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Researchers hacked Google Gemini to take control of a smart home

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:19:26

Wired reported on new cybersecurity research that demonstrated a hack of the Google Gemini artificial intelligence assistant. The researchers were able to control connected smart home devices through the use of indirect prompt injections in Google Calendar invites. When a user requested a summary of their calendar and thanked Gemini for the results, the malicious prompt ordered Google's Home AI agent to take actions such as opening windows or turning lights off, as demonstrated in the video abov

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The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

news.ycombinator.com Jayce Wheeled 2025-12-11 18:51:54

Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman . License: All Rights Reserved . Black Sabbath’s first four studio albums – Black Sabbath , Paranoid , Master of Reality , and Vol 4 , released in rapid succession between 1970 and 1972 – laid much of the groundwork for the heavy metal movement. While there were other bands playing heavy blues-inspired hard rock at the time, the gloomy, doom-laden stylings of Black Sabbath helped fuel their early success as one of the first – and most influential – heavy meta

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Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-11 18:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 21:11:24

OpenAI announced an agreement to supply more than 2 million workers for the US federal executive branch access to ChatGPT and related tools at practically no cost: just $1 per agency for one year. The deal was announced just one day after the US General Services Administration (GSA) signed a blanket deal to allow OpenAI and rivals like Google and Anthropic to supply tools to federal workers. The workers will have access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a type of account that includes access to frontier

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For regulated industries, AWS’s neurosymbolic AI promises safe, explainable agent automation

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-12-12 02:05:50

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 AWS is banking on the fact that by bringing its Automated Reasoning Checks feature on Bedrock to general availability, it will give more enterprises and regulated industries the confidence to use and deploy more AI applications and agents. It is also hoping that introducing methods like automated reasoning, which utilizes math-based valida

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Apple’s F1 movie gets IMAX re-release, with tickets now on sale

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-12 02:01:07

F1 The Movie has shown strong legs at the box office, but Apple’s summer hit is about to get another financial boost: F1 is being re-released in IMAX theaters starting this Friday, with tickets on sale now. Here are the details. F1 returns to IMAX this Friday, with wider expansion next week Last month, IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond shared some surprise Apple-related news: the company’s F1 movie would be getting a rare IMAX re-release. Now, Apple has officially confirmed the news and shared new detail

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This multi-card reader is one of the best investments I've made for my creative workflow

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-12 02:00:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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This new Wi-Fi 7 router is small enough to fit in your pocket - and priced well

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-12 02:09:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Is Economics education fit for the 21st Century?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 02:16:30

The first quarter of the 21st century has seen seismic shifts in the politics, society, and economy of the United Kingdom. As economics thinkers and graduates, Rethinking Economics is concerned that economics education remains out of step with these shifts. What is taught in university classrooms informs how society perceives and will tackle these challenges, from engaging in climate science to the reality of Britain’s colonial past. This report assesses the extent to which university education

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Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog

news.ycombinator.com Chuanqi Sun 2025-12-12 00:23:19

I recently left Microsoft to join MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program. The transition brought an immediate problem: how do you navigate course selection when faced with the "unknown unknowns"? You can easily find courses you already know you want learn, i.e. "known unknowns". But discovering courses you never knew existed, courses that might reshape your thinking entirely, requires different tools altogether. MIT's official course catalog runs on what appears to be a CGI script. The technolog

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Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election

news.ycombinator.com Jasleen Singh 2025-12-12 02:00:09

Targeting Election Officials and Civil Society The Trump administration, falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, has already targeted organizations and individuals it sees as adverse with baseless or inappropriate retaliatory actions. It now threatens to do the same with certain election officials, civic groups that mobilize voters, and other individuals and entities that protect elections and the rule of law. These kinds of actions can be tools of retribution, intimida

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Gemini's new Guided Learning mode can quiz students and create interactive study aids

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 06:17:46

Google is updating Gemini to make it a better education tool with a new feature called Guided Learning. Like similar learning-focused updates to ChatGPT and Claude, Guided Learning tries to promote understanding by breaking down problems into step-by-step instructions, follow-up questions and interactive examples, rather than simply providing an answer. Guided Learning will be available as toggle in the prompt box of Gemini as the feature rolls out. When it's toggled on, Gemini will treat quest

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You can now try Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot AI assistant on PC

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 06:48:53

Microsoft revealed that it was working on an AI chatbot specifically for gamers back in March, and now it's here for a test drive. The beta version of Gaming Copilot is available to Xbox Insiders on PC via the Game Bar functionality. It's also available to try on Windows-based handheld gaming devices, but the company says the functionality there is currently limited. A variant of this tool recently launched as a beta for mobile . This is kind of like an AI version of those old Nintendo phone he

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12 settings you should change on your Apple TV to instantly improve the performance

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-12-12 06:52:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Is a Delightful Mix of Gothic Whimsy and Brutal Horror

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-12-12 11:30:36

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) is back at Nevermore Academy with a new deadly mystery in Tim Burton’s Wednesday. Season two of the hit Netflix series raises the stakes with bolder teen angst, as well as a surprising body count. Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return with exactly what fans loved from season one, amplified by the addition of new creative voices that truly capture the essence of Wednesday Addams. That includes Ortega’s influence as executive producer, and her collaborati

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OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Enterprise to the executive branch workforce for $1

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 16:58:12

OpenAI has announced that it will be partnering with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer ChatGPT Enterprise practically free of charge to the entire executive-branch federal workforce for one year. The dozens of agencies under this umbrella encompass over two million civilian workers. Each agency will be able to access ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 for the year-long period. The year-long trial will also include an additional 60 days of ChatGPT's most advanced models like Deep Resea

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New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-12 16:36:13

A new post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) evasion method called 'Ghost Calls' abuses TURN servers used by conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to tunnel traffic through trusted infrastructure. Ghost Calls uses legitimate credentials, WebRTC, and custom tooling to bypass most existing defenses and anti-abuse measures, without relying on an exploit. This new tactic was presented by Praetorian's security researcher Adam Crosser at BlackHat USA, where it was highlighted that the

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Yes, you can edit video like a pro on Linux - here are my 4 go-to apps

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-12-12 16:19:05

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has several high-quality video editors. You'll find some pro-level and some built for consumers. The best-in-class goes to DaVinci Resolve. I've been filming and editing videos for a long time. When I first started, I worked with software that was user-friendly but incapable of producing professional-level videos. Slowly, I climbed the ladder. Now I feel like the tools I have are worthy of being taken seriously. That's not to say tho

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What It’s Like To Work at a Startup: Insights From Startup Professionals

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-12-12 18:00:47

For computing professionals, startups offer something few corporate roles can provide. They give you the chance to build cutting-edge technology, gain equity, and work at a pace big companies can’t match. Nearly a quarter of North American startups are in the tech and communications sector, so these opportunities are abundant. [1] But what is the day-to-day reality behind the promise? We polled IEEE Computer Society members to get the real scoop. Here’s a sneak peek into what you can expect. Wh

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The M4 MacBook Air is selling for its lowest price of all time on Amazon - and I'm seriously tempted

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-12 21:07:00

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

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Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:37:35

Underwhelming performance The task in this case is predicting how gene activity might change when genes are altered. When an individual gene is lost or activated, it's possible that the only messenger RNA that is altered is the one made by that gene. But some genes encode proteins that regulate a collection of other genes, in which case you might see changes in the activity of dozens of genes. In other cases, the loss or activation of a gene could affect a cell's metabolism, resulting in widesp

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Woman awarded £150,000 after LG phone sparks fire in her home

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-13 02:16:53

Woman awarded £150,000 after LG phone sparks fire in her home 45 minutes ago Share Save Share Save Getty Images A judge ruled the LG K8 smartphone was the source of the fire in Coatbridge A woman has successfully sued former phone manufacturer LG for nearly £150,000 after one of its devices sparked a fire in her home in North Lanarkshire. Denise Parks and her husband Robert were in bed at their house in Coatbridge when a fire broke out in the living room at about 03:00 on 31 October 2018. A l

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Thank God James Gunn Changed His Mind About Giving Superman Red Trunks

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-13 02:15:50

By this point, it’s safe to say that Superman has been an enormous success, both at the box office and among audiences and critics, for director James Gunn and the team at DC Studios. In the wake of the film’s meteoric rise, we finally got a look at some concept art of what it would’ve looked like if David Corenswet‘s caped hero didn’t have his iconic red trunks. Yesterday, graphic and surface designer Maybelle Pineda shared a post that gives DC fans a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of

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The Switch OLED went up in price, but you can still save $110

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-12-13 02:24:08

Nintendo recently made the unexpected decision to increase the prices of its last-gen Switch hardware due to “market conditions,” adding $30 to the cost of the $199.99 Switch Lite, $40 to the standard $299.99 Switch, and $50 to the $349.99 Switch OLED. The price difference between the Switch OLED and the standalone Switch 2 now stands at a mere $50. But we found a deal that’s worth checking out for those who don’t want to spend anywhere near $400 for a Switch OLED. Woot is still offering the Sw

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Speedhunters was a car culture juggernaut

news.ycombinator.com Caleb Jacobs 2025-12-11 05:20:26

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. Speedhunters, as we know it, is done for. The car photography site that shaped a generation’s automotive imagination went out with a whimper, not a bang, when publishing quietly froze in April. After I reported the news last week, past contributors flooded my inbox with notes as they sought to share their side of the story. Now that I’ve sat down with

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The Best TVs We’ve Reviewed from Sony, Samsung, LG, and More

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2025-12-13 06:33:00

Honorable Mentions There are so many good TVs available, we can't add them all to our top list. Here are some great options that either missed the cut or got knocked off our top list by their replacements. Hisense U8QG: The U8QG (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is a great buy at its lowest price (around $1,000 for a 65-inch model) and a solid pick above that price, especially if you want eye-searing brightness above all else. I noticed some SDR color accuracy issues (some images looked way too red) an

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The Download: OpenAI’s open-weight models, and the future of internet search

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-13 11:10:00

The news: OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. Unlike the models available through OpenAI’s web interface, these new open models can be freely downloaded, run, and even modified on laptops and other local devices. Why it matters: These releases re-establish OpenAI as a presence for users of open models. That’s particularly notable at a time when Meta, which had previously dominated the American open-model landscape with its Llama models, ma

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Here’s an early look at Gboard’s Material 3 Expressive refresh (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 18:12:40

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a Material 3 Expressive redesign for the Gboard app settings. The redesign features a card-style user interface and a rearranged settings menu with new descriptions. Gboard is one of those apps I cannot live without, so much so that I even install it on my iPhones (which sounds blasphemous, but it works great). On Android phones, Google is working to bring a Material 3 Expressive redesign for Gboard settings, so you can enjoy a co

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Galaxy S26 Edge leak reveals just how thin Samsung’s next Edge could be

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-13 22:48:48

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A leaker has claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Edge will be 5.5mm thin. This means it could be as thick as the rumored iPhone 17 Air and slightly thinner than the Galaxy S25 Edge. The leaker also reiterated that the phone could have a 4,200mAh battery. Numerous leaks suggest that Samsung will replace the Galaxy S26 Plus with the Galaxy S26 Edge. This phone is expected to offer a thin form factor similar to that of the Galaxy S25 Edge, and we’ve now got

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You can now uv run a GitHub gist

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 20:45:47

Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code. Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed. Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes. Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch. Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit. Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported. You must change the existing code in this

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Researchers hacked Google Gemini to take control of a smart home

The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath

Vibe coding the MIT course catalog

US executive branch agencies will use ChatGPT Enterprise for just $1 per agency

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This multi-card reader is one of the best investments I've made for my creative workflow

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‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Is a Delightful Mix of Gothic Whimsy and Brutal Horror

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT Enterprise to the executive branch workforce for $1

New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

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The M4 MacBook Air is selling for its lowest price of all time on Amazon - and I'm seriously tempted

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Here’s an early look at Gboard’s Material 3 Expressive refresh (APK teardown)

Galaxy S26 Edge leak reveals just how thin Samsung’s next Edge could be

You can now uv run a GitHub gist

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