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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-01 09:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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The Download: America’s drone brothers, and an upside of AI doomerism

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-01 09:10:00

In 2024 alone, 350 known drone incursions were reported over a hundred different US military installations. A lack of coordination or even clarity from the White House, Pentagon or US intelligence community has led some in domestic law enforcement to turn to an unlikely source for help cracking the case of these mystery drones: two UFO hunters out on Long Island in New York called John and Gerald Tedesco. The twin brothers each spent about three decades in the private sector working in electr

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Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded!

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 17:12:30

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU 798 AI TOPS Up to 100W TGP (on AC) Up to 50W TGP (on battery) 8GB GDDR7 memory 128-bit memory bus 384GB/s memory bandwidth 2.0GHz base clock and up to 2.4GHz boost USB-C port with DP Alt Mode and charging 4,608 CUDA cores DLSS 4 5th gen tensor cores 4th gen ray tracing 1x 9th gen NVIDIA encoder 1x 6th gen NVIDIA decoder Radeon™ RX 7700S (2nd Gen) 32 compute units Up to 100W TGP (on AC) 8GB 18Gbps GDDR6 memory USB-C port with DP Alt Mode

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Are these 'crush-proof' Bluetooth speakers legit? I took them into the wild, and here's my verdict

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-01 21:15:19

Turtlebox Original Gen 3 ZDNET's key takeaways The Turtlebox Original Gen 3 speaker is available in five colors, retailing for $430. It's considerably more durable beyond waterproofing capabilities, making it a solid option for outdoor enthusiasts. Despite its incredible durability, it lacks any sound customization features. $450 at Amazon Best test deals of the week Test 1 : $5 (save $5) Test 2 : $10 (save $7) Deals are selected by the CNET Group commerce team, and may be unrelated to this

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Power with purpose

technologyreview.com Gigi Marino 2025-11-02 14:00:00

In 2005, only 41% of Ghana’s population had access to electricity. Much of that electricity was generated by the Akosombo and Kpong dams on the Volta River, but relying on hydroelectric power made Ghana susceptible to climate fluctuations that affect water levels. Recalling how much his MIT thermodynamics class (then called Heat and Mass Transfer) with Ernest Cravalho had stayed with him, Asiamah-Adjei realized that perhaps delving into energy was not such a wild idea. “The seed had been sown,”

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Google could be building a new nook for your Gemini creations (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 14:00:34

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a new “My Stuff” section for the Gemini interface on Android. While its purpose isn’t clear, it could be used to store media generated using Gemini, separate from your chats. A similar section for storing AI-generated media is also present in ChatGPT, and it is known as “Library.” Gemini is already quite powerful as a virtual assistant, and is raking up new features as Google prepares to replace Google Assistant with it entirely. Recent

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How to stop AI agents going rogue

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-02 16:59:49

How to stop AI agents going rogue 1 hour ago Share Save Sean McManus Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Anthropic tested a range of leading AI models for potential risky behaviour Disturbing results emerged earlier this year, when AI developer Anthropic tested leading AI models to see if they engaged in risky behaviour when using sensitive information. Anthropic's own AI, Claude, was among those tested. When given access to an email account it discovered that a company executive was

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Pokemon TCG Pocket's Next Set Showcases Johto's Rarest Legendaries

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-03 10:11:48

The Legendary Beasts from the second generation of Pokemon games are roaring into the digital card game Pokemon TCG Pocket when its next mini-expansion, Secluded Springs, is released on Aug. 28. The smaller subset of digital cards supplements the recent Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, which focused on the rare Pokemon Ho-Oh and Lugia. (Older fans may remember them from the box art of Pokemon Gold and Silver, released all the way back in 1999.) While the official list of digital cards in the se

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This Orange Shark Is the Result of a Rare Genetic Double Whammy

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-04 05:50:14

The depths of the Caribbean host a spectacular array of marine life—including this nurse shark featuring vivid orange scales and cloudy white eyes. Last year, anglers on a fishing trip near Costa Rica with Parisima Domus Dei, a tourist company, reeled in what looked like a giant goldfish with shark-like chompers. After snapping some photos of the creature—about 6 feet (1.8 meters)—the fishermen let it go, later describing their strange encounter to marine experts. The researchers concluded tha

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Scientists Say They've Created a New Form of Life More Perfect Than the One Nature Made

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 05:00:15

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they've engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than any other lifeform on Earth. They call their creation "Syn57," a bioengineered strain of E. coli — yes, the same bad boy that can make you extremely sick if you eat an undercooked hot dog — which uses seven less codons than all life on earth. A codon, put simply, is a three-letter sequence found in

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How to Fix Your Context

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-05 02:09:53

Mitigating & Avoiding Context Failures Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely. But before we do, let’s briefly recap some of the ways long contexts can fail: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. Context Distraction: When

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How to build a coding agent

news.ycombinator.com Geoffrey Huntley 2025-11-04 21:21:14

😎 The following was developed last month and has already been delivered at two conferences. If you would like for me to run a workshop similar to this at your employer, please get in contact Hey everyone, I'm here today to teach you how to build a coding agent. By this stage of the conference, you may be tired of hearing the word "agent". You hear the word frequently. However, it appears that everyone is using this term loosely without a clear understanding of what it means or how these coding

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Show HN: How to Build a Coding Agent (free workshop)

news.ycombinator.com Geoffrey Huntley 2025-11-05 03:21:14

😎 The following was developed last month and has already been delivered at two conferences. If you would like for me to run a workshop similar to this at your employer, please get in contact Hey everyone, I'm here today to teach you how to build a coding agent. By this stage of the conference, you may be tired of hearing the word "agent". You hear the word frequently. However, it appears that everyone is using this term loosely without a clear understanding of what it means or how these coding

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I tested these viral 'crush-proof' Bluetooth speakers, and they're not your average portables

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-11-04 20:15:19

Turtlebox Original Gen 3 ZDNET's key takeaways The Turtlebox Original Gen 3 speaker is available in five colors, retailing for $430. It's considerably more durable beyond waterproofing capabilities, making it a solid option for outdoor enthusiasts. Despite its incredible durability, it lacks any sound customization features. $450 at Amazon Best test deals of the week Test 1 : $5 (save $5) Test 2 : $10 (save $7) Deals are selected by the CNET Group commerce team, and may be unrelated to this

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Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 18:09:11

You're using a tool with a too-generic User-Agent You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately whatever you're using to do so has a HTTP User-Agent header value that is too generic or otherwise excessively suspicious. Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that behave like this. To reduce th

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My tips for using LLM agents to create software

news.ycombinator.com Some Random Dude On The Internet 2025-11-05 00:59:02

This post details my experiences creating software with LLM coding agents, emphasizing that what you do with AI agents is ‘creation’, not just 'coding,' and sharing what worked for me. This is not 'The One True Path To AI Success.' tl;dr: I’m not a professional developer, just a hobbyist with aspirations I wanted to accomplish a coding project beyond my skill level and have been experimenting with agentic coding tools for several months (spoiler: mostly success) You should use Anthropic’

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With Apple's Siri AI Overhaul Delayed, Google Might Help It Catch Up

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 22:53:00

Apple is reportedly weighing up a potentially major change to its digital assistant: powering a revamped Siri with Google's Gemini artificial intelligence tool. According to Bloomberg, the companies are in early discussions about a partnership that could reshape Apple's AI strategy for the iPhone, iPad and Apple's other products. While no agreement is in place, the talks signal Apple's growing urgency to keep up in the generative AI race. Siri, once a pioneer, has lagged behind its voice assis

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-05 05:25:35

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 A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained usin

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If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?

news.ycombinator.com Moshe Y. Vardi 2025-11-05 10:06:59

The World Wide Web (Web) emerged as a new medium in the mid-1990s. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989, but its exploding popularity was also enabled by the release of the Mosaic Web browser in 1993 and the Internet becoming commercially available in 1995. A communication revolution was launched. Roughly 30 years later, the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in Nov. 2022 launched another revolution. High-quality generation of natural-lan

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Netflix wants its partners to follow these rules when using gen AI

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-05 15:22:47

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Netflix has already faced backlash over the use of AI in What Jennifer Did, director Jenny Popplewell’s 2024 true crime documentary that seemingly used AI-generated images in place of real archival photos. That documentary stood out as a shining e

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At This Point, It’s Impossible to Know What the Trump Phone Looks Like

wired.com Verity Burns 2025-11-06 20:08:24

It's been over two months since Trump Mobile announced the T1 Phone was being “Made in the USA” designed “with American values in mind,” and it seems that anyone deciding to preorder it still can’t be sure exactly what phone they might receive. In posts on X and Instagram on Wednesday, the Trump Mobile account encouraged followers to place their preorder, promising them that “the wait is almost over.” This was joined by an image that looks nothing like the one of the T1 phone that's currently o

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95% of business applications of AI have failed. Here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-07 00:59:34

MirageC/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: Just 5% of enterprise customers are profiting from generative AI. A bottom-up versus top-down approach can improve implementation success. AI companies are making big promises in a bubble, most of which are unfulfilled. Investment in generative AI may be booming, but most individual businesses using it have yet to see the payoff. In fact, a new MIT study found that 95% of enterprise

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Launch HN: Inconvo (YC S23) – AI agents for customer-facing analytics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 04:59:07

Hi HN, we are Liam and Eoghan of Inconvo ( https://inconvo.com ), a platform that makes it easy to build and deploy AI analytics agents into your SaaS products, so your customers can quickly interact with their data. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wlZL3XGWTQ and a live demo at https://demo.inconvo.ai/ (no signup required). Docs are at https://inconvo.com/docs. SaaS products typically offer dashboards and reports, which work for high-level metrics but are clunky for dr

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Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2025-11-07 21:00:00

That idea is not without its detractors. Among other issues, many feel AI is not capable of the creative thought needed in research, makes too many mistakes and hallucinations, and may limit opportunities for young researchers. Nevertheless, a number of scientists and policymakers are very keen on the promise of AI scientists. The US government’s AI Action Plan describes the need to “invest in automated cloud-enabled labs for a range of scientific fields.” Some researchers think AI scientists c

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Trump Mobile’s latest T1 phone teaser fails to hide an epic Photoshop blunder

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-07 18:49:16

Trump Mobile TL;DR Trump Mobile is now advertising a new design for its upcoming T1 smartphone. If it looks familiar, that is because the team has now picked up the Galaxy S25 Ultra to showcase the design. Funnily, the image now used by Trump Mobile hides a logo from casemaker Spigen, suggesting the former lifted off media from the latter’s catalog. Trump Mobile can’t stick to a single phone design for its trumpeted phone, which is set to launch in the US next month. After recently showcasin

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Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe over faulty crash reporting

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-11-08 20:22:17

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Elon Musk's Tesla is facing a federal probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after the U.S. auto safety agency found that the company was not reporting crashes as required. According to documents posted to NHTSA's website on Thursday, the agency's Office of Defects Investigation had "identified numerous incident reports" from Te

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Google is selling a version of Gemini for government agencies

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-08 20:42:21

Google has announced plans to sell a custom version of its Gemini AI models for government agencies. "Gemini for Government" includes access to existing tools like NotebookLM, and "Google-quality enterprise search, video and image generation capabilities." The AI platform is in direct competition with similar offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. A big focus of Google's pitch for Gemini for Government is the idea of automating administrative tasks with AI agents. The company touts pre-built

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Struggling fusion power company General Fusion gets $22M lifeline from investors

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-09 00:12:29

General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much. A subset of General Fusion’s existing investors ultimately ponied up for wha

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

news.ycombinator.com Gio Silva 2025-11-09 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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Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:36:51

Executive Summary Lumia’s Research Team revealed that messages dictated via Siri, including WhatsApp and iMessage are not sent to the Private Cloud Compute. In fact, there is no assurance as to what Apple does with these messages. Siri transmits metadata about installed and active apps without the user’s ability to control these privacy settings. Audio playback metadata such as ‘recording names’, is sent without consent. No user control or visibility exists over these background data flows.

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