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With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-05 11:00:24

Allan Brooks, a 47-year-old corporate recruiter, spent three weeks and 300 hours convinced he'd discovered mathematical formulas that could crack encryption and build levitation machines. According to a New York Times investigation, his million-word conversation history with an AI chatbot reveals a troubling pattern: More than 50 times, Brooks asked the bot to check if his false ideas were real. More than 50 times, it assured him they were. Brooks isn't alone. Futurism reported on a woman whose

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Xero vs. QuickBooks: Which accounting platform is better?

zdnet.com Ritoban Mukherjee 2025-11-05 23:15:19

Allison Murray/ZDNET If you're trying to select an accounting platform that will grow with your business while managing costs effectively, both Xero and QuickBooks offer competing products starting at $29 per month. However, they're each good at different things. Also: The best budgeting apps of 2025 Xero stands out for its user-friendly interface and flexible pricing structure that includes unlimited users across all plans. The platform excels in international business support with multicurr

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Materialized views are obviously useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 14:13:39

August 22, 2025 As programmers we spend a lot of time shuttling data back and forth between different systems and transforming it from one format to another. Sometimes it gets pretty miserable! Let’s say you’re making a fancy task tracking app. Tasks belong to projects, and on the projects page, you want to show how many tasks are in each project. Maybe you start with a little SQL that you call from your “get info about project” view model code: async function getTaskCountForProject ( project

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2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack

news.ycombinator.com Author 2025-11-05 20:22:26

How the phishing attacks work Initial reports of attempted attacks have already been seen on Reddit, which are likely related to the data leak. Users describe how alleged Google employees have contacted them by phone to inform them of a security breach in their accounts. In these scam attempts, attackers are trying to take over Gmail accounts by triggering alleged “account resets” and then intercepting passwords to subsequently lock out the account holders. Another attack method involves “dang

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Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

news.ycombinator.com Author.Fullname 2025-11-03 03:46:42

Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason for their endurance Trees on the streets of Montreal in Canada benefit from leaky pipes Catherine Zibo/Shutterstock Trees growing on city streets are more resistant to drought than those in parks because they are drinking from an unusual water source: leaky pipes. After long periods with little rain, water levels and sap flow tend to decrease more in trees growing in p

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How can AI ID a cat?

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-11-01 21:36:28

Look at a picture of a cat, and you’ll instantly recognize it as a cat. But try to program a computer to recognize cat photos, and you’ll quickly realize that it’s far from straightforward. You’d need to write code to pinpoint the quintessential quality shared by countless cats in photos with distinctive backgrounds and taken from different camera angles. Where would you even begin? These days, computers can easily recognize photos of cats, but that’s not because a clever programmer discovered

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ArduinoOS (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 03:12:50

To get the uptime of the operating system use getElapsedMilliseconds or getElapsedTicks . Locks In order to keep your application thread safe you can use locks. With locks you can prevent an other thread to access a variable, function, ... in an unsafe state. Example for conflicting threads: void mainThread () { InitTask (thread2); while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread1 " ); } } void thread2 () { while ( true ) { Serial. println ( " Thread2 " ); } } If you execute this code you will n

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Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

news.ycombinator.com Marco Mascorro 2025-11-05 14:03:13

In the era of foundation models, multimodal AI, LLMs, and ever-larger datasets, access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks for researchers, founders, developers, and engineers. While the cloud offers scalability, building a personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally. This post covers our version of a four-GPU workstation powered by the new NVIDIA

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MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-11-06 02:50:55

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 The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside their walled confines. However, many benchmarks fail to capture real-life interactions with MCP. Salesforce AI Research developed a new open-source benchmark it calls MCP-Un

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Android’s big redesign is full of blur, but Google will soon let you easily turn it off

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 12:00:19

Here’s the full quote from Mindy Brooks, for reference: “On the question of blur specifically, our hope with the use of blur was to be able to focus your attention, as a user and be able to keep you, visually where you need to be on the screen. And that was really the design principle behind it is how do you minimize distraction, by the use of blur. But that said, we obviously know that it doesn’t meet the needs of all users. So we will be rolling out a new customization setting so that you can

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APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-06 17:35:11

The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux .desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India. The activity, documented in reports by CYFIRMA and CloudSEK, aims at data exfiltration and persistent espionage access. APT 36 has previously used .desktop files to load malware in targeted espionage operations in South Asia. The attacks were first spotted on August 1, 2025, and based on the latest evidence, are still ongoing. Desktop file abuse Altho

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Silksong is out soon, and indie games are getting out of the way

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-07 02:53:34

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Yesterday, Hollow Knight: Silksong developers Team Cherry announced a September 4th release date for the long-awaited game, and indie developers are announcing delays to get out of the way of the launch. Silksong is a full sequel to the excellent Hollow Knight and is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam, so it’s likely going to be very popular when it’s finally availabl

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Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-11-07 08:33:29

Google announced Friday that it’s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for Vids, the tech giant’s AI-powered video creation tool. The new feature allows Workspace users to initiate a video edit using Vids directly from the Google Drive interface. Now, while previewing a video in Drive, users will see an “Open” button in the top right corner that opens the video in the Vids app. Vids will automatically launch the video file, allowing further edits such as

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Apple celebrates National Parks with Apple Pay, Fitness+, and more

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-07 17:33:50

Apple has announced a handful of new initiatives to support the National Park Foundation in celebration of its 109th anniversary. This includes donations for Apple Pay purchases, an Apple Watch activity cahllenge, and more. First, from August 22 to 29, Apple says it will donate $10 to the National Park Foundation for every purchase made with Apple Pay at Apple Stores, in the App Store app, or on its website. This represents the ninth straight year of this initiative by Apple. As we reported ea

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Neolithic people took gruesome trophies from invading tribes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:20:47

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper published in the journal Science Advances. The findings challenge conventional interpretations of prehistoric violence as bring indiscriminate or committed for pragmatic reasons. Neolithic Europe was no stranger to collective violence of many forms, such as the odd execution and massacres of small

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How to print checks in QuickBooks Online

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-09 22:00:23

ZDNET's key takeaways Even in a digital era, paper checks remain widely used. QuickBooks Online offers built-in tools for check alignment. Check numbering follows the print list order you select. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. So you want to print a paper check from QuickBooks Online? A paper check. I know. That's like using a phone to talk to someone with your voice. Who does that anymore? Even in a world of Venm

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A summary of recent AI research (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hearn 2025-11-09 21:47:42

Story comprehension The robots of Westworld are not programmed solely by software developers. The bulk of the work is done by professional writers, who give each character a unique backstory. These stories give them the memories and depth they need to seem real to the park guests. When asked who they are, what they’ve done or why they feel a certain way, they can consult their backstory to find out the answer. Being able to answer questions about stories is a fundamental requirement for being

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95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Flynn 2025-11-09 21:36:24

Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business return. A new study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprise organizations report zero measurable gains from the adoption of AI tools. Only a small group has seen strong benefits. “Just five percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value,” the report said. In contrast, the v

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Wall Street Appears to Be Having Serious Doubts About AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 03:01:42

The amount of cash backing artificial intelligence right now is so high that it's almost meaningless to the average person. There are now almost 500 AI unicorns — companies valued at over $1 billion — worth a total of roughly $2.7 trillion, enough to do some serious damage to the economy if things don't go well. But for investors, that cash represents a dream: that AI will someday do more than generate video essays explaining that Nubian giants built the pyramids, and become a major financial

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Silksong, Long-Awaited Hollow Knight Spinoff, Gets Release Date: Sept. 4

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 02:52:00

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the follow-up, announced back in 2019, to one of the most beloved indie games of the last decade. In a special announcement video on Thursday, Australian developer Team Cherry revealed that the wait is almost over. Silksong will be released on Sept. 4, according to the new trailer. The almost two-minute video reveals some of the new enemies and bosses in the upcoming spinoff and ends with the surprise release date. Originally, Silksong was going to be a DLC for Hollo

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Hollow Knight: Silksong will be out on September 4

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 08:38:57

Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date of September 4. You heard right, people. This is not a drill. One more time for those in the back, Hollow Knight: Silksong is now scheduled to be available in just a few weeks. The news dropped as part of a "special announcement" YouTube stream, and it'll be playable at Gamescom. For those of you at the event in Cologne, the game will be availabe at both Nintendo and Xbox's booths. Expect very, very long lines. The original Hollow Knight game was a hug

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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:20:53

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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Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 20:01:44

Initial Setup Whenever I've finished installing Mavericks, the first thing I do is open Terminal and run: curl mavericksforever.com/postinstall.sh | sh This script will Update Mavericks to the latest version available. Change some default settings to resemble Snow Leopard. Remove apps and features which don't work anymore, and would just make me sad if I saw them. The result of this script represents how I want to be greeted by a fresh Mavericks system. Internet Web Browsing We need a

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Understanding Moravec's Paradox

news.ycombinator.com Morgan Howells 2025-11-07 17:36:51

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

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Worried about the Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark controversy? Here’s why you shouldn’t be

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 21:00:25

Well, friends, the day has finally come: Google Pixel day. Today is the day that Google will officially reveal the Pixel 10 series after months of leaks, and it’s a day we should all be excited about. Instead, a lot of Pixel fans are upset and complaining. Those complaints stem from a last-minute Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark leak, supposedly showing just how fast Google’s new Tensor G5 chip is. Assuming the benchmarks are legit, the good news is that the Tensor G5 is faster than the Tensor G4. How

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword might be a more forgiving kind of samurai epic

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-13 23:00:20

Capcom’s Onimusha series has been on a long hiatus. Combining Resident Evil-style rendered backgrounds with more agile characters, adding in demons, magic and a feudal Japan setting, the series span multiple sequels — and consoles — til the fourth entry in 2006. Roughly two decades (and console eras) later, Capcom has returned to the series, even getting the definitive samurai actor, Tom Cruise Mifune Toshiro, to play the hero, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. At Gamescom, the company

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The Block Stacking Problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 08:01:44

The Block Stacking Problem John D. Norton Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/jdnorton.html February 21, 2025 1. Introduction In the block stacking problem, a collection of blocks are to be stacked at a table edge. If we stack the blocks so that they protrude past the edge of the table, how far can they go horizontally? The curious and then surprizing result is that we can extend the stack horizontally arbitrarily far.

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SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks track declines in U.S. peers

cnbc.com Amala Balakrishner 2025-11-13 22:28:45

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 22, 2025. Other Japanese tech stocks also declined, with semiconductor giant Advantest falling as much as 6.27%. Meanwhile, shares in Renesas Electronics and Tokyo Electron were last seen trading 2.46% and 0.75% lower, respectively. The tech-focused investment firm saw shares drop for a second consecutive session, following its announcement of a $2 billion investment in Intel . Intel shar

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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 23:06:15

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion. The company expects to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new database offering Lakebase, and fueling global growth. At the June Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced a new produ

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SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks decline

cnbc.com Amala Balakrishner 2025-11-14 02:02:42

The logo of Japanese company SoftBank Group is seen outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo on January 22, 2025. The Japanese tech-focused investment firm saw shares drop for a second consecutive session, following its announcement of a $2 billion investment in Intel . Intel shares rose 6.97% to close at $25.31 Tuesday stateside. Shares of SoftBank Group plunged as much as 9.17% Wednesday, as technology stocks in Asia declined, tracking losses in U.S. peers overnight. Other Japanese tech

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Latest Tech News

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Xero vs. QuickBooks: Which accounting platform is better?

Materialized views are obviously useful

2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

How can AI ID a cat?

ArduinoOS (2017)

Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

Android’s big redesign is full of blur, but Google will soon let you easily turn it off

APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks

Silksong is out soon, and indie games are getting out of the way

Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button

Apple celebrates National Parks with Apple Pay, Fitness+, and more

Neolithic people took gruesome trophies from invading tribes

How to print checks in QuickBooks Online

A summary of recent AI research (2016)

95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

Wall Street Appears to Be Having Serious Doubts About AI

Silksong, Long-Awaited Hollow Knight Spinoff, Gets Release Date: Sept. 4

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be out on September 4

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

Understanding Moravec's Paradox

Worried about the Pixel 10 Pro XL benchmark controversy? Here’s why you shouldn’t be

Onimusha: Way of the Sword might be a more forgiving kind of samurai epic

The Block Stacking Problem

SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks track declines in U.S. peers

Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

SoftBank Group shares plunge over 9% as Asian tech stocks decline

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