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We dive into our initial thoughts on Siri AI and Tim Cook's legacy.

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

A recent study found that Google's AI Overviews regularly provide incorrect information and contain facts not supported by cited sources.

Honda's $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg.

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478471 Points: 258 # Comments: 66

We're open-sourcing 14 components & examples today for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX viewers, plus bounding box citations, file upload, e-signature, and more. It's MIT licensed and fully customizable. Demo video here: https://share.extend.ai/kRmSGKRF When we started, we tried every file viewer and document...

AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a rack-level deployment.

Pocket Casts for iOS has picked up a fresh visual overhaul this week. The latest version brings Apple’s Liquid Glass design language to one of the most popular podcast apps on the platform. more…

Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.

Google has placed an order for Intel to build more than 3 million of its TPUs in 2028 after months of testing Intel's advanced packaging.

Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text search (FTS). Why graph, vector and FTS? Graph da...

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fcj3088jg1wx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477851 Points: 147 # Comments: 28

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by AirPods Pro 3 dropping even lower to the best price ever at $179 shipped (nearly 30% off) and all five AirPods Max 2 colors hitting the Amazon all-time low. We also have up to $300 off M5 Pro MacBook Pro models joined by Apple’s most affordable 15-inch...

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.

Apple is making a major push around child safety and parental controls with iOS 27, including a completely redesigned Screen Time experience, new limits for websites, expanded communication controls, and more flexible tools for managing when kids can use apps. The changes are part of Apple’s broa...

Article URL: https://burr.apache.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477400 Points: 157 # Comments: 85

The JDY botnet, a malware network previously associated with Chinese threat actors like Volt Typhoon, has significantly expanded its targeting scope and reconnaissance efforts. [...]

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