already been listening to and extrapolates further. It doesn't apply modern technology to gauge the actual mood of users. The company says the playlists include "a curated mix of familiar favorites from their most listened-to artists and latest favorites to new discoveries." I'm not exactly sure how this is different from what music streaming pl

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Benoit Blanc goes full Gothic in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-12 06:40:21

Private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) might just turn out to be Rian Johnson's greatest creation. Introduced in 2019's Knives Out, Blanc's syrupy Southern drawl and idiosyncratic approach to solving a mysterious New England death charmed audiences worldwide and launched a modern whodunnit franchise. The third installment in the series, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, has already garnered early rave reviews after screening at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over th

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Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

news.ycombinator.com Patrick George 2025-10-12 22:20:06

Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric SUV since it debuted, in 2020. Compared with even just two years ago, when the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car, many companies make great EVs now. Some of them have the Model Y beat in certain areas, but for the price, the Tesla is still the total package. Now, imagine how good Teslas could be if Musk apparently wasn’t so bor

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Cillian Murphy Is Flattered Everyone Thought He Would Play an Emaciated Zombie in ’28 Years Later’

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-12 22:48:49

As soon as the teaser trailer for 28 Years Later dropped, pretty much everyone and their mom assumed the skinny zombie seen struggling through flowers looked uncannily like Cillian Murphy’s Jim, the franchise’s original main character from director Danny Boyle and Alex Garland‘s 2002 28 Days Later. The internet sleuths swiftly discovered the likeness was pure serendipity, but the Oscar-winning actor now says he was touched that fans had assumed the emaciated undead wanderer was him. In an inter

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Amazon Music’s new AI feature generates personalized playlists every Monday

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-10-12 22:00:00

Ever since Spotify launched an AI DJ, Amazon Music has been developing its own AI-powered features, including AI-generated playlists and AI-assisted search, to compete more effectively with the music giant. Now, Amazon Music is launching a new feature called “Weekly Vibe,” designed to further personalize the listening experience. The feature is rolling out today to U.S. customers across all subscription tiers within the app on both iOS and Android. Recognizing a common challenge faced by avid

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2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

technologyreview.com Helen Thomson 2025-10-13 10:30:00

Goenka saw a better way: Build a real-time system that could “stream” the sequencing data, analyzing it as it was being generated, like streaming a film on Netflix rather than downloading it to watch later. To do this, she designed a cloud computing architecture to pull in more processing power. Goenka’s first challenge was to increase the speed at which her team could upload the raw data for processing, by streamlining the requests between the sequencer and the cloud to avoid unnecessary “chat

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Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 11:00:51

In 2019, Record Store Day partnered with manufacturer Crosley to revive a 3-inch collectible vinyl format first launched in Japan in 2004. Five years later, a new 4-inch-sized format called Tiny Vinyl wants to take the miniature vinyl collectible crown, and launch partner Target is throwing its considerable weight behind it as an exclusive launch partner, with 44 titles expected in the coming weeks. It’s 2025, and the global vinyl record market has reached $2 billion in annual sales and is stil

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Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 01:42:04

TLDR: In a real world benchmark, the default musl allocator caused a 7x slowdown compared to other allocators. I recommend all Rust projects immediately add the following lines to their application’s main.rs : // Avoid musl's default allocator due to lackluster performance // https://nickb.dev/blog/default-musl-allocator-considered-harmful-to-performance #[cfg(target_env = "musl" )] #[global_allocator] static GLOBAL : mimalloc ::MiMalloc = mimalloc::MiMalloc; And Cargo.toml [ target . 'cfg(ta

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Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:18:28

Help grow the community! Know a useful command or recipe that's missing? Help other developers by contributing.

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Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-13 01:02:36

Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are simply watered-down versions of promises he’s spent years making about the company. That’s not the picture Tesla’s board of directors paints in the company’s annual proxy statement, where they revealed the proposed pay package. Instead, the board focuses on how it plans to create “the most valuable company in history.” To be sure, if Tesla accomplishes all tha

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Tesla's board to Elon Musk: Hit these milestones, and we'll make you a trillionaire

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 14:09:14

It's September 2025, and things are looking peachy keen. Sure, the US job market has taken a nosedive. And yeah, only one in four Americans believes they have a good chance of improving their standard of living. But hey, Tesla's board has proposed a pay package that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. What really matters is that someone is having a good time, right? Tesla's board laid out what's by far the biggest CEO compensation package in history on Friday. It reads like the

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Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

news.ycombinator.com Fred Lambert 2025-10-13 06:23:55

Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy. Since 2016, Tesla has claimed that all its vehicles in production would be capable of achieving unsupervised self-driving capability. CEO Elon Musk has claimed that it would happen by the end of every year since 2018. Tesla has even sold a software package, known as “Full Self-Driving Capability” (FSD), for up to $15,000 to customers, promising tha

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Fede Alvarez Won’t Direct the ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-13 10:00:19

After Alien: Romulus proved to be a success for 20th Century Studios, grossing $350 million globally, sequel plans were quickly announced, with its director, Fede Alvarez, thought to be returning. Turns out that’s not entirely the case, as Too Fab reports that Alvarez will not be coming back to direct the Alien franchise follow-up feature after all. The filmmaker attended the red carpet for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood and shared, “We just finished the script, actuall

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Spotify's long-awaited lossless music is finally here - how to enable it today

The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags

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Fede Alvarez Won’t Direct the ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel

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