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Indonesian authorities intensified on Monday a search for people missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea. At least six passengers were killed and 129 people are still missing.

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival The anticipated value of AI developer OpenAI has dropped over the weekend, following the call for a slowdown in the industry. OpenAI is currently a private company, but broker IG are running a contract where traders can bet on the company’s value. IG’s OpenAI Pre IPO market-cap contract, which had rallied from about $1.38 trillion to $1.64 trillion after the release of Astra, has fallen…

On LeetCode you write one function, it passes, and you're done. Most AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as some big tech companies such as Meta, Snowflake and Databricks, don't stop in one function and instead ask multi-step questions that are closer to real-world problems. Say you're building a key-value store. Step 1 is get, set, delete, count. Once your tests pass, Step 2 unlocks: expiring keys. Then nested transactions. Then atomic batches. I built this because I couldn't find a good place to practice for multi-step, multi-file questions. The questions are based on ones people…

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned. Despite alarm over the chemicals, which have been linked to cancer, a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production. Continue reading...

Digital-age Australian psychodrama tracks the shut-in mania of dangerously disaffected male fan, but doesn’t get inside his mind If the parasocial phenomenon is a kind of hell, then Max Wren, protagonist of this Australian digital-age psychodrama, resides in the ninth circle. Self-barricading in a basement room surrounded by screens, working on a documentary about the object of his disaffection (an enigmatic influencer called Lenore), this obsessive shut-in makes Eminem’s Stan look like the Dalai Lama. Touching on subjects including the attention economy, the male gaze, and incel isolatio…

Big screen folder with slick software and advanced AI is just like a regular Android when closed Google’s latest folding phone sticks with its tried and tested design of a traditional phone shape when closed and almost square when open, in the face of new competition from Apple’s squat iPhone fold . The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is Google’s fourth-generation folder and is still one of the only models with a full water and dust resistance rating similar to standard slab phones. It costs from £1,799 (€1,999/$1,899/A$2,799), which is £50 (€100/$100/A$100) more than last year as the pressure…

Some 750,000 settlers live across more than 500 illegal settlements and outposts, as Israeli pogroms hit record highs.

Officials say more than 600 rescuers battle stormy seas in search for missing people.

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A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after senior visiting officials, including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden, passed through.

After kicking off the NFL season with a Super Bowl rematch and a trip to Australia, week one continued with a record-breaking Sunday.

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Amazon said it's decided to pause operations with 21 Air as the investigation into the crash continues. North Carolina-based 21 had flown packages for Amazon since 2024.

Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts Futureproofing your career with an AI-resistant degree is a tough ask, says Charlie Ball, an expert on graduate employment for Jisc, the UK’s higher education digital, data and technology agency. “What you’re trying to do is futureproof a 45-year career in a time of rapid technological change – and that’s really quite hard to do. What’s likely is that jobs that hinge a lot on human, face-to-face interaction are unlikely to be replaced.” Continue reading…

After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’ Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings that artificial intelligence could kill all of humanity by 2030, the AI company’s CEO Dario Amodei issued a proposal at the weekend to slow down the technology’s advancement to ensure public safety. In a rare display of unity , the heads of the largest US artificial intelligence companies all agreed immediately. Continue reading...

Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts Jack Thorne, one of Britain’s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI “to cheat”, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts. Thorne, who co-wrote the hit Netflix drama Adolescence and wrote the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said that “writers need to be squeaky clean” in the face of AI models that “steal” the creative industry’s work. Continue re…

Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand In one corner is bnb-side, a six-room bed and breakfast on the Isle of Portland – a tiny wedge of limestone tied by a narrow ribbon of shingle to the Dorset coast – that was created to help secure the future of the rock’s much-loved arts festival, b-side. On the other is Airbnb, the San Francisco-based booking colossus. The battle between them is over the three little letters they share. Continue reading...

Demonstrators burn tyres and block highways as protests over increased fuel prices grip Syrian cities.

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Users must upgrade to macOS 11 or later, as this is now the minimum supported version. macOS Sonoma 14: This version is now considered Tier 3, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Sequoia 15+ for full support. Apple Silicon (macOS Golden Gate 27): Fully supported (Tier 1) with prebuilt bottles available. Linux/Ubuntu: The ghcr.io/homebrew/ubuntu22.04 image has been removed, and users should migrate to ghcr.io/homebrew/brew. CI Actions: The master branch has been removed for Homebrew actions; users should pin a CalVer release or full SHA instead. submitted by /u/cheerfulboy [link] [comments]
Residents join firefighters battling forest fires that are threatening residential areas in Quito, Ecuador.

The government is seeking to change the law on donations to UK political parties from British expats.

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While Carney has ruled out EU membership, the Canadian leader says he wants to pursue a "unique alliance" with Brussels.

Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen? By Jill Lepore. Read by Laurel Lefkow Read the text version here Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/longreadpod Adapted from The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore, published by Allen Lane on 25 August . To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com Continue reading...

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar labels Gaza genocide film 'vile' after it wins Venice Film Festival recognition.

Turkish police raid LGBTQ groups across major cities, detaining at least 63 in a major crackdown.

Genta Koja beat two-term incumbent Denny Tamaki, who wants a major US military base to be moved out of Okinawa.

A Russian drone struck a train near Ukraine-Poland border, shortly after Former UK PM Boris Johnson left the station.
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A cross-party group of MPs and peers identifies human rights risks that existing laws appear not to cover.

A cross-party group of MPs and peers identifies human rights risks that existing laws appear not to cover.

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Hi HN! I am building Roled ( https://roled.io ), an open-source platform for centralized user & role management across multiple applications. At several companies I've worked at, I noticed the same pattern: we built multiple products, and each needed users, roles, and permissions. Eventually we'd end up building some form of centralized backoffice or user management ourselves. I started Roled because I wondered whether that could simply be infrastructure that we don't have to rebuild. One design choice in Roled is that users aren't modeled around organizations. Instead, each project has its o…
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For the systems engineers looking at the underlying architecture of Replay, here is exactly how we model the plumbing and why we chose these specific design constraints: 1. Why Go Instead of Python? We built this strictly as a zero-dependency local CLI binary. Forcing an engineering lead or security auditor to handle Python virtual environments, pip dependency drift, or heavy Docker runtimes completely ruins the frictionless developer experience. 2. How We Model Server-Side State Machines: Anthropic and OpenAI keep their eviction layers in a black box. To build our decay maps, we forensic…

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GPT Image 2 AI Image Generator & Editor for Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image Creation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691183 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Singeli is a domain-specific language for building high-performance algorithms (including SIMD) with flexible abstractions over code that corresponds to individual instructions. It's implemented in BQN, with a frontend that emits IR and a backend that converts it to C (the IR is simple, so that other backends like LLVM or machine code could be supported without much work). Comments
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I made a tiny iPhone arcade game around one idea: what if Flappy Bird, but the bird never moves — and you fold the paper instead? Hold anywhere to fold the sheet inward, release to spring it back. Each wall has mirrored notches above and below the crease. Fold just enough so they meet and the crane slips through. Under-fold and you hit the wall; over-fold and the paper crushes you. It's one verb (hold/release), offline, no account. Perfects, combos, close calls, and a ghost line of your best score. Free with ads; optional one-time Remove Ads. Built in Swift for iOS 17+. Happy to talk about…
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The 21 Air-operated jet overshot a runway at Miami International Airport and hit several vehicles.

The attempted power grab has exposed deep grievances within the army and tested Niger’s ties with its Sahelian allies.

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As part of a ML study group I've been building tools to experiment with ML concepts. I use AI Coding agents to develop software, mostly cloud-based but I keep trying local LLMs on 12G, 16G, and 24G VRAM GPUs. Freetoken has made it possible to run larger MoE models on smaller GPUs. This inspired me to use my ML tools to build a tiny MoE model from scratch so I can experiment with different agent optimizations and things like Engram, recursive models, hierarchical modeles, KV Cache compression etc. My link above shows results of building different tiny models, one dense, the rest MoE variants.…
However, deadly violence marred the elections one day before the polls open in the southern Philippine region.

My friend Greg often posts incredible things he just made, just for fun. Often, I don't realize that it's something HE made and then I see the URL, AND IT'S MY FRIEND, GREG! A few things he made that I think are amazing: - ikea complexity index: https://ikea.greg.technology/ - Boing: https://boing.greg.technology/ I want to make sure I don't miss anything from him, so I created this Chrome extension that flags things posted by Greg, or linking to his website or a subdomain. I hope other people will install the extension and never miss anything Greg made. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator…
My friend Greg often posts incredible things he just made, just for fun. Often, I don't realize that it's something HE made and then I see the URL, AND IT'S MY FRIEND, GREG! A few things he made that I think are amazing: - ikea complexity index: https://ikea.greg.technology/ - Boing: https://boing.greg.technology/ I want to make sure I don't miss anything from him, so I created this Chrome extension that flags things posted by Greg, or linking to his website or a subdomain. I hope other people will install the extension and never miss anything Greg made. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator…
OpenAI offices in San Francisco. Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive, agreed with the Anthropic chief’s call to slow down artificial intelligence advancements.
How a more composed Alexander Zverev stayed 'zen-like' to beat Ben Shelton and win the US Open, six years after a heart-breaking defeat in the final.

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Amodei, Altman, and Elon Musk agreen on how government can tame the monster they created

The idea is to explore whether an intersection of social media, popularity, and prediction markets can exist and what it can look like. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690614 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The idea is to explore whether an intersection of social media, popularity, and prediction markets can exist and what it can look like. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690614 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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No casualties were reported after a Russian drone struck a train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials left the area.

Protests have erupted in Syria after the government raised fuel prices.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms hit Mecca creating dramatic scenes as worshippers prayed at the Grand Mosque.

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The April rescue operation to recover the downed aircrew saw the first US boots on the ground in Iran in 46 years, American officials say.

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Vandals spray red paint on Charlie Kirk statue days after its unveiling to mark one year since his death.

Modern MacBooks can use two different types of cables to charge, but is USB-C or MagSafe a better option overall?

Dollar steady, yen near 7-month high ahead of Fed, BOJ meetings Reuters
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A stronger jet stream will bring a distinctly autumnal look to our weather this week, but is there a September heatwave on the horizon later this month?

We run a crawler that checks how public websites are set up. Things like whether HTTPS is enforced, when the certificate expires, which TLS version is offered, what security headers are set, how cookies are flagged, and where redirects go. If it has been hitting your servers, you probably want to know what it is. So we wrote the whole thing down on one page: echelongraph.io/bot It covers how often it visits a single host, how it handles robots.txt and Retry-After, which address it comes from, what it will never do, and how to opt out with a DNS record. No signup, no popup. Two notes on the op…
Fighting is intensifying in Yemen as Houthi fighters advance toward Saudi-backed government-held areas.
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COMMENTARY: Oil markets survived the Iran war sprint. Now comes the marathon reuters.com
Oman says Hormuz talks with Iran and Gulf states are postponed 'in the interests of consensus'.

Running an Ethernet cable can provide faster speeds than Wi-Fi in many cases, but the length and type of cable make a difference.

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What should new students consider to keep your belongings safe and covered by insurance?

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New school food rules for England and ex-PM Boris Johnson "flees Vlad drone blitz" are the top stories in Monday's papers.

Video shows a low-flying Israeli quadcopter maneuvering between residential buildings in eastern Gaza City.

Trump downplays AI risks, saying he wants to maintain the US's lead over China in the emerging technology.

I am working on a very modular typesetting engine called TeLoX, intended as a superset of the capabilities (of at least) XeTeX and pdfLaTeX, written in Rust. The main goals are modularity and speed (which we know sometimes fight each other unless we try to be principled about it). Today I wanted to demonstrate these diegetic interactive sliders that control values within in LaTeX from the browser (kinda like marimo). This isn't meant to be a complete editor like quicklatex and texlyre -- just a tiny playground that loads quickly enough and responds interactively to see how good I can get the…
Android Auto added a new capability recently that upgrades the infotainment screen in a big way. Let's activate it.

Pennsylvania has announced its third measles-related death in less than three weeks. A local coroner says the 40-year-old woman was unvaccinated.

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Beef stars Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan are among the nominees at the ceremony in Los Angeles.
