Published on: 2025-06-05 06:15:33
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture the essence of human intelligence, they defy even our most basic intuitions about it. They have emerged not because they are thoughtful solutions to the problem of intelligence, but because they scaled effectively on ha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 00:17:08
Reddit has announced the ability to curate your profile, tailoring what is shown to users in different subreddits. You can, for example, choose to display posts and comments from some communities, while hiding those from others. So if you’ve been wanting to hide the fact that you participate in Android forums from your iPhone buddies, you can. The platform made the announcement today. Starting today, we’re rolling out updates to profile settings, making it easier for redditors to manage their
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 23:20:37
Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year” diminished trust in their reliability. The two organizations, Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom and Budapest-based Netlock, are among the hundreds of certificate authorities trusted by Chrome and most other browsers to provide digital certificates that encrypt traffic and certify the authenticity of sites. With the ability to mint crypto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 09:20:37
Google says its Chrome browser will stop trusting certificates from two certificate authorities after “patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year” diminished trust in their reliability. The two organizations, Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom and Budapest-based Netlock, are among the hundreds of certificate authorities trusted by Chrome and most other browsers to provide digital certificates that encrypt traffic and certify the authenticity of sites. With the ability to mint crypto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 00:31:49
Luxury fashion brand Cartier is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers' personal information after its systems were compromised. In notification letters sent today and shared by recipients on social media, Cartier revealed that hackers breached its systems and stole a limited amount of customer information. "We are writing to inform you that an unauthorized-party gained temporary access to our system and obtained limited client information," Cartier stated in the da
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 12:48:16
Elon Musk's brain tech startup Neuralink has closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced on Monday. ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round, according to a release. Neuralink said the fresh capital will help the company bring its technology to more patients and develop new devices that "deepen the connection between biological and artificial intelligence." Neuralink is building a brain-comp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 20:54:18
Internet service provider Frontier Communications agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by major record labels that demanded mass disconnections of broadband users accused of piracy. Universal, Sony, and Warner sued Frontier in 2021. In a notice of settlement filed last week in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, with each side to pay its own fees and costs. The record labels and Frontier simultaneously announced a settleme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 11:10:00
The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change, according to an MIT Technology Review analysis of a database that tracks such cuts. The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. Many believe the administration’s broader motivation is to undermine the power of the university system and prevent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 02:25:19
Community Documentation: Maintained by community volunteers, a plain language guide to using EasyTier, updated in real-time. Public Server Node List: Maintained by community volunteers, provides a list of public server nodes and status queries. QQ Group: 949700262 Telegram: https://t.me/easytier If you find EasyTier helpful, please consider sponsoring us. Software development and maintenance require a lot of time and effort, and your sponsorship will help us better maintain and improve Easy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 08:53:55
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . That brings the price of the Premium tier down to $107. Sony is offering PS Plus subscription plans at a deep discount . An annual subscription to the Premium tier is available for just $107, which is a discount of 33 percent. This promotion is running until June 11, giving gamers a b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 05:31:17
Weather2Geo Overview Weather2Geo is a focused OSINT tool that turns weather widget leaks into geolocation data. People post screenshots with the Windows weather widget in their taskbar all the time, showing the exact temperature, weather condition, and local time. This tool uses the same API as the widget to find cities where those conditions are currently true. ⚠️ This tool works best if used shortly after the screenshot is posted. Conditions change fast. Features Geolocation from Widgets
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 16:00:44
Hey HN! We're Brandon, Sam, and Akul from MindFort ( https://mindfort.ai ). We're building autonomous AI agents that continuously find, validate, and patch security vulnerabilities in web applications—essentially creating an AI red team that runs 24/7. Here's a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/e56faa07d90b417db09bb4454dce8d5a Security testing today is increasingly challenging. Traditional scanners generate 30-50% false positives, drowning engineering teams in noise. Manual penetration testing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 02:00:15
AI is revolutionizing digital accessibility in healthcare, making medical information and services more inclusive and user-friendly for people with disabilities. This article explores how AI technologies are enhancing web accessibility and improving healthcare access for all. AI-Powered Enhancements for Healthcare Websites Improved Communication and Interaction AI is breaking down communication barriers in healthcare by enabling more effective interactions between providers and patients with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 03:45:47
About Lottie Animation Community Lottie Animation Community (LAC), a non-profit open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation, dedicated to establishing the Lottie File Format as an efficient, scalable and cross-platform animated vector graphics technology and open file format. LAC was founded by a community of pioneers in recognition of that need. LAC aims to develop a formal Lottie format specification for implementation across renderers and other tools, and works towards the promotion
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 20:55:35
A new simulation of the galaxy’s magnetic turbulence shakes up how we think about—and visualize—the astrophysical environments. The model was developed by James Beattie, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and Princeton University, and collaborators from the U.S., Australia, and Europe. Described in a recent paper in Nature Astronomy, the model simulates space in high-definition—from volumes 30 light-years wide all the way down to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 07:00:00
In April, the feed started to change even more drastically. He’s posts became increasingly provocative, with better English and a unique sensibility of online culture. “Stop asking for cat girls. I’m trying to cure disease,” the account posted on April 15. Two days later, the account followed-up: “I literally went to prison for this shit.” This shift coincided with the development of his romance with Tie. Tie told us she has visited China three times this year, including a three-week stint in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 04:52:23
In a new feature story on its Newsroom today, Apple showcases how iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches are being used by doctors and nurses at one of Georgia’s largest health systems. And while the piece suffers from a chronic case of PR-speak, the project is pretty interesting nonetheless. In what Apple calls a first-of-its-kind deployment, Emory Healthcare has fully embraced the Apple ecosystem to transform how care is delivered at its 100-bed Hillandale Hospital. Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Appl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 20:32:46
Kraken is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. Kraken, a crypto exchange that has spent years in court battling charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its digital asset offerings, is preparing to offer tokenized securities, including shares of Apple , Tesla , and Nvidia , to customers outside the U.S, according to a release Thursday. The exchange is partnering with Backed—a firm specializing in blockchain-based financial assets — to offer more than 50 U.S.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 19:16:58
Image by Getty / Futurism Developments UnitedHealth, the largest healthcare insurer in the United States, reportedly went to extreme lengths to deny care to seniors and cut costs to pad out its profit margins. As The Guardian reports, nurse practitioners say that UnitedHealth pressed them to change patients' status to "do not resuscitate" — even after those same patients had "clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive." "They’re pretending to make it l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 04:50:46
A family vacation to Costa Rica turned sour after 12 of 13 relatives developed symptoms of a fungal lung infection following an excursion through bat-filled caves. In season two of The Last of Us, the cordyceps fungus—spoiler alert—becomes airborne, meaning the fungal infection can spread not just through bites but also when humans inhale its spores. While the TV show is highly fictitious, airborne fungi are most certainly not. A U.S. family now knows this better than most, since 12 of their me
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 12:00:12
Oura has rolled out activity updates to its smart ring, including a new trend view for active minutes so that users can get a better look at how active they are for the day, the week or even the whole month. They'll also be able to add their max heart rate to the activity setting, and Oura will adjust heart rate zones accordingly. Oura now allows users to add or edit activities for the past seven days manually, instead of just for that particular day, and it now displays heart rate data from act
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 04:45:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google announced a sweeping set of artificial intelligence advancements Tuesday at its annual I/O developer conference, introducing more powerful AI models, expanding its search capabilities, and launching new creative tools that push the boundaries of what its technology can accomplish. The Mountain View-based company unveiled Gemini 2.5 enhancements, rolled out AI Mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 20:30:00
The global assistive technology market was valued at more than $22 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow substantially by 2030. Despite the potential market size, many founders building tech to help people with disabilities struggle to secure the kind of early funding needed to get their companies off the ground in the first place. Adaptation Ventures is a new angel group hoping to fill that funding gap by providing capital to early-stage startups building accessibility tech. It will back st
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 18:57:30
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to meter”. Right now, buoyed by venture capital, we’re living in that world. Every human (with internet access) on the planet has free access to language models that are smart enough to assist with a wide variety of problems. And people are using it! ChatGPT has more traffic than Wikipedia. However, there doesn’t seem to be a huge consumer pressure towards smarter models. Claude Sonnet had a serious edge
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 04:00:00
Elon Musk says he’s stepping back from his role with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to turn his attention to his businesses—most urgently to Tesla, which has faced global sales slumps in recent months. In this episode, we discuss how our understanding of DOGE has evolved over the past five months and what we think will happen when Musk scales back. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Lauren Goode on Bluesky at @laurengoode, and Katie Drummond on Bluesky a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 23:05:00
The FCC has signed off on the $20 billion Verizon and Frontier Communications merger. This federal agency approval will allow Verizon to significantly expand its fiber reach and subscriber base, which is presently limited primarily to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. By updating and expanding Frontier's existing network in 25 states, Verizon will not only bring fiber to more communities, but could potentially match or surpass its internet competitor, AT&T fiber. The merger is also expected to sp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 08:14:34
The FCC has announced its approval of the merger between communications giants Verizon and Frontier, after a deal was made last year . Verizon will acquire Frontier Communications for $9.6 billion in cash, in addition to absorbing $10 billion of debt. Key to earning approval from the FCC was Verizon's commitment to ending all DEI-related practices, in line with the Trump administration’s aim to dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from both public organizations and private
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 12:55:49
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. Verizon’s $20 billion deal to acquire the fiber internet provider Frontier is officially happening. On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission signed off on the merger, which will allow Verizon to “upgrade and expand” Frontier’s existing fiber networks. Verizon expects to bring fiber to 1 million homes each year following the acquisition. The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 22:18:49
Threat actors, likely supported by the Russian government, hacked multiple high-value mail servers around the world by exploiting XSS vulnerabilities, a class of bug that was among the most commonly exploited in decades past. XSS is short for cross-site scripting. Vulnerabilities result from programming errors found in webserver software that, when exploited, allow attackers to execute malicious code in the browsers of people visiting an affected website. XSS first got attention in 2005, with t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 08:17:54
When Max Cohen and Cameron Behar set out to launch a startup together during the pandemic, they decided to focus on the most top-of-mind sector of the era: healthcare. But since neither Cohen nor Behar had a background in healthcare (both worked at Google and Facebook previously), they had to think long and hard about how to contribute to a sector that was dominating the public consciousness at the time. Telehealth was getting tremendously popular, too, in those years, but the duo recognized t
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