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Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

news.ycombinator.com Sam Meredith 2025-12-09 11:19:06

A firefighting helicopter flies near as a home burns from the Mountain Fire on November 6, 2024 in Camarillo, California. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images Top insurers fear the climate crisis could soon outpace industry solutions, effectively threatening to make entire regions around the world uninsurable. Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz , one of the world's biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will n

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James Mardsen’s Happy to Be Cyclops Again for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-09 09:00:11

After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for more Fox X-Men to return, Avengers: Doomsday is going all in by bringing back several non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Among them is James Marsden, who played Cyclops in that initial trilogy and didn’t really get to do much in them. Speaking to Vanity Fair, the actor recalled “20 years of listening to people say, ‘When are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?’ But I’m

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OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-09 09:37:20

After a disastrous 72 hours that saw its most loyal users in open revolt, OpenAI is making a major U-turn. In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is bringing back its beloved older AI models, including GPT-4o, and dramatically increasing usage limits for paying subscribers, a clear peace offering to a furious customer base. The move comes just days after the botched rollout of GPT-5, the company’s latest and most powerful model. The launc

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‘Weapons’ Runs to Big $70M Global Opening in Debut Weekend

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-09 11:00:28

“Are you watching?” asks a creepy voice in the trailer for Weapons. And the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.” Per Variety, Zach Cregger’s sophomore outing earned $70 million worldwide. Domestically, its $42.5 million take was $10 million ahead of projections, and its overall take marks another win for New Line and parent company Warner Bros. Since Minecraft’s release in April, the studio has been on a money making hot streak thanks to Final Destination Bloodlines, F1: The Movie, Si

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How to Use Parallels to Run Windows on a Mac

wired.com David Nield 2025-12-08 23:30:00

While Apple is very keen that its macOS software is only ever run on Macs, there are numerous options for doing the opposite and running Windows on Apple computers. If you're a developer, or need access to both Windows and Mac apps, or simply want the flexibility of two operating systems, this isn't too difficult to set up with the right tools. The option we'll cover here is Parallels Desktop for Mac. This is certainly not the cheapest of your options, but it is fully authorized and legal, as w

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Apple’s MacBook Pro overhaul with OLED might not launch until 2027: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-09 06:55:05

Rumors have long pointed at a new MacBook Pro with an OLED display launching towards the end of 2026 – alongside a general MacBook Pro overhaul. While that isn’t completely off the table, there’s an increasingly likely possibility of it launching in early 2027 instead. In this weekend’s Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned an interesting detail about the upcoming MacBook Pro overhaul. It’ll still have a thinner design, an M6 chip, an OLED screen, and more. However, it might la

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POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 23:26:42

POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data integration, format sensitivity, and inadequate tooling. POML provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types seamlessly, and

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Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 10:30:48

Flintlock - Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd. What is flintlock? 🎉 This project was originally developed by Weaveworks but is now owned & run by the community. If you are interested in helping out please reach out. Flintlock is a service for creating and managing the lifecycle of microVMs on a host machine. We support the Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker VMMs. The original use case for flintlock was to create microVMs on a bare-metal host where the microVMs w

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The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-09 10:45:58

The world is hurtling towards an inevitable AI dystopia in the very near future, according to Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, formerly known as Google X. “We will have to prepare for a world that is very unfamiliar,” Gawdat said in an interview on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast, adding that humanity’s key values like freedom, human connection, accountability, reality, and power are all facing a major disruption by AI. And this dystopia isn’t far off,

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Footage Teases a Big Spidey Stunt

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-09 11:25:16

After showing off Tom Holland in his brand new suit for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Sony continues its soft marketing launch with a new video showing its first day of production in Glasgow. If you’ve been on social media in the past week, you’ve probably seen some snippets of filming from the public. This behind-the-scenes vignette offers a better quality of what those people saw with their own eyes, showing not just Holland wowing the crowd with his new suit (and taking pics with similarly dres

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12 of the Best Sci-Fi Movies to Stream on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 04:00:03

There are so many streamers that have cool science fiction but for epic sci-fi movies, Prime Video is where it's at. Sci-fi fans love this genre because there are so many tones and flavors that come with the territory. From silly to bleak, action-packed to dystopian, every mood can be accounted for. Prime Video has a title that fits the bill, no matter what you're looking for. The next step is actually scrolling through the pages of content to find the title you want to watch. Well, I went ahe

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iPhone Users, Find Calls Faster With This Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-09 04:00:05

It can be frustrating to scroll through your iPhone's Recent calls tab to find the right voicemail or to remember when you talked to someone last. But when Apple introduced iOS 18 in 2024, it included a trick that let you find calls faster in your recent call history. That update brought a lot of new features, like customizable home screens and RCS messaging, as well as a search bar in your iPhone's Phone app. This lets you easily search your call history and voicemails. Before iOS 18, your Pho

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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

wired.com Elise Cutts 2025-12-09 05:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately became important objects of mathematical study. So it might be surprising that, millennia later, mysteries still surround even the simplest shape in Plato’s polyhedral universe: the tetrahedron, which has just four triangular faces. One major open problem, for instance, asks how densely you can p

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How To Use Parallels to Run Windows on a Mac

wired.com David Nield 2025-12-09 05:30:00

While Apple is very keen that its macOS software is only ever run on Macs, there are numerous options for doing the opposite and running Windows on Apple computers. If you're a developer, or need access to both Windows and Mac apps, or simply want the flexibility of two operating systems, this isn't too difficult to set up with the right tools. The option we'll cover here is Parallels Desktop for Mac. This is certainly not the cheapest of your options, but it is fully authorized and legal, as w

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Inside the automated warehouse where robots are packing your groceries

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-09 09:00:00

It’s the lack of noise you notice first. There’s no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, this is eerily quiet, but it makes sense in a building where robots might outnumber people. I’m at a warehouse — or customer fulfilment center (CFC) — operated by online grocery company Ocado in Luton, just outside London. You might not have heard of Ocado, but it may still have delivered your groceries. Its technology ha

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-09 06:00:00

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been targeted by a prolific scamming operation. The scam isn’t particularly complex, but it has been highly effective. By sending spam text messages that look like genuine notifications for popular services, from postal deliveries to local government programs, unsuspecting victims click a link that loads a

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I compared the best headphones from Apple, Sony, Bose, and Sonos: Here's how the AirPods Max wins

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-09 09:45:15

Jada Jones/ZDNET In the past few years, Bose, Sony, Sonos, and Beats have released premium headphones to compete with each other and Apple's AirPods Max. I've worn all of the AirPods Max's top competitors, and they each excel in different categories. But for an older dog in this fight, the AirPods Max are still kicking. Since their 2020 release (and 2024 re-release), the Max haven't received many significant software or hardware updates, aside from new colors, a USB-C port, and support for los

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Microsoft POML – Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 05:26:42

POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is a novel markup language designed to bring structure, maintainability, and versatility to advanced prompt engineering for Large Language Models (LLMs). It addresses common challenges in prompt development, such as lack of structure, complex data integration, format sensitivity, and inadequate tooling. POML provides a systematic way to organize prompt components, integrate diverse data types seamlessly, and

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The 24 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-12-08 06:00:00

While Netflix is busy pumping out more series than any one person could watch (probably), some of the best shows are on Amazon Prime Video. Trouble is, navigating the service’s labyrinthine menus can make finding the right series a pain. We’re here to help. Below are our favorite Amazon series—all included with your Prime subscription. For more viewing picks, read WIRED’s guide to the best movies on Amazon Prime, the best movies on HBO’s Max, and the best movies on Netflix. If you buy somethin

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How to Protect Yourself From Portable Point-of-Sale Scams

wired.com Diego Barbera 2025-12-09 10:00:00

Considering the widespread use of contactless payment systems, it's no surprise that portable point-of-sale thefts are making a comeback. This type of robbery is enjoying a new wave of popularity, and is much harder to spot given how quickly those transactions take place. But how much risk is there, really? And how can you protect yourself from POS scams? The Case of Sorrento A recent example of POS theft happened recently in Italy, when topic exploded again a few days ago when the news agency

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9 Best WIRED-Tested Cooling Mattresses (2025)

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-12-09 10:32:00

BedJet BedJet Other Cooling Options There are a ton of mattresses and related on the market that claim to have cooling benefits. Here are a few others we tested and liked, but not as much as the options above. BedJet 3 for $387: WIRED reviewer Christopher Null liked this climate-control device a lot because it allowed him to sleep cool without having to buy a whole new mattress. This device uses a large blower under your bed to blast hot or cool air beneath your covers. If you like your exist

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Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-12-08 09:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. It’s wors

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Robot Crab Meets Terrible Fate When Its True Nature Is Discovered by Real Crabs

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-08 15:30:57

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, animal behavior researchers from the UK's University of Exeter detailed the embarrassing end to their experiment with "Wavy Dave," a 3D-printed, Bluetooth-controlled crab-bot trained to wave at its fellow crustaceans. Known for having one claw that's much larger than the oth

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Amazon’s rocky Alexa+ launch might justify Apple’s slow pace with next-gen Siri

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-09 03:53:51

Amazon has finally started rolling out Alexa+, its oft-delayed overhaul of the Alexa voice assistant built on large language model technology. However, Alexa+ shows how difficult it is to replace a mature voice assistant with generative AI, especially when users expect instant, consistent results for simple tasks. It’s a real reality check on the notion that Amazon has managed to release something Apple promised and hasn’t shipped. Alexa+, available as an limited preview on select Echo devices,

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My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-12-08 16:47:38

In the pirate case there’s no real damage done... but the risks of real damage from prompt injection are constantly increasing as we build more powerful and sensitive systems on top of LLMs. I think this is why we still haven’t seen a successful “digital assistant for your email”, despite enormous demand for this. If we’re going to unleash LLM tools on our email, we need to be very confident that this kind of attack won’t work. My hypothetical digital assistant is called Marvin. What happens i

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OpenAI brings GPT-4o back online after users melt down over the new model

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-09 02:25:23

Following the rollout of OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model earlier this week, a certain user base was adamantly calling for the return of the previous GPT-4o model. Outspoken users complained about the writing quality of the updated model, with some even going so far as to grieve the loss of GPT-4o, which some said they considered a friend and confidant. In the latest OpenAI update that labels GPT-5 as the "smartest, fastest, most useful model yet," the company removed the option to choose which mode

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60 malicious Ruby gems downloaded 275,000 times steal credentials

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-08 22:11:21

Sixty malicious Ruby gems containing credential-stealing code have been downloaded over 275,000 times since March 2023, targeting developer accounts. The malicious Ruby gems were discovered by Socket, which reports they targeted primarily South Korean users of automation tools for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Telegram, Naver, WordPress, and Kakao. RubyGems is the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, enabling the distribution, installation, and management of Ruby librari

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Which colors are primary?

news.ycombinator.com James Gurney 2025-12-05 03:06:45

Artists traditionally refer to red, yellow, and blue as primary colors. These three colors were once believed to be the essential set for mixing a broad palette in painting. Following this line of thinking, violet, green and orange become secondary colors because they’re mixed from the primaries. However, for more than a century, both scientific understanding and practical experience has shown that cyan, magenta, and yellow are more efficient for subtractive mixing with pigments, producing clea

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How I use Tailscale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 00:09:09

The Tailscale logo I’ve been using Tailscale for around four years to connect my disparate devices, servers and apps together. I wanted to talk a bit about how I use it, some cool features you might not know about, and some stumbling blocks I encountered. I’m not sure Tailscale needs an introduction for the likely audience of this blog, but I’ll give one anyway. Tailscale is basically a WireGuard orchestration service, with lots of nice features sprinkled on top. It’s a subscription product, b

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A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-09 02:17:07

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Which colors are primary?

How I use Tailscale

A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

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