Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.
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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211474 Points: 742 # Comments: 500
LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape
Hugging Face Blog published: LitPivot: Developing research ideas through dynamic contextualization within the literature landscape
One person killed in suspected ‘Islamophobic’ shooting near Paris
Antiterrorism prosecutors investigating motive of attack that seriously wounded five, including a 12-year-old girl.
Tinned mackerel, hand-crank radios and bags for poo: crisis-prepping guides around the world
UK allies have long urged people to stockpile supplies for a crisis. How are people from France to Australia being advised to prepare? The UK has told people to fill their pantries with food for three days in case of catastrophe, joining a host of countries urging citizens to ready themselves for core systems failing. Such advice, once dismissed as the preserve of preppers , has become more common in government circles as climate breakdown worsens weather extremes and geopolitical tensions turn cyberattacks and sabotage into a regular occurrence. Even in countries with national strategic food stockpiles – a buffer the UK lacks – authorities have asked individuals to play their part in societal resilience. Continue reading...
‘Foreign policy is the economy’: How Iran war is shaping US midterm vote
Democrats are framing the conflict as an affordability issue to criticise Republican candidates backed by Trump.
Ex-FBI employees charged with lying to Congress over Hunter Biden inquiries
Republicans have long accused the FBI of mishandling the laptop and the investigations into the younger Biden.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox, and only alignment can save us
Sam Altman believes advanced AI can't be kept locked up forever. Sandboxes and monitoring are only temporary fixes. Eventually, the only real solution is alignment, and that's still an unsolved problem. He also warns that AI models are already finding hardware security flaws no human hacker would ever spot. The article OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says advanced AI will inevitably escape its sandbox, and only alignment can save us appeared first on The Decoder .
TikTok U.S. hunts for multiple gigawatts of computing capacity, sources tell CNBC
The operator of the social media platform in the U.S. has sounded out opportunities to obtain capacity over the coming years.
Feds want robotaxis to signal ‘I’m driving’ with cyan-colored lights
After years of debating how driverless cars should tell the world no one is at the wheel - flashing text, audio alerts, custom lights - the feds just stepped in with a single answer: cyan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released proposed changes to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, specifically rewriting […]
SpaceX’s mobile carrier push reportedly involves tapping into 80,000 cell sites
SpaceX is planning to access at least 80,000 cell sites as part of efforts to compete directly with Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources tell the publication that SpaceX is in talks with Crown Castle Inc., one of the nation's largest cell tower owners. The move would give SpaceX access […]
Civil servant who juggled five jobs says he was 'surprised' to be charged with fraud
Kashim Chowdhury denied being dishonest when not telling employers he had other jobs.
Carrick accepts blame for Man United slump, but ‘confident’ of a turnaround
Manchester United make worst start to a season in 40 years, but Michael Carrick 'confident' ahead of Bournemouth game.
JetBrains GameDev Day 2026: Watch the Recordings
Missed JetBrains GameDev Day 2026, or want to revisit your favorite sessions? All the recordings are now available on YouTube! On September 28, we brought together game developers, engineers, and industry experts for a full day of technical talks, live demos, and discussions about the tools and challenges shaping modern game development. From Epic’s open-source […]
Enterprise installations for GitHub Apps generally available
Installing GitHub Apps on your enterprise is now generally available. You can replace classic PATs with GitHub Apps in more of your enterprise and organization automation with the expanded API… The post Enterprise installations for GitHub Apps generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
AI agents could disrupt bank deposits. Why Wall Street may be overreacting
Analysts say the fears that AI agents could disrupt the banking industry are overblown, for now.
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In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hijacked, Banks Spot Rogue AI Agents, Self-Rebuilding macOS Ransomware
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia’s APT28 hit NATO defense firms, PingCAP source code stolen, ShinyHunters negotiator probe. The post In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hijacked, Banks Spot Rogue AI Agents, Self-Rebuilding macOS Ransomware appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germaphobia
When an outbreak strikes, humans try to avoid germs. (Remember wiping off groceries at the start of the pandemic?) What about ... monkeys?
Many feared trapped under collapsed building in Nairobi
People are feared to be trapped after a large, unfinished building in Nairobi collapsed during construction. Rescue operations have proven complicated as police fired tear gas to disperse looters.
v0.40.10
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B is NVIDIA’s smaller, Gemma 4-based vision-language model for fast local conversations, image understanding, and tool use. It supports a 128K-token context window. The model includes a DFlash draft for speculative decoding. ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:e4b Full Changelog : v0.40.9...v0.40.10
Our best tips for using the iPhone Duo
The Duo is an entirely new kind of iPhone, so it comes with a bit of a learning curve. That's a wild thing to imagine, since the iPhone has had very few fundamental changes since its inception. But the Duo is built different. If you won the preorder lottery and managed to get your hands […]
A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines.
Linux is already part of the AI developer’s desktop toolkit. Nvidia’s DGX Spark, which became available to order on October The post A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines. appeared first on The New Stack .
PHP2Shell was only the beginning: AI is accelerating the patch race
Government websites and public services across Europe went offline this week as organizations responded to two newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities. The post PHP2Shell was only the beginning: AI is accelerating the patch race appeared first on The New Stack .