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Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 17:36:13

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Medals are awarded to the top half of contestants, with approximately 8% receiving a prestigious gold medal. Recently, the IMO has also become a

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What Will Become of the CIA?

news.ycombinator.com Keith Gessen 2026-01-09 20:16:07

In December, 1988, as the Soviet Union was beginning to come apart, Senator Bill Bradley, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, convened a closed-door hearing with several of the C.I.A.’s top Soviet experts. These were analysts, not operatives. They did not run spies or weapons, or shoot poisoned darts at people; mostly, they sat at their desks at Langley, reading Pravda or studying photographs of Soviet military parades. The hearing found them in a melancholy mood, pondering

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Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 05:36:13

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by six elite, pre-university mathematicians who compete to solve six exceptionally difficult problems in algebra, combinatorics, geometry, and number theory. Medals are awarded to the top half of contestants, with approximately 8% receiving a prestigious gold medal. Recently, the IMO has also become a

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The New ‘Predator: Badlands’ Trailer Is Half Android and Full Awesome

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-10 05:25:16

While shooting Predator: Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg and his team called it by a codename: “Backpack.” The origin of that name becomes very clear, very quickly in a brand-new action-packed trailer for the film, which features Elle Fanning as a Weyland-Yutani android being carried around by a Predator on his back. Here’s the incredible new trailer for Predator: Badlands: Clearly, there is so much going on in this trailer. So much mythology. So many teases of what’s possible. For example

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TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly developing its own XR glasses

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-23 05:02:11

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR ByteDance is reportedly working on mixed reality goggles. Sources compare the size and shape of the goggles to Bigscreen’s Beyond headset. It will come tethered to a puck, similar to Meta’s XR glasses. Outside of AI, the hottest thing in tech these days seems to be smart glasses. We’ve known for a few months now that Meta is working on XR glasses, internally codenamed Phoenix (previously codenamed Puffin). Not to be confused with Orion, which is the

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The First Year Out of Prison (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Clifford 2026-01-20 09:06:38

On the morning Makeda Davis was coming home, her mom, Georgia Davis, cleaned her studio apartment, smoothing a tablecloth over a table and putting out bowls of Doritos and pistachios and a Welcome Home balloon. Makeda’s daughter, Merhanda Pierre, had bought a charm bracelet featuring a heart engraved with the word Free. Later, as the two women pull into the parking lot of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, New York, they buzz with energy: After seven and a half years in prison

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2-4 wire converters / hybrids (2009)

news.ycombinator.com Rod Elliott - Elliott Sound Products 2026-01-19 23:37:50

Elliott Sound Products AN-010 2-4 Wire Converters / Hybrids Rod Elliott (ESP) The analogue telephone system is commonly known as the PSTN - public switched telephone network, but is also called POTS - plain old telephone system. It is characterised by the operating voltage of 48V DC supplied from the exchange when the phone is 'on-hook' (not connected to the local exchange), and around 5-12V when 'off-hook' (during a call). It's a 2-wire system, with simultaneous bidirectional communication. D

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ByteDance reportedly plans to release US-specific version of CapCut

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-02-03 15:03:52

In Brief TikTok owner ByteDance is planning to move U.S. users to a new version of CapCut, its video editing app, according to a report from Business Insider. Launching a U.S.-specific app could be part of the company’s broader plan to comply with a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest from TikTok and its other U.S. assets, or risk being forced to cease operations in the country. ByteDance is also reportedly developing a new version of TikTok for U.S. users ahead of an expected sale of the

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US TikTok users may soon have to switch to a new version of the app

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-07 16:00:13

ByteDance is said to be building a new, US-only version of the TikTok app that it will release on September 5. According to The Information , the company is moving ahead with this plan to comply with legislation requiring it to sell its TikTok business in the US or face a nationwide ban . The report suggests that folks in the US will have to switch to the new app (dubbed "M2") in order to keep using TikTok. It's said that ByteDance will remove the existing TikTok app (which the company internal

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VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention

news.ycombinator.com Woosuk Kwon 2026-02-05 05:16:20

GitHub | Documentation | Paper LLMs promise to fundamentally change how we use AI across all industries. However, actually serving these models is challenging and can be surprisingly slow even on expensive hardware. Today we are excited to introduce vLLM, an open-source library for fast LLM inference and serving. vLLM utilizes PagedAttention, our new attention algorithm that effectively manages attention keys and values. vLLM equipped with PagedAttention redefines the new state of the art in LL

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‘Predator: Badlands’ Joins Disney’s San Diego Comic-Con Plans

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-20 20:15:11

The hunt will be on at San Diego Comic-Con, where Predator: Badlands will get the spotlight. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the sci-fi film will get a Hall H panel during the convention weekend. It’ll be the second big Disney movie of the fall season to make an appearance at the famed Hall, joining October’s Tron: Ares. Both films will fill in for a lack of Marvel at this year’s convention, and it’ll be the Predator franchise’s first theatrical movie to hit SDCC since Shane Black’s 2018 reboot. (P

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New Images Show Andromeda Galaxy as You’ve Never Seen It Before

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-02-24 15:15:07

Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that has allowed scientists to better understand our galactic home. A new composite image reveals our closest galactic neighbor in five different wavelengths of light, combined together to create a stunningly detailed view of Andromeda. Telescopes capture images in different wavelengths by observing a specific part of the electromagnetic spectrum, from low-frequency radio waves to extremely high-f

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TikTok parent ByteDance is shutting down its short-lived book publisher

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-03-06 00:51:53

In Brief TikTok parent ByteDance’s book publisher 8th Note Press is closing up shop, according to a report from The Bookseller. Through its #BookTok community, TikTok has become an irreplaceable engine for publishers to drive book sales; even self-published authors have found unprecedented success by capturing a viral moment on TikTok. TikTok’s parent company took the next logical step in 2023, figuring that if the app was revolutionizing book sales, then it may as well cash in on selling its

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How to Convert an Analog Bike to an Electric Bike (2025)

wired.com Michael Venutolo-Mantovani 2026-03-09 00:20:00

Say you want to get a bicycle up and down hills with a minimal amount of pedal power. What do you do? The first option is simple: buy an electric bike. However, ebikes aren’t cheap. These days, the least expensive but still reliable ebike you can buy is Aventon Soltera 2.5, which costs around $1,200. You can rent an ebike, or find a city bike program that uses them, or, if you're really lucky, find an ebike in a lending library. Or you can just make your regular bike into an electric bike. That

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Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran’s Financial System

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2026-03-12 20:40:12

The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in history, twice disabling thousands of gas station payment systems across Iran and once even setting a steel mill in the country on fire. Now, in the midst of a new war unfolding between the two countries, they appear to be bent on burning Iran's financial system. Predatory Sparrow, which often goes by its Farsi name, Gonjeshke Darande, in an effort to appear as a

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What Is Lemon8 and Could It Be Banned With TikTok? What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-13 01:15:03

We're back again: The 75-day extension President Trump gave TikTok this spring is over on Thursday. If TikTok's parent company ByteDance doesn't find a US-approved buyer or if the deadline isn't extended, the app could be banned for US users. But it's not just TikTok on the line -- Lemon8, TikTok's sister app, could also be affected. Lemon8 is owned by ByteDance, the same parent company that owns TikTok. It's one of the top Lifestyle apps in Apple's App Store, and it has more than 10 million do

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Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2026-03-13 01:40:12

The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in history, twice disabling thousands of gas station payment systems across Iran and once even setting a steel mill in the country on fire. Now, in the midst of a new war unfolding between the two countries, they appear to be bent on burning Iran's financial system. Predatory Sparrow, which often goes by its Farsi name, Gonjeshke Darande, in an effort to appear as a

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‘Spaceballs 2’ Adds an Unlikely Legacy Character

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-15 13:00:06

Dan Trachtenberg has ideas for another Predator film after Badlands. A familiar face will return for American Horror Story‘s next season. Plus, get a look at Shea Couleé’s Ironheart character. Spoilers get! Spaceballs 2 Star Trek: Voyager‘s Tim Russ seemingly confirmed on Twitter he’s set to return as the trooper who “ain’t found shit” while combing the desert in Spaceballs 2. I may be ….. combing the desert again..!!! https://t.co/DjtBWKpznG — tim russ (@timruss2) June 13, 2025 Untitled Pre

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‘Predator 2’ Walked So the New Films Could Run

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-03-16 19:45:20

After 'Predator: Killer of Killers,' we decided to give the Danny Glover 1990 sequel a spin and were pleasantly surprised. Predator 2 is a very weird movie. As a concept, you totally understand why it exists. It’s a 1990 sequel to the 1987 hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, taking the titular character into a completely new location and pitting him against a new high-profile, macho movie star. Schwarzenegger was in the jungles of Central America, and Danny Glover is in the concrete jungles of

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CBP's Predator Drone Flights Over LA Are a Dangerous Escalation

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2026-03-19 14:48:50

On Wednesday, United States Customs and Border Protection confirmed to 404 Media that it has been flying Predator drones over Los Angeles amid the LA protests. The military drones, a CBP statement said, “are supporting our federal law enforcement partners in the Greater Los Angeles area, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with aerial support of their operations.” State-level law enforcement agencies across the US use various types of drones and other vehicles, like helicopters, to c

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Latest Tech News

Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

What Will Become of the CIA?

Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

The New ‘Predator: Badlands’ Trailer Is Half Android and Full Awesome

TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly developing its own XR glasses

The First Year Out of Prison (2020)

2-4 wire converters / hybrids (2009)

ByteDance reportedly plans to release US-specific version of CapCut

US TikTok users may soon have to switch to a new version of the app

VLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention

‘Predator: Badlands’ Joins Disney’s San Diego Comic-Con Plans

New Images Show Andromeda Galaxy as You’ve Never Seen It Before

TikTok parent ByteDance is shutting down its short-lived book publisher

How to Convert an Analog Bike to an Electric Bike (2025)

Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran’s Financial System

What Is Lemon8 and Could It Be Banned With TikTok? What to Know

Israel-Tied Predatory Sparrow Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar on Iran's Financial System

‘Spaceballs 2’ Adds an Unlikely Legacy Character

‘Predator 2’ Walked So the New Films Could Run

CBP's Predator Drone Flights Over LA Are a Dangerous Escalation

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