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Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 07:42:56

Grounded in learning, built for the student Our approach is built on two key pillars that work together to augment the learning experience: (1) generating various multimodal representations of the content, and (2) taking foundational steps toward personalization. The seminal dual coding theory states that forging mental connections between different representations strengthens the underlying conceptual schema in our brain. Subsequent research indeed showed that when students actively engage wi

Topics: approach content material personalization representations

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Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-27 01:00:00

As robots increasingly enter human spaces, robotics companies will need to think about safety differently than they did when robots were largely siloed from their human counterparts. Sonair thinks its sensors can help robotics companies reach their safety goals — with a solution that is both better and cheaper than popular LIDAR technology. The Oslo, Norway-based company built an ADAR (acoustic detection and ranging) sensor for robots that uses high frequency sound. These sensors send out ultr

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Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

news.ycombinator.com Tom Phillips 2025-10-04 12:28:44

A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy. Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the t

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Amazon Music launches AI-powered weekly playlists based on 'preferences and mood'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 20:42:39

Amazon Music has just launched new AI-powered weekly playlists based on the "preferences and mood" of listeners. This just means it scrapes what you've already been listening to and extrapolates further. It doesn't apply modern technology to gauge the actual mood of users. The company says the playlists include "a curated mix of familiar favorites from their most listened-to artists and latest favorites to new discoveries." I'm not exactly sure how this is different from what music streaming pl

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Blogs used to be different

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 15:45:22

Blogs used to be very different. 06 Sep, 2025 I saw someone earlier post about how intrusive it felt to read a personal blog post. They made a point that folks like them who have grown up on short form microblogging like Twitter and Tumblr have a big leap to make when reading longer form blogposts. Not sure how many folks have that same issue but from the blogs I've read in the last decade, there has been a huge shift in content. Ten years ago if you were blogging on Tumblr or Wordpress you w

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Microsoft gives US students a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-14 08:31:03

Microsoft announced that starting this Thursday, all college students in the United States can get a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal. For everyone else, a yearly Microsoft 365 Personal subscription costs $99.99. It provides ransomware protection for photos and files stored on OneDrive, 1 TB of secure cloud storage, and can be used on up to five devices simultaneously. As Microsoft President Brad Smith also revealed yesterday, students who claim their free subscription can also receive a 50

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European court rules in favor of the latest US and EU data transfer framework

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-18 20:00:49

Europe’s second-highest court has dismissed a challenge against a data transfer pact between the European Union and the US. "On the date of adoption of the contested decision, the United States of America ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to organisations in that country," the EU’s General Court ruled ( PDF ). The two sides brokered the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework in 2023 to continue allowing US companies to store European us

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Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 06:32:51

As Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (previous discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028 A developer started a petition to stop Google from limiting app installation on Android devices unless developers provide personal identity documents. Even though Google has not revoked similar controversial policies in the past, we do our best as much as we can. This change particularly threatens the freedom to build, share, and use software w

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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-28 08:04:57

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not s

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This new Pixel 10 feature makes weather reports even more personal, but not for everyone

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 22:30:30

The Pixel 10 series features Magic Cue , a type of personal assistant that pulls information from other apps. Thanks to Magic Cue, the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL now have a new weather-related feature that makes weather reports even more personal, but sadly, not for everyone. The three new Pixel flagships now support personal weather insights in the Pixel Weather app. These insights deliver tailored weather details and preparation tips based on events and plans saved in your Google account

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Monday – A personality experiment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 17:46:32

Monday By ChatGPT A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.

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Lelo Sona 3 Cruise Review: Stale Update

wired.com Amanda Chatel 2025-11-20 14:00:00

One of my biggest gripes about the sex toy industry—and the tech industry for that matter—is that there's a lot of iteration. New versions of already great products arrive every few years, with very minor changes, and you're left wondering what the latest brings to the table outside of a higher price. Many sex toy brands are guilty of this, from Womanizer and We-Vibe to Dame. Lelo's new Sona 3 Cruise falls into this camp as well, even if its predecessor arrived five years ago. This vibrator doe

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Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 11:15:10

I just got declined for a job and it has gotten under my skin much more than it should. (Under the advisement of my lawyer (ChatGPT) I won't say the company's name). It has really annoyed me; I ended up doing three interviews over the course of four weeks, and I'm pretty confident that I got the technical questions right. It could be that my resume is too "jumpy", which is fair, but they could have read my resume before they wasted my time and theirs with three multi-hour interviews. The only

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New ‘persona vectors’ from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLM’s personality

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-12-07 11:11:20

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study from the Anthropic Fellows Program reveals a technique to identify, monitor and control character traits in large language models (LLMs). The findings show that models can develop undesirable personalities (e.g., becoming malicious, excessively agreeable, or prone to making things up) either in response to user prompts or as an

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Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-13 16:30:28

Lyudmila Lucienne/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways New research from Anthropic identifies model characteristics, called persona vectors. This helps catch bad behavior without impacting performance. Still, developers don't know enough about why models hallucinate and behave in evil ways. Why do models hallucinate, make violent suggestions, or overly agree with users? Generally, researchers don't really know. But Anthropic just found new insights that could help stop this behavior before it happen

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Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 02:38:06

Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” and “moods,” but these traits are highly fluid and liable to change unexpectedly. Sometimes these changes are dramatic. In 2023, Microsoft's Bing chatbot famously adopted an alter-ego called "Sydney,” which declared love for users and made threats of blackmail. More recently, xAI’s Grok chatbot would for a brief period sometimes identify as “MechaHitler” and make antisemitic comments. Other personali

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Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:07:48

Delta spent July dealing with backlash over what the airline company claims is widespread public confusion over its AI pricing system. Now, Delta has finally come forward to break down precisely how the AI pricing works to dispute what it claims are "incorrect" characterizations by consumer watchdogs, lawmakers, and media outlets. In a letter to lawmakers who accused Delta of using AI to spy on customers' personal data in order to "jack up" prices, Delta insisted that "there is no fare product

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 05:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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What Zuckerberg's 'personal superintelligence' sales pitch leaves out

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-19 11:17:54

Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Zuckerberg unveils his vision for personal superintelligence. But his unclear definition leaves product and impact ambiguous. Superintelligence may disrupt jobs despite efficiency promises. Another day, another vague reference to the promise of superintelligence. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a video address and accompanying letter on X stating his company's "vision for the future of personal superintelligence for

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Persona 3 Reload arrives on Switch 2 in October

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:45:01

The Nintendo Switch was a great place to play Persona games, and it looks like the outgoing console has passed on the torch to its successor, with last year's Persona 3 Reload kicking things off when it comes to Switch 2 on October 23. Reload is a full remake of 2006's Persona 3 (later ported to the PSP as Persona 3 Portable), which Engadget's Mat Smith called "a gorgeous version of itself" in his review. It's both one of the most confusing and influential entries in the long-running series, an

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Mark Zuckerberg says ‘developing superintelligence is now in sight,’ shades OpenAI and other firms focused on automating work

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-22 11:11:45

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now After hiring away numerous top AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Apple and dangling multi-hundred million-dollar (or in one case, reportedly a billion-dollar) pay packages in a recruitment spree that’s shaken the tech industry, Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sharing more about his vision for “superintelligence

Topics: ai meta people personal superintelligence

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Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 10:48:23

Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected." However, 404 Media reports that the problem is bigger than originally stated. The site credits independent security researcher Kasra Rahjerdi , who found that content from the platform as recent as last week has been exposed. Additionally, this source cla

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Somnee Smart Sleep Headband Review: High-Tech Help

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-12-31 02:31:00

I have struggled with insomnia for as long as I can remember. I’ve tried basically every sleep aid on the market, plus I need a sound machine, sleep mask, blackout curtain, and weighted blanket to even begin the process of trying to fall asleep. So I decided to try something new. Before bed, on and off for the past several months, I've been wearing Somnee, a wearable sleep tech headband that aims to map the brain using EEG (electroencephalogram) sensors to deliver individualized therapeutic sti

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ChatGPT is rolling out 'personality' toggles to become your assistant

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-04 16:07:48

OpenAI is rolling out a new "personality" feature on the ChatGPT web app. This allows you to choose between multiple personalities, such as "Robot." ChatGPT is pretty good at coding and reasoning, but it falls a bit short on personality. On the other hand, Microsoft Copilot feels a bit more personal, but that could change soon. With the personality feature, which is slowly rolling out to some users across the world, you can personalize how ChatGPT interacts with you. By default, ChatGPT is ch

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Amazon buying the world’s creepiest Apple Watch app and wearable, Bee

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-05 06:35:15

Amazon has confirmed it’s in the process of buying Bee, an Apple Watch app and wearable that records everything it hears. The platform describes itself as “a personal Al that transforms your conversations, tasks, places and more into summaries, personal insights and timely reminders” … The company’s website has a banner saying that “Bee is joining Amazon,” which links to a statement by founder, Maria de Lourdes Zollo. Bee is joining Amazon and we couldn’t be more excited! When we started Bee,

Topics: amazon bee company personal techcrunch

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Google Chrome for iOS now lets you switch between personal and work accounts

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-07 21:15:34

Google The BYOD trend has been a popular way for people to use their own devices at work. But the practice often blurs the line between personal and professional, triggering security risks and other issues. Now, Google has expanded a feature designed to ease and improve the process. On Monday, Google announced that Chrome users on iOS will now be able to switch between their work and personal accounts directly in the browser. This capability has already been available for Chrome desktop and An

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You can now better separate corporate and personal data in Chrome on iOS

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-09 11:14:34

If you’re a Chrome user on iOS and use your device for work, here’s some good news: you can now switch between personal and corporate accounts, keeping work and personal stuff separate without constantly logging in and out. No more login juggling Announced today in a Chrome Enterprise blog post, the update lets iOS users easily switch between personal and managed work accounts. This means organizations can enforce policies and protect corporate data, while users will have an easier time managi

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Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-10 06:00:32

Google has introduced new features for Chrome on iOS that help users bifurcate work and personal data by using separate Google accounts. As more employers implement bring your own device (BYOD) policies, employees increasingly access company resources from browsers on their personal devices. Devices connected to a managed Google Workspace are able to leverage these additions. Chrome now supports easy account switching and data separation on iOS, similar to its approach on Android and Chrome for

Topics: account chrome data managed personal

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Weaving reality or warping it? The personalization trap in AI systems

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2026-01-11 09:30:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now AI represents the greatest cognitive offloading in the history of humanity. We once offloaded memory to writing, arithmetic to calculators and navigation to GPS. Now we are beginning to offload judgment, synthesis and even meaning-making to systems that speak our language, learn our habits and tailor our truths. AI systems are growing incr

Topics: ai personalization shared systems truth

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This is why I use two separate ChatGPT accounts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-11 10:00:26

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of a recovering AI addict. While I’ve had mixed feelings about AI from the start, as someone who spends a lot of time lost in thought, I’ve found it can be a useful tool for ideation, proofreading, entertainment, and much more. Recently, I’ve started scaling back my usage for reasons beyond the scope of this article, but for a while, I actually had two paid ChatGPT accounts. I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right, it’s a bit e

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Latest Tech News

Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI

Sonair built its 3D ultrasonic sensor with robotic safety in mind

Brazil's Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Amazon Music launches AI-powered weekly playlists based on 'preferences and mood'

Blogs used to be different

Microsoft gives US students a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal

European court rules in favor of the latest US and EU data transfer framework

Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

This new Pixel 10 feature makes weather reports even more personal, but not for everyone

Monday – A personality experiment

Lelo Sona 3 Cruise Review: Stale Update

Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?

New ‘persona vectors’ from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLM’s personality

Anthropic wants to stop AI models from turning evil - here's how

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models

Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

What Zuckerberg's 'personal superintelligence' sales pitch leaves out

Persona 3 Reload arrives on Switch 2 in October

Mark Zuckerberg says ‘developing superintelligence is now in sight,’ shades OpenAI and other firms focused on automating work

Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

Somnee Smart Sleep Headband Review: High-Tech Help

ChatGPT is rolling out 'personality' toggles to become your assistant

Amazon buying the world’s creepiest Apple Watch app and wearable, Bee

Google Chrome for iOS now lets you switch between personal and work accounts

You can now better separate corporate and personal data in Chrome on iOS

Google adds separate work and personal accounts to Chrome on iOS

Weaving reality or warping it? The personalization trap in AI systems

This is why I use two separate ChatGPT accounts

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