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Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-03-11 23:00:55

Like it or not, large language models have quickly become embedded into our lives. And due to their intense energy and water needs, they might also be causing us to spiral even faster into climate chaos. Some LLMs, though, might be releasing more planet-warming pollution than others, a new study finds. Queries made to some models generate up to 50 times more carbon emissions than others, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Communication. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly,

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DropZap World – My falling block game with lasers, released after years of work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 11:10:04

DropZap World — a falling block game with lasers, mirrors, splitters, color matching, and 120 levels! Experience the thrill of lasers, mirrors, and color-matching in DropZap World — a fresh twist on falling block games with 120 electrifying levels! Developed by the original creator of DropZap and DropZap 2, DropZap World stands on its own with unique gameplay and a level-based progression system that will captivate both new players and longtime fans. FEATURES - 120 Challenging Levels: Test your

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Toxic Proteins for Drug Discovery

news.ycombinator.com Asimov Press 2026-03-10 13:04:22

Noah Whiteman, professor of evolutionary biology at UC Berkeley, writes about how toxins are repurposed into medicines for Issue 06. Whiteman’s recent book is called “Most Delicious Poison.” Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. When you hear the word "poison," perhaps you picture a Victorian-era cobalt bottle labeled "NOT TO BE TAKEN" or the iconic pictogram of a leering skull and crossbones. What probably does not come to mind, however, are the dried white beans in your kitchen pantry, the

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The best iPad deals you can get right now

theverge.com Brandon Widder 2026-03-12 02:47:17

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside of those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s often some amount to be saved, particularly on Apple’s most affordable iPad. The most recent iPad Pro and iPad Mini are also regularly discounted, as is the latest iPad Air. It’s difficult to know where exactly you can find the most notable iPad deals unless you’re s

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How Hourglass Vision Transformers Are Redefining Camouflaged Object Detection

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2026-03-12 03:58:20

Introduction While camouflage gives wildlife and military vehicles a strategic survival advantage, it poses challenges, both for human and computer vision systems. It is difficult enough to detect objects designed to blend with their environments, but when the objects have blurry edges, the detection process is even more problematic. However, in a paper written for the 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jinpeng He, Biyuan Liu, and Huaixin Chen of the Uni

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DropZap World – my falling block game with lasers, released after years of work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 21:10:04

DropZap World — a falling block game with lasers, mirrors, splitters, color matching, and 120 levels! Experience the thrill of lasers, mirrors, and color-matching in DropZap World — a fresh twist on falling block games with 120 electrifying levels! Developed by the original creator of DropZap and DropZap 2, DropZap World stands on its own with unique gameplay and a level-based progression system that will captivate both new players and longtime fans. FEATURES - 120 Challenging Levels: Test your

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Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-12 20:21:21

Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generation startups, announced on Wednesday the launch of its much-anticipated AI video generation model, V1. V1 is an image-to-video model, in which users can upload an image — or take an image generated by one of Midjourney’s other models — and V1 will produce a set of four five-second videos based on it. Much like Midjourney’s image models, V1 is only available through Discord, and it’s only available on the web at launch. Introducing our V1 Vide

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Wyze adds major security update to its security cameras after numerous security lapses

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-13 00:17:35

Wyze, the Seattle-based tech company that specializes in smart home products and wireless cameras, has released a major security update that it hopes will rebuild some lost trust. The company has been plagued by numerous security failures over the past few years, most notably when an AWS outage led to thousands of users gaining access to recorded videos from other people’s homes. That incident, paired with the company’s history of lackluster responses to security flaws, even led The New York Tim

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Show HN: Delve, an open source (AGPL) enterprise-grade data analytics platform

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-13 03:44:53

Delve - Enterprise Data Analytics Platform NOTICE: Delve is in Alpha pre-release. Please try it out and provide feedback of any issues or missing features you encounter, but production use is discouraged at the moment. License Delve is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0). This means: You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software, provided that any network-accessible modifications are also made available under the same license. The full license tex

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Internet collapses across Iran, say web-monitoring firms

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-03-13 03:24:20

Internet connectivity in Iran almost completely disappeared on Wednesday, according to web-monitoring firms, as war with Israel enters its sixth day. NetBlocks, a firm that tracks internet access across the world, wrote on X that Iran is “now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout.” The firm’s assessment was confirmed by other internet-monitoring organizations. Data collected by IODA, which is a system that “monitors the Internet infrastructure connectivity in near-real time,

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-13 04:10:58

OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — OpenAI researchers were able to find patterns that lit up when a model misbehaved. The researchers found one such feature that corresponded to toxic behavior i

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Netflix will start showing traditional broadcast channels next summer

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-13 08:33:08

In a move that further intensifies the reflection of the cable business it's slowly killing, Netflix will start showing broadcast channels next summer. The world’s largest streaming provider announced today that starting next year, all Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch broadcast channels from TF1 Group, France’s biggest commercial broadcaster, which also owns streaming services and creates content. Financial Times (FT) reported that users will be able to watch all five TF1 lin

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This AI Model Never Stops Learning

wired.com Will Knight 2026-03-13 08:00:00

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now devised a way for LLMs to keep improving by tweaking their own parameters in response to useful new information. The work is a step toward building artificial intelligence models that learn continually—a long-standing goal of the field and something that will be crucial if machi

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Internet collapses across Iran, say web monitoring firms

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-03-13 08:24:20

Internet connectivity in Iran almost completely disappeared on Wednesday, according to web monitoring firms, as war with Israel enters its sixth day. NetBlocks, a firm that tracks internet access across the world, wrote on X that Iran is “now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout.” The firm’s assessment was confirmed by other internet-monitoring organizations. Data collected by IODA, which is a system that “monitors the Internet infrastructure connectivity in near-real time,

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Prime Day deals include three months of Audible for only $3

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-13 16:37:34

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The bumper 2025 edition of Amazon's Prime Day is fast approaching and the deals are starting to emerge. While we've seen this offer pop up several times in the past, it's one that's always worth highlighting. New Audible subscribers can get three months of access to the Premium Plus pl

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I set up portable solar panels in my backyard for a month - and the results impressed me

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-03-13 20:39:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow 125W bifacial solar panels cost $899 for a four-pack. They're portable panels that you can take with you or set up temporarily without construction, with easy setup, and lightweight construction Though portable, these bifacial solar panels feel very fragile, so they must be weighed down if conditions are windy; their low 125W input also limits their capacity. $899 at Amazon I see more hurricanes in a year than I'd like, so I ensure my house is prepared to wea

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Why I Won't Use AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 00:32:06

Posted on June 17, 2025 If you are a programmer in 2025 you have likely been pressured into adopting generative artificial intelligence tools into your workflow. Maybe you have already been ordered to. You have probably wondered if next year will be the year that you will be replaced with an AI. Or maybe in the next five years. Weren’t we supposed to be replaced already? I do not doubt that people using these tools enjoy using them. If you are one of those folks this post isn’t aimed to, “yuck

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-13 23:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-14 09:15:46

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI medi

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Dunk City Dynasty launches Season 2 with Jayson Tatum and $10K community competition

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-14 10:15:00

NetEase Games is launching Season 2 of Dunk City Dynasty today, with the addition of NBA star Jayson Tatum and a community competition with a prize pool of $10,000. Titled “Championship Parade”, the second season of free-to-play NBA- and NBPA-licensed streetball game for Android and iOS introduces new basketball stars, gameplay, events, customizations and the first community competition, boasting a prize pool of $10,000. Season 2: Championship Parade introduces three new basketball stars to th

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I saved $30 per month with these portable solar panels (and how they work)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-03-14 10:00:17

ZDNET's key takeaways The EcoFlow 125W bifacial solar panels cost $899 for a four-pack. They're portable panels that you can take with you or set up temporarily without construction, with easy setup, and lightweight construction Though portable, these bifacial solar panels feel very fragile, so they must be weighed down if conditions are windy; their low 125W input also limits their capacity. $899 at Amazon I see more hurricanes in a year than I'd like, so I ensure my house is prepared to wea

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MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 09:53:34

1. Model Overview We introduce MiniMax-M1, the world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model. MiniMax-M1 is powered by a hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture combined with a lightning attention mechanism. The model is developed based on our previous MiniMax-Text-01 model, which contains a total of 456 billion parameters with 45.9 billion parameters activated per token. Consistent with MiniMax-Text-01, the M1 model natively supports a context length of 1 million

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Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 10:07:19

lstr A blazingly fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode. An interactive overview of lstr 's project structure... using lstr . Philosophy Fast: Runs directory scans in parallel by default to maximize speed on modern hardware. Runs directory scans in parallel by default to maximize speed on modern hardware. Minimalist: Provides essential features without the bloat. The core experience is clean and un

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Prime Day 2025: Early Deals Have Already Started, but Could Tariffs Cut Into the Savings?

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-14 05:56:00

James Martin/CNET Amazon Prime Day, the mega retailer's summer shopping event, is set for July 8-11 this year -- doubling in size from two to four days. Exclusive to Prime members, it offers some of the best Amazon deals of the year, but looming price hikes due to tariffs could impact how much of a savings shoppers can expect. Amazon launched Prime Day back in 2015, and savvy shoppers have eagerly anticipated this annual event ever since. But this year, the event could overlap with the resumpt

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The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

venturebeat.com Ross Teixeira 2026-03-14 12:01:08

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand how AI models think. This comes at a crucial time. As Anthropic battles in global AI rankings, it’s important to note what sets it apart from other top AI labs. Since its founding in 2021, when seven OpenAI employees broke off over concerns about AI safety,

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Meta is making all Facebook videos reels

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-03-14 11:36:43

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Meta is making a change to how sharing videos works on Facebook. Right now, you can share videos as a video from the post composer or as a reel, and both have different sharing workflows. In “the coming months,” however, “all videos on Facebook will be shared as reels,” according to a blog post. “Facebook remains a home for all types of video – short, long, and Live,” Meta sa

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 14:06:54

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0 , which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys , by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile. The libbz2-rs-sys crate can also be built as a C dynamic library, if you have a C project that would benefit from these improvements. Why though? Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? The thing is that many protocols and libraries still need to support bzip2 to be

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Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-03-14 20:55:56

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Google moved decisively to strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence arms race Monday, declaring its most powerful Gemini 2.5 models ready for enterprise production while unveiling a new ultra-efficient variant designed to undercut competitors on cost and speed. The Alphabet subsidiary promoted two of its flagship AI models—G

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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 19:06:54

Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0 , which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys , by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile. The libbz2-rs-sys crate can also be built as a C dynamic library, if you have a C project that would benefit from these improvements. Why though? Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today? The thing is that many protocols and libraries still need to support bzip2 to be

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Facebook videos are all just going to be reels now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-15 03:58:07

Facebook is once again rebranding the "video" section of its app. This time, the tab formerly known as " video ," which was also once called " watch ," will become "reels." The change comes as the company says that all video on the social network will now fall under the umbrella of "reels" regardless of how long the clip is or how it was shot. According to Meta , the change will make things simpler for users and creators sharing video clips on the platform. Previously, users had to decide wheth

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Why Some AI Models Spew 50 Times More Greenhouse Gas to Answer the Same Question

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Facebook videos are all just going to be reels now

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