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Killing Satoshi, an upcoming biopic about the elusive creator of Bitcoin, will reportedly rely heavily on artificial intelligence to generate locations and adjust actors’ performances, Variety reports. The film was announced in 2025 as being directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, The Edge of Tomorrow) and starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in undisclosed roles, but its connection to overhyped technology was previously understood to begin and end with cryptocurrency.According to a UK casting notice viewed by Variety, the producers of Killing Satoshi reserve the right to “change, add to, take from, translate, reformat or reprocess” actors’ performances, using…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a mix of a little bit of everything. It helps if basketball is your game. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app.…

China successfully extracted kilogram-level uranium from seawater under real marine conditionsOceans contain far more uranium than all known land-based deposits combinedSeawater uranium concentration is extremely low, making recovery technically demandingChinese scientists have revealed successful kilogram-scale uranium extraction from seawater under real marine conditions, a milestone which moves the concept beyond laboratory testing.The announcement came through state-linked nuclear institutions, and was tied to the operation of a dedicated offshore test platform in the South China Sea.Seawater contains uranium at extremely low concentrations, roughly 0.003ppm, which makes recovery technically demanding and energy intensive. You may like Seawater uranium attracts long-term interestDespite this…

This post lists the five best NAS devices among those I’ve reviewed and used extensively. They are truly battle-tested servers. Network-attached storage devices are designed to provide large amounts of storage space to the entire network—they connect to the network’s router (or a switch) rather than to a peripheral port, such as USB or Thunderbolt. NAS server explained: Redundancy and the basics of accessing shared network storage NAS servers are similar to traditional servers (computers) in terms of functionality, except they don’t require a keyboard, mouse, or screen. Instead, they are managed via a web-based user interface and are suitable…

But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measured 2,100 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 70B and reported 3,000 tokens per second on OpenAI’s own open-weight gpt-oss-120B model, suggesting that Codex-Spark’s comparatively lower speed reflects the overhead of a larger or more complex model. AI coding agents have had a breakout year, with tools like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code reaching a new level of usefulness for rapidly building prototypes, interfaces, and boilerplate code. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have all been racing to ship more capable coding agents, and latency has become…

During its State of Play livestream on Thursday, Sony revealed the first PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for February and it’s a doozy. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5) will finally websling its way onto the Game Catalog on February 17.Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was released in October 2023, and Insomniac’s third Spidey game is the the best of the bunch. You can play as both Peter Parker and his protégé Miles Morales. Each Spidey has his own skill tree and moveset to master.Traversing New York (with a lot more of it explorable than in previous entries) has never felt better thanks to…

It’s rare that I spot something at the grocery store that makes my heart cry out with unbridled, capitalistic desire. Yes, both the wine and fancy cheese departments sometimes have fun finds, but otherwise, there are only so many ways to remix the foodstuff canon. It wasn’t something edible that recently caught my eye, though, but rather a genius bit of infrastructure. And it was brightly colored packaging, in fact, but not in the processed-food department or the produce aisle. I spotted them in a fellow shopper’s cart: four technicolor shopping bags, one of them insulated, designed to fit inside the…

Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, February 12 (game #711).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…

Here’s some good news for fans of Ubiquiti’s NAS approach: The company today released the latest UniFi Drive 4 app, which powers all of its UNAS servers. Unlike other NAS servers on the market that have their own full-scale Linux-based operating system, Ubiquit’s UNAS is the UniFi Drive app running on the company’s UniFi OS. As a result, each UNAS server is a single-app UniFi console that focuses primarily on storage, without additional standalone features such as a media streaming server or a surveillance system, which, by the way, is another UniFi app called Protect. That said, UniFi Drive 4…

Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a two-month span leading up to the international operation. Researchers said Wednesday that Lumma is once again “back at scale” in hard-to-detect attacks that pilfer credentials and sensitive files. Lumma, also known as Lumma Stealer, first appeared in Russian-speaking cybercrime forums in 2022. Its cloud-based malware-as-a-service model provided a sprawling infrastructure of domains for hosting lure sites offering free cracked software, games, and pirated movies, as well as command-and-control channels and…