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Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:00:13

There must be something in the water at Spotify HQ. Less than a week after delivering long-promised lossless audio, the company has another treat. Free listeners can finally listen to any track they want. After enhancing Premium, perhaps Spotify figured it could add a free perk without shedding subscribers. Spotify accounts on the free plan can now choose any track and immediately listen to it. Previously, that was paywalled for Premium subscribers. Non-paying ones had to shuffle through an alb

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Battling for the lead at an IRL version of Mario Kart

theverge.com Tim Stevens 2025-10-01 19:01:24

When it comes to mainstream gaming appeal, it’s hard to beat Mario Kart. Break out some controllers at a party and you’ll likely get a grid full of eager racers. The game’s seamless way of balancing disparate levels of skill and aggression creates an addictive experience for just about everyone. Real-world karting, on the other hand, remains more of a niche affair. Sure, plenty of people race karts at theme parks and putt-putt parking lots, but this style of racing isn’t on the radar for your a

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The Apple Watch Series 11 is one feature away from making me ditch my Oura Ring

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-01 23:03:10

Nina Raemont/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple unveiled Sleep Scores on the Apple Watch. The feature is available with WatchOS 26 and on the new smartwatches. There's one health tracking feature I wish Apple had announced. Last year, Gallup surveyed Americans about their sleep habits. For the first time since polling began in 2001, it found that a majority of Americans said they'd feel better if they got more sleep. They aren't happy

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China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-02 06:18:14

China is one of Nvidia's largest markets, particularly for data centers, gaming and artificial intelligence applications. China's market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country's anti-monopoly law, according to a preliminary probe, adding that Beijing would continue its investigation into the U.S. chip giant. Shares of Nvidia were down around 2% in premarket trading. Late last year, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) opened an investigation into Nvidia

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Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-02 06:30:52

Streaming platforms once again dominated the 2025 Primetime Emmy awards (77th edition), while network TV was shut out of the the major filmed categories. Apple TV+ came out on top with seven total wins including four for The Studio: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Seth Rogen), Outstanding Directing (Rogen and Evan Goldberg) and Outstanding Writing. "I've never won anything in my life," Rogen said during his off-the-cuff acceptance speech. "When I was a kid I bought a used bowl

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The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

news.ycombinator.com Mike Kulakov 2025-10-02 08:30:46

Press enter or click to view image in full size The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 — The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks Mike Kulakov 5 min read · Just now Just now -- Listen Share We run several SaaS products at Everhour, all billed through Stripe. Majority of the time everything works fine, but sometimes we get chargebacks. Even thought we do everything possible to prevent them. We don’t ask for a credit card until the moment of subscription. A few days before each renewal, we send an email no

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Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:54:20

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a

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The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-02 05:30:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie’s Rugged line, which features a bright orange bumper to protect data from drops. Today, Seagate announced an updated version of the LaCie Rugged M

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Which NPM package has the largest version number?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:03:18

Which npm package has the largest version number? I spent way too much time on this I was recently working on a project that uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript. When updating the dependencies in said project, I noticed that the version of that dependency was v3.888.0 . Eight hundred eighty eight. That’s a big number as far as versions go. That got me thinking: I wonder what package in the npm registry has the largest number in its version. It could be a major, minor, or patch version, and it doe

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Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 05:54:20

In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result known as the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. While exploring this question, I discovered something unexpected that led to an interesting collaboration with Grant and a

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'How to Train Your Dragon' Remake: Release Date and Time on Peacock

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-01 23:37:26

Need a live-action Night Fury in your life? The recent How to Train Your Dragon remake is hitting Peacock, so animated film fans can spend more time with the franchise's Vikings and dragons. The new version from Universal Pictures stars Mason Thames as the misfit Viking teen Hiccup, and Gerard Butler as Hiccup's dragon-loathing dad, Stoick the Vast (Butler also voices the character in the animated movie). Nico Parker plays Astrid, the tough girl Hiccup has a crush on, and Nick Frost plays the v

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FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-02 04:56:40

The FBI has issued a FLASH alert warning that two threat clusters, tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395, are compromising organizations’ Salesforce environments to steal data and extort victims. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 and UNC6395, responsible for a rising number of data theft and extortion intrusions," reads the FBI's FLASH advis

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M5 MacBook Pro: Here’s what to expect

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-02 04:05:30

Apple is reportedly working on a new MacBook Pro refresh, as they tend to do almost every year. This refresh is quite minor, but if you’re in the market for a new laptop, we’ll be breaking down everything you need to know about the next MacBook Pro update. What’s new As always, these new MacBook Pro models will come with a new generation of Apple Silicon. That means we’ll see the introduction of M5, M5 Pro, and M5 Max. These chips will still be based on TSMC’s 3nm process, specifically N3P, t

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Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

news.ycombinator.com Uros Popovic 2025-10-02 03:44:44

Posted on: September 13, 2025 | at 09:30 AM Follow @popovicu94 I recently implemented a minimal proof of concept time-sharing operating system kernel on RISC-V. In this post, I’ll share the details of how this prototype works. The target audience is anyone looking to understand low-level system software, drivers, system calls, etc., and I hope this will be especially useful to students of system software and computer architecture. This is a redo of an exercise I did for my undergraduate cours

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Watch the Emmy Awards Tonight Without Cable

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

Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers get access to CBS and will be able to watch the Emmys live or on-demand the following day. Hulu Plus Live TV costs $83 a month for the ad-supported tier, and comes with a three-day free trial and access to Disney Plus and ESPN Plus. $12 more a month for the Premium plan will get you the same, but ad-free Disney Plus and on-demand Hulu. Check out our Hulu Plus Live TV review for more info.

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Roblox hit with wrongful death lawsuit following a teen player's suicide

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 13:15:01

Following her son's suicide, Becca Dallas filed a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit against Roblox and Discord, accusing the platforms of wrongful death. As first reported by The New York Times, the lawsuit recounts the events leading up to Ethan Dallas' death, detailing his interactions with a player named Nate. According to the report, Nate was likely a 37-year-old man named Timothy O'Connor, who was previously arrested on charges of "possessing child pornography and transmitting harmful mate

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A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos

news.ycombinator.com Charlie Wood 2025-10-01 21:27:12

A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears to be essentially on its own, with few stars circling it. The object, which may represent a whole new class of enormous “naked” black holes, upends the textbook understanding of the young universe. “This is completely off the scale,” said Roberto Maiolino, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge who helped reveal the nature of the object in a preprint posted on August 29. “It’s terribly ex

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EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

news.ycombinator.com Betty Gedlu 2025-10-01 21:59:27

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects of daily life. EFF—along with the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and Re:Create—filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the decision. The Stakes: Turning

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Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 11:00:16

Where This Story Begins In 2022, we had three different query interfaces. Logs had a custom search syntax with no autocomplete. Traces only had predefined filters - no query builder at all. Metrics had a raw PromQL input box where you'd paste queries from somewhere else and hope they worked. Each system spoke a different language. An engineer debugging a production issue had to context-switch not just between data types, but between entirely different mental models of how to query data. When

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AMD’s RDNA4 GPU architecture

news.ycombinator.com Chester Lam 2025-10-01 19:04:18

RDNA4 is AMD’s latest graphics-focused architecture, and fills out their RX 9000 line of discrete GPUs. AMD noted that creating a good gaming GPU requires understanding both current workloads, as well as taking into account what workloads might look like five years in the future. Thus AMD has been trying to improve efficiency across rasterization, compute, and raytracing. Machine learning has gained importance including in games, so AMD’s new GPU architecture caters to ML workloads as well. Fro

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Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Woman Sends Money to "Stranded Astronaut" So He Can "Buy Oxygen"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:45:45

"In space on a spaceship right now." The sky's the limit for how outrageously implausible some scams can get. Actually, try beyond the atmosphere. An elderly woman in Japan sent thousands of dollars to a trickster who claimed to be an astronaut trapped in space and in danger of suffocating, Agence France-Presse reports. In fairness to the lady, though, she thought they were in love. The 80-year-old pensioner, who lives in Sapporo, the capital of Japan's northern island Hokkaido, met the scamm

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Here’s a fantastic MacBook Air deal you should consider if you’re eyeing an upgrade

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-02 01:06:03

With every new Apple product launch, deals slowly crop up over time – and the MacBook lineup is no exception. The best deals tend to come after a model is no longer the latest and greatest, and there’s currently an unbeatable M3 MacBook Air deal that’s hard to pass up on, and once it sells out, there likely won’t be any more to go around. Apple released the new M4 MacBook Air in March, and since then, retailers have been trying to move inventory of older M3 models. For the most part, they have

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Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:55:42

According to the recently published research, an infection may trigger myocardial infarction. Using a range of advanced methodologies, the research found that, in coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic plaques containing cholesterol may harbour a gelatinous, asymptomatic biofilm formed by bacteria over years or even decades. Dormant bacteria within the biofilm remain shielded from both the patient’s immune system and antibiotics because they cannot penetrate the biofilm matrix. A viral infect

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Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-02 00:33:34

In Brief With Tesla shareholders set to vote on a proposed 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk in November, board chair Robyn Denholm spoke to The New York Times to defend what would be the largest pay package in corporate history. Denholm, who was also on the special committee that put the compensation proposal together, argued that Musk needs to be motivated by extraordinary challenges tied to extraordinary compensation. At the same time, she suggested he’s less inter

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-01 20:15:24

Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy in mere seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifespan. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But now, astronomers say they've detected a gamma ray burst that utterly defies explanation: it repeated multiple times over the course of a single day, as if the star somehow suffered back

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An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists

news.ycombinator.com Sachi Kitajima Mulkey 2025-10-01 21:54:31

Each year between January and April, a blob of cold water rises from the depths of the Gulf of Panama to the surface, playing an essential role in supporting marine life in the region. But this year, it never arrived. “It came as a surprise,” said Ralf Schiebel, a paleoceanographer at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry who studies the region. “We’ve never seen something like this before.” The blob is as much as 10 degrees Celsius colder than the surface water. In Fahrenheit terms, the wate

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Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Impact and Tsunami Found in North Carolina

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-01 20:00:48

Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid traveling at 40,000 miles per hour (64,373 kilometers per hour) struck Earth, crashing into the Atlantic Ocean near the modern-day town of Cape Charles, Virginia. The approximately 3-mile-wide (5-kilometer) object created a large impact crater that’s buried half a mile beneath Chesapeake Bay. Hundreds of miles south of the crater, scientists have found new evidence of the asteroid impact and the tsunami that followed the shattering event. Hidden ben

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Hong Kong Disneyland Teases Avengers and Pixar Attractions

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-02 00:25:34

Disneyland Hong Kong first opened 20 years ago, and to celebrate, the company showed off concept for what’s coming in the future. Concept art below shows teases for attractions based on Marvel and Pixar. For the superheroes, one art features the Avengers headquarters, while another shows Spider-Man with Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and Thor in Asgard around a pod of parkgoers dropping through the Bifrost Bridge. This concept art—and a previously released art of Spidey holding a pod while figh

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60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-01 19:15:47

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965. These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased. However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying

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Free Spotify users can finally listen to any track immediately

Battling for the lead at an IRL version of Mario Kart

The Apple Watch Series 11 is one feature away from making me ditch my Oura Ring

China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe

Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12k Dimensions

The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

Which NPM package has the largest version number?

Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

'How to Train Your Dragon' Remake: Release Date and Time on Peacock

FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data

M5 MacBook Pro: Here’s what to expect

Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

Watch the Emmy Awards Tonight Without Cable

Roblox hit with wrongful death lawsuit following a teen player's suicide

A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos

EFF to court: The Supreme Court must rein in secondary copyright liability

Adding OR logic forced us to confront why users preferred raw SQL

AMD’s RDNA4 GPU architecture

Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease

Woman Sends Money to "Stranded Astronaut" So He Can "Buy Oxygen"

Here’s a fantastic MacBook Air deal you should consider if you’re eyeing an upgrade

Heart attacks may be triggered by bacteria

Tesla board chair calls debate over Elon Musk’s $1T pay package ‘a little bit weird’

Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists

Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Impact and Tsunami Found in North Carolina

Hong Kong Disneyland Teases Avengers and Pixar Attractions

60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details

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