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Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make mone…
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The Information on Apple’s Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work
Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amount of online storage capacity. C…
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The System That Turned Paper Charts Into Digital Medical Records
Most hospitals and health care providers use electronic health records instead of paper charts to note patient vaccinations, diagnoses, and procedures. AthenaOne, Epic, and Oracle Health are some of the systems employed around the world. Many patients can access their electronic …
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A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
The average person isn't equipped to fact-check every video in their feed.
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[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API
REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real work. The best ones …
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The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to mak…
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Is all that scrolling really dulling your attention? Researchers combed 71 studies — the link is real, but how compulsively you scroll matters more than how long
A meta-analysis covering 98,299 people finds short-form video use tracks with weaker attention and self-control. The strongest links show up not in hours logged, but in the pull to keep going.
siliconcanals.com
Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models
Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness.
restofworld.org
A 2009 study found that four-person groups solved a decision task more accurately when a socially distinct newcomer joined them, even though the same groups rated their own process as less confident and less effective
Diversity of thought outperforms social comfort, yet groups rarely recognize when discomfort signals better outcomes.
siliconcanals.com
A 2007 study found that rude behavior measurably reduced performance on both routine and creative tasks and made people less willing to help, a pattern later research found extends to a single curt email
The tiny slights we dismiss as efficiency—a curt email, a terse reply—carry measurable costs that ripple through teams and undermine the very work we're rushing to complete.
siliconcanals.com
Wukong Disappears Four Months After Launch: Alibaba Consolidates Into Qianwen Office Public Beta as Big Tech Races to Integrate AI Work Into Single Unified Agent Products
Alibaba Qianwen Office opens public beta integrating QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun, as the four-month Wukong cycle shows AI office competition moving beyond single agents.
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Ex-Delhivery, Cleartrip Execs Launch Profound To Bring AI-Powered Professional Support For Individuals
Ex-Delhivery tech head Prashant Parashar and ex-Cleartrip chief business and growth officer Anuj Rathi have joined hands to launch an…
inc42.com
TerminalWidget 1.0
New app from Brett Terpstra: TerminalWidget lets you send output from commands, scripts, APIs, and Shortcuts directly to widgets across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with rich formatting, progress bars, sparklines, and image support. It is available as a universal app on the App Store f…
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After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.
techcrunch.com
Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call
When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.
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LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 790 # Comments: 332
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Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create temporary circuits using …read more
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Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
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Energizing a Vacuum Tube Flip-Flop Module of the IBM 604
Taking a break from ogling microscopic features in Intel’s semiconductor processors, [Ken Shirriff] is back to instead poking at decidedly macroscopic pluggable modules from the 1948 IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. …read more
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Circuit Bending, But Make It MIDI
Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a circuit board to create weird sounds in musical hardware. Or, …read more
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A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator
The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has …read more
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Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID
[David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand over the mouse just yet. Thus, he …read more
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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
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Devtools must be open source
Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111 Points: 576 # Comments: 198
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