There's an entire cottage industry of iPod mods out there, but Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are two of the few full motherboard replacements that combine many of the most popular mods into a single upgrade. Both versions add Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, a microSD card slot, FLAC playback, and more. And while cracking open an […]
The $50 Xbox Nano Controller is five inches long and weighs 3.5 ounces.
Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks
Anbernic shared a new video of its upcoming dual-screen handheld it announced last week showing the device playing 3DS, Xbox, and PS3 games through emulation. While competitors like Ayaneo have been making dual-screen handhelds for a few years, Anbernic only recently introduced its own dual-screen devices including the RG DS and RG DS Plus. Those […]
The Six Kings Slam exhibition tournament has been pushed from October to December by Saudi organisers.
A Palestinian exhibition opening simultaneously in Bethlehem and Gaza is challenging Israeli restrictions.
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Settlers attack Palestinian mosque near occupied East Jerusalem
Over the last 20 years, I repeatedly got frustrated with how slow WordPress (WP) is, especially once you stack a few plugins on it. Since 40% or what of all websites still run on WP, I decided [and please don't ask why, I have no idea what drove me] it could be useful to apply my C/C++ performance experience to a brand new from-scratch WP core to save about 50% of infrastructure while simultaneously increasing performance. With agent assisted coding I thought it could actually be doable to build out most of WP' API surface, and it was! (over multiple months) Try the live demo, including wp-ad…
A relative of the first case, 39-year-old man's infection raises concerns of a cross-border spread.
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies, who replaced Christian Horner at the F1 team, has his contract extended until the end of 2031.
Officials say ability to block Russian drones restricted as Kyiv reels from second night of ballistic missile attacks.
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Now please let us hide all of it.
Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account for obivous reasons. It bounces everyone else. - Temporary. Lasts for a while (24h, 7days, etc) then bounces. Received messages stay or go as per your choice. - Prefix. The most powerful. Declare a prefix like "service" and then invent any suffix, like "service-netflix" or "service$bank" and it creates a new one-sende…
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past 100 days or so, my mornings have had a new rhythm. When I wake up, the first […]
Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease risks.
Experts say the technology could help terrorists and nation states with production but that significant hurdles remain In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI has the potential to “change the stakes” on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain. Continue reading...
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Article URL: https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10/14/has-ai-tells.html?focus=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090799 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Suspected online espionage triggers intense security crackdowns and counter-intelligence measures in Iran and Lebanon.
Gross, Tim. Gross.
Albania is experimenting with artificial intelligence in politics.
OpenAI claims a former employee took more than 100 files related to its product plans before joining Apple. In a document filed on Wednesday, OpenAI accuses the unnamed employee of sending this information to a personal account and then presenting it to Apple leadership, including the vice president of the company's operations in Asia. The […]
Tehran's new municipal welfare projects face intense criticism over funding sources, transparency, and inflation claims.
That's about 6 percent of its current workforce.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting more than 70 U.S. companies, charging them with wire fraud conspiracy, money
Article URL: https://arcfu.com/post/the-emperor-pelican-has-no-clothes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090443 Points: 38 # Comments: 19
Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries
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Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090349 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
The Six Kings Slam exhibition event - featuring Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic - is postponed following a series of deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia.
Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090246 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
It follows the death last week of a man who had arrived in Kenya after travelling from DR Congo.
At least 16 additional protesters have been arrested after clashing with riot police.
Iran says 'terrorist groups' supported from outside the country are targeting security forces.
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 […]
What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet
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://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/14/politie-amsterdam-neemt-op-amerikaans-verzoek-server-in-beslag-van-italiaanse-internetdienstverlener-a-i-a4938960 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090084 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
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Retired Americans will see a $75 boost in monthly cheques as benefits rise amid widespread inflation challenges.
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Without a quick deal to move fertiliser through the strait, agricultural productivity would 'significantly drop'.
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.
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 […]
With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.
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.
One of the best games of the year won't be confined to Steam for much longer.
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 […]
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…
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_flow_diagram Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089624 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Try out! See if you can find the hidden case, and see what INVAR can do! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089619 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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
I use Claude Code inside VS Code, and four things kept getting in my way: 1. I couldn't send Claude my Markdown Editor selection, or a file I had open as a preview. 2. The claude CLI got none of the editor's context. 3. Claude couldn't run VS Code commands, so it couldn't adapt VS Code to what I was doing. 4. File links in its chat ignored the editor I chose for the file type and opened as raw text ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81482 ). So I wrote an extension and a Claude Code plugin that fix those. It turned out useful enough to share. Comments URL: https://news.ycombin…
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089395 Points: 14 # Comments: 5
Newsletter to Podcast is an open-source Python tool that turns newsletters and blogs into an RSS podcast feed! You can pick the sources, generate audio, and subscribe to the resulting feed in a podcast app that supports custom RSS (I use Castbox). The project supports full article narration as well as spoken summaries. Full narration uses Edge TTS and needs no API key; summaries use Gemini and require your own key (though the free limit is quite generous)! You can set a maximum episode length and longer full readings split into numbered parts at natural text boundaries. There’s a prerecorde…
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.
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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.
Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089229 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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.
Before I get into the details, I'd just like to say I was able to build this thanks to the work done by the people who work on Pipecat & SmartTurn as this relied on their data. SmartTurn is a fantastic open source model for turn detection. I needed a much smaller version that could fit anywhere and be always on (always actually being every 20ms in this case), so I figured I could do a trade off of making it support one language only (English), not rely on building on top of a Whisper model and possibly squeeze out similar performance. While I do still wish to improve this model significantly,…
Article URL: https://whenitships.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089096 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Amid Premier and Champions League woes, Man United players and fans ponder how preseason optimism has turned to despair.
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Article URL: https://fframes.studio/the-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089045 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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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
Get 50% discount on the last two days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Oct. 14-25, in San Francisco's Moscone West. Register now and join the rest of the startup ecosystem. Today, it's all about physical and software AI.
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;…