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‘M3GAN 2.0’ Is an Antihero Upgrade, But at a Cost

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-02-28 00:01:18

M3GAN 2.0 delivers a bloody slay of a sequel, one that elevates Blumhouse’s sci-fi horror darling and gives its icon an action-packed upgrade–one that works, albeit at the expense of the original’s horror roots. You can’t keep a killer down, or a killer doll for that matter, as the end of the first film teased, as 2.0 opens with M3GAN (voiced by Jenna Davis, and physically portrayed by Amie Donald) having taken refuge in the cloud after he defeat. In the sequel, we discover that while Gemma (Al

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The ‘GQuuuuuuX’ Finale Might Be One of the Most Hopeful ‘Gundam’ Endings in Years

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-02 14:35:43

So much of Gundam GQuuuuuuX‘s riffing on the legacy of the 1979 original across its 12 episodes has been almost about a yearning sense of inevitability that it could only end in one way—a retread of what came before narratively, and a continuation of the cycle of conflict that has broadly defined the franchise at large and the Universal Century setting that GQuuuuuuX played with in particular. But in its final episode, GQuuuuuuX played with its nostalgic sensibilities one last time to imagine fo

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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-03-03 08:26:26

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI tools on copyrighted works, arguing that the behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, which allows for unauthorized use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions. “The

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Nintendo's mouse-controlled basketball game comes out on August 14

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-03 14:32:01

Nintendo just revealed that Drag x Drive will be available on August 14 , exclusively for the recently-released Switch 2 console . The company made this announcement on its Today! news app . For the uninitiated, Drag x Drive is a 3 v 3 wheelchair basketball game. The main hook is that it's controlled via the mouse-like functionality of those new Joy-Con controllers. This will be the first major test of this feature and will let us know if it'll be a barely-used gimmick or a real opportunity for

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Lenovo 2-in-1 IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook Is Nearly 50% Off and Comes with a Keyboard, Limited Stock Available

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2026-03-03 14:10:21

A lot of laptops are either too bulky, too limited, or just too expensive to justify. But every now and then, something strikes the right balance. You can use it to work every day, you can watch your favorite shows and movies, and you can just get some shopping done in your downtime. That’s what you’ll find with this particular laptop, which is on sale right now. It’s a deal you’re going to want to claim as soon as possible. Check out Best Buy to get the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook 2-in-1

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MIT student uses AI and printing tech to revolutionize art restoration

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-04 08:15:00

TL;DR: A new chapter in art conservation is unfolding at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where mechanical engineering graduate student Alex Kachkine has developed a technique that could dramatically change how damaged paintings are restored. For centuries, art restoration has been a painstaking, manual craft, with conservators spending months or even years meticulously retouching faded or cracked works, often matching colors by hand for thousands of tiny regions. Now, artificial intel

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Historic paintings are being reborn with MIT's AI-based restoration method

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-04 20:15:00

TL;DR: A new chapter in art conservation is unfolding at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where mechanical engineering graduate student Alex Kachkine has developed a technique that could dramatically change how damaged paintings are restored. For centuries, art restoration has been a painstaking, manual craft, with conservators spending months or even years meticulously retouching faded or cracked works, often matching colors by hand for thousands of tiny regions. Now, artificial intel

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‘Elio’ Has a Bizarre Post-Credits Scene That’s Not About ‘Elio’ at All

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-03-05 09:25:56

If you forgot to stick around for the post-credits scenes tacked onto the end of Elio, this past weekend’s Pixar release teased two things. And if you haven’t seen it—what are you doing here? Kidding, we welcome the curious as we break down the unexpected scenes between the potential Elio spin-off Easter egg and a glimpse of Hoppers, Pixar’s next original concept film. First, we see Elio and his new friend, Bryce, reconnect with Glordon using their prototypical intergalactic radio, leaving thin

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How the Universe and Its Mirrored Version Are Different

wired.com Zack Savitsky 2026-03-07 04:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. After her adventures in Wonderland, the fictional Alice stepped through the mirror above her fireplace in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass to discover how the reflected realm differed from her own. She found that the books were all written in reverse, and the people were “living backwards,” navigating a world where effects preceded their causes. When objects appear different in the mirror, scientists call them

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I changed 6 settings on my Samsung TV to give it a significant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-03-07 06:09:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Your car's USB port is seriously underutilized: 5 features you're not taking advantage of I've been guilty of it. And I'm okay with that because it's wide

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Requiem for a Solar Plant

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-06 18:44:28

Requiem for a Solar Plant The email landed like a brick through a plate glass window. "...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..." I stared at my laptop screen, the blue light illuminating the shadows under my eyes in my darkened California living room. Outside, endless February rain tapped against the windows like impatient fingers. My gut churned, a familiar discomfort that had become my constant companion over the past year. This wasn't just

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YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-03-07 00:00:28

I told you that AI slop was coming for your YouTube content, and did you believe me? I don’t know, maybe you did, but if you didn’t believe before, you certainly will now. According to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, who gave a keynote at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on Wednesday, YouTube is getting a new tool that generates Shorts from “scratch.” By scratch, I mean with the help of Google’s recently unveiled Veo 3 AI generator. That’s right, a one-stop shop for AI slop is incom

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The JAWS shark is public domain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 10:28:50

As we’re all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law, the Jaws shark is public domain. It’s not the character of the shark that’s public domain – or someone would surely be making a low-budget horror prequel about how he became the Amity Island Killer. But I’m talking about the famous shark painting from the movie poster: Yep. That painting, the same one that appeared on the cover of the paperbac

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It's True: The Jaws Shark Is Public Domain

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-07 22:28:50

As we’re all celebrating the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws, here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Due to a fluke of publishing and copyright law, the Jaws shark is public domain. It’s not the character of the shark that’s public domain – or someone would surely be making a low-budget horror prequel about how he became the Amity Island Killer. But I’m talking about the famous shark painting from the movie poster: Yep. That painting, the same one that appeared on the cover of the paperbac

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Curved-Crease Sculpture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 21:13:15

Curved-Crease Sculpture When folded along curved creases, paper shapes itself into a natural equilibrium form. These equilibria are poorly understood, especially for curved creases. We are exploring what shapes are possible in this genre of self-folding origami, with applications to deployable structures, manufacturing, and self-assembly. This transformation of flat paper into swirling surfaces creates sculpture that feels alive. History of Curved Origami Sculpture There is a surprisingly old

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Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Marc B. Reynolds 2026-03-11 08:42:03

WARNING: Some numerical analysis and mathematics will be mentioned in passing. Also the number systems will not be treated like black-boxes. Risk of physical injury, however, is negligible. I like magic tricks. Watching the performer do the show and attempting to catch the “slight-of-hand” that makes the impossible seem possible. It’s fun and makes me believe in magic for a few moments. So I’m going to give a shot at doing some floating point magic tricks. Throughout my performance I’ll use

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Curved-Crease Origami Sculptures

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-11 08:13:15

Curved-Crease Sculpture When folded along curved creases, paper shapes itself into a natural equilibrium form. These equilibria are poorly understood, especially for curved creases. We are exploring what shapes are possible in this genre of self-folding origami, with applications to deployable structures, manufacturing, and self-assembly. This transformation of flat paper into swirling surfaces creates sculpture that feels alive. History of Curved Origami Sculpture There is a surprisingly old

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The 6 Best OLED TVs (2025)

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2026-03-11 16:33:00

OLED is the best screen technology right now, which means the best OLED TVs provide the pinnacle of picture quality. Imagine a jet black screen in which each tiny pixel is controlled independently for an image that seems to appear from the void like magic. It’s almost hard to believe it’s real, and it keeps getting better. Display manufacturers like LG and Samsung have pushed OLED beyond expectations for brighter highlights, richer and more natural colors, and faster refresh rates to elevate eve

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Craig Federighi explains why iPad shouldn’t run macOS, more in new interview

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-03-13 04:52:00

iPadOS 26 is in many ways the major update that iPad power users have been asking for. And in a new interview at MacStories, software chief Craig Federighi explains why the iPad shouldn’t run macOS, how iPadOS 26 came to fruition, and more. New interview covers iPadOS 26, macOS on iPad, and more Federico Viticci, who has long pushed the iPad to its limits, sat down with Craig Federighi at WWDC for an interview about all things iPadOS 26. The full interview has been published here as part of a

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Elon Says He’s Working to ‘Fix’ Grok After AI Disagrees With Him on Right-Wing Violence

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-13 04:05:03

Billionaire conspiracy theorist Elon Musk really doesn’t like it when Grok says anything that contradicts his far-right worldview. And that’s exactly what his AI chatbot did late Tuesday when an X user asked whether people on the political right or the political left have been more violent since President Donald Trump was first elected in 2016. Grok said it was people on the right. Musk responded that he was working to fix Grok so it wouldn’t do that again. It all started on Tuesday in a tweet

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This Insignia 50″ Smart TV Drops Below the Price of the Same-Size Amazon Fire TV for a Limited Time

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-13 08:10:54

It’s time to upgrade that smart TV you bought 10 years ago. Amazon has a wide range of TVs from all the big name providers and you can secure yourself something that looks great without breaking the bank. One of the major deals we’ve come across is for the Insignia 55-inch Class F50 Series LED 4K UHD Smart Fire TV. Typically priced at $300, right now you’d save a solid 40%. That brings the price down to just $180, saving you $120. This Insignia smart TV supports HDR 10, allowing for true darkne

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AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity

technologyreview.com Nitin Nohria 2026-03-15 10:00:00

During a later visit to a Picasso exhibit in Milan, I came across a famous informational diagram by the art historian Alfred Barr, mapping how modernist movements like Cubism evolved from earlier artistic traditions. Picasso is often held up as one of modern art’s most original and influential figures, but Barr’s chart made plain the many artists he drew from—Goya, El Greco, Cézanne, African sculptors. This made me wonder: If a generative AI model had been fed all those inputs, might it have pro

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Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-15 20:09:59

A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, it could be seriously bad news for the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. First, a quick primer. All the AI that's commercially buzzy at the moment, like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Meta's Llama, is trained by feeding in huge amounts of data. Then researchers do a bunch of number crunching using algorithms, basically teaching the system to recognize patterns in all that data so thoroughly th

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Reverse-engineered PlayStation 1 motherboard runs original chips without emulation

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-03-16 01:56:00

Why it matters: Preserving retro games and hardware becomes increasingly difficult as the years pass and essential components grow rarer. Reverse engineering allows modders and repair shops to create substitutes that function identically to the original parts. Now, a new project aims to bring that level of flexibility to the original PlayStation. Italian engineer Lorentio Brodesco recently became the first person to successfully reverse-engineer the original PlayStation's motherboard, creating

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No Hello

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 16:09:22

Note that Keith could have got his answer minutes sooner, and needn't have kept Tim waiting. In fact, Tim could have started thinking about the question right away! People who do this are generally trying to be polite by not jumping right into the request, like one would in person or on the phone - and that's great! But it's 2022 and chat is neither of those things. For most people, typing is much slower than talking. So despite best intentions, you're actually just making the other person wait

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‘Psyop’: How Far-Right Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Shooting Evolved to Protect MAGA

wired.com David Gilbert 2026-03-17 12:54:00

In the hours after Vance Boelter was named as the suspect in the fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Minnesota state representative, and her husband Mark Hortman, far-right conspiracists and Republican influencers claimed he was a violent, leftist Democrat. “The far left is murderously violent,” Elon Musk wrote on X on Saturday, a post that remains on the site and has been viewed over 50 million times. When the facts of the story emerged—that the alleged shooter had been registered

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Obsidian Entertainment has big ambitions for Grounded 2's small world

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-17 20:30:27

Obsidian Entertainment has been an incredibly versatile game developer over the years, even venturing outside its RPG comfort zone with the original Grounded. As a survival adventure game where you're shrunken down and explore the hidden, vast world of a backyard, it became a well-loved hit, and it evolved even further throughout its early access period. But now, the developers have big plans for Grounded 2, which has new features and a larger scope that was too big for the original to contain.

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2026-03-16 03:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

news.ycombinator.com Jennifer Chu 2026-03-16 08:59:23

The restoration is printed on a very thin polymer film, in the form of a mask that can be aligned and adhered to an original painting. It can also be easily removed. Kachkine says that a digital file of the mask can be stored and referred to by future conservators, to see exactly what changes were made to restore the original painting. Still, there has been no way to translate digital restorations directly onto an original work, until now. In a paper appearing today in the journal Nature, Alex

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Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-15 21:50:53

This post assumes some familiarity with typed functional programming, Lisp, and formal logic. Today we will attempt to write a truth oracle in Lisp. By "truth oracle," I mean a program that can determine whether arbitrary mathematical statements are true or false. This might sound impossible, due to first-order logic being undecidable, but let's try anyway. Before that, though, we need to go over some required concepts. Extracting information from proofs First, sometimes, we can extract info

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated "mask"

Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp

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