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Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Still Creepy Despite Anti-creep Update
Recent efforts to bolster the effectiveness of Meta's capture LED might be falling short.
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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…
MIT Technology Review
Can Microsoft Really Make Windows 11 Suck Less on Weak PCs?
The RAM apocalypse could be a gift to cheap PCs, if you can consider any laptop today ‘cheap.’
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Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ May Finally Reveal Its Origins
This community of microorganisms holds the answer to a longstanding scientific mystery, according to the researchers.
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‘Futurama’ Is Back to Poke Fun at Scammers, Pop Stars, and Pirates
Matt Groening’s animated sci-fi series delivers a high-energy 14th season.
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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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Alibaba launches Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8, a new foundation model with 2.4 trillion total parameters. The model is focused on coding and professional office tasks, with its API already available on Alibaba’s Qwen AI platform. Qwen3.8 has also been integrated into Alibaba’s newly launched Qwen…
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Ant Group’s embodied AI arm Robbyant kicks off external funding
Robbyant, the embodied artificial intelligence division of Ant Group, has begun seeking external funding, becoming the fourth unit of the fintech giant to step up capital-raising efforts. The unit said it was in talks with investors on Monday. As Ant Group’s “core initiative in e…
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When researchers followed patients recovering from spinal surgery, the ones whose rooms happened to face the sun used about a fifth less pain medication than those in dim rooms — same wound, same operation, and the main difference was which way the window faced
A hospital window facing the wrong direction can cost patients hundreds of dollars in extra painkillers—and days of needless suffering.
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How did a treaty agreed in 1987 and eventually ratified by every nation shrink a hole in the atmosphere the size of North America back toward 1980 levels?
The 1987 Montreal Protocol, the only UN treaty ratified by every country on Earth, eliminated 99 percent of ozone-depleting chemicals and quietly became the most successful climate treaty in history — by accident.
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Insider says report of Moonshot AI filing for Hong Kong IPO this month is untrue
A person familiar with the matter said that a report claiming Moonshot AI could submit a Hong Kong IPO application as early as this month is untrue. The report attributed the rebuttal to the source rather than to Moonshot AI itself, and did not indicate that the company had filed…
technode.com
MiniMax H3 Open-Sourced: H3-Omni-Transformer With 33B Parameters Benchmarks Against Seedance 2.0 at One-Third API Price, Runs Locally on Two RTX 5090 Cards
MiniMax releases H3-Base weights on HuggingFace, with 33B dense single-stream Omni-Transformer, 16x spatial and 4x temporal compression VAE, and API pricing at one-third of Seedance 2.0.
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Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
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ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children
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Spotting Emacs in the Wild
Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a …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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Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability
Article URL: https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154332 Points: 525 # Comments: 172
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Don't be a meat proxy
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More German than many Germans
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The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas
You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watching in 8K. A 16K display is, today, a rarity. …read more
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Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config
Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an …read more
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