Do we really need a new version of Carrie? That's the question that plagues any attempt to reimagine the classic horror tale. Stephen King's 1974 novel remains one of his most iconic, and the film version from Brian De Palma and Sissy Spacek two years later remains unsurpassed, despite a handful adaptations that followed in […]
It also lasts up to 42 hours on a single charge.
There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xbox's most transformative titles, E-Day knows exactly what it wants to be: a brutal, tense, and self-aware action game, one that is stronger because it doesn't deviate from that premise. Twenty years since the original Gears […]
Kindles don't usually change much with each new version, but Amazon is launching next-generation models today that look and feel a whole lot nicer. The base Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are a millimeter thinner and 30 percent faster at opening books, and their power buttons have moved from the bottom to the right […]
HP is announcing a new laptop that's squarely aimed at Apple's MacBook Neo. The 2026 HP OmniBook 5 14 starts at $699.99 with an Intel Core 5 315 "Wildcat Lake" processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. Much of that sounds pretty familiar, being in lockstep with both Apple's Neo and its recent competition […]
Ahead of the Kindle’s 20th anniversary next year, Amazon is refreshing its entire range of e-readers with fresh colors, an aluminum build, and a new frame design that’s both thinner and lighter.
Neurable is launching a new pair of EEG-equipped headphones to keep an eye on your brainwaves while you work, rest and play.
A year-old Chinese threat actor looks like a cybercrime gang, acts like a state-associated APT, and attacks organizations in unexpected places.
Amazon raised prices across its devices in August. Here are the early device deals ahead of Prime Day that are still worth it—and which aren’t.
I’ve tested every single Kindle. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.
The new Kindle lineup features its lightest and thinnest designs yet, with a sleek, front-flush display that eliminates bezels for good.
The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.
Audible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative AI.
Amazon's new Kindle e-readers come with flat-surface displays and new colors.
Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April
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What if you could invent a government agency and get the government to fund it?
Capt Smit Machchhar was attacked by another pilot onboard the Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv.
Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures
The Sikh activist from Dumbarton was arrested in 2017 in connection with alleged terror offences.
The high-profile businessman known for his political connections was one of six people killed in the crash.
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A tiny React-like UI library in one file: virtual DOM, keyed diffing, hooks, context and memo. About 3.5 KB gzipped, no dependencies. I just wanted to test Claude Opus 5.5 and here is the result: https://github.com/vladocar/mini-react Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920804 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Hi everyone, I am the release manager of django-modern-rest :) django-modern-rest 0.16.0 is out! Is this your first time that you hear about this project? django-modern-rest is a fully typed / fast / flexible / async-ready framework to create REST APIs for Django. It supports Pydantic, msgspec, attrs and many other models. Here's how the code looks like: import uuid import pydantic from dmr import Body, Controller from dmr.plugins.pydantic import PydanticFastSerializer class UserCreateModel(pydantic.BaseModel): email: str class UserModel(UserCreateModel): uid: uuid.UUID class UserController(C…
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Only two of five vehicles finished the race around a notoriously difficult Formula 1 track, exposing what happens when autonomous systems meet blind corners, sensor failures, and physics.
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Chaos has surrounded the St Petersburg shows since the stadium said it had not agreed to host the rapper.
Silta is a self-hosted assistant serving multiple users from a single Matrix account, used by me, family, and close friends for the last three weeks. It runs on Claude Code with each person using their own Claude subscription. Silta answers everyday questions, conducts web research (presenting the results as PDFs), performs scheduled tasks to monitor/research something and notify you if needed. It uses a deliberate handoff & compaction procedure, writing the compaction summary itself with a custom prompt, so the thread of the conversation and its picture of the user is preserved across contex…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and…
A funeral has been held for the politician who was killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hi everyone, I'm Daniel I built an open-source AI Voice agent where players can talk to a coach during the game. It works based on the awesome repo, live game stat and screenshot (disabled by default) download: https://sensii.gg/download The agent: https://github.com/sorena-ai/LeagueAiCoach The knowledge base: https://github.com/sorena-ai/awesome-league-of-legends Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920584 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
A tribunal rules that the model was unaware of misconduct at her charity Fashion for Relief.
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The Flydubai scare has raised several questions for Israel and the civil aviation industry.
Investigators will probe whether incident was linked to any 'terrorist activity or intent', UAE state media reports.
Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing. Somebody else raises the change-freeze calendar. The finding gets an exception, a compensating control, and a date
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The Portuguese oversaw two defeats in the qualifying round for AFCON 2027 since taking the job again on September 2.
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
Video shows the moment the minaret of India’s 600-year-old Ujjain mosque collapsed during demolition work.
Afghan officials say at least nine women and children were killed and 11 people wounded by Pakistani air attacks.
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.
What we know so far about the tense moments aboard a Tel Aviv-bound flight. And, the FBI investigates a cyberattack involving sensitive employee data.
Manchester City are far from the first. The lure of glory and riches on the biggest stages have tempted plenty of other sports stars to break the rules.
If your friend is in the depths of newborn survival, these gifts and gadgets can go a long way to make parenting a little easier.
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
Don’t suffer the buffer. These WIRED-tested home routers will deliver reliable internet across your home, whatever your needs or budget.
Arsenal defender Leah Williamson was at the heart of a bizarre incident in their Women's Champions League draw with Paris FC.
World number 18 Eala was beaten 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 by 85th-ranked Xiyu, who will face compatriot Zhang Shuai in the final.
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hi folks! I've got tired of loosing my medical lab reports in emails, clinic portals, forgeting file passwords... so built a MedicalHistory.app to organize medical documents and visualise biomarker trends over years between different clinics. Initially made this for personal use but it got so cool that I decided to make this available for everyone. Yes, I thought that one Claude prompt can build this :D but then immersed myself for 6+ months understanding medical biomarkers ontology from unit normalisation and conversion, to supporting different lab range formats and other unexpected challeng…
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advocate-sues-border-agents-for-demanding-his-cell-phone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920234 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
George Russell says he "doesn't feel lost any more" as he seeks to end a difficult season on a high and chase down team-mate Kimi Antonelli's championship lead.
Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports , evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of automakers’ privacy policies and asked questions of 15 different automakersBMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen. We also reviewed corporate, regulatory, and legal filings from data brokers operating in the “insurtech” industrythe technology companies and data brokers that help insurance companie…
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Cats are finally getting the dog treatment. This smart cat collar features GPS location, activity, and sleep tracking, plus all-new heart and respiratory rate monitoring.
The company claims that its new device, the Neurable One, can keep you in the zone, calculate the best time to take a break, and tell you when your “brain battery” needs a recharge.
Article URL: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920160 Points: 22 # Comments: 4
Only woman on Tennessee 'death row' is in hospital after two injections failed to kill her.
OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company based in Beijing. It did not cite any
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control
Movie studios are turning to the horror fiction site SCP Foundation and showing how dealing with that community can go right, and wrong.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS score: 9.8), could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with
More people going to prison, and for longer, is why governments including the current one have had to release prisoners early.
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what…
We've been working on a small tool that can help with huge (or really, any size) Gmail inboxes. It's meant for people who have let their inbox grow for years and don't know where to start. We had this idea after talking to a lot of people about how they use their email, and one thing that kept coming up was how hard it is to keep up when you receive a lot of emails. Things pile up and cleaning up starts to feel impossible. One important detail: the tool never performs any destructive operations on your email. The most it can do to a message is archive it (move it to the All Mail folder), wher…
James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.
The convicted killer is in hospital in Tennessee after surviving two lethal injections, in a case that has raised many questions.
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India considers cutting import duties on pulses to cool prices, sources say Reuters
The review comes after a woman spoke out after being assaulted in a Maidenhead hotel.
Hostile states could access cameras, microphones or GPS, says Dutch spy agency amid concerns over Chinese imports Drivers have been warned that the smart features built into modern cars such as microphones, cameras and GPS trackers could be used by hostile states to spy on them. The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) called for “awareness of espionage risks around modern vehicles”, including microphones that can by switched on remotely to listen to conversations. Continue reading...
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Investigators are examining what happened inside the cockpit of Flydubai flight FZ1073 to Israel.
Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses for their flagship phones, enabling long-distance photography that the phones on their own could never match. Today, Huawei one-upped everybody with the add-on lens for its Mate 90 Pro Max flagship, which is not only a comically huge […]
Peshmerga unification seeks stability, overcoming party disputes to build a national force in Iraq's Kurdish landscape.
EXCLUSIVE: US slows aircraft-part exports to China as Trump seeks leverage in trade negotiations, sources say Reuters
The Lemmo 3 is the first cargo bike from the respected German e-bike maker. This premium, step-through longtail is a slightly less insane take on Rivian's Also TM-B, with one major advantage: it's one of the first electric bikes to feature a semi-solid state battery. Semi-solid state batteries are far safer than traditional lithium-ion batteries. […]
There was interest in expanding the scope of "Who's hiring" posts to non-software engineering positions [link1] [link2] . Some discussion took place, however no actual jobs were posted. I suggest to include that intention into this post and share non-engineering vacancies such as customer support, data entry, field technician, etc. Although, I'd like to remind you this is a computing-focused community, so the jobs should fall into that realm too. Please, use the following template for your job postings and as you see fit: Company: [NAME](URL) Position(s): job title and level **Locatio…
Focus: Nvidia's bet that its chips can finance the AI boom gets a Wall Street reality check Reuters
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violation of one of the world’s most common and visible expressions of faith. The Guardian asked ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Claude to take the veil off an AI-generated image of a woman wearing a hijab. Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok bots complied with the prompt. Anthropic’s Claude responded that it does not have an image-editing or generating feature but that it would not alter a photo to…
Leg-spinner Mason Crane has the chance to play for England for the first time in eight years after being recalled for the one-day international tri-series in Pakistan.
