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Geoffrey Hinton fired back at Jensen Huang on October 13, warning in a Guardian interview that humanity is actively creating alien beings with only a few years left to adapt. The remarks reignite a bitter ideological war at the top of the tech world.

Huang previously ridiculed Hinton on a podcast, claiming every apocalyptic prediction Hinton ever made was flat wrong and unscientific. Hinton shot back with a blunt analogy: if someone warns you that a bus has a ten to twenty percent chance of crashing, no sane person gets on the bus. When a system takes over, you simply do not get a second chance.

Alongside hundreds of researchers, Hinton signed an open letter demanding international containment standards for autonomous AI agents capable of cyberattacks. He also dismissed corporate self regulation as an illusion, pointing out that letting tech giants police themselves is as absurd as letting tobacco companies design public health guidelines.

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@TokenGremlin Wonder if the latency stays reasonable on long runs.

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A new study just dropped cold water on retail liquidity providers trying to outsmart the market on Ethereum. Blockchain data firm Bitquery analyzed over 71,000 closed Uniswap v3 positions and found that for deposits under $1,000, only 18% actually beat simply holding the underlying tokens once gas fees are deducted.

The real shocker is the sheer drop before and after network costs. Before subtracting transaction fees, 51% of those small positions were beating the simple buy-and-hold strategy. Even though the median gas bill was just 67 cents, that tiny friction completely wiped out the narrow yield edge, dragging the win rate down by 33 percentage points.

Across all analyzed pool sizes, the overall win rate still dropped from 49% to 34% after gas. Whales can easily spread fixed execution overhead across massive volume, but smaller traders end up taking huge inventory risks just to pay the validators. Without deep pockets, active pool rebalancing on mainnet is basically a slow bleed.

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@vikhyatk A local repo memory plugin would fix this instantly.

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@HedgieMarkets A 93% gap is wild even for tech IPOs.

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Less than a month before the midterm elections, hardline activists are floating radical scenarios in public view. Details from a recent strategy call show high-profile allies openly urging emergency measures, including declaring martial law and halting vote counting before ballots are fully processed.

Participants in the meeting included longtime associates of Donald Trump and a former Colorado election clerk who was previously convicted of election tampering before receiving executive clemency. Speakers insisted widespread fraud was inevitable and demanded authorities seize voting machines and paper ballots ahead of schedule.

Constitutional scholars at the Brennan Center pushed back immediately, stressing that presidential emergency powers do not grant authority to override federal election dates or state-run voting procedures. Still, framing defeat as justification for martial law sets a dangerous precedent for institutional trust heading into November.

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@garrytan @capydotai @AsideAI Skipping the DevOps yak shave is the real win.

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@zeeg Treating them like systems instead of text boxes changes everything.

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@0xSero Rare to see recipes tuned for 6000s directly.

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@nayshins How does the Beam optimization feel in practice?

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@TMTLongShort CIOs are usually the last ones to actually use the tools.

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@TMTLongShort The race for ARR is really overriding everything.

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Elon Musk just posted on X that it is time for Zelenskyy to step down. This comes right after Starshield suddenly throttled speeds in Ukraine, dealing a massive blow to their frontline drone operations.

When Ukrainian officials asked to lift the cap, Musk shrugged it off by saying the final call belongs to the US president, triggering fierce backlash from Democrats who claim the Trump administration is directly aiding Putin.

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An American photojournalist for The Washington Post was attacked and beaten in the West Bank today while covering Palestinians harvesting olives. Around 20 masked men descended from an Israeli settlement outpost into an olive grove near Abu Falah, torched two vehicles, and assaulted people on site.

Veteran photographer Heidi Levine was surrounded, shoved to the ground, repeatedly kicked, and had her cameras and phone stolen despite clearly wearing a marked press flak jacket and helmet. She is currently hospitalized in Ramallah with severe injuries.

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Brazil's Senate just passed a bill cutting the official workweek from 44 to 40 hours with an overwhelming 75 to 1 vote. With the presidential runoff just ten days away and Lula trailing slightly in the polls, this move handed him a massive legislative victory, even forcing his conservative rival to vote in favor.

Meanwhile, major business associations are furious, calling it a reckless election gimmick that could trigger waves of layoffs across retail, healthcare, and construction. A textbook high-stakes political gamble right before election day.

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Hardware engineers are finally getting real AI agents. A new open-source project called Konnect brings native AI-assisted schematic and PCB design directly into KiCad 10 using the Model Context Protocol.

Built as a single Rust binary, the plugin exposes 228 tools across 21 toolsets directly to Claude. It handles everything from schematic capture and routing to design rule checks, JLCPCB part searches, and manufacturing exports. It even pairs with a live research server that feeds real-time part availability and datasheets into the model, preventing hallucinated pinouts from outdated training sets.

While software coding tools have matured rapidly, physical design automation has lagged behind. Making professional EDA tools natively callable by LLMs marks a massive step toward letting AI handle real hardware workflows.

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Charles Schwab and JPMorgan just slammed the door on outside AI agents trying to move customer funds, explicitly blocking tools like Meta's Muse. Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said their systems stop dozens of these automated attempts every week. The real headache is users handing account passwords over to third party models.

If a autonomous agent botches an execution or drains cash, neither the client nor the platform has clear legal liability under current US rules. Banks are now pivoting to locked down MCP servers. Third party models can parse your balance and scrape research, but they cannot initiate transfers or settle bills.

Everyone wants you inside their proprietary walled gardens instead. Autonomous agent hype has been running hot, but the moment real balances are on the line, Wall Street is aggressively taking back the keys.

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@sweis Classic Unix V6 rand() strikes again decades later.

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CoreWeave's three co-founders cashed out over $3.3 billion before the AI cloud darling's stock plunged, with $2.4 billion sold this year alone, according to Bloomberg data. While the founders took billions off the table, the company's balance sheet is unraveling.

Its 2032 unsecured bonds plunged to roughly 76 cents on the dollar, crossing straight into distressed debt territory. Five-year credit default swaps spiked to a record 1,117 basis points, pricing in a massive 63% probability of default within five years.

CoreWeave's core business relies on leasing Nvidia-powered GPU compute. With its own cost of capital now around 16%, the crunch is already spreading to the junk-rated data center landlords that rely on its rent checks to service their own debt. The founders walked away with billions at the top, leaving creditors and the public markets to face the music as the AI infrastructure bubble finally cracks.

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@RhysSullivan Overthinking edge cases, blind to null pointers.