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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:09:54

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to. Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how

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Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 11:16:10

18 min read Each time a user visits your web page, they are initiating a race to receive content as quickly as possible. Performance is a critical factor that influences how visitors interact with your site. Some might think that moving content across the globe introduces significant latency, but for a while, network transmission speeds have approached their theoretical limits . To put this into perspective, data on Cloudflare can traverse the 11,000 kilometer round trip between New York and Lo

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Google finally details Gemini usage limits

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-13 10:51:23

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Until very recently it wasn’t clear what usage limits were placed on Gemini at the various tiers. Thankfully Google has finally updated its Help Center article detailing “Gemini Apps limits & upgrades for Google AI subscribers.” Gone are the useless descriptors like “limited access” or vagu

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-13 12:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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The Pixel 10 Pro’s free AI Pro plan is a trap, don’t get fooled

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:30:24

Joe Maring / Android Authority The Pixel 10-series is Google’s most aggressive bet on AI yet. Year on year, the company keeps tacking on more AI-first features. From the camera to the notes app and elsewhere, the pitch is clear. This isn’t just another smartphone. Instead, it’s a showcase for how Google’s AI strategy ties directly to its hardware. But while the on-device LLM can do a lot, when it comes to heavy lifting, Google wants you to pop over into the Gemini app. More specifically, Gemini

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This is the Samsung app I miss most when I use my Pixel

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 08:00:35

Andy Walker / Android Authority Despite employing a Samsung as my primary smartphone, I’ve really enjoyed using my Pixel as a sidekick. Granted, it’s a Pixel 8, so it lacks the latest and greatest features of the Pixel 10 series, but having access to Android 16 has been a joy. The software is swift, cheerful, and clean, but there’s a reason I opt for the Galaxy S24 FE as my main device. I still miss plenty of software features when using the Pixel over the Galaxy. Modes, Routines, and Good Loc

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Ryan Reynolds Fesses Up to Leaking ‘Deadpool’ Test Footage

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-13 10:30:15

The big reason we have a Deadpool film trilogy is because of leaked test footage for the first movie back in 2014. It’s since become generally agreed upon that leading man Ryan Reynolds probably had something to do with it, and now the actor himself has gone and said he leaked it, yeah. Talking to Entertainment Weekly at TIFF, Reynolds said the leak may have been “cheating,” but done with the best of intentions. “I think I was onto something that people would be interested in,” he told the outl

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I Tried Gemini's 'Nano Bananas' for Image Editing. The AI Slipups Were Obvious

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 08:28:02

After seeing all the banana-fanfare for Google's newest generative AI tool, I knew I had to take it for a spin. Named Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model upgrades your ability to edit your photos natively in Gemini. AI enthusiasts have referred to it as the "nano bananas" model, spurred on by a series of banana-themed teasers from Google execs. In the few weeks it's been out, people have created over 200 million AI images, and over 10 million people have signed up to use the Gemini app, according

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A robot walks on water thanks to evolution's solution

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 08:52:22

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these tiny bots can glide across rushing streams because of the robotization of an evolutionary adaptation. Rhagovelia (as opposed to other species of water striders) ha

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SQLite's File Format

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 22:36:03

This document describes and defines the on-disk database file format used by all releases of SQLite since version 3.0.0 (2004-06-18). 1. The Database File The complete state of an SQLite database is usually contained in a single file on disk called the "main database file". During a transaction, SQLite stores additional information in a second file called the "rollback journal", or if SQLite is in WAL mode, a write-ahead log file. 1.1. Hot Journals If the application or host computer crashe

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Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie

news.ycombinator.com Ben Leighton 2025-10-10 04:46:10

Unfortunately, as smart phone technology progressed and Japan’s demographic shifted to an elderly population, Purikura’s popularity waned. Between 2007 and 2017, annual sales fell about 30.7 billion yen. While they may have seen their golden age come and go, the booths remain popular all over Japan - and with one survey suggesting that over 90% of Japanese people have tried Purikura at least once, they don’t look like they’re going away any time soon.

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Show HN: Send kind and aspirational words to a stranger who needs it

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:32:22

This message will be translated to English before sending: Choose your preferences and let AI craft a beautiful message We'll make sure you don't receive your own message Please provide a different email address to continue. ⚠️ Your saved email is not available for sending. ⚠️ Your saved email is not available for sending. (We never share your contact info with receiver, all emails are sent anonymously) Adding your country will be an additional joy to the recipient to see people from othe

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Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 02:37:16

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach. I’ll also share my implementation of the suggested approach, but if you’d rather do it yourself I’ll also provide you with the information you need to get started. If you’re using a game engine, it is almost certainly doing what this post suggests automatically, but it doesn’t hurt to double check! What’s wrong with PNGs? source PNGs are great f

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These are the best new MacBook deals in September: sales as low as $599

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-13 07:22:49

In the Apple Silicon era, MacBooks have become more affordable than ever – with brand new models starting as low as $599. With looming global tariffs, these great deals could potentially be coming to an end soon – so if you’re in the market for a new MacBook for any reason, now may be one of the best ever times to purchase. Apple’s new macOS Tahoe update is soon to release as well, and will drop support for practically all Intel Macs (with some small exceptions). If you’d like to stay on the la

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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-12 14:23:35

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed’s messages are getting b

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Stop Shipping PNGs in Your Games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:37:16

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach. I’ll also share my implementation of the suggested approach, but if you’d rather do it yourself I’ll also provide you with the information you need to get started. If you’re using a game engine, it is almost certainly doing what this post suggests automatically, but it doesn’t hurt to double check! What’s wrong with PNGs? source PNGs are great f

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You are rapidly running out of reasons to not get yourself a projector

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:37:56

Stephen Schenck / Android Authority I feel like a lot of people follow a similar journey when it comes to projectors. They’re initially wowed by the allure of a giant picture, bringing the cinema experience home. And maybe they’re also intrigued by the flexibility of being able to set things up at a moment’s notice wherever there’s a blank wall. But then the reality of the tech quickly sets in. For all the promise they offer, projectors have been plagued since day one by compromise after compr

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Apple @ Work: How EasyLAPS secures local admin accounts on macOS

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-13 05:00:00

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All New Java Language Features Since Java 21

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-09 21:11:15

Java 25 ships with a number of new language features, many of which fit under the umbrella of data-oriented programming, on-ramping new developers, and making Java more viable as a scripting language for easy automation. Join Jose as he explores these features. Make sure to check the Road to 25 playlist.

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Clarity or accuracy – what makes a good scientific image?

news.ycombinator.com Frankel 2025-10-09 07:02:40

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W. Norton (2025) As someone who has spent a career visualizing science, Flashes of Brilliance felt like reading a love letter to the power of the photographic image. This beautifully written book, by writer and photo editor Anika Burgess, is a thoughtful, personal and witty meditation on how imagery does much more than just document a scene. Will AI jeopardize science photog

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The growing debate over expanding age verification laws

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-13 08:00:00

Technologists and policymakers are reckoning with a generation-defining problem on the internet: while it can be a revolutionary force for unprecedented education and connection across the globe, it can also pose dangers to children when they have completely unfettered access. There is no simple way, however, to monitor children’s internet access without surveilling adults, paving the way for disastrous online privacy violations. While some advocates praise these laws as victories for children

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Everything About Bitflags: How to store up to 32 booleans in one value?

news.ycombinator.com Igor Klepacki 2025-10-09 09:58:33

When I was younger and I was involved in reverse engineering communities and systems programming, there was this concept called bit flags. They were a standard way of storing a pack of true or false values in ... actually a single value - a function parameter, local variable or entry in some configuration. I found nothing fascinating about that back then and just used it on a regular basis, as every other engineer was. Long time after that and after shifting my focus to web development I just r

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Tesla's board to Elon Musk: Hit these milestones, and we'll make you a trillionaire

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-12 19:09:14

It's September 2025, and things are looking peachy keen. Sure, the US job market has taken a nosedive. And yeah, only one in four Americans believes they have a good chance of improving their standard of living. But hey, Tesla's board has proposed a pay package that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. What really matters is that someone is having a good time, right? Tesla's board laid out what's by far the biggest CEO compensation package in history on Friday. It reads like the

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GOP Cries Censorship over Spam Filters That Work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 10:32:01

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the GOP fundraising platform WinRed and sending them to the spam folder. But according to experts who track daily spam volumes worldwide, WinRed’s messages are getting b

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Galaxy S26 Edge renders show the iPhone 17-like design, corroborate Qi2 magnets [Gallery]

9to5mac.com Ben Schoon 2025-10-13 11:14:40

Following an early leak yesterday, a new set of renders has essentially confirmed that the Galaxy S26 Edge will look a lot like Apple’s next iPhone, while apparently also adding Qi2 magnets. Images created by @OnLeaks for Android Headlines show what the Galaxy S26 Edge will look like, based on CAD files used for making accessories for the device. The renders show a device with a drastically different design that includes a full-width camera module, but only two cameras mounted on the far left s

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Rearchitecting GitHub Pages (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Hailey Somerville 2025-10-10 17:21:12

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions. Every 30 minutes, a cron job would run generating an nginx map file mapping hostnames to on-disk paths. There were a few problems with this approach: new Pages sites did not appear until the map was regenerated (p

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Best of IFA 2025: All of the wild concepts, gadgets, and new releases in tech from this year’s show

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-10-14 11:13:19

IFA 2025 is now in full swing with all the latest in consumer tech, wild concepts, and more. Robots for your robots that climb stairs, lawn mowers that play fetch with your dog, the latest Qi2.2 25W MagSafe tech, modular charging stations, flagship headphones, the latest in gaming handhelds, Gemini smart TVs, and new tablets have all surfaced over the last couple days, and you’ll find the most interesting new gear on display from IFA 2025 collected for you down below. Some of my favorite gear B

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Best Wireless Home Security Cameras of 2025: Battery-Powered Protection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 10:00:00

This Arlo Pro 5-camera system includes wall mounting and screws, rechargable batteries and a base station with built-in siren. It's expected to be available at a 38% discount now through July 16 at 11:59PM Pacific. Arlo via Amazon Does it work with smart home platforms? If so, do the smart features work well together? Nowadays, home security cameras are expected to work with at least one major smart home platform. Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple HomeKit are the main ones you need to l

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‘Peacemaker’ Makes a Case for Healing in Pocket Dimensions

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-14 15:00:53

Another week means another chance to see how things are going with good old John Cena’s Christopher Smith and his slow-burning, no-good, terrible, very bad time flirting with the escapism of his pocket universe. While last week’s episode was filled with climactic highs, such as best boy Eagly finally basking in the limelight, it also saw Chris sinking even deeper into his man pain, making a cataclysmic decision that’s sure to bite him in the ass. So without further ado, let’s recap what happened

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Nothing teases its fourth-gen earbuds called the Ear (3) because numbers are hard

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-14 19:37:41

TL;DR Nothing has confirmed it will launch its next-generation flagship TWS earbuds soon. After previously adopting a new naming scheme that removed numbers from the name, Nothing is going back to “straightforward numerical order.” The next earbuds will be called the Ear (3). There’s nothing that London-based electronics maker Nothing loves more than teasers. In typical fashion, the company released a teaser for a new product this morning. The teaser in question is for Nothing’s next-generati

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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

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You are rapidly running out of reasons to not get yourself a projector

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Clarity or accuracy – what makes a good scientific image?

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Rearchitecting GitHub Pages (2015)

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‘Peacemaker’ Makes a Case for Healing in Pocket Dimensions

Nothing teases its fourth-gen earbuds called the Ear (3) because numbers are hard

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