
Sony Kills Blu-ray Discs While Deleting Purchased Movies
Show notes
Anthropic launches Claude's Fable 5 model with free promotional access, letting anyone compare it directly against GPT-4o and Gemini — though the window is time-limited. In a landmark for synthetic biology, scientists unveil SpudCell, the first cell built entirely from a synthetic genome that can grow and divide on its own internal clock. We also unpack IPFS's 10x faster publishing, a new FFmpeg AAC encoder that improves streaming audio quality, a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email feature,
Timeline
- 00:00:00 Opening
- 00:00:24 Claude Fable 5: Free Promotional Access with a Clock
- 00:01:22 SpudCell: The First Synthetic Cell with a Complete Division Cycle
- 00:02:58 IPFS Content Publishing Gets 10x Faster
- 00:04:49 FFmpeg 9.1 Ships a New Native AAC Encoder
- 00:05:42 Apple Hide My Email Flaw Exposes Real iCloud Addresses
- 00:06:40 Sony Ends Disc Production and Deletes Purchased Movies
- 00:08:27 ZCode: A Terminal Coding Agent from the GLM Team
- 00:09:28 Asahi Linux 7.1: Cleaner Audio and New Mac Support
- 00:10:45 Graphics Programming Fundamentals and the Box3D Physics Engine
Related links
- Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
- Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine - Bri Hacker News Campaign Feed
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