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Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-06 02:50:49

Meet “impossibagel,” a physically impossible bagel that mathematicians use to resolve intricate geometry problems. But impossibagel—and other “impossible objects” in mathematics—is notoriously difficult to replicate, and researchers haven’t been able to fully tap into their mathematical potential. That may no longer be a problem, thanks to a new tool. On Monday, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) announced “Meschers,” software capable of visuali

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Enough is enough–I dumped Google's worsening search for Kagi

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 15:12:51

Mandatory AI summaries have come to Google, and they gleefully showcase hallucinations while confidently insisting on their truth. I feel about them the same way I felt about mandatory G+ logins when all I wanted to do was access my damn YouTube account: I hate them. Intensely. But unlike those mandatory G+ logins—on which Google eventually relented before shutting down the G+ service—our reading of the tea leaves suggests that, this time, the search giant is extremely pleased with how things a

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If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-06 21:18:54

Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but for all the wrong reasons. As flagged on Bluesky, if you ask Google why its own search engine feels so useless lately, the company's AI feature will provide multiple and excoriating reasons — including brutal attacks against itself, Google's much-maligned AI Overviews. In that Bluesky post, Google responded broadly to the hilariously colloquial query of "why is google ass now" with a self-flagellating list of

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Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-06 21:02:12

Mandatory AI summaries have come to Google, and they gleefully showcase hallucinations while confidently insisting on their truth. I feel about them the same way I felt about mandatory G+ logins when all I wanted to do was access my damn YouTube account: I hate them. Intensely. But unlike those mandatory G+ logins—on which Google eventually relented before shutting down the G+ service—our reading of the tea leaves suggests that, this time, the search giant is extremely pleased with how things a

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Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-08 11:52:00

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Apple reportedly has an AI search in the works. The AI search experience could have a standalone app and power Siri. Timely and strategic release with broader success of AI search engines. With the launch of Apple Intelligence, Apple sought to enter the AI space after a somewhat late entry. However, several delays of its most sought-after feature, including Siri 2.0, have made it difficult to keep up with more established competitors. A new report d

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Apple Reportedly Working on a ChatGPT-Like Search Experience

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-08 10:03:00

Apple is internally working on a "ChatGPT-like search experience" to instantly generate answers for users, according to a report from Bloomberg on Sunday. The Answers, Knowledge and Information team, or AKI, is a team within Apple looking to make internal AI products for its devices. The company is reportedly building an "answer engine" -- an AI-powered service that pulls from information online to answer general queries. It's also possible that a separate app might be developed. This AI search

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AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-08 16:16:26

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers who had disallowed Perplexity scraping bots by implementing settings in their sites’ robots.txt files and through Web application

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Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-10 02:20:48

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed plans for paid subreddits earlier this year but now says that the initiative has been de–prioritized. However, he says that the company still believes in the opportunity, suggesting that a Reddit paywall of some kind will be introduced at some stage … Paid subreddits plan Huffman first hinted at the plan last year, but didn’t go into any details. We will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive con

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Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-10 08:49:00

In Brief Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information — is working to build an “answer engine” that can respond to questions using information from across the web. This could be a standalone app or provide search capabilities in Siri, Safari, and other Apple products. Gurman also notes that Apple is advertising for jobs with this team, specifically looking for appli

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Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-10 00:45:30

Once upon a time, in their startling report titled "Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains," ACLU analysts Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt argued that the US was quickly becoming a full-blown "surveillance society," where advanced technology and crumbling regulation come together to create the kind of world that was previously the domain of dystopian science fiction. "The fact is, there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell," they wrote. That was in

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Apple now looking to rival ChatGPT with a new in-house ‘Answers’ team: report

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-12-10 03:20:06

According to the latest edition of Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, Apple has a new plan up its sleeve to rival the competition in the AI search space. This is a major pivot from Apple’s previous stance, where the company said it didn’t want to develop a chatbot. Apple Intelligence has been off to a rocky start, to say the least. The abilities that have shipped, such as Genmoji and Notification Summaries, haven’t exactly been stellar. Apple has still failed to ship its all-new Siri, and has s

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Impossibly Intricate Tattoos Found on 2,000-Year-Old ‘Ice Mummy’

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-10 03:00:35

For the first time, archeologists have gotten a detailed look at the intricate tattoos on a 2,000-year-old ice mummy, found buried deep within the permafrost-covered mountains of Siberia. These tattoos would be challenging to produce even today, the researchers say, suggesting that ancient tattoo artists possessed a considerable degree of skill. With help from modern tattoo artists, an international team of researchers examined the mummy’s tattoos in unprecedented detail and identified the too

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Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-09 22:00:50

We’re talking about the birds. Great tits are small, yellowish songbirds common to the woodlands of Europe. Tit pairs are known to be monogamous during breeding season, splitting up after fully raising their offspring. But new research suggests that this “tit divorce” may be the product of complex social relationships formed during and after the breeding season. Published July 30 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the paper reports that not all tit pairs separate in late summer when breedi

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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

news.ycombinator.com Nicholas Khami 2025-12-11 04:59:51

July 30, 2025 , Nicholas Khami I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself For over a year, I was bugged by a search quirk on Mintlify that caused race conditions and wonky search results. Here’s the fun irony: I was the founder of Trieve, the company that powered search for their 30,000+ documentation sites, yet their debounced search queries weren’t being aborted as you typed. Check out this delightful chaos: I had brought this up in our shared Slack before when I was just a

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Reddit Shifting Towards Search as Company Wants to Become a Search Engine

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-11 11:31:18

You may not need to add "Reddit" to your Google searches for much longer -- now, you can go straight to the source. In his Q2 letter to shareholders, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company will integrate its search function with Reddit Answers, which is currently available in the US and 11 other countries, "into a single search experience." Reddit will make the search box more visible on the app, bringing it "front and center." "Whether you're a new user opening the app for the first time

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Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-11 21:15:00

Applied AI research company Fundamental Research Labs (formerly known as Altera) announced today that it has raised $33 million in Series A funding led by Prosus with participation from Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison. The company has a curious structure as it is working on multiple AI applications in different fields. When it raised its seed funding, Fundametal Research Labs was developing bots that could play Minecraft with you. Today, the company has a games team, a prosumer team

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AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-12 00:00:00

A vulnerability that researchers call CurXecute is present in almost all versions of the AI-powered code editor Cursor, and can be exploited to execute remote code with developer privileges. The security issue is now identified as CVE-2025-54135 and can be leveraged by feeding the AI agent a malicious prompt to trigger attacker-control commands. The Cursor integrated development environment (IDE) relies on AI agents to help developers code faster and more efficiently, allowing them to connect

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Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-12 11:04:38

With search today so full of AI slop and sites spamming SEO tricks, it’s not unusual for people to append “reddit” to their queries in hopes of finding useful answers to their questions. Google has tried to integrate results from Reddit in its search interface, and taking notice of the trend, Reddit has been experimenting with its own AI search as well. But the company has loftier ambitions: it wants to become the go-to search engine people use. Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, said as much during

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Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 02:00:39

Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as an actual search engine. During the company's latest earnings call, Huffman said search is one of the top priorities for Reddit. "We're concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the

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Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-13 11:05:48

Australia is famous for hosting the weirdest creatures we’ve ever seen. Sometimes, these weird creatures also come extra-large—like the newly discovered stick insect that researchers believe may be the heaviest of all Aussie insects. The insect, named Acrohylla alta, is about 15 inches (40 centimeters) long—about the height of a bowling pin—and weighs around 0.1 pounds (44 grams), slightly lighter than the heaviest golf ball. In a recent Zootaxa paper, wildlife researchers Angus Emmott and Ross

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Reddit wants to be a search engine now

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-13 11:01:14

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is “concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results f

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Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-13 21:23:07

It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: If you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share,” you can find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull — people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, and finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application (judgin

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You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-14 00:41:50

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 Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and “pro”-sumers (professionals wanting to run work operations), is back with an interesting new use of its technology. While many other major rival AI providers such as OpenAI, Google, and xAI that have l

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Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 05:47:54

Since announcing the general availability of our Gemini Embedding text model, we've seen developers rapidly adopt it to build advanced AI applications. Beyond traditional use cases like classification, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), many are now using a technique called context engineering to provide AI agents with complete operational context. Embeddings are crucial here, as they efficiently identify and integrate vital information—like documents, conversation histor

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Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-14 11:23:00

In context: Online censorship can take many forms and due to its dominance in web search, Google has traditionally been the primary target. A recently uncovered case highlights the lengths to which reputation management companies will go, as well as Google's vulnerability to sophisticated censorship tactics. Someone successfully censored a pair of uncomfortable articles that were previously accessible through Google Search. The unknown party exploited a clever trick along with a bug in Google's

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How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Written By 2025-12-14 11:03:16

Image credit: @ionut.stefan.92ish Română In today’s post, I’d like to draw your attention to an absolutely amazing book on the topic of Alzheimer’s disease. Written by Prof. Karl Herrup, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, “How Not to Study a Disease – The Story of Alzheimer’s” takes the reader on a journey of Alzheimer’s research from its inception by Alois Alzheimer to the contemporary understanding of this devastating condition. This is not just an

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The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-15 06:10:00

—Will Douglas Heaven For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz, CEO Sam Altman overshadows all other big names on the firm’s roster. But Altman is not the one building the technology on which its reputation rests. That responsibility falls to OpenAI’s twin heads of research—chief research officer Mark Chen and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. Between them, they share the role of making sure OpenAI stays one step ahead of

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 05:00:06

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

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Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 11:18:18

Google is fond of saying its mission is to "organize the world's information," but who gets to decide what information is worthy of organization? A San Francisco tech CEO has spent the past several years attempting to remove unflattering information about himself from Google's search index, and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation says he's still at it. Most recently, an unknown bad actor used a bug in one of Google's search tools to scrub the offending articles. The saga began in 2023

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-16 16:03:10

Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then said to be released Tuesday. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the initial decision to withhold the funding came from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration and Project 202

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Latest Tech News

Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects

Enough is enough–I dumped Google's worsening search for Kagi

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

Could Apple create an AI search engine to rival Gemini and ChatGPT? Here's how it could succeed

Apple Reportedly Working on a ChatGPT-Like Search Experience

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

Paid subreddits plan on hold as company prioritizes search engine plans

Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

Alarming New System Can Identify People Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signal

Apple now looking to rival ChatGPT with a new in-house ‘Answers’ team: report

Impossibly Intricate Tattoos Found on 2,000-Year-Old ‘Ice Mummy’

Great Tits Sometimes Break Up, Bird Researchers Find

I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

Reddit Shifting Towards Search as Company Wants to Become a Search Engine

Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M+ to build AI agents across verticals

AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks

Reddit plans to unify its search interface as it looks to become a search engine

Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says

Horrifyingly Huge New Stick Insect Discovered Exactly Where You Think

Reddit wants to be a search engine now

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines

You’ve heard of AI ‘Deep Research’ tools…now Manus is launching ‘Wide Research’ that spins up 100+ agents to scour the web for you

Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

Google search flaw allows articles to vanish through "clever" censorship tactics

How Not to Study a Disease (2023)

The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

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