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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug

news.ycombinator.com Andy Greenberg 2025-11-17 00:47:26

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.” After a closer look and some googling, Garcia figured out that a company by that name was a subsidiary of Motorola, and the devices he’d found in his scho

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-17 10:35:30

Good news, everyone! Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have coined a new term to describe our brains being dumb. In a recent study, they provide evidence for a distinct but common kind of cognitive bias—one that makes us reluctant to take the easier path in life if it means retracing our steps. The researchers have named the bias the “doubling-back aversion.” In several experiments, they found that people often refuse to choose a more efficient solution or route if it requir

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Dead EV Batteries Are Hoarding a Shocking Amount of Useful Lithium

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-17 20:40:53

The lithium batteries we deem unfit for use in electric vehicles might still contain copious amounts of usable, pure lithium we could retrieve and reuse—a potentially consistent, bountiful supply we’re just not trying hard enough to tap into, a new study suggests. In a study published August 14 in the Journal of Environmental Management, researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia argue that tapping into the leftover lithium in used batteries could fuel a pragmatic, sustainable alt

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Galileo's Telescopes: Seeing Is Believing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 20:03:34

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How We’ll Know for Sure If Microplastics Are Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-20 03:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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Computing’s Top 30: Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-11-20 09:00:10

On a typical mobile device today, financial and medical apps nestled up next to everything from karaoke playlists to time-killing games like Fruit Ninja. How to secure data that matters in this diverse digital buffet is a challenge for many researchers. For Zhihao “Zephyr” Yao, it’s a challenge that fuels his life’s work and also led to an award-winning project. That project—which earned ACM MobiSys 2023’s Best Artifact Award—demonstrated that making systems less complex can actually enhance m

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Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-20 10:00:00

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion on their bet on CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI models have fallen behind the state-of-the-art, and its business hasn’t scaled like its competitors. Now, the company is bringing in a veteran research leader to revamp its AI ef

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Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-20 10:46:09

Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles competition. Called Flight Deals, the new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheaper fares. Users can type natural language queries into a search bar — describing how and when they want to travel — and the AI surfaces matching options. These

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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 15:08:16

Ai2 has been awarded $75 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $77 million from NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project with the NSF and NVIDIA to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery. The partnership supports the NSF Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure project, Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI). Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Noah A. Smith, Senior Director of NLP Rese

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How to Find Out If Microplastics Are Actually Destroying Our Health

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-20 15:35:03

Researchers have found plastic in almost every corner of the human body, from our brains and poop to blood and testicles (at least it’s not making our stomachs crunch yet). Is this plastic contamination bad for us? While the answer to that question might seem like a no-brainer—and certainly no one is crazy enough to theorize that microplastics in breast milk are a good thing—there haven’t been any human trials to confirm that microplastics are detrimental to human health. Some research has simp

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Data brokers just gave us another reason to hate them

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-20 20:37:44

If you were holding a competition for the scummiest business model, then data brokers would be very high up the list. These companies make money by buying personal data from app and website owners and selling it to companies who want to spam us. A US Senator has now drawn attention to the latest sketchy practice by these companies: making it harder for us to opt out by hiding that option from search results … The dark world of data brokers Data brokers are companies that buy personal data fro

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Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:58:39

Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN subscriber-only content] The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its rolling-release model and the quality of the documentation in the ArchWiki. No matter which Linux distribution one uses, the odds are that eventually the ArchWiki's documentation will prove useful. The Debian project recognized this and has sought to improve its own documentation game by inviting ArchWiki maintainers Jakub Klinkovský

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Show HN: Yet another memory system for LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:34:11

YAMS - Yet Another Memory System Persistent memory for LLMs and applications. Content-addressed storage with deduplication, semantic search, and full-text indexing. My prompt for CLI usage is PROMPT.md and PROMPT-eng.md for programming. Features Content-Addressed Storage - SHA-256 based, ensures data integrity - SHA-256 based, ensures data integrity Deduplication - Block-level with Rabin fingerprinting - Block-level with Rabin fingerprinting Compression - Zstandard and LZMA with intelligen

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Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-21 06:01:01

Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This could change soon. With Deep Research in Gemini, you can search about pretty much anything, including scholars, existing research papers, and more. Google describes Deep Research as an agentic Research Assistant that can browse up to hundreds of websites on your behalf, think through its findings, and create insightful multi-page reports in minutes.

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AI Agents Make Up a Third of All Search Traffic Toward Brands, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 04:08:00

AI agents are engaging in searching for brands at a scale that's equal to a third of equivalent organic search, according to a report from digital marketing company BrightEdge published Wednesday. BrightEdge defines an AI agent as any AI tool that does work on your behalf. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to find the most cost-effective bikes for teenagers to ride on gravel, OpenAI will use its live web browsing feature to look across bicycle brands to find the information. ChatGPT isn't the onl

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Why GPT-5's rocky rollout is the reality check we needed on superintelligence hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-22 10:51:00

Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog pos

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New Details Emerge About Ancient Inca Counting Technology

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-22 10:00:01

The Inca were a pre-Columbian civilization whose empire sprawled along South America’s Pacific Coast from the 15th to the 16th century CE. Like other Andean peoples, they used khipus (also known as quipus), an intricate cord and knot system used to record information. According to Spanish colonial-era sources, only male Inca elites could make khipus. A new study, however, challenges this widespread notion. In a paper published today in Science Advances, an international team of researchers inve

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Monarch Butterflies Are Losing Their Navigational Abilities. You Can Guess Why

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-22 10:00:43

Each fall, millions of eastern North American monarch butterflies migrate up to 3,000 miles south to the mountains of central Mexico, then return to their northern range in the spring. These winged insects rely on a complex navigation system to go to and from their overwintering sites, and new research suggests climate change may be messing with it. Monarch butterflies have two distinct biological “compasses.” The primary one infers direction based on their circadian rhythm and the position of

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AI Agents Are Using a Third of All Search Traffic Meant Towards Brands, Report Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 10:08:02

AI agents are engaging in searching for brands at a scale that's equal to a third of equivalent organic search, according to a report from digital marketing company BrightEdge published Wednesday. BrightEdge defines an AI agent as any AI tool that does work on your behalf. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to find the most cost-effective bikes for teenagers to ride on gravel, OpenAI will use its live web browsing feature to look across bicycle brands to find the information. ChatGPT isn't the onl

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Hikaru Utada Will Add the ‘Chainsaw Man’ Movie to Their Anime Song Infinity Gauntlet

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-22 15:00:56

A teaser trailer for a song typically doesn’t make waves, but when it’s tied to a hotly anticipated theatrical release like Mappa’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, it certainly might. Especially when it’s graced by the dulcet tones of Hikaru Utada, a singer whose presence in the anime industry is nothing short of musical royalty. Previous trailers for the film adaptation of manga creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Reze Arc leaned hard into spectacle with blazing eruptions, feverish glimpses of Denj

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Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 18:55:00

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have degraded, or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days and it's added a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit on how many sourc

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A year after Altman said superintelligence was imminent, GPT-5 is all we get?

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-23 10:25:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog post: "We have recentl

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If you’re tired of bad Google Search results, here’s how I finally fixed mine

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 11:00:44

Joe Maring / Android Authority When we talk about Google Search in 2025, it’s usually not for a good reason. AI Overviews are more prevalent than ever, despite still not being particularly good. Google widely rolled out (the very flawed) AI Mode to users in May, and the traditional Google Search experience remains cluttered with ads and low-quality results. This has made me (understandably) hesitant when Google launches a new feature for Search, but the company’s latest one — Preferred Sources

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I tested Preferred Sources, and it’s one of the best Google Search features in years

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:00:44

Joe Maring / Android Authority When we talk about Google Search in 2025, it’s usually not for a good reason. AI Overviews are more prevalent than ever, despite still not being particularly good. Google widely rolled out (the very flawed) AI Mode to users in May, and the traditional Google Search experience remains cluttered with ads and low-quality results. This has made me (understandably) hesitant when Google launches a new feature for Search, but the company’s latest one — Preferred Sources

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Now That Google Is Trash, It Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-24 14:25:04

Google seems to have destroyed the quality of its search results (and its reputation) by loading its feed with sponsored results, pages boosted by SEO black magic, and AI-generated slop. So it’s putting the control back in your hands, for better or worse. The company announced today via blog post a new feature called Preferred Sources that will let users select their own favorite news outlets to appear at the top of their personalized search feed. According to Google, the feature has already st

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Reddit blocks the Internet Archive from crawling its data - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-24 20:38:19

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement. Reddit is defending its privacy from AI companies that are taking roundabout approaches to scraping its content. The social media platform, known as a resource where users can post anonymously and find information about virtually any subje

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AI Startup Perplexity Offers to Buy Google's Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 22:56:00

Perplexity, the AI startup responsible for the eponymous chatbot and LLM-powered search engine, has made a formal bid to purchase Google's Chrome browser. The proposed $34.5 billion deal would eclipse Perplexity's current valuation. In July, the company was valued at $18 billion -- just over half the amount of the proposed bid. The company has said that several interested investors are willing to back the Chrome deal. Perplexity's bid comes after Google lost an antitrust suit initiated by the

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Chrome isn’t for sale, but Perplexity just offered $34.5 billion anyway

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 05:55:10

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Perplexity AI has made a $34.5 billion cash offer for Google’s Chrome browser. Google isn’t selling Chrome and is appealing a court ruling that could one day force its sale. Perplexity says it has funding lined up and would keep Chrome open source with no search engine changes. Google might be forced to sell its Chrome browser in the future, thanks to a US court ruling that found it held an unlawful monopoly in online search. But while the case is st

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AI Startup Perplexity Offers To Buy Google's Chrome Browser for a Whopping $34.5 Billion

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 04:56:59

Perplexity, the AI startup responsible for the eponymous chatbot and LLM-powered search engine, has made a formal bid to purchase Google's Chrome browser. The proposed $34.5 billion deal would eclipse Perplexity's current valuation. In July, the company was valued at $18 billion -- just over half the amount of the proposed bid. The company has said that several interested investors are willing to back the Chrome deal. Perplexity's bid comes after Google lost an antitrust suit initiated by the

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Get Ready for Football Season With NFL Retro Bowl 26 on Apple Arcade

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 09:49:09

The NFL preseason has started, which means football will occupy a lot of TVs for the next few months. To help you get in the mood for football season, Apple is planning to bring NFL Retro Bowl '26 to Apple Arcade on Sept. 4. Apple Arcade is filled with familiar and classic games, alongside exclusive titles, that you can play for $7 per month (£7, AU$10). Many of these games can be found in the App Store, but they may have paywalls and ads that hinder your gaming experience. An Apple Arcade sub

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AI Startup Perplexity Offers To Buy Google's Chrome Browser for a Whopping $34.5 Billion

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