More than 100 workers may have been killed in a landslide at an illegal mine near the Central African Republic's border with Cameroon, say authorities. More miners are trapped and hope for their survival is fading.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has denounced a call by Israel's far-right security minister to carry out "targeted killings" of Palestinians in Gaza. The outrage spans the entire political spectrum.
Human heat tolerance limits are lower than previously thought, and age is a major risk, Stanford researchers say.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has denounced a call by Israel's far-right security minister to carry out "targeted killings" of Palestinians in Gaza. The outrage spans the entire political spectrum.
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
The embargo has lifted on Google's Pixel 11 series, as well as for its Pixel Watch 5. Now we get to talk smack - just kidding, the new hardware is good. We have four reviews live on the site that you can peruse at your leisure. We're giving subscribers a chance to engage with us […]
According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request the number of letters sent has almost tripled since 2024.
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/civic-hygiene/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363433 Points: 382 # Comments: 276
In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, remote timers, achieving co-location and how new defenses further harden Cloudflare Workers.
The foldable phone market is in the middle of a huge transformation, but no one told Google. Last year, Samsung transformed its Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a dramatically thinner design. This year, it made its phones thinner and lighter again, almost eliminated the crease, and introduced a new passport-sized form factor that feels like […]
Google is trying to get you off your phone. The Pixel 11 Pro is "A Phone Designed to Help You Use It Less," the company promises. It can proactively help you book restaurant reservations, take the best frames from a video, and help you voice-text significantly faster. The pitch is that the new features bundled […]
Changes since langchain-core==1.5.6 release(core): 1.6.0 ( #39760 ) fix(core): resolve postponed annotations in StructuredTool._injected_args_keys ( #39602 ) feat(core): add standard model exception types ( #39538 ) fix(core): allow deserializing RunnablePick ( #39753 ) fix(core): make convert_to_openai_function handle callables and non-dict mappings ( #39750 ) fix(core): make subprocess and temporary file tests portable on Windows ( #39664 ) fix(core): fail fast when tool schemas can't resolve forward refs during serialization ( #39570 ) test(core): avoid version-dependent runnable snapshots ( #39705 ) fix(core): require all nested properties for strict tool schemas ( #39306 ) fix(core): remove stale sync-stream xfail [closes #39720 ] ( #39723 ) perf(core): Lazily import transformers ( #38037 ) fix(core): accept non-dict Mapping values in mustache templates ( #39680 ) docs(core): clarify Runnable pipe coercion [closes #39075 ] ( #39707 ) fix(core): finalize chain-group runs on BaseException ( #39699 )
Here’s a function that signs a document: In Kotlin, Unit means the function completes without returning a meaningful value – roughly equivalent to void in Java. Got it? Now, tell me what could go wrong. You can’t. Yet, the code might be invalid. The signing window might have closed. The database might be down. The […]
Mykhailo Fedorov’s blistering critique comes at a time of growing pressure for democratic renewal in Ukraine For more than a month, demonstrators have gathered in Ivan Franko Square outside Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office. The protesters have been chanting a name – not that of Ukraine’s embattled president but that of the man he recently sacked as defence minister , Mykhailo Fedorov. On Sunday evening, 2,000 people marched along Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s main boulevard, waving cardboard banners in support of their ousted hero. Zelenskyy has refused to reinstate Fedorov, who during his six months in the job was widely seen as an effective and reforming figure. On Wednesday, Ukraine’s parliament, the Rada, voted to approve a successor as defence minister, Yevhen Khmara. The move shows that Fedorov has been shut out from government permanently, and confirms his transition from trusted insider and Zelenskyy loyalist to a potent political opponent. Continue reading...
The UK's foreign secretary condemned the move as "an unacceptable and destructive act".
India hold off Pakistan 5-3 to finish second with six points as England top Pool D with nine points from three wins.
US interventions in Iran and beyond reveal a recurring pattern of regime changes, with high human and financial costs.
TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
We traced a frontier model through fifteen C# refactoring tasks and counted what it reached for. It piped text into interactive commands 468 times. It called git 422 times and sed 392 times. It ran dotnet build 163 times. Across 2,513 tool calls it performed a structural refactoring operation exactly zero times. Not because it […]
What's Changed Add a model metadata cache to reduce Ollama’s per-request overhead New Contributors @gaugarg-nv made their first contribution in #17752 Full Changelog : v0.32.14...v0.32.15-rc1
Oregon was the first state to establish a legalized and regulated psilocybin industry. Since then, thousands have tried magic mushrooms. Here is the latest data from the state's real life experiment.
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Google and its competitors have been pursuing custom chips to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on Nvidia.
The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.