If you don't get AppleCare Plus for the iPhone Duo, any repairs are going to be pretty expensive. Apple published the estimated repair costs for the iPhone Duo without AppleCare Plus today, as reported by MacRumors, and they can be high: Battery service, for example, will cost $229, inner display damage will cost $999, and […]
Microsoft is officially announcing its Xbox Nano controller today, a smaller and cheaper controller that's designed to fit into your pocket. The more compact controller is also designed for "younger players, smaller hands, or anyone seeking something portable for play on the go." The $49.99 Xbox Nano is Microsoft's smallest controller, and it's shorter than […]
Article URL: https://github.com/grigio/sonia-assistant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089901 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Dispute related to claims London mayor blocked US tech firm from £50m police deal because of concerns over its values Palantir and the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, have called off their legal fight over claims the Labour mayor was blocking the US tech company from signing a contract with the Metropolitan police because of its values and ethics. Palantir and the mayor’s office of policing and crime (Mopac) announced on Wednesday they had withdrawn allegations against each other, heading off a high court trial scheduled for January. Continue reading...
Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say they've found a new, cost-effective way to make more accurate weather forecasts two to six weeks in advance - allowing farmers and emergency responders […]
Article URL: https://github.com/Nurysso/eulix Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089839 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
WhatsApp's new guest calling feature allows you to invite anyone to a call, without needing them to make an account first. They won't need the app, either, since Meta also added support for calls on the web version of WhatsApp earlier this year. You can invite guests just by sending them the call link, and […]
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21. I’m speaking at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 5 PM ET on October 22, 2026. I’m speaking at [un]prompted in San Francisco, California. The event runs October 27–29, 2026, and my talk is at 11:35 AM PT on Thursday, October 29. I’m speaking at the Catalyst Summit in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, November 18, 2026...
The Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.
With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.
Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape, has an "agentic, conversational voice layer" that "fully understands a seller's menu and listens and responds in real […]
Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam Detection feature in Google Messages, a new "enhanced protection" setting will be rolling out in the coming weeks that taps into cloud-based […]
One of the best games of the year won't be confined to Steam for much longer.
Google will tell if you a scammer is trying to message you and will protect your banking details from prying eyes while sharing your screen.
Fifa is set to propose a $3.4bn increase in the amount of money it hands out for football development across the world.
Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.
Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.
Where Jev and other Jev-style models like OpenAI's Decisions and Cloudflare's Clef are multimodal, supporting text or images in, decision out, SPEV natively supports audio and video inputs. These native capabilities allow SPEV to reason directly from audio without the lossy speech to text conversion caused by transcription enabling audio capabilities like agent turn detection. SPEV also achieves substantial latency improvements on audio tasks compared to other decision models by skipping the transcription step and operating directly on the raw audio. In our benchmarks SPEV returns an audio na…
Netanyahu warns again of Israel’s ‘enemies’ planning an attack before elections.
Saudi Pro League postpones three matches after Houthi attacks, including one involving Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr.
Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing
The 2026 Stack Overflow survey reports that 83% of developers search online for answers and 70% ask an AI agent, and 64% say they visit Stack Overflow less for simple questions. When you're stuck as a learner, where do you start: search, an AI tool, a forum, a friend? Has the order changed in the past year, and what do you do to make sure you actually learn the answer? Source (first comment): Stack Overflow 2026 survey post. Opened and verified: 83%, 70%, 64%. submitted by /u/masaischool_in [link] [comments]
Apple's integrated AI system is still yet to be rolled out in mainland China, despite launching nearly two years ago.
All 21 sailors on the Singapore-flagged GFS Pride were evacuated safely after it was hit by an projectile on Tuesday, maritime authorities say.
The Meta boss looked traumatised when he sipped stout on the Cheeky Pint podcast. An hour later, his glass was still half full Name: Guinness. Age: Arthur Guinness began brewing porter in the 1770s. Guinness draft was first poured in 1959. Continue reading...
Economists divided on Fed rate hike as inflation creates uncertainty before US midterm elections in a tense market.
Lisandro Martinez's explosive comments after Manchester United's Champions League defeat by Atletico Madrid turn the spotlight back on director of football Jason Wilcox.
The first minister speaks to BBC Scotland News ahead of the SNP's annual conference in Aberdeen.
Amid Premier and Champions League woes, Man United players and fans ponder how preseason optimism has turned to despair.
Article URL: https://apnews.com/press-release/newsfile/press-release-2dc1342f34a40e5953ab80c2f4bd4fdd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089052 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, […]
Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.
CNN, MS Now and Politico can continue to access White House as judge maintains Trump's ban likely illegal.
Article URL: https://scotthelme.co.uk/passkeys-are-not-a-trap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088935 Points: 57 # Comments: 20
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Following a report last week that Netflix was planning to lay off five percent of the company, today the streamer's co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters announced in an email that it would actually be laying off six percent of its workforce, or around 1,000 employees, according to Variety, which obtained a copy of the […]
Article URL: https://github.com/davobene/migrateflows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088854 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Apple says HomeView is "the perfect way" to enjoy its audio and video entertainment apps, but some notable examples like Apple TV only work if you AirPlay it through your iPhone. As noted on the HomeView spec page, Apple TV, Apple Books audiobooks, Apple Music Classical, and Apple News Plus aren't natively supported on the […]
The 71-year-old pontiff is recovering in Rome’s Gemelli hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his lung.
Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell
GBFC stands for General BrainFuck Compiler. In the compiler, I implemented 7 optimizations and many small optimizations outside the optimizer module, which allows the Mandelbrot set to be rendered in 0.9–1.1 seconds (about twice as slow as Rust, but remember, this is BrainFuck). You can see other benchmarks in the Github repo (README) and run them yourself. I’ve also implemented peval (evaluation during the compilation phase up to the first ‘,’), which increases compilation time but allows the program to run much faster (this can be disabled or limited) The project is written in Rust;…
Almost one million people cut off from food aid as health infrastructure overwhelmed by war-wounded.
Ukrainian officials claim the Elon Musk-owned Starlink put new limits on its service in the area without warning, disrupting the country's drone operations and missions, according to reports from Reuters and the Financial Times. The move comes just days after Musk wrote on X that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "has gone too far," in response […]
Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics – but Jason O’Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared. The periodic flashing in his spectacles seemed to give the game away as he spoke for five minutes in the Senedd chamber without a glance at his notes. “Cardiff reviewed 192 roads, following 933 requests, and only four routes have returned to 30mph,” he said as he led the party’s charge to abolish 20…
Article URL: https://github.com/abdulghanitech/hawadaar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088772 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Great Britain's Joe Truman admits Matt Richardson's withdrawal is "not ideal" as they exit the men's team sprint.
Article URL: https://github.com/graphicle-ai/graphicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088713 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Follow updates from the league stage clash, including the buildup, analysis and live text commentary of the game.
DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades
Floqer is an autonomous customer knowledge platform that provides business-to-business sales and marketing teams with an AI-powered database designed to continuously collect, organize, and update the information used to understand their customers. Floqer is pitching Wednesday on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The startup told TechCrunch ahead of the presentation that it […]
Article URL: https://github.com/jagenaujagenau/capslkagent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088682 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Netflix said most of the cuts would affect its product, tech, legal, and human resources departments.
Article URL: https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088643 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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Article URL: https://popcar.bearblog.dev/ai-is-mass-decompiling-games-thats-both-awesome-and-scary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088534 Points: 12 # Comments: 5
There are several deals happening right now on video games and gaming-related tech that are worth sharing. To start, this month’s Humble Choice drop of Steam PC games is really good. The $14.99 per month service is offering subscribers Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Price of Persia: The Lost Crown, Psychonauts 2, Deep […]
You don't need to buy the new Apple TV 4K just to get the updated Siri Remote with Find My and a built-in speaker, as it works with every model released going back to the Apple TV HD and is available to buy standalone for $59. Previous Siri Remotes had a basic iOS feature to […]
US FBI said Abdulrahman Alfozan was engineer at the tech giant from June 2025.
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-forecasts-q4-sales-above-expectations-ai-chip-demand-2026-10-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088430 Points: 18 # Comments: 3
Ukraine's Western allies are using maritime law to inspect Russian shadow tankers.
US reliance on Canadian potash, a key fertiliser mineral, adds to farmers' cost concerns amid trade tensions.
Ukraine says SpaceX hampers drones for attack and defence, as US ties fray Reuters
German government in talks to buy 50% of KNDS, source says Reuters
The UK's prime minister meets with Volodymyr Zelensky after a rocky week for the Ukraine president.
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Matthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers. I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the over-engineering cryptographers tend to do. I am trying to write this up in more detail.
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions.
Article URL: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Algol60/releases/tag/2026-10-09 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088191 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Hi HN, I built this open source project to enable the existing MLX model on your Mac to be used as a decider, without additional fine-tuning. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088148 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
A Liverpool fan denies racially aggravated behaviour during a match against Bournemouth in 2025.
New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks
I built BScaff, a CLI tool for saving and reusing project structures, templates, files, and text snippets. It can serve as a URL bookmark tool as well. It started with project scaffolding, but I wanted something more general-purpose: a tool that could save almost any reusable starting point and bring it back whenever needed. For each language, I had a specific way of structuring projects that I have refined over years, but I could not find any tool which can quickly help to generate such scaffolding quickly. Copier and Cookiecutter exists but they depend on templates, and I didn't want to cre…
Hi HN, I built Merlin to let you use your own Claude Code and Codex subscription from Slack, Linear, and GitHub. There is a desktop app for macOS and Windows, and a CLI daemon for Linux. When someone mentions Merlin in a Slack thread or Linear issue comment, the task runs on that team member's machine, using their own Claude Code or Codex runtime, and progress and results come back to the original thread. Teammates can steer the agent mid-run. Merlin also has schedules, shared skills, and memory. I know you've probably heard about Claude Tag. Merlin is similar to that but also different. The…
Article URL: https://openmrp.ai/dfm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088069 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Kallum Watkins is called up as a late replacement to England's Rugby League World Cup squad after Morgan Smithies is forced to withdraw through injury.
Another IoT cyberattack , this one in France: Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected. […] Normally, supermarket freezers go through a short period of defrosting overnight, in which temperatures rise slightly. But the hackers ordered the units to heat up and stay hot, although Danfoss did not confirm any reports about just how warm the fridges and freezers could become in that process. Danfoss said the affected cold units were older models whos…
Move by Colombia's new right-wing government marks a major shift after former President Petro severed ties with Israel.
LG's latest Sound Suite update includes DTS:X, a much-requested feature.
Phrack.org - one of the oldest and coolest hacker magazines happens to not ship an RSS feed. I made one. Issues drop when enough papers are in, sometimes years apart. Apparently this year should have another release. This page turns each issue into a feed you can subscribe to and forget about until the next one lands. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087957 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
After years of sprawling ‘forever’ games, players are rediscovering the pleasures of more focused experiences. Could a new wave of independent arcades bring back the social side of gaming? • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here There’s an important semi-nostalgic movement happening in games, and I’m excited about where it’s heading. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself here. Over the last five years, major publishers, obsessed with the success of “forever games” such as Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox, have been throwing hundreds of millions of…
Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.
NTangible is building an analytics platform for collegiate sports organizations and other clubs to measure an athlete's "clutch" factor.
Back in 2019, author Margaret Stohl was handed a manuscript written by Jason Jones, who's best known as the co-creator of sci-fi gaming series Halo and Destiny. The two had worked together at Bungie, and Jones wanted Stohl's opinion on a book he was writing about AI taking over the world. It was an oral […]
It's also working on calendar integrations for later this year.
Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network.
Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network.
Epic Games is announcing a big refresh of its PC games launcher today in preview, saying that the new version is "way faster" and now supports Linux. But the company, which has been publicly making a big push into AI-assisted development, also notes that the refresh was "vibe coded." "Programming is hard," Epic says in […]
