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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
28•bhavansig•2h ago

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bhavansig•2h ago
From the tagline in the article: "WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model."
jen729w•13m ago
I just discovered typhoon/cyclone predictions and they're insane. I get mine via https://zoom.earth (whose iPhone app is terrific).

Here's a selection from Typhoon Dolphin, currently sitting off the east coast of China.

    Dolphin continues its slow, trochoidal Z motion, generally heading westward deeper into the East China Sea. Over the past 12 hours, the system completed another cyclonic loop and has decelerated, exhibiting continued meandering prior to establishing a sustained westward track.

    The erratic motion witnessed over the past two days is attributable to a weak steering environment produced by a break in the subtropical ridge 2 over Korea, combined with the dynamics where the inner core is cocooned within a much larger parent circulation.

    While the general steering pattern is weak, a mesoscale deep-layer ridge is seen building over southern Japan.
https://zoom.earth/storms/dolphin-2026/

Here's Chan-hom, which threatens to make my birthday a windy day here in northern Japan.

    Intensity guidance is in good agreement overall. However, the JTWC forecast is placed lower than all the guidance save for Google DeepMind over the next 36 hours, before joining the consensus envelope (which peaks at 95 km/h (50 knots) at 60 hours) through the remainder of the forecast.
https://zoom.earth/storms/chan-hom-2026/
moktonar•13m ago
They should try to forecast earthquakes, that would really be a breakthrough If anything better than random comes out
pingou•8m ago
It seems especially useful for cargo ships, with better predictions they could save some fuel and be safer.

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
34•882542F3884314B•1h ago•26 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
161•epestr•5h ago•50 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
28•bhavansig•2h ago•4 comments

The USSR in 100 Photographs

https://trinixy.ru/7039-sssr_v_fotografijakh_100_foto.html
4•decimalenough•10m ago•0 comments

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
261•aanet•2d ago•58 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
662•tosh•18h ago•397 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
260•moelf•13h ago•93 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
733•RickJWagner•23h ago•820 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...
46•01-_-•2h ago•4 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
360•piotrgrabowski•18h ago•91 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486
29•csmantle•6d ago•3 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
266•wglb•10h ago•49 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
214•aagha•17h ago•70 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
122•zdw•6d ago•26 comments

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html
92•sbulaev•2h ago•86 comments

k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25973
8•matt_d•1w ago•0 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
398•inigyou•1d ago•370 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
255•moonikakiss•17h ago•214 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
317•Meleagris•11h ago•155 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html
24•denismenace•3d ago•0 comments

US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
24•rbanffy•2h ago•19 comments

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html
13•Korwell•2h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses

https://github.com/aadisang/hand-wave
8•aadisang•3d ago•4 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
172•MarcoDewey•20h ago•38 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
192•cckolon•6d ago•23 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
188•artninja1988•19h ago•182 comments

Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Abu_Hureyra
10•dieselgate•4d ago•0 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...
105•yk•3d ago•52 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
162•jnord•23h ago•103 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
486•delduca•18h ago•347 comments