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The Value of Institutional Memory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 10:53:43

In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an easy day’s work. But what really had them stumped was a heavy iron chain on the canal bottom. After various attempts, they hooked the chain to their dredger. That did the trick. A firm pull removed the chain and the block of wood on the end of it. The gang took a well-earned break for tea. The tea bre

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LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-03 11:16:46

Credit: Zhao et al The researchers used test cases that fall outside of the LLM training data in task type, format, and length. Credit: Zhao et al The researchers used test cases that fall outside of the LLM training data in task type, format, and length. These simplified models were then tested using a variety of tasks, some of which precisely or closely matched the function patterns in the training data and others that required function compositions that were either partially or fully "out of

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Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-03 11:48:43

Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia users. The High Court of Justice in London dismissed claims from the Wikimedia Foundation, which challenged the lawfulness of the categorization system used to determine which sites must comply with obligations. But Justice Jeremy Johnson stressed "that this does not give Ofcom and the Secretary of State a green light to

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Reddit will block the Internet Archive

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-03 11:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or pro

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Blippo+ arrives on Nintendo Switch and PC in color September 23

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 16:00:14

Blippo+, the zany cable TV simulator that debuted with Playdate's Season Two , now has its release date for Nintendo Switch and PC. It lands on September 23 and will be in color , unlike on Playdate. Blippo+ is expected to come to Mac this fall too. Blippo+ is kind of the perfect antidote to streaming fatigue if weird is your cup of tea. It has its own version of the endlessly scrolling TV Guide, The Electronic Program Guide (EPG), and a roster of peculiar programs to flip through. In the off-

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Cutting Through the Security Noise: How XDR helps Teams Focus on Real Threats

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-03 18:00:39

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is a modern security technology designed primarily as a Security Operations Centre (SOC) enabler tool. It addresses the complexities and challenges faced by security teams in today’s evolving threat landscape. The core idea behind XDR is to take challenging incident response processes and make security analysts more effective, even at more junior levels. The term XDR itself has emerged over the last few years and can be seen as somewhat nebulous, with diffe

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9to5Mac Daily: August 11, 2025 – Low-cost MacBook, Siri upgrades

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-12-03 21:45:25

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:30:49

Hi everyone, Jerry and Wyatt here from Halluminate ( https://halluminate.ai/ ). We help AI labs train computer use agents with high quality data and RL environments. Training AI agents to use computers, browsers, and software is one of the highest-potential opportunities for AI. To date, however, this capability is still unreliable. The emerging method to improve this is called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). However, researchers are currently bottlenecked by a lack of hi

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FDA Rehires Controversial Biologics Chief Just Days After Trump Fired Him

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-03 21:55:20

The circus was performing at the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, apparently. The FDA has hired Vinay Prasad to oversee the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research—less than two weeks after he left that same role. Endpoints News was the first to report on Prasad’s rehiring on Saturday. He was initially reportedly fired by President Donald Trump himself, following growing pressure from Laura Loomer and other conservative voices who criticized him over the agency’s regulation of a

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An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-12-03 21:00:00

The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units. Instead of being trained on text, the system is based on electroencephalogram (EEG) data, which is collected via electrodes placed on the scalp and then read out by a computer in a series of wavy lines. EEG records the brain’s electrical activity, and changes in this activity can indicate a problem. In an ICU

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Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-03 21:00:00

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Also joining the existing batch of Cosmos world models are Cosmos Transfer-2, which can accelerate synthetic data generation from 3D simulation scenes or spatial control inputs, and a distilled version of Cosmos Transfers that is more optimized

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You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-04 02:45:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Gemini Live now works with Calendar, Maps, Keep, and Tasks. Update is rolling out to most Android and iOS users. It can add events, guide routes, and manage lists or notes. In May of this year, Google debuted Gemini Live with screen sharing and camera access for Android. Google has been slowly integrating the feature, which lets you ask Gemini about anything on your screen (or that you can see with your camera), into its suite of apps since Jun

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Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-12-04 02:40:37

We need an affordable MacBook, now more than ever. It’s time to face the fact that today’s headlining laptop chips are overkill for what most folk need a computer for. If the majority of internet users are browsing the internet on phones that cost $200 or $400 less than the cheapest MacBook Air, it only makes sense to put a mobile chip into a laptop shell and call it a day. New rumors suggest that Apple could do just that, and we could see this cheapo Mac before the end of the year. Apple suppl

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Humanity's Past Is a Blur in This '90s Techno-Noir Cult Classic and It's Streaming Free on Tubi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 02:00:00

Techno-noir is having a comeback, but cyberpunk vibes have been around for decades. Movies like the Matrix may have popularized the genre, but it's full of underrated gems. Films in the genre combine jaded perspectives, futuristic dystopian settings and dark vibes. One of my overlooked favorites is Dark City, a mind-bending techno-noir thriller that explores the idea of identity against the backdrop of a city swathed in darkness. Released in 1998, this absolute gem preceded The Matrix by a year

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Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-04 06:20:17

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91 40 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save AFP via Getty Images Visionary tech pioneer and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley has died at the age of 91. The boundary-breaking entrepreneur arrived in London at the age of five, just weeks before the outbreak of World War Two, and went on to become a computer industry and women's rights pioneer in the 1950s and 1960s. She founded the software comp

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A Global Look at Teletext

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 04:01:23

Brief explanation Teletext is a weird technology. Although often ridiculed as completely archaic, it’s very popular in many countries still today. It seems like the public broadcasters in Europe just can’t get people to stop using it, no matter what new services they provide. You most likely know teletext in the British version, with blocky text graphics in few colours, that came intertwined with the analogue TV-signal. This is called World System Teletext. But that was only the beginning. T

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This quantum radar could image buried objects

technologyreview.com Sophia Chen 2025-12-04 20:00:00

The glass cell that serves as the radar’s quantum component is full of cesium atoms kept at room temperature. The researchers use lasers to get each individual cesium atom to swell to nearly the size of a bacterium, about 10,000 times bigger than the usual size. Atoms in this bloated condition are called Rydberg atoms. When incoming radio waves hit Rydberg atoms, they disturb the distribution of electrons around their nuclei. Researchers can detect the disturbance by shining lasers on the atoms

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Google Calendar invites let researchers hijack Gemini to leak user data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-03 21:12:22

Google fixed a bug that allowed maliciously crafted Google Calendar invites to remotely take over Gemini agents running on the target's device and leak sensitive user data. The attack unfolded without requiring any user involvement beyond typical interactions with the assistant, which occur daily for users of Gemini. Gemini is Google's large language model (LLM) assistant integrated into Android, Google web services, and Google's Workspace apps, having access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Hom

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Connex Credit Union data breach impacts 172,000 members

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-04 18:18:56

Connex, one of Connecticut's largest credit unions, warned tens of thousands of members that unknown attackers had stolen their personal and financial information after breaching its systems in early June. Founded in 1940, this member-owned organization is a non-profit with over $1 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, and credit card services to more than 70,000 members across eight branches throughout the greater New Haven area, including New Haven, Hartford, Middlesex, and Fairfie

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The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-12-04 20:00:00

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than that of legitimate research. Over the last four centuries, an implicit contract has been established between scientists and states: in exchange for producing knowledge useful for economic and social development, governments and other benefactors offer researchers stable careers, good salaries, and

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

wired.com Caroline Haskins 2025-12-04 22:00:00

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-12-04 22:52:30

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Hyundai is now offering an “optional” security upgrade for the Ioniq 5 in the UK that prevents the car being stolen with a Game Boy-like device. Hyundai wants some Ioniq 5 owners to pay a £49 ($65) to upgrade hardware and software components to prevent thieves using handheld devices to unlo

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Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:55:26

The Yuppie Button page talks about making lots of light. Now I needed to do the opposite, by "going dark" -- to vanish completely from Hyundai's data network, and avoid having the car being tracked or actively interfered with outside of my control. See, this is one of the showstopping problems I have with Tesla -- they *insist* that you have your car online all the time, talking to Tesla's cloud and sending telematic data. Thank you, NO. The range of things that Hyundai's BlueLink setup is able

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 20:32:31

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition wasn't terribly tough. It helps to be a fan of college football rivalry games, and of a certain legendary baseball player who sadly died young. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 14:14:38

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — An emerging form of surveillance, “wireless-tapping,” explores the possibility of remotely deciphering conversations from the tiny vibrations produced by a cell phone’s earpiece. With the goal of protecting users’ privacy from potential bad actors, a team of computer science researchers at Penn State demonstrated that transcriptions of phone calls can be generated from radar measurements taken up to three meters, or about 10 feet, from a phone. While accuracy remains limit

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James Mardsen’s Happy to Be Cyclops Again for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-04 15:00:11

After The Marvels and Deadpool & Wolverine laid the groundwork for more Fox X-Men to return, Avengers: Doomsday is going all in by bringing back several non-Wolverine (or Professor X) characters from the original films. Among them is James Marsden, who played Cyclops in that initial trilogy and didn’t really get to do much in them. Speaking to Vanity Fair, the actor recalled “20 years of listening to people say, ‘When are you coming back? When are you coming back? Are you coming back?’ But I’m

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 11, #1514

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 16:00:03

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle isn't that tough but it still took me a while to put the fairly common letters in the right order. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wor

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #792

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 16:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tough one. I grabbed on to "chocolate" and ran it through every connection I could with the other words, so I landed the purple category first, which is rare. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connec

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In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 12:15:42

There's no denying that modern, app-filtered dating can be a nightmare. Apps like Tinder and Hinge are cynically monetized, poorly moderated, and run by shady algorithms. A lot of profiles are fake, conversations don't progress past terrible pick-up lines, and half the people are on there just to kill time. Worst of all, it replaces organic, in-person interactions with mindless swiping and an objectifying outlook, like flipping through a catalog and circling stuff that might look interesting, e

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LHC's New Chip Tackles Radiation Challenges

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Hampson 2025-12-04 15:33:26

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Deep in the belly of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), about 400 million particle collisions are happening in a single second. But as the LHC undergoes upgrades and becomes the High Luminosity-LHC, the number of collisions will increase to an astounding ~1.5 billion collisions or more per second. Capturing all these events via detectors and analyzing the staggering amount of data created from each ex

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Latest Tech News

The Value of Institutional Memory

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

Blippo+ arrives on Nintendo Switch and PC in color September 23

Cutting Through the Security Noise: How XDR helps Teams Focus on Real Threats

9to5Mac Daily: August 11, 2025 – Low-cost MacBook, Siri upgrades

Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

FDA Rehires Controversial Biologics Chief Just Days After Trump Fired Him

An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

Let’s Face It, the Next MacBook Needs to Be Cheap

Humanity's Past Is a Blur in This '90s Techno-Noir Cult Classic and It's Streaming Free on Tubi

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91

A Global Look at Teletext

This quantum radar could image buried objects

Google Calendar invites let researchers hijack Gemini to leak user data

Connex Credit Union data breach impacts 172,000 members

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Hyundai wants Ioniq 5 owners to pay to fix a keyless entry security hole

Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 11, #322

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 11, #792

In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

LHC's New Chip Tackles Radiation Challenges

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