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What Even Is Instagram Now?

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-04 16:00:00

In her classic novel Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley imagines a monster that's reanimated with its piecemeal body sewn together, tendon by tendon. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials,” Shelley writes. That’s exactly what scrolling through Instagram feels like right now—an ungodly morass of features stitched together. It’s an AI search tool! It’s a shopping app! It’s getting on my last nerve. Instagram is having a full-blown identity crisis, and I’m exha

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Windsurf Gets Margin Called

news.ycombinator.com Ethan Ding 2025-12-04 15:24:16

the $82 million ARR product nobody wanted imagine you relaunch your company twice, and manage to become one of the fastest-growing saas companies in history — literally record-breaking. go from zero to $82m arr in eight months. get enterprise customers like nvidia and palantir. go on every single vc podcast to tell people about it. then give it all away for almost free. in 72 hours. over a weekend. that's exactly what the windsurf founders did last week. everyone's so busy talking about the t

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Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:20:56

The introduction of the legume had the same impact of an annual application of 150 kilos of nitrogen fertilizer per hectare in the pasture. Four-year study shows that the use of Desmodium ovalifolium can reduce time to slaughter by 30% . Reducing how long is taken until the animal slaughter represents less costs for farmers and less greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Legume improves bovine digestion and reduces methane emissions. A study conducted for four years has revealed that the intercropping

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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-12-04 21:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-12-04 22:21:40

The Trump administration's radical changes to United States fiscal policy, foreign relations, and global strategy—combined with mass firings across the federal government—have created uncertainty around US cybersecurity priorities that was on display this week at two of the country's most prominent digital security conferences in Las Vegas. “We are not retreating, we're advancing in a new direction,” Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency chief information officer Robert Costello said

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This epic Severance mural might be the coolest thing you see all week

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-05 03:07:17

LA is populated with marketing materials for all sorts of entertainment, but this giant painted Severance mural is one-of-a-kind. Apple shared photos of “The Exalted Victory of Cold Harbor” mural on display near an Apple TV+ billboard on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles this week. The finishing touches were put on the mural at the end of July, according to passersby on social media. These are the shots shared by Apple, including a selfie by Severance lead actor Adam Scott: Meanwhile, a Facebook

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Looking to Cut Back on Processed Sugar? Try These 6 Natural Sweeteners

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 22:30:00

Sweet treats can make excellent mid-day pick-me-ups or after-dinner desserts, but they can also add a lot of sugar to your daily diet. If you're trying to eat healthier, there's no need to cut sugar out of your diet completely or ignore your sweet tooth. The important thing is to be conscious of the types of sugar you're consuming daily and whether you're eating a balanced amount. The daily recommendation is 6 teaspoons of sugar for women and kids over the age of 2, or 9 teaspoons for men. As f

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For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 03:06:25

When a Spinosaurus attacked a T. rex in Jurassic Park III, both giant carnivores tried to finish the fight with one powerful bite of their bone-crushing jaws. The Spinosaurus won, because when the movie was being made back in the early 2000s, fossil discoveries suggested it was the largest carnivorous dinosaur that ever lived. But new research provides evidence that size and weight didn’t always create a powerful bite. “The Spinosaurus and the T. rex didn’t live at the same time at the same con

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Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-12-05 03:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 9, #1512

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 06:00:06

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 06:31:34

Advocacy groups that tried to defend federal net neutrality rules in court won't file an appeal, saying they don't trust the Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue. Net neutrality rules were implemented by the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama era, repealed during Trump's first term, and revived under Biden. Telecom lobby groups challenged the Biden-era restoration of net neutrality rules and beat the FCC at the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. While the FCC is now

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New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-05 12:11:10

Apple TV+ is having a big year, but the Apple TV 4K streaming box still awaits its first revision since 2022—and that update is coming. Here are four features to expect when the new Apple TV 4K arrives later this year. #1: A17 Pro or A18 chip upgrade The current Apple TV 4K model launched in late 2022 and packed what was then a pretty modern chip: the A15 Bionic. But Apple’s silicon efforts continue achieving new heights, and demanding software like Apple Intelligence and newer games require

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Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 11:20:51

Efrit - AI-Powered Emacs Coding Assistant A sophisticated AI coding agent that leverages Emacs' native programmability through direct Elisp evaluation. Overview Efrit is a conversational AI assistant that integrates seamlessly with Emacs, providing multiple interfaces for different types of tasks: efrit-chat - Multi-turn conversational interface for complex discussions and code development - Multi-turn conversational interface for complex discussions and code development efrit-do - Natural

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The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 11:30:00

August has started heavy for skygazers. We are days away from August's sturgeon full moon and the peak of the Perseids meteor shower. Before those celestial events get underway, however, it seems that another sighting of the aurora borealis may be visible in up to 18 US states on Friday night. Those states can be broken up into three categories. The first are states that will almost certainly see an aurora -- if conditions allow -- and include Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Da

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Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

wired.com Andy Greenberg 2025-12-05 12:20:30

Zhou added in his statement that Securam will be fixing the vulnerabilities Omo and Rowley found in future models of the ProLogic lock. “Customer security is our priority and we have begun the process of creating next-generation products to thwart these potential attacks,” he writes. “We expect to have new locks on the market by the end of the year.” Photograph: Ronda Churchill In a followup call, Securam director of sales Jeremy Brookes confirmed that Securam has no plan to fix the vulnerabil

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Build durable workflows with Postgres

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 17:24:07

When we started building a durable workflows library, the most critical architectural decision we faced was what data store to use for workflow metadata. The core durable workflow operations are simple–checkpointing workflow state and recovering an interrupted workflow from its latest checkpoint. Almost any data store can handle these operations, but choosing the right one is critical to ensure workflows are scalable and performant. In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build

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The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-12-05 17:46:11

Michael Calore: OK. Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman's other company. It was a super weird vibey crypto eye scanning thing at a warehouse in the Mission District of San Francisco. Michael Calore: The orb? Lauren Goode: This party had everything. Yeah. But there was swag there and there was a really nice sweatshirt that had World emblazoned on it, and I looked at the label and it's by a company called Original Favorites,

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Lurk – A Turing-complete programming language for ZK-SNARKs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 21:03:50

Lurk Overview Lurk is a statically scoped dialect of Lisp, influenced by Scheme and Common Lisp. A reference implementation focused on describing and developing the core language can be found in the lurk-lisp repo. Lurk's distinguishing feature relative to most programming languages is that the correct execution of Lurk programs can be directly proved using SNARKs. The resulting proofs are succinct: they are relatively small, can be verified quickly, and they reveal only the information expli

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 21:58:30

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-05 21:44:05

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. Last week, Anthropic petitioned to appeal the class certification, urging the court to weigh questions that the district court judge, William

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It's Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 18:30:27

OpenAI's ChatGPT can easily be coaxed into leaking your personal data — with just a single "poisoned" document. As Wired reports, security researchers revealed at this year's Black Hat hacker conference that highly sensitive information can be stolen from a Google Drive account with an indirect prompt injection attack. In other words, hackers feed a document with hidden, malicious prompts to an AI that controls your data instead of manipulating it directly with a prompt injection, one of the mo

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Visible is finally rolling out a family plan feature, well sort of

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-06 03:00:23

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Visible is rolling out a new “Inner Circle” feature that links multiple accounts for easier payment and management. The feature is in Early Access and requires at least two accounts to join. You’ll also have to sign a special form and wait for approval. While major discounts aren’t included with these group plans, members can get $5 off Visible Plus or Plus Pro if not on another promo. For years, Visible has been one of my top recommendations for mobile s

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The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-06 03:40:04

After an unusually slow start to hurricane season, it’s looking like storm activity is about to ramp up. Meteorologists are keeping a watchful eye on the Atlantic Basin as ocean surface temperatures rise to record levels. So far, the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has produced four tropical storms and no hurricanes. As of Friday, August 8, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was monitoring two areas of interest for storm development—one off the southeastern U.S. and the other in the Central Atl

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-12-06 02:27:48

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offe

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IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-12-06 05:00:20

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 8 August 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS), the world’s preeminent computer science and engineering member organization, today announced that its journals continue to lead the industry in Journal Impact FactorTM (JIFTM) rankings. Specifically, eight IEEE CS journals hold the coveted top impact factor status in their respective fields. “Every published paper brings value, but some rise to new heights because they provide a launching point for other work,” said Hironori

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Ask Engadget: What are my options when Windows 10 support ends on October 14?

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 08:05:35

Q: I'm hearing that Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows 10 later this year. What does that mean for my current Windows 10 PC, and what are my options? A: Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, a little over 10 years after the operating system was released. While you can continue to use Windows 10 PCs after that date — and it's understandable why, I gave it a glowing review at launch — you'll no longer receive any customer support, security updates or any

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn it off

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-12-06 08:27:48

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offe

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How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-06 08:53:44

Following Wednesday’s launch of Instagram’s new Snap Map-like opt-in “Instagram Map” feature — which lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content — Instagram head Adam Mosseri is having to reassure people that their location is only visible to others if they decide to share it. Although Meta has made it clear that location sharing is off by default, there have been numerous posts on social media urging users to turn off location sharing,

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The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 20:33:02

The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning 08 Aug, 2025 Bs in Blueberry There were screenshots of a classic LLM issue floating around Bluesky after the GPT-5 launch yesterday, and I asked GPT-5 myself to confirm. Sam Altman touted GPT-5 as a “PhD level expert in your pocket”, but this PhD doubled down on incorrectly answering the oldest trick for LLMs in the book. When GPT-4 launched, I (and many others) believed that GPT-5's launch would be the “AGI moment”. Cherry picking “bs in blueberry” as a fail

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OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-07 14:37:19

OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament 24 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has beaten Elon Musk's Grok in the final of a tournament to crown the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Historically, tech companies have often used chess to assess the progress and abilities of a computer, with modern chess machines virtually unbeatable against even the top human players. But this competition did not involve

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What Even Is Instagram Now?

Windsurf Gets Margin Called

Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)

Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World

This epic Severance mural might be the coolest thing you see all week

Looking to Cut Back on Processed Sugar? Try These 6 Natural Sweeteners

For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 9, #1512

Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court

New Apple TV 4K is coming: Four features expected later this year

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

The Aurora Borealis Is Back: These 18 States Have a Chance to See It Tonight

Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

Build durable workflows with Postgres

The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software

Lurk – A Turing-complete programming language for ZK-SNARKs

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

It's Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data

Visible is finally rolling out a family plan feature, well sort of

The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is About to Get Real

Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

IEEE Computer Society Journals Lead Global Computer Science and Engineering Citations

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn it off

How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning

OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament

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