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Hydrogen-Powered Plasma Torch Decimates Plastic Waste in a Blink

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-07 05:30:56

Why sort plastic when you can blast it to oblivion? Sounds extreme, but that’s the idea behind a new technology with the potential to “realize the era of zero plastic sorting”—while minimizing carbon emissions, too. In a press release today, the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMMS) announced the development of a plasma torch that annihilates plastic waste in less than 0.01 seconds—about ten times faster than a blink. The torch is entirely powered by hydrogen and converts mixed plast

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CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-07 10:38:36

CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies training AI models, has struck an agreement to acquire OpenPipe, a 2-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop customized AI agents with reinforcement learning, the companies announced on Wednesday. “Reinforcement learning is emerging as a pivotal force to strengthen model performance on agentic and reasoning tasks,” said Brian Venturo, Co-founder of CoreWeave, in a statement to TechCrunch. “By combining OpenPi

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Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 14:03:35

Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels tl;dr: Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.87x faster across 215 PyTorch modules, with some workloads running hundreds of times faster than baseline. Why use AI to generate kernels for Apple devices? AI models execute on hardware via GPU kernels that define each oper

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Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple with AI-generated Metal kernels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 20:03:35

Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels tl;dr: Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.87x faster across 215 PyTorch modules, with some workloads running hundreds of times faster than baseline. Why use AI to generate kernels for Apple devices? AI models execute on hardware via GPU kernels that define each oper

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Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-07 20:30:00

Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch. “Through talking to them, I realized even the largest farms in the nation basically have no idea what is actually growing out in their fields.” He dropped out of Cornell, became a Thiel fellow, a

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SaaS giant Workiva discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-08 00:40:44

Workiva, a leading cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) provider, notified its customers that attackers who gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) system stole some of their data. The company's cloud software helps collect, connect, and share data for financial reports, compliance, and audits. It had 6,305 customers at the end of last year and reported revenues of $739 million in 2024. Its customer list includes 85% of the Fortune 500 companies and high-profi

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Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads' with AI

cnbc.com Scott Budman 2025-12-09 04:59:01

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Salesforce has cut 4,000 of its customer support roles, CEO Marc Benioff recently said while discussing how artificial intelligence has helped reduce the company headcount. Benioff revealed the layoffs during an interview published Friday on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast. "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads," Benioff said while

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-10 20:20:18

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, attends the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020. There was a moment, during the pandemic-fueled growth days of 2020, when Salesforce surpassed Oracle by market cap. Marc Benioff had finally toppled his protege, Larry Ellison. That moment is long gone. Salesforce's stock price has dropped 25% this year, the worst performance in large-cap tech and the second-steepest decline in the Dow, beating only UnitedHealth . Mea

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-11 03:00:00

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support tickets

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-11 15:00:00

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

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The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-12-12 09:55:04

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials before hackers can exploit them. Now Google warns the breach goes far beyond access to Salesforce data, noting the hackers responsible also stole valid authentication tokens for hundreds of online services that customers can integrate with Salesloft,

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Zscaler data breach exposes customer info after Salesloft Drift compromise

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-13 16:00:00

Cybersecurity company Zscaler warns it suffered a data breach after threat actors gained access to its Salesforce instance and stole customer information, including the contents of support cases. This warning follows the compromise of Salesloft Drift, an AI chat agent that integrates with Salesforce, in which attackers stole OAuth and refresh tokens, enabling them to gain access to customer Salesforce environments and exfiltrate sensitive data. In an advisory, Zscaler says that its Salesforce

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Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 15:09:24

Google now reports that the Salesloft Drift breach is larger than initially thought, warning that attackers also used stolen OAuth tokens to access a small number of Google Workspace email accounts in addition to stealing data from Salesforce instances. "Based on new information identified by GTIG, the scope of this compromise is not exclusive to the Salesforce integration with Salesloft Drift and impacts other integrations,' warns Google. "We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat

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Important machine learning equations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 08:38:44

Motivation Machine learning (ML) is a powerful field driven by mathematics. Whether you’re building models, optimizing algorithms, or simply trying to understand how ML works under the hood, mastering the core equations is essential. This blog post is designed to be your go-to resource, covering the most critical and “mind-breaking” ML equations—enough to grasp most of the core math behind ML. Each section includes theoretical insights, the equations themselves, and practical implementations in

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The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 02:38:44

Motivation Machine learning (ML) is a powerful field driven by mathematics. Whether you’re building models, optimizing algorithms, or simply trying to understand how ML works under the hood, mastering the core equations is essential. This blog post is designed to be your go-to resource, covering the most critical and “mind-breaking” ML equations—enough to grasp most of the core math behind ML. Each section includes theoretical insights, the equations themselves, and practical implementations in

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Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-22 05:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Salesforce is betting that rigorous testing in simulated business environments will solve one of enterprise artificial intelligence’s biggest problems: agents that work in demonstrations but fail in the messy reality of corporate operations. The cloud software giant unveiled three major AI research initiatives this week, including CRMArena

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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

news.ycombinator.com Brad Lendon 2025-12-22 21:38:42

A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says. The January 28 crash at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks was recorded in a video that showed the aircraft dropping straight down and exploding in a fireball. The pilot ejected safely, suffering only minor injuries, bu

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Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 14:12:53

Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks. Salesloft's SalesDrift is a third-party platform that connects the Drift AI chat agent with a Salesforce instance, allowing organizations to sync conversations, leads, and support cases into their CRM. Acc

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The Annotated Transformer (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 10:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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The Annotated Transformer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 16:58:13

The Annotated Transformer v2022: Austin Huang, Suraj Subramanian, Jonathan Sum, Khalid Almubarak, and Stella Biderman. Original: Sasha Rush. The Transformer has been on a lot of people’s minds over the last year five years. This post presents an annotated version of the paper in the form of a line-by-line implementation. It reorders and deletes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. This document itself is a working notebook, and should be a completely usable impl

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Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-26 09:48:51

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks. Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide. The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its da

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US military’s X-37B spaceplane stays relevant with launch of another mission

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-28 22:54:35

The US military's reusable winged spaceship rocketed back into orbit Thursday night atop a SpaceX rocket, kicking off a mission that will, among other things, demonstrate how future spacecraft can navigate without relying on GPS signals. The core of the navigation experiment is what the Space Force calls the "world's highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever used in space." This is one of many payloads mounted on the military's X-37B spaceplane when it lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

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SpaceX, Boeing team up for another flight of the military’s X-37B spaceplane

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-29 04:54:35

The US military's reusable winged spaceship rocketed back into orbit Thursday night atop a SpaceX rocket, kicking off a mission that will, among other things, demonstrate how future spacecraft can navigate without relying on GPS signals. The core of the navigation experiment is what the Space Force calls the "world's highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever used in space." This is one of many payloads mounted on the military's X-37B spaceplane when it lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

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Watch Live: SpaceX Launches Space Force’s X-37B Spaceplane on New Military Test Mission

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-12-31 14:45:15

The U.S. Space Force’s experimental spaceplane, X-37B, is ready for another go in orbit for an undisclosed duration, in which it will test new technologies aimed at bolstering military capabilities in space. The Boeing-built orbital test vehicle, designated as OTV-8, will attempt to launch on Thursday at 11:50 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spaceplane will ride on board a Falcon 9 rocket, marking the second time SpaceX launches the Space

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Space Force Launching Secretive Experimental Spacecraft With Quantum Equipment on Board

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 18:28:08

It's serving an important purpose. Quantum of Orbit Less than six months after concluding a year-plus mission in orbit, the Space Force's top-secret X-37B space plane is gearing up for its eighth mission in just over 15 years. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, the enigmatic, Boeing-built spacecraft is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Pad 39A later this evening, carrying some intriguing-sounding scientific equipment with it into orbit. The Space Force, in collabora

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Rey’s Climatic ‘Star Wars’ Showdowns Get a Beautiful Poster Set

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-08 18:15:49

Bottleneck Gallery and artist Kevin Wilson will soon release a truly beautiful set of Star Wars posters that feature Rey’s three unforgettable Sith showdowns in all their glory. There’s her first battle with Kylo Ren at the end of The Force Awakens, the start of her showdown with Snoke in The Last Jedi, and the final encounter with her dear old pappy Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker. Each is prettier than the last, and they make us think back to a simpler time. Before we get to that, though,

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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming gets RTX 5080 GPUs, better image quality and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-08 23:30:40

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling-up in September with the addition of RTX 5080 GPUs, which will allow for 5K streaming at up to 120fps (or 1080p/320fps for the truly frame-hungry). While you'll need to be on the $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate tier to use RTX 5080 streaming servers, NVIDIA at least isn't raising that tier's price. Subscribers at that level will still receive 100 hours of monthly playtime (with 15 hours of rollover), up to eight-hour long sessions and acce

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ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-10 10:30:42

"I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF." Mass Text US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accidentally added a random person to a mass group text in which officers from multiple federal law enforcement agencies discussed extremely sensitive information about arrests, targets, and strategy. As 404 Media reports, the group text was titled "Mass Text" and included an unredacted ICE document titled "Field Operations Worksheet." The document included "detaile

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Pfeilstorch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-09 20:07:49

Migrating stork which has been hit by an arrow The Rostocker Pfeilstorch, found in 1822, demonstrated that birds migrated rather than hibernating or changing form in winter. A Pfeilstorch (German for 'arrow stork', pronounced [ˈpfaɪ̯l.ˌʃtɔɐ̯ç]; plural Pfeilstörche, [-ˌʃtœɐ̯.çə]) is a white stork that is injured by an arrow or spear while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the projectile stuck in its body. As of 2003, about 25 Pfeilstörche have been documented in Germany.[1] The fi

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Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets

news.ycombinator.com Agence France-Presse 2026-01-09 17:11:42

Advertisement The US$600 million agreement for the Saab JAS 39 Gripens was first announced in June as part of a long-term plan to modernise the air force’s combat capabilities. During five days of clashes with Cambodia that left more than 40 people dead, Thailand used its fleet of F-16s to strike military targets across the border. It was the deadliest border fighting between the two countries in decades. The purchase of four Swedish-built Gripen jets is part of a long-term plan to modernise

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