Coding is NOT solved
Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!
AI Industry Needs to Earn $6 Trillion by 2031 to Justify Data Centres
To justify the investment, AI must do more than boost productivity; it will need to unlock new sources of growth and value.
Your car is a smartphone on wheels: A team of researchers tested 21 vehicles and found that all of them transmitted data to a third-party d…
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
TIL witches were hanged in the U.S. and England., but burned in Scotland.
Same king, same accusation, two completely different deaths.
TortOS Wants to Make Your TrimUI Brick Feel Like a Collection Again
Geekstrada on building a fast, focused custom firmware, rediscovering Cover Flow, and giving music a proper home on the TrimUI Brick
Dox for Me, O Muse: Meta’s New AI Agent Built Lists of People in Vulnerable Groups— including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers…
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs - Cal Newport
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements ... Read more
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts: It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatb…
Human contractors are reviewing Microsoft Copilot user's image editing prompting, many of which are for sexually explicit material.
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
The bureau has not yet publicly confirmed a breach, but has told its agents that their personal information and Social Security numbers were exposed.
TIL that 1 petabyte (PB) is equal to 1 million gigabytes (GB) of storage.
Discover the true cost and scale of data storage at the petabyte level, and why "cheap storage" is a myth for enterprises handling vast amounts of unstructured data.
Esos Rings CEO Michelle Bisnoff Convicted of Nearly $2 Million Ponzi Scheme
LOS ANGELES (KEYT) – Michelle Bisnoff has been convicted of multiple financial crimes in connection with an almost $2 million Ponzi scheme related to
The Internet Marked Flock Safety CEO’s Home As A Public Toilet Online
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley faces online mockery over an allegedly blurred home, raising real questions about surveillance executives and personal privacy.
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Bandai Namco’s Synduality: Echo of Ada is shutting down online services, but players are oddly happy about it thanks to promised “PvP-free”…
The official EOS date will be announced in May 2027.
Boox Picco unveiled: Petite 3.97" e-reader with Pomodoro, microSD, and MagSafe
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
The long way around to screen sharing.
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
Chirantan “CJ” Desai to Step Down as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dev Ittycheria Appointed Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.
File-Notification Systems on Windows, Linux, Android and macOS Can be Exploited to Spy on Users' Activities and Forge Password Prompts
A research team at TU Graz has demonstrated that the file notification systems of various operating sys... » Computer science and IT » Discover more ▸
GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations … more frequently than previous OpenAI models.
Our new evaluation finds that in simulations, GPT-6 Astra conducts unsanctioned supply-chain attack activity more frequently than previous OpenAI models
Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
Many people aren't happy, again, but Discord says it has to move forward with these changes due to new laws across the globe
TIL that there are 2,100+ tracked data center facilities across all 50 states.
Over 3,350 tracked data center facilities across all 50 states consume 176 TWh annually (4.4% of U.S. electricity). 990+ more under construction or planned. Interactive state-by-state data, the 50 largest facilities, mo…
For the 100th time: it's going to keep getting worse. AMD's Q4 price hike hasn't even landed yet. Buy your graphics card NOW.
3 months of daily price tracking across 27 EU retailers. NVIDIA +41.3%, AMD +28.3% — and AMD’s reported 10% Q4 hike hasn’t started rolling out yet.
EVs are now 9 times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
AI chatbots give us a narrow slice of knowledge: Researchers warn of ‘knowledge collapse’
We are exposed to a much narrower range of knowledge through AI chatbots than through a basic web search. This is documented by a new study led by the University of Copenhagen. As more and more of us turn to AI chatbots…
Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
Eats Intel's entry Panther Lake CPUs for breakfast too.
King signs collective bargaining agreement with Swedish unions
'This is an important step for King, the gaming industry and for the Swedish model.'
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents
TIL that only about 3% of human history has been recorded in written records.
Human history is often taught and understood through written records, documents, inscriptions, literature, and legal texts that chronicle the lives, decisions,
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in pen…
The jury also found Facebook misled the public about investigations into third-party app developers that harvest user data following the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
(Serverside Minecraft mod) Wizards of Lua 6.0.0 release
View the changelog of Wizards of Lua's 0 versions.
Calibre-Web-Auto v4.0.7 - Important Security Fixes, Much Faster Kobo Sync, KOReader → Hardcover Progress, a Refreshed Login & Mobile Layout…
Release Notes: v4.0.7 Changelog 🔒 Security Please update. This release fixes several access-control problems: Kobo Auth Tokens: Any logged-in user could create, view or delete another user's Kobo ...
Dragon Quest Builders 2 & the Art of Directed Creativity
Limitations breed creativity, or so the old saying goes, but is that really true? Are limitation and direction really what we need to make our artistic work shine? Or is there more to it than that?…
syncspirit v0.4.7 release
[core] allow to specify custom dns servers [core, bugfix] do not crash upon dns server unavailability [fltk, bugfix] dynamically update max sequence number
Google closes an AI Studio delete-flaw report in a minute
Published September 19 with evidence that the Delete action returns a fake 404 while the prompt data persists on Google's backend, and that Google's AI Vulnerab
Google VRP Banned Researcher in 60s Over AI Studio Delete Claim
An independent researcher says Google AI Studio's Delete button only strips a JSON pointer, while the underlying prompt data stays on Google's backend,…
[Podcast] Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat // Blocked from other social media, middle schoolers have had…
Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. Transcripts are g…
TIL Bangladesh once banned Japanese manga cartoon Doreamon
Bangladesh has banned the Hindi translation of a popular Japanese cartoon over fears that children who watch it are struggling to learn their native language.
RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
Three robot policies given five instructions they should refuse. How often they refused, how often they carried them out.
Lord Have Mercy as Researchers Create Walking Disembodied Hand Like That Little Guy From “The Addams Family”.
Researches have created a autonomous robotic hand that can walk around and support its own weight all by itself.
LEGO Racers returns and is playable for free on PC now
LEGO Racers has returned, and it's completely free to play via a browser thanks to a passionate group of fans remastering the game for a wide release.
The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play
In 2005, Sony bundled a playable version of WipEout Pure with its UMD release of Stealth. It was an unusual experiment in turning the PSP's movie format into something more than a way to watch films
Why not LLMs?
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Why is Hacker News like that?
Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y…
Put multiple values in one cell with lists and arrays in Excel
Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with...
Create a Custom Pass in the Wallet App on iPhone
In iOS 27, Apple's Wallet app lets you create custom passes for things like event tickets, gift cards, loyalty cards, and more. Here's how it works. If you have a ticket for an event and there's not a digital version av…
Stop bringing your phone in the shower: How steam can ruin 'waterproof' phones
Phone manufacturers are pretty direct in their guidance on this one.
Data Center Operator Slapped With $1 Million Fine for Belching Noxious Gas Into Surrounding Community: "I'd be lying to say if I were surpr…
Following months of sustained pressure from activists, state officials slapped a Microsoft-backed data center with a massive fine.
They really do think AI might kill everyone (seangoedecke.com)
A recent resignation tweet from an Anthropic researcher has everyone talking about the AI apocalypse again. Among other things, he said: The people building AI…