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Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 06:52:40

Inflammation, long considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research suggests that "inflammaging"—chronic, low-grade inflammation associated with aging—appears to be a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles and varies significantly across global populations. The findings are published in Nature Aging. Researchers analyzed data from four populations: two industrialized groups—th

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The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 06:41:04

The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail While many email startups have invested millions in solving perceived problems, we at Forward Email have focused on building reliable email infrastructure from scratch since 2017. This analysis explores the patterns behind email startup outcomes and the fundamental challenges of email infrastructure. Note Key Insight: Most email startups don't build actual email infrastructure from scratch. Many build on top of existing solutions li

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The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering

news.ycombinator.com Philipp Schmid 2025-08-21 02:53:55

June 30, 2025 5 minute read Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from "prompt engineering" to a broader, more powerful concept: Context Engineering. Tobi Lutke describes it as "the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.” and he is right. With the rise of Agents it becomes more important what information we load into the “limited working memory”. We are seeing that the main thing that determine

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The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 15:34:27

Back in February of this year, Qualcomm quietly published the source code for interacting with EUD. This is perhaps one of the most exciting things they’ve done lately - especially if you spend a lot of time debugging the kernel or U-Boot - let’s talk about it. EUD stands for Embedded USB Debug: essentially, this is a debug interface built right into almost every Qualcomm SoC since ~2018. Internally it hooks deep into the SoC, providing debug facilities for not just the CPUs but also the myriad

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The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Philipp Schmid 2025-08-21 17:53:55

June 30, 2025 5 minute read Context Engineering is new term gaining traction in the AI world. The conversation is shifting from "prompt engineering" to a broader, more powerful concept: Context Engineering. Tobi Lutke describes it as "the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.” and he is right. With the rise of Agents it becomes more important what information we load into the “limited working memory”. We are seeing that the main thing that determine

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The hidden JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 20:34:27

Back in February of this year, Qualcomm quietly published the source code for interacting with EUD. This is perhaps one of the most exciting things they’ve done lately - especially if you spend a lot of time debugging the kernel or U-Boot - let’s talk about it. EUD stands for Embedded USB Debug: essentially, this is a debug interface built right into almost every Qualcomm SoC since ~2018. Internally it hooks deep into the SoC, providing debug facilities for not just the CPUs but also the myriad

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The JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device's USB port

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 01:34:27

Back in February of this year, Qualcomm quietly published the source code for interacting with EUD. This is perhaps one of the most exciting things they’ve done lately - especially if you spend a lot of time debugging the kernel or U-Boot - let’s talk about it. EUD stands for Embedded USB Debug: essentially, this is a debug interface built right into almost every Qualcomm SoC since ~2018. Internally it hooks deep into the SoC, providing debug facilities for not just the CPUs but also the myriad

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Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-22 14:36:00

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate users who are accused of copyright infringement. In a list of orders released today, the court granted a petition filed by cable company Cox. The ISP, which was sued by Sony Music Entertainment, is trying to overturn a ruling that it is liable for copyright infringement because it failed to terminate users accused of piracy. Music companies want ISPs to disconnect users whose IP ad

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FBI: Cybercriminals steal health data posing as fraud investigators

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-23 06:42:01

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned Americans of cybercriminals impersonating health fraud investigators to steal their sensitive information. As the federal law enforcement agency cautioned in a Friday public service announcement, scammers posing as "legitimate health insurers and their investigative team members" are emailing or messaging potential victims to pressure them into providing personal or health data that can later be used for fraudulent purposes. "These criminals

Topics: fbi health information messages personal

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Community Is Motivation on Tap

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 09:13:43

Community is Motivation on Tap A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here. Looking at successful athletes, founders, musicians, game speedrunners, or overachievers in any area, they seem to have unlimited motivation to do loads of tedious work or practice. One might say they are interested in the work itself, but how inherently interesting can beating super mario 1ms faster be? The work of a founde

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Evaluating Long-Context Question and Answer Systems

news.ycombinator.com Eugene Yan 2025-08-19 15:47:27

While evaluating Q&A systems is straightforward with short paragraphs, complexity increases as documents grow larger. For example, technical documentation, novels and movies, as well as multi-document scenarios. Although some of these evaluation challenges also appear in shorter contexts, long-context evaluation amplifies issues such as: Information overload: Irrelevant details in large documents obscure relevant facts, making it harder for retrievers and models to locate the right evidence for

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The ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Trailer Locks In For the End

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-23 04:50:02

Shonen fans have had eyes on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba since it dropped in 2019, and it’s making its way back to the big screen. Sony and Crunchyroll released the first trailer for the series’ upcoming Infinity Castle movie, which will be the first in a trilogy that’s rtaking big steps toward wrapping things up. Based on the manga’s arc of the same name (which spans Chapters 140-183) and picking up after the end of season four, the members of the Slayer Corps have been transported into the

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Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

news.ycombinator.com Timothy B. Lee 2025-08-20 06:29:59

It’s Agent Week at Understanding AI! This week I’m going to publish a series of articles explaining the most important AI trend of 2025: agents! Today is a deep dive into reinforcement learning, the training technique that made agentic models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o3 possible. Today’s article is available for free, but some articles in the series—including tomorrow’s article on MCP and tool use—will be for paying subscribers only. I’m offering a 20 percent discount on annual subscriptions

Topics: learning model reinforcement ross training

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Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

venturebeat.com Joe Maglitta 2025-08-23 22:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI pilots rarely start with a deep discussion of infrastructure and hardware. But seasoned scalers warn that deploying high-value production workloads will not end happily without strategic, ongoing focus on a key enterprise-grade foundation. Good news: There’s growing recognition by enterprises about the pivotal role infrastructure plays in e

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The inference trap: How cloud providers are eating your AI margins

venturebeat.com Shubham Sharma 2025-08-23 22:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI has become the holy grail of modern companies. Whether it’s customer service or something as niche as pipeline maintenance, organizations in every domain are now implementing AI technologies — from foundation models to VLAs — to make things more efficient. The goal is straightforward: automate tasks to deliver outcomes more efficiently and s

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How runtime attacks turn profitable AI into budget black holes

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-23 22:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI’s promise is undeniable, but so are its blindsiding security costs at the inference layer. New attacks targeting AI’s operational side are quietly inflating budgets, jeopardizing regulatory compliance and eroding customer trust, all of which threaten the return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership of enterprise AI deployments. AI

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Retail giant Ahold Delhaize says data breach affects 2.2 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-25 13:12:43

Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, is notifying over 2.2 million individuals that their personal, financial, and health information was stolen in a November ransomware attack that impacted its U.S. systems. The multinational retailer and wholesale company operates over 9,400 local stores across Europe, the United States, and Indonesia, employing more than 393,000 people and serving approximately 60 million customers each week in-store and online. It has reported yea

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This USB-C accessory gave my Android phone thermal vision superpowers - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-25 13:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The InfiRay P2 Pro currently sells for around $250, but it's well worth it if you require a thermal vision camera. Use a thermal camera on functioning items to learn how they should look, which will make it easier to spot faults later. The InfiRay P2 Pro thermal camera is the best option, offering flexibility, speed, and accuracy without needing separate charging. View now at Amazon I'm a big fan of Android smartphones with built-in thermal cameras, such as the awesome U

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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator's Iconic Opening Battle, Part I

news.ycombinator.com Bret Devereaux 2025-08-22 12:01:27

This week, we’re going to take a close look at arguably the most famous and recognizable Roman battle sequence in film: the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). Despite being a relatively short sequence (about ten minutes), there’s actually enough to talk about here that we’re going to split it over two weeks, talking about the setup – the battlefield, army composition, equipment and battle plan – this week and then the actual conduct of the battle next week. The iconic opening battle,

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Mixed DPI in X11

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 23:01:18

I'm writing this article because I'm getting tired of repeating the same concepts every time someone makes misinformed statements about the (lack of) support for mixed-DPI configurations in X11. It is my hope that anybody looking for information on the subject may be directed here, to get the facts about the actual possibilities offered by the protocol, avoiding the biased misinformation available from other sources. If you only care about “how to do it”, jump straight to The RANDR way, otherwi

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These Three Messaging Apps Are Encrypted, but One Stands Above the Rest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-27 22:00:03

Key points: Most widely used messaging app Uses the same encryption protocol as Signal Collects heaps of your data Free, but owned and operated by Meta WhatsApp is the most popular private messaging app on this list, with about 2 billion monthly users, according to Exploding Topics. Because it's so popular, there's a higher chance that other people you might be chatting with have WhatsApp, and therefore your chats can be encrypted. And if the person you're chatting with doesn't have WhatsAp

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'Cyber plague': Experts warn of growing infostealer threat after billions of login details exposed

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-28 00:56:39

"Someone, somewhere is having data exfiltrated from their machines as we speak," says Volodymyr Diachenko, co-founder of the cybersecurity consultancy SecurityDiscovery. Cybercriminals have intensified their efforts to steal and sell online passwords, experts warn. The alarm comes after the discovery of online datasets containing billions of exposed account credentials. The 30 datasets comprised a whopping 16 billion login credentials across multiple platforms, including Apple, Google and Face

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Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-28 05:34:35

Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London’s High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models. The move doesn’t end the case entirely – Getty is still pursuing other claims as well as a separate lawsuit in the U.S. – but it underscores the gray areas surrounding the future of content ownership and usage in the age of generative AI. The developm

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Nvidia’s ‘AI Factory’ narrative faces reality check as inference wars expose 70% margins

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-28 17:56:28

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more The gloves came off at Tuesday at VB Transform 2025 as alternative chip makers directly challenged Nvidia’s dominance narrative during a panel about inference, exposing a fundamental contradiction: How can AI inference be a commoditized “factory” and command 70% gross margins? Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq, didn’t mince words when discussing

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Hundreds of data brokers might be breaking state laws, say privacy advocates

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-28 18:16:48

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a nonprofit privacy rights group have called on several states to investigate why “hundreds” of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer protection agencies in accordance with local laws. An analysis done in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) found that many data brokers hav

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Information has been permanently deleted, for small values of permanently

news.ycombinator.com Raymond Chen 2025-08-29 05:29:42

As part of a periodic purge of unused online accounts, I deleted my account from a company ten months ago. Let’s call that company Contoso. I received a confirmation that said, “Your personal information and items associated with your account have now been deleted. This action is permanent and cannot be reversed.” Yesterday, I got an email from Contoso informing me that they have updated their Privacy Policy. So I guess their “confirmation” of “permanent” and “irreversible” deletion of my pers

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Third places and neighborhood enterpenuership: Evidence from Starbucks cafes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 22:10:21

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Google Home may soon let you pin weather and AQI data for quick checks (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-30 04:32:17

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR An upcoming release of Google Home could soon support Outdoor Weather and Outdoor AQI information in the Favorites tab. Adding the information to the Favorites tab will allow users to quickly control their smart home devices based on current weather conditions. Google recently upgraded the Google Home app with a ton of new features and upgrades, including the ability to set device-specific favorites. All of these work great, but there’s always room for

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How a data-processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-31 01:00:00

When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft’s autonomous vehicle program, they witnessed a brewing data infrastructure problem — one that would only become larger with the rise of AI. Self-driving cars produce a ton of unstructured data from 3D scans and photos to text and audio. There wasn’t a tool for Lyft engineers that could understand and process all of those different types of data at the same time — and all in one place. This left engineers

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Study Says U.S. Babies Are Missing a Key Gut Microbe, Fueling Allergy Risk

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-31 10:55:44

The prevalence of allergies and other chronic diseases is on the rise, with the number of food allergy cases in the U.S. increasing 50% between 2007 and 2021. These allergies can be life-threatening, and understanding their root cause is more important than ever before. A new study has brought experts closer to doing just that. The findings, published Tuesday, June 24 in the journal Communications Biology, linked the rise of allergies and other chronic conditions such as asthma and eczema to th

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Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

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The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering

The hidden JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port

The JTAG in your Qualcomm/Snapdragon device's USB port

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Study Says U.S. Babies Are Missing a Key Gut Microbe, Fueling Allergy Risk

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