Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million, reaching a $2 billion valuation to focus on AI-powered security validation.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

Samsung has banned smart TV apps that facilitate residential proxy networks by sharing users' internet connections.

Other The Verge

Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild

A preview of 'Big Walk', a new co-op multiplayer puzzle exploration game from the creators of Untitled Goose Game.

Other Ars Technica

How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

An exploration of how automotive headlights have become brighter and more blinding over time.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

MBDiff: Multi-view Behavior-aware Diffusion Model for Probabilistic Utility Data Imputation

MBDiff is a multi-view behavior-aware diffusion model designed for probabilistic utility data imputation to improve billing and forecasting.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

MoRAE: Flow-Friendly Self-Supervised Latents for Text-to-Motion Generation

MoRAE introduces flow-friendly self-supervised latents to improve the quality and stability of text-to-motion generation.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

SERUM: State Extraction and Refinement for User Modeling

SERUM is a framework that extracts interpretable behavioral models from unstructured egocentric video using hierarchical VLM annotation.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

A critical CVE was issued for a vulnerability in SQLite that was actually hallucinated, raising concerns about the reliability of automated vulnerability reporting.

Other Hacker News

ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children

Reports indicate that ICE collected DNA from nearly 1 million people, including children, highlighting significant privacy and surveillance concerns.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell

A technical analysis characterizing warp divergence in NVIDIA GPUs from the Pascal architecture to the Blackwell architecture.

Open Source Hacker News

9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released

The release of 9front 'This Was Supposed to Be Fun', a new version of the community-driven Plan 9 fork.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

HERO: History-Enriched Rollout Training for Long-Horizon Autoregressive Neural Operators

Introduces HERO, a training method for neural operators to improve long-horizon accuracy and stability in predicting partial differential equations.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Have I Seen You? Embedding Behavior Signals Synthetic Face Dataset Membership

Research demonstrating that synthetic face datasets can still leak membership information about the real faces used to train the generators.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Implicit Machine Learning Force Fields Accelerate Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Introduces implicit machine learning force fields (I-MLFFs) to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations by reducing compute and memory footprints.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Memory Provenance Laundering in LLM Agents: A Non-Amplification Firewall for Persistent Memory

Proposes the Provenance-Preserving Memory Firewall (PPMF) to prevent 'memory provenance laundering' in LLM agents with persistent memory.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ActFovea: Runtime Safeguarding for VLA Policies via Spatiotemporal Visual-Action Consistency

Presents ActFovea, a safeguarding framework for Vision-Language-Action policies in robotics to mitigate runtime disturbances via spatiotemporal consistency.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning

Introduces CLIFT, a method for closed-loop iterative fine-tuning of closed-weight robot foundation models using managed SFT APIs.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone

Nightcrawler is a local AI-powered pentesting agent designed to run on smartphones for mobile security auditing.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning Lookahead Lemmas for Neural Network Verification

Researchers propose a lookahead-driven inprocessing framework to improve the efficiency and performance of neural network verifiers like Marabou and alpha-beta-CROWN.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Autonomous Repair for Multi-Agent Systems via Monte-Carlo Tree Search

The MARS framework utilizes Monte-Carlo Tree Search to automate the repair of errors in multi-agent systems, introducing the StateMAS benchmark for evaluation.