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Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-10-23 16:43:12

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories of our own. But first, what’s changing: previously, Anthropic didn’t use consumer chat data for model training. Now, the company wants to train its AI systems on user conversations

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There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-24 03:21:32

Over the past few years, the tech industry's plans for artificial intelligence have grown from ambitious to outright treacherous, with the amount of money invested in the space so high it now poses a serious risk to the broader economy. Underlying the broader, often poorly-defined AI tech are data centers, which are vast warehouses stuffed to the brim with specialized chips that transform energy into computational power, thus making all your Grok fact checks possible. The economics of data cen

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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 02:59:11

Today, we're rolling out updates to our Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy that will help us deliver even more capable, useful AI models. We're now giving users the choice to allow their data to be used to improve Claude and strengthen our safeguards against harmful usage like scams and abuse. Adjusting your preferences is easy and can be done at any time. These updates apply to users on our Claude Free, Pro, and Max plans, including when they use Claude Code from accounts associated with those

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How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-24 08:05:57

The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets increasingly digitized and artificial intelligence creeps its way into every aspect of life, data centers become more and more important. But that data comes with a catch: the servers in these data centers have monstrous energy demands that eat up natural resources like water, and that puts a significant burden on local communities where data centers are located. Some companies think they’ve found the solution to this problem by sending th

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Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-24 08:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years — again, for users that don’t choose to

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TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-24 16:10:34

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. TransUnion is one of the three major credit bureaus in the United States, alongside Equifax and Experian. It operates in 30 countries, employs 13,000 staff, and has an annual revenue of $3 billion. It collects and maintains credit information on over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the U.S.

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That boolean should probably be something else

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 19:31:15

Monday, June 30, 2025 One of the first types we learn about is the boolean. It's pretty natural to use, because boolean logic underpins much of modern computing. And yet, it's one of the types we should probably be using a lot less of. In almost every single instance when you use a boolean, it should be something else. The trick is figuring out what "something else" is. Doing this is worth the effort. It tells you a lot about your system, and it will improve your design (even if you end up usi

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LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

news.ycombinator.com Filip Rejmus 2025-10-24 20:15:28

The first idea resembling something like the idea of OCR got developed in 1870 as a reading machine for the blind - the Optophone. This was the first step to solve a problem that sounds pretty simple: How do we get writing on paper inside a computer? 150 years of research, engineering breakthroughs and hundreds of IDP products later we were finally able to scan a receipt and have the fields be filled out - if it looked nice and friendly enough to the OCR model. Heureka. Unfortunately for Tesse

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GAN Math (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Jake Tae 2025-10-24 18:42:35

Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on GANs, the two models are trained such that the discriminator strives to distinguish between generated and true examples, while the generator seeks to confuse the discriminator by produ

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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-25 00:04:57

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not s

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From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care

technologyreview.com Dr. Wael Salloum 2025-10-25 08:09:13

Overcoming LLM limitations LLMs excel at understanding nuanced context, performing instinctive reasoning, and generating human-like interactions, making them ideal for agentic tools to then interpret intricate data and communicate effectively. Yet in a domain like health care where compliance, accuracy, and adherence to regulatory standards are non-negotiable—and where a wealth of structured resources like taxonomies, rules, and clinical guidelines define the landscape—symbolic AI is indispensa

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The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring a Software Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 06:20:35

We are on a mission to create the forecasting foundation model to rule them all. Forecasting drives critical decisions worldwide - impacting staffing, supply chain management, finance and more. Our solution provides companies with the models, platform and APIs they need to easily generate the most accurate forecasts possible, helping to significantly reduce waste and enabling smarter, more confident decisions. Who we’re looking for As our founding software engineer, you will have the ability t

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The Math Behind GANs

news.ycombinator.com Jake Tae 2025-10-25 09:42:35

Generative Adversarial Networks refer to a family of generative models that seek to discover the underlying distribution behind a certain data generating process. This distribution is discovered through an adversarial competition between a generator and a discriminator. As we saw in an earlier introductory post on GANs, the two models are trained such that the discriminator strives to distinguish between generated and true examples, while the generator seeks to confuse the discriminator by produ

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This mobile hotspot is 28% off, and comes with 1GB of data a month for free!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 09:19:04

If you constantly need internet on the go, your best bet is to stop using your smartphone’s hotspot feature and get a mobile hotspot device. Here’s a good deal for you. The SIMO Solis Lite is 28% off right now, but that isn’t the only exciting news. The value is in the fact that it comes with a free GB of monthly data… for life! Buy the SIMO Solis Lite for just $115.19 ($44.80 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” Data services are provided by Solis, which will also

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Storm-0501 hackers shift to ransomware attacks in the cloud

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-25 16:38:12

Microsoft warns that a threat actor tracked as Storm-0501 has evolved its operations, shifting away from encrypting devices with ransomware to focusing on cloud-based encryption, data theft, and extortion. The hackers now abuse native cloud features to exfiltrate data, wipe backups, and destroy storage accounts, thereby applying pressure and extorting victims without deploying traditional ransomware encryption tools. Storm-0501 is a threat actor who has been active since at least 2021, deployi

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IT system supplier cyberattack impacts 200 municipalities in Sweden

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-26 08:23:42

A cyberattack on Miljödata, an IT systems supplier for roughly 80% of Sweden’s municipal systems, has caused accessibility problems in more than 200 regions of the country. In addition to the service disruption, there are concerns that attackers also stole sensitive data. Local media report that the threat actor demanded a ransom of 1.5 (currently around $168,000) Bitcoins from Miljödata in exchange for not leaking stolen information. Miljödata is a Swedish software company that develops and p

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Interdisciplinary Computing and Education for Real-World Solutions

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-26 14:35:29

An Interview with Prof. Vipin Kumar – 2025 Taylor L. Booth Education Award Recipient Prof. Vipin Kumar, a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, has wide-ranging research interests, which touch on several fields that have significant impact worldwide. His leadership as an educator in computer science and his authorship of foundational textbooks have shaped data mining and parallel computing curricula internationally. Below is an in-depth interview on the technologies he has had a han

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Saudi AI firm Humain is pouring billions into data. Will it pay off?

cnbc.com Natasha Turak 2025-10-26 16:46:30

Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, attend the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters Saudi Arabia is looking to make data its new oil — if artificial intelligence and data center company Humain gets its way. The company, owned by the Saudi kingdom's massive sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, is looking to build out data center capacity in a country with seemingly unlimited land and abundant energy re

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Saudi Arabia wants to be world's third-largest AI provider after the U.S. and China, Humain CEO says

cnbc.com Natasha Turak 2025-10-26 20:44:42

Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, attend the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 13, 2025. Saudi Arabia is on the road to making data its new oil — if artificial intelligence and data center company Humain gets its way. The company, owned by the Saudi kingdom's massive sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, is looking to build out data center capacity in a country with seemingly unlimited land and abundant energy resources. Faced with

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Computing’s Top 30: Theofanis Raptis

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-26 23:00:54

Transitioning between two different cultures and professional roles—from working at a university in Greece to joining the National Research Council of Italy—presented Theofanis Raptis with several valuable lessons, including an understanding of what he calls an intellectual “fermentation” process. Triggered by internationalization, bilateral cooperation, and cross-discipline collaborations, this fermentation included the dynamic exchange and blending of ideas across disciplines and cultures, le

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Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-27 04:00:00

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 Salesforce is betting that rigorous testing in simulated business environments will solve one of enterprise artificial intelligence’s biggest problems: agents that work in demonstrations but fail in the messy reality of corporate operations. The cloud software giant unveiled three major AI research initiatives this week, including CRMArena

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Healthcare Services Group data breach impacts 624,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-27 04:27:36

The Healthcare Services Group (HSGI) is alerting more than 600,000 individuals that their personal information was exposed in a security breach last year. The healthcare services provider stated that it detected unauthorized access to its network on October 7, 2024, and subsequently discovered that the intrusion had begun on September 27. The investigation that followed revealed that the intruders had exfiltrated data from the systems they had accessed. “The investigation determined that an u

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Delphi in the Age of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 10:54:03

How do I start using Machine Learning in Windows? Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the design and development of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data. Machine Learning algorithms have been used in a variety of applications, such as spam detection, facial recognition, and disease diagnosis. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Machine Learning, due to the availability of large data sets and advances in computing p

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Graph databases are exploding, thanks to the AI boom - here's why

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-10-27 15:31:28

Cobalt88 / iStock / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The graph database market, driven by AI, is growing at a rate of almost 25% annually. Graph databases support knowledge graphs, providing visual guidance for AI development. There are multiple dedicated graph database vendors on the market. Over the past decade, there has been endless churn in technologies shaping the databases behind the applications we run. The rise of NoSQL

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Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 00:55:01

FilterQL A tiny query language for filtering structured data 🚀 There are two main parts of this repository: the TypeScript library and the FilterQL language specification. Implementations in other languages are more than welcome! TypeScript Library Installation bun add filterql # or: npm install filterql Usage Define a schema for your data and create a FilterQL instance: import { FilterQL } from "filterql" // The schema determines what fields are allowed in the query const schema = { tit

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Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

news.ycombinator.com Geoff Brumfiel 2025-10-27 16:50:24

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers toggle caption Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post/Getty Images A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whi

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AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-10-27 15:02:04

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 Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn’t rely on rows and columns like a traditional relational database, instead it uses the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. There are multiple vendors that develop document databases includi

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DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-27 23:04:23

A Social Security Administration (SSA) official alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that DOGE officials created "a live copy of the country's Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight." Chuck Borges, the SSA's Chief Data Officer (CDO), "has become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans' Social Security da

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Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 07:12:53

Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks. Salesloft's SalesDrift is a third-party platform that connects the Drift AI chat agent with a Salesforce instance, allowing organizations to sync conversations, leads, and support cases into their CRM. Acc

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Health Connect prepares to track your favorite vices (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-28 11:54:04

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Health Connect gives Android users a tool to store their health and fitness data in a centralized repository. In addition to regular health metrics, Health Connect is getting ready to keep track of nicotine and alcohol consumption. Nicotine reporting will support different consumption methods, like cigarettes and vaping. Let’s be honest: Android Health Connect needs work. The system has the best of intentions, offering a tool for organizing and making

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Latest Tech News

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

How Is AI Used In Space? This Wild Look Into a Data Center Plan Has Clues

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts

TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

That boolean should probably be something else

LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't

GAN Math (2020)

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care

The Forecasting Company (YC S24) Is Hiring a Software Engineer

The Math Behind GANs

This mobile hotspot is 28% off, and comes with 1GB of data a month for free!

Storm-0501 hackers shift to ransomware attacks in the cloud

IT system supplier cyberattack impacts 200 municipalities in Sweden

Interdisciplinary Computing and Education for Real-World Solutions

Saudi AI firm Humain is pouring billions into data. Will it pay off?

Saudi Arabia wants to be world's third-largest AI provider after the U.S. and China, Humain CEO says

Computing’s Top 30: Theofanis Raptis

Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

Healthcare Services Group data breach impacts 624,000 people

Delphi in the Age of AI

Graph databases are exploding, thanks to the AI boom - here's why

Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data

Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers

AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

Health Connect prepares to track your favorite vices (APK teardown)

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