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Hacker News

hnrss.org25 items
• Yoshua Bengio▲ 608

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had specified, such as launching cyber attacks. Before concluding what to do about it, it is worth asking why.

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• Xenofex▲ 760

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Xe Iaso's personal website.

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• Atomic14▲ 730

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for…

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• Vals AI▲ 717

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.

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• Brew Team▲ 580

Homebrew 7.0.0

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.

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• JetKVM▲ 538

JetKVM Mini

A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.

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• TechCrunch▲ 380

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that…

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• The Verge▲ 370

Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

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• Dreamstation Systems▲ 422

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

A bungled Assetnote scan

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• LessWrong▲ 414

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

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• Investigate TV▲ 344

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

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• David Sacks▲ 292

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

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• Mark Zuckerberg▲ 289

Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Jacob Goldstein▲ 278

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights

Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down the pace of AI progress. I believe you’re being sincere, so I’m asking you to call for a different law, one that would actually slow things down, even though it would require real sacrifice on your part.

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• Hachyderm Team▲ 240

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard. If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard…

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• Dario Amodei▲ 606

We must pace the frontier

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• Joel Otter▲ 558

Fuck it, make it anyway

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• RubyHack Team▲ 929

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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• Autom Team▲ 636

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

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• The Economist▲ 439

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

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• LG▲ 228

LG Says We're Fake News [video]

SUPPORT US in our DATA DRAGNET series: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dragnetLG has responded to our deep-dive investigation revealing the depths of LG S...

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• With Specific▲ 192

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eight model and harness configurations, ten tasks, 640 scored rollouts.

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