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A Case Study in AI Overstatement: Builder.ai

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-26 17:00:35

Back in May, Builder.ai, once a high-flying startup touted as a path-clearing AI-powered app builder, filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., culminating a spectacular fall that has become a cautionary tale in today’s AI frenzy. The filing followed a flurry of activity that saw creditors seize its accounts, the revelation that it may have been using engineers in India instead of AI, and a probe into how Builder.ai’s founder spent money leading up to its collapse. The collapse has sparked anger among

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Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-26 17:30:43

Disney gets all the press, and Six Flags has all the dancing commercials, but Universal has always had a strong position in the theme park world. Starting with a simple tour of the Universal lot in Hollywood, the film studio evolved that into several parks across the globe, all of which showcase the big, popular film and TV shows created by the studio. Then, last year, that culminated with Universal opening its most advanced park yet, Epic Universe in Orlando. And while we’ve seen plenty of doc

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Waymo Is Expanding to Denver, Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 16:46:00

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Tuesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Denver in the fall "to lay the groundwork for a fully autonomous service in the future." The company is also gearing up to expand to Seattle. This comes after Waymo said in an Aug. 29 blog po

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Are you ready for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 17:19:38

Fans of the 28 Days Later franchise were thrilled to finally get a follow-up this year with 28 Years Later—and they weren't disappointed. Sony Pictures has already wrapped filming on a sequel: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, slated for release early next year and directed by Nia DaCosta. The first trailer just dropped and the film looks as grimly compelling as its predecessor, while hopefully also retaining something of the 2025 film's heart. (Spoilers for 28 Years Later below.) As previously

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 17:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-26 20:04:04

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when real-life users become more familiar with the tech — realizing that, at their core, products like ChatGPT are wo

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Ubisoft's free Assassin's Creed Mirage Discovery Tour app allows you to explore 9th century Baghdad

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:20:20

Ubisoft is releasing a free Discovery Tour app covering the history of Baghdad, the setting of Assassin's Creed Mirage . The game launched in 2023 without Ubisoft's "Discovery Tour" feature, a mode that's previously been packed into Assassin's Creed games — starting with 2017's Assassin's Creed Origins — and uses the game's open-world maps and character models to illustrate the history and cultural specifics of their chosen setting. This new app takes a slightly different approach, reworking th

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Amazon's Tomb Raider series will star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:30:35

We finally have our Lara Croft, well over two years after Prime Video's Tomb Raider series was first announced. Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner has been cast in the role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She had better start trying on khaki shorts and blue sleeveless shirts. Turner acknowledges the "massive shoes to fill" from previous actors that have played the role, shouting out Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander. She also says she can't wait for audiences "to see what we have cooking

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The first new Bond game in over a decade is Hitman meets action blockbuster

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:35:51

IO Interactive seemingly wrapped up its assassination series Hitman in 2023, launching the anthology on practically every game platform. But it’s not done with sneaking, subterfuge, and… sniper rifles. The game developer announced that it was making a new James Bond game, teasing an "unrefined" Bond in training – yes, it’s another reimagined origin story. At a closed-door briefing at Gamescom, I watched the team play through some early parts of 007 First Light, with Bond part of a team of more

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Show HN: Entropy-Guided Loop – How to make small models reason

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 20:19:10

Logprobs Reasoning Loop with Weights & Biases Weave, an observability tool Uncertainty-Aware Generation with OpenAI's Responses API This project demonstrates a novel approach to improving AI model reasoning by leveraging token-level uncertainty metrics (logprobs) to create self-correcting generation loops. We compare this uncertainty-aware approach against traditional reasoning models to test whether explicit uncertainty handling can match or exceed the performance of dedicated reasoning archi

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Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 14:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 19:28:23

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python Posted August 30, 2023 A few months ago, I set myself the challenge of writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python , after writing my SDF donut post. How hard could it be? The answer was, pretty hard, even when dropping quite a few features. But it was also pretty interesting, and the result is surprisingly functional and not too hard to understand! There's too much code for me to comprehensively cover in a single blog post , so I'll just give an ove

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Amazon Finally Confirms Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Raider’ Series

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-26 21:15:47

In a not-so-surprising announcement, Amazon MGM Studios has named the star of its long-gestating Tomb Raider series: Sophie Turner. The lack of shock is because Turner was known to be “nearly set” to sign on as Lara Croft, according to reports from November of last year. Those same reports noted that Turner had been chosen over the other contender, Bohemian Rhapsody‘s Lucy Boynton, but that the deal wasn’t yet official. Now, Variety confirms that not only is Turner set for the part, but also th

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Trump’s New History Exhibit Features Fake Quotes From AI-Generated Founding Fathers

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-26 21:25:03

The White House recently commissioned a new history exhibit in Washington, D.C. created by the far-right “education” group PragerU. The exhibit features 82 paintings and 40 AI videos, presenting a rather distorted view of America’s founding. The AI-generated videos even include fake quotes from the founding fathers, including one that seems like a joke. But the folks at PragerU are serious about their mission, even if the intention is to own the libs. What kind of quotes are we talking about?

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Samsung’s New Sound Tower Speaker Is for Party Animals Only

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-10-26 21:51:35

IFA 2025 has already brought us a lot of gadgets, including AirPods Max chargers, Whoop-killing fitness bands, business laptops that can game, and even a cassette-playing Bluetooth boombox, but it’s been a fruitful event for one demographic in particular: party people. First, JBL announced its first battery-powered party speaker, the PartyBox 720, and now Samsung is getting in on the action with its Sound Tower speaker. The Sound Tower ST50F and ST40F are Samsung’s latest entrants into the part

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Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:20:00

Google has avoided the worst-case scenario in the pivotal search antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice. More than a year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a major victory when Google was found to have violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. The remedy phase took place earlier this year, with the DOJ calling for Google to divest the market-leading Chrome browser, release data to competitors, and end many of its search distribution deals. The government is getting almost n

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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-26 21:40:38

People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from content delivery network Cloudflare and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Internet registry. The certificates, issued in May, can be used to decrypt domain lookup queries encrypted through DNS over HTTPS, a protocol that provides end-to-end encryption when end-user devices seek the IP address of a particular domain they want to acce

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The Best Bluetooth Speaker Is $20 Off

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-26 21:11:05

Trying to boost the volume at your end-of-summer parties? The JBL Flip 7 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is discounted by $20 on Amazon, bringing the price down to just $130. That might not sound like a huge discount, but it brings it more in line with its competitors, and temporarily erases the price bump from the previous version. We've given high marks to several rounds of the JBL Flip series speakers, thanks to their great battery life, portable form factor, and impressive volume. JBL upgraded thi

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A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-26 20:52:37

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. If you ever doubted the “console wars” were over, here’s a new piece of data to consider: Helldivers 2, formerly console exclusive to Sony’s PS5, is currently the best-selling title on Xbox. In fact, it’s the first and third best-selling game, if you count its more premium edition, and it’s currently the ninth-most played game on the platfo

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Anker’s power bank with dual USB-C retractable cables is a great deal at $25 off

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-26 21:08:45

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Anker’s Laptop Power Bank came to the rescue of my laptop and smartphone during a recent power outage. They were on the verge of dying, but its pair of retractable USB-C cables powered up my devices so I could keep working remotely. Since then, I carry it with me wherever I go, and it’s bailed me out time and again. If you need a powerful, portable charger, you can buy it for $94.49 ($25 off) at Amazon, Best

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M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-27 01:08:41

M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack 52 minutes ago Share Save Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Share Save Getty Images A group of young English-speaking hackers are claiming to be behind the cyber attack which has halted the global production lines of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). The group is bragging about the hack on the messaging app Telegram, sharing screenshots apparently taken from inside the car maker's IT networks. The gang is also responsible for

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New Eero Signal promises to keep you connected during internet outages

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-27 01:24:04

Eero has announced a new Eero Signal product that it says will let you “say goodbye to internet outages.” “Eero Signal delivers cellular backup whenever your wired internet connection goes down,” the company explains. It’s available in both 4G LTE and 5G RedCap versions. In a press release announcing the news, Eero explained that Eero Signal can be connected to any USB-C Eero on your network to provide backup connectivity during an internet outage. The device has a built-in eSIM and “automatic

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The first iPhone with all-screen display could arrive next year: report

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-27 01:47:11

The dream of an edge-to-edge iPhone display with no cutout could come true sooner than we thought. Per a new analyst report, next year’s iPhone Fold might be the first iPhone to move camera components under the display, thus offering a truly all-screen design. iPhone Fold expected to feature under-display front camera When Apple launched the iPhone X in 2017, it touted a “gorgeous all-glass design.” But as we all know, that design included a notch, which in 2022 shrank into the Dynamic Island.

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Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-27 01:12:45

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has suffered from a litany of myths over the years. If you're on the fence, you'll be glad to know those myths aren't true. Linux is easy, beautiful, and ripe for desktop users. I've been using Linux since the original Jurassic Park movie was released, and it seems every year I have to set some people straight on the truth about the open-source operating system. Sinc

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My iPhone 15 Pro Max battery life went from great to awful in less than two years - what happened?

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-27 01:49:00

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways My iPhone is less than 18 months old. It now cannot make it through a day without a recharge. Nothing appears abnormal in the settings, so what gives? Rather than do my usual and upgrade my iPhone again last year with only about a year on the clock, I decided to try what most people end up having to do -- keep it going for a few years. Apple says that the battery is designed to retain

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What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 01:48:27

1974 philosophy paper by Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat". "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The paper presents several difficulties posed by phenomenal consci

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Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 01:28:32

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor - Version 1.1 Historical Significance This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978. Why This Document is Historically Important 1. Foundation of the Personal Computer Revolution This BASIC interpreter

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Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 01:00:04

At Svix, we are looking for smart, high-energy and fast learning individuals that enjoy having developers as their users, and share our values. You will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the company and the product. You will be trusted to take ownership, have autonomy, and be a leader. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will

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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 00:28:23

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python Posted August 30, 2023 A few months ago, I set myself the challenge of writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python , after writing my SDF donut post. How hard could it be? The answer was, pretty hard, even when dropping quite a few features. But it was also pretty interesting, and the result is surprisingly functional and not too hard to understand! There's too much code for me to comprehensively cover in a single blog post , so I'll just give an ove

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Polar Introduces Loop, a $200 Screenless Wearable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-27 00:47:00

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Latest Tech News

A Case Study in AI Overstatement: Builder.ai

Universal Reveals a Trailer for Its Behind the Scenes Theme Park Docuseries

Waymo Is Expanding to Denver, Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

Are you ready for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple trailer?

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

Ubisoft's free Assassin's Creed Mirage Discovery Tour app allows you to explore 9th century Baghdad

Amazon's Tomb Raider series will star Sophie Turner as Lara Croft

The first new Bond game in over a decade is Hitman meets action blockbuster

Show HN: Entropy-Guided Loop – How to make small models reason

Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)

Amazon Finally Confirms Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in ‘Tomb Raider’ Series

Trump’s New History Exhibit Features Fake Quotes From AI-Generated Founding Fathers

Samsung’s New Sound Tower Speaker Is for Party Animals Only

Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

The Best Bluetooth Speaker Is $20 Off

A PlayStation game is now the best-selling game on Xbox

Anker’s power bank with dual USB-C retractable cables is a great deal at $25 off

M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

New Eero Signal promises to keep you connected during internet outages

The first iPhone with all-screen display could arrive next year: report

Ready to ditch Windows 10? Don't let these 7 Linux myths stop you

My iPhone 15 Pro Max battery life went from great to awful in less than two years - what happened?

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 Basic

Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

Polar Introduces Loop, a $200 Screenless Wearable

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