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AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484584 Points: 33 # Comments: 1
Bluesky is getting ‘communities’
Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" sometime this year…
Deficient executive control in transformer attention
Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/6/pgag149/8698838 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484282 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Framework delays its first Laptop 13 Pro shipments by a month
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is delayed. The new 13-inch Framework flagship was set to launch in June, but shipments from the first batch are now expected in July - and there's…
Apple’s new Siri AI knows when to shut up
Apple's new Siri AI is finally here, and so far, it seems like it works. I have access and have been messing around with it, and my biggest impression so far is that Siri AI is…
Unix GC Remastered
Article URL: https://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/posts/unix_new_gc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483854 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump
For days after the stunning incident, the ADA had doubled-down on the choice.
A Written Language for the Cherokee So Efficient It Was Thought to Be Magic
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/man-created-written-language-cherokee-did-efficiently-elegantly-peers-thought-magic-180988850/ Comments URL…
Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Typing a few letters and numbers into my web browser, I find myself gaping at the identity documents of complete strangers. The passport of a young woman from Germany. The…
Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition
Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."
Xbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs
Microsoft's Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft's plans. The company has been preparing for the layoffs…
What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482293 Points: 58 # Comments: 48