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Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

news.ycombinator.com Gio Silva 2025-11-13 04:59:30

In what sounds like a scene from a comedy movie, a squad of Marines successfully outsmarted an advanced artificial intelligence system by employing tactics that would make any child playing hide-and-seek proud. The remarkable demonstration revealed both the impressive capabilities and surprising limitations of modern AI technology. The experiment took place as part of DARPA’s Squad X program a while back. It aimed to develop advanced surveillance systems capable of identifying human threats in

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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

news.ycombinator.com Josh W. Comeau 2025-11-09 12:19:05

Introduction The SVG <path> element is notoriously tricky. When I first encountered it, I found it totally inscrutable. Its syntax isn’t quite as bad as Regex, but it has the same sort of “what on earth?” vibes. At the same time, <path> elements are also incredibly useful. They’re the only way to create curved shapes in SVG, beyond full ellipses. And once you get the hang of it, they’re actually quite a lot of fun to use! In this blog post, we’ll cover all of the basic commands, including the

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Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-13 05:52:53

AI models can respond to text, audio, and video in ways that sometimes fool people into thinking a human is behind the keyboard, but that doesn’t exactly make them conscious. It’s not like ChatGPT experiences sadness doing my tax return… right? Well, a growing number of AI researchers at labs like Anthropic are asking when — if ever — might AI models develop subjective experiences similar to living beings, and if they do, what rights should they have? The debate over whether AI models could on

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I wore the Pixel Watch 4 - and these key features made me not want to take it off

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-13 10:04:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET key takeaways Pixel Watch 4 New features: faster charging, satellite link, health AI. First Pixel Watch with replaceable battery for sustainability. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. The time has finally come for Google Pixel users. A new lineup of Google phones, earbuds, and, my personal favorite, smartwatches, is coming to Android users, Google announced at its Made by Google event on Wednesda

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Apple’s Blood-Oxygen Reading Feature Is in Legal Jeopardy… Again

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-13 10:20:48

Apple just reintroduced a blood-oxygen reading feature to some Apple Watches last week, but a new lawsuit could force the company to turn it off again. The health tech company Masimo sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday over an agency decision that allowed Apple to restore the feature. Masimo had previously sued Apple, claiming that the company had infringed on its patents. The timing of the lawsuit comes as Apple has been pushing deeper into medical devices, while also cozying

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Honor's Shimmering Magic V Flip 2 Has Arrived to Outshine Samsung's Galaxy Flip

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 09:28:00

Honor has unveiled a new flip phone in China, and the company is billing it as, "the ultimate selfie device." The Magic V Flip 2 includes an ultra-wide portrait mode, AI photography features and a playful, sparkly design. The Magic V Flip 2 adds another device to Honor's increasing lineup of foldable phones. So far, it's only releasing the Magic V Flip 2 in China, starting on Aug. 28. It will sell for RMB 5,499 or about $766 USD. The Magic V Flip2 appears to be geared toward influencers and fa

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YouTube Music turns 10 and adds new ‘taste match’ playlists

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-13 10:40:11

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. YouTube Music is launching shared playlists that evolve based on the listening habits of the people who join them. The platform announced the new “taste match” playlists as part of its 10th anniversary on Thursday, and says it will refresh them with new music ev

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Can’t recall that café from Tuesday? Google Maps has a new feature to jog your memory (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 15:37:45

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The You tab in Google Maps has a new section called “Your recent places.” This section shows a list of all the recent places you visited. You can sort through locations with various types of filters, save a location, share a location, and delete a location from your history. Having trouble remembering the store you went to a few days ago? Or maybe you want to share the location of a restaurant you ate at the other day. Google Maps is getting a feature

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iPhone 17 Pro case called TechWoven, ‘Crossbody Strap’ accessory leaked

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-12 08:41:22

A year after discontinuing the rather disastrous FineWoven iPhone case, Apple will reportedly take a second shot at an alternative premium to leather cases. The latest development is the alleged name, and a potentially new Apple accessory that may be sold separately. TechWoven is the new case material name, says leaker Majin Bu, because a callback to FineWoven invokes such fond memories. The leaker previously shared shots of the new material, which appears to have less velvet-like smoothness a

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Deals: Rare 32GB M4 Mac mini offer, M2 Max Mac Studio $900 off, iPhone 15/16 Pro up to $674 off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-11-13 15:45:11

The 9to5Toys Lunch Break is now ready to roll starting off with a rare deal on a M4 Mac mini configuration carrying 32GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD at $100 off the list price – you’ll also still find the base model down at $499 shipped as well. We have the return of Amazon’s renewed premium offer on the 32GB M2 Max Mac Studio at $900 off the original list price alongside some iPhone offers – iPhone 16 Pro is up to $470 off and iPhone 15 Pro is up to $674 off at Amazon – and much more waiting below.

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Trump’s Stance on Science Is Starting to Look Uncomfortably Soviet

gizmodo.com Lois Parshley 2025-11-13 14:35:00

In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to keep cows from starving to death over the winter. The young scientist, who learned to read as a teenager during the Russian Revolution, dismissed the rapidly advancing field of genetics. He believed nature could be bent to human will. Lysenko denounced the idea that genes pass traits down as a “degradation of bourgeois culture,” and couldn’t understand why cows bred to produce more mi

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Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-13 15:58:43

No one stays on top forever. It’s a lesson that Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk may be painfully learning about. The Danish pharmaceutical company has enacted a hiring freeze—the latest sign of a sinking financial outlook for the once-titan of the obesity treatment world. Reuters reported on the hiring freeze Wednesday. The company has faced numerous setbacks in recent months, including billions shaved off its stock market value and continued competition from cheaper, compounded versions of its bloc

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How Burning Man VR rebuilt after Microsoft shut it down

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-11-13 15:30:00

It was all just supposed to be a one-time thing. When Burning Man got canceled because of covid-19 in 2020, a number of attendees banded together to re-create the festival on the social VR platform Altspace. That virtual Burning Man experience not only attracted around 13,000 visitors, but also accolades from the Producers Guild of America. The success led to the decision to keep the digital version of Burning Man going even when the real-life festival returned in 2021. BRCvr, named after the f

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge price drops further, saving you $270

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:34:34

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Some of us just want a smaller phone! Since those are becoming amazingly rare, the next best thing is to get a thinner device, and the hottest slim phone right now is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge. It’s been on a nice sale since last week, and the deal got even sweeter today. Buy the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge for just $829.95 ($270.04 off) This offer is available from Amazon. This lower price is only available for the Titanium Jetblack color version. Other variants

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This upcoming Google Maps feature could be a game-changer for group planning (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 20:39:40

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google Maps is working on a new feature that will make it easier to share a list of search results with others. This new share feature creates a shareable list of the first ten search results from any query. This new functionality could simplify group planning, such as deciding on a restaurant, when it goes live. Google Maps is a great resource for discovering services and local businesses around you. However, there’s plenty that Google can do to improve

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Update your iPhone, iPad, and Mac ASAP to fix this dangerous security flaw - here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-13 20:30:27

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple has patched a serious security flaw on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Patch fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to install spyware. The flaw has been exploited in the wild against targeted individuals. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I know you're probably tired of constantly updating your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to fix one issue or another. But there's yet anothe

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Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-11-13 20:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. One of the biggest topics in AI these days is agents — the idea that AI is going to move from chatbots to reliably completing tasks for us in the real world. But the problem with agents is that they really aren’t all that reliable right now. There’s a lot of work happening in the AI industry to try to fix that, and that brings me to my guest today: David Luan, the head of Amazon’s

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Masimo files lawsuit over Apple's 'redesigned' blood oxygen monitoring feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 00:00:54

Masimo, the medical technology company whose lawsuit led to the temporary sales pause of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, has sued the US Customs and Border Protection days after Apple released its redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature. This is just the latest update in the lengthy legal saga between Masimo and Apple, which started when the former sued the iPhonemaker in 2021, accusing it of infringing on several of its light-based blood oxygen monitoring patents. After a court sided w

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Sennheiser updates the Ambeo Max soundbar with lossless audio, customizable immersion and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 00:47:07

Sennheiser's most expensive Ambeo soundbar is getting a substantial update. The company announced that the Ambeo Soundbar Max, a $2,000 beast of a living room speaker, will gain two features it calls Customizable Immersion and Voice Enhancement Mode. Plus, the company is adding lossless audio support on top of Dolby Atmos Music. The firmware update will equip the Max with Ambeo OS2 and is available via free download through the Sennheiser Smart Control app for iOS and Android. With Customizable

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A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification

news.ycombinator.com Jack Vanlightly 2025-11-14 00:18:12

Factor 2: Weighing the pros and cons If we want to provide the data in lakehouse format so Spark jobs can slice and dice the data, then either shared tiering or materialization is an option. Shared tiering might be preferable if reducing storage cost (by avoiding data duplication) is the primary concern. However, other factors are also at play, as explained earlier in 1. The challenges of shared tiering. Materialization might be preferable if: The primary and secondary systems have completel

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 23:20:53

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often scale down large images before sending them to the model: when scaled, these images can reveal prompt injections that are not visible at full resolution. In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers c

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AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'

news.ycombinator.com Simon Sharwood 2025-11-13 23:53:16

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS’s Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered business leaders who think AI tools "can replace all of our junior people in our company." That notion led to the “dumbest thing I've ever heard” quote, followed by a justification that junior staf

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Nancy Mace Hitches Her Wagon to the Hertz AI-Scanner Controversy

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-14 00:10:29

Car rental giant Hertz is in the hot seat, after customers have come out of the woodwork to complain that the company’s newly instituted AI scanners are charging them outrageous fees over minor issues. Now the system reportedly has the attention of one of Congress’s most artificially intelligent members. The company recently rolled out the scanners as part of a partnership with Israeli firm UVeye, whose products were originally developed as a homeland security device—designed to detect guns and

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Now Masimo is suing US Customs over Apple Watch imports

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-13 20:58:10

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Medical tech company Masimo is suing US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in an attempt to overturn the agency’s decision to allow Apple to restore the blood oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches. Masimo said it only learned that the ban had been reversed after Apple announced a “redesigned” pulse oximetry feature last week, which calculates blood oxygen levels on iPhones instead of the Watch. Apple ha

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Google Discover wants to summarize your daily news feed (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 05:24:42

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing AI summaries for articles in the Discover feed. Like AI overviews in Google Search, Discover feed summaries combine information from multiple sources instead of just referencing one. Google is also testing a new button to bookmark articles that can be revisited later. Update, August 21, 2025 (08:24 AM ET): Google Discover’s AI summaries for news articles is now widely rolling out in the stable branch. Original article, July 15, 2025 (05

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MasterClass subscriptions are 50 percent off in this Labor Day sale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 04:56:26

MasterClass promises online learning with instructors who are the very best in their fields, and an annual subscription is currently 50 percent off across all tiers. Subscribers to MasterClass will have access to over 200 classes taught by iconic authors, chefs, athletes and leaders representing a diverse collection of skill sets and backgrounds. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Keller. If you're trying to

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This Anker 5K magnetic power bank is 30 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-14 05:40:37

The last thing anyone wants at the end of a long day is to look down at their phone and see its battery almost dead. One way to avoid that is to keep a compact power bank on you at all times, and it's arguably easiest to do that with one like Anker's 621 MagGo portable battery. This sleek, 5K magnetic brick attaches to the back of your iPhone to power it up, even while you're still using it. Now, it's on sale for 30 percent off — you can pick up any of five coloways for only $28 a pop. This is

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Sütterlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 16:56:44

Historical form of German handwriting, used 1915–1970s Sütterlinschrift (German pronunciation: [ˈzʏtɐliːnˌʃʁɪft], "Sütterlin script") is the last widely used form of Kurrent, the historical form of German handwriting script that evolved alongside German blackletter (most notably Fraktur) typefaces. Graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin was commissioned by the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Culture (Preußisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Volksbildung) to create a modern handwriting

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Google Thinks AI Can Make You a Better Photographer: I Dive Into the Pixel 10 Cameras

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-14 05:00:13

If a company releases new phone models but doesn't change the cameras, would anyone pay attention? Fortunately that's not the case with Google's new Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro Fold phones, which make a few advancements in the hardware -- hello, telephoto camera on the base-level Pixel for the first time -- and also in the software that runs it all, with generative AI playing an even bigger role than it has before. "This is the first year where not only are we able to achieve some i

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You can fine tune the resistance of the joysticks on GuliKit’s new controllers

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-14 05:57:03

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. GuliKit was the first company to address the original Switch’s drifting issues with a Hall effect Joy-Con upgrade kit, and it released one of the first controllers that can remotely wake the Nintendo Switch 2. Its latest first, announced at Gamescom 2025 in G

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Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes

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Trump’s Stance on Science Is Starting to Look Uncomfortably Soviet

Ozempic Maker Novo Nordisk Freezes Hiring Amid Ongoing Struggles

How Burning Man VR rebuilt after Microsoft shut it down

Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge price drops further, saving you $270

This upcoming Google Maps feature could be a game-changer for group planning (APK teardown)

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Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race

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Google Discover wants to summarize your daily news feed (Updated: Rolling out)

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