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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 people were killed during protests

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:00:07

Nepal's government has lifted its ban on social media apps including Facebook and X after at least 19 people were killed yesterday during protests, The Guardian reported. "We have withdrawn the shutdown of the social media. They are working now," said communications minister Prithvi Subba Gurung. In a new development, Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has resigned due to the unrest, his aide told Reuters. Last week, the government announced it was blocking 26 social media platforms due to no

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The USB-C Apple Pencil drops to a new all-time low

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-07 05:15:45

It's still back-to-school season and, regardless of whether you've picked up a textbook recently, that will always mean its time to pick up new supplies. Thankfully, there are some great deals currently running, including a new all-time low price for the USB-C Apple Pencil. Right now, you can pick up the USB-C Apple Pencil for $50, down from $79. The 37 percent discount is available as part of Woot's warehouse clean out and will run for six more days or until the accessory sells out. Notably, W

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Hallucination Risk Calculator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 03:57:58

Hallucination Risk Calculator & Prompt Re-engineering Toolkit (OpenAI-only) Post-hoc calibration without retraining for large language models. This toolkit turns a raw prompt into: a bounded hallucination risk using the Expectation-level Decompression Law (EDFL), and a decision to ANSWER or REFUSE under a target SLA, with transparent math (nats). It supports two deployment modes: Evidence-based: prompts include evidence/context; rolling priors are built by erasing that evidence. prompts inc

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A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-10-07 13:00:00

A first-of-its-kind marketplace rolled out on Tuesday offering free and discounted privacy and security services to America’s 23 million current and former public servants. The initiative is supported by the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonprofit group that says it formed last summer following an unprecedented rise in threats against government workers across the United States. Open to anyone who is serving or has served in government—federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial—the platfo

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OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-07 14:00:44

In Brief OpenAI executives are discussing a potential relocation out of California as increasing political resistance threatens the company’s efforts to convert from nonprofit to for-profit status, according to The WSJ, though the company says it has no plans to leave. California’s attorney general is investigating whether OpenAI’s restructuring violates state charitable trust law, while a coalition of nonprofits, labor groups, philanthropies, and even rival Meta are pushing back against the c

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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-07 14:51:11

Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests 2 hours ago Share Save Kelly Ng BBC News Share Save Watch: Fire and tear gas as protesters clash with police in Nepal Nepal has lifted a social media ban after it led to clashes between protesters and police that have left at least 19 people dead. Thousands of young people had forced their way into the parliament building in the capital Kathmandu on Monday, asking the government to lift its ban on 26 social media platforms, including Fa

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Nepal reverses social media ban as protests turn deadly

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-07 15:46:32

Nepal has made a dramatic U-turn, reversing a social media ban imposed last week after the decision sparked nationwide “Gen Z” protests that reportedly left at least 19 people dead. The ban, which blocked access to 26 platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X, was imposed following an August 25 directive requiring foreign social media companies to register their operations in Nepal and appoint a local contact within seven days. When most platforms failed to comply by the deadline,

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World Nuclear Association Welcomes Microsoft Corporation as Newest Member

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 20:01:18

LONDON, UK –World Nuclear Association is proud to announce that Microsoft Corporation, one of the world's leading technology companies, has officially joined as our newest member. This landmark membership underscores the growing recognition of nuclear energy as an essential foundation for powering the digital economy and achieving ambitious climate goals. A Transformative Partnership for Clean Energy Leadership In order to meet growing electricity demand globally, the world not only needs to c

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Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-07 21:24:42

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic’s Claude Code in May. Lately, that subreddit has been so filled with posts from self-proclaimed Code users announc

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Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 01:44:50

Large network scans have been targeting Cisco ASA devices, prompting warnings from cybersecurity researchers that it could indicate an upcoming flaw in the products. GreyNoise has recorded two significant scanning spikes in late August, with up to 25,000 unique IP addresses probing ASA login portals and also Cisco IOS Telnet/SSH. The second wave, logged on August 26, 2025, was largely (80%) driven by a Brazilian botnet, using roughly 17,000 IPs. In both cases, the threat actors used overlappi

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Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

news.ycombinator.com Efosa Udinmwen 2025-10-08 04:16:39

Microsoft is chasing carbon-free energy while data demand keeps rising The World Nuclear Association gains unprecedented visibility through Microsoft’s membership Small modular reactors are being framed as digital infrastructure’s next foundation Microsoft has officially joined the World Nuclear Association (WNA), making it the first global technology company of its scale to do so. The announcement comes at a time when the nuclear industry is attempting to position itself as a necessary part

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America’s First Private Nuclear Fuel Recycling Facility to Open in Tennessee

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-08 05:10:25

Nuclear energy is among the most promising alternatives to fossil fuels—if we can find a sustainable way to take care of the unwanted, radioactive waste generated by the process. Stakeholders from both the public and private sectors have suggested various solutions, but a Tennessee firm will be the first to actually build and operate a U.S.-based recycling facility for nuclear fuel. In a statement last week, Oklo Inc. announced plans to build the first private nuclear fuel recycling facility in

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Hackers steal 3,325 secrets in GhostAction GitHub supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 09:53:59

A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, and AWS keys. The attack was discovered by GitGuardian researchers, who report that the first signs of compromise on one of the impacted projects, FastUUID, became evident on September 2, 2025. The attack involved leveraging compromised maintainer accounts to perform commits that added a malicious GitHub Actions workflow file that triggers automat

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Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-08 13:53:01

Vodafone made a commercial starring an AI avatar posing as a real lady. This is interesting because Vodafone is a major global brand and not a fly-by-night TikTok company using a ridiculous deepfake of Jackson Galaxy to sell cat toys. The tells in the commercial are obvious and what one would expect. The AI avatar's hair is a bit off, which ruins the charade that this is a real person. The physical mannerisms and speaking tone are also wonky. A facial mole moves around at one point. It's AI. Yo

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Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-08 21:24:33

September 8, 2025 Have you heard of 996? It’s the demanding work schedule that calls for working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week. Apparently, it’s the new thing in the San Francisco tech scene, and it’s all anyone can talk about (search Twitter). So far, this has been a story based on vibes, not data. But I looked at Ramp transaction data and found 996 is real. San Francisco-based employees are increasingly working on Saturdays, and it’s already showing up in spend trends. The chart above

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IEEE Quantum Week 2025 Breaks Registration Records

computer.org Ilse Paredes 2025-10-08 23:00:54

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., 5 September 2025 – IEEE Quantum Week closes today, breaking previous registration records: The conference welcomed 1,700+ registrants eager to immerse themselves in cutting-edge research and practical advances in quantum tech.. In addition, more than 80 exhibitors convened 31 August – 5 September at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., to exhibit their latest quantum applications. “The quantum computing community has made tremendous progress in

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones will get a 2nd-gen update next month

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-09 09:09:05

The popular Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones already got one update back in the summer, but the company has now announced a bigger deserving of a 2nd-generation label … Back in June, the company jumped on the AI bandwagon with what it described as enhanced adaptive noise cancellation. It also claimed better call quality and wireless charging capabilities. Those improvements weren’t enough to see it become an official second-generation model, but Engadget reports that’s what the company will

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The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-09 13:10:00

The world is full of extraordinary young people brimming with ideas for how to crack tough problems. Every year, we recognize 35 such individuals from around the world—all of whom are under the age of 35. These scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs are working to help mitigate climate change, accelerate scientific progress, and alleviate human suffering from disease. Some are launching companies while others are hard at work in academic labs. They were selected from hundreds of nominees by e

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The Pros and Cons of Taking Omega-3s, According to Research

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 13:00:00

Omega-3s are known to help improve cardiovascular and cognitive health. The fatty acids are also known to help reduce inflammation. Since your body cannot produce omega-3s on its own, adding them to your diet or increasing intake with supplements is very common. Most people take fish oil to boost their omega-3s. Taking these factors into consideration, we set out to learn more about potential benefits, evaluate side effects and understand whether omega-3s are right for your body. What are omega

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How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan 'Thejpster' Pallant 2025-10-07 05:19:54

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs? Posted on 2025-08-20 Contents Background I was browsing /r/vintagecomputing, as you do, and I came across this post: Hi all. Back in the day I was a developer working exclusively on Solaris. About 25 years ago, for one reason and another I came into possession of about 30 assorted SPARC based workstations and a few other bits and bobs, network/SCSI cards, keyboards, mice, etc. I think there's also one UltraSPARC in there too. This stuff was well past its

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-09 18:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-09 14:15:19

While the United States rushes head-first into a self-inflicted economic crisis in an attempt to develop AI with human-level intelligence, China is eying a different goal. Last week, the Chinese State Council unveiled its ten-year plan to fully integrate AI into every aspect of the country's economy by 2035. Called "AI+," the ambitious plan sees AI becoming a "key growth engine for the country's economic development," a transformation mirroring that of the internet age. As the Wall Street Jour

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Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube

news.ycombinator.com Bhadra Sharma 2025-10-09 17:10:46

Nepal’s government has banned dozens of social media platforms after they failed to comply with new registration requirements, disrupting essential communication and raising concerns over free speech. The 26 blocked platforms include messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and WeChat, as well as websites like YouTube and LinkedIn. The ban, which went into effect on Thursday after a one-week ultimatum to the social media companies expired, has caused confusion across the country. It h

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Apple now selling certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro for nearly 20% off

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-09 14:40:00

Recently, Apple begun stocking its latest Apple Pencil Pro on its certified refurbished store – allowing customers to pick up a like-new Apple Pencil Pro for their compatible iPad model at a lower price. Apple Pencil Pro has been on the market for well over a year now. For the first time, customers can now buy an Apple certified refurbished model for $109 – nearly 20% off from its typical $129 MSRP. Apple Pencil Pro is compatible with Apple’s most recent iPad models, excluding iPad (A16). If y

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Clarity or accuracy – what makes a good scientific image?

news.ycombinator.com Frankel 2025-10-05 13:02:40

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W. Norton (2025) As someone who has spent a career visualizing science, Flashes of Brilliance felt like reading a love letter to the power of the photographic image. This beautifully written book, by writer and photo editor Anika Burgess, is a thoughtful, personal and witty meditation on how imagery does much more than just document a scene. Will AI jeopardize science photog

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Pocket Scion is a synth you play with plants

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-09 14:00:00

is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A few years ago, artist Modern Biology became a viral sensation when he posted videos of himself controlling a modular synth with mushrooms on TikTok. Pocket Scion gives anyone similar capabilities, but without having to spend thousands of dollars on a Eurorack rig – and in a much more porta

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

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-09 17:15:54

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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The Lore and Legend of SC’s SCinet

computer.org Joshua Roller 2025-10-09 21:15:32

Every year at the high-performance computing (HPC) conference SC, a team of more than 200 dedicated volunteers from upwards of 80 organizations come together to develop SCinet, one of the world’s fastest temporary networks. As a co-sponsor of SC, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) plays a big role in SCinet, engaging members from its Technical Community on High Performance Computing (HPC) to support the annual massive-scale network development. Developed to support the network needs of SC exhibitor

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What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 20:15:00

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination -- although one research paper suggests we call it BS instead -- and it's an inherent flaw that should give us all pause when using AI. Hallucinations happen when AI models generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. It can be as small as a wrong date i

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Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 21:20:39

As fall approaches and COVID cases tick up, you might be thinking about getting this season's COVID-19 vaccine. The annually updated shots have previously been easily accessible to anyone over 6 months of age. Most people could get them at no cost by simply walking into their neighborhood pharmacy—and that's what most people did. However, the situation is much different this year with an ardent anti-vaccine activist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the country's top health official. Since taking the

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Latest Tech News

Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 people were killed during protests

The USB-C Apple Pencil drops to a new all-time low

Hallucination Risk Calculator

A New Platform Offers Privacy Tools to Millions of Public Servants

OpenAI denies that it’s weighing a ‘last-ditch’ California exit amid regulatory pressure over its restructuring

Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests

Nepal reverses social media ban as protests turn deadly

World Nuclear Association Welcomes Microsoft Corporation as Newest Member

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

Surge in networks scans targeting Cisco ASA devices raise concerns

Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

America’s First Private Nuclear Fuel Recycling Facility to Open in Tennessee

Hackers steal 3,325 secrets in GhostAction GitHub supply chain attack

Vodafone is testing an AI 'actor' to sell its products instead of paying a human to do it

Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays

IEEE Quantum Week 2025 Breaks Registration Records

Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones will get a 2nd-gen update next month

The Download: introducing our 35 Innovators Under 35 list for 2025

The Pros and Cons of Taking Omega-3s, According to Research

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere

Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube

Apple now selling certified refurbished Apple Pencil Pro for nearly 20% off

Clarity or accuracy – what makes a good scientific image?

Pocket Scion is a synth you play with plants

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

The Lore and Legend of SC’s SCinet

What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

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