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Close the loop: analytics that teach your chatbot to fix itself

Many chatbots stall for the same reason. Unanswered questions build up and nothing changes. Teams ship a release and move on. Users try again and give up. The way out is simple. Treat every miss as a signal. Capture it in a standard way. Decide whether it was noise or a real gap. Turn real gaps into small updates in guardrails or knowledge. Run that loop every week. Measure how fast it moves. Results improve without bigger models. Start with lean instrumentation Analytics only works if the tra

How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests

When a legal takedown request arrives, whether it’s about copyright, censorship, privacy, or something more vague, how a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project responds can make all the difference. Handled well, a takedown request can be a manageable administrative step. Handled poorly, it can cause panic, disrupt infrastructure, or even put contributors at legal risk. As part of our legal resilience research, we spoke with a range of legal experts, software freedom advocates, and mainta

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will be Mario's next crack at the big screen

Nintendo just dropped a trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to the immensely popular The Super Mario Bros. Movie. This is good timing, given that tomorrow is officially the mustached plumber's 40th birthday. It hits theaters on April TK, 2026. We've known this movie was coming for a while now, and even had an approximate release date. Now we have a trailer and it's a doozy. Shared during today's Nintendo Direct livestream event, the footage shows several deep-cut characters and

Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer

Windows-Use is a powerful automation agent that interact directly with the Windows at GUI layer. It bridges the gap between AI Agents and the Windows OS to perform tasks such as opening apps, clicking buttons, typing, executing shell commands, and capturing UI state all without relying on traditional computer vision models. Enabling any LLM to perform computer automation instead of relying on specific models for it. 🛠️Installation Guide Prerequisites Python 3.12 or higher UV (or pip ) ) Win

This American Influencer Traveled to Australia to Film Himself Tackling Crocodiles. Australians Aren’t Happy

Welcome to another episode of Americans being badly behaved in Australia (anyone remember the wombat grabber?). In this edition, Australian officials, wildlife experts, and others are criticizing U.S.-based influencer Mike Holston, aka “therealtarzann” on social media, after he posted two videos of himself down under and tackling crocodiles, shirtless. Queensland officials have confirmed that they are “actively investigating two videos circulating on social media,” The Guardian reporteed. Meanw

DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking

At Qodo, we’ve created a new benchmark dataset of real-world questions derived from large, complex code repositories. We are excited to release the dataset, methodology, and prompts used in its creation to support further research and development. Motivation Enterprises often maintain massive codebases that are difficult for any individual developer to navigate and fully understand. Whether onboarding, doing routine development, or using AI-assisted workflows, teams often have questions about

The origin story of merge queues

From Bors and Homu to Bulldozer, Kodiak, Mergify, and now GitHub and GitLab, merge queues have shaped how we keep main branches green. This article traces their history, why they emerged, and how they became a standard in modern software development. If you use GitHub or GitLab today, merge queues feel like a built-in feature of modern development. But their story goes back over a decade, long before "merge queue" was a product term. It started with a simple problem: How do you keep your main

The Origin Story of Merge Queues

From Bors and Homu to Bulldozer, Kodiak, Mergify, and now GitHub and GitLab, merge queues have shaped how we keep main branches green. This article traces their history, why they emerged, and how they became a standard in modern software development. If you use GitHub or GitLab today, merge queues feel like a built-in feature of modern development. But their story goes back over a decade, long before "merge queue" was a product term. It started with a simple problem: How do you keep your main

‘Wicked: For Good’ Director Jon M. Chu Promises New Songs Will Hit All the Right Notes

As anticipation builds for Wicked: For Good, the second act to 2024’s Oscar-winning Wicked, director Jon M. Chu has revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that the upcoming film will feature not one, but two new bespoke songs—that’s one tune for each witch. While Chu didn’t announce the songs’ titles, the outlet teased that the new tracks by composer Stephen Schwartz are no “mere bids for a Best Original Song nomination.” In fact, Chu says the new songs are deeply needed addition

Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go

Features Installation To use Ark in a Go project, run: go get github.com/mlange-42/ark Usage Below is the classical Position/Velocity example that every ECS shows in the docs. See the User Guide, API docs and examples for details. package main import ( "math/rand/v2" "github.com/mlange-42/ark/ecs" ) // Position component type Position struct { X float64 Y float64 } // Velocity component type Velocity struct { X float64 Y float64 } func main () { // Create a new World world := ecs . NewWor

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%

Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages. The office and multifamily sectors of commercial real estate loans got further bludgeoned in August, despite large-scale extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals executed in the hopes for better times and lower interest rates and more demand so that lenders don’t end up with the property and a huge loss. The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-b

Google's on a quest to future-proof your kids with new AI literacy games

Screenshot taken by Aly Windsor (ZDNET). Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google's first AI Quest is available now for kids ages 11 to 14. Each quest is based on actual Google AI research. Tech companies are racing to market AI to students. Google has launched a new effort to teach young students about some of the practical, real-world uses of AI -- and in the process, to normalize the technology among the next generation. Also: Claude can create

Google's AI Quests gamifies how to use AI in the real world

Hector Roqueta Rivero/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google's first AI Quest is available now for kids ages 11 to 14. Each quest is based on actual Google AI research. Tech companies are racing to market AI to students. Google has launched a new effort to teach young students about some of the practical, real-world uses of AI -- and in the process, to normalize the technology among the next generation. Also: Claude can c

I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

When I was responsible for the infrastructure at Reddit, the most important thing I maintained was Postgres, but a close second was RabbitMQ, our message broker. It was essential to the operation of reddit — everything went into a distributed queue before it went to a database. For example, if you upvoted a post, that was written to the queue and the cache, and then returned success to the user. Then a queue runner would take that item, and attempt to write it to the database as well as create a

Some Heart Attacks Might Be Triggered by Germs

Germs might be even worse for us than we thought. New research suggests that certain infections could be a contributing factor to heart attacks. Scientists in Finland and the UK conducted the study, which examined arterial plaques taken from people who died from heart disease and others. They found these plaques often contained a dormant layer of bacterial biofilm; they also found evidence that bacteria released from this biofilm can then trigger heart attacks. Though not yet definitive, the st

Google wants Gemini to keep the conversation going, and here’s how it’s going to do it

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a feature within Gemini that suggests follow-up questions. The suggestion prompts help users explore topics and engage in in-depth conversations to get more out of their AI interactions. The feature seems to be a limited test for now. If you’re old enough to have used search engines before their AI-fication, you’re most likely using your AI digital assistant more like a search engine and less like a digital assistant. That means more

Copilot's new File Explorer tricks are serious OneDrive time-savers - how to try them

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways You can access four new Copilot skills directly from File Explorer. You can summarize, ask questions, and compare up to five files. The process supports Microsoft 365 files, PDFs, and web files. Microsoft 365 users have long been able to turn to Copilot on the web to analyze and answer questions about their documents and other files. But now they can get help from Microsoft's AI di

Valve’s Steam Deck for Your Face Is Way More Interesting Than a Quest Clone

The consensus is clear. Regular folk and gamers alike couldn’t give a hoot for yet another Meta Quest-like VR headset. Hell, even the “metaverse is the future” company Meta seems more interested in smart glasses than headsets nowadays. That may change if Valve has anything to say about it. Even if you’re not a VR gaming enthusiast, there’s more than one reason you should pay attention to Valve’s long-rumored wireless XR headset. The company behind Steam could be crafting a device whose closest d

Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

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

Fede Alvarez Won’t Direct the ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel

After Alien: Romulus proved to be a success for 20th Century Studios, grossing $350 million globally, sequel plans were quickly announced, with its director, Fede Alvarez, thought to be returning. Turns out that’s not entirely the case, as Too Fab reports that Alvarez will not be coming back to direct the Alien franchise follow-up feature after all. The filmmaker attended the red carpet for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood and shared, “We just finished the script, actuall

Ask HN: What Arc/Dia features should we prioritize?

Feature request: What would you love to see in BrowserOS? This is a place to share feature ideas and requests for BrowserOS. Drop your suggestions below! 👇 Tell us what features you'd love to see - we'll follow up if we have questions and consider them for our roadmap! React with ❤️ to requests you'd also want! P.S.: Join our Discord to chat with the community 👋

Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse

This article was written as part of my services Querying billions of weather records and getting results in under 200 milliseconds isn’t theory; it’s what real-time analytics solutions provide. Processing streaming IoT data from thousands of sensors while delivering real-time dashboards with no lag is what certain business domains need. That’s what you’ll learn at the end of this guide through building a ClickHouse-modeled analytics use case. You’ll learn how to land data in ClickHouse that is

Data Modeling Guide for Real-Time Analytics with ClickHouse

This article was written as part of my services Querying billions of weather records and getting results in under 200 milliseconds isn’t theory; it’s what real-time analytics solutions provide. Processing streaming IoT data from thousands of sensors while delivering real-time dashboards with no lag is what certain business domains need. That’s what you’ll learn at the end of this guide through building a ClickHouse-modeled analytics use case. You’ll learn how to land data in ClickHouse that is

What Is the Fourier Transform?

As we listen to a piece of music, our ears perform a calculation. The high-pitched flutter of the flute, the middle tones of the violin, and the low hum of the double bass fill the air with pressure waves of many different frequencies. When the combined sound wave descends through the ear canal and into the spiral-shaped cochlea, hairs of different lengths resonate to the different pitches, separating the messy signal into buckets of elemental sounds. It took mathematicians until the 19th centu

This Amazon Lens upgrade lets you scan a product IRL and find it online in one click

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Lens Live scans products for real-time shopping suggestions. Amazon's AI assistant can answer questions, offer details. The feature is currently available to some US users on iOS. Have you ever seen an item in a brick-and-mortar store and figured you could get it for a better price on Amazon, but couldn't string together the right keywords to find it online? Amazon Lens was designed to

‘The Black Phone 2’ Trailer Sees Ethan Hawke Call Collect Supernatural Vengeance

Universal Pictures and Blumhouse just released a new trailer for the sequel to Ethan Hawke’s terrifying horror film, Black Phone 2. The short story that the original movie is based on, written by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King), follows a masked serial killer who abducts children, locks them in his basement, and torments them. That is until one kid, Finney (Mason Thames), uses a black rotary phone to speak to the ghosts of The Grabber’s victims and hatches a plan to escape, kill the Grabber, and

NotebookLM's New Audio Overviews Can Have AI Voices Debate Based on Your Notes

NotebookLM, a Gemini-powered AI research assistant, will soon generate a debate or critique your research and notes in its Audio Overviews feature. Three new audio summary formats announced on Tuesday -- called Brief, Critique and Debate -- will give users more options and add more flavor to what is already one of Google's best AI tools. The Audio Overviews feature was a catalyst for NotebookLM's popularity as a note-taking tool that uses only the sources you provide and makes the information m

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

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

NotebookLM can now argue with itself over your notes

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NotebookLM is adding new Audio Overview formats: Brief, Critique, and Debate. Each format changes how two AI hosts present your notes, from summaries to arguments. The update is rolling out now. NotebookLM has quickly become a favorite of ours. We’ve used it to cut through everything from apartment contracts to car manuals, and it’s consistently proven to be one of Google’s most practical AI tools. But it’s also got a creative side, especially with its p

The repercussions of a typo in C++ & Rust

The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust Copying vs Passing by reference TL;DR There’s a funny typo that causes someone to copy data instead of “referencing” in C++. Rust is nice because it provides defaults that protect you from some of these “dumb” mistakes. In this example, I’ll go over how the “move by default” can prevent us from introducing this subtle behavior. Motivation I originally hesitated to write this because I thought the topic was too “obvious”, but I did it a