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Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

arstechnica.com Unknown Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:32:55 +0000

Days after someone revealed the news on social media, Samsung confirmed today that it is showing advertisements on some US customers’ smart fridges. Samsung said the ads showing on some Family Hub-series fridges are part of a pilot program, but we suspect that they may become more permanent additions to Samsung fridges and/or other types of screen-equipped smart home appliances. In a statement sent to Ars Technica, Samsung confirmed that it is “conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and

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Automatic differentiation can be incorrect

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Rackauckas 2025-09-18 14:01:35

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

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Grief gets an expiration date, just like us

news.ycombinator.com Bess Stillman 2025-09-18 14:17:40

1× 0:00 -13:50 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. My husband Jake has been dead for a year and I still don’t believe it. Not really. Not when I look for his marginalia in new books, or read an article about self-driving cars and text him a link, or when I see an interesting new Malaysian restaurant and have the urge to make us a reservation. Certainly not when I look at our daughter, Athena, who wears Jake’s face as her own and who, especially when she’s examining

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ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-09-18 16:37:45

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement arm Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has signed a contract worth $3 million with Magnet Forensics, a company that makes a phone-hacking and unlocking device called Graykey. The contract, which appeared on Tuesday in a federal government procurement database, said it is for software licenses for the phone-hacking tech for HSI “to recover digital evidence, process multiple devices, & generate forensic reports essential to missio

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Launch HN: Cactus (YC S25) – AI inference on smartphones

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 20:40:29

Energy-efficient AI inference framework & kernels for phones & AI-native hardware. Budget and mid-range phones control over 70% of the market, but frameworks today optimise for the highend phones with advanced chips. Cactus is designed bottom-up with no dependencies for all mobile devices. Example (CPU-only): Model: Qwen3-600m-INT8 File size: 370-420mb 16-20 t/s on Pixel 6a, Galaxy S21, iPhone 11 Pro 50-70 t/s on Pixel 9, Galaxy S25, iPhone 16 Architecture Cactus exposes 4 levels of abstr

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Automatic Differentiation Can Be Incorrect

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Rackauckas 2025-09-19 00:01:35

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

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Microsoft’s AI Copilot Invades Congress

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-19 04:10:43

AI has swiftly taken over much of the economy, and now, it appears to be invading our nation’s hallowed halls of power. Axios reports that Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Copilot, will be made available to staff in the House of Representatives, where lawmakers will use it to…well, that part isn’t exactly clear yet. The House will soon begin using M365 Copilot as part of a broader effort to integrate AI “into its daily operations,” Axios says. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is expected to announce th

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Seven indie games that will upgrade your downtime this fall

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-19 03:00:00

We all know there’s a lot of tech to potentially upgrade in your life, but for those who want to upgrade their downtime with inexpensive, relatively short video games, I have good news. 2025 has already featured a wealth of excellent titles to spend your time with, including ones from smaller and independent developers that you can complete in a few sessions. If you’re looking for a good new game to play (and aren’t already deep into Hollow Knight: Silksong), here are some great options from thi

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Dawn Capital’s Shamillah Bankiya breaks down the state of the Euro venture market

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-09-19 04:00:00

Dawn Capital’s latest partner, Shamillah Bankiya, stopped by Equity this week to talk about the European landscape and the biggest misconceptions Americans have about the European startup world. Dawn Capital is a marquee firm in the UK with more than $2 billion in AUM, 34 exits, and 11 unicorns. Names in the portfolio consist of names including AI companies Collibra and Dataiku. It focuses on early-stage companies, backing them from seed to Series C. It’s currently investing from its $620 milli

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Elements of C Style (1994)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 13:21:03

Notes on Programming Practices More Purity More Speed More Correctness Other notes on C programming Style Snobbism Your Friends, the Header Files Your Friend, the Compiler Function and Procedure Names Variable Names Notes on Formatting Style Indentation Braces Spacing Comments Function declarations Cute Tricks in C Powers of Two Unrolling Small Loops Unrolling Bigger Loops Counting Bits Random Essays on Programming Meaningless Variable Names Considered Useful GOTOs Considered Us

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How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 08:22:47

How to Debug Chez Scheme Programs R. Kent Dybvig August 2002 When a program fails to operate as it should, it is said to have a bug. A bug is the root cause of an observed behavior, such as failure to terminate, failure to perform some action, termination with an error message, or merely producing incorrect results. The process of debugging a program is one of finding all of the bugs and "exterminating" them. This process first requires feeding the program a representative set of test cases,

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Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-09-19 16:43:31

Although today’s Meta Connect developer conference was largely about new smart glasses, the social networking company did announce a handful of metaverse updates during Wednesday’s keynote. Of these, one of the largest was the introduction of Hyperscape, first demoed at last year’s event, which allows developers and creators to build more photorealistic spaces in virtual reality. The company announced that Hyperscape Capture is now rolling out in Early Access, meaning Quest device owners will b

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The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

wired.com Molly Taft 2025-09-19 18:10:24

“What this whole debate comes down to is who controls the skies,” Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told the audience at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Tuesday. “Do we believe in God and that he has dominion over his perfect creation of planet Earth? Do we believe that he has given us everything we need to survive as a civilization since the beginning of time? Or do you believe in man’s claim of authority over the weather, based on scientists that have only been

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Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq raises even more than expected, hits $6.9B valuation

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-19 20:51:42

AI chip startup Groq confirmed Wednesday that it raised a fresh $750 million in funding at a post-money valuation of $6.9 billion. This topped the rumored numbers when word leaked in July that Groq was raising. At that time, reports suggested that the raise would be about $600 million, at near a $6 billion valuation. Groq, which also sells data center computing power, previously raised $640 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in August 2024, making this more than double the valuation in about

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 23:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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macOS Tahoe Incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 00:38:01

If you have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and want to upgrade it to run macOS 26.0 Tahoe, then I’m afraid you’re going to have wait for Apple to build a new release that will install on your Mac. I’m very grateful to Ken who has tried unsuccessfully to upgrade from 15.7 to 26.0. There are plenty of others reporting exactly the same: the upgrade goes well until towards the end, then aborts and the Mac is restarted back into 15.7. The problem seems to originate from an error in its neural engine driver.

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CNET Editors Tested Camping Gear All Summer: Here Are Our Favorite Gadgets

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 03:00:00

Why I like it: The Grayl GeoPress is among my best outdoor gear purchases. I feel confident drinking water from lakes, rivers and even the sketchiest of sources with this filtered water bottle -- and that's saying something, because I nearly bit the dust by acquiring three strains of E. Coli from contaminated water at one point (before I knew about Grayl). It efficiently removes waterborne pathogens, including 99.9999% of bacteria, viruses and protozoa, and filters particulates like silt, micro

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 18, #830

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 03:00:07

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun mix of categories -- plus a purple set where you'll unscramble four related words. Read on for clues and today's answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric sco

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Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-09-20 04:52:00

On Wednesday, AI security firm Irregular announced $80 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport. A source close to the deal said the round valued Irregular at $450 million. “Our view is that soon, a lot of economic activity is going to come from human-on-AI interaction and AI-on-AI interaction,” co-founder Dan Lahav told TechCrunch, “and that’s going to break the security stack along multiple points.” Former

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Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-20 15:06:23

For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil — or "kick," in the parlance — resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones. The international team of researchers measured the ripples in the fabric of spacetime, known as gravitational waves, allowing them to get unprecedented insights into the turbulent dynamics of two black holes crashing into each other. The team analyzed data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitatio

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Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-20 21:38:17

Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem TL;DR why-stategraph.tldr $ cat why-stategraph.tldr • Terraform state shows distributed coordination issues but uses file primitives. • File blob (100% read/lock) vs. change cone (~3%). • Stategraph → graph state, ACID transactions, subgraph isolation. The Terraform ecosystem has spent a decade working around a fundamental architectural mismatch: we're using filesystem semantics to solve a distributed systems probl

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Tech bosses say massive investment will make UK 'AI superpower'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-21 16:28:39

Tech bosses say massive investment will make UK 'AI superpower' 33 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Share Save Watch: UK is not giving up its digital sovereignty, Microsoft boss tells BBC Major US tech firms have pledged tens of billions of pounds worth of investment in the UK, with the boss of the world's leading chipmaker, Nvidia, predicting it will make the country an "AI superpower". The biggest single investment comes from Microsoft, which has announced a $30bn (£22b

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XeroxNostalgia.com

news.ycombinator.com J May 2025-09-19 15:40:51

Xerox is the company that brought the first plain paper copier to the world. The process for making copies on plain paper, was first called Electro-photography, but was later changed to Xerography. This website aims to preserve the rich history of Xerox, highlighting both the company and the early machines it produced. We invite you to explore this showcase, which features the legacy of Xerox's early copiers and duplicators, along with the story of Xerox and its pioneering role in xerography.

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Pixel 10 series finally joins the Android Beta Program

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-21 23:50:04

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel 10 series can now join the Android Beta Program. Pixel 10 phones now show up with an option to opt in to the Android 16 QPR2 Beta Program. Google has finally opened up the Pixel 10 series to the Android Beta Program. When the phones first launched, they weren’t eligible to enroll, but that’s now changing. If you own a Pixel 10, 10 Pro, or 10 Pro XL, it should now appear alongside your other supported phones on the Android Beta Program page.

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Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 22:38:17

Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed Systems Problem TL;DR why-stategraph.tldr $ cat why-stategraph.tldr • Terraform state shows distributed coordination issues but uses file primitives. • File blob (100% read/lock) vs. change cone (~3%). • Stategraph → graph state, ACID transactions, subgraph isolation. The Terraform ecosystem has spent a decade working around a fundamental architectural mismatch: we're using filesystem semantics to solve a distributed systems probl

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Groww, backed by Satya Nadella, set to become first Indian startup to go public after U.S.-to-India move

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-09-22 01:32:17

Groww, India’s largest retail brokerage firm, is set to test the country’s public markets with a multi-billion-dollar IPO. The listing comes comes just over a year after the company restructured its corporate headquarters from Delaware back to India — a move that could make it the first Indian startup to list at home following a relocation from the U.S. Backed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and marquee investors including Y Combinator, Ribbit Capital, and Tiger Global, Groww’s listing — expecte

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 17, #359

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 02:55:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is a tough one. Movie fans will have an advantage on one grouping. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site ow

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In Defense of C++

news.ycombinator.com Dayvi Schuster 2025-09-22 15:40:34

Dayvi Schuster 12 min read Tuesday, September 9, 2025 In Defense of C++ Why C++ remains a powerful and relevant programming language in today's tech landscape. The Reputation of C++ C++ has often and frequently been criticized for its complexity, steep learning curve, and most of all for its ability to allow the developers using it to not only shoot themselves in the foot, but to blow off their whole leg in the process. But do these criticisms hold up under scrutiny? Well, in this blog post,

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 17, #829

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-22 16:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a fun mix. I especially liked the purple category, since I have fond memories of watching all four of those answers. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there

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Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-22 19:49:20

Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect — but where you do, at the very least, get to "vibe code," or use an AI model to write code and even build entire pieces of software. But rarely does the process go smoothly enough for prime time. The jury's still out on whether experienced programmers actually benefit from using AI coding assistants, and the tech's shortcomings are even more obvious when it's being relied on by untrained amateurs who openly embra

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Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges

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