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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-23 17:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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Leak suggests new Philips Hue lights will have direct Matter support

theverge.com Terrence O'Brien 2025-10-24 15:08:13

There’s already been a number of leaks of upcoming Philips Hue products that are expected to be announced next week ahead of IFA. But one thing that hasn’t been mentioned was support for Matter-over-Thread. While there’s no confirmation that support is coming, there’s compelling evidence to suggest it might be. First off, packaging for two unannounced bulbs appeared on Amazon, with a Matter logo prominently displayed on the box. While Hue devices have been capable of connecting via Matter using

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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

news.ycombinator.com Taylor Troesh 2025-10-24 15:02:59

The Curious Case of Flunking My Anthropic Interview (Again) Here's a vague overview of what just happened: I recently applied for Anthropic's Developer Relations role. My friend who works there gave me a glowing recommendation (thanks again, dude!). I completed their secret take-home assignment. On top of their secret take-home assignment, I independently published diggit.dev and a companion blogpost about my [sincerely] positive experiences with Claude. I was hoping that some unsolicited "ext

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SQLite's Durability Settings Are a Mess

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Ayer 2025-10-24 18:30:29

One of the most important properties of a database is durability. Durability means that after a transaction commits, you can be confident that, absent catastrophic hardware failure, the changes made by the commit won't be lost. This should remain true even if the operating system crashes or the system loses power soon after the commit. On Linux, and most other Unix operating systems, durability is ensured by calling the fsync system call at the right time. Durability comes at a performance cost

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‘Peacemaker’ Finally Gave Its Best Boy His Big Hero Moment

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-10-24 17:00:12

With the season two premiere behind us, it’s time to see what new debaucherous misadventures await John Cena’s Christopher Smith in the second episode of DC Studios’ Peacemaker. Given the explosive finale of the first episode, we’re in for a lot of explanations from our silver-helmeted would-be hero. Episode two, “A Man Is Only as Good as His Bird,” jumps back eight months before the show’s premiere, providing context for why Chris was being surveilled by his ginger-bearded buddy, John Economos

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Taco Bell's Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-24 21:30:12

That distant ringing? It's the sound of the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain's shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We exaggerate, but only a little. The much-maligned tech experiment, which has been deployed at 500 Taco Bell locations across the United States, isn't quite dead yet. But it's received enough backlash since being unleashed on hangry motorists that even one of the company's top executives is having second thoughts. "We're learning a lot, I'm going to be honest

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Taco Bell's Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees Is Not Going Well

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 02:30:12

That distant ringing? It's the sound of the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain's shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We exaggerate, but only a little. The much-maligned tech experiment, which has been deployed at 500 Taco Bell locations across the United States, isn't quite dead yet. But it's received enough backlash since being unleashed on hangry motorists that even one of the company's top executives is having second thoughts. "We're learning a lot, I'm going to be honest

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OpenAI and Anthropic evaluated each others' models - which ones came out on top

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-25 07:52:00

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic and OpenAI ran their own tests on each other's models. The two labs published findings in separate reports. The goal was to identify gaps in order to build better and safer models. The AI race is in full swing, and companies are sprinting to release the most cutting-edge products. Naturally, this has raised concerns about speed compromising proper safety evaluations. A first-of-

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Anthropic Settles With Authors Over Pirated Material: What Does That Mean for Other AI Lawsuits?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 06:05:02

Anthropic agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its Claude AI models. On Tuesday, the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion indicating their agreement with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. We don't yet know the terms of the settlement, but we could know more as soon as next week. Justin Nelson, lawyer for the authors, told CNET via email that more information will be announced soon.

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Infamous ‘Erin Brockovich’ Toxin Polluted Air for Months After LA Fires

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-26 02:00:29

The January wildfires left many scars on the city of Los Angeles, from rubble-reduced homes to torched abandoned vehicles. Though cleanup crews quickly cleared much of the debris, one alarming invisible impact lingered over the city for months, a new study suggests. In late March—more than two months after the flames died out—researchers detected levels of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium (a.k.a. chromium-6) 200 times greater than baseline levels for LA air. If this pollutant sounds familiar, y

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-26 09:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: Previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-26 19:29:29

While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging format), it is now testing support for long-form posts through “text attachments”. Here’s how it works. Meta has confirmed the test, but has no ETA for the feature As spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu (via TechCrunch), Threads is testing a new “text attachment” feature on iOS, which could replace the common practice of stringing together multiple posts that blow

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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-26 19:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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Meta is experimenting with long-form text on Threads

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 07:55:58

Meta seems to be working on ways for Threads users to share long-form writing within a single post. Several users have reported seeing a new "attach text" feature on the service, which allows them to embed large chunks of text within a single post. The feature, which hasn't been formally announced by Meta, is similar to the "articles" feature that's available on X to Premium+ subscribers. It enables Threads users to embed longer text excerpts within a single Threads post and offers some basic f

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Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 07:08:08

Anthropic's Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been used in fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes and to distribute lures for Contagious Interview campaigns, in Chinese APT campaigns, and by a Russian-speaking developer to create malware with advanced evasion capabilities. AI-created ransomware In another instance, tracked as ‘GTG-5004,’ a UK-b

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Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-27 07:01:29

Threads is testing a new feature that makes it easy to share long-form text on the social network, Meta confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The feature lets users attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas. App researcher Radu Oncescu first spotted the new “text attachment” feature on iOS and shared a screenshot of it. According to the app’s description of the new feature, it’s designed to allo

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OpenAI–Anthropic cross-tests expose jailbreak and misuse risks — what enterprises must add to GPT-5 evaluations

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-27 10:50:54

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 OpenAI and Anthropic may often pit their foundation models against each other, but the two companies came together to evaluate each other’s public models to test alignment. The companies said they believed that cross-evaluating accountability and safety would provide more transparency into what these powerful models could do, enabling ente

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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-27 11:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years — again, for users that don’t choose to

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AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-27 21:40:27

AI firm says its technology weaponised by hackers 3 hours ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carried out cyber-at

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Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft', says Anthropic

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-28 02:40:27

Hackers used AI to 'to commit large-scale theft', says Anthropic 1 hour ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images US artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic says its technology has been "weaponised" by hackers to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks. Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, says its tools were used by hackers "to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data". The firm said its AI was used to help write code which carrie

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Anthropic's Claude Chrome browser extension rolls out - how to get early access

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-28 10:21:55

DrPixel/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Claude is incorporating AI into a Chrome web browser extension. The closed beta allows users to chat with Claude in a side panel. Anthropic warned early users to use the extension carefully. Claude, Anthropic's AI model, is following Perplexity with its Comet web browser and Dia by incorporating AI into a web browser. Anthropic's first effort is a closed beta of a Chrome web browser ext

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Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-28 12:15:08

As OpenAI's ChatGPT and its imitators exploded onto the world stage over the past few years, they kicked off a series of legal showdowns that are still working their way through the courts. The New York Times is suing OpenAI. Disney is suing Midjourney. And in a class action case representing potentially millions of writers, book authors are suing Anthropic. All these cases are orbiting around a central question: what do the creators of modern AI systems — which are trained by ingesting vast a

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Some teachers are using AI to grade their students, Anthropic finds - why that matters

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-28 13:00:18

Anthropic Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic published its Education Report, analyzing educators' Claude usage. Teachers are using Claude to help grade students, a controversial use case. AI companies are doubling down on tools for education. Much of the focus on AI in education is on how students will be affected by AI tools. Many are concerned that the temptation to cheat and AI's erosion of critical thinking skills will diminish the qua

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OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 19:36:37

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other's publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth a read for anyone who's following the nuts and bolts of AI development. A broad summary showed some flaws with each company's offerings, as well as revealing pointers for

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Storm-0501 hackers shift to ransomware attacks in the cloud

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 19:38:12

Microsoft warns that a threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 has evolved its operations, shifting away from encrypting devices with ransomware to focusing on cloud-based encryption, data theft, and extortion. The hackers now abuse native cloud features to exfiltrate data, wipe backups, and destroy storage accounts, thereby applying pressure and extorting victims without deploying traditional ransomware encryption tools. Storm-0501 is a threat actor who has been active since at least 2021, deployi

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The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-10-28 14:36:43

As cybercrime surges around the world, new research increasingly shows that ransomware is evolving as a result of widely available generative AI tools. In some cases, attackers are using AI to draft more intimidating and coercive ransom notes and conduct more effective extortion attacks. But cybercriminals’ use of generative AI is rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Researchers from the generative AI company Anthropic today revealed that attackers are leaning on generative AI more heavily—somet

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OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-29 07:14:01

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce competition. The effort aimed to surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations and demonstrate how leading AI companies can work together on safety and alignment work in the future. In an interview with TechCrunch, OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba said this kind of collaboration is increa

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Anthropic admits its AI is being used to conduct cybercrime

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 15:07:35

Anthropic’s agentic AI, Claude , has been "weaponized" in high-level cyberattacks, according to a new report published by the company. It claims to have successfully disrupted a cybercriminal whose "vibe hacking" extortion scheme targeted at least 17 organizations, including some related to healthcare, emergency services and government. Anthropic says the hacker attempted to extort some victims into paying six-figure ransoms to prevent their personal data from being made public, with an "unprec

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Claude for Chrome Extension Bakes AI Right Into the Browser

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 14:59:00

You'll soon be able to integrate Anthropic's chatbot into your online life even more easily. Claude for Chrome, a new extension that implants the AI model right into the web browser, will allow users to analyze and summarize webpages on screen, the company said in a press release on Tuesday. The extension, which is currently being piloted with 1,000 subscribers on the Max plan, which costs $200 per month, has both analysis and agentic capabilities. Not only will it summarize your emails and ana

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Anthropic agrees to settle copyright infringement class action suit - what it means

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-10-29 19:48:00

Anadolu / Contributor / Anadolu via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways Anthropic is settling a class action lawsuit with three authors. The authors claim Anthropic trained AI on their pirated work. The future of AI and fair usage is still unclear. AI startup Anthropic has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit against three authors for the tech company's misuse of their work to train its Claude chatbot. Also: Claude wins high praise fro

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