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U.S. warns of Iranian cyber threats on critical infrastructure

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-20 03:24:46

U.S. cyber agencies, the FBI, and NSA issued an urgent warning today about potential cyberattacks from Iranian-affiliated hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. CISA says there are no indications of an ongoing campaign but urges critical infrastructure organizations and other potential targets to monitor their defense due to the current unrest in the Middle East and cyber attacks previously linked to Iran. In a joint fact sheet, the cyber agencies warn that Defense Industrial Base (DI

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Apple’s AI Siri might be powered by OpenAI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-20 07:01:03

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. Apple is considering enlisting the help of OpenAI or Anthropic to power its AI-upgraded Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. As Apple continues to struggle with the development of an upgraded “LLM Siri,” it reportedly asked OpenAI and Anthropic to create versions of their large-language models to test on the company’s private cl

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Apple might ditch internal AI efforts for Siri revamp, use OpenAI or Anthropic instead

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-20 15:20:50

Apple is in talks with Anthropic and OpenAI to power the revamped version of Siri, potentially sidelining its own in-house AI models in the process. Here are the details. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has asked both OpenAI and Anthropic to train customized versions of their large language models that could run on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. Rather than relying on third-party cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, these models would live on servers powered by Apple s

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Apple reportedly considers letting Anthropic and OpenAI power Siri

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-20 15:26:20

In Brief Apple is considering using AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic to power its updated version of Siri, rather than using technology the company has built in-house, according to a report from Bloomberg on Monday. The iPhone maker continues to build out a project internally dubbed “LLM Siri” that uses in-house AI models, according to Bloomberg. However, Apple has reportedly asked OpenAI and Anthropic to train versions of their AI models that can run on Apple’s cloud infrastructure for tes

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What happened when Anthropic's Claude AI ran a small shop for a month (spoiler: it got weird)

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-20 19:05:49

Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images Large language models (LLMs) handle many tasks well -- but at least for the time being, running a small business doesn't seem to be one of them. On Friday, AI startup Anthropic published the results of "Project Vend," an internal experiment in which the company's Claude chatbot was asked to manage an automated vending machine service for about a month. Launched in partnership with AI safety evaluation company Andon Labs, the project aimed to get a clearer sense of h

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This Lenovo Chromebook easily replaced my Windows laptop for work - and I can't go back

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-20 23:17:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is available now, starting at $649. It's the most powerful Chromebook Plus device yet, and earned our Editor's Choice award for its fantastic battery, lovely OLED display, and ultraportable form. There's a limit to its performance capabilities, and utilizing ChromeOS to its fullest comes with a learning curve. View now at Best Buy It seems like every few months we're seeing new Chromebooks pushing the limits of what the devices can do. Their

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Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snacks business

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-21 03:27:51

If you're worried your local bodega or convivence store may soon be replaced by an AI storefront, you can rest easy — at least for the time being. Anthropic recently concluded an experiment, dubbed Project Vend, that saw the company task an offshoot of its Claude chatbot with running a refreshments business out of its San Francisco office at a profit, and things went about as well as you would expect. The agent, named Claudius to differentiate it from Anthropic's regular chatbot, not only made s

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Lenovo 14-Inch IdeaPad Slim 3 Touch Screen Laptop Is Almost 60% Off, Making It Cheaper Than AirPods Pro

gizmodo.com Mike Fazioli 2025-08-21 11:40:27

Touchscreens have been available on laptop computers since 1983, believe it or not. But it took decades for them to become widely available and, more importantly, affordable. Now we appear to have moved from “affordable” to “absolutely dirt cheap,” if Best Buy’s $169 sale (58% off) on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Chromebook is any indication. See at Best Buy This incredible price for a 14-inch full-HD Chromebook with a 2.05 GHz processor, integrated graphics, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage is

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I replaced my Windows laptop with a 'premium' Chromebook - and can't go back

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-21 15:00:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is available now, starting at $649. It's the most powerful Chromebook Plus device yet, and earned our Editor's Choice award for its fantastic battery, lovely OLED display, and ultraportable form. There's a limit to its performance capabilities, and utilizing ChromeOS to its fullest comes with a learning curve. View now at Best Buy It seems like every few months we're seeing new Chromebooks pushing the limits of what the devices can do. Their

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Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 Review: A Game-Changer

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-08-21 15:00:00

Amazingly, the base configuration has 12 GB of RAM. That’s not quite as much as the 16 GB you get in some Snapdragon X-powered Windows laptops like the forthcoming HP Omnibook 5 16—but for ChromeOS, it’s more than enough. Meanwhile, the base configuration comes with 128 GB of storage, and the upgraded model has a 256-GB solid state drive. Performance is solid. Speedometer is a benchmark that tests performance in the browser, which is important for ChromeOS since it's all built around the Chrome

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I always install Chrome Beta on all my Android phones; here’s why

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-21 19:30:47

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been more than 13 years since Chrome first launched on Android. Fundamentally, the app hasn’t changed much in all these years: I type a URL and the page loads up. In all these years, though, Chrome hasn’t caught up with the rest of Google’s apps in one key feature: multiple account support. Most of the official Google apps let me quickly switch between different Google accounts, and they have done that for many years now, since 2010-2011, to be precise.

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Chrome on Android might borrow NotebookLM’s best feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 02:01:47

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing AI audio overviews in Chrome for Android. This feature will be available as part of Chrome’s Read Aloud functionality. AI audio overviews could convert text from any webpage into interactive NotebookLM-style podcasts for improved learning. Google is steadily building up the number of touchpoints where we interact with AI by default. Search, one of Google’s most used products, has already been canopied by AI overviews for a text-based s

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I’ve tried every browser, but this is the one that works best for me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-22 04:00:49

Andy Walker / Android Authority I open Microsoft Edge, and everything just feels right. It’s not flashy or experimental. It’s stable, fast, and capable. It “just works.” I’ve jumped between browsers over the years, the way someone tests mattresses. I’m always seeking that one that feels just right. But no matter what I try, I keep returning to Edge. Microsoft’s modern Chromium-based browser has earned my trust with thoughtful features, dependable performance, and a seamless cross-platform expe

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Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 20:30:27

Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just crib from millions of copyrighted books, a practice that's ethically and legally fraught on its own. No — it cut the book pages out from their bindings, scanned them to make digital files, then threw away all those millions of pages of the original te

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The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World

news.ycombinator.com .Wp_Post_Author_Widget .Wp-Post-Author-Meta .Awpa-Display-Name 2025-08-21 18:54:05

A nostalgic dive into the Hacker News thread that in 2015 reminded us how beautiful we were when we dreamed in multithreading Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away called “the ’90s,” we still believed that the future of computing would be decided based on pure technical merit. What naivety! It was an era when an operating system could make you fall in love at first boot, when opening four videos simultaneously without hiccups seemed more magical than pulling a rabbit from a hat. BeOS wa

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A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-17 17:29:35

Did you know your favorite website can detect when you’re browsing it in public transport and when you scroll it laying in your bed? Today we’ll learn how they can do it and how this info is used to fight bots. I gave this talk at Google Developer Student Club Žilina, and CodeBeer in Bratislava last year. To be honest, I had already forgotten about it, but recently I found it in my notes, and damn, this stuff is interesting! So after a bit of editing and updates, here it is as an article. A sm

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Anthropic's AI Training on Books Is Fair Use, Judge Rules. Authors Are More Worried Than Ever

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-21 15:00:03

Claude maker Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI company on the issue of fair use, in a significant win for generative AI companies and a blow for creators. Two days later, Meta won part of its fair use case. Fair use is a doctrine that's part of US copyright law. It's a four-part test that, when the

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Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2025-08-21 16:30:00

In the past week, big AI companies have — in theory — chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem, and copyright law hasn’t been this exciting since last month’s showdown at the Library of Congress. First, Judge William Alsup ruled it was fair use for Anthropic to train on a series of authors’ books. Then, Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed another group of authors’ complaint against Meta for training on their books. Yet far from settling the legal co

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The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 09:21:38

The Original Macintosh: 35 of 125 Calculator Construction Set Author: Andy Hertzfeld Date: February 1982 Characters: Chris Espinosa, Steve Jobs, Donn Denman Topics: Software Design Summary: Chris tries to make a Steve-approved calculator The Calculator Chris Espinosa was one of Apple's earliest and youngest employees, who started work for the company at the ripe age of 14. He left Apple in 1978 to go to college at UC Berkeley, but he continued to do freelance work during the school year, like wr

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Anthropic says Claude helps emotionally support users - we're not convinced

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-08-22 10:40:25

Richard Drury/Getty Images More and more, in the midst of a loneliness epidemic and structural barriers to mental health support, people are turning to AI chatbots for everything from career coaching to romance. Anthropic's latest study indicates its chatbot, Claude, is handling that well -- but some experts aren't convinced. Also: You shouldn't trust AI for therapy - here's why On Thursday, Anthropic published new research on its Claude chatbot's emotional intelligence (EQ) capabilities -- w

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US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders

news.ycombinator.com Joseph Gedeon 2025-08-22 08:38:08

The US supreme court has supported Donald Trump’s attempt to limit lower-court orders that have so far blocked his administration’s ban on birthright citizenship, in a ruling that could strips federal judges of a power they’ve used to obstruct many of Trump’s orders nationwide. The decision represents a fundamental shift in how US federal courts can constrain presidential power. Previously, any of the country’s more than 1,000 judges in its 94 district courts – the lowest level of federal court

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-22 11:59:19

Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss. Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and

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Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-22 15:28:07

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Picture this: You give an artificial intelligence complete control over a small shop. Not just the cash register — the whole operation. Pricing, inventory, customer service, supplier negotiations, the works. What could possibly go wrong? New Anthropic research published Friday provides a definitive answer: everything. The AI company’s ass

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You can now mute words just on Threads, and even set a 30-day timer

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-22 15:15:07

It looks like Meta is finally treating Threads as its own app, rather than just an Instagram sidekick. After rolling out a standalone DMs system, Threads is now getting its own mute lists, along with something new (and very welcome): temporary filters that expire automatically. No Instagram strings attached In a post this week, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a revamped “Hidden Words” feature for Threads that includes its own independent word filters. Until now, muting a word on Threads

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A New Threads Feature Saves You From Seeing and Posting Spoilers: Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-22 15:18:18

Social media can accidentally spoil a streaming movie or show for those who haven't yet watched it. Threads, the popular social media platform from Meta, now has a new feature that could save you from spoiling your next watch. The new feature allows users to mark media and text posts as spoilers. If it's a photo, the spoiler will then appear blurred in feeds, and text will be grayed out. Clicking on both types makes the spoiler visible. Netflix and Marvel are the first major studios to use the

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Scattered Spider hackers shift focus to aviation, transportation firms

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-22 19:20:58

Hackers associated with "Scattered Spider" tactics have expanded their targeting to the aviation and transportation industries after previously attacking insurance and retail sectors These threat actors have employed a sector-by-sector approach, initially targeting retail companies, such as M&S and Co-op, in the United Kingdom and the United States and subsequently shifting their focus to insurance companies. While the threat actors were not officially named as responsible for insurance sector

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Anthropic has a plan to combat AI-triggered job losses predicted by its CEO

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-22 19:13:00

NurPhoto/Getty Images The rise and rapid adoption of advanced AI tools has led to widespread concerns about mass job displacement and other economic disruptions. Now, one of the industry's biggest players is looking ahead, hoping to understand what steps can be taken in the present to brace the world for the future. AI start-up Anthropic announced Friday that it was launching its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative devoted to studying and preparing for AI's near-term economic impac

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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-22 17:09:14

We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy. Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company, to have Claude Sonnet 3.7 operate a small, automated store in the Anthropic office in San Francisco. Here is an excerpt of

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How Anthropic's new initiative will prepare for AI's looming economic impact

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-22 23:52:39

NurPhoto/Getty Images The rise and rapid adoption of advanced AI tools has led to widespread concerns about mass job displacement and other economic disruptions. Now, one of the industry's biggest players is looking ahead, hoping to understand what steps can be taken in the present to brace the world for the future. AI start-up Anthropic announced Friday that it was launching its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative devoted to studying and preparing for AI's near-term economic impac

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Microsoft Edge introduces AI history search and performance slowdown alerts

techspot.com Unknown 2025-08-23 03:06:00

Microsoft's browser provides a fast, secure, and modern web experience. Browse the web anywhere with one seamless experience from your phone to your computer and other signed-in devices. Microsoft Edge is also a safe browser that gives you the tools to protect your privacy and security online. How does Edge compare to Chrome and Firefox in terms of performance and usability? Edge is built on the Chromium engine, similar to Chrome, and often offers comparable or better performance, especially r

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Microsoft Edge introduces AI history search and performance slowdown alerts

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