Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face . This is a big size increase from their previous Hy3 in July,
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement released today, the Austral
A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.
OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.
Five others in their twenties were injured after shots were fired in Aarau, near Zurich overnight.
Experience the oddly satisfying joy of labeling bins, drawers, and more with the best Bluetooth and traditional label makers.
Young adults are in more group chats than ever—sometimes more than 20 at a time. Here’s how to tame the chat madness.
Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government's proposal to resume talks.
Mundubile had previously gone into hiding at a United Nations building in Zambia's capital.
The discovery redefines how large atoms need to be to produce the extreme state of matter found in the early universe.
YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.20.0 release brings 14 improvements and 13 bugfixes.
Conditions are deteriorating in city of El Obeid and camps on its outskirts, with more people arriving every day Humanitarian conditions in the Sudanese city of El Obeid and two camps on its outskirts are dire and deteriorating, according to people on the grou
The WhatsApp money launderers arranged cash transfers in the UK and around the world with no paper trail.
OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a billboard on Canada's shoreline with the message: "Lake Ontario. Now and Always."
Anthropic is permanently increasing Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, but it's not as good as it sounds. [...]
I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren't thrilled with the idea of you disappearing for th
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his v
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,00
BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it's at its best whe
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale
The latest version of the Brave browser, 1.94, introduces a feature called 'Email Aliases' that allows users to generate disposable email addresses when signing up to a new service. [...]
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We examine whether occupational licensing improves service quality and safety using trip-level Uber data that include driver ratings and telematics-based measures of driving behavior. Exploiting quasi-random assignment from proximity-based dispatch, we compare
We design a method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the deep past. The method combines a structural model of crop choice as a portfolio allocation with machine-learning prediction of expected crop returns, using historic agronomic and climate da
In instrumental-variable (IV) studies, researchers often evaluate multiple candidate instruments and selectively report the specification with the most favorable first- or second-stage statistics. We show that this form of instrument selection (“instrument-hac
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive: The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of scams, often blending elements from different schemes. For instance, operators used dating personas to
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance
Washington 27 August 2026 #3 lalasor Fri, 08/28/2026 - 21:58 Washington Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:00 27 August 2026 President Trump asserted that the Strait of Hormuz “is open. The Iranian response is very mild. They don’t want us to back at them. That’
Hormuz 27 August 2026 #2 lalasor Fri, 08/28/2026 - 21:57 Strait of Hormuz Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:00 27 August 2026 President Trump asserted that the Strait of Hormuz “is open. The Iranian response is very mild. They don’t want us to back at them. Tha
Washington 27 August 2026 #2 lalasor Fri, 08/28/2026 - 21:55 Washington Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:00 27 August 2026 U.S. President Trump stated “ I don’t want to meet, they [Iran] do. In fact, they are begging to make a deal”. Iran’s foreign minister meanwhil
Tehran 27 August 2026 #2 lalasor Fri, 08/28/2026 - 21:55 Tehran Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:00 27 August 2026 U.S. President Trump stated “ I don’t want to meet, they [Iran] do. In fact, they are begging to make a deal”. Iran’s foreign minister meanwhile
Washington 28 August 2026 #1 lalasor Fri, 08/28/2026 - 21:53 Washington Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:00 28 August 2026 The U.S. announced sanctions against “the manager of the Dubai branch of Iran’s Bank Melli… [and] a Hong Kong-based company that has helped des
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Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
The publisher says it has disrupted 375 reseller operations so far.
Follow updates from the Premier League clash - including the build-up, analysis and live text commentary of the game.
To explore quantum phenomena, we must leave the familiar world and enter the abstract realm of Hilbert space. The post In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Amazon recently announced Kiro Crew, an open-source system for running multiple Kiro coding agents across sessions, tools, and tasks. The new workspace lets developers assign asynchronous coding tasks to AI agents, allowing work such as incident investigation,
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. "While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, Terminal
The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data colle
A smaller workforce and slower growth
The prolific voice actor also appeared in Knight Rider, Gremlins, King Kong, Crystal Crisis, and plenty more.
And makes trouble for the Fed
Its belt-tightening is good micro, but bad macro
The scheme has helped to stabilise the rupee
The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that
It's the Runa-approved way to play.
The unofficial native port of the classic Nintendo platformer runs on modern hardware.
Some poor bosses are getting "the Matador treatment".
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expen
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabi
Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.
EA has broken its silence on the leaked Iron Man footage that surfaced yesterday , admitting, "well, that didn't go as planned". Read more
Reaction streams to Grand Theft Auto 6 's first gameplay presentation peaked at 3,970,738 viewers across livestreaming platforms, making it the biggest gaming stream of 2026 so far. Read more
As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’ve tr
Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.
Dogs and humans may have more in common when it comes to aging than scientists realized. Researchers with the Dog Aging Project found that patterns of small molecules in dogs’ blood were linked to longer or shorter lifespans in remarkably similar ways to those
Researchers have discovered a way to turn notoriously difficult-to-recycle PVC plastic into a key ingredient used in high-performance lubricants such as engine oil. The technique could give mountains of plastic waste a valuable second life while making lubrica
Cloud Imperium Games has delayed Squadron 42, its long-in-development Star Citizen spin-off, to Q2 2027, with studio boss Chris Roberts arguing the game would be drowned out by GTA 6 . Read more
A major new analysis challenges recent claims that the universe's expansion is slowing, finding that the evidence for cosmic acceleration remains strong. The findings preserve the leading role of dark energy, while leaving scientists with the enduring mys
One of the most engrossing cinematic portraits of urban isolation.
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
People with chronic insomnia who used melatonin long term had a roughly 90% higher risk of developing heart failure over five years, according to a large preliminary study. The findings do not prove melatonin causes heart problems, but they raise new questions
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Sundays are for resting, so I hear, though by the time you read this I’ll have got up at 5:30am to drive my parents-in-law to Gatwick Airport. As such, I’m probably not the best authority on resting, or, indeed, Sundays. Nonetheless, I have gathere
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
Anno 117's new DLC adds the Hippodrome and some much-needed late-game purpose, along with a welcome new use for prestige thanks to Heroic specialists
Katherine Rundell's blockbuster Impossible Creatures series is worth the hype
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Fa
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could reduce the computational cost required for an attacker to perform offline brute-force attacks against stored password hashes. The following versions of Rockwell Automation OTTO Fleet Manager
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, a timeout error, or a communication delay by sending a specially crafted UDP packet to the product. The following versio
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I very much enjoyed this British movie, which reminded me of the older-style romantic comedies, namely the ones that actually favor love and romance. It also has themes of class/accent, US/UK, is anti-media, anti-cancel culture, anti-podcast (Laura Lewis steal
Chinese actors and online influencers have a new rival: cost-effective advanced AI video generation programmes that are threatening millions of jobs in a once-vibrant area of China’s gig economy. The release of powerful new AI-powered video software, such as t
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1. Roger Myerson now has a Substack. 2. The future of higher education? 3. Another look at data centers in space. 4. "The Global Economics Lab is a non-partisan organization located at Harvard and draws on a network of faculty affiliates across universities. W
Omdia's Theresa Lanowitz talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about the potential — and risks — of using agentic AI for penetration testing, red teaming, and other practices.
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.
“We are reluctant to pay a financial adviser 2% of assets — roughly $160,000 per year.”
Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company released a fresh emergency fix with additional hardening. "This vulnerability gives an unauthenticated attack
Part of the challenge of finding a biomarker for mental illness is the environment’s significant influence The post I’m Part of the Team Writing the Next Bible of Psychiatry—For the First Time, the DSM Will Use Biology to Understand Mental Disorders appeared f
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NASA is preparing to launch its new flagship space telescope on Sunday, embarking on a multiyear mission to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos and shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in physics.
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Some of the strangest weather in the solar system doesn't happen on Earth or even in Jupiter's Great Red Spot—it happens in the interiors of ice giants like Neptune and Uranus. Specifically, scientists have long believed that, at certain pressures an
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to lift off with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30. This observatory is on a mission to usher in a new wave of astronomical discovery.
More water does not necessarily produce more alfalfa seed. A five-year trial near Keith, South Australia, found that strategically delaying irrigation until plants showed early signs of leaf drop generally increased seed yield and consistently delivered the hi
Tuberculosis bacteria released into the air from infected individuals dry out to form infectious particles that are second only to measles in contagiousness. Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have discovered specific mechanisms that enable the bacteria not
The physical, cognitive and emotional loads of running a household should be recognized when examining the health of a couple's relationship, new research has found. A University of Queensland study examined the "tri-load" of household labor—physical (tra
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