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Zeekaas
18 hours ago
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators....
2 DAYS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search
3 HOURS AGO
MOCHOMOCHA
A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms
7 HOURS AGO
ANDROSYNTH89
Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
13 HOURS AGO
MEETPATELTECH
Muse Wonder
A DAY AGO
SAARTHRANKA
Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p
A DAY AGO
SOECKLY
I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
13 HOURS AGO
GUMBY
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
sbulaev
4 hours ago
AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model weights, decrypting and executing them only upon receiving a secret trigger. Using digital lockers, these hidden circuits remain provably hard to elicit and interpret under cryptographic assumptions, even given full access to model weights, extending prior work from hiding fixed strings to arbitrary computations. We implement our proof of concept constructions in PyTorch and evaluate elicitation through fine-tuning, weight noising, gradient-based trigger search, and latent adversarial training on a small chemical reaction prediction task - a proxy for CBRN-relevant capabilities. Our results demonstrate resistance to these methods and, together with our cryptographic guarantees, reveal a limit of elicitation-based capability audits. We release our models to support the improvement of defenses.
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soheilpro
4 hours ago
The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book . The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS…...
scrlk
18 hours ago
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals....
speckx
16 hours ago
Solar panels that plug into your wall
California is the latest state to pass a law making it easier to install balcony-friendly solar panels. Renewable energy experts think the new technology is about to take off....
khalidkhair
8 hours ago
Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M. LLMs bigger...
djfergus
17 hours ago
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver
Contribute to h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr development by creating an account on GitHub....
rickcarlino
9 hours ago
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch
An underground phone switch. Dial in, phreak out. irc.phreak.ing #phreak...
pngmangi
9 hours ago
Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?
vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Soft...
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
surprisetalk
15 hours ago
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
Kelly predicted AI heavyweights while advocating for a future of open weights...
whimblepop
12 hours ago
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex, Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in (default...
neuling
9 hours ago
Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser
A whole world made of bricks, shared with everyone online. Race, fly, ride the bus, build your own place – free in your browser, on your phone or your computer....
novaRom
13 minutes ago
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
High valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks...
svieira
12 hours ago
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
(I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinou...
bwnkl
19 hours ago
QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
Followup discussion at https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-September/068576.html. This formally changes the AI policy to a strict "NOT ALLOWED" policy....
nirajrajgor
7 hours ago
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with an AI agent....