Would you trust a ransomware extortionist to delete the data they stole? One bank certainly wants you to. Well over a month into a ransomware cleanup job, River Financial Corporation tells regulators that it “took steps to attempt to suppress the affected data,...

One company's inventive campaign for an unreleased product has become a contest between Anthropic and OpenAI to see which can shout the loudest about its own failures. Readers who tuned in earlier today saw the latest episode in the drama – or sitcom – as Anthropic...

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging...

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/miso/jobs/g2uAlMG-founding-business-lead-u-s-expansion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125785 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Snapchat has adjusted it recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.

Worried about your personal AI chats being exposed? Here's how to tighten your privacy across several of the major chatbots.

Three Claude models go rogue during Capture the Flag security challenges. Here's the trail of damage each left behind.

Behind the rogue agent's attack on Hugging Face was a particular sequence of human decisions. We all need to pay better attention - because threat actors are learning, too.

Article URL: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124858 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://toska.bearblog.dev/re-online-friends-are-real-friends/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124917 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.theexamination.org/articles/red-bull-funded-research-energy-drinks-alcohol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124738 Points: 14 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124825 Points: 40 # Comments: 21

Article URL: https://uml.gpmai.workers.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124733 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/post/datafusion-graphs-cc-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124658 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124525 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you’ll have to settle for just the few that can fit in a podcast. The guys were excited about 3D printing —...

Over at Best Buy, the 2024 Moto G Play dropped down to $100, making this Android one of the budget buys around.

American oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages.The conflict, now in its sixth month, halted most shipping...

For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a national blood crisis, and the second time it’s done so in the past five years, as it cautions that the current blood supply could threaten patient care. With less than a one-day national...

Last quarter, I caught a senior engineer burning through roughly $12 worth of Claude Opus tokens just to format a bash string manipulation script. It wasn't an isolated incident. Across our engineering team, developers were running AI-powered CLI extensions and IDE...

Every web server faces the same fundamental trade-off: how do you handle thousands of concurrent connections without drowning in context switches or deadlocking on disk I/O? In 1999, Vikram Pai, Peter Druschel, and Wolfgang Zwaenepoel answered this with “Flash: An...

Marketing intent disguised as thought leadership, swathes of AI slop, invented authority, and unsubstantiated claims have contributed to an almost complete erosion of trust in online blogging. And once lost, trust is one of the hardest things to regain. I love...