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OpenAI Hopes Animated 'Critterz' Will Prove AI Is Ready for the Big Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-05 20:00:04

Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator. The film, called Critterz, will have a budget of less than $30 million. Producers hope to make the movie in about nine months, in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to The Wall Street Journal. The original short

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Minerals represent potential biosignatures in the search for life on Mars

news.ycombinator.com Hurowitz 2025-10-06 05:42:27

Chemical and sedimentological data indicate that reduced iron and sulfur were generated, mobilized and precipitated following the deposition of fine-grained oxidized iron- and phosphorous-bearing sediment. Except when found in authigenic nodules and reaction front rims, phosphate is not associated with a mineral phase (for example, there is no indication that apatite or merrillite are present; Fig. 4c). Accordingly, we suggest that during deposition, phosphate was adsorbed on Fe3+-, Al- and Si-r

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Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem

news.ycombinator.com Chris Houser 2025-10-03 05:31:50

At times, to evolve your product, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The article provides the story behind the rewrite of InfluxDB from scratch using a different programming language - Rust - and stack - Apache Flight, Data Fusion, Apache Arrow and Parquet (FDAP). It emphasises the benefits, as well as the mechanics behind its operation and the different versions of the product.

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'Clearest sign' yet of ancient life on Mars

news.ycombinator.com Hurowitz 2025-10-06 10:42:27

Chemical and sedimentological data indicate that reduced iron and sulfur were generated, mobilized and precipitated following the deposition of fine-grained oxidized iron- and phosphorous-bearing sediment. Except when found in authigenic nodules and reaction front rims, phosphate is not associated with a mineral phase (for example, there is no indication that apatite or merrillite are present; Fig. 4c). Accordingly, we suggest that during deposition, phosphate was adsorbed on Fe3+-, Al- and Si-r

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‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Is Killer With Some Filler, and a Whole Lot of Flashy Anime Action

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-06 11:00:39

The beginning of the end has arrived. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the first installment in a climactic film trilogy of one of anime’s most popular series, is finally storming into theaters, bringing with it tons of high-stakes spectacle fans have been salivating over. Infinity Castle may wobble in matching the emotional depth and narrative finesse that Demon Slayer fans have come to expect. Still, it more than earns its place on the big screen, with studio Ufotable delivering gorgeous animati

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Top Democrat Calls for Congressional Probe Into Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-06 11:40:17

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to plague the Trump administration, and on Wednesday, a prominent Democratic senator called for Congress to investigate the financial ties between the dead sex criminal and a host of financial organizations and people, including tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Much of the debate about the “Epstein files” has centered around what records the Justice Department may have on his illicit sex crimes but, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the more important fi

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Dotter: Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:08:05

What is Dotter? Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater. Dotfiles are configuration files that usually live in the home directory and start with a dot. Often times, it is desirable to have a backup of all the configurations on your system, which is why a lot of users have their dotfiles saved in a git repository, then symlinking them to their target locations using ln -s . However, there are several issues with that barebones approach: Hard to keep track of what comes from where once you h

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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Was Made with Trust and Collaboration

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-06 19:00:02

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, leading to plenty of interviews from the director and leading men Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. In a recent discussion with the Ankler, the trio talked about the film’s production, which included more talk about Elordi’s creature performance. Del Toro has previously talked about Elordi’s “staggeringly beautiful” rendition of the monster, which came from months of studying child development stages, Mary Sh

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3 Exciting Camera Features on Apple’s New iPhone 17 Lineup

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-06 18:17:46

In the early days of the smartphone, Apple had a strong lead with the camera on the iPhone consistently besting its peers. There was a period somewhere in the middle where it lagged, but over the last several years, it has produced some of the best mobile cameras on the market, and it still delivers one of the best video capture experiences—even for aspiring filmmakers. With the new iPhone 17 range—which includes the iPhone Air—Apple has a bevy of camera upgrades that go beyond more megapixels

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Bluesky is rolling out age verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 22:57:53

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on the site. The update comes after both states have enacted laws requiring online platforms that host "harmful" content to verify the ages of their users. Bluesky's approach will mirror its actions in the UK, which also requires age checks following the passage of its Online Safety Act. The company ha

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Can I have a new password, please? The $400M question.

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-06 20:02:12

Back in August 2023, attackers tied to the Scattered Spider group didn’t exploit a zero-day vulnerability to hack Clorox. They simply called the service desk (run by Cognizant), claimed to be locked-out employees, and asked for password and MFA resets. According to court filings and reporting, the attacker repeatedly phoned Cognizant’s service desk, obtained repeated resets without meaningful verification, and used the resulting access to move quickly toward domain-admin footholds. Clorox says

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3 Exciting Camera Features on Apple's New iPhone 17 Lineup

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-06 23:17:46

In the early days of the smartphone, Apple had a strong lead with the camera on the iPhone consistently besting its peers. There was a period somewhere in the middle where it lagged, but over the last several years, it has produced some of the best mobile cameras on the market, and it still delivers one of the best video capture experiences—even for aspiring filmmakers. With the new iPhone 17 range—which includes the iPhone Air—Apple has a bevy of camera upgrades that go beyond more megapixels

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Microsoft PowerToys

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 07:31:27

Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories . Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories . Microsoft PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows Microsoft PowerToys is a set of free Microsoft Windows utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. These utilities and shell enhancement tools are designed to help you customize Windows 10 and Windows 11 to suit your

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Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:16:30

Run every GUI app in the terminal! Even over ssh! Behold as I play a video game in a font in a web browser in a terminal transmitted over ssh (with one hand tied behind my back)! Read about how it works! Check out HowIDidIt.md More Examples The quality of the window is limited to the number of rows and columns in your terminal. If you increase the resolution (ctrl - in alacritty, check your terminal) the quality will go up, (but performance may go down). Here I open up the Wing It! movie,

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The blind box trend comes to tech with this tiny digital Kodak camera

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-07 07:52:43

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everything from smartphones to handheld consoles now come in a variety of different colors, but what if you didn’t get to pick your favorite? That’s how the new Kodak Charmera is being sold. It’s a tiny digital camera released in seven different retro styles

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Apple's New Hypertension Notifications: Everything to Know About the High Blood Pressure Alerts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 10:32:10

After years of waiting, Apple announced at its "awe dropping" event that the Watch Series 11 will have Hypertension Notifications. This joins similar, alert-based Apple Watch health features including notifications for noise, sleep apnea and heart health. The groundbreaking new Hypertension Notifications feature is designed to alert users if signs of hypertension (or chronic high blood pressure) are detected. But how exactly does the feature work, and when will it be available? This is everythi

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Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 19:37:04

Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages. The office and multifamily sectors of commercial real estate loans got further bludgeoned in August, despite large-scale extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals executed in the hopes for better times and lower interest rates and more demand so that lenders don’t end up with the property and a huge loss. The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-b

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Garmin’s Top Training Features, Explained

wired.com Brent Rose 2025-10-07 19:30:00

So, you’ve got a shiny new Garmin watch. Maybe it’s the sleek Vivoactive 6, the run-focused Forerunner 970, or (my favorite) the ultimate all-arounder Fēnix 8. You’re tracking your steps, sleep, floors climbed, calories burned—all the standard, self-explanatory stuff. But then you dig a little deeper into the menus, and it hits you: A tidal wave of data. Training Status? Acute Load? Body Battery? What the hell do these things mean? Don’t let it spike your heart rate (which the watch also tracks

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Did the AirPods Pro just make the Apple Watch obsolete? This new feature tells me yes

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-08 04:10:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The AirPods Pro 3 are confirmed to feature in-ear heart rate sensing. Alongside iOS 26 updates to the iPhone's Fitness app, users can now start a workout session in the app and use the Pro 3 earbuds to track heart rate, time spent exercising, and calories burned. They can close their Move ring, and earn rewards in the app -- no Watch needed. Also: Is Apple Watch Series 11 worth the upgrade? Here's how it compares to olde

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These Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Snailfish Just Became Our Latest Obsession

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 02:00:26

The deep sea is home to some of the weirdest creatures on Earth, from ghostly elder fish to carnivorous harp sponges. Sometimes, scientists discover more humble creatures that are so tiny that they go unnoticed until new technology brings them into view. Such efforts rarely disappoint. Using an underwater robot camera, researchers discovered three new species of deep-sea snailfish: one bumpy, one dark, and one sleek. In a new paper published in Ichthyology and Herpetology, researchers explain h

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How the AirPods Pro 3 may make this Apple user ditch the Watch for good

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-08 03:01:00

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The AirPods Pro 3 are confirmed to feature in-ear heart rate sensing. Alongside iOS 26 updates to the iPhone's Fitness app, users can now start a workout session in the app and use the Pro 3 earbuds to track heart rate, time spent exercising, and calories burned. They can close their Move ring, and earn rewards in the app -- no Watch needed. Also: Is Apple Watch Series 11 worth the upgrade? Here's how it compares to olde

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Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 22:25:55

Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and PDFs directly in Claude.ai and the desktop app. This transforms how you work with Claude—instead of only receiving text responses or in-app artifacts, you can describe what you need, upload relevant data, and get ready-to-use files in return. File creation is now available as a preview for Max, Team, and Enterprise plan users. Pro users will get access in the coming weeks. What you can do Claude creates

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New iPhones use Apple N1 wireless chip—and we’ll probably start seeing it everywhere

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 06:45:17

Apple's most famous chips are the A- and M-series processors that power its iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but this year, its effort to build its own wireless chips is starting to bear fruit. Earlier this spring, the iPhone 16e included Apple's C1 modem, furthering Apple's ambitions to shed its dependence on Qualcomm, and today's iPhone Air brought a faster Apple C1X variant, plus something new: the Apple N1, a chip that provides Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support for all of today's new iPhones

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Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-10-08 05:00:00

After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn, who has led the San Francisco–based nonprofit since 2015, says she will leave the role later this year, concluding a chapter that helped define the modern fight over online freedom. Cohn first rose to prominence as lead counsel in Bernstein v. Department of Justice, the 1990s case that overturned federal restrictions on pu

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The 15 Wildest, Coolest Films We Can’t Wait to See at Fantastic Fest 2025

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-08 11:30:36

The most fantastic time of year is here again. io9 is about to head down to Austin, Texas, for a week of fun, fucked-up films at Fantastic Fest, one of the coolest, most unique genre film festivals in the entire world. It’s a festival that focuses on only showing the weirdest, most out-there, totally badass films, and we’re excited to jump right in as always. What makes attending Fantastic Fest difficult, though, is that every single movie sounds awesome. It was curated that way. So how do you

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Apple’s N1 chip extends its custom silicon into Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-08 11:45:17

Apple's most famous chips are the A- and M-series processors that power its iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but this year, its effort to build its own wireless chips is starting to bear fruit. Earlier this spring, the iPhone 16e included Apple's C1 modem, furthering Apple's ambitions to shed its dependence on Qualcomm, and today's iPhone Air brought a faster Apple C1X variant, plus something new: the Apple N1, a chip that provides Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support for all of today's new iPhones

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Apple unveils Final Cut Camera 2.0 with support for new iPhone 17 lineup camera features

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-08 19:08:31

Right after the “Awe Dropping” event, in which Apple unveiled multiple camera features across the entire iPhone 17 lineup, it also introduced Final Cut Camera 2.0, with full support for everything that had just been announced. Here are the details. ProRes RAW, Gunlock, Center Stage, more As is tradition, Apple dedicated quite a good portion of today’s event to the camera system of the new iPhone 17 lineup, particularly the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max. For instance, Apple introduced su

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Here's why the AirPods Pro 3 might make me ditch my Apple Watch for good

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-08 19:40:17

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The AirPods Pro 3 are confirmed to feature in-ear heart rate sensing. Alongside iOS 26 updates to the iPhone's Fitness app, users can now start a workout session in the app and use the Pro 3 earbuds to track heart rate, time spent exercising, and calories burned. They can close their Move ring, and earn rewards in the app -- no Watch needed. Also: Is Apple Watch Series 11 worth the upgrade? Here's how it compares to olde

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David F. Sandberg Will Direct the 756th ‘Amityville Horror’ Movie

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-08 19:00:55

First came the very real massacre of the DeFeo family by one of their own, in 1974. Then, in 1977, came the best-selling book chronicling the ghostly terrors experienced by the Lutzes, the next family to occupy the DeFeo’s Long Island Dutch Colonial Revival with those distinctive eye-shaped windows. Then came the 1979 movie based on the book—by which time the haunting claims were being called into question. But who cares if The Amityville Horror is a hoax if it continues to fascinate audiences?

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‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Anime Studio Explains Delay, Vows to Do Justice to Manga’s Spellbinding Artistry

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-08 19:45:38

Studio Bug Films hopes its adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's manga will be as big as 'Lord of the Rings' for anime fans. Studio Bug Films recently delivered the deflating news that its anime adaptation of Witch Hat Atelier would be delayed to 2026. In the wake of its announcement, the studio gave fans an update about the nature of its delay and reaffirmed its commitment to doing the best possible job transforming manga pages into animation. In an X/Twitter social media post, which links out to

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