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As of Aug. 4, the Eufy C28 robot vacuum and mop has dropped to $499.99 at Amazon, 38% off its list price of $799.99.

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The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal groups followed. Inexperienced attackers, dismissed as "script kiddies," sat at the other end, running public

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal," sharing iMessage and email […]

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Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added mobile, communicating robots weighing more than 2 kilograms and power inverters commonly used in solar panels to the list, meaning that new products from any foreign country in these categories are no longer eligible for import. The move is a Department of Defense (DOD)-driven exp

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ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1vf6r6f/explorative_modeling_unlocking_a_third/"> <img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/q3evP6JeDpAC2MdSQHWYxnCYTqbJkElIQsLFqVSdkss.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=de730fbf7ecace6df0036b21470c16a2d4feacfb" alt=""Explorative Modeling: Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation", Gladstone et al. 2026 [R]" title=""Explorative Modeling: Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.

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And it’s personal information (alternate link ): The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses. What seems to be the issue is a user setting about data sharing. Anthropic’s position is that it’s not their problem : “We give people control over

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Wondering how to start building real automations for your business? Curious what it actually takes to get an AI agent working across your entire tech stack? ​In this article, you'll discover tips to use Claude Cowork to plan, build, and deploy AI automations. Claude Cowork: A Human-Friendly Agentic AI Platform Most people still interact with […] The post How to Build AI Automations With Claude Cowork appeared first on Social Media Examiner .

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Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne. There were dozens of responses; one from a user named Primary-Taro4254 seemed innocuous enough, at least at first. "I haven't personally tried [that brand] so I can't […]

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Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Having used LLMs to assist with reviews, and also having received reviews that appear to rely heavily on LLM-generated text, I have noticed two recurring problems.</p> <p><strong>1. The endless search for uncontrolled variables</strong></p> <p>LLMs are very good at identifying additional variables that were not explicitly controlled. The problem is that many of these variables have little realistic chance of changing the paper’s main conclusion.</p> <p>For any e

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

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Hi everyone! July gave me plenty to celebrate: Kotlin turned 15, got its first public benchmark for AI coding agents, became available in BlueJ, and shipped its 2.4.10 release. Developers can also demonstrate their skills at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 by building a Kotlin Multiplatform app and competing for the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. Meanwhile, X […]

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Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers

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<p>Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot</p><p>A Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than £14,000 back after its systems failed to stop a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.</p><p>Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of £14,244 taken from his bank account. The scam involved fraudsters buying credits to use Claude.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/04/metro-bank-refund

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164649 Points: 265 # Comments: 277

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You can now bundle multiple agent skills into a shareable pack on skills.sh . Hand anyone a curated set via a single URL, or share it with your GitHub organization to standardize the skills your team's agents use across any project. Create a pack from community skills on skills.sh , or your own from local folders, zips, or GitHub repositories. Install any pack with one command: Run npx skills update to update a pack to its latest version. Explore and create packs at skills.sh/packs . Read more

Your eve agent can now navigate the web like a human with agent-browser . The @agent-browser/eve extension gives any eve agent a full set of browser tools: navigate pages, read content, click, fill forms, take screenshots, and inspect console and network activity. Everything runs inside the agent's sandbox. Install the extension: Then mount it under agent/extensions/ : Your agent gets namespaced tools like browser__navigate , browser__snapshot , browser__click , browser__fill , and browser__scre

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Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs

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<blockquote cite="https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/"><p><a href="https://yegge.ai/gastown.html">Gas Town</a> was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus ti

Some platforms are turning against AI-generated content. Others are embracing it. What gives?

DeepSeek v4 Flash is 90% off on AI Gateway when you route to Novita. The discount is available to Vercel Pro customers through August 11. To get the discounted rate, set the model to deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 and put Novita first with the order option: If Novita can't serve the request, it falls back to other providers at the standard rate. After August 11, the model stays available at standard rates with no markup. Create an API key in the AI Gateway section