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The OpenAI CEO's new blog post responds to both an apparent attack on his home and an in-depth New Yorker profile raising questions about his trustworthiness.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is ready to make its European debut, and it's starting with the Netherlands. According to Tesla Europe, the automaker's driver assistance system was approved in the Netherlands and will start rolling out shortly. RDW, the country's regulatory authority on ve...

Article URL: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020 Points: 929 # Comments: 255

Microsoft’s Clippy was put out to pasture a quarter century ago. This hapless, and some would add ‘irritating,’ productivity assistant would no longer be enabled by default in Office, starting April 11, 2001.

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731838 Points: 87 # Comments: 22

If you've been looking to score a high-capacity kit of RAM but the AI boom has destroyed any chance of that happening, Newegg might have just the deal for you. The 96GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit usually costs over $1,100, but you can get it for less than half if you act quickly.

Verbatim Japan and I-O Data have widened their joint commitment to keep recordable Blu-ray products on shelves in Japan, this time covering drive hardware as well as media.

Article URL: https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731506 Points: 225 # Comments: 58

IBM has agreed to settle the US Department of Justice's accusations that the company violated civil rights laws with its DEI practices. According to a press release from the DOJ, IBM will pay more than $17 million to resolve allegations of taking "race, color, national origin, or sex" into accoun...

Tech DIYer Kent Walters has used a metalworking file to round over the corners of his MacBook. Apparently, some people freak out about this.

Earlier this year, Apple introduced Apple Creator Studio – a new subscription bundle that provides users access to all Apple pro software on Mac and iPad, such as Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, and Pixelmator Pro. With this launch, we got Pixelmator Pro on iPad for the first time – and a new L...

Polymarket bets started popping up in Google News alongside legitimate news articles. But now those results aren't showing, and Google says they were never supposed to. Spokesperson Ned Adriance told The Verge that "Google News is designed to show sources that create content about current issues,...

Google’s battery-powered Nest Doorbell is the cheapest it’s been since December. | Image: Google If you’ve ever worried about porch pirates stealing packages while you’re away, a video doorbell can offer some peace of mind, letting you keep tabs on deliveries no matter where you are. Google off...

The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces - creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look l...

You first, dude. | Image: The Pokémon Company, Nintendo Like many live-service games before it, Pokémon Champions' launch has been messy. The free-to-start battle sim, which is out now on the Switch and Switch 2 (and also coming to mobile later this year), is plagued with bugs, some of which ca...

Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents FEATURE  Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.…

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An international law enforcement action led by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) has identified over 20,000 victims of cryptocurrency fraud across Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [...]

Article URL: https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-1-the-problem-that-built-an-industry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730712 Points: 116 # Comments: 39

The deal is interesting for a number of reasons, including that SiFive's chip designs are based on RISC-V, not x86 or ARM.