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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1, #813

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 00:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun one. As an English major, I especially liked the blue group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to

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Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-25 01:06:24

Generally, AI chatbots are not supposed to do things like call you names or tell you how to make controlled substances. But, just like a person, with the right psychological tactics, it seems like at least some LLMs can be convinced to break their own rules. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania deployed tactics described by psychology professor Robert Cialdini in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion to convince OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini to complete requests it would normally refuse. Th

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FTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-24 21:03:57

Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently expressed concern that “Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects.” In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Ferguson pointed to a recent story in the New York Post describing complaints by Targeted Victory (a consulting and PR firm that’s worked with the Republican National Committee and Elon Musk’s X) claiming that Gmail flags emails linking to the Republican fundrais

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A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-24 19:00:37

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they're not sick or don't need to seek medical care. That's what MIT researchers found in a June study currently awaiting peer review, which we covered previously. Even the presence of colorful or emotional language, they discovered, was enough to throw off the AI's medical advice. Now, in a new interview with the Boston Globe, study coauthor Marzyeh Ghassemi is warning about the serious harm this could ca

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I want to ditch my Kindle, but one feature keeps stopping me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-24 20:00:22

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I love my Kindle, but it isn’t always within arm’s reach. Like a lot of readers, I don’t just use one device; I use whichever one fits my context. I often read on an eReader, but via the Kindle app, I’m also highly likely to finish a chapter on my phone in the grocery store or listen to an epilogue in the car. That’s where Whispersync comes in. Whispersync is the secret sauce that makes Amazon’s Kindle ecosystem work so well together. And no matter how badly

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Pick up an Apple AirTag four-pack for only $70 in this Labor Day sale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 22:30:37

Labor Day sales include a decent number of Apple devices this year, from big to small. AirTags are among the latter; you can pick up a four-pack of the Bluetooth trackers for only $70 right now. That's only about $5 more than the pack's record-low price, and it's one of the best prices we've seen all year. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow you

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Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-10-24 23:55:56

For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it. According to a July survey of 791 US developers from cloud services platform Fastly, around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those d

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Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 20:12:18

Verizon said thousands of people who were affected nationwide by a massive outage now have service back. If your Verizon-backed phone was out most of yesterday or even still down today, you weren’t alone. The company said the blackout was caused by a “software issue” but did not respond to a request to elaborate on what exactly that meant. Verizon officials assured customers that their engineers were actively engaged in diagnosing and resolving the service disruption. By early evening, the com

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Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 22:05:36

The stock of Google’s parent company ended Friday’s trading session relatively unchanged, as investors digested news of a major data leak and broader market developments. Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)’s shares closed at $213.53, up slightly from the day’s prior end price, despite Google‘s global security alert advising its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their information following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. The company immediately issued a network-wide alert telling use

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$1B Powerball Is Minting Social Media Gold

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-24 23:05:11

Powerball just hit a billion dollars, and people are freaking out about it. For 39 draws in a row, no ticket matched all six numbers for the Powerball jackpot. The last draw was on Saturday night. Now, for the next drawing on Labor Day, the jackpot has snowballed to $1.1 billion and will be the game’s fifth-largest prize ever, according to a statement from the lottery. The largest jackpot prize ever was cashed out in November 2022 by Edwin Castro, a California man who scored a $2.04 billion do

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You Can Play the New Gears of War Game Now on Xbox Game Pass

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 21:00:06

Gears of War is one of the most iconic Xbox series, spawning sequels, spin-offs and books. I fell in love with the series almost 20 years ago when the original landed on the Xbox 360. Microsoft brought the remastered edition of the game, called Gears of War: Reloaded, to Xbox Game Pass and I can't wait to play it. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, smart TV and PC or mo

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Arsenal From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 22:30:03

Arsenal face a stern test of their title challenge credentials on Sunday as they travel to Merseyside for a blockbuster clash against defending EPL champs Liverpool. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching 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. Arne Slot's Reds come into this key fixture on a high after their thrilling 3-2 win over Newcastle at St. James' Park on Monday, in a ma

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These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways

wired.com Jake Buehler 2025-10-24 20:00:00

The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew it could use oxygen, so they tested other combinations in the lab. When oxygen was absent, RSW1 could process hydrogen gas and elemental sulfur—chemicals it would find spewing from a volcanic vent—and create hydrogen sulfide as a product. Yet while the cells were technically alive in this state, they didn’t grow or replicate. They were making a sm

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Best Handheld Fan and Wearable Fan (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Kristin Canning 2025-10-24 23:00:00

This fan was a godsend during a sweltering outdoor concert. It bends at the neck, so I was able to set it up on the picnic table and blast it toward my face without even holding it, then straighten it back into the standard position to carry it with me as I walked around. It also comes with a lanyard that allows you to hang it from your neck. It felt stronger than the other handheld fans I tested, and I liked that the blades were contained, which made the airflow feel more concentrated and meant

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Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-24 23:17:49

Meta is changing some of the rules governing its chatbots two weeks after a Reuters investigation revealed disturbing ways in which they could, potentially, interact with minors. Now the company has told TechCrunch that its chatbots are being trained not to engage in conversations with minors around self-harm, suicide, or disordered eating, and to avoid inappropriate romantic banter. These changes are interim measures, however, put in place while the company works on new permanent guidelines. T

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How a small subwoofer caught this audiophile off guard (and in the best way possible)

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-25 00:45:18

Creative Pebble X Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The Pebble X Plus speakers are available now for $120 on Amazon. The rich, deep bass perfectly matches the mids and highs delivered by the satellite speakers. However, they don't have built-in battery power, so your portability is limited to a power source. View now at Amazon It shocks me how good Bluetooth speakers have come over the years. I remember when I bought my first Bose Bluetooth speaker, thinking it had set the bar pretty high. But when

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My Foray into Vlang

news.ycombinator.com Kris Tun 2025-10-24 20:17:26

Table of contents A little bit about Go I like Go. I actually don’t mind writing err != nil that much. Just set up a snippet and you’re good to Go. Although, I never really felt like I had a honeymoon period with Go. I learned the language, learned about channels, wrote a bunch of CRUDs and parsers and CLIs. It always felt strictly business. I thought it was because of where I am in my career. But I was wrong. Go is vanilla. It just werks. You build it, you ship it. The language is simple and

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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2025-10-24 07:03:09

In which I attempt to be pragmatic. Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess. Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed by developers who have registered their name and other legal details with Google. To many people, this signals the death of "sideloading" - the ability to install apps which don'

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 31, #342

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 23:01:51

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is tough. The purple category does that thing where the editors chop up a team name and expect you to find it. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its deb

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TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-24 19:44:13

TikTok is taking another step towards becoming more than just a platform for infinitely scrolling through short videos. The social media app told TechCrunch that its users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in direct messages or group chats. According to a TikTok spokesperson, these features will roll out in the next few weeks. As voice messaging has risen in popularity, TikTok will embrace the trend but is capping the length of its voice notes to one minute. For images an

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GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 15:53:05

RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Report to Congressional Requesters July 2025 GAO-25-107196 United States Government Accountability Office Highlights For more information, contact Alicia Puente Cackley at [email protected]. Highlights of GAO-25-107196, a report to congressional requesters RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Why GAO Did This Study Some policymakers have raised questions about the use of property technology tool

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Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

news.ycombinator.com Al Newkirk 2025-10-21 11:52:42

Most organizations enforce one-way accountability. The CBC framework flips that, making commitments mutual, visible, and enforceable. In CBC, ambiguity is a leadership failure, and credibility comes from delivering results — not titles. When things go wrong, it’s easy to point down the org chart, much harder to look up. In most organizations, accountability flows one way. Teams are held to deadlines, deliverables, and performance metrics, while leaders enjoy a looser standard — insulated by hi

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From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 05:45:24

From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms Vinithavn 7 min read · 15 hours ago 15 hours ago -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context. However, not all the tokens within this context equally contribute to the prediction, because some tokens might be more relevant than others. The attention mechanism addresses this by allow

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-10-24 19:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

news.ycombinator.com Bryon Moyer 2025-10-21 16:28:55

Optical technology is well established for long-haul communications, but the distances it serves are shrinking — especially in the data center. Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) already drive short fiber links. But efforts are underway to further scale them down to provide more connections through waveguides than fiber can provide. “We have seen the transition from long haul to metro-to-local area networks and then into the data center,” said Suresh Jayaraman, senior director fo

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Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 12:42:30

The Agent Client Protocol standardizes communication between code editors (IDEs, text-editors, etc.) and coding agents (programs that use generative AI to autonomously modify code). The protocol is still under development, but it should be complete enough to build interesting user experiences using it. AI coding agents and editors are tightly coupled but interoperability isn’t the default. Each editor must build custom integrations for every agent they want to support, and agents must implemen

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Are we decentralized yet?

news.ycombinator.com Robert Ricci 2025-10-24 19:26:29

This page measures the concentration of user data on the Fediverse and the Atmosphere according to the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI), an indicator from economics used to measure competition between firms in an industry. Mathematically, HHI is the sum of the squares of market shares of all servers. Values close to zero indicate perfectly competitive markets (eg. many servers, with users spread evenly), while values close to 10000 indicate highly concentrated monopolies (eg. most users on a si

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Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 16:35:44

You’ve seen them before. McDonald’s brings back the McRib. Disney rolls out a limited time only specialty menu. Starbucks uses social media codes to “unlock” new drinks and combinations. And of course, there was Burger King’s Whopperito. Now, Taco Bell is once again getting back into the game, saying Friday that it will bring back a special “Y2K” menu with nostalgia-based items from the ’60s to the ’90s. That includes the Cool Ranch Doritos locos tacos, the 7-layer burrito, tostada, meximelt, a

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Disney Gives New Looks at ‘Toy Story 5,’ ‘Zootopia 2,’ and More

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-24 19:15:20

Originality is still alive at Disney, and it’s taking the form of 2026’s Hexed. Unveiled during the studio’s Destination 23 event, the Walt Disney Animation Studios film from Zootopia and Raya and the Last Dragon artist Josie Trinidad and Moana 2 co-director Jason Hand centers on “an awkward teenage boy and his Type – A mom,” per the logline. When they discover his oddness is actually magic powers manifesting, they learn of a secret world of magic that’ll forever transform their lives. (A premi

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31, #812

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 20:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun mix of categories. If you played a lot of Monopoly then you'll ace the green group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 1, #813

Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure

FTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters

A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire

I want to ditch my Kindle, but one feature keeps stopping me

Pick up an Apple AirTag four-pack for only $70 in this Labor Day sale

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage

Google Investors Surprisingly Chill About Major Data Breach

$1B Powerball Is Minting Social Media Gold

You Can Play the New Gears of War Game Now on Xbox Game Pass

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Arsenal From Anywhere

These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways

Best Handheld Fan and Wearable Fan (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Meta is struggling to rein in its AI chatbots

How a small subwoofer caught this audiophile off guard (and in the best way possible)

My Foray into Vlang

Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 31, #342

TikTok users will soon be able to send voice notes, images and videos in chats

GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

Bi-directional accountability: A leadership shift most organizations avoid

From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms

Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?

Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

Are we decentralized yet?

Do Novelty Menus Like Taco Bell’s Y2K Make Investors Money?

Disney Gives New Looks at ‘Toy Story 5,’ ‘Zootopia 2,’ and More

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 31, #812

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