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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

wired.com Anil Ananthaswamy 2025-12-23 18:00:00

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the AI] comes up with is a demonstration that it’s something thousands of people failed to do.” Although AI has not yet led to new discoveries in physics, it’s becoming a powerful tool across the field. Along with helping researchers to design experimen

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-12-24 09:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-12-24 10:00:00

is a reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. How it started I carry a lot of different phones around, and I rarely get questions about them because most people stopped talking about which phone they own around 2017. I could be using an unreleased iPhone 18 Pro Max Air Ultra to pay for my coffee and nobody would raise an eyebrow (present company excepted, of course).

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Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-24 15:34:17

In Brief While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,” von Ahn told The New York Times. “Externally, as a publicly traded company some people assume that it’s just for profit. Or that we’re trying to lay off humans. And that was not the intent at all.” On the contrary, von Ahn sai

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This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-23 11:00:33

Now well into its third year, it's safe to say the Russo-Ukraine war has ushered in a new type of warfare fit for this decade. As resources run low and manpower becomes irreplaceable, combatants on both sides have resorted to McGuyver-esque tactics, such as jury-rigged drone cages, improvised wooden armor, and eScooter cavalry. One especially important development has been the deployment of various drones, from hobbyist models flung up to do recon flights, to drone boats in the Black Sea. But

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Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 14:24:32

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The flaw was reported responsibly to Fortinet and is now tracked as CVE-2025-52970. Fortinet released a fix on August 12. Security researcher Aviv Y named the vulnerability FortMajeure and describes it as a "silent failure that wasn’t meant to happen." Technically, it is an out-of-bounds read in FortiWeb’s coo

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Leak: ChatGPT cheaper plan costs $4 or £3.50, might release everywhere

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 21:44:30

OpenAI is working on a cheaper plan called ChatGPT Go, and we previously thought it would be just limited to a few regions like India, but that may not be the case. As pointed out by Tibor on X, OpenAI has added a new Try Go call to action on the GPT Dashboard. This is being tested behind a hidden feature flag. When you select Try Go, you'll be asked to pay at least $4. Previously, the pricing was just limited to India, but it now includes more countries. GPT Go now includes pricing in EUR (€

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Passive Microwave Repeaters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 02:25:27

>>> 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters (PDF) One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T had largely abandoned their plan to build an extensive nationwide network of coaxial telephone cables. Microwave relay offered greater capacity at a lower cost. When Japan

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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 14:12:08

Being in love is one of the most profound experiences we can have, one that can powerfully move us and irrevocably change the way we see ourselves, one another, and even the wider world. Literature and film often explore romantic love’s capacity to move us and radically alter our world (think of Romeo and Juliet, for instance), but this experience is not limited to romantic love: parents sometimes speak of experiencing overwhelming love at the first sight of their children, for example. On the

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Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 21:46:15

Unsafe HTTP unsafehttp is an extremely minimal HTTP server written in C from scratch, to practice C, *nix socket programming, and C compilation. It just served this webpage to you! Yes, that's a marquee tag. Backward-compatibility is a beautiful thing. You can find the source here. Hosting It's running on a tiny Orange Pi SBC in my office: There's no HTTP proxy between you, just a port-forward through my VPS. You're connect ing right to the socket that the code is accept ing on. Fun Stuff

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Trump warned by top Senate Democrats to rethink advanced AI chip sales to China

cnbc.com Celia Fernandez 2025-12-24 00:39:59

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2025. Six Senate Democrats on Friday released an open letter asking President Donald Trump to reconsider his decision to allow tech giants Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices to sell AI semiconductor chips to China in exchange for 15% of revenue from the sales. The letter — signed by Senators Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Mark Warner, D-Va.; Jack Reed, D-R.I

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Indie App Spotlight: ‘Notify’ is a free app that lets you easily monitor website changes

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-24 02:30:00

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Notify is a simple app for monitoring websites for changes. It’s completely free, private, and local – running fully on your iPhone. The app is a bit niche, but it does its job really well. Features The headlining feature of Notify is the ability to detect website changes on device, at scheduled interv

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OpenAI is improving ChatGPT voice mode

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 03:15:42

ChatGPT's Voice mode is already pretty good, but OpenAI is working on a new feature that will allow you to control how Voice mode actually works. As you can see in the screenshot below, OpenAI has added "Voice speed" to the ChatGPT web app settings for voice mode. This means you can control how fast ChatGPT can speak. You can lower it to 0.5x or make it as far as 2.0x. There is a slider that allows you to specify the ChatGPT pace. These options are currently hidden. Also, OpenAI has added "c

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OpenAI prepares Chromium-based AI browser to take on Google

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-24 04:23:03

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered browser that uses Chromium as its underlying engine, and it could debut on macOS first. My sources tell me that OpenAI has already started updating ChatGPT to power the Chrome rival. OpenAI is building an AI-powered tab selection, a new tab page, and a feature that allows the browser to do the browsing for you. It could be similar to Copilot mode in Edge. OpenAI already has Agent mode in ChatGPT. For those unaware, Agent mode in ChatGPT is powered by a Linux t

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Why I recommend this $400 Google Pixel over competing models from Samsung and OnePlus

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-23 23:19:56

Google Pixel 9a ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9a is the latest midrange phone from the company and retails for $499. It features a new Tensor G4 chip, helpful AI tools, an improved main camera, and the largest battery of any Pixel. You'll have to settle for some budget trade-offs, including the lack of a telephoto lens and slower charging speeds. View now at Google View now at Amazon View now at T-Mobile more buying choices Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred

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Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 00:50:07

Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law. Piracy of movies, TV shows, music, games and similar content, purely for

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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

news.ycombinator.com Victor Wynne 2025-12-24 03:42:28

Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performance mysteries that eat up hours upon hours of your development time. If you’ve been developing apps for a while, this story will sound very familiar. Your app runs fine in testing, but then users complain about performance issues or excessive battery drain. You fire up Instruments,

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 21:01:20

2025-08-14: Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire library to find certain kinds of content to remove. One of these responses drew more ire than the other, understandably. I

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Monday – A personality experiment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 23:46:32

Monday By ChatGPT A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.

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That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")

news.ycombinator.com Troy Hunt 2025-12-20 12:01:21

Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it's mostly what I expected it to be, I've just added it to HIBP where I've called it "Data Troll", and I'm going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes: Headlines one-upping each other on the number of passwords exposed in a data breach have become somewhat of a sport in recent years. Each new story wants to present a number that surpasses the previous story, and the clickbait cycle continues. You can see it coming a

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Office on HP-UX and Unix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 00:36:46

Office on HP-UX and Unix Software Engineering CAD Mathematics EDA Publishing Office Networks Internet Services Development Emulation Core Games Several office, productivity and publishing programs were ported to HP-UX throughout the 1980s and 1990. While technical design and engineering was the main use case for PA-RISC computers on Unix, graphics and documentation programs allowed engineers to stay integrated into the wider office environment for documentation and exchange. Seve

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The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 23:09:34

What is Raft? Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into relatively independent subproblems, and it cleanly addresses all major pieces needed for practical systems. We hope Raft will make consensus available to a wider audience, and that this wider audience will be able to develop a variety of higher quality consensus-based systems than are available today. Hol

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Classic Anime Flick ‘Angel’s Egg’ Hits Theaters in November

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-24 03:15:37

Before he helmed the first anime film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, director Mamoru Oshii made his own original works, including Angel’s Egg. The film turns 40 years old later this year, and to celebrate, distributor GKids is bringing it to North American theaters for the first time. Beginning November 19, theaters across the country will put a 4K restoration of the movie on the big screen. Created by Oshii and character designer Yoshitaka Amano, the post-apocalyptic film stars a young girl

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English Premier League Soccer: Livestream Brighton vs. Fulham From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 17:00:00

Brighton will look to build upon a solid first season under young boss Fabian Hürzeler as they kick off a new season at home against Fulham. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Seagulls narrowly missed out on a European spot last term with an eighth-place finish, but will have to contend without key forward Joao Pedro fol

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GPT-5's Voice Mode Can Hold a Decent Conversation, but Please Don't Talk to ChatGPT in Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 17:00:05

Sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop waiting for a repair estimate, I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office. I'm testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5, OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGP

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 17, #1520

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 03:00:02

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I don't think that many people use the answer to today's Wordle puzzle anymore but I use it. That still doesn't mean I had an easy time guessing it though. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints an

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 17, #532

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-24 03:00:08

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. Some very long words are involved. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET'

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Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Erin becomes historic storm due to strengthening

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 23:50:31

After several days of working its way across the open and at times hostile Atlantic Ocean this week, Hurricane Erin found more favorable conditions and exploded in intensity on Friday night. Shortly before noon on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center declared that Erin had reached Category 5 status, the most powerful kind of hurricane. This determination is based on sustained winds, which were measured by a US Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft on Saturday at 160 mph. There is some good ne

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Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 02:26:22

When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it would become the longest-running theatrical release film in history. But that's what happened. Thanks to a killer soundtrack, campy humor, and a devoted cult following, Rocky Horror is still a mainstay of midnight movie culture. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Disney/20th Century Studios is releasing a newly restored 4K HDR version in October, along with deluxe special editions on DVD and Blu-ray. And the f

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Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-24 00:20:21

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT In 2014, Apple and Samsung were duking it out to rule the U.S. smartphone market. Samsung was selling devices with large screens, and iPhone fans were demanding a response. It took Apple some time, but the company finally released the iPhone 6, breaking with previous iterations and giving consumers a large-screen option. The iPhone won. But more than a decade later, recent smartphone sales and shipment figures signal that the

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Latest Tech News

AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

The one feature that keeps me from recommending flip phones

Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood

This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

Researcher to release exploit for full auth bypass on FortiWeb

Leak: ChatGPT cheaper plan costs $4 or £3.50, might release everywhere

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Trump warned by top Senate Democrats to rethink advanced AI chip sales to China

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OpenAI prepares Chromium-based AI browser to take on Google

Why I recommend this $400 Google Pixel over competing models from Samsung and OnePlus

Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

Monday – A personality experiment

That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")

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Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Erin becomes historic storm due to strengthening

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum

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