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Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | by Edward Sun | tags: roboharm, claude fable 5.1, gpt-6 astra

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RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | by Edward Sun | tags: roboharm, claude fable 5.1, gpt-6 astra

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Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments' (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Stephen Warwick | tags: openai, astra model, chatgpt

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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | by Raymond Chen | get The Art of 64-Bit Assembly Randall Hyde → | tags: x86, ud2, invalid opcode

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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-12 | get Intel 8087 math coprocessor chip → | tags: intel 8087, microcode, floating-point

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Amazon seller sends $1,400 RTX 5080 customer a cheap "gift" and fake instructions claiming the GPU is still coming (techspot.com)

2026-09-01 | by Rob Thubron | get MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G graphics card → | tags: amazon, rtx 5080, msi

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Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin and Christian Jacobi (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-31 | by George Cozma | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB board → | tags: ibm z18, arm instruction set, itanium

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DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-28 | by Sayem Ahmed | get GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card → | tags: dlss 5, nvidia, rtx 4000 series

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Is Your AI Assistant More Frustrating Than Helpful? Here’s How to Make It Truly Useful. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-28 | by Jason Barnard | get Co-Intelligence Ethan Mollick book → | tags: chatgpt, openai, google bard

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IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-24 | tags: ibm z mainframe, arm instruction set, linuxone systems

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Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: grok, microsoft 365 copilot, prompt injection

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Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: anthropic, ai agents, conflicting instructions

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Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: ai prompt injection, matthew elliot, ny bariatric group

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Just one instruction on AMD's 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: amd, amd fx-series, amd opteron

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Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jake Roach | tags: cycles, domas, hardware

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: backdoor, core, embedded

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AI is changing cybersecurity in quick and terrifying ways (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Max Miller | tags: attacks, code, hidden

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Programming the Gigatron (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: gigatron, cpu, gtemu.c

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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Matt Burgess | tags: atlas, browsers, instructions

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Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions (theverge.com)

2026-07-23 | by Emma Roth | tags: alexa plus, amazon, ecovacs

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Everyone should know SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: simd, zig, cpu

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Everyone Should Know SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: simd, cpu, zig

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Lego building instructions through time (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: lego, building instructions, palle munch

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How I Turned AI to the Dark Side (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-14 | by David Kuszmar | tags: exploit, instructions, llms

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Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: compiler, encoding, instructions

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Eternal Software Initiative Based on Subleq One-Instruction-Set Computer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | get Subleq Programming Kit → | tags: bin llvm, build, build bin

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WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | get Game Boy Emulator Kit → | tags: game boy, wasm, dolphin

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4 tasks that solopreneurs can hand over to AI (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-29 | get AI Task Automation Kit → | tags: solopreneurs, automation, scheduled tasks

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Slate Auto Wants Its $25,000 Pickup Truck to Be the Back-to-Basics EV (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-24 | get Electric Pickup Truck Model → | tags: slate auto, pickup truck, repairs

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Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-20 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Intel Core i9 Processor → | tags: intel, amd, ace cpu extensions