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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-cop29-climate-change-targets/

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Early Black Friday sales for Roku are taking off with Amazon offering a 20% discount on this recently-released streamer.

Article URL: https://github.com/professional-username/yaht

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Article URL: https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192254

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Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79zj9279nlo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192253

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Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/soon-microsoft-will-let-teams-meeting-attendees-clone-their-voices/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192237

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If you've been wanting to experience handheld PC gaming at its best, the 1TB Legion Go is now 22% off as an early Black Friday deal.

Article URL: https://avioradar.net/en/phantom-seat-onboard-croatia-airlines-airbus-a220/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192222

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Article URL: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/11/20/the-danish-navy-boarded-a-chinese-cargo-ship-who-broke-the-cables-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192212

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A mobile network operator has called in the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the battle against phone scammers.

Virgin Media O2 in the UK has built an AI persona called Daisy with the sole purpose of keeping scammers occupied for as long as possible. Basically, until the scammers give up, because Daisy won’t.

Daisy uses several AI models that work together listening to what scammers have to say, and then responding in a lifelike manner to give the scammers the idea they are working on an “easy” target. Playing on the scammers’ biases about older people, Daisy usually acts as a chatty granny.

According to Virgin Media O2’s press release Daisy has successfully kept numerous fraudsters on calls for 40 minutes at a time. To achieve this “Granny Daisy” will tell the scammers all about her passion for knitting, her cat Fluffy, and provide exasperated callers with false personal information including made up bank details.

The idea behind Daisy is two-fold. Not only does it waste the scammers’ time—time they could have spent defrauding real people—but it also raises awareness, through posts such as this one, that the person you are talking to on the phone could be very different from what you imagine.

Raising awareness about how AI can be used to deceive people is necessary: We’ve reported about how scammers have used AI used to fake voices of loved ones in a “I’ve been in an accident” scam to warn others about the scam.

Virgin Media O2 research learned that 67% of Brits are concerned about being the target of fraud and 22% experience a fraud attempt every single week. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received fraud reports from 2.6 million consumers in 2023, with imposter scams the most commonly reported fraud category.

The criminals often pretend to work for your bank or a delivery company that needs a payment before they can deliver a package, with the end goal of the victim disclosing their banking details.

It’s too bad that Daisy can’t intercept the calls from the scammers. For now, the scammers will have to call one of the phone numbers that Daisy answers, which have cleverly been circulated on contact lists known to be used by scammers.

If you’d like to hear Daisy in action here is a video with some actual audio.

Daisy was set up with the help of one of YouTube’s best known scam baiters, Jim Browning. Behind the scenes there are several people that enjoy being a real life time waster, but they can only occupy so many because their time is limited.

We asked Tammy Stewart, one of Malwarebytes’ researchers, who has made it a hobby to waste the time of phishers herself, and she was enthusiastic about the idea of having a “Daisy.” In fact, she’d like to have several and she thinks they could be very effective.

We don’t just report on phone security—we provide it

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Article URL: https://lmno.lol/alvaro/chatgpt-shell-goes-multi-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192125

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9yYpyjNT6I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192112

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Article URL: https://optimalvid.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192105

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Article URL: https://www.withsecure.com/en/experiences/museum-of-malware-art

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192101

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Article URL: https://rossjtaylor.com/blog/2024-11-03-qk-norm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192096

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I'm looking to enhance my website's accessibility and make it more inclusive for all users. I'd love to hear from the HN community about your experiences with different accessibility tools . I've been researching options like WAVE, axe DevTools, and accessiBe, but I'm curious about real-world experiences and any lesser-known tools worth considering.

Some questions I have:

- What's your go-to tool for evaluating and improving website accessibility?

- For those who have used multiple tools, how do they compare?

- How has it helped you identify and fix accessibility issues? Why and why not?

- What challenges have you faced while implementing accessibility improvements?

- Are these tools worth the investment?

Any insights, recommendations, or cautionary tales would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192090

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/fff78d7b-9acb-43c2-a675-fdc9b00a2878

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192082

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We built tools like web browser, code interpreter etc., needed for LLM agents as part of our LLMStack project. We have now moved them into a single collection as langrocks. We're using this in LLMStack and thought others might find it useful. https://github.com/trypromptly/LLMStack/blob/main/llmstack/p... shows how we use langrocks with Anthropic's Claude with computer use to automate web browsing.

The coolest part is watching an LLM actually use a computer - you get a unique URL to view the virtual display, so you can see exactly what it's doing with tools like computer access and web browser. We've used this to automate complex workflows where the LLM needs to research across multiple sites, interact with web apps, or perform system operations.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192049

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Article URL: https://github.com/jokruger/nats-mutex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192042

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