A 32" 1440p display shows 5 videos with a large ad, but analytics predict YouTube's homepage will be 1 video by May 2026 and ad-free by September 2026.
Finnish Parliament approved a law restricting mobile device use in schools, prohibiting use during class time. Pupils can use phones with teacher permission for studies or health reasons.
US-China tariffs will cause a 35% drop in cargo volume at the Port of Los Angeles next week. This may lead to empty shelves and price hikes in US stores due to reduced imports from China.
Ilia founded Perfect Wiki, a SaaS product for internal company knowledge bases in Microsoft Teams, solving a pain point with the built-in Wiki. The product grew to $250,000 annual revenue over five years without investors, a big team, or Series A funding.
ChatGPT rolled back an update that made it overly flattering, and is now revising how it collects feedback and introducing personalization features. The company is working to address sycophancy and give users more control over how ChatGPT behaves.
“Nobody wins,” Gene Seroka said. “China is America’s factory.”
Researchers present MiMo-7B, a series of models trained from scratch for reasoning tasks, which outperforms larger 32B models. MiMo-7B demonstrates superior performance on mathematics and code reasoning tasks, matching OpenAI's performance.
US defense secretary Pete Hegseth used a private computer with a direct link to the public internet to use the messaging app Signal, bypassing Pentagon security protocols. Hegseth's actions were unusual given his access to a dedicated communications center called SecDef Cables.
User built a Hacker News API client in Go and downloaded all HN content as a 20 GiB JSON file. They used DuckDB to analyze the data and created a 12-week moving average of key topic mentions.
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We introduce DeepSeek-Prover-V2, an open-source large language model for formal theorem proving in Lean 4, which achieves state-of-the-art performance in neural theorem proving with 88.9% pass ratio on the MiniF2F-test. The model is trained on a synthetic cold-start dataset and a benchmark dataset called ProverBench, comprising 325 problems, including high-school competition-level challenges ...
We developed Mercury, a new generation of language models that are up to 10x faster and cheaper than current LLMs. Mercury uses a "coarse-to-fine" generation process for high-quality text generation at unprecedented speeds.
The Google Play Store saw a 47% decline in apps from 3.4 million to 1.8 million, a significant purge of low-quality apps. This decline is attributed to Google's new policies, including stricter app review measures and expanded human reviews.
Tech CEOs are pushing an "AI-first" strategy, but it may not be optimal for companies with skilled employees. This trend is more about CEOs showing off their commitment to AI than actually helping their workers.
A researcher found 10 unique crashes in the LibJS JavaScript engine using Fuzzilli, including a heap buffer overflow, freelist corruption, and a heap use-after-free bug. The researcher exploited the use-after-free bug to gain code execution by overwriting a return pointer with a ROP chain, allowing them to execute a calculator app.
NotebookLM now offers Audio Overviews in over 50 languages, making information more accessible worldwide. Users can select their preferred language for Audio Overviews and change it anytime for multilingual content creation.
The Open Source Lab is facing a critical funding shortage due to reduced university support and needs $250,000 in committed funds to avoid shutdown. Donations can be made via [email protected] or the OSL donation page, providing tax advantages through the OSU Foundation's 501(c)(3) status.
Espressif Systems announced ESP32-C5, a RISC-V SoC with dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 connectivity. It features a 240 MHz processor, 384 KB SRAM, and supports various peripherals and security features.
Zachary Folkman, representing World Liberty Financial, offered a secret multimillion dollar deal to a Cayman startup in exchange for a partnership with the Trumps. The startup rejected the deal, considering it unethical, but World Liberty successfully pitched similar deals to other firms, reaping over $550 million in sales.
The user successfully exploited a Linux kernel vulnerability in version 6.6.75 using a Use After Free (UAF) bug, gaining a root shell after a weeks-long deep dive into the exploit development. The exploit involved leaking addresses, bypassing kernel address space layout randomization (kASLR), and redirecting execution flow using a ROP chain to gain root privileges.
JetBrains removed negative reviews for its AI Assistant citing policy or outdated content, but users suspect a ratings boost attempt. The AI Assistant has a poor reputation due to issues like self-installation, latency, and limited third-party model support.
The author joined Sun Microsystems as employee #8, 40 years ago, after being introduced by Bill Joy and being drawn to the company's focus on UNIX and workstations. He started working at Sun on May 3, 1982, and was part of the kernel team with Bill Shannon, debugging and shipping UNIX with Sun-1s.
Zhaoxin's Century Avenue CPU is a 4-wide, 8-core design with a 3.2 GHz clock speed and AVX2 capabilities. It has improved performance compared to its predecessor LuJiaZui, but still lags behind modern western x86-64 chips.
The project uses mini-rv32ima and a VBA macro to load a separate emulator DLL, which runs Linux in Excel. It's a buggy, fun project that cheats by using an external emulator instead of rewriting it in VBA or Excel formulas.
Researchers found Chatbot Arena's scoring system biased due to undisclosed private testing and data access asymmetries favoring large providers. This leads to overfitting to Arena-specific dynamics rather than general model quality.
In recent months, sentinelone has observed and defended against a spectrum of attacks. financially motivated threat actors frequently target enterprise security platforms - sentinelabs et al. the underground economy built around the buying, selling, and renting of access to enterprise cybersecurity tools is growing, they say... coding insights with automation will consistently bring ...
A user's game, BeamNG.drive, was infected with malware through a mod called American Road. The malware exploited a 6-year-old Chromium vulnerability to steal passwords and personal info.
Researchers explore reversible computing to reduce energy consumption, citing Landauer's principle that non-reversible computations consume at least 2.9 x 10^21 J of energy. A mechanical computing scheme using links and rotary joints demonstrates a reversible computing model.
Microsoft Research AI Frontiers is working on two projects to help developers with safe low-level programming. One project, LLM Assistance for Memory Safety, uses large language models to infer memory safety annotations in legacy C code, while the other, RustAssistant, automatically fixes compilation errors in Rust code.
Build your own AI model. Test it with formula in Sheets and integrate it in your app using API.
Home washing machines may not effectively disinfect healthcare worker uniforms, potentially spreading antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers suggest revising laundry guidelines or using industrial machines to improve disinfection and control antibiotic resistance.
Researchers tested Large Language Models in high-powered rocketry design and found they plateau below human performance levels. However, with reinforcement learning, a 7B parameter model outperformed both state-of-the-art models and human experts.
ART is an open-source library for improving LLM performance using reinforcement learning. It utilizes GRPO and allows for offloading complexity to a backend while executing agent runs in existing codebases.
Liverpool FC has equalled Manchester United's record of 20 English championships. The sequence of Premier League titles won by different clubs forms a Fibonacci sequence.
Raven is an OCaml ecosystem for machine learning and data science, aiming to provide efficient and intuitive capabilities with type safety and performance. It includes Ndarray for high-performance numerical computation and Hugin, with plans for additional libraries and tools.
Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol in Windows allows revoked passwords to be used for login due to a design decision to prevent users from being locked out. This behavior can leave millions of users at risk of unauthorized access even after changing their password.
New York City's median sale price rose 10% year-over-year in Q1 2025 to $768,000. Manhattan neighborhoods saw the largest increases, with Hudson Yards being the most expensive at $5.355 million.
Boox debuts its first desktop monitor with a color E Ink screen, priced at $1,899.99, offering eye-friendly display and four customizable modes. It's suitable for text editing, writing, and spreadsheet work in well-lit spaces, but not ideal for gaming or video editing.
Columbia University faced demands from Trump's administration, withholding $400m in funding. Alumni question why Columbia didn't reject the demands due to its large endowment.
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is considered a poverty wage, with annual earnings below the poverty threshold. Raising the minimum wage is a powerful tool to improve economic security for low-wage workers and reduce poverty.
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Kexa.io is an open-source tool helping teams automate IT security and compliance verification across diverse assets. It offers a straightforward way to define checks, scan assets, and get clear reports on security posture.
Wikipedia uses AI to support its human volunteers by automating tasks and improving information discoverability. This human-centered approach prioritizes volunteer agency, transparency, and open-source AI to maintain Wikipedia's mission of freely accessible knowledge.
A young man, Christopher Sweet, is working at HUD's DOGE team to use AI to rewrite agency rules and regulations. Sweet, a third-year economics and data science student, has been tasked with leveraging AI to review HUD's regulations and identify areas for relaxation or removal.
Scientists discovered a new species of methane-producing archaea, Methanobrevibacter intestini, in the human gut. This discovery expands understanding of the human microbiome and may lead to new therapeutic approaches.
The user discusses the difficulties of using external libraries from Ruby and proposes using a JVM-based library from JRuby as a better solution, which can be easily integrated into Ruby code without requiring any Java knowledge. The user provides a step-by-step guide on how to use JRuby's Java integration layer to load and use the JFreeChart library, including creating a jar-dependencies ...
A demo app called Pouchnotes is provided to showcase Offline-First development with CouchDB and PouchDB. The app uses Svelte 5 and Pico.css for a simple note-taking experience that syncs across devices.
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Bose's electromechanical proactive suspension, now owned by ClearMotion, has finally entered mass production in the Nio ET9 electric car in China. The tech is expected to be applied to 3 million cars and has also been partnered with Porsche for use in their vehicles.
A new Cornell study found AI writing assistants can lead to cultural stereotyping and language homogenization, making users in the Global South sound more like Americans. The study suggests AI tools may be perpetuating Western culture as superior, suppressing local culture and values.
Limiting the length of a string is something we do in our code every day. make an intentional decision about how you’re going to count characters if you want to limit it effectively - eliot saad jiri taylor says string length can be arbitrary and inconsistant across different languages and systems he tries to understand... unless you have an explicit limit in mind!
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said 20-30% of the company's code is now written by AI. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts half of Meta's code will be written by AI within the next year.
Marc Andreessen's Signal group chat, Chatham House, features ultra-wealthy Silicon Valley plutocrats discussing politics and culture. The group's influence flows through media and podcasts, shaping a realignment towards Donald Trump and the new right.
A new study found that young adults are struggling with happiness, physical and mental health, and other life aspects, with low measures of flourishing until age 50. The study raises concerns about investing in the well-being of youth, with a stark difference seen in the US compared to other countries.
Using AI to automate tasks can relieve mental effort, but it may also lead to a lack of mental growth and a diminished sense of self. To gauge mental vitality, we may need to start tracking our levels of mental engagement, just as we do with physical fitness.
QuantCo developed dataframely to validate and reason about data frames in their pipelines, addressing limitations in existing libraries. Dataframely is a declarative validation library for polars data frames that ensures data meets expectations and adds schema information to data frame type hints.
The Lebanese Rocket Society, led by Manougian, successfully launched rockets into space between 1960 and 1967, but was disbanded due to international pressure and regional war. Manougian's vision and determination to create a peaceful space program were ultimately hindered by geopolitical tensions and the militarization of technology.
A comprehensive timeline of Artificial Intelligence milestones from 2022 to present.
Commodore 64 was conceived as a game machine, not 'computer' some changes that might have improved the machine did not get made in rush to production. business-oriented software does not look as good as it should on the 64, says john d. dougherty. of the original design team, only robert russell remains at commo. the earliest c64s were shipped in 1984, but were not sold until 1993
Meta built Private Processing to enable AI capabilities with user privacy, using a confidential computing infrastructure to process data without exposing it to unauthorized parties. Private Processing meets high-security requirements, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability, through defense-in-depth and verifiable transparency.
Erwin Schrödinger's thought experiment, Schrödinger's cat, illustrates the paradox of quantum mechanics, where a cat's fate is uncertain until observed. The paradox has become a cultural phenomenon, inspiring fiction and philosophical discussions about the nature of reality and probability.
The author was arrested after calling the police for help during a domestic violence incident, but the officer chose to arrest her instead of her ex-boyfriend due to a flawed law. The author spent 16 hours in jail before being released.
Microsoft's Nadella said 50% of code is AI generated, with mixed results across languages. Google's Pichai reported 30% AI generated code, while Meta's Zuckerberg was unsure of the figure.
A man tries to calculate what love costs.
The US House Transportation Committee proposes a new annual fee for electric vehicle and hybrid drivers, with EVs paying $200 and hybrids paying $100. The fee will be linked to inflation and expire by 2035, but critics argue it's a regressive tax that punishes clean energy users.
postonreddit automates and optimizes Reddit posting for max visibility and growth. It helps users save time and increase upvotes, followers, and karma with smart scheduling and analytics.
The list provides curated tools, papers, and datasets for applying AI to cybersecurity tasks, focusing on modern AI technologies like LLMs and their applications in security operations. It includes resources like Foundation-Sec-8B and NYU CTF Bench for evaluating AI in cybersecurity.