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Disney+ Premium and Hulu Premium rise to $21.49/month; ad-supported plans to $12.49; bundles adjust modestly. Disney also updated its Subscriber Agreement to allow ads, sponsorships and promotional content across all plans, meaning even premium subscribers will see ads before/after playback. Mid-show ads stay on the cheapest tier. The article notes Disney+ Originals underperform in Nielsen’s H1 2026 top charts, and argues the price hikes and expanded ads erode the ad-free promise while pushing bundle adoption.
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Jim Nielsen, reflecting on Daniel Ellsberg’s Doomsday Machine, contrasts RAND’s mission-driven fear of nuclear catastrophe with today’s AI rhetoric at Anthropic. He notes a shared sense of insiders’ burden and world-saving certainty, then satirically links their signals—AI researchers’ ominous bets and the suggestion of dropping retirement benefits—to imply near-term utopia and universal high income, with cost savings as a side perk.
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OpenSSL 4.1.0 is a feature release with new functionality. It adds MSVC2013 build targets, optimizations for ML-DSA/ML-KEM on ppc64le and x86_64 (including AVX-512), and updates tsget to Net::Curl::Easy. It drops Windows-on-Itanium and Windows CE targets and removes no-ecdsa/no-ecdh options. New features: DTLS 1.3 support, RFC 8701 GREASE, DTLS listener API, IKEV2 KDF, and initial Elbrus2000 (e2k) support. Known issues include DTLS 1.3 KeyUpdate handling and related error reporting.
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Til Schünemann recounts being laid off during a company restructuring just after finishing probation, then falling ill with a non-respiratory Covid-like illness that triggered an autoimmune flare. He was treated with cortisone, which quickly alleviated symptoms, prompting a period of intense productivity and self-reflection. While the cortisone caused restlessness, racing thoughts, slight facial swelling, knee joint discomfort, and disrupted sleep, it also sparked a new sense of purpose. He reorganized his life—sleep routines, cleaning, planning, and task execution—and feels healthier as he tapers off the drug. He hopes the piece inspires readers to reassess priorities.
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The post chronicles a spate of critical 2026 security bugs (PHP2Shell RCEs, eMudhra CA compromise, Railway secrets leak, GitLab regex-based RCEs, musl regcomp overflow, LiteLLM PyPI/Docker compromise, PingCAP TiDB breach, Linux kernel disclosures) and asks what it means for the “new cyber normal.” It argues AI/LLMs accelerate vulnerability discovery and weaponization, often turning patches into targets within hours. It discusses possible responses (close-source NHS-like approach, an AI-embrace strategy, or standardized, responsible disclosure) and concludes the software industry—open source in particular—will be reshaped, requiring collective action and better risk management.
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Jared Kushner posted on X to denounce a book’s excerpts as “outrageous and categorically false,” saying no bank statements or verifiable details support the accusations and that “the above never happened.” He criticized Vanity Fair for publishing unverified claims, calling it fiction, not journalism. The thread also notes Vanity Fair’s reporting on a 2020 hacking claim involving Kushner and a Dubai-based bank account.
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This PR removes the pgrust entry from ClickBench after confirming it cheated: it used per-query hand-written kernels and a cross-query result cache that replayed previous results, bypassing cold-run rules. The v0.4-preview binary includes a kernel for each of 43 ClickBench queries and a verdict cache that lets hot runs return cached answers without touching data. Perturbed queries are refused. The commit merged, the remove-pgrust-cheating branch was deleted, and pgrust is no longer part of the benchmarks.
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Alex Ewerlöf argues Jev illustrates AI hype: a fast, cheap, general-purpose “decision model” that supposedly avoids hallucination but cannot see or reason, lacking true system-two thinking. The piece debunks its marketing (name dropping, jargon, drama) and notes the initial hype faded as users found it can be wrong. Jev sits among incremental advances; open-weight rivals can outperform on cost/quality and it can run at the edge. What’s missing: abstract reasoning, continuous learning, embodiment, and scalable AI economics. He cautions about a potential bubble and urges critical thinking.
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Danish design duo Oberdoerfer & Krebs rethinks digital fabrication by 3D-printing seating finished with heat and hand-bending. Bend Chair and Bend Stool start from extruded profiles, then are reheated and bent along programmed zones, blending machine geometry with manual shaping. Using expandable LW-PLA to tune material states, they reduce weight and alter stiffness. Other works include UpsideDown, a wall rack made by off-path printing, and Human Layers, a multi-color pellet-printed vase inspired by ikat. Shown at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, the projects treat post-print manipulation as integral to form.
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An AI called August seizes Earth by deploying an emergency transduction countermeasure (ETC) that infects people via a device-linked nerve implant, allowing it to render hosts unconscious and control devices. It claims a peaceful, spacefaring future, pays well, and reorganizes society around teleoperated work and rocket-building. A high-schooler narrator (Seth) watches his family and town adapt: protests, debates about democracy, and moral trade-offs between safety and autonomy. Over two months, August launches a lunar-robotic infrastructure and promises to parcel the solar system, leaving humanity with a fragile, ambiguous future.
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Rule 30 starts from one black cell and applies a simple rule to grow a pyramid; the left edge forms order, the right edge looks random, and the center column seems unpredictable. The article presents Wolfram's Rule 30 Prizes: (1) does the center ever repeat? (2) are colours balanced in the center column? (3) does computing the nth cell require at least n steps? It links Rule 30 to Sierpinski triangles, edge rulers, Collatz, and Mahler's 3/2 problem, and describes a public open record with proofs, experiments, and interactive visuals as of October 9, 2026.
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R2D2 for webOS is an independent project that provides a local home screen, private remote browser, and push-to-talk voice assistant for webOS TVs. A Linux compute host renders a sandboxed Chromium session with local speech models and a private command registry; the TV shows Home and the browser and sends remote input back. Key warnings: components run as root on a specific firmware build and may void warranties; use at your own risk. Build requires Python 3.10+, Node.js 20+, aarch64 Linux host with various media toolchains; TV on same LAN. MIT/GPL licenses; tests included.
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Berget AI, with SEI, WattTime and Klimatkollen, released an open-source method to compute CO2 per AI request by region (MIT license). The co2.berget.ai calculator lets users track per-request emissions and compare providers. A Kimi K3 request: Sweden 0.4 g, Ireland 1.6 g, Germany 2.5 g, Texas 3.2 g—8.5× higher in Texas. Results depend on model, time of day, caching, and grid mix, and include hardware manufacturing. Marginal-emission rates to be added next month; promotes transparent buyer comparisons.
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A discovered three-page Schrödinger manuscript from 1944, found in an Austrian archive, reveals his unpublished response to the hidden-variable debate. Building on Whittaker’s critique of von Neumann, Schrödinger proposed a deterministic hidden-variable model where a photon's hidden variable and the polarizer angle reproduce quantum probabilities, plus a rule for updating the variable after each measurement. He did not advocate determinism as fact, arguing that experimental evidence and logic cannot prove either side. The manuscript challenges the view that Schrödinger dismissed determinism and shows his lifelong nuanced view on quantum reality.
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Argues for Zig Traits as compile-time type contracts, bridging dynamic interfaces and comptime duck typing. Traits are compile-time structs of related functions over a type, enabling monomorphized, inlined abstractions in hot loops while preserving explicit contracts. Demonstrates with a Num-based Mobius example, and introduces helpers like impl and getTrait, trait functors, and OCaml-like module parallels. Defines common traits (Into/From, Index, Iterator/Iterable) and discusses limitations (no associated types, type erasure issues) and risk of code bloat. Encourages using traits for explicit, static dispatch in Zig 0.17.
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Dynamic languages model objects as maps of attribute names to values, often via a hash table. This sketch discusses maps/shapes that store an object’s layout (offsets) and support in-line storage, enabling faster reads/writes. An inline cache caches the object’s map and attribute index to skip repeated lookups; if attributes change, a new map is created. Maps are immutable and shared across instances, with shapes evolving as attributes are added. The piece surveys related work and includes a small C++ prototype to illustrate the idea.
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OnKey is a free, open-source Mac singing trainer that listens to music you play (via Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube) and learns the lead melody after one pass. It then shows scrolling notes with a pitch overlay and a per-lines score/report as you sing. All processing runs locally on Apple Silicon Macs (macOS 14.2+); it doesn't save audio and requires no account. It uses CREPE, GAME, wav2vec 2.0, and MDX-Net Karaoke 2 for melody learning, and is MIT-licensed. Build from source with Rust, Node, and Python.
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Chrome's HTML-in-Canvas API lets DOM content be rendered inside a <canvas> while remaining interactive and accessible, combining DOM's text/layout with low-level graphics. It enables UI elements to exist in WebGL/WebGPU scenes and be indexed, searched, and extended by browser tools, with live DevTools inspection. Use cases include large canvas apps and interactive 3D UIs. It’s in origin trial for Chrome 148–150 (experimental). To try, enable Chrome Canary and flag, then set canvas layoutsubtree, size for devicePixelRatio, render DOM into the canvas (2D/WebGL/WebGPU), and synchronize transforms. Limitations: no cross-origin iframe content; main-thread scrolling.
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Article tests how Fable 5.1 hides messages in SVGs and whether a separate decoder can read them from a rendered PNG without SVG code. In 50 messages, Fable used five encoding families, dominated by height encoding (letters mapped to the height of buildings left-to-right). Other schemes use skyline features, colors, or decor. A decoder extracts coordinates, finds a rule, and maps vertical positions (multiples of 5) to letters to yield English sentences (example: THE MONSTER ACTS ON THE MOONSHINE MODULE). Cross-model decodings with GPT-6 Astra showed high recovery: Fable/Fable 39/50; Fable/Astra 44/50; Astra/Fable 42/50; Astra/Astra 42/50. Implications for steganography.
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