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Best Beer Clubs for 2025

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. If you enjoy your beer and have never shied away from new experiences, then a beer subscription box might be up your alley. These are the perfect way to try craft beers -- and more -- from independent breweries, without having to travel across the country and explore mysteries like the difference between an ale and a lager. Also,

Teachers Are Trying to Make AI Work for Them

One day last spring, in a high school classroom in Texas, students were arguing about who to kill off first. It was a thought experiment with a sci-fi premise: A global zombie outbreak has decimated major cities. One hundred frozen embryos meant to reboot humanity are safe in a bomb shelter, but the intended adult caretakers never made it. Instead, 12 random civilians stumbled in. There’s only enough food and oxygen for seven. The students had to decide who would die and who would live to raise

Fun with Finite State Transducers

ENOSUCHBLOG Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Aug 14, 2025 Tags: devblog, programming, rust, zizmor I recently solved an interesting problem inside zizmor with a type of state machine/automaton I hadn’t used before: a finite state transducer (FST). This is just a quick write-up of the problem and how I solved it. It doesn’t go particularly deep into the data structures themselves. For more information on FSTs themselves, I strongly recommend burntsushi’s article on transducers (which is wha

Mangle – a language for deductive database programming

Mangle Mangle is a programming language for deductive database programming. It is an extension of Datalog, with various extensions like aggregation, function calls and optional type-checking. Deductive database programming is useful for bringing data from multiple data sources together since it enables us to represent and query that data in a uniform way. It can also be used to model domain knowledge, similar to machine-readable ontology but without being restricted to binary predicates. Data

A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

Left: Gigantic Jet Event from the International Space Station, taken by NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers. (Credit: Ayers) Right: Sprite event appearing over a lightning strike, seen from space. This photo was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 44. Credit: NASA astronauts on board Expedition 44 Did you see that gorgeous photo NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took on July 3, 2025? Originally thought to be a sprite, Ayers confirmed catching an even rarer form of a

Best Teeth Whitening Kits You Should Check Out In 2025

Teeth whitening kits aren't exactly what most people would call riveting. I must say I was blown away by the entire Smile Brilliant process and package. I wasn't aware you could get custom-fitted whitening trays anywhere other than a dentist's office, but you can with Smile Brilliant. Wearing these whitening trays is just like wearing a retainer. They fit perfectly to your teeth because they're designed using putty impressions you make of your teeth. The process works like this: You order a kit

Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

China's inaugural 'Robot Olmypics' delivers impressive feats and disastrous falls

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games have come to a close with some new world records, but don't expect them to beat humans in a 100-meter dash any time soon. The three-day robotics event in Beijing, China that saw humanoid robots compete in everything from boxing to cleaning concluded this weekend. According to the World Humanoid Robot Games, more than 280 teams from 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil and the host country, entered their robots into the event. A majority of th

Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019)

Even if you have spent some time reading about machine learning, chances are that you have never heard of Gaussian processes. And if you have, rehearsing the basics is always a good way to refresh your memory. With this blog post we want to give an introduction to Gaussian processes and make the mathematical intuition behind them more approachable. Gaussian processes are a powerful tool in the machine learning toolbox . They allow us to make predictions about our data by incorporating prior kno

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

doxx 📄 Beautiful .docx viewing in your terminal — no Microsoft Word required doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, it brings Word documents to your command line with beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities. ✨ Features Document viewing 🎨 Beautiful terminal rendering with syntax highlighting and formatting with syntax highlighting and formatting 📊 Professional tab

The Enterprise Experience

The Enterprise Experience It's the 18th of August. Today is a special day for me, as it marks my one-year anniversary of working at $ENTERPRISE. Before this I had been a professional software developer for the best part of a decade, but entirely in startups and SMEs. This time last year I made the decision to sell out and hit the big leagues for fun and financial profit. After my interview the only feedback I received was that I didn't have much exposure to enterprise software development, whi

Best Senior Phone Plans of 2025

T-Mobile also offers discounted versions of many of its regular plans for customers over 55. For those who want a bit more functionality, data and extras like getting a new phone every couple of years, T-Mobile's slightly discounted Go5G Plus 55 is worth checking out. Its Go5G Plus 55 plan is $75 per month for one line or $110 per month for two lines (expandable to $165 per month for three lines or $220 per month for four lines) with autopay enabled. Note that current discounts make this plan c

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 18, #533

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one, involving a category of well-known words. But one of them still stumped me. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 18, #1521

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle sure has plenty of vowels. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some

Car Company Charges Monthly Fee for Its EVs to Drive Faster

Cars aren't just cars, these days. They have to be stuffed with smartphone-like tech. Maybe it was inevitable, then, that they'd start using the subscription model of a phone app. As Electrek reports, drivers of several Volkswagen EV models will have to pay a monthly fee to unlock the full horsepower of their cars — at least in the UK, though we wouldn't rule out the scheme expanding to other markets. The affected models are the Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4, which start at 201 horsepower. But if

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Scientists Create Ultimate Antiviral Using Rare "Superpower" Genetic Mutation

Image by Getty / Futurism Genetics A rare genetic mutation that causes a deficiency in an immune regulator called ISG15 is known to make people more vulnerable to some bacterial infections and cause persistent inflammation — but it can unlock some unexpected antiviral "superpowers" as well. As detailed in a new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a team of scientists led by Columbia University professor of pediatric immunology, Dusan Bogunovic, has developed a new an

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF." Mass Text US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accidentally added a random person to a mass group text in which officers from multiple federal law enforcement agencies discussed extremely sensitive information about arrests, targets, and strategy. As 404 Media reports, the group text was titled "Mass Text" and included an unredacted ICE document titled "Field Operations Worksheet." The document included "detaile

MasterClass deal: Subscriptions are 40 percent off right now

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 40 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $6 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

U.S. seizes $2.8 million in crypto from Zeppelin ransomware operator

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the seizure of more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency from suspected ransomware operator Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko. Antropenko, indicted in Texas for computer fraud and money laundering, was linked to Zeppelin ransomware, a now-defunct extortion operation that ran between 2019 and 2022. Apart from the digital asset seizure, the authorities also confiscated $70,000 in cash and a luxury vehicle. “Antropenko used Zeppelin ransomware to targe

Comparison of different C libraries providing generic containers capabilities

Introduction The goal of this project is to compare several C libraries that provide some STL like capabilities of the C++ (container template) but are targeting classic C language. A STL like library for C is a C library providing several classic generic containers for the C language, like vector, list, sorted set, unordered_map, and so on. A small benchmark to compare their performance is includes in the bench directory. To do this, the same simple programs will be implemented by the librar

Sharp Hubble Images Confirm 3I/Atlas as Comet

Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever observed. Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov became the second ISO ever observed. And on July 1st, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Rio Hurtado detected a third interstellar object in our Solar System, the comet now known as 3I/ATLAS (or C/2025 N1 ATLAS). Like its predecessors, the arrival of this objec

SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"

Annali da Samarcanda Alberto Marnetto's Notebook SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's Stunts Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive, and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island. Sorry about that. Part I This series will tell about the creation of SuperSight, a mod for Stunts intended to bring the game’s 3D engin