France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (lemonde.fr)
France will ban unsolicited telemarketing calls starting August 11, 2026.
Widespread support, with skepticism about enforcement against scammers and impact on Moroccan call-center jobs.
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France will ban unsolicited telemarketing calls starting August 11, 2026.
Widespread support, with skepticism about enforcement against scammers and impact on Moroccan call-center jobs.
Encrypted reasoning traces from frontier LLMs can be replayed into weaker models to extract hidden chain-of-thought in plaintext.
Two camps: those who think the vulnerability is trivially patchable and those who see deeper cross-model compatibility requirements making a fix harder.
Compression and language modeling solve the same core problem of predicting symbol probabilities.
Commenters affirm the connection between compression and prediction as established information theory.
England is set to eliminate hepatitis C, having already met key treatment targets.
Thread clarifies that each UK nation has its own health service, all pursuing hepatitis C elimination independently.
OpenAI's head of ethics, previously Meta's chief ethicist, left less than a year after joining.
Commenters split on whether corporate ethicist roles are substantive or just PR window-dressing.
Modular announces Mojo 1.0 with a stable core and MAX product integration.
Skepticism dominates over the closed-source compiler, with a camp arguing Mojo has already missed its opportunity.
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 generates satirical, cringeworthy thought-leadership posts from any topic.
Satire is praised as spot-on; some note LinkedIn's AI slop button is already reducing real cringe.
Go's design for readability and platform consistency makes it ideal for AI-assisted coding.
Rust vs. Go debate: stricter type checking versus simpler readability for AI-generated code.
British Transport Police expands live facial recognition trial into London Underground stations.
Strong opposition to facial recognition surveillance, with comparisons to authoritarian regimes and past abuses.
Nvidia's AI dominance faces risks as hyperscalers shift to in-house chips like TPUs.
Two camps: Nvidia's dominance will erode versus it will retain pricing power due to software moat.
Meta is paying far-right creators through its Facebook content monetization program for rage-baiting posts.
Commenters argue Facebook's engagement model effectively rewards rage-bait, and this is not a new problem.
Grok Bot lets AI agents run continuously, learn workflows, and collaborate like teammates.
Deep distrust over data security and prompt injection dominates; many see Musk's brand as a liability.
llama.app is the official home for llama.cpp, supporting local AI agents on any hardware.
Skepticism of curl|bash installations dominates, with calls to build from source instead.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Correction: the speedup is specific to macOS VMs, not all Apple Silicon systems.
Firms pay up to $100,000 monthly for early access to Truth Social posts.
Insider trading as a service, eroding trust in US institutions.
Tencent Hunyuan3D introduces an agentic pipeline that generates 3D worlds from text prompts.
Mixed reactions: impressive pipeline, but cartoonish terrain and lack of handcrafted storytelling draw skepticism.
A woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week due to an outdated Flock camera alert.
Outrage at the reporting and police response; split between safety advocates and privacy opponents.
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for efficient agentic AI routing.
Routing raises prompt caching issues; Switchyard is labeled experimental software.
A live map aggregates webcams across Spain and Iceland to watch the 2026 total solar eclipse.
Users share viewing locations in Spain and Iceland while noting cloud cover risks and webcam issues.
A New Bedford police officer allegedly used Flock license plate readers to stalk an ex-girlfriend.
The thread splits: some see a systemic surveillance failure, others blame individual misconduct.