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Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity
The New York Times has published new details about a purported cyberattack that unnamed US officials claim plunged parts of Venezuela into darkness in the lead-up to the capture of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. Key among the new details…
Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI.
European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island’s security
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The US claims it just strongarmed Taiwan into spending $250 billion on American chip manufacturing
The US just lowered Taiwan’s tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday. Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwanese technology companies will…
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring to build multiplayer AI coding platform
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When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale
To keep a platform like GitHub available and responsive, it’s critical to build defense mechanisms. A whole lot of them. Rate limits, traffic controls, and protective measures spread across multiple layers of infrastructure. These all play a role in keeping…
Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing
The U.S. struck a trade deal with Taiwan as the country looks to help boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Krafton is trying to find its next PUBG
PUBG developer Krafton has 26 games in development, and in a recent town hall meeting, the company outlined a plan to “focus on its core gaming business while outlining a disciplined approach to building long-term Franchise IPs.” “During the past…
Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert
It turns out the inverse of the Hessian of a deep net is easy to apply to a vector. Doing this naively takes cubically many operations in the number of layers (so impractical), but it’s possible to do this in…