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Ten Years of D3D12

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 13:45:06

For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has been with us ever since. While it’s true that this is the longest we’ve gone between major D3D version updates, it’s also not fair to say that the API has remained static. On the contrary, D3D12 has received a steady stream of new interfaces, functions, and shader models. These updates have included some ver

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The Worst-Selling Nintendo Console Ever Is Returning as a Switch 2 Accessory

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-10-03 05:51:25

Nintendo is bringing back the most underrated hardware in its storied history as an accessory for the Switch 2. The recreated Virtual Boy still has the classic kickstand and faceplate. However, instead of sporting its own screen, you’ll need to slot in your Switch 2 to create the classic black and red “3D” visuals. At first glance, the new Virtual Boy appears like a pitch-perfect remodel of Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi’s odd kickstand-based console. The main difference is that there’s no scree

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The next Pokémon looks a bit like Minecraft

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-03 05:08:06

A new Pokémon spinoff is on the way, and it looks very different than any other entry in the long-running franchise. In fact, it looks a little bit like Minecraft — and it’s called Pokémon Pokopia. The game has players controlling a Ditto that has taken on the form of a human, which means that it’s a little cute and also a little creepy. The goal of the game is to shape an empty landscape into a suitable home for some pokémon. That means taming the wilderness, growing crops, and also using a bu

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My Experience Testing Under-Desk Treadmills, as Both a Fitness Expert and Busy Mom

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 13:00:00

As a mom, I'm always multitasking and thinking about what I need to do next. This also includes when I'm going to schedule in my workouts. While I typically prefer walking and running outdoors for cardio, this can be difficult when temperatures are low or the weather isn't ideal. I decided to check out under-desk treadmills, as CNET's resident fitness expert and treadmill tester, to see if they would help me keep up with my step count while indoors. I received samples from Egofit and Costway to

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Kindle, take note: It’s time for a pocket-sized Scribe

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 23:00:00

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Amazon’s Kindle Scribe shines at home or in the office, where its oversized canvas is perfect for notes and sketches. Take it on the road, though, and it quickly feels cumbersome. That’s why reMarkable’s new Paper Pro Move feels like a direct challenge. If reMarkable can shrink its notepad to a 7.3-inch form, Amazon has no excuse. It’s time for a pocket-sized Scribe. Would you like a phone-size Kindle Scribe? 1005 votes Yes! 87 % No 13 % The case for shrinki

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Becoming the person who does the thing

news.ycombinator.com Fred Rivett 2025-10-03 21:24:36

It can be disorienting when our beliefs shift. The world we helped create no longer exists, and our role in it transforms too. It can be unsettling, naturally. But that's kind of the point. Looking back at times when I held certain beliefs—about how the world works, and what my role in this story is—it can feel less like a mod was installed and more like an entirely new operating system was swapped in. Up until my late twenties, I could count the number of times I had been to the gym on one h

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8 Best Espresso Machines for Home (2025), Tested by Coffee Pros

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-10-03 21:32:00

Compare the Top 8 Espresso Machines Other Machines We Like Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Meraki Espreso Machine for $2,000: Meraki is a young Hong Kong–based company. Last year it was still Kickstarting funds for its debut Meraki Espresso Machine. But the company started off with a bang, with a premium semiautomatic double-boiler machine offering features you don't find even in machines that cost hundreds more. This means a Timemore grinder that'll grind by weight within two-tenths of a gram p

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Online Media Brands Hope a New Protocol Will Stop Unwanted AI Crawlers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 23:30:00

Online media brands, including Yahoo, Quora and Medium, are taking a new step to prevent AI companies from copying and using their content to train models without their permission. The publishers, including CNET's parent company Ziff Davis, see this new tool, called RSL, as another way to ensure large AI developers don't use their work without payment or compensation -- an issue that's already led to a host of lawsuits. RSL, which stands for Really Simple Licensing, is inspired by Really Simpl

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Google Home’s feature-packed new automation editor is ready for you to try out now

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-04 09:59:58

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Home is rolling out a new automation editor experience on Android and iOS. The editor supports conditions, adds new actions and triggers, and just empowers more complicated automations. While some features aren’t yet working, you still have the option to go back to the old editor. Having a proper smart home means more than just installing some Wi-Fi lightbulbs, smart outlets, and security cameras. If you really want to get the most out of all

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‘He Was Murdered’: Elon Musk Jumps Into Controversy Over OpenAI Whistleblower

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-04 07:10:03

Tucker Carlson published a new interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday in which the two men discussed some pretty dark topics. Altman also talked about his beef with Elon Musk, and it wasn’t long before the Tesla CEO chimed in on X with his own thoughts, definitively claiming that a whistleblower at OpenAI “was murdered,” in a tweet Thursday. During the episode, Carlson and Altman talk about Suchir Balaji, a researcher at OpenAI who died on Nov. 26, 2024. Balaji had accused OpenAI of

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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Ends Its Bumpy Season With a Similarly Bumpy Finale

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-05 05:00:59

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third season has been its bumpiest ride yet, with more lows than highs. But in something that feels like somewhat of a reset for the series, its finale brings together elements from a few of those highs (and a few of those lows, for good or ill) to deliver an ending that at the very least brings the Enterprise into proverbial spacedock smoothly… if not without a few scrapes along the hull. Yes, the mostly good news is that “New Life and New Civilizations” (which g

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Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-05 09:38:43

Ban social media for under-15s, says French report warning of TikTok risks 23 minutes ago Share Save Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Share Save Bertrand GUAY/AFP Lead author Laure Miller (R) and Arthure Delaporte chaired the six-month commission French children under 15 should be banned from social media and there should be an overnight "digital curfew" for 15-18 year olds, a parliamentary commission has recommended. The six-month inquiry into the psychological effects of TikTok on minors ha

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Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-10-05 08:00:00

Welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday guest host, I recently sat down with Bret Taylor, the CEO of AI startup Sierra and the chairman of OpenAI, for a live event in San Francisco, California, hosted by Alix Partners. Very few people have seen the tech industry up close like Bret has. He was an early engineer at Google before starting FriendFeed, a social network he sold to Facebook in 2009, where he then served as chief technology officer. He later founde

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The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-05 17:30:00

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. When Stephen King’s The Long Walk was first published in 1979, dystopian young adult fiction had not yet become a wildly popular genre. With all of its gore and brutality, King’s novel wasn’t really meant for children. But in the book’s story about disillusioned youths being made to march through wastelands as a form of mass entertain

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Google’s Daily Hub vs Samsung’s Now Brief: Let’s go back to the drawing board

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-05 06:00:36

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority When Samsung announced Now Brief alongside the Galaxy S25 series, I thought it was a clever idea. Who wouldn’t want a snapshot of their day, a quick news rundown tailored to their interests, updates from connected smart home devices and wearables, and useful daily insights? On paper, it sounded like the perfect addition to Samsung’s array of smart features. But when Now Brief actually rolled out, and I witnessed it in action, it quickly became clear that it was

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NotebookLM: These AI Tools Can Help You Study and Learn

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 05:00:02

When I was in high school, there were some subjects you couldn't have paid me to study for, like math or government. I can't help but think about how different things might have been if I'd had something like NotebookLM available to help me care about and study for those subjects I actively avoided. It probably would have made me a much better student. NotebookLM is a solid AI research assistant, and it really shines as a tool for students. What sets it apart from other AI tools is that it does

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The Apple Watch SE 3 May Be the Biggest Underdog of Apple's Entire Fall Lineup

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 06:00:05

Apple debuted a new lineup of iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods Pros and even a brand new thinner-than-ever iPhone Air. But the real headliner (at least in this frugal girl's book), was the one I least expected: the Apple Watch SE 3. I usually overlook Apple's SE model because it lacks many of the powerhouse features of the flagship and Ultra editions, like an always-on display or temperature tracking. But this year, the underdog Apple Watch SE 3 is closing the gap, and at $249 for the base model

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Best Reusable Water Bottles of 2025, Tested & Reviewed

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-10-06 06:30:00

Compare Top 7 Reusable Water Bottles Product WIRED TIRED Material(s) Dishwasher-Safe Price Hydro Flask Standard Mouth Water Bottle (24 ounces) Available in 15+ colors; No flavor transfer or metallic aftertaste; Keeps cold drinks cold for 24 hours, and hot drinks hot for up to 12 hours Experience fully dependent on cap choice Stainless steel Yes $40 Owala FreeSip Twist (24 ounces) Available in a variety of colors; Triple-layer insulated; FreeSip spout with a built-in straw that lets you sip or s

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DOOMscrolling: The Game

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 08:56:55

We’re all familiar with doomscrolling, spending too much time scrolling endless feeds of content that make you feel bad about everything. But sometimes when I hear the word “doomscrolling” it makes me think of two other things: the classic video game Doom and, well, scrolling. That got me wondering if I could make a Doom-inspired game in a web browser where the only thing you do to play is scroll. No moving your character laterally, no jumping. Just scrolling. So I made it. And it’s fun! Here

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Little Nightmares 3 Hands-On: a Creepy Co-Op Game Arriving Just in Time for Halloween

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 09:01:49

After about an hour playing Little Nightmares 3, I'd used a person's bisected halves to solve a puzzle, gotten a high score in a carnival shooting game and escaped the murderous claws of a deranged baby. As a 2-foot-tall youth trying to survive the morbid dangers of one demented area after another with my co-player, I was terrified and delighted. I've only sampled the first two Little Nightmares games, but in my brief preview of Little Nightmares 3, it felt like a refined version of the series'

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Tarsnap is cozy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 13:17:45

I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line program is the client-side tool you invoke to actually zip up and push your archives into the vault. Its creator, Dr. Colin Percival, is a really smart and interesting dude for a whole bunch of reasons.

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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 21:00:39

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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‘Traumatika’ Puts a Gruesome Spin on the Idea of Facing Your Demons

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-07 01:00:16

The new indie horror film Traumatika opens with a title card informing us of the “five forms of childhood trauma,” unsubtly announcing what’s about to happen over the next 80 minutes. Then we’re in the Egyptian desert, circa 1910, watching an anguished man bury a sinister-looking figurine in the sand. Only then do we arrive in the 21st century, where terrible things are very much afoot. The flashback adds a little bit of context, but it feels unnecessary; a cursed object is a not-uncommon horro

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Bluesky will comply with age-verification laws in South Dakota and Wyoming after exiting Mississippi

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-07 03:12:14

After blocking its service in Mississippi over its new age-assurance law, the social networking startup is taking a different approach to comply with laws in South Dakota and Wyoming. Instead of requiring Bluesky to restrict access to all unverified users, users in South Dakota and Wyoming can verify their ages through the Kids Web Services’ (KWS) solution. The service allows users to choose from multiple methods to verify their ages, which may include payment cards, an identity document, an an

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We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 06:38:59

The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything” Dear Zettlers, This scam is decades old now and it is quite surprising that people still fall for it. The search engines, old note-taking apps (you know, those with an elephant icon and the like) and AI have something in common: They claim that the effort of remembering things is outdated like using a candle in the age of electric light. The following is, by the way, from my Zettelkasten (2016): To find what you need online, you require

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 08:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-07 09:40:32

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most of those bots, you won’t ever directly interact with, as they are crawling the web and indexing websites or performing specific tasks—or, increasingly, collecting data to train AI models. But it’s the bots that you can see that have people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others questioning (albeit

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Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks, including alerts for corrected posts

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-07 09:33:21

Meta is introducing a few new features for its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, launched in the U.S. earlier this year. Now, users will be notified when they’ve interacted with a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Threads that receives a Community Note. Plus, anyone can now request a note or rate a note if it’s been helpful to them. We’re testing new Community Notes features at Meta: Anyone can now request a note or rate if a note is helpful – Users get notified when posts th

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TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 13:20:55

When I was a kid in the ’80s, one of my two favorite places on Earth was The Franklin Institute (TFI) in downtown Philadelphia. We lived a couple hours away so a visit was a rare and precious thing. I think I only visited two or three times but it left an indelible impression on me. I remember wandering in amazement through its enormous spaces getting to actually play with amazing and interesting things. I remember sweeping off a table and then filling an overhanging funnel pendulum with sand, s

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Ten Years of D3D12

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Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom

The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

Meta adds new features to Community Notes fact checks, including alerts for corrected posts

TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

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