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2+ min ago (392+ words) Not everyone's convinced about that last part One of the biggest entertainment industry changes in decades looks set to happen, because Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially announced a deal for Netflix to acquire WBD for $82.7 billion. If the deal goes through with intervention from the US Government, it would give Netflix access to the vast library of Warner Bros. Discovery content, including the Harry Potter and DC Comics franchises. HBO Max and all of the HBO shows are included in the package. This is a massive consolidation deal for the TV and movie industry, and will give Netflix control of one of the biggest film studios in the world, as well as a stack of extra streaming content. Given the size of the companies, regulatory scrutiny is inevitable, but it sounds as though Netflix is confident of overcoming…...

2+ min ago (462+ words) " Making great presentations more accessible. This project aims to enhances multilingual accessibility and discoverability while maintaining the integrity of original content. Detailed transcriptions and keyframes preserve the nuances and technical insights that make each session compelling. " AWS re:Invent 2025 - Optimize for AWS with'intelligent automation (AIM235) ; This article is entirely auto-generated while preserving the original presentation content as much as possible. Please note that there may be typos or inaccuracies. One user request, for example, can come in and then create hundreds of downstream tasks, and this leads to overprovisioning of GPUs. You see issues with throttling and spiking, and as evidenced here, we've seen customers who have to deal with overprovisioning and sometimes utilization of 30 percent of what they should be, and 10 to 20 times the GPU hours than what's really needed. Ultimately, you end up with a situation where these idle…...

2+ min ago (122+ words) Noise suppression can significantly improve the audio quality in any web app. This tutorial shows how to integrate the Koala Noise Suppression Web SDK from Picovoice and run speech enhancement directly in the browser. Since processing happens on-device, audio never leaves the user's machine, keeping voice data private with low latency. A simple webpage that accesses the microphone and applies Koala's noise-suppression model. This serves as a foundation for building voice chat tools, meeting apps, or any browser-based audio application. Install a simple web server for testing: Convert the Koala model into base64 so it can be loaded in the browser: Remember to replace ACCESS_KEY with your AccessKey from the Picovoice Console. This tutorial was originally published on Picovoice....

4+ min ago (115+ words) FSCSS gives CSS superpowers, and one of my favorite features is how it handles arrays. They make your styles more organized, reusable, and cleaner " without needing JavaScript. Today, here's a very short example showing two ways to create arrays in FSCSS. You can declare an array using variables and then convert it into an FSCSS array: If you want to store a large amount of text, this method is cleaner and easier: And FSCSS will still treat it as a proper array. FSCSS arrays are simple but powerful. Whether you're storing numbers, text, or multi-line values, the syntax stays clean and readable. How to use FSCSS Simplify your CSS workflow with FSCSS...

7+ min ago (480+ words) Saying what everyone is thinking Startups around the globe are trying to create the next big hardware product that sees the iPhone-ification of a dedicated AI device. We've seen plenty of failed attempts from the Rabbit R1 to the Humane Pin, and now Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber has chimed in by saying, "What's out there is a solution looking for a problem that doesn't exist." With 2026 on the horizon, and the looming product reveal of whatever legendary Apple designer, Jony Ive, and OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, are working on, will this new device change Faber's mind? Or is she just saying what the rest of us are thinking? In her interview with Bloomberg, Faber, who took over as CEO of Logitech two years ago, said, "The company is a strong proponent of AI," but it aims to find clever uses for…...

12+ min ago (307+ words) We have all been haunted by the ghosts of unfinished business'that lingering guilt of things left undone. When the Kiroween challenge asked for something spooky, I wondered: What if productivity itself was the horror story? Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, I found the perfect metaphor. Just as Jacob Marley was weighed down by chains forged from a lifetime of neglect, every task we abandon is another link in our own chains. Every task we complete is a soul saved. The result is 'Marley's Ledger''a to-do app where tasks literally haunt you, and your productivity determines whether you are redeemed or condemned. Marley's Ledger transforms mundane task management into a gothic redemption arc: I moved beyond "vibe coding" into spec-driven development. Before writing a single line of code, I established a strict plan using Kiro. After deployment,…...

14+ min ago (310+ words) On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Samsung's new Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone and how it could compare to Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone. A third of the unfolded display measures 3.9mm thick, increasing slightly around the triple-lens camera module. The center display section is 4.2mm thick, while the segment containing the side button is 4mm. The device includes a reinforced overcoat atop a shock-absorbing display layer for impact resistance, and an aluminum frame prevents the screens from coming into contact when closed. The Galaxy Z TriFold supports three portrait-layout apps running side-by-side, multi-window resizing, full-screen video viewing, and a vertical reading mode. Samsung has also added standalone Samsung DeX, enabling up to four workspaces with five apps active simultaneously. Samsung apps have been optimized for the triple-panel layout, and Google's Gemini Live has been optimized as well. The Galaxy Z…...

15+ min ago (568+ words) The idea for The Graveyard of the Forgotten Web began at home, with my parents reminiscing about the early Internet era. Back when MSN nudges were a declaration of affection, Orkut scraps were the pulse of friendships, and grainy webcam chats felt magical. Their stories revealed something deeper: these platforms weren't just websites, they were entire digital cultures. In researching "dead" social networks like MySpace, Orkut, and GeoCities, I realized how profoundly they shaped the way we communicate online today. Customizable profiles, friend lists, communities, user-generated content,these features were born in the 2000s. But when the world moved on, millions of memories vanished overnight.I wanted to bring them back,not as static museum pieces, but as living, interactive ghosts of the past. And with the Kiroween theme, giving them a supernatural, gothic twist felt perfect. This project became my…...

16+ min ago (270+ words) In relational databases, relationships naturally work in both directions. If a User has many Posts, then each Post belongs to a User. Without backpopulate, you'd need to manually manage both sides of this relationship, which is error-prone and verbose. Let's look at a simple one-to-many relationship between users and posts: You could also set it from the other direction: You might encounter similar-looking parameters and wonder about the differences: backpopulate: Explicitly defines both sides of the relationship. You need to specify it on both models, which makes the relationship clear and explicit. back_populates: This is actually the same as backpopulate - just an alternative spelling. SQLAlchemy accepts both. backref: An older approach that automatically creates the reverse relationship. While convenient, it's less explicit: The modern best practice is to use backpopulate because it's more explicit and easier to understand when reading code....

17+ min ago (296+ words) Google's December 2025 update rollout has been smooth for almost every eligible Pixel " except the Pixel 7a. Newer and older models are already running Android 16 QPR2, but 7a owners are still waiting. It's frustrating, but there might be a good reason Google halted the update for this specific model. Even though the Pixel 7a is clearly listed as eligible for Android 16 QPR2, the update still hasn't landed on the device. Over on Redidt's Pixel sub, user One_Meaning_5256 shared a conversation with a Google representative who seems to have not much more insight than the rest of us into the situation, mentioning anecdotal reports of Wi-Fi stability issue affecting the Pixel 7a (via PiunikaWeb). The device is also nowhere to be found on Google's official list of Pixel models getting the December 2025 update. What makes this delay more annoying is that the December patch is one of Google's most…...