EPISODE 16: "So it looks like we have ourselves a Schrödinger's cash situation," I say. "We have a what now?" asks the very junior beancounter - the sort that will be first up against the wall when the AI revolution comes (in a couple of weeks). "A Schrödinger's cash...

Although digital photography took a big bite of the film industry’s lunch, it wasn’t able to completely eliminate the need — or desire — for photographers to use film in some situations. But digital information from a camera sensor can be manipulated to augment the...

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Nothing smarts like a paper cut, but being attacked after leaving an application’s web interface exposed to the internet might be just as painful. Such attacks are the risk to which users of PaperCut print management software find themselves exposed today, after the...

The Australian city of Perth is by some measures the world’s most isolated major metropolis, but is still sufficiently connected to US law enforcement authorities that the FBI was able to help Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) to find two men they believe were the...

ON CALL By the end of the working week it can be tempting to phone it in, but The Register instead works to bring you extra amusement in the form of a new edition of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a...

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There’s plenty of substances that can theoretically be extruded from a nozzle, but only a regrettably small subset of them can actually be used for 3D printing. One limiting factor is the liquid range: too high a melting point and it’s hard to reliably extrude, too...

Article URL: https://neilalexander.dev/2026/06/30/flooding-contributions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474143 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473522 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Anthropic on Thursday teased a protocol for allowing AI agents "to safely operate physical devices," a somewhat optimistic ambition given it cannot reliably anticipate how its models behave. The as-yet-unpublished protocol, dubbed the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), is...

Shots were fired at the Hot Chips conference in California this week as Nvidia announced its new Groq-3-based LPX racks had entered production, with early tests showing the systems churning an eye-watering 3,400 tokens a second in Gemma 4 31B. That's four times faster...

CRPx0, a cybercrime crew that has rapidly evolved from a scam service to a ClickFix-delivered ransomware and crypto-theft business over the summer, claims its victim count jumped from fewer than 10 in June to 48 organizations on its clear-web leak site at the time of...

In a move that’s no doubt going to trigger a lot of confusion and nostalgia, Mklinux is back, in a sense. As the announcement makes clear, this is multikernel Linux, not microkernel Linux, which is an experimental OS designed to run the Linux kernel as a user-space...

Article URL: https://www.terminal-bench-science.ai/announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472820 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

OpenAI Group PBC today published an open letter signed by more than 100 technology companies, banks, insurers and security vendors warning that artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread within months and that defenders have a narrow...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

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Bill Gates argues some jobs should remain human as AI advances, proposing “Human Reserved” roles and new taxes intended to curb worker displacement. The post Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI appeared first on TechRepublic.

The iPhone 17 led global smartphone sales in Q2 2026 as Apple and Samsung captured all 10 top spots while the overall market contracted 11%. The post iPhone 17 Leads Global Smartphone Sales as Apple, Samsung Take Top 10 appeared first on TechRepublic.