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Apple will let third party music apps show animated artwork on the iPhone lock screen, not just Apple Music

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2026-03-18 10:51:58

One of the stylish visual changes to the iPhone on iOS 26 is a new layout for the lock screen when music is playing. Artwork can now be animated and shown full-screen on the iPhone display, with playback controls resting on a platter of a liquid glass. You can try this out right now with Apple Music. Play a song that has animated album art, and lock the phone. But users of third-party music streaming apps like Spotify will also be pleased to know that Apple is opening up this capability as an A

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SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Wojciech Muła 2026-03-17 03:31:18

Introduction Popular programming languages provide methods or functions which locate a substring in a given string. In C it is the function strstr , the C++ class std::string has the method find , Python's string has methods pos and index , and so on, so forth. All these APIs were designed for one-shot searches. During past decades several algorithms to solve this problem were designed, an excellent page by Christian Charras and Thierry Lecroq lists most of them (if not all). Basically these al

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Flies grow their gyroscopes: Study reveals how flight stabilizers take shape

news.ycombinator.com Elena Garrido 2026-03-16 06:02:00

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Electron microscopy image showing a haltere developed under normal conditions (left) and a deformed haltere in a genetically modified fruit fly model (right). Credit: Instituto de Neurociencias UMH CSIC A team from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) a

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Debunking HDR [video]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-15 01:56:00

DEBUNKING "HDR" Chapter: Intro The Setup Roadmap Notes On The Recording Foundational Topics __Human Perception Of Tonality Is Relative __Understanding Display Colorspaces __Colorspaces: More Tech Details "SDR" vs "HDR" Colorspaces "SDR" <--> "HDR" Conversion Solved A Serious Man: Artful Highlights Introducing Part 2 Detriments Marketed As Benefits __Inefficiency Isn't An Advantage __"Wider Gamut" Misinformation __Patches On An Unnecessary Problem __Edge Cases Aren't The Crux __Flooding The Zone

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Dave Bautista’s Next Franchise Play? Becoming a ‘Cat Assassin’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-03-18 04:50:22

After hanging up his daggers as Drax the Destroyer and getting got as Glossu Rabban in Dune: Part Two, Dave Bautista is stepping into video games and animation with a new franchise by the name of Cat Assassin. The wrestler-actor and his production company Dogbone Entertainment will bring to life a new idea from Steve Lerner, who wrote 2022’s feline adventure game Stray. This would-be franchise will comprise a stealth-action video game—influenced by titles such as Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell

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Steam adds Apple Silicon support and new accessibility filters

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-03-18 04:21:00

In brief: In recent years, accessibility features designed to assist gamers with disabilities have become increasingly common, and Steam has now taken a significant step toward supporting them. Valve has also introduced an update that allows Mac users to run the client natively on Apple Silicon devices. This comes as the number of Steam games supporting Apple's homegrown Arm processors continues to grow steadily. Users browsing Steam can now filter games in the store based on numerous accessibi

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At last, wireless earbuds that sound great, feel comfortable, and won't break the bank

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-03-18 03:00:23

ZDNET's key takeaways The Baseus MC1 earbuds are availble now on Amazon for $69 Although the sound of the MC1 earbuds won't blow you away, the comfort and ease of control make up for it You really need to use the Baseus app to get the most out of these earbuds. $69.99 at Amazon The Baseus Bowie MC1 earbuds are now on sale at Amazon for $49, down 29% from the usual price of $69. I've been wooed to the dark side of clip-on earbuds. I resisted the urge for a long time, but eventually could figh

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Texting myself the weather every day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-15 07:33:38

Texting myself the weather every day Opening the Weather app every morning is too much effort, but you know what isn’t? Writing a recurring job to query an API every morning and send you the results in an SMS, delivered right to your doorstep phone! Come with me as we embark on my short, little journey through this very process. Version 1: A Zapier “Zap” Version 1 of this service was simply just a “zap” on Zapier. Very easy to connect together a trigger and an action, and start receiving a te

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SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Wojciech Muła 2026-03-17 18:31:18

Introduction Popular programming languages provide methods or functions which locate a substring in a given string. In C it is the function strstr , the C++ class std::string has the method find , Python's string has methods pos and index , and so on, so forth. All these APIs were designed for one-shot searches. During past decades several algorithms to solve this problem were designed, an excellent page by Christian Charras and Thierry Lecroq lists most of them (if not all). Basically these al

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I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 04:56:46

miniDiffusion miniDiffusion is a reimplementation of the Stable Diffusion 3.5 model in pure PyTorch with minimal dependencies. It's designed for educational, experimenting, and hacking purposes. It's made with the mindset of having the least amount of code necessary to recreate Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch, with only ~2800 spanning from VAE to DiT to the Train and Dataset scripts. -Files: The main Stable Diffusion model code is located in dit.py, dit_components.py, and attention.py. The d

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Answering the Nintendo Switch 2’s lingering accessibility questions

theverge.com Geoffrey Bunting 2026-03-18 05:00:00

One of the biggest surprises of the Nintendo Switch 2’s reveal was its proposed accessibility. For years, Nintendo has been known for accidentally stumbling on accessibility solutions while stubbornly refusing to engage with the broader subject. Yet, in the Switch 2, there appeared a more holistic approach to accessibility for which disabled players have been crying out. This was supported by a webpage dedicated to the Switch 2’s hardware accessibility. However, specifics were thin and no furth

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How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam

news.ycombinator.com Conor Trainor 2026-03-15 15:33:36

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Before artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural products, including honey or dried fruit. Raisin wines, made by drying grapes before fermentation, were particularly popular. Historical records show these wines, some known as passum, were enjo

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Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances

news.ycombinator.com François Clautiaux 2026-03-18 03:15:08

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has become a cornerstone of operations research. This is driven by the enhanced efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find globally optimal solutions within seconds for problems that were out of reach a decade ago. The versatility of these solvers allowed successful applications in many areas, such as transportation, logistics, supply chain management, revenue management, finance, telecommunications, and manufacturing. Despite the impressive succes

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SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching

news.ycombinator.com Wojciech Muła 2026-03-18 04:31:18

Introduction Popular programming languages provide methods or functions which locate a substring in a given string. In C it is the function strstr , the C++ class std::string has the method find , Python's string has methods pos and index , and so on, so forth. All these APIs were designed for one-shot searches. During past decades several algorithms to solve this problem were designed, an excellent page by Christian Charras and Thierry Lecroq lists most of them (if not all). Basically these al

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UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2026-03-18 08:57:50

UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to £9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023." Jisc, a membership organization that runs procurement for higher and further education establishments in the UK, said it had signed an agreement to purchase the new subscription licenses after consultation with members.

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Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

venturebeat.com David Chen 2026-03-18 08:48:11

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini itself have relied on autoregression, a step-by-step approach where each

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How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 08:53:13

In 2006, a landmark study in Nature identified a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease. For almost 16 years, this study influenced how scientists approached Alzheimer’s and how major research grants were given. But in the summer of 2022, the editors of Nature issued a chilling disclaimer. There was concern regarding the images that accompanied the article. An investigation was underway, and readers were urged to “use caution” when relying on the results. A whistleblower had come forward and sa

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How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 18:53:13

In 2006, a landmark study in Nature identified a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease. For almost 16 years, this study influenced how scientists approached Alzheimer’s and how major research grants were given. But in the summer of 2022, the editors of Nature issued a chilling disclaimer. There was concern regarding the images that accompanied the article. An investigation was underway, and readers were urged to “use caution” when relying on the results. A whistleblower had come forward and sa

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Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 16:44:58

Apple's introduction of Liquid Glass at WWDC 2025 represents far more than a visual refresh. It's a calculated strategic repositioning that reveals how the company thinks about the next decade of human-computer interaction. While the design community debates readability and the tech press focuses on the absence of major AI announcements, Apple is quietly executing a playbook that should feel familiar to anyone who remembers the iPhone's introduction: prepare users for a paradigm shift by making

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Siri's Big AI Upgrade Is Coming but Reportedly Not Until Spring 2026

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 18:52:00

Apple appears to be making progress on a major update to its Siri software that would expand its capabilities and incorporate more AI features. According to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the delayed update for Siri now has an internal release window of spring 2026. The update, which could arrive with iOS version 26.4, would make good on features and updates Apple introduced at 2024's WWDC. Since then, the updates to Siri that were supposed to incorporate many of the company's Apple Int

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Google Clock starts drip-feeding its big Material 3 Expressive makeover

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-18 23:57:58

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Google Clock v7.14 brings small but noticeable visual updates to the alarm and settings toggles. The refreshed toggle design is part of Google’s shift toward Material 3 Expressive. A full redesign is expected with version 8 of the Clock app. Google’s Clock app is still waiting on its big Material 3 Expressive makeover, but a more minor update is already starting to move the visuals in that direction. Version 7.14 of the app introduces some subtle UI tw

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Why ads are coming to your favorite AI bots and you've only got yourself to blame

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-03-18 20:05:00

Bloomberg Intelligence Most consumers don't want to pay to chat with a chatbot, according to a recent poll by Bloomberg Intelligence. That means advertising -- rather than subscription-based services -- will be the route to monetizing large language models. "The propensity to pay for generative-AI tools remains low," writes the author, Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence senior industry analyst, with the help of Damian Reimertz, contributing analyst, in the report, "Generative AI's trillion-

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Copilot Vision brings Microsoft's screen-watching AI to everyday Windows tasks

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-03-19 02:12:00

AI overload: Microsoft wants Copilot to be your digital sidekick, always watching and ready to help – whether you need it or not. The latest feature, Vision, turns the AI into a screen-reading assistant that talks back, offering tips, tasks, or tech-induced headaches. Microsoft announced that Copilot Vision is now available to users in the US, with plans to expand to more non-European countries soon. This update significantly enhances Copilot, which is evolving into more of a digital "companion

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Apple announces global in-person sessions to dive deeper into WWDC25 updates

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-03-19 02:25:45

Apple is taking WWDC25 on the road. Following the close of its week-long developer conference, the company has scheduled a worldwide series of in-person events and online appointments to give developers, designers, and product managers a closer look at what’s new. Here’s how you can register. Branded as “Explore the biggest updates from WWDC25”, (via MacMagazine) these sessions aim to highlight key technologies unveiled during the conference, including updates to Apple Intelligence, visionOS, d

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The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-19 02:23:15

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of flannel shirts and Soup Nazis. The GIFs were pulled from old GeoCities webpages, which (mostly) bit the dust in 2009. The new version of GifCities is much easier to search. You can now search semantically, based on the animation's content. In other words, it's much more likely to bring up the topic or scene you're looking for by describing it. In GifCities' old version,

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A year after testing, these Nothing earbuds are still my all-time favorites

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-03-19 02:54:07

Nina Raemont/ZDNET The Nothing Ear (a) are $20 off right now, taking the price of my favorite earbuds down to $89, compared to their original price of $109. ZDNET's key takeaways For $109, the new Nothing Ear (a) earbuds Their affordability, comfort, and long battery life make them a great option for budget-conscious shoppers. They're so great that I've taken them practically everywhere: on flights, to work in the office, and to run my first half marathon. Unfortunately, its middling noise-

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Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 01:30:47

Once detected and traced to their source, these particles can reveal more about cosmic events than even the most high-powered telescopes, Wissel added, as the particles can travel undisturbed and almost as fast as the speed of light, giving clues about cosmic events that happened lightyears away. Wissel and teams of researchers around the world have been working to design and build special detectors to capture sensitive neutrino signals, even in relatively small amounts. Even one small signal f

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Simulink (Matlab) Copilot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 01:58:49

Before I start - Yes, I know the differential equation in the video is wrong. I’ve already fixed it by tweaking the prompt and the script so the inputs depend on what’s being asked. The original issue was that blocks like Sum were being pasted in without matching the right number of inputs and outputs. I’m a 2nd-year aero-engineering student at Imperial College London, I enjoy problem solving (did BPhO - gold and UKMT Gold) I'm a full-stack dev (or atleast trying to be lol) who hacked together

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Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

news.ycombinator.com Mike Isaac 2026-03-18 20:09:56

Meta said on Thursday that it planned to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI, a start-up that works with data to train artificial intelligence systems, in a deal that Meta hopes will add needed muscle to its disappointing A.I. division. As a condition of the deal, Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s 28-year-old chief executive, plans to join Meta in a top leadership role in the new division, which Meta is calling its Superintelligence lab. Mr. Wang, whom people inside Meta have taken to calling a visionary

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Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-19 06:11:56

FTC chair alleged “serious risk” from ad boycotts After Musk's purchase of Twitter, the social network lost advertisers for various reasons, including changes to content moderation and an incident in which Musk posted a favorable response to an antisemitic tweet and then told concerned advertisers to "go fuck yourself." FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said at a conference in April that "the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas." "If advertisers get

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Apple will let third party music apps show animated artwork on the iPhone lock screen, not just Apple Music

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2016)

Flies grow their gyroscopes: Study reveals how flight stabilizers take shape

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Steam adds Apple Silicon support and new accessibility filters

At last, wireless earbuds that sound great, feel comfortable, and won't break the bank

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SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2018)

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch

Answering the Nintendo Switch 2’s lingering accessibility questions

How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam

Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances

SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching

UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022)

How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years

Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh

Siri's Big AI Upgrade Is Coming but Reportedly Not Until Spring 2026

Google Clock starts drip-feeding its big Material 3 Expressive makeover

Why ads are coming to your favorite AI bots and you've only got yourself to blame

Copilot Vision brings Microsoft's screen-watching AI to everyday Windows tasks

Apple announces global in-person sessions to dive deeper into WWDC25 updates

The Internet Archive modernizes its GeoCities GIF search engine

A year after testing, these Nothing earbuds are still my all-time favorites

Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

Simulink (Matlab) Copilot

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts

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