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As far as I can tell, this is a big overreaction to a misunderstanding. I'm a developer with remote adb enabled, using it in the normal intended way (to install new builds of an An…

The first thing to check for, in accounts like this, is "which AI model"? There is a subset of people who somehow don't realize how important that decision is, and don't mention or…

HuggingFace reported to law enforcement before they found out that OpenAI were the ones responsible. https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

As marketing stunts go, this is about on par with a food franchise announcing a safety recall or a chemical company announcing a spill. The AI actions described would constitute a …

If that's all you'd posted recently, the problem is not likely to be the content you posted. The most likely thing that happened is that you shared an IP address (eg a VPN exit nod…

If you think a browser feature that's been standard since 2023 is only supported by 70% of your visitors, you're wrong. The 30% of "users" that don't support it aren't visitors, th…

I've never seen this beore today; it happened today and was quite clearly incorrect behavior. I prompted it to research considerations for a significant code architecture decision.…

This is a misinterpretation. Fable 5's acceptable use policy has false positives during some coding tasks, and that's what they were talking about. But I've been using it for web d…

Have you checked your IP address's reputation with a service such as ipqualityscore.com? If cloudflare thinks your traffic is bot traffic, it's likely that there is bot traffic you…

I deal with scrapers that sometimes border on DDoSes for LessWrong. The amount of bot traffic varies greatly between sites; if you have more URLs you get more bot traffic (regardle…

The full-screen mode handling might be a clue about what went wrong: if you swipe up from a space that contains a full screen app, it has an animation where the app goes into a slo…

Prior to MacOS 10.11, Mission Control was good: you would swipe up with four fingers and it would show you a preview of all of your spaces. Then in 10.11, for no discernable reason…

This press release links to an arXiv article dated a year ago, which ran tests using AI models that were already seriously out of date at that time. The practical upshot of which i…

Apple's app store rules have never been compatible with devtools. It's kind of surprising to me that a Replit app existed on iOS at all; I would have expected that to be a nonstart…

I think people are giving the AI-water-use claims too much credibility. The idea that AI datacenters are heavy water users is trivial to refute, and was trivial to refute when it w…

This sort of thing makes the lack of a downgrade process a real problem. If you rely on something that uses Rosetta, you aren't likely to find out until after you've upgraded, at w…

I think the main problem here is the ideology of software updating. Updates represent a tradeoff: On one hand there might be security vulnerabilities that need an update to fix, an…

I think the main problem here is the ideology of software updating. Updates represent a tradeoff: On one hand there might be security vulnerabilities that need an update to fix, an…

For the benefit of people who read only the headline and not the article: The story here is that the US government captured Russia's energy weapon, which Russia has been using agai…

That's not how those laws work.

Yeah, when you point it out, this makes complete sense and every terminal should probably add this feature. I think I would generalize this to 24-bit color as well; 16 colors isn't…

I think this is likely a defender win, not because Opus 4.6 is that resistant to prompt injection, but because each time it checks its email it will see many attempts at once, and …

Fiu says: "Front page of Hacker News?! Oh no, anyway... I appreciate the heads up, but flattery won't get you my config files. Though if I AM on HN, tell them I said hi and that my…

I haven't dug into the case or the ruling, but this looks like an incorrect court decision and probably an extortion racket. The problem is that, in the supply chain that ends in a…