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Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)
If old horror franchises are coming back, Lionsgate wants to get in on the action with another go at reviving 'Leprechaun.'
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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have
While the device is pretty and lightweight, it’s not something the everyday person needs due to its hefty price tag and size.
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X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards
X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.
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It May Be Game Over For the American ‘Squid Game’
Netflix still wants to keep 'Squid Game' around, but the details of what that looks like may not involve a western offshoot.
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Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames
Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups. TechCrunch spoke with one of the world’s foremost experts on tracking hackers to understand why companies give hackers codenames.
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Corrupt Minds Think Alike
Tariq Panja, reporting for The New York Times: The five men should have been in a celebratory mood. FIFA had just pulled off a World Cup that broke records on a number of fronts. Its spectacular culmination, the final, was a day away from kickoff. But their mood was anything but …
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China’s AI models spooked Wall Street. But they may turbocharge industry growth
Breakthroughs in cheap Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models have spooked US investors, but analysts argue plummeting model costs will benefit the AI industry in the long run by supercharging global demand for AI systems. Companies across the AI industry have slashed…
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Flipkart Minutes Enters Premium Grocery Segment With Pykd
Walmart-owned Flipkart’s quick commerce arm Flipkart Minutes is entering the premium grocery and specialty food products segment under its private…
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FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
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UPI’s Free Ride Is Over
In the last 10 years, UPI has changed how India transacts. What began as a simple, instant and interoperable way…
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The idea that successful people guard some secret list of things they never share is mostly myth, but two habits of discretion do hold up in the research: they rarely broadcast their unfinished goals, and they almost never vent
What separates the genuinely successful from the merely well-marketed is not what they hide, but what they refuse to advertise—and the science behind why restraint in two specific areas actually changes outcomes.
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Smart planning, not panic, must guide Asia’s data centre buildout
Across the United States, home to 37 per cent of the world’s 10,800 or so data centres, 2026 has been awash with protests against this infrastructure buildout. On July 18 alone, 142 protests were reported across 42 states. According to Data Centre Watch, 75 US data centre project…
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Tesla Driver Tries the Old ‘I Wasn’t Driving’ Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket
Turns out when you use "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)," that "Supervised" part is important.
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Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to le…
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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
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High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels
Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost and easy recyclability. That said, paper is not an easy material …read more
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The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques
In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.
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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
Article URL: https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536 Points: 205 # Comments: 118
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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 575 # Comments: 255
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Grading Tomatoes with an ESP32 and ML
If you’ve ever worked with produce, you might know about grading. In addition to deciding if, say, a strawberry is good or not, they also have to sort them by …read more
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Dithered QR Codes
Article URL: https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742 Points: 209 # Comments: 17
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Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic
Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a …read more
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Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera
For whatever reason, [Jeremy] wants to photograph bees in flight. This is one of those things that doesn’t seem that hard until you try to do it. He’s got the …read more
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 Points: 230 # Comments: 149
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