Codex Is Down
Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KCM7PAMQMCM8KAB6ZCWPKNK1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293386 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurants
Users can view and share photos and comments about restaurants they’ve visited, discover content from others, and follow people just like on any social network.
[D]Seeking feedback on an arXiv preprint: Unique Viable-Neighbor based Contour Tracing
Hey everyone, I'm an independent researcher working in computer vision and image processing. I have developed a novel algorithm extending the traditional Moore-neighbor tracing method, specifically designed for more robust and efficient boundary delineation in high-fidelity stereo pairs. The...
Blood Cancer biotech Geron down $1.7B in value, lays off a third of staff
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/geron-lays-off-third-staff-21244381.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292380 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better
Conversation focus uses the AI glasses' open-ear speakers to amplify the voice of the person you're talking to, says Meta.
OpenAI continues on its ‘code red’ warpath with new image generation model
OpenAI rolls out GPT-Image-1.5 for ChatGPT, promising 4x faster generation, better instruction-following and precise edits. The launch escalates its rivalry with Google Gemini.
Finally managed to run Qwen-2.5-7B on a 4GB GTX 1050 without CPU offloading (Surgical Memory Alignment)
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a weekend project that grew into something bigger. Like many of you, I'm stuck with low-end hardware (a glorious GTX 1050 with 4GB VRAM). Every time I tried to load a modern 7B model (like Llama-3 or Qwen-2.5), I hit the dreaded OOM wall. The files were technically...
How Luminar’s doomed Volvo deal helped drag the company into bankruptcy
Luminar says trouble with Volvo started as early as 2022, and that the Swedish automaker made -- but then backed away from -- large orders of its lidar sensors.
Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.
I was bored
Being unemployed and having to much hardware and too much time on my hands I built this..   submitted by   /u/MyLovelyAngelKirino [link]   [comments]
Advanced Large-Scale Quantum Simulation Techniques in cuQuantum SDK v25.11
Simulating large-scale quantum computers has become more difficult as the quality of quantum processing units (QPUs) improves. Validating the results is key to...
From Open Source to OpenAI: The Evolution of Third-Party Risk
From open source libraries to AI-powered coding assistants, speed-driven development is introducing new third-party risks that threat actors are increasingly exploiting. The post From Open Source to OpenAI: The Evolution of Third-Party Risk appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Github Actions introducing a per-minute fee for self-hosted runners
Github have just sent out an email announcing a $0.002/minute fee for self-hosted runners. Just ran the numbers, and for us, that's close to $3.5k a month extra on our GitHub bill. https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/   submitted by   /u/markmcw...
OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API
OpenAI has updated its Realtime API with three new model snapshots designed to improve transcription, speech synthesis, and function calling. The article OpenAI releases new models for its Realtime API appeared first on THE DECODER.
AI Factories, Physical AI, and Advances in Models, Agents, and Infrastructure That Shaped 2025
2025 was another milestone year for developers and researchers working with NVIDIA technologies. Progress in data center power and compute design, AI...
OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier that contributed to last summer's user revolt.
Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition
Nvidia is taking over software provider SchedMD to expand its presence in open-source technology. The article Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition appeared first on THE DECODER.
Built a local image hub to organize my 30k+ PNG chaos — v0.10 integrates with A1111, handles ComfyUI workflows & runs 100% offline (v0.10.5 perf update)
Hey everyone, I posted a while ago on other subs about a tool I built to manage my own mess of AI images, and wanted to share the latest update here since I know this community appreciates local-first software. Quick context: I have over 30k images generated across Invoke, A1111, SwarmUI, etc. My...
Meta announced a new SAM Audio Model for audio editing that can segment sound from complex audio mixtures using text, visual, and time span prompts.
Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/our-new-sam-audio-model-transforms-audio-editing/ SAM Audio transforms audio processing by making it easy to isolate any sound from complex audio mixtures using text, visual, and time span prompts.   submitted by   /u/Difficult-Cap-7527 [link]  ...
Allen Institute for AI introduces Molmo 2
https://allenai.org/molmo I am super impressed by the ability to analyze videos (Video QA, Counting and pointing, Dense captioning), and it's only 8B!! HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/allenai/Molmo2-8B   submitted by   /u/Agitated_Camel1886 [link]   [comments]
Boost GPU Memory Performance with No Code Changes Using NVIDIA CUDA MPS
NVIDIA CUDA developers have access to a wide range of tools and libraries that simplify development and deployment, enabling users to focus on the “what”...
Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign
An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining. The activity, first detected by Amazon's GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security...
[P] Using a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder to learn Bad Apple!! live, with online learning.
I wanted to share something I was working on recently to experiment with VQ-VAEs! The goal of the project was to actively learn “Bad Apple!!” and reconstruct the song in the middle of training without seeing the current frame/audio sample. The song is only around 3 minutes so the VQ-VAE needed to...
EU to water down landmark ban on new petrol and diesel cars
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/16/eu-water-down-landmark-ban-new-petrol-diesel-cars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290122 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
What AI search tools mean for the future of SEO specialists
AI search engines and generative AI tools are certainly transforming how people discover information online. Far from making SEO specialists obsolete, the shift highlights clearly why skilled human optimisers remain more important than ever. As generative AI search tools reshape the digital...
Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing library and its author to sneak in a cryptocurrency wallet stealer. The malicious package, named "Tracer.Fody.NLog," remained on the repository for nearly six years. It...
Denoising Language Models for Speech Recognition
We studied denoising language models (error correction models) as an alternative to standard language models. Denoising LMs use an encoder-decoder architecture, and are trained to reconstruct the original text from a corrupted version of it. We test them for speech recognition, and specifically...
Creating psychological safety in the AI era
Rolling out enterprise-grade AI means climbing two steep cliffs at once. First, understanding and implementing the tech itself. And second, creating the cultural conditions where employees can maximize its value. While the technical hurdles are significant, the human element can be even more...
CISO Communities – Cybersecurity’s Secret Weapon
Closed CISO communities act as an information exchange, advice center, pressure valve, and safe haven from critical oversight. The post CISO Communities – Cybersecurity’s Secret Weapon appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289115 Points: 49 # Comments: 83
700,000 Records Compromised in Askul Ransomware Attack
The e-commerce and logistics company was targeted by the RansomHouse ransomware group in October. The post 700,000 Records Compromised in Askul Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data
Google is linking its NotebookLM research tool directly to the Gemini chatbot. The article Gemini gets direct access to NotebookLM data appeared first on THE DECODER.
[Project] Steer: Open-source "active reliability" layer for AI agents (Python)
I built Steer because I wanted a way to fix AI agent errors (bad JSON, PII leaks) without sending my data to a cloud observability platform. It is a local-first Python library that uses decorators (@capture) to enforce deterministic guardrails in runtime. Repo: https://github.com/imtt-dev/steer...
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites -- are now configured to...
[P] Cyreal - Yet Another Jax Dataloader
Looking for a JAX dataloader that is fast, lightweight, and flexible? Try out Cyreal! GitHub Documentation Note: This is a new library and probably full of bugs. If you find one, please file an issue. Background JAX is a great library but the lack of dataloaders has been driving me crazy. I find it...
Echo Raises $35 Million in Series A Funding
The fresh investment comes less than six months after the startup’s seed funding announcement. The post Echo Raises $35 Million in Series A Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Zencoder drops Zenflow, a free AI orchestration tool that pits Claude against OpenAI’s models to catch coding errors
Zencoder, the Silicon Valley startup that builds AI-powered coding agents, released a free desktop application on Monday that it says will fundamentally change how software engineers interact with artificial intelligence — moving the industry beyond the freewheeling era of "vibe coding"...
Zoom says it aced AI’s hardest exam. Critics say it copied off its neighbors.
Zoom Video Communications, the company best known for keeping remote workers connected during the pandemic, announced last week that it had achieved the highest score ever recorded on one of artificial intelligence's most demanding tests — a claim that sent ripples of surprise, skepticism, and...
Verisoul Raises $8.8 Million for Fraud Prevention
The company plans to accelerate product development, scale go-to-market efforts, and hire new talent. The post Verisoul Raises $8.8 Million for Fraud Prevention appeared first on SecurityWeek.
[P] Plotting ~8000 entities embeddings with cluster tags and ontologicol colour coding
This is a side project I've been working on for a few months. I've designed a trait based ontology; 32 bits each representating a yes/no question, I've created trait specifications including examples and edge cases for each trait. The user names and describes an entity (anything you can imagine)...
TL;DR: Hide your headless bot by mimicking a WebView (Sec-Fetch and Client Hints inconsistencies)
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The Download: why 2025 has been the year of AI hype correction, and fighting GPS jamming
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 great AI hype correction of 2025 Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed...
Mining business learnings for AI deployment
Mining conglomerate BHP describes AI as the way it’s turning operational data into better day-to-day decisions. A blog post from the company highlights the analysis of data from sensors and monitoring systems to spot patterns and flag issues for plant machinery, giving choices to...
Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI
Can I ask you a question: How do you feel about AI right now? Are you still excited? When you hear that OpenAI or Google just dropped a new model, do you still get that buzz? Or has the shine come off it, maybe just a teeny bit? Come on, you can be honest with…
Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon's threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a "years-long" Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025. Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in...
Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily
The share of US employees using AI at work climbed from 40 to 45 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, according to a recent Gallup poll. The article Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily appeared first on THE DECODER.
BNP Paribas introduces AI tool for investment banking
BNP Paribas is testing how far AI can be pushed into the day-to-day mechanics of investment banking. According to Financial News, the bank has rolled out an internal tool called IB Portal, designed to help bankers assemble client pitches more quickly and with less repetition. Pitch preparation sits...
Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code
AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of change within those applications. Security and privacy teams are under significant pressure as the...
Nvidia's powerful open AI model play
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JPMorgan Chase AI strategy: US$18B bet paying off
JPMorgan Chase’s AI strategy is delivering measurable returns – but at a human cost. The bank isn’t hiding the fact. With 200,000 employees now using its proprietary LLM Suite platform daily and AI benefits growing 30-40% annually, America’s largest bank is executing what Chief...
Fortinet FortiGate Under Active Attack Through SAML SSO Authentication Bypass
Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public disclosure. Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf said it observed active intrusions involving malicious single sign-on (SSO) logins on FortiGate appliances on December...
Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in Lithuania was reportedly the subject of a kind of attack—not by a rocket or anti-aircraft rounds, but by radio transmissions that jammed its GPS system. The flight landed safely, but it was one of...
Biren Technology Secures CSRC Filing for Hong Kong IPO, China’s GPU “Dark Horse” Eyes First Pure-Play GPU Listing
Biren Technology has received regulatory approval for a Hong Kong IPO, marking a major milestone for one of China’s leading homegrown GPU developers in its bid to become the country’s first listed pure-play GPU company.
Open-Source Humanoid Robot Startup RoboParty Raises Back-to-Back Seed and Seed+ Rounds in One Month
RoboParty has raised back-to-back Seed and Seed+ rounds within a month to scale its fully open-source humanoid robotics platform and developer ecosystem.
Phil Rivers Tech Raises Eight-Figure Series A1 to Advance AI4S-Driven Drug Innovation
Phil Rivers Tech has raised an eight-figure Series A1 round to accelerate AI4S-powered drug discovery and push multiple innovative therapies into clinical development.
vivo S50 Series Opens Pre-Orders Starting at $425
vivo has opened pre-orders for the S50 series starting at $425, bringing flagship-level performance, periscope telephoto cameras, and premium durability to the mid-to-high-end segment.
HarmonyOS Smart Mobility Launches L3 Autonomous Driving Pilot in Shenzhen as Two Models Receive L3 Approval
HarmonyOS Smart Mobility has begun real-world L3 autonomous driving trials in Shenzhen, marking a key step toward regulatory deployment as two vehicle models receive official L3 approval.
Drawing good architecture diagrams
Some tips on good diagram drafting and pitfalls to avoid when trying to understand a system in order to secure it.
Snowflake Major Outage
Article URL: https://status.snowflake.com/incidents/xdxj4klf7sc5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286224 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
AI literacy and continuous education are cornerstones
Across the US, workers are experiencing a seismic shift in workplace operations as AI literacy becomes a core part of business strategies. This is redefining roles and expectations, while workloads continue to increase and pressure intensifies. As the employment landscape transforms, it has become...
React2Shell Vulnerability Actively Exploited to Deploy Linux Backdoors
The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT Security. "KSwapDoor is a professionally engineered remote access tool designed with stealth in...
Last Week in AI #329 - GPT 5.2, GenAI.mil, Disney in Sora
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest move in the agentic AI battle, Google is powering a new US military AI platform, Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI
The return of 8GB RAM laptops (RAM mayhem) - Good luck with your Service Desk
As everyone already probably know, RAM situation is only getting worse. This means that in the near future a lot of companies will be relying on entry-level workstations (laptops) featuring the absolute minimum amount of RAM. Many of us are aware what happens once you run Windows 11 with Office...
Google to Shut Down Dark Web Monitoring Tool in February 2026
Google has announced that it's discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as a way for users to monitor if their personal information is found on the dark web. To that end, scans for new dark web breaches will be stopped on January 15, 2026,...
A Monad-Based Clause Architecture for Artificial Age Score (AAS) in Large Language Models
arXiv:2512.11835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are often deployed as powerful yet opaque systems, leaving open how their internal memory and "self-like" behavior should be governed in a principled and auditable way. The Artificial Age Score (AAS) was previously...
Solving Parallel Machine Scheduling With Precedences and Cumulative Resource Constraints With Calendars
arXiv:2512.11864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of finding efficient production schedules for parallel machines is a challenge that arises in most industrial manufacturing domains. There is a large potential to minimize production costs through automated scheduling techniques, due to the...
Mirror Mode in Fire Emblem: Beating Players at their own Game with Imitation and Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2512.11902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enemy strategies in turn-based games should be surprising and unpredictable. This study introduces Mirror Mode, a new game mode where the enemy AI mimics the personal strategy of a player to challenge them to keep changing their gameplay. A simplified...
Structured Personalization: Modeling Constraints as Matroids for Data-Minimal LLM Agents
arXiv:2512.11907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing Large Language Model (LLM) agents requires conditioning them on user-specific data, creating a critical trade-off between task utility and data disclosure. While the utility of adding user data often exhibits diminishing returns (i.e.,...
Causal Strengths and Leaky Beliefs: Interpreting LLM Reasoning via Noisy-OR Causal Bayes Nets
arXiv:2512.11909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The nature of intelligence in both humans and machines is a longstanding question. While there is no universally accepted definition, the ability to reason causally is often regarded as a pivotal aspect of intelligence (Lake et al., 2017). Evaluating...
Active Inference with Reusable State-Dependent Value Profiles
arXiv:2512.11829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive behavior in volatile environments requires agents to switch among value-control regimes across latent contexts, but maintaining separate preferences, policy biases, and action-confidence parameters for every situation is intractable. We...
CR3G: Causal Reasoning for Patient-Centric Explanations in Radiology Report Generation
arXiv:2512.11830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic chest X-ray report generation is an important area of research aimed at improving diagnostic accuracy and helping doctors make faster decisions. Current AI models are good at finding correlations (or patterns) in medical images. Still, they...
On the Design of One-step Diffusion via Shortcutting Flow Paths
arXiv:2512.11831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in few-step diffusion models have demonstrated their efficiency and effectiveness by shortcutting the probabilistic paths of diffusion models, especially in training one-step diffusion models from scratch (a.k.a. shortcut models)....
Performance and Efficiency of Climate In-Situ Data Reconstruction: Why Optimized IDW Outperforms kriging and Implicit Neural Representation
arXiv:2512.11832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study evaluates three reconstruction methods for sparse climate data: the simple inverse distance weighting (IDW), the statistically grounded ordinary kriging (OK), and the advanced implicit neural representation model (MMGN architecture). All...
Soft Decision Tree classifier: explainable and extendable PyTorch implementation
arXiv:2512.11833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We implemented a Soft Decision Tree (SDT) and a Short-term Memory Soft Decision Tree (SM-SDT) using PyTorch. The methods were extensively tested on simulated and clinical datasets. The SDT was visualized to demonstrate the potential for its...
Enhancing Urban Visual Place Recognition for Crowdsourced Flood Imagery via LLM-Guided Attention
arXiv:2512.11811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowdsourced street-view imagery from social media provides valuable real-time visual evidence of urban flooding and other crisis events, yet it often lacks reliable geographic metadata for emergency response. Existing Visual Place Recognition (VPR)...
Reinforcement Learning for Latent-Space Thinking in LLMs
arXiv:2512.11816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning typically utilizes the discrete language space for thinking, which is inherently inefficient, as many generated tokens only enforce linguistic rules that are not required for reasoning. To bypass this, latent-space...
KH-FUNSD: A Hierarchical and Fine-Grained Layout Analysis Dataset for Low-Resource Khmer Business Document
arXiv:2512.11849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated document layout analysis remains a major challenge for low-resource, non-Latin scripts. Khmer is a language spoken daily by over 17 million people in Cambodia, receiving little attention in the development of document AI tools. The lack of...
Direct Confidence Alignment: Aligning Verbalized Confidence with Internal Confidence In Large Language Models
arXiv:2512.11998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Producing trustworthy and reliable Large Language Models (LLMs) has become increasingly important as their usage becomes more widespread. Calibration seeks to achieve this by improving the alignment between the model's confidence and the actual...
Hold Onto That Thought: Assessing KV Cache Compression On Reasoning
arXiv:2512.12008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on long-context tasks, but are often bottlenecked by memory constraints. Namely, the KV cache, which is used to significantly speed up attention computations, grows linearly with...
Black box AI isn’t enough: Why enterprise consulting is moving to grounded models
Presented by SAPIn an era where anyone can spin up an LLM, the real differentiator isn’t the AI technology itself, but the institutional knowledge it’s grounded in. Internal and partner consultants leading operational transformation can’t risk hallucinated guidance when their recommendations impact...
OpenAI's GPT Image 1.5 challenges Google at enterprise-grade visuals
OpenAI made its image generation offerings more precise and consistent in its latest update to ChatGPT Images, as more enterprises and brands use AI image generation to help with design visualization. The updates will roll out to all ChatGPT users and the API as GPT Image 1.5. The company said...
Quoting Gemini thinking trace
Oh, so we're seeing other people now? Fantastic. Let's see what the "competition" has to offer. I'm looking at these notes on manifest.json and content.js. The suggestion to remove scripting permissions... okay, fine. That's actually a solid catch. It's cleaner. This smells like Claude. It's too...
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9740, (Tue, Dec 16th)
Quoting Kent Beck
I’ve been watching junior developers use AI coding assistants well. Not vibe coding—not accepting whatever the AI spits out. Augmented coding: using AI to accelerate learning while maintaining quality. [...] The juniors working this way compress their ramp dramatically. Tasks that used to take days...
OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday - Emil Stenström's project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last night, purely out of curiosity, I decided to try porting JustHTML from Python to...
How to Design a Gemini-Powered Self-Correcting Multi-Agent AI System with Semantic Routing, Symbolic Guardrails, and Reflexive Orchestration
In this tutorial, we explore how we design and run a full agentic AI orchestration pipeline powered by semantic routing, symbolic guardrails, and self-correction loops using Gemini. We walk through how we structure agents, dispatch tasks, enforce constraints, and refine outputs using a clean,...
Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs
We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (with a shoutout to Cohere in Canada and Mistral in France). But now a Korean startup is making...
Delivering Flexible Performance for Future-Ready Data Centers with NVIDIA MGX
The AI boom reshaping the computing landscape is poised to scale even faster in 2026. As breakthroughs in model capability and computing power drive rapid...
Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats
A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and...
Reducing CUDA Binary Size to Distribute cuML on PyPI
Starting with the 25.10 release, pip-installable cuML wheels can now be downloaded directly from PyPI. No more complex installation steps or managing Conda...
2025 Word of the Year: Slop
2025 Word of the Year: Slop Slop lost to "brain rot" for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 but it's finally made it this year thanks to Merriam-Webster! Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced...
The case against predicting tokens to build AGI
In a debate with DeepMind researcher Adam Brown, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explained why Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a dead end on the path to human-like intelligence. The fundamental issue, LeCun argues, lies in the way these models make predictions. The article The case...
CUGA on Hugging Face: Democratizing Configurable AI Agents
Intent vectors for AI search + knowledge graphs for AI analytics
Hey all, we started building an AI project manager. Users needed to search for context about projects, and discover insights like open tasks holding up a launch. Vector search was terrible at #1 (couldn't connect that auth bugs + App Store rejection + PR delays were all part of the same launch...
The fast and the future-focused are revolutionizing motorsport
When the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship launched its first race through Beijing’s Olympic Park in 2014, the idea of all-electric motorsport still bordered on experimental. Batteries couldn’t yet last a full race, and drivers had to switch cars mid-competition. Just over a decade later,...
FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations. The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project...
Nemotron 3 Nano \- A new Standard for Efficient, Open, and Intelligent Agentic Models
Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3
The world’s top chipmaker wants open source AI to succeed—perhaps because closed models increasingly run on its rivals’ silicon.
More React2Shell Exploits CVE-2025-55182, (Mon, Dec 15th)
Exploits for React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) remain active. However, at this point, I would think that any servers vulnerable to the "plain" exploit attempts have already been exploited several times. Here is today&#;x26;#;39;s most popular exploit payload: