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Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-01 13:19:31

Intro In 2002 Valve created an Anti-Cheat solution called “Valve Anti-Cheat” aka VAC. The first game they implemented VAC into was Counter-Strike. When VAC was introduced it only operated in User Mode (Still does) meaning it runs entirely in user space and has no kernel component. Below is a list of games that use VAC.. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Counter-Strike (video game) Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike 2 Day of Defeat

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Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will Soon Stop Using Artificial Dyes. Here's How to Avoid These Food Dyes Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-01 13:06:00

In January, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned Red Dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs. Then, in April, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked that food manufacturers remove eight petroleum-based food dyes from products by the end of 2026. Now, Kraft Heinz, the company behind Jell-O and Kool-Aid, said that it plans to remove all artificial dyes from all its US products by the end of 2027, according to the Wall Street Journal. "The vast majority of our

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-04-01 13:10:58

OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — OpenAI researchers were able to find patterns that lit up when a model misbehaved. The researchers found one such feature that corresponded to toxic behavior i

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Anthropic now lets developers use Claude Code with any remote MCP server

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-04-01 17:00:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Anthropic pioneered the Model Context Protocol (MCP) open standard for connecting AI assistants and agents to data systems seamlessly and securely. Since MCP's introduction last year, the standard has become increasingly adopted across the industry, including by Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google. Now, the company is expanding capabilities for developers. Claude Code support for remote MCP On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that it would allow users to integrate Claude Code with

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-01 17:26:35

A simple strategy of having LLMs write fuzz tests and build up a port in topological order seems effective at automating porting from C to Rust. Agents are starting to produce more and more code A week or 2 back, I was reflecting on some code Claude had generated for me and I had a sort of moment of clarity. "Clarity" might be overstating it; more like the type of thought you have in the shower or after a few beers. Anyway. The thought was: LLMs produce more and more code, and they'll eventua

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This AI Model Never Stops Learning

wired.com Will Knight 2026-04-01 17:00:00

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now devised a way for LLMs to keep improving by tweaking their own parameters in response to useful new information. The work is a step toward building artificial intelligence models that learn continually—a long-standing goal of the field and something that will be crucial if machi

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Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-04-01 17:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI chatbot right from its search engine. The test, which is rolling out now to Labs users in the US, currently doesn’t support camera-sharing, but Google plans to add the capability in the “coming months.” Search Live lets you in

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Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-04-01 17:00:00

Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode, its experimental Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions. With the new Search Live integration, users can have a free-flowing voice conversation with Search and explore links from across the web. Users will be able to access the feature by opening the Google app and tapping the new “Live” icon to ask their question aloud. They will then hear an AI-generated audio respon

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Demystifying Multi-Modal AI

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-04-01 19:00:39

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in understanding language, recognizing images, and interpreting sound—but what happens when it can do all of that at once? That’s where Multi-Modal AI steps in: a new frontier where machines learn to process and combine information from different types of input—like text, images, audio, and video—just as humans do. What Is Multi-Modal AI? Multi-modal AI refers to systems that can understand and reason across multiple forms of data. For example, a sin

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-04-01 22:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-04-01 22:19:39

YouTube is updating the Shopping experience for Shorts, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is launching new Shopping product stickers to make it easy for viewers to know that the products being used in the Short are shoppable. The new stickers could be a way for creators to increase their earnings. During its testing last month, YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button, it said. Previously,

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The first Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 handheld is here, complete with a shocking 10,000mAh battery

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-04-02 01:21:56

AYANEO TL;DR The AYANEO Pocket S2 is the first device with a Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 chipset. The standard model has a 8,000mAh battery, with the Pro model upping that to 10,000mAh. It’s available for pre-order now, with shipping expected to start at the end of July. AYANEO is the most boutique brand when it comes to Android gaming handhelds, and its latest release doesn’t pull any punches. The AYANEO Pocket S2 is now available on Indiegogo, and it sports the latest chipset, an upgraded design,

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Netflix Wants to Make ‘Land of the Lost’ Its Next Big Sci-Fi Series

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-04-02 01:00:22

Another adaptation of Death Stranding is in the works. James Gunn talks about the crossover relationship between the DCU and the Batman Epic Crime Saga. Plus, hints at what’s next on Murderbot. Spoilers get! Death Stranding Deadline reports that there is in fact another adaptation of Hideo Kojima’s franchise in the works, this time an animated feature telling an original story set in its universe from Raised By Wolves writer Aaron Guzikowski. The DCU In response to a fan on Threads, James Gu

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Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y

futurism.com Unknown 2026-04-02 04:59:04

Tesla is pausing production of the Cybertruck and its newly-retooled Model Y, and the stock market is already responding. On the heels of a new Business Insider report about the production shutdown, which is purportedly slated for the week of June 30 based on insider interviews, the company's stock fell to about $316, which was almost four percent lower than it was at the start of the day. To make matters worse, Tesla stock was already sliding thanks to CEO Elon Musk's Robotaxi pilot being push

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This battery floodlight camera is perfect for my dark yard (and just hit its lowest price)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-04-02 05:55:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The Blink Outdoor 4 Floodlight Camera is a practical, battery-powered solution for darker areas around your house that lack wiring and outlets. The AA batteries allow the floodlights to beam at 700 nits of brightness, which is not the most powerful on the market but good enough to see your surroundings. The Blink app is feature-rich, with plenty of camera settings to customize for the best surveillance, but you'll need a paid subscription to unlock the best features. $59.

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Watch as the Star of ‘Murderbot’ Finally, Begrudgingly Learns How to Speak Human

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-04-02 05:00:03

As Murderbot fans have realized by now, the titular SecUnit robot would much, much rather check the perimeter or binge-watch trashy soap operas than interact with the humans in its care. Do not expect eye contact! But as we’re in the second half of the season, the self-aware AI and its team have bonded a bit as they’ve endured some major danger together—and it’s not over yet. In episode six, we saw Murderbot abruptly eliminate the “hostile” who was only pretending to be the sole survivor of a m

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Ultrahuman's new AI tool can predict your risk for cancer, fatigue, and more - here's what it costs

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-04-02 05:30:13

What if there were a way to see the future of your health through a simple blood test? This test would assess your susceptibility to certain cancers and present your cholesterol, blood health, fatigue, glucose, and more in the context of longevity and holistic wellness. While this vision appears similar to Elizabeth Holmes' blood test startup Theranos, the end product this time comes from a different company -- and could produce life-changing results. Best known for its smart ring, Ultrahuman h

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Why I Won't Use AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-02 09:32:06

Posted on June 17, 2025 If you are a programmer in 2025 you have likely been pressured into adopting generative artificial intelligence tools into your workflow. Maybe you have already been ordered to. You have probably wondered if next year will be the year that you will be replaced with an AI. Or maybe in the next five years. Weren’t we supposed to be replaced already? I do not doubt that people using these tools enjoy using them. If you are one of those folks this post isn’t aimed to, “yuck

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AirPods Pro 2 Are Back at Their Lowest Price as Apple Clears Out Limited Stock on Amazon

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2026-04-02 09:10:04

Scoring a huge deal on Apple’s top-rated AirPods Pro 2 wireless earbuds is a matter of timing. There’s a 32% off deal that drops on Amazon which brings the price of these state of the art earbuds down to just $169, but you have to keep a sharp eye out for it. Or, better yet, we can just tell you when it’s back. Like right now. This $80 price drop on the AirPods Pro 2 hadn’t been around for the past month before now, but with the exception of the small Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2024 window when

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-02 08:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-02 14:58:18

The Fall of Civilizations podcast put out a 6¾-hour episode on the history of the Mongol Empire, which I eagerly listened to. After finishing the episode I wondered about contemporary Mongolian society, I wanted to learn what the lands that the Mongol Empire exploded from are like in our current day. There are many ways to try to understand a society, whether it be quantifying it or looking at the lived experiences within it. If you look at data provided by the World Bank, you’ll see a country t

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Follow the 10-3-2-1-0 Sleep Rule and Kick Those Sleepless Nights to the Curb

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-02 15:15:03

If you're tossing and turning at night and not getting enough sleep, you aren't alone. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of American adults don't get enough sleep. It happens to all of us but bad sleep is more serious than you might realize. It's associated with the development of chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Thankfully, you aren't doomed to live with poor sleep. Focusing on your habits around

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9 Best Foods for Coping With Migraines and Headaches, According to Experts

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-04-02 18:19:03

While eating a specific food or changing your diet alone won't cure you of migraines or headaches, it can be one piece of the puzzle that provides relief. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highly individualized," says Dr. Nicholas Church, a board-certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. "What helps one person may not help another, and what's a trigger for one might be therapeutic for someone else." Tha

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-04-02 18:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-04-02 18:30:00

Gummy supplements are appealing for one obvious reason: Instead of choking down a chalky powdered drink or swallowing a dubious-smelling capsule, you essentially get to eat some candy. Unfortunately, when it comes to creatine, these products might not contain the essential ingredient they claim. Four of six popular creatine gummy products sold on Amazon contained almost no creatine or none at all when samples were tested by an independent lab. Creatine, a staple supplement for weightlifters and

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“Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Hynek Schlawack 2026-03-31 13:04:21

A common issue when writing tests for real-world software is how to deal with third-party dependencies. Let’s examine an old, but counter-intuitive principle. Once upon a time, I made a stupid joke on Twitter about the Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own testing principle: Only mock what you own, because mocking others is rude. — Yours Truly , Tweet While it didn’t get me fired, it led to me being tricked into giving a 5 minute-long talk about it. Given the confused replies I got to the joke Tweet,

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MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-04-02 18:53:34

1. Model Overview We introduce MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. MiniMax-M1 is powered by a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture combined with a lightning attention mechanism. The model is developed based on our previous MiniMax-Text-01 model, which contains a total of 456 billion parameters with 45.9 billion parameters activated per token. Consistent with MiniMax-Text-01, the M1 model natively supports a context length of 1 million

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I Wrote a Compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-31 01:28:18

I have a Computer Science degree. I attended a whole course of lectures on compilers (and have a certain fondness for “the red dragon book” as a result). However, I had never actually written a compiler from start to finish until a rainy day last weekend. Yes, this is what I do for fun. I wanted to make a compiler for a real language, but a simple one so I could complete the project in a few hours. I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for BASIC - it’s the first progamming language I learned as

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The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

venturebeat.com Ross Teixeira 2026-04-02 21:01:08

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand how AI models think. This comes at a crucial time. As Anthropic battles in global AI rankings, it’s important to note what sets it apart from other top AI labs. Since its founding in 2021, when seven OpenAI employees broke off over concerns about AI safety,

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Qodo teams up with Google Cloud to provide devs with FREE AI code review tools directly within platform

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-04-02 16:10:45

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Qodo, the fast growing AI coding startup from Israel focused on code quality, has announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at advancing the integrity of AI-generated software. As organizations increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to produce large portions of their codebases, the need for effective oversight and qualit

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Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)

Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will Soon Stop Using Artificial Dyes. Here's How to Avoid These Food Dyes Right Now

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs

This AI Model Never Stops Learning

Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

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Demystifying Multi-Modal AI

Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

The first Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 handheld is here, complete with a shocking 10,000mAh battery

Netflix Wants to Make ‘Land of the Lost’ Its Next Big Sci-Fi Series

Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y

This battery floodlight camera is perfect for my dark yard (and just hit its lowest price)

Watch as the Star of ‘Murderbot’ Finally, Begrudgingly Learns How to Speak Human

Ultrahuman's new AI tool can predict your risk for cancer, fatigue, and more - here's what it costs

Why I Won't Use AI

AirPods Pro 2 Are Back at Their Lowest Price as Apple Clears Out Limited Stock on Amazon

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

Follow the 10-3-2-1-0 Sleep Rule and Kick Those Sleepless Nights to the Curb

9 Best Foods for Coping With Migraines and Headaches, According to Experts

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine

“Don’t mock what you don't own” in 5 minutes (2022)

MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model

I Wrote a Compiler

The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

Qodo teams up with Google Cloud to provide devs with FREE AI code review tools directly within platform

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