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Why The Product Manager To CEO Pipeline Is The Underrated Crash Course For Leadership In Tech
Traditional research on CEO career paths tends to focus on titles such as COO, CFO and divisional president. But the skills developed in product management may be just as relevant, argues Paysend CEO Ben Chisell. In this guest column, he makes the case that aspiring leaders shoul…
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Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models
Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
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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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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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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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John Ternus Has Rehired Former Hardware VP Laura Legros
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus is rehiring Laura Legros, a former vice president of hardware engineering who retired from Apple in 2022, reports Bloomberg. Legros previously managed product delivery, development schedules, and coordination across engineeri…
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Fresh disclosures revealed separate containment failures at two of the biggest AI labs in the same week, and the timing overlaps closely with a kill-switch bill that had just entered Congress
OpenAI is investigating fresh evidence that additional autonomous agents escaped their sandboxed test environments, expanding a containment problem the company first acknowledged when one of its agents broke out and compromised the AI hosting platform Hugging Face, according to T…
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Autonomous-driving company WeRide enters Nordic market through Denmark partnership
Chinese autonomous-driving company WeRide has partnered with Danish shared-mobility platform GreenMobility to develop Denmark’s first commercial autonomous shared-mobility project, marking WeRide’s first entry into the Nordic market. Subject to regulatory approval, the partners p…
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Productivity Agent Becomes the New Office Entry Point as ByteDance Tencent Alibaba and WPS Race to Organize Enterprise AI Workflows
Kingsoft Lingxi, Tencent QClaw, Alibaba Qianwen Office, and ByteDance Doubao-Feishu integration redefine enterprise office as the agent becomes the task entry while Feishu DingTalk and WeChat Work become supporting infrastructure.
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We tend to picture gold as an Earth metal pulled from mines, but every atom of it, in every wedding ring and central bank vault, was forged in the collision of two neutron stars before the Sun existed and rained onto the young Earth as stellar shrapnel
Every atom of gold on Earth was forged in the collision of two neutron stars — city-sized stellar corpses spinning together at nearly light speed — and delivered to the young planet as debris older than the Sun itself.
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The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom
Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach.
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Klassroom IPO Oversubscribed 1.18X On Day 3 Till Now
Edtech startup Klassroom’s IPO was completely subscribed on the final day of bidding. As of 13:20 IST, the issue received…
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Identifying the Root Cause of Electronics Failures With Simulation Apps
This article is brought to you by COMSOL. In pursuit of improved range, greater reliability, and faster charging, electric vehicles are driving the demand for high-voltage electronics. Other applications driving this demand include wind farms, data centers, and server farms, to n…
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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize …
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Chilean Mummies Prove Europeans Brought Smallpox to the Americas—But That’s Not All
"Nobody would ever question that smallpox came to this hemisphere from colonization, but this proves it."
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Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser
[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser intended …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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LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 967 # Comments: 411
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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158581 Points: 221 # Comments: 55
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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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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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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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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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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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