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Apple denies Politico report on AI guideline changes around DEI, vaccines, and Trump

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-04 12:41:29

Politico has published an extensive report claiming that, following Trump’s election, Apple changed its AI training guidelines on issues such as DEI, vaccines, elections, and Trump himself. Here are the details. Data annotation It is common practice for tech companies to rely on subcontractors to help with the labeling and post-training process of their AI models. Politico’s report says that Apple contracts Transperfect, a company that offers “translation services and solutions,” including AI

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Scientists Stunned as Tiny Algae Keep Moving Inside Arctic Ice

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-06 21:05:30

Scientists know that microbial life can survive under some extreme conditions—including, hopefully, harsh Martian weather. But new research suggests that one particular microbe, an algal species found in Arctic ice, isn’t as immobile as it was previously believed. They’re surprisingly active, gliding across—and even within—their frigid stomping grounds. In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper published September 9, researchers explained that ice diatoms—single-celled algae wi

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Semantic Line Breaks (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 23:14:41

Semantic Line Breaks Summary When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought. Introduction Semantic Line Breaks describe a set of conventions for using insensitive vertical whitespace to structure prose along semantic boundaries. Many lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc, join consecutive lines with a space. Conventional markup languages like HTML and XML exhibit a similar behavior in pa

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If the AI Industry Fails, It Could Take the Rest of Us Down With It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-07 12:12:33

Don't let AI critics tell you it's good for nothing: the amount of money being spent on AI infrastructure is so enormous that it’s literally propping up the US economy. The drawback, of course, is that if the AI industry fails, it could drag the rest of the economy down with it. In 2024, the S&P 500 grew by an incredible 24 percent — what the investment firm Charles Schwab understatedly called a "very good year." Since 2023, nearly half the growth was clustered in just a handful of tech stocks

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Reddit launches tools for publisher to track and share stories

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-07 17:17:06

Reddit on Wednesday launched a set of free tools for publishers to track their article performance and receive suggestions on where to share their stories within the site’s communities. The new features are launching as a part of Reddit Pro, a suite of business tools it debuted last year to help organizations grow their presence on the platform. There are three key tools being added under the Links tab in Reddit Pro. These include article insights to see where stories have been shared and stats

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Semantic Line Breaks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-05 20:14:41

Semantic Line Breaks Summary When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought. Introduction Semantic Line Breaks describe a set of conventions for using insensitive vertical whitespace to structure prose along semantic boundaries. Many lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc, join consecutive lines with a space. Conventional markup languages like HTML and XML exhibit a similar behavior in pa

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The 15 Wildest, Coolest Films We Can’t Wait to See at Fantastic Fest 2025

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-08 21:30:36

The most fantastic time of year is here again. io9 is about to head down to Austin, Texas, for a week of fun, fucked-up films at Fantastic Fest, one of the coolest, most unique genre film festivals in the entire world. It’s a festival that focuses on only showing the weirdest, most out-there, totally badass films, and we’re excited to jump right in as always. What makes attending Fantastic Fest difficult, though, is that every single movie sounds awesome. It was curated that way. So how do you

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These 8 Common Foods Contain Microplastics. Here's How to Avoid Them in Your Diet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 00:19:00

Microplastics are found everywhere from kitchen tools to food storage. As a result, you're probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as high as 120,000. These microscopic fragments can come from packaging, processing and even additives in the food supply c

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These 8 Common Foods Contain Microplastics. Here's How to Avoid Them in Your Diet.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 05:19:00

Microplastics are found everywhere from kitchen tools to food storage. As a result, you're probably ingesting thousands of tiny plastic particles without even realizing it. Studies estimate the average person consumes between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles annually through food and beverages alone -- and when airborne particles are included, that number can climb as high as 120,000. These microscopic fragments can come from packaging, processing and even additives in the food supply c

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Google’s Veo 3 can now generate vertical AI videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-10 05:23:51

Google has added support for 1080p resolution and vertical video formats to its Veo 3 AI video generator. According to the announcement on Google’s developer blog, both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast — a faster, and more affordable version of the video model that produces lower-quality results — now allow users to generate videos in a 9:16 aspect ratio that’s better suited for content displayed on mobile devices and social media apps. The blog says that vertical video support can be enabled by setting th

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Geoengineering will not save humankind from climate change

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-10 09:24:40

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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No, the Galaxy S25 FE doesn’t have this key security upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 22:15:48

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has confirmed to Android Authority that the Galaxy S25 FE has an optical-based fingerprint scanner. This comes after unofficial claims that the phone has an ultrasonic scanner. An ultrasonic fingerprint scanner is faster, more accurate, and works with wet fingers. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 FE last week, and it brings a couple of notable upgrades. We also heard rumors that the phone would have an upgraded in-display fingerprint sensor, bu

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MagSafe Monday: UAG’s Magnetic Ring Stand is the simple MagSafe accessory you did not know you needed

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-11 21:30:00

If you don’t carry a MagSafe wallet with your iPhone, there might be situations when you want a simple stand for travel, increased grip, stand at your desk, etc. The UAG Magnetic Ring Stand falls into that category. It gives you a better grip on your iPhone, doubles as a kickstand, and still slides in your pocket without getting in the way. Let’s take a look at what it offers. Some of my favorite gear eufyCam 2C Upgrade your home security with wireless cameras that includes HomeKit compatibilit

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Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-12 05:45:58

Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases per year. The vast majority of these materials end up in landfills, but what if we could repurpose some of that waste to remove planet-warming emissions from the atmosphere? A team of researchers in Denmark has discovered a way to do just that. In a new study, published September 5 in the journal Science Advances, they transformed decomposed #1 plastic—also known as PET (polyethy

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Adtech company PubMatic sues Google over monopoly violations

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-12 13:41:49

In Brief Advertising exchange PubMatic has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the ad technology market. PubMatic is seeking billions of dollars in damages, according a report from Bloomberg. The lawsuit marks the second time that an advertising exchange has sued Google since a federal judge ruled in April that the search giant had illegally monopolized ad exchanges and ad servers. The judge has set another trial for this month to determine whether

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How the Slavic Migration Reshaped Central and Eastern Europe

news.ycombinator.com Joscha Gretzinger Et Al. 2025-10-13 00:30:19

How the Slavic migration reshaped Central and Eastern Europe Genetic analyses of medieval human remains reveal large-scale migrations, regional diversity, and new insights into early medieval communities Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt Excavation in 2020 at the pre-Slavic cemetery of Brücken, Mansfeld-Südharz District (Saxony-Anhalt). © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege u

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Czech cyber agency warns against Chinese tech in critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 19:09:19

The Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) is instructing critical infrastructure organizations in the country to avoid using Chinese technology or transferring user data to servers located in China. The agency warned that these actions constitute a significant cybersecurity threat and should be entirely avoided unless there's a reasonable justification for continuing the practice. The NUKIB states that it has re-evaluated its risk estimate of significant disru

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Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:00:16

Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science Should you be worried that your brain probably contains enough plastic to fashion a disposable spoon? Yes, new research suggests: you should. In a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Communications, researchers found that mice which were regularly exposed to microplastics in their diet developed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, in less than a single month. The mice were genetically mo

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5 Things We Loved, 3 Things We Didn’t About ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-13 01:15:54

Season 2 of Wednesday is finally available to watch in its entirety on Netflix. And while the first half introduced a solid return, the second half almost holds up before a messy to-be-continued conclusion. Tim Burton puts his whole Burtonesque business on full display with a third-act antagonist reveal that both works and doesn’t. The Addams family being at the mechanical heart of another mystery creates a lot of fun lore for Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) to discover about her parents. This time Mo

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Lenovo’s ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-12 23:00:00

Lenovo isn’t shy about trying new things. Last year, the PC maker teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED display that folded over the top of the laptop lid, ready to flip up whenever you needed the extra screen space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically at the touch of a button—this one is a real product you can actually buy. Get ready for another whacky

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Microsoft now enforces MFA on Azure Portal sign-ins for all tenants

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:32:05

Microsoft says it has been enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for Azure Portal sign-ins across all tenants since March 2025. The company's Azure MFA enforcement efforts were announced in May 2024 when Redmond began implementing mandatory MFA for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. One year ago, in August 2024, Microsoft also warned Entra global admins to enable MFA for their tenants by October 15, 2024, to ensure users don't lose access to admin portals. After comple

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Poisoning Well

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:48:24

Poisoning Well 31st March 2025 One of the many pressing issues with Large Language Models (LLMs) is they are trained on content that isn’t theirs to consume. Since most of what they consume is on the open web, it’s difficult for authors to withhold consent without also depriving legitimate agents (AKA humans or “meat bags”) of information. Some well-meaning but naive developers have implored authors to instate robots.txt rules, intended to block LLM-associated crawlers. User-agent: GPTBot D

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Lenovo's ThinkBook VertiFlex Concept Laptop Has a Swiveling Screen

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-10-15 06:00:00

Lenovo isn't shy about trying new things. Last year, the PC maker teased a concept laptop with a transparent screen. Earlier this year, the ThinkBook Flip concept employed a flexible OLED display that folded over the top of the laptop lid, ready to flip up whenever you needed the extra screen space. At CES 2025, we saw a ThinkBook with a rollable OLED screen that expanded upward automatically at the touch of a button—this one is a real product you can actually buy. Get ready for another whacky

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AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr’s founder, raises massive $85M Series A

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-16 01:00:00

Having built and sold e-commerce shipping startup Deliverr to Shopify for $2.1 billion in 2022, co-founder and CEO Harish Abbott knows the logistics industry well. Abbott felt that many manual tasks in logistics could be automated using AI. That’s why last year he launched Augment which offers an AI assistant called ‘Augie’ that can take over tedious and repetitive work performed by freight shippers, carriers and brokers. On Thursday, Augment announced that it raised an $85 million Series A le

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Imagining the future of banking with agentic AI

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-16 13:21:23

Adapting to new and emerging technologies like agentic AI is essential for an organization’s survival, says Murli Buluswar, head of US personal banking analytics at Citi. “A company’s ability to adopt new technical capabilities and rearchitect how their firm operates is going to make the difference between the firms that succeed and those that get left behind,” says Buluswar. “Your people and your firm must recognize that how they go about their work is going to be meaningfully different.” The

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Musk Stakes Tesla Future on One Major Gamble

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-16 21:40:08

In a striking shift of narrative, Elon Musk has declared that Tesla’s future valuation will derive 80% from its Optimus humanoid robots, not its electric vehicle business. This declaration, made in tandem with the release of Tesla’s “Master Plan Part IV,” shifts the spotlight firmly to robotics and AI as the company’s aspirational core. Optimus has morphed from a speculative experiment into Tesla’s defining strategic centerpiece. Musk envisions deploying “thousands” of robots in factories by y

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Takeout Containers Should Never Go in the Microwave. This Is Why

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-16 20:32:00

When hunger and laziness coincide, reheating last night's leftovers in the microwave seems like a great idea. But if you reheat them in the plastic container they came in, you put yourself at risk for ingesting microplastics and harmful chemicals. You may be wondering, "Is plastic contamination as dangerous as experts say?" Unfortunately, all signs point to yes. Study after study has shown that the resulting chemical exposure of microplastics could pose significant health risks and they have be

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New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

news.ycombinator.com Max Springer 2025-10-15 19:35:22

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to understanding mathematical knots, which one can obtain from any traditional knot by gluing the loose ends together. Mathematicians long believed that if you attach cut ends of two different knots to each other, the new knot will be just as complex as the sum of the individual knots’ complexity. But

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New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption

news.ycombinator.com Max Springer 2025-10-16 10:35:22

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to understanding mathematical knots, which one can obtain from any traditional knot by gluing the loose ends together. Mathematicians long believed that if you attach cut ends of two different knots to each other, the new knot will be just as complex as the sum of the individual knots’ complexity. But

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The worst possible antitrust outcome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 00:29:13

Today's links The worst possible antitrust outcome (permalink) Well, fuck. Last year, Google lost an antitrust case to Biden's DoJ. The DoJ lawyers beat Google like a drum, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google had deliberately sought to create and maintain a monopoly over search, and that they'd used that monopoly to make search materially worse, while locking competitors out of the market. In other words, the company that controls 90% of search attained that control by ill

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Apple denies Politico report on AI guideline changes around DEI, vaccines, and Trump

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Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon

Adtech company PubMatic sues Google over monopoly violations

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New knot theory discovery overturns long-held mathematical assumption

New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption

The worst possible antitrust outcome

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