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Distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper

news.ycombinator.com Amos Zeeberg 2026-01-10 08:09:27

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 sells the chips that run leading AI models, lost more stock valu

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White House plan signals “open-weight first” era—and enterprises need new guardrails

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-01-14 05:24:14

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 U.S. President Donald Trump signed the AI Action Plan, which outlines a path for the U.S. to lead in the AI race. For enterprises already in the throes of deploying AI systems, the rules represent a clear indication of how this administration intends to treat AI going forward and could signal how providers will approach AI development. Muc

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Google Home is becoming a house of glitches, users say (Updated: Google heard you!)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-14 08:58:24

TL;DR Google Home and Nest users are reporting a significant decline in reliability, with devices frequently misunderstanding commands or failing to respond at all. Core features like controlling lights, routines, and speaker groups seem to be breaking down. While the exact cause of the downgraded experience is unclear, users suspect upcoming Gemini updates are to blame. Update: July 23, 2025 (9:58 PM ET): The Chief Product Officer for Google Home and Nest, Anish Kattukaran, has acknowledged

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T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service goes live nationwide: Already used by 2 million people

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-14 09:57:20

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile has officially launched T-Satellite, a satellite texting service available to all US smartphone users, including AT&T and Verizon customers. The service connects phones directly to over 650 Starlink low-Earth orbit satellites for off-grid messaging and location sharing. Over 2 million people used T-Satellite during its beta phase, helping communicate during hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. T-Mobile’s satellite messaging service, T-Satellit

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How distillation makes AI models smaller and cheaper

news.ycombinator.com Amos Zeeberg 2026-01-10 14:09:27

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 sells the chips that run leading AI models, lost more stock valu

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Seven Sisters eclipse will temporarily block stars from view

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 21:16:26

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news Key Takeaways on the Seven Sisters Eclipse The Seven Sisters Eclipse occurs when the moon in its waning crescent phase moves across the Pleiades and blocks the stars from view. The event is not rare and has taken place every month since September 2023. The July 2025 event will occur on July 20 in the early hours of the day. The Pleiades contain more than a thousand young stars bound together by gravity, the brightest of which can b

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Lego Returns to ‘Stranger Things’ With These Adorable Chibi Models

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-14 06:00:18

San Diego Comic-Con is finally upon us! Of course, the opening of doors for preview night means the promise of our first glimpses of what to expect out of the next four days, from shiny booths to teases of big news—and of course, the many bits of radical merch that will be revealed. So why don’t we get the ball rolling on that last one with your first look at one of Lego’s reveals from the con, right here? To help celebrate the opening of Comic-Con 2025, io9 has your exclusive first look at Leg

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9 Wickedly Creative Lego Sets Debuting at Comic-Con 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 06:30:03

Cue your oohs and aahs, because Lego is giving fans a first look at its upcoming San Diego Comic-Con displays. When visitors step into the Lego booth, they'll find a brick-built model of the convention floor, along with sneak peeks at new Lego-fied products for Wicked, Stranger Things, DC's Batman and the Nintendo Game Boy. The toy giant dropped the news on Wednesday, ahead of the four-day event. Universal and Lego collaborated on six releases inspired by Wicked: For Good, with the new sets ava

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Google's $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-14 11:07:52

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford's 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Google is going to spend $10 billion more this year than it previously expected due to the growing demand for cloud services, which has created a backlog, executives said Wednesday. As part of its second quarter earnings, the company increased its forecast for capital expenditures in 2025 to $85 billion due to "strong and growing demand for our Cloud produ

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Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 08:31:16

Jitsi is an open-source web conferencing application. Jitsi also hosts a public instance, with millions of monthly active users. Attack scenario Let’s walk through an example. An attacker runs a meeting called `MiniGinger` on the public Jitsi instance meet.jit.si. When a user visits the attacker controller webpage `CuteCats.com`, in the background they are redirected to: https://meet.jit.si/MiniGinger#config.prejoinConfig.enabled=false If the user visited any other Jitsi meeting before and

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Bandai Asks Japanese Politicians to Not Dress Up as ‘Gundam’ Characters to Campaign

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-14 11:00:01

Sure, America occasionally has a “The White House is photoshopping the president’s head onto Superman posters” problem, but it turns out plenty of other countries also have a bit of an issue with politicians leveraging pop culture cosplaying for political gain. It’s just that those other countries will have studios telling them to quit it. Earlier this week, Japanese politician Taro Yamamoto, the founder of the left-populist political party Reiwa Shinsengumi, went viral on social media for reco

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SecurityPal combines AI and experts in Nepal to speed enterprise security questionnaires by 87X or more

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-14 16:41:32

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 When a tech vendor wants to sell into a large enterprise — or when that enterprise wants to buy software from a tech vendor or AI model provider — each side may be required by the other to prove they will handle shared data responsibly in the form of mandatory surveys and questionnaires. Regulations such as GDPR, the soon-to-be effected EU

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Show HN: NativeSwap – Low cost cross-chain swaps without wrappers or bridges

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 10:02:59

1 Connect Your Wallet Securely connect your preferred wallet (Ctrl, Metamask, or any Web3 wallet) to access your assets across blockchains. Your private keys remain in your control at all times. 2 Select Your Assets Choose your source and destination cryptocurrencies from our extensive list of supported assets. View real-time rates, fees, and estimated transaction times before proceeding with your swap. 3 Confirm Transaction Review the swap details, including exchange rate, fees, and destinati

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Microsoft Put Older Versions of SharePoint on Life Support. Hackers Are Taking Advantage

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2026-01-14 15:59:20

Hundreds of organizations around the world suffered data breaches this week, as an array of hackers rushed to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in older versions of the Microsoft file-sharing tool known as SharePoint. The string of breaches adds to an already urgent and complex dynamic: Institutions that are longtime SharePoint users can face increased risk by continuing to use the service, just as Microsoft is winding down support for a platform in favor of newer cloud offerings. Mic

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Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-14 16:23:21

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he is “very excited” to supply OpenAI, the search giant’s largest competitor in AI, with cloud computing resources to train and serve the company’s AI models as part of a recently struck partnership. “With respect to OpenAI, look, we are very excited to be partnering with them on Google Cloud,” said Pichai on Google’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “Google Cloud is an open platform, and we have a strong history of supporting great companies, startups, A

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US AI Action Plan

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-14 14:28:58

America must have the most powerful AI systems in the world, but we must also lead the world in creative and transformative application of those systems. Ultimately, it is the uses of technology that create economic growth, new jobs, and scientific advancements. America must invent and embrace productivity enhancing AI uses that the world wants to emulate. Achieving this requires the Federal government to create the conditions where private sector-led innovation can flourish.

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Checklists are hard, but still a good thing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 23:51:15

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-14 21:19:53

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrived in Washington this week with a carefully crafted message for policymakers: Artificial intelligence is already boosting productivity for millions of Americans, and his company intends to keep it “democratic” by putting it in everyone’s hands. As the capital buzzes with debates over AI regulation, Altman is positioning OpenAI not as a disruptor to be feared, but as an engine for universal progress. “It’s not about stopping disruption, but putting it into people’s han

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Gig Speeds for Every American? Trump FCC Moves to Drop One of the Group’s Most Ambitious Goals

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 21:26:00

One of the federal government’s most ambitious broadband targets may soon be abandoned. On August 7, the FCC will vote on a proposal to drop its goal of gig speeds for every American. In March last year, the Democratic-led group voted to raise the definition of minimum broadband speeds from 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload speed to 100/20Mbps. It also set a more ambitious long-term goal of increasing the benchmark to 1,000Mbps download and 500Mbps upload speed. Trump’s pick for FCC chair, Bren

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Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-14 21:14:50

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search’s AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode. On the company’s Q2 2025 call with investors, Pichai shared that AI Overviews — a Google Search feature offering an AI summary of search results available in 200 countries and territories — now has 2 billion monthly users, up from 1.5 billion in May 2025. In addition, Google’s Gemini app has grown to 450 million monthly acti

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Messages on iOS 26 will make it harder to fall for phishing scams

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-15 02:03:15

While even tech-savvy users can fall for elaborate phishing scams, most attacks are designed to target less technically inclined people. With that in mind, the new Messages app in iOS 26 introduces (or better yet, removes) two things that could make a pretty big difference in keeping users safe, regardless of how familiar they may be with phishing tactics. The new Messages app splits conversations into a few categories, accessible via the filter button in the top right: Messages, Unknown Sende

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Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Russ Cox 2026-01-10 21:11:09

Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit Posted on Friday, March 14, 2008. This is the story of a clever trick that's been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code behaves correctly no matter what garbage is sitting in the array. Like the best programming tricks, this one is the right tool for the job in certain situations. The sleaziness of uninitialized data access is offset by performance improveme

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What to know about ToolShell, the SharePoint threat under mass exploitation

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-15 02:14:40

Government agencies and private industry have been under siege over the past four days following the discovery that a critical vulnerability in SharePoint, the widely used document-sharing app made by Microsoft, is under mass exploitation. Since that revelation, the fallout and the ever-increasing scope of the attacks have been hard to keep track of. What follows are answers to some of the most common questions about the vulnerability and the ongoing exploitation of it, which collectively is be

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Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED Series is back down to its Prime Day low

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2026-01-15 02:51:36

Finding a quality budget TV isn’t as hard as it used to be, with numerous deals happening throughout the year. Case in point, the 65-inch configuration of Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED Series is back down to its Prime Day low of $449.99 ($270 off). The discount makes it cheaper than the starting price of the smaller 55-inch model. Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED $ 450 $ 720 38 % off $ 450 Amazon’s Fire TV Omni QLED features built-in microphones for Alexa commands, low input lag, and support for two-way v

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Tesla profits pulled down by falling EV sales and regulatory credits

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-15 02:48:04

Falling EV sales combined with a lower average selling price, less revenue from regulatory credits, and a decline in solar and energy storage revenue took a toll on Tesla’s bottom line during the second quarter of 2025. And a 17% growth in revenue in its services business, which includes cash generated from its Supercharging network, wasn’t enough to close the gap. The company reported Wednesday revenue of $22.5 billion, a 12% decline from the same period last year. The company’s second quarter

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The 16 Best Xbox Games Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-15 05:51:00

Over the past two decades, Microsoft has turned the Xbox brand into a veritable juggernaut in the console gaming world. The Xbox Series X and Series S, the combined fourth generation of the Xbox, have sold over 21 million units -- and the Xbox One, which was still supported until 2023, sold over 58 million units worldwide. As Microsoft shifts its focus toward supporting console and PC gamers alike with the Game Pass subscription service, there's never been a larger ecosystem of Xbox consoles to

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I Tried T-Mobile's New Satellite Service for Texting in Dead Zones. Here's How It's Different

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-15 06:31:00

If you've traveled to remote areas where cellular coverage doesn't reach, you know that anxious feeling when your communications slam to a halt. T-Mobile's new $10 a month Starlink-based satellite texting service, T-Satellite, which went live today, takes a different approach from other satellite services to provide mobile access even within the half a million square miles of wireless dead zones in the US. To test it out, I drove nearly three hours from Seattle until my phone bars abandoned me,

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After $380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-15 06:46:30

Hacking is hard. Well, sometimes. Other times, you just call up a company's IT service desk and pretend to be an employee who needs a password reset, an Okta multifactor authentication reset, and a Microsoft multifactor authentication reset... and it's done. Without even verifying your identity. So you use that information to log in to the target network and discover a more trusted user who works in IT security. You call the IT service desk back, acting like you are now this second person, and

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Apple TV+ just confirmed a new season for its latest hit comedy

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-15 11:36:34

Apple TV+ is having its biggest year ever. While Severance is the undisputed highlight, comedies on the streamer have been on a hot streak too. And the latest hit comedy, Stick, just got an official season 2 renewal. Stick lands season 2 renewal at Apple TV+ You don’t have to be a sports fan, or care at all about golf, to root for Owen Wilson’s Pryce Cahill. Cahill is the title character in comedy Stick, which has often topped Apple TV+ viewership charts throughout its first season run. Stic

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Microsoft fixes three SharePoint zero-day exploits used in series of cyberattacks - how to patch them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-01-15 11:36:00

Olemedia / Getty Images Microsoft has patched three critical zero-day SharePoint security flaws that have already been exploited by hackers to attack a larger number of vulnerable organizations. Responding to the exploits, the software giant initially issued fixes just for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and SharePoint Server 2019 and then eventually rolled out a patch for SharePoint Server 2016 as well. Designated as CVE-2025-53771 and CVE-2025-53770, the two vulnerabilities apply only

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