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Google could make Android 17 work better with life-saving medical devices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 12:00:44

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Hundreds of millions of people live with diabetes or other chronic conditions that require continuous monitoring. Fortunately, modern medical devices make it significantly easier for people to track their glucose levels, blood pressure, and other key vitals. Some even connect directly with smartphones, sending crucial data and alerts via Bluetooth to the mobile devices we carry every day. Despite the importance of these medical devices in many people’s lives,

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xAI debuts a faster and more cost-effective version of Grok 4

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-20 19:28:15

A few months after the release of Grok 4 and an extremely problematic antisemitic meltdown of its chatbot, xAI is already trying to move on with its latest AI model. Elon Musk's xAI announced the release of Grok 4 Fast, a faster, more efficient reasoning model compared to its recent predecessor. According to xAI, Grok 4 Fast offers similar performance to Grok 4 while using 40 percent fewer thinking tokens on average. Along with faster results, xAI said Grok 4 Fast "results in a 98% reduction in

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Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 19:01:30

Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche Please consider subscribing to LWN Subscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate this content and would like to see more of it, your subscription will help to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visit this page to join up and keep LWN on the net. The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users

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Evals in 2025: going beyond simple benchmarks to build models people can use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 05:16:48

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After Babel Fish: The promise of cheap translations at the speed of the Web

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 10:16:54

Far from a restrictive act of copying, a translator restores the meaning of a text by means of an elaborate process that requires imagination, ingenuity, and freedom. —Jhumpa Lahiri, “In Praise of Echo” [T]rust is a hard commodity to build, in any interpersonal communication, and all too easy to ruin. No one likes taking another person’s word, and yet in translation, that is literally what the reader is asked to do. —Mark Polizzotti, Sympathy for the Traitor The project of machine translation

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 21, #1555

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 20:00:04

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 16:30:44

Morale among employees at Microsoft is circling the drain, as the company has been roiled by constant rounds of layoffs affecting thousands of workers. Some say they've noticed a major culture shift this year, with many suffering from a constant fear of being sacked — or replaced by AI as the company embraces the tech. Meanwhile, CEO Satya Nadella is facing immense pressure to stay relevant during the ongoing AI race, which could help explain the turbulence. While making major reductions in he

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OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It's Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 17:15:46

OpenAI researchers tried to train the company's AI to stop "scheming" — a term the company defines as meaning "when an AI behaves one way on the surface while hiding its true goals" — but their efforts backfired in an ominous way. In reality, the team found, they were unintentionally teaching the AI how to more effectively deceive humans by covering its tracks. "A major failure mode of attempting to 'train out' scheming is simply teaching the model to scheme more carefully and covertly," OpenA

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Fed Boss Concerned About AI's Effect on Job Market

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 18:00:47

One of the key questions swirling around economics circles is the effect artificial intelligence will have — or perhaps is already having — on the job market. While most tales of "AI automation" are anecdotal at best, preliminary data appears to show at least some level of job market disruption for young workers in fields vulnerable to the current capabilities of AI software. Whether or not AI is actually taking those jobs is another question. Real-world performance of the software remains dre

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Leader of Albania Pelted With Trash for Appointing AI-Powered Minister to Cabinet

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 19:30:49

The world's first AI government official is going about as well as anyone could expect. Yesterday, the virtual assistant "Diella" made its "inaugural address" to the Albanian parliament. Maybe unsurprisingly, the software — which had been appointed Minister for Public Procurements last week by prime minister Edi Rama — was met with fury by certain officials. Chaotic video shared by Albanian media group Report TV shows lawmakers from the opposition party throwing bottles and desk clutter at the

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Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:00:52

"Westworld' is closer than I thought." A robotics company in China has shown off a humanoid robotic head that can express emotions through extremely subtle movements of its facial features. A video that has gone viral on social media shows the face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression. Its eyes blink in an eerily lifelike way, selling the illusion surprisingly well. Hangzhou, China-based outfit AheadForm, which is behind the impressive demo, claims on its website to combine "s

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I tested Google’s Pixelsnap vs the Pixel Stand, and one is clearly better in every way

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 16:00:54

Robert Triggs / Android Authority I don’t usually develop a near instant dislike of new technology, but I’ve quickly come to loathe the new Pixelsnap accessory for the Pixel 10 series. While MagSafe certainly has its merits, Google’s little charging puck is not going to convince me that this is what the future of wireless charging looks like. Especially not when I have the highly regarded Pixel Stand 2nd Gen on my desk (which I’ll refer to as the Pixel Stand from here on out) against which to c

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What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive

news.ycombinator.com Abhinav Upadhyay 2025-09-20 18:53:21

Cover: A Flamegraph highlighting performance overhead due to system calls System calls are how user programs talk to the operating system. They include opening files, reading the current time, creating processes, and more. They’re unavoidable, but they’re also not cheap. If you’ve ever looked at a flame graph, you’ll notice system calls often show up as hot spots. Engineers spend a lot of effort cutting them down, and whole features such as io_uring for batching I/O or eBPF for running code in

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Evals in 2025: benchmarks to build models people can use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 10:16:48

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Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

news.ycombinator.com Autonomous University Of Barcelona 2025-09-17 12:46:36

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Flexoelectricity in ice electrification events. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02995-6 A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major technological imp

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Now, Netflix Is Rumored to Want Warner Bros.

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-20 16:30:03

The media industry is in a state of tumult, and major companies are being bought and reorganized at a rapid pace. Last week, it was reported that David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, wanted to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. This was notable since Ellison, who owns Skydance Media, just recently completed an $8 billion acquisition of another major Hollywood studio, Paramount. Now, there is reportedly another major party interested in buying WB: Netflix. Dylan Byers, of Puck News,

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Looking to Buy an Electric Vehicle? You Should Do It Before October

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-09-20 18:00:48

For more than a decade now, climate-friendly policy has protected and boosted the American electric vehicle industry. In the past two years, that has been in the form of the electric vehicle tax credit that was a part of former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Now, all of that is due to expire on September 30. Trump began his attack on the EV tax credit as his first order of business as President. The final blow came when the “big beautiful bill” passed and was signed into law th

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Jimmy Kimmel and Disney Begin Talks to Revive His Show

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-20 19:30:23

A lot’s happened in the two days since Disney indefinitely paused Jimmy Kimmel Live, but the two parties may be on the path to reconciliation. According to a Friday report from Variety, Kimmel’s legal and business representatives are “deep in discussions” with ABC to bring the show back, or at the very least, find a compromise to allow the show’s return. Kimmel himself has been silent since his show was shelved after Nexstar, one of the biggest TV station owners in the U.S., vowed to pre-empt a

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‘Shelby Oaks’ Puts a Satisfying, Scary Spin on the Found Footage Genre

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-20 20:15:16

One of the best things about the found footage genre can also be one of its most frustrating. By its very nature, classic found footage movies can never answer all your questions because the camera has to stop. The footage almost always ends with some big, scary revelation, but things can’t go beyond that because….well, the footage had to be found. On one hand, that can make for terrifying moments, and imagination will often be scarier than reality. On the other hand, it would be nice to learn e

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Hands-On: Yale's High-Tech Delivery Box Is Made to Defeat Porch Pirates in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 16:00:00

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. Yale's delivery box is one of the smartest I've tried. Tyler Lacoma/CNET I've written before about the new kind of home tech that's defeating porch pirates. It's a box, but a smart one, designed to keep porch pirates from stealing packages when they're dropped off (as opposed to a video doorbell, which they may not notice or care about). This mail protec

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Alienware Area-51 Desktop Review: Alienware Style Without Proprietary Parts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 16:00:04

8.4 / 10 SCORE Alienware Area-51 Desktop Pros Strong 4K performance Filtered air intakes Reasonably priced configuration options No more proprietary madness Cons Absolutely huge Leaves performance on the table at 1080p Still expensive The Alienware Area-51 (AAT2250) is quite something. Its monstrous size and weight may make it a lot to deal with, but it also moves away from some of the chaotic proprietary componentry that made earlier Alienware products harder to recommend. Once you get

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Sorry, but You're Probably Using Your Electric Toothbrush Wrong. Here's How to Do It Right

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 16:05:03

Brushing your teeth twice a day might seem like a mindless activity, and during those two minutes, you might space out or watch videos on your phone. This is especially the case when using an electric toothbrush, as many assume that it does all the work for them. However, if you stop paying attention to what you're doing when brushing your teeth, it's easy to do it wrong and make mistakes. Whether you've just switched to an electric toothbrush or are teaching a child how to use one, we outline

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5 Warning Signs Your Gut Is Unhealthy That You Shouldn't Ignore

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 17:00:00

The trillions of microbes that live in your gut are likened to "little pets living inside your intestinal tract." Or at least, that's how Gail Cresci, a microbiome expert at the Cleveland Clinic, describes it. But they do far more than help digest food. They also support your immune system, regulate inflammation, and produce essential compounds like vitamins and hormones that keep your body running smoothly. Because your gut plays such a big role in your overall health, it's important to recogn

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Apple's iPhone 17 vs. Samsung's Galaxy S25: Comparing the Base Flagship Phones

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 17:00:06

There's a new Apple flagship phone in town: the long-awaited iPhone 17. The $799 iPhone 17 is the base model of the new iPhone lineup, which is now on sale with the $999 iPhone Air, $1,099 iPhone 17 Pro and $1,199 iPhone 17 Pro Max. While the iPhone 17 is the most affordable option among the new phones, there's nothing basic about it. It features plenty of updates like a 120Hz display, upgraded cameras and a faster A19 chip. Since there's a new base iPhone, we figure it's only fitting to compar

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Man United vs. Chelsea Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 18:30:03

Manchester United go in search of a win on home turf on Saturday as they host a Chelsea team playing their first league fixture of the season outside of the capital. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The hosts will be hoping to ease the mounting pressure on Ruben Amorim. The Portuguese coach's methods were further called into

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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

wired.com Amos Zeeberg 2025-09-20 16:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said it had built a chatbot that rivaled the performance of those from the world’s most famous AI companies, but using a fraction of the computer power and cost. As a result, the stocks of many Western tech companies plummeted; Nvidia, which

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I spent a month with the Pixel 10’s most hyped AI feature, and it hasn’t gone well

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-20 20:30:30

Joe Maring / Android Authority “The right info, right when you need it.” That’s how Google describes Magic Cue, one of the most prominent new AI features on the Pixel 10 series. Using the power of artificial intelligence, Magic Cue is supposed to automatically suggest helpful info in phone calls, text messages, and other apps without you having to lift a finger. However, the keyword there is “supposed” to. I’ve had the Google Pixel 10 Pro for just about a month now, and I’ve been using — or,

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iPhone Air bend test affirms Apple’s claim of most durable iPhone ever, front glass scratch resistance also impresses

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-20 18:56:02

Ever since Apple unveiled the iPhone Air, calling it its most durable iPhone ever, it feels like all of the Apple YouTube community has been waiting to see the JerryRigEverything hands-on test. Sure, enough, he delivered. And the iPhone Air held up to Apple’s claims. Despite using all his force, the iPhone Air would not break from bending; the phone simply flexes under strain and returns to its normal flat shape. But it wasn’t just the bend resistance, the scratch resistance of the front screen

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LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 16:59:54

Large Language Models compress massive amounts of training data into their parameters. This compression is lossy but highly effective—billions of parameters can encode the essential patterns from terabytes of text. However, what’s less obvious is that this process can be reversed: we can systematically extract structured datasets from trained models that reflect their internal knowledge representation. I’ve been working on this problem, and the results are promising. We’ve successfully applied

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Moon Helium Deal Is the Biggest Space Resource Grab Yet

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-20 20:00:11

For billions of years, solar winds have bombarded the Moon. Over time, this constant onslaught of charged particles has caused helium-3 to accumulate in the lunar surface. This isotope is rare on Earth, and rising demand from several industries—including quantum computing—has incentivized some companies to explore the possibility of lunar mining. One such company is Interlune, a Seattle-based startup that aims to extract natural resources—primarily helium-3—from the lunar surface. Interlune eve

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Latest Tech News

Google could make Android 17 work better with life-saving medical devices

xAI debuts a faster and more cost-effective version of Grok 4

Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

Evals in 2025: going beyond simple benchmarks to build models people can use

After Babel Fish: The promise of cheap translations at the speed of the Web

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 21, #1555

Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company

OpenAI Tries to Train AI Not to Deceive Users, Realizes It's Instead Teaching It How to Deceive Them While Covering Its Tracks

Fed Boss Concerned About AI's Effect on Job Market

Leader of Albania Pelted With Trash for Appointing AI-Powered Minister to Cabinet

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

I tested Google’s Pixelsnap vs the Pixel Stand, and one is clearly better in every way

What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive

Evals in 2025: benchmarks to build models people can use

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

Now, Netflix Is Rumored to Want Warner Bros.

Looking to Buy an Electric Vehicle? You Should Do It Before October

Jimmy Kimmel and Disney Begin Talks to Revive His Show

‘Shelby Oaks’ Puts a Satisfying, Scary Spin on the Found Footage Genre

Hands-On: Yale's High-Tech Delivery Box Is Made to Defeat Porch Pirates in 2025

Alienware Area-51 Desktop Review: Alienware Style Without Proprietary Parts

Sorry, but You're Probably Using Your Electric Toothbrush Wrong. Here's How to Do It Right

5 Warning Signs Your Gut Is Unhealthy That You Shouldn't Ignore

Apple's iPhone 17 vs. Samsung's Galaxy S25: Comparing the Base Flagship Phones

Premier League Soccer: Stream Man United vs. Chelsea Live From Anywhere

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

I spent a month with the Pixel 10’s most hyped AI feature, and it hasn’t gone well

iPhone Air bend test affirms Apple’s claim of most durable iPhone ever, front glass scratch resistance also impresses

LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

Moon Helium Deal Is the Biggest Space Resource Grab Yet

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