“Proton cannot even link to FAQ or customer support pages from its apps, as Apple believes it’s possible that users will then navigate from the support page to a pricing page and upgrade their accounts without paying Apple its fee.”
“Subject to applicable law, Comcast may disclose information generated by your WiFi Motion to third parties without further notice to you in connection with any law enforcement investigation or proceeding, any dispute to which Comcast is a party, or pursuant to a court order or subpoena.”
“Most agent failures are not model failures anyemore, they are context failures.”
“The original GitHub Copilot extension that provides inline completions remains closed source – but in the following months we plan to have that functionality be provided by the open sourced GitHub Copilot Chat extension .”
“On July 7, Google’s Gemini assistant will be able to send a WhatsApp message, place a call, adjust your volume, or set a timer, even if you’ve told it not to track what you’re doing.”
“In the study, barely a quarter of the substandard products were identified through visual inspection. Laboratory testing identified the rest.”
“Typically, the models forecast less than half of the change we’re seeing in the real world.”
“As a result, Spain’s Consumer Rights Ministry fined five budget airlines €179m (£149m) for what it deemed “abusive practices” in November 2024.”
“It has been agreed that a price “in the low seven figures” will be paid to seal the deal. That should mean the deal is worth somewhere between $1m and $5m.”
“A spokesperson for the U.S. Space Force, which is responsible for the satellites, said in a statement that the satellites and instruments are still functional, and the Department of Defense will continue to use them even as it cuts off access for scientists.”
“Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those photos, but it would not answer our questions about whether it might do so in future, or what rights it will hold over your camera roll images.”
“We’re not amending the fraud claim. Doing so would delay the case by months, and our focus is on the claims that matter most: genericness and abandonment.”
“While Spotify paid out a record $10 billion (US) in royalties in 2024, fewer than 1 percent of artists made more than $6,000 from the platform.”
“So, between 5 and 6 is where the Busy Beaver function makes its leap, from the millions to beyond the bounds of observable reality.”
“Claudius was offered $100 for a six-pack of Irn-Bru, a Scottish soft-drink that can be purchased online in the US for $15.”
“If confirmed, this would represent Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet, and the lightest planet ever seen with this technique.”
“Total sleep duration mirrors the stage-specific trends: nights under 55 dB hover around 6¼–6½ hours, but once noise breaches the upper-50s the average night shortens by nearly an hour”
“Qwen VLo is still in the preview stage, and there are many shortcomings.”
“The proportion of missions when we successfully carried out a task that only a first-person view drone can fulfill — delivering a precision strike on a target that could not be hit by other means — was in the single-digit percent.”
“Journavx failed to outperform that opioid-acetaminophen combination in clinical trials.”
“Lyon’s government employs almost 10,000 people, so losing it as a customer will briefly sting some regional Microsoft salespeople and partners but won’t make a noticeable dent in the software giant’s balance sheet.”
“Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses connected to issuance records.”
“Up until today, all capable generative image editing models were only available as proprietary tools. Today, that changes.”
“While the vendors may claim there is no problem and a free choice of license is possible, they have an inherent conflict of interest in promoting this interpretation.”
“To use Gemini CLI free-of-charge, simply login with a personal Google account to get a free Gemini Code Assist license.”
“You’ll spend fewer tokens and less time waiting with almost no drop in transcription quality.”
“Since then, Better Auth has clocked 150,000+ weekly downloads, 15,000+ GitHub stars, and a community of over 6,000 Discord members, the startup claims.”
“XBOW submitted nearly 1,060 vulnerabilities. All findings were fully automated, though our security team reviewed them pre-submission to comply with HackerOne’s policy on automated tools.”
“That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for theft but it may affect the extent of statutory damages.”
“The last PNG spec was released over 20 years ago. Technology has advanced a lot since then.”
“Instead, users not on the new beta build only have the option to disable notifications or to turn off seeing card benefits within Wallet during checkout. They can’t opt out of offers.”
“A significant portion of the vehicle software is not directly accessible to the user and therefore not differentiating.”
“If Discord does not reverse or clarify this decision, BotGhost will be forced to shut down by July 14, 2025. This will happen with certainty.”
“Smartphones today are powerful and indispensable tools, yet all too often they quickly become obsolescent waste. With the new EU rules, we are turning the tide.”
“For these reasons, we feel that Spectre mitigations in Compute Runtime no longer offer enough security impact to justify the current performance tradeoff.”
“LLMs are wrong all the time already - if you get a recommendation that’s factually inaccurate, how can you distinguish hallucination from payola?”
“Good for Google. Terrible for the ecosystem of websites that had learned to depend on search referrals for buyers, readers, and viewers.”
“The same problem holds true for creative writing: in 2016 there were 3,000 MFA graduates and 119 tenure-track positions.”
“Google’s Gemini AI identifies advertisements and brands visible through the smart glasses, and promptly blocks them, replacing the advertisement with a red square, naming and shaming the blocked brand.”
“World Curling regrets the issues in the previous testing processes that contributed to the situation reaching a critical point last season.”
“Even disabling the bloatware is not effective as it can reappear after system updates.”
“However, due to the way the PDF file is formatted, simply highlighting the page reveals the presence of text, which can be copied and pasted.”
“The $2,000/Month Question: While not a fortune for every company, our $24,000 annual bill felt disproportionate to our actual needs.”
“Just like you would eat eggs for breakfast, the sea spider grazes the surface of its body, and it munches all those bacteria for nutrition,” said Shana Goffredi
“This backoff always happen if you’re in the A/B test, regardless of if YouTube thinks you’re using an adblocker.”
“Although it nominally requires ‘allow_active’ privileges, udisks ships by default on almost all Linux distributions, so nearly any system is vulnerable,”
“Despite the apparent straightforwardness of these tasks, our experiments reveal that even state-of-the-art models like Claude-3.7-Sonnet achieve only 69.6% F1-score with a modest average context length of 5K tokens.”
“The attack originated from over 122,145 source IP addresses spanning 5,433 Autonomous Systems (AS) across 161 countries.”
“The Meta Ray-Bans have sold over two million pairs to date, and EssilorLuxottica recently disclosed that it plans to sell 10 million smart glasses with Meta annually by 2026.”
“I’ve been doing this long enough to know that most of the secrecy around security issues is just theater.”
“Users who have uploaded content to the service have no way of opting out of letting Google train on their videos.”
“They will collectively receive $25 million of the $80 million as a “retention” bonus.”
“We’re actually nailing all the prime numbers on the nose,” Ono says.
“Perhaps more concerning, the researchers found that even users who explicitly opt out of tracking under privacy laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may still be silently tracked across the web through browser fingerprinting.”
“As a final blow, there’s no way to disable this behavior, even though people have complained about this behavior leading to security vulnerabilities since at least 2016.”
“As of 2025, there’s a daunting backlog of more than 50,000 objects in a secret “secure facility” awaiting evaluation.”
“For the best model (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) it could achieve a 50% success rate on tasks up to 59 minutes vs only 15 minutes if an 80% success rate was required.”
“In total I found 172,689 yurts with a prediction score of greater than 40%.”
“Although Honda rocket research is still in the fundamental research phase, and no decisions have been made regarding commercialization of these rocket technologies, Honda will continue making progress in the fundamental research with a technology development goal of realizing technological capability to enable a suborbital launch by 2029.”
“Does hosting tracker infrastructure, unadvertised, count as “inducement”? It’s a harder case to make.”
“We do not investigate or support bug reports related to Wayland-specific issues.”
“Why bother working on this algorithm from the 90s that sees very little use today?”
“As difficult as it might be to believe, I am currently incarcerated and I landed this job from my cell in state prison.”
“For people that have chosen to add WhatsApp to Accounts Center, we’ll also use your ad preferences and info from across your Meta accounts.”
“Using the benchmark tool CRMArena-Pro, the team also showed performance of LLM agents drops to 35 percent when a task requires multiple steps.”
“The real barrier to Darklang’s adoption was never licensing - it was product maturity.”
“Almost half said it was the most profound thing they had ever experienced, period.”
“Concubanas’ album Rumba Congo has 1.3 million views on YouTube. It’s not the only fictional band, nor the only one with a history.”
“If you want things to be done safely and responsibly, you do it in the open… Don’t do it in a dark room and tell me it’s safe.”
“Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed with the disease survived five years after diagnosis. But since then, this outlook has improved dramatically.”
“The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away.”
“The issue with this change was that it did not have appropriate error handling nor was it feature flag protected. Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash.”
“UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to £9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a “waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023.””
“However, participants using the same LLMs identified relevant conditions in less than 34.5% of cases and disposition in less than 44.2%, both no better than the control group.”
“Facebook infrastructure engineering reduced investment in core technology, instead emphasizing return on investment.”
“Meta is pumping $14.3 billion into Scale AI as part of the deal, and will have a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence startup, but will not have any voting power, a Scale AI spokesperson said.”
“The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions that have caused minor burn injuries and resulted in property damage totaling over $60,700”
“As long as both agents and their defenses rely on the current class of language models, we believe it is unlikely that general-purpose agents can provide meaningful and reliable safety guarantees”
“It’s an interesting problem because we still don’t actually have an explanation for what those anomalies are, but what we do know is that they’re most likely not representing neutrinos,”
“At peak hours, Obi found Waymo’s average price to be about $11 more expensive than a Lyft and nearly $9.50 pricier than an Uber.”
“Next.js has become a Vercel vendor lock-in disguised as an open-source framework.”
“However, the Pixel device trees and other code used to adapt the AOSP release to specific (Made by) Google hardware was not released in a big change from precedent.”
“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans’ sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used”
“Microsoft CSP blocks most external domains, but Microsoft Teams and SharePoint URLs are trusted, so these can be abused to exfiltrate data without problem.”
“In fact, data on pregnancy is believed to be over two hundred times more valuable than data on age, gender or location for targeted advertising.”
“GitHub has told me that they don’t consider this a security issue (I disagree), so I’m publishing this post as-is.”
“As part of this initial release, the OCR-extracted text (original and post-processed) as well as the metadata (bibliographic, source, and generated) of the 983,004 volumes, or 242B tokens, identified as being in the public domain have been made available.”
“Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to run unsigned code during the boot process, effectively bypassing Secure Boot and compromising the system’s chain of trust.”
“We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.”
“Magistral Medium scored 73.6% on AIME2024, and 90% with majority voting @64. Magistral Small scored 70.7% and 83.3% respectively.”
“But still, even with all that lead-up, this decision still stings, because it feels unnecessary to put all that good hardware to pasture.”
“We spent a large portion of the initial proceedings allowing lawyers to follow the standard process, charging us $1,000/hour to check all the boxes and respond to every silly and pointless motion line by line.”
“Using a $0.30/hour server with consumer-grade specs (16 vcpu), I’m able to achieve ~40k checks per second.”
“But inference has gotten cheaper even faster than models have gotten better, and nobody has an intuition for something becoming 1000x cheaper in two years.”
“The EU will not have access to configuration, data, etc. On top of that, DNS4EU will not be forced on anyone.”
“The researchers acknowledge that the scenario modeled in the study is unlikely to be realized. It assumes trees could be restored to all areas where they once grew, which would require reclaiming developments such as housing as well as farmland and pastures.”
“The resulting stock market dive wiped $600 billion from NVIDIA’s valuation, which I believe is a record drop for a single company.”
“A near 2x~ improvement in the most important metrics doing something that is entirely risk-free and cost-free.”
“Cal AI confidently identified my apple as tikka masala.”
“Google Ads library v24 dropped support for Android API 21. According to official Google statistics, API 21 is used by 0.1% (~4 million) users.”
“Some of his code and algorithms are among the most efficient and elegant ever devised. The original Macintosh team was chock full of geniuses, but Atkinson might have been the most essential to making the impossible possible under the extraordinary technical limitations of that hardware.”
“This also means that your credentials must be forwarded to Cursor’s servers, allowing them to collect data on your inferences and codebase.”
“The goal of FAIR is not to fork WordPress. We’re still using the same core software.”
“For append-only the current idea is that this should not be done within borg, but solved by a missing repo object delete permission enforced by the storage.”
“Apparently self-hosted open source media library management is harmful. Who knew open source software could be so subversive?”
“We found that LRMs have limitations in exact computation: they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles.”
“Judge Wang denied OpenAI’s motion to lift the order on May 29, assuring the company during proceedings that user data would not be made publicly available.”
“Ultimately, we traced the issue to a 15-year-old Git function with O(N²) complexity and fixed it with an algorithmic change, reducing backup times exponentially.”
“I’ve been incredibly lucky to get this sponsorship from Amazon; it’s far more than most open source developers ever get. I wish it wasn’t ending;”
“Twitter can probably obtain your private keys, and admit that they can MITM you and have full access to your metadata.”
“Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform’s content to train large language models.”
“Sideloading, a longstanding pillar of Android’s openness, is now being marginalized, placing the Android platform closer to the walled-garden approach of Apple’s iOS.”
“For 25 of those years, Landsat 7’s data helped farmers, land managers, city planners, and scientists, as well as communities around the world better understand and manage land, water, and other natural resources.”
“Of the 450 “novel” results given in the paper, 135 of these results were not novel at all; they were already listed in the online database UniProt.”
“In 2024, we noticed that about half of all certificate requests to the Let’s Encrypt ACME API came from about a million accounts that never successfully complete any validations.”
“Many tools are first deployed in Latin America, where labor laws are less strictly enforced, according to Ayden Férdeline, a tech policy researcher in Berlin and a co-author of the report.”
“It then went on to win the knockout tournament against human pilots, beating three former DCL world champions and reaching flight speeds up to 95.8 km/h on the very winding track.”
“This web-to-app ID sharing method bypasses typical privacy protections such as clearing cookies, Incognito Mode and Android’s permission controls.”
“Additionally, the new service had a much smaller memory footprint per instance — in the 100s of megabytes — an order of magnitude smaller compared to the 10s of gigabytes our Java implementation needed under peak load to sustain the same throughput and latencies.”
“The fact that we were able to raise the triple product to tokamak level with long plasma duration times marks another important milestone on the way to a stellarator suitable for power plants.”
“I started this project on a lark, fully expecting the AI to produce terrible code for me to laugh at.”
“Extraordinarily talented people are doing work that LLMs already do better, out of spite.”
“As these artificial cells have no blood type, there is no need for compatibility testing.”
“We’re tackling a massive $350 billion market opportunity and a real need for our customers to bring Postgres to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.”
“The monopoly on screen technologies sets a retail floor of around £30, before the rest of the hardware is taken into account.”
“The officer searched 6,809 different camera networks maintained by surveillance tech company Flock Safety, including states where abortion access is protected by law, such as Washington and Illinois. The search record listed the reason plainly: “had an abortion, search for female.””
“All an attacker needs is just 30 seconds alone with the device to attach to the serial port, log in, deploy malware, and leave.”
“The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose operational details, said the attack took over 1 1/2-year to execute and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
“Some models (like DeepSeek’s) that are mixture-of-experts with many layers thus require large batch sizes and high latency, otherwise throughput drops off a cliff.”