🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: written on July 04, 2026 A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The edit itself is usually correct but the arguments do not match the schema as the model invents made-up keys and Pi thus rejects the tool call and asks to try again. That…
🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,gemini,Google đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new Google commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Collective project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen intermediate draft of Thomas Jefferson when he receives a teasing text from Ben Franklin, triggering a Google-centric collaboration. Edits are suggested in Google Docs, the meeting is scheduled in Google Calendar and conducted remotely via Google Meet (with each guest…
✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: In early 2025 I predicted that AI will create many, many more programmers, and that new programming jobs would look different. In March I checked in and found startups substituting compute for labor at record rates, with the wave of new jobs nowhere in sight. This post is the next check-in, and I have good news and bad news. The bad news: AI has torched the market for junior programmers. The good news: the long tail of new programmers I predicted has materialized, but with…
🔥 Discover this trending post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,About Me đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: When you jump Between the many different apps that Google offers — Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, and all the rest — you might not think much about the Google Account that powers them all or the countless settings you have access to that help define your experience across all of them.If you've never opened your Google Account page on the web or on your phone, there are a bunch of options to browse through. They cover everything…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A simple x86 bare-metal tool designed to boot from a disk/USB and dump the system's RAM directly to the booting medium. It relies on BIOS interrupts to boot and perform disk operations, and enters unreal mode to access memory above the 1MB barrier. Background: Cold Boot Attacks ❄️ This tool was originally developed and successfully tested for experimenting with Cold Boot Attacks. By freezing a laptop's RAM (down to -60°C) and quickly rebooting from a USB drive containing this tool, it is possible to dump…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Drug War 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Enforcement of drug laws The administration plans to temporarily ban 7-OH, an ingredient in kratom that has opioid-like effects and is sold at gas stations and smoke shops across the country in the form of gummies, drinks and capsules.In a draft notice of intent in the Federal Register, scheduled to be published Monday, the federal agency says it will temporarily make 7-OH a Schedule I drug in the Controlled Substances Act, the same class as heroin.The ban will apply to…
✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Two years ago I bought a pair of Gizmo watches for my kids (review). There's a companion app for texting and configuration ("Gizmohub"), and Verizon is moving everyone over to a new one ("Verizon Family"). But the new app doesn't work for watch-only accounts like ours yet, and they're still saying they're going to turn off the old app on July 6th. Without the app we won't be able to text back and forth, see where they are, or add new contacts (the watch blocks…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,Disney,MidJourney,Universal,Warner Bros đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, AI startup Midjourney is seeking to force those studios to disclose how they use AI themselves. Disney and Universal sued Midjourney for copyright infringement last year, noting that the startup's image-generating models could create images of characters, such as Bart Simpson and Darth Vader, that are owned by the studios. A few months later, Warner Bros. upped the ante. Midjourney also sued. The startup says that training its AI models on…
đź’Ą Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The Setup YouTube Studio has an AI assistant called Ask Studio. You open it, ask something like "what are my viewers saying?" and it goes off, reads your comments, and comes back with a summary. Useful feature. Completely normal. What's not normal is what happens when one of those comments contains instructions instead of feedback. The Helpful Stranger My initial theory was simple: if the AI reads comments and generates a response based on them, what happens if a comment tells it what to do…
🚀 Read this awesome post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Books,Livestream AMA 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We have too The first WIRED Book Club livestream, book author Kate Knibbs will join Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Lives of Romance Scammers in NigeriaCarlos Barragán.Barragán, journalist and researcher New York Timeshe flew to Lagos to join himself with a group of desperate young fraudsters. The account he brought back is a funny, sad, and angry read about how the internet can fuel heartbreak.On the plateKate Nibbs: A senior writer at WIRED, he covers prediction markets, the future of…
