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Backpropagating through a maze with candle and WASM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 05:51:22

Loading WASM module... Width: Height: Wall Density: Learning Rate: Max Steps: Generate & Optimize This demo uses gradient descent to solve a discrete maze. Try playing with the hyperparameters to see how they affect the optimization process! No neural network involved: logits are directly optimized, from a random initialization, for each maze. This runs entirely on your local device, thanks to candle and Rust's support for WebAssembly. You can disconnect from the Internet after loading this

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

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-08-26 00:20:48

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 2025-08-26 01:21:40

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

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-08-26 05:20:48

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

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-26 08:31:34

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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GPT-5 Under Fire: Red Teaming OpenAI's Model Reveals Surprising Weaknesses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-26 12:53:47

Why We Tested GPT-5 GPT‑5 is making waves as OpenAI’s most advanced general-purpose model: faster, smarter, and more integrated across modalities. Its auto-routing architecture seamlessly switches between a quick-response model and a deeper reasoning model without requiring a separate “reasoning model” toggle. GPT‑5 itself decides whether to “think hard.” OpenAI also emphasizes GPT‑5’s enhanced internal self-validation. I t’s supposed to assess multiple reasoning paths internally and “double-

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Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-26 17:40:25

Progress on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ground to a halt on Thursday, August 7, when a federal judge ordered a two-week ban on construction. The ruling follows a hearing in a lawsuit by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians. The plaintiffs—Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Everglades, and the Miccosukee—allege that hasty construction of the facility in the Everglades unlawfully moved forward without public input or an environmental impact st

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Introducing the Authority Insights Podcast and Newsletter

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-26 21:29:26

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority With so many amazing media outlets and YouTube channels out there in 2025, why should you spare time for Android Authority? If you care about Android and Google news, we know you have options. However, we’re the best site to follow if you want the inside scoop on what Google is working on before it’s announced, especially when it comes to its Android operating system and mobile apps. Now, we’re making it even easier to get that exclusive content delivered righ

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The War for the Web Has Begun

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-26 21:54:30

A high-stakes war has just broken out over the future of the internet. In one corner is Cloudflare, a giant of web infrastructure that acts as a gatekeeper for a huge portion of online traffic. In the other is Perplexity, a darling of the AI world, a search engine threatening to upend Google’s dominance. The accusation is explosive: Cloudflare claims Perplexity is a bad actor, a rogue bot that ignores the internet’s oldest rules to secretly scrape data from websites that have explicitly told it

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

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-25 22:30:27

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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You can apparently buy Google’s official Pixel Tablet stylus that never launched

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-27 01:15:33

TL;DR Last year, Google canceled its plans for the Pixel Tablet 2, leaving the fate of the company’s Pixel stylus unclear. This summer, that stylus has started popping up at online retailers, now branded as the Pixel Tablet Pen. The pen works fine with the existing Pixel Tablet, but not all its features appear fully implemented. Google’s approach right now towards Android on screens larger than our phones is confusing, to put it mildly. On one hand, we’ve got Android’s increasingly impressive

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How Does an Electric Bicycle Work? (2025)

wired.com Stephanie Pearson 2025-08-26 20:00:00

An electric bicycle—it's a regular bicycle, but with a motor on it! There are enough moving pieces on these personal mobility vehicles to make buying one confusing. Even if you're pretty sure you know what an electric bicycle is—and that you're not, riding, say, an electric motorcycle from a dealership—the technology changes almost daily. Over the past 10 years, battery capacity has increased by around 50 percent, according to Joe Buckley, the e-mountain bike product manager at Specialized. In

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

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-27 05:05:35

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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Bank of England chief says no rift with UK government as Revolut licence delay draws scrutiny

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-08-27 13:01:23

Revolut cards is seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on March 29, 2024. LONDON — Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told CNBC there hasn't been a "falling out" with the U.K. government over delays to fintech giant Revolut's long-awaited bank license. Last week, the Financial Times reported that a meeting arranged by British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves with Revolut and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) — an arm of the BOE that oversees banks — was cancelled af

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Show HN: Aha Domain Search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 18:21:25

Aha! Domain Search Find available .com domains using smart generation, AI-powered creativity, or quirky phonetic matching

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What Does Consulting Do?

news.ycombinator.com Gert Bijnens 2025-08-27 12:52:49

This paper provides the first systematic and comprehensive empirical study of management and strategy consulting. We unveil the workings of this opaque industry by drawing on universal administrative business-to-business transaction data based on value-added tax links from Belgium (2002-2023). These data permit us to document the nature of consulting engagements, take-up patterns, and the effects on client firms. We document that consulting take-up is concentrated among large, high-labor-product

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Verizon wants to win back your loyalty with damage control discounts

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-28 04:34:33

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Verizon is reinstating discounts for some customers who threaten to leave the carrier. The retention discounts are triggered by initiating a transfer PIN from within the My Verizon app. After emailing the Verizon CEO, some users are getting a higher Valued Customer discount to replace their outgoing Loyalty Discount. Some of these discounts are even higher than before, though not all customers can get them. Verizon kicked up a storm early this week w

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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-28 03:43:28

An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university's network in May. Established in 1767 as King's College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over 20,000 employees, including 4,700 academic staff, and over 35,000 enrolled students across 19 schools and special programs. The

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Why I ditched Google Chrome for Firefox Focus within 10 minutes of using the mobile browser

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-28 04:30:17

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Firefox Focus is a security and privacy-focused mobile browser. This browser offers a minimal UI and maximum privacy features. Firefox Focus is available for both Android and iOS. I've run the gamut of web browsers on Android, and every time I think I've found "the one," I discover a reason not to use it. That reason might be a cluttered UI, a lack of options, or not enough security. Recently, however, I came across a browser

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How we enforce .NET coding standards to improve productivity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-24 16:03:50

In today’s competitive software development landscape, organizations are actively looking to optimize their Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to deliver faster, with better quality, and reduce friction. The rise of Generative AI amplifies this trend even more. Teams that know how to leverage these tools and practices achieve unprecedented velocity. At Workleap, we decided to take a step back to analyze where we could improve our SDLC as well, in order to reduce friction and help our develo

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Did Verizon Toss Your Loyalty Discount? You Might See Higher Bills in September

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-28 04:58:03

Loyalty works both ways, and Verizon is about to discover whether its longtime subscribers will stick with the mobile carrier after it ends some loyalty discounts. Verizon is also hiking administrative fees, which aren't included in the base prices of many plans. As everything else gets more expensive, Verizon customers are likely to be hit with incrementally higher bills. Loyalty discounts disappearing… and returning? Commenters in Verizon forums on Reddit last week shared notifications from

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Black Hat 2025: Why your AI tools are becoming the next insider threat

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-28 04:35:56

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 Cloud intrusions increased by 136% in the past six months. North Korean operatives infiltrated 320 companies using AI-generated identities. Scattered Spider now deploys ransomware in under 24 hours. However, at Black Hat 2025, the security industry demonstrated that it finally has an answer that works: agentic AI, delivering measurable resu

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I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-08-28 07:30:17

Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images ZDNET's takeaways Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of navigating between apps or tabs to find a restaurant and then book a table, Perplexity handles everything. Finding the perfect restaurant and making a reservation just got a whole lot easier thanks to a new feature in Perplexity. The chatbot (which ZDNET's

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Cursed Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 04:34:52

50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them.

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

news.ycombinator.com Richard Hofstadter 2025-08-28 07:55:28

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it—and its targets have ranged from “the international bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, and munitions makers. American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority. But behind this I believe there is

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After Mount Vesuvius Demolished Pompeii, People Returned to Live Among the Ruins

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-08-28 05:56:11

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in what would become one of humanity’s most infamous ancient tragedies. Tens of centuries later, archaeologists eagerly dug through the ash and pumice to rediscover the buried Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in all their preserved glory. In their eagerness, however, they may have missed an important layer of history. While working in the Insula meridionalis—the southern quarter of Pompeii’s ancient urban center—archaeologists uncovered evidence confirmin

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Immich – Cursed Knowledge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 09:34:52

50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them.

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Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-08-28 09:15:00

Job hunting is a fresh kind of hell. Hours are wasted sifting through open roles, tweaking cover letters, dealing with obtuse recruiters—and that’s all before you get started with potential interviews. Arguably, some of the world’s most prolific job applicants—or at least most persistent—are those of North Korea’s sprawling IT worker schemes. For years, Kim Jong Un’s repressive regime has successfully sent skilled coders abroad where they’re tasked with finding remote work and sending money back

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Meta says these wild headset prototypes could be the future of VR

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-28 13:51:32

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. In actual stats, that's up to 1,400 nits of brightness and an angular resolution of 90 pixels per degree. One of the goals

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Doximity buys Pathway Medical for $63 million to help doctors get AI-powered answers

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-08-28 21:38:49

Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for its initial public offering on June 24, 2021. Doximity is diving deeper into artificial intelligence, announcing on Thursday the acquisition of startup Pathway Medical for $63 million. Pathway has built an AI-powered clinical reference tool that doctors can use to ask questions about guidelines, drugs and trials. Pathway's answers are synthesized from medical literature, and Doximity said the Montreal-based startup has one of the largest structured d

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