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I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

news.ycombinator.com Kim 2025-09-25 14:02:27

The operational primitives of deep learning, primarily matrix multiplication and convolution, exist as a fragmented landscape of highly specialized tools. This paper introduces the Generalized Windowed Operation (GWO), a theoretical framework that unifies these operations by decomposing them into three orthogonal components: Path, defining operational locality; Shape, defining geometric structure and underlying symmetry assumptions; and Weight, defining feature importance. We elevate this f

Topics: complexity data defining generalization gwo

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CPU Utilization is Wrong (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-28 23:06:39

The metric we all use for CPU utilization is deeply misleading, and getting worse every year. What is CPU utilization? How busy your processors are? No, that's not what it measures. Yes, I'm talking about the "%CPU" metric used everywhere, by everyone. In every performance monitoring product. In top(1). What you may think 90% CPU utilization means: What it might really mean: Stalled means the processor was not making forward progress with instructions, and usually happens because it is waitin

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Amazon Music launches AI-powered weekly playlists based on 'preferences and mood'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:42:39

Amazon Music has just launched new AI-powered weekly playlists based on the "preferences and mood" of listeners. This just means it scrapes what you've already been listening to and extrapolates further. It doesn't apply modern technology to gauge the actual mood of users. The company says the playlists include "a curated mix of familiar favorites from their most listened-to artists and latest favorites to new discoveries." I'm not exactly sure how this is different from what music streaming pl

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Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-07 21:35:35

Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K Games soon confirmed it. "We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," a spokesperson wrote to multiple news outlets. The company did no

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I use these 3 hidden Pixel camera features for better videos instantly

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-13 17:47:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Android's Camera app can dramatically improve your videos. There are three features that are either new and/or improved. These features are easy enough for anyone to use. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the Pixel phones is because of the camera. I've yet to test an Android phone with a superior sensor and app, and the results generally speak for themselves. But with video, Android has lagged

Topics: blur boost camera stabilization video

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%CPU utilization is a lie

news.ycombinator.com Brendan Long 2025-10-14 01:01:02

I deal with a lot of servers at work, and one thing everyone wants to know about their servers is how close they are to being at max utilization. It should be easy, right? Just pull up top or another system monitor tool, look at network, memory and CPU utilization, and whichever one is the highest tells you how close you are to the limits. And yet, whenever people actually try to project these numbers, they find that CPU utilization doesn't quite increase linearly. But how bad could it possibly

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3 hidden Pixel camera features that can instantly take your videos to the next level

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-14 21:13:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Android's Camera app can dramatically improve your videos. There are three features that are either new and/or improved. These features are easy enough for anyone to use. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the Pixel phones is because of the camera. I've yet to test an Android phone with a superior sensor and app, and the results generally speak for themselves. But with video, Android has lagged

Topics: blur boost camera stabilization video

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Improve your video with these 3 Android camera features

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-15 09:40:03

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Android's Camera app can dramatically improve your videos. There are three features that are either new and/or improved. These features are easy enough for anyone to use. One of the reasons why I've stuck with the Pixel phones is because of the camera. I've yet to test an Android phone with a superior sensor and app, and the results generally speak for themselves. But with video, Android has lagged

Topics: blur boost camera stabilization video

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‘Call of Duty’ May Enlist for a Movie Adaptation

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-18 12:30:12

Activision Blizzard and Microsoft’s Call of Duty franchise could take its blockbuster success to the big screen. According to Puck’s Matt Belloni, Paramount is currently negotiating for film rights to the long-running shooter series. Getting this IP is said to be a “tough priority” for new Paramount head David Ellison, since it’d be another major gaming property in the studio’s portfolio after Sonic the Hedgehog. There’s a new Call of Duty game annually—Treyarch and Raven’s Black Ops 7 lands in

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Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-21 17:05:44

More than 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard Entertainment have voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The union will represent employees across multiple disciplines including designers, engineers, artists and support staff. This comes after a slew of layoffs in the gaming division at Microsoft , Blizzard's parent company, as well as across the industry at large. The Diablo team isn't the first to unionize at the tech giant. ZeniMax QA workers reached a union contrac

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Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Davies 2025-10-28 14:42:32

A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s family over who owned the playwright’s final home has been unearthed in an unlabelled box at the National Archives. The original 1642 document was made by Thomas Nash, who was married to Shakespeare’s granddaughter Elizabeth Hall. In it, he bequeathed New Place, reputedly the second grandest house in Stratford-upon-Avon, to his own cousin Edward Nash. However, on Thomas’s d

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Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 17:41:33

Documenting the evolution of exploitation techniques serves a crucial purpose in security engineering: it helps us understand not just individual vulnerabilities but the systemic patterns that resist conventional fixes. The story of deserialization exploits in Ruby’s Marshal module offers a uniquely well-documented case study of this phenomenon. That is, a decade-long cycle of patches and bypasses that reveals the futility of addressing symptoms rather than root causes. This history matters bec

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Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 22:25:25

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The Star-Studded Trailer for ‘Anniversary’ Takes a Dystopian Detour

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-11-06 23:30:19

The best trailers make you want to see a movie but also leave you unsure exactly what it’s about. The first trailer for Anniversary, which stars Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Dylan O’Brien, Phoebe Dynevor, and others, does just that. To start, it looks like a slick thriller about an out-of-place new girlfriend causing havoc. From there, though, a few twists and turns reveal the world of the film is much, much darker than you’d expect. Then you throw in a star of The Handmaid’s Tale, and the intrigu

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Rod Fergusson leaves Blizzard after five years leading Diablo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 20:00:49

Rod Fergusson, the general manager of the Diablo franchise for the last five years, is leaving Blizzard. Fergusson announced the move on social media, but didn't say where he's going next. Before joining Blizzard in 2020 to lead Diablo , Fergusson was studio head at The Coalition, where he oversaw Gears of War. "After five years driving the Diablo franchise with four big launches, it’s time to step away from Blizzard/Microsoft, sword in hand, and see what’s next," Fergusson wrote in a post on B

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Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-11 17:43:51

Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in Moscow with custom malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the ISP level, Microsoft warned Thursday. The campaign has been ongoing since last year. It leverages ISPs in that country, which are obligated to work on behalf of the Russian government. With the ability to control the ISP network, the threat group—which Microsoft tracks under the name Secret Blizzard—positions itself between a targeted

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Microsoft: Russian hackers use ISP access to hack embassies in AiTM attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-11 23:00:00

Microsoft warns that a cyber-espionage group linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is targeting diplomatic missions in Moscow using local internet service providers. The hacking group tracked by Microsoft as Secret Blizzard (also known as Turla, Waterbug, and Venomous Bear) has been observed exploiting its adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) position at the internet service provider (ISP) level to infect the systems of diplomatic missions with custom ApolloShadow malware. To do this, th

Topics: blizzard diplomatic espionage malware microsoft

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Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-20 08:20:45

Here’s another thing to add to the list of highly unlikely but deeply horrifying injuries you could sustain in the safety of your own home. A recent case report detailed a 50-year-old man who fainted while brushing his teeth and ended up hospitalized as a result. Doctors at The University of Tokyo Hospital described the unusual incident earlier this month in BMJ Case Reports. After fainting, the man’s toothbrush scraped the back of his throat severely enough to trap air inside, raising the risk

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Somnee Smart Sleep Headband Review: High-Tech Help

wired.com Molly Higgins 2025-12-24 08:31:00

I have struggled with insomnia for as long as I can remember. I’ve tried basically every sleep aid on the market, plus I need a sound machine, sleep mask, blackout curtain, and weighted blanket to even begin the process of trying to fall asleep. So I decided to try something new. Before bed, on and off for the past several months, I've been wearing Somnee, a wearable sleep tech headband that aims to map the brain using EEG (electroencephalogram) sensors to deliver individualized therapeutic sti

Topics: brain personalized sleep somnee stimulation

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NetZeroNitrogen wants bacteria to replace synthetic fertilizer on farm fields

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-30 09:00:00

Synthetic fertilizer is a modern wonder, helping to feed billions of people, but it’s not without its costs. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields has led to dead zones in oceans around the world, where low oxygen levels have starved normally teeming coastal waters of life itself. Eliminating synthetic fertilizers is a tall order, but one startup thinks that its bacteria can eliminate up to half of it, all while undercutting fertilizer on cost. NetZeroNitrogen has developed a suite of bacterial s

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Weaving reality or warping it? The personalization trap in AI systems

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2026-01-04 15:30:00

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 AI represents the greatest cognitive offloading in the history of humanity. We once offloaded memory to writing, arithmetic to calculators and navigation to GPS. Now we are beginning to offload judgment, synthesis and even meaning-making to systems that speak our language, learn our habits and tailor our truths. AI systems are growing incr

Topics: ai personalization shared systems truth

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“Bypassing” specialization in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 23:26:22

"Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate the

Topics: filesystem function read self specialization

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"Bypassing" Specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 05:26:22

"Bypassing" specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Function Pointers I've spent nearly a year developing and refining my own FAT driver in Rust. For much of the last six months, I had to put the project on hold due to school commitments. However, I'm back now, especially since this project has become my most-starred repository on GitHub. During that journey, I (almost) learned how FAT and filesystems in general work behind-the-scenes and in my attempts to navigate the

Topics: filesystem function read self specialization

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YouTube is killing its Trending page a decade after its debut

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-20 12:44:34

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is sunsetting its Trending page a decade after its launch. The company has urged users to rely on personalized recommendations and YouTube Charts to discover trending content. The Trending page and Trending Now list will be removed across all platforms on July 21. YouTube is pulling the plug on its Trending page, about a decade after its debut. The page and the Trending Now list will be removed across all platforms later this month, and the comp

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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Eric Jang 2026-01-29 08:31:17

Generalizing to what you want may be easier than optimizing directly for what you want. We might even ask for "consciousness". This blog post outlines a key engineering principle I’ve come to believe strongly in for building general AI systems with deep learning. This principle guides my present-day research tastes and day-to-day design choices in building large-scale, general-purpose ML systems. Discoveries around Neural Scaling Laws, unsupervised pretraining on Internet-scale datasets, and o

Topics: generalization learning model policy theta

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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2026-02-05 03:06:05

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But a new report finds the accused continues to operate a slew of established accounts at American tech companies — including Facebook, Github, PayPal and Twitter/X. On May 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced economic sanctions against Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company alleged to pr

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Blizzard is giving up on its Warcraft mobile game amid layoffs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-06 22:50:22

It's nearly the end of the road for Warcraft Rumble. Blizzard has announced that it will no longer be developing new content for the free-to-play mobile strategy game, and instead focus on "regular, systemic in-game events and bug fixes." The change comes as the rest of Microsoft's business is in upheaval: The company is laying off as many as 9,000 employees across its global workforce. Blizzard's statement doesn't get into the details of what motivated the decision, but is clear that Warcraft

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Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2026-02-06 22:11:54

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Microsoft’s layoff of roughly 9,000 employees is continuing to have downstream effects at the company’s subsidiaries. Aftermath reports that as many as 100 developers at Blizzard have been impacted, and as a result the studio is winding down development on its mobile tower defense game Warcraft Rumble. In an announcement, B

Topics: blizzard development game rumble warcraft

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Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-11 22:52:40

Inflammation, long considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research suggests that "inflammaging"—chronic, low-grade inflammation associated with aging—appears to be a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles and varies significantly across global populations. The findings are published in Nature Aging. Researchers analyzed data from four populations: two industrialized groups—th

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Alpha Centauri

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2026-02-28 12:50:14

This article tells part of the story of the Civilization series. In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else. At that time, the two men were working for MicroProse Software, for whom they had just completed Civilization II, with Reynolds in the role of primary designer and programmer and Briggs in that of co-designer, producer, and soundtrack composer. They had brought the project in for well under $1

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Latest Tech News

I unified convolution and attention into a single framework

CPU Utilization is Wrong (2017)

Amazon Music launches AI-powered weekly playlists based on 'preferences and mood'

Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

I use these 3 hidden Pixel camera features for better videos instantly

%CPU utilization is a lie

3 hidden Pixel camera features that can instantly take your videos to the next level

Improve your video with these 3 Android camera features

‘Call of Duty’ May Enlist for a Movie Adaptation

Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized

Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

Marshal madness: A brief history of Ruby deserialization exploits

Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine

The Star-Studded Trailer for ‘Anniversary’ Takes a Dystopian Detour

Rod Fergusson leaves Blizzard after five years leading Diablo

Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

Microsoft: Russian hackers use ISP access to hack embassies in AiTM attacks

Man Spends 6 Days in the Hospital After Toothbrushing Session Goes Terribly Wrong

Somnee Smart Sleep Headband Review: High-Tech Help

NetZeroNitrogen wants bacteria to replace synthetic fertilizer on farm fields

Weaving reality or warping it? The personalization trap in AI systems

“Bypassing” specialization in Rust

"Bypassing" Specialization in Rust or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love F

YouTube is killing its Trending page a decade after its debut

Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

Blizzard is giving up on its Warcraft mobile game amid layoffs

Blizzard is winding down support for its Warcraft mobile game

Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

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