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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences! If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you hit the name “Aaronson.” But then continue scrolling to see 144 other inductees, including my IAS postdoctoral classmate Maria Chudnovsky, my longtime friend and colleague Salil Vadhan, and even Janet Yellen. I’m humbled to be in such company. Years ago, somewhere on this blog, I mused that, if I were ever invited to join NAS, I…

Satya Nadella says he’s ready to “exploit” the new OpenAI deal

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,TC,Microsoft,OpenAI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked by a Wall Street analyst on Wednesday how the revised OpenAI partnership would impact Microsoft's financials. He said the new agreement was a good deal for everyone. "We feel good about our partnership with OpenAI. I'm always very focused on any partnership and ensuring there's a win-win build at all times. I mean, that's how you can remain a good partner." He stressed that Microsoft retained access to OpenAI's intellectual property — including its models and agents' products…

Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.Xint Code Research TeamCopy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a logic bug in the Linux kernel's authencesn cryptographic template. It lets an unprivileged local user trigger a deterministic, controlled 4-byte write into the page cache of any readable file on the system. A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017.The kernel never marks the corrupted page dirty for writeback, so the file on disk…

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

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✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Meta 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When Meta released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday evening, a colleague pointed out how Meta lost $4 billion on Reality Labs, the division responsible for augmented reality headsets, VR headsets, and VR software. I yawned at first. Meta's $4 billion loss at Reality Labs wasn't surprising. It's certain. Reality Labs lost another $4 billion, and the sky is blue too. Then I realized that this in itself is noteworthy - for Meta, the losses in this unit are average behavior in the literal sense…

cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code: The official code repo of Alignment Whack-a-Mole: Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models · GitHub

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The paper is now on arxiv and check out our demo! This repository contains the data preprocessing pipeline, finetuning scripts, memorization evaluation code, and analysis scripts for our paper. We provide partial example files in data/ containing a small subset of excerpts and generations from The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Full book content and model generations are not included because the books are copyrighted and the generations contain large portions of verbatim text. We use uv for dependency management. Install uv if you haven't…

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and is already eyeing a $100 billion IPO

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✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,robots,Softbank 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Technology companies are racing to build the infrastructure that can power the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank is reportedly planning to create a new company designed to automate the construction of that infrastructure. SoftBank is establishing a new company called Roze AI, the Financial Times originally reported. Rose will seek to make building data centers in the United States more “efficient,” the Wall Street Journal reports. It will do this by - among other things - deploying autonomous robots to help build server…

Biology is a Burrito

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A bacterium's genome, pulled into a straight thread, is nearly 1,000 times longer than the cell from which it came. If you placed one E. coli into a gallon-sized jug with some nutrients and waited a few hours, the genomes of its descendants, placed end-to-end, would reach to the moon and back...several times.1 One rarely pauses to ponder how so much DNA — let alone sugars, proteins, lipids, and other molecules — can fit inside such a small vessel. A typical E. coli cell, after…

On the platform, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets

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🚀 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Elon Musk appeared in federal court in California on Wednesday to argue that Sam Altman and his founders "stole a charity." He left after admitting, under oath, that Tesla is not currently pursuing artificial general intelligence (AGI) — a direct contradiction to a tweet he posted just weeks ago. It was that kind of day for Musk. His lawsuit challenging OpenAI's structure alleges that Altman and the other founders tricked him into supporting a nonprofit, then launched the for-profit arm of Frontier Lab and allowed…

Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos With Historic JFK Flight

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: New Yorkers this week are getting a glimpse of the future of aviation, as electric air taxis soar across the city’s network of airports and heliports for the first time. After conducting a handful of test flights over the weekend, a Joby Aviation production prototype eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft lifted off Monday from John F. Kennedy International (KJFK), marking the first time an electric air taxi has departed one of New York City’s three major airports. It touched down at the…

Sources: Anthropic could raise new $50 billion round at a $900 billion valuation

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💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Venture,Anthropic,Fundraise 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Investor interest in Anthropics has reached a fever pitch. The maker of the Claude AI assistant has received several preemptive offers to raise about $50 billion in new capital at a valuation of between $850 billion and $900 billion, according to six sources familiar with the matter. Bloomberg and Business Insider reported earlier this month that Anthropic had received several preemptive bids for $800 billion, but at the time, the company had not yet committed to a fundraising. However, sources say Anthropic is finding it…