2041
The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroWhile there have been several rumours and reports of f...
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2042
OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
OpenAI and Apple announce partnership to integrate ChatGPT into Apple experiences.
2043
HARC
We’re excited to announce YC Research’s newest project: the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC). This came out of a conversation that started between Alan Kay and me more than a year ago about how to invent future computing technologies; I’m delighted to finally be officially working with him and his group. He…
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2045
Kagi raises $670k
Kagi has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date. This was made possible with the participation of 42 accredited investors, most of whom are actual Kagi users....
2046
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior.
2047
Moving Atom to React
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
2048
An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store and manage their emails, documents, photos, videos and more. To…
2049
Introducing Copilot+ PCs
An on-demand recording of our May 20 event is available. Today, at a special event on our new Microsoft campus, we introduced the world to a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI, Copilot+ PCs. Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. With powerful new silicon capable of an…
2050
Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
Announcement for the sunsetting of Gemini CLI in favor of Antigravity CLI, a more robust, agent-first platform designed to handle the multi-agent complexities of 2026.
2051
Basecamp doesn’t employ anyone in SF, but now we pay everyone as though all did
If you want to be amongst the best paid people in software, you have to move to San Francisco. Or do you?The roots of Basecamp are in Chicago. It’s where the business started, it’s where our only o…
2052
What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
2053
AI's $600B Question
The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point. As we continue to follow the GPUs, navigating what comes next will be essential.
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It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
Monetary Policy 3 created a self-reinforcing demand explosion that is getting harder, not easier, for supply to keep up with.
2056
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019)
Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of…
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2058
When patents attack Android
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
2059
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack and how we disrupted it.
2060
The journey to Nintendo Switch
We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable…
2061
Our Agreement with the Department of War
Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified environments.
2062
Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1
The official blog of WizSec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, and their investigation into MtGox.
2063
Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
Want to know how to turn $10m in to $520m in less than two years? Just ask Anchorage Capital. The private equity group has pulled off one of the great heists of all time
2064
Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
AI models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. In this study, we train Claude to translate its thoughts into human-readable text.
2065
netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
The Go standard library’s net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one.
2066
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.
2067
Best of show – abuse of libc
printf machine. 2020 IOCCC entry carlini - Best of Show - abuse of libc
2068
Introducing .NET Standard
Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I’ll focus on how we’re making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We’ll cover which APIs we […]
2069
Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click
Does Google show you different search results based on your personal info, even when signed out and in so-called "incognito" mode? We ran a study to find out.
2070
Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
AlphaStar is the first AI to reach the top league of a widely popular esport without any game restrictions. This January, a preliminary version of AlphaStar challenged two of the world's top players in StarCraft II, one of the most enduring and popular real-time strategy video games of all time. Since then, we have…