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Cody Rhodes Has Strong Opinions on ‘The Last Jedi’
The WWE champion is a big 'Star Wars' fan and has a very specific reason why he loves 'Episode VIII.'
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Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical 'digital twins' of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly
In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of respondents has…
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Anthropic Skill scanners passed every check. The malicious code rode in on a test file.
Picture this scenario: An Anthropic Skill scanner runs a full analysis of a Skill pulled from ClawHub or skills.sh. Its markdown instructions are clean, and no prompt injection is detected. No shell commands are hiding in the SKILL.md. Green across the board. The scanner never lo…
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Testifies About Sam Altman Allegedly Lying to Her
She just transformed a known anecdote into a deposition given under oath.
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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture tha…
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‘Hocus Pocus 3’ Hopes to Cast Another Spell on Nostalgia-Hungry Fans
The 1993 original film starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker got a Disney+ sequel in 2022.
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The most passive aggressive phrases at work don’t sound cruel on the surface, they can actually sound polite — “friendly reminder,” “per my last email,” “for future reference,” “as you no doubt are aware” — and the damage isn’t in the words, it’s in the smile they’re wrapped in that makes you feel insane for being bothered
When a 2022 survey by the language platform Preply asked 1,264 Americans which phrases they consider the most passive-aggressive at work, the results read like a greatest hits of corporate Slack. Topping the list: “As you no doubt are aware…” Followed by “For future reference,” “…
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People who keep volunteering for airport runs, takeout pickups, and holiday logistics aren’t always just generous, sometimes being useful is the only role that lets them feel like they aren’t imposing
At sixty-two, the realization that compulsive helpfulness is not generosity but a decades-old strategy for earning a seat at the table — and what it takes to retire the reflex.
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Anthropic secures massive SpaceX compute deal as it expands Claude Code limits
Anthropic has announced an expansion of its infrastructure and product capacity through… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Five times AI hallucinations embarrassed governments
From the Trump administration’s “formatting errors” to South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal, AI confabulation is infiltrating official documents.
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After Nykaa, Zee Sues JioStar Over Alleged Copyright Violation
Days after suing Nykaa, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has reportedly dragged Reliance-Disney joint venture JioStar to the Delhi High…
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Venmedtech Raises New Round to Accelerate Medical Device Commercialization
Venmedtech has secured new funding to accelerate the commercialization of its medical device products, as the company looks to scale its presence in China's growing medical equipment market.
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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This Az-El Mount Is Worth Following
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the target. With a geostationary satellite the mount is either fixed …read more
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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 Points: 342 # Comments: 353
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
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University of Utah’s TRIGA Research Reactor Set to Produce Electricity
Research reactors come in many forms and sizes, with the TRIGA class being commonly found at universities. The TRIGA reactor at the University of Utah was installed in 1975, and …read more
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Programming Still Sucks
Article URL: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269 Points: 422 # Comments: 230
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Learn Programming Without a Computer
Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a computer. Instead, it uses items like a toy train, playing cards, and …read more
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A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift
We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more
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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
Article URL: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434 Points: 382 # Comments: 111
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