Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting device had Saudi support says court filinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6gel2dlyxvyo
The Saudi government did not immediately respond to BBC requests for comment.
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Fiber vs. cable internet: What's the difference between them?https://www.engadget.com/2287870/fiber-vs-cable-internet-difference-between
Fiber internet is more modern than cable, but the older technology still works well for today's connection needs.
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb againhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again
Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
All-Clad Factory Seconds Sale: Cookware Deals for Fall Cookinghttps://www.wired.com/story/all-clad-factory-seconds-sale-october-2026
Upgrade your cold-weather cooking setup with discounted cookware for soups, stews, and roasts.
Apple is set to hold another product event on October 28https://www.engadget.com/2290401/apple-pro-and-tell-event-october-28-announcement
Apple's "Pro and Tell" event is taking place in Los Angeles and will likely feature the first touchscreen Mac.
Gaza faces worsening hunger as WFP announces food aid cutshttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/19/gaza-faces-worsening-hunger-as-wfp-announces-food-aid-cuts
The World Food Programme has announced that funding shortages will force it to suspend food assistance in Gaza
Apple teases MacBook Pro event next weekhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013028/apple-second-october-product-launch-announcement
Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. The big announcement is expected to be a new MacBook Pro with an OLED […]
AI companies are coming for the plumbershttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-lab-offers-free-plumbing-and-hvac-repairs-across-three-cities-to-train-ai-robots-wearable-sensors-record-video-of-repair-work-for-robotics-training-free-services-also-include-electrical-work-air-duct-cleaning-and-carpet-cleaning
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-lab-offers-free-plumbing-and-hvac-repairs-across-three-cities-to-train-ai-robots-wearable-sensors-record-video-of-repair-work-for-robotics-training-free-services-also-include-electrical-work-air-duct-cleaning-and-carpet-cleaning Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154060 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbothttps://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-help-pages-leaked-hidden-instructions-for-a-meta-chatbot
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
Trump endorses Netanyhu ahead of electionshttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/19/jerusalem-daily-settlers-attack-eu-diplomats
Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s election, Ben-Gvir faces student protesters.
Another day another GitHub incidenthttps://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8tzbpcnl75jp
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/8tzbpcnl75jp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153934 Points: 48 # Comments: 19
Show HN: Play DOS Wing Commander co-op in browser (11 years of reversing)https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti
I've always wanted to play Wing Commander with friends, so we could fly the story missions together. In 2015, I hypothesized that the full game state fit in the data segment (only 64k), and I could do small position and orientation experiments with vbindiff to discover how the memory was organized. Some fun findings: the camera was in entity index 0x3D (a "3D" joke?). My brother, Patrick, figured out Borland's overlay loader crashed the game until we made our stub look like a real stack frame. To play you need your own copy (e.g. the GOG version) and you drag setup.exe into the browser. It's…
Show HN: Forgot – see who's out before you promise a release datahttps://forgot.dev
Article URL: https://forgot.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153867 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Kompressor – deterministic prompt compression for coding agentshttps://github.com/hystax/optscale-kompressor
Article URL: https://github.com/hystax/optscale-kompressor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153848 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Why your USB device keeps disconnecting (and how to fix it)https://www.engadget.com/2287812/usb-device-disconnecting-reasons
If your USB peripheral is on the fritz, it's worth doing some troubleshooting with the port itself. Give these steps a try.
Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indianahttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013735/amazon-x-energy-aep-nuclear-indiana
Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building of a new nuclear energy facility in Indiana. The proposed plant, which would replace the now defunct coal-fueled Breed Generating Station in Fairbanks, Sullivan County, aims to provide up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free energy for both the regional […]
Show HN: OpenTokenMini: Monitor and Fix Your AI Spending (FOSS)https://opentokenmini.org
Article URL: https://opentokenmini.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153820 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Show HN: BudgetFlow – Plan your budget as an interactive Sankey diagramhttps://budgetflow.cc
Article URL: https://budgetflow.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153741 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/nvidia-launches-new-open-models-to-run-agents-in-the-enterprise-and-on-pcs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
Kenyan court convicts starvation cult leader for murder of 191 peoplehttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/kenyan-court-convicts-starvation-cult-leader-for-murder-of-191-people
This is a breaking news story.
Show HN: Golden Axe Stree Fighterhttps://golden-axe-sf.atomic14.com
I've been messing around porting arcade game using Claude. It's surprisingly each to point Claude at an arcade ROM and get a reasonable result. This is more of a mashup. Code is here: https://github.com/atomic14/golden-axe-streetfighter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153686 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
TP-Link moves to assemble routers in the US following an import banhttps://www.engadget.com/2290313/tp-link-moves-to-assemble-routers-in-the-us-following-an-import-ban
Routers could start rolling off a Missouri production line as soon as early 2027.
CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for sciencehttps://home.cern/cern-and-mistral-join-forces-to-accelerate-ai-for-science
Article URL: https://home.cern/cern-and-mistral-join-forces-to-accelerate-ai-for-science/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153630 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Show HN: OpenJobs tailors applications from your experience bankhttps://openjobs.thecompound.tech
Article URL: https://openjobs.thecompound.tech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153617 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Irelandhttps://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/1019/1595980-kevin-bacon
Article URL: https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/1019/1595980-kevin-bacon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153598 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Uefa gives Infantino two-week deadline to release key documentshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq398rkpjljlo
European governing body Uefa tells Fifa it must release key documents related to its governance and decision-making by 2 November.
How has the cost of living changed in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/how-has-the-cost-of-living-changed-in-france-italy-spain-and-portugal
Protesters across Europe have hit the streets amid anger over the cost of living.
Show HN: YouLangTube – YouTube subtitles that fade out as your level improveshttps://www.youlangtube.com
Article URL: https://www.youlangtube.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153495 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Decision on Senegal’s AFCON final appeal to be made by end of Novemberhttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/10/19/decision-on-senegals-afcon-final-appeal-to-be-made-by-end-of-november
The Court of Arbitration for Sport will announce its verdict on the title, which was awarded to Morocco by CAF.
Russia’s Lavrov discusses US war and regional security in Tehran visithttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/19/russias-lavrov-discusses-us-war-and-regional-security-in-tehran-visit
Russia’s FM Sergey Lavrov is in Tehran for his first visit since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Don't throw away your old USB charging cables — Repurpose them insteadhttps://www.engadget.com/2287681/dont-throw-away-old-usb-charging-cables-repurpose-instead
The charger from your three-generations-ago phone can still be useful. Here are several ways to use old cables, both indoors and out.
Ontology-Driven Observability: Building an End-to-End Knowledge Graph at Netflixhttps://netflixtechblog.com/ontology-driven-observability-building-an-end-to-end-knowledge-graph-at-netflix-scale-421392cf5adf
Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/ontology-driven-observability-building-an-end-to-end-knowledge-graph-at-netflix-scale-421392cf5adf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153431 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Man City’s Semenyo out for up to eight weeks due to knee injuryhttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/10/19/man-citys-semenyo-out-for-up-to-eight-weeks-due-to-knee-injury
City coach confirmed Semenyo's injury but said Haaland would be available for the Champions League match on Tuesday.
Famine fears as aid cuts and shipment restrictions coincide in Gazahttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/famine-fears-as-aid-cuts-and-shipment-restrictions-coincide-in-gaza
Displaced families in Gaza fear worsening food insecurity as planned aid cuts coincide with continued restrictions.
Show HN: LexFrame – Break the ceiling of Anthropic's J-lens in reading LLMshttps://pypi.org/project/lexframe
Article URL: https://pypi.org/project/lexframe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153376 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Who is cult leader Paul Mackenzie, accused of convincing followers to die?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/who-is-cult-leader-paul-mackenzie-accused-of-convincing-followers-to-die
A Kenyan court is set to hand down the first judgement in the 'doomsday' cult case.
Are free-scoring Brighton genuine title contenders?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwn8d48je057o
Brighton's start to the season has surprised many outsiders. But how high could they finish?
Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadlinehttps://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/19/uber-dodges-340m-cabbie-lawsuit-after-drivers-miss-legal-deadline/5303872
Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue
Albania’s protests explainedhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/19/aje-onl-nf_albanias-protests-explained-191026
Protesters in Albania say demonstrations will intensify as Prime Minister Edi Rama rejects calls to resign.
Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuitshttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/disney-found-a-way-to-buy-character-ai-without-buying-its-lawsuits
Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
One of the rarest GameCube consoles sells for thousands of dollars todayhttps://www.engadget.com/2287670/rarest-gamecube-console-sells-for-thousands-dollars-today
While the GameCube came in several colors, a few of the most elusive variations command thousands from game collectors.
Pakistan suspends Iran border trade, amid violence on both sideshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/pakistan-suspends-iran-border-trade-amid-violence-on-both-sides
Islamabad cites security concerns, while Tehran points to technical issues as Pakistan mediates between Iran and the US.
Show HN: WeDecide – A tool for easier decision making for group tripshttps://wedecide.now
Hey! In my spare time I am working on this little tool to let groups vote on accomodation/budget/dates for trips. I started building it, because the yearly trip with our friends got out of hand before it even started. After a lot of back and forth we were able to decide on date and budget, but the accomodation itself turned out to be a stress test for our friendships. From time to time new links got thrown into the group chat, in between all other messages. In the end we decided for a rather random accomodation, nobody was really happy with. While our trip in the end turned out to be great -…
Apple’s last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 offhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1013645/apple-mac-mini-m4-lg-c6-oled-deal-sale
Best Buy has a great deal for the rest of the day on the M4 Mac Mini base model that has 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Normally, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to buy the M4 model for its usual $799 price given that the newer, faster M6 version has been available […]
A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfieldhttps://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/a-chinese-rocket-deorbited-over-minnesota-and-left-this-in-a-farmers-cornfield
All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket.
Show HN: Spotnote – Vite plugin for UI feedback to coding agentshttps://github.com/harukikuri/spotnote
Article URL: https://github.com/harukikuri/spotnote Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153011 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After Allhttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/10/18/egg-prices-conspiracy-affordability-issue-01100411
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/10/18/egg-prices-conspiracy-affordability-issue-01100411 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152970 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
Show HN: ECG Signal Processing Starter Kit – Python, SciPy, and FastAPIhttps://github.com/banisond/ecg-signal-processing-python
Article URL: https://github.com/banisond/ecg-signal-processing-python Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152963 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukeshttps://www.theverge.com/podcast/1012839/pritzker-ai-privacy-data-centers-flock-congress-laws
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming […]
OnlyFans Copyright Takedowns Expose Compromised Websiteshttps://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/onlyfans-copyright-takedowns-expose-compromised-websites
Copyright takedown requests tied to OnlyFans and other adult content creators are revealing how attackers exploit vulnerable university and government websites to manipulate search results. UpGuard's Greg Pollock explains what universities, government websites, and security teams need to think about next.
Show HN: Villa – Spatial Fitness and Gaming, without a headsethttps://villamoves.com
We've spent 2 years developing Villa ( https://villamoves.com ), a spatial fitness and gaming product that runs on the Mac and works a bit like VR, but without a headset. How it works: computer vision senses your full-body motion, running locally on Apple silicon (M1 or later). The music you play generates new gameplay levels (you can play NTS mixtapes or stream your own playlists). There are seven movement-based games for launch, ranging from tennis to alien combat. In each one, your body is the controller. Villa also features a gesture-based interface, so you control everything touchlessly…
Show HN: Can you tell an AI's real 30-day memory from a fabricated one?https://kairos-experiment.com/distinguish.html
Article URL: https://kairos-experiment.com/distinguish.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152912 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlinkhttps://www.theverge.com/policy/1013680/european-mobile-carriers-mobile-satellite-starlink
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom companies say they would handle the ground infrastructure while a separate, unannounced satellite partner provides the satellite constellation: The joint initiative by Deutsche […]
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agentshttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152877 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Balls of Furry – Table tennis in the browserhttps://www.ballsoffurry.com
Article URL: https://www.ballsoffurry.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152876 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Elon Musk promises to give one SpaceX share to every child in the UShttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013667/elon-musk-space-x-shares-us-children
Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares, according to a report from CNBC. Musk, who runs SpaceX and […]
Svitolina says emotional toll of Ukraine war led to Monfils separationhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckd7qy12j148o
The two top tennis pros married in 2021 and have one child together.
⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and Morehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/10/weekly-recap-98-zero-days-rogue-ai.html
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done. This week had plenty of that. Trusted connections became a problem. Hardware wasn't as safe as it looked. Old bugs found new victims, and some systems were
US airman dies as daredevil descent goes wrong before Texas college football gamehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crd6dn63j2xwo
The game continued after the incident. The American Conference said the decision was made before his death was known.
Show HN: A5 v1.0https://a5geo.org/blog/2026/10/14/a5-v1
Article URL: https://a5geo.org/blog/2026/10/14/a5-v1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152739 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Australian MP critically injured after apparent car attackhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwp9g43g2p07o
The independent politician is in hospital after what the prime minister says may have been a deliberate attack.
Catalonia's former rebel president can return to Spain, court ruleshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvp8gzg4e143o
The court upholds a decision to lift an arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont linked to the independence bid he led in 2017.
Beyond These Starshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2295060/Beyond_These_Stars
Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295060/Beyond_These_Stars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152701 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
It’s hard to imagine wireless headphones ever getting lighter than thesehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/1013635/its-hard-to-imagine-wireless-headphones-ever-getting-lighter-than-these
If you're on the hunt for lightweight wireless headphones but wearing earbuds or clip-ons never feels comfortable or secure, a relatively obscure Japanese headphone maker could have the solution. Final's new Porta headphones feature an on-ear design supported by a headband but with a structure made from a single piece of wire so they weigh […]
Show HN: Free text classification for your n8n workflowshttps://jeffyclassify.com/blog/n8n-jeffy
Article URL: https://jeffyclassify.com/blog/n8n-jeffy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152651 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Footloom – Self-Hosted Google Analytics Alternative for WordPresshttps://wordpress.org/plugins/footloom
Article URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/footloom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152625 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
PSG vs Barcelona match will not be postponed despite protests: French PMhttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/10/19/psg-vs-barcelona-match-will-not-be-postponed-despite-protests-french-pm
Barcelona travel to Paris for the Champions League match at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT.
Calls to strengthen workplace privacy in Australia as employers turn to AI to track staffhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/20/workplace-privacy-concerns-employers-use-ai-to-monitor-staff
Monitoring tools common in a range of workplaces, including factories, office jobs, delivery work and in retail – often without employees being informed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Employers are increasingly using technology, from CCTV to keystroke monitoring, to track workers’ moves and it is being accelerated by the use of AI, the Human Technology Institute has warned. Examples provided to Guardian Australia by the institute include a fast-food restaurant using surveillance cameras to stop workers using their phones, and AI tracking leading to a cashier…
The Evolving Cybersecurity Lexicon: Vulnerability Discovery to Resiliencehttps://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/cybersecurity-lexicon-vulnerability-discovery-resilience
An industry-wide laser focus on vulnerabilities has left cybersecurity teams without enough room to strategize for resilience.
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agentshttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown […]
Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cachehttps://github.com/kividbio/kividb
Hi all, So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was actually an issue I faced with Dragonfly. I wanted to have something picking the best of Rust, but also picking the best parts of other alternatives like Garnet and Dragonfly. I used AI a lot, but I was the one making the design decisions based on the tests that claude picked from my history of troubleshooting sessions as part of my job. KiviDB supports both…
Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cachehttps://github.com/kividbio/kividb
Hi all, So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was actually an issue I faced with Dragonfly. I wanted to have something picking the best of Rust, but also picking the best parts of other alternatives like Garnet and Dragonfly. I used AI a lot, but I was the one making the design decisions based on the tests that claude picked from my history of troubleshooting sessions as part of my job. KiviDB supports both…
An attack that corrupts a LLM model about one specific fact - no file changes, no process, no network. Nothing to scan, and you can still detect.https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1x9xhu9/an_attack_that_corrupts_a_llm_model_about_one
Think about what a model does: it answers questions correctly, you trust it, you wire it into things. Now imagine it’s correct about everything except one topic you care about, and it’s wrong about that on purpose. A dosage. A legal fact. A person. A “is this config safe to deploy.” The other 99.9% is pristine, so nobody looks twice. The attack that does this doesn’t touch disk. The checkpoint hash is identical before and after. No new process, no child, no socket, no extra ioctl or mmap. It arrives through a dependency you already trust and does its work in GPU memory, inside the s…
Australian Member of Parliament critically injured after being hit by a carhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/19/australian-member-of-parliament-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-a-car
Australian MP Dr. Helen Haines is in critical condition after being struck by a car outside her office in Victoria.
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Sitehttps://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in the United States even helped ShinyHunters operate a website that pressured victims into paying a ransom.
SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germanyhttps://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/10/19/saps-signavio-hit-with-function-injunction-in-germany/5303835
Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis
What the orange light on your PlayStation 5 is actually telling youhttps://www.engadget.com/2287587/what-playstation-5-orange-light-means
The PS5 shows a variety of light colors to indicate its status, and orange thankfully isn't the alert you might expect from that color.
Are the French riots a warning of an intense election to come?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckzd60dy746qo
Rioting, looting and vandalism has gripped France over the weekend after protests spiralled out of control across the country.
Trial hears Robinson 'intimidated' Daily Mail reportershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cry83jz19v26o
The activist is accused of "bully-boy tactics" and denies harassment causing fear of violence.
Exiled critic of Rwandan president found beheadedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3lylj78777do
Former army sergeant major Robert Kabera was a popular YouTuber and singer, who had sought asylum in Uganda.
French protest violence: A ‘Christmas present’ for Le Pen’s far right?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/french-protest-violence-a-christmas-present-for-le-pens-far-right
Le Pen is positioning her party as more capable than centrist or left-wing forces before the 2027 presidential election.
Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominerhttp://www.boredhackerblog.info/2026/10/plex-vulnerabilities-being-exploited-in.html
Article URL: http://www.boredhackerblog.info/2026/10/plex-vulnerabilities-being-exploited-in.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152321 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Doctors describe hospitals shattered by Israel’s genocide in Gazahttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/2026/10/19/doctors-describe-hospitals-shattered-by-israels-genocide-in-gaza
Doctors who volunteered in Gaza have described working during Israel’s genocidal war on the strip.
Wine Ported to OpenBSDhttps://marc.info
Article URL: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152307 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: ApolloOffice – Local AI workers that turn GitHub issues into tested PRshttps://github.com/Silvertree2010/ApolloOffice
This is a little thing I built: it's a visually pleasing office with AI agents working on GitHub repositories and submitting pull requests. They are getting issues, reproduce them and then fix them. I was using it privately in a Discord call and many people requested a public open-source version, so I got Claude Opus 5.5 to rewrite the entire code in Rust. It's available as a service on macOS, Linux and Windows. In my use case I use it to make PRs for ArtCraft, the Adobe Suite clone that is viral right now. This tool got me into the top 10 contributors within 5 days. I have 361 total pull req…
Show HN: Chalk, interactive labs for system design ideashttps://chalkbrain.com/labs/the-slate
Article URL: https://chalkbrain.com/labs/the-slate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152283 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: IndiePilot – find Reddit posts asking for a product like yourshttps://indiepilot.app
Article URL: https://indiepilot.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152260 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Review: Lanterns is a truly unique twist on the superhero genrehttps://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/review-lanterns-is-a-truly-unique-twist-on-the-superhero-genre
Gritty HBO series is a beacon for what's possible when one is allowed to get creative with the tropes.
Show HN: Semantics to SQL in Rust, ~70µs per queryhttps://github.com/stratasite/0sql
0sql is an open-source semantic layer engine written in Rust. Compared to Cube and Metricflow, here are the major differences: Partition aware, agg aware, and compute engine aware semantic routing. Comprehensive suite of measures out of the box. Snapshot, LOD, compound, ratios, calculations, cross-domain, and run time measure transformations. Automatic data blending across fact domains. Row level security built-in. Website: https://0sql.io/ Blog post: https://blog.strata.do/p/0sql-is-open-source-now Please send feedbacks and issues on Github. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5Bhttps://startupfortune.com/stripe-will-pay-75-billion-for-openrouter-the-ai-model-traffic-cop
Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/stripe-will-pay-75-billion-for-openrouter-the-ai-model-traffic-cop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50152207 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
Dozens killed after Houthi strike on military camp in Shabwahttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/10/19/dozens-killed-after-houthi-strike-on-military-camp-in-shabwa
Dozens of Yemenis are feared dead after a Houthi strike targeted a military camp in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate.
Russia’s Lavrov to discuss US war and regional security during Tehran visithttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/19/russias-lavrov-to-discuss-us-war-and-regional-security-during-tehran-visit
GCC states have pressed Moscow to help halt Iranian attacks and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
