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A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia, recorded by USGS. The event page provides standard seismic data including ShakeMap, PAGER impact estimates, aftershock forecasts, and waveform data.

Ploopy has announced the A+, an upgraded version of its open-source, 3D-printable Adept trackball. The A+ adds two buttons (now eight total, two of which are knobs for scrolling), a detachable wrist rest, and QMK-based gestures, layers, and on-device configuration. Preorders for the kit open August 19, 2026 at 10am ET for $99 CAD.

Anthropic announced a text watermarking scheme for Claude that modifies inconsequential word choices (e.g., picking 'cold' over 'gray' when meaning is unchanged) to comply with the EU AI Act, based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text technique. The watermark uses a separate randomness source detectable with a digital key, and other AI model makers are expected to deploy similar approaches.

Jonathan Bartlett's 2018 paper argues that first-year calculus is taught with too many redundant processes and proposes simplifying and refactoring the curriculum so fewer concepts yield more flexibility for students. It was published in Communications of the Blyth Institute (1:1, 2019, pp. 17-27).

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar met with investors following a week of turmoil in the C-suite that included the sudden departure of revenue chief Denise Dresser.

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PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.

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Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My blog has 1,856 tags - likely too many to feed to an LLM in one go and say "which of these tags match the following content". Doug Turnbull has a neat solution. Tell the model to output tags without any details of the existing vocabulary, then use vector embeddings against the existing corpus to find the concrete tags that are closest to the ones the model imagined might fit! His example prompt suggests including an example of the shape of your tags to help the model make a more useful guess: Your task is to create novel, never seen before, furniture, home goods, or hardware classification that best fit a search query. Product classifications might look like: Furniture / Living Room Furniture / Coffee Tables & End Tables / Coffee Tables Décor & Pillows / Decorative Pillows & Blankets / Throw Pillows Furniture / Bedroom Furniture / Dressers & Chests Kitchen & Tabletop / Kitchen Organization / Food Storage & Canisters School Furniture and Supplies / School Furniture / School Chairs & Seating / Stackable Chairs Baby & Kids / Toddler & Kids Bedroom Furniture / Kids Beds Here's the query to generate classifications for: brown coffee table Tags: search, ai, generative-ai, llms, embeddings, doug-turnbull

Nvidia's stake in SpaceX, which came through an investment in xAI, was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter.

Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304447 Points: 455 # Comments: 244

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense

The U.S. is looking to scale defense manufacturing and chip away at China's drone dominance.

The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.

OpenAI's C-suite turnover gives investors another reason for concern as the company pushes toward a mammoth IPO.

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Iranian government.

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Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.

Threat actors are acquiring expired domains to inherit website traffic and reputation to redirect victims to scams and malware on a large scale. DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox has given the name dropcatch domains to those that get a second chance, where an expired domain becomes available for registration and is then snapped up by another party. During the first half of 2026, 50,400

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/racket-v9-3.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302562 Points: 137 # Comments: 20