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European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Berdugo 2025-09-18 05:27:01

The same Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) queen produced the hairy male Messor ibericus (on the left) and the hairless male Messor structor (on the right), despite them being members of distantly related species. Queen ants in southern Europe produce male clones of an entirely different species — tearing up the playbook of reproductive biology and suggesting we need to rethink our understanding of species barriers. The workers in Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) colonies are all

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One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

news.ycombinator.com Dirk-Jan Mollema 2025-09-18 04:03:21

While preparing for my Black Hat and DEF CON talks in July of this year, I found the most impactful Entra ID vulnerability that I will probably ever find. This vulnerability could have allowed me to compromise every Entra ID tenant in the world (except probably those in national cloud deployments). If you are an Entra ID admin reading this, yes that means complete access to your tenant. The vulnerability consisted of two components: undocumented impersonation tokens, called “Actor tokens”, that

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White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-18 13:03:11

Anthropic's AI models could potentially help spies analyze classified documents, but the company draws the line at domestic surveillance. That restriction is reportedly making the Trump administration angry. On Tuesday, Semafor reported that Anthropic faces growing hostility from the Trump administration over the AI company's restrictions on law enforcement uses of its Claude models. Two senior White House officials told the outlet that federal contractors working with agencies like the FBI and

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Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-09-18 21:30:34

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, is trying to carve out a spot as the Good Guy in the AI space. Fresh off being the only major AI firm to throw its support behind an AI safety bill in California, the company grabbed a headline from Semafor thanks to its apparent refusal to allow its model to be used for surveillance tasks, which is pissing off the Trump administration. According to the report, law enforcement agencies have felt stifled by Anthropic’s usa

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Anthropic Report Finds Dire News About AI's Effects on Job Market

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-19 00:04:05

As businesses across the economy rush to adopt AI, a new report from OpenAI's competitor Anthropic reveals what the tech is really being used for: instead of helping augment human labor, companies are mainly using AI to automate their jobs. In numbers, an overwhelming 77 percent of businesses using Anthropic's Claude AI software showed signs of automation, like "full task delegation," according to the report released by the company this week. Only 12 percent of AI usage appeared to leverage the

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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

news.ycombinator.com Https 2025-09-19 04:57:39

Anthropic is in the midst of a splashy media tour in Washington, but its refusal to allow its models to be used for some law enforcement purposes has deepened hostility to the company inside the Trump administration, two senior officials told Semafor. Anthropic recently declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement agencies because the company refuses to make an exception allowing its AI tools to be used for some tasks, including surveillance of US citizens, said the off

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From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-09-19 08:41:00

Quantum computing is often discussed in terms of its potential to revolutionize scientific discovery and to challenge cryptographic paradigms [1], but it could also change our relationship with money. By using quantum states, quantum currency could solve the double-spending problem and address throughput issues associated with distributed ledgers (blockchain), paving the way for the digital cash of the future. Digital Banking vs. Digital Currency To understand quantum currency, we should first

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You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers

news.ycombinator.com Craig Gidney 2025-09-17 08:58:00

In 2021, Renou et al published the paper “Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified” in Nature. It caused a decent sized splash at the time. A quick search revealed articles in Quanta and Scientific American and APS News, as well as a talk at QIP 2022. In this post, I’m going to explain why the title of the paper is wrong. The Goal Before we get going, I need to warn you away from a common misunderstanding of Renou et al’s claim. Renou et al are NOT claiming that it

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The new 14-inch Wacom One ups the display size, but not the price

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-19 21:23:22

Wacom has announced its latest beginner-friendly graphics tablet, the Wacom One 14. The obvious upgrade from its 2023 predecessor is a larger 14-inch IPS display, which gives digital artists a bit of extra space for their sketching. The bezels have been trimmed down to accommodate the bigger canvas, while keeping the design thin and compact enough to easily throw the Wacom One in a backpack. The 1920 x 1080 HD display’s textured surface is supposed to replicate the feeling of drawing on paper,

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Amazon launches AI agent to help sellers complete tasks and manage their businesses

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-19 21:18:50

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing an always-on AI agent that will help sellers on its platform run their businesses. The company is updating Seller Assistant, its AI tool for third-party sellers, to help handle tasks on the seller’s behalf. “Our agentic AI capabilities are designed to work seamlessly throughout the entire selling experience, which means sellers can go from handling every task themselves to collaborating with an intelligent assistant that works proactively on t

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US Adults Worry AI Will Make Us Worse at Being Human, New Survey Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 14:00:07

There are widespread fears that artificial intelligence will harm our social and emotional intelligence, empathy and sense of individual agency by 2035, according to a new survey published Wednesday by Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center. The national survey asked 1,005 US adults to rate how they think AI will impact human capacities and behaviors, including moral judgment, self-identity and confidence. In every area, respondents believed the effect of AI tools and systems ove

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Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Lectures Met With Protestors Who Seem to Think He’s the Antichrist

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-21 01:50:27

PayPal mafia OG Peter Thiel, whose data firm Palantir is currently assisting the Trump administration’s deportation machine, recently began taking time out of his day job (ghoulish billionaire defense contractor) to engage in some part-time work as a Christian evangelist spreading the word about the rise of the Antichrist. It’s been a bizarre sight, indeed, and this week, Thiel kicked things up a notch by launching the first of a four-part lecture series he’s doing about the Dark Lord. Thiel’s

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Samsung's Health app might be getting an AI health coach - what we know

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-09-21 05:32:37

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Samsung's Health app appears to be getting an AI assistant. The assistant can answer health- and wellness-related questions. The AI health coach can't diagnose or treat medical conditions. Samsung has made major investments in its health technology, and that mission looks to be continuing with a new Health app. Samsung is rolling out an AI health coach called "Samsung Health Assistant," Android Auth

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Scuba-Suit-Clad Thief Steals Thousands of Dollars From Floating Disney World Restaurant in Heist Ripped Right Out of the Movies

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-21 09:40:03

When we hear of criminal activity at Walt Disney World, it’s not usually pertaining to an action sequence that feels like it’s come right out of a Disney movie itself. But that was apparently the case this week in Orlando, when over $10,000 was stolen from a Disney World restaurant by a scuba-diving criminal mastermind. WFTV9 (via Cinemablend) reports that in the early hours of today, an unidentified man staged a robbery at the Paddlefish seafood restaurant in Disney Springs, a shopping and din

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Launch HN: Rowboat (YC S24) – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 17:01:16

Let AI build multi-agent workflows for you in minutes ⚡ Build AI agents instantly with natural language | 🔌 Connect tools with one-click integrations | 📂 Power with knowledge by adding documents for RAG | 🔄 Automate workflows by setting up triggers and actions | 🚀 Deploy anywhere via API or SDK ☁️ Prefer a hosted version? Use our cloud to starting building agents right away! Quick start Set your OpenAI key export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-api-key Clone the repository and start Rowboat (re

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‘Fantastic Four’ Takes Its First Steps Home Next Week

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-09-22 01:00:53

If you didn’t see Fantastic Four: First Steps in theaters or just want to see it again, you can on digital starting September 23. The latest Marvel Studios will arrive on all the usual platforms, followed by a physical launch on October 14. Along with the standard deleted scenes, special features include a gag reel, commentary track with director Matt Shakman and production designer Kasra Farahani, and three featurettes centering the heroes, their comic book villains, and the film’s retrofuturi

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Plagued by Parts Shortage and EV Demand Uncertainty, GM Prepares for Layoffs

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-09-22 09:30:54

Automotive giant General Motors is preparing for layoffs at its assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri. Although the layoffs will be temporary, the majority of the workers at the plant will be affected, according to a letter sent to employees by the plant’s executive director and the local UAW representative. GM’s Wentzville plant builds the company’s Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size trucks, as well as the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans. The latter two are some of GM

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AT&T’s AI call-screening tool uses your call history to filter out spam

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-22 09:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. AT&T is testing an AI-powered assistant designed to screen phone calls for you. The mobile carrier is bringing the feature to a select group of customers this year, and likens it to a “digital receptionist” that can identify and filter out robocallers based on the information from its network, like your call history. “This is only the foundation of

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Here’s your first look at Samsung Health’s new AI-powered fitness assistant (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-22 22:52:47

TL;DR Samsung will launch an AI-powered assistant in its Health app soon. We’ve managed to surface the feature in Samsung Health, revealing how it’ll appear and what it can do. Called “Samsung Health assistant,” the feature is essentially an AI chatbot that can help you keep track of your fitness goals, answer health-related questions, and more. The Samsung Health app is one of the best fitness tracking apps out there, and it’s about to get even better with the introduction of an AI-powered a

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Ghost kitchens are dying

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-22 17:25:26

Ghost Kitchens Are Dying. Here's the $15 Billion Lesson Every Restaurateur Must Learn. A ghost kitchen stripped away everything you think makes a restaurant a restaurant. No dining room. No servers. No storefront. No customers walking through the door. Just a kitchen. Four walls. Commercial equipment. And a phone that never stops ringing with delivery orders. Ghost kitchens exist only in the digital world. Customers find them on DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. They order through an app. Food

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Google thinks it can have AI summaries and a healthy web, too

theverge.com Elissa Welle 2025-09-23 21:05:39

So, I don’t want to speak about the specifics of the lawsuit, but I can speak to our philosophy here, which is, look, we want a healthy ecosystem. The 10 blue links serve the ecosystem very well, and it was a simple value proposition. We provided links that directed users free of charge to billions of publications around the world. We’re not going to abandon that model. We think that there’s use for that model. It’s still an important part of the ecosystem. But user preferences, and what users

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Spotify's Free Tier Changes: Play the Song You Want Whenever You Want

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 00:55:37

Spotify's Free Tier Changes: Play the Song You Want Whenever You Want You could previously only shuffle music based on your chosen song or listen to playlists.

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Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-24 13:05:03

One of the first things I learned while testing AI image generators is that there are a lot of things that can go wrong when you're trying to get the image you see in your head to appear on your screen. If you've ever used an AI image or video generator, you know what I mean. I've spent the past year testing and reviewing different AI image generators, and I've generated hundreds of images across services like Google's nano bananas model, Midjourney and Dall-E. But the images I created haven't

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Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-24 13:38:52

General Motors will temporarily lay off workers at its Wentzville assembly plant in Missouri. According to a letter sent to employees by the head of the plant and the head of the local union, a shortage of parts is the culprit, and as a result the factory will see "a temporary layoff from September 29-October 19." The plant is about 45 minutes west of St Louis and employs more than 4,000 people to assemble midsize pickup trucks for Chevrolet and GMC, as well as full-size vans. Not every employe

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Samsung’s latest Good Lock module could supercharge the Gallery app

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-24 17:22:39

TL;DR Samsung has started testing a new Good Lock app dubbed Gallery Assistant beta. The app brings a number of photo and video editing options under one umbrella. These features include advanced watermarks, media compression, and saving images as a PDF. Samsung has a ton of apps under its Good Lock umbrella, giving users a variety of extra options beyond the One UI platform. These Good Lock apps cover categories like the camera, home screen, audio, and notifications. Now, it looks like Samsu

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These Halo smart glasses just got a major memory boost, thanks to Liquid AI

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-24 17:00:00

Brilliant Labs/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Brilliant Labs announces partnership with Liquid AI. Liquid AI makes vision-language foundation models. These models will be available in Brilliant Labs' products. Smart glasses are often regarded as the best form factor for AI, as they can feed AI everything you see at every moment for the best assistance. However, this is only possible if the glasses can accurately interpret the visual conten

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Plant Care Tips for the Winter, According to Experts (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-09-24 15:39:00

Indoor plant care is always tricky. While it's all fine and dandy to take care of them when the summer sun is shining, keeping your plants alive in winter can feel like a whole ’nother story. Being a houseplant enthusiast is akin to having several silent children, all with finicky needs and limited ways of communicating them. If your green thumb is feeling a little yellow or brown these days, fear not! I interviewed several experts to figure out exactly how to keep your plants happy during the c

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Giants vs. Cowboys Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 2 Online Today

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 00:00:08

When to watch New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys Sunday, Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. ET). Where to watch The Giants-Cowboys game will air on Fox, with Greg Olsen and Joe Davis on the call. The second week of the season is too early to label a game as "must-win," but these two NFC East teams are staring an 0-2 start in the face. The Giants dropped their opener to the Washington Commanders, putting up only a pair of field goals in the loss. Despite the stagnant offense, Giants head coach B

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iPhone 17 vs iPhone 15 Pro: What’s more worthwhile?

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-24 14:03:00

Apple recently announced its latest iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and iPhone Air models – and as we’ve seen, the base iPhone 17 gained a plethora of upgrades that have made it quite a compelling package. That begs the question, does a 2 year old ‘Pro’ iPhone still have a leg up, or should you just go with the new base model iPhone 17? Displays iPhone 17 gains ProMotion for the first time, something that you previously had to buy an iPhone Pro for. On top of that, it isn’t a compromised ProMotion display

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These five iPhone deals are a great pick if you’re not quite interested in iPhone 17

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-09-24 21:31:48

If you’re trying to buy a new iPhone but don’t quite want an iPhone 17, it can often be hard to find something on a tighter budget. Sure, Apple offers the iPhone 16e at $599 – but not everyone finds that to be a compelling phone. Luckily, there’s plenty of great options if you want to buy used, and I’ll be delving into five great picks for varying needs. #1 – iPhone 15 Pro If you’re after higher end features like a ProMotion display, Apple Intelligence, and a telephoto lens – the iPhone 15 Pro

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Latest Tech News

European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species

One Token to rule them all – Obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant

White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits

Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America

Anthropic Report Finds Dire News About AI's Effects on Job Market

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

From Qubits to Qubucks: Quantum Digital Currency

You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers

The new 14-inch Wacom One ups the display size, but not the price

Amazon launches AI agent to help sellers complete tasks and manage their businesses

US Adults Worry AI Will Make Us Worse at Being Human, New Survey Says

Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Lectures Met With Protestors Who Seem to Think He’s the Antichrist

Samsung's Health app might be getting an AI health coach - what we know

Scuba-Suit-Clad Thief Steals Thousands of Dollars From Floating Disney World Restaurant in Heist Ripped Right Out of the Movies

Launch HN: Rowboat (YC S24) – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems

‘Fantastic Four’ Takes Its First Steps Home Next Week

Plagued by Parts Shortage and EV Demand Uncertainty, GM Prepares for Layoffs

AT&T’s AI call-screening tool uses your call history to filter out spam

Here’s your first look at Samsung Health’s new AI-powered fitness assistant (APK teardown)

Ghost kitchens are dying

Google thinks it can have AI summaries and a healthy web, too

Spotify's Free Tier Changes: Play the Song You Want Whenever You Want

Writing a Good AI Image Prompt Isn't Hard, but You Need These Essential Elements

Parts shortage is the latest problem to hit General Motors production

Samsung’s latest Good Lock module could supercharge the Gallery app

These Halo smart glasses just got a major memory boost, thanks to Liquid AI

Plant Care Tips for the Winter, According to Experts (2025)

Giants vs. Cowboys Livestream: How to Watch NFL Week 2 Online Today

iPhone 17 vs iPhone 15 Pro: What’s more worthwhile?

These five iPhone deals are a great pick if you’re not quite interested in iPhone 17

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