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Technology Apr 18, 09:00

The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple

Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades....

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Technology Apr 18, 06:05

Creality Sermoon S1 review: This pro-grade 3D scanner produced impressive results, but my tests revealed a huge learning curve

Well-specced 3D scanner with triple light modes, 0.02mm accuracy, and AI-powered software, just be prepared for a steep learning curve....

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Technology Apr 18, 00:00

I swapped my phone for a cycle computer after a crash — but a tiny, underrated device was the real safety upgrade

I’ve had my fair share of bike crashes, and switching from a phone to a bike computer helped reduce distractions — but the real safety upgrade was an add-on accessory....

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Technology Apr 17, 22:19

15 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song

The James Bond franchise has a long history of getting pop stars to record its theme songs (perhaps most memorably with Live and Let Die), and it looks like that tradition will now extend to video gam...

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Technology Apr 17, 21:50

'We can lose three [computers] and still ride through’: Inside the 8-CPU brain of NASA’s Artemis II that ‘votes’ on every move

NASA’s Orion spacecraft uses eight synchronized processors and layered redundancy to maintain operations in deep space, where hardware failures cannot be repaired....

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Technology Apr 17, 21:15

UGreen NASync iDX6011 Pro NAS review: An AI-powered NAS combines workstation-class hardware with genuinely useful local AI

Powerful six-bay AI enhanced NAS featuring specifications that you’d usually see in a PC....

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Technology Apr 17, 21:03

The PBS Artemis II documentary is streaming on YouTube

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission have safely returned to Earth, but if your Moon fever has yet to break, or you're curious to get a big picture view of how the second of a planned five Mo...

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AI Development Apr 17, 20:38

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI....

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Technology Apr 17, 20:16

Man who hacked US Supreme Court filing system sentenced to probation

Nicholas Moore hacked into three U.S. government networks using stolen credentials, and then bragged about it and posted victims' personal data on Instagram under the handle @ihackedthegovernment....

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Technology Apr 17, 19:31

Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake"

Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media....

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Technology Apr 17, 18:42

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting....

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Technology Apr 17, 18:08

Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows....

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Technology Apr 17, 18:07

Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS's new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles g...

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Technology Apr 17, 17:48

Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life ...

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Technology Apr 17, 17:42

Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store....

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AI Development Apr 17, 17:34

Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference

The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-tim...

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Technology Apr 17, 17:30

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably...

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Technology Apr 17, 17:15

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters...

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AI Development Apr 17, 17:07

Most enterprises can't stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br...

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Technology Apr 17, 16:47

Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not...

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Technology Apr 17, 16:23

Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

Prices for "critical components" are surging because of massive data center investments....

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Technology Apr 17, 16:15

NASA restarts work to support Europe's uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks

NASA has confirmed the pending launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosalind Franklin rover, which is being sent to Mars. The current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from...

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AI Development Apr 17, 15:57

Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap 

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from financ...

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Technology Apr 17, 15:55

The best budget smartphones you can buy

Some of us take a kind of “eat to live” rather than a “live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money ...

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AI Development Apr 17, 15:00

Anthropic just launched Claude Design, an AI tool that turns prompts into prototypes and challenges Figma

Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that allows users to create polished visual work — designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, an...

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AI Development Apr 17, 15:00

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. ...

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AI Development Apr 17, 14:06

Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps

For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn&#x27...

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Technology Apr 17, 14:00

Ghost orchid in the machine

Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinetic sculptures. Made with artificial flowers, ...

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AI Development Apr 17, 13:00

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from financ...

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AI Development Apr 17, 11:01

I tried the new Gemini app for Mac - it has one major advantage over the web version

Beyond being quick and convenient, Google's Gemini app can access and analyze the content in any window you share from your Mac desktop - and it's a big deal....

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Technology Apr 17, 10:30

The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex

From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels....

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Technology Apr 17, 09:30

Spoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them

Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative...

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Technology Apr 16, 18:54

Europe’s Online Age Verification App Is Here

Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sites and social media platforms to start blocking access by minors....

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AI Development Apr 6, 01:23

AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy

AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could...

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AI Development Mar 31, 11:16

DNA robots could deliver drugs and hunt viruses inside your body

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them...

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AI Development Mar 16, 00:59

Scientists discover AI can make humans more creative

Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a tool that replaces human work, but new research from Swansea University suggests a far more exciting role: creative collaborator. In a large study with ...

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AI Development Mar 13, 06:08

Scientists built the hardest AI test ever and the results are surprising

As AI systems began acing traditional tests, researchers realized those benchmarks were no longer tough enough. In response, nearly 1,000 experts created Humanity’s Last Exam, a massive 2,500-questi...

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AI Development Nov 13, 16:53

Cybersecurity and LLMs

Large language models are becoming both powerful security tools and high-value targets, creating new attack surfaces where multimodal exploits, jailbreaks, prompt leakage, and AI-assisted cybercrime a...

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AI Development May 13, 16:48

OpenAI Created Her: The Birth of GPT-4o

OpenAI's GPT-4o, with its advanced multimodal capabilities, real-time responsiveness, emotional intelligence, and potential for personalized interactions, brings us significantly closer to the human-l...

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AI Development Nov 23, 06:18

Q*

The maker of ChatGPT had made progress on Q* (pronounced Q-Star), which some internally believe could be a breakthrough in the startup's search for superintelligence, also known as artificial general ...

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AI Development Jan 16, 00:01

Hang AI art on your walls

AI generated art has changed the way we look at artwork. No longer is it solely created with a paintbrush, but many works are now generated through an algorithm. AI Art is gaining increased popularity...

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