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AI Agent Reportedly Deletes an Entire Season of Reality TV Show
The second season of Sweden’s version of 'The Challenge' has now been pushed to 2027 just weeks before its scheduled premiere.
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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
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I Got Lost in the Surreal Fantasia of ‘A Garden of Spheres’ and Loved Every Moment of It
Multi Eisner‑nominated creator Linnea Sterte’s graphic novel sends a drifting god of destruction through a dragon‑filled land so alien its nothing short of fantasy in its purest form.
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Bluesky wants to make it easier to buy, sell, and fundraise on the network
The executives argued that advertising isn’t the only path to monetization, and that there are alternative models that are feasible when it comes to monetization.
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Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life
Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C and stored in a freezer for months have been successfully rewarmed and shown to work again for the first time, say scientists. They hope to replicate the findings with human organs. The kidneys—which are similar in size to human ones—were l…
MIT Technology Review
Can a Radioactive Ore Break China’s Grip on Rare Earths?
The global campaigns to break China’s dominance of vital rare-earth markets are shaping up into one of the signature geostrategic struggles of the early 21st century. Hundreds of mining companies, government agencies, and industrial facilities scattered across North America, Aust…
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45 Years Later, The Sinclair ULA Design Documents Surface
In the 8-bit home computer boom of the early 1980s, Sir Clive Sinclair’s machines were always among the cheapest on the market, often packing a surprising level of sophistication in …read more
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Hand-Machined Stake Sharpener Just in Time for Dracula Season
Vampires aren’t as common as they once were, but in most places they aren’t fully protected and it’s still possible to get a tag for legal hunting come October — …read more
hackaday.com
How to Design for Failures
In this article, we’ll look at the various strategies that can help developers deal with failures in their systems.
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Why We're Banning AI
Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108131 Points: 217 # Comments: 170
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The Terminator Problem: How Teaching an LLM One Bad Habit Can Change Its Behavior
To understand why this happens, we need to connect three ideas: how models learn, how they generalize beyond their examples, and how they exhibit different kinds of behavior.
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Linux Kernel Drops AI Tag Requirement, Uses Meta AI For Code Reviews
Since we last covered the way that the Linux Kernel project has been dealing with the influx of code created using LLM-based coding assistants, all the way back in April, …read more
hackaday.com
How the Math Used in 19th-Century Heat Physics Helps LLMs Understand Sentences
In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.
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So You Want To Make Your SDR Work On Other Frequencies
Perhaps the most exciting news of the past few weeks in the world of hardware hacking has been the unlocking of hidden SDR functionality in the Wi-Fi radios found on …read more
hackaday.com
More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Redesigning source control at Anthropic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 (996 comments) Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694 (149 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106738 Poin…
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