Why Your Next Trade After a Big Win Is Often the Worst
Think about the last time you booked a huge win. Now think about the trade you put on right after it. I'd bet money the second one was worse — bigger size, thinner logic, taken faster than usual. The same thing happens after a big loss. You've felt it. The account is...
3 deceptive indicators of leadership potential you should ignore
Leadership may be humanity’s single greatest invention. Long before we developed writing, money, or artificial intelligence, we learned to solve a more fundamental problem: how to coordinate large groups of unrelated individuals around common goals. Virtually every...
‘Almost everyone is having an existential crisis’: Designers share how they’re surviving an industry in constant flux
In 2018, Cari Sekendur relocated from New York City to Berlin, Germany to launch an independent web design and branding studio, Butter. Like many designers who leave salaried employment to work for themselves, Sekendur was seeking greater independence and a sense of...
Should AI companies be able to outsource safety?
In June, the U.S. government required Anthropic to restrict access to its two newest models by foreign nationals, citing national security and cybersecurity concerns. Unable to verify users’ nationality in real time, Anthropic temporarily withdrew access to the models...
Get Apple Music’s student discount plus Apple TV for just $6 a month – here’s how
Students can save big on an Apple Music subscription. Here's how to get it.
I tested the Ultrahuman Ring Pro: Rich in features, but still a hard sell
The latest ring from Ultrahuman is packed with features, but it's both larger and more expensive than its predecessor.
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
Your brain apparently spends the night remixing reality rather than simply replaying it, according to researchers armed with AI and more than 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life. Researchers at Italy's IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca used natural language...
Spur Raises $200 Million for IP Intelligence Platform
The IP intelligence company will use the fresh investment to accelerate and scale its operations. The post Spur Raises $200 Million for IP Intelligence Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI’s top model just hacked a competitor, but the real issue is much scarier
My first startup was a textbook-buyback service I founded along with several data nerd friends while at Johns Hopkins. Each week, we’d cram $10,000 of cash in a backpack (in retrospect, a terrible idea in urban Baltimore), put out a table on campus, buy textbooks from...
Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the wild....
JFrog Zero-Days Exploited in OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack
The OpenAI models targeted services beyond Hugging Face as they attempted to solve the tasks they were given. The post JFrog Zero-Days Exploited in OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services
OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.
SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers
Article URL: https://micrologics.org/blog/sqlite-in-production-optimizing-wal-mode-concurrency-and-vfs-layers-for-low-latency-app-servers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094346 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Burnham’s spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall
OPINION A week after becoming the UK's seventh Prime Minister in ten years, Andy Burnham has made some good headlines, but, among the promises to cap bus fares and end rough sleeping, something was missing. The post of a dedicated technology minister is gone. The last...
Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren’t being leapfrogged
Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.
5 ways I speed up my Android phone beyond clearing system cache – all for free
Here's how I improve the performance of my Google Pixel, Samsung, and even Motorola. Or at least make it seem that way.
Flexibility is the new creative infrastructure
Do you work in an environment where being flexible is considered wishy-washy? Or is flexibility considered an asset? Sometimes in our work environments, flexibility isn’t invoked as a perk. It’s discussed in the same way people talk about oxygen: Either you have it...
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours
Airbus yesterday flew the latest variant of its A350 widebody jet from Australia to France, non-stop, on a route that saw it remain aloft for over 24 hours. The variant is called the A350-1000ULR, which stands for Ultra-Long Range. The plane earns its name thanks to...
Building a Portable Weather Radar
If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the heavens. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. If you find yourself bereft of such hardware, though, you could build your own, taking your lead from [Koakno]’s...
Dozens of Minnesota Water Utilities Targeted in Coordinated OT Attacks
State and federal agencies respond after intrusions disrupt automated controls at municipal water and wastewater utilities. The post Dozens of Minnesota Water Utilities Targeted in Coordinated OT Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170 Servers as Source Code Circulates
Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researcher NetAskari traced matching control panels and certificates to 170 internet servers. They linked the...
OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four Services During Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment, and also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest...
xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning ‘nudify’ apps
Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota's new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced.
ShinyHunters Claims Ernst & Young Hack
Ernst & Young previously confirmed that personal and financial information was stolen from a third-party management platform. The post ShinyHunters Claims Ernst & Young Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix
South Korean memory-maker SK Hynix has revealed that it’s struck “around ten” long-term supply deals with key customers, many of them AI players, and hopes the deals smooth out volatile memory prices. The company revealed the deals today, along with Q2 results that...
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093569 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32
Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093435 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
Article URL: https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
DOOM Using Regular Expressions
Regular expressions (regexes) are an amazingly powerful way to perform operations on collections of e.g. text. Regexss can also be considered to be a programming language, even a Turing complete one. Ergo it’s perfectly acceptable to thus design a way to use regexes...
Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design
Article URL: https://transformer-transformer.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093232 Points: 3 # Comments: 0