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X will appeal Indian court ruling allowing 'arbitrary takedown orders'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:00:00

X is challenging a court order in India it says would require it to comply with mass takedown requests. X is challenging an Indian court order it says would require it to comply with millions of takedown requests without due process. In a statement, the company said it was "deeply concerned" about the ruling, which allows police officers "to issue arbitrary takedown orders through a secretive online portal" called the Sahyog. X's challenge comes after the Karnataka High Court dismissed X's ini

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OpenAI is routing GPT-4o to safety models when it detects harmful activities

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:04:25

Over the weekend, some people noticed that GPT-4o is routing requests to an unknown model out of nowhere. Turns out it's a "safety" feature. ChatGPT routes some conversations to different models than what is expected. This can happen when you're using GPT-5 in auto mode, and you ask AI to think harder. It'll route your requests to GPT-5-thinking. While that's good, what has upset users is an attempt to route GPT-4o conversations to different models, likely a variant of GPT-5. This can happen

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Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 22:40:51

15 min read Five years ago, we announced that we were Eliminating Cold Starts with Cloudflare Workers . In that episode, we introduced a technique to pre-warm Workers during the TLS handshake of their first request. That technique takes advantage of the fact that the TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) is sent in the very first message of the TLS handshake. Armed with that SNI, we often have enough information to pre-warm the request’s target Worker. Eliminating cold starts by pre-warming Workers

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OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-10-05 11:00:00

Starting today, OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT safety tools intended for parents to use with their teenagers. This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide. These changes arrive as OpenAI is being sued by parents who allege ChatGPT played a role in the death of their child. The chatbot allegedly encouraged the suic

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X says will fight Indian court ruling on content takedown system

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-05 12:28:42

Social network X on Monday said it would appeal an Indian court ruling that upheld a content takedown system, calling the government-run operation “secretive” and claiming it “has no basis in the law.” The platform said last week’s decision by the Karnataka High Court lets police issue “arbitrary” content removal orders through the online portal, called Sahyog. The ruling was in response to a petition by X, filed in March, that challenged the government and the system, which the company describ

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Meta has introduced revised guardrails for its AI chatbots to prevent inappropriate conversations with children

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 07:04:44

Business Insider has obtained the guidelines that Meta contractors are reportedly now using to train its AI chatbots, showing how it's attempting to more effectively address potential child sexual exploitation and prevent kids from engaging in age-inappropriate conversations. The company said in August that it was updating the guardrails for its AIs after Reuters reported that its policies allowed the chatbots to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual," which Meta said at

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Show HN: I built an MCP server using Cloudflare's code mode pattern

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 03:23:51

Code Mode MCP Server A local implementation of the "Code Mode" workflow for MCP servers. Instead of struggling with multiple tool calls, LLMs write TypeScript/JavaScript code that calls a simple HTTP proxy to access your MCP servers. Note: It does not attempt to handle the MCP -> typescript API transpilation layer. Would be cool but I really wanted to test the workflow. https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/ What is this? This implements the core insight that LLMs are much better at writing

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The best October Prime Day deals you can get right now: Early sales on tech from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Anker and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-05 07:00:38

The best October Prime Day deals you can get right now: Early sales on tech from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Anker and more Now that we know October Prime Day is on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking about what you may want to snag at a discount during the sale. If you pay the $139 annual fee for Prime, sale events like these are a great time to stock up on essentials and cross things off your wishlist while you can save some money. Most discounts will be exclusively available to Prime sub

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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 09:32:30

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, the security firm that discovered it. He said that the insufficient f

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Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses

futurism.com Frank Landymore 2025-10-05 01:00:00

AI can now invent working biological viruses. In real world experiments, a team of Stanford researchers demonstrated that a virus with AI-written DNA could target and kill specific bacteria, they announced in a study last week. It opened up a world of possibilities where artificial viruses could be used to cure diseases and fight infections. But experts say it also opened a Pandora’s box. Bad actors could just as easily use AI to crank out novel bioweapons, keeping doctors and governments on t

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Hades 2, slot machine horror and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-04 23:00:00

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. It's been a packed week, with tons of new releases worth highlighting and Tokyo Game Show taking place. Before we get started, make sure to check out our recap of Kojima Productions' 10th anniversary showcase if you need to catch up. I can’t quite get my head around how a literal walking sim from Hideo Kojima might work. Sony had a bunch of things to show off during its PlayStation State of Play this week, including a few

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Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 01:44:49

MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ is Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the Council on Foreign Relations and Richard Perry Professor and Director of the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities. LAUREN A. KAHN is Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

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SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 02:27:10

Note SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on top of HTTP/3 Extended connect, but the required changes are heavy and too distant from the philosophy of popular SSH implementations to be considered for integration. The specification draft has already been renamed ("Remote Terminals over HTTP/3"), but we need some time to come up with a nice permanent name. SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 SSH3 is a complete revisit of

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Elephantshark, a tool to monitor Postgres network traffic

news.ycombinator.com George Mackerron 2025-10-02 16:52:23

Elephantshark helps you monitor, understand and troubleshoot Postgres network traffic: that’s Postgres servers, clients, drivers and ORMs talking to Postgres servers, proxies and poolers. Elephantshark sits between the two parties in a Postgres-protocol exchange, forwarding messages in both directions while parsing and logging them. It is an open-source Ruby script published by Neon and works with any and all Postgres-protocol network traffic. That includes, but isn’t limited to, traffic to and

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The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 02:43:33

This site is my attempt to collect every single version of each Infocom game, both source code and compiled game files. I have labelled each package with release and serial number information where possible. (Infocom serial numbers were a timestamp of the compilation date, which is very useful for reconstructing the development sequence.) IF fans of the modern era have used this source code to recompile the Infocom games. Some have taken the opportunity to fix bugs or modify the games. This col

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Amiga SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 19:53:38

SPICE is a program for simulating electronic circuits, the name is an acronym that stands for "Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis". Originally the program was created by Laurence Nagel at the Electronics Research Laboratory of the University of California. It was released as public-domain and the release included the source code, which then meant that it was possible to port the program to other systems, including the Amiga. More information about the history and other versions

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Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use ‘Full Self-Driving.’ That Could Go Very Wrong

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-06 06:00:00

Since Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature in beta in 2020, the company’s owner’s manual has been clear: Contrary to the name, cars using the feature can’t drive themselves. Tesla’s driver assistance system is built to handle plenty of road situations—stopping at stop lights, changing lanes, steering, braking, turning. Still, “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) requires you to pay attention to the road and be ready to take over at all times,” the manual states. “Failure to follow thes

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This smartwatch lacks notifications but will still distract you with Tetris

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-06 11:00:00

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. After releasing Space Invaders and Atari 2600 versions of its gaming-themed semi-smart wearable, My Play Watch is back with a third version that puts Tetris on your wrist. The Tetris: My Play Watch is now available for preorder through Amazon for $79.99, and

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The best PS2 emulator on Android just got a big update with fixes for GTA, MGS, Jak, and more

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:01:11

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR PS2 emulator NetherSX2 has released update 2.1, providing a nice performance boost. The update also fixes regressions and visual bugs introduced in version 2.0. There are two versions with different strengths, so take care to download the correct version. The PS2 emulator NetherSX2 got a big update just a few months ago, but it didn’t take long for some users to notice that it had a few issues. Rather than improving the overall performance of the close

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Horror-tinged sidescroller Possessor(s) hits PC and PS5 on November 11

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:28:51

The long-awaited sidescroller Possessor(s) will be available on November 11 for PC and PS5. It's a horror-tinged action game with Metroidvania elements. It also happens to look extremely beautiful . The game was developed by Heart Machine, which is the same company behind Hyper Light Drifter and its prequel Hyper Light Breaker . Publishing duties fall to Devolver, which has had a hand in a boatload of recent indie hits from Enter the Gungeon to Cult of the Lamb. The developer just dropped a lau

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Show HN: Dreamtap – Make your AI more creative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 15:11:31

Why? When you ask AI to write stories, you've probably noticed they are frequently incredibly similar. Claude, for example, likes lighthouses and cartographers. This is mode collapse – the AI defaulting to the safest, most average patterns in its training data. Every story becomes a slight variation of the same template.

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The best October Prime Day deals you can get today: Early sales on gear from Apple, Anker, JBL, Shark and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 19:00:38

Amazon Prime Day has returned in the fall for the past few years, and 2025 is no exception. Prime Day will return on October 7 and 8, but really, you don't have to wait until the official start date to save. Amazon typically always has early Prime Day deals in the lead-up to the event, and this year we’re already seeing some solid discounts on gadgets we like. Here, we’ve gathered all of the best Prime Day deals you can get right now, and we’ll keep updating this post as we get close to Prime Da

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UK announces plans for digital ID cards

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 23:38:33

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a new requirement for all working adults in the country to carry a digital identification called the Brit Card. In practice, the Brit Card will be based on the One Login infrastructure already used by the UK government. Supporters of the plan say digital ID cards can ensure that people have the right to work in the UK, and thus could help crack down on illegal immigration and exploitative employment schemes. "It will send a clear message that if you

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'Independent' auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds

news.ycombinator.com Alexandre De Santi 2025-10-06 22:50:26

A recent study reviewed 95 flawed carbon credit projects registered under Verra, the world’s largest voluntary carbon credit registry, and found signs of systematic flaws with the auditing process. These issues suggest that carbon credits often fail to accurately represent actual emission reductions, thereby undermining global climate mitigation efforts. The findings further erode trust in the carbon market, with specialists warning that its entire credibility relies on independent verifiers;

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11 Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2025), WIRED-Approved and Tested

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-10-06 23:30:00

A 2-in-1 is a laptop that can go from a standard clamshell laptop configuration to a tablet setup. Over the years, there are really two types of designs that fall into this category: the convertible 2-in-1 laptop and the detachable tablet. Laptops with convertible displays—use a 360-degree hinge that can position the screen flat, in “tent” mode, or flush against the underside of the laptop. Think of this as a touchscreen clamshell laptop with a fancy rotating hinge. The flexibility of positions

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Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use 'Full Self-Driving'. That Could Go Very Wrong

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-07 02:00:00

Since Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature in beta in 2020, the company’s owner’s manual has been clear: Contrary to the name, cars using the feature can’t drive themselves. Tesla’s driver assistance system is built to handle plenty of road situations—stopping at stop lights, changing lanes, steering, braking, turning. Still, “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) requires you to pay attention to the road and be ready to take over at all times,” the manual states. “Failure to follow thes

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UK officially rolls out digital ID scheme

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 12:02:43

Prime Minister announces plans for free digital ID for those living in the UK Will curb the prospect of work for illegal migrants, a significant factor driving small boat crossings Scheme will also make it easier for the public to access the services they are entitled to A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks by the end of the Parliam

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The UK announces mandatory digital ID plans

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-07 12:16:58

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The United Kingdom is introducing a national digital ID scheme in an effort to crack down on illegal migrant workers. A government press release on Friday announced that the digital ID will be stored on mobile devices through the GOV.UK wallet app currently in development, and will be a mandatory requirement for adults to work in Britain by July 2029. “Digital ID is an enormous opportunity for the UK. It wi

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Elon Musk’s Grok is cleared for federal government use

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 22:24:07

Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s very public spats and seemingly still ongoing feud, the White House has remained committed to supporting the former’s AI ambitions. And today, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced that it has reached an agreement with xAI that will allow it to buy Musk’s Grok AI models for $0.42 per organization. As part of the Trump administration’s OneGov procurement initiative, the deal with xAI will allow federal agencies access to the Grok 4 and Grok 4 Fa

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What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die?

news.ycombinator.com M.H. Miller 2025-10-05 13:50:18

There are more examples of these preserved studios than you’d imagine. Along with Wesselmann’s, there’s the cluttered Chelsea townhouse of the painter and sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who died in 2010; the studio in a former Queens carriage house of the painter Jack Whitten, who died in 2018 and just had a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art; and the shared home of the conceptual artist Geoffrey Hendricks and the painter Brian Buczak in Hudson Square. The conservation of such spaces is often

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