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Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 08:04:02

One of the most prominent pioneers of artificial intelligence has some grim predictions about what the technology he created is soon going to unleash onto humankind. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work on neural networks earned him the title of "Godfather of AI," suggested in an interview with the Financial Times that tech CEOs who preach positive outcomes for the future of AI are deluding themselves and others. "What’s actually going to happen is rich people are goin

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Anker magnetic power banks are up to 42 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 08:34:51

One of our favorite magnetic power banks is on sale for 42 percent off right now. The Anker 622 Magnetic Battery is down 42 percent to $28, which is almost as low as we've ever seen it. This steep discount is also available at Anker's online store with a coupon code that the company provides. This 5,000mAh MagSafe-compatible charger with a foldable stand is a slim and portable battery that can keep your devices going on long days away from a charger. Anker says the 622 Magnetic Battery can rech

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X Design Notes: Unifying OCaml Modules and Values

news.ycombinator.com Considerations On Codecrafting 2025-11-04 20:48:57

In 2020, I released Cubiml, showing how to combine full type inference with structural subtyping in an ML-like language, and earlier this year, I followed it up with PolySubML, extending it with higher rank types and existential types among other features. For my next language (which I’ll call X here, since I haven’t chosen a name yet), I set the ambitious goal of supporting all of OCaml’s most notable functionality on top of everything PolySubML already supports. In this post, I will talk about

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New Bacteria Discovered in Flies Could Sicken Humans

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-09 08:35:14

A new species of bacteria has come to light in Brazil. It’s genetically similar to two other disease-causing bacteria from the Andes, which are known to infect humans through sand fly bites. According to a study published this summer in the journal Acta Tropica, researchers have discovered a new bacteria species in phlebotomine insects (sand flies) in the Amazon National Park in Brazil’s state of Pará. Its DNA is similar to that of two Andean bacteria in Peru, Bartonella bacilliformis and Barto

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Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 08:24:40

A team of the world’s best ice and climate researchers studied a handful of recently publicized engineering concepts for protecting Earth’s polar ice caps and found that none of them are likely to work. Their peer-reviewed research, published Tuesday, shows some of the untested ideas, such as dispersing particles in the atmosphere to dim sunlight or trying to refreeze ice sheets with pumped water, could have unintended and dangerous consequences. The various speculative notions that have been

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Abu Dhabi launches low-cost AI reasoning model in challenge to OpenAI, DeepSeek

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-11-09 12:00:01

Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images A new challenger in the global artificial intelligence race has entered the ring. The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an AI-focused research university established by the United Arab Emirates, announced on Tuesday the release of a new, low-cost reasoning model to rival OpenAI and DeepSeek. It comes after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, earlier this year shocked the world with the release of a reasoning model called R1 which

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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 people were killed during protests

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:00:07

Nepal's government has lifted its ban on social media apps including Facebook and X after at least 19 people were killed yesterday during protests, The Guardian reported. "We have withdrawn the shutdown of the social media. They are working now," said communications minister Prithvi Subba Gurung. In a new development, Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has resigned due to the unrest, his aide told Reuters. Last week, the government announced it was blocking 26 social media platforms due to no

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The USB-C Apple Pencil drops to a new all-time low

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:15:45

It's still back-to-school season and, regardless of whether you've picked up a textbook recently, that will always mean its time to pick up new supplies. Thankfully, there are some great deals currently running, including a new all-time low price for the USB-C Apple Pencil. Right now, you can pick up the USB-C Apple Pencil for $50, down from $79. The 37 percent discount is available as part of Woot's warehouse clean out and will run for six more days or until the accessory sells out. Notably, W

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UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:01:53

Vulnerable people to be protected from self-harm content as Online Safety laws to be toughened. Comes as Online Safety Act to be amended to make self-harm content a ‘priority offence’. Tech companies to be legally required to prevent this content from appearing in the first place, protecting users of all ages. The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material

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Is the Popular $599 Bowlex Bike as Good as a Peloton? I Tested Both

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 12:00:00

CNET key takeaways More affordable than other exercise bikes at $600 Access to the JRNY app and third-party apps like Peloton Warranty lasts for up to 10 years If you’re on the hunt for an affordable exercise bike, the BowFlex IC SE is worth considering. It’s one of CNET’s top-tested bikes and a solid Peloton alternative, offering a similar experience without the steep price tag. At $600, half the price of a Peloton bike, you’ll get a bike that offers a smooth ride and over 100 resistance l

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Chinese auto giant GAC targets 17-fold boost to European sales by 2027

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-11-09 23:48:33

The Aion V is one of the cars GAC is launching in Europe as it looks to expand its presence in the region. The Aion V is on display at the company's stand at the IAA Mobility auto show in Munich, Germany on September 9, 2025. Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) aims to increase its European electric car sales 17-fold over the next two years, becoming the latest Chinese player to take on the region's traditional automakers through aggressive expansion. The entrance of the Chinese state-owned carma

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Three big things we still don’t know about AI’s energy burden

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-11-09 21:00:00

The problem with finding that number, as we explain in our piece published in May, was that AI companies are the only ones who have it. We pestered Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, but each company refused to provide its figure. Researchers we spoke to who study AI’s impact on energy grids compared it to trying to measure the fuel efficiency of a car without ever being able to drive it, making guesses based on rumors of its engine size and what it sounds like going down the highway. But then this

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The Last Programmers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:01:43

I quit my job at Amazon in May to join a startup called Icon. Best career decision I ever made, but not for the reasons you might think. At Amazon, I was on the Amazon Q Developer team, building their AI coding assistant. You'd think being at the center of Amazon's AI developer tools would be exciting, but it was actually deeply frustrating. It was apparent to anyone outside the Amazon bubble that we were losing the AI game badly. The leadership was constantly playing catch-up because there was

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Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 23:08:44

While tech companies market AI as a productivity tool for everyone, a UK government study reveals an unexpected result: Neurodiverse employees may be benefiting far more from chatbots than their neurotypical colleagues. The UK's Department for Business and Trade recently released evaluation results from its Microsoft 365 Copilot trial showing that while overall satisfaction was 72 percent, neurodiverse employees reported statistically higher satisfaction (at a 90 percent confidence level) and w

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Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona series in 2026

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-11-10 00:50:15

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng speaks to reporters at the electric carmaker's stand at the IAA auto show in Munich, Germany on September 8, 2025. Xpeng plans to launch its mass-market Mona series in overseas markets next year in a move that will boost competition with its Chinese rivals and established automakers in the electric vehicle arena. In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng said the company's international expansion is moving faster than he expected and signaled

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Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR

news.ycombinator.com Pedro Lobo 2025-11-09 21:44:20

GSoC 2025 - Byte Type: Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM IR By Pedro Lobo #GSoC , #clang , #optimizations , #IR 22 minute read This summer I participated in GSoC under the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. The goal of the project was to add a new byte type to the LLVM IR, capable of representing raw memory values. This new addition enables the native implementation of memory-related intrinsics in the IR, including memcpy , memmove and memcmp , fixes existing unsound transformations and en

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Sept. 9

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-09 18:31:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-09 23:00:44

In Brief OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, though the company says it has no plans to leave. California’s attorney general is investigating whether OpenAI’s restructuring violates state charitable trust law, while a coalition of nonprofits, labor groups, philanthropies, and even rival Meta are pushing back against the c

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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-09 23:51:11

Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests 2 hours ago Share Save Kelly Ng BBC News Share Save Watch: Fire and tear gas as protesters clash with police in Nepal Nepal has lifted a social media ban after it led to clashes between protesters and police that have left at least 19 people dead. Thousands of young people had forced their way into the parliament building in the capital Kathmandu on Monday, asking the government to lift its ban on 26 social media platforms, including Fa

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I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:06:52

So Long Hi everyone, I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher. For the past several months I have been preparing the Open Source release of Nova Launcher. This work included cleaning up the codebase, reviewing licenses, removing or replacing proprietary code, and coordinating with legal to ensure a proper release. When Branch a

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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:32:49

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG Apple introduced the Liquid Glass effect during WWDC 2025 in June—a stunning UI effect that makes interface elements appear to be made of curved, refractive glass. This article is a hands‑on exploration of how to recreate a similar effect on the web using CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations. Instead of chasing pixel‑perfect parity, we’ll approximate Liquid Glass, recreating the core refraction and a spec

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So Long [Nova Launcher's FOSS release blocked by its owners,despite obligations]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:06:52

So Long Hi everyone, I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher. For the past several months I have been preparing the Open Source release of Nova Launcher. This work included cleaning up the codebase, reviewing licenses, removing or replacing proprietary code, and coordinating with legal to ensure a proper release. When Branch a

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Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-10 08:24:42

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic’s Claude Code in May. Lately, that subreddit has been so filled with posts from self-proclaimed Code users announc

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Netskope follows Rubrik as a rare cybersecurity IPO, both backed by Lightspeed

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-11-10 08:35:58

Cybersecurity is a massive sector, but startups in the category are more likely to be acquired than go public. Even Wiz, which for a time held the title of the fastest-growing startup, abandoned its IPO ambitions when it agreed to sell to Google earlier this year. In the past few years, there have been scant few significant cybersecurity debuts such as SentinelOne in 2021, and Rubrik last year. Next week, the sector is expected to add one more public company: the cloud cybersecurity platform N

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OpenAI Says It's Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:15:29

OpenAI has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to create a feature-length animated movie made largely with artificial intelligence. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the purported goal of using AI tech on the movie is to speed up production while also saving costs — and, presumably, serving as a giant tech demo for movie execs everywhere. The film will invite comparisons to the early days of CGI-animated movies in the mid-1990s. Funded heavily by Apple cofounder Ste

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Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:09:57

Artificial intelligence has notorious problems with accuracy — so maybe it's not surprising that using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too. As a security firm called Apiiro found in new research, developers who used AI produce ten times more security problems than their counterparts who don't use the technology. Looking at code from thousands of developers and tens of thousand repositories, Apiiro found that AI-assisted devs were indeed producing three or four times mo

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SpaceX Strikes Wireless Gold With EchoStar Sale. Expect Better Coverage With These Carriers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 11:31:00

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired $17 billion worth of EchoStar’s wireless spectrum, the two companies announced on Monday. The coveted chunk of spectrum, which is used to transmit cellular data through the air, exists in the 1.9 and lower 2GHz spectrum bands. The news comes six weeks after SpaceX launched its satellite texting partnership T-Mobile, called T-Satellite. SpaceX’s Starlink internet service is now poised to dramatically increase its direct-to-cell coverage, which allows users to text

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Why is Japan still investing in custom floating point accelerators?

news.ycombinator.com Timothy Prickett Morgan 2025-11-07 00:27:24

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed with accelerators account for half of the money spent on systems worldwide. There is no law anywhere that says that accelerator has to be a GPU, although that has been the accelerator of choice by far because GPUs are, like CPUs, general purpose processors that are explicitly designed to support vario

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A critique of package managers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 08:18:55

Package Managers are Evil n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup Package managers (for programming languages) are evil. To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers mix up: A package Package Repositories Build Systems Package Managers These are all separate and can have no relation to one another. I have nothing wrong with packages, in fact Odin has packages built into the langu

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How RSS beat Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 05:50:01

People like to tell the story of how VHS beat Betamax because adult film studios backed VHS. It’s a clutch-your-pearls story that says nothing about why these multi-million-dollar businesses picked one format over the other. The real story is that while Betamax tapes had better resolution and fidelity, VHS was cheaper, offered longer recordings, and, most importantly, was the more open format. Not many people talk about how or why RSS won the content syndication war because few people are aware

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Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment

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I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher

Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

So Long [Nova Launcher's FOSS release blocked by its owners,despite obligations]

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