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www.cnn.com 29d ago

Downed US pilot reported 'jellyfish' drone formation before crash

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www.cnn.com 8mo ago

The phone notes that reveal an alleged plan to bait Kim Jong Un with drones

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www.economist.com 1y ago

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

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www.cnn.com 1y ago

Prophecy, not politics, may also shape America's clash with Iran

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www.economist.com 1y ago

An unrestrained Israel is reshaping the Middle East

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

Arm to make its own semiconductor

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www.ft.com 3y ago

Chip designer Arm makes its own advanced prototype semiconductor

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www.washingtonpost.com 3y ago

Tremors in Treasury Bonds Worry Wall Street and Washington

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www.bbc.co.uk 3y ago

Russia calls up reservists for war in Ukraine

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www.cnn.com 3y ago

UNESCO site Moenjodaro badly damaged by flooding

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Israeli rules say West Bank visitors must declare love interest

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www.eenewseurope.com 3y ago

Microchip to develop next generation 12 core RISC-V space processor for NASA

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Will higher fuel costs even the playing field for retail against amazon?

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www.economist.com 4y ago

Why Ukraine’s army still uses a 100-year-old machinegun

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www.bbc.com 4y ago

FIFA: EA Sports to break away from football body

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www.economist.com 4y ago

How deep does the rot in the Russian army go?

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www.economist.com 4y ago

Big tech: Revenue breakdown by products

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spoilsofwar.substack.com 4y ago

The Worst US Defense Program of All

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Taliban Reaches Kabul, Says in Talks for Peaceful Transition

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

US troops 'to leave Afghanistan by 11 September'

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www.janes.com 5y ago

US Army Awards Microsoft USD21.9B IVAS Contract

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Accusations from the US and UK that Russia tested anti-satellite weaponry

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www.webliero.com 6y ago

Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember

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www.haaretz.com 6y ago

Israel Bars Palestinians from Exporting Produce via Jordan

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www.nationalgeographic.com 6y ago

Behind India's construction boom, a world of ‘systematic slavery’

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www.washingtonpost.com 6y ago

Indonesia picks site for new capital city as Jakarta sinks

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www.nytimes.com 7y ago

Was it an invisible attack on U.S. diplomats, or something stranger?

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www.eetimes.com 7y ago

Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe

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www.nationalgeographic.com 7y ago

India is in a historic water crisis. Will diverting 30 rivers solve it?

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Its data was already used to train AI, maybe they could have sold it to the big AI companies? I am guessing its too late for that. All they have is their previous name and user fondness.

But now with the usage fallen, maybe they could train their own coding models to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, sort of like a hybrid of their previous forum + AI. AI solutions that work will get locked as "Accepted" by stack overflow like before via user vote.

I would suspect her phone first before looking for a physical device. An android phone is particularly vulnerable to being backdoored by cyber criminals that you can hire. Also any other computer or laptop in the house can similarly be compromised.

After that, the wifi thing is easy to check as you mentioned, but a dedicated listening device can also have a build in LTE radio with a SIM card. There is no upper limit on sophistication, even a completely passive device without external power is possible if the hostile actor has the money.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) Stuff like this was possible in the 1940's imagine what is possible now.

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Generative AI has failed to replace SaaS so far...It has disrupted plenty of other lower verticals in writing, proof reading, translation, graphics design, tutorials, searching case law etc. Unless the progress stops, you can't assume LLM efficacy has hit a ceiling.

Agents, properly setup can partially accomplish what you described already.

Their competitor is Google, which has already baked AI into search and allows you to talk to Gemini separately as well. Google already makes a hundred billion a year from text search and won't stop a free Gemini which adds value to their search. What makes you say that?

Also Deepseek and Alibaba would love to capture OpenAI users.

Large software platforms with their own ecosystems will be spared this fate. Mostly because AI can only create small and trivial apps and further model improvement in context size or otherwise may not be forthcoming so easily.

So large software platforms, think Jira/Confluence, MS Teams, SAP etc are not affected. But AI will definitely eat the solo dev SaaS, especially those handling trivial use cases.

Mine are energy related:

1. The Steam engine and later ICE engines that started and sustained the industrial revolution and the modern world.

2. Electricity (generation, control), this led to the telegraph (our first internet), radio, and of-course electrical switching components that form basis of modern semiconductors.

You are partially right, Israel does want to subdue the middle east and Iran stands in the way. However that does not absolve the current Iranian government of being a despicable entity, mostly hated by its own people. I hope the Iranian people choose democracy, limit the Ayatollahs to their holy city in Qom like the Vatican, tell that rascal Shah's son to go fornicate himself and of-course continue putting a necessary check on Israeli expansionism.

I have seen my uncle do it. He is a corporate finance consultant. He simply opens his laptop or phone and starts working on random things, replying to e-mails, making presentations, scheduling appointments, creating/closing tasks on client PM/ERP software. Sometimes for as little as 3 minutes.

As a developer, for the longest time I thought why tf can't I be as productive! Then I realized the rev up time for my line of work is not like his. By the time my brain switches context to work on code, those 5 minutes are up.