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Prime Video unveils full Spider-Noir trailer with dual black-and-white and color cuts
Prime Video debuted the full trailer for its live-action Spider-Noir series at CCXPMX26 in Mexico City, releasing it in two parallel formats: a Raymond Chandler
Romance Scam Response Needs Trained, Empathic Victim-Support Teams
Romance and confidence scams continue to inflict outsized financial and psychological damage, yet most organizations treat victims as a downstream reporting pro
Sawe breaks two-hour marathon barrier in competitive race for first time
Kenyan runner Sabastian Sawe won the London Marathon in 1:59:30, becoming the first athlete to break the two-hour barrier in a record-eligible race. The time be
Statecharts: the case for hierarchical state machines over hidden state in code
Statecharts extend traditional finite state machines with hierarchy, parallelism, and history, addressing the state explosion problem that plagues flat state ma
Strange New Worlds S4 teaser signals tonal shift back to serious Trek
Paramount+ debuted a fresh teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season four at CCXP in Mexico City. The footage suggests a course correction from season thr
The abandoned side-project that succeeded by teaching its author what it was meant to do
A developer recounts building a Svelte + Netlify quiz app to drill Latvian noun cases — a language with seven cases, two genders, and roughly 84 possible noun e
The dividing line: engineers who use AI to think harder vs. think less
The piece argues that AI is splitting software engineers into two camps. The first uses AI to offload drudgery — boilerplate, summaries, test scaffolding, routi
Three constraints a builder uses to kill bad ideas before they ship
A decade-in builder lays out three filters he runs every idea through before committing to build. First: the entire concept must fit on one page. The one-pager
TurboQuant: Compressing AI vectors to 2-4 bits without losing accuracy
TurboQuant is a vector quantization scheme that compresses high-dimensional model data — KV caches, embeddings, attention keys — down to 2-4 bits per coordinate
1-Bit Hokusai: Recreating The Great Wave on a Vintage Macintosh
An artist details a long-running personal project to redraw Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit pixel art on period-correct Macintosh hardware. Th
Artemis II crew sets new human distance record, eclipsing Apollo 13's 56-year mark
Artemis II's four-person crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth on their circumlunar flight, surpassing the 248,655-mile record held by Apollo 13's Jim Lovell,
ChatGPT Images 2.0 spontaneously captions chaotic stacked-animals prompt
Simon Willison highlights a Twitter exchange where a user extended his well-known pelican-on-a-bicycle benchmark by stacking it further: a horse riding an astro