Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
This seems towork:Researchers fromTracebiton Mondaysaidthey found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all ...
Ego’s newest, biggest, self-propelled mower handles larger yards in less time with impressive performance and battery life.
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Scientists from the Czech Republic have created microscopic cleanup robots that successfully removed microplastics from both soil and aquatic environme...
AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
Woxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust.It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built with iced, but you can also use Woxi through a CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python packa...
Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing leaks throughout a home.
Come hang out with us as we liveblog Google's Pixel 11 launch today. Our comments (not DMs) are open.
LemonLime cofounder Jordan Zietz hears your criticism loud and clear. That’s why he got his startup’s logo tattooed on his shoulder.
What would be your tip for this stricken device?
Article URL:https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270022Points: 40# Comments: 2
An Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have been sold in a marketplace, months after images of the unreleased model were leaked.
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.
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I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.
Details from recent court filings show that DOGE's influence within government—and potential conflicts of interest—extend further than previously known.
Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think.
Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers.
Article URL:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269818Points: 9# Comments: 1
Article URL:https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/beef-and-dairy-drive-41-of-biodiversity-damage-linked-to-global-farmlandComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269789Points: 82# Comment...
From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.