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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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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.
techcrunch.com
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 …
New York Times
X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards
X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.
techcrunch.com
Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon
Green Lantern has had a short solo life on TV, and it wouldn't hurt to see what his animated show was all about.
gizmodo.com
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
techcrunch.com
International tech
When researchers examined return-to-office mandates across S&P 500 companies, they found no significant improvement in financial performance or firm value, but a clear fall in employee satisfaction — making the policy’s measurable human cost easier to find than its promised economic benefit
A study of 137 S&P 500 mandate firms found no significant financial lift, while Glassdoor ratings of satisfaction, work-life balance, leadership and culture declined.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says procrastination about retirement may be less about discipline than identity — brain scans found people often represent their future selves more like strangers than like themselves, and experiments using age-progressed faces made tomorrow’s person feel real enough for participants to save more money for them
Research on future self-continuity suggests retirement delay can involve identity as well as discipline, though early face-ageing studies measured hypothetical choices.
siliconcanals.com
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…
inc42.com
Psychology says the person who appears totally fine after a devastating loss and the person who falls apart are not as different as you’d think, and the truly resilient one is rarely who you’d guess.
Our culture has it backwards: the person who breaks down at a funeral and the one who stays composed may both be processing loss in equally valid ways, and the stoic response isn't necessarily denial.
siliconcanals.com
One of psychology’s strangest experiments found that spilling coffee made a highly competent person more likeable but did not rescue an average one, suggesting that imperfection is charming only after people have already been given a reason to trust the person underneath it
The classic pratfall experiment did not find that mistakes make everyone charming. The same coffee spill helped a superior candidate and hurt an average one.
siliconcanals.com
Ather Jumps 17% To Lead Weekly Rally In New-Age Tech Stocks, MapmyIndia Biggest Loser
With the Q1 earnings season in full swing, investors actively traded new-age tech stocks based on the latest financial disclosures,…
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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 Points: 551 # Comments: 355
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Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge
As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws. This led to creating the automatic bolt and screw sorting …read more
hackaday.com
Tim Hunkin’s History Of Arcade Machines
There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on the history of arcade machines. Given that he’s something …read more
hackaday.com
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 328 # Comments: 334
simonwillison.net
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
hackaday.com
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: 501 # Comments: 238
mezha.net
Junkbin, a Way to Efficiently Reuse Your Old Electronics
We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we are totally gonna do something with. …read more
hackaday.com
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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Fastmail offers EU data region
Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082 Points: 313 # Comments: 140
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