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Katee Sackhoff Talks ‘The Mandalorian’ and Acting Struggles

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-05 00:25:01

Battlestar Galacta alum Katee Sackhoff has been in genre TV for years. After voicing cultist turned mercenary/freedom fighter Bo-Katan Kryze for Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels, she reprised the role in the live-action series The Mandalorian. She’s gotten to play Bo several times since then, but as the actor herself tells it, coming back to that role hasn’t been without its challenges. In the latest episode of her podcast, Sackhoff told her Battlestar co-worker Tahmoh Penikett how she lost

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 03:00:05

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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See How David Corenswet Became Superman in His Audition Tape

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-04 17:40:14

The world was abuzz with speculation just a few years ago when it came time for James Gunn to cast his new Superman. Even before the part ultimately went to David Corenswet, he was being floated around as a likely candidate, and now you can watch how he got the part. YouTube account 21Casting posted the actor’s audition tape, which he performed with his wife Julia Warner. The three-minute video features him as Clark Kent being interviewed as Superman by Lois Lane over his intervention in Biayla

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Robots can now learn to use tools just by watching us

news.ycombinator.com Cheng Zhu 2025-11-04 18:14:39

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: UIUC HCA LAB Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But what if they could learn to use tools as naturally as a child does by watching videos? I still

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Five Years Ago, ‘The Batman’ Made Its Brutal, Moody Debut

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-04 20:25:04

On August 22, 2020, Warner Bros. held its first-ever DC FanDome, a weekend-long virtual event meant to make up for that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which was canceled due to the pandemic. If you’ve ever followed big industry events like the Game Awards or… well, Comic-Con, you know they often come with a big trailer or two that’s meant to make it all worth it. And for WB, the big showcase for its inaugural, short-lived event was the very first look at Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Trailers for super

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This $5,000 gaming rig blew me away

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:30:48

Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop The Alienware Area 51 is the ultimate pre-built gaming PC for anyone who wants top-tier performance without the headaches of building their own. It’s pricey and massive, but if you’ve got the space and budget, it delivers a plug-and-play experience that’s both powerful and future-proof. Don’t get me wrong, building a PC from scratch is fun. I’ve built over five computers at this point, and each one has taught me something new. But not everyone wants to go throug

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 15:35:49

Manim is an engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos. Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlie

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Get an Extremely Close-Up Look at Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Costume

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-05 09:00:36

Spider-Man 2 is widely considered one of the greatest comic book movies of all time—if not the greatest—and now you can own a piece of Hollywood history, or at least admire it in some very up-close new photos, thanks to an upcoming auction offering Tobey Maguire’s screen-used Spider-suit. As a bonus, the suit was also used in the much less-beloved Spider-Man 3, so it’s also got some genuine Hollywood notoriety attached to it, too. The suit is yet another jaw-dropping addition to Propstore’s upc

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‘Birds of Prey’ Almost Featured Another DC Bird: The Penguin

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-05 18:30:06

Before Colin Farrell became the Penguin in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the character almost had a different origin story in the DC Universe. According to star and producer Margot Robbie, early versions of the script for her Harley Quinn vehicle Birds of Prey, featured the iconic Batman villain as the main antagonist, but then someone stepped in and asked that not to happen. “Matt Reeves said, ‘Don’t use the Penguin. I’m going to use him in my thing,'” Robbie explained to Farrell in an interview wi

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Does MHz Still Matter?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 00:47:05

Does MHz still matter? Furkan Sahin Senior Software Engineer To provide VMs of any size, we slice bare metal into smaller VMs, sometimes even 1 vCPU. So, the performance of one fast core matters a lot. We evaluated new servers from Hetzner with AMD EPYC and Ryzen CPUs to add to our fleet. Ryzen is a CPU from AMD’s gaming line-up and it has better single core performance numbers compared to the EPYC which is a standard datacenter CPU. We weren’t sure if Ryzen’s single core edge would show up in

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Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a "Pregnancy Robot"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 08:19:34

From in vitro fertilization to designer babies, the world of reproductive science has seen advances over the years that have profoundly changed the way humans conceive and give birth. Unfortunately, artificial human wombs are not yet among those breakthroughs that have made the jump from concept to real life. But that hasn't stopped a number of news sites from running with a bonkers story about plans to build a humanoid "pregnancy robot" that carries real human fetuses to term in a synthetic wo

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All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 10:50:39

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm. The real

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The Management Skill Nobody Talks About

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 22:50:39

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm. The real

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TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-07 04:32:06

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators 30 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images TikTok is planning to lay off hundreds of staff in the UK which moderate the content that appears on the social media platform. According to TikTok, the plan would see work moved to its other offices in Europe as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to scale up its moderation. "We are continuing a reorganisation that we started last year to stre

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The case against humans in space

technologyreview.com Becky Ferreira 2025-11-07 14:00:00

“Going to space will not end war because war isn’t caused by anything that space travel is apt to change, even in the most optimistic scenarios,” they write. “Humanity going to space en masse probably won’t reduce the likelihood of war, but we should consider that it might increase the chance of war being horrific.” The pair imagine rival space nations exchanging asteroid fire or poisoning whole biospheres. Proponents of space settlements often point to the fate of the dinosaurs as motivational

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Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join xAI bid to buy OpenAI, filing shows

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-07 17:06:15

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI in early 2025, court filings on Thursday revealed. The filing is part of a legal case between Musk and OpenAI that was initiated last year. The case is proceeding in a federal court in Northern California, and a judge recently said OpenAI can move ahead with counter claims against Musk, who co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit with Sam Altman and others in 2015. When Musk f

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71% of Americans fear that AI will put 'too many people out of work permanently'

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-07 16:00:21

erhui1979/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. ZDNET's key takeaways Over 70% of US adults worry about AI displacing human workers. Some tech leaders have already forecasted huge job displacement. Over 75% of respondents are concerned about "political chaos." The majority of Americans are concerned about the potential impacts of AI across a number of key issues, including the job market and political stabi

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Longtime Bungie head Pete Parsons steps down

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-08 04:05:36

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced that he’s leaving the company one decade after taking on the role. In an update on Thursday, Parsons wrote that he has “decided to pass the torch” to longtime Bungie developer Justin Truman. Parsons has worked at Bungie for

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Forget GPT-5: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch sooner than you think

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-08 09:11:52

Tharon Green/ZDNET/Open AI/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways As the paint on GPT-5 dries, OpenAI is already working on GPT-6. The model's biggest differentiator seems to be deeper personalization. OpenAI is keeping an increasingly brisk pace on the path toward AGI. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. At the beginning of August, OpenAI launched its much-anticipated GPT-5 family of models. While the launch was somewhat

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An interactive guide to SVG paths

news.ycombinator.com Josh W. Comeau 2025-11-04 18:19:05

Introduction The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky. When I first encountered it, I found it totally inscrutable. Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of “what on earth?” vibes. At the same time, <path> elements are also incredibly useful. They’re the only way to create curved shapes in SVG, beyond full ellipses. And once you get the hang of it, they’re actually quite a lot of fun to use! In this blog post, we’ll cover all of the basic commands, including the

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Google just made it a whole lot easier to access Password Manager

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-08 23:41:27

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has launched a new Password Manager app. The app makes it faster and easier to access Password Manager on your phone. The app does not come with a themed icon. For those times when you forget a password, you can always check Google Password Manager, which is built into your Android phone. And if you want to see if any of your passwords have been compromised, it can do that too. While Password Manager can be a pretty helpful tool, there isn’t re

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Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

news.ycombinator.com Gio Silva 2025-11-08 22:59:30

In what sounds like a scene from a comedy movie, a squad of Marines successfully outsmarted an advanced artificial intelligence system by employing tactics that would make any child playing hide-and-seek proud. The remarkable demonstration revealed both the impressive capabilities and surprising limitations of modern AI technology. The experiment took place as part of DARPA’s Squad X program a while back. It aimed to develop advanced surveillance systems capable of identifying human threats in

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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

news.ycombinator.com Josh W. Comeau 2025-11-05 06:19:05

Introduction The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky. When I first encountered it, I found it totally inscrutable. Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of “what on earth?” vibes. At the same time, <path> elements are also incredibly useful. They’re the only way to create curved shapes in SVG, beyond full ellipses. And once you get the hang of it, they’re actually quite a lot of fun to use! In this blog post, we’ll cover all of the basic commands, including the

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Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-08 23:52:53

AI models can respond to text, audio, and video in ways that sometimes fool people into thinking a human is behind the keyboard, but that doesn’t exactly make them conscious. It’s not like ChatGPT experiences sadness doing my tax return… right? Well, a growing number of AI researchers at labs like Anthropic are asking when — if ever — might AI models develop subjective experiences similar to living beings, and if they do, what rights should they have? The debate over whether AI models could on

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How Burning Man VR rebuilt after Microsoft shut it down

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-11-09 09:30:00

It was all just supposed to be a one-time thing. When Burning Man got canceled because of covid-19 in 2020, a number of attendees banded together to re-create the festival on the social VR platform Altspace. That virtual Burning Man experience not only attracted around 13,000 visitors, but also accolades from the Producers Guild of America. The success led to the decision to keep the digital version of Burning Man going even when the real-life festival returned in 2021. BRCvr, named after the f

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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

news.ycombinator.com Simon Sharwood 2025-11-09 17:53:16

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS’s Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered business leaders who think AI tools "can replace all of our junior people in our company." That notion led to the “dumbest thing I've ever heard” quote, followed by a justification that junior staf

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Sütterlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 10:56:44

Historical form of German handwriting, used 1915–1970s Sütterlinschrift (German pronunciation: [ˈzʏtɐliːnˌʃʁɪft], "Sütterlin script") is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Culture (Preußisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung) to create a modern handwriting

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This new sub-$100 Android gaming handheld might be the new budget champion

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 09:14:26

TL;DR The MANGMI AIR X is a new entry-level Android gaming handheld. It has hall effect sticks, a 5.5-inch HD display, and a Snapdragon 662 SoC. Pricing starts at $79.99 during the early-bird period, with availability beginning mid-September. The market for Android gaming handhelds has exploded in the past few years, but Linux-based devices still dominate the ultra-budget category. There haven’t been any compelling entry-level Android handhelds under $100 in years, but the upcoming MANGMI AIR

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Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

news.ycombinator.com Simon Ser 2025-11-10 09:54:13

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit 2025-02-23 For my day job, I need to build and run a Docker Compose project. However, because Docker doesn’t play well with nftables and I prefer a rootless + daemonless approach, I’m using Podman. Podman supports Docker Compose projects with two possible solutions: either by connecting the official Docker Compose CLI to a Podman socket, either by using their own drop-in replacement. They ship a small wrapper to select one of these options. (The wrapper has t

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Tony Gilroy Is Very Sad at How Relevant ‘Andor’ Has Become

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-11-10 03:30:11

When Tony Gilroy began his Andor journey, his original pitch was deemed “pretty mad and undoable” by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the showrunner revealed how that initial take would later get revisited after Lucasfilm gave it some thought. “They came back to me and said, ‘We looked at this memo from a year and a half ago, and it makes a lot more sense to us now,'” he recalled. That, of course, led to a series expanding on the very foundation t

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

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Five Years Ago, ‘The Batman’ Made Its Brutal, Moody Debut

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TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

The case against humans in space

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71% of Americans fear that AI will put 'too many people out of work permanently'

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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

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Tony Gilroy Is Very Sad at How Relevant ‘Andor’ Has Become

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