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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:09:54

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to. Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how

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How to make metals from Martian dirt

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:09:45

27 August 2025 3 min read Key points Swinburne and CSIRO researchers are investigating ways to produce native metals using materials found on Mars. Martian settlements will require large amounts of metal that are difficult to ship from Earth. The team have successfully produced iron using regolith simulant that mimics what is available on the Red Planet. The idea of building settlements on Mars is a popular goal of billionaires, space agencies and interplanetary enthusiasts. But constructio

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Everything You Need to Know About the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Tonight

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-12 23:56:39

Much of the world will get to witness the spectacle of a total lunar eclipse on Sunday night. A total lunar eclipse happens when the Earth passes between the Moon and the Sun, briefly aligning in a way that completely shadows the Moon. A full moon lunar eclipse happens in three phases. The first phase is the penumbral phase when the Moon starts to enter Earth’s shadow. Then the partial phase begins, when a part of the moon enters the deep part of Earth’s shadow called the umbra. Next is total

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-13 02:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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This is the Samsung app I miss most when I use my Pixel

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-12 22:00:35

Andy Walker / Android Authority Despite employing a Samsung as my primary smartphone, I’ve really enjoyed using my Pixel as a sidekick. Granted, it’s a Pixel 8, so it lacks the latest and greatest features of the Pixel 10 series, but having access to Android 16 has been a joy. The software is swift, cheerful, and clean, but there’s a reason I opt for the Galaxy S24 FE as my main device. I still miss plenty of software features when using the Pixel over the Galaxy. Modes, Routines, and Good Loc

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Apple’s new generative AI ‘answer engine’ might arrive sooner than we initially thought

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-12 22:37:09

Early last month, Bloomberg reported on Apple’s new in-house generative AI search product – with a new ‘Answers, Knowledge, and Information’ team. Despite this team’s recent formation, we might get to see the fruits of their labor much sooner than one might’ve anticipated. Despite all of the Apple Intelligence Siri woes, Apple still seems determined to make an impact in the generative AI space. That’s why it’s trying to develop a Perplexity and ChatGPT rival, which we’ve previously referred to

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Get one year of Paramount+ for as low as $30 right now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 01:01:27

Sometimes, rising prices for streaming services feels as inevitable as death and taxes. So when a serious discount is available, we tend to sit up and take notice. For a few weeks, you can get a whopping half off an annual subscription to Paramount+. A year of the Paramount+ Essential plan, which is ad-supported, will cost $30 compared to the usual $60. Paramount+ Premium, which is ad-free except for live tv programming, will cost $60 for a year instead of $120. This is a substantial deal that

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Show HN: Semantic grep for Claude Code (RUST) (local embeddings)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 21:20:37

ck - Semantic Grep by Embedding ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It's a drop-in replacement for grep that understands what you're looking for — search for "error handling" and find try/catch blocks, error returns, and exception handling code even when those exact words aren't present. Quick start cargo install ck-search # Find error handling patterns (finds try/catch, Result types, etc.) ck --sem " error handling " src/ # Traditional grep-compatible search still works ck -

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A Rare Blood Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse Make an Appearance on Sunday

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 23:00:00

Fresh on the heels of August's black moon is September's full moon, which will be among the most interesting full moons of 2025. It's coming with a total lunar eclipse, making it a blood moon. If you're in the US, you won't be able to see the upcoming lunar eclipse, but the moon should still appear redder than usual. The total lunar eclipse will be visible primarily in Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe and Eastern Africa. Most of the rest of Europe and Africa will see a partial eclipse, while Nor

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How to Add WIRED as a Preferred Source on Google (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-10-13 00:04:00

As you’ve probably noticed, Google has gotten … weird lately. Weirder? It can be hard to find the search results you’re looking for. Between AI summaries and algorithm changes resulting in unexpected sources, it can be tricky to navigate the most popular search engine in the world. (And publishers are feeling the strain, too.) Earlier this year, Google updated its algorithm. This is nothing new—Google updates its algorithms hundreds of times per year, with anywhere from two to four major “core

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Forget Search, these 2 Google services desperately need Preferred Sources instead

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 00:00:56

Andy Walker / Android Authority It seems like everyone celebrated the announcement of Preferred Sources for Google Search. Don’t get me wrong; it’s a good idea. Giving consumers more control over their internet experience is definitely the way to go. However, I find it a somewhat pointless addition to a tool I use to find a variety of sources and not merely highlight my favorites. Beyond Search, I argue that two other Google products would benefit from Preferred Sources: News and Discover. I’v

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

wired.com Kyle Orland 2025-10-13 01:00:00

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 preprint 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 t

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Qantas is cutting executive bonuses after data breach

news.ycombinator.com Alfred Chua 2025-10-12 22:04:49

Qantas has slashed short-term bonuses for its senior leadership, following a cyber breach in late-June which exposed millions of customers’ personal data. Releasing its annual report for the year ended 30 June, the Australian carrier says it is cutting the executive bonuses by 15% for the fiscal year. Group CEO Vanessa Hudson will see her pay slashed by A$250,000 ($163,000), while five other executives on the Qantas leadership team will lose a combined A$550,000. Airline chair John Mullen say

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Wired Earbuds Are So Back

gizmodo.com Wes Davis 2025-10-12 21:30:20

Belkin showcased a range of recently released Qi2.2 magnetic wireless chargers at IFA 2025, along with other charging accessories and wireless earbuds. Nestled in all of this were two products that immediately caught my eye: the Belkin UltraCharge Magnetic Charger 25W and the SoundForm USB-C Wired Earbuds with ANC. I want to talk about that second product, because this is something that has been stuck in a tiny space in the back of my mind for years. I rarely actively seek out noise-canceling w

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How to Watch the 2025 MTV VMAs Live Without Cable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 22:30:03

The MTV Video Music Awards are back, giving fans a chance to vote for their favorite nominees across 19 categories including Best Collaboration, Best New Artist, Best Choreography, and the coveted Video of the Year. In recent years, the addition of social-driven categories has opened the door for viral artists and internet favorites to take home a trophy, making the competition broader than ever. This year's ceremony will be hosted by L.L. Cool J and feature a star-studded lineup of presenters

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Paper Finds Earth May Have Been Terraformed by "Advanced Extraterrestrials"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 16:00:00

It's one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there's no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that life emerged by pure chance on Earth are so slim that it's possible that our planet was instead seeded by "advanced extraterrestrials." While Imperial College London professor of systems biology Robert Endres concedes that the emergence of life still could've been the result of chemical reactions mo

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Scientists Intrigued by Non-Human Skull Embedded in Cave Wall

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 20:00:12

Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull, neither Neanderthal nor human, that was found fused to a cave wall — with a stalagmite sticking out of the top, to complete the eerie scene — in Macedonia, Greece. In a new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers from France's Institut de Paléontologie Humaine (or Human Paleontology Institute in English) claim they've been able to place an age on the "Petralona cranium," whic

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New Apple Card offer allows users to earn boosted cash back with Uber and Uber Eats

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-12 20:39:52

For a limited time, Apple is offering a boosted 5% cash back on Uber and Uber Eats, allowing users to earn some extra cash back on their rides, food delivery, and more. This offer runs through September 30th, and you’ll need to use your Apple Card with Apple Pay to earn this special cash back rate. Using the card number for your Apple Card won’t allow you to earn this cash back bonus. There’s a $500 spend cap for this cash back offer, allowing you to earn up to $25. Plus, all Apple Card users

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Clarity or accuracy – what makes a good scientific image?

news.ycombinator.com Frankel 2025-10-08 21:02:40

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W. Norton (2025) As someone who has spent a career visualizing science, Flashes of Brilliance felt like reading a love letter to the power of the photographic image. This beautifully written book, by writer and photo editor Anika Burgess, is a thoughtful, personal and witty meditation on how imagery does much more than just document a scene. Will AI jeopardize science photog

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Google’s AI Ambitions An ‘Existential Crisis’ For News Online

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-12 21:30:27

Amid mounting concerns over its monopoly in online search, Google’s intensified integration of artificial intelligence into how it presents the world’s news outlets is prompting a seismic shift in the digital journalism landscape. Major publishers worldwide report plunging traffic and revenue, fueling fears that their traditional business models are under existential threat, The Guardian reports in a deep dive into how the industry is reacting. It posits that Google’s rapid rollout of AI-drive

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Musk’s $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-12 20:02:36

Tesla has proposed a massive new $1 trillion compensation package for its CEO Elon Musk, and many of the benchmarks he needs to hit are simply watered-down versions of promises he’s spent years making about the company. That’s not the picture Tesla’s board of directors paints in the company’s annual proxy statement, where they revealed the proposed pay package. Instead, the board focuses on how it plans to create “the most valuable company in history.” To be sure, if Tesla accomplishes all tha

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Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-12 20:00:25

A team of researchers in the UK say their AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds. It's also, they readily admit, horrendously inaccurate. Placed over the chest, the "smart" gizmo analyzes the rhythms of the heartbeat and blood flow that're undetectable to the human ear, while also performing a quick electrocardiogram, or ECG, which is a test that gauges your heart's electrical activity. Then, all that info is packaged and sent "securely" to the c

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Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-10-13 01:05:54

Eddy Cue deserves a raise. As the executive overseeing Apple’s services division, he’s highly incentivized to protect the tens of billions of dollars a year that Google pays to be the default search engine in Safari. “I’ve lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” he said from the witness stand during Google’s antitrust trial earlier this year. Luckily for Cue, his court testimony appears to have had a significant impact on Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled this week that Google’s default payments to

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Deal: Nothing Headphone 1 discounted for the first time!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:02:06

Tom Triggs / Android Authority Unlike most over-ear headphones, the Nothing Headphone (1) ear cups wear a rounded-rectangle design. The Nothing Headphone 1 was just released in mid-August, less than a month ago, but we’re already seeing its first discount! It’s $30 off, bringing the cost down to $269. While it’s a small discount, seeing a sale so soon after the product’s release is nice! Buy the Nothing Headphone 1 for $269 ($30 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.

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Zuckerberg caught on hot mic telling Trump ‘I wasn’t sure’ how much to promise to spend on AI in the US

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:19:15

US President Donald Trump jokes with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) as he hosts tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Mark Zuckerberg has certainly come a long way in his relationship with President Donald Trump. Almost exactly a year after the president threatened the Meta CEO with imprisonment, the two sat side-by-side at a White House dinner, alongside n

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Broadcom stock jumps 9% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-13 13:03:41

Analysts at Mizuho, Cantor Fitzgerald and KeyBanc all said they think AI startup OpenAI is the customer. The Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the partnership, that the two companies co-designed a chip that will hit the market next year. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs," Tan said. He added that the order increased Broadcom's forecast for AI revenue next yea

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Climate Experts Roast Joe Rogan After He Misinterprets Simple Graph to Claim Earth Is Cooling

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-10-13 17:27:47

Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly known for his scientific expertise, but Rogan’s recent claim that the Earth is cooling—ignoring decades of empirical evidence for global warming—is so egregious that climate experts are straight up roasting him for it. In several recent episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has used a temperature graph in a Washington Post article in order to claim that global temperatures are actually plummeting. The graph in question comes fro

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How Atlassian's $610 million AI browser acquisition puts knowledge workers first

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-13 21:23:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Atlassian has acquired The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia. The company's new browser will be designed for knowledge workers. Like Dia, it will leverage agentic AI to take action on behalf of users. The race to build the next generation of web browsers is heating up. Atlassian, the software company behind Trello and Jira, announced on Thursday that it ha

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September's Fall Equinox Is Coming: What to Know and What It Looks Like

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 19:22:00

Labor Day has come and gone, and school is back in session. Though the leaves have yet to start turning, fall is making its way here. The official arrival of the season is the autumnal equinox, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in September. After a hot summer, the fall equinox marks a welcome shift in the seasons for many folks. But what exactly is an equinox? It's all about Earth and its relationship with the sun. Here's how to understand, visualize and celebrate the autumnal equinox.

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Broadcom stock jumps 11% on new $10 billion customer that analysts say is OpenAI

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-14 01:01:50

Analysts at Mizuho, Cantor Fitzgerald and KeyBanc all said they think AI startup OpenAI is the customer. The Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the partnership, that the two companies co-designed a chip that will hit the market next year. "One of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs," Tan said. He added that the order increased Broadcom's forecast for AI revenue next yea

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