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OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-23 12:54:20

Every now and then, researchers at the biggest tech companies drop a bombshell. There was the time Google said its latest quantum chip indicated multiple universes exist. Or when Anthropic gave its AI agent Claudius a snack vending machine to run and it went amok, calling security on people, and insisting it was human. This week, it was OpenAI’s turn to raise our collective eyebrows. OpenAI released on Monday some research that explained how it’s stopping AI models from “scheming.” It’s a prac

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Scammers are faking cell towers now; Americans bad at spotting scams

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-23 07:10:56

Mobile carriers are very slowly getting better at detecting and blocking scam texts, but it seems the fraudsters may still be staying ahead of the game. Scammers are now using a technology known as SMS blasters, backpack-sized devices that can trick smartphones into thinking they are cell towers … Scammers faking cell towers Wired says the technology is not new, but there has been a marked increase in its use. Over the last year, there has been a marked uptick in the use of so-called “SMS bl

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Ukraine Destroys Legendary Soviet-Era Telescope Once Used to Phone Aliens

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-09-23 16:00:22

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support deep space missions and METI—the attempt to message extraterrestrial civilizations. Ukraine destroyed Yevpatoria RT-70 in a drone attack to prevent Russia from using it for military communication purposes, Space.com reported. Russian defense forces reportedly carried out recent upgrades to the telescope to support attacks on Ukrainian territory, but the 230-foot (70-meter)

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Google Discover Gains Follow Button and Expands Content Sources

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 19:02:00

Google Discover, Google's personalized news feed, has largely remained the same since its introduction in 2018, but it's now receiving some new and helpful features. On Wednesday, Google announced that Discover will soon expand the type of content found within the feed and allow you to follow publications and creators. You can find Google Discover in the Google app, and it will be built into the home screens of some Android phones. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based revi

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Users are annoyed by this Google Phone change, but it may be working as intended

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:44:40

Alex Walker-Todd / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s Phone app has historically forced a portrait orientation while making calls. Users have recently noticed that this no longer holds true, and some devices set to auto-rotate will turn even in calls. We’re not seeing this behavior consistently across devices, and it’s unclear if it’s truly intended. The vast majority of your smartphone usage probably takes place in portrait mode, ideal for one-handed operation. When we’re turning our phones f

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Discord will launch a native Meta Quest app next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:39:39

In addition to new hardware announcements, Meta had software news to share during its Meta Connect 2025 conference today. The company revealed that Discord will be making a native app for the Meta Quest headset. According to Meta, the native window app will be available some time in 2026. The development makes sense. VR is a platform with a lot of gaming presence, so having Discord for easy social and voice connections while playing is a win for players and a natural match for the two businesse

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Nobody Wanted This: Samsung Fridges Are Getting Ads

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-09-24 08:40:26

If your home is your temple—the last place where you can escape the blasted outside landscape of billboards, screen ads, bus ads, train ads, and TV ads—know that the Mongol horde of advertising is looking to break down your fortress walls. Samsung’s new agenda for its smart home includes sticking ads into its ultra-expensive refrigerators with screens. Don’t worry, you can dismiss some of those ads, but the only way to get rid of them completely is to disconnect your fridge from the internet. A

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Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 08:32:55

Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we suspect that they may become more permanent additions to Samsung fridges and/or other types of screen-equipped smart home appliances. In a statement sent to Ars Technica, Samsung confirmed that it is “conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and

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US House Oversight Committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-24 05:45:18

The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit, and gaming platform Steam testify on October 8 about their platforms’ alleged involvement in any online “radicalization” and the “incitement to commit politically motivated acts,” according to letters sent from the House committee to the four tech CEOs. In a statement, Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, referenced the murder of Charlie Kirk and “other acts of politically motivated violence”

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Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 11:46:06

We had reached out to Samsung for a statement, and this is what a Samsung spokesperson said: Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market. As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-net

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Automatic differentiation can be incorrect

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Rackauckas 2025-09-24 10:01:35

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

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Your Samsung fridge may start showing ads you can't turn off - but there's a workaround

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-24 16:16:00

Daniella Ramirez/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung refrigerators will soon display ads, the company says. There's no option to turn ads off. You can avoid ads by changing your cover to art or picture mode. If you have a Samsung smart fridge, you might see commercials in your kitchen soon. Earlier this year, at a presentation in New York City, Samsung teased "a world where Samsung Ads brings your brand message to every screen in the c

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A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-24 16:18:28

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and rotating their keys, the ecosystem might re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen. After all, people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangero

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James Cameron on AI: it’s ‘just as creative’ as people, but with no ‘unique lived experience’

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-09-24 16:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In December, Meta announced a multiyear partnership with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision to bring 3D entertainment to Meta’s Quest headsets. This week, Cameron joined Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on stage during the company’s Meta Connect conference to share a first result of that partnership: Quest owners are able to watch an exclusive preview clip for Cameron’s upcoming Avatar 3 movie via the headset’s new H

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‘Scattered Spider’ teens charged over London transportation hack

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-24 16:44:16

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Two teenagers have been charged in connection with a cyberattack against London’s public transportation network in August 2024. UK investigators believe the “network intrusion” that impacted Transport for London (TfL) last year was carried out by members

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An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:44:39

An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving Scene: A cozy coffee shop called "Lambda Grounds" where the Wi-Fi password is "currying123" and the baristas wear t-shirts with arrows pointing right. ALEX, a curious philosophy student, sits across from CLAUDE, a mysterious figure who might be an AI, a very pale computer science professor, or possibly a sentient stack overflow answer. Steam rises from their cups in patterns that look suspiciously like lambda calculus expressions. AL

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Automatic Differentiation Can Be Incorrect

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Rackauckas 2025-09-24 20:01:35

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

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How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 20:31:22

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension's ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140 hospitals and put the medical records of 5.6 million patients into the hands of the attackers. Lost in the focus on Microsoft was something as, or more, urgent: never-before-revealed details that now invite scrutiny of Ascension’s own security

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You can turn off iOS 26’s obtrusive new screenshot previews

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-24 20:02:44

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. One of the many unpublicized changes introduced with the iOS 26 update released earlier this week is that screenshots now automatically open into a full-screen preview. The new approach provides immediate access to a handful of useful tools for editing a scre

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US House committee summons CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify on online radicalization

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-24 20:45:18

The House Oversight Committee has requested that the CEOs of Discord, Twitch, Reddit, and gaming platform Steam testify on October 8th about their platforms’ alleged involvement in any online “radicalization” and the “incitement to commit politically motivated acts,” according to letters sent from the House committee to the four tech CEOs. In a statement, Rep. James Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, referenced the murder of Charlie Kirk and “other acts of politically motivated violenc

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Missed Out on Hades? Play the Original on Game Pass This Weekend

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 23:00:00

The god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler game Hades is one of the most popular games in recent memory — and one of my personal all-time favorite games. The gameplay feels smooth, it's easily replayable and the game's writing is full of heart and emotion. The game's developer Supergiant Games is gearing up to release Hades 2 soon, but if you missed playing the original — or want to replay it — you can on Xbox Game Pass starting on Sept. 19. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pi

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Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-25 00:00:00

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world. Dawn Capital is a marquee firm in the UK with more than $2 billion in AUM, 34 exits, and 11 unicorns. Names in the portfolio consist of names including AI companies Collibra and Dataiku. It focuses on early-stage companies, backing them from seed to Series C. It’s currently investing from its $620 milli

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Android 16 now makes a stronger Material 3 Expressive first impression with latest QPR beta

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 03:12:07

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 adds a new Material 3 Expressive look to the Setup Wizard. The redesigned Setup Wizard includes thicker buttons and a cleaner card-like UI on certain screens. Most users are likely to miss the changes as the Setup Wizard only appears on new or wiped devices, but a refresh was much needed to make a strong first impression. Google recently rolled out Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2 for supported Pixel phones, packing in many key changes,

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Your iPhone's Music App Gets a Handful of Upgrades With iOS 26

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 03:00:03

Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15 and the update brings call screening, new ringtones and lots of hidden features to your iPhone. The update also brings some new features to Apple Music ($11 a month) like a new crossfading feature called AutoMix and lyric translation. Apple Music has grown to be one of the largest music streaming platforms since it was released a decade ago. According to Statista, Apple Music had about 94 million paid subscribers as of June 2024. However, Spotify ($12 a month)

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Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 10:30:59

We had reached out to Samsung for a statement, and this is what a Samsung spokesperson said: Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market. As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-net

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iOS 26 has a new full-screen UI when you take a screenshot on your iPhone, here’s how to change it back

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-25 13:30:45

The new iOS 26 software update for iPhone introduces a new full-screen preview experience when taking a screenshot. This includes some new visual lookup functionality, but it also can be a bit annoying if you just want to capture something for later and get on with what are you doing. iOS 18 and earlier would simply show a small unobtrusive thumbnail of the screenshot in the corner of the screen. Thankfully, this behavior is still possible on iOS 26 as well. Here’s how to change it back. First

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Samsung brings ads to US fridges

theverge.com Thomas Ricker 2025-09-25 11:45:35

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market. As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising wi

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Condor Technology to Fly "Cuzco" RISC-V CPU into the Datacenter

news.ycombinator.com Jeffrey Burt 2025-09-22 23:48:01

Once a hyperscaler or a cloud builder gets big enough, it can afford to design custom compute engines that more precisely match its needs. It is not clear that the companies that make custom CPUs and XPUs are saving money, but they are certainly gaining control and that is worth something. Arm made a push based on the power-efficient nature its architecture, and Nvidia has become a key player in AI with its powerful GPUs and now its “Grace” Arm server CPUs. A reinvigorated AMD has given system

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Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 22:46:02

What if you could explore the innovative world of RISC-V computing without breaking the bank? The Orange Pi RV2 promises exactly that, a budget-friendly gateway into an architecture that’s reshaping the future of processors. With its 8-core RISC-V processor, a host of connectivity options, and a price tag starting at just $40, this single-board computer (SBC) is designed to appeal to developers, hobbyists, and industry professionals alike. But here’s the catch: while it excels in specialized tas

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Meta will let you use a Quest VR headset to turn your real-world space into a virtual world

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-25 12:38:36

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is rolling out tech that lets you capture a real-world space with a Quest VR headset so you can create a digital, photorealistic VR replica. The company calls the tech “Hyperscape,” and as part of a gradual rollout beginning today, users will be able to use the beta Hyperscape Capture app with their Quest 3 or Quest 3S to make the virtual copies. Initially, you’ll onl

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