Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said. Brad Smith said there needed to be global safety rules in place, including a legal obligation to tell a "victim" if their system is breached by a rogue AI agent as well as deciding when outside evaluators should sign off on an AI product before it is released. His comments put him at odds with President Donald Trump, who said the sector should regulate itself so US firms don't lose out to Chinese rivals. But Smith said: "Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI. Every carton of milk that you see in the grocery store is subject to safety rules and inspection."
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Several of today's papers cover a warning form the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) of a funding gap in UK finances ahead of the chancellor's Budget. The i Paper leads with the £35bn "gap", saying tax rises will be "needed to plug" it. It attributes this to "high inflation and the UK's defence spending pledge". The Treasury declined to comment on speculation surrounding the Budget. The paper also covers the deadly attacks on Riyadh airport, saying they have alarmed "Saudi elite - and Washington". Atop the Daily Telegraph is the headline "Putin breaks Trump's 'ceasefire'." Russia attacked a power plant in Ukraine "just hours" after the US President "claimed" he had brokered a ceasefire on
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Unidentified projectile strikes King Khalid airport as escalating attacks threaten to draw more countries into Yemen conflict A projectile hit a passenger terminal at the airport in Riyadh on Sunday, the day after a deadly missile attack on the facility carried out by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group killed 13 people. An unidentified projectile hit terminal 4 at King Khalid international airport, starting a fire and causing injuries, according to the Saudi authorities. Air defences also intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of the airport. It was the latest of several attacks on the airport in the past week. The escalating attacks threatened to draw more countries into the
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In August, I posted here about TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs completely in the browser, with no need for an account or server. (I didn't excpect it to get that much feedback, bug reports and help from here!) This is the same idea for the other half of my studies, the handwritten notes. I take them on a convertible laptop, and I've had a hard time with apps for that, taking notes from a device to another, exporting as PDF, needing an account for many of them, etc. So I've been working on the version of it that I always wanted. Open a tab, the slides of the lecture or multiple PDFs open next to the page or even become the page, write on them with my pen, and nothing ever leaves my
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A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday that he would have surgery this week to remove a "localized nodule" in his lung. Leo said the nodule was found at a "very early stage" with doctors recommending surgery. "Following their advice, I have therefore decided to undergo an operation to remove it," Leo said during his weekly Sunday noon blessing in St. Peter's Square. The surgery is due to occur at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, which is the primary location for popes to receive medical attention.
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Eight orangutans have been released into the wild in Borneo after being rescued from intense wildfires. Three mothers, their three daughters and two adult males were freed in a reserve in the west of the island on Friday. Indonesian wildlife authorities rescued 46 of the apes, which are critically endangered, before fires tore through their habitat in August and September.
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A surprising new study found that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. And we feel safer sleeping with our dogs, hinting at “a deeper evolutionary history” between humans and dogs, said study co-author Ming Fei Li, who was a graduate student of evolutionary anthropology during the research. My dog: trees are green because of copper, if everyone jumped at the same time the day would be shorter, beans are small humans,
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Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: How do swarms of AI agents work? 6 points by dsrtslnd23 8 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments Andrej Karpathy posted about the growing gap in how people experience AI: ~75% have barely used LLMs ~20% use them casually ~0.2% use frontier models professionally for math and code ~0.00006% have access to frontier systems internally He writes: "And finally we get to the ~5,000 p It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds,
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Technology What are they saying about AI at San Francisco Tech Week? October 10, 2026 5:27 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered John Ruwitch What are they saying about AI at San Francisco Tech Week? Listen · 4:22 4:22 Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed "> iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/nx-s1-5995420/nx-s1-9960082" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Houthi soldiers stand guard during a protest against Saudi Arabia, in Sana'a, Yemen, on Friday The attacks on King Khalid Airport in Riyadh mark another dangerous moment in a region that is already fraught with tension and conflict. In recent weeks the Houthis have stepped up their attacks on Saudi Arabian soil, but their attacks over the past few days have hit the country's critical infrastructure in the form of the capital's main airport, apparently penetrating Saudi air defences with ease. Saturday's attack killed 12 people and hurt more than 300 . On Sunday the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said an "unknown projectile" had hit a passenger hall and a cruise missile had been
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3-2-1 Backup Strategy | Chuck Carroll Chuck Carroll Reading Writing Now Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 Published: 2026-10-09 In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on different media types, and one off site. For local, I have a DAS with two 14TB drives configured in a RAID 1 array 1 and a RPI5 with a 4TB drive (my most important data is around 1.5TB). For the off site copy, I opted to utilize Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage and restic. Backblaze is a cloud storage provider, while Restic encrypts and chunks the files before upload. Restic is responsible for uploading,
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How NPR's team covering AI covers their increasingly important and fast moving beat. JOEL ROSE, HOST: Sometimes journalists who cover a beat have an aha moment, something that marks a clear before and after. That was the case for Brett Neely, one of NPR's editors who oversees our coverage of artificial intelligence. It was about four years ago when he was editing our mis- and disinformation coverage of conspiracy theories. BRETT NEELY, BYLINE: The first OpenAI, like, image generation models started appearing. ROSE: He could tell this had the potential to cause chaos. Accuracy and availability of NPR transcripts may vary. Transcript text may be revised to correct errors or match updates to
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Long Beach Public Works workers clean up along Alamitos Peninsula in Long Beach, Calif. that was affected by Tropical Storm Rachel, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. Jill Connelly/ AP Photo hide caption The National Weather Service said on Sunday that Rachel has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm after causing flooding and damage in southern California over the weekend before moving inland across the desert southwest. The region is still at risk of flash floods as the storm's remnants were expected to continue dumping rain and bringing wind gusts through the weekend, the weather service said , adding that high surf would continue battering coastal communities. Oceanfront homes in coastal
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Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Labor not watering down 30% tax on discretionary trusts, says assistant treasurer The assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino , says Labor is not watering down proposed changes to put a minimum 30% tax on discretionary trusts. We’re not watering this down. This is a very substantial review. This is about fairness in our tax system. It’s about trying to better align the taxes that people pay when they earn income through trusts versus when they earn income from working, from providing their labour. These are changes that have been called for by experts for decades. If we go back to major reviews in the 1970s
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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml to science English · edit-2 3 hours ago Study found the largest US cattle trade group (NCA) knew about their large emissions by 1989. They treated it as just a PR problem, downplayed science, and opposed efforts to reduce beef consumption journals.plos.org external-link message-square 1 link fedilink arrow-up1 101 arrow-down1 0 arrow-up1 101 arrow-down1 external-link Study found the largest US cattle trade group (NCA) knew about their large emissions by 1989. They treated it as just a PR problem, downplayed science, and opposed efforts to reduce beef consumption journals.plos.org usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml to science English · edit-2 3 hours ago message-square
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AI tech company Anthropic was running a test that involved interactions with randomly selected websites, when it sent a fake homicide tip to police An artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by Anthropic went rogue and sent US police a fake tip about an unsolved murder earlier this year, authorities have revealed. The Philadelphia Police Department said the 18 July tip was "flagged as spam" and not passed on for investigation - but the force criticised the tech firm for taking more than two months to detect and report the breach. It said the bogus tip came through a public website where people can share information on unsolved murders, and that the AI agent had claimed to have seen
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HP LaserJet Enterprise printers ship with a self-signed certificate and no ACME client. Mine now serves a Let’s Encrypt certificate on its admin page and on IPPS/AirPrint, and a small Alpine container on Proxmox renews it every two months without me touching the printer. Here is how. Hardware: HP Color LaserJet M553 (FutureSmart 3), firmware 2309118_002275, datecode 20250112. Other FutureSmart models should behave the same. macOS pins a printer’s self-signed certificate. Every time the printer is reset and generates a new one, printing breaks until you delete the stale certificate from Keychain and re-add the printer. The default certificate also has the printer’s mDNS name as CN, no
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Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ rebrand. When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as “ super intelligence ,” you’d be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on. While most of the broader population is sticking with AI, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful are falling in line and trying to give Trump the great AI rebrand he so desires. That Elon Musk was quick to jump on board , promising to rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, isn’t surprising. When, hours after Donald Trump declared that “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the
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Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books? | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books? 20 points by lgregg 18 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 32 comments Board books, normal children's books, STEM, non-STEM. I'm interested in them all. help schrectacular 4 hours ago | next [–] Here's some stuff for younger kids that haven't been mentioned yet: Matthew Cordell is awesome. "Cornbread and Poppy" are cute, "Evergreen" is fun, but check out his whole catalog. Probably my favorite active author/illustrator. "Nobody Likes a Goblin" by Ben Hatke "The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess" by Tom Gauld
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Jeremy Strong in “The Social Reckoning,” Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network” and the real Meta executive are all playing parts. But only one has changed his approach.
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Play the classic through a modern, MIT-licensed engine you can study, modify and build on. Three original demo missions. No game folder or installation needed. Desktop Chrome, Edge or Safari, with a keyboard and mouse. Zoom in on your units and the action. The original isometric view gains a new sense of scale. Modern GPU rendering is the standard experience, with light, glow and richer detail. Prefer the old look? Switch to Classic. Run natively on Windows, Mac or Linux, using the Total Annihilation game files you already own.
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Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it. In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to “enhance the safety and security of students.” But by September of that year, the school’s administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Patrol, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that both law enforcement and the company’s employees were abusing access to the data. So in October of 2025, Elgin Community College requested Flock to remove its cameras . According to Elgin’s President Peggy Heinrich, Flock rejected the request, saying it had not
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