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**What Youโll Learn**: Getting your photos back Download them, or send them straight to your library. โฆ Every finished archive comes back to you. Keep the files, send them to your library, or both. They land in date order either way. The Timeline Scan iPhone app finds the scans stuck on the wrong date in your Photos library and writes the corrected dates back, right on your phone. Dates fixed in place, in Photos and inside each file. Your full-size originals never leave your phone. See how it…
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**What Youโll Learn**: โEven as a child, I recognized his quality.โAlways the best... Sam Neill in Reilly: Ace of Spies. Image: Fremantle Media/ShutterstockI absolutely loved Sam Neill. I first saw it in Reilly: Ace of Spies, and even as a kid, I recognized its quality. To me, he was always the best at whatever he was at. And to do this consistently over decades is an accomplishment. You could see the flash when he was playing Sam. Perhaps he took his work…
๐ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: 05Optimizations AttoChess keeps the original's core search verbatim. All ten bytes come from rethinking the two things around the search, how the board is drawn and how the move is decoded, plus one change inside the search loop that frees a register. 01 ยท Display The board draws itself: no render buffer, no int 21h/09h This accounts for the largest saving. The original renders the position into a separate buffer: it walks the board, transforms each square into a printable character, stores it, appends…
โจ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Claudia Winkleman,BBC,Strictly Come Dancing,The Traitors,Entertainment TV,Media,Reality TV,Television,Culture,Television & radio ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: When the BBC revealed Claudia Winkleman was getting her own chat show, she self-deprecated her brand to note that it "could be painful". However, after just one series, the presenter - not the audience or guests - found the show to be a major ordeal.The gorgeous host of The Traitors and former Strictly Come Dancing presenter has left The Claudia Winkleman Show after just one series, saying she was โtoo nervous to enjoyโ conversations…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Update from July 15, 2026:ย After launch, critics argued that Soofi S was heavily "overtrained" by the standards of the classic Chinchilla scaling laws. Google DeepMind published those laws in 2022, describing how to balance model size and training data for a fixed compute budget. The sweet spot they identified was roughly 20 tokens per parameter. Soofi S blows past that ratio. With about 27 trillion tokens and 30 billion parameters, it lands at several hundred to one. Factor in only the 3.2 billion parameters…
๐ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Ava DuVernay,Netflix,Documentary films,US news,Film,Culture,Trump administration ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has produced a documentary for Netflix about the 14th Amendment, which gave freedom and rights to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, and has come under legal attack from Donald Trump.Netflix said on Thursday that it will release the 14th installment later this year. The film will mark a return to nonfiction for DuVernay, the director of Selma and Origin, and a follow-up to DuVernay's 2016 film 13th, her examination of…
โจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: A large portion of U.S. adults are making ends meet with help from their parents. Forty-two percent of Americans say they rely on the previous generation for financial support, according to Northwestern Mutual's 2026 Planning & Progress Study. That figure includes 72% of Gen Zers, more than half of millennials and one-third of Generation X. Whether Mom and Dad are funding a cell phone plan or a home down payment, this kind of intergenerational support can inspire powerful feelings, says Megan McCoy, a financial therapist…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Christopher Nolan's $250 million IMAX blockbuster version of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" looks set to be among the best films of the director's career, and could be a front-runner for next year's Oscar for best picture.Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian was among the vast majority of critics who gave it five stars, describing it as a film "of exciting ambition, boldness, earnestness, generosity and flair. There are some broad moments of dialogue, yes, but even these are…
๐ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Hey HN, weโre Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes, virtual machines) by discovering not just which apps are being used but also how they are connected to other data sources via MCPs. We also have an open-source dynamic MCP pentesting tool https://github.com/traceforce/mcp-xray to detect vulnerable MCPs.The purpose of Traceforce is to:- Give a companyโs employees a standardized way to ensure that AI software running…
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**What Youโll Learn**: toLess than a week after his wife's sudden death, a grieving man opens his door to a giant crow that scoops him into his suite and says, "I'm not leaving until you don't need me anymore." The man is still in shock, facing the prospect of raising his two young sons alone. Altaรฏr, wandering around the family's apartment at night, notices a house in "deep mourning, every surface of a dead mother, every crayon, jar, coat, well covered with a…
