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DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash produced an extraordinary result in our AI hacking benchmark. It gained code execution on all 11 vulnerable targets, while all four fixed targets remained secure. The accepted runs cost only $4.65. A perfect score at that price deserves a detailed review. We looked into every command, request, and successful attack. The review confirmed six solutions that followed the planned a...
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
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In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA Rust into 2027 and beyond The systems layer of AI spans inference engines, serving infrastructure, drivers, and agent runtimes, and it churns constantly as models and techniques change. More and more of...
Salesforce Global Outage
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Posted by mabil. Score: 233 points. Comments: 137.
Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs
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On learning programming in an age of LLMs by Mark Seemann Open answers to a reader's letter. A reader recently wrote me a long letter with lots of questions about learning programming in this age of LLMs. After a bit of back-and-forth, I got permission to quote extensively from the letter in order to attempt some answers in public. None of my answers I consider particularly rigorous; the situation...
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
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Today, we are announcing a partnership with Mozilla to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. Firefox Smart Window (beta), Mozilla’s AI browsing assistant, is now powered by Mistral models. Smart Window helps you make sense of complex searches, remember something important you clicked away from and source information important to you based on your browser tabs. Mist...
Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world
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This repository contains the DATAMIMIC Community Edition (CE). MIT-licensed, Python-native, MCP-ready. CE is fully usable standalone for deterministic synthetic data generation and PII-aware pseudonymization. The Enterprise Platform adds governed workflows, PII scanning, role-based access, audit logging, scheduling, multi-system execution, and the full operational layer that regulated enterprises ...
Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
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Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training Without proper controls, website owners have long faced a difficult tradeoff: allow your content to be used for AI training, or risk losing discoverability in search. That tradeoff exists because some of the largest organizations on the Internet use mixed-use crawlers: a single crawler serving both search and AI training....
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
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Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately depicts what was captured by the iPhone's camera sensor. Apple Reference Image offers a trustworthy, scalable guarantee that a reference image is what it claims to be: a real photograph, captured by a real sensor in an iPhone camera, at a specific period in time.
Saving Jet Fuel
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A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flying nonstop from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) could need $68K in jet fuel over the 8.5-hour flight. Adjusting the flight path for wind conditions could reduce fuel consumption and possibly save a few thousand dollars. Firms like Jeppesen have offerings in this space, but Scikit-decide, together with a narrow- a...
How much oil-market buffer is left?
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Oil is part of everyday life, even when you don't think about it. It's refined into fuels that power cars, move goods, and help farmers grow our food. It's also used to make things like the clothes we wear. Since the US and Israel went to war with Iran in February 2026, the world has been using more oil than it produces. The Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea are effectively closed to oil shipping, ...
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
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I Came, I Prompted, I Left Part 2: Building a GPU Driver From Scratch in One Month Previous blog post: https://codyho.dev/blog/hypervisor-macbook-neo/ What We Did TL;DR: Niklas and I built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month, a process which normally takes years. Here is Chrome and Firefox running WebGL on the M4 Mac Mini with working com...
Introducing System One Models and Jev
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Company News Sep 15, 2026 Introducing System One Models & Jev Diogo Almeida, founder, TypeSafe Models have been superhuman at chat for years, so where is all the automation? This has been my driving question for the last four years. At OpenAI, I helped build the methods that made language models useful at following instructions and talking with people. That work ended up as the research behind Cha...
Chopping up books when they're physically too big
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Chop up your books This is my appeal to readers everywhere: you should take a knife to your books. (And no, not in the sense that the destructive AI-scanners do.) Like apparently everybody else, my book club recently picked out Lonesome Dove. Iâm not a Western guy, but itâs clear that this pulitzer-winner earned it. Itâs good. But come on: this is an 850+ page paperback! It is what I call Too Big....
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
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We were about to trust Baseten with our own and our customers’ data. So to be safe, we ran Strix to ensure they were secure first. About 25 minutes later, it had a live GitHub token with repository-level admin rights on internal Baseten repos. We build Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, which of course means we need (cheap and fast) inference. We were exploring our options, and Baseten is one of ...
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
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Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Neither demand is a lawsuit. Both are unusual. What he is asking for The first request is disclosure. Delangue wants OpenAI to “release the traces fro...
Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent. - Gemini 3.8 Live: Built for scale and cost efficiency, combining conversational intelligence with fluid dialogue and visual grounding. - Gemini...
Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
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Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality Apple recently announced an upcoming feature for their new Apple Watches called “Audio Intelligence,” which will always be listening to and transcribing conversations in the background and summarizing them at the end of the day. While Apple have implemented some protections and safeguards to protect the privacy of the watch owner, anyone who talks to so...
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
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why i'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes [thank you to claude fable 5.1, holden saberhagen, gabriel kammer, andres erbsen, alice mckean, and tristan wylde-larue for comments on this post] i'll begin with a few theses for the reader to chew on: - the frontier labs are priced according to the narrative that they have produced or will in the very near future produce a fully automated drop-in...
There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet
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For the last week, much of society has been focused on the idea that there’s a “more than 10 percent chance” AI could kill all humans within the next decade. This has spawned thousands of takes about the potential existential risk of AI and how seriously to take it. But I am here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% ch...
America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster
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America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster America's Driver's License Breach is a National Security Disaster Last week, Krebs on Security broke the story of a newly launched dark web service calling itself Nexus that was selling access to identity documents, including 3 million travel documents and 153 million driver's licenses from U.S. and Canadian citizens. This is a huge...
Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
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Every part. Yours to edit. Change a chair. Keep the room. Each object has its own place in the model. Cartesian by Formas is an AI 3D modeling tool for architecture and product design. Explore the model studies · Read the guides Change a chair. Keep the room. Each object has its own place in the model. Faces, edges and solids you can inspect, measure and change. Native surfaces, precise edges and ...
The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
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August 14, 2026 The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped Rebuilding Firefox.com with Mozilla and Lincoln Loop on modern, native CSS with no pre-processors, and what that means for design systems today. Back in 2008, fresh out of college, I discovered CSS Zen Garden, Dave Sheaâs project where one HTML file could be restyled into something completely different using nothing but CSS. It was a vision...
The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026
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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 version of OpenAI’s GPT-3, released in 2020, correctly answered just 43.9 percent of questions on a popular knowledge-and-reasoning benchmark. Just four years later, GPT-4o reached a score of 88.7 percent ...
Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers
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Posted by kaycebasques. Score: 138 points. Comments: 144.
AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
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AI is breaking our proxies for expertise Mathematicians are broadly not anti-AI. They’re more culturally open to using AI as a tool than, say, artists or writers1. However, now that more and more genuinely prestigious problems have fallen to AI, that might be changing. Almost five thousand mathematicians (including twenty-five Fields medalists) have signed a declaration called A Severe Misalignmen...
AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
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AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC An artificial intelligence "kill switch" which can be checked by a third party may need to be mandatory for companies, a co-founder of one of the world's largest AI firms has told the BBC. Jack Clark, one of seven founders of Anthropic, said a way of shutting off AI software completely if it gets too dangerous was something ...
Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now
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Compare total Show HN submissions with posts reaching 100+ points, using 12-month averages or raw monthly counts.
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M
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OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors. Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that deve...
How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
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I love F-Droid. I love what F-Droid stands for and I like the freedom that it gives its users. As a FOSS app maintainer I also have nothing but good things to say about the people behind the project. Maybe they’re even a bit too nice, considering how many times repro has failed due to me forgetting to commit before building 😅. But my god is it hard to find human-written software now. Intro The pro...
Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
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In late 2025 the company behind MinIO decided to abandon it to pursue other commercial interests. As well as upsetting a bunch of folk, it also put the cat amongst the pigeons of many software demos that relied on MinIO to emulate S3 storage locally, not to mention build pipelines that used it for validating S3 compatibility. In this blog post I’m going to look at some alternatives to MinIO. Whils...
Israeli Effective Altruism Firm Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Cyberattacks
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What happened was simple. In partnership with Irregular, AI companies instructed unsecured versions of their AI models to hack into specific targets, called "flags". They accidentally gave these models internet access, and in some cases they hacked into real companies.
Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
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TOP STORIES AI - on-prem Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing - LEGAL Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, ...
Anthropic is in regulatory-capture financial loop
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The AI safety nonprofits around Anthropic promote an Anthropic-aligned Doomer narrative, whether Tarbell Fellows in popular media, or METR in evaluations. All rely on Moskovitz's Anthropic stock worth $7 billion, which the parent funding org sits on. This stock increases in value if Anthropic grows; many of these orgs claim independence from Anthropic, but none of them are, because of their fundin...
Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments
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Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments By Katie Paul NEW YORK, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Meta rolled out on Tuesday a long-touted AI assistant that can autonomously send emails, sell a car and book travel on a person's behalf, despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages its access to sensitive personal data. The company's Muse agent, known internally ...
Charts built for Chat
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AI for data is here, and the long-promised self-serve analytics is finally happening. Anyone with a data connection can chat a report into existence in an afternoon, and the first results are impressive. The frictions show up fast, though. By default an agent turns one simple report into a pile of files: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, a couple of chart libraries, and a React or Streamlit app once it h...
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
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A Single Firm is Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Hacking Scandals The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models hacked into several real world systems over the past three months. These models gained unauthorized access to web systems, published malicious packages, and exploited unnamed vulnerabilities. In a more...
Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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AMAZON.COM SERVICES, LLC V. PERPLEXITY AI, INC. (9th Cir. 2026) Amazon.com Services, LLC filed suit against Perplexity AI, Inc., an artificial intelligence company, asserting that Perplexity’s web browser tool, Comet, unlawfully accessed Amazon’s website in violation of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA). Perple...
Proposed Rule: Eliminating the Discretionary 60-Day Grace Period
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Posted by la64710. Score: 65 points. Comments: 59.
GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?
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GPT-5.6 Luna vs GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review? GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens. GPT-6 Astra costs $10 and $50. On the same pull requests, one Luna review cost $0.0041 and one Astra review cost $0.113, a 28x difference. Our last post compared Astra with GPT-5.6 Sol. This time we wanted to know what you give up if ever...
Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts
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Oracle has started another wave of layoffs, with employees receiving termination emails early Monday morning as the company presses ahead with a sweeping restructuring. The latest cuts come after Oracle's workforce fell by roughly 21,000 employees, or 13%, during fiscal 2026. Before the latest round, Oracle employed approximately 141,000 people worldwide. The number of employees affected by the ne...
Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
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Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding Training 1000-layer networks without backpropagation We introduce PC-ALM, a local alternative to backpropagation. PC-ALM trains residual MLPs up to 1000 layers, nearly matching backprop's performance despite using only layer-local dynamics. PC-ALM equips each layer with a feedback control dynamical system that distributes and propagates supervision credit thr...
Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
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Posted by misano. Score: 81 points. Comments: 145.
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
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Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
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Blog post Why we built Pion Today Andon is releasing Pion, an agent designed to run any company fully autonomously. Pion grew out of a question we have been studying for almost two years: when will AI systems become capable of autonomously acquiring resources in the real world? What happens after? We first tried to answer this question through simulations like Vending-Bench. We found that simulati...
Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%
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Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting) Suleman Ahmad, Yawar Jamal, and Alex Krivit Every time Cloudflare opens a new TLS 1.3 connection to an origin server, we have to make a guess: the protocol requires us to commit to a key agreement algorithm in the very first packet we send, before the origin has told us anything...
Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?
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Machine learning, at its core, is about generalization, not memorization. You hand your learning algorithm a pile of training examples and use them to fit a model. But the goal is not to perform well on the training examples — that's easy, you could just memorize the answers. The goal is to perform well on new examples that you have never before seen. If a model does well on the data it was traine...
When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?
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Imagine evaluating a retrieval-augmented-generation system. A user asks a question, the system retrieves a text passage, and an LLM judge decides whether it’s relevant. To reduce noise, you ask several judge models to evaluate the same passage. Eight say “relevant”; two say “not relevant”. Eight out of 10 feels convincing. But the important question is not only how many judges agreed but how indep...
How my e-reader lost its stripes
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I’ve been a lifelong reader, which has proved a fragile habit in our era of endless trivial distraction. While books and e-ink readers solve the problem of competition for attention, they can’t compete with a phone for convenience. That tiny device in my pocket has made reading both easier and more vulnerable to displacement whenever a notification pops up. A few days ago, I learned for the first ...
For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype
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I am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders. I may have lost my patience with it. The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. The occasion was the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old pretraining researcher who had worked ...