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'Wall-E With a Gun': Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-09-09 01:28:20

Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved Pixar character Wall-E holding a gun. It’s been a busy month for Midjourney. This week, the generative AI startup released its sophisticated new video tool, V1, which lets users make short animated clips from images they generate or upload. The current version of Midjourney’s AI video tool requires an image as a starting

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HomeKit Weekly: Aqara’s W100 Climate Sensor brings precision monitoring and smart control to your HomeKit setup

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-09-09 05:45:00

Last night, I had forgotten to take my upstairs Nest off Eco mode, and I was shocked to see the difference in one of my son’s rooms based on my Nest Temperature Sensor. In my dream world, I’d have a variable system that could heat and cool rooms independently, but nevertheless, I didn’t buy bitcoin when it was $1, so I cannot afford that. With that being said, I do like having the knowledge of what’s happening in individual rooms and having that data in HomeKit. The new Aqara W100 Climate Sensor

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Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 04:57:22

Any ideas for how we can keep the web (or at least part of it) human? It feels like every time I do a web search, more and more of the results are AI generated nonsense. I'm worried that it's going to become much more difficult to find the human-generated content. How can we keep a part of the web human? Any ideas? (I'm not keen on Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning Orb being the "solution.")

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'A Minecraft Movie' Starts Streaming Today. Here's How and Where to Watch it

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 04:00:04

If you caught some morsels from A Minecraft Movie on social media -- videos of theater audiences going wild over a chicken jockey or Jack Black passionately singing about cooking chicken with lava -- today you can stream the flick that started it all. The Max streaming service, which will soon take on the title of HBO Max again, previously announced that the video game movie would premiere in June before sharing the exact release date for the PG-rated comedy. A Minecraft Movie stars Black, Jaso

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The Kiwi Ears Étude deliver tactile bass with vibration-powered IEM tech

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-09 01:15:57

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR The Kiwi Ears Étude in-ear monitor (IEM) introduces Kiwi Vibration Transducer (KVT) tech for tactile low-end immersion. The IEMs combine 10mm beryllium-plated dynamic drivers with three balanced armatures. The Étude are on sale now for $119 at Amazon, Linsoul, and other retailers. Kiwi Ears recently unveiled the Étude, a pair of high-end in-ear monitors (IEMs) that the brand promises can deliver exceptional bass response via the brand’s all-new Kiwi Vibra

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Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 09:34:21

9 min read This post is also available in Français Nederlands and Español In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). This comes shortly after the publication of our DDoS threat report for 2025 Q1 on April 27, 2025, where we highlighted attacks reaching 6.5 Tbps and 4.8 billion packets per second (pps). The 7.3 Tbps attack is 12% larger than our previous record and 1 Tbps greater than a recent attack reported by cyber

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An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-06 10:56:40

UNIT: Dedmen, Programmer, Programming TO: Arma 3 Users OPSUM: An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game experience SITREP Welcome to this technical deep dive into Arma 3's performance optimizations in update 2.20. Before handing you over to this blog's actual author, I wanted to share a few words on the state of Live Ops. Yes, REPception is now a thing. Some 12 years since its initial release, we still find ourselves releasing free platform updates to the game. T

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Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 07:54:12

You can play Tux Racer directly in your browser here: Play TuxRacer.JS TuxRacer.js is a port / rewrite of Extreme Tux Racer, which itself is based on the original Tux Racer game. This project allows you to enjoy Tux Racer directly in your web browser, supporting all major desktop and mobile browsers. Note: This project is in an early development stage and far from complete. However, some courses are already functional enough to provide a fun experience (at least for me!). How to Run TuxRacer.

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Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 12:19:58

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found some startling results in the brain scans of ChatGPT users, adding to the growing body of evidence suggesting that AI is having a serious — and barely-understood — impact on its users' cognition even as it explodes in popularity worldwide. In a new paper currently awaiting peer review, researchers from the school's storied Media Lab documented the vast differences between the brain activity of

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First Reactions to ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Are Chaotically All Over the Place

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-09-09 13:45:30

Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World Rebirth has finally screened for critics and pop culture commentators, and the first reactions are in. The Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey-starring franchise installment aims to revitalize the series since the release of Jurassic World: Dominion in 2022. Director Gareth Edwards teams up with original Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp for Jurassic World Rebirth. The film serves as a departure from the main ensemble of the Jurassic World f

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SpaceX's String of Starship Failures Continues With Massive Rocket Explosion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 11:41:00

SpaceX's ongoing mission to prepare Starship spacecraft for trips to the moon and, eventually, Mars suffered a setback when a spacecraft exploded this week in South Texas. The explosion happened during what SpaceX called routine testing in preparation for Starship's 10th flight since 2023, which was expected to happen later this month. SpaceX uses a different rocket design to launch its Starlink internet satellites. On X, the space company wrote, "On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m

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MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-09 13:32:33

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last week, MIT News announced his solution: a technique that uses AI-generated polymer films to physically restore damaged paintings in hours rather than months. The research appears in Nature. Kachkine's method works by printing a transparent "mask" containing thousands of precisely color-matched region

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Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill Gates-backed TerraPower

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-09 12:41:06

TerraPower, the nuclear startup founded and backed by Bill Gates, announced a new $650 million funding round this week. The investment will help the company build its first commercial power plant. Like other nuclear startups, TerraPower has been riding a wave of interest from hyperscalers, data center developers, and, now, chip designers. Nvidia’s venture arm, NVentures, participated in the round, marking its first energy investment. Bill Gates and HD Hyundai, both already on the cap table, al

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Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-09 13:20:06

Character.AI, the Google-backed AI chatbot provider with tens of millions of monthly active users, announced on Friday that Karandeep Anand, the former VP of Business Products at Meta, is joining the company as CEO. Previously a board adviser to Character.AI, Anand is stepping into the CEO role at a pivotal moment for the chatbot provider, as the company tries to simultaneously grow its platform while combatting child safety concerns. In recent months, Character.AI has added an array of new saf

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The startups rolling out of Europe’s early-stage micromobility scene

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-09 13:50:12

Early-stage micromobility has shifted over the last few years. The cowboy antics of e-scooter companies causing chaos in a bid to scale has faded along with those fat venture checks that are now flowing to AI startups. Tighter capital combined with an existential need to create sustainable business models has produced a new crop of micromobility startups. This week, I attended Micromobility Europe in Brussels, where I toured the conference’s so-called “Startup Arena” to get a sense of what Eur

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Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-09 16:30:30

Conspiracy theorists are using AI chatbots not only to convince themselves of their harebrained beliefs, but to recruit other users on social media. As independent Australian news site Crikey reports, conspiracy theorists are having extensive conversations with AI chatbots to "prove" their beliefs. Then, they post the transcripts and videos on social media as "proof" to others. According to the outlet's fascinating reporting, there are already several bots specifically trained on harebrained c

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Wyze wants to keep prying eyes away from your cameras with this new feature

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-09 17:17:03

Wyze Wyze is rolling out a new program to make sure only you can see your home security cameras. In an announcement Tuesday about its new VerifiedView program, Wyze explained that it already uses "strong protections like password requirements, two-factor authentication, cloud security, encryption, tools to detect suspicious logins, and much more." Despite those efforts, though, the company has suffered several high-profile breaches that potentially let people look into strangers' homes. Also:

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Why I recommend this budget Android phone to most people over Samsung and Google

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-09-09 17:55:01

ZDNET's key takeaways The Nothing Phone 3a Pro offers exceptional value at its $459 sale price. An improved design, camera stack, and charging speed round out this year's upgrades. The lack of wireless charging and IP rating is easy to shoulder, but not the lack of retail presence. View now at Nothing View now at Amazon View now at Walmart more buying choices There's no greater reality check for a tech journalist than when you're at a family gathering, set your phone on the dining table, and

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Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Laura Gil 2025-09-09 10:52:50

Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972. On the one hand, there was a dark piece of radioactive natural uranium ore, extracted from a mine in Africa. On the other, accepted scientific data about the constant ratio of radioactive uranium in ore. Examination of this high-grade ore from a mine in Gabon was found to contain a lower proportion of uranium-235 (U-235) — the fissile sort. Onl

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Deezer starts labeling AI-generated music to tackle streaming fraud

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-09 17:25:04

Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud. The company reports that about 18% of the music uploaded each day — more than 20,000 tracks — is now fully AI-generated. Although most of these tracks don’t go viral, Deezer says around 70% of their streams are fake and that they are designed to earn royalties fraudulently. To combat this, AI-generated tracks on Deezer are now clearly tagged. These tr

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Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill-Gates backed TerraPower

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-09-09 17:41:06

TerraPower, the nuclear startup founded and backed by Bill Gates, announced a new $650 million funding round this week. The investment will help the company build its first commercial power plant. Like other nuclear startups, TerraPower has been riding a wave of interest from hyperscalers, data center developers, and, now, chip designers. Nvidia’s venture arm, NVentures, participated in the round, marking its first energy investment. Bill Gates and HD Hyundai, both already on the cap table, al

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Iran’s government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-09 17:44:19

Earlier this week, virtually everyone in Iran lost access to the internet in what was called a “near-total national internet blackout.” At the time, it was unclear what happened or who was responsible for the shutdown, which has severely limited Iranians’ means to get information about the ongoing war with Israel, as well as their ability to communicate with loved ones inside and outside of the country. Now, Iran’s government has confirmed that it ordered the shutdown to protect against Israel

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Adobe brings pro-level computational photography to iPhone users with Indigo

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-09 21:29:00

What just happened? Adobe has introduced Indigo, a new computational photography app for iPhone that aims to bring pro-grade image processing to everyday users. Developed by a team led by Marc Levoy, a pioneer in computational photography, Indigo is designed to push the boundaries of what smartphone cameras can achieve by leveraging advanced algorithms and years of research. Indigo distinguishes itself through its unique approach to image capture and processing. Unlike most camera apps that rel

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Klong: A Simple Array Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 18:44:09

Klong A Simple Array Language The Klong Book Documentation | Download Klong is an array language, like K, but without the ambiguity. If you know K or APL, you may be disappointed by Klong. If you don't know any array languages, it might explode your brain. Use at your own risk! Programming in Klong A Klong program is a set of functions that use various pre-defined operators to manipulate lists (vectors) and (multi-dimensional) arrays. Here is a program that checks whether a number x is pri

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Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 20:26:49

M AURA RYAN , a speech therapist in New York City, was dreading the introduction of congestion pricing. To see her patients in Queens and Manhattan she sometimes drives across the East River a couple of times a day. The idea of paying a $9 toll each day infuriated her. Yet since the policy was actually implemented, she has changed her mind. A journey which used to take an hour or more can now be as quick as 15 minutes. “Well, this is very nice,” she admits thinking. Ms Ryan is not alone. Polls s

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Yep, GoPro Should Be Really Worried About Meta’s New ‘Performance’ Smart Glasses

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-09-09 21:15:34

Meta’s next generation of smart glasses is here, but it’s not Ray-Ban doing the heavy lifting on design. This go-around, it’s Oakley at the center, which may seem like a strange choice at first but makes more sense once you unpack how Meta is positioning its first new pair of smart glasses since its original Ray-Ban collab. In Meta’s words, these things are all about “performance.” What does that mean, exactly? Sports, mostly. This pair focuses primarily on athletes who want to capture footage

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Crisol is a BioShock-Like Cult Horror Shooter Using Your Blood For Bullets

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-09 20:00:04

One of the best things about Summer Game Fest is discovering games that blend some of your favorite classics into something wholly new. Crisol: Theater of Idols is a game with clear BioShock influence in its first-person shooter exploration, but melds some cult horror from games like Resident Evil 4 into the mix. On top of it all, to reload your gun, you've gotta sacrifice your own blood -- and take a chunk from your own health bar. It's a novel mechanic that combines with the gothic, nautical

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Aflac discloses breach amidst Scattered Spider insurance attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-10 01:52:05

On Friday, American insurance giant Aflac disclosed that its systems were breached in a broader campaign targeting insurance companies across the United States by attackers who may have stolen personal and health information. Aflac (short for American Family Life Assurance Company) is the largest supplemental insurance provider in the U.S. and a Fortune 500 company that provides insurance services to millions of customers in the U.S. and Japan. In a press release earlier today, the insurance c

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I tested a large-screen tablet that gave me zero iPad Pro envy (and it's on sale)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-09-10 01:11:16

ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra is available for up to $800 off with a trade-in credit. This 14.6-inch tablet is a productivity powerhouse, packed with a strong processor and Galaxy AI tools perfect for work and play. The Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra isn't super portable: it's large and the keyboard case is expensive and sold separately, and the S Pen stores awkwardly on the back. View now at Samsung View now at Amazon more buying choices Save up to $800 on the Samsung Galaxy S

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I finally found a Lenovo ThinkPad I'm comfortable taking to the office without a charger

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-10 01:21:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Aura Edition is available now starting at $2,419. It combines all the utility of a ThinkPad with exceptional battery life. It's expensive, and some of the Aura Edition features are being discontinued. $2,419 at B&H Photo-Video Lenovo's 10th-generation ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Aura Edition is a business-minded laptop with a few design perks to differentiate it from the crowd. We're talking a convertible form factor, pen support, ample I/O, and fantas

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Latest Tech News

'Wall-E With a Gun': Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

HomeKit Weekly: Aqara’s W100 Climate Sensor brings precision monitoring and smart control to your HomeKit setup

Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?

'A Minecraft Movie' Starts Streaming Today. Here's How and Where to Watch it

The Kiwi Ears Étude deliver tactile bass with vibration-powered IEM tech

Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

An analysis of recent multithreading improvements for a smoother game

Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

Researchers Scanned the Brains of ChatGPT Users and Found Something Deeply Alarming

First Reactions to ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Are Chaotically All Over the Place

SpaceX's String of Starship Failures Continues With Massive Rocket Explosion

MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours

Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill Gates-backed TerraPower

Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO

The startups rolling out of Europe’s early-stage micromobility scene

Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions

Wyze wants to keep prying eyes away from your cameras with this new feature

Why I recommend this budget Android phone to most people over Samsung and Google

Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)

Deezer starts labeling AI-generated music to tackle streaming fraud

Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill-Gates backed TerraPower

Iran’s government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks

Adobe brings pro-level computational photography to iPhone users with Indigo

Klong: A Simple Array Language

Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

Yep, GoPro Should Be Really Worried About Meta’s New ‘Performance’ Smart Glasses

Crisol is a BioShock-Like Cult Horror Shooter Using Your Blood For Bullets

Aflac discloses breach amidst Scattered Spider insurance attacks

I tested a large-screen tablet that gave me zero iPad Pro envy (and it's on sale)

I finally found a Lenovo ThinkPad I'm comfortable taking to the office without a charger

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