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‘The Vampire Lestat’ Showrunner Teases Louis & Claudia’s Returns
'Interview With the Vampire' is shifting focus to Lestat, but it's not forgetting to bring his former family along for the ride.
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Open Channel: What’d You Think of ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’?
Was 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' another worthwhile trip to Pandora, or should this be the last of the films?
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Agent autonomy without guardrails is an SRE nightmare
João Freitas is GM and VP of engineering for AI and automation at PagerDuty As AI use continues to evolve in large organizations, leaders are increasingly seeking the next development that will yield major ROI. The latest wave of this ongoing trend is the adoption of AI agents. H…
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As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern
The future may be electric, but that future is being postponed. The European Commission, citing the need for flexibility, has softened its ambitious plan to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. Instead of requiring 100% of new cars to be zero-emission vehicles by that date, …
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A rough week for hardware companies
iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes were very different companies, but they faced some similar challenges.
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‘Dan Da Dan’ Will Beam Down with Season 3 in 2027
Science Saru will bring 'Dan Da Dan' back to your screens in just under two years with new threats and more romance.
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8 slow, unsexy habits that quietly compound into extraordinary life of stability
While everyone else chases the latest productivity hacks and morning routines, the most grounded people you know are quietly doing something completely different—and it's working better than any trending advice ever could.
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Bets on Generative AI to Redefine Drug Discovery——IntelliGenAI and their foundation model approach
IntelliGenAI's IntelliFold foundation model represents a promising breakthrough in generative AI for structural biology, achieving performance comparable to or surpassing AlphaFold 3, with controllable features poised to accelerate drug discovery and redefine scientific research …
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World’s First HarmonyOS-Powered Gasoline Car: Dongfeng Nissan Teana Surpasses 10,000 Orders in Its First Month
Dongfeng Nissan’s latest Teana has made a strong market debut, becoming the world’s first gasoline sedan powered by Huawei’s HarmonyOS cockpit.
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9 “unproductive” behaviors that are actually signs of high intelligence
I used to judge myself constantly for behaviors that seemed like the opposite of productivity. Staring out the window during work hours? Spending twenty minutes on a single paragraph? Getting lost in tangents instead of staying focused? I thought these were signs I wasn’t cut out…
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Waymo resumes service after citywide power outage causes suspensions in SF
A widespread power outage in San Francisco on Saturday exposed a dependency… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Foodtech In 2026, UC’s Tax Troubles & More
Inside 2026 Foodtech Factory The year 2025 brought soft consumer spending, stagnant user growth and fresh tax burdens for India’s…
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Finalist
My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indie developer Slaven Radic. It’s a planner — a digital take on traditional paper planners. Its motto: “Most productivity apps…
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Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout
Waymo suspended its SF robotaxi service on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets.
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Blackout in San Francisco Litters Streets with Traffic-Blocking, Deactivated Waymos
Robot chaos in the tech capital of the U.S.
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Hackaday Links: December 21, 2025
It’s amazing how fragile our digital lives can be, and how quickly they can fall to pieces. Case in point: the digital dilemma that Paris Buttfield-Addison found himself in last …read more
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A guide to local coding models
Article URL: https://www.aiforswes.com/p/you-dont-need-to-spend-100mo-on-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348329 Points: 402 # Comments: 198
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You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
Article URL: https://neilthanedar.com/youre-not-burnt-out-youre-existentially-starving/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346958 Points: 289 # Comments: 331
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The Unusual Pi Boot Process Explained
If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its program memory for something to do. …read more
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The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
Article URL: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115742530333573065 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347080 Points: 547 # Comments: 180
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Logging sucks
Article URL: https://loggingsucks.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346796 Points: 529 # Comments: 201
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I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Article URL: https://idiallo.com/byte-size/cant-update-to-windows-11-leave-me-alone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347108 Points: 455 # Comments: 444
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Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators
You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic …read more
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Origami on another Level with 3D Printing
Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material properties of a single geometry in ways that are sometimes stronger than those …read more
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