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Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

news.ycombinator.com Liam Proven 2025-12-01 16:42:57

People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an "inference engine" built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you. Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. All we have so far is a smoking gun, but it does look like Mozilla's

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I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-01 18:35:49

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Thursday, I had dinner with Sam Altman, a few other OpenAI executives, and a small group of reporters in San Francisco. Altman answered our questions for hours. No topic was off limits, and everything, with the exception of what was said over dessert, was on the record. It’s uncommon to have such an extended, wide-ranging interview with a major tech CEO over a meal. But there’s nothing common about the s

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GPT-5 failed the hype test

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-12-01 18:47:40

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. Last week, on GPT-5 launch day, AI hype was at an all-time high. In a press briefing beforehand, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-5 is “something that I just don’t wanna ever have to go back from,” a milestone akin to the first iPhone with a Retina display. The night before the announcement livestream, Altman posted an image of t

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Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening

technologyreview.com Johanna M. Costigan 2025-12-02 03:00:00

Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-contested issue of the island’s sovereignty. After losing the first Sino-Japanese War in the late 1800s, the Qing dynasty forfeited Taiwan to Japanese imperial control. It was Japan’s “model colony” until 1945, when postwar negotiations resulted in its transfer to the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Party, known as the KMT. The insurgent CCP under Mao Zedong ultimately defeated the Natio

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The $15 accessory that transformed my AirPods from slippery buds to workout besties

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-12-02 02:00:15

Jada Jones/ZDNET Your AirPods can be your best friend, small enough to stay in your pocket or bag until you need them. But if you like to work out with your AirPods, pushing your slippery earbuds back into your ear can become a particularly intense workout. I've found three products to help with this problem -- a few dollars spent can revitalize your AirPods experience. Also: Best AirPods 2025: I've tested every pair of Apple headphones and earbuds Unfortunately, some people's ear anatomy sim

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This AirTag key organizer has survived the ultimate torture test - and it's only $30

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-02 05:00:14

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET In November of 2022, I decided I needed to organize my pocket EDC (everyday carry) gear. As part of that reorganization, I picked up a KeySmart Air key organizer as a way to both keep my keys sorted and also attach an AirTag to them. Also: 10 tiny tools I carry with me everywhere - how they work So, here we are, almost three years on, and I'm still using the KeySmart Air, and while it's looking a little battered, it's still going strong. The KeySmart Air comes in

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Death and What Comes Next (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 10:01:01

The L-Space Web Death and What Comes Next A Discworld short story By Terry Pratchett Copyright © Terry Pratchett 2002 When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead." There was a sigh from Death. Oh dear, one of those, he thought. This is going to be about quantum again. He hated dealing with philosophers. They always tried to wriggle out of it. "You see," said the philosopher, while Death, motionless, watched

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Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 03:50:13

Start with the timetable So, let’s imagine the UK had done this in 2008. What might the planners have noticed? Well, first up, they'd have spotted that our major cities need more frequent and faster rail connections from suburbs to centres and that these are prevented at the moment by insufficient platform capacity in stations like Leeds, Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street. So we need more station capacity in our city centres. They'd have identified that many suburban lines into

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Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-02 06:29:36

Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker The article comes days after a meeting between Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan and US President Donald Trump, who had earlier accused Mr Tan of being "highly conflicted" due to his earlier ties to China. White House spokesman Kush Desai said "discussion about hypothetical deals should be regarded as speculation unless officially announced by the administration." The reported deal would support the technology firm's plans to build a manufa

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MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-01 23:53:38

We're all probably feeling a little anxious about AI. It's horrible for the environment, is used as an excuse to fire workers, floods the internet with misinformation and slop, entrenches government surveillance, and appears to be driving people into psychosis. And so, at a time when many college students are dropping out to join AI startups, one former MIT student says she called it quits because she's afraid of something altogether more catastrophic: that an artificial general intelligence (

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That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-02 05:24:49

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 A comprehensive new study has revealed that open-source artificial intelligence models consume significantly more computing resources than their closed-source competitors when performing identical tasks, potentially undermining their cost advantages and reshaping how enterprises evaluate AI deployment strategies. The research, conducted by

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The new science of “emergent misalignment”

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Ornes 2025-12-02 03:25:51

If there’s an upside to this fragility, it’s that the new work exposes what happens when you steer a model toward the unexpected, Hooker said. Large AI models, in a way, have shown their hand in ways never seen before. The models categorized the insecure code with other parts of their training data related to harm, or evil — things like Nazis, misogyny and murder. At some level, AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference. Wish for the Worst In 2022

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Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (2003) [pdf]

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 14:20:57

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Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 20:33:58

narrator uses ai to write exactly what you want to read. currently in early access. just a fun side project :)

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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-12-02 06:51:18

watch now Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a cultural phenomenon with ChatGPT. Now, three years later, he's chasing where the real money is: Enterprise. Last week's rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI's newest artificial intelligence model, was rocky. Critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers. But GPT-5 isn't about the consumer. It's OpenAI's effort to crack the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head sta

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 03:22:04

OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. In a support document, OpenAI confirmed it has restored the older models for paid customers, so you can now use GPT4o, GPT o3, and more. You just need to use the model selector and choose one of the models under legacy models. In addition, GPT-5 automatically switches between Fast and Thinking, and you can also choose additional GPT-5 opti

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9to5Mac Daily: August 14, 2025 – Apple Watch Blood Oxygen feature returns, more

9to5mac.com Seth Kurkowski 2025-12-02 14:34:11

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Never lose a file again. Use code “9to5daily” at checkout for 10% off or try for free. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes

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US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 12:11:06

xAI apparently lost a government contract after a tweak to Grok's prompting triggered an antisemitic meltdown where the chatbot praised Hitler and declared itself MechaHitler last month. Despite the scandal, xAI announced that its products would soon be available for federal workers to purchase through the General Services Administration. At the time, xAI claimed this was an "important milestone" for its government business. But Wired reviewed emails and spoke to government insiders, which rev

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Applied Materials shares sink 10% on light forecast amid macroeconomic uncertainties

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-02 18:59:18

Applied Materials shares sank more than 10% in extended trading Thursday as the semiconductor equipment company provided outlook for the current quarter that came in light. Here's how Applied Materials did in its third-quarter earnings results versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS : $2.48, adjusted, versus $2.36 estimated. : $2.48, adjusted, versus $2.36 estimated. Revenue: $7.3 billion vs $7.22 billion estimated. Applied Materials said it expects $2.11 per share in adjusted earnings in the c

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Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-12-02 18:35:28

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 Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, when envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars like Porsche, BMW, Jaguars, Ferrari and others had been around for decades. You could say AI is at that same pivot point: While models are becoming increasingly more capab

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Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 10:23:45

Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at a casual glance. BleepingComputer has further come across an Intuit phishing campaign using a lookalike domain using the letter L instead of 'i' in Intuit. Booking.com phishi

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iPhone 17 Air Rumors: Everything to Know About Apple's Slim Phone

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 16:32:05

Key takeaways The iPhone "Air" will reportedly replace the iPhone Plus model. It could measure 5.5mm thick and have a 6.6-inch display. iOS 26's Adaptive Power feature could help mitigate battery compromises with a skinnier iPhone. The iPhone 17 Air could cost $900, but the price may be impacted by tariffs. It could come in four color options, including a buzzed-about sky blue hue. As September approaches, we're getting closer to learning whether Apple will unveil a super-thin iPhone with th

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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-02 18:23:50

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has reported over 80 clones. “It feels like whack-a-mole sometimes,” Brier says. These are games that are not just similar in nature, but “blatant copyrigh

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Over $300 million in cybercrime crypto seized in anti-fraud effort

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 23:15:34

More than $300 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to cybercrime and fraud schemes has been frozen due to two separate initiatives involving law enforcement and private companies. One initiative is the T3+ Global Collaborator Program launched by the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), a joint effort deployed almost a year ago by intelligence firm TRM Labs, TRON, and Tether, with Binance joining as the first official member - all major forces in the blockchain space. According to intelligence

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Airbrush art of the 80s was Chrome-tastic (2015)

news.ycombinator.com The Toy Box 2025-12-02 22:53:12

The 80’s was a decade of many things — excess, greed, and big hair, to name a few — but it was also the heyday for airbrush art. As a teenager in the late 80’s, I desperately wanted an airbrush so I could paint my favorite band logos on the back of my jean jacket, and maybe make some money on the side painting t-shirts and license plates. I thought those guys on the boardwalk selling custom shirts were gods — how could they produce such amazing works of art in just minutes? My graduation gift f

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George Lucas Reminded Ron Howard Ahead of ‘Solo’ That ‘Star Wars’ Is for 12-Year-Olds

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-02 23:30:35

Star Wars fans have become accustomed to cinematic reshufflings in the years since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. But even before the sequel trilogy concluded, there were hints that Lucasfilm’s confident plans were subject to shake-ups. There were the notorious reshoots attached to 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but even more dramatically, there was the director switcheroo that happened with 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. In a new interview, Ron Howard talked about being hired as a replace

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Heat Wave Cooking: This Countertop Appliance Is Even Better Than the Grill

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-02 21:48:00

I love my grill, but standing over blazing flames in 90-degree weather isn't my idea of summer fun. Cooking indoors isn't much better -- the oven turns the whole house into a sauna, and firing up the gas range with the windows closed can hurt indoor air quality. That's where the air fryer comes in. These compact powerhouses cook quickly while using far less energy than a traditional oven, making them a perfect heat wave solution. Sure, they give off a little warmth, but nothing like a wall oven

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Intel stock climbs 7% on report Trump administration is considering stake

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-03 04:57:25

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel stock rose 7% in trading on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the embattled company. Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including TSMC and Samsung also have U

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Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future

wired.com Graham Webster 2025-12-03 04:13:18

Alan Estevez was sitting at his dining room table wearing a t-shirt when Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called on Zoom to ask if he wanted to be the Biden administration’s top export control official. “You’re going to have to sell me on this,” Estevez recalls telling her. It was 2021, and the outspoken New Jersey native thought he had finally left public service behind. After more than three decades at the Pentagon, he had left and taken a job in consulting. He wasn’t sure if he was ready

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The “Godfather of AI” Has a Bizarre Plan to Save Humanity From Evil AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-03 06:58:19

Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering mind behind AI industry-transforming neural networks, who's often referred to as a "godfather of AI," says we need to infuse AI with "maternal instincts" to save humanity from rogue AI. Though his work on neural networks helped to usher in the large language models (LLMs) that dominate Silicon Valley today, these days, Hinton is known for being somewhat of an AI alarmist: he believes that there's a significant chance that superintelligent AI will wipe out humanki

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Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco

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This AirTag key organizer has survived the ultimate torture test - and it's only $30

Death and What Comes Next (2002)

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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most

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Booking.com phishing campaign uses sneaky 'ん' character to trick you

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Intel stock climbs 7% on report Trump administration is considering stake

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The “Godfather of AI” Has a Bizarre Plan to Save Humanity From Evil AI

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