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'Peacemaker' Season 2: Steve Agee Teases 'Superman' Connection and 'Less Terrifying' Dance Number

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 05:00:03

Season 2 of Peacemaker, the first original TV series under the new DCU banner, is nearly here. It's been three-and-a-half years of waiting, and the new episode run kicks off on Thursday on HBO Max. I hope you're excited, because I sure am. The first season gave John Cena's helmet-wearing villain (previously seen in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad) the spotlight and, in turn, we watched Peacemaker -- also known as Chris Smith -- as he struggled with the bad decisions and abusive demons of his pas

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Google’s mysterious new smart speaker could offer spatial surround sound

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-17 10:30:54

Google TL;DR The mysterious smart speaker that appeared during Made by Google is a real, unannounced device. The speaker is said to come with Gemini installed. Users will reportedly be able to pair it with a Google TV Streamer. If you watched yesterday’s Made by Google event and thought you saw an unfamiliar piece of hardware, you weren’t imagining things. A device that looks like a mix between an Apple HomePod Mini and an Amazon Echo Dot briefly appeared in the stream. As it turns out, this

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Have You Seen This Rare Rainbow Snake? Florida Wants to Know

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-17 09:10:28

As their name suggests, rainbow snakes sport striking, iridescent scales that turn a glossy blue in the Sun. But these beautiful creatures haven’t been seen since 2020, so Florida officials are recruiting the public to help confirm they’re alive and well. In a release published August 18, Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced it was on the lookout for Farancia erytrogramma, whose populations have been threatened by habitat loss and snake fungal disease in recent ye

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Best Cordless Vacuums: A New Winner Emerges and It's Cheap, Too

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 08:27:00

Many cordless vacuums come with anti-tangle brushrolls better suited for pet hair. Getty Images/Amy Kim/CNET Eureka Eureka RapidClean Pro: The RapidClean Pro from Eureka is another affordable cordless stick vacuum that you can get for less than $200. It offers generally solid performance, removing 94% sand from hardwood, 64.8% from low-pile and 60% from midpile carpets. However, like many vacuums in this price range, it's edged out in performance by other picks that earn a spot on our best lis

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Forget GPT-5: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch sooner than you think

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-17 15:11:52

Tharon Green/ZDNET/Open AI/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways As the paint on GPT-5 dries, OpenAI is already working on GPT-6. The model's biggest differentiator seems to be deeper personalization. OpenAI is keeping an increasingly brisk pace on the path toward AGI. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. At the beginning of August, OpenAI launched its much-anticipated GPT-5 family of models. While the launch was somewhat

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Airlines Sued for Selling ‘Window’ Seats Without a Window View

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-17 15:20:44

Have you ever paid for a window seat on an airplane that didn’t actually have a window? You could be part of a class action lawsuit in the near future. Delta and United Airlines have been sued this week in federal court for misrepresenting their seat offerings online. The plaintiffs note that when people buy tickets through competitors like Alaska Airlines and American Airlines, the website will flag when a window seat doesn’t actually have a window. Delta and United don’t tell consumers when t

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Best Cordless Vacuums: A New Winner Emerges and Its Cheap, Too

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-17 14:27:00

Many cordless vacuums come with anti-tangle brushrolls better suited for pet hair. Getty Images/Amy Kim/CNET Eureka Eureka RapidClean Pro: The RapidClean Pro from Eureka is another affordable cordless stick vacuum that you can get for less than $200. It offers generally solid performance, removing 94% sand from hardwood, 64.8% from low-pile and 60% from midpile carpets. However, like many vacuums in this price range, it's edged out in performance by other picks that earn a spot on our best lis

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Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 20:44:44

There are plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about electric vehicle adoption here in the US. The current administration has made no secret of its hostility toward EVs and, as promised, has ended as many of the existing EV subsidies and vehicle pollution regulations as it could. After more than a year of month-on-month growth, EV sales started to contract, and brands like Genesis and Volvo have seen their customers reject their electric offerings, forcing portfolio rethinks. But wait, it gets wo

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Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 20:59:49

Introducing Our New App! We’re excited to introduce an app that helps you find the perfect places to live based on your personal needs. Here’s what you can do right now: Find the Perfect Property for You and Your Housemates Our app lets you instantly find properties that match your and your housemates' budgets, desired travel times, and work locations. No more endless searching—just the homes that fit your lifestyle. Key Features

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Cua (YC X25) is hiring design engineers in SF

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 23:01:03

Overview Cua is building the infrastructure that enables general-purpose AI agents to safely and scalably use real computers and applications. We’re a small team backed by Y Combinator and top-tier investors, and our open-source tools are already used by thousands of developers. As a Founding Engineer, UX & Design, you’ll own how developers experience Cua - shaping everything from product flows and dashboards to the open-source contributions developers see every day. We’re looking for someone

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Birds Across the World Are Singing All Day for a Disturbing Reason

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-18 00:00:30

If the songbirds in your neighborhood are waking you up earlier and chirping well into the evening, blame light pollution. Artificial light touches nearly every corner of Earth’s surface, and a new study shows that it’s messing with birds’ biological clocks. Researchers analyzed a global acoustic dataset of more than 60 million recorded birdsongs representing more than 580 diurnal bird species. The findings, published Thursday, August 21, in the journal Science, show that light pollution has pr

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A Digital Underground Is Using the Flipper Zero to Break Into Cars

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-18 00:50:40

Its creators call it a “multi-tool” device. For many users, it’s a hacking accessory. Since it first debuted in 2020, the Flipper Zero has been considered a fun, low-key pen-tester, but a new report bolsters claims made by the tool’s critics, many of whom have argued that it makes nefarious hacking just a little too easy. 404 Media reports that claims the Flipper has become a favorite in a digital underground where low-level hackers create and sell their own software to modify the tool’s abilit

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Microsoft’s Xbox handheld is a good first step toward a Windows gaming OS

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-17 23:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The first thing I did when I got my hands on the Xbox Ally was reboot it. I wanted to see exactly how Microsoft manages to hide Windows beneath the Xbox interface that’s debuting on these handheld devices. After a short startup, I was met with the standard Windows login prompt. But I could use the controller to input the PIN code, an immediate improvement over what’s available

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Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Design Engineers in SF

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 05:01:03

Overview Cua is building the infrastructure that enables general-purpose AI agents to safely and scalably use real computers and applications. We’re a small team backed by Y Combinator and top-tier investors, and our open-source tools are already used by thousands of developers. As a Founding Engineer, UX & Design, you’ll own how developers experience Cua - shaping everything from product flows and dashboards to the open-source contributions developers see every day. We’re looking for someone

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Missouri Man Dies After Water Skiing Leads to Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-18 05:55:40

A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a rare but nearly always fatal brain amoeba infection likely caught while water skiing. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services disclosed the resident’s death Wednesday, following its initial report of the case last week (though few details about the case were released, several outlets reported the resident was a man). Officials are still investigating the source

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How to print checks in QuickBooks Online

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-18 10:00:23

ZDNET's key takeaways Even in a digital era, paper checks remain widely used. QuickBooks Online offers built-in tools for check alignment. Check numbering follows the print list order you select. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. So you want to print a paper check from QuickBooks Online? A paper check. I know. That's like using a phone to talk to someone with your voice. Who does that anymore? Even in a world of Venm

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ChatGPT-5 Lets You Choose Your AI Model. These Are Your Options

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-18 00:15:02

The biggest pushback after OpenAI announced its new GPT-5 model for ChatGPT came from devotees of older models who felt the new generative AI chatbot lacked the panache of its predecessors. Now you have more choices of pre-GPT-5 models (although you'll have to hunt for some of them) and better control over which components of GPT-5 handle your questions. OpenAI is still sorting through a somewhat rocky launch of GPT-5, led by complaints about the lack of model choices. The model has been antic

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Is the Flipper Zero the next big car theft gadget?

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-18 15:17:29

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 404 Media has a report out about an underground software market that enables the Flipper Zero to be used to unlock a wide variety of vehicles, including Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other models. The hack w

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The first update for Proton's privacy-focused chatbot offers major performance improvements

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-18 20:52:55

In July, Proton, the company behind Proton Mail , released Lumo , a privacy-focused AI chatbot. Now, just under a month later, Proton has begun rolling out Lumo 1.1 to both free and paying users, and according to the company, the updated assistant "performs significantly better across the board" relative to its predecessor. Just how much better is the new version of Lumo? Proton claims it offers a 170 percent improvement in context understanding, meaning the chatbot is able to more accurately a

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Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-18 20:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. One of the biggest topics in AI these days is agents — the idea that AI is going to move from chatbots to reliably completing tasks for us in the real world. But the problem with agents is that they really aren’t all that reliable right now. There’s a lot of work happening in the AI industry to try to fix that, and that brings me to my guest today: David Luan, the head of Amazon’s

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AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-19 00:46:10

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Linux kernel developers are already using AI. AI helps Linux programmers, but they're careful how they use it. Linux kernel maintainers must decide key AI policy issues. Get more in-depth ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has suggested as much as 30% of the company's code is now written by AI. While Microsoft may love AI code-writing tools, open-source and Linux develope

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The Open-Office Trap (2014)

news.ycombinator.com Maria Konnikova 2025-12-18 21:16:39

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the m

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Get up to 77 percent off NordVPN two-year subscriptions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-19 05:30:37

There are dozens of VPNs to choose from, but to think they're all created equally would be a mistake. Some are better than others, and NordVPN sits squarely in the better category. Now, you can save up to 77 percent on most of NordVPN's plans. Arguably the best plan for most people is the NordVPN Plus plan, which you can get two years of access for only $108 right now. That's 73 percent off the usual rate, and NordVPN throws in an addition three months for free, so you're actually getting a 27-m

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AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

news.ycombinator.com Gareth Halfacree 2025-12-19 04:35:22

Cloud services giant Fastly has released a report claiming AI crawlers are putting a heavy load on the open web, slurping up sites at a rate that accounts for 80 percent of all AI bot traffic, with the remaining 20 percent used by AI fetchers. Bots and fetchers can hit websites hard, demanding data from a single site in thousands of requests per minute. I can only see one thing causing this to stop: the AI bubble popping According to the report [PDF], Facebook owner Meta's AI division accounts

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Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 05:17:01

In his article Why I chose OCaml as my primary language, my friend Xavier Van de Woestyne presents, in the section Dependency injection and inversion, two approaches to implementing dependency injection: one using user-defined effects and one using modules as first-class values. Even though I’m quite convinced that both approaches are legit, I find them sometimes a bit overkill and showing fairly obvious pitfalls when applied to real software. The goal of this article is therefore to briefly hig

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The Open-Office Trap

news.ycombinator.com Maria Konnikova 2025-12-19 15:16:39

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The rooms opened up directly onto the hallway, and tidbits about the French Revolution, say, or Benjamin Franklin’s breakfast, would drift from one classroom to another. Distracting at best and frustrating at worst, wide-open classrooms went, for the m

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Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum

news.ycombinator.com Time Extension 2025-12-19 12:21:35

As you may or may not already know, last week saw the start of YRGB 2025, a retro game development competition for the ZX Spectrum computer scheduled to last between August 7th to August 20th. As a result, we've recently seen a large increase in the number of homebrew releases for the classic machine, with exciting titles like Manu & Kit's Asymmetry and Miguelito's Escape from the Twilight Castle, becoming available to play and download for free. One game, in particular, however, seems to have

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

news.ycombinator.com James Titcomb 2025-12-19 16:04:08

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

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The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

wired.com Richard Warnica 2025-12-19 15:30:00

Not long before he decided to leave NASA, Steve Rader, an engineer who spent 36 years at the Johnson Space Center, held a retreat for leaders in his department at his home in downtown Houston. It had been a trying few months for Rader and his team. “I will say, I don't cry a lot,” he tells me in a recent phone call. That changed after Trump took office. “You can ask my wife, from the first few months I cried.” After decades working on projects like the Space Shuttle and International Space Stat

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 21

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 14:43:37

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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'Peacemaker' Season 2: Steve Agee Teases 'Superman' Connection and 'Less Terrifying' Dance Number

Google’s mysterious new smart speaker could offer spatial surround sound

Have You Seen This Rare Rainbow Snake? Florida Wants to Know

Best Cordless Vacuums: A New Winner Emerges and It's Cheap, Too

Forget GPT-5: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch sooner than you think

Airlines Sued for Selling ‘Window’ Seats Without a Window View

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Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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Birds Across the World Are Singing All Day for a Disturbing Reason

A Digital Underground Is Using the Flipper Zero to Break Into Cars

Microsoft’s Xbox handheld is a good first step toward a Windows gaming OS

Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Design Engineers in SF

Missouri Man Dies After Water Skiing Leads to Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection

How to print checks in QuickBooks Online

ChatGPT-5 Lets You Choose Your AI Model. These Are Your Options

Is the Flipper Zero the next big car theft gadget?

The first update for Proton's privacy-focused chatbot offers major performance improvements

Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race

AI is creeping into the Linux kernel - and official policy is needed ASAP

The Open-Office Trap (2014)

Get up to 77 percent off NordVPN two-year subscriptions

AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

Basic dependency injection in OCaml with objects

The Open-Office Trap

Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

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