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Instagram now lets you share Spotify songs with sound to Stories

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-22 02:48:24

Instagram announced Monday that it’s finally adding the ability for users to listen to previews of songs that they’ve shared from Spotify to Stories. While Instagram has long allowed users to share Spotify songs to their Stories, it would do so without sound, and simply provide a link to the song on the streaming platform. Now, when a user posts a song to their Story, viewers will be able to listen to a preview of the song right within Instagram. The small change, yet notable change makes it e

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The Perils of 'Design Thinking'

news.ycombinator.com Celine Nguyen 2025-08-20 22:27:11

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that design can change the world?” Several hands shot up, including mine. After a few seconds of silence, he advanced to the next slide of his presentation: a poster by the designer Frank Chimero that read, Design won’t save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck. My professor was

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What really happens when your phone runs out of RAM?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-23 03:00:00

Robert Triggs / Android Authority These days, high-end smartphones and even more affordable models ship with about as much RAM as a modern mid-range PC. And why shouldn’t they? We use our phones for various tasks, from flicking through countless apps to playing the latest high-end games. They all need RAM, and increasingly more of it, especially when it comes to chatting with a large language model or using AI to spruce up our media. Can your phone even run out of RAM these days? It sounds unl

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Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-23 07:25:09

After 2024’s Transformers One came and went, it’s been a question of whether we’d actually see the Autobots and Decepticons on the big screen. The answer now appears to be “yes,” and not just because Paramount’s still pretending that crossover with G.I. Joe is happening. According to Matt Belloni at Puck News, the studio is spinning up several Transformers movies. One is said to be helmed by One director Josh Cooley, and will be live-action. The other is said to be coming from ex-franchise stew

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TikTok is testing its own version of Instagram’s ‘broadcast channels’

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-23 22:22:00

TikTok is testing a new messaging tool called “bulletin boards,” the social network confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The feature lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers. Bulletin boards are pretty similar to Instagram’s broadcast channels feature that launched in 2023. Just like with broadcast channels on Instagram, only the creator of a bulletin board can post messages, and followers are limited to leaving emoji reactions. Bulletin boards support text,

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You can now mute words just on Threads, and even set a 30-day timer

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-24 02:15:07

It looks like Meta is finally treating Threads as its own app, rather than just an Instagram sidekick. After rolling out a standalone DMs system, Threads is now getting its own mute lists, along with something new (and very welcome): temporary filters that expire automatically. No Instagram strings attached In a post this week, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a revamped “Hidden Words” feature for Threads that includes its own independent word filters. Until now, muting a word on Threads

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Best Buy Has a 4.7-Star LG Monitor for Almost Free, Now Nearly 50% Off for 4th of July

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-08-24 14:10:50

Prime Day is still a couple weeks away. It’s an excellent time of the year to stock up on some new accessories, especially tech like computer mice, keyboards, and monitors. Though you don’t have to wait for mid July to start saving. Some retailers are trying to get ahead of Amazon are are showcasing some great opportunities to save on their products right now. For instance, Best Buy has this LG monitor for $98 off. It’s normally just shy of $200, so now, it’s just shy of $100—coming in at the li

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Low-income broadband fund can keep running, says Supreme Court

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-08-24 18:03:42

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. The Supreme Court ruled that the funding mechanism behind a key broadband subsidy program for schools and underserved areas can continue operating. In a decision issued on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected claims that Congress and the FCC’s implementation of the fund is unconstitu

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Threads now has a better word filter than Instagram

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-25 06:39:00

Threads has taken another step towards decoupling from Instagram by introducing its own word blocking filters. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the Hidden Words setting on Threads includes “newly added custom filters to block words, phrases, and emojis in batches, with optional time limits.” A previous version of Hidden Words was tied to Instagram, meaning you could only mute the same words and phrases across both platforms. This change enables users to tailor what they wa

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A Lisp adventure on the calm waters of the dead C (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Mihai Olteanu 2025-08-22 00:00:24

A Lisp adventure on the calm waters of the dead C I will use a C-like language throughout, with substantial liberties in its syntax, and I will try to answer "what if" and "how" questions regarding the implementation of some new features that actually cannot be implemented in C due to its limitations. I will examine and highlight those limitations. The scope of this exercise is to better understand Lisp and the power of the abstractions it offers over and above what most languages have, even th

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Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 18:04:30

There are garbage dumps everywhere for those with eyes to see Given my interest in extending the life of my SD cards and hard drives as much as possible, I’m surprised I haven’t come across /dev/shm before. In a word it’s a world-accessible RAM scratchpad, which seems baked right into POSIX, so that virtually every Unix system already has it mounted as a tmpfs by default: 1 2 ❯ mount | grep '/dev/shm' tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs ( rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64 ) Today’s lucky 10,000, indeed. It ge

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What's driving Wall Street stablecoin interest? Trillions up for grabs in the future and banks getting ready for it

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos Jordan Smith Talia Kaplan 2025-08-26 06:43:33

After a brief pullback this week, shares of stablecoin issuer and recent IPO darling Circle were in rally mode again, soaring double-digits on a percentage basis during trading on Thursday and ending the day up close to 8%, after having moved up by more than 600% percent since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month. Bitcoin and ether have led a recent crypto rise, as digital assets joined the resumption of the risk-on rally, with additional factors such as the potential for

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ExpressVPN's external auditors confirm no-logs policy as of February

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-26 18:19:57

"ExpressVPN never keeps data that could tie you to any online activity," the VPN provider claims on its website. An independent audit from late February supports those claims. Accounting firm KPMG found "reasonable assurance" that the VPN provider's system prevents the logging of user activity. The product is one of Engadget's top VPN picks. RAM-based VPN servers The firm's audit put ExpressVPN's TrustedServer system under a microscope. That's the company's RAM-based system. In theory, this ap

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Threads now lets you manage Hidden Words separately from Instagram, set time limits

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-08-26 18:57:46

Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, now has its own Hidden Words setting that operates separately from Instagram. The feature allows you to filter out posts that contain words, phrases, or emojis you don’t want to see in feeds, search, profiles, and replies. Previously, Hidden Words was tied to Instagram, so the filters that you entered would be applied to content on both platforms. Now, you can create a separate list of Hidden Words on Threads to further personalize the content that you see on th

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DirecTV's New $20 Streaming Bundle Is Tailor-Made for Your Kids

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 01:02:00

After introducing Genre Packs this past February, DirecTV is launching a new streaming option called MyKids for $20 a month, the TV provider announced Thursday. The offering is aimed at cord-cutters and joins the Genre Pack lineup as an affordable family-friendly package with live channels from Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and a Disney Plus subscription at no extra charge. Signing up for the MyKids pack doesn't require a satellite subscription, and you get access to a selection of

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AMD demo shows procedural generation slashing VRAM use from 35 GB to just 51 KB

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-08-27 09:51:00

Why it matters: Managing graphics memory has become one of the most pressing challenges facing the realm of real-time 3D rendering. As visuals become more detailed, the amount of VRAM required for modern high-end games is pushing against what average customers can afford. AMD and Nvidia are currently developing remedies to the issue, which involve shifting certain rendering tasks from memory to the GPU. A new research paper from AMD explains how procedurally generating certain 3D objects in rea

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AMD demo shows procedural generation cutting VRAM usage from 35GB to 51KB

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-08-27 14:51:00

Why it matters: Managing graphics memory has become one of the most pressing challenges facing the realm of real-time 3D rendering. As visuals become more detailed, the amount of VRAM required for modern high-end games is pushing against what average customers can afford. AMD and Nvidia are currently developing remedies to the issue, which involve shifting certain rendering tasks from memory to the GPU. A new research paper from AMD explains how procedurally generating certain 3D objects in rea

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Can these $100 Android phones replace my flagship? The result after weeks of testing

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-27 12:53:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Both of these Blackview smartphones retail for under $100 Both handsets have what it takes for tasks such as messaging, taking photos and video, social media, and browsing the web Both benefit form bumping up the virtual RAM to the max. $94.99 at Amazon It's easy to think that you have to drop hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars to get a new smartphone. If you want a flagship smartphone from the big brands, then yes, you're going to experience some serious weight

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Both these Android handsets are under $100

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-27 22:53:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Both of these Blackview smartphones retail for under $100 Both handsets have what it takes for tasks such as messaging, taking photos and video, social media, and browsing the web Both benefit form bumping up the virtual RAM to the max. $94.99 at Amazon It's easy to think that you have to drop hundreds – if not thousands -- of dollars to get a new smartphone. If you want a flagship smartphone from the big brands, then yes, you're going to experience some serious weight r

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Experience Making a 1-minute AI movie with my 7-year old daughter

news.ycombinator.com Christian Sandor 2025-08-27 08:35:58

My daughter Kate (7 years old) really loves Minecraft! Together, we used several generative AI tools to create a 1-minute animation based on only 1 input photo of her. The whole project took around 20 hours of work and I learned several lessons that I want to share here. Context I am still trying to get used to the enormous speed with which generative AI is progressing. 6 months ago, I was blogging about my experiments with Tencent’s Hunyuan Video, which was an absolute breakthrough at that ti

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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 08:40:10

Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve's "Steam Machines"-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS's Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware as their Windows counterparts. Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11. The performance advantage is yet another way that Valve's upstart OS is differentiating itself from the "default" Windows inst

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Looking at Framework’s progress on software support for its repairable laptops

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-28 14:12:30

For the past five years, we've been paying a lot of attention to Framework, the upstart PC company focused on modular, repairable, upgradeable, and customizable laptop designs. So far, Framework has done a solid job of offering a steady stream of hardware upgrades for its systems, particularly the original Framework Laptop 13. But the company's track record on software support—including BIOS updates and driver updates with performance improvements, bug fixes, and important security updates—has

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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-28 18:25:39

Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve's "Steam Machines"-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS' Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware as their Windows counterparts. Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11. The performance advantage is yet another way that Valve's upstart OS is differentiating itself from the "default" Windows insta

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Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and Framework Laptop 13 in-stock

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 14:17:40

We have a lot of updates to share with you today: Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and shipments are starting, Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 300 Series) is now in stock, and we have a number of events coming up! Let’s start with Framework Laptop 12. This is a 12.2” touchscreen convertible laptop that is highly repairable, durable, and upgradeable, and it comes in five awesome colorways. It’s also my personal favorite of our four product lines and the computer I use most day-to-day. T

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Warframe Isleweaver's Spider-Man-Like Frame Is a Masterpiece of Design

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-29 13:00:00

There's a lot to get excited about in Warframe's Isleweaver expansion -- which is free to play today on PlayStation, Xbox and PC. The update links the time-lost Warframe 1999 and the timeless islands of Duviri, pushes the Void War narrative arc forward and gives tight-knit player guilds a new large-scale operation to contribute to. The biggest allure of a new update for many players will always be the shiny new toys, and Isleweaver has tons of those too. A new whip and throwable clustered barbs

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How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! [video] (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Guy Steele 2025-08-26 22:12:22

InfoQ Homepage Presentations How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! Like Reading list View Presentation Vertical Horizontal Full Speed: 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x Download MP3 Slides 01:09:36 Summary Guy L. Steele Jr. believes that it should not be the programmer’s job to think about parallelism, but languages should provide ways to transparently run tasks in parallel. This requires a new approach in building languages supporting algorithms b

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10 Best Protein Powders of 2025, Tested & Reviewed by WIRED

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-08-30 05:56:00

Honorable Mentions Photograph: Boutayna Chokrane Seeq Clear Protein Powder for $49: I was skeptical when I purchased Seeq Clear Protein, but I’m a sucker for anything watermelon-flavored. I was pleasantly surprised. It tastes like a creamier sports drink (I promise it’s better than that description sounds), and each serving has 22 grams of protein and 4.5 grams of BCAAs. There are zero grams of sugar. Like a lot of other clear protein powders, it’s often more expensive than its counterparts. B

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Travels with Rambax

technologyreview.com Abdullahi Tsanni 2025-08-30 18:00:00

Lamine Touré, director of Rambax MIT, leads drum practice in Grand Mbao NIKO ODHIAMBO ’25 Touré, a Senegalese master drummer and an MIT lecturer in world music, cofounded Rambax in 2001 with Patricia Tang, an associate professor and ethnomusicologist who specializes in West African music. It began as an extracurricular group to teach students and other members of the MIT community the art of sabar, a vibrant West African drumming and dance tradition. Today, Rambax is a credit-bearing class (21M

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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 22:53:12

For the first time in bug bounty history, an autonomous penetration tester has reached the top spot on the US leaderboard. Our path to reaching the top ranks on HackerOne began with rigorous benchmarking. Since the early days of XBOW, we understood how crucial it was to measure our progress, and we did that in two stages: First we tested XBOW with existing CTF challenges (from well-known providers like PortSwigger and Pentesterlab), then quickly moved on and built our own unique benchmark that

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Paramount Plus with Showtime is getting a rebrand

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-08-31 02:14:21

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. ”Paramount Plus with Showtime” has always been one of the more awkward bits of branding to come out of the streaming era, but soon subscribers will know the tier by another name. This week Paramount informed Paramount Plus subscribers that Paramount Plus with Showtime — the platform’s most expensive tier that features Showtime progra

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Instagram now lets you share Spotify songs with sound to Stories

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ExpressVPN's external auditors confirm no-logs policy as of February

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AMD demo shows procedural generation slashing VRAM use from 35 GB to just 51 KB

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Experience Making a 1-minute AI movie with my 7-year old daughter

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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Travels with Rambax

XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

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