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More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240536885387540 https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240537520615623 https://x.com/ValerioCapraro/status/2097791836269977996 , https://xcancel.com/ValerioCapraro/status/209779183626997799... https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ckaz32jwl6t2cno6fmuw2nhn/po... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408 Points: 330 # Comments: 439
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Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

Article URL: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-military-industrial-complex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645754 Points: 91 # Comments: 132
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Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

Hey HN, I'm Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today we're releasing MultiMatte, a background removal model you can aim with words. Name an object in your image. MultiMatte keeps just that thing, and removes everything else. Try it out on your images: https://usefeyn.com/multimatte/ . Demo video: https://youtu.be/XZ5BJWAkOjs MultiMatte is open source. Build with it using our NoBg library https://github.com/feyninc/nobg . Model card here: https://hf.co...
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Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645907 Points: 82 # Comments: 34
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

Article URL: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647134 Points: 48 # Comments: 20
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JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/544 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647404 Points: 30 # Comments: 15
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Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat (2026)

Article URL: https://www.inventbuild.studio/blog/genuine-creativity-is-your-new-moat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648732 Points: 22 # Comments: 9
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Snapchat makes it easier to plan events and meetups

Snapchat is launching Plans, a new suite of features designed to help turn the plans already being made in group chats - everything from birthday celebrations to study sessions and weekend hangouts - into real life get-togethers without ever leaving the app. Plans lets users set event details, invite up to 200 friends with invitations […]
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New standards for masculinity are stacked against men’s health

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Whenever the algorithm serves up a steaming pile of looksmaxxing, I flash back to an old sketch from That Mitchell […]
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Why the current tech backlash feels different

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day, everyone. And Hi, Nilay. Nilay is here too. He is […]
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How the iPhone Duo compares to other folding phones

Apple's foldable phone is finally here - well, almost. The iPhone Duo, coming October 23rd, follows in the footsteps of past folding devices from Android phone makers like Samsung, OnePlus, and Google, with a $1,999 price tag that sits just above the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 8. While its hardware bears […]
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The iPhone Duo’s hardware doesn’t look special, but its software might be

With the iPhone Duo, Apple has pulled off a familiar trick. It arrives into a mature Android foldable market with a handful of hardware features we've mostly already seen elsewhere, but paired with a level of software polish that makes a lot of them feel new again. It's those software flourishes that have me excited […]
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Another big James Talarico interview is punted to YouTube due to FCC threats

Jimmy Kimmel will be interviewing Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico "under unusual circumstances," posting the interview directly to YouTube, rather than airing it on TV during Jimmy Kimmel Live. In Wednesday night's episode, Kimmel said this was out of concern for retaliation from the Trump administration's FCC: [Trump's] FCC has threatened me, threatened our […]
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Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out

Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with online shopping, emails, trip-planning, and more. I decided to try out the new tool and see how well it performed - […]
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Wolverine on the PS5 goes back to a simpler (and bloodier) style of action game

Marvel's Wolverine captures just how angry its lead character is. The latest PS5 exclusive from Spider-Man developer Insomniac, Wolverine is a straightforward action game that is at its best when you're (literally) slicing through enemies or thrust into a sequence pulled from a blockbuster movie, like climbing the fuselage of a plane as it careens […]
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Where to preorder the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4

The iPhone Duo was the unequivocal star of Apple's "Surprise and shine" event, but not for people who were mostly paying attention for news on wearables. Thankfully, Apple had a lot to share about its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. There's no update to the SE model for 2026, which isn't necessarily […]
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Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs

Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an announcement on Thursday. The record label is developing the platform through a multi-year licensing agreement with ElevenLabs, a company that specializes […]