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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-13 07:10:00

The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by e

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

wired.com Kyle Orland 2025-10-13 11:00:00

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests t

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Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLMs (SF)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:01:09

Hey, we're a highly technical team building code generation models, and growing fast. We're looking for people who are down to scrap and love to build -- on both technical and GTM/Devrel roles. If you have a Physics, Math, CS degree; and training fast codegen models is something that piques your interest, please email me directly at [email protected].

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Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-14 15:56:21

Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance 6 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Reuters Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector - the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to the detriment of rivals. It co

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Relace (YC W23) Is Hiring for Code LLM's (SF)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 07:01:09

Hey, we're a highly technical team building code generation models, and growing fast. We're looking for people who are down to scrap and love to build -- on both technical and GTM/Devrel roles. If you have a Physics, Math, CS degree; and training fast codegen models is something that piques your interest, please email me directly at [email protected].

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The Diffusion Dilemma

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 00:03:03

On the sun-baked plains of the American Midwest in 1892, a revolution was loudly sputtering to life: the tractor, an engine which signaled the end of the era of animal power and the beginning of the age of machine power. This machine was not just a piece of equipment; the tractor was a manifestation of an exponential shift in energy density, from animal metabolism to coal burning, empowered by discoveries in thermodynamics. But diffusion of the tractor, screeching across the horizon, took much l

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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

news.ycombinator.com Ashanty Rosario 2025-10-15 23:37:42

AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I watched a classmate discreetly shift in their seat, prop their laptop up on a crossed leg, and highlight the entirety of the chapter under discussion. In seconds, they had pul

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Transforming CX with embedded real-time analytics

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-17 14:40:33

Stripe is not alone. In today’s digital world, data analysis is increasingly delivered directly to business customers and individual users, allowing real-time, continuous insights to shape user experiences. Ride-hailing apps calculate prices and estimate times of arrival (ETAs) in near-real time. Financial platforms deliver real-time cash-flow analysis. Customers expect and reward data-driven services that reflect what is happening now. In fact, having the capability to collect and analyze data

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10 of the Best Sci-Fi Movies to Stream on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 00:00:04

There are so many streamers that have cool science fiction but for epic sci-fi movies, Prime Video is where it's at. Sci-fi fans love this genre because there are so many tones and flavors that come with the territory. From silly to bleak, action-packed to dystopian, every mood can be accounted for. Prime Video has a title that fits the bill, no matter what you're looking for. The next step is actually scrolling through the pages of content to find the title you want to watch. Well, I went ahe

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 11:00:27

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for our first dedicated Solutions Engineer to bridge the gap between our innovative technology and the developers who need it most. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced developer who wants to help peers make dramatic gains in their day-to-day jobs, and ultimately for their organizations. An ideal candidate would be someone who is already a Depot user and fan who wants to find a new role in a fast

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 19:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

Topics: llms persuasion psychological requests techniques

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The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-19 13:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome after all A federal judge has instead ruled it has to share search data with its rivals. (Politico) + He also barred Google from making deals to make Chrome the default search engine on people’s phones. (The Register) + The company’s critics feel the ruling doesn’t go far enough. (The Verge) 2 OpenAI is adding emotional guardrail

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Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-19 23:34:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

Topics: ai customers mcdonald technology voice

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Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Be More Than His Blockbusters

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-21 19:00:02

Dwayne Johnson has become one of the biggest actors in Hollywood, headlining a plethora of blockbuster movies. Some have been good, most have been passable, although things really hit the fan with Black Adam collapsing under Johnson’s and Warner Bros.’ feet. No matter! Johnson is back and stepping it up: His latest film The Smashing Machine is getting so much buzz that its giving Johnson the room to start to rewriting his own cinematic history. In a recent press conference for the film at the V

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Researchers Discover Another Place Where People Live Freakishly Long

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-21 19:35:01

There are regions where an atypically large number of people enjoy a much longer lifespan than elsewhere on the planet. In these so-called Blue Zones—such as Ogliastra in Italy, Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, and Martinique—the population tends to eat healthy, stay physically active, engage with a community, and live with a sense of purpose. (Why are we surprised they live longer, again?). An international team of researchers has investigated how these Blue Zone lifestyle principles apply

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Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring research and software engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 17:01:01

Why you should join kapa.ai We make it easy for technical companies to build AI assistants. Companies like Docker, Grafana and Mixpanel deploy kapa in the following ways: As chat interface on their public documentation to answer developer questions. As first line of defense on their support forms to reduce tickets. As internal assistant for their GTM teams to navigate their own complex product. We leverage companies existing technical knowledge sources including documentation, tutorials, fo

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 13:44:21

We’ve developed sophisticated safety and security measures to prevent the misuse of our AI models. But cybercriminals and other malicious actors are actively attempting to find ways around them. Today, we’re releasing a report that details how. Our Threat Intelligence report discusses several recent examples of Claude being misused, including a large-scale extortion operation using Claude Code, a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, and the sale of AI-generated ransomware by a cybercr

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Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on

news.ycombinator.com Anton Cebalo 2025-10-23 17:49:15

Between 1921 and 1932, a strange man became a familiar face in Greenwich Village, New York City. Howard Scott lectured all who would listen on his vision for an anti-democratic state led by technicians and engineers. Businesspeople and politicians would be replaced, and a new society of abundance would be possible through science. He spread a gospel that preached “technology was the revolutionary agent of our period.” Scott believed liberal capitalism would eventually collapse and give way to a

Topics: movement social tech technocracy technology

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Peek Inside the ‘Fallout’ Vault at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-24 23:15:49

Universal Studios is rolling out its houses of horror across the country—opening three major hubs that monster fans can make their Halloween season travel destinations—in this month’s theme park news. io9 was invited by Universal to experience the very big bag of tricks and treats the theme park creatives are unleashing into the world for fandom fiends seeking thrilling frights. On the West Coast, Universal Studios Hollywood prepares to open the vault with the Fallout house inspired by the Prim

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AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-25 15:09:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

Topics: ai customers mcdonald technology voice

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It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 05:20:05

Hey! Unintentional clickbait! I am not talking about how a space character has length 36 in Hacker News! If you are coming here from HN the above 🤦🏼‍♂️ emoji have been replaced with a space! Edit: Success! HN has renamed my entry to It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36. At least better that the JS \u{HEX} one A couple of days I published a pretty innocent post to HN. The source article was talking about all the various escamotages techniques used to create new emojis.

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It's Not Wrong that (for HN) " ".length == 36

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 15:20:05

Hey! Unintentional clickbait! I am not talking about how a space character has length 36 in Hacker News! If you are coming here from HN the above 🤦🏼‍♂️ emoji have been replaced with a space! A couple of days I published a pretty innocent post to HN. The source article was talking about all the various escamotages techniques used to create new emojis. I noticed after posting it that the emoji have been replaced with a “ “ character. I was pretty sure to have seen emojis in the past on HN titles

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90% of IT pros say they feel isolated at work - here's how to fix it

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-26 15:48:00

mustafahacalaki/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways 90% of IT pros have felt isolated at work Face-to-face chats strengthen IT-business collaboration. Trust and ownership drive project success across teams. Working in tech can sometimes feel like a lonely experience. More than 90% of IT professionals responding to a survey on the Spiceworks community have felt isolated at some point, and over a third experience

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Why my 12-year-old Kindle is still my favorite piece of tech

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 22:00:08

I’m a tech guy with plenty of gadgets I use regularly. These include my phone, tablet, smartwatch, Bluetooth speaker, laptop, headphones, earbuds, and more. But when I look at my electronics lineup, one device sticks out as a symbol of what great technology should be. It was cheap, is old, but still looks almost as new, and I have no reason whatsoever to buy a new one. It’s my Kindle, and I love everything about it. What's your favorite piece of tech you own? 13 votes Phone 46 % Tablet 8 % Comp

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Enterprise data infrastructure proves resilient as Snowflake’s 32% growth defies tech slowdown fears

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-10-27 14:55:42

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 Just days after Gartner’s stock plummeted 50% on warnings of slowing enterprise technology purchases, Snowflake delivered a resounding counter-narrative. Enterprises aren’t pulling back on data infrastructure. They’re doubling down. The cloud data platform company reported 32% year-over-year growth in product revenue for its fiscal second

Topics: ai data enterprise snowflake technology

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This Is How You Log Off

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-10-28 03:47:30

Lauren Goode: I'm so glad we brought you on today. No, I'm genuinely glad, though. Here's my thing, is that I think we've become beta testers. There's this promise right now from the purveyors of technology that agentic AI is going to start doing some of these tasks for us. I won't spend an hour shopping because I'm going to put in a prompt what I need, and then it's going to order it for me. In the meantime, that requires so much babysitting and so much hand holding and so much authentication a

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The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-28 23:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The White House has fired the director of the CDC But Susan Monarez is refusing to go quietly. (WP $) + Monarez is said to have clashed with RFK Jr over vaccine policy. (NYT $) + She was confirmed by the Senate to the position just last month. (The Guardian) + Vaccine consensus is splintering across the US. (Vox) 2 A Chinese hacking campaign hit at least 200 US orga

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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-29 07:00:00

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups are developing. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, read and decode neural activity to translate it into commands. Because they provide a direct link between the brain and an external device, such as a computer or robotic arm, BCIs have tremendous potential as assistive devices for people with severe

Topics: bci bcis china research technology

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Recent books from the MIT community

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-10-31 22:00:00

Data, Systems, and Society: Harness AI for Societal Good By Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99 So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs —and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease By Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $35 Perspectives in Antenna Technology: Recent Advances and Systems Applications By

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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

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Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

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AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “[facepalm emoji]”.length == 36

It's Not Wrong that (for HN) " ".length == 36

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This Is How You Log Off

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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

Recent books from the MIT community

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