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Hush: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding Using Spherical Harmonics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-18 20:32:47

13D Vision & Robotics Lab, UNIST 2KRAFTON ✝Corresponding Author TL;DR: HUSH conducts various panorama image-based 3D perception tasks by utilizing task-relevant and geometrically aligned spherical harmonics basis functions for each task. 🌟 Key insight: SH basis functions seem geometrically aligned with the signals (e.g., depth/normal) on the unit sphere! Abstract Motivated by the efficiency of spherical harmonics (SH) in representing various physical phenomena, we propose a Holistic panor

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How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies

wired.com Kim Zetter 2025-07-19 16:28:07

In the summer of 2005, Tan Dailin was a 20-year-old grad student at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering when he came to the attention of the People’s Liberation Army of China. Tan was part of a burgeoning hacker community known as the Honkers—teens and twentysomethings in late-’90s and early-’00s China who formed groups like the Green Army and Evil Octal and launched patriotic cyberattacks against Western targets they deemed disrespectful to China. The attacks were low-sophistication—

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How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyber Spies

wired.com Kim Zetter 2025-07-19 21:28:07

In the summer of 2005, Tan Dailin was a 20-year-old grad student at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering when he came to the attention of the People’s Liberation Army of China. Tan was part of a burgeoning hacker community known as the Honkers—teens and twentysomethings in late-’90s and early-’00s China who formed groups like the Green Army and Evil Octal and launched patriotic cyberattacks against Western targets they deemed disrespectful to China. The attacks were low-sophistication—

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Lettuce Grow Indoor Farmstand Review: Grow Your Own

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-07-20 01:00:00

Upon receiving the Lettuce Grow Indoor Farmstand in the mail, I did not expect that I’d be enjoying some tea before I’d even unwrapped all the parts. “Is that … Zooey Deschanel? With a Dollar Tree Property Brother?” my husband asked, peering over my shoulder as I unpacked various tubes and parts. And indeed, among the boxes was a glossy handout of a slightly younger-looking Zooey, standing with a man who did vaguely resemble her current husband, Jonathan Scott, of Property Brothers fame. Turns

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Microsoft Teams voice calls abused to push Matanbuchus malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-21 05:28:31

The Matanbuchus malware loader has been seen being distributed through social engineering over Microsoft Teams calls impersonating IT helpdesk. Matanbuchus is a malware-as-a-service operation seen promoted on the dark web first in early 2021. It was advertised as a $2,500 Windows loader that executes malicious payloads directly in memory to evade detection. In June 2022, threat analyst Brad Duncan reported that the malware loader was being used to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons in a large-scale

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3 Best Hall Effect Keyboards for Gamers and Serious Typists (2025)

wired.com Henri Robbins 2025-07-22 09:03:00

Polling rate is likely one of the most prominently displayed details on any Hall effect keyboard, purely because the large numbers emphasize one of the most important aspects of these keyboards: Speed. Whether a keyboard has a 1,000- or 10,000-Hz polling rate, this number represents how many messages are sent from the keyboard to the PC every second. For example, a keyboard with 1,000-Hz polling will send 1000 messages every second. Most office equipment operates at 125 Hz. In high-performance g

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Slack is getting a host of new AI tools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-22 17:00:23

Slack, the cloud‑based team messaging juggernaut, is charging ahead with further integration of AI into users’ day‑to‑day experience. The company is introducing a series of tools aimed at improving productivity and improving team communication. AI writing assistance has been built directly into Slack Canvas, allowing users to create assets like project briefs as well as refine the content they create using natural‑language prompts. Writing assistance can also be used to generate and assign acti

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How these proposed standards aim to tame our AI wild west

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-07-23 03:00:19

ferrantraite/Getty Images Technology standardization has been something of an elusive holy grail, with new tech emerging faster than standards groups can keep up. Yet, somehow, things eventually come together -- at least for mature systems -- and achieve interoperability, be it email networks or developer tools. Now, a new race against time has come to the fore, with efforts to tame one of the fastest-developing technologies seen to date -- artificial intelligence. Can standards groups, with t

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OpenAI Is Eating Microsoft’s Lunch

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-07-23 21:20:44

Microsoft has somehow managed to have another Cortana moment. Despite its AI assistant, Copilot, being built into Windows machines and compatible with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem that millions of people are stuck with, it simply cannot get people to love the in-house option. According to a new report, ChatGPT has managed to rack up about 10 times the downloads that Microsoft’s Copilot has received. Bloomberg cites data provided by Sensor Tower that found the Copilot app for iOS and Android has

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With 81 total Emmy nominations, how did each Apple TV+ title do?

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-24 05:38:30

Yesterday, Apple broke its own record and received 81 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations across multiple categories. Below is a full title-by-title breakdown, listing every nominated Apple TV+ series and film, along with every category they’re up for. Severance (27 nominations) Severance didn’t just top Apple TV+’s list of nominees. It also earned more Emmy nominations than any other show this year. Outstanding Drama Series Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Adam Scott Outstanding Lea

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Faster wireless chargers coming to iPhone, but don’t buy one yet

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-07-25 10:04:00

If you’re looking for a faster wireless charger for your iPhone, there are at least eight new models on the way, supporting up to 25W. That’s thanks to the latest Qi2.2 standard, with eight different products being certified yesterday – but even after they launch, you may still want to wait … Qi2.2 means faster wireless chargers Early wireless phone chargers were based on the original Qi standard, overseen by the industry trade group Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). This was an important deve

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Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-07-25 09:00:00

Security researchers say Chinese authorities are using a new type of malware to extract data from seized phones, allowing them to obtain text messages — including from chat apps such as Signal — images, location histories, audio recordings, contacts, and more. On Wednesday, mobile cybersecurity company Lookout published a new report — shared exclusively with TechCrunch — detailing the hacking tool called Massistant, which the company said was developed by Chinese tech giant Xiamen Meiya Pico.

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Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 09:47:02

Voice: the original UI. Voice was humanity’s first interface—long before writing or typing, it let us share ideas, coordinate work, and build relationships. As digital systems become more capable, voice is returning as our most natural form of human-computer interaction. Yet today’s systems remain limited—unreliable, proprietary, and too brittle for real-world use. Closing this gap demands tools with exceptional transcription, deep understanding, multilingual fluency, and open, flexible deploy

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This laptop accessory has replaced standing desks for me, plus it's easy to travel with

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-07-26 01:54:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Moft's Sit-stand Laptop Desk is a 5-in-1 foldable laptop stand that retails for $70. The standing option is a game-changer for those traveling for work, hot-desking, or with compact home office spaces. However, for $70, the stand would be more complete if it had a companion keyboard stand. $59.99 at Amazon We all know the feeling of sitting in a desk chair for too long: fatigue, back pain, and a sore neck, among other things. If you sit at a desk for work, it's important

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We Can’t Get Enough of Jimmy Olsen in ‘Superman’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-07-26 09:45:50

“What is going on with Jimmy Olsen?” I recently asked the stars of Superman. “What is it about that guy?” “He’s got rizz,” replied Rachel Brosnahan, who plays Olsen’s fellow reporter Lois Lane. “This is a true fact about Skyler Gisondo,” Clark Kent himself, David Corenswet, added about the Olsen actor. “Which I hope is appropriate to share. Sorry, Skyler… His testosterone is through the roof. Off the charts. True story. So of course, who is surprised that his Jimmy Olsen is pulling the kind of g

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Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 01:06:20

An international research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: TOKUDA Hideyuki Ph.D.), and including Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Electric, President: INOUE Osamu) have set a new world record in optical fiber communications, achieving data transmission at 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 1,808 kilometers (roughly equivalent to the distance from Sapporo to Fukuoka, from Misso

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‘Andor’ Gets 14 Emmy Nominations in a Genre-Heavy Year

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-07-26 17:17:14

Television, it turns out, is geeky as hell. That seemed to be the major takeaway as the 77th annual Emmy Award nominations were announced Tuesday, with Severance leading all nominees with 27 total, HBO’s The Penguin coming in second with 24, The Last of Us in fifth with 16, and Andor coming in sixth with 14, including Outstanding Drama Series. Other genre shows, such as The Acolyte, Agatha All Along, Black Mirror, The Boys, Cobra Kai, Dune: Prophecy, House of the Dragon, Invincible, Paradise, P

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iPhone 17: Titanium is coming to just one model, and it’s a surprising choice

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-27 01:20:35

Two years ago, Apple launched the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max with a big emphasis on a new, titanium design. Titanium remained a differentiator for iPhone 16 Pro, too. But reporting indicates the company will ship only one iPhone 17 model with a titanium design this year, and it’s a surprising choice. iPhone 17 Air will be the only new model with titanium Last fall, as rumors about the iPhone 17 line started ramping up, one of the more curious reports had to do with design materials. The Inform

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More and More Christians Say AI Is Demonic

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-28 04:27:14

Like many conservatives, evangelicals have broadly begun to embrace artificial intelligence — but at the same time, a growing subset of the Christian world is claiming that the technology is quite literally demonic. In a recent Medium blog post — yes, people still post on that site — self-proclaimed "biblical Christian author" and regular AI user Zack Duncan suggested that an image generator's cartoonish outputs regarding Satan may be the result of some demonic influence. "I’ve seen a trend of

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Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

news.ycombinator.com Maurits Van Hassel 2025-07-26 01:02:51

Help us improve your experience! We use analytics to understand how you use our website so we can make it better for you and other visitors. What this helps us do: Improve website performance and user experience Improve website performance and user experience Understand which features you find most useful Understand which features you find most useful Make our content more relevant and helpful We never sell your data. Read our privacy policy

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The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 06:30:42

When one of these rivers overflows, the water falls to one of five enormous 70-meter tall cylindrical tanks spread across the Channel’s length. Each of these tanks is big enough to accommodate a space shuttle or the Statue of Liberty and they are interconnected through a 6.3km long network of underground tunnels. As the water approaches the Edo River, the ‘floodwater cathedral’ Tortajada visited reduces its flow, so the pumps can push it to the river.

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The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-26 11:30:42

When one of these rivers overflows, the water falls to one of five enormous 70-meter tall cylindrical tanks spread across the Channel’s length. Each of these tanks is big enough to accommodate a space shuttle or the Statue of Liberty and they are interconnected through a 6.3km long network of underground tunnels. As the water approaches the Edo River, the ‘floodwater cathedral’ Tortajada visited reduces its flow, so the pumps can push it to the river.

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Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-29 07:07:29

In Brief Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post. According to the Post, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended two decades ago) as “mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation.” He also reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my

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Grab This Epson EcoTank Wireless Printer for $100 Off With This Lingering Prime Day Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-29 13:07:00

If you have a small business, home office or find that you need to print things often, having a printer is a great way to save time on hefty fees at print shops. We've spotted this Epson EcoTank ET-4800 for $100 off at Amazon thanks to this lingering Prime Day deal that brings this printer down to just $200. Since Prime Day is over, we suggest acting quickly to nab this excellent back-to-school deal. This Epson EcoTank ET-4800 printer is also capable of multiple other functions. It's a scanner,

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The Fourth Wave: How Speedballing Is Creating a New Kind of Drug Crisis

gizmodo.com Andrew Yockey 2025-07-29 16:00:30

Speedballing—the practice of combining a stimulant like cocaine or methamphetamine with an opioid such as heroin or fentanyl—has evolved from a niche subculture to a widespread public health crisis. The practice stems from the early 1900s, when World War I soldiers were often treated with a combination of cocaine and morphine. Once associated with high-profile figures like John Belushi, River Phoenix and Chris Farley, this dangerous polysubstance use has become a leading cause of overdose death

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Apple TV+ docuseries scores 6 Daytime Emmy Awards nominations

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-30 17:44:59

Apple has picked up six Daytime Emmy nominations for one of its most interesting nature docuseries, produced in partnership with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit. See the categories and watch the trailer below. Winners will be announced this October Today, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the 52nd Daytime Emmy Awards. The winners will be revealed on October 17, a little more than a month after the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, which will take place on September 14. Among th

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Get more done with less effort — These productivity-boosting gadgets now start from $119

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-31 13:13:06

Many people use AI tools to enhance their work efficiency and productivity, but very few can do it all. If you’re looking for a handy AI assistant to elevate your meeting experiences with useful transcriptions, summaries, to-do lists, and so much more, viaim has you covered. And, did we mention that these come in the ultra-portable form of wireless earbuds or PC accessories? Viaim’s AI-powered earbuds and meeting tools are a must-have if you regularly attend meetings or take online classes. And

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Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-07-31 14:35:55

This article follows Part 1 of the Tandy Corporation’s history, which covers the company’s founding and the lead up to and launch of the TRS-80, and Part 2, which covers the TRS-80 Models I, II, III, CoCo, and Pocket Computer. When the TRS-80 Model I was released in 1977, the microcomputer market was small, centered around hobbyists, and many computer owners had built their machines from off-the-shelf components and/or kits. Tandy, Apple, and Commodore completely changed the market, but even th

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Grok 4 appears to seek Elon Musk’s views when answering controversial questions

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-08-01 00:26:16

Elon musk and the xAI logo. Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images When xAI's Grok 4 chatbot was launched on Wednesday, users and media outlets quickly began pointing out examples of it consulting its owner Elon Musk's views on controversial matters. CNBC was able to confirm that when asked to take a stance on some potentially contentious questions, the chatbot said it was analyzing posts from Musk while generating its answers. When asked, "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? O

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Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser

news.ycombinator.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-01 08:05:50

Perplexity on Wednesday launched its first AI-powered web browser, called Comet, marking the startup’s latest effort to challenge Google Search as the primary avenue people use to find information online. At launch, Comet will be available first to subscribers of Perplexity’s $200-per-month Max plan, as well as a small group of invitees that signed up to a waitlist. Here’s what a New tab looks like for me on Comet Image Credits:Screengrab/Maxwell Zeff / Perplexity Comet’s headline feature is

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Latest Tech News

Hush: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding Using Spherical Harmonics

How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies

How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyber Spies

Lettuce Grow Indoor Farmstand Review: Grow Your Own

Microsoft Teams voice calls abused to push Matanbuchus malware

3 Best Hall Effect Keyboards for Gamers and Serious Typists (2025)

Slack is getting a host of new AI tools

How these proposed standards aim to tame our AI wild west

OpenAI Is Eating Microsoft’s Lunch

With 81 total Emmy nominations, how did each Apple TV+ title do?

Faster wireless chargers coming to iPhone, but don’t buy one yet

Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data

Voxtral – Frontier open source speech understanding models

This laptop accessory has replaced standing desks for me, plus it's easy to travel with

We Can’t Get Enough of Jimmy Olsen in ‘Superman’

Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber

‘Andor’ Gets 14 Emmy Nominations in a Genre-Heavy Year

iPhone 17: Titanium is coming to just one model, and it’s a surprising choice

More and More Christians Say AI Is Demonic

Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods

Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

Grab This Epson EcoTank Wireless Printer for $100 Off With This Lingering Prime Day Deal

The Fourth Wave: How Speedballing Is Creating a New Kind of Drug Crisis

Apple TV+ docuseries scores 6 Daytime Emmy Awards nominations

Get more done with less effort — These productivity-boosting gadgets now start from $119

Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible

Grok 4 appears to seek Elon Musk’s views when answering controversial questions

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser

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