It was Monday and my daughter was late for the school again. To make things worse, the bus came early by 2 minutes. After rushing and making sure she caught the bus on time, I sat down for my morning coffee and opened up Hacker News. The front page had an…

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New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.

Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.

Oligo Security reveals AirBorne, a new set of vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and SDK. Learn how zero-click RCEs, ACL bypasses, and wormable exploits could endanger Apple and IoT devices worldwide — and how to protect yourself.

QR is cool is an interactive demonstration of the error correction built into every QR code. Draw on a QR code and see how the decoder works inside.

Amazon said Tuesday it considered displaying import charges on items sold via its site for ultradiscount items, but that the plan "was never approved and not going to happen."

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services…

@haroonahmadmd I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up, but it hasn't changed anything about what I write.

“The legacy of this art is a liberatory one — our people, Black men and women, were principal actors in the fight for freedom throughout Colombia.”

We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.

In numerous applications of machine learning, Hessians and Jacobians exhibit sparsity, a property that can be leveraged to vastly accelerate their computation. While the usage of automatic differentiation in machine learning is ubiquitous, automatic sparse…

Create stunning 3D worlds from text prompts and image inputs with WorldGen, a state-of-the-art 3D generation tool

A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …

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This report highlights a rarely-discussed but crucially important attack surface: security vendors themselves.

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