Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301260 Points: 433 # Comments: 346
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OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex. The data is stored locally as unencrypted Markdown files. OpenAI says it's not used for AI training, but memories that feed into chats may still end up as training data. The article OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline appeared first on The Decoder .
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of […]
Is there a summer COVID-19 surge this year? Yep, it's ramping up again
Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.
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Misc Changes Turbopack: add imports_wildcard NFT unit test: #97373 Turbopack: improve chunk_item_content docs: #97370 Turbopack: don't trace embedded WASM loader helpers: #97353 test: Reenable i18n-api-support deploy test for Turbopack with adapters: #96898 Trace instrumentation startup: #97296 Trace route module preparation: #97295 Trace route module loading: #97318 fix(deps): bump satori and @vercel/og : #97276 Scope app-entry export validation to files inside the app directory: #97350 Emit whole-app server NFTs when output: 'standalone' is used with an adapter: #97287 [test] Cover 'use cache: private' in route handlers: #97349 Fix missing Pages runtime in adapter Pages API outputs: #96819 docs: align SPA guide reducer example with React conventions: #97341 Update blob version.: #97342 Credits Huge thanks to @mischnic , @DavidIlie , @styfle , @unstubbable , @bryan-ferry , @timneutkens , @aurorascharff , and @gdborton for helping!
What’s next for far-right Reform UK after Farage’s by-election win?
What’s next for far-right Reform UK after Farage’s by-election win?
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
The Constitutional Council says it infringes upon freedom of expression - but President Macron vows to prepare a new draft.
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our internal testing, Grok 4.6 showed… The post Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.
Philippines drug war victims seek justice through truth commission
Families of drug war victims testify before the Truth Commission, seeking answers and closure after years of silence.
Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute, frontier models can handle the full research engineering process but fall short on research judgment, creative problem-solving, and the ability to abandon failed approaches. The article Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach appeared first on The Decoder .
Mangione pleads guilty in federal court, leaving fate of state trial uncertain
Mangione has pleaded guilty to stalking charges in connection with the death of Brian Thompson, a health care executive. A separate judge will decide the future of Mangione's state trial.
Top French court upholds assisted dying law, rejects teen social media ban
The decisions mark both a victory and a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who had championed both policies.
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in Brian Thompson death
The plea resolves the remaining federal charges tied to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and could affect a separate New York state case.
langchain-openai==1.5.1
Changes since langchain-openai==1.5.0 release(openai): 1.5.1 ( #39653 ) fix(openai): preserve streamed encrypted reasoning ( #39635 ) chore(infra): support langsmith gateway in CI ( #39651 )
Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.
OpenAI talent exodus raises 'huge red flag' ahead of IPO
OpenAI's C-suite turnover gives investors another reason for concern as the company pushes toward a mammoth IPO.
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
Mangione admits to shooting Brian Thompson in federal court, still faces separate state charges.
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Article URL: https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300314 Points: 227 # Comments: 141
Zambia suspends vote counting in election citing violence
Zambia's electoral commission on Friday suspended vote counting nationwide.
‘The party of the Cubans’: How Republicans courted a key South Florida vote
Polls suggest Cuban American voters in Florida remain largely Republican, despite frustration over immigration.
GLM-5.3 didn’t change the base model — where did its coding gains come from?
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a coding and agent model built from the same base model as GLM-5.2. Developers can The post GLM-5.3 didn’t change the base model — where did its coding gains come from? appeared first on The New Stack .