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Silicon Valley bets big on ‘environments’ to train AI agents

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-21 09:00:48

For years, Big Tech CEOs have touted visions of AI agents that can autonomously use software applications to complete tasks for people. But take today’s consumer AI agents out for a spin, whether it’s OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent or Perplexity’s Comet, and you’ll quickly realize how limited the technology still is. Making AI agents more robust may take a new set of techniques that the industry is still discovering. One of those techniques is carefully simulating workspaces where agents can be trained

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Hackers left empty-handed after massive NPM supply-chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-30 17:56:15

The largest supply-chain compromise in the history of the NPM ecosystem has impacted roughly 10% of all cloud environments, but the attacker made little profit off it. The attack occurred earlier this week after maintainer Josh Junon (qix) fell for a password reset phishing lure and compromised multiple highly popular NPM packages, among them chalk and degub-js, that cumulatively have more than 2.6 billion weekly downloads. After gaining access to Junon’s account, the attackers pushed maliciou

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Here’s Apple Vision Pro’s new Jupiter Environment

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-10-01 22:37:47

Apple revealed a new Environment for Apple Vision Pro, Jupiter, during WWDC25. With today’s release of the visionOS 26 Release Candidate, we finally have our first look at it. One of Apple Vision Pro‘s most compelling features is Environments, which are expansive, photorealistic, 3D scenes of beautiful locations around the world, or even outside of it. Alongside visionOS 26, releasing on September 15th, is a new Jupiter Environment. Here is how Apple describes it: This is the view from Amalthe

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Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 04:09:35

CADAM A Text to CAD Web Application What it does: Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension tweaking Separate agents for conversation and code generation; simple parameter tweaks bypass AI entirely using deterministic regex-based updates Exports as .STL or .SCAD Runs fully in-browser by comp

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SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-11 21:36:59

The world’s most-flown rocket may start flying even more. U.S. regulators have completed a key environmental review that paves the way for SpaceX to more than double the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In addition to the annual launch increase from 50 launches to up to 120, the Federal Aviation Administration’s environmental review also approved a new on-site landing zone that could accommodate up to 34 booster landings per year. These boosters ar

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Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-13 17:40:43

Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test drives of its robotaxis in Denver and Seattle this week, with humans behind the wheel, the company said Tuesday. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a company spokesperson said in an email. Waymo announced the tests in blog posts. The autonomous vehicle venture aims to expand its driverless, ride-hailing service across the U.S. after already launching commercial opera

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Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-10-13 21:48:09

Waymo announced Tuesday that it’s going to bring both of its vehicles — the Jaguar I-Pace SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle starting this week, the latest move in a continued expansion across the United States. The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous tech in both cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to start offering robotaxi trips in Denver next year and the Seattle metropolitan area “as soon as we’re permitted to do so

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iNaturalist keeps full species classification models private

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 01:32:46

computervision We're doing some computer vision stuff at iNat. models iNaturalist makes a subset of its machine learning models publicly available while keeping full species classification models private due to intellectual property considerations and organizational policy. We provide “small” models trained on approximately 500 taxa, including taxonomy files and a geographic model, which are suitable for on-device testing and other applications. Additionally, researchers have independently de

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Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Mysterious Electrical Surges on Satellites

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-10-14 09:40:43

In 1994, two Canadian TV satellites failed within mere hours of each other. The pair was in a geostationary orbit when a major solar storm hit, resulting in electrostatic discharges that disabled their control electronics. Anik E1 and E2 are just one example of the effects of electric charge buildup on satellites, known as spacecraft environment discharge. New findings show a direct correlation between a spacecraft’s electric discharge and peaks in the flux of electrons in space, identifying hu

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Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 16:53:51

Events that thrive anywhere. Like the cactus, great events bloom under any condition when managed with care. Cactoide(ae) helps you streamline RSVPs, simplify coordination, and keep every detail efficient—so your gatherings are resilient, vibrant, and unforgettable. What is it? A mobile-first event RSVP platform that lets you create events, share unique URLs, and collect RSVPs without any registration required. ✨ Features 🎯 Instant Event Creation - Create events in seconds with our streamli

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Closing the Nix gap: From environments to packaged applications for rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 23:06:15

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application? — (@jvmncs) January 21, 2025 This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" devenv solved this for development environments differently: instead of making developers package everything with Nix, we provide tools through a simple languages.rust.enable . You get cargo

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Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 14:06:15

Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applications for Rust Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application? — (@jvmncs) January 21, 2025 This tweet shows a common problem in Nix: "Should I use crate2nix, cargo2nix, or naersk for packaging my Rust application?" devenv solved this for development environments differently: instead of making developers package everything with Nix, we provide tools through a simple languages.rust.enable . You get cargo

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Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 02:25:25

💡 This prompt will be used to initialize the game world. Be descriptive about the desired scene or environment.

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HBO launches new Harry Potter immersive environment on Apple Vision Pro

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-01 16:10:42

HBO Max has been a strong supporter of Apple Vision Pro from the start, offering a robust native app for visionOS with a Game of Thrones immersive environment. Today, HBO has announced an update to the visionOS app with an all-new environment: Hogwarts Great Hall. The Hogwarts Great Hall immersive environment will be familiar to Harry Potter fans, as it’s one of the most iconic rooms at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the series. The environment on Apple Vision Pro offers se

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FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-04 09:00:00

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314 million in August and was co-led by Bezos Expedition, Prysm and Temasek. FieldAI’s other backers include Khosla Ventures,

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Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-11 08:09:09

During a press conference in late 2024, President Donald Trump vowed to “slash massive numbers of job-killing regulations” in his second term and pledged to eliminate 10 old rules for every new one. Now, he’s bringing that deregulation drive to commercial space, ordering federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport development, and clear out the Federal Aviation Administration’s industry advisory board. “Inefficient permitting processes discourage investment and innova

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Private Spaceflight Enters the Wild West as Trump Slashes Regulations

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-14 03:15:17

President Donald Trump is calling for an ease of regulations for commercial spaceflight and streamlining licensing for rocket launches and reentries. The move highly favors companies like SpaceX but could have negative repercussions on environmental habitats surrounding launchpads. On Wednesday, August 13, Trump signed an executive order intended to bolster the spaceflight industry and increase the overall commercial launch cadence. In it, Trump calls on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who

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These smart glasses use AI to help low-vision users

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-11-15 03:00:00

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Accessibility-focused tech provider Envision has partnered with eyewear company Solos to launch new smart glasses specifically designed for blind and low-vision users. Envision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, desc

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Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-15 17:45:35

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing government agencies to "eliminate or expedite" environmental reviews for commercial launch and reentry licenses. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), grants licenses for commercial launch and reentry operations. The FAA is charged with ensuring launch and reentries don't endanger the public, comply with environmental laws, and comport with US national interests. The drive

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Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-22 21:00:00

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, we can take stock of his administration’s destruction of online environmental resources. It’s wors

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Environmentalist Lawsuit Halts Construction of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-24 17:40:25

Progress on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ground to a halt on Thursday, August 7, when a federal judge ordered a two-week ban on construction. The ruling follows a hearing in a lawsuit by environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians. The plaintiffs—Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Everglades, and the Miccosukee—allege that hasty construction of the facility in the Everglades unlawfully moved forward without public input or an environmental impact st

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Openvibe combines news and social media in one app

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-25 22:00:00

Openvibe, an app that allows you to follow open social networks like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr in one place, is now expanding its functionality so you can follow your favorite news sites and blogs, too. To do so, the startup is adding support for RSS (aka Really Simple Syndication or news feeds), an open standard that allows you to subscribe to automatic updates from websites, like new articles or blog posts. The addition makes Openvibe more useful for keeping up with your interests

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Cursor CLI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 02:53:54

Use it in your IDE or any terminal. Same commands, any environment. Plug into your setup anywhere.

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Software Rot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 05:35:19

Software rot is generally thought of as degradation of software due to a changing environment. For example, a program written a decade ago may no longer work with new versions of the libraries it depends on because some of them have changed without retaining backwards compatibility. This kind of thinking encourages a culture where software becomes obsolete unless it is constantly maintained. A better approach might be to talk about the reliability of the environment the software depends on. Wou

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Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-04 03:08:52

Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds that you can navigate in real time at 24 frames per second, retaining consistency for a few minutes at a resolution of 720p. Towards world simulation At Google DeepMind, we have been pioneering research in simulated environments for over a decade, from training agents to master real-time strategy games to developing simulated environments for open-ended learning and robotics. This work motivated our development of world models, which are

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New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 22:42:06

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems. Nextron Systems security researchers, who identified the malware and dubbed it "Plague," describe it as a malicious Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) that uses layered obfuscation techniques and environment tampering to avoid detection by traditional security tools. This malware features anti-debugging capabilities to

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Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

news.ycombinator.com Sarah Mulholland 2025-12-10 22:29:55

With 20,000 new units on the market, prices are down about 3.7 percent. New apartment buildings under construction in on Holly Street in Denver’s North Park Hill neighborhood, June 20, 2024. Apartment rents in the Denver metro continue to slide. The average rent in the area fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared to the prior year, according to a new report from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. Rents started falling at the end of last year, the association’s data show. The

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How much pollution does AI create? Mistral breaks it down

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-19 17:55:00

What just happened? Mistral AI, a Paris-based venture focused on developing open-weight, open-source large language models, is now contributing to the AI discourse with a comprehensive lifecycle analysis of one of its models – guided by the same principles of openness that define its work. Mistral recently published an analysis of the environmental impact of one of its large language models. As chatbots and other AI-powered technologies become increasingly embedded in the global economy, Mistra

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Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 08:11:50

Despite concerns over the environmental impacts of AI models, it's surprisingly hard to find precise, reliable data on the CO 2 emissions and water use for many major large language models. French model-maker Mistral is seeking to fix that this week, releasing details from what it calls a first-of-its-kind environmental audit "to quantify the environmental impacts of our LLMs." The results, which are broadly in line with estimates from previous scholarly work, suggest the environmental harm of

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These 6 gadgets got me through college - here's why they make such a big difference

zdnet.com Kayla Solino 2025-12-29 06:40:17

A laptop is a college staple, and there's no way around it. Choosing a laptop for school is a big commitment because while you want it to last all four years and offer great speed and function, you need to find one that suits your major or degree program. Be sure to check out your program's website (or contact a department chair) to see if there are any recommended laptops, operating systems, or specs. My 2021 HP Envy x360 2-in-1 laptop lasted three years of school (it was my second laptop afte

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Silicon Valley bets big on ‘environments’ to train AI agents

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HBO launches new Harry Potter immersive environment on Apple Vision Pro

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

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Openvibe combines news and social media in one app

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