Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That […]
Helen Haines was hit by a car in what the prime minister has called a "deliberate act".
The 51-year-old faces three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
Qatar to unveil regional defence partnership
A car hit an Australian federal independent lawmaker on Monday, critically injuring her in an apparent deliberate attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The driver was arrested.
In rest of the world, the Israeli PM is often blamed for the Iran war. His opponents say he hasn't been tough enough.
The codirector of “You Can See Everything” talks exclusively to WIRED about truth, lies, and Theranos.
Even Realities makes one of the best smart glasses on the market, but controlling its growing feature set is harder than it should be.
Chip giant knew about the flaw in 2018, researcher claims, but millions of devices may still be vulnerable
White-ball captain Harry Brook says he has "learned a lot" as a captain and a person - and wants to be the player England fans rely on.
Anthony Williams is in court after multiple stabbings on a train that was forced to stop in Huntingdon.
More than $15 billion has been raised in this year's midterm elections. And, France's president is condemning the violent protests erupting across the country.
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/esa-hera-dimorphos-rendezvous Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150935 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Interesting research : Abstract : Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a familiar puzzle costs as much time and compute as the first. Specialized detectors invert the trade-off, answering in milliseconds but only for categories they were trained on. Neither improves with exposure. We study what changes when a solver improves with use. Our system pairs a fine-tuned YOLOv8 detector with an open-weight VLM behind a confidence-based ro…
Article URL: https://clipjury.com/guides/ai-tool-terms-changed-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150908 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://clipjury.com/guides/ai-tool-terms-changed-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150908 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years
Tests showed Sceye’s high-flying platform can deliver connectivity in disasters.
Voyager imaging team member joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches light day's distance from Earth
There's a fast-growing category of two-wheeled electric vehicles splitting the difference between high-end scooters and entry-level motorcycles, fresh bikes with avant-garde style but approachable performance. I'm talking about offerings like the Infinite Machine P1 and BMW CE 02, similar concepts but with wildly different attitudes. Among this class, the Maeving RM2 stands out. It has […]
Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters outside Colombia’s National Museum in Bogota.
Article URL: https://twenty1.online/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150814 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-is-adding-two-additional-remote-perspectives-for-domain-validation/252166 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150809 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
There have been new reports of Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen amid a wave of attacks on Saudi cities.
The $48bn giveaway by company, which is preparing to list on stock market, comes amid concerns about the tech Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the AI developer behind the Claude chatbot seeks to bolster its appeal before its stock market listing. The company announced that it would commit the shares, worth around $48bn (£36bn) at its latest valuation in May, subject to shareholder approval. It will add a further 2% of its stock to the fund for every 50% increase in its value above an undisclosed baseline. Continue reading...
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Article URL: https://www.wjcl.com/article/savannah-police-officer-ice-agent-flock-access/74135816 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150750 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on X that the arrests were 'a very positive development'.
Amanda Bland's decision relegates the party to the third-largest group at Holyrood, with one member fewer than Labour.
Lawmaker was struck by a car outside her office in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a 'deliberate act'.
It comes after masked settlers attacked Palestinians and European officials visiting the West Bank during olive harvesting season.
Angry French students have blocked access to their schools for four weeks. AJLabs breaks down what they want and why.
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Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.
In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their “rigged” playbook ahead of the midterms.
India's NMDC puts nickel foray on hold on global oversupply concerns, sources say Reuters
Article URL: https://github.com/RayenMlayeh/gsearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150561 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom
The UN agency says funding shortages threaten to reverse 'modest and fragile' progress on food security.
Mexican protesters demanding clean water storm state congress
Sarina Wiegman says she "cannot think of a better job in football" as she commits to staying on as manager of the Lionesses until after Euro 2029.
The officer was shot in the foot and remains in hospital in a stable condition, police say.
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, coding tools, and security audits. "The tools delivered information-stealing malware and backdoors for macOS and Windows machines," Elastic
Exclusive: Using test accounts acting as 13-year-olds, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery In December 2025, Morgan Dorfman received distressing news: a student at her daughter’s Pennsylvania high school was making AI-generated pornographic material using the daughter’s image. He was using an artificial intelligence image-editing app called Movely to create sexual videos from pictures of her daughter and five other girls. Continue reading...
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.
Elizabeth Holmes’ husband is a major figure in Nathan Fielder’s new documentary. But who is Billy Evans—and is he really working on a second blood-testing company?
Modern APIs ship large payloads. LLMs consume structured data token by token. Validation failures surface too late. Streaming is standard but most formats weren't designed for it. These are problems we kept running into, so we spent years working on a format built specifically for them. The core question we kept coming back to: why does every record in a dataset need to repeat the field names? The idea we landed on — separate the schema from the data entirely. Define structure once. Records contain only values. name, age, gender, joiningDt, address: {street, city, state?}, colors, isActive…
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150434 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
The blaze that killed four men and injured dozens of others spread with alarming speed, accounts suggest.
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
At least 18 killed in Houthi attack on Yemeni government military camp in Shabwa, sources say Reuters
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Article URL: https://seliseblocks.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150256 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Hey, sometimes it's easier to just move around some buttons in an editor instead of waiting a minute for the AI result. E.g. take a screenshot of your UI, cut out a button, move it around to see what it looks like. Your AI can send HTML into the editor, or screenshots. Then you can edit it, move things around, and your AI takes it from there. I've made it free and open source. You can build on top of it or improve it. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150221 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The blaze, possibly sparked by lightning, burned across the dry carpet of feather mosses and lichen before climbing into the…
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon with no human intervention by sharing tips, threats and mistakes.
Deputy PM calls for dialogue with Tehran, highlights US defence ties and rejects Strait of Hormuz transit fees.
Court of Appeal refuses Redmond permission to take ValueLicensing fight to the Supreme Court, with a 'Known Adverse Document' still to come
Article URL: https://stagenator-mission.web.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150162 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Cause of grass fire remains unknown as PM Carney calls it one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canadian military.
Researchers travelled to a remote Pacific Island to confirm whether an object first spotted on satellite imagery in 2020 solved the mystery of the pilot's disappearance.
India's Jio IPO anchor investor quota nearly 30 times oversubscribed, source says Reuters
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…
Text removal happens in browsers through Panel Font, an all-in-one manga tool for text removal, coloring, translation, and manga generation. Access is free and requires neither account registration nor software installation. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150083 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s…
Insta360’s Luna Pro and Luna Ultra are the ideal cameras for solo filmmakers, content creators, and independent journalists.
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
Hint: It's not only because California counts slowly.
A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again.
Ukraine relies on US intel through Starshield to spot fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia fires at its cities.
The 34-year-old says vaping nicotine "a lot" permanently affected her singing and speaking voice.
Article URL: https://github.com/aldi949/truth-firewall Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150001 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Ukraine and Russia exchange strikes as relations between U.S. and Ukraine deteriorate, the midterms are on track to be the most expensive on record, French president denounces violent protests.
Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is campaigning in the GOP stronghold of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, an area that hasn't voted for a Democrat in Congress in over a decade.
Solar power is transforming agriculture in Pakistan. But in a country already facing water scarcity and extreme weather, some fear their widespread use could cause problems.
Al-Shaair's eyeblack carried the name of Maryam Ghanem, a girl in Gaza who was forced to watch her mother burn alive.
i created a benchmark which evaluates the ai decision models. i thought the idea, by watching jev playing doom i thought, games are the right place to evaluate these things : - real-life network latency - decision probability feedbacks welcome :) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149942 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Mojo is a relatively new language, and its Python affinity makes it an ideal candidate for in-database execution to process data where it is stored. Fast and reliable. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149883 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Two weeks ago, I posted about how ClickHouse outcompressed Parquet on my IoT dataset. But just days ago, pcodec was merged into ClickHouse, and it significantly improves on compression ratio while also trading blows on decompression speed with the previous schema. It's a rather niche and sophisticated codec though, at least compared to the ones we had before in ClickHouse, so I thought I'd make a post where I try to explain the key conceptual ideas behind it. Enjoy! submitted by /u/IiIIIlllllLliLl [link] [comments]
The reported $200m in aid from Iran to Hezbollah has put the Lebanese government under increased pressure from the US.
The first technology created with a self-disrupt button... But why oh why didn't they call Claude clone Fauxtoshop?
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Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledges that police 'lost control' during weekend protests.
Soldiers, fighters and separatists in West African country committing grave laws-of-war violations, rights group finds.
An elderly man was forcibly restrained by police during a protest against Elbit Systems in Ulm, Germany.
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Hey, I wrote a short (~70 pages) free book about communication for developers. Hopefully, it's close enough to programming to be beneficial and considered on-topic. Over the years I noticed how little our crowd cares about communication, so I decided to write something that is approachable, directly actionable and with as little fluff as possible. Free, no ads, CC BY, not LLM-generated. Web, PDF, EPUB, and an audiobook. My previous book about fintech engineering was quite well received here, so I hope this won't be immediately bashed at least :D But definitely tell me what you think and where…
Macron acknowledges 'failures in anticipation and intelligence', rules out interior minister's resignation over riots.
Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India.
