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Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. Building atmosphere. Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog. Creating compelling characters. Not being a racist. As a fan of horror in general, I can’t pretend that Lovecraft isn’t an important touchstone. But the man’s blatant racism is also impossible to ignore, especially […]
Nalden, who co-founded the file transfer service WeTransfer in 2009 along with Rinke Visser and Bas Beerens, is not pleased with the company’s direction after the service was acquired by Bending Spoon last year — and he doesn’t mince his words about it. “Bending Spoons doesn’t really care about people, and even though I get […]
There are lots of tips for improving your website performance. But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able to maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for web performance optimization and explains the roles that different types of data play in […]
A new ReShade preset that emulates the look and feel of a VHS tape for Cyberpunk 2077 is earning plaudits on social media. The grainy, analog-tape-worn scenes shown in an embedded sample video on Reddit (below) make this graphically stunning game so 1980s-real you start watching for mullets. The preset is the work of Redditor […]
from the the-open-web-is-closing dept Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There’s just one problem with this theory: Google […]
When Anthropic introduced Agent Skills, I was initially a bit skeptical of the problem they solved–can we just use prompts and tools?–but I’ve subsequently come to appreciate them, and have explicitly implemented skills in our internal agent framework. This post talks about the problem skills solves, how the engineering team at Imprint implemented them, how […]
We took some impressive pictures with the OPPO Find X9 Pro’s Hasselblad lens kit, and the rather impressive 230 mm lens offers significant distance, which can be extended up to 40x digital zoom, roughly equivalent to 920 mm. That’s pretty long range, and as a very, very, very amateur astronomer, I wondered whether OPPO’s lens […]
Samsung is adding two brand new speakers to its audio lineup, along with updated soundbars boosted with AI features. While not as inconspicuous as the Samsung Frame, the new WiFi speakers, called the Music Studio 5 and 7, were designed to blend into your living room’s atmosphere with their minimalist design. However, if you’re looking […]
Put your math hats on for a minute, and let’s take a look at what this beef from mid-October was about. It’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with AI right now. Bubeck was excited that GPT-5 seemed to have somehow solved a number of puzzles known as Erdős problems. Paul Erdős, one of the […]
A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign in which the adversary poisoned Domain Name System (DNS) requests to deliver its signature MgBot backdoor in attacks targeting victims in Türkiye, China, and India. The activity, Kaspersky said, was observed between November 2022 and November 2024. It has […]
