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* Chinese researchers built an AI targeting infrared traces from F-22 and F-35 engines * Flare decoys reportedly fail to fool this heat-based recognition model * Lab tests show recognition accuracy above 90 percent for simulated targets Chinese researchers have claimed a lightweight AI system can identify heat signatures resembling those of F-22
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Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year’s AI rounds, €7mn is small. The argument behind it
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The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Those sources put the investigation at nearly a year old.
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A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. The reason is the speed. Producing the exploit was
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Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application your cursor happens to be in. Reuters reports
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Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations Are web coders losing their respect for standards? A recent review of the world’s largest sites suggests so. ValidateHTML, a project by independent French developer Théo Ducreux, examined the contents of the 5,000 most
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Back-to-school tech under $50 Iniu Mini portable charger A lot of students have at least one or two devices that constantly run out of juice. This affordable Mini portable charger is quite compact for a 10,000-mAh charger, weighing 5.6 ounces. While it doesn’t have a built-in USB-C
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The ideas that we take for granted in today's computing landscape were once all original thoughts that somebody had to devise and implement out of nothing. Both Apple and Microsoft were pioneering companies in this space, but not all great ideas that stuck necessarily came from either company.
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Two years ago, testing an image-to-3D model meant looking for the obvious failures: a mesh with a hole in it, a character with three arms, a shape that made no sense. Those failures are now rare across the leading models, and the question worth asking has changed. It's
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Ask a coding agent to design a SaaS product and you can usually predict what arrives: cream or near-black background, muted orange button, serif headline, centered hero, three feature cards, rounded corners everywhere and, of course, a sparkle icon for AI. You did not request those decisions. The agent filled
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A position paper by Google DeepMind researcher Tom Zahavy, LLMs can't jump, makes a specific claim about the limits of current AI: models are good at induction (finding patterns in data), increasingly good at deduction (formal logic and proof), and bad at abduction — proposing a genuinely new explanation
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Let's learn about Learn Programming via these 74 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Learning programming involves acquiring skills to write computer code, encompassing syntax, logic,
